Chapter 203: Omitted
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This battle was frustrated, and Li Chongjiu held a military meeting and gathered all the generals together to sum up the lessons of this battle.
"The last general's subordinates did not strictly follow the military discipline of the ambush and tied up the horse's mouth, and as a result, the cavalry of the Song army found their tracks, and as a result, they were besieged in the valley by the enemy.
Eto unloaded his armor, exposed his upper body, stood up and knelt on the ground, and said, "The Khan also punishes the last general." ”
Li Chongjiu stood up and said, "Eto." ”
Before Li Chongjiu was halfway through, Wang Mahan, Ying Hefu, Sun Erniang and others on the side also stood up together and said, "Khan, the last general and others will ask for guilt together." ”
Li Chongjiu said: "The generals don't have to blame themselves, the disadvantage of this battle lies first of all in the responsibility of Ben Khan." The loss of this battle lies in the fact that I do not know the enemy, although the Song army was born as a rogue, but it has been a year since the army, the soldiers are brave and strong, well-trained, and the armor soldiers are strong, and they are by no means comparable to the uncivilized Khitan department on the grassland. Although our army is brave and brave, the discipline organization is still insufficient. ”
"The second is that it will be slightly ......"
This is where Li Chongjiu should reflect, he knows that he is only a Chinese asset in generals, and he won the battle of the uncivilized Khitans by luck, as for the command of the battle, the art of war, and Song Jingang, there is still a big gap between him and Song Jingang, who is a world-class famous general. This is something that can't be helped, since the founding of Taizu in this dynasty, although there have been small wars, but it is generally peaceful. Li Chongjiu was a businessman before the crossing, and although he was in the history department when he was in college, although he read a belly of military books, he was not good enough for the command of the battle, and in short, the command value was mediocre.
And the generals under Li Chongjiu, such as Su Su, Sun Erniang, Wang Mahan, or Eto, Ying Hefu, they are just generals of a thousand people. As for Eto, Inghefer, as the outstanding generals of the Murod Dynasty, they were very familiar with the skirmishes of a thousand men, but if they encountered such a situation in which both sides went out separately, the general battle of more than 10,000 people would not be qualified. Summing up this battle, the strategy laid out at the previous military meeting was recognized, and the strategic and tactical arrangements were led by Song Jingang from beginning to end. The only thing that the Cangtou army relied on was the mobility of the steppe cavalry, which was very quick to attack and retreat, and could withdraw at any time when the situation was unfavorable, so that it did not cause greater casualties. Otherwise, if Li Chong's nine divisions were all replaced by infantry, the consequences would be severe.
Just as Li Chongjiu was discussing with the generals, a messenger came over and said, "Taishou, Jinyang is in trouble." ”
Li Chongjiu has enough intelligence systems in Yanmen, Taiyuan, and Shangdang counties, which are all the connections left by the establishment of the dart bureau at the beginning, so it doesn't take a few days for anything big to happen in Taiyuan, and it can be passed on to his own hands.
Li Chongjiu took the letter and looked at it, and there were three contents: First, Li Yuan recruited tens of thousands of soldiers in Taiyuan in the name of preparing to crusade against Liu Wuzhou and Li Chongjiu.
Second, rumors suddenly spread in Jinyang, claiming that Emperor Yang of Sui intended to prepare to attack Goryeo again, which made people panic for a while. As we all know, after the siege of Yanmen, Emperor Yang of Sui has agreed to strike the battle of Liaodong, and now the people in the world are in turmoil, and the counties of Taiyuan are dissatisfied for a while.
The third is Li Jing, the county governor of Mayi County, who went to Jiangdu from the lock.
These three are not related to each other, but when pushed together, they can be stripped of a lot of things from the clues. From the last Mayi County, Li Jing changed from the lock to Jiangdu. If Li Jing wants to denounce the people or the general rebellion, he doesn't need to lock himself up and go to Jiangdu at all. Therefore, he locked himself up, in fact, in order to protect himself with officers and soldiers, Li Jing was already a prince of Mayi County, and forcing him to lock himself up and change could only sue an official with a higher rank than him for rebellion, and this person was probably still his chief officer.
The second conquest of Goryeo is purely imaginary, and now the world is in turmoil, where does Emperor Yang of Sui still have extra troops to conquer Liaodong, this must be a rumor deliberately created by others, making the people evil to the imperial court.
In the end, Li Yuan's recruitment of troops wanted to crusade against Liu Wuzhou and Li Chongjiu, but it was a very grandiose reason, and he couldn't find a trace of fault. But after thinking about it, recruiting troops at this time, whether it is a counterinsurgency or a rebellion is only a matter of a blink of an eye.
Li Yuan's rebellion is about to be, and after Li Chongjiu read the news, there seemed to be a clock ticking in his heart. It is really the same life, in history, Li Yuan swept Guanzhong and Shanxi in only half a year, and it was not easy for him to even fight a Shanggu County, so when could he get Hebei. Now in front of Li Chongjiu's eyes, it is only sixty miles from Yixian to Fanyang, if Song Jingang is asked to send reinforcements to Fanyang City, then Li Chongjiu will lose this battle, and he can only return in vain. And how to fight tomorrow's battle is indeed a question.
