Chapter 523
Why did Li Yuanhao be determined to establish a country? Because once a country is established, there will be righteousness and orthodoxy. So after Lao Jiao's death, Tubo was divided into pieces, and Li Yuanhao died. Whether it was not Zang or the Liang family's autocracy, the Western Xia inheritance continued.
Why did Li Yuanhao not surrender to the Khitan and fought with the Khitan once? Because after the founding of the country, he had to be self-reliant and self-reliant, especially the Western Xia was the place of four battles, the Song Dynasty in the east, the Liao Kingdom in the north, the Uighurs in the west, and the Tubo in the south. If he lost this spirit of self-reliance and self-reliant, he would be divided at any time and would be lost.
But why did Zhang Yuan try his best to oppose the war with the Liao Kingdom and continue to use troops in the Song Dynasty? Don’t he understand Li Yuanhao’s intention? This is the spirit of a traitor. He would rather be a slave to anyone than fight back on his mother country.
Wang Ju said some seemingly wrong words to mislead Song Ji, but he believed that Song Ji could not tell the truth all the truth, and it would have to be tampered with it. Then he would tamper with it in that direction. Referring to the traitor's psychology, maybe this time the Western Xia sent troops to the Song Dynasty, Song Ji was also one of the masterminds, so Song Ji would inevitably be lucky and would also infect Liang Yi to bury this lucky mentality.
Therefore, the possibility of withdrawing troops from Xixia is extremely small.
However, we cannot underestimate the people of the world. Miao Su took the officers and soldiers of the 10th battalion to Ansai Village. They could cover it up through a series of troops. The balloons rose up, climbed high and looked far away. From tomorrow, they will officially search for the scouts of Xixia. Miao Su was walking in the rear and was not easy to detect.
Changfeng Literature, c↙fwx, but Di Yong led the officers and soldiers of the 16th Battalion to Fengchuan Fort again, could the Xixia people not notice it? The troops from the rear kept pouring over, and maybe they would force the Xixia people to withdraw their troops.
Therefore, Wang Ju asked Di Yong to lead the officers and soldiers of the 16th battalion to penetrate from the rear of Ziwu Mountain to the Fengchuan Fort.
However, for this army of soldiers who arrived in Ningzhou at a slow speed of almost one and a half a day, they were now suddenly marching 100 miles a day. It was obviously too forced. But what should I do if I didn’t do this? The news that Dong Wen sent troops to Hexi might have reached Liang Yi’s ears. Cai Ting also wanted to send troops to Tiandu Mountain.
Therefore, within these three days, the troops must be arranged.
But Wang Ju was too lazy to explain, and he continued to say toughly: "If they withdraw troops in advance, it will be considered an exercise. This is military law, and violators will be killed."
No doubts! Not to be disobedient!
In fact, even Ye Long Meesheng couldn't stand it anymore. He said while making tea next to him: "Isn't it just to suffer for three days and drive for a while? Compared to the bloody battle between Snow Mud Castle and Mengmen Sancha? What is it? Or is it the descendant of General Di Qing!"
Di Yongjun's face turned red.
Zhang Qi fought a smooth move and said, "Raising troops for a thousand days is used for a while. The rear may be far away from the front line, and the military discipline is a bit scattered, including the marching speed being relatively slow. Therefore, it feels very difficult to double the marching speed now. However, this is a special time and must be treated specially."
But Wang Ju didn't give the two face anymore and interrupted the chapter and said, "I was lucky enough to win several wars, but behind this is not only my plan, but I am not even as good as Zhang Zhifu in terms of planning. This is mainly because I attach great importance to military discipline. Although I will not kill people like Zhong Yan, those who violate military discipline will inevitably be beaten and even take down their official positions."
Don’t think that you are Zeng Gongliang’s subordinates, so I dare not kill you, but I will not kill you and dismiss your official position. You will still be shameless at that time. Especially Di Yong, who was embarrassed at that time.
"We will try our best to grab this time," Di Yong said helplessly.
"Also, Qu Zhen performed well in these two battles, so the four cavalry battalions in your general were drawn out as a move forward, led by Qu Zhen."
The battle of Dashun City received a large number of war horses, some of which were immediately equipped for the cavalry of Dashun City, and some were taken to Yanzhou by Jing Sili. However, three thousand war horses were obtained from Sancha of Mengmen, and a small number of war horses were also obtained outside Qingzhou City and Yele Town. The troops trapped in the enemy's encirclement could not replenish the war horses, but there were some cavalry battalions in the rear. It turned out that the Poche cavalry and the Fan cavalry on Huanqing Road were slightly better. The last time Cai Ting and Wang Ju made the war horses basically equipped the entire army. However, some later cavalry bans and cavalry battalions sent by Yongxing Army were seriously lacking in war horses. Tomorrow, Zhao Pu would send people to the rear to fill them up one by one. At least the cavalry in the rear could basically be made one by one.
