Yunnan City is located between Dali City and Tongyicheng. It is not a prefectural city like Tongyicheng, but a small city under the rule of Dali. Its location is probably in Xiangyun County in later generations.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yizhou County was established here. Because he dreamed that colorful Yunnan appeared, the place was named Yunnan County.
During the Nanzhao Kingdom, the Yunnan Festival was established in Yunnan City. Later, the Yunnan Festival was abolished and divided into two cities: Yunnan and Pindian.
Last year, Mongolia converted the city of Pidian into a residence for thousands of households.
Pindian Thousand Households Office belongs to Dali Wanhu Office, which is less than thirty miles away from Yunnan City. It guards the road to the west of Dali City and has more than a thousand troops stationed there.
However, Ashu marched eastward to Jiaozhi and mobilized more than 500 soldiers and horses from Qianhu Station in Pindian. Therefore, there were only 500 people left in Qianhu Station, including a hundred-man Mongolian army.
As for Yunnan City, there were not many defenders. Especially when the relic monks were involved in the rebellion, Duan Shi mobilized the defenders from various places to quell the rebellion.
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On March 20th, Li Xia made a sneak attack on Yunnan City and captured the city.
This is not difficult. The small earth city has few defenders and the walls are in ruins.
But Li Xia was very disappointed.
He did not get much supplies here. The food and grass in the city was much less than he expected, and it was not enough for more than a thousand people for ten days...
Since the Mongolian army conquered Dali four years ago, they have been looting and fighting year after year. Wuliang Hetai and his son have been recruiting troops and grabbing food, and they have attacked Wuman tribes, including Qi State, Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi... this
All the burdens are placed on the people of Dali.
The fields are deserted and the situation is turbulent.
Not to mention saving food, there are not many men and women left in the small town.
Therefore, when the relic monk raised his flag, countless people responded. However, there were not as many young and strong people as there were old and weak people in the rebel army, so they collapsed at the first touch.
Standing in Yunnan City and looking around, everything is devastated...
Gao Changshou was still in a coma, and Li Xia seemed to have deliberately made him unconscious for a long time. In this way, the only one who could discuss with Li Xia was Gao Mingyue.
Of course, Li Xia did not do it to get more opportunities to get close to Gao Mingyue, but to better command the Gao family's old troops.
Gao Changshou was quite independent and had the pride of Marquis Yue of Dali. This was not a bad thing. In Li Xia's plan, Gao Changshou would need this kind of independent thinking to develop in Wumeng.
But it is not needed now. With Gao Mingyue helping to command the Gao family's old troops, Li Xia's orders can be implemented more smoothly.
Recalling last year's march north to Kaifeng, we can see that Li Xia was much more powerful as a commander than Nie Zhongyou.
Ashayu seemed to understand Li Xia's thoughts very well, and gave Gao Changshou a heavy dose of medicine without him having to say anything.
On this day, after counting the grain and grass collected from the city, Li Xia said: "We need to capture Pindian Qianhu Station."
Gao Mingyue did not object to him, but still reminded him: "Maybe if we attack Pindian again, Duan Shi's troops will surround us."
"Yes, but there must be food and grass, and arrows must be replenished."
Gao Mingyue nodded and asked, "How do we fight?"
"When we captured Yunnan City, we probably haven't alerted the Mongolian army yet. Pick a few smart people from that era and go to Pindian to report that Yunnan City was plundered by the Sari monks. There were probably more than a hundred people in total. That's it.
, attract two hundred Mongolian troops to come out, and we will divide them..."
Tongya Castle.
Duan Shi took a bronze mirror and looked at it. His left eye had been bandaged, and he could see a little strangely. His face was not as handsome as before.
There was hatred in his right eye.
But he calmed down and was no longer as excited as when he was injured.
"Report, general, Yang Yuan sent someone to report that the Song army led Gao Changshou to break out from the south and then fled westward..."
