Now is the turn of spring and summer, when the climate in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning is the most comfortable. Especially on the Liaoxi Corridor, the spring scenery is bright, the sea breeze is gentle, and the temperature is suitable. A huge red dragon, in such good weather, left the Shanhai Pass and rolled forward along the Western Liaoning Corridor.
This is an amazingly large army! Infantry, cavalry, artillery, heavy baggage troops, as well as long artillery, short artillery, hot pot artillery dragged by mules and horses, as well as civilian servants driving mules and horses and carts, merged into a torrent, all the way to the northeast Go quickly.
There are so many people in this army that if you move forward in the middle of the team, you won't be able to see the beginning or the end.
On the left side of this "red dragon", close to the mountains in western Liaoning, there are also unknown groups of camel cavalry advancing slowly to protect this "red dragon" from being attacked by the Jin soldiers from the mountains in western Liaoning. .
The so-called "camel cavalry" is a cavalry general strengthening a camel artillery battalion. In the last battle of Yuguan, the only setback the Song army suffered came from the golden thieves' camel artillery. Don't look at the caliber of the cannon and the firepower is not strong. But it can't resist its flexibility. A camel has four legs and can run around carrying a cannon. It can catch up with the cavalry at this speed!
If the road conditions are good, the cavalry can also maneuver with a 5-pound cannon, but there is no need for a camel cannon that can only fire eight or two rounds. But once they enter grasslands and sandy areas where there are no roads available, the camel artillery that can carry eighty-two cannons and coordinate with the cavalry maneuvers is very powerful.
So in the past few years, Zhao Kai has spent a lot of money on those camel soldiers. You can't just buy some camels to form a camel artillery. You also have to be able to feed, train, and play with artillery. , and the smell from camels can scare horses, so horses must be allowed to spend more time with camels to get used to each other's presence.
To this end, the cavalry and artillery divisions of the Song Army established a camel artillery school under the coordination of the Privy Council. Khitans and White Tatars who were kind to train camels were invited from the grassland to teach the students how to raise camels and ride camels. At the same time, artillery instructors taught the students how to use eight-liang guns.
It took a lot of effort to finally train ten battalions of camel artillery (one battalion is equipped with 500 camels and 250 eight-liang camel guns), and now all of them have been given to the Liaoxi Army led by Yue Fei - which is now in full swing Dang this army advancing northeast along the Liaoxi Corridor.
This army has a total of fifteen corps, thirty divisions, and ten independent siege artillery generals (equipped with large-caliber mortars, and also have strong soil work capabilities, which are specialized in dealing with bastions). The total number of soldiers is close to 400,000, and the number of attached cannons (excluding camel cannons) is as many as 1,000!
If a powerful army were to fight, let alone fight, even if it was marching in formation, it would give people a feeling of fear.
Standing on the high mountain on the northwest side of the Liaoxi Corridor, using a crystal telescope I didn't know where to get, I carefully observed this giant dragon composed of soldiers in the Liaoxi Corridor. Wanyan Zongbi was really taking a breath away!
He was not frightened by the artillery, infantry, and cavalry, but by the order and high morale of the army below when they were marching.
If you include the auxiliary soldiers and civilians, the number of troops marching on the Liaoxi Corridor may be half a million!
An army of 500,000 people, let alone being deployed to fight, is extremely difficult to organize their march. Once there are more troops, order will be chaotic!
If there are hundreds of thousands of people, the ability to maintain formation while marching, not only advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, but also mixing various types of arms so that they can form combat formations at any time, means that they have superior combat effectiveness!
If there were not tens of thousands of high-quality officers, and if the soldiers had not gone through rigorous training for a long time, they would never be able to achieve this!
"Fourth uncle, Nan Kou is very arrogant!"
A young man's voice suddenly sounded in Wanyan Zongbi's ears. Zong Bi looked back and saw that it was Wan Yanliang who asked Zong Bi to take care of him because Wanyan Zongqian felt that his son was not very good at fighting. So Wanyan Zongbi took him secretly to the western Liaoning front line to spy on the Song Army brigade.
Wanyan Zongbi squeezed out a smile and asked, "Why do you see it?"
Wan Yanliang put down the telescope and said with a smile, "Isn't this obvious? They have already started camping. Hundreds of thousands of people are camping on the beach like this. They don't dig trenches or build forts. They just block it with big cars and that's it. Son. If we are charged by Dajin's cavalry, will there be chaos? Even if we don't use cavalry to charge at them now, after they pass, we can send a group of elite soldiers to fight out from the mountains, and then go down to the stronghold to defeat them. The way back.”
It is very time-consuming to set up a stronghold with hundreds of thousands of people. If Yue Fei had to advance step by step, his army would not be able to travel 20 miles in a day. It’s more than 200 miles from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou, and it still takes ten days and a half?
If the gold thieves discover something is wrong and send troops to build a triangular fortress along the way, will the Liaoxi Corridor not be allowed to walk for a month?
