Chapter 105: News of the Great Defeat
This year's spring came very late, and it looked like the first month was about to come out, and it was still cold.
In Dingxi City, Xu Ping is seriously writing down his learning experience yesterday. There is no teacher in learning military command, and in this era, there is no one who understands it, so everyone can only sum up and discuss with each other from the examples of past battles, and cooperate with the sand table deduction and the actual exercises of the army to verify it. Writing down learning experiences and communicating every day is a rule set by Xu Ping, and of course he can't violate it. This learning process is difficult and not easy.
The sunlight poured from the window onto the desk, and Xu Ping stood up and stretched. Just as he was about to tell Tan Hu outside to bring tea and rest for a while, Li Zhang ran in quickly from outside.
When he arrived in the room, he saluted Xu Ping, and Li Zhang said in a deep voice: "Jie Shuai, Yanzhou is defeated!" ”
Xu Ping closed his eyes and was silent for a while before reaching out to Li Zhang and whispering, "Show it to me." ”
Since entering the dry and cool autumn, Yuan Hao has led the main force of the party to concentrate on the eastern front, and constantly looked for combat opportunities in Xiazhou, opposite Linfu Road and Dunyan Road.
At the beginning, Yuan Hao's offensive target was actually on Linfu Road. Lin, Fu and Fenghewai are the protrusions of Hedong Road extending to the west bank of the Yellow River. If the party occupies these three states, it will push the power of the Song Dynasty westward across the Yellow River, occupy the Yellow River, and at the same time monopolize the geographical advantages of Hengshan.
The three prefectures outside the river practiced a system that was different from the inland prefectures and counties, and also different from the border prefectures, similar to the feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty. The Fuzhou family, the Linzhou Yang family, and the Fengzhou Wang family have held the local military and political power since the fifth generation, and the Sanzhou Zhizhou is still hereditary by their children after entering the Song Dynasty. Yang Wenguang is the same clan of the Yang family in Linzhou, but since his grandfather Yang Ye, he has begun to lead troops outside, and it is Yang Ye's brother who guards Linzhou, and his father Yang Yanzhao is actually not much related to Linzhou.
This time, it was Fuzhou Zhizhou Zhizhou Zhiji Min who made Yuan Hao finally give up attacking Linfu Road, who was just twenty-three years old this year. Originally, he was succeeded by his cousin Zhe Jixuan, who was removed from office because of tyrannical governance, and was succeeded by Zhe Jimin. Although he was young, Zhi Jimin was resourceful and decisive, his mind was sharp, and he did not show flaws, and Yuan Hao finally turned his head to the west.
After several months of exploration on the eastern front of Linfu, Yanyan, and Huanqing, finally in the middle of the first month, when spring was coming, Yuan Hao seized the fighter in Yanzhou. He first surrendered to Fan Yong, causing Fan Yong to relax his guard, and then attacked the security army along the Luoshui Valley Road, and then attacked Yanzhou along the Hunzhou River. Li Shibin, the capital supervisor of Jinming Village, who guarded this road, was known as the "Iron Wall Minister", known for his good guards, and was ready to fight. Yuan Hao faction attached to his Qiang tribe to surrender into Jinming Village, Li Shibin suggested that they all move to the south, but Fan Yong said, "If you ask for it, what if you invite it?" "All arranged in Li Shibin's village. In the end, the party should break through Jinmingzhai and open the door to attack Yanzhou. At this time, Fan Yong, who was in Yanzhou, panicked, and even recruited Liu Ping of Huanqing Road and Shi Yuansun of Yanyan Road to rescue Yanzhou together, Liu Ping rushed forward with light troops, and more than 10,000 elite people of the forbidden army were surrounded in Sanchuankou.
At this point, it is no longer meaningful to just stare at which force fights on the battlefield and which one escapes from battle. In a few months, the Dangxiang army came and went freely in the north of the Yanyan Road, and the geography of the mountains and rivers was clearer than that of the Song army. Yuan Hao may not have the strength and determination to break through Yanzhou, and he has been looking for an opportunity, but he is afraid that he will annihilate the main force of the Song army. Encirclement reinforcements, a classic tactic.
