"no the same."

Liang Maocai shook his head and said, "Guo Shengyi's defeat was due to his inability to adapt. He only knew how to guard the pass, but didn't know how to adapt to the situation. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the Song people. Why don't we take the initiative to attack?"

Take the initiative?

Everyone suddenly fell into deep thought, and after a while many people understood.

Yes.

If the Song people relied on catapults to throw the black balls into Guanzhong and cause them to explode, it would mean that the Song people were originally immobile and had very poor mobility.

Guo Shengyi foolishly thought that he could just hold on to Guanzhong and give the Song army enough time to assemble catapults.

Just as the scout reported.

The Song army had clearly been stationed outside the pass for five or six days, preparing to go up the mountain to clear the trees and transport and assemble the catapults, but he did not move at all.

Although the biggest reason for this was that Guo Shengyi didn't know that the Song army had such a powerful weapon, he wanted to proceed steadily and rely on the dangerous passes to deal with the Song army. He was unwilling to give up the geographical advantage and fight the enemy outside the pass.

But this also indirectly shows that Guo Shengyi was unaware of the changes and did not understand that during the enemy's preparation stage, he should at least send an army out to harass them and observe the situation before making a decision.

After they saw through this, they naturally came up with a solution. Their Dai Viet Ly Dynasty was not without any chance of winning.

What Vietnamese soldiers are best at is hiding in the mountains and forests.

If the Song army suddenly rushed out from the mountains and forests on both sides during the preparation stage, not giving the enemy the opportunity to release the black ball from a distance, and directly engaged in close combat with the enemy, would they be able to win?

Thinking of this, everyone suddenly realized, and someone said: "That's right, the Song army relies only on the advantage of firearms. If we set an ambush, they will definitely be defeated."

"The mountains and forests on both sides are dense. They won't be able to find our men while they're hiding. If they suddenly attack us once the battle starts, the Song army will be caught off guard and won't have time to assemble catapults. They will definitely be defeated by our army."

"But for now, we still need to gather the defeated soldiers of the Taiwei in front to prevent the pass from being attacked."

"Well, that's it."

Hearing everyone's conversation, Li Fuma felt that it made sense, so he issued two orders: "Defend Zhiling Pass to the death, and send people out to gather up the defeated soldiers."

"yes!"

Everyone immediately obeyed the order.

At that moment, the Vietnamese army no longer went out to support Guo Shengyi, but continued to occupy the pass.

By noon, a large number of defeated Vietnamese soldiers began to run towards Zhileng Pass one after another, and were gathered back inside the pass by the people sent by Li Foma.

Moreover, some Song troops had already appeared on the periphery, but they were not Di Qing's firearms troops, but minority troops.

The current pursuit situation is like this: Di Qing's firearms army is in the middle, Guangxi's wing army is at the end, and the ethnic minority troops are in the front. They have killed the most defeated soldiers, as many as one or two thousand people.

no way.

The transportation roads in the southwest are difficult to describe. Di Qing's artillery was not pulled by horse-drawn carriages. Many times, the gun barrels had to be carried by manpower.

Not only is the road rugged, but the slopes are also up and down. Sometimes the road can be as steep as four or five meters, and you need to climb up.

The soldiers of the Li Dynasty were indeed agile, but not very good at fighting. They ran around like monkeys, and some of them even fled directly into the deep mountains and forests in panic. Di Qing's firearms army and Guangxi's wing army had no way to deal with them.

Only the ethnic minority soldiers on the border who could cross mountains and rivers as easily as they could catch up with them.

This resulted in a certain disconnect between the front and rear of the Song army. The minority soldiers had already chased for more than a hundred miles, while the main force of the Song army was still chasing them closely behind, still thirty or forty miles away from the front.

After Li Foma learned of this situation, he sent Li Fengxiao to lead the troops to take the initiative to attack, intercept the pursuing enemy, and quickly protect the defeated soldiers back to the interior.

He did think about taking advantage of the enemy's disjointedness to break out, but the road was narrow and crowded with many of their defeated soldiers, and it would not be feasible to go around the mountains on both sides for a while, so he had to give up.

The minority soldiers who were pursuing over there also discovered the main force of the Li Dynasty, so they retreated from Zhileng Pass and left in the direction of Liangzhou in the rear.

At this time, Liangzhou had been occupied by the Song army. The local people were terrified and fled in all directions.

Historically, the Ming Dynasty controlled Vietnam under Zhu Di. However, since its independence in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Vietnam has gradually formed its own national consciousness, and its resistance sentiment is very high, resulting in continuous uprisings. In the end, it quickly defeated the Ming army and broke away from the control of the Central Plains dynasty.

Now, since the establishment of the first Vietnamese dynasty, the Dinh Dynasty, in 968 AD, three dynasties have passed, including the Pre-Le Dynasty and the Ly Dynasty. The Vietnamese people have begun to get used to no longer accepting the rule of the Central Plains dynasty.

Therefore, facing the Song Dynasty's Heavenly Army, the local people were mainly terrified. Even if the Song Dynasty did not harm them at all, it could not stop the people from being panicked.

Di Qing was the first to enter the city.

Liangzhou City prospered due to the trade between Song and Yue, but although it was called the capital of Liangzhou, it was actually barely comparable to a remote county town in the Song Dynasty.

The outer city wall was only about ten feet high, old and mottled, and covered with ivy.

The houses in the city were all made of rough wood, and there were only two main streets in the entire city. Due to the war, there were almost no pedestrians on the streets, and the shops were closed one after another, filling the city with desolation and dilapidation.

Di Qing looked around from his horse and asked his deputy general Zhang Yu, "Will any civilians come to greet us when we enter the city?"

Zhang Yu shook his head and said, "Not really."

Di Qing thought for a moment, then said, "Go find some local elders from prominent families to discuss this matter with me."

"yes."

Zhang Yu responded.

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