Chapter 646: The Great Wall (Part II)
Groups of soldiers crossed over the pontoon.
It shows that the information of the Jiaozhi people is still limited, and Wang Ju's favorite thing to do is to march at night.
There are nearly fifty miles from Gaolingzhai to Pingliangdu, which is not close. However, the Song army arrived at Gaoling Village very early, and the three armies rested. Then set off in the second half of the night. The cavalry took the lead, Qu Zhen trained thousands of cavalry in Qinzhou, and he and Wang Ju only brought 2,500 cavalry, and more than 3,000 cavalry were placed behind.
But he never arrived first, but wrapped up in the Song army of 30,000 overseas training, he slowly arrived at Gaoling Village.
For today's battle.
Then 30,000 infantry set out.
Wang Jumu sent them to the distance and nodded with satisfaction.
Compared with the officers and soldiers in the north, the officers and men in the south are much shorter, but after more than a year of intensive training, it can be seen that they have undergone significant changes.
The eyes are very tight, some people still have murderous in their eyes, the military discipline looks very strict, although they have been running for half the night, the formation has not been chaotic, very neat. It seems that Yanda has really put in a lot of effort. Even if this army is placed in the north, it can slip away with the forbidden soldiers.
The last group of officers and soldiers stepped across the pontoon bridge, and Wang Ju wiped the sweat from his forehead.
By the end of February, it was also starting to get hot. Fortunately, the dry rainy season in Cochin is distinct, and after April, it begins to enter the long rainy season, which lasts until the end of autumn. It's hot now, but there are fewer rainy days.
Therefore, Wang Ju also has to end the battle as soon as possible.
During the rainy season, let another group come......
The battle at the front began.
More than 3,000 cavalrymen did not directly rush into Li Changjie's army, but kept guerrilla attacks around.
This trick was not invented by Wang Ju, and it was used to deal with the Song army with reference to Yelu Xiuge. At one time used this method. Cao Bin's hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers were forced to march only a few miles a day. When it came to Yuanmeng. This tactic is used perfectly.
Li Changjie is also gone.
The area around Cochin is tropical and dense with rainforest, so elephant soldiers can be seen, but cavalry is rare. If it is really placed in the rainforest, it is a paradise for the people of Cochin. Guan Jian is on the north side of Tiandekufu, which is a well-developed area. Either Pingchuan, or Boulevard, or rice fields.
Rice fields are not swamps. The muddy depth is limited, and before Wang Ju left, he deliberately prepared another thing, that is, the new horseshoes, the difference with the original horseshoe is that it is comparative, just a little wider, the pressure will be weakened, so the horse stepped on the paddy field, running happily.
Li Changjie had no choice but to let the three armies line up to defend, and retreat while defending.
The 20,000 Cochin troops advanced with difficulty. Every mile you walk, you leave dead bodies behind.
And under the sniper fire of this cavalry. The scouts sent by Li Changjie were unable to inform him, not necessarily that all the scouts had been killed by the Song army, but that these scouts could not get close to the main army. If it was only the harassment of these cavalry, Li Changjie would still be sure to bring the three armies to Tiandefu City.
What he was most worried about was the tens of thousands of Song Dynasty infantry behind, although they were far away, but if they could endure hardships and march from the night, and the marching speed of his army was slowed down by these thousands of cavalry, then the huge Song army would be able to catch up in the afternoon.
It really made him expect.
Thinking of this, he saw that it took the three armies half a day to walk less than ten miles, so Li Changjie had no choice but to order: "Drop the baggage and withdraw the army quickly." ”
It can't be delayed any longer.
However, at this time, Qu Zhen also came with two thousand cavalry.
As a result, although the Cochin army dropped its heavy baggage, the march could not be faster under the sniper fire of more than 5,000 cavalry.
Wang Ju looked into the distance with a telescope, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses were in front of him. He said: "The three armies immediately rest and eat some dry food. ”
The army of 30,000 stopped in unison and began to eat dry food and drink water in silence.
Wang Ju looked at them, and when he walked here, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were also tired. Wang Ju's general Yao Xiong beckoned over with his hand and said: "You give orders to the three armies, you are tired, and the Jiaozhi people are even more tired under the encirclement and suppression of the cavalry, and victory is just around the corner." As long as you break through Tiandefu City, half of the wealth in the city will be rewarded! ”
"Okay," Yao Xiong called for the herald, conveying Wang Ju's order.