That is, the fourth battalion of cavalry led by Qu Zhen will become a real cavalry battalion. However, Wang Ju really doesn't have much foundation in his heart for the cavalry of these cavalry.
But the problem is not riding skills, but like this, it is equivalent to pulling away the 14th Battalion, the strongest officers and soldiers of the Yongxing Army of the 26th Battalion, by two generals who were airborne.
This shows that the little magistrate in front of him doesn’t trust him much.
However, the two of them looked at each other and were helpless.
Wang Ju was either intimidating. Not to mention taking away his position as the chief general, he would really kill himself. Facing this 300,000 enemy army, he would kill him.
Moreover, Wang Ju is not only a noble scholar-official, but also a hero who judges heroes by victory or defeat. If he can win a battle, he has the right to speak. He doesn’t accept it. See who was the Song Dynasty who could beat Xixia so miserably?
There was no choice but to take Qu Zhen to take the order and return to the camp overnight, traveling 300 miles in three days, every minute and second is precious.
Watching them leave, Zhang Feng said, "Isn't it too strict?"
"The battle begins, no more accidents like Li Kezhong," said Wang Ju.
Originally, Wang Ju planned to transfer Li Kezhong to the rear, but even if he was transferred to the rear, he would soon become the main force and kill the enemy with him. A dissatisfied general, plus several battalions of officers and soldiers, would have an accident when he was in the middle of the crisis.
Therefore, after hearing the news in the rear, Zhang Feng simply introduced a second plan, which was to directly deal with Liang Yi's main force first. However, it was not as Gao Huaizhong thought. Wang Ju planned to act rudely and would have a series of arrangements to gradually weaken Liang Yi's central army's strength. But in this way, the use of the officers and soldiers of Li Kezhong and the soldiers of the battalions would become like the reserve team. Now Wang Ju also means this in his speech. If some of the news reported by Qu Zhen is not ideal, Wang Ju may also turn Di Yong's remaining 12th battalion officers and soldiers into reserve teams. Anyway, they also have to set up reserve teams.
This doesn't matter. Zhang Feng thought about it and agreed to Wang Ju's arrangement. He said, "Zi'an, let's take a break early."
In the past few days, Wang Ju has been very worried and has not had a good sleep. Especially since Gao Min inserted into Mengmen Sancha, he has hardly closed his eyes in the past two days and two nights.
Wang Ju nodded and said, "Brother Hui, you go and rest too."
There is no large-scale military operation tonight. Everyone can rest for a night with great pleasure.
The two of them went back to rest.
But it does not mean that the night is calm.
Liang Yimang first conveyed the battle to the three armies, which was a bit self-destructive.
However, there is no way to avoid violence. This violence can explain to the three armies that we are fighting against people, not against gods. If deified, the consequences will be very, very bad. Just like when Xue Rengui fought against the Turks in his later years, he only took off one face armor. The Turks confirmed that they were Lao Xue and fled one by one. Because the races on the prairie deified Xue Rengui. This history may not be well vain, but he knows that there are many strange rumors in the army. This will seriously affect morale. If it is not corrected, there is no need to fight.
In addition, he sent an order to see if there was a way to take down the Mengmen Sancha, and he had to get the headache. For that card, all the three armies were counting on the transportation logistics of Anjiang Fort, the small road, and the logistics supply would become increasingly tight.
Of course, Rouyuan Village began to build dirt mountains again.
This is also inevitable. Liang Yimai planned to retreat, but he still wanted to capture Rouyuan Village and slaughter the hatred and humiliation that had been in the past few days.
But this was not enough. Liang Yi turned his head to look at Song Ji. Song Ji said that he was very miserable. One reason was that Wang Ju was scared, and the other was that he really couldn't think of a good idea.
The Xia army came to attack, and the Song army also asked the Xixia people to attack. Anyway, the outside was strong and clearing the fields, and the army hurried in various fort towns. Even if the Xixia army attacked the rear of Qingzhou, the Song army would not object. But did the Xia army dare to pull the front line so long? It was not to attack the enemy's rear, but to serve the Song army.
Moreover, Xixia is facing a terrible problem, that is, the lack of troops. This guy, with a 200,000 army, still calls for insufficient troops. However, 200,000 is ultimately different from the original nearly 300,000 army.
The most important night attacks also made the people of Xixia afraid. Now each army in Xixia is less than 20,000, so they are insecure. Just like Mei Qingmeluo, she was already shouting under the Xigu Fort. General Renduo, please send some troops here. I am alone in the northwest direction. In front of the Xigu Fort, the flanks of Xigu Fort are Ansai Village and Huidingburg. In front of them, there is also the iron army of Mengmen Sancha in front. Once the four troops of the Song Dynasty also attack me at night, my little troops are really not enough for others to chew.
