Chapter 292 Wheel Battle

The rebellion broke out again in the Liao Kingdom, and the fuse was the land occupied by the Song people on the Liaodong Peninsula.Last year, the Dongdong Road of Liao State organized another army to attack the Liaodong Peninsula. When the army stumbled all the way to Suzhou through the destroyed road, they found that not only the trench was deepened, but the earth wall was raised, and the earth wall was built at intervals. pier.

The Liao army once again stood in front of the trench. Although they made trebuchets and siege engines, they were helpless.When the battle was protracted, the fragility of the food road was revealed, and finally the troops had to withdraw in embarrassment because of the lack of food.

In the spring of this year, the Liao Kingdom organized another 3 army to attack again, and specially arranged a large number of troops to protect the grain roads. Finally, [-] people were able to continuously attack the defense of the Song people.But the casualties were also extremely heavy. As a result, the tribal army recruited by the Liao government as cannon fodder could not bear such a large casualty riot. Not only did they not attack the Song people, but they fought back, killing many Liao troops.In a few days, the [-] army fell apart on the way from Suzhou to Fuzhou.

This is not over yet, the rioting tribal army rushed out of the peninsula and scattered, spreading the flames of rebellion in all directions.In the past two years, due to the war and the labor of the people and money in the Liao Kingdom, the tax burden was extremely heavy, and the people had already brewed a rebellion. Now a few sparks ignited the powder kegs, and a large-scale rebellion suddenly broke out. It was a mess, and then Zhongjing and Nanjing.Now that there are already wars everywhere in the Liao Kingdom, there is no need to attack Xixia.

If the Liao Kingdom does not come to make trouble, it is a good time to solve the Xixia issue.Taking advantage of the Dongfeng victory, Li Buqi asked Hedong Road to immigrate 1 people to Linfu.This was agreed with the emperor at the beginning, even if Han Qi and the others were unwilling to help Li Buqi, they could only hold their noses and work.If they dared to play tricks, Li Buqi really dared to put down the pick immediately.

Now the common people know that Shaanxi has won a big victory, and the honorable ministers know that the edge of Shaanxi is a place where money can be made. Anyone who dares to fight against Li Buqi at this time will just wait to be drowned by spit.

In this era, the population is the combat power. At the same time when the Hedong Road emigrated to Linfu, Shaanxi also immigrated from the mountainous areas to Yanzhou and Qingjian City.The confidence for all these actions comes from the abundance of food and grass in Yanyan Road.In the past, there were no profitable specialties in the fringe areas, so merchants seldom arrived, and the government could only lure merchants to transport grain to these places with salt and tea.However, the supply of woolen fabrics, leather products, glass products, meat, and oak for making wooden barrels in these places is in short supply. If merchants want to trade in these places, they must transport food and other materials in and exchange them for food and materials.In this way, the merchants will not have empty vehicles when they come and go, which is not a problem for them.

The grain transported to the edge was naturally purchased by the government, and the managers of those factories went to the Jingzhao Mansion to collect the corresponding money.Li Buqi's handover solved the problem of insufficient food and grass in Yanyan Road.However, this is due to the unique environment of Yanyan Road. Other roads on the edge cannot copy this method. They still need to develop production locally. Therefore, in Li Buqi's plan, Yanyan Road is responsible for the main task of conquering Hengshan.

In order to achieve Li Buqi's strategic goals, the staff team formed by Li Buqi is operating efficiently, and hundreds of people work closely together to solve the military ration problem in Shaanxi.By sifting through information, Li Buqi will attack a local tycoon in a month, and impeach an official who has gone too far with clear facts in a month. The power and influence of Jingzhao began to measure land and determine the number of acres in order to increase taxes.

On Yanyan Road, there are more than 50 staff officers who are stationed in the border area as councilors of the government. Their job is to inspect the land conditions and use the land-lost peasants recruited to farm in suitable places. .Li Buqi got a piece of land when he used the money from the Fu'an Bank to save Shaanxi from the famine, and he has successfully operated the farm model. Now these people are also familiar with it, but they have added armed protection.Li Buqi was going to wait for the success of the farm on Yanyan Road, so he pushed all the way around the edge.

In addition, Fu'an Bank is also spreading strongly in various parts of Shaanxi, providing low-interest loans to the people to resist the tyranny of officials and businessmen.With Li Buqi's huge capital and the support of the emperor, no one dared to stand up for him for a while.However, the emperor seems to have noticed the dominance of the Fu'an consortium in the capital market, or someone said something to him. A letter from the capital said that Bianliang had opened four or five banks within half a year, all of which were the same as the Fu'an bank. The business model has poached a lot of personnel and equity from Fu'an.

