Chapter 295: The First World War Settles the Central Plains (Ask for a Monthly Pass!) )
… To be honest, judging from the current comparison of forces in the Central Plains, it is indeed the Song army that has an absolute advantage.
Even if all the water falsely reported by the Song army is wrung out, the total strength of the Song army in the Central Plains is as high as more than 600,000, and this is not counting the rebels and bandits who are eye-to-eye with the Zhao and Song dynasties.
However, the Daqian Dynasty, which had too many areas to defend, actually had less than 300,000 troops in the Central Plains at present.
Among them, there are 50,000 in the Daimyo's Mansion, and there are even as many as 100,000 in Luoyang. The key is that these two parts of the people and horses must not move around, otherwise the Song army, which was trapped by Li Cun in the Central Plains, may run to Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, or even to the Taihang Mountain, which is difficult to exterminate.
In addition, before Li Cun also allocated 50,000 horses to Zhao Li, let Zhao Li go to pacify Jingdong East Road, Yan Xiaoguang also led 50,000 Dongfu Army and Zhongfu Army to pacify Jingdong West Road.
This is actually the main reason why Li Cun has not fought the war with the Song army all over the place.
Without it. The army is just stretched. - For a period of time, Li Cun's soldiers and horses were even less than 100,000.
Moreover, don't forget, before that, in addition to dealing with Zhao Gou's hundreds of thousands of Song troops, Li Cun also had to suppress the extremely poorly disciplined Song troops that originally belonged to Bianliang City in Tokyo.
The key is that at that time, Li was also unstable in Bianliang City, Tokyo. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Cun was walking on the tip of a knife at that time.
To be honest, if Zhao Gou had the courage to lead the army to Qinwang to rescue him at that time, it would have been really possible to beat Li Cun out of Tokyo Bianliang City.
But Zhao Gou's cowardice was by no means inferior to that of his father and his eldest brother, although he had already organized the Generalissimo's Mansion at that time, he did not dare to come to the rescue of Tokyo Bianliang City.
Of course, this is also because Li Cun's suspicious array is well arranged, so scared that Zhao Gou and others dare not come to the rescue of King Qin in the Gyeonggi area, and Zong Ze, the only one who dares to come, is alone.
Now, Li Cun has assigned all the Song troops in Bianliang City in Tokyo to Liuqiu and the Indochina Peninsula, Zhao Li and Yan Xiaoguang have pacified the Song army on Jingdong East Road and Jingdong West Road, and Li Cun finally has an army of more than 100,000 again.
Therefore, when he learned that Zhao Gou was going to fight a decisive battle with him, Li Cun was very happy, and personally dispatched troops to prepare for a battle in the Central Plains.
However, it turned out that Li Cun was thinking too much. Although Zhao Gou saw that his own men and horses were several times more than Li Cun, he had the idea of fighting a decisive battle with Li Cun to recover Bianliang City in Tokyo.
But Zhao Gou is Zhao Gou, I listened to Geng Nanzhong and Wang Boyan analyze the current situation, that is, the generals of the Zhao and Song Dynasty who commanded the army said very well, and they were willing to obey the command of Zhao Gou's generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, but in fact, many of them were still in disobedience.
Geng Nanzhong and Wang Boyan also said to Zhao Gou: Not to mention Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, Wang Xiang, who have always resisted and disobeyed the order, even Yang Weizhong, who is in charge of the Generalissimo's Mansion of the World's Soldiers and Horses, is actually unwilling to fight.
This couldn't help but remind Zhao Gou of one thing. Here's how it went. The strategic goal set by Li Cun was to first defeat the hope of the Zhao and Song dynasties, that is, the hundreds of thousands of Western troops led by Fan Zhixu.
Based on this strategic goal, Li Cun was bound to contain the Song armies of the other tribes first, so that they had no time to interfere with the battle between Wu Lan and Fan Zhixu.
Therefore, Li Cun dispatched troops to attack the Song army in various departments, so that all of them did not dare to act rashly. Dong Xian, who was assigned to harass Jeju, immediately led 3,000 men and horses to march to Jeju after receiving the order.
It wasn't until Dong Xianbu arrived in Berlin that Zhao Gou learned the news of the Qianjun's call. Zhao Gou hurriedly sent Yang Weizhong to personally lead the troops to Berlin Town to meet the battle.
Who would have thought that Yang Weizhong was very unhappy about this, and he said dishappily: "The young generals don't come out, and the old man is the first to be recommended?" Zhao Gou was very angry at that time, and felt that Yang Weizhong was openly provoking his prestige as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses and the future emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, so he said lightly: "This thief is riding and serving our army." Then, Zhao Gou forced Yang Weizhong to urgently gather the five armies of the Generalissimo's Mansion of the World's Soldiers and Horses, do a good job of night vigilance, and spread out on the river embankment outside the city in battle formation, ready to meet the battle at any time.
