On September 25, the ninth year of the Great Cause, Duan Ruqi escaped from Dali from the Burmese Ning Pass in Lincang; On September 28, the 600 guards led by Su You and 1,000 elites from the east and west had just arrived at the dock in Lincang.

Peng Sheng, the garrison of Lincang Prefecture, received news from Dali two days ago, and he had locked up Burmese and Ning in the morning, and sent guards to 50 miles upstream of the Lancang River to look forward to Su You's army.

As soon as Su You got off the dock, he saw Peng Sheng coming up with more than ten guards, and said excitedly, "Envoy, you are here!" ”

Looking at the man in front of him, who was almost half a head shorter than himself and his face was full of excitement, Su You immediately handed him the voucher, and said with a smile, "Su You is here to help Peng guard against the enemy." ”

Peng Sheng looked at Su You and showed the order of the king of Nanzhong, and listened to Su You's words, and immediately overjoyed, "With the words of the superior, the lower officials will rest assured, I will hand over the seal of the Burmese Ning Pass to you, and the defense here will be under your command and dispatch from now on!" ”

Su You is an envoy of the kingdom, and Peng Sheng is just a small garrison with only three or four hundred soldiers, he is obviously a little self-aware, knowing that he can't command Su You who came with more than 2,000 people, so he handed over the responsibility of guarding the city to Su You.

Su You didn't know whether there was a shallow sense of shirking responsibility, but he at least felt the respect of the other party, even if this respect was not Su You's ability, but only his status as an envoy to the kingdom.

"This temporary change is not going to be good, right? Actually, I can give Peng Shoubei a small hand. Su You immediately rejected the big seal handed over by Peng Sheng, which was also a helpless thing, after all, the Great Sui was a state of etiquette, and it was still necessary to pay attention to subtlety.

Peng Sheng seems to be deeply familiar with the culture of the Central Plains, and he and Su You retreat from each other.

After a few times, Su You reluctantly took over the seal of the guard, and immediately said, "Since the guard is so important, I am ashamed to accept it; I have heard that the road is narrow and the walls are high, and as long as we defend it to the death, those traitors who come will return in vain."

"The envoy means that we are here to wait for the traitors to arrive, and then fight a guard war?" Peng Sheng immediately asked cautiously, because Lincang is not the junction of Liangjiao and Duan's territory, and from the south of the Burmese Ning Pass, there are still three or five passes that belong to the West

"That's right, so the first order I want to give is, Solid Wall Kiyono!" Su You nodded and said categorically.

Thinking that this might have been arranged by Shangfeng a long time ago, and besides, he was not qualified to have anything to do with Su You, Peng Shengdang nodded, "Yes." I don't know what else the envoy commands, the lower officials must do it with their hearts. ”

"You follow me first, and we'll talk while we walk." Su You was still very satisfied with Peng Sheng's attitude, and when he was about to talk to him, he saw Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, and Ma Han, as well as the leaders of Dong Jiao and Xi Jiao, all surrounding him.

Su You glanced into the distance again, and could see that the soldiers, horses, grain and grass he had brought had arrived on the dock.

On the whole, the two thousand elites handed over to him by Su You and the two are still extremely satisfied, and the only fly in the ointment is that the Yunnan horse in Nanzhong is too short, and it looks like a donkey in the Central Plains.

In fact, since entering the territory of Nanzhong, Su You has already seen a lot of this kind of donkey-like Dian horse, and he has read about Dian horse in books from another world, and knows that although this kind of horse is not effective in charging, it still has some endurance and physical strength.

Su You skipped and automatically ignored those Dian horses, and then looked at the two thousand six hundred soldiers he brought, wanting to say something, and remembered that he had finished everything on the dock in Dali.

At this time, all Su You could do was wave his big hand and shout - enter the city!

After Su You shouted this, he stepped on his tall horse first, and Wang Dynasty Mahan only guarded him as a personal guard.

Peng Sheng also got on his mount, but he looked a little small when he walked beside Su You at this time.

After entering the city, Su You first ordered Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, as well as Zhao Man, the leader of Dongjiao, and Zhang Mu, the leader of Xijiao, to settle the soldiers first, and then let Peng Sheng accompany him to the wall.

After turning around, Su You realized that this Lincang City was just a small city within a radius of seven or eight miles, except for a decent city gate in the south that chokes the main road between the north and the south, this small city did not even have a decent city wall.

As for the city gate in the south, it is the Mianning Pass known to Su You.

The city gate of the city of Myanmar is three or five zhang high, even if it is put in the Central Plains, it is considered a decent pass, it is commendable that the road in front of the city of Myanmar is not open, at most it is only more than ten zhang wide, and both sides are dangerous slopes, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The fly in the ointment is that this pass is also similar to the pass in the Central Plains at this time, only the majestic city gate, which is made of mud on both sides, and there is no moat

Looking at this treacherous pass and the simple city wall, Su You immediately frowned, and thought for a while before saying to Peng Sheng, "This city wall is not good, our top priority now is to build this city wall strongly, so let's go and post a notice later, let the old, young, sick and disabled in the city go out of the city to take refuge first, and come back when the war is over."

