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But after getting along, I realized that Fan Zhongyan is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Although Fan Zhongyan has a good reputation, he also has the inherent stubbornness of a literati. He wants to get involved in everything. He always feels that he is familiar with military books and can command battles without any problem.

Luo Tianming had no choice but to take him to understand the actual situation of the army himself.

As for commanding the army and formulating combat plans, they were all handed over to Mu Guiying.

The commander of the Western Expedition Army was nominally Luo Tianming, but in fact Mu Guiying. Who made Mu Guiying's command ability stronger than Luo Tianming?

In terms of strategy in general, with Fan Zhongyan's IQ, there is no problem. The military books he read can really make him a strategic expert.

Although Luo Tianming was born in a general, he may not be stronger than Fan Zhongyan in this regard, so there is nothing to teach him.

But Fan Zhongyan's weakness is that he does not have enough understanding of the actual situation. It just so happens that Luo Tianming is best at this aspect, so there is no problem in teaching him.

For example, an army has to pass through a bridge during the march, which can accommodate two carriages in parallel. So how much time does a thousand people need to pass? How much time does a thousand people need to pass?

This is not just a ten-fold gap. When the number of people increases by dozens of times, the logistics supply required, the rationed pack horses and ox carts, the civilians transporting the supply, the load-bearing capacity of the bridge, etc., all need to be considered. The time for passing may be twenty times, or even thirty times.

For example, the war in the era of cold weapons was very dependent on morale. When soldiers were in high morale, they could win with fewer and turn defeat into victory in difficulties; but when morale was low, they would fight and lose, and even flee.

There are many factors that affect morale, ranging from unfair rewards and punishments to small scoldings, they may cause morale to plummet.

Especially Fan Zhongyan's identity as a literati is incompatible with the military man. With the same scolding, the military man will have nothing to do. Perhaps the soldiers at the bottom still feel friendly. But if the soldiers at the bottom are scolded, it is likely that the soldiers at the bottom will hold a grudge and will play tricks on the battlefield and sell you.

In short, Luo Tianming and Fan Zhongyan had seen too many things that would not be recorded in military books, so that this famous minister knew that it was not that easy to lead troops to fight.

After seeing more knowledge, Fan Zhongyan realized that he was just a piece of Zhao Kuo who talked about war on paper and did not dare to be self-righteous anymore.

Although he will still express his own opinions on strategy, he will no longer be stubborn and look down on Mu Guiying, a female person.

After the army supervisor was settled, this battle would be much easier.

However, after arriving in the northwest, Luo Tianming did not immediately fight with Li Yuanhao, but instead imitated the Xuanwu Camp established during the war with the Liao Kingdom and formed a new force called the White Tiger Camp.

However, the Western Xia is different from the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom is a great country that has been established for more than a hundred years. It has a strong national strength and is used to suppressing people with the general trend, so it also likes to be upright when fighting.

In such a dignified formation, you only need to break through the central army of the Liao army, kill the main general or cut off the general's flag to establish the victory.

The Western Xia is different. They have just founded the country, and they are not strong in strength and have no self-confidence. In order to win, they are more willing to use flexible tactics to get tricks.

Under this tactic, the Western Xia army had no central army at all, and the tactic of directly attacking the central army would be difficult to use.

Therefore, the White Tiger Camp formed by Luo Tianming is also different from the Xuanwu Camp. The Xuanwu Camp is a heavy armored cavalry and is used to fight tough battles, while the White Tiger Camp is mainly light cavalry, which emphasizes personal martial arts skills and flexible tactics.

The people in Xixia played mobile warfare, and the White Tiger Camp also played mobile warfare with them; the people in Xixia played guerrilla warfare, the White Tiger Camp and the Guerrilla warfare. Whoever is better depends on who is stronger.

However, there is another limitation in the White Tiger Camp, which is that the Song army has too few horses to expand too many people.

In terms of horses, Xixia, like Liao, can be equipped with one person and two horses, much richer than the Song army.

Although the White Tiger Camp could not expand too many people due to horse restrictions, Luo Tianming still tried his best to plunder 10,000 horses and formed a unit of 5,000 people.

This army was led by him personally, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, which is enough for the Xixia people to have a headache.

Before the White Tiger Camp was trained, Mu Guiying was on the defensive position. After all, most of the Song army was infantry and could not keep up with the speed of the Western Xia cavalry. He could only rely on the camp to defend.

After the White Tiger Camp formed an army, Mu Guiying immediately designed a trap and deliberately exposed a flaw to lead the Western Xia army to attack.

When the Western Xia army entered the trap, Luo Tianming led the White Tiger Camp to suddenly hit them hard from behind, and immediately defeated the Western Xia army.

After all, Xixia had just established its country, and its subordinates were all gathered by various tribes. When they won a big battle, they rushed forward to grab it. Once they were defeated, they immediately began to preserve their strength, and naturally they ran faster than the other.

Unfortunately, the trap designed by Mu Guiying and Fan Zhongyan was very tight, and even if all the cavalry in the Western Xia army were still left with most of the horses.

After this battle, the Song army moved into the attack and began to advance step by step.

The Xixia Army quickly restored its old tactics and relied on mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare to block the Song army's advance.

The front lines of the two countries stretch for thousands of miles. No matter how strong the command ability of Mu Guiying and Fan Zhongyan is, it is impossible to cover everything. The Western Xia army can always find an opportunity to eat the Song army's troops bit by bit.

In the past, the Song army could only minimize mistakes and endure huge losses.

Now that there is the White Tiger Camp, the situation is different. The Western Xia army bit the Song army and the Song army bit back, and it depends on who can't bear it first.

Under Luo Tianming's leadership, the White Tiger Camp has made a great reputation. Even if it encounters an enemy of the same number, it can defeat the opponent with one blow.

You should know that the Western Xia army is a nomadic people who claim to be on the back of a horse, but now they are defeated by the Song army by cavalry against cavalry. Why don’t they be furious?

Unfortunately, Li Yuanhao tried to set up an ambush and trap the White Tiger Camp several times, but Luo Tianming keenly discovered it in advance and avoided it.

This is Luo Tianming’s tactical expertise. No matter how the enemy sets an ambush, his sixth sense can alert him in advance, allowing him to easily avoid the enemy’s ambush.

Li Yuanhao is indeed a hero who can integrate many tribes in the northwest and sit on the throne of the emperor himself.

But the problem is that he failed to eliminate the inherent weaknesses of the tribal system, especially when the country was founded, the leaders of each tribe controlled the military power of his tribe and refused to listen to Li Yuanhao's orders, and Li Yuanhao had no good idea.

Before, all tribes were willing to follow Li Yuanhao's command. Now the losses are getting bigger, and some people don't listen to the hello. They refuse to push forward when they should, and run faster than anyone else when they should retreat.

In this way, the threat of the Western Xia army was greatly reduced, and the speed of the Song army's advancement gradually accelerated.
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