When Zheng Lang arrived in Yongzhou, he first browsed the information sent from all sides. Come on,.!

Then Huang Fen, Shi Jian and other officials were called to discuss the matter, and first asked Huang Fen to lead 2,000 soldiers and soldiers from Taipingzhai to escort a batch of weapons, and go to Pingxiangtong from Taipingzhai. The lord of Pingxiang Pass is a centrist, and this is one of the important areas of the future campaign, so the scouts are more detailed in spying on each mountain. This lord didn't have much feeling for the Song Dynasty, but he was also not interested in Jiaozhi.

But for Zheng Lang, that's enough.

Comparatively speaking, more than half of the tribes in Qiyuan Prefecture can't believe it, and at least more than eighty percent of the tribes in Menzhou can't believe it. It was not to enter Pingxiangtong, but to let Huang Fen take these materials to the south pass of Pingxiangtong Waizhen to set up a large camp and wait for Guo Kui's orders.

Huang Fen is a cadre on Guangnan West Road, he also has an identity, he is a son of the Nanyan barbarian surnamed Huang, and Huang Fen is similar to a few officials such as Huang Xianqi, after Zheng Lang's careful investigation, they all let them go to Yizhou, Yongzhou and other states with many barbarians to serve as officials, using their special status, in order to mediate the conflicts and contradictions between the Han and barbarian people.

As for Huang Fen himself, after Zheng Lang wrote directly, he was given a military position.

It is also one of the measures to appease the hearts of the barbarians.

Then he wrote to Zhang Qi, who was followed by a large number of militiamen, including Zhang Qi's army, divided into two batches, one of which was destined for Qinlian Prefecture and most of which would be drawn to the south of Yongzhou. The second line is the three levels.

Zhennan Pass, Pingerguan and Shuikou Pass.

Zhennanguan is now not called Zhennanguan, but Da Nanguan, and Zheng Lang changed the name to Zhennanguan. Located in the south side of Pingxiangtong, it is the gate of Pingxiangtong, when Zheng Lang developed Guangnan West Road, by the way, the road from Taipingzhai to Pingxiangtong was rebuilt and expanded, and there was a road in the south, that is, the avenue to the pass and Jiaozhi. But after passing the Zhennan Pass. Zheng Lang was not very interested, although he repaired it again, it was hastily repaired.

There are also two important passes to the west, which were originally only passes. However, after Zheng Lang built the road, the two passes became important, and these two passes were the later famous Pingerguan and Shuikou Pass. Because of its importance, Zheng Lang built the checkpoint again, which was also named Pingerguan and Shuikou Pass. The former is located in Frozen Prefecture, the latter is located at the mouth of the Zuojiang River, and the Zuojiang River upstream of Shuikou Pass is the Pengjiang River. Guo Kui's departure from Guangyuan Prefecture was from Shuikou Pass to the south.

Hold these three levels. And then there will be a very interesting scene.

No one has noticed it yet.

This protection battle Zheng Lang named it the Battle of Three Levels, but it did not refer to these three levels, but the interception battles that used the levels three times. The decisive pass is the first level, and the third level is the second level. Until the third level, it is an epic battle.

But again reasonable.

At least he knows a little bit about the military Zheng Lang, whether it is Menzhou or Sumao Prefecture, there is a strong hostility towards all the tribes in the Song Realm. To prevent the west, it is necessary to set up three barriers to prevent invasion. To the northwest of Sumaozhou, Yongping Village chokes the road to the north of Sumaoman. To the northeast, the village was also expanded to hold on.

The construction of these villages is a very normal move.

It is this chain of reasonableness. In the end, the entire campaign was constructed.

Only then did he look at Su Mu and asked, "Brother Xuanfu, I will give you a task." ”

"Xingzhi, please speak." The relationship between the two is good, and it is the same year, Zheng Lang has the grace of support, so Su Mian has always been grateful to Zheng Lang.

