Before the war, Wang Ju and Zhang Qi both made repeated deductions in their minds. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

If they want to defeat the Liao army, as long as the Liao army comes to Xiazhou in a big way, they are doomed to defeat, not to mention the division of troops in Youzhou, Hongzhou, and Yanzhou.

But it was hard to beat them.

Because this section to the north, is the famous Nanhetao, it is thousands of miles in circumference, the area is almost equivalent to most of the Hedong Road. Therefore, Li Jiqian was defeated by the Song army that year and drilled into the loop, and then the Song army was dumbfounded.

The Liao army is not Li Jiqian, but these nomads in Nanhetao are more loyal to the Western Xia, and the Liao State is here to support the Western Xia, so they have a high favorability of the Liao army. Including this trip, the Liao State invited many herdsmen in the Hetao area to be guides, if you go deeper, it is the contradiction between the farming civilization and the nomadic civilization. The Song Dynasty was an agrarian civilization, how could the nomads be expected to have much loyalty to the Song Dynasty? Unless the Song army was strong enough to crush any opponent, forced by the majesty of the Song dynasty, they would be honest.

In this context, the Liao State suffered heavy losses, but what kind of people will be lost?

Minfu!

But these people are all organized from behind the mountain, basically they are Han people, let them go, there is no deterrent, and the killing can not be killed, regardless of the national position, this killing, all the Han people behind the mountain will completely fall to the Liao State.

The main force of the Liao State, led by local herdsmen, cavalry, and an incomparably wide location, would quickly enter the Nanhetao and then withdraw.

But the problem is not over, in fact, from the time the Liao State really sent troops to the northwest, the two countries were equal to scratching the skin, the war was over, and it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops here, such as Tiemen Pass and other places, at most a battalion of officers and soldiers were stationed, that is, in addition to organizing some border soldiers to save financial resources, the regular garrison was no more than a few officers and soldiers. The best example is that the 12 generals and officers and soldiers of Hedong and the 8 generals were stationed in turn on Fulin Road, that is, they were divided into two shifts, with four generals in each squad to defend Linzhou and Fengzhou, and the remaining four generals were each divided into two generals to defend the Daizhou Volcano Army.

This is the normal defensive force, but the problem is that because of this war, the nomads of the Nanhetao and the Liao State are entangled, and if there is a large area, led by them, then there will be empty holes everywhere, and at least the Nanhe Hetao will be lost, and at worst it will threaten the rule of the entire northwest. Therefore, this battle must chill the Liao State, so that they will be silent immediately when they mention the northwest in the future.

That's where this cage tactic comes in.

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Inland river vessels want to navigate safely, not the size and depth of the river, the big river is a big boat, and a small river is a small boat.

The factor that endangers the safety of ships is the large overhang of the river, such as the top of the Qingtong Gorge, all the way to Yingli (Zhongwei), this section of the river is wider than the river below, but because of the large water level difference in the Qingtong Gorge, it is not conducive to navigation.

But it depends on how to use it, it is with this water level difference, so on it, put the Hanyuan Canal, Tanglai Canal, Hanbo Canal, seven-level canal and other water conservancy projects, Yongzheng Shi used it to place the Huinong Canal, after the liberation and built the East Trunk Canal, a bronze gorge, created Ningxia Jiucheng water conservancy irrigation project.

Secondly, there can be more reefs, the famous is the Three Gorges, the water level difference is large, resulting in turbulent water flow, many reefs, so accidents are frequent.

The change of water level can not be too big, such as Lanzhou, in fact, if you are not afraid of danger, the entire upstream navigation is not to reach Qingtongxia, but to reach Lanzhou, but the water level of the Yellow River in Lanzhou changes greatly, the bottom of the river is rocky, and there are some steep river sections left, so it is not conducive to larger ships, and the navigation risk is high.

This time, Wang Ju deliberately brought many craftsmen from some docks in the Weishui Valley, and trained some sailors in Guanzhong the year before last, but he never thought that he would build ships in Lanzhou to save transportation costs.

