At dawn, the soldiers rushed into Zhao Bin's bedroom. Just as he was about to speak, Zhao Bin suddenly turned around and cursed: "What are you doing in such a hurry? It's still dark, why don't I sleep? Straight mother-in-law, drag her out and behead her!"
The soldiers were too frightened to speak. After standing there for a while, he whispered: "General, the Song Army has arrived outside the city."
Zhao Bin shouted: "What Song Army? Where did the Song Army come from! If you get out, I still have to sleep!"
The soldier did not dare to reply and walked slowly outside.
Zhao Bin, who had just been lying on the bed, suddenly sat up, looked at the soldier and said, "What did you just say?"
The soldier said: "Back to the general, the Song army has arrived outside the city."
Zhao Bin looked directly at the soldiers. After a while, he said, "Where did the Song army come from?"
The soldier said: "It seems to be from Hezhong Mansion."
"Impossible! Hezhong Mansion is on the other side of the Yellow River, fifty or sixty miles away from Tongzhou! How could they get outside Tongzhou City in one night!"
The soldier said: "Young man is just guessing, who knows where they came from. However, they are indeed outside the city."
Zhao Bin didn't say anything, got out of bed and put on his coat. He turned around and said to the soldiers: "I'm going to go out and take a look. If you dare to lie, I will take your head!"
After saying that, he quickly left the bedroom.
At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and a touch of fish belly white appeared in the east. The stars in the sky have not disappeared yet, they are blinking. Smoke was already rising from the houses in the city. People who got up early on the street were in a hurry.
Zhao Bin took a few of his own soldiers and walked quickly towards the east gate.
When he arrived at the city gate, the general guarding the city hurriedly came over to see him.
Zhao Bin asked coldly: "Song troops are coming outside the city?"
The general said: "Back to Zhizhou, the Song army suddenly attacked this morning and has surrounded the city."
"Take me to see it!" After saying that, Zhao Bin quickly walked up to the tower.
When he reached the tower and looked outside, Zhao Bin couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
In the dim light of the morning, the city was already surrounded by the Song Army. I saw the Song army outside the city neatly organized and silent, which was particularly scary to watch.
After calming down, Zhao Bin said in a deep voice: "Where did these Songs come from? There is no way that so many people can come from Hezhong Prefecture in one night. Not to mention, if you come from Hezhong Prefecture, you must pass through Chaoyi County. Yesterday, there was no news from the imperial court!"
The general said: "Look at the flag of the Song army outside the city. It belongs to Wang Xiaolie's command. It should - it should be from Hezhong Mansion."
After Zhao Bin heard this, he turned around suddenly. Staring at the general, he said sternly: "Where is Tao Huanzhang? He is guarding Chaoyi County, why is there no news at all?"
The general whispered: "There is no news about General Tao. I am humble - I am afraid that General Tao has died in the line of duty."
Zhao Bin said nothing. After a while, he said: "Do you really believe that the Song army can come from Hezhong Prefecture overnight, break through Chaoyi County, and arrive outside Tongzhou City?"
The general said: "I don't dare to think too much because of my humble position. However, it is true that the Song army is outside the city. Please tell me how to defend it!"
Zhao Bin said coldly: "While the Song army has just arrived and their foothold is not yet firm, you immediately lead your troops out of the city and disrupt their formation!"
The general was startled. Said: "Looking at the tight formation of the Song army outside the city, we must have taken precautions early. How can we attack their army? Moreover, it is still dark, and our soldiers have not assembled yet. When all the troops and horses are gathered, I am afraid that the Song army outside the city will The army is also ready."
"Trash!" Zhao Bin cursed, turned around, and looked at Song Jun outside the city thinking about countermeasures.
At the horse shop in the east of Tongzhou City, Wang Xiaolie looked at the red sun that was about to break out in the east, and said to Wang Ruohai beside him: "It's really unexpected that we can reach Tongzhou before dawn. It seems that we are confident about ourselves. I don’t know much about the military’s combat effectiveness.”
Wang Ruohai said: "That's not true. But since we went north, we have fought against the enemy several times, and the army has made rapid progress. In the past year, Xuanfu asked the army to conduct drills several times. At that time, everyone thought it was troublesome and of little use. Now it seems that Xuan Fu can still see clearly."
Wang Xiaolie said: "It's not that I can see it clearly. It's that when I look at the army, there are still many things that I'm not satisfied with, so I can only strengthen training."
Wang Ruohai smiled and said: "Xuan Fu doesn't need to be overly modest. I don't know what the purpose was at that time. Xuan Fu Neng seems to need practice, and others can't match it."
Wang Yandao: "The consultant is right. Not everyone can see this kind of thing. Xuanfu doesn't think it's anything, but others see it differently."
Wang Xiaolie nodded and said nothing.
That may be the case. Wang Xiaolie thinks that what he must do is ordinary, but others see it differently. Regarding the army, Wang Xiaolie has been dissatisfied since its establishment, and he is not dissatisfied now. But compared with other armies of this era, others thought it was a miracle.
During the Jingkang period, when the Song Army and the Jin Army met, most of the time they collapsed at the first touch. In the eyes of many people, the Jin army is like heavenly soldiers and generals, invincible. How big is the actual gap between the Song Army and the Jin Army? There is not a big gap.
Not to mention training troops like Wang Xiaolie, Yue Fei used the old training methods and it took only a few years to train a strong army that was not weaker than the Jin Army. People like Wang Xiaolie, who have spent several years trying to train their troops scientifically and working hard to sum up experience and lessons, will become stronger.
In fact, the combat effectiveness of Wang Xiaolie's army is now far stronger than that of the Jin army, whether it is individual combat capabilities or large army formations. It's just that the battlefield has always been within the Song Dynasty, far away from the Jin Dynasty's homeland, and the Jin army has the advantage of rapid mobility. Once Hedong and Hebei were regained, Wang Xiaolie no longer had to hold on to his territory. Only then could the gap between the Jin army be seen.
This has been the case many times in history. At the beginning, I felt that the enemy was powerful and invincible. If you surrender, you will never recover. If you persist in not surrendering and resist to the end, it won't take long before you suddenly find that the enemy is not that powerful. If combined with economic and technological advantages, the process will be faster. If there is still an organizational advantage, the situation will be reversed quickly.
In the Pacific battlefield of World War II, Japan was arrogant in the early days. But within a few years, they were suppressed by the US military and had no power to fight back. In the European battlefield of World War II, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and the initial stage was like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. Within a few years, the situation reversed and the Soviet army pushed them back to Berlin.
The same goes for the Chinese battlefield. In the early days, the Japanese army was invincible, but within a few years, it was stopped by the Chinese army. If China's economy and technology were not far behind Japan's at that time, and the government's organizational capabilities were not good enough, this process would have been faster. In the early days, if the government did not persist and surrendered directly to Japan, it would be doomed. If you stick to your skills and don’t surrender, no matter how difficult it is, you will always get better.
In this era, the economy and technology of the Song Dynasty were much higher than those of the Jin Dynasty. As long as there is no problem with the army's organizational ability, it will soon be tempered in the war, and its combat effectiveness will in turn overwhelm the Jin Army. Even the Song Dynasty in history had this trend.
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