Chapter Seventy-Eight: Crisis

After the reasoning, the purpose is to put the facts again, and now 'Yan Wang is the prince, and the prince, the elder knows the book, knows the reason, and the prestige is in the Western Xia, and the respect of the world is unparalleled, and there is no one who dares to expand the land in the west..."Zhao Ta looked at this with patience Mianchang's holy decree, at first quite happy, and martial arts to the world, and the way to govern the country, I feel that I can really participate in the war of cutting Liao and seizing Yan, so that my Yan King has become justified, and even feel that he really underestimated his father's trust and IQ in himself, if he is a little bolder, and the pace is a little faster, he will not have tens of thousands of recruits who are still training strictly, but tens of thousands of strong soldiers who can be pulled into the battlefield at any time to attack the city and plunder the land.

With excitement and apprehension, Zhao Ta finished reading the second half, and his heart suddenly became cool and cool, his father changed his mind again, threw aside the words of the rich prime minister, and turned out the ancestral teachings of his great-uncle Zhao Kuangyin, and complained to him about his hardships, hoping that he would understand his difficulties and the feelings of the prince's brother... Seeing this, Zhao Ta knew that he was calculated by the prince, Zhao Kai and other brothers, Tong Guan, Grandma Liang, and Wang Hao.

Thinking about it, if he has made great contributions to Yan Yun, he will already be unsealable on the prince's step, and he can only let the prince 'let Xian'! And Tong Guan's dream of being the king has really become a dream, Wang Hao and others understand better that being a prince with the character and temper of King Yan is not as easy to fiddle with as Zhao Huan, it is a nightmare for himself, so the three major forces of the court and the central government have joined forces, so they have to wronged King Yan who is far away in the northwest, let him stay honest, and be a good 'watchdog' to guard Hedong. He didn't need to bother with it.

It is said that blessings are not double, and disasters are not one-way. Before Zhao Ta could shake off his disappointment and frustration, there was another piece of news from Texas. Zhao Yong was raided by the Jin army, and the Kryu army was defeated and suffered heavy losses, so he asked for support! Zhao Ta was shocked, in this era when cold soldiers are king, as long as the supply of ammunition and weapons is insufficient, there will not be such a big loss...

Various versions and news of the defeat of the Krüptan army were quickly gathered from various channels in front of Zhao Ta's case, and Zhao Ta finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter. Last year, the Jurchen general Wanyan Zonghan attacked Xijing, and Xiao Cha, who stayed behind in Liaoxijing, saw that the general trend had gone, and Kaicheng lowered gold. Xijing is the ancestral residence of the Empress Xiao of the Liao State. The power of the Zongzhi vassal was very strong, and after the Jin army entered the city, only a partial division of the general Liuhan was left to garrison the Xijing City.

After the Liao Emperor fled to Jiashan, the Jin soldiers continued the pursuit along the route of his escape, and by April this year, the southwest of Liaoning had surrendered to the Jin Dynasty by calling for Yelu Buddha Ding, Yunnei, Ningbian, Dongsheng and other prefectures. Now the Liao State is divided into two major power ranges, Yeluchun has Yan, Yun, Ping, Shangjing, Liaoxi and other places; And Yelu Yanxi only has the southwest road north of the desert and the northwest road to recruit the Si Zhufan tribes. It can be said that the ice collapsed and the heroes rose together. Fragmented.

After Zhao Yong captured Dezhou, while playing the banner of 'the Han people in the world are one' to attract the Han people to vote, he used the name of the captured Yelu Yu to recruit the surrounding Khitans to fight against Jin. In a few months, tens of thousands of people from the Han tribe were recruited. The formation and training of 50,000 new troops has become a force to be reckoned with in the vicinity of Xijing. This spring, the flowers are blooming, and the ice and snow are melting. All parties are strong and ready to move, and the Liao people take advantage of the emptiness left in Xijing. Then Li Ying and Wai joined forces to kill Liuhan and others to raise troops to rebel, and the surrounding of Xijing fell into anarchism again. fell into chaos, Zhao Yong also wanted to take the opportunity to get a piece of cake to eat, so he sent troops to grab the territory.

Xijing rebelled, and Yan Xian, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, who had been ordered to find Yelu Yanxi, also sent people to persuade him to surrender but failed, so he sent troops to fight, and at the same time contacted Zong Han, Zong Xiong, and Zong Gan to attack together. It is the fastest route to take the Yinshan Road to return from Jiashan, so it is inevitable to pass through Texas, but Zhao Yong still doesn't know the news of his return to the division, and is still busy expanding his strength. But Wan Yan Xian also knew the situation in Daozhou, and understood that there was a strong opponent there, and if he wanted to pass from Texas, he must first defeat the Krupture army there.

When Zhao Yong learned the news of the Jin army's attack, the two armies were only forty miles apart, and at this time the Kryu army was already far away from Dezhou and was attacking Zhenwu County. Because the military supplies of the Krup army are mostly replenished by Hedong, in order to maintain this line of communication, the fourth brigade of the Kryu army has not been able to return, if Zhenwu is occupied, then it can completely control this road, so Zhao Yong is bent on taking Zhenwu from this aspect.

