Chapter 523: The troops are insufficient
Why did Li Yuanhao want to establish a country with an iron heart, because once the country was established, there was righteousness and orthodoxy, so after the death of Lao Jiao, Tubo was torn apart, and Li Yuanhao died, whether there was no Tibetan or Liang dictatorship, the Western Xia inheritance continued.
Why did Li Yuanhao not give in to the Khitan and fought a big war with the Khitan, because after the founding of the country, he had to be self-reliant and self-reliant, especially the Western Xia was the land of four wars, the Song Dynasty in the east, the Liao State in the north, the Uighurs in the west, and the Tubo in the south.
But why did Zhang Yuan try his best to oppose the war with the Liao State and continue to use troops in the Song Dynasty, didn't he understand Li Yuanhao's intentions? This is the spirit of traitors, who would rather be anyone's slave than desperately fight against their home country.
Wang Ju said some plausible things to mislead Song Ji, but I believe that Song Ji will not be able to tell the truth, and it will inevitably have to be tampered with, so he will tamper in that direction, referring to the traitor psychology, maybe this time the Western Xia sent troops to the Song Dynasty, and Song Ji was also one of the masterminds, so Song Ji would inevitably have a fluke mentality, and he would also infect this fluke psychology to Liang Yi.
Therefore, the possibility of Western Xia withdrawing troops is extremely small.
But you can't underestimate the people of the world, Miao Zhu took the ten battalions of officers and soldiers to Ansai Village, which can be covered by a series of troop transfers, and the balloon is raised, ascending high, seeing far, and starting tomorrow, the scout rangers of Western Xia will be officially searched, and Miao Zhu will go to the rear, which is not easy to detect...... But Di Yong led the officers and soldiers of the 16th battalion to Fengchuan again, can the Xixia people not notice it? The forces in the rear kept pouring in, and maybe it would force the Tanguts to withdraw their troops back.
Therefore, Wang Ju asked Di Yong to lead the officers and soldiers of the sixteenth battalion from the rear of Meridian Mountain to Fengchuan.
However, for this army of officers and soldiers who rushed to Ningzhou at a slow speed of almost one and a half journeys a day. Now suddenly let them march a hundred miles a day. Apparently too reluctantly. But what if not? Immediately, the news of Dong Yu's dispatch to Hexi may have reached Liang Yi's ears. and Cai Ting is also going to send troops to Tiandu Mountain.
So in these three days. Troops must be deployed.
But Wang Ju didn't bother to explain, he continued to say strongly: "If they withdraw their troops in advance, it will be regarded as a drill, this is military law, and those who violate it will be beheaded." ”
No doubts! There is no disobedience!
In fact, even the wild dragon Basheng couldn't stand it, and said when making tea on the side: "Isn't it just to endure three days of hardship and travel for a while, compared to the bloody battle between Slush Castle and Mengmen Sancha." What is it? It's still not the descendant of General Di Qing! ”
Di Yongjun's face flushed.
Zhang Kai made a round and said: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days is used for a while." It is possible that the rear is far from the front line, and the military discipline is somewhat loose, including the speed of the march is relatively slow. So it feels hard for you to double your marching speed now. But it's a special time and it has to be treated specially. ”
But Wang Ju didn't give face to the two of them, and interrupted Zhang Qi's words: "I won a few wars by luck, but behind this is not only my plan, but also my plan, I am not even as good as Zhang Qianfu." This is mainly because I attach great importance to military discipline. Although I will not kill like a seed, but a violator of military discipline. Inevitably, he was flogged and even removed from his official position. ”
Don't think that you are Zeng Gongliang's subordinates, I won't dare to kill, just don't kill, remove you from your official position, and you will have no face when the time comes. Especially Di Yong, who was embarrassed and lost to the big food at that time.
"We'll try to grab this time as much as possible," Di Yong said helplessly.
"Also, Qu Zhen has performed well in these two battles, so the four cavalry battalions among your generals were drawn out and led by Qu Zhen as a forward."
A large number of war horses were obtained from the battle of Dashun City, some of which were immediately equipped for the cavalry of Dashun City, and some of which were brought to Yanzhou by Jing Sili. However, another 3,000 war horses were obtained from the three forks of Mengmen, and a small number of war horses were also obtained outside the city of Gyeongju and under the town of Yele. The armies that were encircled by the enemy could not replenish the war horses, but there were still some cavalry battalions in the rear, and the original Baojie cavalry and Fan cavalry on the Huanqing Road were slightly better, and they had to be Cai Ting and Wang Ju last time, and the war horses were basically equipped with the whole army. However, some of the later forbidden cavalry, as well as the cavalry battalions sent by the Yongxing army, were all strict and lacking war horses. Tomorrow, Zhao Pu will send people to send these war horses to the rear and make up for them one by one. At least the cavalry of several battalions in the rear can basically achieve one person and one war horse.
