Chapter 247: Protecting the Short

Zhao Yan understood that the fighter plane was fleeting, so he immediately took it upon himself to mobilize all the forbidden troops stationed in Dading Mansion to kill Linhuang Mansion. However, the situation he faced was still tense, the army of the Wushu Institute was less than three hundred miles away from Linhuang Mansion, and the Song army was still nearly seven hundred miles away from Linhuang Mansion, and the latest news they got was often two days ago, and anything could happen in it, so there were many uncertainties in this campaign, including more risky elements.

Therefore, this battle with the Jin army is more than speed, the most important thing is to see who can reach Linhuang Mansion first, the natural gap on the road can not be made up, all that can be done is to speed up the march, and at the same time try to delay the Jin army's offensive speed. And now the fastest reaction and speed of the troops that Zhao Yan can mobilize is not the dragoon, but the newly formed hunting cavalry. Therefore, they who are responsible for protecting the security of the right flank must also take into account the need to delay the advance of the Jin army and win time for the army.

After receiving the order, the commander of the Cavalry Hunter immediately sent an advance brigade, and the starry night reconnoitred and advanced in the direction of Linhuang Mansion, and he led two brigades to follow up. The characteristics of the chassars are not good at large-scale collective offensive and defensive warfare, but unconventional guerrilla and counter-guerrilla warfare, and at the beginning of their formation was to deal with the nomadic tribes that scattered and attacked and ran, so their actions were like the wind, the combat was brave and tenacious, and they were good at long-distance running, and were good at 'stalking and fighting' to drag down the enemy.

Three cavalry were the standard for the chasseurs, who in the past were only available to scouts and signal corpsmen of the various divisions, which allowed them to make long marches and maintain their strength, and the chasers were mostly recruited from nomadic peoples, who had lived on horseback since childhood. You can not dismount for several days in a row, and you can eat, drink, and sleep on the march. This allows them to be able to carry out fast and long-distance missions.

After two days and nights of continuous marching, the advance brigade of the Cavalry Hunters was the first to arrive at the battlefield. At this time, the Jin army brigade was less than 100 miles away from Linhuang City, and the front army was already approaching the city, so they took a short break and then entered the battle, but the target they chose was not the relatively weak front army, but the strong Chinese army. During the day, they usually break up into small units, scouts, baggage teams, and messengers who travel with each other, but at night they gather together to pretend to be the main force of the Song army.

The Wushu was defeated by the Song army, which can be said to be the aftermath of the lingering, and one of the convictions of Zong Xuan and others was to collude with the Song people to rebel, so he has always been vigilant against the Song army stationed in Dading. Worried that Song Jun would take the opportunity to meddle in the affairs of Linhuang Mansion. Because Wushu had eaten the Song army's transfer of tigers from the mountains several times, the sound of attacking the east and the west, and the loss of annihilation, he was a little vague in the face of the sudden appearance of the Song army, worried about getting into the trap that had been arranged.

The cautiousness of Wushu did not dare to let go of the pace of progress, but gathered the brigade of men and horses in one place to fight steadily, step by step, and at the same time sent reconnaissance cavalry to all sides to check whether there were any activities of the Song army around. Therefore, the scouts did not dare to approach the Song army, but only watched from a distance, and the chasers took advantage of their fear to set up suspicious soldiers, so that they could not find out the real situation. This intensified the suspicion of the vultures, and they did not dare to act rashly.

The other is that after more than 20 years of development and evolution, the Jin army has evolved from a semi-nomadic people to an agricultural people. Nor is it like in the past, when you only had to carry a small amount of supplies to go on horseback and fight in all directions, relying on plunder to maintain military supplies. The dependence on logistics is increasing, and fighting at home cannot be supplemented mainly by plunder. It was only possible to mobilize grain and grass from the rear. Transports, on the other hand, were often attacked by the chasseurs who had penetrated deep behind enemy lines, burning all the food and grass, forcing the army to stop and wait from time to time.

In the midst of Wushu's hesitation, the army led by Zhao Yan arrived, and they quickly defeated the front army under the city of Linhuangfu and entered the city under the response of Saili. Wushu, who got the report of the defeated army, realized that he had been tricked again, and he missed the best opportunity to attack Linhuang Mansion in hesitation, and now with the arrival of the Song army brigade, Yijian City was fortified, and with his current strength, he was simply unable to defeat it.

The angry vultures couldn't provoke the Song army, so they spread their anger on the allied Wang Gubu of Saili. In fact, the Wanggu tribe can be said to be the first of the Tatar tribes to take refuge in the Jurchens, and after their founding of the country, they have always been loyal dogs, guarding the border for them, assisting in clearing the Mongol tribes, and contributing a lot. This time, only a small group of tribes followed the rebellion of Sairi, and most of them were loyal to Ginting. But under the anger of Wushu, where would he be seriously screened, and he was even more worried that they would betray him, and all the Wanggu tribes were under his sweep.

The master suddenly turned his face, so that Wang Gubu fell into an existential crisis, all the young and strong men were killed, women and children became slaves, cattle, sheep and horses were taken away, and the pasture was taken away, but they had no power to fight back against the crazy slaughter of the Jin army. In a panic, some fled to the depths of the desert, where the Black Tartars were not friendly to them, and most chose the safe zone set up by the Great Song Dynasty for the Mughal tribe. But the Menggu and Wang Gu tribes also resolved their hatred, and they were worried about being annexed by them, so they chose to join the Song Dynasty, and the once glorious Wang Gu tribe was instantly torn apart!