The river can not be narrowed suddenly, Wang Ju said shipping, the upstream is Lingzhou, the downstream is the estuary, from the mouth of the Yellow River to the Yellow River belongs to the middle reaches of the river, in fact, this section of the Yellow River is more than a gorge and not dangerous, if you turn from the Hukou Waterfall, then the channel can be extended to the Yumen of Longmen.

But the problem is that from the mouth of the river, the river suddenly shrinks, and the current becomes turbulent, with the technology of the Song Dynasty, navigation is still very dangerous, so Wang Ju never considered it.

Finally, there are many river bays, and the ship sails with the inertia of the current, unlike on land, where we come to a sudden brake, and the boatman must make a prediction in advance when he sees the bay. At the same time, the bay will produce backflow, so that the hydrological characteristics produce a lot of uncertainty, the most famous is the pillar of Sanmenxia, according to the inertia of the current, the ship out of Sanmen just hit the pillar, I use the rudder, I pull the rudder hard, but often still cause accidents.

So what are the characteristics of this section of the Yellow River? It is wide, the water flow is gentle, and there are many bays, so it is called the river meander, especially the horizontal one above the few words, that is not straight, and the section of the river section of the Jishi Army is called nine songs, but there are at least ninety-nine songs in that horizontal!

However, there are many meanders, but because the river is wide and the current is gentle, the risk of navigation is still very small. But it has caused a phenomenon that is frequently diverted.

The Yellow River goes out of Helan Mountain, and there are deserts and Gobi on both sides, and when the wind blows, the sand flies together on the Yellow River. However, because the water flow is gentle, the river sand immediately settles, for example, the southern section of the river has a bay mouth, resulting in backflow, the river water does not go downstream, but rushes to the middle of the river, so the river sand will accumulate rapidly in this area, but the river must flow downward, so the river becomes rapid, and the sediment on the north bank is scavenged, resulting in a diversion.

The most famous is the 24th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, the Baotou South River section moved south for one and a half miles, and in the second year of Guangxu, the Baotou South River section moved south on a large scale. Now there are two very good ferries, Heshuodu (Tuoketuo Estuary Town) and Maodaidu (Salazi), because of the prosperity of the ferry, two prosperous towns have been created. But after the Yellow River moved south, it lost the effect of the ferry bonus, Salazi was a little better and became part of the government of Tumut Right Banner, as for Hekou Town, so many Hekou towns in the country can't find this Hekou Town, because it has become Hekou Village! Then Baotou Nanhai Zidu began to prosper......

However, these two diversions are considered to be the larger scale of the diversion of the Yellow River, although the remaining diversions are frequent, the scale is very small, often moving less than a few tens of meters, and it is a rare place for people, so the history books do not contain it. However, it is this terrain and this diversion that has created more and more bay roads. For example, the Wujia River in the north of Fengzhou in the Tang Dynasty and later in the north of Wuyuan was only a secondary river of the Yellow River, but now it is the main river of the Yellow River, and the main river of the Yellow River is now just a small river bay.

Then there is the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which crosses down from the mouth of the river, there are many mountains on both sides, and the river is turbulent, but it is constrained by the mountains on both sides, and the river sand is not easy to precipitate, and the river channel has been very stable.

and then to the crossing of the river of the three armies.

The river directly built a bridge, and opened the way in the mountains, that is, the army in front cut off the bushes and thorns, so that the rear army could march quickly. It is impossible to build bridges on the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

And then to the crossing of the big river, if you are not in a hurry, you can use a ferry boat to ferry.

If it is very urgent, the Xixia people use Hun to cross the river, there is also a way, erect a pontoon bridge, the most famous is the Song Dynasty to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, the pontoon bridge erected on the Yangtze River, with iron chains to connect the boats, lay wooden planks on them, and the army crosses!

But if the army is large, then it is extremely picky about this ferry.

First of all, the water flow of the ferry must be gentle, in order to ensure the safety of the three armed forces, and secondly, the ferry port must be large, so as to accommodate many ferries to ferry at the same time, otherwise a boat will be ferried slowly, like Hu Tera this time led more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians to come, so how long will it take to cross?

