As soon as he sat down, Wang Shen's eyes inadvertently fell on the picture on the table, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Jun smiled and asked, "Daosi, what can you see?" ”

Wang Shen: "Is this a map of Guanzhong?" ”

In ancient times, when there were no scientific surveying and mapping methods, to be honest, the maps of the ancients were not accurate. There are no contours or anything, not even the proportions. In many cases, you can only draw a general trend of mountains and rivers, and if you rely on a map to fight like Li De during the Red Army's Long March, no matter how strong the army is, it will not be enough to compensate.

Zhang Jun raised his head with a surprised face: "How do you know?" ”

Nonsense, in later generations, as long as you have been in junior high school, you will know how to read a map. Wang Shen pointed to the big "several" on the map, "This is naturally the Yellow River, and the two rivers next to it are the Wei River and the Jing River." There are also a few rivers whose names are impossible to name. This city must be Chang'an, eight rivers surround Chang'an, Guanzhong is victorious, how can you not see it. As a general, you should know astronomy and geography, care about everything, and pay attention to everything. ”

The look of surprise on Zhang Jun's face was even greater, he also received the will and set off to pacify Shaanxi before he glanced at the map of Guanzhong from the Privy Council, and today he was thinking about the war in Shaanxi, so he couldn't help but draw a few strokes on the paper.

Actually, there was such a thing as a map in ancient times. Modern maps, such as those of later generations, which are extremely detailed, have extremely high military value. is not a leading commander and a member of the economic strategy, ordinary people have never been out of their county in their lives, and they naturally don't know what the world is like.

According to the resume reported by the Ministry of War, Wang Shen was originally from Tang County, Liao, and probably had never been to Shaanxi, so why did he see at a glance that he was drawing a map of Shaanxi?

Zhang Jun's heart moved, could it be that Wang Shen also cared about the war over there?

Yes, Guanzhong is so important to the Great Song Empire, once it is lost, not only will Bashu, a wealthy place, be directly threatened by the Jurchens, but even Jingchu's future life will not be easy. Once Shaanxi is taken, if the Jurchens want to destroy the Great Song Dynasty, they will inevitably lead troops to attack. Then go down the river and reach Jiangnan in a few months.

In history, Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu and Li Tang unified the world, and Taizu mixed with the same universe, and not all of them took this road.

Wang Shen was now stationed in Huang and Qi, and once the Jurchens moved south again in the future, the Sizhou army would meet the enemy's first wave of offensive.

Zhang Jun nodded: "Daosi, you are a caring person, what do you think about the war in Shaanxi?" ”

Hearing him ask, Wang Shen's heart moved. In the future, Shaanxi is about to engage in a general battle of unprecedented scale, and the Jin Army will be dispatched to concentrate half of the main forces of the Western Route Army and almost all of the main forces of the Eastern Route Army on the Eastern Front, with a mobile strike force of more than 100,000. This was almost all the strength of the Jurchen to search the mountains and seas last year, and in the end, the two Wushu also personally led 20,000 elites from Luoyang to aid Shaanxi.

In Shaanxi, the Song army took the Western Army, which had not gone out of the customs to conquer Liao and rescue Kaifeng, as the backbone, plus local regimental training, and the total number of all soldiers and horses together reached an astonishing 160,000. This is already the last foundation of the Western Army and the last strength of the Southern Song Dynasty in the northwest.

However, the end result was not pretty.

The Jurchens can be said to be the most powerful army standing at the peak of the Cold Weapon War, and in the past two years, with the Jurchens entering the Central Plains, the troops have also degenerated at a jaw-dropping speed, and they have fallen to the end, and every time they fight against the Song Dynasty, they can only use the pseudo-Qi army as the main force.

However, at this time, the Jurchens still maintained strong combat effectiveness.

After a big war, the rest of the Western Army was annihilated, and Zhang Jun retreated to Qinzhou, which was the Tianshui City of Gansu Province in later generations, and the Shaanxi earthquake was great. After this battle, the Jin army used a large amount of captured grain and grass military resources, under the guidance of the Southern Song Dynasty generals, to take advantage of the victory to attack the interior of Shaanxi. By March of the following year, the Song army only held the key passes of Shu such as Jie, Cheng, Min, Tao, and Feng Prefectures, as well as the Monk Yuan of Fengxiang Mansion and Fangshanyuan of Longzhou, and fortified them with danger to confront the Jin army.