"Trash." Duan Shi cursed, stared at the map, and clicked on Yunnan City.
He was sure that the Song army was already in Yunnan City and would definitely head north to the Jinsha River next.
To the west of Yunnan City is Dali City; to the south is Zhao Yu's Qianhu Residence; to the north is Taihe City... As for the east, Yang Yuan has led troops to surround Yunnan.
After pondering, Duan Shi ordered: "Send the fastest horse to convey the message, and be sure to let the defenders of Dali City, Zhao Yu, and Taihe City hold back this Song army and annihilate them for me!"
"yes……"
After the order was given here, another message came from the other side, saying: "General, the general has also sent a centurion here."
When he heard that they were Mongolians, Duan Shi didn't dare to be careless and hurriedly went to greet them personally.
The centurion's name was "Agudam", and he led a centurion into the city. When he got off his horse, he told Duan Shi that he had something to say.
"The heads of thousands of households have captured Shanchan City and put down the rebellion."
"Congratulations." Duan Shi smiled.
Agudamu seemed not to notice that Duan Shi was blind in one eye, and said: "But a Song army of nearly a thousand people has arrived in Dali. Have you captured it?"
Duan Shi frowned and didn't answer.
Agudamu was a straightforward Mongolian man. Although his official position was lower than that of Duan Shi, he despised Duan Shi in his heart. He just stood there with a blank face, like a statue.
After a while, Duan Shi spoke first: "They blew my eye out."
"Yes." Agudamu said: "They brought fireballs. The Dali people are too stupid to make fireballs. It would be great if Marshal Du brought more Huihui people."
Duan Shi was not very happy after hearing this, but he didn't want to offend the Mongolian. He smiled awkwardly and asked, "General, I want to send you here first, do you want me to?"
"Of course, we must annihilate this Song army." Agudamu said, "The captain asked you to put a thousand men under my command."
Duan Shi saw that he only had a hundred-man army, so he had no choice but to follow what he said, saying that he was a Mongolian.
He could also see that he was attaching great importance to this Song army that suddenly came to Dali. If he could not annihilate them as soon as possible, he was afraid that it would become more and more troublesome...
Pindian Thousand Households Residence.
"Kill!"
Qingfu's soldiers fought forward with their spears and broke into the gate of Pindian City.
They didn't know that there were more and more Mongolian troops. The Dali army had noticed them and surrounded them from all directions. What they felt was that every small battle could be won.
The Dali army did not seem to be very powerful, and was weaker than the Dali army encountered in Qingfu County at that time. After all, there were more Mongolian Tanma Red Army leading the Dali servant army at that time.
This small battlefield victory gave the Qingfu Army soldiers great confidence.
The old soldiers brought up the new soldiers, and through small victories they were tempered. This time Dali and his party seemed to be an opportunity for Li Xia to train his troops.
But Li Xia knew that every time they captured a small town, they would attract more enemy attention. The longer they stayed, they would eventually be surrounded.
We must leave the Dali border as soon as possible.
However, after fighting all the way to Pindian Qianhu Station, he pushed open the warehouse and was stunned.
There were some grain, grass and arrows piled in the warehouse, but it was far from enough.
Li Xia frowned, drew his sword, walked towards an injured Mongolian soldier who fell to the ground, and asked in Mongolian: "Where is the food?!"
"Marshal Du... took him away."
"What do you eat?" Li Xia asked again.
The Meng soldier was covered in blood, but he still laughed miserably and said: "Marshal Du left just last month, and we robbed so much...next month we can fill a warehouse again."
He chuckled and said: "You're early...you pig..."
Li Xia didn't ask any more questions and stabbed the other person to death with one sword.
He turned his back to the soldiers, his eyes a little worried.
Next, I'm afraid I'll have to keep looking for weak points and attack them in order to get supplements.
But this was obviously a desperate move, and he was suddenly a little unsure of how this would end...