Not to mention the various arrangements of the Song army, it was also early this morning, but the Jin army also raised a big tent in the camp outside Tangchi Fort, Wanyan Zongwang had a gloomy face, and looked indifferently at the various armies under the tent, listening to Zong Pan's account of the details of yesterday's siege battle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zong Wang should have arrived in the army yesterday afternoon, and after arriving, he heard several cronies and generals tell him about the situation in private, but he didn't know why he didn't raise his account, so he had to wait until early this morning to act, which made it difficult for everyone to guess his thoughts.

But at this time, he happened to listen to Yan Zongpan and said, "...... Seeing that the opportunity was wrong, our army ordered the troops to be withdrawn. Guo Meng'an later proposed to change the attached city into a chiseled city, and after I discussed with the generals, I allowed him to attack again. In this formation, Guo Meng'an formed an army with 3,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 archers, and went to attack the stone fort, who knew that as soon as he arrived at the city, the Song army threw down many poisonous smoke and mines......"

After Yan Zongpan finished talking about how Guo Yaoshi's 4,000 men and horses were poisoned and how the Song army came to ask for a truce, treat and return the wounded soldiers, he slowly finished talking about it, and then saw Zong Wang stretch out his hand to the table, and said coldly: "Such a method...... It's like Huang Jie's style of acting, so to speak, yesterday's defeat is really not the fault of the soldiers! ”

Zong Wang's words were naturally seconded by many generals, that is, Guo Yaoshi's face was also slightly better-looking, after all, yesterday was the largest loss of his troops, 4,000 troops went to battle, but less than 2,000 returned, and almost one-third was eaten by Tangchi Fort.

Zong Wang immediately raised his hand to signal, and did not ask Zong Pan to say any more nonsense, so he also said: "I came back last night, and the reason why I didn't raise the account to discuss the matter was because I was uncertain about everything, and I didn't figure it out until this morning. I met with Huang Jie the day before yesterday, and he said that he would wait for me in Liaoyang for three days, but I didn't understand what Huang Jie meant by this at that time, and I didn't understand it until now. ”

When he said this, everyone was stunned, especially Zong Pan unconsciously asked, "Huang Jie said that he ...... Will I wait for you in Liaoyang for three days? What does this mean? ”

"Yes! What do you think that means? Zong Wang naturally didn't answer, but came to see everyone, but everyone looked confused, and it was really difficult to find someone who understood. But soon Guo Yaoshi stroked his palm and smiled, and said to Zong Wang: "The marshal is wise, naturally he can understand such a truth, this Huang Jie is really tricky, I don't know if the marshal has a countermeasure?" ”

Zong Wang glanced at Guo Yaoshi coldly, obviously disdainful of his compliments, but finally nodded face-saving and said, "Perhaps, Guo Meng'an has a better way?" ”

Pharmacist Guo shook his head and said: "Please also ask the marshal to forgive Guo for being stupid, now except for the marshal to go to the appointment as scheduled, Guo can't think of any other good way." ”

When the two of them had such a conversation, everyone naturally heard that everyone was in a fog, and someone only asked: "Guo Meng'an, what kind of dumb riddle did you play with the marshal, please share it with me." ”

When Guo Yaoshi heard this, he came to look at Zong Wang, and when he saw Zong Wang nodding to him, he also got up and came to the map hanging in the tent, pointed to the location of Yaozhou on the map and said: "As you all know, this time the Song army landed on Yaozhou Yundao (now Lianyun Island in Gaizhou, Yingkou), and conquered Yaozhou in one battle, and then fought again and conquered Liaoyang, but he didn't set up camp in Yaozhou, but he still stuck his heels in Yundao, and then built two stone forts in these two places along the road, what is the intention?" ”

As he spoke, Pharmacist Guo pointed at the two places on the map, Qingshi Fort and Tangchi Fort with his hand, and then looked at everyone as well. It's just that many Jurchen generals are confused, although they have been fighting in the south and north since the founding of the country, they still don't know much about high-level strategies outside the battlefield.

