"Living girl, what did you say?"
"Prince Ning, I will tell you that the king of Fu will tell you that the short fortress of the Song Dynasty was specially built for the battle of bombardment. It seems to be cutting corners, but in fact it hides a secret. It can avoid bullets when defending, and it can inflict damage on the enemy's front and back when attacking. Tubes. As long as dozens of tubes can be placed on the short fort, it will be solid. Even if the attackers fight through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, they will not be able to break through. King Fu believed that the short fort was a bait for the Song army. It is just to draw out our army. After drawing out our army, there will definitely be follow-up moves! So he asked His Highness Prince Ning to withdraw his troops quickly!"
"Withdraw your troops quickly? Damn girl, are you so damn blind? Open your eyes for the lonely king and see... Can the lonely king withdraw your troops quickly? Wanyan Xiebao is a bastard!"
Wanyan Huonu, who was riding on the horse, followed the direction of Wanyan Zongbi's finger and looked towards the plain to the west. She saw countless red scarf Song troops arranging their troops about two or three miles away!
Vaguely, Wan Yanhuo Nu also saw six large black banners, which were the six emperor banners of the Song Dynasty official family.
Liu Hu's presence on the battlefield indicates that Zhao Kai, an official of the Song Dynasty, has arrived at the front line!
The siege and reinforcement plan formulated by Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Xiebao seems to have achieved partial "success", at least half of it!
The city is under siege, and help is coming!
But Wanyan Xiebao couldn't chew down the city that was under siege!
As for the reinforcements led by Zhao Kai personally... Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Xiebao originally planned to defeat them in one fell swoop.
If they had this ability, how could they let the Song army be driven to the Yuguan and Shanhaikou areas?
This is how they fought for reinforcements: first besiege the city, then recruit reinforcements, and at the same time place an iron barrel array on the only way for the reinforcements to pass, and then let the Song army's reinforcements fight by themselves. In the end, the siege was captured or partially captured, and the reinforcements were severely damaged in the defense.
After repeated discussions, Zong Bi and Xie Bao believed that there would be three situations in the "Battle of Banjiaobao".
In the first case, if the Song army does not come, then Xiebao can kill the Song army in the short-footed city, whether it is three thousand or two thousand, it is always an inspiring victory, right?
In addition, Wanyan Xiebao also hoped to seize a few Song Army cannons and capture a few Song Army artillery officers from this short fort - this is "big meat"! Even if it cost five thousand or even tens of thousands of casualties, Wanyan Xiebao would still risk it.
Because after getting the cannons of the Red Army Song Army, you can directly copy them... The cannons of the Red Army Song Army are clearly better than the cannons of the Jin Army!
After catching the artillery officer of the Song Army, it is very likely to get the secret of granular gunpowder!
In the second case, if the Song army attacks in a large scale, Wanyan Zongbi can always inflict heavy losses on the enemy by relying on a large number of troops, camel tubes and preset positions.
As long as Wanyan Xiebao can capture the short fort before Wanyan Zongbi is defeated, Zongbi can lead his troops to fight and retreat into the short fort.
If this happens, even if the Jin soldiers' losses are larger...for example, over 10,000, it will still be a good deal as long as they get the Song army's cannons and capture the artillery officers.
The third situation is that the Song army arrives, and Wanyan Xiebao is also in a bitter battle in Ajiabao... If this happens, Xiebao must capture the East Fort of Ajiaobao at all costs. Cut off the channel for the Song army to quickly cross the Yanghe River to pursue the Jin soldiers.
In this way, Wanyan Zongbi could lead his troops to withdraw to the east bank of Yanghe River after paying a certain price.
As long as Wanyan Xiebao can grab a few Song army tubes from the East Fort of Banjiaobao, it won't be too much of a loss.
Even if the Jin soldiers had to pay 20,000 or even 30,000 casualties in this battle, Wanyan Zongbi accepted it.
But now a fourth situation has arisen that leaves Wanyan Zongbi speechless - Wanyan Xiebao, who has an army of 50,000, can't defeat even one, no, half a Dwarf Fort!
Moreover, Wanyan Xiebao, a coward, didn't even hit him hard. He just touched him and stopped the attack on the grounds of excessive casualties... He also wanted Wanyan Zongbi to run away with him!
It's okay to run together, but the problem is that Wanyan Xianbao didn't say run earlier. Now Zhao Kai has led the army over, the formation is almost set up, the big tubes have been pushed up, and the cavalry has been deployed on both wings... How can Wanyan Zongbi run now?
In addition, in order to withstand the Song army's offensive and artillery bombardment, Wanyan Zongbi relied on a noble manor on the plain east of "Wanjiao Fort" to set up a "hollow formation" with defenses on all sides - and in order to reinforce this hollow square formation, the entire hollow square formation was Yan Zongbi also asked Ali Xibing and the civil servants to spend half a night demolishing most of the buildings in the manor. Then the dismantled materials and straw bags filled with soil were piled up to form four straight low walls.
The army of nearly 80,000 people spent a day and a night on the road, and then started working in the middle of the night. It has been working hard until it is almost noon, and it has just been deployed.
Now Wanyan Xianbao can let him run away with just one word... How can it be so easy?
The army formed into a "beating phalanx" is not so easy to clean up!
