Zheng Lang went south and took Yue'er.

It seems very dangerous, but it is not much better than the invasion of Jiaozhi twenty years later. But in fact, it is not. Yongzhou is not even the case where Su Jian fought fiercely in the lonely city twenty years later. He brought his favored concubine with him, which was a statement and confidence to the people of Guangnan West Road.

There were more than thirty foreign cavalry accompanying him.

Other vanguards have been transferred since winter. Now that Guangdong and Guangxi see benefits, all departments cooperate. Unless some vanguards are in the deep mountains and forests, many vanguards do not really understand anything. Some vanguards have sent representatives to consult officials. It is not when Nong Zhigao is in chaos, there is no need for 100 vanguards to be inseparable.

Zheng Lang asked dozens of foreign cavalry to leave and cooperated with Zhang Kang to form and train a light cavalry, which was also called the puppet cavalry by Jiaozhi.

A total of 4,000 people, after a winter of training, marching in various prefectures and counties in Guangnan West Road, training, riding, shooting, fighting, and teamwork. However, the complex rainforest climate had to half-train horse skills and half-training to fight in the mountains and forests. In a helpless move, Guangnan West Road, or the future Kuixia and Meishan Barbarians, there are very few terrain suitable for large-scale cavalry combat. Or are the enemy also expected to take the initiative to come to a terrain area like Guirenpu, so that the Song Dynasty cavalry would be slaughtered?

But it is reasonable.

The cavalry may not play much role, but there is one thing, although it is a southern horse, its speed can keep up. Guangdong and Guangxi have few troops and a large area. With these 4,000 cavalry, thousands of troops can be quickly transferred to the site where the accident happened and suppress the rebellion.

Jiaozhi noticed this cavalry.

Just pay attention to how much function can a cavalry organized by four thousand grass? Besides, it is the southern horse. Regardless of speed, impact force, combat power and fierceness of soldiers, or otherwise, it is far less than those of the foreign cavalry in Di Qing's hands.

After all, it can only be said to be a fast infantry. Therefore, the Jiaozhi people call them puppet cavalry. There are also such cavalry masters, and there are also few. There are also few Jiaozhi. There are not many, and they are not valued, so they are not useful!

However, many arrangements, these seemingly "reasonable" and "normal" are eventually connected, which changed the direction of the war. For example, the scouts of Jiaozhi easily inquired about the truth about the battle between Xunqian Tao. Without a clever commander, Zheng Lang calmly came to the open land. The weapons were greatly suspended, the personnel were chaotic, and the intelligence was not paid attention to, and so on, which made Shengman and the private salt dealers defeated. It was not because Zheng Lang's command level was so smart, but because the enemy was too weak. This was the "reasonable" explanation of Xunqian Tao's victory.

Yue'er rode on the horse and asked, "Officials, why are there so many enemies around our Song Dynasty?"

I can’t figure it out that the Song Dynasty regarded peace as the most important thing, and treated all countries in the surrounding areas well. But no country was stable. It cannot be said that Tubo was stable. If Tubo was not forced by the Xixia people, he would not be stable.

Zheng Lang replied: "Yue'er, if more than a dozen wolves are hungry, will they dare to pounce on the tiger? Want to use the tiger as food?"

"Don't dare."

"What if these wolves meet a camel?"

"That must be daring." Yue'er suddenly covered her mouth and said, "Official, you mean..."

"Our Song Dynasty is not a camel..." Zheng Lang shook his head and said that the Song Dynasty was a camel. For example, although Haoshuichuan and Sanchuankou were defeated, the bloody nature of the Song army was also wiped out many times when fighting with the Khitan. No one surrendered. The bloody battle was not a soldier but not brave. Even if it was a weak Southern Song Dynasty, many soldiers and generals still performed well. The Song Dynasty was not a camel, of course, not a fierce tiger, nor a sleeping lion, nor a long dragon that flew thousands of miles away. It was just a giant panda. It was powerful, but too obedient and cute, so all countries wanted to eat a bite. No wonder the giant panda is China's national treasure...

The group continued to move south.

Zheng Lang began to receive information from the front line on the road.

What made him most lucky was that after the Jiaozhi army arrived in Anyuan City, there was no attack that night.

Qinzhou was the key target of his inspection, and he had also visited Anyuan City. There were only more than 700 households and about 4,000 people in the city. As big as Qinzhou, there were less than 10,000 households. How could we expect that there would be many people in a subordinate county? Immigration came, but it was mainly concentrated in Anyuan County. The terrain determined that Sihongjiang and Qinjiang formed a large alluvial plain at the estuary of the sea. If not developed, there would be swamps, and some poisons and crocodiles grew, and of course they also became the notorious miasma area. In fact, this land is the best fertile land.

