Chapter 193: Dongjian Bridge (I)
Wang Ju asked the doctors to treat the wounded soldiers, but this time Wang Ju brought one thing, that is, high wine, disinfection is not as good as alcohol, but it is better than nothing.
Not only bandaged the wounds of the wounded soldiers, but also bandaged the wounds of the horses.
These wounded horses can no longer go to war, but they will recover from their injuries and can be used as ploughing horses, pack horses, and ordinary horseback riding and pulling horses. It's just that the value will plummet to about ten.
Then change rides.
With these hundreds of horses, the two battalions of Fan cavalry can basically ensure that everyone has a horse. However, there was a large shortage of horses, and the Xinfan cavalry continued to expand its army, and the other cavalry of Gyeongju were also strict about the lack of horses. But with it, it's better than nothing.
These fanzi touched the war horse, their eyes flashed with joy, they practiced cavalry, got off the war horse, the combat effectiveness was not large, but on the war horse, the combat effectiveness could be increased several times immediately.
After the injured horse went back, in addition to selecting a batch of pack horses, the rest was handed over to Zhu Qing to deal with, and the proceeds would be used as pensions and rewards, and the court would also release rewards, but how much it could be put was very doubtful.
Yao Ji also ordered that two more battalions of officers and soldiers be transferred from the rear, and this battle was a surprise battle and an ambush war, and the number of people could not be large. In addition, it also created an illusion for the Tangut people that only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were participating in the war......
But there will be more difficult battles ahead.
Wang Ju continued to pacify the people of the two villages, and returned the materials and livestock captured by the Xixia people.
The soldiers who went into the mountains to search for the deserters of the Western Xia also returned.
Wang Ju said: "Kill horses and cook." ”
Dozens of horses died, and food was made.
Some of our friends also died, and everyone was happy and sad at the same time.
There were crying, laughing, shouting and making trouble in the barracks, Wang Ju stood on the mountain, listening to the whistling mountain wind, but his eyes were staring in the direction of Rouyuan Village.
Instead of fleeing back to Xinjiang Ballast Village, he fled to Rouyuan Village with more than 100 of his subordinates.
The Western Xia plundered the five main roads of Huanqing, the two salt roads of Huanzhou, the Chexia Road and the Guide Dechuan Road, the middle road is the Huai'an Road of Gyeongju, and the east road is the Xinjiang Ballast Fort Road.
Nearly 20,000 troops were dispatched for this plunder.
Less than 20,000 people were divided into five ways to plunder, the troops were not much, and they were very arrogant, but who made the Song Dynasty cowardly. If Wang Ju hadn't come to Huachi, what would be the difference between 20,000 people, 30,000 people, and 10,000 people?
More than 4,000 soldiers and horses were sent out to plunder in the direction of the ballast fort, but considering that Dashun City and Liyuan Fort were heavily armed, the troops in the direction of Liyuan Fort were not many, and they did not go deep, but the main force was on the side of Liyuan Fort, with a strength of nearly 3,000 people.
The wolf fled to the tent of the wild Wuxingshe.
"Why did you lose so badly?" Wild Wu Xingshe Great Thunder.
This loss is nothing in the war between the two countries, but it is a heavy loss under the tent of Yewuxingshe.
"We've been in an ambush."
"Don't you know about sending scouts?" Ye Wu Xingshe scolded for a while, and after scolding, he asked, "What's the matter?" ”
The general recounted the battle.
Ye Wu Xingshe scolded again: "The other party's troops are not as many as yours, you can also be defeated, you coward!" ”
He didn't dare to make a sound.
Ye Wuxing was angry, kicked him a few times, ordered the scouts to investigate, and gathered all the soldiers who were plundering.
The next day, Wang Ju continued to let the soldiers search for the deserters and fleeing horses of Western Xia all over the mountain, but after one night, the harvest was not great. The rest of the soldiers were drinking and having fun.
The scouts reported the situation in the evening.
Yewu Xingshe jumped like thunder again, when would it be the turn of the Song army to be arrogant, but it was dark, so he had to give up, and then ordered the three armies to go out early tomorrow morning. It's all mountain roads, a little difficult to walk, but it's not far away, only a few dozen miles. If it is in time, it will be able to arrive at noon, just in time when the Song army is unprepared for the great victory, and annihilate this Song army in one fell swoop.
The news also reached Sun Wei's hands.
Wang Ju briefly wrote down the battle history, and then reported the casualty figures and everyone's credit. No exaggeration, no shrinkage.
Send someone to Gyeongju.
After Sun Wei saw it, he immediately said: "Give an order to Wang Ju and ask him to withdraw to Liyuan Fort." ”
Ji'er Village is located between Xinjiang Ballast Fort, Dashun City and Liyuan Fort. The elite army of Liyuan Fort was exhausted, and there was a Song army in Dashun City, but Sun Xun did not dare to mobilize for fear of accidents. But the Xixia side is not afraid, the enemy of the ballast fort will be dispatched at any time, and there is still a huge enemy army near Rouyuan Village. If Wang Ju's army is annihilated, the Xixia people may take the opportunity to capture Liyuan Fort, and then the entire Dashun City will become an isolated city and can be lost at any time.
The old general Zhao Ming said: "Sun Gong, it's better like this, the other Western Xia people who plundered in the three ways don't need to ask them, but we can join forces and eat the enemy army of Rouyuan Village." The two plundering armies were annihilated one after another, and the remaining three enemies naturally had to retreat, and the threat of plundering was calmly resolved. ”
"Is it that easy? How did you forget how Liu Ping failed? How did Wang Qiguo En die in battle? ”
All three armies were lured out of the city by the Tanguts, and then besieged them with heavy troops, leading the entire army to be annihilated.