Moreover, Wanyan Xiebao failed to capture the east fort of the "Short Foot Fort", which meant that the Song Army could draw out their elite cavalry and mount the cannons, cross the river from the "Short Foot Fort", and then go around to fight and retreat. Wanyan Zongbi's army in front.
Wanyan Zongbi's army was also a coordinated army of infantry, cavalry and artillery! Although there are more cavalry, there are also many infantry, artillery, and baggage convoys that will slow down the movement... These troops are not that easy to escape!
...
Just as Wanyan Zongbi was yelling at Wanyan Xiebao, the Song Army's more than 80 long cannons were already in place, with their muzzles pointed at the Jin soldiers' positions. The gunners had already stuffed the gunpowder packets and projectiles into them. The barrel of the gun was waiting for Zhao Kai's order.
Zhao Kai strode towards a lookout car placed behind the artillery position. Behind him was a group of jubilant generals and staff officers. Han Shizhong, He Ji, and Zhang Xian were among them, but there were no Yue Fei, Li Shifu, Dong Jingang, or Niu Gao. , Wu Jie, these fierce men... At this time, these fierce men are leading a regiment of 80,000 people (composed of the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 7th armies), starting from Rabbit They attacked from the Ershan camp and rushed to Tiger Mountain, which was twenty miles away.
After taking down Tiger Mountain, they will go straight to Yuguan!
Yuguan and the Yuhe Camp to the east of Yuguan are important strongholds of the Jin Army to the west of Shanhaikou! Not only are there a large number of troops left behind, but a lot of supplies are also stored.
Once the Yuguan and Yuhe camps are lost, the Jin soldiers will have no choice but to flee in disgrace to Shanhaikou... If the losses during the escape are too great, even Shanhaikou may have to be abandoned!
This is the real purpose of Zhao Kai's people to build a fortress in the lower reaches of the Yanghe River, more than 20 miles away from the Jieshi Mountain Camp!
Zhao Kai had already boarded the observation car, raised his telescope and began to carefully observe the Jin soldiers' phalanx, nodding while looking.
I have to say that Jin Bing's progress is really fast!
Nowadays, field artillery defense fortifications are built, and many artillery pieces are also cast... This is the second strongest country in the world in terms of army!
That is to say, if you meet Zhao Kai, the best in the world, if it were anyone else, they would basically be beaten!
I wonder if the golden thief will also learn how to build a fortress after this war is over?
If so...I'm afraid I'll have to work hard to solve the problem!
At this time, Zhang Xian, who joined the army, suddenly reported loudly to Zhao Kai: "The officials, the artillery is ready and can start shelling at any time."
Zhao Kai smiled and nodded: "Then open fire, I'm not in a hurry...beat him for an hour first!"
In fact, Zhao Kai only had three armies on hand plus some Khitan cavalry from the north of the Great Wall, a total of 70,000 troops, which was not enough to defeat Wanyan Zongbi's army.
He is now setting up an offensive formation and using his own banner, just to give his opponent the illusion of strength!
In this way, the opponents would not dare to retreat easily, and they would at least hold on west of the Sheep River until nightfall.
This way Yue Fei would have a whole day to attack Laohushan and Yuguan!
If Yue Fei can succeed, then the battle of Yuguan-Shanhaikou will be won.
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At the same time, the large group of Song Army cavalry and Khitan cavalry had crossed the outposts of Yuguan, Tiger Mountain and Shijing Mountain, and rushed to the foot of Yuguan City. Confrontation.
On a mound west of the Yu River, Yue Fei was looking eastward with a telescope. The khaki Yuguan City Wall in the distance is a very traditional rammed earth wall. Although it has been carefully fortified, there are all kinds of "fragments" on the city wall. There is also a sheep and horse wall under the city wall.
Behind him, large groups of infantry, cavalry, and artillery were approaching!
This time Yue Fei did not spend too much effort to attack the Jinjun camps in Laohu Mountain and Shijing Mountain, but only sent 6,000 people to guard the two places.
The rest of the army rushed towards Yuguan almost all at once!
As long as Yuguan is captured, the Jin army camps in Laohushan and Shijingshan can be taken without a fight.
On the east bank of the Yu River, although there are camps of Jin soldiers, there are no dangerous points between the Tang River and the Yu River. It is not a big river that can be defended.
So once Yuguan is lost, the Jin army will probably have to get out of Shanhaikou!
At this moment, the sound of artillery fire like rolling thunder suddenly came from the distance... The artillery fire was very dense, and at least seventy or eighty Song Army cannons roared at the same time!
Needless to say, the army led by Zhao Kai must have been at war with the gold thief's army.
Li Shifu, Dong Jingang, Niu Gao, and Wu Jie, the military commanders, were also escorted by their own soldiers at this time. Pegasus came towards the mound where Yue Fei was, and soon arrived at Yue Fei's side.
"Consort," Yue Fei said to Li Shifu first, "can your First Army still run?"
"Yes!" Li Shifu only answered in one word.
"Okay!" Yue Fei nodded, "Then continue to detour to the east of Yuguan and cut off the connection between Yuguan and the east bank of the Yu River!"
"The general will get the order!"
Yue Fei then said: "Jingang, Boyuan, and Jin Qing, please hand over all the cavalry generals to me, and then lead the rest of the troops to attack the west, south, and north gates of Yuguan respectively, leaving only the east gate untouched."
