"Shrink your forces to defend! Those who escape, slash! Li Changjie gave the order to defend, while desperately restraining the soldiers to form a formation, but it is a pity that this suddenly rushed out of the Great Song army is extremely combative, and he did not bring the ace army elephant soldiers of Jiaozhi this time, so there is no resistance to the opponent's cavalry at all, and the entire army has fallen into a state of collapse.

"Taibao, let's run away, these must be the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness is too strong, I'm afraid only our elephant soldiers can block the other party!" At this time, Nong Zonggan returned to Li Changjie's side covered in blood and said loudly, an army he led had been completely killed and scattered by the Song army, and even he himself was injured.

Although Li Changjie was very unwilling, he saw that his army had been completely dispersed by the Song army, and it could even be said that he had no power to fight back, and this huge gap also made him feel powerless, and finally had to sigh and say: "Withdraw the troops!" ”

With Li Changjie's withdrawal of troops, or the beginning of the escape, the gate of Yongzhou City was also opened, and then the state soldiers led by Su Mian also killed out of the city, although the number of state soldiers in Yongzhou City is not large, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, but the Jiaozhi people outside have been completely dispersed, one by one like a lost dog just fleeing for their lives, and they dare not resist at all, but this makes the state soldiers of Yongzhou kill and avenge the siege of this month.

In the end, the defeated soldiers fled to death, and the rest surrendered as prisoners, but unfortunately several main characters such as Li Changjie and Nong Zongqing escaped, and the south of the battlefield is not far from the dense tropical jungle, not to mention the cavalry, even the infantry is very difficult to get through, so there is no way to chase if you want to, but Li Changjie and others escaped with their lives.

Seeing that the battle is decided. Su Mian informed the reinforcements of his name and position, hoping to meet the generals of this army, and also wanted to inquire about how many people they came this time, what arrangements were made by the imperial court, etc.?

"The last general, Yang Huaiyu, see Su Zhizhou!" After a while, I saw a burly general come over and salute Su Mu. It was Yang Huaiyu who had just left the military academy and entered the army, speaking of which he was originally transferred to serve in the Western Army, this time Jiaozhi sent troops to the Great Song Dynasty, which caused the Great Song Dynasty to be angry, and it happened that Zhao Shu also wanted to see Yang Huaiyu's ability, so he also arranged him to the army of this conquest of Jiaozhi, but he was only the vanguard officer of the army, and the general who was really responsible for the conquest of Jiaozhi was someone else.

"It turned out to be General Yang, thank you for coming to the rescue. Only then did tens of thousands of people in Yongzhou survive! Su Mian said and solemnly saluted Yang Huaiyu, although the reinforcements came very late this time, and almost let the other party break through Yongzhou, but in any case, the other party still saved the people of their whole city, so it is not impossible for Su Mian to express his gratitude to the other party on behalf of the people.

"Su Zhizhou is polite, the last general is only the vanguard of this expedition to Jiaozhi, and there are 80,000 troops led by General Guo Kui Guo behind. General Guo was worried that Su Zhizhou would not be able to hold Yongzhou, so he sent the last general to come to the rescue. Fortunately, he arrived before the city was broken, otherwise the last general would be to blame! Yang Huaiyu saw that the other party saluted him, and he hurriedly took a step forward to support the other party.

This incident helped the Great Song Dynasty resolve the crisis caused by Zhao Shu's refusal to change the law, but it also created a problem for the Great Song Dynasty. First, it can reduce the power of the old forces of Western Xia, and secondly, it can also teach the Jiaozhi people a hard lesson.

So in this case, the Great Song Dynasty sent Zeng Gongliang to personally preside, and Enwei and Shi finally mobilized 80,000 troops from Western Xia, and 70,000 of this army were surrendered or recruited party members from Western Xia. Only 10,000 are the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the main role of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty of this 10,000 is not to fight, but to supervise the 70,000 Western Xia troops.

With these 80,000 people, the Great Song Dynasty also had the confidence to conquer Jiaozhi, and worshiped Guo Kui as the general manager of the camp and the Mabu army of Annan Province, and the Xuanfu envoy of Jinghu Nanbei Road and Guangnan East and West Road, and led the 80,000 troops to Yongzhou, preparing to use Yongzhou as the rear to conquer Jiaozhi.

Speaking of Guo Kui, this person is not simple, in addition to the veteran Yang Wenguang in the Great Song Army, Guo Kui's prestige is the highest, and he once quelled the rebellion of Peng Shixi, a barbarian in Ximan, Hubei, and it is he who has experience in leading troops in the south, so he was appointed by the imperial court as the commander of this expedition. In fact, in the original history, Guo Kui led his troops to fight a battle with the Jiaozhi people a few years later, and defeated the Jiaozhi army led by Li Changjie in one fell swoop.

