Chapter 153 The general is stupid

In order to review the results of the winter training, he scheduled to convene the forbidden troops stationed in Hedong on March 15 to hold a large review. According to the road division Hedong is divided into four roads: parallel generation (Taiyuan), Zelu, Lanshi, and Linfu, with a total of 13 generals, and a total of six generals participated in the school parade.

This time, Zhao Ta did not engage in some drills, queues, arrays and other fancy displays as usual, but held a military exercise codenamed 'hand in hand', with the third general of Hedong Zheng Zheng as the commander of the six generals of Hedong as the red side and the loyal and brave army as the blue side, and the two sides launched a 'big war' under the ruined city of Jinyang, which was not only a rehearsal of a war between cold weapons and hot weapons, but also a collision of two completely different military ideas.

The exercise was divided into six sessions, namely, attacking fortified positions, defending cities, surprise attacks, counter-sneak attacks and logistical support, and array attacks. The prince's pro-army has only been in battle for six months, so the generals of Hedong are still full of confidence in winning the exercise, after all, they have been in battle for a long time, and they have at least a psychological advantage against a group of recruits who have not yet heard of blood. At first, they were still discussing whether to save some face for the prince and not let the prince lose too ugly, but after a tough battle, their faces were trampled under the feet of the prince, and they twisted a few times with hatred.

The battlefield of the siege was selected in the south of the ruined city of Jinyang, where it was destroyed, but the main structure was still there, and the two generals were sent to defend the city, and the city defense facilities were quickly restored, but the loyal and brave army who attacked the city only sent a general of soldiers, according to the past offensive and defensive theory, the ratio of the offensive and defensive sides should be at least 2:1, but this time it turned over. As soon as the battle began, the Blues' offensive caught them even more off guard, with heavy artillery fire, locust-like bullets, rumbling explosions, incendiary bombs causing blazing... These never-before-seen tactics quickly destroyed their city defenses and shattered their confidence in holding on. An hour later, when the city gate was blown open by artillery fire, there was no need to defend it, according to the generals' assessment, the fire preparation had already eliminated half of their defenders, and the prince's side was still unmoved.

In the next few formations, although the generals of the Red Army racked their brains to find a way, the result was still miserable, they attacked the city, all the equipment was destroyed, the attacking men and horses did not even pass the moat, and their hands did not touch the city wall at all, and they lost the ability to attack. The night raid on the camp was raided by the other side, and their own master was assassinated and kidnapped by the Red Army's 'spies' who had entered the camp, the military plan was stolen, and the soldiers of the battalion were almost 'mutinied' by rumors; everyone later pondered that they could only make a fuss about dealing with the Red Army's baggage brigade with the weakest combat effectiveness, and sent the battalion with the strongest combat effectiveness to attack the Red Army's transport line, and as a result, they surrounded a Red Army baggage battalion of more than 500 people and fought for more than half a day. In the last battle of the battle, the two sides were equal in strength, and everyone thought that this time the Red Army's muskets and artillery could not be used, and there might be a chance of victory in fighting with swords and guns, but they were still defeated in front of the cavalry charge of the loyal and brave army like a wall...

At the end of the ten-day exercise, the generals of Hedong were all impressed by the flexible tactics, strict discipline and powerful weapons of the loyal and brave army, and no one dared to mention invincibility in front of the loyal and brave army, and this battle also established the status of the 'first general' of the loyal and brave army in Hedong, and the prince also became a veritable commander of Hedong, the real head of all armies!

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As soon as Zhao Tan changed the situation in Hedong, news came from the Intelligence Department that Liu Fa's troops had defeated Tong'ancheng.

In the spring and March of the first year of Xuanhe, Liu Fa, one of the generals of the Sixth Route in the Northwest, received an order from his father-in-law Tong Guan to attack again: with the power of victory, he continued to send troops to enter Shuofang City, that is, the hinterland of the Western Xia Kingdom, Lingzhou and Xingzhou. As soon as Liu Fa's army arrived in Tong'an, the soldiers and horses were tired, and before they could get enough rest and rest, they encountered the Western Xia army led by Chage, the king of the Western Xia and Jin Dynasty. …,

Brother Cha knew Liu Fa's courage and strategy, and divided the army into three formations to wait for the front army of the Song army, and the other was divided into an elite cavalry Iron Harrier waiting for the opportunity to climb the mountain from the rear to the back of the Song army, intending to make Liu Fa's army suffer from the enemy. At this time, Liu Fafa made a fatal mistake, there was a mistake in judgment in choosing the camp site, and he did not choose to camp on a high mountain where he could condescendingly observe and attack the enemy, but listened to the advice of his subordinates and set up camp on an open trough, perhaps because it was conducive to carrying out the formation tactics that the Song army was good at, but he ignored the combat effectiveness of his army after a long march at this time, and the choice of this location became the key reason for the final defeat of this battle.

After the battle began, the disadvantages of the Song army after marching all the way began to be revealed, and the Western Xia army waited for work, the advantage became more and more obvious, and constantly launched new attacks, the commander Cha Ge personally led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Liu Faqian army led by Yang Weizhong, who was brave and good at fighting, at this time has achieved results, Yang Weizhong's front army was finally broken through, collapsed into the Chinese army, the Song army lost the front army guard, and at this time, the roundabout attack on the back cavalry of the Song army sent by Cha Ge also made a breakthrough, Liu Fa's rear army Jiao Anjie was difficult to resist, and retreated into the left army, Liu Fa's army lost the rear army to protect it, so that the army of Xixia Chage had completed the encirclement, and Liu Fa's left and right armies had to tighten and fight their own battles.