More than that.
The Xixia army rolled in, and the logistics was divided into two parts. The first part was divided into three parts: one was Jintang City to Dashun City, and the other was Baibao City to Anjiang Fort. In fact, the logistics of these two parts were mainly from Yanzhou. Of course, behind Yanzhou were the materials allocated from Youzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou and other places. They even divided some materials from Xingqing Prefecture and Lingzhou to Yanzhou, and then transferred from Yanzhou to the front line.
Another part is from Lingzhou to Chexiangxia, but it is not a single source of Lingzhou, and even supplies from the Hexi Corridor are slowly transferred to Lingzhou, and then from Lingzhou to Chexiangxia, and then to the front line.
The carriage and gorge made Mengmen die in one go, and Dashun City didn't think about anything, so he could only go to Baibao City. However, the supplies from Baibao City were burned by Liu Shao with three thousand soldiers, so he could only urgently allocate the remaining supplies from Yanzhou. Then the supplies were allocated from various places to Yanzhou.
The second part is the supplies carried by each soldier. Don’t laugh at the backwardness of the Western Xia. This is how the Tang Dynasty’s government military system does.
The main troops of Huai'an Town and Rouyuan Village were not lost. However, the Xia army was not just these two troops. For example, Dashun City had 35,000 troops, Mengmen Sancha used 15,000 troops, under Anjiang Fort, there were 4,000 troops, and Baibao City had 4,000 troops, and under Qingzhou City and Yele Town were 35,000 troops. Except for a few people and materials, the rest were also taken away by the army. Although many people escaped in the end, these materials became the spoils of the Song army.
These people are now without weapons and no clothes or quilts. Could they be killed by cold and hungry and then fight with empty hands?
Materials must also be allocated for replenishment.
Therefore, Liang Yimeng had to send out 20,000 troops to transport supplies in the rear. In addition to 10,000 troops south of Baibao City, these 20,000 troops could also be put into battle. The remaining 10,000 troops were equivalent to returning to the rear.
Furthermore, will the 10,000 troops from Baibao City and Anjiang Fort dare to be transferred out to fight?
So the troops are not enough.
Song Ji thought about it carefully, and a trace of luck in his heart turned into pessimism again. But he didn't dare to say it. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly came up with a plan. He took out a piece of information sent from the front line and handed it to Liang Yi.
It was sent by Renduoling.
The above only talks about one thing. After Zhong Yi quickly extinguished the rebellion of some tribes in Huanzhou, some elders came to Huanzhou to test the Song Dynasty's words, but were ordered to immediately cooperate with the officers and soldiers to send strong men from various villages to the military camps.
A small number of villages saw Zhao Pu's army entering Huanzhou. Their village was small, or the terrain of their village was not dangerous. So, in fear, they sent the strong men from the village to the military camp one after another.
However, most of them still have no movement. There are two reasons: one is that they are used to it. Two, they think they are neutral and do not rebel. Did the Song Dynasty dare to attack them? Why don’t they dare to attack? Looking at the terrain of Huanzhou, there are more than 100 large and small mountain ranges, and it is said that there are more than 10,000 large and small mountain ranges, and there are hundreds of large and small earthen plateaus. These villages live on these earthen plateaus, surrounded by mountains, and the terrain is far more complex than that of Qingzhou, and the mountains are larger than those of Qingzhou.
In addition, they did not rebel, would the Song army dare to attack them?
In the blink of an eye, three days passed.
As dusk approached the day before yesterday, Zhou Yongqing led another 5,000 officers and soldiers to quietly set out towards Papaya Fort. Yesterday, Dashun City victory came out, and today, Mengmen Sancha and Qingzhou City and Yele Town three great victoryes were reported. The tribes in Huanzhou were finally shocked.
If this continues to develop, as long as the Song army does not make fatal mistakes, it will at least protect the two prefectures of Huanqing. Moreover, there are so many large armies, it seems that these armies are still very fierce, unlike the cowardly Song army I had imagined before.
The villages were finally scared, but since yesterday, Zhonggu has refused to accept these villages and strongmen. Now we send people here, we don’t want them anymore, and we can’t listen to the apology with our companions.
After the scout heard the news, Renduoling Ding did not pay much attention. In this case, could he still bewitched some tribes in Huanzhou rebelled? Just bewitched, could Xixia have the intention to divide the troops in Huanzhou? So he casually sent it to Liang Yi to follow the information.
Just now everyone was thinking of a solution, and Song Ji was also flipping through the information casually. Liang Yi asked him to find a solution. Suddenly, he thought of this information again and handed it to Liang Yi.
Liang Yimeng was puzzled and asked: "Is it different?"
"Yes." Song Ji said, but some generals wanted to cover their faces, and this Grand Secretary was about to come up with an idea again. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!