"Jiaozhi is about to have an invasion of 40,000 troops, but in fact, many barbarians have also sent troops to join, even some barbarians in Menzhou and Sumao Prefecture have been plotting. It is likely that they will participate in the invasion when the Cochin army arrives. I have a series of arrangements in Yongzhou, but the pressure will be very high. I want you to assist General Zhang in organizing this battle for the defense of Yongzhou. Can you do it? ”

"Xingzhi ......" Su Mian was a little puzzled, Zheng Lang said in the mobilization order, only allowed to advance and not retreat, and would personally sit in Yongzhou. Won't take half a step back.

"I'm going to this place," Zheng Lang pointed to the map.

Su Mian looked at the place where Zheng Lang pointed and was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground.

"Don't panic, don't you think it will be a good opportunity for the whole country to invade in a big way? I have been discussing with Zhang Kang for a long time about this invasion, have you noticed that there is something wrong with the troop arrangement in my hands? ”

"What's wrong?" Su Mian still hasn't returned to his soul.

"There are a lot less!"

There are 12,000 people led by Zheng Lang in Liangguang, and there are still 9,000 people left at this time, and there are eight battalion commanders, more than 10,000 people. Scattered throughout the two regions. Many native soldiers who have been in actual combat. The two prefectures of Qinlian did not use many troops. The cavalry trained by Zhang Kang was not necessarily all forbidden soldiers, but some of them were from the local familiar barbarian disciples. After all, after the end of the First World War, most of them had to be taken to Jinghu South Road to deal with Meishanman. It is necessary to leave a light rider with a quick response.

The area of Liangguang is too large, especially there are many barbarians on Guangxi South Road itself, and the situation on Guangnan East Road is a little better, and there are also barbarians. Even after 20 years of Chenguang, 20 years of good internal governance cannot turn all the barbarians on Guangnan West Road into mature barbarians, and it may not be known whether all the barbarians on Guangnan East Road can turn into mature barbarians after 20 years of great rule.

Therefore, although Guo Kui led 4,000 light cavalry to the Duli Pass, there were only 2,500 regular forbidden soldiers.

However, it is precisely because the two provinces are so large that troops are stationed everywhere, and even if Jiaozhi attaches great importance to intelligence work, it is impossible to detect such detailed information. And Zheng Lang did a good job of secrecy, not to mention Jiaozhi, Yu Jing could not fully grasp the distribution of troops in the two Guangzhou.

Su Mian still didn't quite understand, and Zheng Lang whispered a word in his ear. Su Mian suddenly realized and said, "But it's still too dangerous." ”

"Soldiers, Qi is complementing each other. At least I'm one step ahead of Jiaozhi in intelligence, the problem is you, once I'm gone, all the logistics in Yongzhou will be handed over to you. ”

"Don't worry, I can do it."

Zheng Lang is indeed reassuring of him, this person is loyal and martyrdom, which is not what ordinary people imagine.

Then he looked at the information in his hand, and the commander of Jiaozhi was the crown prince Li Rizun.

It is not surprising that Jiaozhi was the time of expansion, and the whole country attached great importance to martial arts, and even used to learn from the Tang Dynasty to divide the country into ten provinces, until the Li Dynasty, only to learn from the Song Dynasty, the country was divided into 24 roads, and the rights of various local officials were controlled, and the central imperial power was defended.

The deputy commander of the march was Wu Er, and he expected it. However, among the generals in the list of generals, the name of a prison army is seen. Li Changjie.

This person was not surnamed Li, but the fifth grandson of Wu Quan, the founder of Wu Yue, who was appointed by his father Yin as a captain of Jiaozhi horseback riding school, and was summoned to the palace at the age of twenty-five. was cut off a little cock, became a eunuch, and served as a guard for the Yellow Gate. Li Dezheng and Li Rizun's father and son trust him very much.

Maybe this name is not taken seriously by any minister in the Song Dynasty, and it is just a great eunuch. However, Zheng Lang clearly knew this person, and it was he who later commanded the Jiaozhi army to invade Yongzhou. Also because he is a eunuch, psychopathic. Hundreds of people were slaughtered on Quang Nam West Road.

It has nothing to do with hatred, it's that this person has some military talent.

