Chapter 34: Frog Jumping Tactics (II)
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In the lobby on the ground floor of the Japanese-style floating castle "Third New Tokyo", a military meeting is being held.
In the center of the hall, there is a huge map of the Hebei battlefield that Doraemon has just collected with the information collected by the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite], which has been improvised and has marked the cities, mountains, coastlines and rivers in great detail...... However, due to the limitations of satellite reconnaissance, it is not yet possible to confirm which side of these cities are under the control of these cities, and whether they have been slaughtered at present. Even the names of these cities themselves were filled in by asking local officials and combining them with historical documents and maps, and I don't know if there were any mistakes.
Of course, compared to the kind of untruthful map drawn by the Song people themselves, the map made by Doraemon is already very good.
Around this huge theater map, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Qin Hui, Wang Boyan, and other participants formed a circle, and Doraemon sat behind Guo Jing to press the formation--in this small airmobile unit of Guo Jing and Guo Daxian, Yue Fei served as the cavalry commander, Han Shizhong served as the infantry commander, and Qin Hui was the supervisor of the army, and was also in charge of some clerical work. And Wang Boyan, the governor of Xiangzhou, as the head snake, was also able to attend the meeting
As for Zong Ze, the governor of Cizhou who had traveled all the way before, he had already left Xiangzhou with his two hundred guards and rushed back to Cizhou, his place of governance.
Since the entire castle is in Japanese style, there is almost no furniture in the entire hall, so the participants can only sit cross-legged or kneel on tatami mats, which makes Wang Qiu look as if it is the scene of the Warring States daimyo holding a military meeting in the city in the Japanese Taiga drama, although there is not even a single Japanese present - Doraemon, the machine qì cat, should not be considered a human, and Nobita, a 10,000-year-old elementary school student, has gone back to class......
However, the Song people are very comfortable with this place - since the pre-Qin era, the ancient Chinese have paid attention to sitting on the floor and eating separately, just like the custom of the Japanese living on tatami mats in the future. In the Tang and Song dynasties, although tables and chairs have been introduced into China in the name of "Hu bed", but because it was created by the Hu people, it was not an ancient system, so it was not ashamed of scholars, until the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, chairs, tables and other furniture in China have not been popularized, for example, Zhao Pugui, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was the prime minister, and there were no tables, chairs and benches at home, even if the emperor came, he had to be entertained to sit on the ground.
Of course, at this time, it was the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and furniture such as tables, chairs, and stools had become popular among the people of the Song Dynasty, but the ancient custom of sitting on the ground had not been forgotten - probably similar to the modern Japanese - looking at Qin Hui, Wang Boyan, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, these guys were kneeling and sitting very naturally, and Wang Qiu, who was kneeling with sore legs, couldn't help but mutter: Could it be that this is the so-called "Tang and Song Dynasty relics in Japan"?
To get back to the point, at this moment, they are all surrounding this military map of the Hebei Theater and talking about the current Song-Jin war.
ββ¦β¦ In the autumn of this year, Jin Yu successively broke through the three towns of Zhongshan, Taiyuan, and Zhending, which opened the northern gateway of our Great Song Dynasty. He also sent a partial division to break through Fenzhou, cross the Yellow River, trap Luoyang, and capture Tongguan to block the way of the Guanxi Forbidden Army to aid from the east. But later, in order to attack Bianliang, all the Jin troops were gathered under the city of Tokyo, and then burned to the ground by the real people...... Although Hebei is extremely dilapidated, there are not many golden soldiers left. β
As the deputy marshal of the Generalissimo's Mansion of Hebei Soldiers and Horses, although Wang Boyan's character and discipline are very problematic, and his military command ability is even more miserable, in terms of intelligence, because he has always been on the front line, he still has a very detailed grasp of it," ...... In this southern expedition, the Jin soldiers also sporadically arranged some soldiers and horses in Hedong, but in Hebei, they only passed through the prefecture and county, and did not attack city by city, nor did they divide their troops to stay behind the back road. Only after the capture of Zhending, a Bohai army was stationed, with about 3,000 people, guarding the gate where they stepped into the Song realm. In addition, ten days ago, I had heard that Handan City had been attacked by a sneak attack, but I don't know whether the thieves who attacked the city were Jin troops or rogue bandits, or rebellious officials......"
