vs 164 This is war, on
Objectively, the Bohai State of this world is indeed much weaker than in history.
The main factor is that a large number of miserable Han people who lived in Liaodong in history and were swept into the anti-Liao regardless of whether they wanted to or not, and the Bohai people who were also slaves in the same clan as the Bohai people, as well as the skilled craftsmen of their own tribe and all kinds of small work experts that the Bohai people should have had in the founding of the country, and a large number of people of all ethnic groups who were assigned by the Liao State to serve sentences in this place and engaged in mining, smelting, manufacturing, and other hard work, including Khitan criminals, were almost all gradually robbed by pirates in recent years, especially the lack of poverty and life. In order to make meritorious contributions under the rule of the Bohai people and want to live a good life, the combat effectiveness of the Bohai Navy, which is almost composed of pure Bohai people, has dropped greatly, and Wanyan Aguda has not put it in his eyes at all, let alone 80,000 Bohai Navy, that is, 800,000, Wanyan Aguta and the generals of the Jin State are not afraid at all, and they are confident that they can still be defeated like chickens and dogs.
The Liao army under the command of hundreds of thousands of Liao Emperors is not a Jurchen opponent with only a dozen manpower, let alone a Bohai mongrel army with no bones....... It will be vulnerable.
It's funny to say, the people of the Liao people look down on the people, and the lowly bastard slaves in the eyes of the people of the Liao, the Bohai people, actually look down on the Han people, and the national conditions of the United States are too similar, and the Bohai people are like the black ....... of the Liao country. But production and construction mainly rely on the Han people, which is nothing, it is normal, the Han people are good at ruling and bullying, and they can't kick a fart even if they kick a hundred feet, they are timid, hardworking, patient, and dexterous.... Believe in moderation, benevolence, loyalty, obedience, forbearance........ Belonging to the stupid clan with a broken brain, you know that you bow your head and work hard as cattle and horses, and in the 21st century, the Chinese are also the best coolies in the world, but the barbarians are actually highly dependent on the people to fight wars, which is strange, right?
The Han people are capable but can't fight, otherwise how could they be the absolute number one clan in the world in the Song Dynasty but always be wantonly invaded, and repeatedly engage in honesty and humiliation to pay compensation....... The barbaric nomadic Khitans, as well as the lowly but conceited, restless and dishonest Bohai people, are all able to fight, at least theoretically, in fact, it seems to be the case, so the lowly Bohai people dare to look down on the Han people, and of course regard the people as a more despicable race than the Bohai people to bully, but in fact, in history, the Bohai people succeeded in opposing the Liao State, and at that time they mainly relied on the Han people to fight evil battles and gnaw the hard bones of the Liao people in Liaodong, and the Bohai people finally successfully occupied Liaodong in one fell swoop.
The latter in history is even more interesting.
The Bohai people also relied on the strength of the Han to resist the fierce counterinsurgency and retaliation launched by the Liao army, and also relied on the strength of the Han to resist the annexation of the Jin State...... The Jin State fought the Bohai State first and suffered several major battles, and finally annihilated Gao Yongchang's troops in one fell swoop at Shoushan.
The Liao State is also its own people, and has to form a Han army, a difficult army, to resist the invasion of the Jin army, and won many times, and finally frustrated the invincible spirit and arrogance of the Jin State.......
But in the Song Dynasty with Zhao Yue, the Han people worked hard to create material wealth and had to risk their lives to fight for others, and the Liao and Bohai people could not get it. There are still few Han people in the north outside the Song Kingdom today, and there are no Han ethnic groups that are easy to use to work for them, so the barbarians can only rely on themselves.
The Bohai people rebelled and seized Liaodong with the assistance of the Jin army, and the arrogant Liao State was naturally annoyed and angry: The most despicable mongrel also dared to make teeth against my Great Liao State? Bohai bastard, you think you are also a beast as a terrible Jurchen........ How can you do it without teaching a hard lesson?
