The struggle of the reborn prince

Zhao Tang understood that his current status and responsibilities did not allow him to go to the battle. What he had to do was to guide the strategy and grasp the timing. As for the specific tactics, those commanders and generals had to worry about it.When he turned his attention to the two young talents guarding the Left and Right Marshal's Mansions in the Kingdom of Jin, he found that their performance was not as 'exaggerated' as in history, but rather childish and lacked discipline in the formation of troops.Especially in the face of emergencies, the response is weak, even at a loss, and there is no strategic vision at all.

However, Zhao Tang quickly figured out the joints, and the root of the problem still appeared in himself.The Jurchens' personnel training method is more like the current "passing on and leading", especially the training mode of military generals is more like a master leading an apprentice.They selected potential and talented children from their families to take them with their experienced fathers and brothers to fight, and completed their primary education in the blood-red baptism, and those who could survive on the battlefield also accumulated With rich combat experience, he gradually became a general in charge of his own affairs.

Brother Ying was like this back then, and so was Aguda, so that talents in the clan continued to emerge, famous generals emerged in large numbers, Zong Han and Han were inseparable, and even Wushu grew up in this way.However, after the two southern invasions, the veterans of the Kingdom of Jin were consumed by civil strife again and again. When Wu Shu came to power and realized that there were no successors of talents, Wan Yanliang, Wan Yanyong, and Pu San were selected. Zhongyi and other outstanding children were cultivated.

But at this time the Song army had completely gained the upper hand, forcing Wushu to make major concessions and reach a peace agreement with Song. The large-scale war between the two countries ended accordingly, and Jin's offensive strategy changed to comprehensive defense.Large-scale wars also went away, and small-scale conflicts on the border and the suppression of nomads became the main tasks of its army.As Wan Yanqin's condition worsened.The imperial power was further weakened, and the powerful ministers became the main body of the Jin Dynasty's politics.Strictly implement the rule of law, select capable officials, pay attention to the use of money, and value the atmosphere of literati.

But the original appearance of history is another scene. After the Jingkang Incident, the Jin army went south many times, attacking Henan, Shaanxi, and Shandong, and advancing the defense line of the Yangtze River. The war continued year after year.This enables Wushu to train the next generation with the old training model, and it also makes Wan Yanliang and others stand out.But the birth of Zhao Tong changed all this. The Jurchen's traditional way of cultivating talents in the past failed. Xia quickly ascended to a high position and became the backbone of the Jin army.

These rookies who suddenly flew to the high branches found that war seemed to be far away from them, but power was close at hand, and the older generation such as Wu Shu did not set a good example for them.They quickly found their respective directions and entered their roles, getting involved in political battles, using the political arena as a battlefield, and the army in their hands became a bargaining chip in their struggle for power.It's a pity that the army in their hands is no longer the elite soldiers of the early years of the founding of the country.It is a generation that grew up in peace. Without the toughness of the predecessors and the courage to face death as home, Jurchen is invincible and has become a legend.

The new generation of elites from the Kingdom of Jin lacked war experience and vision.He failed to see through Da Song's series of actions before the outbreak of the war as a deliberate trap for them, but mistakenly took these as opportunities.As a result, the bold military action triggered Da Song's "revenge", but he still did not make military preparations for the outbreak of all wars.And when the Song army attacked on a large scale.During the Northern Expedition, it was difficult for them to adapt, and they even had their own little calculations. The strategies they adopted were inevitably naive and clumsy.

As the pillar of the Jin Kingdom, Wushu certainly knew that the Song-Jin war would break out sooner or later, so he also actively prepared, investing a lot of money to build boundary trenches, renovate the city, and train the army.But when someone goes up, someone has to go down. In order to make room for young people, those experienced veterans can only be marginalized, causing them to be depressed and depressed. The spirit of teaching the marching and fighting experience.This directly led to a decline in the level of military training and a lack of morale.

With the growth of age and too many things to worry about, Wushu has limited energy and no time to pay attention to everything.As a result, he found that he had invested a lot of money and energy, but the effect was not good. When he realized the seriousness of the situation, it was already difficult to turn it around.However, several successors were very interested in politics, and started forming gangs to seize power. He immediately drove them out of the capital and dispersed them to avoid catastrophe.

When the serious conflict between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty occurred, Wushu was already dying of illness, and he had to carry it in the court, let alone go into battle.Being far away from the battlefield, he has no way of understanding the real situation on the battlefield, so he can only make countermeasures based on the reports ahead.And in the face of exaggerated or reduced, or even contradictory news from all parties, how can Wushu make a correct judgment, and the result is that he loses sight of the other, makes repeated mistakes, and falls into a passive state.

