Yi Song

Chapter 213 Report to the Mountain Chief!

"Tell me what you think." Liu Guozhang said.

"It's the mountain chief! The students believe that when the bows and arrows at the Qingquan Village wall cannot be suppressed by our army and cause great damage to our side, the vanguard team should adopt an evacuation formation.

The students made preliminary statistics and found that at most there were about 150 bows concentrated on the wall of Qingquan Village. Select a vanguard of 100 people. If the formation is one to two times thinner and the terrain is enough to accommodate them, the damage caused may be reduced by half.

With the damage reduced by half, the vanguard team selected just now can rush to the Shanquan Cave in one go and stand firm. Then the second wave of supporting teams rushes forward, and the Shanquan Cave position can be stabilized. "

Zhongkui replied generously.

"Well said!" Liu Guozhang applauded and turned to Master Zhong and said, "General Uncle Yi, the Zhong family is really knowledgeable and full of talents."

Zhong Shidao looked pleased.

"Shan Chief, can you tell us your evaluation of the war just now?" Zhong Kui said expectantly.

"I, I'll just tell you."

"Reporting to the mountain commander, you are saying that the best tactic for the defenders of Qingquan Village is not to inflict as many casualties on us as possible, but to preserve as much strength as possible. The later Shanquan Cave is lost, the longer Qingquan Village will be able to defend it. The longer you wait, the greater your chances of holding on.”

At the same time, he also tested out the reality of Qingquan Village and mobilized heavy troops to launch a tentative attack on the main entrance of the army village to contain the few defenders.

Immediately, three pillars of black smoke rose from Qingquanzhai, warning Yinzhou City ten miles away.

Half an hour later, the Song Army seized the Shanquan Cave and quickly built a solid defense line with fences, wooden deer, and horses to guard the lifeblood of Qingquan Village.

But strategically speaking, Shanquan Cave will definitely be occupied. If it doesn’t work this time, there will be another time. If the tactics don’t work, they can be adjusted.

By capturing Qingquanzhai, our army will take the strategic initiative and be able to freely deal with the reinforcements from Yinzhou and Zuoxiang Shenyong Military Division. "

Meng Zhen quickly sent out another 300 vanguard troops, armed with extra shields and crossbows, to launch another attack on Shanquan Cave.

But from a strategic sense, whether Qingquanzhai can be defended does not depend on defeating our army's several attempts to seize Shanquan Cave, but on how timely the reinforcements from Yinzhou and Zuoxiang Shenyong Army arrived. "

"Yes. From this strategic height, what is the best tactic for our army?" Liu Guozhang asked.

Qingquan Village is in danger, and there is an urgent need!

Gongfu Liang, the defender of Yinzhou and the governor of Yinzhou in Xixia, was very worried. He never expected that the situation would deteriorate to this point.

"Reporting to the mountain commander, the student is Liu Jian, a first-term student of the Cavalry Section of the Kongtong Mountain Officer Training Course."

More than fifty students gathered around him.

"Your name is Liu Jian?" Liu Guozhang asked in surprise.

We should choose elite night attacks, or send Tabai soldiers to set fire first, use all our strength to attack Qingquan Village, and capture Qingquan Village with lightning speed.

After a moment of silence, a voice replied: "Report to the mountain chief to capture Qingquan Village as quickly as possible. There is no need to worry about Shanquan Cave, because seizing Shanquan Cave is a tactic of long-term siege and trapping the enemy." .

In front of Qingquan Village, Meng Zhen didn't know what strategies and tactics were correct, but he was a veteran on the battlefield and was very calm.

Zhong Shidao suddenly remembered that this boy was Liu Fa's third son.

"From a tactical point of view, the charge of the Select Front Team was a failure. It was very embarrassing. More than forty people were killed and injured, but it didn't matter in the end. There is a lot of room for tactical improvement and improvement.

If it doesn't work once, just do it twice. If a hundred soldiers don't work, just pile up three hundred.

In the past month, the Song Army on the other side had been mobilized frequently. He found out some news, but he didn't take it to heart.

In recent years, there have been constant frictions on the border between Song and Xia. The two countries mobilized troops and horses every month. If they were on alert whenever there was a mobilization, there would be nothing to do.

Gongfu Liangjiu also knew the efficiency of the Song Dynasty. A medium-sized war could not be launched without half a year of preparation. A large-scale war would take at least two or three years to prepare. He never expected that in just one month, there would be action, which surprised him so quickly.

