Chapter 233: Good Interpretation City

Duan Yu made up his mind to rely on the Great Song Dynasty to quell the rebellion, rectify the dynasty, and pro-government the dynasty. In order to achieve national peace and stability and unity, he decided to ask the Great Song Dynasty for help, asking him to uphold justice and quell the rebellion, and called on all ministries to respond to the peace talks, stop fighting and stop fighting, and sit down to discuss state affairs.

The ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel, there are few people who respond to the will of the lord, but most people have stopped taking action and watched the development of the situation before making a decision, but there are also horizontal masters, who simply ignore any holy decrees, and still do their own thing, what should they do...

Gao Shunzhen was very angry after receiving the edict of the lord of the country, not only did he not speak for himself, but also abandoned himself to start a new stove and rely on the Great Song Dynasty to solve the problem, he simply did not take Gao in his eyes, he immediately recruited troops and prepared to march to the capital to Xingshi to ask for guilt. The reason why he is so bold is also confident. In order to weaken the power of the Duan clan and control the state politics, in the later period of the Dali Kingdom, the Gao clan deliberately adopted the policy of strengthening the strong and weak Duan militarily.

On the one hand, the Gao clan put the elite of the Dali army under their control, and on the other hand, they focused on the development of Gao's local armed forces, and the military strength in the land of Wang Qian was quite weak. Therefore, in the political conflict in the later period of the Dali Kingdom, anyone from the Gao family could easily bring troops into Beijing and abolish the prime minister, but the Duan family could only stare at it and had no power to fight back, and Duan Yu's non-cooperation made him have the heart of 'changing horses'!

Another disobedience is the Luo Wu Department who belongs to the Wu Man. Because the Duan clan relied on the Wubarians in eastern Yunnan, northeast Yunnan, central Yunnan, southern Yunnan and western Guizhou to establish the Dali regime, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were rewarded and exempted from forced labor. These feudal barbarian nobles were all worldly officials, big and small feudal lords who managed the land and the people. Among them, the barbarian nobleman Ah is the minister of Luo Wu. He often encroached on the lands of neighboring peoples in order to expand his territory and power.

So far, the barbarians have annexed more than 30 barbarian settlements, and divided them into brothers and nephews. All belong to the Luo Wu Department. The growing strength of the force made Luo Wubu's ambition swell. They took advantage of the turmoil to also play the banner of the Qing monarch's side, but instead of attacking the territory occupied by the Gao clan, they attacked the surrounding small tribes, wantonly annexing their population and territory, and they only regarded the edict of the lord as a joke, not only did not stop the expedition, but accelerated the speed, intending to quickly seize the territory and expand the strength to prepare for the crusade...

Faced with such a situation. Duan Yu had no choice but to let go of his mouth, but Gao Zhong, who had already received his letter for help, could not let it develop and challenge the authority of the Great Song Dynasty. Limited to the emperor's orders, that is to say, the war is only an action of a punitive nature, and he cannot start a full-scale war, but can only carry out a limited strike, so as to realize the emperor's strategic intentions. Now that the two birds are in the first place, Gao Pet decided to take them under the knife.

As early as a few months ago, Gao Zhong had received an order from the emperor to prepare for the battle against Dali. He led the Wolf Wing Army south to Luzhou, mobilized the two government troops to carry out pre-war training in the name of military exercises, hoarded supplies, and selected strong people from the local aborigines to join the team. These people have lived in the mountains since childhood, are good at climbing, and often fight with the border people of Dali. Familiar with their combat methods, you can use them for your own use, and use their strengths. Make up for the shortcomings of their unfamiliarity with mountain and jungle warfare.

After months of adaptive training, the departments have adjusted to their best. The materials were also well prepared, and the vanguard troops entered Dali in advance to familiarize themselves with the combat area in the name of establishing a protected area. Now that some people are not convinced, then Gao Zhong is not welcome, and he can also comfort his regret that he failed to participate in the battle of Yanjing, he decided to pick up the hard fight first, and pointed the finger at Shanyan Mansion.

Shanyan Mansion is the political, economic, and cultural center of the eastern part of Dali, and this place is the hereditary fief of the Gao family, which has been operated for several generations, and is their base. Huichuan County and Yaozhou in eastern Yunnan are under its control, which can be used as foreign aid, and when the war is together, it will quickly cut off its retreat, and the inside and outside should cooperate to destroy the invading enemy.

If you want to conquer Shanxifu, you must first eliminate these tribal forces and strip them layer by layer, but if you don't do it well, you will have to fight a protracted war, and you have to use a large army, which is inconsistent with the emperor's principle of quick victory and limited strike. Therefore, Gao Zhong decided to adopt the tactics of single-knife and direct entry, using the powerful firepower of the forbidden army to break through and open a battle corridor, and the state army controlled the communication line to ensure the smooth communication between the front and rear.

At the same time, the artillery team of the Wolf Wing Army was transferred to strengthen the firepower, and ten small gunboats of the river fleet were mobilized to carry two battalions of infantry down the Nanpan Longjiang River into Dianchi Lake to control water traffic and cut off the enemy's retreat. After opening the gap, the Quang Nam Road State Army immediately controlled the commanding heights, dangerous passes and nodes along the way.

