Chapter 112 is to play as a substitute for training

"More than 4,200 enemies were killed, the wounded could not be counted, 1,400 horses were captured, and countless swords, guns, and armor were captured." This is the preliminary statistics of the results of the battle for the defense of Fort Yamato, but the casualties of Fort Yamato were not small, more than 200 officers and soldiers below the head of the city were killed in the battle, more than 200 were seriously wounded, of which more than 60 were disabled, and they had to retire from active service; more than 100 archers and Minzhuang of the Han Dynasty were killed and wounded, and the prince's guards were not killed at present, but more than 40 people were wounded, and after the first and second battalions of hussars entered the battle, they followed and beat the water dogs. He also achieved the record of killing more than 500 enemies.

The reinforcements from the forts that arrived later did not catch up with the battle, but they just cleaned up the battlefield, stripped the dead of their clothes, buried the dead, repaired the castle, and transported the wounded. After resting for two days, Dahebao replenished the troops and materials, Zhao Ta presided over the funeral of the fallen soldiers, and decided to build the Loyal and Brave Shrine in Yincheng to worship the martyrs' spiritual seats, specially arranged for monks, four o'clock to worship and sweep, incense every day.

After dealing with the perfect matter, Zhao Ta quietly returned to Yincheng with the team, and returned to Yincheng, he asked his staff to sort out the relevant documents, and copied three copies, one was handed over to Zhongshu Province, one was handed over to Huang Jingchen, and one was sent to Tong Guan's desk, some of which were not up to him, and must be approved by them. In order to prevent the Xia army from retaliating, Zhao Ta decided to temporarily stay in Yincheng to deal with Yamato Fort, and at the same time ordered the state capitals to let them strictly guard the important places to prevent the Xia army from attacking from other places, and the wounded were sent to Lincheng for treatment.

At the meeting, Zhao Ta severely criticized Zhao Ren, the commander of the capital, although the reinforcements he sent were implemented according to the plan of the prince, but they did not carefully survey and inquire about the road they walked in advance, and calculated the time in detail, and the hidden purpose was achieved, but they went around in a big circle, missed the time for reinforcements, and put Dahe Fort in danger; Another criticism was the commanders of the two reinforced battalions, Gao Zhong and Zhao Yong, whose mistake was to mechanically carry out the order, knowing that the road ahead could only accommodate one horse, but still marching according to the original plan. Another point is to reach outside Yamato Fort, that is, he did not contact Dahe Fort in advance, nor did he choose to cut off the enemy's retreat route in the dangerous terrain, but rashly launched an attack, and as a result, he ran away and let him bring back more than 2,000 people, but he was defeated and did not achieve the goal of total annihilation.

Of course, Zhao Tan also made self-criticism, because he did not understand the combat methods of friendly forces, overestimated the combat effectiveness of his own troops, and underestimated the tenacity of the Xia army, which led to mistakes in the plan, caused unnecessary casualties, and almost led to the destruction of the city. However, everyone did not want to let him go, and made serious criticisms of his 'bad' behavior of risking his life and coming to Yashi in person, until the prince 'wept bitterly' and made a guarantee that he promised him to make meritorious service with the team, and was not 'repatriated' back to Taiyuan.

Next, Zhao Ta decided to 'replace training with battle', distributing the supplementary weapons to the engineer team and the transport team that lacked guns, and at the same time strengthening the training of shooting and related tactics for the recruits, so that they could become proficient in the use of the bead gun as soon as possible. At the same time, the troops launched a 'ploughing' battle, using all useful means such as expulsion, capture, booby-trapping, encirclement and suppression against the Tangut people who invaded the Song border, so as to protect the border people and prepare for the start of spring ploughing, and use the forbidden boundary as a buffer zone to control the battle on the Xia side.

Subsequently, Zhao Ta informed the prefectures, armies, and counties in the name of the Hedong Road Passage and Pacification Division that they still recruited the people of the Han Dynasty, sent the state army and the Liupai drunken army to the border areas to reclaim the wasteland, reclaim the frontier, raise idle land, give houses to people, and loan two stones of rations, and the archers promised to exempt those who cultivated the land for one year, those who got the old and now idle land were exempted from two years, and those who obtained the wasteland were exempted from paying taxes for three years, and the taxes used were paid from the taxes paid to the central government. The feeling of being an official is cool, and the public money is not distressed when it is spent, and Zhao Ta solved this big thing that he racked his brains to do well in the past with a stroke of his pen. …,

Yincheng was originally a county government, and the government was abolished in four years, and there was a solid city defense, which could hoard grain and grass, and could accommodate a large number of people, and could be used as an advance base. In the blink of an eye, into March, Kaifeng is already the season of spring flowers, but there is no spring here, the people recruited from all over the country and escorted to the army, the mobilized state army has also arrived one after another, Zhao Ta placed them in the Yincheng to Yamato Fort line of the forts near the Tuntian, although there are only less than 5,000 households, a total of more than 20,000 people. But he is not in a hurry, there have been years of war here, and his confidence will be slowly restored.

Last year, Zhao Ta said yes, there was an earthquake on Huanqing and Jingyuan roads, and the Xixia side also suffered a disaster, and the loss was not small, and now there is Juehe City on both sides, and the people there are also difficult spring famines, of course, they will not give up the opportunity to invade and cultivate, and this has created an opportunity for Zhao Ta to train troops.