Now he has only three thousand soldiers and horses at hand, and the rest are scattered in various places, busy with the autumn harvest. He did not dare to take back his manpower easily, which would delay the autumn harvest.

If the food cannot be harvested, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians will cause trouble!

Gongfuliang hesitated for a while and decided to ask his superior, the Zuoxiang Shenyong Army Division, to send reinforcements from the northeast. He sent 1,500 men to support Qingquan Village along the Wuding River.

One thousand five hundred people, plus the five hundred people in the military camp, two thousand people, are enough to hold on until reinforcements from the military department arrive, or until the autumn harvest is completed, the main force returns to the city, and then raises troops for rescue.

Just five miles out of the city, 1,500 people were ambushed by the Siwu Brigade.

The Song army occupied a favorable location and rained arrows. The Xia army attacked twice, killing more than 400 people, and had to flee back to Yinzhou City angrily.

Gong Fuliang was shocked for a while and quickly took back all the soldiers and civilians on the border to strengthen the city defense. The military and civilians in the mainland continue to harvest autumn grain.

Four days later, news was received that the three thousand reinforcements of the Shenyong Army Division in the left wing were ambushed by the Song army in Miwu Mountain in the northeast.

The Song army occupied a favorable location, and the Xia army fought hard for a day, but could not gain the slightest advantage and suffered more than 600 casualties, so they had to retreat.

Then, a few lucky defenders of Qingquan Village escaped pursuit and fled back to Yinzhou City, bringing the bad news of the fall of Qingquan Village to Gongfu Liangjiu.

After seizing the mountain spring cave and cutting off the Xia army's water source, the experienced Meng Zhen ordered rockets to be fired at Qingquan Village day and night.

There were fires everywhere in Qingquanzhai and there was no water, so they had to use sand and soil to extinguish the fires, but the effect was not very obvious. Within a day, Qingquanzhai became Taishang Laojun's gossip furnace. The defenders were extremely hot and thirsty but had no water to drink.

He accidentally burned down half of the granary. They organized many counterattacks in an attempt to recapture Shanquan Cave, but they were all beaten back.

On the third day, someone in the garrison had a change of heart and felt that if they continued to defend, they would either die of fighting or die of thirst, so it was better to surrender and find a way to survive.

That night, there was chaos in the stronghold. Some people came out of the stronghold to surrender, while others stopped them. Both sides fought in a massacre. The Song army saw the chaos in the stronghold and took the opportunity to kill them.

After fighting in the middle of the night, Qingquan Village fell. Most of the five hundred defenders were dead, captured, or surrendered. The remaining twenty or thirty people escaped during the night. In the end, only two or three people escaped back to Yinzhou City.

Gongfu Liang was shocked for a moment. He had never seen the Song army fight with such a tacit understanding.

One army is attacking Qingquan Village with all its strength, and the other two have been waiting early, ready to snipe the reinforcements from Yinzhou City and the Left Wing Shenyong Army.

Is this still the Song Jun I know?

In the past, the Song Army had civilian officials who made the final decisions. They thought more than they did, and the plans were perfect, but they ignored the most important point: the many difficulties in actual execution.

When the civil official gave the order with high spirits, and all the soldiers and horses attacked according to his clever calculation, they found that chains were falling everywhere. The longer the preparation takes, the more mistakes will be made.

The battle failed, and the thousands of Song troops were reduced to a pulp, and finally fell into disarray. Xia Jun happily went after the butt to fight and happily picked up the spoils.

Now, unexpectedly, he encountered a completely different Song Jun.

Did you wake up violently this morning?

Gongfu Liangjiu was keenly aware of the danger and quickly called back all the soldiers and civilians outside the city. Qiu Liang? If your life is gone, what else do you need autumn food for?

While spreading life-saving messages of 100,000 yuan to the Xiangyou Military Division, Zuoxiang Shenyong Military Division and Xingqing Mansion, they assumed a posture of defending Yinzhou City.

After waiting in fear for more than ten days, when a Song caravan arrived, they realized that the Song army on the opposite side was just putting on a show for the new Xuanfu envoy. Now all the soldiers and horses had already retreated to the headquarters defense area, and there were more troops to the south. Peace and quiet.

Straight bitch!

Gongfu Liang looked at the half-rotted autumn grains outside the city for a while and felt like crying without tears. In depression, he spent a lot of money to buy several jars of shochu from the caravan.

Let me get drunk to death!

(End of this chapter)