Chapter Fifty-Nine: All Enemies Are Paper Tigers
Wanyan Zongwang had already learned of the military report of his failure to dig the embankment, which was completely unexpected by him, and his troops were all cavalry.
Using the captives and Han thief army in the original camp, let the Song army collect them, waste some time, and the Khitannu of the old Liao dug the Yellow River embankment, attacked the enemy, and delayed their pace.
Although he couldn't march quickly with his baggage, his speed was still much faster than that of the Song army in Bianjing, and with the time of delay, he completely distanced himself, left calmly, and then turned into Taiyuan.
All this was expected by him, but now there were variables, which made him feel very bad in his heart.
There was an enemy who had been harassing him, and he was harassing him day and night, and this was the army that appeared three days after he left Bianjing.
This is a very weak army, and there is no need to engage at all, knowing that there is no military discipline to speak of, and the formation is really chaotic, but it never engages him head-on.
After the speed attack, it disappeared without a trace, and the high mobility of the kidnapping horse should have a great advantage, but most of the attack sites chosen by the other side were near the hills.
The terrain is complex, and encirclement and suppression are extremely difficult!
Easily getting into danger will definitely delay the speed of the march.
But this annoying group of soldiers, like ghosts, suddenly appeared and fired a wave of rockets, one of which landed on the baggage wagon, and lost some rations.
Wanyan Zongwang, who was originally unwilling to take care of this weak army, realized that he had to pay attention to this army when he received the report of battle damage!
Three days of rations had been depleted, and if so, he could still accept the loss.
But the large-scale burning of horse grain made him extremely painful!
A little bit of horse food gave him a headache.
Horses are precious creatures, eating during the day, at night, and even in the middle of the night! It's also very picky!
It is difficult to find suitable grains and pastures to supplement horse food in Han land.
The enemy's target has been focused on the horse food, when he used the horse food to fish, besieged a team of 100 people, but the other party pounced on the Khitan army, the Khitannu who were about to collapse at the touch of a button, broke free from the shackles, and ran without a trace.
After losing thousands of Khitannus, Wanyan Zongwang finally realized that he was afraid that he had encountered a difficult opponent, but now the question on his mind was: Who will push the cart?
The Khitano ran more than a thousand, what to do with this batch of cars? It is better to count on the horses than on yourself......
It's true that military horses are well-trained, but they don't know how to pull carts, and they are not good at pulling carts! As a result of the forced haltering, only the horses were injured. These horses are good at carrying animals, but they are not good at pulling.
After a little consideration, he decided to abandon a batch of baggage, and then set up an ambush with the abandoned baggage.
But a whole day passed, and the enemy did not even bother to show his face, and the baggage of the gold and silver treasures was thrown there, and no one cared about it.
The enemy didn't take the bait, and he couldn't find the enemy's hiding place, and the scouts he sent out were bitten off a few squads.
All of this made him exhausted.
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On the hill not far away, Zong Ze was holding a book from the Great Song Dynasty of the Bianjing Imperial Palace, and he read it with relish.
"Everything is against ...... The enemies are all paper tigers. In essence, in the long run, from a strategic point of view, all enemies must be regarded as paper tigers. From this point on, build our strategic thinking. After reading this paragraph, Zong Ze thought about it a little, and his heart was also full of emotion.
What kind of spirit is this, Zong Ze seems to have seen between the lines the stirring words of Taizu back then.
However, the current throne is a person from the line of Zhao Guangyi of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, could it be that all the materials of the Great Song Dynasty secret system are actually the materials of the time of Taizu?
Zong Ze opened the book again, looked at it twice, and said to himself: "While we have correctly pointed out that we should despise the enemy in the whole and in strategy, we must not despise the enemy in every part and on every specific issue. Strategically despise the enemy, tactically value the enemy. Don't miss the slightest chance of possibility. ”
He looked at the mountains of baggage piled up in the distance, and knew that the other party was fishing for his slippery fish.
However, this fish hand is full of local men, and he is extremely familiar with the terrain here, and he has found the ambush of the other party.
"Order the commander of the second chamber to lead the crowd and go straight to the place where the opponent is ambushing, and annihilate the two battalions of the opponent's ambush in one fell swoop." Zong Ze said to the burly man beside him.
This person is Yue Fei's younger brother Yue Tuo, who is the sixth lang of the Yue family.
