Chapter 279: Making a Plan
As the day dawned, the peninsula was immediately in full swing, and there were endless forests of pine and birch, mostly tall and straight, not the dense primeval forests of the south.
The Song Dynasty expedition landed here two years ago and knew the situation in this area very well.
There is a section of natural deep-water coast more than ten miles long here, and the big ship of ten thousand stones can directly dock and moor.
Di Qing gave an order, and more than a dozen large ships full of sailors slowly sailed towards the shore.
Three 10,000-stone warships were the first to dock, and one of the commanders shouted: "Don't rush off the ship, open the way with crossbow arrows!" ”
The soldiers were all equipped with crossbows, and the killing distance was up to 240 paces, and more than 300 soldiers on three large ships raised their crossbows together and shot at the bushes a hundred paces away from the shore.
The soldiers of the Song Dynasty had a bloody lesson, they also landed here two years ago, and as soon as they came ashore, the natives hiding in the bushes attacked them, and they were caught off guard, and more than a dozen crew members died here.
There was a bang, a salvo of hundreds of crossbows, powerful crossbow arrows whizzing into the bushes, and there was a scream in the bushes, and then hundreds of figures rushed out of the bushes and rushed into the depths of the dense forest.
Relieved of the temporary danger, the large ship hit the planks, and the soldiers began to disembark in a procession with shields and spears.
The shore was covered with half-man-high bushes, and a mile from the woods, and the first thousand soldiers disembarked marched toward the forest in a phalanx with shields and spears in hand, followed by five hundred crossbowmen.
The three hundred natives hiding in the forest suddenly rushed out of the woods with a shout, desperately killing the Song army.
They shouted sharply, wore animal skins, and held spears in their hands, and they came with a fierce voice.
Their spears were exchanged for fur and seafood with the Japanese people, and most of them were poorly made, far from the standard sharp spears of the Song army.
But this kind of fierce fighting style still made the Song soldiers feel big.
Five hundred crossbowmen immediately stepped forward and raised their crossbows to shoot flat, and the crossbow arrows rained down the natives, killing seventy or eighty people in an instant, and the rest of the natives were not frightened, and continued to recklessly attack, and rushed in front of the Song soldiers in a moment.
The 10,000 Song troops of the Northern Expedition were selected from the elite of the 100,000 naval army, trained for three years, and all of them were able to fight well and cooperate tacitly.
A thousand soldiers shouted and rushed forward, they were several against one person, although the other party was very flexible, but most of them were short, and their strength and physique were far apart, and in less than a cup of tea, the Song army had knocked over more than two hundred people.
The rest of the natives saw that the Song army was extremely fierce, far from being easy to deal with by the group of crew members last time, they suddenly became frightened, and the remaining dozens of people turned around and fled into the forest, and ran away without a trace in a blink of an eye.
Soon, more troops also landed, and Di Qing immediately ordered 8,000 soldiers to remove all the bushes along the bay, and cut down trees and earth to build a camp wall.
This vast bay is undoubtedly a rare natural bay harbor, Zhao Zongshi, Di Qing, Fan Ning three people discussed, decided to establish the first Song Dynasty development base here.
After nearly 10 days of construction, a plank-type barracks covering an area of about 10,000 mu appeared in the open space, a sentry post was built every 50 steps on the outer wall of the barracks, and large tents were erected in the barracks.
The soldiers began to move from the ship to the shore, and a large amount of supplies were carried ashore.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhao Zongshi, Di Qing and Fan Ning were discussing the next course of action.
In the past two days, hundreds of scouts have gone north to investigate the situation, and with some information in the early stage, they have basically figured out the activities of the local natives on the island.
On a large table sat a map, drawn by Fanning, basically with more accuracy, the southern peninsula and the central mountains are dominated by forests, with endless pine forests and birch forests in a radius of hundreds of miles, while the northern part is a steppe that is hundreds of miles wide and about a thousand miles long.
Di Qing pointed to the map and introduced the two of them: "At present, there are three tribes in Kunzhou, each of which has its own territory, and they usually do not interact, they all live in the endless woods, among which the tribe on the Kunnan Peninsula is the largest, and then there is one tribe in the northwest and northeast, and the three tribes are distributed in a zigzag pattern.
