The so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other side will win all battles, and the guards are a new opponent that Zhao Yu will face, and all the knowledge about it is the intelligence that comes to the Bureau. However, it is more about the deployment, organization, and leading generals of the guards and pro-army, and there is a lack of information on their tactics, tactics, and characteristics of the use of troops, and the only content is only examples of battles many years ago, and most of them are the words of the people who took charge of the incident and the oral accounts of the captured enemy troops, so the reference value is limited.

Zhao Yu learned from previous information that the guards were originally formed from the elite of the Han armed forces that Kublai Khan had incorporated when he conquered the Jin State and ruled the 'Han Land', but in fact, he was also out of helplessness at that time. At that time, after Meng Ge's death, Cowardly Xue needed to escort Meng Ge's coffin back to Mobei for burial, so after the confrontation between Kublai Khan and Ali Buge, the traditional Mongolian Praetorian Guard, Cowardly Xue, basically belonged to Ali Buge, and Kublai Khan did not have a single hair.

After Kublai Khan became emperor, in order to show that I also have cowardice, he summoned the descendants of Genghis Khan's four cowardly Xue elders and organized a cowardly Xue for himself. But the reality is very skinny, to what extent does the bone feel, although there were also foreigners in the era of Genghis Khan, most of them were Mongols, and when Kublai Khan was emperor, there were many Mongolian generals under his command, but the Mongolian soldiers were pitiful.

Therefore, Kublai Khan's team, the main force is the major princes of the Han army, and the strength is basically Han Chinese, and a few are the soldiers of the southwestern barbarians, as well as a small number of Semu troops. The allies were the Mongol kings of the host country, who were far away from their own territory, and it was impossible for them to cut their flesh to Kublai Khan to form a coward. It is necessary to collect the former Tanma Red Army, but after the fall of the Jin Dynasty, the Mongol Tanma Red Army installed in the Central Plains were all "scattered in pastureland, and there were many people who became citizens", and it was difficult to recruit.

Kublai Khan wanted to form a Janissary Guard of his own, but he couldn't get enough. Moreover, Kublai Khan's four cowardly Xue Chang not only did not make up enough for four people, but also two of them were children: An Tong, a descendant of Mu Huali, was thirteen years old at the time; After Bauer's operation, Yuxi Timur was twenty years old; Bol was suddenly descended by the moon Chichaer, twelve years old. It was obviously unrealistic for them to protect themselves at the time.

Therefore, before pacifying Ali Buge, Cowardice Xue was actually a disguise, and there may not be a few soldiers. Therefore, Kublai Khan began to fight the idea of the Han army, so he ordered from Shi Tianze, Dong Wenbing, Yan Zhongji, Zhang Rong, Zhang Rou and other Han army marquis' troops, each with some blood to Kublai Khan, and finally gathered 30,000 people, these 30,000 Han troops were named "Wuwei Army", in fact, Kublai Khan's real Praetorian Guard, that is, the source of the guards and pro-army.

Although the main force of the guards is the Han people, but the combat effectiveness is very strong, the Mongols are not opponents in the war, they have participated in the rebellion of quelling Ali Buge and Haidu, all of them are very great, and participated in the capture of Henan, the pacification of Shandong Li Pu and the battle of destroying the Song Dynasty, all showed extraordinary combat effectiveness. After that, some Semu and Mongols were absorbed into the guards and pro-army, and their roles also changed, replacing the position of the 'Great Middle Army' of the Cowardly Xue Army.

It is said that the combat effectiveness of the guards is extraordinary, and it has won the trust of Kublai Khan, so it should be a strong force. However, the information obtained by Zhao Yu shows that when the battle between the financial faction of the Mengyuan court and the Han faction was most intense, the guards were involved in the assassination of Ahma, which made Kublai Khan wary of the guards with Han people as the main force.

Kublai Khan felt that it was terrible that the Chinese army was all Han Chinese, so after basically pacifying the world, he transferred Mongols from various Mongolian departments to form Mongolian guards, and continued to expand some Semu troops. At the same time, the Mongols and Semu were dispatched to hold important positions in the guards and pro-army, and the Han generals could only be deputies, and a large amount of land was rewarded on the periphery of the Beijing division for the guards and pro-army to participate in Tuntian. It was also stipulated that when serving as a guard, the Han army was not allowed to wear bows and arrows, and weapons were not allowed to be issued in Tuntian in peacetime.

Zhao Yu once asked Du Ge and others about the combat effectiveness of the guards and the pro-army, and they all thought that the combat effectiveness of the guards and pro-army at this time was not as good as before, and the most effective ones were only a few of the main color guards with color eyes as the main color guards, and the Han army was seriously weakened due to lack of trust and lack of training, and the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian guards was also uneven, even less than some garrison troops.

Due to the mixed reviews of the combat effectiveness of the Mengyuan guards and the fact that they had never clashed, Zhao Yu did not have an accurate judgment on their combat strength. But not long ago, the guards who were just 'five scum of war' in the mouth of Brother Du were defeated, and if it wasn't for Liu Zhi's department to arrive in time to respond, I am afraid that it would have collapsed long ago. And Liu Zhixue, as the only general who has fought with Meng Yuan's guards, naturally asked in detail......

