When the sky was about to dawn, Zhao Liang, dressed in a gray linen military uniform, rode on the south bank of a small stream called Dawangxi outside Xiaohongbao Village, five or six miles north of Rufen Town. After Dawang Creek is the village of Little Red Fort. Last night, the "gun doctor" sent by General Zhao Liang had occupied the village of Xiaohongbao and deployed defenses in the village, turning it into an extremely important support point.

The village of Little Red Fort certainly has a fort, and in the center of the village is a red castle with a history of more than 200 years. There used to be several families of knights who lived in the castle, and the land around the village of Little Red Fort also belonged to these knights.

However, with the continuous evolution of firearms, the importance of knights has greatly diminished. The Great Zhou Republic also did not need to maintain a large knight class, so most of the knight class was transformed into citizens or rich peasants. The knights of Little Red Fort Village have also disappeared, and the red castle has long been abandoned, and many beautiful and comfortable courtyards have appeared around the old castle, which is the residence of the residents of Little Red Fort Village.

Of course, the residents of Little Red Fort Village have all gone, and the warehouses where the grain was stored have been burned, leaving only empty courtyards. So no one resisted the occupation of the "gun doctor" either.

The main support point of the Great Zhou Republican Army on this battlefield was a low ridge directly opposite the village of Little Red Fort. The name of the ridge is Jiang Mountain, and the town of Jiang Dian is at the foot of the west side of Jiang Mountain. In addition, there are several low mountains on the northwest and southwest sides of Jiangdian Town, thus forming a basin-like terrain.

However, General Zhao Liang would not be stupid enough to storm these mountains and Jiangdian Town, his plan was to bypass Jiangshan and then insert between Jiangdian Town and Xiangcheng Daleng Fort. Flanking the Zhou army that was guarding Jiangdian Town and Jiangshan.

"Great King," Zhao Liang's commander Zong Yizhi rode his horse through a temporary bridge over Dawang Creek at this time, and when he arrived in front of Liang General, he reported in a low voice: "As you expected, the Zhou army really deployed heavy troops east of Jiangshan. At the same time, they also deployed a lot of infantry on the ridge of Jiang Mountain, and there should be howitzers on the other side of the ridge. ”

The east and south sides of Jiangshan are large plains that are not dangerous to defend, and Rushui is not far from the north. To the west of Jiang Mountain, there is a low hill. And Jiang Mountain, which runs east-west, is like a wall, blocking the south of Xiangcheng Daleng Fort.

Therefore, as long as the Zhou army wants to fight in the field south of Xiangcheng, it will inevitably rely on Jiangshan to deploy defenses.

And Jiangshan Mountain itself and Jiangdian Town on the west side are easy to defend, with terrain and sturdy buildings to rely on.

Moreover, the Republican Army at this time was also equipped with a large number of howitzers, and one army had 6 howitzer batteries with a total of 36 5-inch howitzers. If they are deployed at the foot of the northern side of Ginger Mountain, they can accurately bombard the enemy attacking Ginger Mountain with flowering shells. Considering the quality of Zhou Guo's flowering bombs, Jiang Shan will definitely become a sad mountain for the enemy!

Since Jiangshan and Jiangdian Town on the side are easy to defend and difficult to attack, the plain east of Jiangshan is the center of gravity of both offensive and defensive sides.

Therefore, although the two Song Dynasty coalition armies and the Zhou army were camped in confrontation between the north and the south, the battle formation of the confrontation was placed in the southwest of Jiangshan, and it was the layout of the southwest and northwest.

The combined forces of the two Song Dynasty were north of Dawangxi, with the left flank starting from Xiaohongbao Village, and the right flank spreading out to the west bank of Rushui, posing a 15-mile-wide front.

The battle line of the Zhou army was much longer. Jiangshan and Jiangdian Town were both to be defended, and Wuyuan Town had an infantry brigade in each of the two places. Then relying on the eastern foot of Jiangshan to carry out a key defense, two infantry divisions swung from the eastern foot of Jiangshan to the south bank of Rushui, and launched a key defensive zone 7 miles wide.

"Let's go!" General Zhao Liang nodded, "Go and see." ”

As he spoke, he took his guards and the Jiyi regiment and galloped away behind the Song army who was arranging the formation.

Some Western Song Dynasty soldiers found out about their commander and immediately cheered: "King Chitose!" Daioh Chitose ......"

The cheers grew louder and louder, and soon resounded throughout the battlefield.

It seems that the prestige of this Great Song prince who has been on the battlefield for decades in the army is still very high!

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At the eastern foot of Jiang Mountain, Wuyuan Town planted its flag on an ancient castle left 200 years ago. The sight here is very good, and it overlooks the entire battlefield, so it became his headquarters.