According to Wang Boyan, the Jin army went south to the Central Plains twice before and after, and both adopted the adventurous tactic of forcibly breaking through regardless of the back road, leaving a large number of intact Song Dynasty cities behind. Even those cities that were captured by the Jin soldiers were mostly abandoned by the Jin army, rather than garrisoned by the Jin army.
This is certainly conducive to concentrating forces and avoiding being broken by the enemy individually. However, when the main force of the field battle at the forefront was destroyed and attacked, the entire battle situation would collapse in an instant, and it would be impossible to gradually retreat and resist step by step -- judging from the marks made by Wang Boyan on the map, with the destruction of the main force of more than 100,000 Jin troops under Bianliang City, most of the old territory of the Song Dynasty was recovered almost instantly!
Of course, this is just a delusion.
Because the defeat of the Jin army does not equal the victory of the Song army, you have to take into account the survival of the other "players".
-- Just as the US military had to continue fighting a law and order war for 10 years even though it easily defeated Saddam Hussein in the Iraq War.
The situation facing the Song Dynasty was the same, and although the invading Jin army had been annihilated, large swaths of Hebei, Hedong, and the Central Plains had been reduced to anarchy. Even King Kang's Generalissimo Mansion of Hebei Soldiers and Horses was only a few prefectures and counties that had not suffered military disasters such as Daimyo and Xiangzhou as the core base areas, gathering the remnants of the army from all walks of life to support themselves and protect themselves. As for the hundreds of other prefectures and counties, they have completely become the world of homeless people and thieves.
In fact, due to heavy snow and liukou, Xiangzhou has been cut off from most of the prefectures and counties in Hebei and Hedong. At this moment, it is still unknown how many prefectures and counties have been destroyed by the Jin army or the rogues in the chaos, and how many cities are still struggling to hold out behind the enemy under the leadership of local officials. As for whether the Song troops scattered behind the enemy still listened to the edicts of the imperial court, no one can say for sure.
The only thing that can be confirmed is that, except for the 3,000 Bohai soldiers stationed in Zhending Mansion, the Jin State did not have any field troops that had been proved and confirmed south of the Song border in Hebei. Of course, among the countryside of Hebei, there must be some small units of the Jin Army that "hit the grass valley" wandering around. However, this kind of small group of rogue bandits, who are no more than a few dozen or more than a hundred people, in addition to being more powerful in combat, is actually on the same level as bandits and bandits, and is of little use in front of the regular army -- not to mention that they are still fighting away from home in the Song Realm, and they do not have that mass base if they want to fight guerrilla warfare.
As for the last reserve force of the Jin army, it was deployed in Yanjing, the future capital of Liao, in the vicinity of Beijing.
ββ¦β¦ That is to say, in addition to the 3,000 Bohai soldiers in Zhending Mansion, as well as those traitors and traitors scattered on the west side of Taihang Mountain, and the surrender of various ethnic groups, the closest Jurchen Tartar to us is Wanyan Xianye, the prince of Jinguo in Yanjing City, and the 20,000 Jurchen elite horses under him? β
After listening to Wang Boyan's description, Guo Jing knocked on Yanjing City on the map and said.
ββ¦β¦ It can only be said that it is within the Nanjing Road of the old Liao, not necessarily in Yanjing City. β
Yue Fei suddenly interjected and said that as he had participated in the two Northern Expeditions to Youzhou during the Xuanhe period, and had fought fiercely with the Jin soldiers and Liao soldiers for several years, he knew quite well the habits of these alien races in the north: "...... The Liao State had a four-time bowl system, and the Khitan lord often lived in the tent and rarely entered the capital. Now that the Jurchens are chasing the Khitan and occupying the northern land, I am afraid that most of them will also follow the old Khitan customs. Moreover, Yanjing has been repeatedly damaged by wars, and the palaces and palaces have not been repaired, so the prince of Jin may not be willing to live in a ruin, but it is better to lead troops to parade around, which is not only convenient for food, but also can impeach the states and counties, and extort tribute......"
