As time goes by, there are fewer and fewer people coming to Dongchuan Fortress, the southeast fortress of the Guban tribe and the Momi tribe. Yes, there are fewer and fewer people. Duan Xingzhi's 200,000 troops are really not made of paper or blown out.

Although the large amount of grain collection in various places caused complaints, it also showed that Duan Xingzhi's power was still there. Moreover, although the Dali Restoration Army became famous in one battle and defeated the 50,000 army led by Wuliang Hecha, this does not mean that he could also defeat Duan Xingzhi, who led 200,000 people.

After all, in ancient wars, consuming manpower and population was the first yardstick to measure whether an army was powerful. As for how good your soldiers were to fight, they had to fight before they could know it.

At the same time, in the eyes of more tribal leaders who have never seen the world, fighting depends on the number of people, and whoever has more fists will of course be bigger. When the Mongols attacked Dali, why so many tribal leaders surrendered? It is not because the Mongolian cavalry and the army's crossing momentum were shocking.

Otherwise, the Mongol cavalry would not be able to attack even if they had broken their legs in Dali. Since ancient times, the mountainous terrain has never been suitable for cavalry performance. Kublai Khan himself said that he would not have expected that he could conquer Dali so smoothly.

Fame and military strength have always been different. For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei's strength was far inferior to Cao Cao. But to be honest, Liu Bei's reputation was indeed very good, but Cao Cao's military strength was there, and the more he spread it, it became more and more exaggerated. In the end, there were many talented military generals under Cao Cao. In summary, whether it was talented or not, most of the people chose to follow blindly.

After all, Han Zhenhan, in the eyes of most Dali people, said the same as Duan's words. They were rebels, but compared with Han Zhenhan, Liu Zheng's army was not even considered a rebel, had little reputation, and had a chaotic military discipline. Duan Xingzhi's military discipline was not much better than Liu Zheng's.

But they were genuine, while Liu Zheng was just an outside soldier. When Duan Xingzhi divided the troops, Han Zhenhan laughed. He casually found a Dai leader to pretend to him and inform him, and Duan Xingzhi took the bait.

If 200,000 people really besieged Dongchuan County, Han Zhenhan could only win with a dangerous move, and if half of the number of people were cut off, then things would be completely different.

Gengshen, the first year of Jingding in the Song Dynasty, May, the first year of the Zhongtong period of Kublai Khan, Mongolia, and 1,260 AD.

In early May, Alibuge proclaimed himself emperor in Hala and Lin. Alibuge held a Hulilutai Conference in Hala and Lin, the capital of the Mongolian Empire. He was elected as the Mongolian Khan by Asutai and other sect kings and ministers, and received support from the Khisattva, Chagatai and Ogedei Khanate.

Due to the prosperity of the Mongol Empire, Halahelin became the largest city in the world at that time.

At the same time, the Prime Minister Lan Daershi sent troops to Mobei to respond. Liupan defended the general and Hunduhai raised troops to respond, expressing support.

Kublai Khan was supported by some sect kings and ministers of Mongolian and Han, and later called Shangdu, which is the current Beishibesumu, Duolun County, Inner Mongolia. He established himself as the Mongolian Emperor, also known as the Great Khan of the Mongolian, and his reign was named Zhongtong.

He determined his throne and established the Xuanfu Division, Yanjing Road, Yidu, Jinan Road, Henan Road, Beijing Road, Pingyang, Taiyuan Road, Zhending Road, Dongping Road, Daming, Zhangde Road, Xijing Road, Jingzhao Road and other roads.

Regarding the public support of many Khans of the Mongolian royal family, Kublai Khan also began to join forces and actively prepare for war against Ali Buge.

Civil strife in the Mongolian imperial court began, and at the same time, Han Zhenhan began to smuggle weapons and armor to Alibuge through the channel of Juezhu. In exchange for cattle and sheep, the horse transaction was temporarily put on hold. However, in the transaction between Juezhu and Alibuge, the huge trade deficit cost Alibuge a lot.

In mid-May, Alibuge sent General Hunduhai to Yuncheng, Shanxi to negotiate with Baizhu to purchase weapons. Qiao Zhiyuan showed him a cross crossbow shot a volley of 50 meters away from a thousand archers, shooting hundreds of oxen. A total of 20,000 arrows were triggered. One ox of Hunduhai changed to another set of cross iron crossbows. One 10,000 sets were exchanged for ten thousand sets.

Although iron tools are not easy to produce, ten thousand cattle are not a small number, and the value of one cattle is dozens of times higher than that of five kilograms of iron in the Central Plains.

Hunduhai also placed a transaction order of 100,000 pieces of armor, and delivered it to Alahelin at the end of August. When Hunduhai left Yuncheng, he took away one thousand sets of crossbows, ten thousand pieces of armor, and fifty thousand spears.

At the same time, Duan Xingzhi prepared all the food and grass, and the 200,000 troops divided into three groups, advancing in unison at the same time towards Dongchuan County.

Learning from the lesson of being attacked by half the crossing last time, Duan Xingzhi ordered people to cut wood and build rafts and iron chains to connect them, and dozens of wooden boards and floating bridges were connected. The speed of crossing the river was extremely fast. After crossing the river, Duan Xingzhi and his kind of generals were all shocked. The Qianling forests that were originally near Dongchuan County were all cut down and left only on the shore, with trees on lines less than a mile wide.

At a high place in the distance, a magnificent and magnificent city can be seen dozens of miles away.

There was no hidden area. Although Duan Xingzhi was shocked by the work efficiency of the rebels in front of him, he still did not reduce his intention to wipe out the rebels. The 100,000 troops were divided into three groups, the left and right armies, of which the left and right armies were commanded by 30,000 troops, the central army was 30,000, and the 10,000 cavalry were mobile troops. It was reasonable to arrange the formation and rules and choose the site of the camp.

But Duan Xingzhi is far from being able to do the same thing, and even he has not done the same thing in consideration of the problem. It is more because he thinks it is. At that time, Gao Taixiang was able to dominate the government and the opposition and undermine Duan Xingzhi, not because no one supports him, but because compared with Gao Taixiang, Duan Xingzhi is far from an opponent. Duan Xingzhi can't do it in terms of military and political aspects.

Just like the battle now, Duan Xingzhi knew that the enemy had a powerful weapon to fight in the air, but he never thought about why the enemy cut down the woods, was it just to build that magnificent castle?

He never thought that Wulianghecha, who had been struggling and killing people in the army since he was a child, shouldn't the rebels be surrounded and annihilated by the rebels because of their superior ability? Duan Xingzhi was just thinking that Wulianghecha had a reputation. He arrogantly thought that he had 200,000 troops and attacking a small Dongchuan County was easy to get rid of.

However, the person he faced was not the cautious Wang Can. Wang Commander Wang was worried that General Wang would work hard day and night, so he arranged a relatively leisurely job for him. He returned to Luzhou to train the newly recruited new Bai people, and also studied how to improve the hot air balloons so that they could speed up.
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