At that time, Jiaozhi dispatched 10,000 troops, known as 00,000. ◢ With the *Dream * Small ◢.1A divided the water and land lines to invade the Song Realm, and the breakthrough point was on Guangnan West Road. The navy crossed the Beibu Gulf and conquered Qinzhou on 20 November; On the 23rd, Lianzhou (Hepu, Guangxi) was conquered. The army ignored the passes along the way and went straight to Yongzhou, an important town in the southern Xinjiang of the Song Dynasty.

Yongzhou is the center of the Guangnan West Road, and if you take it, the southern Xinjiang of the Song Dynasty will be out of control. Along the way, the various strongholds of the Song Dynasty could not stop the Jiaozhi army at all. When they arrived at the city of Yongzhou, they found that in addition to the high and deep moats of the city, there were very few other combat preparations, such as soldiers who went out to fight, soldiers who defended the city, and so on.

There were really not many soldiers in the city, and there were only 2,800 guards for nearly 70,000 people. Zhizhou Su Mian was a pure civil official, but this person's name occupies a lofty position in the history books of the Song Dynasty, and he is far greater than Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang and others.

Everyone wanted to escape, and Su Mian ordered the city gate to be closed, which was the southwest gateway, to defend this line of defense for the country. At this time, there was a school official named Zhai Ji, who wanted to sneak out of the city quietly. Su Mian caught him and ordered him to be beheaded for public display. The man was not convinced, and shouted that there was a kind of telling your son not to leave.

Su Mian's son is called Su Ziyuan, who is the Sihu of Guizhou, and he came to visit relatives with his wife and children not long ago. Faced with Zhai Ji's questioning, he asked his son to go back to work on time, but left his wife and children to live and die with the city. This made Zhai Ji die convincingly, and the people in the city had nothing to say.

The fierce battle began, Su Mian led 2,800 people to defend the city, and also dispatched hundreds of death squads to rush out of the city, killing more than 200 enemies at one time, killing dozens of war elephants, and killing two generals of the Jiaozhi Army.

After the head-on attack, the Yongzhou Guard Battle finally began. Facing more than 20 times the enemy army, Su Mian led the people of the city to support it. During this period, he sent troops to ask for help, and reinforcements were also dispatched, but unfortunately he was isolated 00 miles away and could not advance; He used all the savings of the government and private individuals to reward the soldiers, but unfortunately there were too few soldiers, and the money could not buy the urgently needed war equipment.

Even the heavens were against him, and there was a sudden drought in the Yongzhou area, and the rain did not fall, and even the well water could not be pumped out. The city was thirsty, people were dying, and finally there was a plague.

Su Mian held out for 42 days. In the past month or so, the corpses of Jiaozhi people have been everywhere outside Yongzhou City, accumulating more than 5,000 people. In a panic, the Jiaozhi people thought of withdrawing their troops, but suddenly there was a turnaround. A local (a nation rich in heroes will always have traitors) gave them an idea, saying that you are so stupid, each of you carries a big bag of dirt and piles it under the city wall, and tens of thousands of people do it at the same time, and you can go directly to it immediately.

Jiaozhi people are happy, and there are more people bullying fewer people, this trick is really wonderful. In this way, Yongzhou City finally fell, and in the face of the enemies that poured in like a tide, Su Mian still chose to fight, and he still did not escape. The street battle began, and Su Mian fought until he could no longer support it, then rode back home, and in the face of more than 30 relatives, he said: "I will not die at the hands of thieves!" ", and then died, and all the old and young of the Su family committed suicide.

The people in Yongzhou City have the same fate as their Zhizhou. The whole city was killed, and no one surrendered. China's southern gate was lost, so far the army was defeated, and the casualties of the people only reached more than 10,000 in the three cities of Yongzhou, Qinzhou, and Lianzhou......

When the news reached Kaifeng City, Emperor Shenzong was filled with grief, and in order to recover this blood debt, he ordered the troops of Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi to quickly assemble in Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan) and Guizhou (now Guilin, Guangxi), and sent the Northern Forbidden Army. But at this time, there was no Di Qing, and Wang Shao could not get out of the Xihe River in the northwest, so Guo Kui was ordered to lead the army to the expedition.

Despite all the grief and indignation, the whole country was outraged, and it was only in the summer of the following year that the Song army was able to cross the Yangtze River and reach the south. During this period, the entire Lingnan region was in a state of defenselessness and even anarchy.

The reason why this happened was related to the speed of the mobilization of the army at that time, and also to the actual situation in Guangxi at that time. Only a small part of the Song Dynasty's requisition this time was the forbidden army in Kaifeng City, and more troops were troops from the two states of Qin and Feng in the northwest. This was the current situation of the Song army at that time, the forbidden army was degraded, the northern front was rotten, and only the Northwest Army was getting stronger and stronger.

Although the Western Army is strong, the road is too far. The situation in Guangxi is hopeless. At that time, the population of Guangxi at this time did not exceed 200,000, and there were only nearly 10,000 troops in the whole territory, of which 2,800 in Yongzhou had been destroyed, and the largest in Guilin was only 3,000. With such a foundation and strength, not to mention a counteroffensive, it can't even drag down the pace of the Jiaozhi people. It is really fortunate that the Jiaozhi people failed to rush out of the South Guangxi Road and hit the south bank of the Yangtze River.

In the summer of the following year, Guo Kui's troops crossed the Yangtze River and entered Lingnan. The first target was Yongzhou, and at this time there was no longer the battle of Kunlun Pass and Guirenpu. Guo Kui does not have to be cautious as Di Qing was back then, he led 00,000 Song troops, more than 3 times that of Di Qing, and the Jiaozhi casualties exceeded 20,000, and the army only had about 20,000 or 30,000 left, and the strength was very different. Guo Kui pursued closely and did not give them a chance to breathe at all.

The Song army was divided into two routes, and the deputy general Yan Da attacked Guangyuan Prefecture in Jiaozhi first. Yanda broke through the city in one fell swoop, captured more than 5,000 people, and captured Li Qiande's military advisor Liu Ji. The banner was victorious, but he was not the direction of the main attack, the direction of the Song army's main attack was the Duli Pass, where the Jiaozhi people gathered heavy troops and equipped them with their heaviest secret weapon, the elephant. But under the attack of the Song army's divine arm bow and swords, the elephant was shot and turned around and ran into the position of the Jiaozhi people, and the first corps decisive battle, the Song army won a big victory and occupied Menzhou. Then in the battle of Fuliangjiang, Guo Kui reduced his troops to lure the enemy to let the Jiaozhi army fall into the ambush of the Song army, and broke the Jiaozhi army, and the river was cut off for three days for the corpses of the Jiaozhi people.

Soon after the Battle of Fuliangjiang, the Jiaozhi people sued for peace and returned the looted property and the Song people. At that time, the epidemic epidemic in the Song army was prevalent, and most of the people died. In order to enable the soldiers and civilians of Zhengnan to return to China safely, Guo Kui expressed that he was "willing to live more than 100,000 lives" and agreed to withdraw his troops. The two sides then made peace. When Guo Kui returned to China, he was immediately impeached by the civilian system, thinking that he had no command and spent such military and material resources to be unable to destroy such a small country, which was really incompetent. must be severely punished, so Guo Kui, who won the battle, was demoted to the general of the Left Guard, placed in Luoyang, Xijing, and was not promoted for 0 years.

And now, the Jiaozhi people are once again Koubian, and this time the excuse is still similar to the last time - to prevent the Song army from encroaching. This time, the Jiaozhi army crossed the border for more than 200 miles, occupied Luzhou and Xipingzhou, and plundered the local area.