At the same time, Zhao Gou separately ordered Zhang Jun, the commander of the Chinese army, to lead his troops as suspicious soldiers, preparing to lure the enemy deep and defeat Dong Xian's troops.
But Dong Xian came here, and it was not a battle at all, so seeing that the Song army was strictly defended by tens of thousands of troops, Dong Xian retreated at night.
Although this incident is not big, it confirms from the side that Geng Nanzhong and Wang Boyan are right. Zhao Gou thought about it again, although Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, and Wang Xiang kept saying that they would obey his command, but after he gave the order to gather, they were still standing still.
Zhao Gou couldn't help but start to shake again. Seeing this, Geng Nanzhong and Wang Boyan suggested that Zhao Gou first withdraw to Shaanxi, and then slowly plan for it...... On the same day that Dong Xian harassed Jeju, Cao Cheng's younger brother Cao Liang also led 3,000 men and horses to attack Heungin Province from Wanting.
Huang Qianshan, who was guarding Xingren Mansion, after receiving the news, sent the commander Zhang Huan to lead his troops out of the city to occupy the favorable terrain and meet the enemy head-on.
At the same time, Huang Qianshan sent Ding Shun and Meng Shining to lead their troops into left and right wings, and set up ambushes outside the city.
After the battle began, the Song army fired fiercely. Cao Liang couldn't dodge, was shot with an arrow, and then fell off his horse.
Seeing this, producer Li Ji hurriedly took over the command, sent someone to help Cao Liang, who was not lightly injured, onto the horse, and then feigned retreat according to the strategy formulated by Li Cun.
Cao Liang almost lost the main general along the way, but there was no real battle, and it can be regarded as a successful feint.
And Yue Heng, who went to Puzhou to make a feint, completely turned the feint into a real battle. Yue Heng led 3,000 men and horses to Puzhou City, and the Jingdong transfer judge Zhilong Tuge Lu Qiu Sheng, who had already prepared, personally led the militia recruited to go out of the city for ten miles to ambush Yue Heng.
As a result, the two armies fought until the fifth watch in the night, and Yue Heng was able to lead more than 2,000 men and horses to withdraw to the Gyeonggi area.
There is also Yao Zhengbu, who also encountered the same situation. The 3,000 men and horses led by Yao Zheng attacked Kaide Mansion from Weinan, and then lined up outside the moat embankment, intending to hold back the Song army in this way.
What Yao Zheng didn't expect was that Zong Ze, who was guarding Kaide Mansion, ordered Kong Yanwei to lead his troops to camp by the moat, and the two armies shot across the river, and then sent Jizhou Quan Bangyan to lead the Jizhou soldiers to come to support and cover Kong Yanwei's troops.
Yao Zheng didn't expect that there would be a lot of horse troops in Zongze's army, so he suffered a big defeat. To be honest, that is, Yao Zhengbu is all cavalry, otherwise, Yao Zhengbu may not really ask Zong Zebu to eat it.
From this, it is not difficult to see that Zong Ze still has something. Generally speaking, from a tactical point of view, the two armies of the Qian-Song Dynasty actually had their own victories and defeats in this battle, but from a strategic point of view, the Song army lost the battle completely.
Because at the same time that Zhao Gou and other Song troops were dragged in place by Li Cun, the more than 100,000 western troops led by Fan Zhixu, the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi, were defeated by 3,000 men and horses led by Niu Gao in Qianqiu Town.
After Fan Zhixu led more than 100,000 western troops out of Wuguan, he was active in the area of Mianchi, and then stationed in Qianqiu Town, pointing at Luoyang, Xijing.
Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin were in a hurry and asked Li Cun for help. After Li Cun learned of this, he sent Wu Ling to lead 50,000 horses to support Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin.
Before leaving, Li Cun asserted that Fan Zhixu was a scholar who did not know how to fight at all, and said that if he was unprepared by surprise, 3,000 men and horses would be able to defeat his army of more than 100,000 people.
Things turned out to be as Li Cun expected. Fan Zhixu judged according to the marching speed of the Song army that it would definitely take some time for the reinforcements of Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin to reach Luoyang, so he led the army to slowly advance to Luoyang, wanting to recover Luoyang, Xijing, by pressing the top of Mount Tai.
Unexpectedly, Niu Gao remembered Li Cun's words and led three thousand pioneers from Yiyang to Qianqiu Town.
More than 100,000 Western troops were unprepared for battle at that time, and they were caught off guard by Niu Gao. As a result, these hundreds of thousands of western troops abandoned their baggage and scattered in all directions, trampling on each other countless times, killing and wounding several half, and the soldiers and horses of the king of Zhuluqin in Shaanxi, known as the 200,000 army, were so vulnerable and collapsed.