On the other hand, in Song Jingang's camp, the generals were full of joy. A senior general said with a smile: "In today's battle, I captured more than 500 war horses from the enemy, which are all high-quality Turkic horses, and please give me a few more." ”
The general next to this person reprimanded: "It's not good, but more than 500 war horses are happy to be like this." The so-called champion Hou simply came from the grassland to send us horses. At this, everyone laughed.
Song Jingang looked around with a smile and said: "In today's battle, the champion Hou is indeed brave and champions the three armies, but I look at his generals' strategy, and the soldiers are all mediocre, so a general can only be called a brave general, not worthy of being a general." But the power of the steppe cavalry is truly amazing to me. ”
Song Jingang thought that in today's battle, Li Chongjiu almost used the standards of the Han army to equip these cavalry on the grassland, many cavalry not only had armor, but also strong bows, and were equipped with iron arrows, shoestrins, and scimitars. In this way, the combat power of the steppe cavalry has increased greatly, not to mention that the steppe cavalry is better than field battles. On the other hand, in his own army, the cost of raising cavalry is very high, among the 20,000 troops, the cavalry is only 1,500 people, but today's battle has more than 200 casualties, which really makes Song Jingang's heart ache.
He really envied Li Chongjiu that he had so many cavalry, and he said at the moment: "You guys are fighting today, you can also see that although our army is victorious, but the casualties of the two armies are about the same, you say why, the reason is that the enemy army is cavalry, even if it is defeated, it is very easy to retreat, so our army must form more cavalry, these five hundred war horses are all divided, you pick up the sergeants who are good at riding and archery, and then form two regiments of cavalry." ”
"No, handsome." The generals clasped their fists together.
The next day, before the sky was bright, Song Jingang immediately ordered the three armies and the fourth watch to make food, and the fifth watch to send troops, and set off early to Fanyang to relieve the siege. If the siege of Fan Yang is not eliminated for a day, Song Jingang will not be at ease, so he urged the army to march early. The next road was very smooth, and there was no danger such as the valley reeds and dense forests, so Song Jingang did not have to worry about being ambushed, so the three armies walked slowly along the avenue.
As long as it takes half a day, Song Jingang's vanguard cavalry can enter Fanyang, so the siege of Fanyang will be lifted.
But before he had walked three or four miles, on the road, Li Chongjiu's brigade of steppe cavalry appeared. Song Jingang immediately ordered the front army to stop, and set up the formation with Mo sword hands, sword and shield soldiers in front, archers and crossbowmen in the middle, and cavalry in the rear. This was the standard formation against cavalry shock infantry, with swordsmen and shield men used in hand-to-hand combat, archers and crossbowmen against cavalry cavalry and wounded enemy charges, and cavalry for pursuits, or reserves in which the battle was unfavorable. How do you know that after the enemy cavalry appeared, they did not rashly attack the formation, but more than a thousand rangers, scattered on all sides, peeping at the formation of more than 300 paces, did not go forward, did not stay away.
Song Jingang secretly felt strange, and the generals under his command were all built together, and the enemy army was no more than a thousand horsemen, so he just charged forward to attack. But Song Jingang refused, waited for half an hour, and seeing that the other party had no other intentions, Song Jingang pulled up the flag and moved forward, ordering the two thousand troops to form a formation and advance.
You must know that the formation of infantry against cavalry is very densely arranged, covered with spears on the outside, eager to pile up like a hedgehog, and always lined up in a queue, that is, facing the cavalry head-on with the most powerful attack power. For example, in the movie, I saw a lot of light cavalry attacking such a well-guarded infantry phalanx, which was a joke, if the infantry was arranged in such a strict formation, and the cavalry rushed forward head-on, it would be difficult to capture even if it was a mess of death.
The advantage of the light cavalry is speed, not the loss of human life to break the formation, so when Song Jingang's infantry advanced, as soon as the cavalry horn sounded, these rangers hurriedly retreated, and they didn't even shoot an arrow at all.
Seeing the enemy fleeing wolf, all the soldiers of the Song army cheered, mocking the enemy's vulnerability with various voices. Just as Song Jingang breathed a sigh of relief, he saw that the fleeing cavalry in front of him was not running aimlessly, but scattered to both wings and appeared on the flanks of the infantry that were slowly advancing. Seeing this scene, Song Jingang secretly said that something was wrong, and immediately ordered the infantry to stop advancing, and at the same time ordered the cavalry to step forward to protect the flanks.
The flanks are always the weakest point of the infantry phalanx, because the crossbowmen in the horizontal row can only face the front, unless the infantry is arranged in a circle, there is always the danger that the flanks will be attacked by the cavalry. But the defect of the ring array, and the weakness of organic power, is a fatal flaw.
Song Jingang deserves to be a famous general, and the order is forbidden, the infantry in front stops, and the cavalry copies up from the left and right flanks to cover the flanks. Changed to ordinary cavalry, it was seen as retreating because there was no trace to be found. However, after seeing the enemy cavalry, the cavalry here actually approached one after another, intending to fight. The cavalry of the two sides raised their bows on the horses and shot each other, when it came to cavalry shooting, Song Jingang's cavalry was not as good as these cavalry on the grassland, the two sides fought for a while, dozens of cavalry on Song Jingang's side fell from the horse, and the grassland cavalry was only a few people.