Hedong is located at the junction of the three kingdoms, has been stationed with heavy troops, the number of 100,000 huge, but Zhao Ta can have very few soldiers, after the year Tong Guan tried to Xingling area, from the Hedong Road to transfer two generals and horses, the force is inevitably stretched, and the garrison of the forbidden army does not have the order of the privy envoy, Zhao Ta also has no right to transfer. The only men and horses he can command now are his own 3,000 pro-army and some state armies and clan archers and volunteers, but the management of the local militia is limited to the people who defend the border after the pacification of the strategy, and he has no control over the local soldiers and archers used for urban and rural security under the management of the Tidian Criminal Prison Department.

Zhao Ta doesn't particularly care about this, what he needs now is a stage, a place to show his ability, he knows that his foundation is still shallow, and those people in the local area are respectful to themselves, but because of their own identity, they can't afford to provoke their father, they have to show deference to themselves, and they still look down on themselves in their hearts, it is inevitable to be perfunctory, and even stumble everywhere, only by making a few convincing 'big things' can they gain a firm foothold in this northwest!

The forts along the border organized the people to be brave and brave, and set up lookouts and beacon fires with each fort as a base, holding a knife in one hand and a hoe in the other hand for reclamation. In Yincheng, Zhao Tan only left his direct team and baggage battalion, and he deployed the soldiers of the other four battalions along the border, stationed in Yamatobao, Wuyuansai, Jianning, and Quyezhai four places, commanded and dispatched by Zhao Ren in the center, the four places were only more than 50 miles apart, and the horses could be reached instantly, the enemy joined forces, and the enemy was outnumbered, and the combat method of combining guerrilla warfare and movement warfare was used to maneuver and annihilate the enemy and protect Tuntian.

In the early morning, the barracks were woken up by the sound of loud military trumpets, and all the armies stationed in Yincheng quickly assembled and lined up on the school ground, with loud slogans, neat steps, and shining knives and guns, which made people's blood boil. In the morning, all units organized field tactics and shooting training, including the health team and the fire corps, and in the afternoon, the engineering team conducted professional training in civil engineering such as the construction of field fortifications. The transport team conducted anti-ambush and anti-attack drills; The artillery team, the law enforcement team, and the guards team were not idle, and they all threw themselves into the large-scale military training. At night, the school field was still brightly lit, and the voices of people were boiling, and they were still fighting and stabbing training, until the lights out horn sounded, and the barracks entered a deathly silence.

The four battalions waited day and night, knives and guns did not leave their hands, gunfire erupted on the wasteland, the sound of killing shook the sky, the yellow dust stirred up by the horses' hooves covered the earth, and the blood soaked the Loess Plateau. The walled forts of Western Xia were uprooted and destroyed one by one, the newly grown wheat seedlings were trampled by horses' hooves, the canals were opened, the melting snow water flowed unscrupulously, thousands of hectares of fertile fields became swamps, the new green growing on the boundless grasslands was swallowed up by wildfires, the smoke on the Great Wall continued, and the tribes had to drive their cattle and sheep to move north...

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Yeli shrunk in the tent, although spring arrived, but his heart is still as cold as the snow mountain for thousands of years, the battle of Yamato Fort, he lost more than 4,000 soldiers, the elite army was almost exhausted, so that his vitality was greatly damaged, and a large amount of arable land was destroyed, the people were expelled and plundered, it was even worse, several times the troops were beaten to the point of losing their armor, some of the tribes who had surrendered to themselves in the past saw that they had lost power, and had defected to others, and their relatives also because of repeated battles, the population had plummeted, and the position of their own patriarch was also in jeopardy! …,

Ye Li sighed, the letter on the table made him even more cold, it was sent by Li Jifeng, the king of the Great Xia Kingdom, and the messenger was still waiting under the tent. A few days ago, it was rumored everywhere that he wanted to return to the Song Dynasty, and the head of the little prince was his meeting gift, and the defeat of Yamato Fort was just an opportunity to cut off dissidents and kill people with a knife...

"Yeli Prison Army, how are you thinking about it?" The envoy of the Divine Warrior looked at the haggard Yeli and proudly walked in and asked.

"Envoy Zhang, the lower officials have figured it out, but they have been fighting repeatedly, and the soldiers have suffered a lot of losses, and it is difficult to mobilize so many soldiers and horses for a while!" Ye Li got up and saluted with a smile on his face, but his heart was uncomfortable like a fire, this Zhang Junenvoy used to be just a Han who was taken captive, and when he saw himself in the past, only he nodded and licked his boots, and now that he was defeated, he also dared to dictate to himself.

"Yeli Prison Army, I heard that you are going to rebel against Xia, the commander is very angry, you should know the consequences!" Zhang Junenvoy sat down with a big grin and said.

"Yeli can have today, it is all taken care of by the unified army, and the lower officials are loyal to the prince, how can they do that kind of thing!" Yeli patiently explained, and said that he would send a brocade box, "This is also to ask the military envoy to defend the subordinate in front of the unified army and clear his innocence!" ”

"Hehe, Yeli Jian Jun is polite, this envoy has also told the unified army, the general has Xia Guo in his heart, and has fought to the death with the Song army many times, how can he betray the unified army because of a slight setback, so the prince sent this envoy to this trip, and now it looks like this is the case, but you have to make it clear about your close dealings with the Song people!" Zhang Junenvoy lifted the lid of the box and glanced at it, and said with a slightly slow expression.

"This also has to ask the military envoy to explain to the unified army, because the previous official avenged the little prince, the army was defeated in Dahe Fort, and there were many losses, and now the fields are invaded by the Song people, and the clansmen live in poverty, so they have to sell some green and white salt in exchange for some grain to survive the famine, so they can communicate with the border people of the Song Dynasty!" Nori quickly explained.

"Yeli Prison Army, this is the spies caught by the military department, I'm afraid it will inevitably cause misunderstanding, right?" Zhang Junenvoy took out something from his arms and handed it to him.

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