Chapter 279: The Battle of Mikawaguchi

"One, two, one! One, two, one! The majestic slogan sounded rhythmically, and a group of Song soldiers in khaki cloth clothes walked step by step, kicking up a cloud of dust on the road.

The soldier was cut as if it had been cut open, and although he did not make his hands and steps consistent, it was enough. After all, what Zhao Yu needed was not a ceremonial pacesetter, but an army that unanimously carved discipline into his bones.

In addition, there is a row of phalanxes next to it, holding a spear in his right hand, with his waist and abdomen, and his feet slightly forked. These are all new recruits, and the recruits feel simple at the beginning, but the first day has already made them feel that this is easy? It's hell, the howling of the cold wind, what is it compared to the numb and sour feet?

As soon as a soldier was in the slightest position, the escorts patrolling the ranks immediately went down with sticks, which were made of cork. There will be no bruising when you hit someone, but it hurts enough to restore sensation to the originally numb leg. Still, probably none of the soldiers wanted to try.

On the other side, the soldier is required to hold a hard bow in one hand and maintain an archery posture. It may seem the easiest, but if you have a brick hanging from your left arm holding the bow, probably no one will think so.

And there was no way for these archers to be lazy, because the bricks were almost attached to the ground, and the ground was covered with gray-black earth, and the bricks were sprinkled with white ash. If anyone wants to be lazy, or relax, the brick immediately comes into contact with the black soil, and it is immediately a bright white mark. There was no need to pay much attention, the officers who were inspecting nearby immediately saw it and immediately came up and scolded him.

When he first started, Sensei said that there were new recruits. Even the veteran secretly scolded Zhao Yu for being perverted.

Some people have just started to leave. But soon new recruits were added. Even if it's hard work. Most of the veterans also gritted their teeth and persisted. It's all because the welfare of the Guangjing Army established by Zhao Yu is too good.

Generally, the monthly salary of a box soldier is only 500 Wen, and Zhao Yu in order to prevent the court from catching a small whip, so is the salary of the Guangjing Army. But as the saying goes, 'there is a policy at the top, and there is a countermeasure at the bottom'.

Zhao Yu gave each soldier of the Guangjing Army three stone of food per month, which was enough to feed a family of five or six people. There are also a variety of rewards for excelling in training, but the ones with the highest rewards are team rewards. Still, the most powerful ones are all people. That month, every ordinary soldier could get a full ten times of money!

It must be known that the forbidden army is only about three times a month.

Not only that, the food in the camp is even more abundant, white noodles and rice are enough, each person has three taels of braised pork for each meal, and there is half a catty of mutton for each meal.

As long as they survive the three-month trial period, the family can immediately get 30 to 50 acres of fields in Guizhou to cultivate, all of which are Zhao Yu's. As for the source!

Naturally, it was the big family that made trouble, especially the Long family. Zhao Yu pacified the Anhua man. Where might you let go of these guys who made trouble for themselves in the first place?

And the fields were not given to the soldiers' families, but only rented to the other party. Rent is low though. Ordinary tenants have to pay 50% to 40% of the autumn harvest grain to the landlord, but Zhao Yu is not the case here. It was only a symbolic twenty-one of the grain, but ten times less than the rent of the average landlord.

In addition to this, soldiers of the Guangjing Army will be able to obtain these lands for free if they retire after the age of forty and have been in the army for eight years or more. Even if you don't have eight years, you can reduce the price of buying land according to the length of age you have joined the army.

Under all kinds of concessions, a large number of recruits were recruited for Zhao Yu. For this reason, in addition to the Guangjing Army, Zhao Yu also set up the Ping Navy, which was composed of recruits and veterans who had been replaced by the Guangjing Army, which was equivalent to the reserve of the Guangjing Army, and the food and salary were equivalent to the general van soldiers, that is, it could be slightly comparable to the Guangjing Army in terms of renting land by their families, but the rent was also more than that of the Guangjing Army, and Zhao Yu had to charge one-tenth of the rent. As for other treatments, there is no way to compare with the Guangjing Army.

In order to stimulate the Ping Navy, there is a big competition every month, and the Sandu people with the worst grades in the Guangjing Army go to the Ping Navy, and the Sandu people with the best results in the Ping Navy go to the Guangjing Army.

For this reason, although the training is hard, and every month there are even wounded soldiers during the big competition, no one dares to say anything like not being a soldier. As for deserters? When Zhao Yu trained the back army, was he a vegetarian?

The Beiwei Army is a private elite soldier formed by Zhao Yu on the basis of the palace guards, and the Beiwei Army is Zhao Yu's private name. Taken from Yue Fei's ace army, but in fact, the Beiwei Army was not created by Yue Fei, as early as the Song Renzong era of the scientist Shen Kuo has already been in his "Mengxi Pen Talk? Rhythm 1 wrote: "The flag team is like a splendid pile, and the silver is back. "Obviously, long before Yue Fei, there were already pro-soldiers named the Beiwei Army.

