Chapter Forty-Six: Preparing for the Golden Army

As mentioned in the previous chapter, Zhao Gou listened to Han Yuan's strategy, had no worries, and decided to fight with the Jin army, and the five commanders of the Volunteer Army all had the intention to kill the enemy, and after listening to Zhao Gou's order, Qi claimed that it was and was ready to go. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Zhao Gou traveled to the Song Dynasty for more than three months, and he sometimes felt that he was quite a failure, and in three months, if he was a serious engineer, he was afraid that even the breech gun was built, and he only made all kinds of food. But having said that, you can't blame Zhao Gou for not wanting to forge ahead. In the Song Dynasty, China's scientific and technological level has reached a very high level, inventing artillery (thunderbolt cannon, Li Gang used thunderbolt cannon to repel the golden soldiers the year before last), grenades (earth-shaking thunder), and during the New Year, the common people will also set off fireworks and monkeys for fun. Therefore, although the Song people's specific understanding of firearms is not as good as that of the technicians of the modern arsenal, they are actually stronger than Zhao Gou...... Zhao Gou, a modern person with a level of popular science, has no purpose if he wants to make a difference. Only breech guns are not made by knowledge, at least they must be made of high-quality steel that will not explode! The most Zhao Gou can do now is to gather the craftsmen who make gunpowder kilns in the Daimyo Mansion, raise their salaries and pay bonuses, let them produce more gunpowder, and then select a few clever craftsmen and let them work in the direction of artillery miniaturization. Zhao Gou believes that the current technology can already make muskets, after all, the first musket (assault musket) was invented by the Southern Song Dynasty people with bamboo tubes!

Zhao Gou was in charge of personnel, Wang Boyan, Zhao Yeliang, Yangzu, Zhang Luo, and logistics, and all five were in charge of the military of various departments. The entire Daimyo's Mansion was loose outside and tight inside, quietly preparing for war, with enough thunderbolts, earth-shattering thunder, and divine arm bows, Yue Fei volunteered to lead the army to maneuver outside the city, so as to flank the incoming enemy inside and outside. It seems that everything is in place, and only the gold man is owed. However, Zhao Gou and the soldiers of the Volunteer Army waited from the tenth day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, from the Lantern Festival to the dragon raising its head (February 2), and did not wait for the two thousand iron horsemen of the Jin people, but waited for a large wave of rumors.

"The Jin people are going to send 10,000 heavy cavalry to attack the Daimyo's Mansion!"

"The Jin people will not give up after arresting the official family, and they want to cut the grass and eradicate the roots of our Great Song Dynasty, it seems that they are planning to capture our Dashuai alive!"

"The Jin people have ruined the Bianliang people, if these beasts come to the Daimyo's mansion......"

The rich and prosperous Daimyo's mansion was panicked, rolled gold and silver, and there were people who fled south with their families; There are those who take refuge in the mountains with their children and daughters; Of course, there are also people who are not afraid of death and volunteer to join the volunteers.

Military operations are known to passers-by? Zhao Gou, who was sitting firmly in the Marshal's Mansion, felt strange, and said in his heart how could Jin people make such a big mistake and be infected by Song Qinzong's brain-dead aura? Zhao Gou looked forward to the Jin people coming soon, so not only was he not as preoccupied as the common people, but he was leisurely looking for Saturn with a telescope on the roof, while pondering whether he could confiscate the land and real estate of the rich who had escaped. Just as he was happily about to call Zhao Ye to discuss, Kang Lu led Yue Fei to the room and said, "Commander Yue Du has something important to talk about, and the marshal asked Commander Yue Du to see you without reporting." ā€

Yue Fei was moved when he heard Kang Lu's words, but he didn't say anything polite, but went straight to the point, "Handsome!" The last general understands! ā€

Zhao Gou smiled and asked, "Yue Qing, what do you understand?" ā€

"Dashuai, the rumors in the city have been deliberately spread by the Jin people recently!"

"What?" For some reason, Zhao Gou suddenly remembered the taste of modern red bean dorayaki, and his brain was a little dead.

