According to intelligence, Shi Hao is a strict and conservative person, but he is not good at military affairs. Although he is serious and serious in dealing with things, he takes the military for granted.
There were two generals he selected for the battle, one was Wu Gong and the other was Qi Fang.
Coincidentally, they are all old acquaintances.
Not only that, the second action team also found out for Zhao Yucheng the march route and combat objectives planned by the Privy Council for the two men, as well as the approximate strength of the Song army.
Wu Gong's army can probably dispatch an army of 30,000 people, maybe a little less, but it is relatively elite. Wu Gong is good at training troops. Although there are few people, the elite level is not comparable to that of the loser Tian Shi.
Qi Fang's command originally only had 20,000 people, but he felt that there were too few people, so he asked the Privy Council for an additional 20,000 people, which were provided by Quzhou and Xinzhou on the front lines. So there were 40,000 people, but only those with real combat effectiveness were Those twenty thousand people.
However, those 20,000 people were mainly led by Yang Cunzhong, a veteran general of the Forbidden Army. After the Ming and Song Dynasties, Yang Cunzhong conducted intensive training for the 40,000 Dianqiansi troops he commanded. After a period of time, the Dianqiansi troops had great strength. Changed, combat effectiveness has been improved.
So it's not easy to deal with.
All in all, the Song army that came to attack the Peasant Army this time was small in number, but they were all relatively elite troops. They can be said to be the most elite army except the Sichuan-Sichuan Song Army. The Peasant Army needed to be prepared for a tough and hard battle.
The next news made Zhao Yucheng a little strange.
Because there had been failures in previous battles, and the Southern Song Dynasty could not afford another defeat, the Southern Song Dynasty made changes this time, and their Privy Council strengthened its control over the two armies.
The Privy Council conducted a long-distance sand table simulation of the battle, and then the Privy Council envoy Shi Hao asked the two armies to march and fight in strict accordance with the routes planned by the Privy Council, and to achieve the goals according to the established plan. No mistakes were allowed, and no free play was allowed to avoid missing important events.
This kind of behavior is quite similar to that in the Northern Song Dynasty, when Zhao Guangyi issued a formation map to the generals and strictly ordered the generals to fight according to the formation map.
Is this even possible?
On the one hand, Zhao Yucheng felt that this was ridiculous, but on the other hand, he also felt that the Second Operation Group was really powerful and could even obtain such confidential military information. Did the Southern Song Dynasty court have a one-way transparency towards the Ming Dynasty?
How many secrets of the Southern Song Dynasty court did the Skynet Army not know?
How many of them are secret agents of the Skynet Army?
How did you win them over?
Zhao Yucheng was very interested in this, but it was obviously not a secret that he could explore unless the other party took the initiative to tell it.
So Zhao Yucheng knew the number, generals, and marching routes of the two armies of the Song Army before the Song Army launched an attack, and immediately began to arrange response strategies.
Because Wu Gong would directly attack Nanchang, Zhao Yucheng decided to personally lead the troops to fight against Wu Gong. Considering that Wu Gong's advance would use more ships and naval forces, and the peasant army did not have an organized navy and could not fight, so Wu Gong decided burn one's boats.
He ordered the sealing of several waterways that could reach Nanchang from Poyang Lake, and then sunk ships to block the rivers, so that the Southern Song Dynasty navy could not directly reach the city of Nanchang through the rivers to conduct three-dimensional attacks.
The next step was to prepare for the city defense of Nanchang. Zhao Yucheng did not intend to leave Nanchang anyway. He hoped to build Nanchang into a war fortress and stop the Song army here to prevent the Song army from going too deep into the hinterland of the peasant army.
As for Qi Fang, Zhao Yucheng admired the young general Xu Tong who was promoted step by step from the bottom, so he decided to arrange for Xu Tong to face Qi Fang's threat directly, giving him a test and an opportunity to make great achievements.
Xu Tong had no stage fright and was very happy after receiving the order.
After carefully studying Qi Fang's march route and planned combat objectives, and considering the short training time and insufficient combat effectiveness of his troops, he decided to avoid his edge and not engage in a decisive battle. Instead, he used the terrain of Jiangnan West Road to give full play to the peasant army. The advantage is that they do not have a head-to-head confrontation with the Song Army.
To do this, they need to leverage their strengths.
What are their own strengths?
Of course it has an excellent mass base and a very high level of organization.
