However, once the people of the Gao family leave the cities of Dali City, then they will become lambs to the slaughter.

According to later statistics, Cai Dao paid a total of less than 3,000 yuan in reward this time, but slaughtered nine out of ten of the entire Gao clan in Dali, and less than one percent of the Gao clansmen either fled to the barren mountains and mountains, or fled to the war-torn Dayue country.

A few days later, the news of the breach of Shanxian Mansion came, and the city to which Dianchi belonged finally fell into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty. This is also the second largest city in Dali, second only to Dali in terms of economy and population, and it is also the most important city controlled by the Gao clan.

The general trend has gone, Duan Zhengming and his family have now fallen into the hands of the Great Song army, Gao Shengtai's son knows that if he continues to resist, the final result, he will not even be able to burn the jade, maybe tomorrow, or a while, his former loyal generals will be sent to the hands of the Great Song army like pigs to be slaughtered.

Therefore, it is the next step to defend Dali City, and he only has two choices now.

Either tie yourself out of the city and surrender to the Song army. Maybe he and the Gao clan can't save their lives, but his own family can survive in death.

Or take advantage of the opportunity that the army of the Great Song Dynasty expedition to Shanxian has not yet returned, and the Great Song army besieging Dali City is not enough to surround the whole city, and quickly take the family and clansmen, as well as the troops loyal to themselves, and flee from Dali City, until they flee to the southernmost part of Dali Kingdom. Once there, although the city is not as prosperous as Dali City and Shanxian City, the Great Song Dynasty army will definitely not send troops there.

After a long period of thought, Gao Shengtai's son finally chose Kaesong to surrender.

Because, he neither has the courage to break the cauldron, nor can he fully trust anyone except his family and the Gao clan. After all, he is not Gao Shengtai, and he does not have the high charm and prestige of his father among the people and the army in Dali, so that most of the soldiers in Dali City will abandon their homes for him and go to the border together to fight against Duan Zhengming's regime and the Southern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty.

The ordinary soldiers and people in Dali City, and even most of Dali country, are now deeply afraid of the divine might of the Great Song army.

It is naturally a great thing that the enemy was able to open the city and surrender.

For this reason, Cai Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, because, just to defeat the city of Shanxifu, he lost thousands of soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army. Such a loss is already a very small loss for the history of the Great Song Dynasty in the past when it went abroad to fight.

But Cai Xuan was still unwilling to bury too many good men of the Great Song Dynasty to Dali, a country that was originally more deferential.

This time, Cai Xuan finally agreed to serve as the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, just because this opportunity was a godsend for the Great Song monarchs.

Cai Dao said well in the letter, if Cai Xuan himself did not agree, not only would he lose Zhao Xu's trust, but also Zhao Xu and Zhang Xuan would not give up the southern expedition plan because of his personal opinion.

If you continue to send a commander like Guo Zhongxiao, the southern expedition will be worrying!

Even if it wins, it can be a miserable victory. But if it fails, then the Great Song Kingdom will definitely make the surrounding countries despise it again and become a big joke.

The division was famous, recovering one-third of the Han and Tang dynasties, and also harvesting a vassal state that was very loyal to the Great Song Kingdom.

Such a lucrative deal, although its impact is not as good as the southern expedition to the Great Yue led by Cai Dao himself. However, the benefits of the Great Song Kingdom from this expedition far exceeded that of the previous southern expedition.

In order to show the generosity of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Kingdom and the imperial court, Cai Xuan made a single decision, he did not let the Song army kill Gao Shengtai's son, but handed him and his family over to Duan Zhengming for disposal.

The results can be imagined.

In the end, Duan Zhengming, who hated Gao very much, except for several unmarried daughters and granddaughters of Gao Shengtai, all his men were sentenced to death. Gao Shengtai's son was left alone, and he was sentenced to palace punishment.

With the assistance of the Song army, the Dali Kingdom gradually restored its original order, and Duan Zhengming, the king of the Dali Kingdom, also rightfully returned to the throne.

