On March 12, a big battle...like a massacre started outside Tongya City.
The monk Sari captured Shanchan City with an unstoppable force, and then quickly marched westward to Tongya City.
He originally thought that before Mongolia could react, Tongya City would have been captured, and Gao Qiong would definitely kill the Mongolian defender and present the city, and then either defect to the rebels or feign defeat and flee.
By capturing Tongshi City, you can attack Dali if you advance, and you can ensure that Shanchan City does not need to be attacked by retreating.
The rebel army claimed to be an army of 200,000, and marched westward with half of the troops and 100,000 men. In fact, it only had more than 30,000 soldiers, but it was still very powerful and had high morale.
However, they encountered an ambush as soon as they left the east valley of Tongya Castle.
The gates of Tongya City were tightly closed, and Duan's Dali soldiers came down from the valley, blocked the road, surrounded the rebels under the city, and massacred them.
The rebels formed a hasty army and were untrained; they had no armor at all, let alone leather or iron armor; their weapons only had a small number of knives, and more were bows, arrows and bamboo spears.
The high morale was defeated almost the moment they encountered the enemy.
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Duan actually did not want to defeat these rebels.
He wants to kill them all.
Only by the most brutal suppression could he make the Great Khan feel his loyalty; only by cutting off more heads could he achieve greater military exploits.
"General guard, what I mean is that you don't have to surrender. Only by killing all these traitors who dare to betray the Mongolian Kingdom can we deter others. What do you think?"
The Mongolian commander guarding Dali City was named "Yexian". He nodded and laughed and said: "General Duan has the demeanor of a Mongolian general, hahaha."
Duan Shi held his hands and laughed, echoed a few words in Mongolian, and then said: "Then I will pass on the order?"
"Okay." Ye answered with a big smile, "Let's kill it."
Duan Shi took a few steps, summoned a confidant, and whispered: "Send a team of people to rescue the demon monk from the battlefield, and ask them to stay with the demon monk from now on."
"General, what is this?"
"Go." Duan Shi smiled.
For him, this time he achieved great success in suppressing the rebellion and caught the eyes of the Mongols, but what about the future?
If there is no more rebellion in Dali, it is due to his brother Duan Xingzhi. The question is, Duan Xingzhi is over 40 years old, who will be the general manager of Dali in the future?
Keep the demon monk alive and send people to keep an eye on him. If you want to quell the rebellion and perform meritorious service in the future, you can do so. When you become the general manager of Dali, you can get rid of the demon monk at any time.
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On this day, Sarimonk escaped from the battlefield with a few people.
Outside Tongshi City, rivers of blood flowed and corpses lay everywhere.
March 13th.
He also led his troops eastward to recover Shanchan City.
Before he entered the army, Duan Shi asked: "General Ye first, there may be rebellion in the city. Can I have full authority to investigate and deal with it?"
"Haha, of course." He agreed readily, "General Duan has made another great contribution this time. Let's take care of some small things."
Duan Shi then occupied Tongya City and began to clean up the rebels.
"Bring him in."
Following his instructions, several Dali soldiers escorted Gao Junjin into the house.
Gao Junjin's hands were tied, and with a confused look on his face, he said: "King of England, what have I done?"
Duan Shi waved his hand and said solemnly: "Don't call me 'King of England', call me 'General'. I am the pioneer general of the Great Mongolia. There should be no confusion."
"Yes, I am also an official of the Great Mongolia. I wonder why General Duan captured me?"
"Come on, Gao Qiong protects the rebel Gao Changshou, and is secretly communicating with the demon monk."
Gao Junjin said: "There is absolutely no such thing..."
"I thought you were a smart person." Duan Shi interrupted Gao Junjin, stood up, took a few steps, and said, "It's useless for you to cover up for Gao Qiong. I will kill him and his two sons.
To be honest, this is an old grudge between my Duan family and Gao family. I have long wanted to kill him.
When Gao Taixiang was beheaded in Wuhua Tower, the Monan King praised his loyalty and granted Gao Qiong the hereditary title of Commander of the City. This position cannot be left empty. I plan to let you inherit the throne of Gao Taixiang and make him the hereditary lord of the City. From then on, the Duan family and
The feud between the Gao family has been settled, and you and I will join hands to guard the southwest for the Great Mongolia.
If you don't want to, then die together with Gao Qiong. You have also seen the tragic situation outside the city. Gao Changshou may be among them. He is not the good Lord of Jianchuan City and insists on rebelling. This is the end. The matter is very simple.
, In one thought, you may be prosperous and wealthy for generations, or you may be skinned and torn apart by me, you think about it.”