Song Jun's cheers also reached his ears, but he didn't understand.

Because although the current Huaxia Sanxiong still uses the same Chinese characters, they have three official dialects.

The official dialect of Tianjin was spoken in the Great Zhou Republic, the official dialect of Chang'an was popular in the Western Song Dynasty, and the official dialect of Jiangning was used in the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Of course, the basis of the three official dialects is still the Central Plains Yayin. So it's not too much of a problem to communicate with each other. It's just that the battlefield is too noisy now, so Wu Yuanzhen didn't understand it for a while.

"What are they yelling at?" He asked Han Shantong beside him.

Han Shantong served as a military attache in Chang'an and can speak fluent Chang'an dialect.

"It's the Great King Chitose...... It seems that the enemy's commander is General Zhao Liang, General Changsheng of the Western Song Dynasty. ”

"General Zhao Liang...... I guess it's him, too! He is the only one who fights so well in sports warfare! Wu Yuanzhen nodded, "There is a lot of space in the new version of the Army Campaign Command School that talks about him, right?" ”

"That's right," Han Shantong nodded and said with a smile, "so we all know him well." ”

Han Shantong attended the Army Military Academy and was also a professor at the Military Academy, and he is very familiar with several classic battles commanded by General Zhao Liang at the end of the Mongol-Song War.

And this Zhao Liang general is probably the most capable general in the history of the Zhao Song royal family, he has been in the army for 50 years and has experienced more than 60 battles, of which he commanded a total of 8 battles, all of which were won! And 6 times it was a small victory and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.

"And how will he fight?" Wu Yuanzhen asked again.

"Xia Guan doesn't know."

"And you still say you know him?"

Han Shantong smiled: "It's because I understand, so I don't know!" Zhao Liangjiang's thoughts, how can it be so easy to guess? ”

"So how are we going to fight?"

Han Shantong said: "Xiaguan's suggestion is to keep enough reserves and see how Zhao Liang will play his cards...... General Zhao Liang is good at using soldiers, and the elite soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty are also powerful, and the number seems to be twice as many as ours.

So we should adopt the tactics of delaying and attritioning the enemy to avoid a quick defeat. ”

His suggestion may sound a bit demoralizing, but it's the best policy.

General Zhao Liang and the elite of the Western Song Dynasty under his command were difficult to deal with, and if there was no superiority in troops, they would not have to think about winning the battle when they met.

It's good to be able to lose a little bit better in the battle and at the same time achieve a strategic victory.

At the strategic level, it is Zhao Liang who will be in a disadvantageous situation, and the national strength of the Two Song Alliances behind him is not as good as that of the Great Zhou Republic. Therefore, if he can't win quickly, he will inevitably fail.

"Okay!" Wu Yuanzhen nodded, "Order the troops to dig trenches and fortify...... We're going to fight a positional defensive battle. ”

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On the plains east of Jiang Mountain, two well-trained armies had slowly spread out their respective arrays.

In order to cover their own deployment, both sides sent light infantry and cavalry, and began to fight for buildings and roads in the center of the battlefield.

The buildings that are in contention are three huge courtyards, all of which are sturdy enough to be used to deploy cannons with a little modification. Therefore, it has become a must for both warring sides!

For the two Song Dynasty coalition forces, after seizing the three courtyards, they could use this as an artillery position to bombard the Zhou army's battle line.

For the Zhou army, delaying the fall of the three courtyards as much as possible could buy time for their infantry to dig infantry trenches.

The method of letting the infantry rely on trenches for defense was actually the first to be adopted by the Western Song Dynasty in the Mongol and Song Wars. Their gunmen are skirmishers, they don't need to form an array, they have a trench bunker or something, that's the best.

Therefore, in the 100-year Mongol and Song Wars, the construction technology of infantry trenches and infantry bunkers was constantly developed.

By the 14th century of the Western calendar, the sapper shovel had become an important equipment of the Chinese Sanxiong infantry like the smoothbore gun.

In the Great Zhou and Eastern Song armies, the sapper shovel was popularized to every infantryman.

Therefore, in terms of the ability to dig pits, the armies of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty came from behind.

In addition to digging pits, Zhou soldiers were also building artillery forts. Different from the centralized artillery deployment method of the Song and Song Dynasty coalition armies, the Zhou army today adopted the tactics of dispersing and mobilizing artillery.

Therefore, it was necessary to build a large number of artillery forts and repair the roads in advance.

And in order to cover the construction, Zhou Jun couldn't easily give up the three courtyards.

Bursts of gunfire and shouts of killing rang out in the three courtyards and on the surrounding roads and wheat fields, and occasionally the sound of cavalry hooves trampling the ground.

