Chapter 464: Foreplay (Part II)
Li Jilong only proceeded from a military point of view, but Song Jiu had to think a lot.
It's really exciting, if Yelu is defeated, and the two gods of war in the Liao Kingdom fall one after another, it will be of no less significance than the Turks killing Li Ji and Li Jing, Wu Zhou killing the Qinling, and the Xiongnu killing Wei Qing and Huo Quai.
But he shook his head at the last moment.
Li Jilong was very disappointed.
When Song Jiu and him counterattacked the Liao army, he also said that Li Jilong was a fugitive and the enemy was powerful.
"General Li, it's not the right time......"
"Who."
Song Jiu didn't say anyone, and said: "I have several reasons to consider, first of all, the soldiers, the two troops are far more than the Liao army, I am somewhat vain, and I also have the appeal of the Tibetan department." But if you think about it carefully, it turns out that it is mainly used for deterrence and training, and the actual recruits account for more than half. Although the number of troops is large, including the new recruits from the northwest, it almost reaches more than 100,000 people. Speaking of the township soldiers, my grandfather trained a strong township soldier in Hedong, and the imperial court trained a township soldier in the northwest with the Tibetan and Qiang people, maybe the military discipline is slightly worse, but the individual combat effectiveness is no less than the forbidden soldiers of the imperial court. However, there are always some gaps in the treatment of forbidden villagers, and if they are not together, some villagers are unbalanced in their hearts, and some of them are despised. Then there are the Northwest soldiers, who have strong combat effectiveness, but poor military discipline and poor coordination. Such an army reminds me of the army in the hands of Gao Xianzhi in the Tang Dynasty. If you fight well, you can shock the Western Regions, and if you don't fight well, there will be a story of defeat at the hands of the Great Eater outside the mountains. ”
Li Jilong was silent.
There are many more such stories.
Such as the army of Fu Jian in the Battle of Weishui, and the army in the hands of Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi......
It was also written in the plan.
If it is planned according to the original plan, it is this kind of shallow attack. The first is to train new recruits, and the second is to train cooperation. The third is deterrence and falsification.
Use it right away, changing from a shallow attack to a deep attack. There are bound to be problems of one kind or another.
"Last year, the floods in Hedong and Shaanxi were not serious, but in order to start this war, all the grain was stored, and even if it was silent about the high price of grain near Gyeonggi, and then quietly transferred this grain to the front line in the name of training. Although the people were used, it was within the reach of the people. This is the grain and grass that has been stored at the expense of the happiness of the people in the rear. Now that the two armies are at a stalemate, the amount consumed per day will be staggering. If you transfer supplies and weapons, it's fine. Once they go deep into Yunzhou, they will have to transfer many people from the rear to transport supplies. The consumption is even more alarming, once I am worried about the lack of grain and grass reserves, and second, I am worried about the national capacity, and the burden on the people will also increase. ”
Instead of talking about the long supply line, it will give Yelu a chance, just talk about financial resources and people's power.
Li Jilong was silent again.
"The reason why recruits are transferred to the front line is to hone and develop their confidence. Familiar with the brutality of the battlefield, but for the time being most of the recruits are still overwhelmed. Therefore, the consumption is still counting on the ...... over there," Song Jiu nodded to the northeast.
Li Jilong was a little unimpressed.
Song Jiu patted him on the shoulder: "Don't underestimate that group of Jurchens." At the beginning, it was defeated, the main departments were loose, and there were not many troops. There are still not many troops over there today, but after so many years of governance, most of them have formed a group. Probably, they mobilized forty or fifty thousand troops. But the 40,000 or 50,000 troops of this regiment should be worth the 100,000 most elite forbidden soldiers of our dynasty. General Shi Pu has also grown up over the years, including some generals who can fight under Wu Xuanming. Far from the barbaric little country I had when I first went to Liaodong. ”
"I don't want to die too many soldiers. It doesn't even work out well, so that everyone will feel war-weary. Even defeating Yelu is more than worth the loss. And there's one more thing, maybe you'll know it next year......"
