In the winter of the fourth year of Zhiping, the war between the Great Song Dynasty and Jiaozhi finally broke out, the 80,000 army led by Guo Kui and the 100,000 Jiaozhi army led by Li Changjie met on the border line between the two countries, and then a decisive battle was launched.

Speaking of which, Li Changjie is not an ordinary person, and he has rich experience in war, otherwise he would not be known as the first person among the warring generals, but it is a pity that he grew up in a small country like Jiaozhi, and his vision has been greatly limited, for example, in the cognition of all Jiaozhi people, the elephant soldier is the strongest soldier on the battlefield, and only the elephant soldier can defeat the elephant soldier, but there is no elephant soldier in the Great Song Army, so Li Changjie will be so confident.

It is also this shallow understanding that makes Li Changjie make a wrong judgment on the battlefield, and when their elephant soldiers appeared, the Great Song Dynasty did not even use firearms, only relying on a strong crossbow to shoot the opponent's elephant soldiers to death and wound countless people, in addition, Guo Kui also has a long study of elephant soldiers, he let people create a long knife, training soldiers to use this long knife to cut the elephant's trunk, as a result, the elephant ran back in a frenzy, and countless Jiaozhi soldiers were trampled to death and injured, it can be said that the elephant of the Jiaozhi people not only did not exert its original power, Instead, it leads to chaos on the battlefield.

Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the elephant soldiers to the Jiaozhi army, Guo Kui commanded the army to rush forward to kill, and the result was a big break in the Jiaozhi army, Li Changjie saw that there was nothing to do, and immediately ordered the army to retreat, but unfortunately Guo Kui covered up from behind, and made the Jiaozhi people suffer heavy losses, and finally after the count, the Jiaozhi people died nearly 20,000 people in this decisive battle. There are countless wounded, and Da Song has paid less than 10,000 casualties, which can be said to be a very beautiful victory.

After winning the first battle, Guo Kui immediately ordered the whole army to advance and enter the territory of Jiaozhi with murderous vigour, because the roads in Jiaozhi were difficult to travel. It was difficult to transport grain and grass in the rear, so Guo Kui wrote to eat the enemy, and as a result, the Great Song army grabbed wherever it went, speaking of which, 70,000 of the 80,000 people were originally surrendered to the Western Xia Kingdom, and there were also some party members, these people were born robbers, so there was no resistance to Guo Kui's order, and there was even a feeling that the dragon entered the sea.

The Song army burned and looted all the way, which also caused great panic in Jiaozhi. Among them, Li Rizun, the king of Jiaozhi, on the one hand, sued for peace with the Great Song court, and on the other hand, urged Li Changjie to besiege the Song army again. However, the reason why the Great Song Dynasty sent troops this time was to calm the anger of the people in the country on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was to use Jiaozhi to consume the strength of those Western Xia troops, so it was naturally impossible to strike lightly, as for Li Changjie's side, although he knew that he was not the opponent of the Great Song army, he did not dare to disobey the order. In the end, he could only bite the bullet and block the Song army in the area of the Fuliang River.

Speaking of which, Li Changjie is also worthy of being the first person among the generals of Jiaozhi, and he took advantage of the Song Army to advance all the way. When the Song army crossed the river, Li Changjie sent an army to block it, and defeated the Song army in one fell swoop, and the Song army died in this battle reached five or six thousand, which was also the first major victory of the Jiaozhi people since the outbreak of the war. So that the top and bottom of the cochin finally regained some confidence.

However, this victory did not make the Jiaozhi people proud for too long, and soon Guo Kui personally led the army to the Fuliang River to confront Li Changjie's army across the river. Guo Kui did not have a naval army in his hands, so he could not break through Li Changjie's blockade at all, and naturally he could not cross the river.

Li Changjie originally wanted to use Fuliangjiang to block the Song army, after all, it was impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to stay in Jiaozhi indefinitely, as long as they couldn't support it, they would naturally retreat. Guo Kui naturally knew Li Changjie's plans, but he quickly thought of countermeasures, first gradually transferring the troops in the army, so that the number of people in the barracks was decreasing day by day, in order to show the enemy weakness, but these transferred troops were ambushed in the nearby mountains and forests.

In addition, Guo Kui also asked Xizuo to spread the news in Jiaozhi, spreading rumors that Li Changjie was afraid of the Great Song Dynasty and did not dare to fight, but this news also caused a great shock in the Jiaozhi Dynasty, and finally even Li Rizun was a little suspicious, plus he also knew that the number of Song troops was decreasing, so he began to put pressure on Li Changjie to send troops to fight with the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Changjie was actually also doubting whether there was any conspiracy to reduce the number of Song troops on the opposite side, so he didn't dare to send troops, but with Li Rizun's suspicion, he had to take a risk, and finally mobilized the army to kill the Fuliang River.

