Chapter 618: Three Battles in One
The thinking and mentality of the generals were quickly corrected.
Because they are all people who want to win and are afraid of losing, it is true that winning a game can blow for a few days, but once they fail, even if they do not lose their lives, the praise and compliments of the past will become piercing knives and guns, stabbing them all over their blood, pressing them so that they can't raise their heads, and they dare not show their faces in front of others.
There are as many compliments as there are when you are proud, and how much sarcasm there are when you are disappointed.
Under the leadership of Su Zhong, Pan Cheng and others, the generals expressed their reflections one by one.
Seeing that everyone's attitude of admitting their mistakes was very good, Yang Congyi stopped saying more and immediately arranged the training task.
"From now on, all warships will enter the Yangtze River for training, and every ship must be clear about the water conditions of the upper and lower 20 miles. Ten warships are a combat unit, cruising for two hours a day and practicing formation for three hours. This is the formation diagram, I won't go into details, you take it back and read it yourself, if you can't understand it, find someone who can understand it. ”
After Yang Congyi finished speaking, he asked the soldiers on the side to distribute the formation map to everyone one by one.
"During the cruise, once you find that the enemy is moving, you will immediately send people back."
"Yes, sir!" The generals took the orders and left.
Yang Congyi now has a headache, the enemy army from Hezhou to Yangzhou, after losing two games in a row, he has learned a lesson and is becoming more and more cautious, let alone winning another game, even if he wants to get in close contact with them once, he can't do it.
And Yu Yunwen is telling him today that the emperor and the court are very concerned about Zhenjiang, the last time there was a big victory, the court praised it, and immediately sent important ministers to Zhenjiang to reward and reward, before the people sent by the court to Zhenjiang, it is best to win another battle, greet the important ministers with victory, once again inspire the morale of the whole army, and strengthen the confidence of the court to continue to resist Jin!
In the current dangerous situation, the confidence in resisting gold is of course very important, although Yu Yunwen's idea is very good, but to achieve a victory, how easy is it to say? If the enemy does not come out, it is impossible for them to hit the opposite bank, and the enemy is not stupid, even if they know that the Song army is unable to fight the other bank, they also set up defenses on the river bank, just in case.
The enemy has learned the lesson of the rash advance, and if he moves again, it will be a thunderbolt and a thousand ships moving in unison, and he will not give them the opportunity to attack as well as the first two times.
Yang Congyi did not give Yu Yunwen a clear answer, did not tell him that he would definitely be able to win another big victory, but only told him that once the enemy crossed the river to attack, he would definitely go all out and try his best to resist, as for whether he could win again, it was not for them to decide unilaterally.
After winning two battles, Yu Yunwen is obviously a little inflated, maybe in his eyes, the enemy army is a straw bale, pig and sheep to be slaughtered, and the generals who led the troops to flee before were all frightened by the phantom of the enemy's soldiers, and they abandoned the city and fled, as long as they dare to fight, the enemy must not be an opponent, and even they can fight and win a game, maybe he is already thinking about when to command the army to cross the river, completely drive away the enemy army, and recover the land north of the river.
The enemy is not so easy to fight, more than 20 years ago Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Liu Qi and other famous generals alive, the enemy army also fought all the way from the north of the Huai River to the Yangtze River, and then through the tug-of-war, protracted war, only one by one to regain the lost territory, the enemy was driven back to the north of the Huai River, but it was only that, the battle line further north ten miles and hundreds of miles are as difficult as ascending to the sky, so many generals are alive, the war is still so difficult, several times by the enemy to the Yangtze River, it can be seen that the enemy's combat effectiveness is strong, now the Song army has been abandoned for 20 years, Those former famous generals except for the bedridden Liu Qi have all withered, there are no soldiers, there are no generals, there are not even many decent war horses, in the entire Zhenjiang Mansion, the horse army is less than 10,000 people, most of them are infantry, and there is no commander who can fight on the entire Eastern Front battlefield, what can you do to confront four or five hundred thousand enemy troops?
Yang Congyi didn't say these words to Yu Yunming, he was afraid that he would misunderstand, thinking that he was timid and afraid of war, maybe after failing once, he could know how powerful the other party was, this is a common problem of literati with low eyes, maybe in their eyes, fighting a war is like playing chess.
Guazhou Du.
Since the army rushed from Hezhou to the vicinity of Guazhoudu, the Great Song Dynasty Navy, which had almost never been swaying in the Yangtze River, began to train and cruise in the river from morning to night.
As for why the whole situation changed rapidly, the vanguard of the Jin army, which was the first to capture Yangzhou, Guazhou Town, and Guazhoudu, did not know what happened, and no one explained to them.
A few days ago, they saw that the Song army, who had always been timid, suddenly crossed the heart of the river to provoke, where would they let go of this excellent opportunity to destroy the other party, and immediately sent dozens of large ships to catch up, wanting to eat dozens of other parties' ships in one bite, but in the end they were eaten by the other party, and they could only stand on the shore and watch, watching the brothers of the past being burned, and listening to the screams of the brothers of the past.
