Chapter 257: I Wish to Go
In the big tent of the Chinese army in the Song Dynasty, Cai Ting and the generals were looking at the map. :3.
The scouts who probed the situation 6 continued to return, and some did not return, but the scouts who came back brought a new situation.
"Twelve Pan Castle?" Wang Ju stared at the map.
He was thinking in his heart, no wonder Xiao Liang would build the Twelve Pan Fort a few years later, it turned out that Li Liangzuo had an idea at this time, about in history, Li Liangzuo was almost shot to death by Lin Guang, and the Western Xia generals were afraid that something would happen, so they carried Li Liangzuo back to Jintang City, so this Twelve-Pan Fort was just an idea and did not come true.
But indeed, from a military point of view, the construction of this fort has great benefits to Western Xia, just to make up for the gap between Jintang City and White Leopard City.
Cai Ting stared at the map.
He didn't care too much about the Xixia Xiu Twelve Pan Fort, and compared to Li Fugui, he also understood politics more thoroughly.
At least now the Song Dynasty did not have the soil to expand the territory, the role of the military, defense, and defense, as long as the defense did not make mistakes, there would be merit.
It has nothing to do with conservatism, but is caused by the general environment of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, if there is no persuasion from Wang Ju, he will accept it if he sees it, and he does not want to take the ballast fort.
He looked at the map, and after Li Liangzuo hesitated for a long time, he decided to retreat, but he couldn't figure out the thoughts of the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, and he was afraid that he would lead the officials of Huanqing Road to counterattack, so he sent sergeants to start building a fort in Shishipan in the afternoon. Or the cost of counterattacking is too high, forcing itself to not counterattack.
But how much do you think about counterattacking?
This one doesn't matter. The important thing is that Li Liangzuo sent many soldiers to build a fort, and it became very close to the temporary granary in Western Xia, and Wang Ju's strategy may not be implemented. On the contrary, the officers and soldiers of the two battalions and several Yeli tribes were put in danger.
"Wang Ju, it's a little difficult to do." Cai Ting raised his head and said.
"It's a bit of a headache," Wang Ju said.
If you burn the grain and grass, you can start this battle, and if you can't burn the grain and grass, you won't mention it with the officers and soldiers of the two battalions. The odds of winning this battle will also be infinitely compressed.
Zhang Yu suddenly said on the side: "It's better to be like this, now the enemy is besieging Dashun City on both sides, compared to the west of the city." In the east of the city, due to supply reasons, the troops were relatively small, so they relied on the mountain and set up a dangerous village. But no matter how it is pricked. It's just a camp fence. It's not a fort. We can send a battalion of cavalry into the enemy camp, and the army will blow the horn in the back, and then send someone to inform the city of Dashun, so that they can send troops from the city to make a feint, and make it look like they are trying to take the city again, and attract the enemy to transfer the army. ”
"This is a good way......" Cai Ting muttered, "but who wants to lead cavalry over to attack the camp?" ”
This is no joke, the idea is good, but in order to attract all the troops in the rear. It is necessary to enter the enemy camp from the third watch and kill until the fourth watch. It takes an hour to do this.
The troops in Dashun City are easy to do, they go out of the city and fight behind the city, Guan Jian is this cavalry, and they are a lone army in depth, and they will undoubtedly be fierce and auspicious for an hour in the tens of thousands of troops.
Of course, as long as you dare to go, it will have an effect.
The Western Xia people may not have seen Liu Xiu's Kunyang battle, but the principles of the art of war are almost the same, if the Western Xia really dare to ignore the Song Dynasty to do this, and do not draw troops from the west of the city to help, then everyone will not be wary of eating this army again.
Although he couldn't do the general battle, everyone was satisfied with that kind of battle, and Wang Ju was also satisfied.
However, it is impossible, so many soldiers and horses have been lost, Li Liangzuo really does not feel pain, so he will send troops to rescue. This cavalry will also be in danger.
Hu Qian suddenly said: "Cai Gong, Manager Zhang, Wang Zhixian, let me go." ”
"You're going?"
Hu Qian said: "Wang Zhixian, you have the grace of knowing the last general, and the last general will always repay, anyway, you always have to send someone to go." If you want to do this, who else can you do except the three battalions? ”
Wang Ju was silent.