Fuliang River is actually the Red River of later generations, and the capital of Cochin Province is also on the south bank of the Fuliang River, it can be said that Fuliang River is the last barrier of Thang Long Mansion, and now even this barrier has been broken through by the Song army, plus the Jiaozhi elite led by Li Changjie also suffered heavy losses in this battle, making Thang Long Mansion like a woman who has snatched all her clothes, and no longer has any ability to resist.

However, Guo Kui did not rush to attack Shenglong Mansion, but first rested on the south bank of the Yangtze River for a few days, and by the way, Li Changjie, who returned from defeat, had time to clean up the remnants of the defeated army, and then fight him to the death in Shenglong Mansion. Speaking of which, although Guo Kui fought very smoothly along the way, he did not complete the goal given by the imperial court, mainly because too few of his soldiers died, and the 70,000 Western Xia troops have now suffered less than 20,000 casualties, which is far worse than the target of at least half of the casualties secretly set for him by the imperial court.

A few days later, Guo Kui finally mobilized the army to march to the Shenglong Mansion, at this time the Jiaozhi was all in chaos, and many ministers were built to Li Rizun to ask for peace with the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, there was no need for these ministers to say that Li Rizun had already sent several envoys to the Great Song Dynasty to sue for peace, but unfortunately the Great Song Dynasty did not react, as if it was determined to destroy Jiaozhi.

It was precisely in this situation that the peace could not be reached, Li Rizun had to make the choice of fighting against the water, and handed over all the troops that Thang Long Mansion could mobilize to Li Changjie to command, hoping that he could hold Thang Long Mansion under the attack of the Great Song army. Speaking of which, Li Changjie has been defeated in the face of the Great Song Dynasty several times, which has caused discussions among many ministers in the Jiaozhi court, and even many people have built a change of generals, but Li Rizun knows very clearly that only Li Changjie can block the Song army in the entire Jiaozhi, and if he is replaced by other generals, I am afraid that the defeat will be even worse, so he insisted on choosing Li Changjie as the commander of the whole army.

Guo Kui didn't care about the preparation of Jiaozhi at all, and even his sending troops to attack Jiaozhi was originally to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and now Jiaozhi's strength has been almost consumed, and the rest is to use the opportunity to attack Shenglong Mansion to consume the strength of these Western Xia troops, as for whether he can defeat Shenglong Mansion, he actually doesn't care very much.

After Guo Kui's army was killed under the city of Shenglong Mansion, the first thing to do was not to attack the city, but to send troops to loot around, the main looting object was food, because they have now penetrated deep into the territory of Jiaozhi, coupled with the poor transportation in Jiaozhi, so that the materials in the army are scarce, especially the food is even more tight, so every time he goes, Guo Kui will send people around to loot food for military needs.

The area around Thang Long Mansion is the most prosperous area of the Cochin country, where the weather is hot and the land is fertile, which is very suitable for the growth of rice, and can even grow three seasons a year, so the food here is very sufficient, even if Li Changjie built a strong wall against the Song army before, but there is still a lot of food left, so Guo Kui's army quickly collected a lot of food, as for the other trophies, they were assigned by him to the soldiers in the army, after all, it is okay to let them die, but they must also give some appropriate sweetness.

"Chief, the walls of this Shenglong Mansion are high and deep, I'm afraid it's not easy to attack!" On an earthen mountain in the northwest of Thang Long City, Yang Huaiyu held a telescope and looked at Thang Long Mansion not far away, and then said to Guo Kui next to him.

"It's better if it's not good to fight, I'm still worried that I haven't completed the task assigned by the court!" Guo Kui smiled when he heard this, there are only two of them on this dirt mountain, and there is no need to worry about these words being heard, in fact, there are only two of them in the entire army who know their strategic purposes, and even the other generals of the Song army are kept in the dark.

"Having said that, if we suffer too many casualties, I'm afraid we won't be able to defeat this Thang Long Mansion." Yang Huaiyu frowned when he heard this, and said, the Thang Long Mansion in front of him was built in the Tang Dynasty, when this was the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the Thang Long Mansion was called Song Ping, and later renamed Da Luo, after hundreds of years of development, Thang Long Mansion has become the largest city in Cochin, although it cannot be compared with Tokyo City, but it is also a strong city in the Great Song Dynasty.

"If you can't beat it, forget it, anyway, we didn't really want to kill Jiaozhi this time." Guo Kui didn't care when he heard this, the Great Song Dynasty's rule over the south was already very weak, even if Jiaozhi was really destroyed this time, I am afraid that he would not be able to rule, and in the end he could only cheapen the surrounding Dali, Zhancheng and other countries, so he only needed to beat them half to death.

Yang Huaiyu also knew that it was not a wise decision to destroy Jiaozhi, and even he did not have the luxury of laying down the Shenglong Mansion before, after all, the Shenglong Mansion is the national capital of Jiaozhi, and it is not easy to conquer here, but he had received a letter from Zhao Yan before, but it made him change his mind, and now he is thinking about whether he should take out this letter to persuade Guo Kui to change his mind? (To be continued......)