Otherwise, even the boneless wall-headed grass clan can step on the Liao State and wantonly provoke the majesty of the Great Liao State, then, don't the other miscellaneous beards have to be bold, and they will do the opposite?
If you want to immediately organize troops to quell the rebellion and take revenge on the Bohai people, you will grit your teeth and kill ...... But...... Without the Han army available, coupled with the scourge of pirates with trade and force for many years, the Liao State fell into poverty, and the Cangbei Northern Song Army took advantage of the chaos caused by the internal migration of the Khitans in Liaodong to play the new horse politics to make trouble in the Yanyun area, the grain and grass armament base of the Liao State, and the Jin State was also threatening at all times....... The season is not right, soon it is winter, by mistake, the Liao State has not been able to launch a counterinsurgency soon, a delay, the strength will be discharged, and then in the second year, in the face of the complex and unpredictable situation that has never been seen before with the participation of pirates, the Liao State is almost scratching its head, maybe there is no confidence that only with the strength of its own people can quell the Bohai mongrel traitors supported by the Jin Army, the decadent Doomsday Dynasty is like this, maybe there is no courage to really retaliate........ Later, he was busy dividing troops and guerrilla warfare to clean up the Jin country, and the results were gratifying, and he thought that he would not dare to kill the Jurchen, and without the effective support of the Jin country, the little mongrel Bohai rebel regime was not the one that I could strangle to death when the Great Liao Heavenly Dynasty wanted to destroy it....... As a result, the situation in the world has changed dramatically.......
In this way, the Bohai people were cheapened, and they were able to take a breath to form a more regular state power and army, and prepare the food and grass armament base for the war.
That is to say, the Bohai people have never fought a decent war from the rebellion to the founding of the country, at that time, it was by relying on a large number of people and speculation that the group of people rebelled together to frantically besiege the Liao masters, who were scattered and had too few people and were caught off guard, and they did not have the same morale and self-confidence as the Jurchens, and they had no experience and insight in fighting serious wars, and they did not know exactly how many catties and taels they were capable of, but Gao Yongchang and other upstarts who had rebel achievements felt that Providence was taking care of them like the Jurchen rulers. began to superstitiously believe that he was the darling of the times with the destiny of heaven, otherwise how could it be so coincidental, one after another, all of them were the most favorable events for the Bohai people, so that the Liao State had no heart and strength to clean up the Bohai people, and the Jin State was also weak...... It can be seen that luck is in me, nature is invincible, weakness is not a problem, there is no danger to fear, the lucky can be auspicious, the enemy will fail and fall, no matter what, the one who survives, the victory will always be me, maybe in this chaotic era it is my Great Bohai State that will finally become the new overlord of the East, the decay and decline of the Liao State has become a thing of the past, and the ignorant Jurchen barbarians who were strong for a while are just the victims of vigorously weakening the foundation of the Liao State and laying the foundation of the hegemon for the early obligations of our Great Bohai State......... The more I think about it, the more optimistic and happy I feel that this is the case, and the more ambitious and bold I become, the more blind I am, so I am cute and arrogant and confident, although the Jin army is strong, they don't take it very seriously, and they do see too many disadvantages in the Jin country, and they have the confidence to deal with the Jin army.......
It's just that when it came to really facing the Jin army, Gao Yongchang set up an army of 70,000 like this, which invisibly showed that Gao Yongchang was still weak in his heart, or afraid of death, not as confident and fearless as he had a good feeling about himself before and boasted about his subordinates.
In other words, the generals of the Jin Army would never have arranged their formations like this.
The chief general of the Jin Army will never keep the elite main force by his side to protect himself, but flexibly allocate it according to actual needs, and the elite will be transferred wherever it is most needed.
The big men of the Jin Army also have a characteristic, they never wear iron helmets when fighting, they are often bareheaded, and they wear a leather hat at most when it is too cold........ It's completely different from the generals of other armies. The officials of other armies, whether they are Liao, Song or ...... No matter how big or small the officials are, they all hate to wrap themselves up and go to the battlefield with the strongest and most effective protective supplies in the world, and they always feel that they are not enough.