And the reason why people remember the name Yue Fei when they hear it is only because the back army in Yue Fei's hand is the most powerful.

Zhao Yu also put a lot of thought into building a back army, and bought 300 sturdy bantam horses from Yongzhou, and also bought 300 Yunnan horses with long endurance from Dali. That's right, Zhao Yu didn't want light cavalry, but heavy cavalry!

The Dian horse was draped in a light vest, and the plate armor cavalry made by Zhao Yu was dressed. Although it is not a tall horse, it is a fierce impact.

There were 300 men in all, but there were nearly 800 horses, and if you count donkeys, the number of these animals is even more than 1,000. Usually the back of the army sits on a general short-legged horse, and another bantam horse or donkey is carrying armor and vest, and when it is time to fight, it is the other Yunnan horse to put on a vest to fight.

Not only that, but one man and three horses, where did the cavalry take care of it? Even if you take care of it, this will become a groom, or where is it a cavalry? As a result, each of the Bearers was also equipped with a Servant Army, who assisted in feeding the horses and putting on armor for the cavalry. When it was time to fight, they had to ride on the bantam horses that the original cavalry used to travel to cover the killing.

Although there are not many troops on Guangnan West Road, it has now increased by 6,000 soldiers all at once, which does not count the Xiangyong that Zhao Yu widely accommodated. called Annan and Dali next to him very nervous, especially Annan, who had accepted the small officials who caused Anhua to be chaotic. The king summoned his ministers several times. Discuss countermeasures.

Dali is slightly better. Their relationship with the Song Dynasty was not serious, and the two sides were quite friendly, otherwise Zhao Yu would not have been able to buy so many Dian horses. Dali sent an envoy to congratulate Zhao Yu on the matter of pacifying the peace and manbarians as an excuse to find out what Zhao Yu was training so many soldiers for.

Do?

Zhao Yu naturally wanted to take down Annan, and the current lord of Annan, Li Fuma, was a famous emperor who was ambitious to fight everywhere. The ability to be partial is not extraordinary, and it has a very good set of economic governance. Recently. It has been conquering the countries around Champa and Fangla in the south. Once these southern regions are taken, will Liferma continue to go south?

Naturally, it won't, because further south is the endless sea, while the west is the poor mountains and bad waters, and the north is the rich Great Song Dynasty. The answer to the question of how the ambitious Lifoma will choose!

It's just that things don't always go as planned, the first year of Kangding, the first month. Li Yuanhao led an army of 100,000 troops to invade the Song Dynasty in three ways.

Li Yuanhao knew that the Song Dynasty was not easy to deal with, especially Jin Mingqi was guarded by the famous general Li Shibin. Li Shibin is a local native. Three generations have guarded Jin Mingqi. has a deep prestige in the local area, and Li Shibin himself is a famous general. Known as the iron-faced man, he is saying that he has a strong defense, and the Xia army has attacked Jin Mingyan many times, but they have all been defeated under the guard of Li Shibin.

Li Yuanhao first consulted the advisor's opinions, and figured out a plan for arrogance. first sent people to publicize how powerful Li Shibin was and his prestige. A few more teams of Western Xia soldiers were sent to harass them, but as soon as they saw Li Shibin's banner, they fled far away. said how the Xixia soldiers were afraid of Li Shibin, and they didn't have the courage to fight.

Li Yuanhao sent his henchman He Zhen to lead his subordinates to surrender to Li Shibin, the capital supervisor of Song Jinming, saying that he had inspired the kindness of the Song State. Li Shibin thought that Xia Bing was timid and arrogant.

At this time, Dafan Xianggong did something that Xixia was happy to see.

This big Fan Xianggong is naturally not Fan Zhongyan, but Fan Yong. This Fan Yong is also a famous minister and a member of the Queen Mother's party. He once served as the third envoy and other important positions. However, after Liu E returned to heaven, this guy was also degraded. This time it was because of the recognition of Lu Yijian and the appreciation of Song Renzong in "Six Things about Chen Anbian", this guy was promoted, and the official worshiped the envoy of Zhenwu Army, and the governor of Yanzhou.

However, this guy is a well-known fool, and Li Shibin accepted the surrender of the Western Xia soldiers, and he was still a little vigilant in his heart. It was proposed to send these surrendered soldiers to the rear of Yanzhou.

Fan Yong was troublesome, saying that it was cold, so where to find a place for these Western Xia soldiers to live? If you make a fuss, you'll have to work hard. Let Li Shibin pass the spring, and then send these Western Xia soldiers to the rear.

