Powerful Song Dynasty

Chapter 659
Just as Wang Xiu is confident, Feng Yuan will never let him down. Liguo faces the threat of tens of thousands of gold troops, but it is still in the hands of the court.

As soon as he abandoned Zhang Yandong and fled, he immediately realized that something was wrong, took correct defensive measures, gathered all the troops in time, abandoned some of the outer fortresses, and gathered the main force in the city to avoid those scattered forces. Was eaten by the absolute advantage Jinjun.

Because, his main task is not to defeat or annihilate the enemy, but to ensure the safety of Li Guojian, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.

While shrinking his troops, he moved all the iron smelting workshops around Liguo into the city, and the residents of those villages also moved in.

When the main force of the Jin army swarmed past and did not attack the city, he quickly established a defensive camp outside the city. The timing was quite good. When the follow-up troops of the Jin army arrived, Li Guojian's defense system was completely perfected.

There is no shortage of food and grass, not to mention armored wares, and there is no problem with the soldiers. If the Liguojian does not have excellent armored wares, it is too unreasonable. All the artisans who have withdrawn into the city have been converted to military use, manufacturing a large number of offensive and defensive equipment, and the reserves are constantly increasing. consume.

Feng Yuan was very confident. He responded in a timely manner and did not suffer losses. He had more than [-] officers and men, and he had enough food and grass to fight. The conditions were much better than Wang Xiu's back then.

As for grain, grass and other materials, the three floors of Li Guojian's new city are all material storage, grain, steel blanks, and a large amount of materials that can be used for defense.It's just right to fight a war of attrition, and those businessmen are going to laugh secretly.The harder the war fought, the more the reserves were depleted, and the more money they made.

At the beginning, the follow-up troops of the Jin army did not insist on capturing Liguo, but only used thousands of people to restrain them, hoping that the garrison of Liguo would not make trouble, anyway, they occupied the key point of Pengcheng.

Wu Shu didn't have a thorough understanding of Wang Xiu. He was very concerned about the changes in the Southern Dynasty, and he also realized that Wang Xiu's improvement would bring great harm to the Jurchens, but he didn't realize the key significance of benefiting the country.

As a result, in order to achieve strategic goals, he directly crossed the Li country and left it to the follow-up troops to clean up.But who would have thought that the generals of the follow-up troops, focusing on capturing strategic points, took careful surveillance of the heavily fortified Li Guojian, wasting the initial great opportunity to keep the defenders' defenses constantly complete.

Unexpectedly, Feng Yuan was extremely brave, and the battle situation gradually stabilized. He took the initiative to attack several times.

When the Song army continued to gather in the direction of Xuzhou, the Jin army's hereditary Hezhameng'an live girl realized that it was not good.The army of the Southern Dynasties seemed to be going to a decisive battle in Xuzhou. Nali State would be a thorn in the flesh, and it would kill people at the critical moment. He immediately mobilized troops to besiege Li State.

With the continuous arrival of the follow-up troops of the Golden Army, the number of soldiers reached 5, and a large-scale bloody battle was slowly kicking off.

Feng Yuan was keenly aware of the opportunity. Before Huo Nu led his troops to encircle Liguo, he once opened a communication channel to the west and conveyed the military information in time, saying that the Jin army was converging to Liguo. Center Blossom.

Under the intervention of the Privy Council, Wang Yuan issued a combat order centered on benefiting the country, and generals from all walks of life gathered in Xuzhou to repeat the classic battle of Wang Xiu back then.

At the junction of Zhongdu County of Yunzhou and Gong County of Yanzhou, Zhang Junhui and Wang De formed a horse infantry army of nearly 3 people, and they were heading to Xuzhou. They were going to pass through Jeju and enter Xuzhou directly, because there was a river to transport grain and grass, which would reduce the burden of marching. .Besides, the west of Ziyang Mountain is still controlled by the Song army, so there is no need to worry about attacks on the flanks, and the march is safer.

As the main force of the second echelon of the Jin Army gradually gathered in Xuzhou, the garrisons in the counties were greatly reduced, and the defense line had to be reduced, and some small fortresses were forced to abandon.

On that day, Qianyu rode more than ten miles west of Gongxian County, marching at a leisurely speed. These cavalry were almost all Hequ horses, and they were obviously the elite of the army.

Hequ horses are the best breed of horses, produced in Liangzhou. Party members restrict good horses. Putting it on Shaanxi Sixth Road, if you can return to Yilai Hequma, the court will not only not punish, but will also reward you wantonly.

Different places, different times, and different trading partners have different outcomes.

However, in order to return Yi Zhanma, the imperial court also tried their best.When Wang Shao launched the Battle of Xihe, the Tubo people were defeated and defeated. He established the Xihe Road, stabilized the strategic situation in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, and also took away part of the racecourse. combat advantage.

However, from a long-term strategic point of view, the gains outweigh the losses. The establishment of Xihe Road was to improve Shaanxi’s defensive posture, but it caused the imperial court to lose the trust of the Tubo people.

The reason why Zhenghe adopted the strategy of encroaching on the east was that the Tubo people did not cooperate and it was difficult to launch a western offensive from Xihe Road.

There are also a small number of Hequ horses in the border areas of Shaanxi, but they are not too high-quality, and they must be equipped with the most elite troops, which is still not enough for use. The 78 generals of the year were all relying on the horses of the Tiansi Supervisor and the horses of the resurrected Jurchens. Created Wang Xiu's lightning-fast military actions.

Therefore, the Jin army formed a kind of inertial thinking, which Song army team is equipped with Hequ horses, and then equipped with full horse armor, it must be treated with caution.

Jing Bo is only half armored, and he is at the forefront on horseback. His years of military career have allowed him to grow beyond ordinary people. His bearded face looks very mighty.

Under the order of Wang Deshuai, he went to recover Gong County on the way, and recruited villagers to bury the remains of the fallen soldiers of the [-]th Brigade, which can be regarded as his own request.The Thirteenth Brigade collapsed, and the unknown of Qiu Yun's life and death made him very anxious, otherwise he would not have accepted the order of the partial teacher.

There are corpses everywhere on the battlefield. Fortunately, the weather is cold, and the corpses of the dead in battle have not completely decomposed, at least the plague has not yet formed.Everyone marched silently, no one made a sound, and the whole team was quite silent.

"Taiwei, the four gates of the county seat are closed, there are some abnormalities, but there are a few captive corpses in front of us." A rusher came galloping and reported before Jingbo's horse.

Jing Bo rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Didn't you see that there are corpses everywhere?"

Feeling unlucky, he swallowed his saliva, and hurriedly said: "He was killed recently, and there is a broken arrow with a flat hook and no feathers."

"Oh, it seems that there are still people resisting, let's go and see first." Jing Bo's eyes lit up, and some hope rose in his heart, he always thought that Qiu Yunjian's fate was very hard.

(End of this chapter)