Only the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Shen and Liu Guangshi were not defeated, and they turned to Changquan Town, along the Yellow River, and rushed to Jeju.
Wu Lan didn't expect Niu Gao to achieve such a result, so he hurriedly changed the steady tactics he had formulated before, united with Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin, and quickly advanced westward.
Although along the way, Wu Lan, Zhai Xing, Zhai Jin and other troops successively regained Hangu Pass, Mengjin Pass, and Wuguan, and the army advanced to Tongguan, but because Wu Lan and their reaction was slow, Fan Zhixu still packed up tens of thousands of remnants of the defeated generals and retreated to Tongguan to defend.
On the day when Fan Zhixu retreated to Tongguan, because he had beaten away Yao Zhengbu, Zong Ze was greatly encouraged, and he said to his next group of Song generals: "The thieves are not terrible, as long as we dare to fight, we will be able to fight and win, so we must take advantage of the victory to pursue, go straight to the Beijing Division, and recover the capital!" The reason why Zong Ze began to venture again was mainly because, when Zong Ze heard about it, Zhao Gou, who had finally made up his mind to fight a decisive battle with the cadre army, changed his mind again, and was ready to follow the advice of Geng Nanzhong, Wang Boyan and others to withdraw to Shaanxi first, and then slowly mediate with the cadre army, Zong Ze did not want the good situation of the Zhao and Song dynasties to disappear, so he was ready to use the facts to let Zhao Gou see that the cadre army was not so terrible, as long as they worked together, they would definitely be able to repel the cadre army.
The next day, Zong Ze led his headquarters out of the city, aiming directly at Bianliang City in Tokyo. In order to achieve this victory, Zong Ze also prepared a secret weapon this time - one hundred and fifty chariots.
Speaking of Zong Ze's one hundred and fifty chariots, Liu Hao has to be mentioned. At the beginning, when Liu Hao was in Xiangzhou, he heard that the Daqian Dynasty had a chariot that could restrain cavalry to a certain extent.
Liu Hao then wanted to repay his body with his own way. Coincidentally, at this time, someone offered Liu Hao a method of building a chariot, saying that this kind of chariot is more powerful than the chariot of the cadre army, and as long as such a chariot is built, the cadre army will definitely be defeated.
Liu Hao was like a treasure, and immediately tried to build five chariots. But after these five chariots were built, Liu Hao learned through experiments that this kind of chariot was very clumsy, not only difficult to turn around, but also not easy to run.
But this chariot, which cost a lot of money to build, can't it be wasted? After Liu Hao thought about it for a long time, he thought of Zong Ze.
In Liu Hao's impression, Zong Ze
"Do a good deed, listen to the letter". So, Liu Hao came to Cizhou with this car-making method and car formation diagram.
Liu Hao said to Zong Ze: "It is a car to build 150 cars, each with 25 people guarding the car, 25 people for the left corner, 25 people for the right corner, 25 people for the front rejection, a total of four teams, where a car with 100 people, 150 cars with 15,000 people, willing to be the pioneer with the Zhige, to recover the true determination." Zong Ze also got a treasure, and asked Liu Hao what he needed in exchange?
Liu Hao said: "What is lacking, the jacket is ear." There are a lot of magnetic states, please feel free to respond. As a result, Zong Ze agreed without hesitation.
Actually, Zong Ze also had doubts about the chariot that Liu Hao gave him. But the chariots of the Daqian Dynasty were indeed very powerful, and they had defeated the Liao army and the Jin army.
The key is that Zong Ze played to Zhao Huan according to the chariot construction method and car formation diagram given to him by Liu Hao, saying that he had built 150 chariots, recruited 15,000 militiamen, formed a formation, and prepared to recover Zhending.
When Zhao Huan heard this, he was very happy, so he ordered Zongze to be promoted to the secretary of the secret pavilion and the head of the Hebei militia. In fact, at that time, Zong Ze did not have a chariot or a horse.
Later, when the main members of the Generalissimo's Mansion were gathered to discuss the direction of the march, the opinions of the two deputy marshals, Wang Boyan and Zong Ze, diverged: Wang Boyan believed that hundreds of thousands of cadres surrounded Bianliang City in Tokyo, and they only had some miscellaneous troops that had been put together temporarily, so how could they consider relieving the siege of Bianliang City in Tokyo?
Zong Ze advocated that the siege of Kaifeng had to be rescued. On the surface, Zhao Gou had to agree with Zong Ze's proposition, but in fact he did not dare to personally take responsibility for rescuing Bianliang City in Tokyo, in other words, he was more inclined to Wang Boyan's proposition.
In order not to fall foul of the tongue and clean up the purity of the team, Zhao Gou adopted Geng Nanzhong's suggestion, and Zong Ze led those thorns who wanted to go to King Qin's rescue to Kaide Mansion, in fact, they were to take Zong Ze and them
The "dissident" person kicked out his generalissimo's mansion. After Zong Ze arrived at Kaide Mansion, in order to stop others from saying that he magnified his cannon, he really built one hundred and fifty chariots.
