Chapter 310 Sanchuan Village [Medium]

Kaiping Fort is twenty-five miles away from the Zhenrong army, and Sanchuan Village is thirty-five miles away from the Zhenrong army, a full seventy miles away. Even if it is a rapid march in its heyday, Zhao Yu estimates that it will take two hours, not to mention that now the back army is up and down, and even the men and horses have been marching for five days. Both physically and mentally are already exhausted and have reached the warning line.

Although Zhao Yu is in a hurry, he can only take the throne now, Liu Jizong, don't be too stupid.

When Zhao Xun was in a hurry, he rode a horse and followed Zhao Yu's side, looked at Zhao Xun's dusty and anxious face, hesitated, and said: "Lord Wang, there are some things in the army, maybe Lord Wang doesn't know, the reason why Liu Jizong's capital is divided into four roads is also a helpless move!" ”

Zhao Xun glanced sideways, and his cold eyes made Zhao Xun shudder a little. "What do you want to say?"

Zhao Xun hesitated and said: "Li Yuanhao, the Western Xia thief chieftain, retreated, I am afraid that many soldiers in the army have the intention of beating the water dogs. It's good that the whole army is pinched together, but who is in the vanguard? Who serves in the Chinese Army? Who will serve as the rear army? The vanguard is naturally the one with the greatest opportunity to take the lead, and although the Chinese army is a little worse, it is steady. But the rear army is different, not only does it have to accept the escaped soldiers in the back, not to mention, it needs to pull the baggage forward, and do hard work all the way. Liu Dujian and the three of them are all capital eunuchs, and no one can help anyone. The other way is the newly recruited soldiers, don't look at the leader of the soldiers is just a prisoner, but for Liu Jizong, they don't listen to the announcement. ”

When Zhao Yu heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning. What he paid the most attention to was not the compromise that Liu Jizong made for the sake of military merits, and the troops were divided into four ways. It's Zhao Xun's sentence that the soldiers don't listen to the tune.

On the Guangnan West Road, Zhao Yu also commanded the Tibetan soldiers. The soldiers are indeed lazy. But the combat effectiveness is not bad. The most important thing is that the price is low. In terms of military discipline, it is said that compared with the forbidden army, even if it is not considered a regular army, the village warriors are better than the soldiers. On the one hand, the number of court officers and soldiers controlled by Zhao Yu had an overwhelming advantage over the Fan soldiers, and on the other hand, Zhao Yu did not listen to the Xuan soldiers.

It's just that now Zhao Yu suddenly found that the number of soldiers seemed to be too much.

At present, there are about 200,000 officers and troops in Shaanxi, in addition to 70,000 soldiers. Don't look at the fact that the official army has an overwhelming numerical advantage over the Fan soldiers, but Zhao Yu knows that the Fan soldiers are basically in the border area. And about 150,000 officers and troops are on the front line of the border pass. In this way, the ratio of soldiers to officers and soldiers is not so disparity. It's just two to one, and Li Yuanhao's many big victories can't help but change the inferiority complex and fear of the soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty.

These border soldiers are basically the three races of Dangxiang, Qiang, and Tubo, and the soldiers of Western Xia are actually these three races. Therefore, they will think that since the Western Xia army can defeat the Song army so easily, even if they are not stronger than the Western Xia army, they will not be too weak, and their fear of the Song army will naturally not be too great.

In addition, the soldiers are unruly by nature and are not easy to discipline. The generals of the Northern Song Dynasty were powerless to discipline the soldiers. Nor is it a strange thing.

It's just that Zhao Yu thinks deeper, and now Shaanxi is very enthusiastic about the soldiers. Xia Zhu and Fan Zhongyan are even more representative. He wrote to the imperial court many times, proposing to replace the eastern soldiers with the Fan soldiers.

The eastern soldiers are the soldiers of the forbidden army, and the soldiers of the forbidden army are in Shaanxi Rongbing, and the salary is very high, especially now in wartime. Not long ago, around June, Prime Minister Zhang Shixun wrote to Song Renzong, saying that the forbidden army in Shaanxi was very hard, and his emotions were very great, and he was afraid that people would be in Shaanxi, and there would be no one to take care of him at home. Song Renzong took out 100,000 horses of silk silk from the inner money and rewarded them to the families of the forbidden army in Bianliang City.

And the treatment of the forbidden army in Shaanxi is also very high, Zhao Yu read such a passage in the official document: "Each person is about 500 yuan, 2 stones and 5 buckets of monthly food, 6 horses of silk in spring and winter, 12 taels of cotton, and 3,000 yuan with clothes." ”

In other words, each person in the forbidden army had 500 copper coins per month, two stones and five buckets of grain, six horses of cloth in spring and winter, 12 taels of cotton, and 1,300 wen for clothing.

This is just normal, in addition to the annual cold food, Dragon Boat Festival, winter solstice and other festivals There are special branches, that is, rewards. Each reward is about the same amount of money for each person. There are also various subsidies in times of war. A forbidden soldier in Shaanxi costs about 50 yuan a year, and an ordinary family in Bianliang City earns only about 4 yuan a month, assuming that 10 percent of the tax is paid, it takes about 11 ordinary families to support a forbidden soldier.

Moreover, this is a metropolis like Bianliang City, and the income in other places is even lower, and it is estimated that it takes fifteen or sixteen households, or even more, to support a forbidden soldier.

The pressure of raising troops is huge, one can imagine.

And what about the soldiers? The soldiers are just for the leader, and they need to go to war, so they give some special money, pickle money, and cloth, and when they are fighting, how is the treatment of a Fan soldier archer? "The archer's daily branch is two liters of rice, the horse is five points of broken material, and the grass is seven points."

As far as grain is concerned, two liters a day, two tials in ten days, and six tials in thirty days. And what about the Forbidden Army? It takes two stones and five buckets in a month. You also need to pay the kind every month, and the soldiers only need to pay in wartime, and they basically bring their own weapons or something.

Not to mention the forbidden army in wartime, even if it is a forbidden army in peacetime, it is enough for one forbidden army to support five soldiers!

In this way, it is not up to Xia Zhu and Fan Zhongyan to write to the imperial court for a long time, and put forward their own opinions on increasing the number of soldiers. It's just that now Zhao Yu suddenly found that things seemed to be slowly going to the extreme.

And when Zhao Yu was worried about the country and the people, Xiaogou did not expect Zhao Yu to have an attack battle.

Wang Bing led his headquarters of about 2,500 people to pursue Li Yuanhao, but when he reached Xiaogou Village, the Western Xia army suddenly rushed to kill.

However, Wang Bing's troops were confused by the traces of panic and escape deliberately caused by the Western Xia army along the way. By the time Wang Bing received the urgent report from Tanma, it was already a little late.

Wang Bing had no choice but to order the army to form a formation on the riverside between Xiaogou and Xiaogou Village. Wang Bing was not stupid, he pondered that his back against Xiaogou and the area that could be attacked could be reduced. Although there is a passage in Xiaogou Village, the passage in the countryside is naturally as narrow as ever, and even if the Western Xia army passes through Xiaogou Village to attack the Song army's formation, its strength will not be able to spread. It can only be attacked from the north and south. In this way, it is equivalent to turning the Western Xia army into two, which is easier to deal with no matter how you look at it.

The idea is good, but alas, the reality is cruel! (To be continued......)