There are only these three battalions of cavalry, and it refers to the three battalions of cavalry in Huachi County, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Baojie Army is still a little worse.
The rest of the Fan cavalry is also not good, and some even have only more than 300 people.
And the three battalions of the cavalry in Huachi County have reached about 500 people, and they have been trained for more than a year, and they have participated in several battles, they are rich in combat experience, and they are well equipped, and they can be regarded as ace troops in the entire Song army, and even Cai Ting suspects that Di Qing's cavalry that requisitioned south to Lingnan is probably not as good as the three battalions of cavalry in Huachi County now.
"Gong Cai, Manager Zhang, Wang Zhixian, let the last general go."
"If you go, remember my words, I don't want you to go with a will to die, it's better to be clever and come back alive. In addition, I would like to say to all the soldiers and brothers under your command, whether they are sacrificed or seriously injured, do not worry about them and their families in the future, I should be kind. Wang Ju said.
"Whoa."
"Send someone to inform Dashun City again," Zhang Yu said. After all, he didn't know the inside story of Hu Qian and Wang Ju, and he didn't have so many feelings, and in order to win, he watched the whole village of Qu Qizhai being slaughtered, and the whole village was burned to ashes, not to mention a battalion of cavalry.
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"The back is ready, Qin Dutou." Ye Li Gu said.
"That's good."
"But it's not easy to do now," said Wild Gully. The conditions offered by the magistrate of the Song Dynasty were tempting, and they believed it. One is because of Li Sangou, and the other is that they have also heard about Wang Ju, especially the soju, this thing can't be poured for a day and a half, it seems to be the only liquor in the world, the war is coming, the trade stops, but the war will end sooner or later, and the trade will start again.
As long as the shochu is there, the money will roll in.
In fact, he didn't figure it out, the transaction did not stop, the transaction on Qin Fenglu's side continued, and the trading volume was gradually expanding. But a few governors are too lazy to come forward now. Hit and fight, do you Cai Ting need any help?
Several Zhizhou also had the wrong idea, and the fight began to be fought. But when the war stops, the cost is just as staggering, whether it's a pension or a reward. Do you rely on the imperial court?
However, it depends on what Cai Ting thinks, if the Xixia people are flattened, Cai Ting will accept it when he sees it, and he doesn't want to do too much, then it is okay to fool around with rewards and pensions. If he and Wang Ju have the same mind, they want to raise their morale. You have to change your way to collect money, and you have to change your way to add rewards and pensions. So this shochu has to continue to be supported.
Secondly, because sales expanded to Tibet, compared with Western Xia. The conditions in Tubo are slightly better, and there are not so many strict controls, and the trading volume is expanding, gradually surpassing the trading volume and profit on the Western Xia side.
Some even sold to Uighurs further west.
This is also normal. For example, tea. There is no tea in Tatars, and they need tea to brush the fishy smell of goat's milk and help digestion.
However, because of the isolation of the Western Xia, tea can be sold at a sky-high price in the Tatar side, and the Song Dynasty also has cheap tea, more than ten or twenty dollars a catty, but over there, you can exchange a few catties of this coarse tea for a fat sheep.
It is not calculated according to the price of sheep in the capital. Even in the border area, a sheep has to be consistently rich. The price of tea has risen tenfold.
But at what price the Tibetans sold to the Uighurs, Wang Ju would not ask, anyway, the more he sold, the more profit he made.
Therefore, when the news reached several Yeli tribes, several patriarchs and important elders were overjoyed. Not to mention the danger, on the side of the mountain, they live a half-fed and half-starved life, which is undoubtedly a chronic suicide, just as dangerous, but not visible.
Therefore, when the Yeligu realm went back today, several patriarchs immediately agreed, and then moved to persuade the people of the clan, and only then did they disclose the truth. However, at that time, Ye Ligu had already returned to the barracks, but when he quietly returned to the barracks, he saw the scene in front of him.
Many sergeants poured in front of them, overhauling the fort in the twelve-pan. There are a lot of people, and after half a day, they actually laid a foot-high wall foundation. If this continues, in a few days at most, a decent fort will be built.
