There is one more update, it will be in the early morning of tomorrow
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Under the red helmets, there are two thousand Yulin cavalry and 1,600 Tiance cavalry who are well-equipped and have high morale. All of them have one person and two horses, surrounded by Zhao Kai, the emperor of Chang'an in the Song Dynasty, on the official road by the Yishui River. A torrent of cavalry formed, roaring southward!
This torrent of cavalry will affect the entire Central Plains battlefield and will also dominate the ups and downs of the world!
Zhao Kai, who was confident that he was the chosen one and acted fearlessly, had only led his troops out of Kaifeng Mansion for more than a year and had already experienced many battles. Now he had grown from a brave general to a general with a strategic vision.
In fact, he felt that he had always had a strategic vision, otherwise he would have taken over the throne from Zhao Ji in Kaifeng Mansion at the end of the year before last. If Zhao Ji runs away, he will have to defend the city against the flood in Kaifeng Mansion...
The reason why he took the risk to go south this time was also due to strategic considerations. He knew very well that the battle that was about to begin would determine the survival of the Song Dynasty he had reopened!
If we lose this battle, the reopening of the Song Dynasty, the military meritorious service, the Imperial Knights, the New Guanlong Group... all will become nothing and empty talk!
And if you want to win...or even get a draw, you have to go all out and show off your energy!
If Zhao Huan hadn't given Wanyan Zonghan three million shicaomi, Zhao Kai wouldn't have had to fight so hard. Just guard the front line of Kaifeng Mansion-Guangwu Mountain and consume military rations.
But now it’s no longer possible, I can’t afford it anymore, so I can only do my best!
Thinking that Zhao Huan, the "rebellious brother", had gotten into trouble, Zhao Kai had the urge to personally command the army and fight against the enemy.
But if he wants to win the watch, he must first fight off the gold thieves in the Central Plains!
So he has to fight hard in the Central Plains!
The five armies of Tiance Army, the two armies on Gyeonggi Road, and Li Bao's navy gathered in the Guangwu Mountain area were only about 60% of Zhao Kai's total strength on the Zhongzhou battlefield.
Even if Guangwu Mountain is sacrificed, at most five armies can be dispatched south to Dengfeng... Even if all the troops are dispatched, it is only 50,000, and even if the minzhuang who serve as auxiliary troops are included, it will not be enough. There will be more than 80,000 people.
This number of people alone is not enough! Need to add people!
The number of Jurchens in the Southern Route Army is likely to reach 80,000... This is only the number of regular soldiers. Add in the number of Ali Xi and the traitor servants, and it can easily reach more than a dozen Two hundred thousand!
Even if some were left to look after the family, the troops brought to the Zhongzhou front line by Wanyan Zonghan would not be less than 120,000 (including Ali Xi and the traitor lackeys)!
If we can't deal with them by consuming military rations, then we have to add more people!
Therefore, Zhao Kai must combine Luoyang's Tiance Central Army, Quduan's Jingyuan Front Army, Miao Fu's Huanqing Front Army, Li Yongqi's Yanyan Front Army, and his own Yulin Cavalry...and The Minzhuang and Xiang armies that can be mobilized by Yingchang Mansion, Caizhou, Tangzhou, Dengzhou, Ruzhou and other frontline state capitals, as well as the former Song Dynasty Forbidden Army that has now been reduced to local troops, are all mobilized!
In the decisive battle, there are not too many people! Even if we use cannon fodder and human lives to achieve a victory, no, a tragic draw... it is still better than failure!
Because a tragic draw meant a large number of casualties among soldiers on both sides... although it was also difficult to replenish the soldiers.
But it’s easier than the Great Jin Kingdom to replenish the Jurchens, right?
So Zhao Kai risked his life again... Speaking of which, he is a chosen man, a great military strategist, a great poet, a great painter, and a great calligrapher (his poetry, calligraphy and painting are really good), why can't he How about the kind of strategizing and decisive victory in a thousand-mile battle?
Why are you always in the cycle of working hard, preparing to work hard, and taking a break after working hard?
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai could only lament the misfortune of his life. After all, in order to effectively command the assembled army on the southern front, he, as an official, had to take the lead!
Otherwise, forget about Qu Duan being a thorn in the side. Even if Qu Duan himself becomes the general on the southern front, will Li Yongqi, Miao Fu and Wang Yuan listen to him?
Totally impossible!
Qu Duan is different from Han Shizhong on the Northern Front battlefield. Han Shizhong is recognized as the second brother Han! And since the Battle of Wei County, he has been Zhao Kai's support for the Great Wall... All the battles commanded by Zhao Kai were actually commanded by him.
Among Zhao Kai's core group, Han Shizhong's prestige was extremely high, enough to command Tiance's armies.
Therefore, Zhao Kai did not need to stay in Guangwu Mountain. He could go south and lead Qu Duan, Li Yongqi, Miao Fu, Wang Yuan and other troops to fight.
Of course, he is not the one who is actually in charge.
He, the chosen one, is a master of hard work. Over there, this patchwork army will have the backbone.
As for the specific command... Yue Fei and Dong Jingang have already come with their respective staffs!
Although Yue Fei is only 24 years old this year, he has already shown the style of a general in every aspect. At least his level of military management is unmatched by anyone in Zhao Kai's camp. Under his training, the Tiance Selection Vanguard Army, which numbered over 10,000, had become very sharp, even more powerful than when Han Shizhong was the commander of the Tiance Selection Vanguard Army.
