Chapter 461: The Enemy Changes, I Change
In the face of the riots in Changchun Prefecture, Wanyan Bingde couldn't stop it, and he had no intention of stopping it, so he packed up his soft and opened the city gate with his relatives and went south. The tribal army was originally from various tribes, and he could still obey orders under the pressure of the servant scattered loyalty, but now he was not there, and the prison army abandoned the city again, which was good, the situation in the city was completely out of control, and the rebels robbed the treasury, and began to rob the merchants, rich households, and people in the city.
After the fierce battle of the boundary trenches began, the dragon general Li Gong and the lion general Jiang Wei made a surprise attack on Huining Mansion, which was intended to make the Jin Gyeonggi Corps dare not boldly reinforce the Right Marshal's Mansion, forcing Fusan Tadashi to use the mobile forces at his disposal to reinforce the increasingly urgent boundary trench defense line. The two armies could take advantage of the emptiness in their rear to capture Changchun Prefecture, control the road to the east, and at the same time cut off the retreat of the Right Marshal's Mansion and encircle them in the border area.
After receiving the news that Fusan Zhongyi had left Taizhou, Li Gong and Jiang Wei turned to Changchun Prefecture overnight without warning, preparing to take the Jin army by surprise. Both armies were cavalry with strong mobility, and the Mughal people, the head snakes, led the way, and rushed to Changchun Prefecture City non-stop. They thought that even if the main force of the Jin army had left, the Jin army that stayed behind would fight with them with the fortified city, but they did not expect to receive a report from the scouts on the way, and the city was on fire, and the people fled one after another, as if there was a riot.
Li Gong and Jiang Wei discussed and felt that there was an opportunity, so they decided to speed up the march, only take a short rest on the way, and rush to Changchun Prefecture with all their might. When the two armies came to the city at dawn, the four gates of the state city were wide open, and there was not a single soldier in the city. The road is littered with lost items. And the city is also a mess, and the embers are not extinguished. In addition to the rebels who were still rummaging through their belongings, there were corpses everywhere. It's hard to see people.
The two armies entered the city and quickly cleared the remnants of the army, extinguished the fire, and arrested a few people to ask, only to know what happened in the city yesterday, the prison army Wan Yan Bingde had abandoned the city and went to Zuo Shuai's Mansion to 'ask for help', part of the army went to Taizhou to find the marshal, and some of the people followed the prison army south, and most of them were scattered. Most of the people of the city fled from the city after being sacked by the rebels. The rest of the people have nowhere to go except the old, weak, women and children.
Such a light capture of Changchun Prefecture made Li Gong and Jiang Wei really feel that they were invincible, and they 'reported the victory' to the capital deployment government on the one hand, and on the other hand, they strengthened the city defenses, collected grain and grass, and prepared to meet the enemy. After the two commanders discussed, the two brigades of the lion general took over the city defense, and most of the forces of the two armies swept westward to capture Taizhou. cut off the enemy's retreat and cooperate with the Westward Advance Corps to complete the encirclement of the Right Marshal's Mansion of the Jin Army......
Moreover, after the trenches and walls of the Yongbyon fort were breached, the two infantry brigades of the Krüpt Army, supported by artillery, immediately switched to the attack on the fortress. The rammed earth fort wall collapsed under heavy artillery bombardment, and the mortar shells killed the defenders inside the fort. The Song army quickly erected a trench bridge and rushed into the fort to fight, and the fort was captured in less than a day. Wanyan Yulie led the remnants of the army to retreat to the fortified area to resist step by step, trying to plug the gap. Avoid a complete collapse of the boundary trench defenses, and light beacon fires to warn the surrounding forts to come to the rescue. and urgently reported that the servants were scattered and loyal and righteous came to reinforcements quickly.
The Song army that attacked the fort did not rashly launch a fierce attack, but fought steadily step by step. Advancing on all fronts, he abandoned the usual tactics of roundabout cutting and gave full play to his superiority in firearms. In the face of layers of earthen ramparts, the Song army put light artillery in front, gradually advanced under the cover of infantry, and used solid bullets to shoot directly, or destroyed the earthen fortresses first by means of sapper blasting, so that all the traps arranged by the Jin army were exposed, and the archers who were ambushed behind them had no place to hide.
Although the Song army's tactics were slow to advance, they were very effective, and all the mechanisms they had designed in advance were difficult to use, but those earthen ramparts could delay the Song army's attack. As long as they were exposed, they would attract fierce long-range artillery bombardment from the Song army, and even if they wanted to transfer the trebuchets were bulky, bulky and difficult to move, the result was often turned into a pile of broken wood and more than a dozen lives. In the end, even Wanyan Yulie lost confidence in these things, and the soldiers stayed away, so as not to be harmed by the pond fish.
Wanyan Yulie had no way to deal with this offensive method of the Song army for a while, and all kinds of tactics did not seem to play a role in the various obstacles set up by its combat methods. Not only did they fail to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy and force them to give up, but on the contrary, their own side was passive everywhere, and it was difficult to fight to the death with the enemy even if they wanted to open up their positions as in the past. And what he can do at the moment is to plug the gap with the lives of the soldiers, delay the enemy's attack, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements, but he doesn't know that Changchun Prefecture has fallen into the hands of the Song army, and the reinforcements are still lingering on the road......
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As soon as he left Taizhou and arrived in Lekang, there was a report of stragglers fleeing from Changchun City: the city was lost, and the prison army fled. He was taken aback when he heard this, and he was worried that the Song army would 'violate' the peace agreement and borrow a road from the grassland to go straight to the capital, but it really had to enter the grassland and march east under the leadership of the Mughal people. And the Song army in front of him attacked the boundary trench defense line in a big way, which made him feel that it was difficult to take care of the beginning and the end, but fortunately, the Taishi understood his difficulties and sent reinforcements from Huining Mansion to intercept and solve the urgent need.
