After encountering Su Mian who refused to surrender and caused heavy casualties to the Jiaozhi Army, Li Changjie once intended to withdraw his troops.

It was Xu Baixiang who urged Li Changjie again, saying that Su Yan was at odds with Liu Yi, the magistrate of Guizhou, and the other party would be slow to respond. Moreover, Liu Yi did not understand military affairs at all, and he only had 3,000 men under his command, most of whom were Dong barbarians. It would be better to send another one.

The branch division set up an ambush at Kunlun Pass, and a battle would be decisive.

Li Changjie followed his plan, and sure enough, three thousand reinforcements came in disarray. When they met the Jiaozhi army, which had been prepared for a long time, they were completely wiped out before they could form a formation.

After the reinforcements were cut off, Yongzhou was established as an isolated city. It was Xu Baixiang who came up with a plan to let the previously captured Song army prisoners, and the soil was piled under the Yongzhou city wall, and soon two slopes were created that were higher than the city wall.

In addition, the city of Yongzhou was out of arrows and food. Li Changjie spent a month trying to defeat Yongzhou. Thanks to Xu Baixiang's plan, it was captured in just three days.

After the city was broken, Li Changjie was angry and resisted to the death by the Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians, and ordered a massacre of the city. More than 58,000 people died under the butcher's knife of the Jiaozhi Army.

In addition to the previous two states, more than 200,000 people died violently, and countless people were plundered and taken to Cochin as slaves.

However, it was precisely because of Su Yan's desperate blockade that the Jiaozhi Army had to temporarily stop the attack and start repairs.

Li Changjie was a wise general and understood the importance of intelligence. He arrested and killed monks from three states. He distributed their ultimatums to Jiaozhi spies and ordered them to disguise themselves as monks from the Song Dynasty and go to various places in the Song Dynasty to find out information.

After looking around, Li Changjie asked: "Su Huangcheng's body is still not found?"

Xu Baixiang said in shock: "The Taibao revitalizes the righteous army and punishes the people. Su Ming is stubborn and deserves to die. I heard that he has been killed. If he is found, he will be crushed and his ashes will be crushed to make peace with the Taibao."

Li Changjie looked at Xu Baixiang with a half-smile but not a smile: "Young Master does not regard Chang Jie as a humble person, but relies on the soldiers of the whole country to trust him. The only person he believes in is 'loyal' to Chang Jie."

"I want you to search for Su Huangcheng's bones because I don't want your loyal minister to die without a burial place and become a lonely soul. Xu Sheng must not get sidetracked."

"Uh..." Xu Baixiang's face turned red and he was extremely embarrassed: "After the city was destroyed, why...why..."

"That is to prevent the governor of the next city from being like Su Huangcheng." Li Changjie sighed: "A soldier is a deadly weapon. As an opponent, I don't want every next city to be an opponent like Su Huangcheng."

Xu Baixiang quickly bowed his head: "The Taibao's cleverness is a hundred times better than that of Baixiang. Now that Baixiang has become a king's minister, he will definitely work hard and do his best without hesitation."

Li Changjie laughed loudly and patted his shoulder: "Xu Sheng, you are wrong again."

Xu Baixiang looked at Li Changjie with a confused and frightened face.

Li Changjie looked at Xu Baixiang's expression. It took him a long time before he was satisfied. He smiled and said, "Don't get me wrong. After this battle, I will give you a great achievement and make you a great hero who has made great contributions to defending the Song Dynasty."

"Don't you think that the officials of the Song Dynasty are stingy, so it's difficult to give up your official position? This time, we will make him use it willingly and reward you with a high official! From now on, you will be an important official of the Song Dynasty placed in the Song Dynasty!"

"So that's it!" Xu Baixiang was immediately overjoyed: "Thank you so much for your help and support! Baixiang will be loyal and diligent in the king's affairs and serve the Taibao forever!"

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Li Changjie was working on the intelligence of the Song Army, and similarly, Su You was also working on the intelligence of all parties.

First of all, it belongs to one’s own people.

Now I understand that the name Shen Qi sounds so familiar, it turns out that he was Han Jiang's subordinate in the Yongxing Army. Because Fan Zhongyan taught him the art of war, Han Jiang valued him and recommended him to Wang Anshi.

He likes to talk about military affairs all his life, but he has never made any military exploits in his life. He belongs to the shogunate and joins the army, even worse than Zhao Kuo.