If the pontoon bridge is erected, it is even more picky, just like the pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River in the Song Dynasty, Fan Ruoshui drove a boat to pretend to fish on the Yangtze River, and chose to choose, only selected a place in the quarrying rock, and then measured the width of the river with a silk rope, and the Song Dynasty erected the pontoon bridge according to the information he provided.

This is a bit cumbersome to say, but it immediately relates to the cage battle plan below......

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For the time being, he was still in the valley, but Yanzhou City was so difficult that he felt that something was wrong.

So he first set his eyes on the southern measurement of the seven-level canal, where the Song army had placed a huge dock, not only the court officers and craftsmen, but also tens of thousands of Western Xia prisoners of war and civilians.

Now that it has begun to be ruled by chaos, it can no longer use the bloody means of the past, but after repeated crippling in the Western Xia, the people can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, but they can't let them starve to death, not starvation, once they are desperate from hunger, then they will take the initiative to rebel, so Wang Ju adopted labor relief measures, including the construction prisoners in Hexi, everyone worked, and the Song Dynasty brought grain, grass and cloth from the rear to distribute materials to work.

There were a lot of people, but the Song army needed many, many ships immediately.

If a cavalry was sent to attack this dock, it would have been a great deterrent, but soon the scouts sent a message that the Song Dynasty still retained a large army in Yaode City and other places.

It doesn't work to have a small number of troops, but a lot of troops, first of all, the difficulty of the Hanhai terrain is a headache, even if you send all the cavalry, you are worried about ending up like Lingzhou Chuan. Once the cavalry is devastated, this army will usher in a tragic fate.

Then he stared at the west of the ancient Great Wall, but the problem was how to cross the Yellow River after this section of the ancient Great Wall, and the Song army could not watch the Liao army build the ship well, and besides, he did not bring many craftsmen who were good at building ships this time.

Then he stared at Hengshan again, how difficult Hengshan is, Utera knows, but now Hengshan does not have many troops, but in this way, it is equivalent to officially declaring war on the Song Dynasty, and the consequences are unpredictable.

Forced to helpless, he sent a large number of rangers to Hengshan activities, the Song army of Hengshan Fortress simply ignored it, out of the fort we did not dare, but want to capture our fort, there is no way. For so many years, Song Xia has relied on Hengshan and launched many tug-of-wars, attacking fortifications and defensive battles.

Then he received the news that the Song army suddenly sent troops to Jinsu City.

We didn't attack your Song Dynasty, why did your Song Dynasty attack our Liao Kingdom?

But here's the problem.

If Hu Tera took these hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to wander around Nanhetao, the Song army really had no way to deal with it.

But how to solve this stroll, eating, drinking, and wearing?

Therefore, the Liao army must go back, and when it goes back, it will cross the Yellow River, and the section of the river west of Muna Mountain should not be thought about, all of them were occupied by the Song Dynasty, and they began to build forts and garrison the army. Moreover, there were also a large number of soldiers patrolling the Yellow River by boat, how to allow the Liao army to cross the river.

Then the Liao army wants to go back, there are only two locations, one is Baotou, now it is not called Baotou, but Yunnei Prefecture, also called Jiashan or Xishan area.

That section of the Yellow River was wide and flat, and there were many crossings suitable for crossing. The question is, however, where to cross the river, which means crossing the entire South Loop, and crossing more deserts. Logistics immediately became a big problem.

In fact, even if they chose this way, it is impossible for them to successfully go back, Liaoxing Zong attacked Xia, although it was defeated, but the people of Western Xia were not happy, Li Yuanhao did not take the opportunity to recover the Jinsu army and the Heqing army, and then went north, above the Muna Mountain is the Black Mountain area, that is, the area of the surrendered city in the Tang Dynasty. Under this pressure, the Western Xia had to build some forts in Muna Mountain, and four castles in Henan to guard the Yellow River.

I am not afraid that the Liao army will pass through the desert, but I am afraid that the Liao army will ship ships from the Yellow River.

Now all these forts have been received by the Song army, and Wang Ju has let a large number of soldiers take logistics and go east by boat, with the Song army flanking on land and ships patrolling on the waterway.