Peng Sheng nodded, he also knew that Su You didn't bring much food, and now in an extraordinary period, he could only occupy the magpie's nest and first put the grain of the people in Lincang City for a while.

Su You continued, "In addition, it is necessary to gather the young people in the city, let the craftsmen strengthen the city wall, and at the same time prepare stones, sassal wood, boiling oil and other materials to defend the city for later use. ”

Peng Sheng nodded, and seeing that Su You no longer continued to command, he reminded, "Envoy, is there anything else?" ”

Su You shook his head and said with a smile, "You go and do these two things first, and when I think of something, I'll trouble you again." ”

"No trouble, no trouble." Peng Sheng shook his head again and again, and then retreated.

Su You took another turn on the city wall, thinking that Duan Ruqi would take at least three or five days to reach this pass, so he asked the dynasty Mahan to send an order, urging the two thousand six hundred soldiers to step up training, and at the same time letting them rush to make catapults, arrows and other strategic materials.

After giving these orders, Su You sent scouts and heralds to ask them to withdraw the guards at the previous passes to the Myanmar Pass as soon as possible.

Duan Ruqi's vanguard has not yet arrived, Su You has already abandoned the four checkpoints, and at the same time, the number of soldiers in the Mianning Pass has increased by nearly 1,000, reaching 4,000.

The 4,000 people were divided into four teams, Zhang Long led Su You to bring a total of 600 guards from the Great Sui, Zhao Man led the 1,000 elites of Dongjiao as the second team, Zhang Mu led the 1,000 elites of Xijiao as the third team, and Zhao Hu led the soldiers of the five passes including the Burmese Ning Pass with a total of 1,400 people as the four teams.

A team led by Zhang Long is making catapults and arrows.

The two teams led by Zhao Man and Zhang Mu were practicing intensively.

As for the team led by Zhao Hu, it was divided into four squads, one of which guarded the city gate in three shifts, and the rest of the squad was responsible for making ammunition for catapults.

To put it simply, Su You built a brick kiln in Lincang City, and let the soldiers make a globe-sized mud ball out of clay, and then put it into the brick kiln to fire it.

All of a sudden, Lincang City was filled with smoke and could be seen from afar.

And four days later, Su You finally received the news from the front waiting,—— Duan Ruqi's 100,000 army will arrive tomorrow!

"An army of 100,000?" Su You listened to the report and couldn't help but be stunned, this Ruqi is too capricious, isn't it only more than 40,000 troops? How did you run out of 100,000?

The scout didn't believe this number originally, and at this time he could only say euphemistically, "This is the news from the front, as for the specific news"

"Then you go down and rest first." Su You didn't take it seriously, and immediately waved his hand.

Then the second scout followed, and this time he finally brought more detailed news, "Duan Ruqi joined the soldiers and horses of the headquarters brought by Duan Ruyu three days ago, and officially stepped into the border of Xijiao; Duan's headquarters had more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and borrowed 20,000 troops from Pubu, but there were actually 60,000 rebels."

"Sixty thousand!" When Su You heard this number, he couldn't help but be taken aback, he didn't expect Duan Ruqi to really unite with Pubu.

Is it possible to let Pu Bu fight against Duan Ruqi?

Because of this problem, Su You didn't even sleep well all night.

When Su You was eating breakfast, he heard the faint sound of thousands of horses galloping from the south, and he led the dynasty Ma Han and a dozen or so guards to the top of the city

"Is this the rhythm that wants to extinguish this eclipse? If you don't eat breakfast early in the morning, you're in a hurry to die," Su You muttered and ordered, "Pass the order, the catapult is ready, and we will meet them!" ”

As soon as Su You's voice fell, the heralds used banners to send a message to the below, and then the thirty or fifty catapults placed on the head of the city entered a state of preparation for launch.

Duan Ruqi's vanguard troops took down four empty cities in one day, and they also knew that the Burmese Pass could no longer be an empty city, but in the end, there was still some luck, it was nothing more than wanting to enter Lincang City before having breakfast like the allusion of "destroying this morning food".

But on the head of the city of Mening, there are many shadows, but there is no sound of thunder and drums, which inevitably makes these soldiers who come all the way have a little illusion.

Haven't the people in Burmese seen us yet?

Can we get them down?

The galloping 3,000 pioneers were obviously able to charge without beating drums, and the speed of the Dian horses under their seats was not too fast, but they still came from far and near in an oppressive attitude.

Two hundred zhang, one hundred zhang, fifty zhang!

Then they saw dozens of round balls of mud flying in front of them

Under the combined effect of their own charging speed and the landing speed of the ball, the chaotic army in the front row could not avoid it, either being hit in the face or in the chest, or smashing the horses under the seat

After one round of mud balls, thirty or twenty people had already fallen from their horses, followed by a second round of mud balls flying over

"Let the cannonballs fly all of a sudden" Although he thought so in his heart, Su You still made a second gesture to the herald, so the soldiers of the Great Sui each had a crossbow machine and took their places one after another.

What awaits those who are in chaos is the baptism of bows and crossbows.