Chapter 1314 The Unbelievable Grain Robbery Road

The guards cavalry team of Chongzhen is a specially selected red horse, with a red army jacket, like a flame flying across the snowfield.

The Xia people forward is also a fierce general, but the horse speed is obviously weaker than the Song army.

As the two cavalry were approaching, there was a noticeable slight adjustment in the path of Tanejin's advance, changing from a straight line to a curve.

And the Xia people also made corresponding adjustments, and the two cavalry armies wanted to become two swimming fish ready to fight.

But this time the Xia people's response was obviously much slower, and Chongzhen was unceremonious, taking advantage of the speed difference between the two sides, and commanded Song Cai to sweep the arrows of the Xia army from the side front.

The local battle of fighting more and fighting less, in this way, was completed under the precise micro-manipulation of Zhenzhen, and the white horse Xia General who represented the tip of the arrow and the Xia people rode more than a dozen horses, and instantly encountered a rainstorm of hundreds of flying swords.

Chong Zhen was very confident in his results, and rode his sword past under the Xia general's ribs, and did not look back, and after running for more than ten steps, he turned his horse and ran back towards the Song army camp.

The cavalry behind him followed closely under his leader, and the red flames swept past the front end of the Xia people's arrow array in a blink of an eye, leaving behind the corpses of more than a dozen cavalry Xia soldiers and the bald head of the arrow, which made the Xia people's prestige frustrated.

"Wansheng-" The cheers of the Song army almost shook the city wall of Lingzhou behind him: "Liulang is mighty-"

The red horse crossed the ditch bridge, came to Su You and Gao Zunyu's side, and put the knife into the sheath: "Handsome, manager, fortunately not dishonored!" ”

"Okay, big military might!" Gao Zunyu was overjoyed: "There is such a tiger as Liulang, no matter how many thieves there are, it's just a chicken and a dog!" ”

Su You was careful: "I saw that two soldiers were stabbed, why didn't they fall off their horses?" ”

Chong Zhen opened the collar of the red robe, revealing the thin steel sheet inside, and smiled: "Let's have a belly!" ”

In the Battle of Wudinghe, a large number of Xia people's full-body armor fell into the hands of the Song people, which immediately aroused Shen Kuo's serious interest.

The processing technology of metallurgy, stamping, heat treatment and temperature control of the Song people has accumulated to a considerable height, and Shen Kuo immediately used a stamping machine to imitate a large number of nail pieces in batches.

Due to the high level of technology, the nail sheet is stamped to an extremely thin level, and then turned into a high-strength steel sheet with a certain elasticity through heat treatment and carburizing technology.

The steel plate is strong enough to withstand ordinary bow shots, and there are raised lines in key parts to increase resistance to blunt weapons and slashes.

But this is already the last glory of the cold weapon era, in addition to meeting Zhao Ji's political needs, the Western Army is equipped with a heavy cavalry of Liu Changzuo, and the rest of the generals do not seem to be too keen on the cumbersome armor.

On the contrary, this kind of light armor designed by Zhenzhen is very popular.

Light armor is made of several pieces of steel that are stacked and riveted like shrimp shells to make a vest style, which can be worn under a robe.

The knight can complete tactical actions such as bending over and leaning back at a certain angle.

Because the protection of the arms and legs is completely abandoned, the whole suit is very light and thin, and with the cotton lining, the weight is only seven catties.

Once introduced, it was very popular with the cavalry, and the soldiers called this armor "belly hugging".

Hugging the belly is a belly pocket, because it can be worn under the battle robe, which is also a fitting name, and at the same time shows the soldiers' love for this kind of armor.

The decline in the protection of limbs also shows the improvement of the morale and bravery of the Great Song army, as well as the improvement of medical standards.

Su You smiled: "Finally, I haven't been stupid yet!" ”

After the Xia people's front army was defeated, they retreated five miles and camped until the army of Renduo Lingding arrived, and then they pulled out the village the next day and pressed the Song army.

The battle was heated from the start.

Countless Xia people repeatedly rushed towards the trenches of the Song army, and soon a sea of corpses and blood was soon fought in front of the position.

Because there were too many corpses that affected the shooting boundary, the Song army even had to drag the Xia people who died in battle into the trench between battles.

That is, he dared to do this in the harsh winter, otherwise Su You dared to conclude that a plague would soon break out in the camp.

The madness of the Xia army once made the situation grim, Su You deployed the cavalry army's Lianzhu artillery to the front line for emergency, and at the same time used ambush artillery to clear the assembly area of the Xia army, which can be regarded as a response.

After a day of fierce fighting, Su You thought that such an attack of intensity was completely unreasonable, why would Renduo Lingding be so eager to open the passage and enter Xiazhou City?