Staring at this name, Zheng Lang thought for a while and said, "I'd better stay for a few days to see how the battle is going ahead, and then decide to leave Yongzhou." ”

Subsequently, a series of orders were issued to Guizhou and other state capitals to urgently transfer the weapons and materials that had been secretly prepared in advance to Yongzhou.

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The Battle of the Decisive Pass begins.

Cochin began to be a little dismissive. The general guarding the pass only sent an adjutant general to lead a thousand infantry out to fight.

Guo Kui smiled, although the four thousand soldiers he brought were not as strong as the five thousand cavalry carefully selected by Di Qing, they were also carefully selected warriors. Although it is a pseudo-cavalry. After all, it was a cavalry, and the Jiaozhi people underestimated themselves too much.

He said to the planter, "Later, fight harder." Don't ask for fast, but protect yourself. Wait for my command. ”

Hearing his strange order, the seed and the soldiers all laughed.

When you start fighting, you have to protect yourself, so you fight more restrainedly.

But that's it, five hundred cavalry can't be resisted by these thousand Cochin soldiers.

The two armies fought on this mountain road, and it was only a short time before the Jiaozhi army was ravaged by the repeated onslaught of the Song Dynasty cavalry. Gradually defeated. Guo Kui shouted: "Kill." ”

Only then did the hideous fangs be revealed, and hundreds of cavalry charged at the Cochin with all their might.

Some of the soldiers saw that something was wrong, so they pulled their legs and fled to the checkpoint.

Guo Kui asked his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, and brought dozens of prisoners who had time to escape into the checkpoint in the future, stripped them naked, and brought them to the checkpoint. I also found some small thorn strips and pumped them on these naked cross-toed soldiers, and some of the soldiers spoofed them, specifically pumping them on the captive little PP or little JJ. This one is so insulting.

The morale of the cross-toe soldiers in the level was so angry that they screamed.

The master of the gate is also angry, if this matter spreads, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will come immediately, and he can use his head to sacrifice the banner.

In a fit of rage, he poured out the army.

The two armies fought again, Jiaozhi had many troops, the troops were also relatively fierce, and they occupied a condescending geographical advantage, and the Song army gradually lost its support, and fought and retreated. Gradually, the pass was opened, and the terrain became opener, not a plain area. But the Song army is all southern horses, and they do not reject these terrains, and continue to have an advantage in speed. So although he was defeated, he kept making provocative and humiliating actions, or saying angry things that made people angry.

and a mile away.

Suddenly, a large number of Song Dynasty cavalry were killed in the mountains and forests on both sides.

Some cavalry directly cut off the back road of the Jiaozhi people, which was the ambush battle arranged by Guo Kui. The Jiaozhi people seem to have some contempt for Song Jun, which was also noticed very early. Therefore, he personally led 500 horsemen to provoke and lure the Jiaozhi army in the pass to come out.

Intermediate intelligence plays a crucial role.

For the sake of the south, the number of scouts from the spy battalion who died before and after has reached nearly 50, and many scouts have not been heard from so far, and the number of casualties will continue to rise after the war.

Just sprinting back and forth twice, the Jiaozhi army collapsed, and some soldiers wanted to drill into the mountains and forests, Guo Kui saw that the fire was coming, and asked his subordinates to shout in dialect: "Surrender and don't kill." ”

In this battle, more than 1,100 Jiaozhi soldiers were killed, more than 1,400 prisoners were captured, only a few fled to the mountains and forests, and 200 soldiers were left behind. Win cleanly.

Escorting the captives, he came to the pass again, and shouted to the pass: "Surrender and don't kill, as long as you resist, no one will be left after the checkpoint is captured." ”

He also ordered the captured gatekeepers to persuade him to surrender to the city.

Some of the Jiaozhi soldiers still wanted to continue to resist, but most of them lost their courage. I don't know how many people came from the Song army, first it was five hundred, and now it seems to have become four or five thousand, and I didn't even notice when they came. Is there a Song army in the back?

Under this pressure, after a moment's hesitation, some of the soldiers opened the gate and surrendered.

Take the decisive pass, and the sky is not yet dark.