The history of this battle is known as the Battle of Fuping.

In hindsight, the grain and grass of the Song army at that time were not sufficient, and the combat effectiveness of the rest of the Western Army was not strong. The reason why he lost so badly has a lot to do with Lao Zhang's eagerness. Before he could find out the military situation in Shaanxi, he rashly assembled heavy troops, hastily launched a counteroffensive, and intimidated the masses to underestimate the enemy in the command of the campaign, and did not coordinate with each other, resulting in a great defeat.

It is said that at the end of the battle, Zhang Jun could not even figure out how many soldiers and horses he had on hand, how much food he had, and what the combat effectiveness of each army was.

It's not that Zhang Xianggong is incompetent, in fact, he is already a rare talent in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. In fact, Shaanxi is too important, and the situation has deteriorated beyond measure, and there is no time for him to calmly arrange and familiarize himself with the situation.

Moreover, there is another important reason, the people of the Western Army are unstable, and the soldiers do not buy Lao Zhang's account very much. Zhang Deyuan was half angry, half wanted to use war to gather people's hearts and establish his prestige, and he failed to do it.

Zhang Jun is a tall man who lives in a temple, and he is used to building from a high house, but he doesn't know how to lead soldiers. The so-called, the ruler is short, the inch is long, and everyone has their own unfamiliar field, and they can't force it.

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Zhang Jun was thinking about the war in Shaanxi these days, and suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "Wang Shen, since you have paid attention to Guanzhong again, tell me your opinions." ”

Wang Shen's heart moved: To be honest, later Zhao Gou was bent on making peace with the Jurchens, and his refusal to make peace with the Northern Expedition and the fall of Shaanxi also had something to do with it. What's more, he has doubts about the combat effectiveness of the new army of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and others, at least in his opinion, it is still not as good as the elite of the Western Army.

As a modern person, Wang Shen naturally knows.

At that moment, he did not shirk, he picked up the pen and drew on the paper according to the historical records, while analyzing the balance of forces between the enemy and us, as well as the possibility of the next step.

I talked about this for a long time, and my mouth was dry.

After a long time, Wang Shencai finally said: "To sum up, no matter from the perspective of troops, morale of the troops, or the preparation of materials, now is not the time for a decisive battle with the Jurchen Tartars. It is necessary to defend first according to the danger of the army, and then carry out a counteroffensive after one or two years. ”

"The situation in Guanzhong is complicated, and now that Tai and Ban have fallen to the enemy, and there are party members in the north who are ready to move, I can't figure out a clue for a while. If you don't do it, you will be close to it, and you will be quiet. ”

In fact, the reason for the fiasco of the Battle of Fuping had a lot to do with Zhang Jun's eagerness to achieve success after he went to Shaanxi, and he hastily gathered a large army to fight a decisive battle with the enemy. At that time, Zhang Deyuan had only been to Shaanxi for two months, and he knew nothing about the troops. The remnants of the Shaanxi Sixth Route Western Army and the local regiments used to have their own defense areas, but now they are suddenly organized together, and the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of 10 percent cannot be brought into full play.

Cold weapon warfare was at its peak in the Song and Jin dynasties, and the mutual cooperation of various arms of the armed forces, the control of the battlefield, and the struggle for time and space had reached the extreme, and it can be said that a complete set of close and scientific strategies and tactics had been formed. And war has also become extremely professional, and a general needs to be tempered for a long time in the army and on the battlefield before he can be qualified. Zhang Jun is a real talent, but his talent is in the court, in reconciling yin and yang, liaising left and right, and communicating up and down. After all, he is Zaifu, and the profession of commander is not suitable for him.

As far as the late Northern Song Dynasty and the early Southern Song Dynasty are concerned, the figures who can command more than 100,000 large-scale national battles are Tong Guan, Lao Chong, and Yue Fei District.