His only contribution was that when he was sent as an envoy to the Liao State, the Liao State allowed the envoys of the Song Dynasty to be placed alongside the envoys of the Xixia Dynasty. Shen worked hard to give the envoys of the Song Dynasty a higher status in the Liao State than the Xixia people. As a permanent example, he was appreciated by Wang Anshi after he returned. .

Liu Yi was even more misplaced. He was a disciple of Hu Yuan, the pioneer of Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty. His strengths were in internal affairs and water conservancy, and he was also good in medicine.

Su You was heartbroken. He should have applied to the imperial court to transfer this boy to Liangzhe Road to carry out economic construction. Maybe this kind of thing would not happen.

But it's too late to say anything now.

Then there is the general who leads the army this time.

Guo Kui, this is an old friendship. It is not an exaggeration to describe him as a close comrade-in-arms.

The two of them were in Shaanxi back then, but they worked together in a tacit understanding and accomplished a lot of things.

Guo Kui was a pure military minister who was born as a major soldier. He was Su You's superior at first, and later became Su You's subordinate.

However, no matter who is the superior or the subordinate, the two of them have a very clear positioning of themselves and are very restrained in getting along with each other.

Of course, this is mainly due to Su You, because he never looked at any warrior in the Song Dynasty with colored glasses.

When he was the governor of Weizhou, Su You could be said to have great respect for his old boss. Later, when he became the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Province, he could be said to be very considerate to him.

When Han Jiang wanted to deal with Guo Kui, Su You took the initiative to greet Han Jiang and recruited him under his name for protection.

Before, it was Su You who trained Guo Kui's troops, and later it was Guo Kui who trained Su You's troops. Now, it's Su You's turn to provide him with logistics support.

It can be said that this old man knows things well, takes the overall situation into consideration, and is also very cunning.

When I was a teenager, I knew how to build my reputation in a restaurant with Han Shu. I had the same background as Di Qing and reached the same high level as Di Qing, but I didn't end up like Di Qing.

Of course, he did not receive the same respect as later generations of Di Qing, and was almost ignored in the history of history.

I don’t know Zhao Man very well, but Guo Kui is his old superior for many years, and he took the initiative to recommend him. I think he and Guo Kui can work well together.

Li Xian's current status is not low. Although he cannot bring a large number of new troops to the south, he can at least have a personal team of one hundred people.

Su You wanted to get it with his toes. Li Xian would never let the quota of one hundred people go empty. If the one he pulled out was not an artillery team, he would write the word "Su" upside down.

There is no need to worry about my own side. Although there are less than ten thousand people, the military strength is greatly underestimated by everyone.

A veteran of Konoha, he is an expert in fighting over mountains and jungles.

The Guangrui Army was the elite cavalry force of the Western Army.

Yi Jinjun, hehehe...

Nominally, they are all the support troops for this logistical task, a mixed bag among a mixed bag.

To put it bluntly, barbarians, rebels, and sluts seem to be in high esteem if they are allowed to escort grain and grass...

Suyou is very satisfied with everyone’s characterization of these three teams.

Soldiers are deceitful. He had no intention of changing everyone's impression before the war, so that was fine.

Next comes the enemy.

Li Changjie is definitely a much more powerful general than Nong Zhi and is difficult to deal with.

But when armies fight, they actually see who can make fewer mistakes.

Su You dared to guarantee that there were several mistakes that Li Changjie would definitely make.

The first thing is firearms. Li Changjie didn't know that the Song Dynasty now had a fully-organized firearms force, and was still using old ideas and tactics to deal with the Song people.

Then there is the ability to support logistics. When fighting, just use those few tricks over and over again to protect your own logistics and cut off the enemy's logistics. This is always the magic weapon for victory.

The ocean was the domain of the Song Dynasty, and the prosperity of the two Zhejiang Roads was enough to support Su You in using sea ships to transport supplies to Guangzhou. Not to mention Guangzhou, even Lianzhou and Qinzhou, which were occupied by Jiaozhi, were seaside cities with ports.

Coupled with a large amount of dry food, individual soldier rations, and fried noodle bags that can be stored for a long time and are easy to carry and eat, Song soldiers can now fight independently for twenty days even without baggage, which is enough to support an entire local battle.

In fact, it was easy for Su You to conquer the two states, but with insufficient troops, it would be troublesome if Li Changjie was beaten into a rogue in the Song Dynasty.

So we still have to wait for the arrival of Guo Kui's army.

Finally, there is the level of medical care. In the several conquests of Jiaozhi in history, we lost not to the indigenous people, but to nature.

In the words of the predecessors, "The water and soil in the south are vicious, and there are many things that people in the north are forbidden to eat."
Chapter completed!