When Shen Yu, Zheng Lue, and Zhu Chen captured Linqiu City and captured the seriously injured Qin Zhendong General Wang Xiu alive, a thousand fine cavalry led by Xu Zongwen and Xi Jian marched covertly from the southern foot of Taihang Mountain. After a day and night of March quickly, pass through Hanoi County, bypass Xiuwu and Gong County, cross Qingshui and Qishui, and go straight to Dangyin City!
It is hard to imagine that Xu Zongwen completed the march route that was more than 300 miles long and nearly 400 miles away in one day and one night!
It turned out that when the army was passing through Jijun and Gongxian, Xu Zongwen met a woodcutter. Xu Zongwen spent two slings of money and learned from the woodcutter a convenient route that could greatly shorten the journey to Dangyin. It only took four hours on a fast horse. Then you can reach the territory of Dangyin!
"Mr. Auxiliary Machine, have they arrived?" Xu Zongwen reined in the horse's head and ordered the troops to continue moving forward.
The commander of the Jinyi Guards, Pang Baize, stepped forward, immediately clasped his fists and replied: "Back to the general, Mr. Pei has disembarked from the boat and is meeting us in our direction."
That's good, this is quite punctual.
During the more than half a year of uninterrupted and continuous operations by Xu's men and horses, the battalions have established a tacit understanding of cooperation.
Thanks to Xu Zongwen's long-term militarized training of the sergeants in Pengcheng and Linzi, as well as the experience learned in combat, facts have proved that whether Xu's battalions are divided into divisions or coordinated operations, or large units are broken into parts During the emergency march, the cooperation between the battalions can be seamless and closely connected.
Even a modern army can achieve such high efficiency and high-speed close cooperation only by relying on vehicles, trains and other mechanized transportation methods!
In a real society like the Jin Dynasty with extremely backward transportation in ancient times, it often took months, months or even half a year to assemble the army.
In "The Art of War", Sun Tzu writes:
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], the equipment will be completed after three months, and it will be completed after another three months.
This means that it will take at least three months to make large shields and four-wheeled vehicles, and prepare all the equipment for siege.
It will take at least another three months to build up the mountains of earth for siege.
Assembling an army took time, as did building siege equipment and preparing for the siege.
The war pattern of the Han people for thousands of years has been to accumulate food and grass, build ordnance, and then assemble the army to start fighting. They promised not to fight an unprepared battle. In fact, the shortcomings are also obvious. It is easy to leak information during the preparation period.
The Hu people are different. They have no logistical burdens. They feed on the enemy's territory and use the enemy's food and grass to enrich themselves. Everything they need is obtained from the enemy.
The Hu cavalry came and went like the wind, and their mobile warfare was a very big threat to the Han people who were stationed in the city and could not move!
Xu Zongwen's attack on Dangyin this time was to use the traditional combat mode of the Han people combined with the advantages of the Hu people's mobile warfare. He used boats to transport grain, grass and ordnance, and the cavalry concealed their whereabouts and rushed in quickly!
"Order the brothers to speed up and join forces as early as possible." Xu Zongwen ordered.
"No!" Pang Bai clapped his horse and left, conveying the military order.
Soon, the frequency of the hoofbeats of a thousand fine cavalry increased a lot. In the dark night, this cavalry unit headed south along the river...
On the old route of the Yellow River, Pei Qing changed the opportunity to disembark at Jijin because Chaoge and Fangtou were too close to Jijin. Disembarking at Jijin was equivalent to disembarking under the nose of Yan Jun. He would definitely be discovered!
Pei Qing ordered his troops to continue going north, choose the most inconspicuous ferry to disembark in the middle section between the north of Liyang and the south of Puyang, and then transport grain and rush to Dangyin. At this time, the distance to Dangyin was less than forty miles.
At dawn, Xu Zongwen and Pei Qing's water and land armies met outside Dangyin City.
"General, Lan Han, uncle of King Murong Chui of Yan, is stationed at Dangyin. There are only 5,000 defenders. But we do not carry large siege equipment. If we attack by force, the casualties will be huge and the gain will not be worth the loss!" Pei Qing will gather the information. Tell Xu Zongwen.
Lan Han, the third brother of Murong Chui's mother, was Murong Chui's biological uncle. He had always had a good relationship with Murong Bao. Historically, after Murong Chui's death, it was Lan Han who strongly supported Murong Bao to sit on the throne of King Yan.
Of course Xu Zongwen knew the relationship between Lan Han and Murong Bao. He ordered people to bring the captured Murong Bao, "My General Murong, if I tie you to a chariot and push you to the foot of Dangyin City, what do you think about your uncle?" How does the guild do it?”
When he heard that Xu Zongwen was going to use him to attack the city, Murong Bao panicked. He panicked in his heart!
"General, please spare my life! As long as we get to Yecheng, no matter what conditions you put forward, my father will agree to it. Why bother?"
"What if my uncle accidentally kills me, wouldn't you suffer a big loss?"
"General, do you want to stop thinking about it?"
Murong Bao tried hard to persuade Xu Zongwen not to push him to Dangyin City as a hostage or cannon fodder.
"I'm thinking about you, uncle! Are you farting if you become my general? You have to go even if my general asks you to go, and you have to go even if you don't!"
Unexpectedly, Xu Zongwen's attitude was very decisive, his eyes widened with anger, and Murong Bao was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head.
Tian Luo, Zhang Gui, and the four brothers Zhang, San and Zhang looked at each other and smiled. They all felt that Xu Zongwen was domineering and worthy of being the boss, and he left no room for threats.
Murong Bao gave up persuading Xu Zongwen, and he was immediately tied up by brothers Zhang, Zhang, and Zhang onto the only existing chariot of the Jin army that was transported by waterway and boat.
"Do you want to ride up to Dangyin City on horseback?" Xu Zongwen asked everyone for no reason as Murong Bao was being taken away.
Running on the tower?
This is not a horse, but a Pegasus, right?
The imagination is free.
The generals looked at me and I looked at you, big eyes and small eyes, and small eyes. No one knew what kind of medicine Xu Zongwen was selling in the gourd.
Pei Qing and Xi Jian both shook their heads, wondering what Xu Zongwen meant.
Xu Zongwen asked Pei Qing: "Do you still remember that the auxiliary machine asked you to carry sandbags when I was in Xingyang?"
"My subordinates remember."
"How many did you bring?"
"Fifty thousand."
"I wonder what the general is going to do?"
Before dividing the troops at the old Yellow River route in Xingyang, Xu Zongwen did ask Pei Qing to prepare sacks, the more the better.
At that time, Pei Qing didn't understand what he meant, so he could only do it. Now, Pei Qing still doesn't understand what Xu Zongwen meant.
Seeing the confused expressions on everyone's faces, Xu Zongwen felt very superior. He pointed at Dangyin City in the distance and said slowly: "There is a lot of sediment near the Yellow River. If we move this sediment to Dangyin City, even If they are piled up to the same height as the city wall, wouldn't our fine cavalry be able to directly attack the city? If this is really possible, can a small Dangyin City stop us?"
"Hiss—" Everyone gasped!
Is there such an operation?
Can you still attack the city like this?
Xi Jian recalled the sacks that Xu Zongwen mentioned just now. It was now clear. It seemed that Xu Zongwen wanted to use these sacks to transport the Yellow River sediment, and then pile them up into a mountain under Dangyin City, so that the Jin army's elite cavalry could ignore the Dangyin wall and directly attack the city. Urge your horse to charge up the city wall and capture Dangyin City in one fell swoop!
