979. Chapter 979 - Expected Strategy
When Wang Xiu returned to the station, Zong Liang was relaxing by himself, holding a handbook of the history of the former Tang Yan in the hall, reading it with relish.
This kind of manuscript is forbidden by the imperial court, especially not allowed officials to read it, but some illegal booksellers still print it privately, and it is widely circulated among the people, not to mention that Zong Liang has seen it privately, even some officials are not happy to know the other, and secretly buy it to watch.
"Big brother, I'm so interested!" Wang Xiu couldn't help laughing when he saw Zong Liang concentrating, but he didn't blame it, forbidden is forbidden, it's a small or bad thing, there is no need to be serious, food and sex!
Zong Liang's face turned red, seeing that these wild histories can't be classified into the hall of elegance, and they were seen by Wang Xiu, it's really embarrassing! Hurriedly stuffed the book into his sleeve pocket, rubbed his hands and said awkwardly, "I looked at it occasionally." ā
"It's okay, these words are also subtle, and it doesn't hurt to read them at your leisure." Wang Xiu doesn't care, it's human nature to hunt for curiosity, not to mention that these unique novels are well written, and it can be regarded as a pastime to read them in your spare time.
Zong Liang's old face was a little unbearable, so he could only laugh twice.
At this moment, a hurried voice came from outside the door, saying, "Go on the gold plate." ā
A priest came in with a black lacquer box, Zong Liang hurriedly got up and took it, swept his eyes and said, "The text in front of the emperor is not allowed to enter the shop." ā
Wang Xiu nodded, signaled Zong Liang to open it and take a look, and when he took over the post Huang Guantang, he saw that it was written on it by the Privy Council Speed Division, the Emperor Song Guard, and the Northeast Rumors, and the Metropolitan Hall and the Privy Council approved it, and his face gradually became solemn.
After reading the content inside, his expression did not fluctuate too much, and he gave Guantang to Zong Liang, and fell into a deep groan.
Zong Liang frowned slightly when he saw it, and couldn't help but lose his voice: "Sir......"
"Well, I'll go back tomorrow." After Wang Xiu finished speaking, he turned around and went out.
"There's no need to rush it." Zong Liang pursed his lips and naturally muttered to himself.
In fact, Wang Xiu really wanted to stay and guide the war, but because everything that should be done was done, and there was nothing to do, so he could only distract the generals in front of him, so it was better to leave and save others from gossiping.
When Wang Xiu left, Qu Duan stretched out his hands and feet, and changed his strategy with a strong wrist, and the eastern front used the front division of the palace as a barrier, and commanded the two major camps to sweep, constantly oppressing the living space of the Xia army, and the township army troops gradually consolidated the occupied area.
In the middle of the road, there were strong soldiers in Lima, Xin Bing and He Wei supervised the township army of each road, and constantly gathered to the border, and the seventh battalion launched an offensive against Weizhou.
That menacing appearance made Guli Hei frightened, his soldiers and horses needed to defend the pass, and they were transferred a lot, and they could be concentrated that there were more than 10,000 people, and they were all horse troops, which was not enough to defend the city.
In the face of the elite of the two armies of the Song Army, the Ma Army could not fight a defensive war, implemented mobile warfare, and there was no room for detours.
The battle in Weizhou was quite brutal, the Song army had enough time, they did not attack the city at all, the two armies took local materials, with stone throwers, bed crossbows and black medicine, and bombarded the city uninterruptedly, and the Xia army was miserable.
Weizhou is a border military state, the city area is relative to the state governance of the Song Dynasty, that is, the level of a third-class county, completely not up to the standard of a military city, the Song army tens of thousands of people bombarded day and night, the army and people in the city could not rest, and the morale of the people was extremely low.
Shao Xing was not idle, he plundered everywhere in Liangzhou, and waited until the township army gathered 30,000 troops, which was enough, with Guzang as the center, to the west to harass Ganzhou, and organized a force of soldiers and horses to the northeast, forcing Zhuo Luo and the Southern Military Division not to dare to attack Xihe Road, so they could only divide their troops to intercept in the north.
With the dissatisfaction of the war horses, the strength of the horse army of the ninth camp became stronger and stronger, and the Song army and horse army became a big tyrant for the first time.
Ren Dejing was quickly summoned to the palace to discuss, and there were ministers such as Cha Ge and Gan Daochong, who got the promise of the Jurchens in view of their interference in the north and south of the river, and began to have new hopes.
Since the founding of Yuan Hao, the party has never put its fate on others, and has always taken advantage of the contradictions between the north and the south, taking advantage of both sides, trying to survive in the cracks, and has also gained a great advantage, and has also defeated the attacks of the north and the south respectively.
The help of the Jurchens, they didn't trust it at all, it was simply a plot with the tiger, leaving their own northern land to the fierce Jurchens, and they were not stupid enough to do this.
However, Ren Dejing built yƬ, now all Hengshan has fallen into the hands of people, the left wing is chaotic into a pot of porridge, the right wing is not strong in combat, and it was successfully attacked by Shao Xing, it is just that he is too busy to take care of himself. If, the Song army achieves heavy results again, Xiao Heda will inevitably rebel, and at that time, the Song army will be under the city, what is the use of the north to Xia?
He judged that the Jurchens were not well-intentioned, but they were to curb the steppe wolves, let the Song and Xia Huo merge, and they reaped the benefits of the fishermen.
Li Renxiao also saw the entanglement, what Ren Dejing said was not wrong, the main force of the left wing was annihilated, what else do you want to do with the three military divisions in the north! Diplomatic relations are nothing more than using each other to seek the greatest political interests.
Since the Jurchens wanted him to fight to the death with the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty also had the intention of annexing the party, this battle must be desperate. Then the matter will be easy to do, there are Jurchens to help deter the grassland tribes, he decisively dispatched 25,000 regular soldiers to the south, and the three military divisions only left 10,000 regular soldiers of the tribe, which can be regarded as the right situation.
To say that to deal with the various departments of the grassland, the regular soldiers of 10,000 people are almost equivalent to no defense, which is equivalent to giving half of the border defense rights of the northern land to the Jurchens, which is very dangerous, just in order to save the declining war situation, you can only grit your teeth and cut the flesh.
This army quickly moved south, rushed directly to the Yanzhou area, cooperated with the garrison of the first department, and joined the garrisons of various departments to launch a counterattack against the Song army.
If the strategy is used properly, they will break through the defense line of the northwest camp of the palace front division and directly strike at the Song army in the south of Xiazhou, and the overall situation can be determined in one battle.
This time, it is expected by both sides, and the key is to test the endurance and command art of both sides, and whoever can hold on will be the winner.
Just when Li Renxiao made a decision, the news came that Gulihe had given up Weizhou, and he was taken aback and was about to order Gulihei to counterattack.
Brother Cha keenly judged that the Song army was about to launch an offensive in Hanhai, and they urgently discussed countermeasures. It is believed that the Song army should attack from the soft belly, avoid the eastern part where the battle is raging, and directly launch an offensive against Xiping Mansion, which can be used.
Xiping Mansion set up the Xiangqing Army, not to mention that the military city is strong, even the peripheral Dingbian Town, Nanping Prefecture, and Dongguan Town are also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the absolute defense of the castle group, the two or three armies of the Song Army basically cannot achieve the goal.
They unanimously decided to retry Li Yuanhao's tactics against the Song Dynasty, lure the enemy into depth, and then use the horse army to attack the Song army's baggage transfer line to fight a decisive battle of annihilation.