It can only be said that the terrain of Jiaozhi is destined to make such arrangements by famous generals who are good at using troops.

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On the day when Gao Shunyun’s grain team appeared, the dragon bandit was in panic.

Overnight, hundreds of officials and civilians from Jiaozhi County, especially those who were forced to move to the city by Shi Xie by force during the Jianbi Clearance period, began to secretly escape across the city and flee. They felt that Shi Xie's death was approaching, and there would definitely be no good end to staying in Longbian City with him.

The next morning, Shi Xie was shocked and angry after receiving the report, and quickly asked the guard why he did not strengthen the patrol on the city wall. But the conclusion was that a team of soldiers responsible for patrolling the city wall followed the fleeing people and gentry to abandon the city and flee.

"Zhao Yun is not short of food at all! He has the Dianzhou navy's magic weapon descended from the sky to transport food for him! No one has ever known that there is still a route in the upper reaches of the Honghe River!" Such rumors spread like a virus in Longbian City and are unstoppable.

"We're done! At least Shi Xie is dead! Shi Xie doesn't dare to fight Zhao Yun in the field! Zhao Yun's soldiers don't seem to have many soldiers, but they are absolutely elite. Shi Xie and other peasant soldiers can't beat them three or five times the number.

Moreover, the reason why Zhao Yun only brought so many people was to siege the city for a long time and surrounded the dragon bandit to death! At the beginning, Shi Xie had pulled so many people into the city, but now it seems that it only made the city consume faster food! If Zhao Yun wanted to attack for a strong force, he could send more troops from the Red River Basin at any time! He just didn't want to kill more people and wanted to siege us to death!"

Under such psychological pressure, and many people witnessed Wang Lang being killed in public a month ago, they knew that Shi Xie was completely betraying the court, and the collapse of people's hearts was inevitable.

Shi Xie was still hesitating to plug the leak. As a result, within two or three days, hundreds of soldiers and thousands of people fled at night every day, and there was almost a situation where soldiers in the city wanted to surrender.

Fortunately, Shi Xie's direct troops discovered it early and blocked the leak in time. In addition, these surrenders failed to contact Zhao Yun in advance, and Zhao Yun did not dare to believe it all, which led to the failure of Xianmen to succeed.

With so many problems, Shi Xie is a fool and knows that it is not a solution to hold on.

As long as Zhao Yun put the flag there, as long as it exists, as long as it gives people the confidence that "Zhao Yun's army cannot starve to death", countless people surrender every day!

I can't waste any more, I can only bite the bullet and fight to the death with Zhao Yun!

Since I have seen it, my understanding of Jiaozhi geography and upstream people are not as good as those of northerners. If I lose this game, I can't blame others. I can only say that it is God's will.

On the fifteenth day of the 12th lunar month, Shi Xie's courier arrived in Wu'an County in the south, contacted Linyi Prince District Xinjiang and general Fan Xiong, crying about the precarious situation. He also ceded Jiuzhen County after the matter was completed, and hoped that the district and Xinjiang must fight together in the face of the loss of lips and teeth.

Qu Jiang was also afraid that the Han army would invade the south after it showed its momentum. If Shi Xie was gone, it would be even more difficult to deal with the Northern Army next time. After thinking about it, Fan Xiong brought 15,000 main force and the 200 battle elephants he brought this time to support Shi Xie.

However, he also asked Shi Xie's troops to open the east gate in advance and leave the city, so as to meet Fan Xiong's troops, so as not to be intercepted by Zhao Yun halfway through and defeat each of them.

Shi Xie's people agreed to it. They were seeking quick battles and quick decisions to stabilize people's hearts, and of course they had to concentrate their superior forces to fight in the field.

On the 16th day of the 12th lunar month, Fan Xiong led the Linyi Kingdom army to advance west along the Honghe River. Not long after he walked, his movements were discovered by Zhao Yun's scout. However, after Zhao Yun received the reward, he did not immediately rush to attack and intercept them, and defeated Fan Xiong first.

On the one hand, he was afraid that after defeating Fan Xiong, Shi Xie would be defeated and dared not go out of the city to fight again.

On the other hand, it was also because based on the information returned by the scouts, it was found that although the Linyi Army was poorly equipped and the soldiers did not even have leather armor. They just fought naked, but there were a large number of war elephants!