That's Sichuan, that's Wang Xiaobo, Li Shun!
Now the imperial court only treats them as a group of rogues, but Song Jiu knows how serious the problem is.
In fact, these two people have done a great thing for the imperial court!
But it couldn't have come at the right time......
……
"The king can do Goujian." Shi Pu said.
In fact, Shi Pu was very disgusted with Gou Jian, first, he couldn't keep his family business, and second, he couldn't treat the heroes well.
Compared with the emperor, what kind of thing is Gou Jian!
He was even more disgusted with Wu Xuanming.
Song Liao fought viciously again and again, giving Wu Xuanming the best opportunity. Forced by the needs of the national form, the mixed Jiang side was almost automatically forgotten by Xiao Yanyan.
Wu Xuanming took the opportunity to unify the Changbai Mountain and the coastal tribes, and vigorously encouraged planting and breeding, and soon all industries in Liaodong were prosperous, thriving, and the soldiers were strong.
But with the increase in strength, Wu Xuanming became proud again, and blindly and arrogantly wanted to send troops many times. Shi Pu had no choice but to tell him the story of lying on his back and tasting his courage.
However, it was not this that disgusted, at first Shi Pu was very careful to assist him, including some good generals, who recommended Wu Xuanming one after another. At first, Wu Xuanming also listened. With the increase in the strength in his hands, he gradually stopped treating Shi Pu as one thing and was cronyistic.
But fortunately, he is stronger than the Koreans.
Shi Pu swallowed his anger and worked hard to continue to strengthen his strength for them.
The day is almost over.
Wu Xuanming was overjoyed.
Shi Pu retreated, and called Hou Zhongxun, An Dingzhong, Liu Yun, Cen Hao, Liu An, Yang Yanyu, Wei Shaomin, Han Zi and other generals together.
It was these people who single-handedly assisted Wu Xuanming to create today's prosperous new Bohai Kingdom, with almost more than 200,000 households and nearly 300,000 horses under his rule! The territory is south to the Lumaoduobu and the Lazy River, the north is close to the upper reaches of the Nashui River, and the east is bordered by the sea, and its area is equivalent to one and a half times that of Heilongjiang Province in the later generations.
But it's not just them who come.
At first, Song Jiu brought more than a hundred people, from officials to generals, to ordinary guards, and after several tragic battles, only half of them survived.
Later, some merchants, as well as the imperial court, successively sent some messengers and auxiliary members.
These are the people who speak.
It can be said that if it weren't for these people, even if Wu Xuanming had laid such a large territory, he would have been torn apart long ago.
Shi Pu said: "Just this battle, we can finally go back." ”
Everyone's eyes flashed with joy.
After staying for many years, his wife was separated. However, most people were forced to take concubines locally due to their physical needs. Gave birth to a child.
Shi Pu said: "Everyone has to do two things. The first thing to do is to get your family on the boat and send it to us. Send them over quickly and let them return home. The second thing is to wait for you, you ministers. You should return to your home country first. We, the generals, have another battle to fight. In this battle, the Liao people must be beaten and wounded. ”
"Okay."
Shi Pu didn't know that Song Jiu was also observing.
After this battle, Li Jilong has to go back to Hebei, if he doesn't go back, Xiao Yanyan Jiucheng will launch a crazy revenge, with Zhang Qixian's ability, similar to himself, when the real war comes, I am afraid that he will not be able to really defeat the Liao army.
I'm going back myself.
Because of himself, he formed an L-shaped defense line in the east and west of the river. Hedong and Hexi have been linked ever since, and they pose a huge threat to the back of the mountain, forcing the Liao State to station defensive armies everywhere. It's the same at sea. If the Liao State is the same as the Song Dynasty, it will not take much to garrison troops everywhere, and in the next few decades, without the Song Dynasty fighting, the Liao State will be finished.
