Chapter 17 Hold the camp and wait for reinforcements, and then send troops and horses into the river
Yinshuke watched the entire rout of the Jin Army's infantry team in a daze, and then after the Liangshan Song Army came forward to slaughter the wounded soldiers of the Jin Army lying on the ground one by one, Yinshuke sighed and said: "This Song Army's tiger and wolf division is really a fierce enemy. Vertex M. update the fastest enemy to occupy the water army, the geographical advantage, our army here is not many soldiers and horses, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to drive it down Fenshui. Seeing that his water army is constantly coming and going, the military horses will definitely come from the waterway in an endless stream, only the commander of the flying report, our army guards the camp, in case the Song army is attacked inside and outside. "Slaughtering the enemy's wounded soldiers is a common practice in the barbaric era of cold weapons, the tone wastes food and medicine to treat the enemy's wounded soldiers, or makes the enemy's wounded soldiers wail and die, it is better to give him a good time, at this time, Song Liaojin did this in battle, and it is not surprising that it is a silver technique.
At that moment, Yinshu Ke ordered the messenger to fly to Datong to report to Wanyan Zonghan, the commander of the Western Route Army, just because the main force of the Dajin Western Route Army was brought back to Datong by Wanyan Zonghan, if the Jin army wanted to continue to besiege Taiyuan, it had to increase its troops.
After Yinshu could send messengers, he ordered all departments to collect troops and return to the camp, consolidate the camp, and never send troops to attack the Song army in Liangshan again. When Zhang Shun, Liu Tang, and Li Kui saw that the Jin people were retreating to the camp, they were relieved and boldly began to continue to strengthen the Fenshui camp, build a temporary wharf, build a water camp, and connect the water and land camps together, waiting for the follow-up soldiers and horses to arrive.
A day later, the follow-up soldiers and horses arrived by boat one after another, and Zhang Shun did not let all the warships dock, but divided one-third of the warships to turn around and go south to meet Lin Chong's military horses. Therefore, the main force of Lin Chong's army of more than 20,000 people took half of them into the naval division warships, and half of them marched along the Fenshui River and approached Taiyuan.
Lin Chong marched into Taiyuan on this side, but said on the other side that Sanniang led the women's battalion soldiers and horses back to Shandong Road by boat, and arrived at Shandong Road in a short time, and Gongsun Sheng and others went out to greet each other. After Sanniang returned to Jeju Town, she didn't have time to go home, so she was promoted to the general.
When he set off to return to Shandong Road, Sanniang flew a pigeon to pass the book back to Shandong Road, and ordered all the generals to gather in Jeju Mansion.
The generals have finished their orders, and they stand in two shifts, and Sanniang is not talking nonsense, so she immediately said: "The Jin people entered the Kou and ravaged Hebei, and now I am ordered to send troops to relieve the siege of Taiyuan and Hebei on the Shandong Road." My senior brother Lin Jiaotou has already led 30,000 troops and horses to Taiyuan to relieve the siege first, and I will come here on the Shandong Road, and the general 50,000 soldiers will go to Hebei to relieve the siege. ”
Hearing this, Shuneguan won the class and said: "Lord Mingjian, the Song Dynasty wants our army to send troops to Hebei to rescue the people, this is a benevolent and righteous move of heaven, and it is not necessary to send troops." But the lord is the lord of a town, not to move lightly, this trip to Hebei, Guan sent a soldier and horse to go. ”
Gongsun Sheng bowed his head and said: "Lord, Song Ting's plan to drive away the wolf and the tiger, in the name of righteousness, the army is to send troops, but as General Guan said, the lord must not move lightly, and this time he will send a general to go." This year, the Song and Jin Dynasty must fight, it is the Central Plains chaos situation, the lord should sit on Shandong Road, get a glimpse of the world's trend, adjust in the center, and command all the generals, so as to compete in the Central Plains and achieve hegemony. ”
At that moment, the generals spoke out one after another, and Sanniang heard that it was very reasonable, and she originally wanted to lead the troops to Hebei in person, but this idea was quickly dispelled. Gongsun Sheng has a point, the Song court once again tore up the agreement and started a war with the Jin State, this time the Jin State must be annoyed and angry, and the power of the whole country came, the Song and Jin wars, the Central Plains must be a chaos, and as the lord of a town, if you want to compete for the world, you should sit in your own nest and wait for the opportunity, instead of being a leading general who charges into battle.