Su Mian had also heard of Guo Kui's name, but when he heard that the imperial court had mobilized 80,000 troops this time, and was going to conquer Jiaozhi, he couldn't help but change his face at the moment and said: "General Yang, my Great Song Dynasty has just destroyed Western Xia, and it is the time when I need to recuperate, if I rush to war with Jiaozhi now, it is really a little unwise, why would Your Majesty and all the ministers in the court agree to send troops this time?" ”

"This ......" Yang Huaiyu glanced around with a strange face when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Su Zhizhou asked the wrong person, the last general just obeyed the order, as for what the princes of the court think, this is not something that the last general can guess, but since the court issued this order, it must have its own reasons!" ”

Yang Huaiyu is not an ordinary general, he naturally knows that the imperial court is implementing a plan to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf this time, but he knows this matter himself, and he must not say it publicly, otherwise he may commit a taboo, so he deliberately said so.

Su Mian didn't know Yang Huaiyu's identity, and he felt justified when he heard this, but he was still a little worried in his heart, after all, he knew that the climate here in Jiaozhi was hot and humid, and most of the forbidden troops were northerners.

Next, Su Mian led Tang Zizheng and other officials to welcome Yang Huaiyu and others into the city, Guo Kui had long expected that Yongzhou City would be besieged for such a long time, and it must be very short of food, so behind Yang Huaiyu's vanguard army was the army transporting grain, which could arrive in two days at the latest, Su Mian was also very happy after knowing the news, and immediately took out all the remaining food in the city, on the one hand, entertained Yang Huaiyu and these vanguard troops, and on the other hand, distributed it to the people in the city, so that the people could also have a full meal.

A few days later, the army led by Guo Kui finally arrived at Yongzhou City, and also brought a large number of grain and grass weapons, making Yongzhou City Yiyue become the rear of the Great Song Dynasty's expedition to Jiaozhi, and Su Mian temporarily became the logistics director of the army, responsible for the dispatch of various military supplies, and thanks to the fact that he was no stranger to military affairs, so he also did it handy.

With Su Mian's contact with this Guo Kui and other generals, coupled with his observation of the 80,000 army, Su Mian finally understood the imperial court's plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, which made him secretly praise, he has always hated the Jiaozhi people very much, and he also has no good impression of the Xixia people.

In the city lord's mansion of Yongzhou City, it has now become a temporary handsome tent, Su Mian was busy with today's official business, and was about to report to Guo Kui, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to call him, which made him a little strange, but as soon as he came in, he saw Guo Kui open his mouth and said: "Su Zhizhou, how is the material dispatch of the army?" ”

"General Manager Qiyu, the dispatch of materials is a trivial matter, but if the army enters the territory of Jiaozhi, with the situation of mountainous forests in Jiaozhi, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the materials to keep up!" Su Mian said honestly, in fact, the military strength of Jiaozhi is not strong, and the key is the harsh natural environment in Jiaozhi, which is the main reason why the Great Song Dynasty was unwilling to conquer Jiaozhi before.

Guo Kui is a middle-aged man in his forties, with ordinary facial features at noon, and he doesn't look like a famous general, but his eyes are extremely bright, and he seems to be able to see through people's hearts at a glance. I saw that he was silent for a moment after listening to Su Xuan's words, and then said very decisively: "Su Zhizhou, you try to arrange the transportation of armor and equipment, as for the grain, it can be appropriately reduced, I heard that the territory of Jiaozhi is rich in rice, and after the army enters the enemy's territory, it is a big deal to eat the enemy!" ”

Hearing the words "eat on the enemy", Su Mian couldn't help but feel a chill, the so-called eating on the enemy means raising food in the enemy's territory, but the enemy will not be kind enough to prepare food for them, and even deliberately burn down the grain depot, so generally eating on the enemy is actually indulging the army to loot everywhere, so behind these simple four words, there is actually incomparable blood.

Guo Kui also saw what Su Mu was thinking, but he just smiled and didn't explain, in his opinion, as long as he could defeat the enemy, then no matter what means were used, it was normal. What's more, Guo Kui came with troops this time, in fact, there were two purposes, on the one hand, to consume the strength of these Western Xia troops in his hands, and on the other hand, to consume the national strength of the Jiaozhi people.

In a small country like Jiaozhi, the population is actually a very precious resource, which can be seen from the behavior of Jiaozhi buying and selling and looting the population from the Great Song Dynasty every year, so as long as the population of Jiaozhi is reduced, it will make them unable to wage war in the future, so Guo Kui will make the bloody and cruel decision to eat the enemy, although such a decision may add some unnecessary casualties to his army, but it can just achieve the purpose of consuming the Western Xia army.

Guo Kui's army after more than a month of preparation, at this time the north has entered the cold winter, although the weather on the Jiaozhi side is still a little hot, but it is much cooler than before, taking advantage of this opportunity, Guo Kui's army finally began to advance to the south, and Jiaozhi at this time also gathered a large army on the border, the war between the two countries is about to break out! (To be continued......)