Within a few months, Zhao Yucheng gave full play to his talents and initially established a dual military and political system of [Peasant Army-Peasant Association] in the nine states occupied by the Peasant Army, establishing the direct leadership of the Peasant Army over each village Peasant Association. , simplifying the intermediate process.
Due to time constraints, only half of the establishment of the farmers' association has been completed, and the remaining half has not yet been completed, but it does not matter, just this half is enough.
Xu Tong took into account the poor military discipline of the Song army before the war, and burning, killing and looting all the way was considered light.
The peasant army can easily retreat, but the farmers in the countryside and the residents in the cities cannot, so they cannot just leave and leave the people to the Song army to ravage.
So helping people evacuate is a very important thing.
Xu Tong dispersed many troops of the Second Division in battalion units. Each battalion was responsible for organizing the people from two or three townships to evacuate south. The soldiers needed to unite with the cadres of the peasant association to help the people complete the evacuation.
As the saying goes, it's hard to leave one's homeland, but the people knew very well that they would never get any benefits from the Song army's arrival. The military disaster was a terrifying existence comparable to floods and droughts, especially those who had just experienced war, so they understood all this even more.
After a brief announcement and without much mobilization, the people all began to pack up their belongings and follow the peasant army to retreat south.
Residents of Jinxi County and Nancheng County evacuated to the south of Nanfeng County together, while residents of Linchuan County retreated toward Chongren County.
Don't stay, don't be nostalgic, as long as you are alive, you can start over from scratch.
The peasant army assures everyone that it will definitely allow them to return to their hometowns and start a new life. The land is theirs, the livestock is theirs, and the farm tools are theirs. It is all theirs.
With trust in the peasant army that gave them land, the peasants began to flee.
The soldiers of the Peasant Army relied on the help of the newly established local peasant association organization to successfully organize the farmers to carry out strategic transfer. Because there was sufficient time, the strategic transfer went very smoothly.
After the people moved away, Xu Tong led his troops to carry out a large-scale clearing operation in the area.
Destroy bridges, take away ferries, destroy docks, fill wells, destroy roads, set traps.
Along the planned march route of the Song army, Xu Tong did everything he could, and then began to assign tasks to the army.
First, he decided to use three brigades of troops to guard Nanfeng County, and immediately stationed in Nanfeng County, transported grain and grass, prepared war equipment, reinforced city walls and moats, etc.
This is the last line of defense acceptable to the peasant army. Beyond this line of defense, the safety of the people south of Nanfeng County cannot be guaranteed.
Next, he decided to place two brigades of troops in Linchuan County as a check on the Song army in a sense, and to contain part of their army.
Next, two brigades of troops were ordered by Xu Tong to enter the mountains on the east and west sides of Nancheng County to hide their presence.
Their mission was to attack Nancheng County from two wings after Xu Tong completed his mission, recapture Nancheng County, lock up Qi Fang's troops who retreated to the north, and beat the dogs behind closed doors.
The officers curiously asked Xu Tong what his mission was. Xu Tong smiled and pointed to the direction of Xinzhou on the map.
"He is allowed to attack me, but I am not allowed to attack him? General Zhao does not allow us to attack for the sake of development, but now the enemy is under his nose. If we don't fight back, what will we develop? So at this time, no The principle of accurate fighting should be changed."
Xu Tong announced his decision.
Qi Fang, Qi Fang's, Xu Tong's, Xu Tong's, Qi Fang's how to beat him, he is ready, then he will beat Qi Fang next.
Who says the defender has to be beaten passively?
I don’t care, I’m going to jump out and fuck him, fuck him from behind!
The specific method is to wait for Qi Fang to pass through Nancheng County and continue to attack Nanfeng County southward. When the main force is a certain distance from the old nest, Xu Tong will lead two brigades of troops to march directly through the mountainous and hilly route on the east side of Jinxi County. Xinzhou, attack Guixi and catch him by surprise.
Let you hit me!
Do you think I dare not hit you?
Not only did he want to attack Guixi, cut off his food routes, and destroy his logistics, but he also wanted to destroy the entire Xinzhou. He also wanted to attack as far as he could, severely frightening the Southern Song Dynasty, creating a huge momentum, and even scaring him. Damn these bastards.
Dear scholars, are you ready to face the wrath of an ant like me who is not even a human being?
Xu Tong had a calm face, and his eyes contained endless anger and fighting spirit.
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