Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

West Route Army!

West Bank of Jinsha River! Song troops gathered!

Zhong Pu and Yao Xiong led the army from Tubo, defeating the enemy one after another along the way and repeatedly breaking important towns.

However, they were blocked from the natural dangers of the Jinsha River. Fortunately, the Song Army had already pacified Tubo, and with the support of Tubo's food and grass, the Song Army had no worries.

"The Jinsha River is too dangerous. The Dali army has taken away all the ships in advance and deployed heavy defense forces on the other side. If we forcefully cross the river, we may be attacked halfway across the river and risk being annihilated."

Looking at the rolling river, Zhong Pu's white hair was worried. Along the way, he found that Dali had been at peace for a long time, and the soldiers' training was neglected and they were basically vulnerable. However, he did not expect that what really stopped the Song army's advance was It's not the Dali garrison, but the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

"But it's too late to build ships now! Not to mention the heavy defense of the Dali Army." Yao Xiong frowned. Most of the people they led in the West Route Army were the Northwest Frontier Army and the servants of Tubo. They were all landlubbers. There was nothing we could do to cross the river.

"If Fan Taicheng were here, he would surely be able to find a way to cross the river?" Zhong Pu sighed sadly.

Now he couldn't help but miss Fan Zheng's evil methods. From the Pingxia City War, to the formation of Tiefu Tu and Guaizima, to the defeat of Qingtang, and then to the implementation of the southward roundabout strategy, the second general could use Fan Zheng's evil methods to achieve every goal. , and won many military exploits.

Until now, they were blocked outside the Jinsha River, which made them miss Fan Zheng's evil recipe even more.

"It's a pity that Fan Taicheng should be attacking Shanchan Mansion on the east road now!" Yao Xiong nodded in agreement. If Fan Zheng's evil side was there, they would have crossed the Jinsha River long ago.

However, they know that according to the news from the court, Fan Taicheng is leading a small number of troops to carry out a mediating plan and make a surprise attack on Dali on the east road. I am afraid that they can't be taken care of at all now.

At the moment, the two of them could only think hard and look for an opportunity to cross the river.

"General Qi! Tubo has sent another batch of cattle and sheep to feed the army!"

Suddenly, a soldier came to report.

"it is good!"

Zhong Pu breathed a sigh of relief. With the food and grass from Tubo, they had the confidence to continue looking for fighters, so as not to rush across the river and make the Song army passive.

Zhong Pu once again admired Fan Zheng's efforts to liberate the serfs. At this moment, the Song army could gain full support from Tibet.

"But we must come up with a plan to cross the river as soon as possible and join up with Privy Envoy Zeng, otherwise we may miss the deadline." Yao Xiong said worriedly.

They have been blocked outside the Jinsha River for too long. If they continue to be delayed, I am afraid it will delay the Central Route Army's agreed period to encircle Dali City.

Zhong Pu had a sudden thought, and understood that the Song army could not delay any longer in the Jinsha River. He immediately thought: "If Fan Taicheng is here, what evil method will he come up with?"

The two of them thought in their minds and began to calculate the plan to cross the river according to the ideas of the evil doctor Fan Zheng.

Although the evil doctor Fan Zheng's evil prescription was unexpected, it was not traceable. It also used existing materials to catch people by surprise. The two of them still looked around, preparing to use existing materials to find opportunities to cross the river.

"Shipbuilding and bamboo rafts"

Soon, the two would practice their plans one by one, only to reject them one by one.

Because the shipbuilding was too slow and the bamboo rafts were too light, they were unable to support the army across the river.

Suddenly, Zhong Pu looked at the cattle and sheep sent from Tibet, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"The general wants to use cattle and sheep to cross the river. The cattle and sheep are not even good at water. How can they help our army cross the river." Yao Xiong frowned.

Zhong Pu smiled confidently and threw the empty water bag in his hand into the rolling Jinsha River. The water bag floated on the water and went away with the current.

"this!"

Yao Xiong said thoughtfully.

Zhong Pu said loudly: "It is true that cattle and sheep cannot cross the river. However, we only need to kill the cattle and sheep, take their complete leather bags, blow air into them to seal the opening, and then use ropes to pull them with the bamboo raft, which is enough to support the Song army. Cross the raging Jinsha River.”

If you want to cross the river, you don't just need people. You also need the food, weapons, and horses needed to cross the river. The use of leather bags can greatly increase the load-bearing capacity of the bamboo raft, enough to support the Song army to cross the river.

"This plan works!" Yao Xiong's eyes suddenly lit up.

Leather bags are not uncommon in the north. When people on both sides of the Yellow River cross the Yellow River, they slaughter sheep and use the leather bags to cross the Yellow River. Now the Song army has so many cattle and sheep that the leather bags are enough to cross the river. required.

"Hahaha! Song Kuogei Nang! Once this plan comes out, it will definitely shock the whole world, and we will definitely be remembered in history!" Zhong Pu said excitedly. He has always been brave in combat and is a talented general.