-- The old Khitan customs, with the water and grass, chasing the cold and summer, going back and forth to nomadic fishing and hunting. After the founding of the Liao Dynasty, the emperor set up a hunting account called "Bowl". It is also known as the four-hour bowl system. The bowl, in Khitan language, means the palace of the Khitan monarch when he travels. Although the Liao State has a capital, the Khitan Emperor carries a large army to patrol everywhere throughout the year, and government affairs are handled in tents. Although the Jurchens were not nomads like the Khitans, they were more suitable for building cities and living. However, the Liao land was only roughly pacified, and the rebellions of various ethnic groups occurred one after another, and the Jin army had to maneuver long distances from time to time to suppress the riots of various ethnic groups, except for the Jin Emperor who stayed in the Huanglong Mansion, even the Jurchen military magnates, most of them did not have the leisure time to build mansions and palaces.
Therefore, although Wan Yanxie, the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom, also stayed in Yanjing with the reserves of the Jin army, no one knows whether he has been stationed in the dilapidated Yanjing City, or is like the old Khitan Emperor, who is constantly moving camps around to inspect and suppress and deter powerful men and lords in various places.
Guo Jing also affirmed and agreed with this view, but if this matter comes true, I am afraid that it will be more and more uncertain where the enemy is.
Therefore, the current battle situation made Yue Fei and others scratch their heads very much - if they followed the rules and went out to the Northern Expedition from Xiangzhou and Daimyo to recover the fallen states and counties one by one, then before they encountered the Jin army, they would have to fight with many streams of rogue mobs one after another. I'm afraid that they haven't reached the Zhending Mansion on the border of the Liao and Song Dynasty in the past, and they haven't had time to cut off the head of a genuine Jurchen Tartar, and their small army of a few hundred people should be almost lost.
Moreover, even if the fallen city is recovered, they will not find the right person to manage it. Even if you learn from the Jin Army's practice, regardless of the cities along the way, you will drive straight into Yanjing and go straight to Yanjing...... In the unfamiliar territory of the old Liao, they were also blind-eyed, and they did not know where the enemy was, nor how many they were, let alone get provisions, labor, and supplies, and they did not even know much about the road -- how could such a battle be fought?
Even though Guo Jing and Guo Daxian's mana is boundless, how can they use it when they can't find the enemy's location?
You can't expect this mere 800 people to conquer thousands of miles!
However, in the memory of Wang Qiu, a half-modern military enthusiast, there are many successful examples of solving similar dilemmas.
-- Didn't MacArthur have a good time in the Pacific and North Korea, and Rumsfeld in Iraq?
So, after Wang Qiu quietly came up and whispered a few words. Guo Daxian coughed lightly a few times and announced an earth-shattering decision:
ββ¦β¦ Ladies and gentlemen, in the opinion of the poor road, instead of advancing city by city in Hebei, wasting time and effort, trying to appease the people, and being busy with many chores, it is better to simply plow the court and sweep the holes, and go straight to the Huanglong Mansion from here! Then break through the capital of the Jin Kingdom, capture the Jurchen Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai, and completely go to this great enemy for my Central Plains! Anyway, there is a floating city in the poor road, but where can you go under the whole world and within the four seas? β
-- The next day, in the midst of the incense burning and kneeling of more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Xiangzhou, the floating castle "Third New Tokyo" carried 800 brave men to the north.
In just a few days, from the gifts and offerings of various wealthy families, gentry and eunuchs in Xiangzhou, Doraemon collected goods worth one billion yen, and what made Wang Qiu and Guo Jing even more excited was the handwriting displayed on the "Book of Traveling":
ββ¦β¦ Change the fate of Yue Fei and Han Shizhong and get 2ooo reward points. β
ββThe 50,000 points we are getting closer to the end of this game......