Yue Fei saw that Zhao Gou didn't understand, and further explained, "Dashuai, from the perspective of the Jin people, after they spread the rumors that they are about to attack the city in a big way, the Dashuai will abandon the city and flee, but the Jin people will send a light cavalry to intercept and kill the Dashuai on the way to escape!" ā€

Zhao Gou didn't think much of Yue Fei's thoughts, frowned, and said, "Yue Qing, Jin Ren's plan is too taken for granted, right?" The high walls of the Daimyo's Mansion are thick, and the commander can sit firmly at the head of the city, and beat the intrusive Jin soldiers for a moment, why should he abandon the city and flee? ā€

Yue Fei smiled bitterly, and explained quite reluctantly, "Marshal, when our army hears the news of the Jin people's attack, how can anyone sit firmly at the head of the city to resist?" I've always abandoned the city and fled. The Yellow River garrison of 200,000 fled without a trace after listening to the Jin army beating drums on the other side of the river all night. Now Jinren has designed it like this, and it has been consistent. Besides, even if the marshal didn't escape, they wouldn't have much to lose. ā€

Zhao Gou heard Yue Fei mention the allusion of the Jin people tying sheep and beating drums, in fact, he already believed it, and when the Song army heard that the Jin army was coming, it was indeed 99% of them fleeing. In an era like this, when there were no trains and automobiles, from the northeastern hometown of the Jin people to Kaifeng south of the Yellow River, two or three thousand miles, it took a month to walk just by walking. But the Jin army, which was mainly infantry for more than 100,000 people, reached the city of Bianliang in a month. It can be seen that the resistance encountered by the Jin army is basically zero. However, Zhao Gou was still a little embarrassed to admit it, and retorted indignantly, "The official family didn't escape." ā€

Yue Fei sighed, "Alas, the handsome, the official family didn't have time to escape. ā€

Zhao Gou was stunned for a long time, and agreed with Yue Fei's proposition in his heart.

Yue Fei saw that Zhao Gou was silent, and knew that Zhao Gou had already recognized it, so he said, "Great Marshal, our army should plan accordingly, pretend to escape, and ambush the Jin army on the road!" ā€

Zhao Gou nodded, and asked Kang Lu to call all the commanders to have a military meeting together.

At the meeting, Zhao Gou drank tea, Yue Fei introduced, and after listening to Yue Fei's speech, except for Zhang Jun's face was a little red, the other generals nodded frequently in agreement. When Liu Bin heard that Zhao Gou wanted the nearby Jin army, he rubbed his hands, saying that his big knife was already hungry and thirsty.

Zhang Sanlang, the youngest and most vigorous of the five commanders, did not immediately express his position this time, but seemed to be counting something with his fingers, and after a while, his eyes lit up, he stepped forward and said, "Commander, there will be a plan in the end, which can capture the cavalry of the Jin Army." ā€

Zhao Gou knew that Zhang Sanlang was most familiar with the geography of this area, nodded and asked him to speak quickly.

I only heard Zhang Sanlang say, "There is a mountain near Dongping Mansion, named Liang Mountain. ā€

Zhao Gou smiled in his heart when he heard this, and said in his heart that Ben Shuai also knew that there was Liangshan near Dongping Mansion, and there was also a water pool, but he asked, "San Lang, you are from Cizhou, how do you know Liangshan?" ā€

Zhang Sanlang explained, "The eldest sister married Liangshan Orion, so the last general is also familiar with Liangshan. The Daimyo's Mansion is 300 miles away from Liangshan, and our army can reach Liangshan in four or five days on foot. The Daimyo's Mansion is four hundred miles away from Bianliang Mansion, and the spies bought by the Jin Army are running wildly, and the Bianliang Jin Army can know the news in one day. The golden rider has always ridden more than one person, traveling more than 200 miles a day. In this way, the Jin army rode lightly to attack our army, and it happened to be at the foot of Liangshan in four or five days. ā€

Zhao Gou listened to Zhang Sanlang's calculations so orderly, and glanced at him higher.

Zhang Sanlang continued, "Of course, these are just estimates, our army must also send scouts to monitor the position of the Jin army, use fireworks during the day, and use lanterns to transmit the position of the Jin army at night, so that the army can reach the foot of Liangshan at the same time as the main force of our army." ā€

Zhao Gou nodded and said, "San Lang has a good plan." ā€

"There is a swamp in Liangshan, our army pretends to break up, and the Jin army is introduced into the swamp, and it can be captured alive!"

"Huh?" Han Yuan interjected, "It's February, won't the swamp freeze?" ā€

Zhang Sanlang smiled, "It's precisely because it's February that I just use this swamp!" If it hadn't been frozen, it would only have been able to trap the dozen or so horsemen who had the head, and now there was a layer of frozen mud on the swamp, and the cavalry collapsed when they rushed over, so that they could trap thousands of cavalry! ā€

Zhao Gou listened to it, and felt that Zhang Sanlang's plan was quite good, and stroked his palm and said happily, "Good plan, really good plan!" Zhao Gou said, while scanning the audience, seeing Yue Fei and Zhang Jundu nodded slightly, agreeing with this plan, he clapped and said, "Just do it according to San Lang's plan!" ā€

Zhang Sanlang saw that Zhao Gou had adopted his opinion, hehe, Yile, arched his hand, "Dashuai, the last general asks to go to Liangshan with the second brother first to ensure the plan!" ā€

Zhao Gou smiled and nodded in agreement.