Now that he has solved the problem of crossing the river with the thinking of the evil doctor Fan Zheng, he will surely become a famous marshal! Although there is only one word difference between the generals, their status is completely different.

"Then general, I would like to congratulate Mr. Zhong in advance!" Yao Xiong said respectfully.

Once he becomes a handsome man, he can smoothly grow into a leader all the way!

"Where, it's still early?" Zhong Pu said modestly, but the smile at the corner of his mouth could not be concealed.

The two of them looked at each other and couldn't wait to start slaughtering cattle and sheep, making leather bags and preparing to cross the river.

As the cattle and sheep were beheaded one by one, complete leather bags were taken out one by one with the superb skills of the cooks in the army.

Soon Song Kuao's leather bag was ready. Looking at the safe tools for crossing the river, the second general was immediately gearing up.

The Dali Army must have never imagined that they had found a way to cross the river. After the Song Army crossed the river, they could launch a surprise attack on the Dali Army, completely making this Song's trick across the leather bag famous in one battle.

"Report! General! The Dali army has retreated!" Just as Zhong Pu was leading the Song army to prepare to cross the river with leather bags, the scout suddenly brought back good news.

"what?"

Zhong and Pu couldn't help being shocked. They didn't expect that they had finally thought of a good way to cross the river to defeat the enemy, but they were punched in the air.

At that moment, the Song army accelerated to cross the river. As expected, they did not encounter any resistance. The Dali army had already retreated without a fight.

"What's going on?" Yao Xiong asked in confusion.

The Dali Army, which was originally responsible for defending the Eastern Route Army, took the initiative to withdraw its troops and allowed them to cross the river easily. This was completely unreasonable.

Zhong Pu said solemnly: "There is probably only one reason why the Dali army retreated without a fight, and that is that the Central Army led by Privy Envoy Zeng had already attacked Dali City. Only then did the Gao family withdraw all the defenders to Dali City."

After much thought, he felt that this was the only possibility.

Yao Xiong nodded in agreement.

"We missed the deadline!" Zhong Pu said with great disappointment. He originally thought that this time he came up with Song Guo's clever plan, which would definitely achieve great success, but he didn't expect that it was still a step too late.

Yao Xiong also sighed helplessly, and immediately led the army with Zhong Pu and quickly advanced towards Dali City.

"General, we have found traces of the Central Army ahead!"

However, the second general led the army and could not go far, and the scouts hurriedly came to report. “Middle Route Army!”

The second general breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and quickly ordered the West Route Army to catch up quickly and join the Central Route Army led by Zeng Bu!

Naturally, the Central Route Army also discovered traces of the West Route Army and had already stopped waiting for them.

"I have met the Privy Councilor!"

The second general came to the military tent on the middle route and saw Zeng Bu bowing and saluting.

"You were not the first to reach Dali City!"

Zeng Bu couldn't help but said in surprise when he saw the two people coming from behind.

As the privy envoy, Zeng Bu led the Central Route Army from Chengdu, but was harassed by the geographically superior Dali Army. These Dali troops were familiar with Lin Mang and often attacked the Central Route Army, causing considerable losses to the Song Army.

Zeng Bu used both suppression and appeasement along the way. Although the progress was slow, it was better than sure.

However, he encountered the same doubts as Zhong Pu, that is, the Dali Army, which had resisted resolutely and constantly harassed them, suddenly retreated overnight. This puzzled Zeng Bu, and he also thought that Zhong Pu's West Route Army took the lead. Attacked Dali City.

"Ah! We thought it was the Privy Councilor who was the first to attack Dali City." Zhong Pu said in surprise.

"Since we didn't attack Dali City, why did the Dali army suddenly retreat?" Yao Xiong said in confusion.

The three of them looked at each other in confusion.

"Western Route Army!"

"Fan Taicheng!"

The three of them suddenly had a flash of inspiration and blurted out.

"How is this possible?" Zeng Bu said in disbelief.

He also received battle reports from the imperial court, and greatly appreciated Fan Zheng's plan to serve as his adviser.

However, everyone knows that the good office conspiracy will only cause destruction in the hinterland of Dali. In addition, Fan Zheng leads only a group of rabble, not the most elite Song Dynasty Forbidden Army. How could they attack Dali City? He was afraid to withdraw all his troops and defend Dali City with all his strength.

The two armies went all the way south and captured some lone Dali people. From their vague information, they learned about the situation of the East Route Army.

"In exchange for profit, he seduced the southwestern barbarian tribes to plunder Dali, took advantage of the contradiction between the thirty-six tribes in eastern Yunnan and the Gao family, and attacked Shanchanfu City. He used people as locusts to sweep across the entire Dali, and gathered 200,000 troops to attack Dali City. "

As shocking news came one after another, Zeng Bu and Zhong Pu could not help but be stunned. Among the three armies, only the East Route Army was the weakest. However, the East Route Army achieved the most results and was the first to invade Dali Mansion.

"Speed ​​up immediately and attack Dali!"