Somewhat contrary to General Zhao Liang's expectations, the infantry of the Zhou army's stragglers using rifled guns performed no worse than the Western Song Dynasty gun doctors. Their rifled guns were obviously better than those used by the Western Song Dynasty, with a longer effective range and a faster rate of fire. And their marksmanship is also very good, and they don't fall behind at all when shooting with the gun doctors!

In addition, the light cavalry of the Zhou army was not easy to deal with. All of them were armed with rifled guns and could fire at great distances, inflicting considerable losses on the cavalry of the Song army.

Moreover, their horses are faster and can avoid close engagements when they are not dominant.

General Zhao Liang, who found that it was difficult for his side to rely on the spear doctor and light cavalry to win quickly, immediately adjusted his tactics and invested 6 teams of flintlock pipers. These infantry advanced rapidly in columns, and only after they were close to the target courtyard did they quickly transform into phalanxes. Then a bayonet charge was launched directly.

Two of the three courtyards were quickly lost, leaving only an abandoned barn in the middle still under the control of the Zhou army.

It turned out that the Zhou army had ambushed a group of hand artillery in the barn and repelled the attack of two groups of Song infantry with hand cannons and bayonets. The barn was kept for the time being.

However, the barn they held on to soon became the target of the Song army's artillery bombardment, enduring round after round of solid shell bombardment.

But the barn was stronger than Zhao Liangjiang had expected, and it was built ten years ago, using a lot of cement and masonry, and building a storehouse and a small building next to it, with a low wall around the perimeter.

In addition, there are thousands of bales of wheat stored in the warehouse, which are too late to be transported. It happened to be used by the artillery of the Zhou army in ambush in the courtyard to strengthen the low wall, so that it could resist the direct fire of the long artillery.

But there were also 10 howitzer companies in the combined forces of the two Song Dynasty, armed with 60 5-inch howitzers.

Under the command of Zhu Xinglong, these cannons were pushed to a place less than 1,000 steps away from the grain depot compound and bombarded with concentrated firepower.

The grenades were rained out, drawing graceful parabolas in the air, and then slamming down again.

But from eighty to ninety percent of these grenades did not explode!

And of the remaining most half of the grenades, half of them exploded in the air before they approached the Zhou position.

In other words, less than one out of ten grenades is more threatening.

The effect of such an artillery bombardment, coupled with the extraordinarily large smoke and dust on the Song artillery positions, showed a problem: the Western Song Dynasty prepared for war in the same hurry as the Great Zhou, and did not even exchange their poor artillery and gunpowder for Eastern Song products.

"Let's retreat with our hand artillery and abandon the grain depot!" Wu Yuanzhen ordered, "Order all howitzers to keep mobile and stand by!" ”

The purpose of the battle of the grain depot was only to test the reality and at the same time buy time for the rest of the troops to set up defenses.

Now that this goal has been achieved, there is no need to waste time on a grain depot that is destined to be unkempt.

In addition, the performance of the Song army's howitzers also gave Wu Yuanzhen the hope of winning, or at least a draw.

After the infantry of the Western Song Dynasty occupied the grain depot, General Zhao Liang immediately issued an order for the whole army to press.

There are a total of 10 infantry divisions of the two Song coalition armies that fought today, and there is also a cavalry division that serves as a guard on the periphery.

Of the 10 infantry divisions that went into battle, all but one was deployed near the village of Little Red Fort to attract the attention of the Zhou army. The remaining 9 divisions were divided into two lines. The first line was the five infantry divisions of the Western Song Dynasty. From the village of Xiaohongbao to the northeast, the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 10th, and 13th infantry divisions were in order.

All of them are ace masters who have played a prestigious role on the battlefield of Mengsong!

The second line consisted of three Western Song infantry divisions and one Eastern Song infantry division. They are also elites with strong combat effectiveness.

The five divisions of the front were all deployed in battalion units, and each battalion was a large phalanx consisting of four companies. Each company is a three-column horizontal formation that can split up operations. A battalion is four companies, that is, 12 columns of combat formation. In addition, there is a command column to go to the end, and there are 13 columns in total.

The first three columns are gun doctors, all rifled guns. The middle 6 columns are ordinary line infantry, armed with ordinary smoothbore guns. The last 3 columns were the hand artillery that pressed the formation.

This way of arranging troops was also summed up by the Western Song Dynasty in the 100-year Mongol and Song Wars, and then it was given to the cottage by the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty.

And the course of the engagement was more or less a pattern, usually starting with a heavy artillery bombardment, followed by a long-range fire from the skirmishers. Wait until the enemy army is weakened by artillery and stragglers, and then the private soldiers come to the field to line up and shoot, and finally the white assault or cavalry assault!

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