The Mandarin Duck Formation is an invincible formation in close combat, relying on the mystery of the Mandarin Duck Formation, Qi Jiguang only relied on 5,000 Yiwu soldiers to exterminate tens of thousands of Japanese Invaders. Every time I fought with a three, four, five or six times as many enemies, in the end it was a complete victory, annihilating thousands of enemies, but only a few dozen of my own casualties.

However, the mandarin duck array, in the Song army, the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

These 8,000 elite soldiers are not as good as the 5,000 Yiwu soldiers, and he is not as talented as Qi Jiguang, as a result of the war, there was a rout, if it were not for the school knife hand to supervise the battle, if it was not for Wang Yan to suppress it, the whole army would have collapsed, and there would be this big victory there.

But even if it was victorious, the price was heavy, with nearly 2,000 people killed.

And these people should not have died, but some soldiers broke away from the formation without permission during the battle, fought alone, or fled timidly during the battle, resulting in casualties that did not exist.

The training will continue, but the Jin army will not leave them much time.

At this time, Zhao Pu had just learned that the seed master had died, there was no sadness, no loss, and he was surprisingly calm, but a thought came to his mind: "Success or failure turns empty, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times!" ”

Maybe the next moment, he is also another seed master.

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In the world, there are no impermeable walls, and there are no secrets that cannot be revealed.

The intelligence system of the Jin State is very strong, or there are many people who are willing to be the lackeys of the Jin State.

From the beginning of walking out of the deep mountains and old forests, entering the Liao State, and fighting in all directions, Wanyan Lou began to attach importance to intelligence and actively build a strong intelligence network.

There's no way around it!

Wanyan Lou knew that among the various generals of the Jin Kingdom, he was only in the upper middle class, and when it came to being brave and good at fighting and being favored by Taizu, he was not as good as Wanyan Sticky; When it comes to heavy thinking and calculation, he might as well be inseparable; When it comes to governing the country and stabilizing the people, it is better to finish the Yan sect; When it comes to strategic decision-making and overall planning, he is not as good as Yan Zongjun.

When it comes to excellence, he is also excellent; When it comes to being outstanding, he's also outstanding. But that's just it, there is not too much access to the instrument, and in the Jin country, where there are many strong people, he is extremely easy to be drowned.

In desperation, he can only take the sword sideways and win by surprise, but he gets results in corners that other princes and other famous generals don't pay attention to.

After a long time, Wanyan Lou's room stared at the intelligence network, focusing on intelligence.

Among the many Jurchen generals, most of them are good at rushing and killing, attacking cities and capturing villages, and fighting in the field. And intelligence work is too delicate, requiring a long laying of personnel, bribery, threats and temptations, and patient screening. This is a delicate guy, you can't be in a hurry, you need to take your time, you have no patience, you don't have meticulous thinking, you can't really calculate.

Over the years, Wanyan Lou has relied on various means to lay out a complex intelligence network, ranging from some small leaders of the forbidden army to important ministers of the court. With these intelligence networks, Wanyan Lou clearly knew the deployment of troops in various parts of the Song Dynasty, the important storage places of grain and grass, the personalities of various generals, the habits of various ministers, and the dark inside story of the current Song Dynasty.

In every battle, he has managed to know himself and his opponent, and can easily grasp the enemy's flaws, concentrate superior forces, and annihilate the enemy with all his might.

The world just saw that he easily defeated the seed army that was rescued by the seed master, but he didn't know that for that battle, he thought about it for a long time and conducted a deep investigation into the various situations of the seed army.

And this time, the whole army of the grain transport team was wiped out, 200,000 loads of grain were lost, and 3,000 iron horsemen and 2,000 foot soldiers were killed, which stunned him.

This time the Song army planned this attack, and he didn't even know it; When the Song Army gave birth to the Song Army, which was so powerful in combat, he didn't know.

After Yan Lou was angry, after being angry, he mobilized all the intelligence networks to search for the origin of this enemy, even if it was hiding in the cracks of the stones, he wanted to find out.

First, he interrogated the captured Jin generals in an attempt to find clues. In the end, he was surprised to find that on the eve of the annihilation of the seed division, there was a division of troops, and the eight thousand Song troops disappeared strangely, and I don't know what task they were performing. I just know that this Song army was selected from the seed divisions and is elite.

Before the division of troops, the training was closed for 10 days.

And he even found that the commander of the seed army that rescued Taiyuan this time was the seed division, and the supervisor was Zhao Pu, the king of Yi. But on the eve of the Battle of Shikeng, Zhao Pu, the king of Yi, disappeared with the Song army.

"A prince of the Great Song Dynasty actually joined the army, interesting!" When Wan Yan Lou saw this, his eyes flashed with surprise.

In the Jin Kingdom, the Wanyan clan is a royal family, and a large number of princes join the army, or enter the court as officials, and the people of the Wanyan clan occupy a huge proportion inside and outside the army.