Yue Fei's father-in-law was born from a small general, equivalent to a company commander in modern society, step by step, and nothing in the army and local affairs could hide from him; Tong Guan also commanded an unknown number of battles when he conquered Liao in Shaanxi, step by step from an inner servant who didn't know anything, and used endless resources to hone into a qualified commander; As for the old seed master, he simply grew up in the military camp since he was a child, and his subordinates directly controlled the seed army, which was the first-class field group in the Northern Song Dynasty.

And Zhang Jun, a civil servant, doesn't know anything about what war is, plus there is a shortage of grain and grass in Shaanxi, so it's hell that this battle can be won.

In fact, Wang Shen's opinion draws on the advice of Qu Duan, a general of the Western Army, to Zhang Jun in real history. When Zhang Deyuan first arrived in Shaanxi, Qu Duan also felt that he was in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with the Jurchens, and it was impossible to calm the situation in Shaanxi in a war. It is better to hold a few military points in Guanzhong, and wait until the troops are completed and the Xuanfu Division has accumulated enough money and food before making plans.

It's a pity that Zhang Jun was high-spirited at that time, coupled with Qu Duan's personality, he had a lot of authority, and there was a deep contradiction with a coach like him, and Zhang Xianggong naturally couldn't listen to his words, which led to the fiasco of the later Battle of Fuping.

Wang Shen continued: "Zhang Xianggong, there is a sentence that I don't know if the last general should say or not. ”

Zhang Jun was shocked when he heard this, this Wang Shenyuan was in Jingchu but he had a good understanding of the situation in Guanzhong, and he didn't know how he knew so much information, just from this point of view, this person is really a great general. immediately took a breath and calmed down the agitation in his heart: "Let's talk about it." ”

Wang Shen: "Those who make good use of the soldiers, no longer serve in the country, the grain is not three years, and the food is used for the country, because the food is in the enemy, so the army can have enough food." The poverty of the country is far from the teacher, and the people are poor if they are far away; Those who are close to the teacher are expensive, and if they are expensive, the people will be exhausted, and if the wealth is exhausted, they will be anxious to serve. The strength is bent to the wealth, the Central Plains is empty at home, and the people's expenses are seven out of ten; Public expenses, broken armies and horses, armor and arrows, arrows, halberds, shields, spears, and carts, six out of ten. Therefore, the wise will eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one minute, and be my twenty minutes; One stone, when I twenty stones. ”

He actually recited "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in front of Zhang Shujun, and then said: "When fighting in a large army, it is impossible to gather all military supplies in one place, and many times it is necessary to transport them from the rear for long distances. One stone of grain, transported from the rear to the front line, ten out of seven, seven or eight, the front-line soldiers only get one or two. As far as the last general knows, the Western Army had exhausted its savings for many years when the Western Army went north to Liaoguo and went out of the customs to Kaifeng Qinwang, and now there is not much grain in Guanzhong. Xiang Gong is going to Shaanxi now, if he rushes into a decisive battle with the enemy, I am afraid that it will not be possible. ”

"There is a saying in our hometown: The emperor does not send hungry soldiers."

"The so-called war is desperate for national strength, for attrition, and for the balance of strength. Therefore, before you are fully prepared, you should not easily start a teacher. Otherwise it is gambling, gambling on the fate of the army and the country. ”

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"Zhang Xianggong, Wang Shen is just a martial artist, and he doesn't know much about other things, but he still knows some things about war. Our Great Song army lacked horses, and eight to ninety percent of the troops were foot soldiers, because the heaviest formation was to pay attention to the battle after the battle. ”

Wang Shen continued: "In every battle, we must set up a strong village, form a thick formation, and advance slowly. In order to resist the Jurchen and Khitan iron cavalry rushing formation, the soldiers were equipped with thick iron armor, carrying powerful divine arm bows in their hands, and their spears and halberds were extremely sophisticated. In every battle, the rewards are also extremely rich. In this way, the requirements for logistics support are also extremely high. Without a supply line and a large amount of material reserves, there was no way to fight this battle. ”

"And because of the restrictions on war horses and the tactics that have been cultivated for a long time, my Great Song army went into battle, but it was more defensive than offensive. This time, why did you attack the enemy's strengths with your own shortcomings? ”

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Hearing Wang Shen talking, Zhang Jun's hand holding the tea bowl was fixed in the air and fell into deep thought.