But this line of defense was also attacked by the Liao State.
There are generals in Hedong, Yin Jilun, Gao Qiong, Yang Si, and Yang Qiong, Zhang Ning, Yin Xian and others in Hexi have performed very well.
But what is missing is a handsome.
Yang Si, whom Pan Mei admires. Song Jiu was a little relieved.
So Song Jiu set his eyes on two people, one was Wang Xian, but he had no foundation in his heart. The second is Shi Pu, who is Zhao Kuangyi's person. Zhao Kuangyi will rest assured, and he will be relieved to give power. At the same time, he had many dealings with the Liao army in Liaodong, and assisted Wu Xuanming for so many years. The commander planned and almost single-handedly did it. This will accumulate a lot of experience. If there are handsome and generals, Hedong will have no loss.
However, theory is one thing. Practice is one thing, whether there is this ability or not, now let go, you can see.
Shi Xian didn't know what to do.
Fifty thousand Jurchen iron horsemen rode south.
The Liao army hurriedly organized a defensive line in Tongzhou.
But in the blink of an eye, it was crushed by the Jurchen iron cavalry, and the 5,000 Liao army left more than 2,000 corpses, and the rest fled to southern Liaoning in a hurry.
Xiao Yanyan was furious.
The mountain queen made her feel very bad, but she didn't expect this group of barbarians to want to take advantage again, a cold glint flashed in her eyes, so she asked Xiao Pai to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to kill Liaodong. The two armies met under the city of Yinzhou, and Xiao Paijiao was also a brave general, but he had relatively few troops, 10,000 elite cavalry, and 10,000 temporary troops urgently called from Liaoliao. After several bloody battles, Xiao Pai was defeated and fled to Shenzhou.
Sun Quanzhao landed in Suzhou in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula.
He had brought with him the 8,000 soldiers and horses this time, but there were more ships than last time.
After a bloody battle, Suzhou was originally a small city, Sun Quanzhao brought a lot of siege equipment, and soon took Suzhou, and then put the people and supplies on the cargo ship brought to Dengzhou. He himself continued to lead his army north, all the way along the inner coastline, and there was another bloody battle in Fuzhou. The Song army suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, but successfully defeated the Liao army and took the opportunity to take the city of Fuzhou.
Farther south, Li Jixuan led 10,000 cavalry straight to the Flying Fox Pass.
The situation is very clear, the Song army suffered in Youzhou during the two northern expeditions, so it changed its strategy. Running the mountain back, but even the mountain back may not be so easy to take. So the Song army began a series of elaborate preparations. After the mountain, the main force of the Liao army was gradually attracted to the past, and then the Jurchens were attacked. Far away, the Liao State is difficult to take care of, if the Liao army ignores Liaodong, where does the Song army stay behind the mountain and Yelu oblique stalemate, Wu Xuanming and a Song army one south and one north, take Liaodong. If Liaodong is lost, Liaoguo is equivalent to cutting off an arm.
If it was Gu, the Song army was heavily stationed in the east and west of the river, and took the mountain in one fell swoop.
A difficult multiple-choice question, what should Liaoguo do?
Xiao Yanyan said hatefully: "Kill." ”
Han Derang stopped.
The more you are at this time, the more you can't rush.
So the ministers of the Liao State discussed, and the most Lu gave an order.
The Song army must win Youzhou, but Hebei's current troops are unable to take Youzhou, not only are the troops insufficient, but the generals are also not good, can Zhang Qixian take on the responsibility of the Northern Expedition? Xiao Yanyan reused the retired old minister Yelu Xuegu and transferred him to Nanjing to stay behind, so that Yelu Xiuge sent troops to Liaodong, and at the same time sent a large army from Zhongjing to conquer Liaodong in person.
I originally thought that Wu Xuanming was the pain of scabies, but now I am wrong, this is also a cup of more deadly poison. He also issued an edict to Yelu to stabilize the back of the mountain. Gotta solve them one by one! (To be continued......)