Chapter 552: Deserving to be besieged
Reinforcements from the Liao State came.
That's 50,000 people.
Listening to the news from Meiyang on the inside line, these 50,000 people are not all of the Liao Kingdom, but because winter is coming, 50,000 people will be sent first. And once the New Year passes, after the weather warms up, the Liao State will send a large army to come.
Not only that, the Liao State has already sent people to Mongolia, and it seems that they want to unite with Mongolia to fight again.
This time, the three clans joined forces, and none of them took much advantage, which made the Liao State begin to be wary of the Great Song Dynasty.
The Liao State was very worried, once the Western Xia and the Mongolian people did not make trouble with the Great Song Dynasty, if the Great Song Dynasty wanted to find trouble with the Liao State, with their own knowledge, could they stop it?
It's only been how many years since the Great Song Dynasty fought, why is the Great Song so strong that they don't know each other?
In order to solve this trouble, the Liao State moved to kill.
Even if he can't destroy the Great Song, he will be severely injured, so that he has no ability to threaten himself.
Su Shi, who got the news, also had the mind of hitting the Liao people hard.
Whether it is a Xixia wolf or a barbarian, although their combat power is not weak, in the final analysis, the background is still a little worse.
They have a small population, little territory, and lack of materials, and if they want to fight a long-term war of attrition with the Great Song Dynasty, they can't do it.
In contrast, Liaogou is different.
Compared to the territory, they are not much worse than the Great Song Dynasty, and after developing over the years, the population is also growing, if you have to say that there is a threat, Su Shi believes that their threat is the greatest.
The ancients said that the side of the couch would not allow others to snore.
Just as the Liao people felt that the Great Song Dynasty was a threat, Su Shi also thought that the Khitan Liao State was a threat.
For the threat, Su Shi has only one way, that is, to eliminate him and make it difficult for him to become a threat.
Although Su Shi knew very well that with his current ability, as well as the thoughts of those officials and lords in the Great Song Dynasty, it was impossible to really destroy the Liao State, but it was always possible to hit them hard.
As long as the Liao State is hit hard now, they will not be able to find trouble in the Great Song Dynasty. Even if you can fight for ten years. At that time, His Royal Highness King Jing had grown up.
Once King Jing gains power, he can support himself to destroy Liao, follow the destruction of Xia and Song, and finally unify this land, which is possible.
After carefully analyzing the situation, there was more than 20 days of waiting.
Su Shi was waiting, waiting for the 50,000 Liao troops to enter the northern border of the Great Song Dynasty before he would make a move.
Of these 50,000 people, Su Shi is not going to let them go back.
Su Shi wanted to use this battle to tell the Liao people that if they wanted to come to the Great Song Dynasty for trouble, they should be prepared to lose their troops and generals.
Once the Liao people suffered too hard in the Song land, Su Shi wanted to see how many reinforcements they could send who were not afraid of death.
In more than 20 days, 50,000 Liao soldiers entered the country.
And has come to the rear of the place where Su Shi is located, that is, around the Wutai area.
After the arrival of 50,000 reinforcements from the Liao, they did not immediately attack, but just surrounded all four sides, as if to say, if they want to besiege Su Shi here, they also want to see what the Su Shi army hidden in the mountains will eat and drink without any support.
In fact, Su Shi's department, eating and drinking is naturally not worried.
Not only that, but they eat and drink far better than everyone else.
Just when the Liao people were thinking about trapping Su Shi to death, he had already begun to plan how to hit these alien races hard.
Su Shi first analyzed the distribution of the enemy's forces.
40,000 infantry.
Di Qing's cavalry was 40,000.
Wang Xin's department had 12,000 cavalry. (During the breakout battle, a large number of Liao and Western Xia war horses were captured)
5,000 black cavalry and 6,000 vanguard troops, all cavalry.
The Western Xia army of 120,000, including 100,000 cavalry.
The Liao army was 130,000, including 50,000 cavalry.
The 50,000 reinforcements that the Liao army had just arrived, all of them infantry, were assembling in the Wutai area at this time.
Su Shishou also had an army of 60,000, all cavalry.
The result was 130,000 Liao, 120,000 in Western Xia, and 150,000 in Song.
Taking it out alone, the Song army can deal with any clan, but if you want to deal with both clans at the same time, you can't catch it.
The decisive battle is still not timely, at least in terms of troops, there is no advantage, so Su Shi made the decision to fight a local battle.
Isn't your Liao army able to send reinforcements?
Then, Lao Tzu is your reinforcements.
Su Shi's eyes fell on the 50,000 Liao army reinforcements who had just arrived in the northern border of the Great Song Dynasty and were concentrating on the Wutai region and had an unstable foothold.
These 50,000 Liao troops, all infantry, lacked sufficient mobility, and were the most suitable targets for attack.
Once the 50,000 Liao troops are wiped out, or severely damaged, it can play a good role in warning foreign races, and let the Liao army know that if reinforcements are sent to the Great Song Dynasty again, they will probably face difficulties and problems.
The news from Meiyang is that the high-level leaders of the Liao State are not united.
