Shao Ling, Cao Zhiyan and Xie Linong were reorganizing their troops and divided them into three teams, each with about a hundred people. The remaining fifty or sixty people were counted as Wang Xiaolie's bodyguard. Most of these Qinwang soldiers organized in the countryside did not have armor. There are only a dozen little bosses, wearing armors obtained from unknown sources, with various styles.
Wang Xiaolie took a deep breath and looked serious.
He had more than 300 men fighting against fifty golden soldiers. Even though he had an absolute advantage in numbers, he did not dare to neglect him at all. Not to mention the huge gap in combat power between the two sides, all the Jin soldiers were cavalry, which was enough to offset the lack of numbers.
Looking around, Wang Xiaolie said to a few people: "The Jin people are all cavalry. If the battle goes unfavorably, we have no choice but to retreat. If we want to win completely today, we have to choose the best terrain. The small village below, to the east We are adjacent to the Liangjing Avenue, with a small river to the north, which is favorable to us. When the Jin soldiers chase Ding into and out of the village, we go down and form an array on the avenue. The Jin soldiers turn around, and we block them on the avenue. As long as the Jin soldiers are forced into the village , with houses blocking them, their cavalry cannot get around, so we can fight easily."
Xie Linong looked at the battle at the foot of the mountain and muttered: "Looking at the battle just now, it was not easy to block the Jin soldiers on the road. The Jin soldiers used arrows and all rode horses, and they shot at a distance and disrupted the formation of our army. The formation was in chaos. , what’s the use of having more soldiers and horses?”
Wang Xiaolie nodded, bowing his head and remaining silent for a moment.
From the battle just now, Wang Xiaolie also saw the key to the battle. Ding Jin's defeat was due to command errors, his troops were not used to fighting, and he was facing the Jin Army's cavalry. There was really not much he could do. When Ma Xi crossed the river, if he formed a normal formation, the Jin army would just retreat. Defeating Ma Xi face to face was something that Jin Jun did not expect.
After thinking again and again, Wang Xiaolie said: "These Jin Army rangers are very good at riding and shooting. If we fight head-on, we are not afraid of him. When they chase Ding Jin and are far away, we will kill them down the mountain, on the road Form a formation. The Jin people are coming to attack. As long as we hold the road and force them to the nearby village, we will be done. Several people will fight against one person. If you don’t believe that we can’t do anything to them!"
Shao Ling crossed his hands and said: "Xiaoshe people, our army lacks armor, so it will be difficult to defend the road. The Jin people use arrows and ride horses to come and go like the wind. How can the men hold on when arrows hit them?"
This is also a headache for Wang Xiaolie. I didn't know that armor was so useful in battle formations before. After seeing it today, I realized that there are two armies with or without armor. The Jin soldiers' bows are not very strong, and the soldiers are wearing armor, so it is difficult to shoot through them. But the army without armor is completely different. Don't say that Wang Xiaolie's men were not a strong force, but they were really strong soldiers. They suffered heavy casualties before the battle was fought, and the battle was not easy to fight.
Shao Ling and the others went to reorganize their troops and boost their morale. Wang Xiaolie sat there alone, looking quietly at the bottom of the mountain, racking his brains.
The Jin army at the foot of the mountain chased Ding Jin's troops, but soon they could no longer see their shadow.
Wang Xiaolie stood up and walked back and forth a few steps. After calling Shao Ling, Cao Zhiyan and Xie Linong, Wang Xiaolie said: "I thought about it again and again. It is really not easy to win with two to three hundred infantry against the fifty rangers of the Jin army without some clever tricks. In this way, Our troops are divided into two groups. The main force is 200 people on the main road, and there are many resisting horses in front. The Jin people's arrows cannot reach far, and there is nothing they can do if there are two or three resisting horses. The rest of the troops set up an ambush in the village and wait. The Jin army retreats to the village and fights out together. This is a foolproof plan."
Several people were silent for a while. Xie Linong said: "Xiaoshe people, if the Jin soldiers don't attack the main road, if they don't retreat to the village, all our arrangements will be of no use. These fifty people look like rangers, and the Jin army should not be far away from here. If the Jin people don't attack, but the army comes from behind, hundreds of us will die without a chance to die."
Wang Xiaolie listened and said nothing for a while.
The sun was high in the sky, and the surrounding morning mist had dispersed. A round of sun hangs brightly in the sky, looking dazzling. The weather suddenly got hotter, and Wang Xiaolie felt irritable all over. Yamashita Ding Jin's troops had gone far away, and even the Jin army chasing behind began to become blurry. Suddenly the world became quiet, making people feel a little dazed.
After thinking for a while, Wang Xiaolie sighed helplessly: "You're right, this battle is not a must-win in the first place. Luoyang's official army was defeated, what can we do with hundreds of rebels? It's just that there are only dozens of people at the foot of the mountain If the Jin soldiers are roaming the Central Plains, as if they are entering an uninhabited land, their anger will be really hard to calm down! In this battle, we just have to do our best to obey fate. If the Jin soldiers don't come today, we will find a way out tomorrow!"
Seeing that Wang Xiaolie had made up his mind, the three of them accepted the promise.
Sitting under the pine tree, Wang Xiaolie looked around, and suddenly there was an indescribable feeling in his heart. As soon as he woke up, Ding Jin sent someone to invite him, and then Han Shizhong arrived. As soon as Han Shizhong left, the golden soldiers arrived, without any free time. At this time, Wang Xiaolie had time to think about all this quietly alone.
