The 625th Strategic Plan emerges
For a faint king, his own stability is the last word, and by gathering most of the troops around him, Yelu Yanxi can sleep peacefully.
Therefore, he combined three opinions and made a more compromise decision on his own.
The military system of the Liao State was divided into four parts, the Imperial Court Guards, the Tribal Army, the Han Army of Wujingzhou County, the Bohai Navy and the Subordinate National Army.
At this time, the Su Guard Army of the Liao State had changed from the leather room army to the palace army.
Therefore, Yelu Yanxi decided to leave the palace army, the Han army of Yanjing Prefecture, and the tribal army that was willing to stay in Yanjing, and the tribal army that was willing to go to the Song border in Hebei to fight the grass valley, and all the Polish navy and the subject army let them raid the rear of Cai Dao's army.
Yelu Yanxi's bottom line for these assault troops was that they must not cross the Yellow River.
The Han army in Yanjing Prefecture and the tribal army that were willing to stay behind immediately drove out of the city, and also camped to confront the Song army opposite.
That night, the Liao troops who had attacked the grain routes in the rear of the Song army slid past the two wings of the Song army. Except for the fact that the Song army, who was found out about this, shot a lot of bows and arrows, the losses were not large.
In this regard, some generals and Tanma wanted to report the matter to Cai Dao at night, but the Tanma only received a pot of two pots and a sentence of 'I know' and were all sent away, and those generals were even more unlucky, they were directly locked in the military prison and locked up in a small black room for three days.
Early the next morning, Cai Dao summoned all the generals to publicly try these unlucky ghosts, and the reason he gave was simple.
It was late at night, and the Liao army did not lead the army to attack the camp of the Song army, and the surrounding Tanma informed Cai Dao's pro-army about this matter, and the most important thing these three generals should do was not to rush to see him, but to appease their brothers.
What if there are scheming Liao spies who instigate it and bomb the camp?
In the thousand-year history of China, there have been many examples of hundreds of thousands of armies crushing themselves without a fight. However, once there is such a thing as 500,000 troops bombing the camp together, then he Cai Dao must have become a big joke in history.
What are the intentions of these three generals who are so anxious to see them late at night?
Cai Dao became more and more angry, and finally made a decision, and after three days of close closure, the three generals were immediately dismissed as small soldiers.
Other generals also felt sorry for these three unlucky guys, but Cai Dao's words were not wrong, it was late at night, the moonlight was hazy, and of course he couldn't take risks easily as the commander of an army.
What if I run into an Assassin?
After some informed generals' prompts, many generals only understood why Cai Dao was angry because of this. Many people forget that when Cai Dao was not yet eight years old, he had already experienced an assassination attempt by the Liao State, which was in Bianliang City, the capital of the Great Song Kingdom.
Looking back on it now, it's shocking.
It is impossible to ensure the safety of a child in his own capital, this is Chiguo's slapping in the face of Song Shenzong, no wonder, that time, Song Shenzong punished the relevant responsible persons so severely. Among them, including Wang Anshi's younger brother Wang Anli, Song Shenzong gave the Great Song Dynasty the highest punishment for civil officials, imprisoned for life.
After speaking, Cai Dao returned to his camp, and he was a little excited about this matter and a little regretful.
How could that fool of Jerod on the other side be so conservative? You are the emperor of the Great Liao Kingdom, but you only sent about 50,000 cavalry to raid your rear.
There are sea ships, and now it is spring, and there is Tianjin City, which is personally controlled by Zong Ze, Cai Dao is not afraid of the Liao State sending cavalry to cut off the grain route in his rear.
Therefore, from the very beginning, Cai Dao did not prepare the grain route on land at all.
And the wide roads he majored in Hebei would also become an accelerated passage for these 50,000 cavalry to reach the Yama Prefecture.
The faster the cavalry of the 50,000 Liao army ran, the more wild they gained, the county towns they passed became empty cities, and the state capital city, they could not break through. Even if they have two horses, with the logistics and supply of the Liao army, each person can prepare food for at most three days.
Three days later, the 50,000 Liao cavalry, who could not get any food and grass supplements, saw the opportunity and could quickly turn around after a day or two.
If they are slow to see the opportunity, they will only face three choices.
First, assemble and desperately attack a state city.
Either most of their soldiers died, or the state city was breached.
Second, kill the horse, continue to break through to the south, as long as you cross the Yellow River, there will be a glimmer of life.
But the problem is that Cai Dao really had to completely cut off the shipping of the Yellow River in the Hebei section within three months. It can be said that on the Yellow River, which has now thawed, there is not even a small fishing boat.
Therefore, within these three months, the price of meat in Bianliang City will increase rapidly, and if the people want to eat meat, they can only eat salted fish transported from Jingzhou.
There are pros and cons, in order to be able to make the soldiers who are desperate on the battlefield eat meat, Cai Dao almost monopolized all the pork, chickens and ducks south of the Yellow River.
Of course, there is absolutely no shortage of food in Bianliang City, and Cai Dao alone demolished the east wall from the south to make up the west wall, and received nearly 10 million stone of rice from the south, which is enough for the 500,000 army to eat for a long time.
And, thirdly, that is to choose to surrender to Cai Dao.
In fact, only this last choice is the real way for these 50,000 Liao cavalry to survive.
Devils can't be very, the real hateful ones are actually those two devils.
Killing the Song people, these non-Khitan people are more ruthless than the real Khitans.
At this time, in the Bohai Bay, thousands of huge ships of fortune covered the sky and the sun with their masts and sails.
These large-scale transport-shaped ships were all manufactured by Cai Dao during this period of time using the Caijia Shipyard in Xianyou County. Just had one last trimming and resupply done in the Temple Island Islands.
This huge fleet is about to arrive at their final destination, Yuguan.
Yuguan, also known as Shanhaiguan in later generations, as the starting point of the East Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, is the first Xiongguan in the world by the mountains and the sea.
In the third year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, a city was really built here - Yuguan City.
Five generations later, during the Liang Qianhua period, Yuguan was taken by the Khitan.
This is not the pot of Emperor Shi Jingjiao, he just took advantage of the situation and ceded the sixteen states of Youyun to the Liao State. If there is no danger of Yuguan and Yanshan, it will be very difficult for the imperial dynasty in the Central Plains to hold the whole of Hebei.
And the most important point of Cai Dao's entire strategic plan for the Liao war is to use himself to attract the Liao army and quickly capture and hold Yuguan with a partial army.