Chapter 696: Three Levels (3)
"Kill!" Guo Kui hacked to death a approaching Jiaozhi soldier with a Pu knife, and then looked at the battlefield!
The Jiaozhi formation is not strict, which is what Zheng Lang said about lax military discipline. This problem was also common in the Khitan, and the same was true in the Western Xia. But it does not prove that the quality of the army of the Song Dynasty is good, most of these countries are conscription, and the Song Dynasty is a conscription system, with a maximum of 13.4 million troops, even if there are still a million troops, which are raised, and the soldiers have to bear the burden of labor, and the forbidden soldiers and the soldiers do not have any burden of labor, and they are training all day long. Practicing swords, guns, bows and horses, practicing formation diagrams, formation diagrams, this thing really can't be believed, let alone brought to the battlefield, but the formation type is of great help, so the formation is rigorous, and the Song Dynasty is the first among several countries.
This is a defect of the Cochins.
Compared to Nong Zhigao's army, the Jiaozhi people are much more tenacious.
At the sound of an order, one after another, from the time of lunch, the onslaught has not stopped for a moment, and the offensive has become more and more fierce.
Another round of attacks was repulsed.
In fact, Wu Er and Li Changjie were also amazed at the tenacity of this Song army.
The two of them couldn't understand why the army was so tenacious, and it was still a million army, why was it confined to the Khitan in the north and Western Xia in the west, and their attitude towards Jiaozhi had always been very weak. So far, they haven't won the Duel Pass level, and both of them are a little shocked in their hearts.
Taking the opportunity to breathe, Yang Wenguang came to Guo Kui's side and said, "General Guo, Jiaozhi people should not be underestimated. ”
Guo Kui did not answer.
Although through the analysis of various signs, Zheng Lang was well prepared this time, but the enemy had too many troops, even if it was a victory. If it is a pyrrhic victory, it will have a shadow on the future of the two Guangzhous.
"And morale."
Guo Kui was shocked and looked at everyone. 4,000 soldiers if you talk about physical fitness. All of them are the best, but only some of them have been to Temill Road and experienced a few fierce battles. The rest of the soldiers lacked experience in warfare. It is brave to fight a good battle, but to fight such a vicious battle, seeing the heavy sacrifices, they are a little timid.
Yang Wenguang said worriedly: "Three days." ”
Zhang Kang's order that there was no need to force it to hold on, and after capturing the Duali Pass checkpoint, he only held on for three days to prepare for the rear to gain time. Of course. It would be better if it could be a little longer, and it would be best to have four or five days.
If this continues, let alone three days, even tomorrow may not be able to hold on.
Several generals are all brave generals of the three armies, but each has its own shortcomings.
Guo Kui is a rare handsome talent, but he is too conservative. Zheng Lang is not good at employing people. Rather, it is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of these people through the performance of these people in history. Guo Kuicheng is in Jiaozhi, and he is defeated in Jiaozhi. When he came to the Song Dynasty, Zheng Lang was immature and skeptical of Guo Kui.
None of them. It was a very strange era, the more female stars were blushing, not more than acting, but more than who had more scandals and who took off their clothes. It is obviously a relatively average system of governance, but the gap between the rich and the poor is greater than that of capitalism, and whoever has money is the father, which is worse than the evil feudal era of the Song Dynasty. The family members of the officials are all in foreign countries, and the government is shouting for peace and harmony, and on the other hand, it is desperately trying to pay the price of land regardless of the lives of the people, so that the housing price exceeds the total salary of a worker in his lifetime, and the peasants have to cultivate land from the Ming Dynasty for five or six hundred years, and the accumulated money can buy a house. A good Lei Feng spirit can promote the progress of the spiritual civilization of the whole society, but many people have turned out its history and questioned it.
In this strange atmosphere, Yang Wenguang was a sauce-colored character when he was in Pingnan, but he became the biggest harlequin in the official history. Di Qing became a demon, Nong Zhigao killed tens of thousands of people, and captured tens of thousands of people to be slaves or sacrificed to Jiaozhi's godfather, but became a national hero. I don't believe in the history of my country, you must know that the history of the Song Dynasty was compiled by the Yuan Dynasty, and the Tongjian of the Continuation of Capital Governance was compiled by the Qing people. I don't believe it, but I believe in the history written by the Jiaozhi people.
Therefore, the Xining War confused Zheng Lang in his previous life.
It wasn't until he grew up that Zheng Lang understood that Jiaozhi was defeated, and there are several historical facts that can be analyzed, one is that Jiaozhi did not dare to invade the Song Dynasty for a long time after the war, and was a good grandson. If you don't suffer a big loss, why do you have to do this? After the second Guo Kui withdrew his army, only a few soldiers were left to be stationed in Langshan and other Jiaozhi territories, and Jiaozhi only begged the Song Dynasty softly and did not dare to send troops to take it back.