Even if you enter Xiazhou City, aren't you still trapped? Is there any other trick to Renduo Lingding?

The old way, Su You opened the Zhuge Liang Association again, and the abnormal attack of Renduo and Lingding must have ulterior motives!

Let's sum it up, is it our plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and what are some huge loopholes?

Gao Zunyu, Cao Nan, and Liu Shiheng also felt incredible, and everyone was thinking about it around the military map, but there was no reasonable answer.

Liu Shiheng and Cao Nan even came to a temporary military exercise.

Li Ruoyu walked into the big tent with two buckets: "The battle has to be fought, and the food has to be eaten, although it is a good tradition of the new army for generals to eat at the end, but you can't stop eating, right?" ”

The two buckets were all eaten, Li Ruoyu distributed the steamed buns, and served soup to everyone: "The Chinese army is surrounded, Your Majesty doesn't know how to worry about it." ”

"Although the prison army is only in charge of military discipline, I still have to say that the strategy of a few people is a little too risky, I really didn't expect that there are so many Xia people hidden in the dry sea, otherwise I will never support ......"

Liu Shiheng was burying his head and snoring to drink soup, and suddenly raised his head when he heard the words: "I know!" ”

Cao Nan also raised his head suddenly: "It must be so!" ”

Su You was angry: "You two have to look smart, me and Uncle Guo are stupid, right?" Say it! ”

Cao Nan's eyes showed an excited look: "Xia Jun, I see that I am going to run out of food!" ”

Depend on! Su You and Gao Zunyu looked at each other, how could this be?

Before the start of the war, Su You did everything possible to hoard a large amount of military supplies, made a large number of easy-to-carry military rations, and changed the dietary structure of the soldiers...... After all kinds of work, Shengsheng improved the Song army's continuous combat capability from one month to three months.

After a month of fighting, Su You deliberately stopped the march and once again deployed to replenish military supplies, focusing on effectively ensuring the army's grain reserves.

He didn't think at all that one day the defenders would be worse off than the attackers!

Gao Zunyu reacted faster than Su You, and his eyes lit up: "Isn't this impossible...... Shiheng, you explain to Guogong. ”

Liu Shiheng took off the chopsticks wearing steamed buns and compared them to the map: "Taiwei Liu's raid on Yanzhou not only disrupted our army's plan, but also disrupted the deployment plan of the Xia people!" ”

"Because the army took Yanzhou a month ahead of schedule, the land of Sanchuan and Jiuyuan, an important grain producing area for the Xia people, fell into my hands ahead of schedule, and their grain must not have had time to be transported out."

"After that, our army as a whole advanced by two hundred miles, that is, the activity space of the Xia people was compressed by two hundred miles, and the density of Xia people in the dry sea of three hundred miles will undoubtedly increase greatly."

"We know the situation of the dry sea all the way, and it is not a place to eat, and it is not conducive to the hoarding and transshipment of Xia people."

"Therefore, the grain of the Xia people in the Hetao area can only be hoarded in Lingzhou City!"

"So many Xia people are ambushed in the dry sea, and the daily consumption of grain is also a lot, now in addition to our Song army has the ability to carry March grain, the limit of Xia people and Liao people is only one month at most."

"It's good that you can't die, the time when the generals of the country arrived in Lingzhou was delayed for half a month, and it happened to be stuck at the node where they decided to go back to Lingzhou to get food or continue to ambush......

Cao Nan said: "Even if this is the case, it's nothing, slowly retreat the army, and get food when you get to Lingzhou." ”

Liu Shiheng said: "It is estimated that the Xia people also thought about it, so they were not active in returning to the army, but what the Xia people didn't expect was that Guogong could use the ice surface of the river to double the speed of the march at once, which caught the Xia people by surprise, and they were all isolated south of Lingzhou!" ”

Cao Nan said: "Since our army took Yaode and repaired, it has been twenty-five days now, and Renduo is full of food, and there are still five days of military rations. If they had given food to the vassal tribes in the oasis while they were in lurk......"

Su You felt incredible: "That's ...... In fact, now it has become the grain road that we copied the Xia people? There is no food and no army in Xiazhou City, but Renduo Lingding, who came from the dry sea, has an army and no food, so they are so desperate? ”

Liu Shiheng said: "I often listen to the words of the national government, there are many accidents that will occur in the war, and what determines the outcome is actually to see who is more prepared and who can make fewer mistakes." ”

"The current situation is something that neither we nor the Xia people expected, and their preparation for the change in the battle situation is obviously not as adequate as we were before when we dealt with Taiwei Liu's eastward move."