This is also a common killer in tropical ethnic combat.

This incident made Zhao Yun dare not intercept directly. He had to make some preparations and would rather let Fan Xiong and Shi Xie meet.

Zhao Yun immediately found Gao Shun and asked humbly: "College Captain, you were the elephant soldiers who defeated Ailaoyi in the Erhai Battle a few years ago when you followed Yun Changboya to Pingnanzhong. The scouts returned that the Linyi people also had two hundred elephants. Do you have any equipment and supplies to bring elephant breaking?"

Gao Shun seemed very sure: "Fortunately, I and I also made some preparations, so the problem should not be big. But after all, I was just prepared for any incidents, and the supplies were not very abundant, and there was not much gunpowder to make arrows.

Moreover, the climate here is more humid and hotter than in the south and middle, and long-range strong crossbows are difficult to use, so the requirements for close-range elephant protection are higher. Our army should cut more dry firewood and pile them in front of the formation. Maybe the people of Linyi do not know the history of the war, and do not know the experience of our northern Central Plains destroying elephant, so they will not be on guard."

Zhao Yun: "Then it's a blessing. You can concentrate on breaking the elephant and leave the remaining main force of the enemy to me."

Zhao Yun avoided the battle for two days, but did not respond immediately, so he allowed Fan Xiong to bring 15,000 soldiers and 200 elephants into Longbian City to meet Shi Xie. He was ready until the 18th day of the 12th lunar month that Zhao Yun brought the entire army to the north gate of Longbian County, and asked the swearing troops to shout loudly and force Shi Xie to fight.

On the previous sixteen or seventeen days, Shi Xie still had to endure the escape of many people every day, so he had long been so frustrated with this chronic blood loss that he immediately accepted the challenge. There are now 40,000 soldiers and 15,000 Linyi people in the city, totaling 55,000. Considering that the soldiers had to be left to defend the city, he pulled out 48,000 field troops, leaving only 7,000 people to defend the city, and no more could be missing.

Because defending the city was useless, all the elephants were sent out.

The two armies had a total of 60,000 people, with a number of people of one to four. They set up a formation on the Honghe Valley Plain in the north of Longbing County. The front line was stretched for more than ten miles long. To be precise, Zhao Yun's troops had few people, so the front width was only six miles. However, Shi Xie and Fan Xiong had more people, and their width was more than ten miles, and the thickness was twice as thick as Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun took the lead and waved his gun and shouted with righteous words: "Listen to the soldiers on the other side! I am Zhao Zilong, Changshan! Zhang Wei, Liu Du, Zhang Jin, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, any thief who betrayed the court, from south to north for ten years, as long as I am caught, no one can survive under my gun.

Shi Xie killed the envoy and betrayed the court. The heavenly men and men were angry and could not die well! When the imperial soldiers arrived here, they only killed the evil ones and killed all Shi Xie's sects, and the rest did not ask! Civil and military officials, soldiers and officials, surrendered and exempted from death. Those who surrendered were retained in their original positions!”

Shi Xie's army was worried when he heard it from the opposite side. Shi Xie saw that his side was silent and no one could even scold him. Of course, he could not let Zhao Yun continue to attack morale, so he immediately ordered the entire army to charge! He did not give Zhao Yun more opportunities to speak.

The soldiers of Linyi Kingdom can follow behind to fight with the wind, which is also the preferential treatment given to Fan Xiong by Shi Xie, but he had already persuaded him before going to fight, so he asked Fan Xiong to at least put all the elephant soldiers on the front line. Then Shi Xie's soldiers followed the elephant to rush to make their courage.

Considering that the life of the elephant was not very valuable in a place like Linyi, Fan Xiong still agreed. As an illiterate barbarian in the extreme south, Fan Xiong certainly would not know any stories about the northerners defeating elephant soldiers, so he was very confident in the elephant and felt that even if he took the lead, he might not die much.

Two hundred elephants rushed up first, and tens of thousands of Jiaozhou soldiers behind them also covered up their kills in a mess, yelling loudly to boost their courage to avoid hearing Zhao Yun's words of attacking hearts.

Seven thousand words, today it is 12 thousand words, so it’s still two more updates.

I really can't finish this battle. However, I promise that the first update to end Shi Xie's scene tomorrow morning, and return to the northern map, there will be some farming plots during the New Year's peace...
Chapter completed!