Zong Ze felt that it was time for his chariot to show its might. So Zong Ze went out with his chariot.
Of course, Zong Ze was not arrogant, thinking that with more than 20,000 men and horses, he would be able to recover Bianliang City in Tokyo, which was guarded by 120,000 cadres.
At the same time as going to war, Zong Ze sent people to Shenzhou, wanting to make an appointment with Yao Peng, a retainer with many generals, to march together.
No, Zhao Gou had already ordered one step ahead of the other that no one was allowed to attack the cadres without authorization, and that they should obey his command and judge the advance.
Yao Peng therefore did not send troops. There is no way, in order to awaken Zhao Gou's conscience and let Zhao Gou remember that his mother, concubines, and daughters are still in Bianliang City, Tokyo, so that Zhao Gou remembers his responsibility, so that Zhao Gou is no longer cowardly, let Zhao Gou lead all the Song troops to counterattack, and let Zhao Gou not escape to Shaanxi, Zong Ze said to the left and right: "The soldiers will be alone, and if they don't go deep into the heavy land, they will not be able to win." He ordered to move on.
After Zongzebu arrived in Nanhua County, he finally met the Qianjun. Zong Ze ignored his already aged body, and fought on the front line of the battle with his own arrows.
For a long time, Zong Ze has been able to share weal and woe with the soldiers in the army, so all the soldiers under his command are happy to use it.
Now, Zong Ze is taking the lead again, and the officers and soldiers of the Song army are all fighting hard to defeat the cadre army. However, war is cold, and it does not turn back because of the will of one man, or the will of a deviant teacher.
In fact, this battle between the Qian-Song Dynasty was a series of tactics carefully designed by Li Cun, and whoever caught up with him would be defeated.
Li Cun had already set up an ambush on the road that the Song army might come to fight in the Gyeonggi area, and Zong Ze had always been the target of Li Cun's defense...... In a nutshell.
After Zong Ze led the chariot to the ambush circle set up by Zhao Li, the convoy was covered by the cadres and horses, and at the same time, the various firearms that had been in ambush for a long time were smashed down overwhelmingly.
Due to the sudden outbreak of the battle and the urgency of the situation, the Song army of the Zongze Department suffered extremely serious losses at once.
After being defeated by the cadre army, Zong Ze, Quan Bangyan and others had to change into white cloth shirts and straw shoes for non-commissioned soldiers, and followed the defeated soldiers to the north overnight, rushing to Yao Peng's army.
Pioneer Wang Xiaozhong was shot by an arrow and fell from his horse to his death. Sun Zhen led the troops in Zhibo Prefecture on the way to the army, and when he heard of Zong Ze's defeat, the soldiers were afraid of fighting with the cadres and were nostalgic for their homeland, so they killed Sun Zhen, divided the military supplies, and then scattered and returned to the north.
Due to the large size of Zong Ze's chariot and the difficulty of running, the Song army had a hard time pushing and driving, and once it encountered such a hasty situation, the Song army had to abandon it and flee alone.
This happened to provide convenience for the officers and men of the cadre army, who used these chariots to load all kinds of trophies and triumphed happily.
Zhao Go, who was still in Jeju, heard that Zong Ze was defeated, so he smiled and said to the left and right: "I see that Ze's chariot is not applicable, and it is in vain to waste materials, Ze does not listen, and now it is the enemy." However, soon Zhao Gou couldn't laugh, because the news that Fan Zhixu, who he had high hopes for, was also defeated by the cadres came back.
Fan Zhixu's defeat is not only the loss of the 200,000 Western Army of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, but also the Song army of Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, Wang Xiang and other troops who were suppressed by Fan Zhixu before, will definitely not listen to Zhao Gou's dispatch again.
Geng Nanzhong and Wang Boyan hurriedly brought up the old matter and suggested that Zhao Gou make a detour to Hebei to Huaiyang. A day later, the generals of the Jeju garrison had already begun to study the plan of how to break through the blockade of the cadres and go to Shaanxi in the future.
Two days later, the vanguard army and baggage had already begun to move to Puzhou. It can be seen that Zhao Gou has already made up his mind to flee to Shaanxi, even if many Song soldiers have different views on going to Shaanxi, they ask: "Why not return to Beijing and take a detour?" Although he was seriously questioned by the soldiers, Zhao Gou saw that the 200,000 Western Army he had high hopes for were defeated by 3,000 cadres, and Zhao Gou finally fully awakened to Zhao Ranran.
At this time, what parents, what wives and concubines, what daughters, who they love, no one is as important as me Zhao Ranran, and I Zhao Ranran is desperate to run for my life.................. Ask for a commuter pass!