After receiving the information of the scouts, Zhao Yong knew that it would not take long to arrive at the marching speed of the Jin army, and he had more than 4,000 people in the first and second brigades and about 20,000 new troops in hand, and it was reported that there were more than 30,000 Jin troops. In terms of combat experience with the Jin army, Zhao Yongzhi knew that Lu Dao was sure to defeat the Jin army as long as his strength was not several times that of them, and the terrain in the suburbs of Zhenwu was quite flat, suitable for cavalry field battles. Besides, it was too late to withdraw the army now, and if the Jin army caught up on the way back, the losses would be even greater, so it was decided to line up to meet the battle.

The Krüd Army is now equipped with hot and cold weapons, and Zhao Yong did not incorporate these new armies into the old army sequence of the Krüd Army, but formed separate armies according to their respective regions, so there were Guiyi Army, Shunyi Army, Fuyi Army and other formations. This time, the Guiyi Army and the Shunyi Army, which were mainly composed of the Han and Khitan ethnic groups, were mostly cavalry troops, but the composition of the soldiers was complex and came from different sources, including bandits who wanted to fish in troubled waters, fugitive nobles who wanted to make contributions in troubled times, and defeated troops who wanted to preserve their strength and borrow trees to enjoy the shade, and more people who fled from the rebellion.

It is said that the complexity of the composition of the Krup army is far higher than that of the new army, but because of the situation and time problems, these people lack effective training, and Zhao Yong also lacks experience in cold weapon training, so he can only select grassroots officers from among these people who have prestige and military experience, although this is only an expedient measure, but it has laid the root of his defeat.

Just when Zhao Yong was arraying to meet the enemy, the three thousand forwards of the Jurchen army arrived first, and the generals who led the troops were very experienced, and immediately launched an attack.

Zhao Yong knew that the main force of the battle still needed his own old foundation, and these new troops had poor combat effectiveness, so he arranged them on the two wings to protect the two flanks of the Kryu army. The weakness of the lack of discipline and training of these new troops was soon exposed under the harassment of the Jin army, and almost every surprise attack of the Jin army caused a wave of confusion on both flanks, and on several occasions they even broke in, and Zhao Yong had to send out the Kryu army to expel the Jin army.

The harassment tactics of the Jin army's vanguard were very successful, when the Jin army brigade arrived, the Kryu army was never able to form a formation, Zhao Ta looked at the chaotic situation and had an ominous premonition in his heart, he wanted to use the original method to deal with the Western Xia to first attack with the wheel convoy, and then take advantage of the enemy's confusion, and then launch a stone wall attack with hussars, disrupting the enemy's position after the dragoon then followed the assault, and the new army outflanked and encircled the defeated army from both flanks. But now the situation made Zhao Yong suddenly confident, but if he changed his formation to fight a defensive counterattack at this time, relying on the position to consume a large amount of the enemy's vitality with firearms, and then counterattacked, there was still a chance of victory. But after the Jin army was over, Yan Xian only rested for a moment before waving his army to attack, so as not to allow Zhao Yong to change the formation, so he could only go into battle hard.

Wan Yan Xian has also defeated the hands of the Kryu army twice, and it can be said that the enemy is very red when they meet today, and he also knows that he must defeat them today in order to open the road to Xijing, so he immediately launched an attack regardless of the fatigue of the long and rapid march just now. As soon as they went into battle, they came up with the tactics of 'advancing and retreating' that they are best at, which is different from the Liao and Xia armies, but gathers the strengths of the two armies, that is, retains the habit of the steppe cavalry, mainly cavalry mobile combat, and emphasizes maintaining a tight formation, which is different from the traditional nomads, in order to improve the speed of attack, increase the amount of assault, and enter the battle one by one with multiple echelons.

There is no absolutely effective tactic, and even if it is a completely reasonable tactic, the success or failure depends on the troops, combat capabilities, and fighting spirit of the two belligerents. In the face of the continuous attacks of the Jin army, although it was impossible to change the formation, Zhao Yong still decisively gave up the tactics of attacking, and ordered all the dragoons to dismount and cooperate with the machine gun team to form a blocking line to intercept the impact of the Jin cavalry.

Zhao Yong's quick decision did cause heavy casualties to the Jin army, but it also had to be admired for the tenacity of the Jin army, they braved the rain of bullets again and again regardless of life and death, trying to enter the range of the bow and arrow and inflict casualties on the opponent with the rain of arrows. The dead are exposed to the battlefield, and the alive are struggling to regroup and wait for the next charge...

The battle continued into the afternoon, and the non-stop charge of the Jin army put great pressure on the Krüd army, leaving the soldiers exhausted, and even more worrying was that the consumed ammunition would be difficult to replenish, and the sound of shooting gradually thinned out. At this moment, the light cavalry of the Jin Army, which was still desperately impacting just now, suddenly disappeared, accompanied by the sound of thunderous hooves, and thousands of Jin Army horses wearing iron armor appeared in sight with billowing smoke and dust.

"Tiefutu!" Seeing this, the leader of the Guiyi Army beside Zhao Yong changed his face greatly, and said in a trembling voice.

"Tiefutu?!" Zhao Yong heard it for the first time, he looked at it with great eyes, and couldn't help but take a breath, only to see the Jin soldiers in front of him wearing iron helmets and iron armor, horses wearing heavy armor, with three horses as a group, connected by belts, fifty horsemen as a team of overwhelming roaring, if the charge of the loyal army is a 'stone wall', then the Jin army is an 'iron wall'!

"Marshal, a large number of enemy light cavalry appeared on both flanks, outflanking our two flanks, wanting to encircle our army!" At this time, another scout came to report.

"It's time for a decisive battle!" Zhao Yong looked at the approaching Jin Jun Tiefutu and muttered... (To be continued.) )