Bai Zhixing was shocked to discover that the new army had suddenly headed north!
Not only that, they also defeated Ding He's 50,000-strong army, resolving the crisis in Lianzhou overnight.
Bai Zhixing was instructed to quickly organize the soldiers and civilians of Lianzhou City to go outside the city to dispose of the corpses, preferably burning them all to prevent the spread of plague in the hot weather.
Bai Zhixing wouldn't dare delay this matter even if he had a hundred lives; he quickly organized people.
In the morning, all the soldiers and civilians of Lianzhou rushed to the battlefield of the previous night, and they were shocked by what they saw.
By noon, Yang Zaixing had captured Ding He and brought him to see Yue Fei.
Bai Zhixing originally intended to welcome the new army into the city so that the people could properly thank them, but Yue Fei politely declined.
Capturing Ding He means that the right flank of the Jiaozhi army has been rendered useless, and the remaining cleanup work will be left to Wang Gui.
He was to take Ding He to Qinzhou to report back.
The Emperor's goal was not merely to defeat the Jiaozhi army; he wanted to completely conquer Jiaozhi and turn it into a route through the southwest of the Song Dynasty!
Yue Fei was constantly thinking about how to realize Zhao Huan's idea as soon as possible.
So he said a few words and instructed Bai Zhixing to quickly organize the army and civilians to sweep away bandits and outlaws in Lianzhou Prefecture, while Wang Gui led a thousand cavalry to clear out the fleeing Jiaozhi army.
When the news of the war in the southwest was sent back to Tokyo overnight by fast horse, Emperor Zhao Huan was overjoyed.
The next day, the official gazette of the Song Dynasty published the war report from the southwest, which began to appear in various prefectures and cities of the Song Dynasty. The storytellers on the streets also began to sing praises of the new army in the southwest.
At the same time, Tang Ke was quickly summoned to the palace, and Zhao Huan was to begin preparing to send merchants from the Song Dynasty to that area, in order to develop grain and fruit production.
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