When Wang Shixian went south, he left fifty garrison soldiers in Guancheng, and the discipline of the headquarters was very strict, Wang Shixian never believed that these soldiers dared to take advantage of his absence to abandon Guancheng to plunder the place, a trace of foreboding appeared in his heart, and shouted: "Wang Dechen! Come back! ”

Wang Dechen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to turn his horse back and ask his father why he wanted him to retreat, but suddenly a crossbow arrow broke through the air in the dark and hit the ground not far in front of Wang Dechen.

Countless torches and flags were raised on the Guancheng, and the swords of the armor soldiers were shining in the light of the fire, and the spears were like forests, and the people in Guancheng shouted: "Lingquan Guan Jing Chu Army has been taken down for a long time!" Zheng Dutong said that he brought Gongchang Wang Shixian, if you want to go back to Gongchang, find another way! ”

Wang Shixian was also a little surprised, where did this Song army come from, could it have fallen from the sky?

When Naruto Zheng Yun had not yet arrived in Sichuan, he had already stirred up a pool of waves in the Sichuan market. He ordered Cao Wenqi to send his younger brother Cao Wenyong into Shu first, buying horses from Sichuan along the way to prepare for the arrival of the army in Shuzhong.

In other places, the idea of buying civilian horses to fill military horses is mostly dismissed by experienced soldiers as scholars, these folk horses kept in the stables by Han people are bulky, bloated, only suitable for pulling carts and grinding, and can not be driven as war horses, and the horses raised as war horses must adopt the free-range mode, that is, they must have large pastures, which is a condition that the Central Plains does not have. But this matter cannot be generalized, for example, in the special battlefield of Sichuan, the difference between war horses and civilian horses is not big. The reason for this is that the army in Shuzhong, as long as it is not an elite army close to Shukou, most of them buy horses from Sichuan as military horses. The Chuan horse is short in stature and has strong limbs, which is suitable for long-distance travel with cargo in the mountains, but not for short-distance galloping and fighting. Therefore, the war horses used by the Sichuan army are similar to the pack horses used by the people. Of course, the Shukou army used a large number of Qin horses purchased from the Tibetan Department in the northwest, which were variants of the Hequ horse, tall and good at running long distances. But these were all obtained in the Longnan Kaichang and the Tubo Jin trade, now that Shukou has fallen, the source of Qin horses has been cut off, and Zheng Yunming can only rely on the local war horses in Sichuan.

But then again, the local horses in Sichuan are not completely without advantages, even the Mongolian horses, which are known for their endurance, are not as good as the Sichuan horses who are good at mountain roads in mountain warfare, Cao Wenyong contacted old customers and familiar Haoqiang along the way, and collected horses at double the high price all the way, and soon collected more than 3,000 local horses for Zheng Yunming. Naturally, these horses and plain lands are not as short and long as Mongolian mounts such as Mongolian horses and Hequ horses, but Zheng Yunming devised a different way of using these mountain horses.

He did not use these horses as mounts for cavalry, but as mounts for infantry. In short, the creation of an equestrian infantry was not inspired by the unrelated concepts of dragoons or motorized infantry from another plane, but from the teachings of his rivals, the Mongols.

The Mongols used soldiers, whether infantry or cavalry, all of them were given a horse first, of course, the cavalry had several good horses, and the horses were also higher than those of ordinary infantry, but the infantry had mounts and did not have mounts. Infantry with basic mounts are much more powerful than infantry on foot, and although they cannot compare with regular cavalry, especially the nomadic cavalry, they are no longer inferior to the enemy's large cavalry corps on short and medium marches.

Before the establishment of a real cavalry that could compete with the Mongol cavalry, the use of mounted infantry was Zheng Yunming's only option. Fortunately, Zheng Yunming had been prepared for this, and when he was training in Jinghu, he required all infantry to master a special skill in addition to the usual skills, that is, horseback riding, and purchased a number of civilian horses as trainer horses. He didn't need the infantry to ride their horses around the battlefield, he just needed them to travel long distances on horseback with all their equipment. From this point of view, one does have to admire Zheng Yunming's foresight.

Now that Wang Shixian's rear team no longer followed the main force to retreat north, but stayed to monitor himself, Zheng Yunming immediately responded. Set up a false guard of honor in the camp, replace the soldiers with straw men and put them on the sentry posts, and then let a small number of people stay in the camp to blow the trumpet and raise the flag, so as to make the illusion that there is nothing abnormal in the camp. However, the army secretly slipped away from the south gate of Puzhou, first concentrated the 3,000 troops of the Beiwei army, the trapping army, and the Zhenwu right army, and handed them over to Wang Deng's command.

If the army goes out, Wang Shixian's troops also have horses, and they may not necessarily be inferior to Wang Deng in terms of degree. But this was the scene when they went south, and when they returned north, they carried with them the cloth and grain they had taken in carts, and drove thousands of people, marching no more than twenty miles a day. Wang Deng had never organized all his troops to march on horseback for a rapid march before, but fortunately, in addition to buying horses, Cao Wenyong also hired more than 100 old horse gangs that were active in the Southwest Yi Running Gang all year round, and these old horse gangs were good at organizing large groups of people and animals to form horse teams to advance. In addition to the soldiers, they also carried enough dry food for ten days and enough arrows and ammunition, with these 3,000 men naturally could not stop the 20,000 experienced Ganlong cavalry in the wilderness, they relied on preemptively occupy the dangerous terrain before Wang Shixian's army, and then rely on the experience of defending the city and the advantage of firearms to block the enemy's retreat.

