Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 134 The Noon Offensive (24)
The power of Mengyang Tusi Dihab of the Ava Dynasty was preserved at the beginning of the Battle of Luchuan, and this preservation was a kind of overall preservation, not only that his soldiers were saved in the war without casualties, but also that the land under his rule was also stable from the invasion of war, and could provide enough food for one purpose, war.
The fact is that it is so simple and complicated, the Mengyang Tusi of the Ava Dynasty, or Mengyang Zhaofa, that is, the actual lord of Mengyang and Menggongcheng, the power of Dihab, the ruling force composed of himself and his two sons, provided the troops and logistics support for Sijifa's offensive against Mengyangcheng.
This kind of military and logistical support is not simply soldiers and food, but also a kind of "borrowing", Si Jifa, as the lord of Luchuan, the monarch of Mengmao State, originally had enough "name", this kind of name, is a kind of legal and rational embodiment, is the basis for him to gather soldiers in the Mengyang area, and let them fight for themselves, to control the land of Mengyang.
This kind of foundation is his greatest advantage, but relying only on "fame" is not enough to achieve all the goals, that is, he only has the foundation for the Luchuan people of Mengyang to recognize him, but does not have the actual conditions for the Luchuan people to truly recognize him.
Needless to say, the cottages in some places that did not recognize the Luchuan forces were naturally not mentioned, such as some villages in the Manggu Mountains, these cottages are located in the complex handover zone between the Ava Dynasty and the Luchuan forces, and exist with a relatively independent identity.
The people in these places have certain difficulties in trying to get their support, and the people in these places do not recognize them in the name of a so-called lord of Luchuan, and naturally they cannot let them work for themselves or do things.
After all, after losing the initial battle with the Ming army, most of his descendants and cronies suffered heavy casualties, and the survivors were also scattered, and their own forces were no longer there.
In this case, Sijifa also received a backstab from his rear background, Luchuan Sijia.
Not only did the Ming army not believe that Sijifa could reconvene the troops in this situation and integrate the original forces of Luchuan, but even the Luchuan Sijia themselves did not believe it, so when Sijifa fled from the walled city attacked by the Ming army, when he was in one of the most embarrassing moments of his life, his family gave him a very fatal blow, and elected other Si family, other Si family members with enough power to replace Si Jifa to lead the remaining forces of the Si family.
Although Sijia did not officially announce Sijifa's death, but in this case, it was almost the same as pushing Sijifa to the Jedi, the original Sijifa lost the important Mengyang City and a large number of other walled cities, as well as his own troops, the only thing he could do was to flee to the remaining towns controlled by the Luchuan Sijia forces, and use other troops that had been preserved in the war to maintain his own power.
However, Sijia elected a new leader Si Lu to replace Si Jifa to take charge of the remaining troops, and carried out the defense of Jiangtou City after the fall of Mengyang City by the Luchuan forces.
After all, as long as he is really dead, the other beauties who replace him will be able to grasp all the authority of Luchuan, including the official identity of the lord of Luchuan, the identity of the monarch of Meng Mao State, such a name plus the troops under his control, he can rightfully inherit all the rights of Luchuan State, in this case, Si Jifa may be closer to the enemy of Si Lu, the newly elected agent of Si Jia, than the Ming army.
Fleeing from various towns and villages in Mengyang, although facing the danger of being accidentally caught and killed or escorted to the Ming army, Jiangtou City, which is now under the control of the Si family, is more likely to be the place where Si Ji Fa must be killed, and the people there now either regard Si Ji Fa as a sinner who led to the collapse of Luchuan's power and was occupied by the Ming army, or it is the biggest obstacle that threatens the new agent to control Luchuan's power, and the people there have one biggest problem, that is, they are familiar enough with Si Jifa, And the attitude towards thinking is firm enough.
If Si Ji Fa does not return to Jiangtou City and wanders around Mengyang, then the people who meet Si Ji Fa may have all kinds of ideas, have the idea of framing, and also have the idea of exploiting, and even many people do not know Si Ji Fa at all, after all, Meng Yang is no longer the Meng Yang of the Luchuan Kingdom in the past, after many years of conquest by the Ming army, even if it is Meng Yang, not Meng Mao, the ancestral land of Luchuan, is no longer completely controlled by the forces of Luchuan State, but the interweaving of forces everywhere.
At this time, compared with Mengyang, there are some Taigong cities such as Jiangtou City, or even further south, but because they are far away from the conquest and baptism of war of the Ming army, both their own prosperity and the stability of the surrounding environment are more reliable, so they have become one of the base camps of the Luchuan forces, and in terms of the purity of manpower and rule, they are closer to the places that are completely controlled by the Luchuan forces.