At least the Liao army will have to build a boat to cross the river, or build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, it will take a while, and this area is dominated by dry plains, and the trees are dwarf and drought-tolerant trees, and it is very difficult to find wood suitable for shipbuilding. Even if it is built, it will still face the slaughter of the Song Dynasty naval army.

Therefore, there is only the second road, which is also the ferry where the Liao army crosses the Yellow River, the Junzijin ferry (Horn Bay Ferry) in the east of the Jinsu army, the river surface in this area is relatively straight and wide, the water flow is gentle, and it is also the best ferry for the Yellow River to come down at the mouth of the river.

There are other small ferries, but this is a retreat ferry for hundreds of thousands of troops, are those small ferries suitable?

However, now that these two armies and one state have all been taken by the Song army, can they not be in a hurry?

He also didn't care whether Xingzhou City was taken by the Song army, and immediately led his troops and horses to retreat.

Poor Seed Master Dao and Liu Changzuo were afraid that he would have a nervous disorder, and they also added some troops to Hengshan, but without a single shot, Utela retreated.

But what made him happy was that when the people of these states heard that the Liao army had retreated, many soldiers and civilians spontaneously asked to follow the Liao army to the Liao country. There is no population crisis in Liao for the time being, on the contrary, after the rebellion in Liaodong, many Ding Zhuang died.

And there are many nobles among these people, although they are not as good as in the past, but they still have a lot of wealth in their hands. So they gathered all the way, and in the end the number of soldiers and civilians on this march reached almost 200,000.

Otira withdrew, almost none of the people left in Sanzhou were loyal to Western Xia, Gyeongju Yanzhou sent troops at the same time, easily recovered Sanzhou, and then quickly repaired the city wall and built forts, including Baichi City, Tiemen Pass, Sanchakou, Zuocunze, Naiwangjing, Wuyancheng These important towns, but some important places in the north of Xiazhou, such as Huangyangping, Qiliping, Anqingze, Dashadui, Wangting Town, Dejing Town, did not care about them, but they are not important, once further repaired, they are linked, It can become the best north gate of Xiazhou, and this area is also the most important farming area and animal husbandry area in Western Xia, these towns must be rebuilt in order to protect the development of this area, but now it is too late, and a single construction has become a situation that can be defended, so it is better to ignore it.

By the time he reached Huangyangping, he had already received the news of the loss of Xingzhou, but because the Yellow River was heavily patrolled, the scouts did not inquire about the details. However, he still thinks that the main force of the Song army is behind him, either down the waterway, not to mention how many troops can be carried by boat, or how many troops can be carried by boats, this section of the river is gentle, there is almost no gap between tracing the river and going against the current, and there are many curves, which is equivalent to extending the shipping, and then going ashore, and it will take a long distance, so even if the Song army wants to fight the Liao army in Jinsu, it is too late. Or cross the Yellow River, not afraid of hard work, along the ancient Great Wall of this road to Yanzhou, and then to Hongzhou, Yinzhou, Linzhou, Fuzhou, into the Liao realm, it is also too late!

Therefore, as more and more people joined him, his march became slower and slower, but because of this illusion, he was not in a hurry at all. On the contrary, these people will be of great use in the future, including counteroffensive, this is the territory of Western Xia, why not counterattack, with these people, then the Liao State will occupy the right time, place and people.

And because these people left their homes and brought out all the valuables of their homes, as well as grain, grass and livestock, the logistics of this trip were very sufficient, and because many tribes in the Hetao joined one after another, they provided many livestock water bladders, brought enough water, and there was no shortage of water.

His soldiers and horses set out for the Jinsu army, and many "people" came to the Jinsu army, and they carried out construction on a large scale, so as to build more forts and checkpoints before the Liao army arrived, and at the same time persuaded the people to harvest the unripe bean millet and hand it over to the forts as green fodder, and according to the weight they sent, the relevant materials would be distributed in the future. This is close, and those far away from the Song realm are directly burned with fire, and then let the people go south and go to Linzhou to eat.