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It had been three days after Zhao Yan received Zhao Yan's flying pigeon message, and he was pleased that Zhao Yan was able to seize the fighter plane and move at the right time, but he also realized that he had caused trouble for himself. According to military law, the Department of Suppression and Pacification could mobilize the forbidden army subordinate to it, even the state army, in the event of an emergency, but the transfer in peacetime must be authorized by the emperor. However, the Desert Army and the Cavalry Hunting Army directly belonged to the Privy Council, which means that the two armies were the strategic mobile forces of the Great Song Dynasty, and the power to mobilize was in the Emperor and the Privy Council.

Therefore, it can be said that Zhao Zhao's mobilization of the Capture Army is reasonable, but the use of the desert and the hunting cavalry army is an abuse of power, and this is a violation of the taboo of the border generals, that is to say, he already has the ability to raise troops to rebel. Zhao Ta believed that Zhao Yan only used the two armies out of tactical needs, and also believed that he would not rebel against himself, nor would he dare to rebel against himself. But in fact, it is not okay for him to believe it, because Zhao Ta is not the little prince of the past, and Zhao Yan is not the naughty little guy in the past.

Now the concept of the Great Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and suppression of military force has changed after Zhao Ta ascended the throne, but the century-old habits can not be cleared in a short period of time, even Li Gang, Zong Ze, Zhang Shuye, who had led the troops to fight and knew the harm, still had a lot of complaints in his heart about his practice of using military generals as border ministers, but because the border troubles are still serious and the emperor's insistence is temporarily compromised, the attitude of other people in the court can be imagined.

Now Zhao Yan's actions can be said to be hitting the muzzle of the gun, and when the news comes back, it will inevitably lead to the impeachment of the ministers of the court, and their reasons are very sufficient, and the examples of chaos among the border generals in the past dynasties abound, and it will not take a few days for Zhao Ta's case to be full of these chapters, asking the emperor to severely punish Zhao Yan, and take this as a warning to adjust the heads of the various suppression divisions, and this will make Zhao Ta's painstaking management of the situation of equal emphasis on civil and military affairs collapse, and return to the old road of emphasizing literature and suppressing martial arts, and exhaust the bloody nature that the Great Song Dynasty has just born, And the heavy punishment of Zhao Yan will also make the generals chill, lose the spirit of taking the initiative to attack, and become negative, how to deal with the political crisis brought by Zhao Yan in front of him makes Zhao Tan in a dilemma.

A few days later, the Dading Suppression Division recruited the Jin State to stay in Beijing to stay in Saili, and the news that the Kryu army captured Linhuang Mansion, expanded the territory for thousands of miles, and surrendered 100,000 Tatar households returned to the capital. It is said that such a big achievement should be widely publicized, but the emperor held the news in his hands and did not send it, and only made a simple internal report to a few governors, he first had to wipe his ass clean for Zhao Yan, otherwise he would only win a battle, but lose strategically......

Two days after receiving the good news of Dading's pacification division, the emperor ordered to send Zhao Yi, a soldier of the military department, to Linhuang Mansion to verify the battle results. For the appointment of the emperor, the ministers were very puzzled, according to the convention, it should be the main general who commanded the battle to take over this position, rather than another official from Beijing, but Li Gang and the others seemed to know something from other gossip and the emperor's abnormal performance, but they didn't know the details, so it was hard to say anything!

Zhao Yi is a famous black face among the brothers since the day he entered the house, he is very disciplined and fair, everyone likes to let him preside over justice when there is a dispute when he is young, and after he becomes an army, he has been in charge of military discipline, and he has become more unsmiling, so that the army is afraid of him like a tiger, even Xu Biao is a living treasure in front of him and does not dare to joke, but everyone respects him very much in their hearts.

Checking the results of the battle and reviewing the merits is a matter within the Ministry of Soldiers, which has always been the responsibility of the squire Zhao Yi, who went to Linhuang Mansion without arousing any suspicion, and even Zhao Yan did not realize the purpose of this old brother's trip, and he was still intoxicated with the victory of recovering Linhuang Mansion.

"Zhao Shame, you are guilty!" After Zhao Yi arranged the inventory, and only he and Zhao Yi were left in the Shuai Mansion, he suddenly turned around and asked.

"Brother Yi'er, why do you ask?" Zhao Yan was stunned by the question, and asked in surprise.

"Zhao Shame, do you have a Privy Council talisman for mobilizing the desert and the second army of the Hunting Cavalry?" Zhao Yimian Chen Rushui did not have a trace of fluctuation, and asked sharply.

"At that time, the fighter plane was prominent, and Dading Mansion and the Beijing Division were thousands of miles away, if you ask Your Majesty, it will take ten days to travel back and forth, and the fighter plane will be lost early, and your Majesty has already granted me the right to break the plane, why not?" Zhao Yan argued.

"Hmph, you really don't know whether you live or die, the second army is under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, how can you be mobilized as a pacification envoy, are you going to rebel!" Zhao Yi said with a sneer.

"Brother Yi'er, I am loyal to Your Majesty, how can I rebel, don't listen to the instigation of those civil servants!" Zhao Yan immediately broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, and the hat was buttoned too much.

"Zhao Shame, you are still obsessed, you really let down the heart of your majesty's protection!" Seeing that Zhao Yi was still arguing, Zhao Yi shook his head and sighed...... (To be continued......)