This defeat, no one thought that they originally wanted to organize troops to cross the river to avenge the tragic death of their brothers, and teach the Song army a hard lesson, just when they were about to act, who knew that they were stopped by Shangguan and issued a strict order: without an order, no ship is allowed to go one mile offshore!
They don't understand, they don't understand, but no one tells them why.
It wasn't until a few days ago that a small piece of news came from Hezhou, saying that the reason why the army rushed to Yangzhou from Hezhou was because they had been preparing in Hezhou for more than a month, and more than 1,000 boats they had collected were defeated in World War I when they crossed the river, and most of the boats were damaged in the river, and only less than 100 small boats escaped back, completely losing the ability to cross the river. Shangguan from Hezhou happened to see the battle in the middle of the river by the river that day, and found that the Song army's way of fighting was almost exactly the same as in Hezhou, so he guessed that the Song army in the Taiping Prefecture area also rushed to Zhenjiang, and it was likely to be the same Song army.
And today, they have the most accurate information about that army.
Judging from the news that the spies learned from Zhenjiang, the main force of the Song army was called the Jingwu Army, and there was also a part called the Yangwu Army, they were originally stationed in Guazhoudu, and the Song army withdrew from the Guazhoudu camp, and they also evacuated, but they did not go to Zhenjiang, but went up the river against the current to the area of Taipingzhou, Jiankang Prefecture, as a reinforcement, to assist the defenders to defend the Yangtze River, and as a result, they first destroyed the first crossing of the river that the vanguard had landed, forcing the Jin army to prepare again, and later when the Jin army crossed the river for the second time, it was destroyed by nearly a thousand ships in a war. When the Hezhou army came to Yangzhou, the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army followed, and immediately provoked and launched the previous tragic battle. Judging from the available information, this Song army's water warfare ability is very strong, but they have never heard of it before, and they have not even heard of the name of the commander who led this army before, but from today onwards, they will not forget this name, Yang Congyi!
Soon after, there was further gossip that some military veterans suspected that this Yang Congyi was not an unknown person, more than 20 years ago in the Sichuan and Shaanxi area, there was a Song army general named Yang Congyi, who was extremely brave in battle, and made good use of strategy, the Jin army won less and lost more in the battle with him, decades of combat experience, so that he knew the Jin army very well, it is likely that he is now in command of this elite army, otherwise it will definitely not be so difficult to deal with.
For this news, there were soon voices of doubt, because Yang Congyi has been stationed in Sichuan and Shaanxi for decades, and he has been stationed in Xianren Pass for more than 20 years, and there is no reason why he will run thousands of miles and come to the vicinity of Yangzhou, and from the age of calculation, he should be nearly seventy years old, and the rumored commander of the Jingwu Army and Yangwu Army Yang Congyi is no more than forty years old, if the rumors are correct, these two people are likely to just have the same name and surname.
As the news about the Jingwu Army, the Yangwu Army and the commander Yang Congyi spread, it didn't take long for another news to come, saying that the vanguard of the raid on the Guazhou camp from Yangzhou was also defeated by the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army halfway, and that battle was the first fiasco since they went south, with a loss of 6,000 people in the first battle, and even Gao Jingshan, who commanded the troops of 10,000 households, died in that battle.
This news was undoubtedly like a slap in the head of the soldiers of the Jin Army who were the first to capture Yangzhou and Guazhoudu, making them dizzy and uncomfortable.
Under the same army, suffering two defeats in a row, who can accept this?
And the most unacceptable thing is that the three fiascos suffered by the Eastern Route Army since it went south were actually thanks to the same Song army, ordinary soldiers could not accept it, senior generals, and even generals could not accept it, in less than a month, from Yangzhou to Hezhou, and from Hezhou to Zhenjiang, they had them in every battle, and they all won, are they heavenly soldiers?
When the ordinary soldiers were discussing the rumors, the exact news had already been delivered to Wan Yanliang, who was in the camp of Guishan Temple.
After receiving the news, he didn't even have the interest to play with women, and even his favorite Mrs. Yunguo was blasted back to the back camp by him. Because he had a very bad premonition in his heart, he had a premonition that this Yang Congyi would become Yue Fei, a famous general of the Song Kingdom more than 20 years ago, he was young enough, just like Yue Fei back then, he was divine enough, and he was like Yue Fei back then.
If Yang Congyi is really the same as Yue Fei, then this time he will go south, it is likely to fail, which is unacceptable to Wan Yanliang, after all, they have been preparing for so many years, moving the capital all the way from Huining, thousands of miles away, to Bianjing, killing so many people who oppose going south, if they return in vain, those who once opposed him are estimated to laugh at him in the Netherworld Mansion and laugh off their big teeth.
"Within three days, I want to know all the information about this Yang Congyi!"
Wan Yanliang read the information in his hand over and over again, but saw that the language in it was unknown, except for the three battles, there was no more information at all.