Guo Kui sent some of his men to send the captives to the rear. There was a shortage of labor on the entire Guangnan West Road, and Zheng Lang's slave arrest order led to the impeachment of Yan Chen, but in fact there were too many restrictions, and the cost of slave arrest was high, which in turn made the merchants feel dissatisfied.

These prisoners of war were good slaves.

Rolling to the rear can encourage the confidence and morale of the people, and it can be handed over to those merchants and big landowners, and they don't have to think about selling for money, but they can be disguised to make money, such as letting these rich people do good deeds, and whoever does more will give these prisoners of war to whomever they do. It is equivalent to taking from the people and using it for the people in another way.

The other is to ask for weapons to guard the rear of the pass.

Begin to count the supplies and weapons in the customs. Not very ideal, Guo Kui scolded angrily: "Arrogant monkey." ”

As the heaviest pass to the Fuliang River, is it not afraid that the Song Dynasty will launch an active attack?

In desperation, he had to let the soldiers skip dinner for the time being, and there was still more than an hour before dark, and cut down some wood from both sides of the mountain range, and brought some rocks to use as simple rolling wooden stones. The news of the loss of the Decisive Pass soon spread to the Jiaozhi camp.

At first, it was inexplicable that the Song Dynasty did not have many troops in Liangguang, so Jiaozhi attached great importance to these 4,000 light cavalry. After receiving the news that this army was sending troops, it was going to Guangyuan Prefecture, and I was very puzzled, and after thinking for a long time, I thought that the Nong clan was going to start a rebellion again, if this is the result, it would be the most wonderful.

Why did you suddenly change your mind and suddenly come to the Decisive Pass?

After discussing for a long time, it was thought that it was not very difficult for the Song army to learn that their army was heading south, and that the troops on the right were already officially attacking Qinlian Erzhou, and the Song Dynasty had taken precautions, which was also very "reasonable". About the Song army wanted to take the Duli Pass and buy time for the rear.

This is not good news.

If you want to enter the Song realm, there is still a way, go back, two hundred miles from the west bypass, there is a road to enter Guangyuan Prefecture. But now it is a march of tens of thousands of troops, and there are many miscellaneous armies with chaotic military discipline, which makes the march even slower. The two-hundred-mile mountain road will be delayed for at least four or five days. Just don't delay, you can't get in the way of the Song army, you have to take a detour. How frustrating would that have on morale?

But a strong attack is bound to suffer heavy losses.

After a long time, some of the soldiers who fled to the mountains and forests escaped after a lot of hardship. These mountains and forests are dense, and the army cannot pass, if you send dozens of scouts, these scouts are not afraid of hard work and sacrifice, they can still do it.

When the defeated soldiers came back, they reported the truth of this battle to the local people, and said that there were only 4,000 Song troops, but the combat power was very strong.

Listening to the report of the defeated pawn, Li Changjie and Wu Er asked very carefully. I took out the map again, looked at each other, and smiled at each other, it may be very strong, mainly because my subordinates have been tricked. So it was decided to storm the pass.

At noon the next day, the Cochin forward army arrived at the Duli Pass. Set up a large camp, have lunch, and immediately launch a fierce attack on the duel pass.

After so many years of war, the siege equipment and weapons and armor of the Cochin people are beyond the reach of Nong Zhigao. Even Jiaozhi also launched a siege ladder comparable to the cloud ladder of the Song Dynasty.

Close the shut, and the bloody battle begins.

There are not many weapons to defend the city, and the stones brought from last night were smashed down together, and the big wood was also thrown down, and the stone was slightly better, but these woods must not be regarded as real rolling wood, the real rolling wood is the kind used in Anyuan City, and many iron thorns and iron nails were embedded in the wood, and they hit the head, and often these big iron nails can penetrate the helmet and drill directly into the brain. These woods have some defensive effects, but they are nowhere near as good as real sasswood.

The battle was fierce, more and more Jiaozhi soldiers attacked the city, if it were not for the treacherous terrain, the pass would have been lost under the strong attack of the Jiaozhi people.

Subsequently, the main force of Jiaozhi gradually arrived, and the offensive was increased one after another.

Under the strong attack of the Jiaozhi people, the Song army finally suffered a large number of casualties. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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