The new hatred and old grudges caused by blood and wealth between the two sides of the confrontation have reached the point of no relief.

On the first day of the first month of the fourteenth year of liberation (964).

Dali, which has not had time to celebrate the New Year, ushered in the largest civil war since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Due to the large number of personnel involved in the battle and the extremely rudimentary equipment, the casualties caused were not very large.

In many battlefields of obliteration, it is often two soldiers who are "exterminating" each other with their hands, they have no weapons, and they are exactly like two farmers fighting in the fields, and it is not like they are fighting a life-and-death war of power.

After several days of fierce fighting along the Lanjiang River, the two armies lost less than 10 percent of their personnel.

Of the less than 10 percent of these casualties, the injured accounted for the majority.

Ironically, a large proportion of the injured were scratched by fingernails and other objects.

The combat power of the armies of the two sides can be imagined.

And the main battlefield that really put into the regular army is on the banks of the Lancang River from Dali Mansion to Tengchong Province.

More than 30,000 regular troops from both sides are fighting here.

Since the Duan clan has been running Dali for decades, most of the regular army is in his hands.

After the battle in the past few days, the Gao army was obviously unable to resist it.

Seeing that the battle line on the west bank of the Lancang River was about to be broken by Duan's army, Gao Yi found Xu Shouren and asked him to fulfill his promise and ask the Ming State to send troops to help.

How could Xu Shouren mobilize the Ming Army at this time?

However, the rapid collapse of Gao's army was not in the interests of the Ming State, and it would also directly affect the plan that was formulated at the beginning.

Thinking about it, Xu Shouren mobilized the military personnel who were lurking in Dali and disguised as military personnel. Form a small army, wear the uniforms of the Gao army, and prepare to gallop to the aid of the Gao army.

The mobilized army numbered about 2,000 men. is already thirty percent of the personnel lurking in Dali, Xu Shouren will naturally not fully expose his strength, after all, the secret envoy in Dali can mobilize a large number of personnel, which will inevitably arouse the suspicion of Gao Fang.

And the size of two thousand people was just right for a secret envoy of the Ming State who was ready to assist Gao Fang in dealing with the Duan clan.

Gao Fang will not only not doubt Ming's intentions, but will also be convinced that Mingguo is indeed sincere in providing practical support to him.

Xu Shouren secretly contacted Bailikang on the other side. I hope that he can inadvertently delay the offensive rhythm of the Duan clan's army and buy time for Gao Fang to survive.

Brilikang was heard, and it was a breeze for him. That night, he ordered his retinue to sneak into the rear, ordered nine grain camps, and burned at least sixty percent of the grain bar.

If not to balance the strength of the two sides. As a special envoy of Baili Kangmingguo. It's not hard to sneak in and burn all the grain.

Duan Sicong, who was complacent, woke up and heard that the grain had been destroyed, and spurted a mouthful of blood.

After falling unconscious for a long time, Duan Sicong woke up slowly, and he insisted on a decisive battle with the Gao rebels immediately, striving to defeat the Gao rebels before the grain was exhausted.

The generals under Duan Sicong's command also agreed, because these days of fighting have made everyone clear about the strength of the Gao army. If you really use all your strength to fight, you will definitely be able to defeat the Gao rebels in one fell swoop.

Just when the monarchs and ministers of Dali were discussing how to arrange troops. Bailikang sees that a plan cannot be a plan to regenerate.

He ordered his entourage to quickly spread rumors to the capital Dali Mansion, claiming that all the 160,000 army grain of the imperial court had been burned, and now the surplus food in the army was only enough for three days.

Bailikang's character belongs to the kind of blockbuster that is nothing but a blockbuster.

For any troublesome matter, he will choose the simplest and most effective way to deal with it, and often his method is the most effective.

Among the rumors spread by Bailikang's entourage, it was claimed that there were still three days of food left to be considered.

Rumors often can't be all lies to be believed.

Among the rumors spread, it is a fact that the grain was burned, more than 60% of the grain was burned, but it is not a fact that it is only enough for three days.

If the rumor is spread that claims to have been stopped or is only enough for one day, the rumor will be quickly verified as false, and once it is confirmed as a rumor, the morale of the imperial army will rebound and the purpose of delay will not be achieved.

And if it is claimed that the time required for supply is too long, if it can still support the needs of a six-day or even eight-day army, then the imperial army does not need to think about anything else, and in the face of the rebels on the west bank to attack with all their might, it is completely possible to defeat the rebels and win the victory in six days.

Bai Likang only chose three days, that is, he calculated that the imperial army could not quickly defeat the Gao rebels within three days, so the stored grain and straw would become a heart disease in the hearts of the soldiers.

Heart disease is like a seed that takes root and grows.

Coupled with the special group of the army, the slightest rumor will spread more and more evilly.

In this way, if the grain is indeed burned and the grain is short, the rumors will be verified at the beginning, which meets the primary condition for the rumors to be disseminated.

A day later, when Duan Sicong and his generals were preparing to cross the Lancang River west to fight a decisive battle against the rebels, an unusual situation occurred in the imperial army.

The peasant soldiers who had just been drafted fled in large numbers.

The soldiers who did not flee were even more panicked and demoralized.

This is like an army that is going to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and it is already good if it does not fry the pot and the battalion.

In this case, Duan Sicong had to cancel the will of the decisive battle, shrink the defensive line, and prepare to reorganize before making plans.

And Bai Likang had already passed the news back to Xu Shouren while spreading rumors.

Since then, Xu Shouren has counterattacked the entire army of Gao Fangjian, and he has led more than 2,000 of his subordinates as the vanguard and entered the battle.

Gao Fangzheng was worried about the battle situation, but when he heard that Xu Shouren had asked his whole army to counterattack, he still hesitated for a long time.

Indeed, when even defense was a problem, the order for the whole army to counterattack was given lightly, that is, the jar was broken and broken, and I didn't want to live anymore.

But after all, Gao Fang now has to rely on the support of Mingguo, and with the current battlefield situation, Gao Fang has no hope of turning over on his own, so he can only pin all his hopes on Mingguo.

Therefore, Gao Fang could only agree to Xu Shouren's plan, and Xu Shouren took the initiative to lead the army as the vanguard of Gao's army, which ignited a glimmer of hope in Gao Fang's heart and also swelled with a trace of emotion.

After all, no matter whether they succeed or fail, Xu Shouren and his 2,000 men shed blood for him.

The next day, when the Duan imperial army was still struggling with the rumors that the grain was burned, the Gao army began a counterattack with the whole army.

Xu Shouren led more than 2,000 of his subordinates to attack the imperial army on the main battlefield with the swords, armor and cold weapons of the Gao army.

The regular army of the Ming army has already popularized muskets, and if Xu Shouren led the regular Ming army, this battle would indeed be difficult to fight.

Although the Duan army was confused by rumors and their morale was low, it only affected the newly recruited peasant soldiers. (To be continued......)