According to Liu Zhixue, the enemy troops stationed in Suzhou were about 40,000 men, and their strength was comparable to theirs, while their own side had consumed a lot of baggage due to the previous battle, especially the gunpowder was almost exhausted when shelling Shouzhou. At present, the food stock is less than ten days, and the surplus gunpowder grain is difficult to support a large-scale battle, so it is generally on the defensive, and does not launch a march against Fuli, but uses Xin'an Town as a base, builds a fort and waits for replenishment, and dispatches troops to clear the surrounding villages and towns.

After defeating Dugebu, Meng Yuan occupied Fuli City. Perhaps based on the tradition of living in the wilderness, but perhaps it was also a lesson learned from the heavy casualties caused by the saturation of the city of Shouzhou, which led to a heavy fire and heavy casualties, and they did not station a large army in the city, but camped outside the city, and the distance between the two sides was about thirty miles. However, they did not launch a large-scale attack on their own camps, but only fought with them for their strongholds in the middle of the battlefield, and the fighting was mostly in the transition zone between the two sides.

"Your Majesty, the terrain of Suzhou is flat, there are no obstacles from mountains and vertical and horizontal water networks, and the enemy mostly fights with cavalry, and the traffic is fast, for our army there is a lack of cavalry, and it is very passive in this kind of small-scale battle, and it is difficult to carry out effective strikes against the enemy." After introducing the deployment of troops on both sides, Liu Zhixue frowned and said, obviously not adapting to the transition to the plain area to fight, especially the small-scale combat mode.

"What is the size of the enemy's cavalry?" Zhao Yu was not disturbed by his emotions, pushed the map aside and looked up and asked.

"The enemy is very flexible in its use of troops, and there is no fixed number of troops to be dispatched." Liu Zhixue said, "In addition to building a strong walled city, our army will also set up a fortress on the periphery to provide early warning for the camp, which often becomes the target of the enemy's attack. According to past experience, the outlying posts often have a detachment, and they will send a multiplier of the force to attack, and such small outposts will not be equipped with artillery, and the rate of fire of muskets is slow and powerful, and it is difficult to stop their charge. And the camp is often simple and unable to resist the impact of the enemy cavalry, and is often hit by the enemy, and when the battalion sends troops, the enemy cavalry has fled far away and cannot catch up. ”

"In order to reconnoiter the enemy, our army will also send scouts and sentinels to go forward, and there are often encounters with the enemy's scouts. The enemy scouts are skillful in riding archers and horses, often in teams of three or five people, but when they meet, they dare to attack first, and our army rushes to meet the battle, often suffering! Liu Zhixue said with a wry smile, "In addition, the patrols of our infantry army, the baggage teams that transport supplies to various posts, also often become the targets of the enemy's cavalry, they often dispatch several, or even more than a dozen ten-person teams, any team will send a signal after discovering the target, quickly surround the small units of our army, encircle and annihilate, and then immediately disperse and evacuate, making it difficult for our army to pursue, and sometimes attack the troops sent by our army halfway." ”

"Then you let the enemy attack and do nothing?" Zhao Yu also had a headache when he heard this, the enemy army was bullying them for their lack of cavalry, and they used a way that could quickly maneuver to hit and run.

"The subordinates also took measures against the tactics of the enemy. For remote outposts, increase troops, strengthen fortifications, hoard materials, increase their own staying power in case of attack, and at the same time strengthen mobile combat capabilities, with cavalry directly under each department to form rapid mobile troops, and quickly attack and reinforce after discovering the enemy's situation; As for the enemy scouts, we also selected soldiers with superb riding skills to fight against them, and drove away immediately after discovering that the enemy scouts were invading; In addition, they chose the path where the enemy army often frequented to set up an ambush and encircle and annihilate a large force of the enemy's cavalry. To a certain extent, the range of activities of the enemy army was curbed and the safety of our small forces was ensured. Liu Zhixue replied.

"Well, what do you think of the combat power of the guards?" Zhao Yu nodded after hearing this, whether it was fighting in Qiongzhou or Jiangnan in the past, the Song army could quickly maneuver in the dense water network with the help of ships; The Mongol cavalry, on the other hand, was constrained by rivers and lakes, and even a paddy field could force them to change their marching path, so they had to rely on road maneuvering. At present, the Song army entered the plain area, that is, there was no river as a barrier and as a carrier for transporting troops, and there was no cover on the plain, it was difficult to hide, especially the small force movement, which was easily attacked by cavalry. So he was not surprised to show that he was not adapted.

"Your Majesty, the current enemy Kipchak Guards are fierce and strong-willed, and even small units dare to invade the marching brigades, and in the face of the bombardment of our firearms, even if they suffer heavy casualties, they can quickly reorganize and attack. Even defeat can achieve an orderly evacuation, rather than an uncontrollable rout; The Han army was weaker in combat effectiveness, no better than the Kipchak Guards, and poorly equipped. But they fought stubbornly, even if they were surrounded by the enemy, they would not surrender, and they seemed to be more loyal than the Mongols! Liu Zhixue said puzzledly.

"Hehe, it seems that the Tartars are very popular with the people!" Zhao Hao smiled when he heard this. And the heart is indeed very bitter, the Han people of the same clan and clan have long forgotten their homeland and turned to be loyal to a different race, although the responsibility is not his, but it also makes him embarrassed as the successor. And he also understands that he can't learn Meng Yuan's means to buy people's hearts, even if he wants to do it, he has to be scolded to death......

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