Guo Kui's withdrawal of troops was due to several reasons, all of them were forbidden soldiers along the Yellow River, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and many people died of malaria, these soldiers would be the elite of resistance to the Khitan and Western Xia, and now they died in the south, which did not have much benefit to the Song Dynasty, which was not worth it. (There is an edict that the four generals of Annan marched to Yongzhou to the army, and nearly four or five thousand people died and fell ill in early September. It can be strictly [added] to abstain from encouragement, and it is still responsible for medical treatment. That is, Guo Kui's army died four or five thousand people before they could fight in Yongzhou, and the so-called miasma in Jiaozhi was even more serious, not died in battle, but died of disease)
After a big defeat and the completion of the preliminary task, the soldiers were not full of fighting spirit. The second battle is the battle of destroying the country, whether Jiaozhi will resist stubbornly, and it is not easy to judge who will win or lose when the soldiers have died heavily and the fighting spirit is not strong.
Therefore, he said: "I can't overthrow the nest of thieves and capture Qiande to repay the court, and heaven!" I am willing to live more than 100,000 lives with one body!"
Knowing that there is no good end when you go back, you have to forcibly accept it when you see it.
After making this decision, Guo Kui accepted the demotion of Jiaozhi. But Tao Bi still insisted on his opinion and said: "The people of Sanzhou, tens of thousands of innocent slaughtered people!" Today, there are 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the thieves are already in their hands and they do not take it, so that the thieves [will] will make the country unpleasant, the injustice of the three states will not be restored, and the heart of one side will be frustrated, and there is no one to congratulate!"
The generals did not dare to say this.
After all, Xingshi moved the crowd to come, but he didn't even annihilate Jiaozhi, and he couldn't make a difference after he went back. Therefore, Guo Kui once again did a controversial thing, taking the lead in leading the Chinese army to withdraw from the north bank of the Fuliang River, as soon as the Chinese army left, the enemy was on the south bank, and the rest fled in panic.
This is the truth of the real Battle of Xining.
Jiaozhi has been annihilated by tens of thousands of people by the Song army, and half of the army has been lost, what ability does it dare to pursue later?
300,000 men were mobilized in this war, and 100,000 troops were regularly incorporated into the army, and the rest were civilian men. Responsible for escorting logistics and supply. Now, Cochin has also used tens of thousands of people as people's husbands, of course. These people cannot be counted in the army.
Only half of them came back, and if it wasn't sacrificed, only a few thousand people actually died on the battlefield. Everything else fell under malaria.
Sure enough, Zhao Ji was not satisfied with this result, he thought that Jiaozhi was a small country, since it could beat the Western Xia and Tubo, as soon as the army arrived, it was not invincible and invincible against Jiaozhi? Therefore, Guo Kui was asked to make a quick decision, quickly destroy the Li Dynasty, and send Li Qiande to Kaifeng. Implement China's long-standing county system and re-integrate North Vietnam into China's arms. However, Guo Kui actually returned to China from the Jiaozhi squad when the great work was about to be completed. Therefore, Guo Kui was demoted, and Zhao Yu was demoted. It was Zhao Ji's light enemy, who later attacked Western Xia and finally ended in a fiasco.
At that time, he really wanted to cross the Fuliang River and attack Thang Long Castle. What will happen is unknown. Guo Kui's military talent cannot be denied, but it also proves that Guo Kui is conservative in his use of troops.
There is another thing that is not used well, and this thing is the biggest bargaining chip and the biggest magic weapon of Zheng Lang's victory. However, Guo Kui is a northerner. He can't be blamed entirely either.
Speaking of other generals, Zhao Xun did not release greater brilliance in history because he was captured, he is a good talent, overall average, civil and military talent, resourceful, quite similar to Zhang Kang, but overall slightly inferior to Zhang Kang.
He is fierce and brave in battle, but he is more selfish, and he is not as good as his father Shiheng in terms of wisdom.
Yang Wenguang is a humble gentleman, low-key, and does not like to fight for merit and discernment, so he has been unknown for a long time, and when he finally bloomed, he was already an old pearl yellow, a beauty in the twilight, and a hero with a white head. This low-key has also become Yang Wenguang's flaw.
It was the other two people who made Zheng Lang value it very much, Zheng Hao and Zheng Su, maybe these two people stayed by their side, influenced by themselves, liked to read some military books and strategies, and began to degenerate. In some respects, their military talent has far surpassed that of the original Jurchen generals such as Zhao Zhong and Zhao Sheng. Compared to the previous generals, they were slightly less talented in military affairs, but their ferocity made up for their military shortcomings. can't be a famous handsome, but he has the demeanor of a famous general.
There are still some talents in the Liangguang Army, but they are basically not in Zheng Lang's eyes.
This is his evaluation of the generals with his golden finger.
The best handsome person is Zhang Kang, and the fact that the early arrangement is completely handled by Zhang Kang. But he had another use.
According to this evaluation, Guo Kui was used as the main general this time. Without him, the lone army goes deep, what you win is time, not war achievements, and it is better to be conservative.
If morale is not strong, you will not be able to hold on to this level.