And after the end of the first phase of the battle between the original Luchuan and the Ming army, that is, after the fall of Mengyangcheng, Sijifa was given up by the Luchuan forces in Jiangtou City, and he basically lost the opportunity to go back to Jiangtou City and retake over the remaining Luchuan forces.
That is to say, at this time, Si Jifa had completely no other Si family's Luchuan power controllers as rear support, and he was left alone, isolated, and it was impossible to even return to Jiangtou Chen to hide, so he could only hide in the Mengyang area, which he was really familiar with but was not an absolute danger to him.
But even in Mengyang, although not everyone wanted to kill him with a clear goal like Jiangtou City, and there were even some village owners and powerful people in the town who originally obeyed the orders of Sijifa, the lord of Luchuan, the monarch of Mengmao, but these people were not loyal to the extent that they were simply willing to die for the lord of Luchuan who had lost all his troops and was also abandoned by the Luchuan forces.
When Si Jifa lost most of his descendants, lost the towns he controlled, and even lost the support of the Sijia forces, they did not have the potential to be conquered by Si Jifa.
In this case, the only person left to rely on is one person, or a force, first of all, this force needs to be in a safe place, and will not be influenced or threatened by the Ming army or other forces, secondly, this force values Si Jifa's title enough and what his prestige brings, and finally, this force does not need Si Jifa to have much strength.
And can fit these three points perfectly, it is the Ava Dynasty's Meng Yangzhao Fadi Hubble low, compared to Si Ji Fa, what he needs most is these false names of Si Ji Fa, on the one hand, these false names are the key to his reliance on his own forces to rule the Luchuan forces, on the other hand, he can use the identity of Si Ji Fa as a shelter, so as to break away from the control of the Ava Dynasty to a certain extent, and can obtain a relatively independent status.
And Dihub, although his territory is also on the route of the Ming army's conquest, but he can use the status of a vassal of the Ava Dynasty to avoid the direct conquest of the Ming army, of course, in order to maintain his status as a vassal of the Ava Dynasty, he cannot take the initiative to initiate a battle against the Ming army, and in the end the two actually maintain a delicate balance.
It is difficult to achieve whether Di Hublow directly clashed with the Ming army, or with the help of other forms to fight for the interests of Luchuan, in order to try to resist the control of the Ava Dynasty, because if he took some actions and his identity was exposed, he would either directly challenge the authority of the Ming Dynasty or directly challenge the authority of the Ava Dynasty, neither of which could be challenged by a small Ava Mengyang Zhaofa.
And if you want to achieve your goal, you can only use the identity of Sijifa to establish an alliance with Sijifa, and hand over your soldiers and materials to Sijifa to command, and at the same time, after Sijifa has a low army, he also has enough power to attract other Luchuan Mengyang forces that were originally in a wait-and-see state to join Sijifa's command.
In the final composition of Sijifa's troops, the main force was basically about 10,000 people in Dihabo, and the remaining 30,000 soldiers came from two sides, about half of the manpower, that is, 15,000 people, from other camps and towns in the Mengyang area that obeyed Sijifa's orders, and the other half of the manpower, also 15,000 people, were new recruits gathered from the villages around Mengyang.
Among these troops, there are about 15,000 soldiers who really have sufficient military literacy, that is, the troops of the lower Hubble, and there are about 15,000 soldiers in the other battalions who obey the orders of the thinking and wit, and these people have a certain degree of military quality, but there is a big gap in equipment and organizational level.
In the end, the recruits who were temporarily recruited may not be much better than the logistics troops of the Ming army, and there is no shortage of people who are forced to be called into the army in a situation similar to Manggushan, and these people are not qualified in terms of fighting will, equipment, or the most basic military level.
And these troops can't be arranged too scattered, after all, the sources of these people are too scattered, and if there is no central scheduling arrangement for the identity of Sijifa and integrating them together, it is simply impossible to launch an attack together.
The information that Jiang Yugang got from the Secret Academy was also the 40,000 or so soldiers who attacked Mengyang City, which showed a state of mixed formation, obviously troops from different places, mixed together, and reorganized, and this is the form of merging these soldiers who were originally in a relatively scattered state into a new army.
Jiang Yu could not say that this was reasonable or unreasonable, and from his point of view, this method may cause confusion in the management of the troops, and it will also reduce the combat effectiveness of some units with strong combat effectiveness to a certain extent.
However, if we look at it from another angle, there are not many units under the command of Si Ji that can really be regarded as elite troops, and there is not much room for the decline in combat effectiveness, and the mixed formation method can still avoid serious tactical mistakes by the recruits.
In addition, these troops were basically borrowed manpower from him, and he had very few real descendants other than the newly recruited soldiers, so that the mixed formation could ensure his control over the army.