The Jingkang Rebellion, the invasion of Jin soldiers into Bian, and the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. The history of this period is relatively familiar to later generations. In China's thousands of years of history, there are not many times when China has been defeated in such a chaotic and cowardly manner. Normally speaking, the Song Dynasty was far from the end of the world before the Jin soldiers went south. Although there was the Fangla Rebellion, the Song Dynasty's national power was still there, and being conquered and destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, which had just risen, was like a dream.
Wang Xiaolie's history is not very good, but he still has an impression of some major events in this era.
It is now the second year of Jianyan, Zhao Gou has ascended the throne, and the chaotic situation in the Song Dynasty is beginning to show signs of stabilizing. However, Wang Xiaolie knew that it would take more than ten years for the Song Dynasty to really establish a firm foothold and have the strength to confront the Jin Dynasty. Wang Xiaolie only remembered fragments of what happened in the past ten years or so. The most important thing is that Wang Xiaolie remembers Yue Fei. During the Northern Expedition in Shaoxing for ten years, the Song Dynasty really made the Jin people take the Song army seriously.
For more than ten years, Wang Xiaolie was a little confused about what he should do. Raising troops to join Zhao Gou? Wang Xiaolie shook his head. Yue Fei was unjustly killed. The Chinese people have been disgusted and deplored for a thousand years. Will he become a second Yue Fei? impossible things.
But what should I do if I don't go to the imperial court? Wang Xiaolie shook his head and couldn't figure it out for a while.
Many of today's events went beyond the historical knowledge Wang Xiaolie learned in his previous life, and made him extra cautious.
The combat power of the Jin soldiers, whether they were the rangers at the foot of the mountain or the three routes of Jin troops retreating north, were far beyond Wang Xiaolie's knowledge. From the history I had studied before, I knew that the Jin army easily destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty. But there is no clear understanding of how strong the Jin army is and how weak the Song army is. In fact, there were not many Jurchens who went south to destroy the Song Dynasty. An army of hundreds of thousands was an overestimation.
There are less than ten thousand Jurchens, and they are invincible. In my previous life, I thought this was a joke, but now I know that it is really not a joke. After the defeat in the Taiyuan battle, the Song army was indeed unable to defeat nearly 10,000 Jurchens. This year, the three-pronged Jin army attacked the Song Dynasty. Not to mention Jingdong Road and Shaanxi Road, Wanyan Yinshu who attacked Jingxi Road actually only had a few thousand people.
How could such a large empire be so useless? For a moment, Wang Xiaolie couldn't explain clearly, but he knew it was a fact. At least at this time, the Song Army was unable to fight the Jin Army head-on. The same goes for me. Even when facing fifty golden army rangers, we must be cautious.
Standing up and taking a few steps back and forth, Wang Xiaolie felt agitated. This situation was not unfamiliar to me in my previous life.
The competition between regular armies between countries is far from being able to compare who is superior and who is inferior based on numbers alone. It’s unclear what happened in history, but the Japanese invasion of China was not that far away from Wang Xiaolie’s previous life. At that time, the Chinese army had to be several times larger than the Japanese army before a commander could dare to say that he was sure of victory? Wang Xiaolie shook his head. double? three times? Or even ten times? In fact, as long as the Japanese army as a whole is not disrupted, no one dares to say anything.
In this era, the Song Army faced the Jin Army no better than the National Army faced the Japanese Army at that time. Wang Xiaolie couldn't tell what the specific reason was. He only knew that facing the Jin Army now, he could not take any chances.
On one side, Shao Ling, Cao Zhiyan and Xie Linong were commanding the sergeants to cut down trees and make horses. Without rejecting the horse, they could not be truly separated from the Jin army. Everyone really had no confidence that these rebels gathered would have the courage to fight the Jin army.
Looking up at the sun in the sky, Wang Xiaolie rubbed his forehead. After two lives, there are many things that I can't figure out now, and I don't have time to figure them out. In everything, you must win this battle first, then you will have enough energy to think.
On one side, Wang Zhong and Yang Shen stood with their hands on their hands, watching the soldiers busy and worried.
After watching for a while, Wang Zhong sighed: "Who are the inspectors of Dingdu? Marshal Zong personally ordered the inspectors of the capital. He has a distinguished status and has thousands of troops under his command. Just now everyone can see clearly that facing dozens of Jin troops, a We will be defeated in a face-to-face encounter! How can we be the opponent of these Jin people? Alas, Xiao She people don't know how powerful they are, so they insist on fighting with the Jin people, what should we do?"
Yang Shen said: "Don't worry too much. If we can't defeat them, we'll just run away like Ding Duxun."
Wang Zhong shook his head: "It's easy to say! The Jin army is all cavalry, how can we outrun it! These hundreds of people were brought out from their hometown by the officials when they raised troops. How will we explain to the folks when we return to our hometown one day!"
After saying that, he shook his head and sighed continuously.
Wang Xiaolie's family is not a wealthy one. When his father, Wang Rudai, was young, he was still a small landowner with more than 200 acres of land. In addition to his own family farming more than 100 acres, the rest of the land is rented to Wang Zhong's family for farming. Fortunately, Wang Rudai worked hard, went to Beijing twice, won the Jinshi, and made a fortune from then on. In Wang Zhong's eyes, Wang Xiaolie is just like his own family and different from others.