Many soldiers don't know how big Tiandefu City is, but they know what a house is and what a city is, and they dare to think that it is the capital city of the Song Dynasty. So immediately they cheered.
This order came at the right time, and at once the fatigue of most of the soldiers was expelled.
Wang Ju immediately ordered the troops to be divided into three routes, with the left and right roads going first, so that the two roads could be outflanked.
After the two soldiers and horses left, Wang Ju quickly pursued with the middle lane.
After an hour, the two armies will be able to see each other with the naked eye.
Seeing the Song army rushing towards the three black pressures behind, and Tiandefu City was not far in front, the Jiaozhi soldiers didn't care how Li Changjie gave the order, and fled to Tiandefu City one by one.
"Kill." Qu Zhen decisively ordered.
More than 5,000 cavalry no longer harassed this time, but directly rushed into the Jiaozhi army and began to fight.
Yao Lin stood on the top of the earth mountain, and also saw the situation on the battlefield, and at the same time ordered: "Attack." ”
He Jinman led 3,000 infantry to rush out of the military fortress and snipe.
The 20,000 Cochin troops were quickly torn apart and entangled with each other. In fact, if Wang Ju did not lead the rear army to kill, the Jiaozhi army would definitely be defeated at this time.
It was getting dusk, and the defenders in the city originally wanted to go out of the city to rescue them, but when they saw the Song army behind them, they stood on the head of the city one by one and trembled, who dared to go out of the city to meet the rescue?
The three-way Song army finally pounced.
At this time, the thousands of Jiaozhi troops gathered from the rear at the ferry also came to Tiandefu City.
However, the battle was over, and the 20,000 Jiaozhi troops were killed by the Song army, more than 5,000 were killed, more than 7,000 were captured, and only one-third of them escaped into the city.
Li Changjie stood at the head of the city and watched the Song army camped outside the city.
He muttered, "Here comes the trouble." ”
If the Song Dynasty also learned the shamelessness and cruelty of Jiaozhi, then it would be a competition for blood value, where could Jiaozhi compare to the Song Dynasty? Moreover, the Song people built two lines of defense and occupied Langzhou and Sumaozhou. Retreat can be defended. Offensive and attackable.
Li Changjie was wrong. Wang Ju competes with the Tangut people for blood value, but will he compete with Jiaozhi for blood value?
Unless Li Changjie really becomes the god of war.
In the evening of the same day, the three armies rested.
Li Changjie wanted to steal chickens, so he quietly dropped more than 1,000 soldiers from the city wall with ropes in the middle of the night, but as soon as he touched the front of the camp fence, he was shot back by a random arrow.
Yao Lin and Wang Ju slept in the big tent of the Chinese army, and when they heard the noise outside, they got up. After looking at it, he didn't even give an order, and went back to the big tent. Yao Lin said: "It's ridiculous to play a night attack in front of Shaobao. ”
Wang Ju smiled, and the two slept.
The next day the trouble really came.
Wang Ju did not launch a siege, although this so-called capital city was only the size of a county town in the Song Dynasty...... Rather, they divided their forces and plundered.
In fact, who wouldn't be a hooligan? Moreover, there were some forbidden soldiers in the Song Dynasty, who used to belong to the "generals" under Yan Da, Yao Lin or other generals, many of whom had been to Shaanxi and many had been to the border. Not only will Jiaozhi plunder, but the Western Xia will also plunder. And the means are more clever, but the Song army on the Shaanxi Road is strictly guarded, and it cannot be as unscrupulous as Jiaozhi to plunder and slaughter. These forbidden soldiers had no experience in plundering, but they had seen how the Tanguts plundered...... Just imitate it.
Bands of cavalry went out, and bands of infantry went out.
In the evening, they escorted hundreds of people and forced them to return to the barracks with their carts pushing their food and valuables.
Li Changjie and the officials of Tiande Mansion were stunned at the head of the city. It is not wise for Li Changjie to go down the city and go out of the city to fight, but if this continues, the entire outskirts of Tiande Mansion will be swept away by the Song army into a dead place.
So he asked his guards to flee to the other side of the river with the help of night, and with his letter, he informed the rear, so that the hesitant reinforcements on the other side of the river, as well as the army in the rear, immediately made a detour from Fuliangfu to attack Guangyuan Prefecture, and forced back this Song army with the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao.
In his thoughts, the Song Dynasty brought so many soldiers and horses, and the rear must have been relatively empty.