Including the Jurchen leader and the noble lord Wanyan Aguta, the Jin army bigwigs also have a characteristic on the battlefield.
Always standing at the forefront of the military formation, when the battle starts, he often takes the lead in the rain of arrows and even the terrible bed crossbow to charge bravely, not like the Liao Song Dynasty...... The commander, whether the official or the official, is small or small, he is trying to shrink behind and be protected by layers of soldiers, for fear of being attacked by cold arrows or something, and when the war starts, he also shouts "Brothers, rush me", and he commands and supervises fiercely in the back and urges his subordinates to rush to death.
These styles of the big men of the Jin Army are the necessary military characteristics of the war leaders of the times and the new heroes of the world.
The once heroic red team could rescue the suffering China from extreme poverty and backwardness, and it could hit the aircraft and artillery...... The coalition forces led by the United States, which were armed to the teeth with advanced weapons, had to give in...... It is this spirit and characteristic.
The style of the Jin Army's bigwigs is also objectively conducive to battlefield competition, not only to show their courage and not afraid of death to encourage the courage and swear to follow them.
If you don't wear an iron helmet, you don't have anything to cover your ears and burden your head, your senses are naturally clearer, your reactions are more sensitive, your dodge is more flexible, even if there is a cold arrow sneak attack, you can hear it in time to cover your ears while wearing a thick iron helmet, what can you hear in a noisy and chaotic battlefield? What can be accurately judged?
There is also a reason why Jin will not want to wear iron armor.
Although the iron armor is good, it is not really able to protect people, and it still has to be pierced through the spear by arrows...... And it is extremely bulky, which not only consumes a lot of physical strength but also greatly weakens the flexibility of the body.
If you want to protect yourself and kill your opponent, especially if you want to resist the attrition of a long time with a weak victory, and still have more physical strength and more flexible skills than the enemy to hold on to the strength and morale of the enemy and completely defeat the enemy's confidence, the best way is to maintain the lightest burden, the most flexible, and always maintain the fastest offensive offensive offensive ......
Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, and the Qin army, which was poorly armored and even thinly clothed and naked, was able to sweep away the Six Nations Army that attached great importance to it and tried every means to assemble it with heavy armor, which was also the reason.
Moreover, it is precisely because of the lack of armor protection that people are forced to be braver than the enemy, and only in this way can they be lucky enough to survive from the bloody grinding of the battlefield.
And this kind of overwhelming overall army momentum composed of everyone having to fight bravely and frantically is also an invisible winning force that frightens the enemy and overwhelms the enemy's spirit and confidence. It is a victory factor on the factor of psychological warfare. The heaviest thing in fighting a war is momentum.
Also, in ancient times, the wars were all fought by the military formation, the crowd was crowded, dense, and the two sides were separated by a distance of several hundred meters or even more, if you were the commander of the army, if you were standing behind the military formation, what could you see? What can you clearly and accurately observe the enemy's position? What can be judged correctly and in a timely manner?
Only by standing at the forefront and rushing to the front can we see the enemy most clearly, make the most accurate judgment, detect the enemy's weaknesses in a timely manner, and make decisions on the spot in the most timely and effective way........
This is a very complex and mysterious issue of war.
Of course, the spirit of courage and courage of the generals of the Jin Army is the main thing.
All of them are extremely cruel fishing and hunting in the white mountains and black waters...... Life grinds out and eliminates the strong elites of the era who have emerged suddenly, and they also have enough self-confidence in their military strength and self-protection ability on the battlefield.
In other words, the traditional old country of the Liao and Song Dynasty was soaked in wine and wealth, and the body and mind were softened, and they were also accustomed to Jin Gui's own commands of others to send to death, even if he became loyal and patriotic on the spot, not afraid of death, and dared to take the lead in taking risks on the battlefield, the result was only to die faster, not to play a good role, but to have a counterproductive effect, the main general died when he started the war, lost his command, and the army would only lose easier and more miserably. So decaying, weakening, is a chain reaction....... It doesn't work anymore.