The Yeli Gu Realm also didn't care about this Twelve Pan Fort, but this Twelve Pan Fort was too close to the granary in the rear. With so many soldiers and horses here, how can they attack the granary at night?
Qin Hai also felt a headache.
At this time, Wu Kui said: "Don't worry, Wang Zhixian will have a way." ”
"What will be done?"
"I don't know." Wu Kui spread his hands and said.
"This is not in Huachi County, but in Shixipan, even if Wang Zhixian learned the news, it was almost evening, and he wanted to send more troops, but it was too late." Ye Li Gu said.
If you come along the road, even if you are in a hurry at night, if the number of troops is small and you don't bring any supplies, you can still get there. However, can the Great Dao Song Army come over? Even the Yeligu realm didn't know how the officers and soldiers of the two battalions arrived at Shixipan, and even if they could come, it was estimated that they would take a rugged and unknown road. I'm afraid it will be around noon. At noon, Xixia had not yet repaired the Twelve Pan Fort.
"Young Chief Yeli, look," Wu Kui said. For Wang Ju, he has the same great confidence as Qin Sandezi.
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The trouble continues.
It was getting darker and darker, and the night wind was getting extremely cold, but Yao Xiong and his soldiers were so anxious that they were sweating.
They successfully sneaked to Zali Village, and were about to get dark and run to Shixipan, when suddenly from the direction of White Leopard City, a Western Xia army came, with some supplies, and slowly marched in the direction of the ballast with torches.
"Are they still unwilling?" One of them said.
"What's unwilling?"
"They don't continue to think about the idea of fighting Rouyuan Village, why do they need to increase troops to the Xinjiang Ballast Fort at this time?"
Yao Xiong said: "Not necessarily, I'm afraid that the Western Xia people want to retreat, General Manager Zhang won a big victory in front of Rouyuan Village, and blocked the way in the direction of the Xinjiang Ballast Fort, and the Western Xia defeated army could not escape to the Xinjiang Ballast Fort, and the strength in the fort is now very empty." Once they retreated, there would be no pressure on our army on the front line, so the small lord of Western Xia ordered to increase the troops from the rear to prevent losses. ”
He really guessed it.
In the morning, everyone didn't dare to speak, and finally Song Ji said: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, besides, the five roads on the edge of the Song Dynasty, and the difficult roads will be like Huanqing Road?" ”
As a side note, I suffered a loss on Huanqing Road, and it is a big deal to change my way to take revenge and avenge this shame.
This sentence is now the most popular.
Li Liangzuo praised Song Ji a few more words.
At this time, it was close to noon, and since it was decided to withdraw the troops, there must be a plan to withdraw the troops. After the two victories, the Song army openly sent a large number of scouts to roam the front line, and the Western Xia could not get detailed information, but they could still get some approximate information.
The reason why the troops, including Hwachi and Gyeongju, failed, was to underestimate the determination of the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, which was a great victory achieved by draining the rear forces of the entire Huanqing Road and gathering them on the front line. Now that the two battles are over, but these troops are still gathered on the front line, it seems that the news that the scouts have heard is not only assembled on the front line, but also gathered in Liyuan Fort and Rouyuan Village, how far can this be from Dashun City? Besides, it's all avenues.
So Li Liangzuo decided to stay for another two or three days, firstly, he was still not very willing in his heart, and secondly, he was also worried that the Song army would counterattack, so while waiting to see what happened, he built the Twelve Pan Fort, so he could advance or retreat. It also included the order to increase the number of troops in the Xinjiang ballast fort.
The ballast fort has become an empty fortress again, and if the Song people notice it and attack by surprise troops, the Western Xia will lose an important portal. Only then did the troops increase, and an immediate increase was ordered.
But this accident suffered the officers and soldiers of Yao Xiong's two battalions.
Why set on the fourth watch, not the third watch.
The scouts in this area have explored many times, and the time is calculated by Wang Ju, and they arrived at Zali Village before dark. It goes out when it gets dark, and then it begins to cross the mountains, and it will take three watches to reach the twelve pans to meet the people of the Yeli tribe after the fastest. Slow is the fourth more!
But now thousands of Western Xia officers and soldiers are carrying supplies and marching slowly, just stopping everyone, can they still arrive at the fourth watch? (To be continued!)
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