The main thing is that there are two advantages here, this area belongs to the Shengzhou region of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Later Liang period, the Liao State sent troops and exiled all the people of Shengzhou to the Liao State. Later, it was occupied again, but the people who migrated here were all Han Chinese from the states behind the mountains. I don't expect these Han people to have much affection for the Song Dynasty, but they won't be too repulsive. At the same time, there are mainly garrisons here, and there are not many people, and there are only four or five thousand households in total, which is easy to settle and migrate.

At the same time, the camp owners personally intervened and promised them all kinds of benefits from the Song Dynasty in the future, which they used to compensate for their losses, but if they still did not migrate, they used forceful means to forcibly burn their crops and houses.

When the army of Utra arrived at the Jinsu army, all the people of the two armies and one state were evacuated, and the crops were also burned clean, that is, the Song Dynasty was about to implement the tactics of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness.

This is also a common tactic, and it has not yet aroused the alarm of Utra, so when he arrived at the Jin Su army, he did three things.

The first thing was to send an envoy to question Zhang Shouyu.

You Song people, you are so bold that you dare to openly invade our dynasty.

I don't know if our Liao country is a tiger!

Zhang Shouyue also gave a reply, since Li Jiqian, Western Xia has been a group of scoundrels and untrustworthy rebels and thieves, needless to say, there is too much evidence, like Li Jiqian surrendered if he couldn't win, and then rebelled after settling down, and the Song Dynasty watched him grow helplessly. After Li Jiqian's death, Li Deming was a little better, Li Yuanhao came again, and then the generation was not as good as the generation.

Last year, after repeated mediation by the country, our dynasty agreed to negotiate peace, but the Liang thieves sent a large number of scouts to sneak into the border of our DPRK, spread rumors, and divide our monarchs and ministers, so our dynasty crusaded against Western Xia. And these scouts and evidence were also sent to the border one after another, handed over to the hands of the country, and explained to the country.

However, regardless of morality and twists and turns, Er first sent 30,000 cavalry to attack our supply, and then led more than 100,000 soldiers and horses into the northwest, first fighting Qiliping, then Xiazhou City, and then attacking Yanzhou City, resulting in countless casualties among our soldiers. The country is unkind first, and don't blame me for being unrighteous last!

If you do the first year of junior high school, don't blame us for doing fifteen now!

Therefore, Hattera began to mobilize his troops and horses to attack some of the forts.

Then they sent elite cavalry to gallop to the Junzijin ferry, because the scouts had already discovered that the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent them from crossing the river, or to prevent reinforcements from arriving, blew up the mountains and took stones, and the river beaches on both sides of the ferry were covered with stones, so that the boats could not cross.

The problem was not too big, because he had too many men or civilians in his hands, so he first occupied the important places around the ferry, controlled the ferry, and then the army arrived, moved stones and ships, or forcibly built pontoon bridges with small boats. However, this was not for the sake of retreat, but to ensure the rear road and then launch a counteroffensive against the Song army.

And Xijing stays in the affairs (Liao's eastern, central, and southern three capitals are placed in the Prime Minister's Mansion, divided into left and right phases or left and right chapter political affairs, and the next is the Beijing Stay-in Affairs or Tongzhi, because the Liao Emperor runs everywhere, each Kyoto has a palace or palace, and there is an introspection division, and at the same time there are various ministries and envoys, such as the household department, the degree branch, the three divisions, the salt and iron, the planning division, the transshipment, etc., as well as the governor's office, the Du Yu Hou Division, the Police Patrol Yuan, the Disposal Division, the Wujing Jingxue, and the Imperial City Division in Beijing, and the Imperial City Division in Beijing, and the Imperial City Division, and the Imperial City Division, and the Imperial Governor's Office, and the Imperial Envoy Division, the patrol envoy division, the internal deployment division, Nanjing has the Xuanhui Academy, the disposal of the envoy division, the military envoy division, the Liyuan Division, plus the northern and southern official system of the Liao State, making the official system several times more complicated than the Song Dynasty) Yelu Na also heard about it, and also sent a group of soldiers and horses to Junzijin, began to move the stones, and prepared to respond to the Utera.

This is also the reason why he is not nervous, if he is in a mood, he is just very angry, and he still let the Song Dynasty successfully destroy the Western Xia.

