Gao Daquan, who was guarding the mouth of Qiongqi River Valley, had never entered the valley. Even if the spies came to report that all the Jiaozhi soldiers in Luzhou had fled, Gao Daquan still stood outside the valley...

The one who regained Luzhou was Han Zong, who brought the soldiers who were originally guarding Ningming to Luzhou all the way along the Siling River Valley.

The Jiaozhi soldiers were no longer visible. The entire Luzhou was like a ghost realm, with ruins everywhere, and nameless corpses could be seen everywhere. There was no one around when traveling a hundred miles, only the red-eyed wild dogs rushed around.

In the end, only more than 2,000 Jiaozhi local soldiers who helped Jiadong escaped to Sumaozhou by chance. The others basically died of civil strife and hunger. The more than 2,000 people broke into these more than 2,000 people, and Sumaozhou, which was still quiet, suddenly became boiling. They were already hungry and were burned and killed everywhere. Even the Jiaozhi official stationed here could not suppress the local strength, and the local officials who had greatly reduced their strength were even more helpless.

Feng Shanji took advantage of the situation and bluffed his momentum at the border, echoing the rebellious Jiaozhi local soldiers.

In just over a dozen days, Sumaozhou, which was connected to Qinzhou of the Song Dynasty, was in the northeast of Jiaozhi, and the noise even exceeded that of Liangzhou, where the war was in full swing.

Jiaozhi was no longer able to draw troops into Sumaozhou, so Li Foma had to hand over here to Chen Changji, who went to Liangzhou to conquer Liangzhou, and issued several orders to quickly lead troops to pacify Liangzhou, wipe out the front line of Liangzhou, and enter Sumaozhou from the rear to quell the rebellion.

It was with such a military order that the 20,000 troops led by Chen Changji arrived at the front line of Liangzhou.

Looking at Ruan Dali, who was depressed in front of him, Chen Changji said calmly: "As a pioneer, you are camping ten miles away from the valley entrance. What's the reason? You camp here, where will the army camp? Could it be that you retreat!"

Ruan Dali was a little helpless: "Master, the Song army's stone cannon is powerful, and I can't stay there when I get close. On the first day I arrived, I went up to test the strength of the Song army and lost 300 people. At night, I set up a camp two miles away from the valley entrance, but was shot by the Song army's stone cannon, and there were three hundred people missing. I was helpless and retreated here!"

"Barewell! What kind of stone cannon can be so great for the Song army? You must be greedy and afraid of death! Click your troops and camp a mile outside the valley. The army behind me will follow you!"

Ruan Dali was almost crying: "Master, don't be reckless! You're close to it, and the Song Jun stone cannon is coming day and night. Wouldn't it be a waste of people?"

Chen Changji was not willing to listen, so he only asked Ruan Dali to lead his troops forward. Otherwise, military law would be dealt with.

Ruan Dali had no choice but to take his troops to set up a camp and lead the troops forward.

After driving Ruan Dali away, Chen Changji set up his coach camp at the place where Ruan Dali was originally located, and other people surrounded the coach camp and went to villages everywhere.

Seeing Ruan Dali leaving, Chen Changji called his three personal soldiers and asked them to follow Chen Changji, one was to monitor him and not let him be foolish, and the other was to report any accidents in time.

Of course, Chen Changji is not stupid to be able to be the commander of tens of thousands of troops. He can't really take Ruan Dali's words seriously. But then again, as the commander, he cannot show weakness as soon as he arrives here, and camps are set up for 10 or 20 miles away from the valley entrance. He has to see with his own eyes how many methods the Song army has, and he also requires someone to attract firepower.

Ruan Dali's hands originally had only 500 Jiaozhi soldiers, but there were no more than 200 soldiers, leaving only 300. The rest were all local soldiers from various states. If someone wanted to be used as bait, was there anything more suitable than Ruan Dali?

Xu Ping stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the busy Jiaozhi army at the foot of the mountain with a heavy expression.

Tens of thousands of people were boundless. This time, nearly 20,000 troops came, not like two or three thousand Jiaozhi soldiers at the beginning. Outside the entire valley, almost all the flat land suitable for camping was occupied, and even some small hillsides were cleared out and occupied by Jiaozhi soldiers.

The most conspicuous thing in the Jiaozhi military camp is two or three hundred elephants, which can be seen clearly just a few miles away, and it is particularly conspicuous on the flat ground.

I don’t know what the Jiaozhi people want to do with these elephants. I have heard that they have elephant soldiers, and they are staggering when they fight. However, Xu Ping did not intend to confront these people’s military formations, but instead used defense as an offensive and tried to use terrain and fortifications to eliminate their offensive advantages. I think these elephants would have no effect.

Lu Fang stood beside Xu Ping and whispered: "Officials, Jiaozhi people have just arrived. Should I give them a warning? To hit them with stone cannons all night to make them restless?"

"No, now is not the time. The coach of Jiaozhi is very cautious. The coach's tent is ten miles away, and the main force's barracks are five miles away from us. The stone cannon cannot threaten such a far away. If you cannot cause heavy damage to the enemy, it will really scare people, and instead expose our methods, it will be unwise!"

Lu Fang said: "But we were just watching this on the mountain, but it felt a little uncomfortable."

"Yes, we can't look like this. Have you seen that the forward of the Jiaozhi people came to a mile outside the valley entrance to set up a village. Not only was it close to us, but it was not connected to other Jiaozhi military camps. I don't know why this pioneer offended the coach and was sent to such a dead place, becoming an isolated protruding part. The Jiaozhi coach gave us such a big gift as soon as he came, and I'm embarrassed to not accept it. Yesterday, Gao Daquan came back from the valley entrance of Luzhou, and happened to catch up with this battle, so he fulfilled him."

"What an official means..."

"Tonight, you cooperated with Gao Daquan and sent out two thousand cavalry to receive this gift. Do you know what the greatest benefit of us on the hillside?"

Lu Fang smiled and said, "There are endless benefits when you are condescending."

Xu Ping shook his head: "Not only that, we face Jiaozhi here, and there are slopes. There are no dead corners when looking down from above. There are no dead corners. This is the most important thing. No matter what means the Jiaozhi people use, we can see it from above and we can take precautions."

"So that's what the official means to make a slanted wall."

"It's not just this. For example, when the Jiaozhi people attack, they will inevitably use stone cannons. We are oblique here, and his stone bullet hits the open space and then rolls down, which will hurt our own people. There are many other benefits, but the biggest benefit is that for us, we can see the every move of the Jiaozhi people."

Speaking of this, Xu Ping increased his voice and said, "It's just past January 20th, and the moon will not rise in the middle of the night. When the moon is bright, Gao Daquan will lead the cavalry to attack from the valley. You and the opposite side, watch the movements of the Jiaozhi military camp on the hillside and plunder the formation for Gao Daquan. If the Jiaozhi army is dispatched and threatens Gao Daquan, use stone cannons to disperse the formation of the Jiaozhi people."

Lu Fang's face was solemn: "Honest duty and honor the order!"

Looking at the foot of the mountain, Xu Ping suddenly smiled: "Remember, if the Jiaozhi people formed a formation, you will specially divide ten stone cannons to hit the elephant group. I wonder if the power of our stone bullets can scare the elephant group. If the elephant group is shocked, what will it look like in the Jiaozhi military camp?" (To be continued.)
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