Chapter 684: On the eve of the decisive battle
Entering August, Brother Cha was already very uncalm, but the most frustrating heavy rain and the feint attack posture of the Western Xia army eastward into the Daimyo's mansion still did not force Gao Fangping or Liu Yanqing's troops out of the decisive battle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But the Western Xia army's long logistical line was riddled with holes, and it faced increasingly skilled guerrilla resistance.
In the Weizhou and Qingzhou generation, the seed master Dao has become more bold, and has fought two battles of annihilation against the logistics line of the Western Xia army, although the losses of the seed army are not light, but now the fatal problem faced by Cha Ge is that the morale of the earlier is no longer like a rainbow.
The replenishment of civilian power and food obtained from the occupied areas is extremely limited, and Chage may be able to barely endure this. However, from the Western Xia court, the unfavorable documents for entering the army, as well as the increasingly unstable mood of the generals under his command, many generals have begun to go berserk, and they are like ants in a hot pot looking for Gao Fangping all over the world, threatening to eat Gao Fangping alive.
Because of the fierce tactics of defeating Jinzhou, nearly 8,000 soldiers and civilians of the Song State were killed in battle, and Zhizhou was also beheaded. Therefore, the backlash of public opinion in the occupied areas is becoming more and more serious, and more and more people are leaving the cities to join the guerrillas in harassment.
All of this has made Chago more and more stressed.
It was not from the pressure from Gao Fangping, Chage had invincible cavalry, and he was not afraid of those guerrillas and Gao Fangping's 20,000 "small army" at all, and the real pressure came from the accountability of the Western Xia court and the accountability of his subordinate generals.
As a qualified commander, Chago knows that there will be a certain amount of such accountability, and that is when the southward strategy officially fails.
All of this is because Da Song has a pork flat!
Brother Cha was anxious to fight a decent war of annihilation at this time, so as to explain to the Western Xia court and the generals, so as to maintain the "political heart" above and the "military heart" below.
However, the decisive battle is not easy to say, now there are powerful cavalry, but they can only be tied up in various cities without food, and there is no organized Song army to fight. Finally found the traces of some people, as soon as they went out, those grandsons ran faster than rabbits, and disappeared into the mountains and forests in minutes, and the cavalry was useless at all, and did not dare to enter the forest to round up.
"Damn these undisciplined bastards! What is to protect the family and defend the country, etiquette and benevolence are all things that deceive ghosts. They frantically gave up the city, gave up their fathers and villagers, gave up the imperial order and ethics, and only hid in the mountains to be savages, but they didn't dare to come out to fight with my Xixia king! ”
When Brother Cha said that he was annoyed, he smashed the wooden table with a very uncalm punch!
"It's time to slaughter the city!"
"It's time to go south to gnaw Hezhong Mansion and lay down the logistics town of Hezhong Mansion. Then Gao Fangping lost the northern supply line in one fell swoop! ”
Countless generals have spoken one after another, and they are really fed up and impatient. The southward expedition has been five months now, and it was like a bamboo before, but after nearly four months, he was trapped here by Gao Fangping, a dog officer who did not understand the art of war and had no military ethics. Morale is low and cannot be low.
If it continues, I'm afraid everyone has forgotten what they came to do?
At present, the large rear in the northwest is facing endless harassment from the old thieves of the Planter Road, the logistics line is basically facing the depletion of the stalls, and the autumn harvest season in the occupied area is still untouchable.
As a last resort, Brother Cha finally made a decision that should not have been rushed, and pointed to the military map with red eyes: "It is necessary to take Hezhong Mansion, 20,000 elite cavalry of the West Shining Department are the vanguard, and the rest of the military headquarters will gradually shrink and abandon the Yan'an Mansion Theater, and our army will quickly assemble as a rear army to support the General Department of Xi Shining!" ”
"Yes!" The ruthless people of Western Xia roared in unison......
did not wait for the final summary of the military reports from various places, but Gao Fangping knew that the time was basically ripe for a decisive battle.
Eat him to death Brother Cha did not dare to go east to fight the Longde Mansion and the Daimyo Mansion, and it was useless for him to stay in the Yan'an Mansion War Zone now, they could only be harassed, but they could not find the guerrillas to fight positional warfare.
Now that the Daoist Department is more and more ferocious in challenging the logistics line of Western Xia, they have no hope until the autumn harvest.
"Our northern military system has now officially abandoned the hidden maneuver. At present, the main force of the Cha Ge Department is looking at Jinzhou from afar, and at this time they are eager to get grain and grass supplements, so they have to take one way to Hezhongfu. Gao Fangping pointed to the military map in the account and said: "On the boundary of Wenling Gorge and Shilong Pass on the way from Jinzhou to Hezhongfu, the first battle of our Song army's Jedi counterattack was started. ”
"There are all the generals, I have been a grandson for so long, and if I don't get any results when I go back, I will be hung with a street lamp, which is my political backwater. My pressure is converted into your military pressure. Who has no way out, no matter how many vanguard enemies there are, must win the battle of Wenling, the emperor and even the entire Great Song Dynasty, need a victory as a clarion call for a counteroffensive! Gao Fangping said.
"Swear to follow Xiangye to the decisive battle against Wenling!" All on one knee and yelling!
"Please Son of Heaven Sword."
After Aoi Kikukyo took the sword that was not very valuable and handed it to Gao Fangping, he found that his posture with the sword was still wrong, and then he was a little embarrassed.
However, everyone knows that the Great Demon King is so funny because of his virtue. No one blames him......