Gao Junjin was silent for a long time.
Duan Shi smiled, called his subordinates and ordered: "He doesn't want to be the heir for Gao Taixiang, a 'loyal minister of the Duan family'. Go and castrate him first, and then peel off his skin. If he is still alive after peeling off his skin, I will
There will be many rewards... and then bring his brother Gao Junchang back."
"General, I...recruited."
"Ah."
Gao Junjin closed his eyes and said: "Gao Changshou is in the Guanyin Qing Yi Village in the south of the city... Gao Qiong did have correspondence with the relic monk, and there is also a letter written by Gao Qiong that he didn't have time to hand over, and it's on me... They
He also intends to ally with the Song Army..."
Guanyin Qing.
Gao Changshou looked slumped.
The road to Tongya Castle had been blocked. He didn't know what was happening in the city. But he had a premonition that the situation was not good, so he asked his subordinates to prepare and leave at any time.
Yesterday, he quietly led people to the north, climbed a high mountain outside Tongya City, and saw the scene where the rebels were defeated.
This made Gao Changshou somewhat disheartened.
All along, what he wanted to do was to start an uprising like Sarimonk, march into Dali City, overthrow Duan Xingzhi, and drive out the Mongolian Tatars.
Back then, Gao Changshou failed in his attempt in Jianchuan. This time, Sarimonk did better than he did before. Taking advantage of the complaints of the people, he deeply hated Mongolia; taking advantage of the death of Wuliang Hetai and the weak strength of the Mongolian army for the Eastern Expedition...
Tens of thousands of people responded, and the momentum was huge.
This was exactly what Gao Changshou expected... and then, they were all slaughtered.
It's like a knife cutting into the heart of a tall and long-lived person.
He felt that his expectations for several years had been shattered.
Gao Qiong, Li Xia, and Gao Mingyue have been trying to persuade him not to be hasty, "I don't think highly of Dali's restoration of the country. You have no national power to rely on, and everything you do will fail..." Every word echoed in his ears.
He understood that if it had not been for these dissuasion, he would have been buried in the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses outside Tongya City.
But Gao Changshou was not happy at all. He only felt sad, angry and worried.
He rushed back to Guanyinqing's village with all his strength.
"Let's go! I don't want the confiscated things. Let's go now!"
Gao Changshou ran into the stockade with quick steps, commanding his men to assemble, while he ran back home.
"Miaoyin, pick up the child... Mingyue, let's go."
"Really defeated?" Gao Mingyue didn't panic, she put her bag on her back and asked as she walked.
"It was a big defeat." Gao Changshou said, "The defeat was too disastrous...unimaginable."
Duan Miaoyin asked in a panic: "Where are we going?"
"I'll hide in the mountains for a while, and then I'll find a way to contact Feiyu on Wuchi Road."
"Where's eldest brother?"
"Let's go first." Gao Changshou said, "I'll try to find out about him."
The old tribe and the people in the village totaled more than 700 people, but they were all men, women, old and young, and the journey was not fast.
Gao Changshou was even more worried, so he had to lead more than two hundred young men to cut off the road in the rear.
After traveling for a day and night, at dawn on March 15th, I suddenly saw more than ten fast horses galloping from behind.
"Muru..."
Gao Changshou looked back and saw the person coming. His eyes were filled with surprise and he hurriedly greeted him.
"My cousin sent you here? Is he okay?"
It was Gao Junjin's younger brother Gao Junchang who came. He got off his horse and asked, "Where are you going, Muru?"
"I saw that the road was blocked by the Duan family. I was worried that something might happen and moved people to the mountains."
Gao Junchang said: "Yes, it's better to be careful."
"Brother, he..."
In the middle of Gao Changshou's words, he ducked away from the lightning and flints, and Gao Junchang's dagger had already been thrust into his elbow.
With a "pop" sound, Gao Changshou quickly drew the knife in his hand, plunged it into Gao Junchang's belly, and restrained him.
Ignoring the blood under his elbows, he rushed to the approaching people and shouted, "Don't come here!"
The dozen or so people on the horses ignored him and just fired arrows.
"Puff puff……"
The arrow pierced Gao Junchang's body.
Gao Changshou didn't even have time to ask, "Why did you betray me?" He dropped Gao Junchang's body, rolled into the woods beside the path, and shouted: "Let's go..."
"Kill him."
Further away, groups of Duan's Dali soldiers came out to fight.
"Surround them and don't let them escape..."
Duan Shi looked at the map and drew a circle on Guanyinqing.
For him, the relic monks can be used to support the self-respect of the bandits, but Gao's rebellion must be killed.