Liu Fa was unwilling to fail, regrouped the three armies, and launched the most fierce triangular offensive after the right army of the vanguard, the left army and the central army directly under the palace, trying to break through, this battle was fought from early morning to nightfall, which lasted more than seven hours, although the Song army never retreated, but after all, all the way away, the horses and horses did not eat and rest enough, and the vicious battle caused "the soldiers were hungry and thirsty, and the dead were many", and finally the left army Zhu Dingguo was defeated first, and the triangle offensive was broken at the touch of a button, the Song army could no longer withstand such a vicious battle, and the whole army collapsed, The commander Liu Fa was engulfed in it, and the generals did not know where they were, and they fled to death by themselves.

Liu Fa led several horsemen to retreat at night, the direction of his retreat is also very puzzling, he is not to the Song camp where the Lanzhou and Zhenwu army are running, but the opposite, running seventy miles overnight, to the hinterland of Xixia called Zhu Zhu to escape, because of the dark road danger, he was in a hurry to escape, he panicked for a while, actually fell down the cliff, broke his leg, it was really a house leak happened to rain overnight, at this time happened to be discovered by a Western Xia soldier, killed it, and the head of the owl went to Cha Ge to ask for credit.

Brother Cha is indeed a talented general, regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, he made people pick Liu Fa's head, and quickly waved his army to attack the Song army's support troops and grain carriers. The Song army saw that Liu Fa, a famous general who was brave and good at fighting and feared in Western Xia, together with the most elite forbidden army led by him, had no armor to return, and the army was immediately panicked, and defeated itself without a fight, and the baggage was also captured by the Western Xia army, and the city of Tong'an, which had occupied less than a year, was lost.

In the first battle of Tong'an City, the Song army lost 20,000 elite soldiers, together with the miscellaneous service of the Xiang army and the people, a total of more than 100,000 people and horses, the general Liu Fa was killed, and the newly obtained Tong'an City was also recovered by the Tanguts, and the death of Liu Fa also had a great shock to the psychology of the border generals, and he was afraid of the Xixia. After Cha Ge obtained Tong'an City, he re-launched the siege of the Zhenwu army, Zhenwu is the ancient bone dragon city built by Tong Guan, Zhenwu is very critical, once lost, the Western Xia army can go straight to Lanzhou, and then go deep into the interior.

After Tong Guan won the victory in the battle of Tong'an City last year, he sent a letter to congratulate him, and tactfully put forward the opinion that "you should not be in a hurry", and should adopt "step by step, steady and steady, joint shallow attack, and gradually eliminate the vitality of Western Xia. Finally conquered Xingqing Mansion's gradual strategy, and in the subsequent correspondence, he also persuaded many times, hoping that Tong Guan could listen to his own opinions, and was even willing to surrender his identity to lead the Hedong elite to Lanzhou in person, obey his command to participate in the battle, but were vetoed by Tong Guan, the loser's bird, and in the end it still failed to stop the wheel of history, and the tragedy still happened! …,

Although Tong Guan is a eunuch, but this is still known as the most knowledgeable soldier in today's Great Song Dynasty, he fought with the Western Xia for several years with the strength and financial resources of Shaanxi and Hedong, and indeed achieved great results, and the Western Xia was outside the country, and achieved a strategic advantage. However, it is still difficult for him to get rid of the limitations of this era, the main general has never been on the battlefield in the rear, he does not have an accurate understanding of the battlefield, and he has not seen the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom, and he has no clear understanding of the judgment of the situation, and he still takes the old road of winning first and then losing.

If he knew that there would be companions in the future, he might also be a little comforted that during the Opium War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Fang, a famous general in Guangzhou, fought with the British, and asked his troops to collect women's urine and use it to break the British army's demon law. In the battle of Zhapu, the Qing soldiers wore papier-mâché masks on their faces, danced gods, pretended to be demons, and rushed towards the British army, and the results were known without asking.

Even generals like Guan Tianpei and Lin Zexu, who are somewhat knowledgeable, show naïve ignorance when fighting foreign devils, which is also distressing. When Guan Tianpei confronted the British army, he asked his soldiers to spin around the round hill behind the fort, the purpose of which was to create the illusion of increasing the British army. He seems to feel that these foreigners are powerful in guns and cannons, and their intelligence is not much higher. With a little trickery, we Chinese can fool these hairy "foreign hairs" that look like gorillas.

Lin Zexu is not much better than Guan Tianpei in terms of understanding foreigners. Because Lao Lin happened to see the foreign devil walking, his steps were stiff, he didn't seem to know that people were walking right, so he arbitrarily thought that the foreign devil's joints were different from ours, and his knees would not bend. So he imagined that when he was fighting, he would get a bamboo pole and stab the crook of the foreign devil's leg, and he would definitely be able to easily knock the foreign devil to the ground.

Today's Tong Da is even more powerful, treating his army as a divine soldier, and he didn't consider the problem of receiving supplies and retreating from the lone army, so he was bent on asking Liu Fa to lead the cavalry directly into the lair of Western Xia. Liu Fa was also faint, began to be cautious, and later underestimated the enemy, as a veteran who had fought many times with the Western Xia, if he fought steadily according to the actual situation, if he could eat the Chage army cautiously, then the Western Xia would have no capital for a decisive battle with the Northern Song Dynasty, and there was indeed a danger of perdition, even if it failed, it would not be wiped out, but if you don't believe in it on the battlefield, there is no point in hindsight......

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