As a fellow commander of the capital, Ouyang Xuan's normal reaction to his immediate superior's thoughts would be to give advice.
However, a different emotion arose in his heart.
After a moment, he slowly laughed.
"If this is really the case, I will only obey the orders of the adults in my humble position."
"Okay, I really did not misjudge the person."
An Junshan laughed twice, patted his shoulder and said, "Now, let us collect some interest first!"
A scholar dies for a confidant.
If we can meet the Lord of Ming, if we cannot live together, we will die together.
After the two discussed the specific plan, Anjunshan returned to Luoke Mountain first.
He also wanted to go back and reorganize the army.
The Dashi army did not defend Luoke Mountain. After the casualties reached a certain level, Anjunshan led his troops to attack the top of the mountain and drove the Dashi army out from the other side of the mountain.
Later, the Dashi army tried to counterattack, but after realizing that it was ineffective, they gave up this meaningless behavior.
As the saying goes, don't pursue the enemy when you are poor, and Anjunshan's mission this time was to occupy Luoke Mountain, so he did not send troops to pursue him.
But even so, with his crazy fighting and commanding style, even though Dashi's army suffered heavy casualties, the casualties of his troops were also not small.
One sixth of the battle damage.
After occupying Luoke Mountain, only 25,000 of the 30,000 elite soldiers remained.
Although Anjunshan plans to attack the strongholds of Dashi, it is impossible to abandon Luokeshan.
Occupying Luoke Mountain was originally the task given to him by His Highness Yaozi. Before the matter was clear, he could not really ignore everything.
Letting Ouyang Xuan serve as the vanguard to attack Dashi's strongholds was originally meant to be a test. If the troops in those strongholds became weaker than what was previously detected, then their speculation might be true.
Considering the importance of Luoke Mountain, Anjun Mountain left 10,000 elite troops to garrison Luoke Mountain.
The remaining 15,000 elite soldiers, after resting for a while, followed Anjun Mountain down to Luoke Mountain again, and followed Ouyang Xuan's route.
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Taking the battle of Luoke Mountain as the starting point, the war between Dali and Dashi officially began.
Three days later, the Dashi side's stronghold closest to Luoke Mountain was besieged by 10,000 Dali expedition troops.
The 20,000 defeated troops who were torn off Luoke Mountain were resting in the stronghold, and seeing this, they assisted the defenders in the stronghold to launch a counterattack.
With a strength gap of more than double, the Dali army that was originally on the offensive side was ultimately defeated.
At this time, An Junshan promptly led an army of 15,000 to come to the rescue, forcefully turning the situation around and turning defeat into victory.
The Dashi army in the stronghold was unable to resist. After leaving corpses on the ground, they had no choice but to abandon the stronghold and flee.
After the battle, An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan looked at each other and sighed at the same time.
The defeated army that came down from Luoke Mountain was an unexpected situation that they did not expect. Although they captured the stronghold, the test failed.
The next day, An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan, who were combined into one army, led their troops out again and fought again at the next stronghold with the defeated army of Dashi who had retreated here.
win.
Capture another stronghold.
Five days later, the third stronghold was captured.
Seven days later, a mine was captured.
On the 10th, the fourth gathering point...
Because the defeated army retreated in the direction of the stronghold, An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan had given up the idea of testing and instead captured as many strongholds as possible.
He will not pursue the poor bandits, but he will not take prisoners either.
A month later, An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan finally stopped.
It was not the end, but a continuous war, and they had very few supplies left, especially various types of ammunition, which were difficult to replenish because they did not match the size of the large firearms and could not be used universally.
Fortunately, the two of them had already anticipated this situation.
On the fifth day after coming down from Luoke Mountain, he had already sent troops back to ask for more ammunition.
Although most of the production lines of the expeditionary force are located in the bridgehead camp, other mines have subsequently established new production lines. Considering the distance of each stronghold, the produced ammunition will be transported to each stronghold in a timely manner.
To replenish firearms and ammunition, you do not need to return to the bridgehead camp every time.
It can be replenished nearby.
And if there are too many ammunition bases that need to be replenished, just report them in advance.
The reason why the weapons supplies from Anjun Mountain have not been delivered yet is because of this.
Other than that, the procedures are simple.
As the capital commander, even in the expeditionary army, Anjunshan's position is second only to Di Xin, and his authority is the largest besides Di Xin.
Shen Qianhua, as the official envoy of the Proclamation, had the same rank as An Junshan, but he had no specific power in the military.
Therefore, in addition to waiting a few extra days due to advance reporting, the ammunition supplies he needed were delivered on time on the third day after the army rested.
Then, because the Dali Expeditionary Force was resting and recuperating, the Dashi army suspected that it was running out of ammunition. They wanted to take the opportunity to counterattack, but were suppressed by fierce firepower.
The newly replenished ammunition was fired a third of the time before it was even warmed up.
The Dashi army that had finally gathered together was defeated again.
It is precisely because of this that the temptation that An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan originally gave up achieved their goal in another way.
Although the Dashi army that counterattacked this time was commanded by someone, it seemed a bit disorganized, and even did not have much structure when attacking.
But one thing is the same.
Like every previous battle, after discovering that the damage exceeds a certain amount, the Dashi army will choose to retreat without hesitation.
This is true even if there is no sign of failure yet.
It was as if although they were trying their best to block the progress of the Great Li Expeditionary Force, they were unwilling to harm themselves too much.
An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan came to a conclusion.
Dashi is conserving its strength. Every time they are defeated, it's not that they really lose their fighting strength, but it's just not worth sacrificing too many people in this place.
Not worth it means it has no strategic significance.
Therefore, those strongholds were really abandoned by Dashi.
Giving up is to get more.
An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan no longer have any doubt that the real target of Dashi's army is their bridgehead camp.
And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is in charge of the camp.
After confirming this, An Junshan and Ouyang Xuan became even more ferocious and crazy in the subsequent battle.
Since they had no time to return to the aid of His Royal Highness, they would naturally have to get it back from somewhere else.
Besides the war, the two of them would also wonder, is the war on His Highness the Prince's side already over?
During the exploration of Dashi after landing, they found out that, unlike what they thought at first, their nearby Dashi army was not separated from the fleet after arriving in Nanyang.
After leaving the Western Land and out of everyone's sight, the Dashi army divided into two fleets.
A fleet came to the nearby Dali Expeditionary Force.
The other one went straight in the other direction.
Dashi's first station in Nanyang was established in a place that was further away, but easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Although this distance cannot be reached by three-day flight, it should not take more than a month.