That is, the four battalions of cavalry led by Qu Zhen will become a real cavalry battalion, but the riding skills of these cavalrymen, Wang Ju really doesn't have much foundation in his heart.
But the problem is not in the horsemanship, but in this way, it is equivalent to the 14th battalion, the strongest officer and soldier of the 26th battalion of the Yongxing Army, being taken away by two airborne generals.
This shows that the little Zhizhou in front of him is very distrustful of himself.
However, the two looked at each other, both helpless.
Wang Ju is not intimidating, not to mention taking away his position as the main general, or really killing himself, facing this 300,000 enemy army, he will kill him.
And Wang Ju is not only a high-ranking scholar, a hero by victory or defeat, people will win the battle, they have the right to speak, and they can't be convinced, look at the Song Dynasty who can beat the Western Xia so badly?
There was no way, the two had to take Qu Zhen to lead the order, and still returned to the camp overnight, traveling 300 miles in three days, and every minute and second was precious.
Watching them leave, Zhang Ji said, "Isn't it too harsh?" ”
"When the battle begins, there can't be any more accidents like Li Kezhong," Mr. Wang said.
Originally, Wang Ju planned to transfer Li Kezhong to the rear, but even if he was transferred to the rear, he would soon become the main force and kill the enemy with himself. A dissatisfied general, plus several battalions of officers and soldiers, will have an accident when it is critical.
Therefore, after Zhang Qi heard the news in the rear, he simply launched a second set of plans, that is, to directly deal with Liang Yiburi's main force first. However, it is not as Gao Huaizhong thought, Wang Ju plans to act brutally, and there will be a series of arrangements to weaken the strength of Liang Yi's Chinese army step by step. But in this way, the officers and men of Li Kezhong's battalion will be used like reserves. Now Wang Ju also means this in his words, if some of the news fed back by Qu Zhen is not ideal, Wang Ju may also turn the remaining 12 battalion officers and soldiers of Di Yong into a reserve. Anyway, you have to put reserves.
It doesn't matter. Zhang Qi thought for a moment. also approved Wang Ju's arrangement. He said, "Zi'an, rest early." ”
In the past few days, Wang Ju has been very worried, and he has not slept well, especially since Gao Min inserted it into the three forks of the cute door, he has almost not closed his eyes in the past two days and two nights.
Wang Ju nodded and said, "Brother Qianfu, you should also go and rest." ”
There is no large-scale military operation tonight. You can rest for the night.
The two of them went back to rest.
But that doesn't mean the night is quiet.
Liang Yibury first conveyed the battle to the three armies, which was a bit self-defeating.
But there is no way to do it, and this violence can show the three armies that we are fighting against men, not against God. If it is deified, the consequences will be very, very bad, just like Xue Rengui fought with the Turks in his later years, only took off one mask, and the Turks confirmed that it was Lao Xue, and they fled one by one. Because the tribes on the prairie deified Xue Rengui. This history may not be very clear to Liang Yi, but he knows that there have been many strange rumors in the army. This will affect morale. If you don't correct it, you don't need to fight.
In addition, the order was given. Let Ren Duo Ling Ding see if there is a way to take down the three forks of the Meng Gate, and the headache has to be taken, that card, the three armies are all counting on the transportation logistics of the small road of Anjiang Fort, and the logistics supply will become more and more tight.
Of course, Rouyuan Village began to build soil mountains again.
This is also inevitable, that is, Liang Yibury plans to retreat, or wants to capture Rouyuan Village, and wash away the hatred and humiliation of the past few days.
But this was not enough, Liang Yi turned his head to look at Song Ji. Song Ji said that he was very hard, firstly, it scared Wang Ju, and secondly, he really couldn't think of a good way.
The Xia army came to attack, and the Song army also let the Western Xia people attack. Anyway, the outside is clear and clear, and the army is huddled in various forts and towns, even if the Western Xia army attacks the rear of Gyeongju, the Song army will not object. But did the Xia army dare to stretch the front so long? It was not to attack the enemy's rear, but to serve food to the Song army.
And now Western Xia is facing a terrible problem, that is, there is not enough troops. This guy, with an army of 200,000, still shouts that the troops are insufficient. However, 200,000 is not the same as the original army of nearly 300,000.
The most important night raids also made the Tangut people afraid, and now each of the Tangut troops did not reach 20,000 people, and there was no sense of security. Just like my sister Ba Luo, she has already shouted under the Xigu bar, General Renduo, send some troops over, my lone army is in the northwest direction, the front is the West Valley, the flanks on both sides are Ansai Village, Whittingburgh, and there is the iron army of Mengmen Sancha in front, once the Song Dynasty four-way soldiers and horses also come to me for a night attack, my little soldiers and horses are really not enough for people to gnaw.
And that's not all.
