"Captain, the Mongol army sent six or seven hundred cavalry to besiege our military station, and then fled to the south. Is it difficult that we really don't chase it? In the temporary staff headquarters in Luoyang, the staff officer asked Guo Huai about Zhao Jiaren's thoughts.

Zhao Jiaren replied flatly: "I think the Mongols want us to chase them, and that will be beneficial to them." For us, steady progress is our forte. Therefore, those who are good at fighting are invincible, and they will not lose the defeat of the enemy. Therefore, the victorious army wins first and then seeks battle, and the defeated army fights first and then seeks victory. Those who make good use of soldiers, cultivate the Tao and protect the law, so they can be the government of victory and defeat. ”

The lieutenant spoke theoretically, and the division commander immediately responded: "What the lieutenant said is right. We can build at least four stations a day, and six more. If the Mongols had no wings, they would have been completely covered by our garrison four days later. This is our invincible way. It is easy to have casualties in pursuit, and when you send troops from the station, the casualties are very small. ”

The reasoning is easy to understand, but the expressions of the staff officers are just 'I know'. Zhao Jiaren said indifferently: "I know that everyone wants to have credit, so a large part of our division of labor is the credit of the executive part." All the troops involved in the construction of the station have their own merits, which are reflected in promotions, the distribution of spoils. Moreover, the judgment of the merit of the battle damage is not small, and I hope that the comrades can pay attention to this. ”

After finishing speaking, he said it very bluntly, and Zhao Jiaren said it more implicitly. However, Taiwei Zhao is in charge of formulating the system, so he can't say something about 'you don't care about the life and death of the soldiers'.

None of the people who can become division-level commanders are fools, and listening to Zhao Jiaren say this, these people can be regarded as stopping. When these guys quieted down, Zhao Jiaren talked about what he had been thinking about in the past few days, "After the bridge in Mengjin is built, I am going to lead my troops across the Yellow River, go to Heyangdi, and attack Huaxian to the east. There is no way to fight a decisive battle with the Mongol army, or at least to beat them away. ”

The Luoyang Basin is divided into two by the Yellow River from north to south, the south of the mountain and the north of the water are called Yang, and the place north of the Yellow River in Mengjin is called Heyang County. At this point, all the generals were excited, and the new commander of the Ninth Division, Lu Hongda, hurriedly said: "The Taiwei is going to attack Kublai Khan, and our Ninth Division is willing to be the vanguard." ”

Guo Huai felt that his view was relatively unsuccessful, so he hurriedly played to his strengths, and he asked, "When will the Taiwei convene the troops over there." ”

This statement is very reliable. Zhao Jiaren replied: "I'm thinking about how many troops to summon over. It's really a soldier who hates less when he uses it. I don't fight on weekdays, but I feel that so many troops spend money like water. ”

Soldiers are all in charge of spending money, and only those who manage the military and finances like Zhao Jiaren will face this dilemma. Zhao Jiaren's complaint was obviously deliberately ignored by the generals, and Guo Huai immediately said: "Taiwei, the Mongolian army does not have a boat to cross the river, and our army does not have to worry about them suddenly going south of the Yellow River." So it is enough to leave a maximum of three divisions in Henan. We have already come with four divisions, and three more divisions will be summoned, leaving two divisions to hold Luoyang, plus the troops who have been holding out north of the Yellow River, six divisions should be no problem against the Mongol army. ”

Listening to Guo Huai's suggestion, Zhao Jiaren asked the others, "Do you have any opinions?" ”

The education of the generals is about the same, and there is no particular difference in the overall level. Guo Huai's proposal was peaceful and neutral, and no one objected. So Zhao Jiaren ordered: "You will make a plan." ”

After determining what the troops should do, Zhao Jiaren handed over the work to the General Staff Department, and he himself did his strategic calculations. If a commander is in charge of all matters, the whole army will definitely be chaotic.

Early the next morning, the four divisions that had already arrived in Luoyang sent a total of six troops to the repair station. The Song army had a routine for attacking the city, and the same was true for the military repair station. The troops at the station consisted of two battalions, who got up before dawn and assembled and finished breakfast at dawn. Each unit carried six straw bags in addition to a full set of marching equipment.

After daybreak, the troops set out and marched about eight miles per hour. If there was no fighting, the troops marched and measured, and after four hours arrived at the spot where the cavalry had already reconnoitred. Take a break for an hour and drink water to eat. Within an hour, the sappers made the final decision. Once they felt that there was no problem, the troops began to dig and fill the straw bags, and the various units worked in a rotational manner. Each combatant only had to fill his six bags of earth under the guidance of the sappers and carry them to the base.

Under such a routine, there will be no overwork of the troops as a whole, and there will be no overwork of a certain unit or a certain individual. After the construction was completed, the troops spent the night in the barn of the grass. The next day, the troops sent troops to meet the troops stationed at the recruit station, and together with the garrison troops, they protected the transport troops arriving at the recruit station, and also sent troops to settle the water source.