The next day, the thousands of Jiaozhi troops on the other side of the river withdrew, and Wang Ju did not ask, and continued to send his men to plunder everywhere. In the evening, many of the people were escorted back to the camp.
After three days of plundering, Wang Ju attacked the city.
How to do it, Wang Ju did it.
That is, a mountain of earth was piled with mud, and it was at the same level as the head of the city, and then it rushed into the city.
This method is not so clever, the reason is very simple, either learn from the Western Xia to build an earth mountain, a distance from the city wall, and then shoot at the earth mountain, and the Song Dynasty also did this when the king rebelled against Enzhou. Either learn to cochine, and block the earth mountain directly under the city walls, but how many people will die in that way? However, at that time, Yongzhou defended for dozens of days, and it is estimated that Yongzhou has run out of weapons to defend the city, and the troops are insufficient, so that the Jiaozhi people can succeed.
Wang Ju doesn't know how to learn everything, and now there are still a lot of Jiaozhi troops in the city of Tiandefu, and there are thousands of reinforcements behind them, as well as a little military and civilian in the city.
So they were forced to carry bags of mud on their backs with swords and arrows and threw them under the walls.
Your own people, that's not good, let go of the arrows.
The common people threw down the mud bags and fled, but the Song army behind them was even more ruthless than the Jiaozhi on the head of the city, and as soon as they turned around, arrows flew over.
At the end of the day, hundreds of people died, and the mountains of earth were piled higher and higher.
Li Changjie cried in the city.
This is the real retribution of life.
He gathered his men together and said: "The three armies are ready to break through at night, all the people in the city surrender, and there is no resistance, otherwise the Song army will learn from us...... Slaughter the city! ”
Then he pulled his sword and was about to commit suicide, but he was persuaded by everyone to die.
And night came. The scout on the tower hurriedly came down to report: "Shaobao, there is an abnormal movement in the city." ”
Wang Ju immediately went up to the tower, looked at the city with a telescope, and then also came down and summoned the generals: "The Jiaozhi people must flee." ”
It is best to go out of the city, but in order not to alarm the Jiaozhi army in the city, the order is given secretly, and at first glance the vast military camp is the same as before, but the actual order has been handed down to the commanders.
At the third watch, the city gate suddenly opened, and a large number of Jiaozhi troops swarmed out and fled to the east. However, the Song army had already been prepared, first Qu Zhen led the cavalry to stop the front, and then Yao Lin and Yao Xiong led the three armies to kill from behind.
Wang Ju himself took the rest of the rear army and quickly rushed into the city, and gave an order: "The three armies will be allowed to move freely until dawn, but there is one rule, which must not be burned, so as not to damage the property." ”
This is revenge, but also deterrence, because these people still have a purpose, they must be detained for a period of time, they cannot be imprisoned during this time, and they must be allowed to work, if they think that Song Jun is benevolent, then it is bad......
Anyway, Wang Ju couldn't figure it out.
The city became a hell, and there was fighting outside the city, and more than 10,000 Jiaozhi soldiers were killed nearly half alive, and some were caught, and the rest fled in all directions, and there was no way to do it in the night. Then they carried a small number of prisoners of war into the city, and in the face of the situation in the city, Qu Zhen and Yao Lin understood, so they pretended not to see it, and let their subordinates join in the carnival.
But another battle continued.
Nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses on the other side of Jiaozhi entered Guangyuan Prefecture like thieves. However, Guangnan is 30,000 soldiers and 40,000 soldiers, and even if Yan Dana has not brought back more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, the number of troops that can be mobilized on the west road of Guangnan has reached 60,000.
Everyone touched together, and the veteran general and Bin with 15,000 Song soldiers also touched Guangyuan Prefecture, and at night, they touched the enemy camp, and launched a surprise attack on the Jiaozhi army at dawn.
In fact, with 15,000 Song troops, who had undergone half a year of actual combat training and were fully armed, they calmly defeated the nearly 10,000 Jiaozhi troops without attacking.
The two armies were handed over, and Jiaozhi once again left more than 3,000 dead bodies, and the wolf fled back.
In the east, Wang Ju asked a part of the Song army to return to the Song realm with the people and captured materials. There were still some valuable things in the villages in the city and outside the city, and the people near Langzhou were notified to come and clean up.
Then Wang Ju blocked several ferries with rocks, and led the army all the way to the east, and there was a more prosperous place in the east, Yong'an Prefecture.
Tao Bi, the governor of Yongzhou, also came, and he was responsible for urging these Jiaozhi people to build the Great Wall...... (To be continued......)