Before leaving, he also thought about whether the Song army would play some trick again, whether the attack on Huining Mansion was fake, and it was true to copy his own back road. However, the Song army dispatched heavy troops to attack the boundary trenches from three roads, and Wanyan Yulie sent an urgent report a day asking for additional troops, which made him in a dilemma. But the servant scattered Zhongyi still waited for the Song army to cross the water and go deep into the grassland before leaving, and left more than 10,000 troops for Yan Bingde to defend Changchun Prefecture, he pondered that even if the Song army turned to attack, relying on the Jiancheng Prison Army could survive for ten days and eight days, and he could catch up with the rescue by returning to the army, but he didn't expect that in the end it would give him a run away without a fight.
Wushu actually didn't see the wrong person, and after such a big incident, the servant Zhong Yi quickly calmed down, showing the potential of being a general. After thinking about it, he realized that there were two paths in front of him now: one was to immediately return to the army and recover Changchun Prefecture; The second is to continue to move forward for reinforcements regardless of the back road being cut off. But there are pros and cons.
Now the Hui army can attack Changchun Prefecture while its foothold is not stable and launch an attack, but it may also be unable to hold on, because according to the detectives, the Song army that entered the grassland is no less than 50,000 people, which is comparable to the strength in his hands, and the Song army is the best at defending the city, and it is likely that it will not be able to take the city, and the rescue will be delayed; If you ignore the rear and go all the way forward, and then reorganize the army and return to recover Changchun Prefecture after repelling the Song army, the advantage is to relieve the difficulties ahead, and the enemy in Changchun Prefecture can fall into a heavy encirclement and defeat yourself without a fight.
After weighing for a while, he made a decision, it was a good thing to kill two birds with one stone to repel the Song army that attacked the boundary trenches, and it was possible to lose both ends to recover Changchun Prefecture by returning the army, so he ordered the whole army to continue to move forward, repel the Song army and save Changchun Prefecture......
"Report to the commander, the right side of the Jin army is handsome and loyal and led 50,000 elite cavalry to aid Ningbian Fort!" Shang Hu hurriedly walked into the Linhuang Mansion and reported to Zhao Li.
"Servant San Zhongyi did not return to Changchun Prefecture?" Zhao Li said in surprise.
Maybe he didn't think that his insistence on sending aid would bring trouble to the Song army. According to Zhao Li's original battle plan, the two generals of the dragon and the lion are both cavalry troops with strong mobility and are good at field warfare, especially the dragon generals in the Song army, which are all hussars, which is the nemesis of the Jin army. In order to transfer out the Fusan Zhongyi, in order for the two generals to succeed in the raid on Changchun Prefecture, they stormed Ningbian Fort to cause great pressure on Wanyan Yulie, but after breaking the city, they used slow advance tactics to make them feel that the defense line was precarious, and was forced to constantly ask Taizhou for help, inducing Fusan Zhongyi to help.
As a result, the servants scattered loyalty and righteousness, and the dragon and lion generals captured Changchun Prefecture in accordance with the law. According to Zhao Li's assumption, Fusan Zhongyi should return to the army and try to retake Changchun Prefecture, as long as the two armies defeat it. The right marshal's mansion of the Jin army lost its backbone, and it was difficult to hold the boundary trench without reinforcements, while the three armies of Longyi, Lionyi, and Kryu took the opportunity to break through the defense line, and completed the encirclement of the Jin army with the two armies, gathered and annihilated it, and then waved the army to Huiningfu.
"Damn, this kid actually cares about his head and tail, and he is not afraid that we will cut off his way back!" Zhao Li, who has always been elegant, actually sweared, obviously he was a little surprised by the actions of the servant and loyalty, and the two generals of the dragon and the lion, who were supposed to fight a tough battle, waited for a fight, which invisibly increased the pressure on this side.
"Marshal, what should we do, as soon as the enemy's reinforcements arrive, the Kryu army will face several times its own troops, the attack will be blocked, and the plan to gather troops to annihilate will also be frustrated!" Shang Hu said worriedly.
"Where is the position of the servant and the loyal now?" Zhao Li did not answer Shang Hu's question, but asked rhetorically.
"Dashuai, the information was delivered yesterday, plus the round-trip time...... It should have arrived in the Baimaluo area, less than two hundred miles away from Ningbian Fort, and it only takes one day to reach it if you travel day and night, and it will only take two days if you march in a hurry! Shang Hu said after a little calculation.
"Order the Kryu army to launch a general attack, the battle must be ended within a day, and then the defense line must be built on the spot, otherwise let Zheng Ping and him come to see him. The two armies of the Dragon Wing and the Lion Wing were ordered to quickly break through Xingguo and Wuzhou, defeat the enemy in front of them, and quickly develop to the two wings and squeeze towards the middle! Zhao Li pondered for a moment and ordered.
"The marshal wants to change the predetermined plan and complete the battle plan with the strength of the three armies, is there a shortage of troops!" Shang Hu frowned and said.
"Hmph, since we followed His Majesty to fight, which time has not occupied an absolute advantage in troops, now we have 70,000 soldiers, and we can't eat his servants' loyalty, now we can rush to Ningbian Fort to supervise the battle!" Zhao Li snorted coldly and said, the current shape is as His Majesty said, the battlefield shape is ever-changing, and it is impossible to have an immutable battle plan, only the enemy can change and I can change, and the goal of the battle is to complete the goal...... (To be continued......)