Just like in the court of the Great Song Dynasty, there are also people in the upper echelons of the Liao State who do not support the war with the Great Song Dynasty now.
Sending 50,000 reinforcements this time is just a temptation, once they gain a firm foothold and let them see the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the Song army, then the main battle faction will gain the upper hand, and in the spring after the New Year, the Liao army may send more reinforcements to the battlefield.
On the contrary, if the Liao army is hit hard at this stage, whether the main battle faction can still gain the upper hand depends on two words.
"Hehe, the feelings are not only for the Song people, but also for you Liao people, very good, very good." Su Shi had a smile on his face, and he already had a formed plan in his heart for the next battle strategy.
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Chitang Pass.
After waiting for nearly a month, Jizhu finally got Su Shi's new combat order.
Ji Zhu, who was excited, found Bao Zheng, and then he was promoted to discuss the account. In front of several commanders, Ji Zhu trayed out Su Shi's plan.
"General Chungmu means that we will send it out tonight, and the troops will be divided into three ways."
"The first way, go straight to the west, and put on the appearance that you are going to march towards Xianzhou Jingle City, so as to mobilize the enemy army."
"The second way, looking for an opportunity to go straight to Xincheng and relieve its siege."
"The third way, taking advantage of the night to sneak out, target Xinkou Village, appeared behind the Liao army, so that it could not care for each other, and created enough time and opportunity for General Zhongwu to send troops to annihilate the 50,000 Liao troops in the Wutai region."
"The first and second routes are imaginary, intended to mobilize alien forces and cover for the attack of the third army."
After saying this, Ji Zhu took the initiative to say again, "As the main force, our black cavalry is a member of the Third Route Army."
"We, the Vanguard, have joined the Third Army." Yang Wenguang followed closely and said.
I can finally meet Su Shi, it's delicious, I'm here.
Yang Wenguang was a little excited at this meeting.
"Otherwise, I'll go to the Third Route Army too?" Di Qing looked at the others and asked tentatively.
"Then I'll go to the Second Army." Wang Xin did not go to rob with everyone. He originally wanted to rescue Xincheng, but now that he has the opportunity, he really wants to give it a try.
"Okay, then my people will go to the First Army." Bao Zheng saw that everyone had their own choices, and when only the first army was left, he thought about it and made a decision.
The three-way army, which seems to be the first-way army, is safer.
Just to mobilize the enemy and contain the enemy, rather than necessarily engaging the enemy, this is also more suitable for the 40,000 infantry in Bao Zheng's hands.
Everyone had a choice, and Ji Zhu stood up again and emphasized three points.
"First, in order to better mobilize the alien races outside the pass, Bao Zheng's 40,000 infantry can be considered to become cavalry, so that the speed can be accelerated. Of course, there are not so many war horses now, but it doesn't matter, there are some redundant in each army, and some can be contributed, plus there are some old horses in the customs that can also be used, although the speed is not so fast, but it is just an escape, not a battle, and it is not a big problem."
"Second, after Su Shihui destroyed the 50,000 reinforcements of the Liao Kingdom, he turned back to the battlefield and put pressure on the alien race, and the 40,000 reinforcements of the first route will seize the opportunity, turn around and retreat, and return to Chitang Pass. This is the right time to grasp it, and we must not delay it."
"When the time comes, because someone is too slow, they are blocked from Chitang Pass, and they are caught up by foreign races, then don't blame others."
"The third and most important point is to listen to orders on the battlefield. In particular, the two road armies, which are feints with the enemy, must not be faked or really entangled with the enemy."
Although Ji Zhu did not name the third point, he was talking about Wang Xin.
Wang Xin succeeded in breaking through, but he threw Wang Deyong in Xincheng, which made him feel a deep sense of guilt.
Whenever there is an opportunity, he always wants to be able to make up for it.
But all this, in Su Shi's opinion, is completely unnecessary.
First, the reason for this result is that Wang De used the first faint trick first.
Second, when he broke through, Wang Xin called Wang Deyong, but he didn't make the trip.
Third, when the siege broke out that night, if Wang De dared to fight hard, with the 20,000 Song troops in the city, plus Wang Miao's 4,000 dragon guards, he might not be able to break out of the encirclement and regain his life.
But all the opportunities were in front of him, and Wang Deyong didn't fight for them.
He was like a fattened dead pig, waiting in Xincheng, waiting for others to save him, waiting for others to drive away all the aliens outside the city.
is so passive, Wang Deyong deserves to be surrounded.
It can be said that everything is Wang De's own fault, and he has the current result, no one is to blame.
It is said that Su Shi's analysis is the most correct, and it can be said that most people think like this. But now Wang Xin is drilling into the tip of the horns, so there is no way.
This time Wang Deyong received the task of the Second Route Army again, and Ji Zhu was worried that he would ignore the order and really go to relieve the siege of Xincheng, so he deliberately advised.
After saying what should have been said, Jiju stepped aside. He knew very well that the people here were all higher than him in terms of official rank, and he just had the right to speak because he was now Su Shi's spokesperson.