Zong Ze's emotion is not without reason, the Song Dynasty due to the founding of the Taizu "yellow robe" incident influence, the restrictions on military generals are almost the strictest in all dynasties, not only the main general of each military operation is not to mention, often have to send several supervisors, these people are the emperor's henchmen, every day to record the day's battle situation in detail and then through special channels directly to the emperor.

Therefore, the generals of the Song Dynasty are like carrying a big burden and then carrying a handcuff, there is not much autonomy at all, and if you want to adapt to the enemy's situation, you can, you must first pass the emperor's consent, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the fighter plane is fleeting.

And the emperor of the Song Dynasty can be said to be very magnanimous to his subordinates, as long as you march according to the emperor's will, and you do not disobey the opinions of the commander and the supervising army, even if you lose the battle, there will be no punishment, so after a long time, the hearts of the generals are lazy, so they simply be a puppet, as long as they fight bravely, they don't care about things that shouldn't be worried about themselves.

Therefore, it is obviously impossible for Zong Ze not to be envious and jealous when he sees the efficiency of the Tang Kingdom, and the Tang King Du Jia also disregards his own safety to drive the expedition, which is almost unique in the Song Dynasty except for the founding Taizu Taizong, such a benefit is self-evident, first of all, the king is by his side, how can the generals of the three armies not have to die? And who doesn't want to show himself before the king; Secondly, if there is anything that needs to be reported urgently, where is there any need to go to the capital thousands of miles away to ask for instructions, you can ask and give instructions on the spot.

After all, Zong Ze is also a professional general, especially at this time, the target of the Tang State and the imperial court is the Western Xia Kingdom, he coughed and came over, and quietly said some secrets of the Song Dynasty against the Western Xia Kingdom before, although the imperial court is weak and inefficient, but over the years, it has fought hundreds of battles with the Western Xia Kingdom, large and small, and has accumulated a lot of experience - or lessons.

Du Jia also attaches great importance to Zong Ze's opinions, let everyone discuss together, as the saying goes, three stinkers are better than Zhuge Liang, not to mention that the people present are either experienced generals or flexible strategists, and soon everyone summed up a few countermeasures.

First, for the scimitar weapons unique to the Western Xia Kingdom, the previous practice of the Song Dynasty was that the soldiers in the front row would take long and heavy weapons, so that they would use their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and the attack distance was far higher than them, and heavy weapons such as hammers and maces were not like those fine weapons, even if they were destroyed by their scimitars, they could still attack, and the lethality would be even greater.

Second, in view of their superb riding skills, the fundamental countermeasure is naturally to improve their own riding skills, but this takes time, and the distant water does not quench the thirst of the near, so Wu Yong proposed to avoid head-on collision with the opponent and take more roundabout ways to attack from the flanks; Zhu Wu advised the generals to plan well in advance and give a fuller estimate of the enemy's reaction and attack speed.

Third, the soldiers of the Western Xia Kingdom have a strong personality and their morale is far better than that of most of the Song soldiers, and there is no good way to do this, so they can only warn their own soldiers that when fighting with them, they must not be paralyzed because they are injured or their own situation is superior, and they must be completely killed before they are finished, and they must remember that only a dead Western Xia soldier is a good soldier.

In addition, Lin Chong, Hua Rong, Yang Zhi and other generals also put forward their own advantages this time, first, the Western Xia Liukou is now adopting the tactics of scattering the team to harass, so in terms of numbers, their own side has an absolute advantage, so they must concentrate superior forces and try to completely annihilate the enemies encountered by each group and steadily establish an advantage; Second, although the Western Xia Kingdom had sharp scimitars, the armor level was at least two grades worse than that of the Tang Kingdom, and many soldiers were even wearing leather armor, so they had to try to inflict damage on them through long-range attacks with bows and arrows; Third, after all, this time they are fighting in their own territory, and in terms of intelligence, they also have the advantage, and the other side is more just flying around like locusts and plundering everywhere.

After the tactical discussion was over, Du Jia asked Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, Zhu Wu, and the three major military divisions to record and distribute these experiences, and the colonels must have a copy, and the soldiers must publicize it in place, and it is best to memorize it, and then Du Jia took the rest of the people to deal with those prisoners.

At this time, there were about 300 living Western Xia soldiers, all of whom were tied up like zongzi, and their leaders were separated from each other and not thrown together, seeing Du Jia and them coming over, the eyes of everyone were still quite strong, but there was also fear and fear, fear of the strong is the nature of all people, and these grassland peoples are even more obvious.

For example, these nomads are in closer contact with nature, and often have their own totems worshiped by various ethnic groups, so they naturally have a deeper understanding of the natural law of "survival of the fittest", so for them, etiquette and civilization are just a symbol of weakness, no matter how good you are to them, it is useless, but they will win their respect only if they defeat them on the battlefield.

Therefore, although the Song Dynasty has "rewarded" them with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year, they have not been grateful at all, but feel that this is based on their own ability, and they are even more scornful of those civilized etiquette, if it were not for the fact that the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is too wide, and the number of people is nearly a hundred times that of them, they would have come over a long time ago.

But now the team of the Tang Kingdom has just overturned them head-on, showing strong combat effectiveness - what to use tactics, to bully more and less, these are not a problem for them, they feel that victory on the battlefield is the last word, even if a group of wolves against a few sheep still use all kinds of tricks in their opinion, it is also reasonable in their opinion, so they will not be unconvinced because of this.

Those people saw at a glance that Du Jia was the leader, and he didn't let out a loud roar, regardless of his injuries, he struggled to knock away the soldiers beside him, and after giving Du Jia a salute, he said in half-baked Chinese: "Respected strong man, the warriors under your command have defeated us and won our respect, if Your Excellency can let us go back, we can persuade our patriarch to stop with you in the future, the two sides are well water and not river water, can I ask if it is okay?" ”

What he said was stammering, but the general meaning was still understandable, and Du Jia smiled mockingly when he heard this: "Go back? You still want to go back alive? But this king is really curious, why do you think that we will let you go after you have slaughtered so many of our people? Who gave you this confidence? ”

Happy birthday to the country

(End of chapter)