Di Qing takes action!
The three hundred cavalry he led stepped forward when the Confederate army was in the most critical moment.
War horses cannot compete with war elephants, but if their riding skills are good enough, they can greatly harass war elephants.
These war elephants have very thick armor, so ordinary weapons cannot cause damage to them.
But the war horse can get rid of the mahout on the war elephant, so that the war elephant can only flee in all directions, and the damage is greatly weakened.
However, the three hundred cavalry arrived too late, and they were not enough to fight against Nong Zhigao's tens of thousands. The situation on the battlefield was irreversible. Di Qing covered Wu Xin's retreat and resisted the Nong people's attack.
The three hundred men were all in vain, the war elephants destroyed the Song army's defense line, the infantry phalanx was defeated across the board, and all the generals tried their best to no avail. It would be difficult for anyone to do it at this time, because they have never seen a war elephant, and they are not willing to fight such a monster! Unless the military morale is restored, it will be difficult to make a comeback for a while.
The Song army abandoned all their baggage and supplies. Only Di Qing gathered a lot of defeated soldiers and led them back to Guizhou.
WuXin knew that this time he would definitely be finished!
More than 30,000 people have allowed themselves to be played completely, and they are still dealing with a group of barbarians who don't even have straw sandals. Unless he dies, the crow civil servants in the court will not let him go!
Wu Xin drew his sword and wanted to kill himself, but Di Qing snatched it away.
"General, why are you doing this?"
Wu Xin's eyes were full of despair: "Di Qing, you are still young. You don't understand the dangers of officialdom. Brother, I might as well tell you directly. This is a big defeat for me. Bianjing has already sent a prison car to take my brother to the capital. If my brother dies, he has sacrificed his life for the country, but if he survives, I don’t know what kind of fight he will have with those civil servants!"
Di Qing said angrily: "If your husband dies, your ears will die. There is nothing to fear, let alone those bird-like civil servants!"
Not afraid of death, but afraid of those birdmen!
With a word that woke up the dreamer, Wu Xin dropped the long sword in his hand and sat helplessly on the ground.
"It would be a great achievement if we can put the mess in order. Since ancient times, it has been believed that defeat is not the fault of the general. When everyone stumbles, the general should think twice!"
"You are right, the court has not allowed us to die, so we will live one more day, and we must die dignifiedly!"
At dawn, Dateng Gorge was once again stained red with blood.
History records that the Southern Expedition was defeated.
At the Battle of Dadeng Gorge, the momentum of the Nong people reached its peak. Nong Zhigao was conferred as a god in the battle and became the god worshiped by the ethnic minorities in Guangnan for thousands of years. Thousands of years later, Nong Zhigao's temples can still be found in many places.
There has never been a single conclusion about Nong Zhigao, but this does not prevent him from becoming a strong figure in history books. Regarding the confrontation with feudal rule, he led ethnic minorities to rise up in resistance. This is the greatest compliment to him. As for why you were appointed an official or made a wish, that is secondary. History will not remember these messy things, but only those things you want to remember.
After the Battle of Dateng Gorge, all forces in Guangnan flocked to Nong Zhigao's command. Although Nong Zhigao suffered a lot of losses in Dateng Gorge, he was quickly supplemented by all parties, whether it was people or materials. The momentum of the Yuan Army has been further increased!
The Southern Army had been defeated. Wu Xin and Di Qing took the remaining troops and retreated to Guizhou in the north.
We have to wait for the next order from the imperial court, and we also need the imperial court's supplies and support before we can take the next step. But the journey between Bianjing and Guangnan West Road is more than a thousand miles, so this period of time has become Nong Zhigao's vacuum time!
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When the army attacked Duanzhou, the prefect Ding Baochen abandoned the city and fled without caring about the lives of the people in the city. Later Wang Anshi even wrote an epitaph for this man, saying that he had fought before, but to no avail, so he abandoned the city.
But abandoning the city is a good thing for Nong Zhigao!
His battle line was too long. If any of the prefects had the courage to block the Guangyuan Army, and the imperial court deployed troops from behind to cut off the Guangyuan Army's retreat, this army would soon be finished. But at that time, no one had the courage to confront the Guangyuan Army. They heard about the fate of Jiang Yunji in Hengshan Village, and knew that the only way to defeat the city was to die. They had to escape early, and no one dared to stay and resist!
After the powerful Guangyuan Army entered Guangnan East Road, it felt like they were in an uninhabited land and pushed the troops to the gates of Guangzhou City!
It can be said that after the war reached this point, the entire South could not sit still.
Huang Chao also attacked Guangzhou at that time, killed all the people in the city, and burned the city of Guangzhou. Therefore, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, Quanzhou Prefecture became king and Guangzhou Prefecture abdicated.
If it happens again, Guangzhou will be breathless again for hundreds of years.
The people of Guangzhou know that they have no way out. If they do it again, they will just repeat the mistakes of Huang Chao a hundred years ago. These people who rebelled are brutal thugs. Surrendering will only end. No other place has experienced such pain. They Guangzhou People know best!