Choose Wenling Shilong Pass, which is actually not a strategic point such as Hangu Pass, and in principle, Shilong Pass is not suitable for defense. However, it was a large valley that could limit the route of the Chago army. Otherwise, the Chakor troops would have detoured further to the Yan'an Fu war zone, and in addition to delaying time, they would also be severely harassed by the guerrillas.
But what he wants is not a level, if it is a level, Gao Fangping is not sure that the Xixia people dare to fight a decisive battle. Because there is no need to ask, Brother Cha is very defensive of Gao Fangping now.
There is no such thing as victory, who the hell is the vanguard cavalry? How many centaurs are there? Gao Fangping didn't know either.
But they can't wait any longer, they are impatient and the dog jumps over the wall, and the Hezhong Mansion cannot be surrounded, otherwise the Gao Fang Flat will officially lose the initiative, affecting the blood transfusion of the rear to the northwest front.
In any case, the North 1 Beijing Garrison Division, which was like a recruit earlier, has been trained in a comprehensive way in terms of will, ideology, quality, armament and technology through several months of arduous and rapid marching. It seems that the passivity has reached the limit, and the first battle was not fought, but the fact is that everyone was stunned by Gao Fangping's endless training and became a real battle army. And the rage bar is already full.
Whether the time for the decisive battle is really ripe, Gao Fangping doesn't know, Gao Fangping only knows that if he can't win now, he will never be able to win.
Wenling is a large open valley, which can restrict the enemy's route, but it is difficult to use the terrain to ambush. There are gains and losses, this is the condition for Brother Cha to dare to quickly march from the vanguard army of Wenling.
At the same time, Shilong Pass is open, and once lost, it is difficult to quickly hide and cover, and it is difficult to escape the ravages of the opponent's cavalry cluster.
So militarily, this is also a last battle. There is no way back......
When the Yongle Army and the North 1 Beijing Garrison Division drove to the battlefield, Gao Fangping rode on his horse and pointed to the front with a whip and said: "This Shilong Pass, the geology is hard, it is difficult to dig deep ditches to block the opponent's cavalry, and it is the most conducive battlefield for the Western Xia cavalry to raid. There is no chance of maneuver for my mixed infantry here, so if you don't win, you die. Now this government doesn't want to threaten everyone with the sword of the Son of Heaven, I only have one sentence, Lao Tzu is to completely break the myth of the undefeated cavalry of the Western Xia cavalry in this place that is conducive to cavalry, in the form of field positional warfare, do you dare? ”
"Swear to follow Xiangye and fight again!"
The earth-shattering roar frightened all kinds of birds in this realm to fly everywhere, and all kinds of rabbits, wild beasts, and so on ran around.
"Okay, it's useless to say anything, either the old men will be hacked to death by them here, or they will be hacked to death here. That's it. Gao Fangping said with a smile.
"......" everyone looked at each other.
Lin Chong couldn't help but say, "Isn't it necessary to build an offensive in advance to increase defense?" ”
"It's useless, it's offensive, it will increase the other party's concerns on the contrary. They are cavalry, and if they retreat, we can't do anything about it. Therefore, if we don't put on a hard-core style and eat the opponent's vanguard army quickly and effectively, we will not be able to win when the Chago army arrives. Not all battles need to be tricky, and the horn of the Jedi counterattack must be sounded with a shock. Those who die here will become martyrs who will reverse the strategic initiative of our Song and Xia dynasties, and their names will go down in history. Gao Fangping said: "This time I want to fight a tough battle, don't be a grandson, I want to reverse!" ”
"Hard war, hard war, hard war!" The berserkers have finally gone berserk.
Yes, since entering the war zone for training, it has been completely matured, and the high-level flat that has been fully redressed and reloaded into battle no longer needs the protection of the city. You can't beat the momentum like that. Just wait for work at this Shilong Pass, and wait for the arrival of the Western Xia army in a state of declining soldiers with full anger......
From Jinju to Hazhong, the fastest vanguard of light cavalry is estimated to arrive in two days at the latest.
So these two days, just wait here to relax and recuperate. After that, it was necessary to defeat the Western Xia vanguard iron cavalry in a very short time, and make further maneuvers before the arrival of the main force of the Chage Division.
The news has spread, and Gao Fangping is not breeding, not hiding. When the main force of the Western Xia Army moved south and intended to strategically besiege Hezhongfu, Gao Fangping's troops had openly stated that they would defend Wenling Shilong Pass and coexist with the Hezhongfu Theater in order not to lose the logistics town.
When Gao Fangping, who has always been treacherous and obscene, made this decision, the entire Northwest Theater was in an uproar.
This is certainly not a fake, it is not smoke, because this is the official military report delivered to the Western Front by his northern marshal who holds the sword of the Son of Heaven.
The purpose is to need Liu Yanqing's department and the Daoist department of the seed master to be prepared, once Gao Fangping's department loses at Shilong Pass, they will maintain the inherent effective strategy to protect themselves, and drag it down with the concept of protracted war.
As soon as Gao Fangping won the Battle of Wenling, the horn of the counterattack was officially sounded. The Daoist Department of the Seed Division divided the troops to completely cut off the logistics line of Western Xia and launched an operation against the Zhuoluo Military Division north of the Great Wall. And Liu Yanqing's troops will regroup, subdue the lost ground, and finally trap the main force of the Chage division in the north of Hezhong Mansion and the south of Yan'an Province and Jin. In the end, several armies slowly closed and contracted.
When the shrinkage reaches a certain point, the cavalry units that have lost their logistics will lose their maneuver space, and then the Chage division will inevitably face the situation of being strategically surrounded by the infantry......