Chapter 694: Mixed Blessings

War is a strange thing to talk about. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Whether it is the era of cold weapons or the era of hot weapons, morale is very important in all wars that require bloody battles. Therefore, both in ancient times and in later generations, there is a saying that "defeat is like a mountain".

War is like a stampede in the capital market, but in the early stage, no one dares to "take the knife empty-handed".

Therefore, the military defeat is like a mountain, and it is also the "trend theory" of the capital market.

Just like in the early days of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, that was the trend, and anyone who participated in the fight against the trend would be ruthlessly crushed like the "stock market opened and the circuit breaker" in a later year.

The fall is not terrible, the terrible thing is that all the troops are trapped at the top of the mountain or on the mountainside, so there is no asset to replenish the position when the absolute counterattack is made.

To put it bluntly, this is the old man's "On Protracted War". It is also the core idea of the Great Demon King presiding over the entire Northwest Theater this time, and when the trend comes, you can't block the knife with tofu, and you can't trap the troops who are really capable of fighting. As a result, there was Marshal Zhukov's "theory of losing power and humiliating the country", and there was a strategic plan for Liu Yanqing's troops to withdraw and recuperate.

Gao Fangping's victory at Shilongguan is of great significance to the Great Song Dynasty, which is basically equivalent to the period of the dark clouds covering the capital market, and a large-scale super yang line that rises to the sky, that is, to reverse the trend, and the formal counteroffensive will begin.

There is nothing new under the sun, in fact, the lords of the first three rows of the imperial court, when they presided over the national war, they were also like those technical factions in the stock market who chased the rise and fell, and when it fell, don't expect them to make up for the position (send reinforcements), really, they don't cut the meat to stop the loss, and continue to shrink the army to defend the army division.

But with the victory of Shilongguan, when the strategic counteroffensive of the Daoist Department and Liu Yanqing's Ministry was red, then the imperial court would also start to "chase up" very obscenely.

As early as the beginning of November, when the situation in the northwest was very good, the Privy Council made arrangements: the Jiangzhou army changed its defense. The original Jiangzhou garrison division of Bi Shijing, the expansion of the army was reorganized to 15,000 people, and Bi Shijing was promoted to the rank of deputy commander of the forbidden army, and drove from Jiangzhou to the Northwest Theater to participate in the Battle of Hezhongfu.

During the special period, all personnel were selected by Bi Shijing, and the military horses of the Ma Military Division and the Infantry Military Division, as well as the equipment under the current department, were all given priority to Bi Shijing's department.

Now that the war has been deepening for seven months, the most important thing in the Great Song Dynasty is equipment, and many factories in Bianjing Pig Farm and Jiangzhou, and many production capacities under the wartime mechanism have been transferred to the military industry.

The reason why Bi Shijing was chosen was Tao Jiefu's proposition, Lao Tao said, it is the people who fight the war, Bi Shijing has had the experience of fighting with Xiao Gao many times, and the tacit understanding is enough. He also has a resume of "Tianzi Temple Canyon Victory", and he is also excellent in military affairs.

This is the reason why Bi Shijing was selected to fight. As for the security of Jiangzhou, it was replaced by the redeployment of military affairs by the front division of the palace.

This decision was made by the emperor and the imperial court in the middle of November of the fourth year of Daguan, when the province of Hazhong had not yet fallen into the most dangerous season......

Jiangzhou. After a temporary reorganization, a dense group of troops is boarding the ship.

General Bi Shijing was like a slave owner, riding on a horse and waving his whip wildly and shouting: "Hurry up, hurry up, give Lao Tzu a hurry, you must put it into the war zone as soon as possible, if Hezhong Mansion falls and Xiao Gao Xianggong dies, then there will be no hope!" ā€

In addition to the flagship Rongde Diji, the "Yuncheng" ship supervised by Bianjing craftsmen had also been built long ago, and they participated in the logistics of the war together.

Not only that, during this period of wartime mechanism, Jiangzhou exploded its production capacity, and two ships and three ships, including the Jumbo four, five and six ships with a displacement of 3,000 tons, have been built. In cooperation with countless ships and small boats, it has become a strategic transport team in the Northwest Battlefield.

Limited to special circumstances, these boats are temporarily not delivered to the Big Shark Guan VII for use. However, it is still regarded as Guan Qi's ship and leased to the imperial court. At the same time, Guan Qi's caravan also went out with the army this time, and it was one of the various material suppliers to participate in the coordination, in addition to Guan Qi, the profiteer Ximenqing also organized all kinds of medicinal materials and other materials that could be used from all over the country, waiting to sell them to the red-capped profiteer Gao Fangping.

Yes, Ximen Qing and Guan Qi are not here to fight, they are here to make war money.

Xiao Li Gang was appointed by the imperial court as the supervisor of Bi Shijing's army, while Shi Jingjie stayed in the large base of Jiangzhou.

Everything was ready to go, and all the staff was equipped with new materials and equipment, and the Bi Shijing Division, carrying 2,700 military horses and 15,000 new troops, officially began to invest in the northwest.

For a moment, the fleet on the river is especially spectacular, and it is really like a school of sharks migrating......

Heavy snow at the beginning of December!

Under the already unfavorable situation, the Chakor Department officially launched the thirtieth battle of Hezhongfu. The tragedy was worse than the twenty-ninth.

Officially entering the cold winter time, it is a severe test for both sides.