So, when Li Yuanhao led the main force, tens of thousands of Western Xia soldiers took advantage of their unpreparedness to conquer the security army. That's not all, Li Yuanhao sent a letter to Fan Yong, saying that he had no food, so he had no choice but to do so, and now he will return to his teacher.

Fan Yong's rice bucket really believed it, he was originally going to send troops to support Jin Mingyan, but now he has lifted the order that had just been issued for a day.

How could Li Yuanhao not take advantage of your illness to kill you at this time? Immediately lead troops to besiege Jin Mingqi.

First, he used a large army to set up a formation outside Jin Mingqi, besieging but not attacking. At night, Li Shibin relaxed some of his vigilance because of the day's events. The Xia soldiers who surrendered by fraud should immediately make a rebellion, opened the city gate, and the Western Xia soldiers poured into Jin Mingyan like a tide.

Li Shibin, the iron-faced minister, wanted to fight on horseback, but he didn't want to be really conscientious, and even cut off the reins of the horse. Li Shibin rode a war horse without reins, and his combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and he was captured by the Western Xia soldiers in a few rounds.

Fan Yong's big rice bucket came back to his senses at this time, and immediately sent someone to let Shi Yuansun, the deputy governor of Yanyan, and Liu Ping, the deputy governor of Yanyan and Huanqing, who were stationed in Qingzhou, come to the rescue. Liu Ping led 8,000 elites and Shi Yuansun to join forces with more than 10,000 people, marched day and night, and rushed to Yanzhou.

I don't think Li Yuanhao has already found out the news clearly, and when the Song army marches to Sanchuankou, the Western Xia soldiers have already set up a formation here. The Song army had no choice but to respond to the battle in a hurry, and there was a lack of people and horses. But at this time, the Song army still showed a strong battle force.

The battle took place in the Wulong River, a tributary of the Sanchuan Pass, and the two armies of the Song and Xia were arrayed across the Wulong River, which flowed from northwest to southeast. The Western Xia army was in the northeast of the river, and the Song army was in the southwest of the river. When the two armies first confronted each other across the river, they were listed as the Glaive Formation, that is, the arc-shaped military formation, and the purpose of this formation was that once the enemy army attacked the central part, it could be surrounded by the two flanks.

At noon, the Western Xia army launched a charge, and their numbers were large, so they rushed across the river in a horizontal formation, and the Song army was not enough to form an encirclement force, so they also changed to a parallel horizontal formation to resist the impact of the Western Xia army.

Since it was the attack of the Western Xia army, they had to cross the river, which was in the middle of winter, the snow was five inches deep, and the river should be completely frozen, and the river was full of snow and ice, and the pebbles were dense, and the road was slippery.

The Song army, which was arrayed on the shore, had a terrain advantage, and the Song army was famous for its powerful bows and crossbows, and thousands of arrows were fired in unison, dyeing the Wulong River red. When the Western Xia soldiers arrived on the shore, an order was given, and the Song army attacked in formation, spears pioneered, broadswords and shields guarded the wings, and archers threw them.

The Western Xia army could not resist and retreated to the river, the Song army chased across the river with victory, and the retreating Western Xia army tried to defend the front line with shields again to form a defensive front, which was also broken by the Song soldiers. In this process, hundreds of Western Xia soldiers and horses were killed, and countless people were killed and wounded.

It's just that the Song army's victorious pursuit made its formation looser, and it also caused its own team to enter the icy river. Li Yuanhao has an absolute advantage in terms of strength at the moment, and he has an army of 100,000 under his command!

Li Yuanhao soon organized a second wave of attacks. The Song army had no geographical advantage, and began to be unable to resist this second wave of attack, but Huang Dehe, the governor of Yanyan, was a coward, seeing that the Western Xia soldiers were numerous, and seeing that his side was at a disadvantage, his frightened face turned pale, and he actually led nearly a thousand men and horses to flee first behind the battle. As soon as he saw someone fleeing, the Song army was already at a disadvantage, where could it still resist?

Had to choose to retreat to the southwest. It should be said that the tactical literacy of this Song army is still very good, and under the attack of Li Yuanhao's superior forces, it can basically maintain the formation, and at dusk, retreat to a hillside southwest of the river and set up camp. But after this setback.

The Song army has only a few thousand people left from the original nearly 10,000 horses, and it seems that there are still thousands of people, which seems to be good. In fact, Song Jun is already a strong outsider! The armor, arrows, food, etc., which were originally carried, had to be abandoned in the process of retreating. Not to mention that he lost it, he also cheapened the Western Xia soldiers.

In addition, there are a large number of wounded soldiers in the army, but these wounded soldiers do not have adequate medical treatment, and can only vent their pain with wails to affect the morale of the army. There is no way for the partial generals, don't you give the other party a doctor, and don't even give a howl? Does this still have to be lived? (To be continued......)