Rambovan's army has begun to confront the enemy, and the protagonist is thinking of a strategy to quickly break the situation that may become a war of attrition.
In a war, if opponents with similar strength directly confront each other head-on, the party with superior hard power will eventually win, but both the winner and the loser will have to pay a heavy price.
Therefore, military strategists throughout human history have pursued a more cost-effective victory and avoided attrition as much as possible through surprise attacks, sneak attacks, or weakening the enemy's war potential.
However, if both sides in the war do not make major strategic mistakes and do not give their opponents opportunities to take advantage of them, they will eventually return to a situation of fighting for national strength and attrition. This is a dead end.
For example, the Mongolian war to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty ended up being a war of attrition. The Southern Song Dynasty won two defensive battles, but its national strength and war potential were greatly weakened, and it was eventually destroyed.
The first Mongolian attack on the Song Dynasty was in the autumn of the second year of Duanping (1235). More than 300,000 Mongolian troops were prepared to attack in two groups. The West Route Army was led by Kuoduan, the second son of Wo Kuotai, and went straight to Sichuan; the East Route Army was led by Qu Chu, the third son of Wo Kuotai, and mainly attacked Jingxiang; and Zong Wangkou Wen Buhua led a partial division to attack Lianghuai.
At the beginning, the war in the Southern Song Dynasty was quite unfavorable. The internal fighting in the Southern Song Dynasty court resulted in a serious shortage of troops on the Sichuan front. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Cao Youwen, the commander of the military and horse capital stationed in the Imperial Prefecture, had to face the Mongolian army of 130,000 troops with only 20,000 field troops in Sichuan. However, Cao Youwen commanded it well and defeated the Mongolian army eight times in a row, and once drove it back. , but could not annihilate them all.
In the autumn of the third year of Duanping (1236), the Mongolian army invaded again. Cao Youwen stationed troops at Xianren Pass, but was forced by his superior Zhao Yanna to go out to fight in the field. As a result, Cao Youwen's entire army was annihilated, and Sichuan no longer had any soldiers to fight. The Mongolian army was everywhere. Copying and arson are said to have resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.
In February of the same year, the Northern Army in Xiangyang of the Southern Song Dynasty rebelled and was captured by the Mongolian Eastern Route Army. The Jinghu area was opened wide. The Mongolian army successively captured Suizhou, Jingmen Army, and Yingzhou, and advanced to Jiangling Prefecture (today's Jingzhou, Hubei Province). At this critical moment, Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty urgently mobilized Meng Gong to rush for reinforcements. Meng Gong lived up to expectations and defended tightly, finally forcing the Mongolian Eastern Route Army to retreat.
Later, the Song Army supported Sichuan and attacked the Mongolian West Route Army with the Jinzhou Dutong Division that had not yet fallen. In addition, the existence of Jinzhou Dutong Division threatened the Mongolian army's retreat, and the West Route Army had to retreat.
The first Mongolian attack on the Song Dynasty seemed to be in vain, but the destruction of the western Sichuan states had extremely serious consequences. Originally, Sichuan's balance of payments was roughly balanced. After the war, western Sichuan was devastated and lost most of its tax revenue. The defense of eastern Sichuan put great pressure on the central finance, so much so that the court had a fierce debate on whether to abandon eastern Sichuan.
Mongolia attacked the Song Dynasty for the second time in June of the eleventh year of Chunyou (1251). Meng Ge succeeded to the throne and began to adjust the strategy of fighting the Song Dynasty. On the one hand, they stationed fields and built forts on the border between Song and Mongolia to prepare for a large-scale and long-term war; on the other hand, in order to avoid another setback in the Huaihe and Huaihe regions, they drew on the old wisdom of Mongolia's "borrowing road" to destroy gold, and ordered Kubi to Lie and Wu Liang joined forces to attack Dali, trying to penetrate deep into the Southern Song Dynasty along Guangxi and Hunan, and implement the "helping strategy" to attack the Southern Song Dynasty from a pinch.
The Southern Song Dynasty dispatched troops to attack and prevent Mongolia from building cities. At the same time, they also strengthened the city building on the border. At the same time, the Southern Song Dynasty also speculated based on Mongolia's military operations against Tubo and Dali that Mongolia might choose to attack from a detour. Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty sent Li Zengbo to Guangxi to rectify armaments, and contacted Yang Wenjun, the chieftain of Bozhou, to cross the snowy mountains and defeat the Mongolian army in Tubo, destroying Mongolia as much as possible. The "good office plan".