At this moment, the two armies speeded up their march in tacit agreement, pushing forward all the way towards Dali Mansion.

"What a great pass!"

When the two armies finally arrived at Longshou Pass, the north gate of Dali City, they couldn't help but exclaimed when they looked at the dangerous pass.

"It is said that one hundred thousand soldiers of the Tang Dynasty broke their swords outside Longshou Pass!" Zeng Bu said with a solemn expression as he looked at the majestic Dragon's Head Pass.

Longshou Pass is six feet high, surrounded by five walls and five gates. Coupled with the natural dangers of Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, it is enough to prevent all invading enemies from returning. The invincible Tang Army was defeated at Longshou Pass. Down.

Zhong Pu sneered and said: "Although the Tang army is invincible, it is only flesh and blood. However, we, the Song Dynasty, have gunpowder weapons. They are no longer what they used to be. Dali will definitely lose this battle."

During the Song Dynasty, gunpowder weapons played an important role in passing through the pass, which gave Zhong Pu a lot of confidence in overcoming this pass.

"Where is Fan Taicheng now?" Zeng Bu asked.

Yao Xiong replied: "There is news that Fan Taicheng has gathered about 200,000 troops from the Southwest Yi and the Thirty-Six Tribes from East Yunnan and stationed troops at Longwei Pass in the south of Dali City."

"Two hundred thousand troops!"

Zeng Bu and Zhong Pu looked back at their own troops. The two armies together were less than 100,000 people. Fan Zheng only led 10,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 side troops, but he actually held 200,000 troops captive. It was said that almost In all battles, the Southwest Yi and the Thirty-sixth Division of East Yunnan took the initiative, and the losses of the Song Army could be said to be negligible.

On the other hand, they were used by the Dali defenders to use Lin Mang to conduct a sneak attack, and their losses were not small.

"Your Excellency, Privy Councilor, now that Dali City has become a turtle in a urn, I would like to ask Sir Zeng to order an attack on Longshou Pass!" Zhong Pu and a group of Song generals gave orders one after another.

All the Song generals were impatient. They came all the way and made few military exploits. However, the Eastern Route Army passed through the border and beheaded the generals, sweeping across the entire abdomen of Dali. This made the Song generals who were eager to make contributions feel itchy.

Only by breaking through Longshou Pass and destroying Dali City in one battle can their merit be demonstrated.

As for Fan Zhengdong's Route Army, neither Zeng Bu nor Zhong Pu believed that it could break through Longwei Pass. After all, Fan Zheng was leading a ragtag group of people. It would be fine to let them plunder villages and small cities, but it was impossible for them to go to great lengths. Attack the equally famous Longwei Pass.

Only their Central Route Army and North Route Army were truly capable of capturing Dali City.

Zeng Bu saw the extremely dangerous Longshou Pass and solemnly shook his head and said: "No! This pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack. In addition, the Gao family has already withdrawn a large number of defenders and civilians to Longshou Pass, so the defensive power is huge." Strengthen, even if the Song army has gunpowder weapons, I am afraid it will still be difficult to succeed. From my perspective, the main thing is to persuade them to surrender."

"Persuade to surrender?" Zhong Pu frowned.

Zeng Buxin said: "Yes! If we were the only ones to attack Longshou Pass, the monarchs and ministers of Dali would definitely be lucky and unwilling to surrender. However, now that Fan Taicheng has brought 200,000 troops to sweep across the entire hinterland of Dali, Dali only has one city. If you hold on and break the city, it will only happen sooner or later. If our army tries to persuade it to surrender, the chance of success will definitely increase."

"You might as well give it a try!" Zhong Pu and Yao Xiong nodded slowly.

After all, the Longshou Pass in front of them is too tall, and the northern city wall is only 600 steps. If the Song army wants to attack the city, there is only one way, and that is to attack by force, not to mention the special structure of the five floors inside and outside Longshou Pass. Song Dynasty If the army wants to capture Longshou Pass, even if they have gunpowder weapons, they will probably suffer heavy casualties.

If we could make Dali's monarchs and ministers surrender without spending a single soldier, that would be a great thing.

At that moment, Zeng Bu immediately sent envoys into Dali City to persuade them to surrender.

At this moment, Dali City is in panic. The north and south are surrounded by the Song Army. Once it is breached, Dali will be annihilated.

At this moment, a messenger hurriedly came to report: "To the Prime Minister, Your Majesty, Zeng Bu, the Privy Councilor of the Song Dynasty, has sent an envoy."

"Privy Councilor Zeng Bu?"

The monarchs and ministers of Dali couldn't help but be stunned. Among the three armies, although the evil doctor Fan Zheng caused the most damage to Dali, in terms of military strength, it was the middle army led by Zeng Bu, not to mention Zeng Bu's highest official position.

Duan Zhengchun's heart moved, and he waved his hand and said: "Here comes the envoy of the Song Dynasty!"

Soon, the Song Army envoy arrived at the Dali Palace. (End of chapter)