Powerful Song Dynasty

Chapter 657
Jingdong has become a pot of porridge, lazy but very depressed. With the continuous reinforcement of Jingdong by the Song Army and Jingxi, he had a good opportunity. What is painful is that with the continuous eastward advance of the Western Army, he was unable to invade Mengmeng on a large scale. Zhou, on the contrary, the Song army was sharpening their swords, with a posture of counterattacking Hedong.

This is not fun. The main force of the Jin army is constantly being transferred to Jingdong to ensure the safety of Wushu's rear. It is not a good thing for the Song and Western armies to gather in Hezhong Mansion!In case of a sudden attack and entering Hedong, the paper tiger would be punctured in one fell swoop, and he dared not act rashly.

It must be said that Qin Hui's reminder is very important, at least let the Song army deploy an echelon from west to east, forming heavy pressure from top to bottom.

Even if Wu Shu leads the army to Dajiang, or even threatens to cross the river, it will not be a big problem. The formation of the strategic situation does not depend on the gains and losses of a city or a place. The deeper the Jin army goes, the greater the pressure it will bear. The blow gets heavier.

To put it bluntly, under the strategic posture of the Song army, if the Jin army really crossed the river, the Song army suddenly launched a counterattack against the east, and the troops from the west of Beijing moved eastward to intercept Huaibei. Leave.

Zhongli County in Haozhou is an important town on the Huai River, controlling the entire middle reaches of the throat waterway. Once the Jin army crosses Zhongli County, it will go straight to Chuzhou and threaten the safety of the line.

Strategically, the Great Song Dynasty is in an absolute advantage, but tactically, the Jin Army still has control, and the tactics may affect the strategy.

When Song Xingchao once again convened important officials from the two governments to discuss, Zhongli County was already in flames of war. Gao Ping commanded the Gongsheng Army to set up a defense line and received reinforcements from the [-] Huai Shang Navy. He had been stalemate with the Jin Army for two days.

However, Yue Fei took the initiative to attack and intercepted the forwards of the Jin army and fought several times.

It has to be admitted that Yue Fei is a born general of the horse army, almost comparable to Han Piao Tiao. He stabilized his position and led the horse army to attack head-on.

Ali and Puluhun were beaten to ashes, lost seven or eight hundred horses, hundreds of elite cavalry, and lost face.

Only when Han Chang's army arrived in Xiacai County, Shouzhou, threatened the upper reaches of the Huai River and forced Yue Fei to return to the army for rescue, did they relieve their embarrassment.Well, it should be said that they escaped from birth. Under the coordinated operations of the Xiaocai army and horses, it is difficult for the Jurchen horse army of the Jin army to display their strength, and they are likely to be entangled and eaten.

The main force of Wushu arrived, and He Lusuo and Li Qiong led more than [-] soldiers to approach Zhongli County. Under Li Qiong's suggestion, the Jin army attacked and occupied the ferry on the north bank of the Huai River, secretly taking advantage of the dry season of the Huai River, with him as the guide He led an army of [-] horsemen across the river and directly arrived between the county town and the water village, cutting off the connection between the two.

Li Qiong's move was very vicious. The No. 11 Brigade of the Gongsheng Army was stationed outside the water village and was responsible for the defense of the river, which caused the division of the Gongsheng Army and made it difficult to form a strong defense.

Gao Ping has a big headache!His most urgent task is how to expel this Golden Army unit, re-open the connection with the 8000th Brigade, and stabilize the entire defense line.However, the Jin Army Bubazi kept crossing the river, and passed [-] people before the water army sealed the river, which gave him a very headache, almost equivalent to being attacked by the enemy.

According to the textbook model of the Military Academy of the Ministry of War, it focuses on the battle of Mengzhou in the second year of Jingkang. Even though Wang Xiu won the military power, he controlled an army of [-].However, because Brother Yinshu led [-] riders across the river to insert behind the Song army, the Song army was attacked on both sides, and finally had to retreat to Chenzhou.

The reason is the same, the divided line of defense is difficult to withstand severe blows. If you want to defend the center of Huaishui, you must get through the connection between Zhongli County and the Navy Dazhai. .

After a whole day of fierce fighting, the Eleventh Brigade trapped in the water village by the Jin army was very difficult. Several outlying strongholds were broken up, and the routs fled into the village.

Gao Xiao was annoyed by the command. The Dianqian Division had a large military establishment. He was in command of a Chinese brigade. He wanted the eleventh brigade to be fully equipped and reorganized, with a strength of [-]. He was not afraid of the Jin army at all.

However, the Gongsheng Army needs to defend three states, and once the soldiers and horses disperse, it will be impossible. Gaoping, who sits in the city, has only a few thousand soldiers and horses. The 3000th Brigade has a wide defense area. At this time, he has less than [-] people , can only barely resist, the situation is very critical!
Fortunately, the water army camp is a simple earth and stone city, and its defense is not as good as that of the county town, and it is not far behind.As long as the camp can be defended, dozens of river boats can get supplies to intercept the Jin army crossing the river. The Jin army who stole the Huai River did not dare to attack Zhongli County directly.

At this time, Wushu had already arrived at the north bank of the Huai River, and the main force of the Jin army arrived one after another, in Haozhou, Shouzhou and other places.In fact, the Huai River is shallow and the water army is too small to effectively intercept the main force of the Jin army. The two sides are equivalent to sharing the Huai River, but the Song army has a hundred warships and has a certain advantage on the water. The battle was fought in the water village. Very intense.

Li Qiong followed Wushu to the south, collected soldiers from the Luo Song army everywhere, and forcibly recruited strong men. When he arrived in Huaishang, there were more than [-] people under his command.

Although the combat effectiveness of these Han troops is not strong, but the army is extremely large, and Wushu also uses two people to recruit Han people as cannon fodder, turning a blind eye to it. Anyway, whether it is armor or food, they will find a way to solve it themselves. , is nothing more than burning, killing and looting, which is one of his goals in this battle.

After crossing the river for thousands of steps, most of them were cannon fodder troops. The elite Jurchen horse army was in charge of monitoring the movement of Zhongli County.

These Han soldiers rushed towards the water stronghold wave after wave, and the Jurchen cavalry soldiers supervised the battle from beyond the range of the bed crossbow, and all soldiers who dared to run back were shot to death.Bubazi had no choice but to advance or retreat or die, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and brave the arrows to rush forward.

Gao Xiao hid on the wall of the earth-stone village and observed the Jin army's offensive through the arrow stacks. A general next to him leaned on the arrow stacks and said loudly: "My lord, it's too dangerous here. We'd better go to the tower to avoid it."

Gao Xiao ignored him, watched the battlefield quietly for a while, then glanced at the pale young general, and said with a humorous smile: "Are you afraid? You are lucky. It's not easy for you to catch up with this scene, I had to suffer for many years before I caught up with the war!"

The young general stared at Gao Xiao in a daze, the killing that made him sick to his stomach turned out to be delicious to Gao Xiao, it was unbelievable.However, the general's calmness, his heart that almost reached his throat, let go a lot.

"Don't be afraid, it's like this in war. They don't have many people, and they don't have many heavy siege weapons. It's not so easy to break in. Oh, you are from Fuzhou, no wonder! It's not an exaggeration to have never seen such a scene, kill more A few people will be fine." Gao Xiao's eyes flickered, and he stared at the young general jokingly.

(End of this chapter)