Jiaozhi, Taiyuan City.

This is Jiaozhi's largest military stronghold north of the Fuliang River. It is also the core of Jiaozhi's rule over Jiangbei. It is also the closest place to Jiangbei and Shenglongfu.

The straight-line distance is only over a hundred miles.

In other words, after crossing Taiyuan, you can cross the Fuliang River and march to Shenglongfu.

Therefore, the Jiaozhi people built a strong city defense here and stationed thousands of troops all year round.

Following Li Changjie, he came to Taiyuan and established the shogunate here as the "General Manager of the Jiangbei Camp of the Dayue Kingdom".

Taiyuan City also became noisy and crowded.

The more than 20,000 Cochin troops brought by Li Changjie crowded the entire city.

Countless mules and horses, inside and outside the city, make noise day and night.

At this moment, Li Changjie was inspecting the War Elephant Camp with Yang Jingtong, the magistrate of Guangyuan Prefecture, who had come to Taiyuan City to discuss countermeasures with him.

More than twenty war elephants were majestically arranged in a row under the command of the elephant soldiers.

This made Li Changjie feel safe.

In the last war, Jiaozhi also sent war elephant troops, but there were less than ten.

And it was still in a place like Juili Pass that was not suitable for war elephant troops to fight, but it still played a huge role, causing the Song Army to panic for a time. Unfortunately, the Song Army commander Guo Kui found the weakness and concentrated a large number of divine arm bows and

A bed crossbow is used to shoot at the war elephant.

Four war elephants were shot and killed on the spot. The other war elephants panicked, turned around and trampled on Dai Viet's troops, causing the entire Dai Viet defense line to collapse and Juili Pass to be lost.

This time, Li Changjie learned his lesson.

He would never again put his precious war elephant troops into a small area where the Song army's divine arm bows and bed crossbows would gather fire.

He would only engage in war elephants on the plains.

Twenty war elephants were enough to tear open the Song army's defense line head-on.

Let’s avenge our shame and fight here!

As long as the Song army is defeated...

Li Changjie licked his tongue.

But Yang Jingtong, who followed Li Changjie, was full of uneasiness.

"Taiwei, the Northern Dynasty is coming with such ferocity that I'm really scared..." He said tentatively, "I'm just a useless person. Why don't you ask the court to hand over your subordinate to the Northern Dynasty in exchange for the Northern Dynasty's withdrawal of troops?"

After hearing about the Northern Dynasties and the Western Army going south, and the governor leaving Guangxi.

After hearing about the Nong Zhihui, Nong Shengde and other Nong family members working hard to train Dong Ding and organize an army.

Yang Jingtong already understood that anyone in the Jiangbei states could surrender.

The Yang family in Guangyuan Prefecture alone could not surrender.

If you surrender, you will die.

So what Yang Jingtong feared most was that Shenglong Mansion was frightened by Bei Chao's actions and handed him over as a scapegoat.

And this is something that the civil servants of Shenglong Mansion can do.

After the war ten years ago, the civil servants in Thang Long Mansion were frightened.

Facing the Northern Dynasty, he was extremely cowardly.

If only handing him over, Yang Jingtong, would ensure peace, Yang Jingtong had no doubt that Shenglong Mansion would hand him over immediately.

Li Changjie looked back at Yang Jingtong and said: "How can the Ming Dynasty hand over a loyal minister like Zhizhou because of the words of the Northern Dynasty?"

"Besides, the Northern Dynasty was greedy and was a country of wolves without the teachings of a saint."

"If we cannot defeat the Northern Dynasty invaders, our country will never have peace!"

Li Changjie had interrogated the envoy from the Northern Dynasty several times.

That's a tough guy indeed.

Even after being tortured, he refused to reveal who the commander-in-chief of the Northern Dynasty was? Who was in power? How many soldiers and horses were there heading south?

But he clearly remembered the conditions offered by the young emperor of the Northern Dynasty.

Li Changjie didn't dare to forget it either.