After Wulang Yue Fei went to Bianjing to deliver the letter, he never returned, and in Li Gang's letters, he learned that Yue Fei had been reused by the new emperor.
Although Yue Fei was still from Bingyilang of Bapin, he had received six thousand relatives and was heading to the location of Maling Pass in Crescent City with a new-style decisive chariot.
Zong Ze now has about 50,000 men under his command and has two van armies.
There were about 25,000 people in one box, and there were two battalions of ambush soldiers on the other side, about 1,000 people, but he still let the more than 20,000 people in the command of the second box rush up and be sure to annihilate.
Even if it was a one-for-ten battle loss ratio, he could accept it.
It is his selfish intention to delay the pace of the enemy and let Bingyi Lang Yue Fei become famous in one battle.
is a person, he has selfish intentions, Zong Ze is no exception, he appreciates Yue Fei very much, but he is not familiar with military affairs, let alone has a relationship with the general, so he can only use the greatest conditions to create a favorable battle situation for Yue Fei.
The battle was fierce. The Jin people were tenacious, and after a hill, these thousand people were surrounded and killed for a whole hour before they were all annihilated.
More than 1,000 Jin people were killed in battle, but the damage of the rebels was also very serious, and at least 20% of the 25,000 people in this army died.
About 5,000 people were buried on the battlefield.
Zong Ze looked at the dense list of war dead, and was in a very bad mood. Facing Yue Chuan with emotion: "In the past, one Han was five Hu, and now one gold is five songs, all of which are due to the relaxation of military equipment!" Hebei West Road, East Road, Hedong Road, since the alliance of the Yuanyuan, there has been no war in a hundred years. Ay. Forgetting to fight will be dangerous, and the ancients will not deceive me. ”
"The Jin people plundered the Central Plains, and the lives were ruined, and the blood flowed and drifted. The matter of armament will presumably be slowly restored. From the people to the court, it will slowly get better. Yue Pan comforted.
Zong Ze stopped talking, flipped through the scroll, and studied carefully, he found a fact that he didn't want to admit, that is, he was really talented in military affairs!
This time, the encirclement and interception of Wanyan Zongwang's troops were all plans made by him alone, and several of his lieutenants and military commanders did not refute him at all.
The results were mixed.
This encirclement and annihilation of more than 1,000 people of the Jin cavalry was the biggest loss, but the harvest was very rich, capturing a large amount of grain and grass, relieving the pressure of the transfer envoy, and greatly enriching his armament.
At the same time, it also played a role in military training, and the second box army even looked more like a soldier than the first box army of professional soldiers.
The army that has never seen blood is still a little less bloody after all.
Wanyan Zong was furious!
He always thought that it was a small force that attacked him, and the ambush of the thousand-man team was already very good for the other party, but he didn't expect that an encirclement of more than 20,000 people directly annihilated his own 1,000 people!
Now the losses of his own troops have approached the danger line of battle damage, and if there are large-scale losses, I am afraid that I will suffer!
And the timing of the attack was so ingenious that the military report that reported safety had just come out of the ambush army formation, and it was surrounded and killed! A real annihilation!
Wanyan Zongwang finally got out of anger!
Because the other party used the captured war horse, put a blanket, poured fire oil, lit it, and rushed straight to his camp!
The losses are not huge!
Because the formation of the horses rushing over was very scattered, just the guards on duty, a volley, wiped out the fire horse team.
But it still disturbed his rest!
This is already the fourth night, continuous night attacks, and every time he tightens his night defense, the result is that he can't wait for the enemy!
But he didn't dare to rest completely!
In case the enemy really attacks the camp and he is unprepared, he will be in great trouble, and this is also the third night, the soldiers sleep in armor, and the soldiers who cannot get enough rest will definitely decline in combat effectiveness!
He is alone, as long as he is careless, the whole army will be wiped out!
Yue Pan saw that the Fire Horse Array was repulsed for the first time, and directly waved his hand, and thousands of soldiers and horses slowly retreated, leaving the vicinity of the Golden Soldiers' Big Tent.
The Jin man fought fiercely at night, and in the night when the enemy was prepared, the attack on the camp was undoubtedly a meat delivery, so he was not so stupid.
Now that the purpose of the attack has been achieved, it is natural to return to the camp to rest.
This is a bitter Yan Zongwang, he still hasn't fallen asleep, yawning out of the big tent, and seeing the barracks full of yawns, he is in a very bad mood.
When did this group of Central Plains people learn to be so shameless?