At that moment, Sanniang was as good as a stream, so she bowed her head and said: "In this case, I will sit in Jeju, General Guan Sheng is the chief general of my East Route Army, Hebei is the main force of the land war, and the main force of the Jin people is there, I will give you 50,000 military horses to go to Hebei." The subordinate generals and General Guan chose their own choices. ”
Guan Sheng's face was as usual, and he immediately stepped forward to receive the order. Sanniang said again: "When I go to Hebei, the Jin people are besieging two important towns in Hebei, one is Hejian Mansion and the other is Zhongshan Mansion. The Jin army is several times that of me, although our military horses are brave, but they can't fight hard with it, and Hejian Mansion is close to the sea, and it is not far from our Shandong Road, so when the advanced army Hejian Mansion relieves the siege of Hejian Mansion, let go of the people, and gain a firm foothold in Hejian Mansion. ”
Guan Sheng is also a good general, he knows the importance of this go, and he should respond now. Sanniang said: "The east of Hejian Mansion is the sea, and General Guan is not alone, the Jin people and the Liao people use cavalry to fight in a roundabout way, and they are good at judging people's grain routes, and I have arranged 300 naval warships here, led by Zhang Heng, the ship, and they will respond in the open sea. ”
Guan Sheng is overjoyed, Hejian Mansion is the area of Cangzhou in the future, the east is the sea, and there is a navy by the sea, so the chances of winning are naturally a little greater. Then Guan Sheng ordered eight generals, received the soldier seal letter and went to prepare for the army. But it's the eight generals? That is: Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, Zhen Sanshan Huang Xin, Baisheng General Han Tao, Tianmu General Peng, Flower Tiger Gong Wang, Middle Arrow Tiger Ding Desun, Shi General Shi Yong, and Xiao Wei Chi Sun Xin.
On the same day, the soldiers and horses were ordered, and the Jeju government prepared grain and grass equipment, and the next morning, Sanniang went to the altar to worship the general, and Guan Sheng received the soldiers, horses, grain and grass. The three animals and fruits worshiped heaven and earth, and the three golden people who were captured recently were carefully made, and the flag was sacrificed under the altar, and Guan Sheng led the 50,000 troops to leave Jeju Mansion and go to Hejian Mansion.
More than ten days after Guan Sheng's expedition, Sanniang received battle reports from Lin Chong, commander of the Western Route Army, in Jeju Prefecture. It turned out that Liu Tang, Li Kui, and Zhang Shun defeated the Jin people on the bank of Fenshui in Taiyuan that day, and gained a firm foothold in the Fenshui camp.
The Jin army general Yinshu can already know the movement of the Liangshan Song army there, the Jin people and the Liao people in general, make good use of the cavalry roundabout, but this trip to the Liangshan army is to borrow the convenience of the water army, along the Fen River, the cavalry can not block the grain road, Yinshu can not be there many soldiers and horses, it is difficult to take care of Taiyuan City and Liangshan Song Army at both ends, so I have to press the army, looking forward to Yan Zonghan there as soon as possible to send troops to help.
But after speaking, Yan Zonghan led the main force of the Jin State West Route Army back to Datong, Datong is Yunzhong Mansion, he ordered all Jin troops to graze and raise horses in Yunzhong Mansion, will raise war horses, and rest with soldiers, but on the other hand, he is paying attention to the movements of the Song army. This trip was only because his Western Route Army was able to break through to the south, and converged with the Eastern Route Army under the city of Kaifeng, resulting in the Eastern Route Army going deep alone, and finally although the Song Dynasty was forced to negotiate peace, it had to retreat north early, and it was a big loss to the Shandong Road Army and horses in the retreat. After Yan Zonghan returned to Yunzhong Mansion, Jin Taizong asked for punishment on the table, and Jin Taizong was the time to win people's hearts, and he just issued a few words of reproach without pain, and after teaching Yan Zonghan, he still commanded the Western Route Army, actively prepared for war, and prepared for the second southern invasion of Kou.