However, Zhao Tong has always regarded these elites in the memory of his previous life as his strong opponents, and he dare not relax at all. While comprehensively improving the mechanism of officer training and selection, while maintaining the combat effectiveness of the army through training and substitute warfare, he sent troops to fight Quartet to improve actual combat capabilities and accumulate combat experience, practice new tactics.In addition, strengthen the development of weapons and equipment, continuously improve the performance and lethality of weapons, prepare for future wars, and fight wolves like tigers.

Judging from the current situation, Zhao Tun's strategic expectations have been achieved, and an "accidental" incident has been fiddled with into an all-out war between the two countries.At this time, the Southern Corps also completed the preparations for the battle force and materials, and started deployment, waiting for an order to launch an attack.From the analysis of the current situation, the Song Dynasty has already taken advantage of the time and harmony, and has a half chance of winning...

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Sa Lihe has been in the army for [-] years. He is a veteran on the battlefield. After he rushed to Laizhou, he deployed troops to fight back against the Song army's aggression.But he did not order to enter into full-scale combat readiness, and the reinforcements also came to the state to stay and rest, because Sa Liyao knew that it was not a problem to defend against thieves every day, and it would not take long for the horse to be saddled every day. People will be exhausted and the combat power will be greatly reduced.Years of fighting experience told him that wars would often not break out until the coach arrived or the imperial decree was issued.

Now that the emperor of the Song Dynasty announced his personal conquest, the troops in front had to wait for him to come, otherwise he would be contemptuous of the emperor's prestige, and now it is reported that the emperor of the Song Dynasty is still stopping in Yanjing, and it will take some time to reach the front line, so he judged There will be no fights during this time.However, in the early hours of March 21, the Song army suddenly launched an offensive. They raided the checkpoints along the border, and then the army quickly moved along the road to the boundary trench, and the special warfare unit lurking here also took action to capture the border guards erected in the boundary trench. On the bridge, build a bridgehead.

The army that arrived later suppressed the enemy troops on the trench wall with fierce artillery fire and destroyed the city defense facilities. The engineers blasted the trench wall under the cover of artillery fire, and the Song Army brigade immediately poured in through the gap and boarded the trench wall.However, the Jin Army's brigade was still deployed on the second line, and Jiehao troops were insufficient to withstand the Song Army's assault, so they had to abandon the city and flee. However, one day the Jin Army's painstakingly managed Jiehao defense line for many years was broken, and the Song Army approached Laizhou City. .

After receiving the news of the Song army's raid on Jiehao, Sa Liyao immediately led his troops to reinforce him. He didn't want to meet the broken soldiers coming from the front halfway.Sa Li was shocked, knowing that the entire defense line would collapse once Jiehao was lost, so he hurriedly gathered the remnants and retreated back to the state.But as soon as he entered the city, another messenger from Xizhou arrived, saying that the Song Navy had appeared along the coast of Haibin County and wanted to land here.

As expected of a veteran on the battlefield, Sa Lihe did not panic. The current situation is almost the same as what he analyzed before. Although he lost the boundary trench, he also figured out the Song Army's plan. They wanted to attack and block the General Zuo's mansion. The territory under its jurisdiction was cut into two sections, which were annihilated after being divided and encircled.He made a decisive decision and ordered to abandon Laizhou City, and led the whole army and people to move to Xizhou overnight.When the forward of the Song Army was still twenty miles away from Laizhou, they saw the north was red, reflecting the night sky red.When the Song army arrived in Laizhou early the next morning, the city had been burned to a white ground.

After retreating to Xizhou, Saliho immediately ordered the pontoon bridges on the Liuzhou River to be burned down, and deployed troops at various ferry crossings to confiscate the boats on the river and scuttle them at the mouth of the sea to block the waterway.At the same time, the coastal defense line was strengthened to guard with heavy troops to prevent the Song army from landing from the coast.Then the young and strong were conscripted to form an army to assist the army to guard the city. In a few days, Xizhou City was built into a copper wall and an iron wall, and a line of defense was rebuilt.But at this time, the news from Song Dynasty said that Zhao Er's driving had just entered Pingzhou, which made him puzzled, and cursed at this opponent who was restless and played cards.

When Zhao Tong decided to take the oath in advance, he considered that this would arouse Jin Guo’s vigilance, just as the generals worried about losing suddenness, which would make it difficult to break through the enemy’s first line of defense, but he could change his itinerary and choose the first attack goal to regain the initiative.Unconventionally, he used the waterway as a feint to deceive the veteran, Sa Liyin, and forced him to give up coming to the state.However, Zhao Tun admired him for giving up coming to the state and retreating to Xizhou. If he only delayed for half a day, even if he hesitated for a moment, he would be overtaken and besieged by the Song army, and his retreat would turn into a rout, making it difficult to return to Xizhou safely. .

At the time when Sa Li was in full battle to prevent the Song army from attacking by sea, Zhao Tun was marching for the navy and landing troops at Yingzhou Port. Escorted and sailed into Liaodong Bay with the help of the monsoon that just arrived, opening up another battlefield... (to be continued...)