Although the Sichuan horse is short, it is one of the world's famous pack animals, and it is common to carry three or four hundred catties of tea on the tea horse trail. Although the copper generals and iron generals were heavy, it was perfectly feasible to carry a bamboo general and spare ammunition on a horse. In Wang Deng's team, more than eighty bamboo generals were carried.

If Wang Shixian could have foreseen that a Song army would take a detour to advance in front of him from another road, his response would have been very simple. Dozens of elite spy horses were sent to the front and rear and on both flanks, and once the current Song army was on track, it was enough to transfer the army to intercept it, even if it could not annihilate the highly mobile Wang Deng's troops. But since entering Shu, the Mongol army has never encountered fierce resistance, for a general, arrogance and contempt of the enemy is like a poison attached to the bones, knowing that you must be careful and vigilant, you will still unconsciously relax.

Wang Shixian fell victim to this poison, not only did he withdraw the spy horses on the left and right flanks, but he didn't even bother to send the spy horses in the direction of the north front, except for the rear guard Wang Jun's department sent more than 200 spy horses, the entire army was in a state of no alert. He obviously underestimated the cowardice of the Song army.

After Wang Deng was ordered, Huo led his troops out to find dangerous places along the way, but for various reasons, the passes on Yulu were not suitable for blocking the Mongol army. Advancing all the way to Lingquan Pass, I found a suitable place. More than 50 officers and soldiers guarding Guancheng saw the brigade of military horses coming at night, and they didn't expect it to be the Song army attacking at all, but thought that the army was going to collect troops and go north to pass the pass, so they switched and let them go, and Wang Deng led his troops to seize Guancheng in one fell swoop.

Wang Deng's seizure of Lingquan Pass made the position of Wang Shixian's army suddenly embarrassing, and not long after the army was blocked at Lingquan Pass, there was news that Zheng Yunming personally led the army to arrive at the Xima Bridge on the outskirts of Chengdu, and set up a large camp at the Xima Bridge, and was not in a hurry to attack, but worked overtime to build a camp, obviously ready to attack Wang Shixian before and after. This is the so-called step-by-step strategy of the art of war, anyway, Lingquan is in his hands, Zheng Yunming has also successfully escaped the surveillance of Wang Jun's department, and the odds of victory have been seventy percent, and there is no need to really fight Wang Shixian to the death under the city of Chengdu.

On the contrary, Wang Shixian, not only in the embarrassing situation of being attacked by the enemy on the belly and back, but also completely separated from the rear army of Wang Jun's department, he as the palace army troops left to sweep after the return of the broad army to the north, should have just plundered some states and counties by the way, and by the way defeated the remnants of the Song army in Shu, but now he is subject to the offensive actions of this Song army, of course, he has absolute confidence that his troops are capable of fighting, even if they are under the attack from both sides, they will never be defeated by this Song army, but now the soldiers are thinking about it, If a battle has to be fought, any unintended consequences can arise.

But at this time, Wang Shixian was not flustered at all, when he was surrounded by 100,000 Mongolian troops in Shimen Mountain, he handled military affairs in an orderly manner, and this calmness was the foundation of Wang's solitary stay in Longnan for more than ten years and finally became a powerful feudal town of the Mongolian Empire.

Wang Shixian decisively issued three orders: first set up a camp in Sanli under Lingquan Pass, and also made a deep ditch and high fortress, making an appearance of comprehensive defense, and secondly, sent 3,000 cavalry to divide into ten teams, led by Sun Shuwen, the head of the tent, and took turns to harass the Song army camp, and shot the defenders in the camp with bows and arrows. Zheng Yunming had no time to reorganize the troops and attack. Third, send henchmen to detour from the trail and inform Wang Jun to lead the troops to come to the rendezvous, and also form a front and rear attack on Zheng Yunming.

This is almost the best disposition for a general who suddenly fell into a crisis, even if it is replaced by Zheng Yunming, he can't think of a better response than Wang Shixian. Wang Shixian set up a camp in the open area, it seems to be a cocoon to bind himself, but in fact, when the strength of the cavalry on both sides is equal, Zheng Yunming can form an encirclement of Wang Shixian's camp, Zheng Yunming has fewer cavalry, it is impossible to completely surround Wang Shixian, who is a cavalry in the whole army, and build a strong camp to prevent Zheng Yunming from carrying out the deadliest surprise attack on his subordinates, and he will not be afraid that Zheng Yunming will use the infantry array to squeeze him, in these two cases, The enemies of Lingquan Pass will not obediently watch the friendly troops fight under the pass, but will flank them. But as long as Wang Shixian builds a good camp and digs a trench, the opponent will be helpless even if he attacks back and forth.

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