Chapter 1219: Adaptation

The strategic goal of Zhao Hao's operation was to recover the two capitals, but tactically it was still focused on annihilating the living forces of the Meng and Yuan dynasties, which could reduce the pressure on the defense in the later period and further weaken the military strength of the Yuan Dynasty. After all, soldiers who can fight cannot be trained overnight, especially after the elite guards of Meng Yuan are heavily damaged, the enemy Central Plains will face the point of having no soldiers to defend. And if Zhenjin loses this trump card in his hand, it will be difficult to deter and suppress the kings, which will then cause turmoil.

For this goal, Zhao Hao originally planned to implement the siege of the city to send reinforcements, but neither Tutuha in Yingtianfu nor Tiemaichi in Xuzhou sent troops to reinforce Fu Li, who was besieged by his own heavy troops, and remained still. Zhao Yu is also anxious about this, and the long-term confrontation with his own energy consumption can exceed that of the opponent, and the price he can pay is also huge; In addition, when the rainy season arrives, the use and maintenance of firearms are greatly affected, and after the weather warms, the hot and humid climate is easy to cause epidemics in the army; and he has been away from Beijing for a long time, and he also wants to see the birth of his three children with his own eyes.

So Zhao Yu thought about how to lure the enemy out of the city and annihilate the enemy halfway. And at this time, the Yuan army sneaked up on the rear camp and burned a fire, which made him see the opportunity, so he blocked the news, and forced He Weixian to surrender, so that the enemy army mistakenly thought it was true, and at the same time pretended that the supply of food and grass was not good enough to prepare to withdraw the army, so as to lure the enemy out of the city to pursue, and then set up an ambush to annihilate the enemy.

Zhao Yu thought that in the face of such a great temptation, the Meng Yuan army must be unable to hold back and would rush to send troops, after all, in the past, the army was chased and killed on the way out, resulting in a thousand miles of battle examples abound. And the main generals of the Yuan army in the two places are all veterans who have experienced the battlefield, and they will never let go of such a great opportunity. However, what disappointed him was that Yuan Jun did not move for a long time.

"Your Majesty, Fu Li has an urgent military information coming!" Just as Zhao Yu was wondering if the news was leaked, some guards actively entered the cabin to report.

"Oh!" Zhao Yu raised his head and said in surprise. According to the usual practice, the war report was delivered early in the morning every day, and it was already after the afternoon today, and another war report came in, which made him a little puzzled.

"Your Majesty!" Tan Fei took the letter box and checked the seal, before he used a knife to pick up the fire paint, opened the letter box, and took out the letterhead and sent it.

"Hehe, I wanted to catch a big fish, but I didn't expect two turtles to come out!" Zhao Yu suddenly laughed after taking a closer look.

"Your Majesty, could it be that the enemy army on the side of Ying Tianfu and the enemy army in Xuzhou have moved!" Tan Fei listened and asked after a little thought. Because he often heard His Majesty call the fortified city that was well fortified and the enemy army could not avoid the battle as Wang Bahuzi, he quickly thought of the source.

"yes, they're menacing!" Zhao Hao said with a slightly wry smile, "Our sentry found that most of the guards stationed in Yingtianfu, the right guard, the middle guard and the rear guard of the Han army, as well as the left guard and firearms guard of the Semu army, poured out of the nest and came towards Fu Li; The right guard of the color eye army on the Xuzhou side also left the city yesterday and marched in the direction of Fuli. ”

"Your Majesty, the enemy army in Xuzhou did not pursue the retreating Fifth Army, but came to Fuli, what is the purpose?" Tan Fei was also a little surprised, and couldn't figure out the enemy's intentions in using troops like this.

"Very simply, the enemy's intention is to concentrate superior forces to annihilate a part of our army first, and then flank the retreating second army, so that Huaidong will no longer have any troops to defend our army against the enemy, and they can threaten Jiangdong and force our Huaixi and the Western Route Army attacking Xiangyang to withdraw, so that the situation between the two countries will be reversed!" Zhao Yu pointed to the map on several and said.

"The enemy army dispatched by Tianfu has as many as five guards, and the standing strength will not be less than 50,000, and when they leave the capital, they will recruit all the reserve soldiers in their military households, and the number should be around 70,000. In addition, the Wanhu Mansion stationed in Yingtianfu on a daily basis, its strength should also be 15,000 after expansion, even if 5,000 troops are left behind, the number of troops to help Fuli will be about 80,000. After joining up with the advance guard and left guard of the Han army stationed in Fuli, even if the 4,000 people who were annihilated by our army at the time of the advance were subtracted, the total strength was 100,000. Tan Fei immediately analyzed based on the known intelligence.

"The two Tesse Army have a total of nineteen thousand households, and as the elite of the guards, they are all thousands of households, and the standing strength is in the number of one thousand and five, and after the expansion, it is not less than two thousand. In this way, the strength of the Halaluwei army in Xuzhou is also about 20,000, and the total strength of the enemy army after the combined army reaches more than 120,000. However, our army is in the five brigades of the First Army in Fuli, with less than 80,000 troops, and it is very difficult to use the tactics of besieging the city to send reinforcements! ”

"Are you trying to say that the plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements will not be implemented at all?" Zhao Hao picked up the tea, took a sip and teased.

"The subordinates are the ones who make the axe, so that His Majesty is laughing!" Tan Fei hurriedly poured tea for His Majesty and said in a sneering manner.

