For seven days from March 30th to April 7th, the Song army under Shao Hongyuan suffered serious losses and was defeated.
In the end, less than 2,000 people escaped alive. More than half of the attacking army either died in battle or surrendered and failed to come back. Shao Hongyuan lost his troops but failed to achieve any results.
There is no doubt that he was defeated.
On April 10th, after Shao Hongyuan learned the preliminary results of the battle, he was stunned on the spot.
He never expected that his tactic failed.
Never thought that the losses would be so great and the defeat would be so miserable.
Of the one hundred combat teams, less than one-fifth came back in one piece, and most of them were missing weight, arms, and legs.
After they came back, they kept crying and complained that the bandits in the mountains were too fierce and well-equipped. They had higher armor coverage than them, and they had no fewer crossbows than them. They were like meeting imps in hell.
Some officers who were still rational reported to Shao Hongyuan that the peasant army used the Song Army's noisy arrows to set up an ambush to ambush the Song Army. In the end, the Song Army soldiers were like frightened birds when they heard the sound of the loud arrows and did not dare to approach at all.
There were also peasant soldiers wearing Song Army uniforms who approached the Song Army and then attacked and killed them while they were not paying attention, so that they were defeated before they could react.
So many small teams were wiped out by the peasant army because of this.
During the entire battle, they could not find the main force of the peasant army at all, but the peasant army could always find where they were.
In just seven days of fighting, Shao Hongyuan lost completely.
After learning of his defeat, he sat down on his chair, his face full of disbelief and panic.
If he loses, what will Zhang Jun think of him?
What would the emperor think of him?
Does he still have a future?
At this moment, as if he knew in advance that Qi Fang would definitely be defeated, Qi Fang came again.
Qi Fang was very happy to hear that Shao Hongyuan had suffered another defeat. Seeing the miserable state of Shao Hongyuan's troops, he originally planned to ridicule him, but the tragic defeat surprised him a little.
He suddenly realized that the peasant army in the mountains seemed a little abnormally strong.
Shao Hongyuan's army is truly elite. It was Li Xianzhong's army that was not at a disadvantage against the Ming army. Despite his reorganization and personnel changes, it still maintained its original training level.
Now it suffered such a defeat at the hands of a group of peasant rebels.
Is this still an ordinary peasant rebel army?
But before Qi Fang could ask anything, Shao Hongyuan exploded when he saw him coming.
"Is it you? Is it you!!!"
Shao Hongyuan's eyes turned red and he drew his sword, leaving Qi Fang confused.
"what are you saying?!"
Qi Fang was very angry.
"You were the one who sold the armor and crossbows to the thieves in the mountains, right? Otherwise, how could a group of thieves wear more armor than my troops? I asked you not to give them to me, but you secretly sold them all to the thieves. Really? I’m going to report you! I’m going to let you die without a burial place!!”
Shao Hongyuan, who was red-eyed at the loss, was very irrational and directly broke up with Qi Fang.
Qi Fang was furious.
"Don't slander Zhongliang! I would never do such a thing to seduce the enemy! If you want to sue you, go ahead! But I also want to sue you! Sue you for disobeying orders and acting without authorization, disobeying my military orders and leading to defeat! I Let me tell you, as a general, I can kill you right now!!"
"just kill me!"
Shao Hongyuan threw the knife in his hand to the ground and looked at Qi Fang with an angry face: "You can kill me, but see what happens after you kill me!"
Qi Fang was so angry that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas left his body. He couldn't say anything. In the end, he could only leave bitterly, and then immediately wrote a memorial to impeach Shao Hongyuan.
It was said that Shao Hongyuan did not obey orders and had no respect for him as a general. He acted wantonly, contradicted his superiors, and sent troops to fight without permission, resulting in the loss of more than 3,000 soldiers and a huge defeat.
Shao Hongyuan also immediately began to write a memorial to impeach Qi Fang.
As for the content of his defeat...
After all, he did not dare to write the actual content, so he could only conceal the actual loss rate, saying that he lost less than a thousand soldiers and killed more than 2,000 peasant soldiers, but he failed to make the expected progress and needed more updates from the court. More money, food and military support.
Then most of the content is devoted to the inaction of Qi Fang's troops.
They said that they did not intend to fight at all, they were just wasting the court's money and food here, and there was even the possibility of colluding with the rebel army. Otherwise, the rebel army would not have had so much armor, and their posture would not be much different from that of the regular army.