The embankment is even expanded outward because the Beibu Gulf region needs to expand outward in the future. It only takes a solid seawall to build a few places. Most areas do not need to build seawalls, so they can be directly allowed to go there. Then cut down dead grass and branches, burn them, force some poisons out to hunt, and then organize people to kill a few crocodiles, and this place will become the best arable land.

As there were too many immigrants, Anyuan County had to be expanded. However, due to insufficient labor, the city walls were only reinforced, but the moat outside the city was lacking labor and could not be dug deep and controlled.

Another "reasonable".

At this time, there were more than 1,000 households and nearly 10,000 people in Anyuan City.

However, the surrounding areas have reached more than 10,000 households. Except for some people who flock to Ruhongzhai on the Sihong River, the rest of the people must be accommodated by Anyuan County. Perhaps enough time to retreat, but ten thousand households flocked to the county town of more than 1,000 households. The chaos of those hours can be imagined.

If the Jiaozhi army immediately launches an attack after the arrival of the army, the situation will be dangerous.

As for Lianzhou Zheng Lang, he was not very scared. After all, it was a prefecture city with a large area and a tall and solid wall. With some preparations, it was not easy for the Jiaozhi people to attack.

When Zheng Lang learned that Jiaozhi did not attack Anyuan City that night, he no longer looked at Qinlian and the other states, but moved to the south. Where is the real main battlefield.

...

At the beginning of the actual situation in Anyuan City is still very bad.

The winning of this night is very valuable.

Moreover, Zhao Xun actually found a large number of gunpowder in the county warehouse, more than twenty catapults, grain and cloth, some large wood, and many large wood. When Zhao Xun saw the wood, he knew what to do. He was overjoyed.

Zhao Xun's heart was also settled.

But what surprised him was why Zheng Lang had not discussed with them in advance, which was not like Zheng Lang's style. In the past, the northwest was fighting under Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang summoned many generals to discuss and improve the plan. Now even Zhao Xun maintains this tradition. He likes to ask his subordinates. He uses everyone's ideas to make up for the missing and improve the plans he has made.

He was thinking a little wrong.

Zheng Lang asked, but the question was clever. Zhao Xun did not pay attention. He also discussed it, mainly discussing it with Zhang Kang. There was no way, the plan was like this. To win the buffer time, drag it forward. If the people of Jiaozhi want to attack Guangdong and Guangxi, they must send scouts to spy on the news. The longer the delay, the more information they will find. Therefore, the fewer people know the plan, the better. In order to train Zhou Yan, Zheng Lang let Zhou Yan know some of it, but he is a civil servant and cannot think of it.

As for Yu Jing, my goodness, I can count on Yu Jing...

After calming down, Zhou Heng and Zhao Xun patiently arranged for the people who entered the city again. They took Zhang Magistrate to persuade each other from house to house. They asked the people in the city to take in the people who entered the city and let them build a floor and everyone squeezed. There were too many rainy days in the south, so they could not be allowed to stay outdoors. They also registered their property and livestock, marked them, and concentrated them to take care of them. Zhao Xun in the northwest had experience and brought it to Anyuan City again. The crowding in the city exceeded the load of the small Anyuan City, but the order became well-organized.

Zhao Xun also took the time to train the militia again.

He is not as luxurious as the rear, he doesn't want this or that. As long as he dares to go up to the city to defend the city, even if he is the only son, he will welcome it.

They were divided into areas where they lived in each other, formed into teams, and carried out some hasty training, such as using the vine shield in the warehouse to protect the militia behind them, and the militia behind them had to keep firing arrows and throwing spears.

The time is too short, and all the young are young. When the war is coming, this kind of temporary cramming hasty training may not play a big role. But it is better to practice than not.

The next day will arrive soon.

The Jiaozhi people prepared weapons, siege equipment, and some candles, and had a moat that had to be filled with candles and mud. But the moat was too small and the Jiaozhi people didn't care at all.

This is a reasonable preparation.

Even if it is small, it may not be ineffective. Without this moat, Jiaozhi has many troops and can launch fierce attacks along the city walls, which is even worse. There is a deep and wide moat. Even if the Qinhuai River is used as a moat like Jiangning City, can it be defeated?

Therefore, there is no need to dig the moat deep and wide. In that case, Jiaozhi will think that the Song army is prepared and will not launch this large-scale invasion this year.

Enemies approach.

The head general of Jiaozhi is Pei Qingcheng, the son of Pei Jiayou, the Grand Secretary of the Civilization Hall of Jiaozhi.

In fact, most of the Han people from the Yue Li Dynasty were authentic Han people from kings to important officials. However, there was no so-called distinction between ethnic groups at this time. Zheng Lang could understand, but he was quite uneasy.

Pei Qingcheng looked at the top of the city and was a little surprised. According to information, Anyuan City did not have many troops, and even the local soldiers would not exceed one thousand soldiers. However, at this time, the city was crowded with black soldiers, fully armed, so what was wrong.