So far, we've been dealing with the tribes of the Peninsula, including the rowers we have encountered at sea, who have also come to support the tribes of the Peninsula. ”
Zhao Zongshi pondered and asked, "Is it possible to reach some kind of contract with them, allowing them to live within a certain range without affecting our horse farm?" ”
"Unlikely!"
Di Qing shook his head, "At least the southern peninsula tribes are impossible, they are very fierce, and they have a deep enmity with us, there is no room for relaxation, as for the two tribes in the north, we don't know what their attitude is." ”
At this time, Fanning said slowly: "We can use the method of dividing to send out scouts, capture a few northern natives and come back, and then give them food and cloth to ease their hostility, while we will focus on dealing with the tribes on the peninsula and be sure to exterminate them." ”
"What about the two tribes to the north? Does Fan Yushi have an idea? Zhao Zongshi asked.
Fanning has always mapped the northern part of Honshu Island, "I am considering moving them to the northern part of Japan, and I do not agree to put them in Kunshu, which will become a hidden danger in the future." ”
"But they may not be willing to move south!" Zhao Zongshi sighed and said.
Fanning sneered, "If they don't move, they have to move, otherwise the Peninsula tribe will be their fate." ”
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Zhao Zongshi was slightly unwell, so he went back to rest first, and only Di Qing and Fan Ning were left in the big tent of the Chinese army, at this time, Lin Rui and several soldiers walked in with a pair of mud plates, which were made by simulating the terrain of the Kunnan Peninsula, which was slightly different from the actual terrain, but not much.
It is densely covered with pine needles, which is considered a forest, and there is a red flag planted near the bay, which is where his current camp is stationed, and there is a place not far from the sea to the west of the forest where a black flag is planted, which should be the nest of the natives.
Seeing this clay tray, Fan Ning immediately understood Di Qing's intentions, he also wanted to deal with the natives on the peninsula first, and then solve the natives in the northwest and northeast.
Di Qing said with a smile: "This is the general distribution terrain of the natives on the peninsula, I want to hear Fan Yushi's advice." ”
Fanning thought for a while and said: "The advantage of the natives is that they are familiar with the environment, they know the terrain well, and they are very flexible in combat, they are better at dispersed and flexible combat, and they will definitely use the forest as a cover to compete with us, I suggest that we fight as a whole, approaching step by step, so that we can crack the opponent's flexible tactics." ”
Di Qing was quite interested, and asked again, "Then what should I do?" ”
Fanning drew a horizontal line on the northernmost side of the peninsula and said coldly: "Divide the 8,000 army into five, 3,500 people to guard the camp, 1,500 people to take the boat, and the remaining 3,000 people to divide into three armies, press south from the north of the peninsula at the same time, and finally drive them down to the sea!" ”
"Do you think the natives will come and attack the camp?" Di Qing saw Fanning's intentions.
Fanning nodded, "We found that their desire to take the initiative is very strong, and our ships docked to make them so hateful, and now that we have built a barracks, they must be even more intolerable, and I believe that they are the most likely to sneak up on the barracks." ”
Lin Rui suddenly said on the side: "Although the plan is very good, there is still a loophole, don't blame Fan Yushi!" ”
"General Lin, please say, where is the loophole?" Fanning asked with a smile.
Lin Rui pointed to the west of the peninsula, "We have seen with our own eyes, the natives are good at making canoes, and when the road to the north is blocked, they are likely to go down to the sea by boat and go around behind us by sea." ”
Fan Ning smiled slightly: "This is actually the purpose of leaving 1,500 troops on the ship, once we decide to act, our fleet must leave the bay and go south, at least hundreds of miles away from Kunzhou, and then leave 30 warships, carrying 1,500 soldiers, of which 10 warships are cruising in the sea east of Kunzhou, and 20 are sitting in the sea west of Kunzhou, once the opponent's canoe goes to sea, we can launch an attack, drive them south, and force them to land in Japan." ”
Di Qing nodded and said, "I think I can give it a try!" ”
Lin Rui also felt that this plan was good, and said with a smile: "This plan can indeed be tried first, even if it is not successful, it will never lose a lot!" ”
The three of them discussed the details for a while, and then decided on the final course of action.
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