Hand over Yang Jingtong who looted Guihua Prefecture and plundered and killed the border residents. Hand over the unknown poet who wrote poems to slander the late emperor of the Northern Dynasty. Hand over him Li Changjie.

At the same time, an envoy should be sent to apologize and pay an annual tribute of 500,000 shi of rice to the Northern Dynasty as compensation.

Where is this to calm things down?

Just here to cause trouble.

Moreover, Li Changjie believed that even if Dai Viet agreed to these conditions, it would not help.

The Northern Dynasty, like a wolf, was bound to make further progress.

It was precisely because of this knowledge that the emperor was able to defy all opinions and decided to send him to lead his army north to fight against the enemy.

After listening to Li Changjie's statement, Yang Jingtong finally let go of his worries.

He immediately expressed his stance: "The emperor's kindness will never be forgotten by my minister Jingtong. I am willing to go through fire and water for Vietnam!"

Once a war breaks out, Guangyuan Prefecture will bear the brunt.

He and his family cannot escape even if they want to.

Therefore, he looked at Li Changjie, raised his hands and asked, "Unknown Lieutenant, can you mobilize part of the army from Taiyuan City to garrison Guangyuan?"

"For example, ten thousand people..."

Li Changjie glanced at him.

The total number of economic troops under his command is less than 30,000.

After dividing out 10,000, only 20,000 are left.

Once the Song army ignores Guangyuan Prefecture and attacks Taiyuan, how can Taiyuan City be defended if its low walls are broken?

He must keep an army with sufficient strength in hand to deal with the Northern Dynasty army at any time.

Yang Jingtong was so stunned by Li Changjie that he could only say weakly: "Where's five thousand?"

Li Changjie still didn't speak, just looked at him.

Yang Jingtong could only lament: "I should give you two thousand, right?"

The Dong and Ding people in Guangyuan Prefecture have now been mobilized, and they have assembled more than 10,000 to 20,000 troops.

But these people come from various Dong groups, and many of them are closely related to the Nong family.

There are only two to three thousand people who are truly trustworthy and willing to sacrifice their lives for the Yang family.

Once the war started, Yang Jingtong was worried that if his direct lineage was severely damaged, others might cut off his head and go to the Northern Dynasty in exchange for rewards.

Therefore, he could only come to Taiyuan City to ask for troops and a reliable force to supervise the battle team and suppress others.

Otherwise, Guangyuan Prefecture would not be able to defend it at all.

Li Changjie also knew Yang Jingtong's difficulties, so he could only sigh and said: "I can only give the governor 1,500 people."

"There are too many and I can't mobilize them."

There's nothing we can do, everything in the North is in fog now.

We don't even know how many Western troops have come from the other side? Who is the commander-in-chief? Who is the ruler who is in charge of Guangxi and coordinates internal and external affairs?

Li Changjie could only rely on guessing and conjecture, and he could only try his best to stay vigilant.

If the Northern Army was too powerful and couldn't do anything, they would sell out the border states and even retreat to the Furiang River until the rainy season, waiting for heavy rains to persuade the Northern Dynasty's troops to retreat.

Anyway, the last war has shown a truth - although the Western Army of the Northern Dynasties was powerful, they were afraid of heavy rains and miasma.

Especially malaria, they have no resistance at all.

Once infected, everyone will die.

Therefore, there are discussions in Thang Long Prefecture - simply abandon the defense of Jiangbei, retreat to Fuliang River, and sit back and watch the northern soldiers being injured by heavy rains and miasma.

If we can't defeat it, can we still survive it?

However, Li Changjie refused to accept it, and the emperor was unwilling to retreat like this.

…

Yongping Village.

Yanchen was hosting a banquet for the local chieftain and the witch doctors brought by the chieftain.

After they had had enough wine and food, Yan Chen said to everyone: "Master Wang is about to march south, but the Jiaozhi dense forest is full of miasma, which may harm the lives of the soldiers."

"I would like to ask all the elders to teach me how to deal with the miasma!"

"If it is indeed effective, I will report it to the imperial court and ask for your credit!"
To be continued...