Zhao Ming sighed, Sun Wei seemed to have a point, but was that really the case?
But he's just a general, what can he say?
Sun Wei's clumsy performance this time finally drew an ugly end to his life.
The dispute between Sun Wei and Zhao Ming, Wang Ju didn't know. The commotion continued in the barracks.
Wu Kui said: "Brother Hu, you say to Wang Zhixian, let me also participate in the Fan Ride." ”
"You're a fanzi?"
"Brother Hu, you are a fanzi, and you didn't mix in the Baojie Army before."
"You think I want to join the Parchie Army. But little kuizi, let me tell you, if you don't get it right, this time the Baojie army may also be changed to a cavalry battalion......" Hu Qian whispered.
"So there are so many horses?"
"Heaven must not be divulged."
Wang Ju walked in and shouted, "You still haven't slept yet? ”
"Well," said the group, they got up and went back to their tents to rest. After this battle, Wang Jucai really had prestige in the army.
Yao Yu came over and said, "The scout came back to report that the army was really gathering in Rouyuan Village, and it was basically assembled." ”
"It's inevitable."
"It's a pity that Wang Zhixian came too late." Yao Yu sighed. If Wang Ju had come two months earlier, or if Western Xia had postponed his raids until October, his battalions would have been stronger.
"It's not too late, especially the horses!" Wang Ju said.
Yao Yi willed, in order to convince everyone, Wang Ju also asked several important generals to check the accounts of the entire private business.
This is to let everyone understand that even if it is soju, plus the profits of private businessmen, it will also be spent on the plan to strengthen the army, and the Zhu and Li families and Wang Ju also paid out of their pockets. If everyone knows where the accounts are going, they will be grateful, and they will obey the command.
In fact, the private businessmen on the other side of Changma Mountain are worried and afraid of trouble, and there is no deficit on the books, but it is actually a deficit. If it is replaced with other goods, the people on the other side of the mountain do not have to worry, the profit will also increase several times, and they can be equipped with more sophisticated armor in the future.
"General Yao, this battle is not Guan Jian, Guan Jian is next year," Wang Ju said meaningfully.
Yao nodded heavily.
The risk is not now, but next year, and of course, the greater credit will also be next year.
The two said a few more words, and Yao Ji quietly left the barracks on horseback and ran into the distance.
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Yewu Xingshe began to gather troops and horses, and then left only a few hundred people to guard the looted materials, and then rushed out with the remaining 2,500 soldiers and horses.
This time, he learned the lesson of the reckless Tibetan army, and the army was hurrying behind, and there were scouts on horseback in front of him, scouting for ambushes. Only an hour later, the scout came back and reported: "The Song army has been dispatched and is building fortifications in the Dongjian Valley, preparing to snipe our army." ”
"Dongjian Valley?" Ye Wu Xingshe thought about it in his mind for a while, and then he was overjoyed: "This group of Song people wants to find death." ”
It was an open area, although the area was not large, but it was not a large battle, and he only had a thousand or hundreds of cavalry, which was just conducive to the charge of his cavalry. Then he asked, "How many soldiers and horses?" ”
"There were about seven or eight hundred Song Dynasty infantry, and four or five hundred cavalry."
This is very much in line with what he has reported.
"Is there an ambush along the road?"
"No, the little ones have checked all the mountains and ravines on both sides of the road."
"That's good, Ba Bu Ruding, you take the infantry and all the cavalry, rush with me." Ye Wushe shouted. The Western Xia people were not afraid of field battles with the Song army, they were afraid of offensive and defensive battles, and Liu Ping only had 1,000 people left in the battle of Sanchuankou, because a camp was formed, so Li Yuanhao took 80,000 soldiers and horses, and fought for four or five days before Liu Ping was taken. That's 80,000 soldiers and horses, and he only has 2,000 soldiers and horses. Therefore, Yewu Xingshe first threw off the infantry and led the cavalry out quickly, so as to gain time and prevent the Song army from building fortifications.
I want to say something on the side, General Noshe, are you also underestimating the enemy. However, he was too badly defeated to have the right to speak, so he took the remnants of his men and rushed towards the eastern valley with the army.
It is only a dozen miles away from the Dongjian Valley, although the road is rugged, and even some sections must be dismounted by the soldiers, and the horses can only be led to guò, but it is too close, only half an hour, the Xixia people will come to the Dongjian River.
There was a stone bridge erected by the Fan people on the Dongjian River, but fortunately, it was not destroyed by the Song army.
More than 1,000 iron horsemen rushed across the Dongjian Bridge, on the other side of the bridge is the open Dongjian Valley, because it is too close to the Xinjiang Ballast Fort, although it is a river valley with fertile grass, but no Tibetan people have come to settle here, at most some bold herdsmen in the spring and summer, driving the sheep to graze.
The Song army was building fortifications, a mud wall, only half a person high, saw the arrival of the Tanguts, put down their tools one by one, and began to prepare for a counterattack behind the wall.
"This wall?" Ye Wushe was happy: "Zang Kui, Cai Lingyu, each of you will lead about 500 horsemen to outflank." Don't let me down again. ”
"Whoa." The two generals each led 500 iron horsemen to outflank the past.
The terrain was flat and the time was short, and even if the Song army built a wall, it would only play a slight role in the front, but the left and right sides would not have time to build a mud wall. But a trace of doubt flashed in his heart, was this really the case?
Before he had time to think about it, the Song army was also dividing its troops, each sending hundreds of officers and soldiers on the left and right, ready to open their bows and arrows, but there was no protection of mud walls on the left and right, and in the face of hundreds of roaring iron horses, they looked so thin.
Yao Ji shook off the thatch on his body, looked at the battlefield, and then looked at the stone bridge, which was the key to this battle, Dongjian Bridge. r1152
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