Seeing that no one answered, Guo Yaoshi had to pat the map and said: "In the past, when the Northwest Party invaded the Song Dynasty, because the Party and my Dajin were generally good at cavalry, the army entered and roared for thousands of miles, and the border between the Party and the Song Dynasty stretched for thousands of miles, so the Song army was often difficult to take care of and could not be prevented. Later, the Song people built fortresses all over the border, a fort in thirty miles, a village in twenty miles, and the first one was knotted to form a long snake array, and it was really difficult for the party to commit the Song Dynasty again. Therefore, the intention of the Song army to build the fort is the same, just to squeeze our army's battle line...... You see, this Song army has only landed for a few days, and has already built two forts along the official road, if it takes more time, I am afraid that the Song people will build all the way to Liaoyang Mansion along the main road...... Even the Huanglong Mansion, when the forts are connected into a line, it will be like a long snake array, we will hit its head and tail, hit its tail and the head and tail can be reached. ”

With Pharmacist Guo explaining like this, the generals also roughly understood the Song army's fort-building tactics, but some generals were puzzled and asked: "What does Huang Jie and the marshal mean by inviting them to three days?" ”

Guo Yaoshi said: "The Song army landed, with Huang Jie as the leader, and its intention to the north is needless to say. Our army came from Jinzhou and divided its troops into Yaozhou halfway, which was originally intended to cut off the grain route of the Song army, and Huang Jie naturally understood this. The reason why he made an appointment with the marshal for three days was that he was sure that the marshal would not be able to destroy the Song army's foothold in our Dajin Heel Stone Fort, and he could not let him continue to threaten Shen and Yinzhou in the north, so he still had to go back to him for a decisive battle. ”

After listening to Pharmacist Guo's explanation, everyone suddenly became enlightened. In fact, the current situation, as Guo Yaoshi said, since the Song army landed, it chose to divide the troops into two routes, one is the elite troops led by Huang Jie, directly attacking and advancing, relying on the convenience of firearms and chariots, quickly going north to attack the city, and the other is the follow-up supply troops, slowly moving north by building fortresses, relying on fortresses that are very close to each other to protect the supply lines of the elite troops.

And once these two deployments are entrenched, then the Jin army, which is fighting as a local defense, will be passive from now on. Take Zongwang's 50,000 army at the moment, although the mobility of the whole cavalry force is very high, but there is no way to take Liaoyang City guarded by Huang Jie or Lingbao like Tangchi Fort.

If he went to intercept Huang Jie and besieged Huang Jie's 20,000 elites in Liaoyang, then it was bound to be impossible to estimate that the Song army in Yaozhou would continue to repair Lingbao along the road to Liaoyang Mansion, and when Lingbao was repaired to Liaoyang Mansion, the siege would naturally be self-defeating. Or maybe the Jin army came to besiege Tangchi Fort, and did not ask the Song army to continue to repair Lingbao, so it was natural that Huang Jie left Liaoyang and attacked in the direction of Shenzhou.

Of course, some people will say that maybe the troops can be divided into two ways, all the way to Liaoyang Mansion to block Huang Jie, all the way to stay in Tangchi Fort to block the Song army to continue to repair Lingbao, but now there are only 50,000 Jin troops here, do you say that it is better to divide 30,000 troops to block Huang Jie, or to leave 30,000 to block Lingbao?

Don't forget, although Huang Jie only has 20,000 people, he has cars and cannons. As for the Song army in Yaozhou, not only will they build Lingbao, but they also have more than 100,000 horses, and after occupying Yundao, it is equivalent to opening up the sea communication line with the Great Song Dynasty, and they can transport more soldiers over at any time.

In addition, yesterday's battle indirectly made the defensive strength of Lingbao clear: the conventional siege method obviously cannot shake the well-guarded Lingbao, not to mention, even if the whole army is launched to assault, it may not be able to withstand the poison gas bombs thrown by the Song army!