Chapter 533: The Footsteps of the Great Song Dynasty
Zhao Zhen sat in the traveling car, as an emperor's car, this carriage was not so gorgeous and magnificent, but a little larger than the ordinary soldier's carriage, which could accommodate a bed and a few smaller.
The only difference is the protection on the carriage, there is no shield but there are several thick pieces of armor, these armor are forged using the same process as plate armor, and the latest design of diamond pattern is added, even a powerful bed crossbow is difficult to pierce it from a distance of 100 meters.
The fact that the car is so low-key is not that Zhao Zhen wants to be approachable, nor is it Zhao Zhen's diligence and thrift, but that such a car can be seen everywhere in the army and is not easy to be regarded as an obvious target by the enemy.
On the battlefield, we will always adhere to the principle of shooting people and horses first, and capturing thieves and kings first.
Zhao Zhen, as the emperor, is still the emperor of the imperial conquest, you can imagine how important his car is on the battlefield, once the Liao people know that Zhao Zhen will definitely attack the Chinese army at all costs, even Di Qing and Yang Huaiyu can not guarantee foolproof.
For this reason, Xia Zhu was worried that he didn't close his eyes for several nights, and he had to give Cao Wei a foolproof way, and in the end, he could only use the simplest way to make Zhao Zhen's car extremely similar to the carriage of the forbidden army, and only this method of concealing people's eyes could make Zhao Zhen's car disappear into the army of 100,000.
The beautiful cornices were torn down, the mighty dragon gauntlets were cut off, and the arrogant gold was blackened......
But there are drawbacks to doing this, the whole army knows that Zhao Zhen is coming, but they can't see the emperor's car, which somewhat weakens the fighting spirit of the forbidden army, so only a mighty dragon flag is used to represent the emperor's location.
Zhao Zhen smiled slightly bitterly, is there any difference between this and the royal family? It's just more conspicuous! Zhao Zhen sometimes didn't know what they thought, but now it's okay, it's easier for the enemy to find his position along this mighty dragon flag flying high.
Xia Zhu was still smart and quite talented, and immediately came up with the best way to erect more dragon flags in the army, so that the forbidden army knew that Zhao Zhen was in the army, and the enemy did not know where Zhao Zhen was born.
Zhao Zhen looked through the information sent by the black hand in the carriage, and sure enough, as he expected, the Liao people fell into the huge net carefully woven by the Tangut people, and even Zhao Zhen had to admire Li Yuanhao's scorched earth policy.
This is a clever plan to deal with large-depth operations, which is not only practical, but also can defeat the strong with the weak and win more with less.
Zhao Zhen took a sip of tea, according to the intelligence of the black hand, most of the Liao people were going to lose, at this time he didn't know that the defeat of the Liao people was lost to a bad weather, and he couldn't imagine that a storm that didn't even rain would crush the momentum of the entire Liao people.
Zhao Zhen summed up the defeat of the Liao people through the information in front of them, Xia Zhu and Cao Wei did not believe it, in their opinion, the iron cavalry of the Liao people was almost invincible, how could they lose to the Western Xia people?
Like the Liao people, they are accustomed to taking the army of the Great Song Dynasty as the standard of measurement, the Western Xia is not the opponent of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Liao people have defeated the Great Song Dynasty, and then attacking the Western Xia is of course easy to capture!
Zhao Zhen looked at the suspicious appearance of the two generals and smiled slightly: "You underestimate the Western Xia too much, the Liao Dynasty has an elite imperial tent army, how can the Western Xia people not have their elite, as far as I know, there is a cavalry force in the Western Xia, called "Iron Harrier", the reason why it is so named is because the Iron Harrier rides a good horse, wears heavy armor, and cannot be stabbed, and is twisted with a hook and rope, although it does not fall immediately after death. In case of battle, the iron cavalry will break through the formation first, and the chaos will impact it; The infantry approached with horses, and the people of the Western Regions did not dare to be enemies......"
As soon as Zhao Zhen's words came out, Cao Wei frowned: "If Your Majesty says so, the iron harrier of the Western Xia people is indeed powerful, but why didn't Li Yuanhao take it out early, after all, such a cavalry army charging into battle is not losing to the Liao people's imperial tent cavalry at all!" ”
Xia Zhu said with a smile: "Has Cao Shumi forgotten Li Yuanhao's character, this person is extremely cunning, and he will never use such a powerful killer weapon unless he has to." As soon as he finished speaking, he was slightly surprised, and the eyes that looked at Zhao Zhen became very admirable: "What the official family means is that once Li Yuanhao uses the Iron Harrier, it must be when Western Xia counterattacks?!" ”
Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "That's right, with my understanding of Li Yuanhao, this person is less than eight or nine times out of ten, and he will not use the last hole card, the iron harrier follows Li Yuanhao's army, after passing through the strong wall and clearing the wilderness, the Liao Dynasty is exhausted, and then suddenly turn back, with the iron harrier as the vanguard, supplemented by light footsteps, the Liao people are already exhausted, and there will be a miraculous effect at this time!" ”
Cao Wei praised convincingly: "Your Majesty is thorough, if Li Yuanhao is really as Your Majesty said, the Liao people are afraid that it will be difficult to do, but the Liao people are not necessarily fooled, in case they see a good situation, they will collect the troops in place and wait for help." ”
Zhao Zhen laughed and said, "Wait for reinforcements in place?!" It's not that I look down on the Liao Dynasty, but with the national and financial resources of the Liao Dynasty now, how to transport supplies to those thousands of miles away, even if they can be sent, they will be on the road. ”
Cao Wei smiled embarrassedly: "It's the same truth, the minister is stupid!" According to the opinion of the officials, the Liao people will be defeated in this battle? ”
Zhao Zhen shook his head slightly and said: "The most absolute thing in the world is that there is no absolute thing, if I am Yelu Zong, he will first take a city with abundant grain and grass when attacking Western Xia, and send Daliao reinforcements to occupy it, and use this as a basis to encroach on the surroundings, and the goal of the army is still to be nailed to Li Yuanhao's body, so that he has no respite and is tired of coping."
Of course, this must be done under the condition that the Liao Dynasty has the ability to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops, and these hundreds of thousands of troops must be well-trained, otherwise this is just a fantasy. ”
Zhao Zhen's words expressed the essence of the large-depth operation, the combination of logistics support and encroachment strategy, and the seemingly sudden advance of the army was actually steady and steady.
The reason why the army of the Great Song Dynasty dared to drive straight into Yanyun was mainly because its mobility had been transformed by Zhao Zhen quite amazingly, and the carriage played an important role as a tool that could both fight and transport, not to mention the logistics support.
The most important point is that this thing does not delay the march, and the army marches into the most taboo camping and setting up a pot to make rice, and the curling cooking smoke will become a wolf smoke to warn the enemy, after all, it is deep into the enemy's territory, and it is basically impossible to say that there is no Liao Dynasty's eyeline.
But Zhao Zhen can say that the speed of the secret agent is definitely not able to catch up with the speed of the army's movement, Tanma reported today that the army crossed the Huanshui on the Song-Liao border, and tomorrow the Song army may be under the Flying Fox Ridge!
After the army directly took the important pass of Feihuling, the troops marched north in three ways, and the route of the troops was basically the same as Taizong's northern expedition route, but Zhao Zhen's army was faster, required fewer supplies, more advanced weapons, and more comprehensive equipment.
When Taizong could easily fight all the way to Zhuozhou, Zhao Zhen believed that the forbidden army led by himself could arrive in Nanjing of the Liao Dynasty faster, which was only a few miles away from Beijing in later generations......