However, out of gratitude to the Great Song Kingdom for sending troops to help him rebel, Duan Zhengming immediately signed a new contract with Cai Xuan.

That is, the "Great Song Kingdom and Dali State Vassal and Peace Treaty"

In the contract, Duan Zhengming took the initiative to give Jianchang Mansion, Dongchuan Prefecture, Huichuan Prefecture, Shicheng County, Shanxian Mansion and the northeastern part of Weichu Prefecture, these five and a half administrative regions, to the Great Song Kingdom as a thank you gift to help him restore the throne and eradicate the traitorous ministers.

At the same time, Duan Zhengming decided that Dali would henceforth remain a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty. Since then, the monarchs of successive dynasties after the Dali Kingdom can only be called kings, and can no longer be called emperors.

The reason why he did not want Dali Chengcheng was because of Zhao Xu's own arbitrariness.

This is to take into account the feelings of the monarchs and ministers of Dali for their capital.

After all, Dali is a country named after its capital.

If the Great Song army forcibly occupies it, it will inevitably make the Duan royal family dissatisfied, and it will also cause the disgust of the military and people of Dali, so it is better to re-incorporate the entire Dali Kingdom into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

From Zhao Xu's point of view, such a disposal method has not only won fame, but also benefited.

But from Cai Dao's point of view, Zhao Xu's move is completely a woman's benevolence, once the city of Dali City is lost, the overall strength of Dali will drop by more than one-third. After being greatly weakened, where does the Dali Kingdom still have the ability and courage to resist the rule of the Great Song Kingdom!

If the Great Song Kingdom is really as weak as it was in the Huizong Dynasty, whether there is Dali City in his hands or not, the Dali Kingdom can also recover all the lost land from the hands of the Great Song Kingdom.

Peace treaties are only meant to bind the weak, and the strong have the ability to tear it up at any time.

After consulting Cai Dao's opinion, Cai Xuan only stayed in Dali City for a month, and then led all the southern expeditionary troops to leave Dali City, along the way, he divided the army into several parts, stationed them in the newly collected state capitals, and finally only all the wounded soldiers returned to Kuizhou Road with his own soldiers and Cai Xuan. The rest of the soldiers who were in good health remained on the border of Dali.

Of course, the actual situation in Dali is not good, and now, both the economy and the military have reached an extremely weak level. In order to make it able to resist the attacks and attacks of the neighbors, Zhao Xu still sent some experienced veterans of the forbidden army to assist Duan Zhengming and help him train the new Dali army.

The people of the former Dali Kingdom in the five and a half regions, who are willing to stay in the same place, are even the people of the Great Song Kingdom, and those who are unwilling to stay, the government will give them a certain amount of Sichuan road fees.

In the future, once the new forbidden army of Dali is formed, his first opponent for training troops will be the Dayue Kingdom in the south. The aim was naturally to regain the territories that had been seized and occupied by the Great Viet Kingdom in the past.

has been training a good watchdog for Da Song, which is again based on Zeng Zhao's suggestion.

Zhao Xu praised this suggestion.

After all, Dali and Dayue are different, since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, except for the change of Nong Zhigao, Dali and the Great Song Kingdom have had dirty, the two countries have always been equal exchanges, and there has never been any military conflict. Even if it was this time to send troops, Dali Kingdom had paid nearly one-third of the essence of its territory, but didn't he Duan Zhengming have to thank Zhao Xu for his kindness?

This loyal dog supervised the already extremely weakened rat in the south on behalf of the Great Song Kingdom, which also allowed Zhao Xu to concentrate resources, troops, and energy to deal with the two mortal enemies of the Western Xia Kingdom and the Great Liao Kingdom.

In fact, in the real historical facts, the Liao State has not maintained a state of peace between the Great Liao State and the Great Song State since the alliance of the Yuanyuan Dynasty, as described in the history books of later generations and in various accounts.

During the Battle of Song and Xia, the Liao State not only secretly helped the Western Xia State, supported the party members, and married the Western Xia State after Li Yuanhao's death, but also made several moves to take advantage of the danger of others.