This time Zhao Kai asked Han Shizhong to personally command his old army to select the vanguard, and then asked Yue Fei to take his 800 cavalry to follow him south.
As for Dong Jingang, although he did not leave a big enough reputation in history, his level of using cavalry was extremely high!
Especially after Zhao Kai took control of Chang'an, most of the good brothers such as Han Shizhong, Li Xiaozhong, Zhang Jun, and Yue Fei sent foreign missions, leaving only Dong Jingang alone with Zhao Kai. So Zhao Kai took out the cavalry group charge tactics he learned from "Total War" and exchanged them with Dong Jingang and Guo Tiannu... The three of them worked together to create eight hundred cavalry, and they all chose With a good horse and intensive training for several months, he was able to carry out a dozen wall charges and group charges.
Of course, there is no way to compare it with modern Western cavalry, it just looks a little interesting.
This time Zhao Kai also asked Dong Jingang to hand over the imperial tent army to Huang Wuji's command, and then brought the 800 cavalry with him.
In addition to the 1,600 cavalry led by Yue Fei and Dong Jingang, Zhao Kai also brought his Yulin cavalry, which is the 2,000 cavalry of the "Uncle Lang Cavalry"... These 3,600 cavalry are Like a whirlwind, it left Guangwu Mountain and passed through Gongyi, Luoyang, Yichuan and Liang County. It traveled 300 miles in three days and finally arrived at Ruzhou Prefecture Liang County on the first day of March in the first year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty.
A large camp in Quduan was located on the south bank of Ru River in Liang County.
The scale of Quduan's camp is very large. Currently stationed here are not only more than 10,000 Jingyuan former troops, but also thousands of Ruzhou Township troops, as well as troops from Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Caizhou, and Ruzhou. The 40,000 people and 20,000 mules, horses and carts collected from the state - Qu Duan's main task now is to transport grain. The king of Xiangyang, Zhao Shuxiang, has collected hundreds of large ships on the Han River, and they are transporting them to Nanyang in waves. rice. Those big ships are all big ships with hundreds or even thousands of materials. One ship can transport hundreds of thousands of stones, and a trip of hundreds of ships can cost at least 300,000 stones!
But to transport these 300,000 stones to Henan Prefecture (originally it was transported to Liang County in Ruzhou, a distance of 250 miles. Then Henan Prefecture and Ruzhou organized people and vehicles to transport them to Guangwu Mountain), it would take 20,000 stones. The big car ran twice! Moreover, the 250-mile journey takes at least 5 days, and the round trip takes 8 days (5 days to go, 3 days to return)... The consumption on the way is not small!
Deng and Ru Prefectures, as well as Henan Prefecture, not only have to provide civilians and vehicles, but also provide feed for the animals pulling the carts!
Qu Duan, Wang Yuan, who was stationed in Henan Prefecture, and Zhao Ding, who knew Ruzhou, had to try their best to arrange these things.
So Qu Duan's head is not that big now!
The starting point of the grain transportation task he was responsible for was naturally in Nanyang, the capital county of Dengzhou, and the end point was the Rushui Camp on the south bank of the Rushui River.
Therefore, Qu Duan is now in the Rushui camp, which means that he has just led his army to transport more than 100,000 shi of grain and other supplies that were brought along with the grain to the Rushui camp.
Now the people below are counting and handing over, while he is drinking tea in the camp with Zhao Ding, who knows Ruzhou affairs. Zhao Ding and Qu Duan are about the same age, both in their early teens.
However, the former is a dignified Jinshi, short and fat, with a cheeky face, and he is very knowledgeable at first glance. He won the title in the sixth year of Chongning, but his official luck was not good and his official career was wasted. He spent twenty years before becoming a general judge of Henan Prefecture. Later, he joined a group of officials from Henan Prefecture and voted for Zhao Kai. He was promoted to one level and became the magistrate of Ruzhou. As soon as he took office, a lot of troubles came to his door.
First, organize the army, suppress bandits...and recruit troops! After the gold thieves surrounded Kaifeng Mansion, many "heroes" saw that "the Song Dynasty was about to end", and they all geared up and wanted to come out to fight with them!
However, most of the people who were not good at craftsmanship were killed, and those who were quick to see the opportunity were recruited and mixed up.
There are also some who are lucky enough to kill an official to occupy the land and become a powerful person!
And Zhao Ding was lucky. He found an outstanding person in Ruzhou... A very impressive person named Niu Gao. He was a leader of the rebel army. He pulled up a team of several hundred people and wanted to go. He rescued Song Zhuangzong, but Zhuangzong failed to hold on and died.
This Niu Gao led his men to do some good things in Ruzhou to protect the people and collect some fees. As a result, he attracted the attention of Zhao Ding, who issued him an official license and asked him to recruit or eliminate his colleagues. After working hard for several months, not only did Ruzhou become peaceful, but there were also thousands of rural soldiers, and they were quite elite!
I have to say that this Niu Gao is very capable.
But Zhao Ding will not tell Zhao Kai - otherwise Niu Gao will be sent to Zhao Kai!
Could Zhao Kai not know about Niu Gao? Do you know where he is?
After finishing the territory, Zhao Ding, like Qu Duan, was worried about transporting grain and setting up defenses in Ruzhou to resist gold.
At this moment, the two of them got together and had a headache together. Niu Gao's loud voice suddenly sounded outside the camp: "It's not good, it's not good, the desperate officials are coming... Our Ruzhou is going to Let’s start a big battle!”