In the autumn of the third year of Baoyou's reign (1255), Wu Lianghetai led the Mongolian army to invade Sichuan from Yunnan, and joined two other Mongolian armies in Hezhou with the intention of uprooting Diaoyu City, but failed and retreated.
In the spring of the fifth year of Baoyou (1257), Meng Ge officially launched a war. On the one hand, Meng Ge attacked Sichuan with an absolutely superior force and besieged Diaoyu City, and successfully mobilized Lu Wende to come for the main decisive battle. On the other hand, Tachaer led the Eastern Route Army to attack Xiangfan, but could not hold off for a long time and had to retreat, so Meng Ge changed Kublai Khan to be the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army.
Kublai Khan chose to bypass Xiangfan and use Ezhou as the main target of attack, and agreed with Wu Lianghetai to join forces in Tanzhou. Li Zengbo was very gentle in defeat, and the Tanzhou defenders held on for more than a month. Jia Sidao, who was guarding Ezhou, resisted resolutely with tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers, resisting multiple attacks by the Mongolian army, and defended Ezhou for several months.
In the summer of the first year of Kaiqing (1259), the Mongolian army had been suppressing troops for a long time, and diseases were prevalent in the army. Meng Ge also died in the army (one said he died from the artillery stone of the Song army), and the West Route Army had to retreat. Kublai Khan He had no choice but to lead the Eastern Route Army to withdraw.
After the war, Jia Sidao was promoted to Shaofu and Right Prime Minister for his role in "rebuilding the royal family", which started his career as a powerful official in the Southern Song Dynasty and paved the way for the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The first two wars caused great damage to the economy and finance of the Southern Song Dynasty. In order to solve the financial crisis, Jia Sidao carried out a series of reforms. Judging from the final effect, the reform brought in a lot of money from the private sector and temporarily solved the problem of shortages of fiscal revenue and military rations. However, Jia Sidao also took advantage of the reform to eliminate dissidents. An important measure in this reform is called the "Plan Law", which is to strictly audit fiscal expenditures and recover illegal expenditures. As a result, veteran generals such as Cao Shixiong, Xiang Shibi, and Wang Jian (the defender of Diaoyu City) who were at odds with Jia Sidao suffered heavy blows, and some even lost their lives.
At the same time, Sichuan Zhizhi envoy Yu Xing also wanted to use the "planning method" to kill Liu Zheng, the deputy envoy who knew Luzhou and Tongchuan Road to appease him. Liu Zheng surrendered to Mongolia and offered his strategy of destroying the Song Dynasty by attacking Xiangfan.
In September of the fourth year of Xianchun (1268), the Mongolian army besieged Xiangyang, intending to cut off the east-west connection between the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the third Song-Mongolia War.
The Southern Song Dynasty sent troops to rescue Xiangyang many times, but failed due to internal strife.
In the first month of the sixth year of Xianchun (1273), Fancheng fell. Soon, Lu Wenhuan, who had no hope of breaking out, chose Kaicheng to surrender. After Lu Wenhuan surrendered, he recruited old friends all the way, which greatly damaged the national defense of the Southern Song Dynasty and accelerated the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be said that from the moment Lu Wenhuan surrendered, the Southern Song Dynasty was basically doomed.
In the end, Jia Sidao was forced to lead the army to fight, but the people's hearts had dispersed. In the Battle of Dingjiazhou, the Song army had no elite soldiers and good generals, but it collapsed at the first touch.
Some people believe that the fall of Xiangyang was the cause of the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, but in the first Mongolian-Song War, Xiangyang fell, and it did not lead to bad consequences. The final demise of Mongolia in the Southern Song Dynasty was largely due to the Southern Song Dynasty's own internal strife. It was also largely due to the fact that the war was carried out on the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty for a long time, which ultimately weakened the Southern Song Dynasty's war potential.
The victor, Mongolia, also suffered heavy losses, which led to the surrender of the Han warlords, which paved the way for their expulsion from the Central Plains decades later.
What the protagonist needs to avoid is this kind of lose-lose battle situation in which the ant queen's inheritance faction competes with the equal strength.