Nearly 30,000 troops rushed to Junzijin, and there were thousands of Western Xia warriors among them.

It's not too far, three hundred and dozens of miles, the Liao country is all cavalry, although it brought some supplies, but it is not much of an obstacle to the speed, if there is no accident, it can quickly reach the ferry in a day and a half and occupy an important place.

On the evening of the first day, the three armies rested in a valley, and through the Tanguts, they learned more about Wang Ju's tactics and repeatedly told them to be careful, so although they camped here, the Liao army sent many soldiers to patrol and guard.

Whether it is useful or not, this night is safe and sound, and it may be that the Song Dynasty has few troops now, and the poor troops are only to ensure the safety of the cities and forts, so there is no Song soldier to harass them along the way.

The next day, the troops continued to be dispatched, the Jinsu army was a small half hilly and half Liang Ridge terrain, the small stone mountain was a hill, and the small earth mountain was Liang Mountain, which ran east and west along the river, and the central and western regions mostly ran north and south, but it was not very regular, and the whole was criss-crossed.

More than ten miles below Jinsu City, there is a big ravine that runs east-west, and then along a ravine that is slightly north-south, along the east of Jinsu City to Junzijin, which is relatively flat, and has become the most important road of Jinsu Army, and the former army of the Liao Army took this road.

Seeing that after walking dozens of miles, he was about to reach Junzijin, and suddenly a cavalry came from the south and halved the Liao army.

It is not an ambush, the Liao army is very careful on this trip, the front army has not arrived, the scouts go first, and want to ambush on both sides of the road, it will inevitably be discovered, so the Song army sent a huge army, walking on both sides of the road at night, but it is far away from this main road, full of ten miles, and then let Liu Fa lead the cavalry first, and the Liao army is all in two, and it is dragged here.

Liu Fa did not have many troops, but due to the terrain, the forces of the eastern and western parts of the Liao State could not be gathered.

After a tragic battle for nearly an hour, Liu Fa's subordinates suffered nearly half of the casualties, but Liu Fa never retreated, and the ambush soldiers behind rushed up. It is not that there are no soldiers, and the strength of these two Song armies alone has reached 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses.

After fighting with Liu Fa for so long, coupled with the fact that forty or fifty thousand elite horse infantry troops of the Song Dynasty rushed in, and the Liao army was all in half, and soon the Liao army began to rout.

It has nothing to do with field battles, because this is the terrain of Liangshan Mountain, which cannot give full play to the advantages of cavalry, and the infantry of the Song Dynasty are armed with sharp weapons, and most of them are a group of veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and their combat effectiveness is not weaker than that of the Liao cavalry.

The Liao army in the west was defeated and fled westward, and Miao Lu led a group of officers and soldiers to chase down, and it was feasible to lead the remaining officers and soldiers to continue to kill the Liao army on the east road. Killed all the way to the edge of the Yellow River, and some Liao soldiers killed and covered their heads and jumped directly into the Yellow River.

The rest of the Liao army was killed on this river beach, which made the Liao soldiers and horses who were moving stones on the opposite side frightened. Zhi Ke pointed at the Liao army on the other side with his sword, and then escorted the prisoners back.

The Liao army in the west continued to be defeated and fled, and after fleeing for nearly 100 miles, Lin Guang and Jia Yan and other generals once again led nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers to fight out one after another. In the end, there were only more than 10,000 Liao soldiers who could escape safely.

Then the Song army suddenly poured out like a heavenly soldier, and countless officers and soldiers guarded the dangerous points of each road, and set up the barracks, even if the Liao army broke through a line of defense, there was a second line of defense and a third line of defense behind it.

Then a group of soldiers and horses brought artillery and bombarded the Liao army on the opposite bank who were moving stones, causing thousands of Liao troops on the opposite bank to flee eastward one by one.

The truth came out, it was not that there were no soldiers in the Song Dynasty here, but there were countless troops, from Fengzhou to the Yellow River, there were 200,000 soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty, in fact, the so-called people were also soldiers, at least a militia.

And from Fengzhou down to Youzhou, the Song Dynasty still stationed nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians.

This road is not working!

Please go back to the desert. (To be continued.) )