This time the people of Guangzhou did not surrender. They locked the city gate and blocked it with huge rocks. The thieves could not get in and the people in the city could not get out!
When the people saw the way Gao Shiyao was patrolling the city, they understood that he wanted to live or die with the city!
Gao Shiyao left no escape route for himself. He knew what the Guangyuan army was doing better than anyone else. The Guangyuan people had no intention of occupying the land, and they did not have the manpower to defend the city. Once the soldiers at hand are scattered, they will be defeated by the enemy one by one!
The Nong people had no way to effectively control the Han people, so the first thing they did wherever they went was to rob, rob all the property and food in the city, and if possible, coerce some people, and then burn the city and destroy it. ! They will not leave anything to the Song Dynasty!
Nong Zhigao encountered something he had no choice but to do, and that was the tall city wall!
At that time, the South Vietnamese army attacked Yongzhou City and surrounded Yongzhou City for several months. They also had no way to deal with the city. Siege is not an easy task, it is a very technical job!
Not only must there be a tacit understanding of cooperation, but there must also be equipment to attack the city! The equipment is in place, but there is still a steady stream of people to die!
Most of Nong Zhigao's men were Han people who came here for the land. However, wherever Nong Zhigao went, he uncharacteristically did not occupy the land. This made them very incomprehensible! No matter how much money you have, it is not as useful as food! There is food in the hands and no panic in the heart. This is the truth of the Han people!
If not for the land, why would they fight so hard!
When he was in Guangyuan, Nong Zhi
Gao promulgated a set of land reward strategies, but now some people have realized it. Now even if each person in the Guangyuan Army is only allocated a small piece of land, the small land of Guangyuan is no longer enough. Without occupying it, how could anyone get the land? .
The Han family no longer want to risk their lives. They are waiting and watching. If there is no future with Nong Zhigao, then they might as well go home and farm as soon as possible!
When everyone arrived at the city of Guangzhou, they all agreed that they could not conquer the city. The Han family members in the Guangyuan army also believed that they could not conquer the city!
No one has ever seen such a high city wall in their lives.
After Huang Chao burned the city of Guangzhou, in order to avoid another tragedy, the government built a new city wall on the original site. This time, no matter how short the city wall was, it was more than three feet high. On the red sandstone city base, a particularly thick wall was built. The city wall is made of blue-gray bricks and gray sand. Before Yongzhou City was destroyed, it was not as tall as this city!
The South Vietnamese mobilized tens of thousands of people, and were commanded by the famous general Li Changjie, but they still could not conquer Yongzhou City. What would the Nong people use to attack Guangzhou City today?
NonChigao tried to make a ladder to attack the city, but the city already had a way to deal with the ladder. He would either be pushed down or fall down.
The smelly liquid burns people's skin and makes life worse than death. Also, the people who went up were no match for the people on the wall, and were quickly cut down. Unless they spread out across the board and climbed up the wall everywhere, they would not be able to attack the city wall at all!
Seeing that the siege was ineffective, Huang Shimi wanted to break the city directly. He first thought of a way underground and tried to dig a tunnel to enter the city. However, water seeped out before digging deep, and the back of the city gate was blocked directly by huge rocks. It can still be broken!
Huang Shimi tried every method he could think of, but this city was like a turtle shell, which could not be broken no matter how hard it was beaten. All the people in the city, as long as the men were half tall, were given weapons, and women participated in the logistics!
Everyone's ancestors have experienced the tragedy a hundred years ago. If they don't care about it now, the people in the city will play with their lives!
Another thing that makes Guangzhou City different from other places is that this place is extremely rich in supplies!
If Nong Zhigao had gone north and entered the two lakes area in one fell swoop, the situation might have changed today.
There is no need to worry about the food and water sources in Guangzhou. This place has been a major producer since ancient times. Lingnan is in short supply of food. Every year, a large number of ships carry Lingnan food to all parts of the country for sale. Nong Zhigao obviously didn't do enough homework. In such a place, the inspector Gao Shiyao relied on so much food to fight with Nong Zhigao!
Nong Zhigao led tens of thousands of people to surround Guangzhou City for more than fifty days. Finally, he had no choice but to return in hatred!
Nong Zhigao always had that thought in his mind. He did not really want to conquer the Song Dynasty. He recalled the scriptures under the city of Guangzhou and saw the strength of the Song Dynasty. He just wanted the Song Dynasty to bow its head and have a chance to negotiate. What followed behind him So many chieftains and leaders think the same way!
But he had been waiting under the walls of Guangzhou for so long. For more than fifty days until the time of withdrawal, he did not have the attitude to wait for the court!
It is no longer possible for the Song Dynasty to negotiate with him. From the moment he started fighting with the Southern Army, he has been labeled as a rebel. It is impossible for the court to negotiate peace with him unless he cannot defeat him!
The emperor's career was still young and he was old, so the king granted him the title of Shenxi and retired with him. Nong Zhigao left the city of Guangzhou with these words!