The Battle of Sanchuankou ended in the complete defeat of the Song army, and the two main generals Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun fell into the enemy. At this time, the lawsuit for the responsibility of the defeat was still being fought, and Xu Ping could not understand the specific battle, but the bad impact could already be imagined.
In the defeat of Sanchuankou, the number of people that the Song army really lost was not too many, only thousands, and what frightened the government and the opposition was the loss of the two main generals, one of them. Another is that almost all of the people involved in this battle were the elite of the forbidden army in the capital. The main force is the infantry Si Shenwei Army led by Liu Ping, the deputy commander of the infantry army, one of the "four armies" and the top army in the forbidden army. It is the Tiger Wing Army led by Shi Yuansun, the former Si Du of the Palace, which is only slightly inferior to the elite army of the "Boss Army". Assisting them was the cavalry of the Dragon Guard led by Wang Xin, the Marquis of Yu Hou, the commander of the Ma Army, who was also the "Upper Fourth Army". And the most terrifying thing is that the elite of these forbidden forces did not show the fighting spirit they should have, and less than 20% of the main Divine Guards were defeated. If everyone fights to the death, although Yuan Hao attacks with several times the number of troops, he may not be able to get the more than 10,000 forbidden troops.
This is a defeat in which the forbidden army in the capital was formed and participated in, led by its original commander, and two generals in charge of the army were lost at one time, which was the most impactful to the Song Dynasty and the opposition. The forbidden army, which was once regarded as the elite of the world, was completely shattered in this battle, and the forbidden army that had made countless achievements in the southern and northern wars of Taizu leveled the feudal domains, and the last afterglow disappeared in Sanchuankou. From then on, the Beijing Forbidden Army will completely lose its main position in foreign warfare.
After reading the morning newspaper in his hand, Xu Ping exhaled lightly and asked Li Zhang: "The specific battle report has not come down yet?" ”
"Huang De, the governor of Yanyan Road, said that Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun surrendered to thieves, and in his army, it was said that Liu and Shi Ershuai were killed in battle, and the two sides insisted on their own words, and now they are fighting a lawsuit. The specific battle report is not clear. ”
Xu Ping waved his hand: "I don't care how they sue me!" You personally wrote to the Privy Council and asked them to move the details of how Liu and Shi's armies marched, how they camped, how they engaged the enemy, and how they finally failed to Qin Feng Road. We need to use this battle to understand clearly how the party is engaged in warfare and how to deal with it in the future. The battle was lost, and if you don't hurry up and sum up the lessons, you don't know the process of the war, and you are staring at what lawsuit to fight, are you waiting for another defeat? ”
Huang Dehe is a eunuch, named the capital eunuch, and he is actually in charge of the army, otherwise this lawsuit would not have been fought. Xu Ping is not very interested in who bears how much responsibility in the war, and most of the people who participated in the war with more than 10,000 people survived, and it is unimaginable that someone can reverse black and white. No matter who is true or who is false, they can only be deceived for a while, and the truth will soon be revealed. Xu Ping was interested in the specific battle process between the two sides, and through analyzing this battle example, he could improve the command level of his own army.
Returning the newspaper to Li Zhang, Xu Ping sat behind the table, looked out the window for a while, sighed, and said to Li Zhang: "It's just that what we see now, the defeat in this battle has eight points to be counted in the command of the inadequate, and at most one or two points are counted in the front-line soldiers who cannot fight to the death." The battle was lost, the Divine Guard Army did not break up, and the party did not dare to chase after them, they could barely afford to be elite. The most disgusting thing is that they withdrew, but they gave the master to the thief. ”
Li Zhang said: "Now the whole court and the central government are blaming Liu Xing and others for commanding Liu Xing and others in the right wing of the Shenwei, and the main general has not retreated, so he will lead his troops back." If they can fight to the death, the two commanders in charge of the army will not be lost in the party army. ”
"Liu Ping, Shi Yuansun, the general of the army, actually left the battle and rushed forward to kill! Ridiculous! They are the commanders of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, thinking that he is the commander of the battalion! The two of them are ten thousand enemies, how useful is it to rush up? The main general is gone, and the whole army is defeated, alas-"
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