"So what do you think you should do?" Zhao Hao asked as if he hadn't heard.

"The subordinates thought that Fu Li should take a defensive position and resist the enemy's attack. The first and fifth armies, which were withdrawing, quickly returned to Xuzhou City, made an offensive posture, and forced the Hararuwei who had sent reinforcements to Fuli to return, so as to reduce the pressure on Fuli! Tan Fei thought for a while.

"If it is as you arranged, although it is safe, the battlefield situation has not broken the current stalemate, it is still a situation of confrontation between the two sides, or a situation of attrition, and the strategic and tactical goals set by our army cannot be realized!" Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, if it is relatively easy to defeat the current enemy, but if you want to completely annihilate the invading enemy, our army will inevitably be overstretched, and the neighboring forbidden troops are all hundreds of miles away, and each has its own task, so I am afraid that it will not be able to rush thousands of miles to help. The Xiang army that entered the two Huai had to undertake the task of maintaining law and order and assisting in the establishment and stability of the locality, and the newly built local Xiang army was not well trained and could not be used! Tan Fei thought about it.

He knew that according to the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the two armies of the Song and Yuan dynasties, with the same strength and the assistance of cavalry, the Song army could completely annihilate the Yuan army; In the case of the main force of the infantry army, it can be routed and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy; In the field battle, fighting against multiple enemy forces, in a disadvantageous situation, if there is available terrain and can be quickly reinforced, it is still able to hold on and defeat the enemy army; Even if it is besieged by several times the enemy's army, it can hold out for several days without being defeated.

However, in this operation, our army was at a disadvantage in terms of strength, and the enemy army was a large corps maneuvering between the three fortified cities. It was easy for the Song army to block the enemy's advance with a small force, but it was almost impossible to completely annihilate it, or even it was difficult to suffer heavy losses; However, if a large corps is used to fight, it is inevitable that the enemy will take advantage of the enemy, and after the enemy finds that the situation is not good, he can quickly retreat to the city, and it is still difficult to achieve the goal of destroying the enemy. In short, according to Tan Fei's thoughts, it would be difficult to achieve the predetermined combat objectives without being able to obtain reinforcements.

"What you say is not unreasonable, but do you know what Ni Liang and Liu Zhixue think?" Zhao Yu listened to his analysis and did not say anything, but asked rhetorically.

"They asked for a change in their troops, or they asked for a change in their battle plan...... Do they still have to carry out the battle plan of besieging the city and sending reinforcements? Tan Fei saw that His Majesty still shook his head again and again after he said a few thoughts, and said in disbelief.

"Yes, they just want to implement the predetermined plan, resolutely annihilate the land that came to the aid of the two places, conquer Fuli, and capture Ying Tianfu!" Zhao Yu nodded and said.

"How is this possible?!" Tan Fei was shocked when he heard this, "Your Majesty, this is recklessness, you must stop them!" ”

"Why stop them?" Zhao Hao asked with a playful look in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, Fu Li's strength of our army is already at a disadvantage, and forcibly dividing the troops into three ways to send reinforcements will lose the advantage, and there is a danger of being counter-killed. In the event of defeat, our army suffered heavy losses in strength, and it was no longer able to stop the enemy's counterattack, forcing our army to retreat to Huainan to defend the river. This will not only cause us to lose our new land in Huaibei, but we will also lose the strategic initiative and have to go on the defensive. Tan Fei said.

"Topographically, it is also difficult to implement the tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements when the troops are at a disadvantage. There are plains between Fuli and Yingtianfu, with a wide field of vision, and at present, the grass and trees have just turned green and sprouted, and the branches and leaves are not flourishing, so it is difficult for the troops to hide, so that the ambush will fail, and they will be attacked from front to back; Between Xuzhou and Fuli, although there is a hilly area outside Xuzhou City that can be covered, the road is far away, and our army cannot be in position in time, so it can only intercept it halfway and fight hard with the enemy. In this way, the troops are scattered in three places, none of them can occupy the advantage, and there is no terrain available, and there is no danger to rely on, which is completely a war of attrition and does not conform to the operational principles of our army! ”

"The analysis is good, but do you think Ni Dutong and Liu Dutong will not know?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile again.

"This ...... Should know! Tan Fei was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and said. I think Ni Liang and Liu Zhixue have both experienced previous wars, especially Liu Zhixue has been in the army for 30 years, how could he make such a pediatric mistake. But he didn't understand, since they knew that they couldn't do things, but they wanted to do it themselves?

"They understand the difficulties, but they don't back down, they try to solve the problems instead of giving up, and that's where you should learn!" Zhao Yu seemed to see his thoughts.

"Your Majesty, can this really be overcome?" Tan Fei heard the fever on his face, but he asked softly unwillingly.

"I believe they can turn reactive into proactive, and they can find the possible in the impossible." Zhao Yu Zhengse said, "Immediately send an order, order the Fifth Brigade of the Imperial Front Protector Army to be ready to leave at any time; Ordered Zhao Mengjin's troops to slow down the march, be ready to return to Xuzhou at any time, and quickly capture Xuzhou after the fighters mature! ”

"Your Majesty's intention is to defeat Xuzhou first, and then fight Fuli?" Tan Fei listened and thought for a moment, and his eyes lit up.

"Half of the guess is right, since they want to eat us in two bites, so let's see who eats whom in the end?" Zhao Hao smiled meaningfully, but did not give an answer......

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