The main force of the Chago Division comes from the two black army divisions, and the two black army divisions are stationed in the northernmost cold region, and they can fight and survive in the harshest environment. But what is serious is that the 400,000-strong army of Western Xia raised troops in the spring, and its idea was to eat Liu Yanqing's troops within two months and quickly occupy part of the area in a flash war. Then, before the autumn, the grain and population of the occupied areas are harvested. In order to fight again in the coming year.

Therefore, their entire strategic plan was to fight in the summer, and they were lightly armed, and all kinds of cold materials were almost blank. Now he was dragged by Gao Fangping in Hezhong Mansion to enjoy the cold winter. This is where the fatality of the Cha Ge Department lies, and it is also the reason why he is in a hurry to conquer the Hezhong Mansion before the coldest thirty-nine days come.

For Gao Fangping, with the support of the city, the cold does not seem to be serious. But heating in the city is not a small problem, there is no shortage of food, but the timber to defend the city is already tight, and the bamboo talents to make crossbow arrows are also very tight, but they have to supply the appropriate heating for hundreds of thousands of people in the city when the supply of coal is cut off.

This is the problem that Gao Fangping is facing.

The city could not live without heating, because there were no more houses in Hazhong Province, and at present, there were a large number of refugees evacuated from the war zone in Hazhong Province. If there is no heating, the cold winter in the northwest can kill these people.

There is also one of the most fatal problems: the temperature is low in winter, the cloud car is covered with snow, at this time the defense of the city depends on hard work, the attack effect of the fierce fire oil on the siege vehicle is not large, and at the same time, the first batch of research and development of the "Iron Tuo" has many defects, and the dud rate in this season is very large.

So this was the harshest battle since the start of the Song and Xia Wars.

The tug-of-war, which began on December 3, has now lasted until December 6.

The more they fought the siege vehicles of the Cha Ge Division, the more they cut down the nearby wood, and the entire battlefield, when they entered the night, they saw fire everywhere, like a bonfire party, that was the Xixia people warming up, sitting and watching the progress of the offensive and defensive battles in Hezhongfu.

The peak processing capacity of the city's field medical team has already reached its peak. The mass death of wounded soldiers began as early as November, and in order not to cause the spread of the plague in the crowded situation, the dead sergeants would be burned immediately, and then countless field civilians would watch the corpses burned.

In a way, this is a measure to save wood, and the situation in Ha Chung Province is critical, and it has reached the point where it is necessary to "burn corpses for warmth". But it was at this time that the Great Song Dynasty had never been waiting to see the soldiers, and the common people had a pious heart towards them, and this was the first time that the Datou people felt protected.

The big-headed people don't know what a hero is, but at this time, the little Lori Liang Hongyu, who likes to walk around with a tiger hat, told them: This is a hero.

Except for Gao Fangping's side. The battle losses of Shi Wengong's troops are also expanding rapidly.

The Yongle Army undertook the task of blocking, harassing, and containing the Chago War Workshop. But since the beginning of the heavy snow, the forged steel chain mail can no longer protect them and the horses, and must be taken off. Because the iron armor is worn on the body like a large radiator, it will continuously conduct all the heat in the ice and snow, not to mention that people can't stand it, and horses can't stand it.

In addition, it is necessary to be super mobile to block the rear of Chago, the snow is a quagmire that limits the mobility, and if you still have heavy riding equipment, you will basically not be able to run. At least until the new Shenma is successfully bred, this tactic will not be possible.

Therefore, since the snowfall, Shi Wengong's department, which was originally almost harmless, has been damaged by nearly two layers, and more than 300 elites have been killed......

Time forward to December 1, when the heavy snow closed the mountain, Liu Yanqing's troops won the Battle of Yinzhou at a more painful price, annihilating the last remnants of the Western Xia army stranded north of the Great Wall, although it was a few days later than the expectation of the Seed Master, but now it was officially announced: to recover all the lost territory since the Song and Xia Wars.

Liu Yanqing's department can no longer fight, and the Daoist Department of the Seed Master has always been regarded as waiting for work, so the previous deployment has been loosened. Liu Yanqing's troops continued to disperse, and ten reorganized armies were dispatched into the Qinfeng military department, participating in the southward movement to cooperate with the Daoist Department to relieve the siege of Hezhong Mansion, and the rest of Liu Yanqing's remnants guarded the central and eastern Great Wall defense lines, forming a second layer of encirclement of the Chage Department by the way.

After obtaining the reinforcement of troops, the 53rd Army and 120,000 troops were dispatched to Jinzhou and Yan'an Mansion, approaching Hezhong Prefecture, and finally deployed in Yongle County......

"Report ...... General Shi Wengong is here! "Qin Fengjun is the commander of the camp in Hexi County, and a small soldier came to report in a panic.

"Panic what."

The seed master said this, only to see that Shi Wengong, who was extremely rude, had already broken into the handsome tent, and he hugged his fists with some annoyance and said: "See the old handsome for the humble position." I have issued three documents, asking why the document of uniting your troops to enter Hezhong Mansion has not been answered, and if it is delayed, the Ministry of the Little High Minister will not be able to hold it. ā€

The seed master waved his hand and said, "What are you talking about, don't pay attention to it, he can keep it." ā€

"You!" Shi Wengong continued: "It's easy to wait for the victory of the Northern Expedition and concentrate the troops to the south, and already have the strength of a war. ā€