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At that moment, Di Qing asked people to start creating fake lions.

As for the work of the small catapult machine that imitates the "return cannon" for the manufacture of projectile explosive packs, it was handed over to the Pingxi Army, which was more proficient in the manufacture of such things.

When it came time for the decisive battle, the main weapons against those elephant troops were still these explosive packs and earth-shattering thunder. The loud noise and smoke created by the explosives bag and the earth-shattering thunder are the sharpest and most effective things to deal with the elephants.

Therefore, those fake lions don't need to be made too much, and they are mainly placed in front of the formation to prevent those frightened war elephants from running in front of the Western Army.

Therefore, the preparations for a decisive battle of the Western Army were quickly completed.

The soldiers of the Western Army couldn't wait to hurry across Kunlun Pass and fight a decisive battle with Nong Zhigao's army, striving to completely eliminate them in a battle and end this counterinsurgency war.

It's only the end of October, and after the First World War is resolved, they can still rush back to their hometown in the northwest for the New Year! The temptation to go home for the New Year is still very great. Therefore, the soldiers of the Western Army are all gearing up, sharpening their knives and preparing to slaughter the prey of Nong Zhigao.

However, there is still a problem with the decisive battle, that is, there is no suitable battlefield.

The road under Kunlun Pass is relatively narrow, and the Western Army cannot completely open the formation. And as soon as this mountain road reached an open place, it was the camp of Nong Zhigao's army, and their camp was about to rush up.

If the Western Army rushes out of this mountain road, as long as the Nong Zhigao army blocks this mountain road, it will be able to take advantage of it, because the Western Army can only line up in a long snake formation to attack, and the troops behind will not be able to fight the Nong army at all. Only when the troops in front of them are finished fighting can they encounter the Nong army and fight with it, which is a great loss.

Even if they can rush out of this mountain road, the Nong army will have a camp to rely on, and it will be very advantageous. Moreover, the space in front of the mountain road to the camp was not enough to arrange the army.

If you want to fight a decisive battle with Nong Zhigao's army, you need to force their large camp to retreat a section first, and vacate enough spacious space where you can place the formation of the large army, otherwise it will be difficult for the cavalry power of the western army to be brought into play.

However, the camp of Nong Zhigao's army was built quite strongly, and if you want to break it, you will have to spend a lot of troops, and once the battle starts, it will become a major offensive and defensive battle between the two armies, and it will enter the decisive battle in advance.

The decisive battle envisaged by Di Qing is best to set up a formation on both sides, and conduct a field battle with gongs and drums in front of each other, so as to give full play to the power of the cavalry of the Western Army in the field battle.

Di Qing thought about it, and was a little uncertain for a while, whether he should attack the camp of the Nong army.

However, Di Qing's problem was solved by Yang Wenguang's words.

"When the thief used to deal with the Lingnan Army, he fought and won successes, but he never encountered a defeat, and now I am afraid that he has long been proud and arrogant and does not know what his surname is, and he is arrogant! Otherwise, he would not have given up defending the city and would have taken the initiative to fight a decisive battle with us. In my opinion, if you ask the commander to write a battle letter and ask him to set up a dignified battle, he will definitely agree. Write the war with arrogance, and try to mock and despise him, and he will not be provoked, and give up his spacious space to fight us. ”

Di Qing thought about it and felt that there was some truth, anyway, it didn't matter if it was successful or not, it was just a war letter, and nothing was lost. At that moment, Di Qing asked his subordinates to write a very imposing war letter. The war book said that if he wanted to fight with Nong Zhigao in a dignified manner, he asked him to retreat ten miles to give up the battlefield of the decisive battle.

This war book is written by a well-written praise painting in the Di Qing shogunate. In order to take care of Nong Zhigao's cultural level, the war book was deliberately not written in the scolding script of the most proficient writer in praise of painting, but in a more popular vernacular.

In the war book, Nong Zhigao was extremely contemptuous, saying that he was a gutless rat, and his subordinates were all scumbags, etc., and said that if it was a decisive battle, the Western Army would definitely capture Nong Zhigao and put on a woman's clothes to humiliate him. It also hinted to Nong Zhigao that if he didn't retreat, the Western Army would not attack, intending to consume him and let him attack Kunlun Pass if he had a kind.

The war letter was sent to Nong's military camp, and Nong Zhigao was simply angry.

"These Song dogs are really shameless. I am here, obviously they don't dare to attack, but they still laugh at us for not daring to attack Kunlun Pass. If they want to die, then I will fulfill them! Since they want us to give up a place before we fight with me, then let's give them a place to set up a formation! ”

Huang Wei, the right prime minister of the "Great Southern Kingdom", persuaded on the side: "Your Majesty don't be angry, since they have written this kind of war book, it means that they dare not attack us!" Let's hold our breath and kill them. Your Majesty, don't fall for their tricks because you're angry! ”。

"I didn't mean to do this because I was angry. The main thing is that the prime minister said that it consumes them, and it's not easy to do! We don't surround them all, they can get a steady stream of supplies from the north of Kunlun Pass, and they can't kill them at all. Besides, it's not a matter of consuming it all the time, our 50,000 troops are eating horses and chewing here, and the daily consumption is very large, and they have to be used from Yongzhou City, so we are also struggling, so it is better to defeat them as soon as possible! When we get rid of them, we can regain control of Guangnan West Road and slowly manage the foundation of our Great Southern Kingdom. In addition, we have elephant troops, and we also need to have enough charging distance, and when we get to a spacious place, our elephant troops can just exert greater power. Since they want to fight us face to face with the gong and the drum, wouldn't it be just right?! ”

Huang Wei thought about it, and it was not a way to do it like this. Besides, he was still very confident in his own army, especially after seeing the cavalry of the Western Army being beaten by his own elephant soldiers that day, he was even more relieved.

At that moment, Huang Wei spoke: "But Your Majesty needs to be cautious when you pull out the camp and retreat, and you need to beware of the Western Army taking the opportunity to sneak attack!" ”

Nong Zhigao pondered for a moment and said: "Then I will lead 40,000 troops first and then withdraw four or five miles, and Prime Minister, you will take 10,000 soldiers to stick to the camp." Wait for me to set up the formation with my troops, and then I will take the 10,000 soldiers you have brought over. If I lead the army to retreat, and they dare to take the opportunity to attack the camp, as long as you hold on for a moment, I will bring the elephant soldiers back to cover and kill them, and take advantage of the situation to defeat them, just in time to clean them up. ”

Nong Zhigao did not plan to withdraw from Shili as Di Qing requested. If you can't do what your Western Army says, what kind of things are you?! Second, at a distance of four or five miles, if the camp is attacked here, he can bring the elephant army back in a moment. When he saw Di Qing's battle letter, although he was furious, he did not lose his mind. It is not so easy to be a hero who can be a hero.

Huang Wei listened to his own emperor's words, and couldn't help muttering: What Your Majesty said is very reasonable. But this errand is really not a bad thing, this is the bait of the 10,000 soldiers I brought. But who makes the family the emperor and the prime minister, and who makes the family have a higher level than himself, and he can't do it.

At that moment, Huang Wei had to bow down and receive his life.

Nong Zhigao sent someone to reply to Di Qing, agreeing to retreat a few miles, so that the western army could set up a formation and the two sides would fight a decisive battle.

Di Qing didn't expect Nong Zhigao to really agree to his request to let Nong's army retreat some distance in order to make room for a decisive battle, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed. At the same time, he also shook his head again and again: An opponent of this level actually beat the Lingnan Army, which is really speechless.

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