As long as there was no fighting, the troops would get up before dawn on the third day, eat at dawn, and set out for their new garrisons at dawn. Each military station is thirty miles away, thirty miles without overwork, thirty miles can be completed, and there are reinforcements to help you in thirty miles. This is the routine set by Zhao Taiwei, according to research, it is said that more than a thousand years ago in the Warring States Period, a powerful country like Qin seemed to manage his logistics like this.

Whether the people of Qin did this or not, Song Jun didn't know and didn't care. The reason why everyone does this is entirely because this routine is easy to understand and easy to execute.

Cheng Tieniu turned his head to look at the morning glow in the east, in this era when there was no large-scale haze, even some mist did not affect his vision. It is now the end of August in the Song calendar, and it is the time of high autumn and crisp weather. If it was before, the red and bright morning glow could make Cheng Tieniu feel cheerful, but today this red color makes Cheng Tieniu think of blood.

Yesterday, the Mongols sent six or seven hundred cavalry to raid the station from which they were now departing. The Song army had routines, and everyone was very proficient in them, and the troops beat the Mongol army away as soon as they opened their guns. When asked about the seriously wounded they caught, they indicated that the Mongol army had come from the east. But Cheng Tieniu didn't quite believe in this kind of thing. On the contrary, he believed the words of the young surveyor named Liu Chong more.

Even if the Mongols used to hide in the east, they had to run out from the west if they wanted to survive, but now they have already begun to move west? So the battle is imminent.

However, Cheng Tieniu's personal mood was only his personal mood, and when the time came, the company commander ordered, "Go!" As the first team, Cheng Tieniu led his cavalry squad forward. From a personal point of view, everyone has their own fears. For soldiers, no matter how fearful they are, they have to obey military orders that cannot be shaken like mountains.

More than thirty miles away from Cheng Tieniu in a straight line, the face of the fierce flower Chi Wanhu was gloomy and a little hideous. He once thought that he could use the advantages of cavalry and familiarity with the terrain to strike hard at the Song army in Luoyang. The entire Luoyang Basin also has a hundred miles of vertical and horizontal space, the Song army is the first time to capture here in more than 100 years, and the Mongols have ruled Luoyang for more than 50 years.

However, the Song army was not moved at all, they seemed to be blind and deaf, just buried in the construction of military stations. Regardless of whether the Mongol army deliberately showed signs, or sold a flaw, or even feintmed. They all spent the night in the impenetrable garrison of the Mongol army. Then move on to the next station.

Now the space that can be given to the fierce flower red vertical and horizontal is only more than 60 miles long and 30 miles wide in the south of Luoyang. If the Song army continued its previous methods, the day after tomorrow, the Mongol army would only exist in the thirty-mile gap between the Song army's military stations. Thirty miles was not without room for the Mongol army, but he knew what would happen if the cavalry was completely caught.

The Mongol generals knew that their current situation was very dangerous, and the thousand households had already begun to quarrel.

"Wanhu, we ambushed the infantry of the Song Army's repair station."

"No, after mobilizing the Song army, rush out from the banks of the Yellow River."

"What's the use of attacking the Song Army's infantry army? Let them come and outflank us? ”

"As long as other Song troops come to outflank us, we have a way to involve the Song army."

"With this strength, it is better to involve the Song army near the river beach, so that we can still run away."

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Qianhu argued, and these words made Fierce Huachi feel a little ridiculous. To put it mildly, it was the same tactic, involving the Song army, making the evenly distributed Song army's strength uneven, and allowing the Mongol army to find a weak point that could be exploited. However, these days have proved that Song Jun was not moved at all! They walked forward like a well-run cart, and when the cart approached, the Mongols had completely found a way not to deal with it.

But there was no other way to do it, so he gritted his teeth and tried to regain the passion he had seven or eight days ago. Although the passion was not found, Wan Hu also felt that his heart was beating a little faster. He immediately ordered, "We will besiege the Song troops who have come to repair the station." ”

An hour later, the Mongol troops in the surrounding villages had fed the horses with the newly harvested wheat and had eaten the stolen pigs, sheep and cattle themselves. They mounted their horses one after another and set off towards the designated gathering place. Within half an hour, thousands of Mongol cavalry had completed their assembly and immediately pounced on the Song army.

Cheng Tieniu urged his horse to a small dirt slope, and he let out a long sigh, at least he was not ambushed by the Mongol army this time. Reining in his horse, he held up his binoculars and looked ahead, and then he felt something was not right. The forest in front of it was too quiet for no villager to understand, no cattle to understand, but there wasn't even a bird in the forest. This is not normal.

The military education of the entire Song army was compiled into a combat manual, in which it was clearly written that if there were no birds flying or hearing birds in the forest under a clear sky, there must be a problem. After calling the cavalry around him, Cheng Tieniu asked him, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

"Not even a bird, of course something is wrong." The cavalry comrade replied.

Seeing that his comrades-in-arms had a fairly reliable grasp of the combat manual, Cheng Tieniu said: "You go back and report now." ”

The fierce Hua Chi Wanhu, who was in front of the forest, watched the reaction of the Song army's reconnaissance cavalry from a distance, and he judged that the Song army had sensed that there were Mongolian troops in the woods. Since the ambush could not be achieved, the fierce Huachi Wanhu ordered, "Attack!" ”