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In Zhao Yue's eyes, looking at the powerful and confident Gao Yongchang is a battlefield clown who is bluffing and domineering. And the Jin Army is indeed a veteran powerhouse.
Just one point can tell the story.
The Bohai Navy set up a well-planned military formation in advance on the plain at the foot of the mountain, waiting for the Jin army to kill. The Jin army came later, and in the face of the opponent's fait accompli, it should have been passive, and could only choose the more advantageous position in the disadvantage to face the battle.
But Gao Yongchang did not line up in the north and south to trap the Jin army, but lined up in the north with his back to the Shoushan camp. Since the enemy blocking the southward movement cannot take advantage of the northwest wind, then at least you can use the time advantage here to try to avoid at least the passive ....... that is fighting against the wind The bow and arrow in the era of cold weapons is a big killing weapon and a decisive advantage at the beginning of the battlefield, and the power and effect of shooting arrows with the wind and against the wind are very different. With the same range of bows and arrows, the person with the upper hand can naturally easily shoot the arrow rain to the opponent with the wind. A person who is headwind will not be able to shoot at the enemy if the wind is a little stronger within the normal range, and can only be beaten passively.
What's more, the barbarians of the Jin army are nomadic fishermen and hunters, and their shooting ability itself is not comparable to that of the Bohai people, and the meat-eating savages are also stronger and more powerful than the grazing-eating slave tribes of the Bohai people, and their bow power is also stronger and their shooting range is longer.
Not counting the bow and arrow, only rushing with the wind to kill also has the advantage.
Whether it is cavalry or infantry, rushing with the wind is to rush over like a fairy like the wind without the help of heaven, and the whole body is very brisk, and it rushes over like an immortal flying like the wind without exerting any effort. And against the wind, not to mention the adverse effects of the wind and sand, if the wind is strong, how can you rush up, and it is already lucky not to be blown back by the wind, where is the sharp impact.
It is impossible for Gao Yongchang and his subordinate staff officers, think tanks, and generals not to even understand this bit of common sense.
Gao Yongchang is also a generation of heroes, but he is still in such a formation, which can only show that he and his backbone henchmen and generals are very afraid of the Jin Army in their hearts, and subconsciously they are not as confident in victory as he boasted about the soldiers and the people of the Jin Army. The formation of the camp with the back of the cottage at close range is to prepare for defeat, so that it is convenient to escape at any time, withdraw to the camp, and rely on the fortress to fight against the Jin army. Gao Yongchang and the main generals are afraid of death, for fear that although the north and south formations have the advantage of wind direction, they have distanced themselves from the cottage, and there is still a gap between the army and the cottage, and they will be inserted by the Jin army to intercept the retreat, and if they are defeated, they will not be able to escape, and they will have to be chased and killed on the vast plain where there is no shelter and no retreat, and if they are lucky enough to escape the butcher's knife of the Jin army, they will have to starve to death in the long no-man's land, at least half dead.......
As for the Jin army, I saw the Bohai naval formation from a distance on the way here, and when it came to the front, the corresponding battle formation had been adjusted: the infantry was the front army of the Chinese army, the Jurchen cavalry and infantry were at the end, and the two thousand miscellaneous Hu cavalry were divided into the left and right flanks, and as soon as they came up, they rushed to attack, and they didn't shout and scold Gao Yongchang at all, how ungrateful and wolf-hearted, wolf-hearted, wolf-minded, and wolf-like ambition were beyond his own strength...... Debate something, don't play the Han bureaucracy's favorite game before the war, first jump out of a person who can speak well and preach that he is the righteous side, and take advantage of some tongue.
The cavalry on both wings of the Jin army roared like beasts, and under the leadership of General Jin, they split up and rushed towards the two wings of the Bohai Navy, as if they were only a thousand men and horses, but they were not afraid of the 20,000 opponents who were going to fight.......