Guo Kui came to the generals and said, "Everyone, why did we march like that a few days ago, why didn't we come here early, why didn't we come here late, but we arrived here yesterday?" ”
This, God knows? If they knew, they could all call the shots. Shake your head together.
"We don't go around, directly from Taipingzhai to Pingxiangtong, the enemy will inevitably guess our intentions, one day, one day can let Jiaozhi send a vanguard to come here, then we will not be able to take this pass at all. So I went around and won the day. Why did you choose yesterday, yesterday to take this pass, the Jiaozhi army is already approaching here, in a dilemma, it will inevitably attack. If it is too late, we will not be able to take it, and we will bring about our own destruction. Earlier, the enemy was more prepared. This is Zheng Xianggong's arrangement. You have to believe in Jung Sang-ko, he is a man who will bring miracles. ”
Guo Kui didn't know if this was Zhang Kang's idea or Zheng Lang's idea. But playing Zheng Lang's name is much better than beating Zhang Kang.
Guo Kui said: "If we can't take this pass yesterday, this policy will fail, and we won't be able to hold it again." Zheng Xianggong is a miracle worker, which is why he believes that we are also a group of miracle workers. ”
And it worked.
Zheng Hao grinned and said, "Miracle." ”
The rest of the soldiers roared in unison.
The miracle came, and in the evening, the pass was still firmly occupied by the Song army. However, at this time, the Song army sacrificed more than 300 warriors, and more than 400 people were covered with injuries ranging from severity to severity.
A critical issue is the depletion of defensive weapons.
The sun was setting, and Huang Fen arrived with 2,000 soldiers and civilians with a large number of weapons and supplies.
There is no food, and there are 3,000 Jiaozhi soldiers stationed in the checkpoint, which has enough food to meet the needs of the next few days.
What is lacking is not food, but weapons, and Huang Fen's arrival made Guo Kui overjoyed.
It's a miracle.
In order not to be detected by the Jiaozhi spies, the weapons could not be transported to Pingxiang Pass in advance, so the time would be delayed. However, the weapons were delivered today, and it was such a long way, and how timely and accurate it was to calculate the time.
Seeing the arrival of a large number of weapons, the officers and men of the three armed forces rejoiced.
Let Guo Kui hold it down with his hand to prevent them from cheering: "Everyone, don't be excited, let's surprise Jiaozhi people tomorrow." ”
Huang Fen was warmly entertained, and then asked Huang Fen to bring back the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers and the seriously wounded soldiers, along with pack horses, some horses that were not needed due to the derogation of the soldiers, and prepared to evacuate in time. He also selected more than 300 barbarians who could ride horses from Huang Fen's men as a supplement to the soldiers. Regardless of the arrival of night, let them return to Zhennanguan with torches.
The next morning, Cochin began to storm. Continuing to resist with clumsy defensive weapons, as the enemy in the cochin swarmed, the shotguns suddenly changed guns, and countless powerful crossbows appeared at the juncture, and then more than two dozen small trebuchets threw out the powder packets.
He even brought dozens of barrels of sulfuric acid and made a simple bamboo tube to spray it on the Jiaozhi soldiers under the city.
Some soldiers directly lifted the ignited gunpowder bag and threw it at the dense area of the Jiaozhi soldiers below.
The reason why it is dangerous is precisely because of the mountain road, the two mountains are crowded together, leaving a space of dozens of meters in the middle, so Jiaozhi sets up a checkpoint here.
This fierce counterattack caught the Jiaozhi soldiers off guard, and there was no way to escape if they wanted to.
A large number of corpses immediately appeared under the checkpoint, and some soldiers were not dead, but they were hit by sulfuric acid, and some soldiers were blinded by burning their eyes alive, and they were rolling on the ground in pain. Li Rizun looked at the cold sweat from a distance, and said softly: "Song Jun is so strong? ”
Wu Er replied: "Not necessarily, this is the strongest Song army in Liangguang." Defeat them, and Liangguang is within reach. ”
"But if it goes on like this, the casualties will be very heavy."
"Let me think about it," Vuer said.
I don't know why the Song army has such a powerful weapon in his hand, and he didn't take it out yesterday, but if he has such a powerful weapon in his hand, coupled with the terrain of this level, even if he is attacked, his soldiers will suffer heavy losses. And the other side is all cavalry, seeing that the situation is not good, they can easily evacuate. How to calculate how not to cost-effective.
No more offense.
This was not an attack, but a death attack, and from yesterday's attack to the present, more than 2,000 soldiers have been lost. If you continue to sacrifice like this, you don't need to attack Guizhou, and if you attack Yongzhou, the whole army will be annihilated.
After thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly stood up, picked up a map, pointed to the map and said, "Your Highness, look." ”
Li Rizun stared at the map and looked at it for a long time, then he suddenly smiled and said, "Good idea." ”
The future Great Master and the current superintendent Li Changjie also smiled and said, "This is a good idea. ”
As a series of arrangements continued, a strange scene appeared in the pass, which had just been in full swing, and suddenly there was silence, and it was quiet that every bird in the forest could hear the crisp song of every bird in the forest. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
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