It's almost April now. If we linger on the Liaoxi Corridor for a month, the army will arrive at Jinzhou City in June. If there are still many strongholds outside Jinzhou City, we can clear them one by one and then deploy the army, at least in mid-June. . It will be the beginning of autumn (lunar calendar) in late July, and in August and September, it will be cold in the Northeast.
Although Yue Fei would definitely be able to capture Jinzhou before the weather cooled down, he did not have time to expand his victory and hundreds of thousands of troops had to spend the winter near Jinzhou.
When the sea freezes in winter, logistical supplies become a problem. If enough food cannot be stored before winter comes, hundreds of thousands of troops will have to withdraw to the pass.
In addition, there may not be many houses in Jinzhou City, so a considerable part of the hundreds of thousands of troops have to spend the winter in the wild, and keeping warm is also a problem.
So Yue Fei marched in a group and increased his troops quickly, forming a huge marching group to scare the opponent. At the same time, he rushed on the road, trying to reach the Bijiashan Bay (Jinxi Huludao) in the southwest of Jinzhou within three days - —There is a very nice bay in this area, and there is also Beacon Mountain, which is connected to the mainland at low tide and becomes an isolated island at high tide.
The bay can be used to build a harbor and berth ships. Bijia Hill can be used to store grain, grass and baggage.
As long as they capture the bays around Bijia Mountain, Yue Fei's army can gain a foothold west of Jinzhou!
However, as he headed toward Bijiashan Bay with his head covered like this, the way back seemed a bit empty. Instead of staying step by step and leaving no troops to set up defenses, the gold thieves could rush behind Yue Fei at any time through the mountains of western Liaoning, cutting off his land connection with Shanhaiguan. .
Although there is a sea route that can be used, this is somewhat of a flaw, right?
After listening to Wanyan Liang's talk, Wanyan Zongbi turned to look at his son Wanyan Heng and asked with a smile, "Bade, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty is wrong!" Wanyan Heng is a few years older than Wanyan Liang. He is now in his early twenties. He has an unruly look on his face and looks unflattering. Of course, Wanyan Zongbi likes this son very much! He is the most handsome boy in the world!
Wanyan Zongbi didn't care about Wanyanliang's gloomy expression and just asked his son, "What's wrong?"
Wanyanheng, like his father, did not take Wanyanliang seriously, and replied with a smile, "The enemy is arrayed with their backs to the sea, and they have a chariot array to rely on. They have big tanks, cavalry, and a large number of people. They are not afraid of being dignified at all." formation. If we fight out of the mountains of western Liaoning, we will probably have to fight a tough battle with them on the seashore, and we will never win."
Wanyan Zongbi nodded with satisfaction and said to Wanyan Liang, "The southerners are now united and their morale is high. This is the time when they can't fight. If we go up ourselves, we will all be defeated."
Wanyan Liang said in his heart, this emperor's plan is bound to fail, so your son Wanyan Heng's views are all right?
"So Bidee," Wan Yanliang asked, "how do you think we should fight?"
"We must first disperse the enemy," Wanyan Heng said, "and then concentrate our forces to defeat them all the way. Then we can win."
"Oh," Wan Yanliang asked again, "How to disperse the enemies?"
"We are actually dispersing them by releasing them under Jinzhou City now," Wanyan Heng said. "We are encircling Jinzhou all the way, strangling Jinxi all the way, and guarding the northeast of Jinzhou. The enemy is at least divided into three.
Regardless of how many people they have, if they are scattered like this, there will only be hundreds of thousands of people along the way, and there may not necessarily be one hundred thousand soldiers among them. If we can further design to disperse them, the chances of winning will be huge. "
"How to disperse?" Wan Yanliang continued to ask.
Wanyan Heng said, "I estimate that the Southern Army will seize the Bijia Mountain Bay and build a wharf there to transport grain and grass. This is because I found that they do not carry many heavy vehicles and do not pay attention to the back road. They must be relying on their control of the sea route. But Bijia Mountain It is still 60 miles away from Jinzhou, and it is located in the southwest of Jinzhou. If we can pretend to attack Bijia Mountain with one force, the southerners will definitely divide their troops for rescue, so that their troops will be even more dispersed."
I have to say that Wanyan Heng was trained well by Wanyan Zongbi, at least on paper!
Of course Wan Yanliang couldn't defeat him, so he had no choice but to remain unconvinced in his heart. No matter how good you are, why don't I be the emperor?
Wanyan Zongbi sighed, "It's easier said than done. I don't know who the opponent is in Jinzhou this time? It can't be Han Shizhong, it's probably Yue Fei, or maybe Zhao Kai is here in person!"
Wanyan Liang suddenly said to Wanyan Zongbi, "Fourth uncle, is there any way for Puluhu (Wanyan Zongpan) to disperse the southern troops? Can his army of 150,000 be moved to the west of Jinzhou?"
Wanyan Zongbi couldn't help but frown when he thought of the eldest son Wanyan Wu was begging to buy.
The biggest variable in this battle is probably Wanyan Wu's begging to buy a series of troops. If they don't try their best, this battle may really be a failure!
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