Chapter 347: Strategizing

Bazhou City is already the hinterland of Zhongshu Province of the Yuan Dynasty, only more than two hundred miles away from the Yuan capital, and the cavalry can arrive in two days if the cavalry marches quickly, but although the battle of Bazhou City Defense is only two short days, the material consumption is extremely large, and before the supply supplement sent by sea, Zhao Tianyou has no idea of sending troops to the capital of Yuan.

Although the naval fleet is anchored in the coastal waters, whether it is along the river to change boats or take the land route, it takes a lot of time to transport ammunition and supplies by horse-drawn carts, since the idea of raiding and taking the Yuan capital has failed, it is better to prepare for a decisive battle with Kublai Khan in the Yuan capital.

At this time, Du Hu's department and Chen Longfu's department, which crossed the Yellow River, had already gone north along Henan Road, but because the infantry was the main combat force, the number of cavalry was less than thirty percent, so the speed of the march was slightly reduced, but the news transmitted by the fast horse had already arrived in Bazhou City.

"These two guys, so disobedient, they have to come to join in the fun, aren't they here to attack these little guys!"

In front of more than a dozen newly promoted generals, when they received the news that the two armies had come north to help, they did not show excitement and joy, but smiled and feared that they would come to grab the credit. Zhao Tianyou hated the methods of officialdom from the bottom of his heart, but now he has to admit that being able to fight a war does not mean that he can govern such a large territory, let alone manage so many officials up and down, after all, if you want ordinary people to live and work in peace and contentment, you need grassroots officials to do a good job in government affairs.

Therefore, these things are still left to the original official system to do, and the country of the Song Dynasty must be maintained, although among the people and officials, the status of the little emperor who is partial to peace is getting worse and worse than before.

"General, we are alone in the north, the gap between the 100,000 troops and the Yuan Dynasty is still very large, and it is a good thing that the two adults lead the troops to support us!" Li Mingyi was the first to express his opinion, and several young generals also agreed with his statement.

Qu Liu turned the topic, first bowed his head to Zhao Tianyou and saluted, and said: "The general does not want a few generals in the army to have a few dominant generals, I hope that we, the young generals of the martial arts hall, will mature as soon as possible, so we need to bear pressure in the predicament in order to accelerate our growth." ”

Qu Liu's sentence broke through the key points, and his observation and judgment were so clear and accurate that Zhao Tianyou also nodded slightly, expressing support and appreciation for his speech.

If you want to maintain a strong country, the army is a very important part of it, and the Song Dynasty has had many famous generals for more than 300 years, who have made great contributions to the peace of the Song Dynasty, but the final outcome is not good.

Because after a general and army are too strong, they will inevitably be valued by others, even if you say that you have no ambition, it is difficult to reassure the people around you, especially the officials who are in charge of the dynasty, in order to please the emperor and not threaten their own status, they will also try their best to put a crime on you.

Yue Fei Yue Pengju, who shook the mountain and regretted the Yue family's military disaster, the Yang family general who ordered Yang Jiye, the golden sword commander, and the Huyan family, who still remained in the imperial family, had already overshadowed the prime minister of the dynasty and became the target of many civilian attacks.

Of course, the political struggle above the court is the scene that the emperor is most happy to see, after all, he is the referee in charge of everything, if there is no fight, how can he reflect his authority? What's more, the biggest gimmick of civilian officials attacking military generals is to make his country more stable.

Zhao Tianyou did not think of absolute control over the army, he cultivated many grassroots generals, formed a small group with super combat effectiveness in the army, and then combined into a fist and concentrated strength to give the opponent a fatal blow.

Like Chen Longfu has now become the first person in the army of the Song Dynasty, although he is Wen Tianxiang's protégé, and he has relied on the help of the firearms battalion to achieve so many military exploits, after all, he has not had too many entanglements with Hong Kong Island, unlike Du Hu, who has become a member of Hong Kong Island.

Therefore, Zhao Tianyou is ready to help these young generals under his command to get on the horse, and then send them on a good ride, and become the core of the Song Dynasty's army strength, so that one day Zhao Tianyou is gone, the entire army of the Great Song Dynasty will be completely controlled by one person.

In fact, this idea is full of contradictions with reality, and the military of any country should be united as much as possible under the leadership of one person, so as to be able to play the greatest role and make more contributions to the country.

It is that Zhao Tianyou is not afraid that Zhang Longfu and Du Hu will become too powerful one day and become a threat to this country, he has known too many military generals who have been killed by the civil officials of the Song Dynasty in recent years, and he is really a little afraid of these civil officials in this era.

If the generals who emerge are all batches of generals, and a certain military general is not too eye-catching, it will naturally not attract the envy and jealousy of others, and if Zhao Tianyou is gone, it will not become a bomb that will harm the country.

"Since you are here, there is no need to say anything else, Qu Liu, you take a cavalry team, before Du Hu and Lord Chen arrive, be sure to rush to the front of Baozhou, so that they don't want to attack the city, and come to Bazhou from outside the east city to meet the peace."

"Yes, General, I'll take people out immediately!"

"There is one more thing to remember, when encountering the soldiers of the Yuan army, if it is easy to solve it, if it is inconvenient, leave a message and let the army behind solve it, don't delay the trip!"

"Yes, don't worry, General!"

Zhao Tianyou did not want them to attack Baozhou, naturally he had his own reasons, and the dozen or so officers present were very puzzled, Baozhou was the southern gate of the garrison of the Yuan capital, and the main officials stationed in Baozhou had always been Kublai Khan's close generals.

At the same time, there are tens of thousands of Yuan soldiers in the city, and those two generals will definitely attack Baozhou, how can they let it go!

This is exactly what Zhao Tianyou is unwilling to happen, he is unwilling to carry out a large-scale siege near the capital of Yuan, not because he is worried that he will be seen by others and go back to build any fortifications. But he was afraid that Kublai Khan would despair in his heart, and he was unwilling to stick to the capital of Yuan, so he turned around and ran to the Mobei Plateau, which was not to trap Zhao Tianyou, but also to lead the army to chase him to the end of the cape.

The generals of the Yuan Dynasty stationed in Baozhou were sitting on pins and needles all day long, not knowing what to do next. They knew that Kublai Khan was defeated in Bazhou, and the army fled back to the capital of Yuan with heavy casualties, and Baozhou, as the southern gate, could these tens of thousands of soldiers block the attack of the Song army?

More than 200,000 Song army brigades, the rapid march of the whole day is only a few dozen miles, this is still the Song army is equipped with a large number of carriages, food supplies and ammunition or something, thanks to these carriages to transport, otherwise the march speed will be even slower.

Qu Liu finally met the vanguard of Du Hu and Chen Longfu's army on the official road thirty miles south of Qingyuan City.