It was Yan Zonghan who was going to rest his troops and horses in Yunzhong Mansion, but secretly he gritted his teeth and prepared for the second southern invasion. When Yinshu could ask for reinforcements to report, Wanyan Zonghan was taken aback, just because although Yinshu could not have many soldiers and horses, they were all the elite of the Jin Liao army, and they were actually defeated by the Song army. Wanyan Zonghan's generation of famous generals attached great importance to it, and immediately ordered a messenger to come and inquire carefully.
After listening to the messenger say that the Song army's firearms were sharp, the infantry army's combat methods were impermeable, and the combat strength was brave, Wanyan Zonghan asked the messenger about many details about the Song army's firearms, but the messenger was not very clear about many details, and only said what he saw that day, and Zonghan took the trouble to ask even the details of the weather, wind direction and so on that day.
In the end, although Zong Han got a general idea of the Song army's firearms, he still summed up a few essentials. One is the problem of common sense, although the firearms of the Song army are sharp, they must be afraid of water, and if they fight in rainy weather, they do not know whether firearms can still be used. The second is that the range of the Song army's firearms is longer than that of the catapult, and it cannot be fought against it from a distance in the future. Third, although the firearms of the Song army were sharp, if they were close to hand-to-hand combat, the Song army would definitely not dare to use firearms again, and in future battles, the Jin army would rush to the front as soon as possible and fight with them hand-to-hand, making their firearms useless. Fourth, when the rocket is fired, the Song army is mostly against the wind, avoiding the crosswind launch, this is Zong Han's own judgment after asking the wind direction of the day, according to his guess, the Song army's rocket and the ordinary arrows, if it encounters a strong crosswind after the shooting, it will definitely affect its accuracy, so that the future Jin Army will also look at the wind direction when fighting. Finally, there is the question of how many firearms there are in the Song army in Liangshan, just because there are not many soldiers and horses in Yinshu, and they have not been able to fight a few more battles, so it is impossible to see how many firearms can be carried in a Song army.
After summarizing the firearms of the Song army, he asked the Liangshan Song army infantry team tactics in detail, and the messenger couldn't understand the essence of the mandarin duck array, so he could only say a rough idea. After hearing this, Zong Han pondered for a long time before he said: "This kind of combat method needs to be practiced for a long time, and the cooperation between the long and short blade hands and the long and short shooters in the squad must be seamless, and the tacit understanding between the squad and the squad must also be tacit, if it is not for one or two years of kung fu practice, it is difficult to achieve such a tacit understanding." It is also necessary to have extremely strict military discipline constraints, so that the soldiers do not panic in the war, and can cooperate seamlessly, so that they can exert their greatest power. The Song army of this department can kill and wound more than 800 people of our army, and their losses are minimal, it can be seen that this army and horses are the elite of a hundred battles, but I am afraid that there are not many such military horses in the Song army, so there is no need to worry. "Zong Han misjudged, there are many such military horses in Liangshan, and the 180,000 people of the Liangshan Song Army are all trained according to the new book of discipline, and they have been trained like this since the day they became an army.
After roughly judging and summarizing the combat strength of the Liangshan Song army that came to the rescue, Zong Han ordered people to record the key points when fighting against firearms, and first taught the armies to familiarize themselves with it, and first taught the soldiers to practice for this tactic, in case the real battle, the troops and horses of the various departments were at a loss.
Then he ordered the messenger to go back, bringing his own military order, and instructed Yinshu to stay still, guard the camp, not to go to battle, and wait for reinforcements. After the messenger went, all the generals thought that Zong Han would immediately send troops, but Zong Han did not move, and only said: "The Liangshan Song army is the elite military horse of the Song people, and it is not a matter of calculation, this trip the Song people went north to rescue Taiyuan and other military states, there must be a few military horses coming, our army should play its strengths and avoid weaknesses, give full play to the advantages of our cavalry, divide and surround and eliminate it in the enemy's movement, the Song army comes several ways, you can first select the weak army to start, and destroy him a few weak troops first, no matter how strong the Liangshan army is, in the end it is difficult to scream!" ”
Only then did the generals understand Zong Han's plan, and at the moment they all said that Zong Han's art of war was strategic. Zong Han immediately ordered the scouts to go out to investigate the movements of several other military horses of the Song army. (To be continued.) )