If you observe carefully, you can't expect him to have the military cultivation of Zhang Kang, Zhao Xun and Guo Kui. If you have not experienced the influx of the northwest battlefield, how can you talk about military cultivation? If there is war in Jiaozhi and war in Dali, it can only be regarded as a battle between the mob against the mob. It depends on who is more thorough.

It cannot be said that he doesn't understand, it must be better than Zhou Heng and Yu Jing. After reading it carefully, he will see some famous things in a while. There are not many crossbows, most of the armor and shields are made of ancient vines, and there are not many standard weapons. I immediately understood that they were militias, and he also saw some women.

The heart is calm.

He laughed loudly and ordered the attack. After hearing his orders, the Jiaozhi army slowly advanced to the city of Anyuan.

It's a woman, this is a bad idea that Zhao Xun came up with.

This is a battle to defend the city, with arrows being fired at once, God knows who shot the soldiers to death. If the rewards and punishments are unknown, the militia will not be motivated and the major events will be gone. Therefore, let the children of each village and village form teams nearby to be familiar with each other, which is conducive to organizational management and supervision of each other's real military achievements. Furthermore, it is to reward some young women with great beauty, the better. It is not to let them fight, but to hold shields to protect themselves, look at the soldiers of each team, and let them remember the achievements of the soldiers.

Not only do you remember merits as bystanders, once the battle begins, the scene is very bloody, and it is probably a good thing that these girls don’t faint. But with beautiful young women standing behind them, are these children embarrassed to be cowardly?

Zhou Heng didn't make any noise for most of the day.

However, when the enemy is in front of him, he has to be insulted, but he is better than the massacre of everyone who is killed by the Jiaozhi people.

There are jungle soldiers throwing mud bags.

Zhao Xun stood on the top of the city and had not issued an order to shoot an arrow.

Huang Xiaohu was also on the top of the city and could not really let the militia fight on their own. It would be very chaotic. A group of fire chiefs were drawn as temporary captains to command these temporary militias. Huang Xiaohu also drawn out and led 100 people. He taught the people last night and climbed to the top of the city to fight today.

Suddenly he looked at a distance and shouted, "Ning Erwazi. Are you here too?"

Old Man Ning’s second son.

But he is not in Huang Xiaohu's formation.

Old Man Ning's youngest son nodded.

"Are you afraid?"

"Not afraid," but Ning Erwazi's teeth were trembling as he spoke.

"Don't be afraid, Mr. Zheng has already made arrangements, otherwise there wouldn't be so many weapons in the warehouse." Huang Xiaohu comforted.

"Yes," Huang Xiaohu comforted him, Ning Erwazi still had a tense face, and didn't know what the weapons in the warehouse had to do with the arrangement.

"Sight a little when you shoot an arrow later, don't be nervous. Just think that these Jiaozhi people are a sheep and a rabbit."

"Yes, Uncle Huang."

Seeing that there were no arrows shot in the city, more enemies came to the moat to throw mud bags. There were more than a dozen groups in total, trying to attack Anyuan City on multiple sides later.

Seeing that more and more enemies were on the moat, and the city had not fired arrows for a long time, some enemies were relaxed and their shields were not protected effectively, Zhao Xun waved his hand and said, "Shoot the arrows."

Arrows flew out, dozens of Jiaozhi soldiers fell down, and the rest scattered. Zhao Xun suddenly remembered Zheng Lang's evaluation of Jiaozhi's army, and should not be underestimated. With certain combat power, the two naval and land armies have formed some scale. Without the Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi was the most powerful country in the south. Whether it was Dali, Chameng and Zhenla, they were not opponents of Jiaozhi. However, because of the lack of combat experience with the strongest country, they were blindly arrogant and loose. This is the fatal shortcomings of the Jiaozhi army.

Sure enough, the military discipline is very loose.

Zhao Xun breathed a sigh of relief again. Although the danger continued, the hope of defending Anyuan City was added.

Suddenly, sparse cheers came out.

A batch of arrows were released just now, which made Zhao Xun frown. Some militiamen were nervous and had not yet pulled the strings, so they released the arrows, but they did not even pass the moat and fell down.

Some people still shot enemy soldiers to death with arrows.

What does an enemy soldier represent? Two pieces of cloth, five pieces of coins, and five stones of grain. This grain alone is enough for one person to eat for a year. Two pieces of cloth can make the whole family wear new clothes, and some people are counting how much money can they buy after shooting the enemy.

Then some brave young women praised them from behind, and the soldiers cheered even louder, which aroused strong jealousy from their companions.

Zhao Xun immediately discovered this situation and pursed his lips and laughed. This was exactly what he needed.

Pei Qingcheng was furious and ordered the law enforcement team to shoot two soldiers who had fled back to death, which made the soldiers stop.
To be continued...