However, in the Song Dynasty, the imperial family was almost far away from politics, they did not join the army, nor did they participate in politics, but they lived like parasites, and the emperors of the Song Dynasty were also afraid of the royal family and were deeply afraid of seizing the throne. Their only use is to act as a substitute to take over the throne when the emperor dies and has no children.

A child of the royal family, who was far away from politics, suddenly became an emperor and was not familiar with government affairs at all, and the result was that there was constant chaos in the court, making a mess.

Seeing Zhao Pu, the king of Yi, going out with the army, after being surprised, Yan Lou Room laughed: "The seed master Dao is probably disgusted with him pointing fingers and commanding indiscriminately, so just use this to drive him away!" ”

At this time, Wanyan Lou suddenly saw an article, the content was very short, less than 500 words, there was no allusion, no praise and strange talk, just a simple description, but after reading it, a cold sweat broke out on his head: "Six wins and six defeats, such an incisive discussion, the whole text is up and down, there is not a single nonsense, there is not a single superfluous text." Is this really an article written by the son of Song Huizong, named Zhao Pu, the king of Yi? ”

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, it must have been written by someone who replaced the gunman!"

After the exclamation, Wan Yan Lou quickly denied the idea in his heart.

The imperial system of the Great Song Dynasty turned talents into waste materials, and made waste materials even more wasteful, and it was difficult to give birth to such an excellent prince, and it must have been written by a gunman.

"Those who wrote this article must have a broad vision, far-reaching layout, a deep familiarity with the national conditions of the Song Kingdom, and a great familiarity with the situation of our dynasty. This article is comparable to Zhuge Wuhou's "Longzhong Pair", which shows the general trend of the world and future development. It's just that who is this gunman? It's a great talent, it's a pity that it can't be used by the Song Kingdom, and it's a pity that it can't be used by our dynasty! ”

After regretting it, Wanyan Lou was very interested in the gunman.

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After the analysis of various information, Wanyan Lou Room has locked on the target, that is, the 8,000 Song army that disappeared, strangely appeared in the rear, and then ambushed the Jin army's grain transportation team, resulting in the annihilation of the 5,000 Jin army.

And that Yi Wang Zhao Pu was quickly ignored by him.

Wanyan Lou didn't think that the Great Song Dynasty prince could plan this successful surprise attack. Soon he locked his attention on Wang Yan's Song general, this Song general was different from ordinary generals, brave and good at fighting, and made great contributions in defending Bianliang. As for the specific information, it is not recorded.

After all, Wang Yan was just a small leader of the Song army, and his commander was only five hundred, just a low-level officer, and he had captured hundreds of such a small person, which was not surprising.

The target is locked, and the search for someone begins.

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A large number of scouts were sent out to search, after all, it was impossible for an army of eight thousand people to march without revealing a trace.

In the vast mountains, it is not easy to find the disappeared Song army. However, the Jurchen soldiers, who were good at hunting and looking for prey, finally found the hiding place of the Song army after half a month of arduous searching.

"It's a good place to be!"

Looking at the map, a trace of surprise flashed in Wan Yan Lou's eyes, then surprise, and then a toothache

This place is extremely remote, there is no mark on the map at all, and the mountains here are mostly pine trees, let's call it Pine Ridge.

Generally, the Song army was mostly stationed in places with dangerous terrain, and most of them were easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack were also mostly Jedi, which was not easy to escape.

The pine forest, the terrain is not dangerous at all, but it belongs to the rugged terrain, there are no regular mountain roads at all, there are stones everywhere, and there are pine trees, or dense weeds that are half a meter high, and there are no traces of the 8,000 troops hidden there. If it weren't for Hai Dongqing's exploration, he wouldn't have found that there were soldiers hiding here.

And here, the iron cavalry can't be used at all, it can only be attacked by foot soldiers, or infantry who are familiar with mountain warfare.

Here, once you encounter a siege, you can fight if you can beat it, and if you can't beat it, you will run away, and it is difficult to gather and annihilate at all. If the battle does not go smoothly and it is scattered into dozens of forces to break through, even if tens of thousands of soldiers and horses make a move, they may not be able to eliminate this Song army.

"It's really hateful, it's hard to fight!" A hint of embarrassment flashed in Wan Yan Lou's eyes.

If it is in ordinary times, this Song army can be abandoned; However, seeing that the general attack on Taiyuan was about to begin, there was only an army of 8,000 people on the side at that time, and it was difficult to sleep and eat.

"No, I'm going to kill him!" Wan Yan Lou's eyes flashed with hideousness, and a little ruthlessness.

After the plan was decided, Wanyan Lou quickly dispatched troops.

Only this time, he did not send his generals to attack this Song army, but personally attacked, led 10,000 Jurchen soldiers, and pounced directly on Pine Ridge.

PS: Wanyan Lou was one of the best generals in the early Jin Kingdom, and his strategic vision far surpassed that of other Jurchen generals.

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