The Western Xia army rolled in, and the logistics were divided into two parts, the first large part was divided into three parts, one was Jintang City to Dashun City, and the other was the White Leopard City to Anjiang Fort, in fact, these two parts of the logistics were mainly from Yanzhou, of course, behind Yanzhou were Youzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou and other places to transfer materials, and even from Xingqing Mansion and Lingzhou to Yanzhou, and then from Yanzhou to the front line.
There is also a part of it from Lingzhou to the Carriage Gorge, but it is not a material in Lingzhou, and there are even materials from the Hexi Corridor, which are slowly transferred to Lingzhou, and then transferred from Lingzhou to the Carriage Gorge and transferred to the front line.
The carriage gorge made the three forks of the Meng Gate stuck to death, and Dashun City didn't want to do anything, so he could only go to White Leopard City. However, the materials of White Leopard City were burned by Liu Shaoneng with 3,000 soldiers and horses, so he could only urgently transfer the remaining materials from Yanzhou. Then the materials were transferred to Yanzhou from all over the country.
The second part is the materials carried by each soldier himself, don't laugh at the backwardness of Western Xia, which is what the Tang Dynasty's military system did.
There was no loss of the material pass of the main army of Huai'an Town and Rouyuan Village, but the Xia army was not only these two soldiers and horses, such as Dashun City was 35,000 soldiers and horses, Mengmen Sancha used 15,000 soldiers and horses, Anjiang Fort was 15,000 soldiers and horses, White Leopard City was 4,000 soldiers and horses, Qingzhou City and Yele Town were 35,000 soldiers and horses, these Xia troops except for a few people and materials were still left in the rear, the rest were also taken away with the army, although many people escaped in the end, but these materials have become the trophies of the Song army.
These people now have no weapons and no clothes, so should they be allowed to fight empty-handed after being cold and starving?
It is also necessary to allocate materials to replenish it.
Therefore, Liang Yibury had to send 20,000 troops to the rear to transport supplies, and the 20,000 troops could still be put into battle in addition to the 10,000 soldiers and horses south of White Leopard City, and the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses were equivalent to returning to the rear.
Moreover, would the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the White Leopard City and Anjiang Fort dare to be transferred out to fight?
So there are not enough troops.
Song Ji thought about it carefully, and the luck in his heart turned into pessimism again. But he didn't dare to say it, he thought about it for a long time, and suddenly came up with a plan, he took out a copy of the information sent from the front line and handed it to Liang Yibury.
It was sent by Renduo Lingding.
There is only one thing mentioned above, after Chongyi quickly extinguished the rebellion of some tribes in Huanzhou, some elders came to Huanzhou to test the tone of the Song Dynasty, but they were ordered to immediately let them cooperate with the officers and soldiers and send the strongmen in the villages to the barracks.
A small number of villages saw that Zhao Pu's army was stationed in Huanzhou, their village was small, or the terrain of their village was not sinister, so they were afraid and sent the strongmen in the village to the barracks one after another.
However, most of them are still silent. There are two reasons, one is habitual, and the other is that they think they are neutrals and have not rebelled, does the Song Dynasty dare to do anything to them? Why don't you dare to do it, and look at the topography of Huanju, there are more than 100 large mountain ranges, it is rumored that there are more than 10,000 large and small ravines, and there are hundreds of large and small mounds, these villages live on these mounds, surrounded by mountains, the terrain is far more complex than Gyeongju, and the mountains are larger than the mountains of Gyeongju.
Coupled with the fact that they did not rebel, did the Song army dare to do anything to them?
In the blink of an eye, three days passed.
The day before yesterday near dusk, Zhou Yongqing led 5,000 officers and soldiers to quietly set off to Papaya Fort, yesterday there was a great victory in Dashun City, and today there were three great victories in Mengmen Sancha and Gyeongju City and Yele Town. The tribes of Huanzhou finally felt the shock.
If this continues to develop, as long as the Song army does not make fatal mistakes, it will at least be able to keep Huanqing and Erzhou from losing. And there are so many armies, it seems that these armies are still very fierce on the surface, not like the cowardly Song army in the previous impression.
The villages were finally scared, but since yesterday, Chonggu has refused to accept these village strongmen. Now send someone over, we don't want it, and we can't listen to the apology either.
After the scout heard this news, Renduo Lingding didn't pay too much attention, in this case, can he still induce some tribes in Huanzhou to rebel? Even if it can be bewitched, can Xixia have the heart to divide troops around the state? So he casually sent it to Liang Yi with various information.
Everyone was thinking of a way just now, and Song Ji was also flipping through this information at random, Liang Yibury asked him to think of a way, and suddenly thought of this information again, so he handed it to Liang Yibury.
Liang Yibury was puzzled and asked, "Is it any different?" ”
"Yes." Song Ji said, but some generals want to cover their faces, and this scholar is going to come up with an idea again. (To be continued......) R1292