When the two were about to give each other eye drops and even send them to hell, Zhao Yucheng had no time to hold a celebration banquet, so he called all the frontline officers and instructors who had fought in the battle to the headquarters of the Daxiang Renaissance Society for a meeting and started a routine war with them. Summarize.
This is an old habit of the Liberation Army. After every battle, a battle summary is conducted. The summed up experience is distributed to each combat unit for collective learning.
At the meeting, many front-line officers and instructors stood up to speak, publishing their battle results and making them public.
Finally, everyone summarized some of the weaknesses and strengths of the Song Army, as well as the weaknesses and strengths of the Peasant Army itself.
For example, the Song Army was weak in its will to fight, but strong in its military literacy and desire to survive.
The peasant army is weak in military literacy and strong in fighting will and bravery.
"I think we still need to strengthen our military training and gain more practical combat experience. Otherwise, the situation will still happen this time. We have clearly set up an encirclement, but due to lack of combat effectiveness, many Song Army troops were killed. Get out."
Xu Tong stood up to make a speech and said loudly: "Our weapons and equipment are no longer weaker than those of the Song Army, and everyone's food and treatment are also good, so training must be strengthened and there can be no luck. We are going to go out and fight with the Song Army." In field battles, you can’t always huddle in the mountains.”
Zhao Yucheng agreed with Xu Tong's words.
"I think Xu Tong's speech is very meaningful. Xu Tong also made great contributions this time. The Song armies used sounding arrows to communicate with each other and cooperate in combat. It was Xu Tong who discovered and reported it. Everyone should pay more attention to him. study."
After saying that, Zhao Yucheng took the lead in applauding him, and the rest of the people also applauded together.
Xu Tong was a little embarrassed and scratched his face with a silly smile.
After the applause died down, Zhao Yucheng returned to his serious face.
"We should praise what is worthy of praise, and we should not deny what needs reflection. This is the reason why we can be strong, and it is also the reason why the Liberation Army can defeat the Jin Army and establish the Ming Dynasty.
I believe that the Song Army's attack and blockade of Luoxiao Mountain will not stop. They will continue to attack and blockade Luoxiao Mountain. We are about to face a more severe situation, so we must seize the time to prepare. "
Then, Zhao Yucheng began to assign new tasks.
The first is the military training of the peasant army, allowing them to enter the professional group from the amateur level as soon as possible.
The second is to start a spiritual offensive against the prisoners of the Song Army and strive to absorb them into the peasant army. Their military qualities are still worthy of praise.
The third is to find ways to increase penetration into the areas surrounding the Luoxiao Mountains, send excellent instructors into these areas, dig behind the enemy's rear, and win the support of more farmers.
All in all, time and opportunity do not wait for us, and if we do not take advantage of the defeat and retreat of the Song Army to develop ourselves, the Song Army will make a comeback in the future, and death will be waiting for everyone.
When Zhao Yucheng acted quickly, the impeachment memorials of Qi Fang and Shao Hongyuan also quickly moved towards Lin'an. At the same time, the news that Emperor Su Yonglin of the Ming Dynasty had begun an anti-corruption campaign in the country also reached Lin'an.
It is said that Emperor Ming Su Yonglin discovered that someone was making false accounts during his inspection in Kaifeng, so he conducted an in-depth investigation and discovered that some officials were corrupt, so an anti-corruption storm was immediately launched. Many corrupt officials were arrested and met a miserable end.
It is said that some officials were beheaded on the edge of the Yellow River. After the killing, their bodies were pushed into the Yellow River and rolled along the Yellow River into the sea. It can be said that they died without burial.
This news was sent to Lin'an. Zhao Hao read it and felt a little relaxed.
As long as Su Yonglin didn't go south to prepare for a military attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, it would be fine.
Zhao Xun's plan to rebuild an army of 100,000 people has been very difficult to implement, and there is a lack of money. The completion progress is less than one-fifth, and it is estimated that it will take several years to complete.
In the past few years, the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty had better not stop, and the Ming Emperor Su Yonglin had better keep tossing and tossing the Ming Dynasty to exhaustion and death. This is the best.
In this way, the Southern Song Dynasty could get a chance to breathe.
However, when Zhao Min learned that Su Yonglin was serious about fighting corruption, he felt a little envious.