After the battle plan was formulated, the Song army took the Xinding tribal army as a guide to take advantage of the darkness to enter the starting position, the battle began in the early morning, the first brigade attacked the Songming tribe's stockade in a surprise way, and after defeating its defenders, it immediately rushed along the main road to Shanxian Mansion, and the local clan army controlled by the Gao clan was unable to organize effective resistance in a panic. Even if they tried to stop them, the spears, broadswords, bows and arrows in their hands could hardly compete with the muskets and cannons of the Song army.

When night fell, the 1st Brigade of the Wolf Wing Army, with the cooperation of the Dongchuan Coalition Army, broke through layers of obstacles, and the siege appeared under the city of Shanxian Mansion. The reason why they were able to come to the city so quickly was due to the fact that the coalition forces were indispensable, these people were all local natives, not only familiar with geography, but also familiar with people. Everyone lives on a piece of land who has a good relationship with three relatives and two relatives, and they borrow from the village on the way under the banner of edict and punishment of adultery, those people are not 100% loyal to Gao, but more under pressure, they may hate Gao more than these people, so they turned a blind eye to the past.

Li Quan, the commander of the wolf wing army, went to the city to watch the enemy's formation, looked at him and smiled, this good city is also the second largest city in Dali, the city is only more than ten miles around, not to mention compared with Bianjing, Yanjing, Zhending These cities, even if you move out of a city casually, it is several times larger than it, in fact, Li Quan still doesn't know that this is still a new city that has just been expanded for more than ten years, and it is much bigger than the old city.

During the Zhenghe period, the 37th department of eastern Yunnan rose up, Gao Ming and Qing began to guard Shanxi, and the 7th department of the 30th year of the Chinese New Year's Eve of Xuanhe rose up again, conquered Shanxi, and killed Gao Mingqing. The city was so badly damaged that it was almost razed to the ground and became an "abandoned city". When Gao Shunzhen took office, he rebuilt the earth city, called the new city, and called the city of Shanxi. The area of the newly built Shanxian City is larger than the old city, and it crosses the Panlong River to develop to the west, forming a 'big' city bordering the Panlong River in the east, the Yudai River in the south, the Jiming Bridge in the west, and the Wuhua Mountain in the north.

Li Quan turned around, good at explaining that the city wall rammed earth to build the city, only the city gate and the corner stone bricks, the height is not more than two zhang, the thickness is only seven or eight feet, can only accommodate three people in parallel, but found that although the city is small, it is not easy to knock down. Therefore, with the help of Dianchi Lake to build the city, the city faces the water on three sides to form a natural danger, only the north side is connected by roads, that is, no matter how many enemies come, they can only attack from one side, and the city can concentrate its forces on the north city to fortify, without worrying about the enemy on all sides.

"Knock knock...", the city suddenly sounded a copper drum, the Dali army from the north gate to kill, quickly lined up into a formation, really swords and guns cover the sun, armor like water, the army looks neat, murderous. Li Quan hurriedly returned to his own position, and ordered the first brigade to form a battle formation in front, and the Tibetan coalition army protected the two wings and prepared to meet the enemy. Two armies that have never faced each other are ready to fight, and a battle is about to begin in the night...

Gao Shunzhen learned that the Song army suddenly came to the city, he was surprised but frightened, the two countries had not fought for a hundred years, but he knew that the elite of the Song army was mostly arranged in the north, and the southern army had always been cowardly, with no combat effectiveness. Although the envoy who sent the Great Song Dynasty a few days ago brought back the news that he had defeated the Jurchens and expanded his land for thousands of miles, he thought that the Jurchens were more unbearable than the Great Song Dynasty, and that it was by no means that the Song army was strong.

Ignorance is terrible, the ignorance of the generals leading the army is even more terrible, Dali and Jin are thousands of miles apart, the news is cut off, where does Gao Shunzhen know the courage of the Jurchens, only when his own Dali army is the first in the world. Seeing that the Song army who came to the city was only 5,000, and they were coming from a long distance, they must have been sleepy and lacking horses, so they took the opportunity to make trouble and first destroyed these people Liwei, so that the Great Song Dynasty no longer dared to covet it, and also broke the idea that the lord of the country relied on the Great Song Dynasty, so that he could be a puppet.

With a wave of Gao Shunzhen's sword, the army pressed up and killed the Song army. Li Quan did not dare to slack off, ordered all armies to prepare for battle, he followed the emperor for many years, naturally also learned to calculate small accounts, he marched in a hurry for a day and walked a hundred miles and the men and horses were tired, and the opponent's morale was high, so he decided to fight a defensive counterattack, first use firearms to defeat the opponent. So he ordered the dragoons to dismount and line up, equipped with firearms in echelons, and intercepted them with long-range fire from brigade artillery, blocked by machine guns in the middle section, and shot the enemy in front of the formation with a series of guns!

'Boom...' Within three hundred paces of the Dali army, the mortar artillery was the first to fire, and the whistling shells flew across the front and flew towards the charging enemy camp. The flowering bullets exploded in the dense enemy group, and the flying shrapnel easily penetrated the armor of the Dali soldiers like a sharp blade, cutting their flesh and cutting off their bones. But they only caused a commotion, and after a while, they regained their composure and shouted to speed up their charge... (To be continued......)