Zhao Sheng also realized the importance of capital to war, so he was worried about other banks competing with Fu'an, but Li Buqi didn't care.The success of Fu'an lies in the close integration of capital and industry, the investment channels with stable profits and stable returns. Can other people who start banks really learn this?Li Buqi expressed doubts.

At the same time, [-] Xiang troops transferred from Jingdong and Jingxi Roads completed their training and formed five engineering regiments, which were stationed in various roads to be responsible for building forts and roads.Since these engineers can work off-duty throughout the year and have a certain combat effectiveness, it is roughly estimated that the number of servants who need to be transferred every year to build the city can be reduced by half.

At the end of June, which was the hottest time of the year, Li Buqi went out of Jingzhao Mansion again, turning around one by one, checking the homework he had left for the various commanders.

The characteristics of the Song army's defense line in Shaanxi can be summed up in four words as long lines with multiple points. Once the Xixia army concentrates its forces to attack a point, Li Buqi will inevitably be in a hurry.Conversely, this is the same for Xixia.Therefore, only by striving for the initiative can we avoid trouble.

In order to gain the initiative, Li Buqi ordered in April to select three to four key points that are easy to capture or must be removed, and formulate a battle plan to capture them in the offensive from early autumn of this year to next spring.His requirements for the results of the battle are not high, he only needs to confirm that one to two thousand enemies can be wiped out, and one or two Xixia strongholds that are relatively threatening are eliminated, and he also promised to equip all parties with powerful weapons for this battle.But he had very detailed requirements for the content of the plan, such as the local terrain, hydrology, population situation, enemy deployment, how the Song army would gather in concealment, how to march, how to deal with unexpected situations, and so on.

This plan alone made Wulu Shuai Chen miserable, Wen Chen couldn't do it, and Wu Chen couldn't do it.This thing can't be discussed in the market, and even a powerful character like Pang Ji is speechless to the sky. Fortunately, he has a few reliable generals like Zhang Shouyue under his command, so he came up with this plan.

Through the planning this time, Li Buqi also saw a few good seedlings from various officials, such as Yan Zhun, the governor of Jingyuan Road, and Gu Shi, the Jiyi character of Huanqing Road, who are both courageous and talented. Very careful people, it may be of great use to investigate.As the saying goes, Maxima often exists, but Bole does not. If he does not allow various parties to make plans, these talents will probably be buried.

At the end of July, before Qiugaomafei Xixia invaded, as soon as Li Buqi returned to Jingzhao Mansion, he issued an order to attack the Xixia people from crossing the border.Over the years, most of the guards in the Song Dynasty have done more things than less things, causing the Xixia people to blatantly invade the Song land, so there is nothing wrong with using this excuse to start a war.Jingyuan Road was the first to respond, and immediately began to expel the Xixia people. The Xixia people naturally wanted to resist, so it was justifiable to start the war.Huanqing Road sent [-] troops to burn three Xixia villages before the Xixia people understood.

Most of the stockades built by Xixia people are still made of wood, which is very simple.Li Buqi equipped each group with kerosene bombs fired from crossbows, and the "tiger squatting cannon" imitated from Qi Jiguang's Qi's army. On the wall or in the stockade, the stockade is basically finished.Then Song Jun waited for the Xixia people in the village to come out, and then bombarded them with tiger squats and greeted them with strong bows and crossbows.

Naturally, the Xixia people couldn't ignore this matter, but when they gathered their soldiers and horses to kill them, the Song army had already withdrawn to Huanzhou and built their own fortress at a safe distance.This made the Xixia people fight, retreating and aggrieved, and stalemate there for a while.

Then Qin Fenglu suddenly sent troops to attack the fringe tribes who were attached to Xixia. It seemed that there was some big move, so the Xixia people had to pay attention.

Then there is Yanyan Road, and then Qinfeng Road, Huanqing Road...

From early autumn to the next spring, smoke was everywhere on the border between Song and Xia.

Since the Song army only aimed to kill and injure the Xixia army and destroy its stronghold, they waited for an opportunity and retreated immediately after a hit, making the tactics such as cutting off food roads and setting up ambushes used by the Xixia army useless. Even if they chased them, the Song army would not easily Going out to fight made the Xixia people have nowhere to go.

This is just a battle of wheels. This is the first time that the Xixia people have encountered the situation where the Song army cooperated with each other. They can't figure out the situation at all. The Xixia army is exhausted.For a country with little war potential, this slow bleeding is all the more terrifying.

(End of this chapter)

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