Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 293 Weapon Proving Ground

The spring of Jiayou's third year has just started, and a big drama prepared by Li Buqi is about to start, but Bianliang suddenly comes to order Zhao Sheng to return to Beijing to report on his work.Zhao Sheng asked Li Buqi aggrievedly: "Teacher, if I go back to report on my duties, I will miss such a big battle. Can you please take back my father's order, and I will return to Beijing after the big battle?"

Li Buqi chuckled and said, "I guarantee you to be the deputy envoy of the Shaanxi Five-Road System. You should return to Beijing to report on your duties before you can receive a new appointment. Besides, you are old enough, and someone is eager to marry you .”

Just now, more than a dozen students from the Armed Forces Academy graduated early and were assigned to the Shaanxi Army, which will inevitably bring news from Beijing.Li Buqi was sure that Zhao Sheng must have known the news that the Fourth Prince had finally impregnated a woman.

Sure enough, Zhao Sheng smiled bitterly, and asked full of thoughts: "I don't know what kind of woman you will choose for me?"

But Li Buqi said: "What? Haven't you taken a fancy to the girl up to now? Then you haven't returned to Yanzhou to organize the troops these days. It's been more than a month. What are you always doing in Jingzhao Mansion after the meeting? All day long Like losing your soul?"

Zhao Sheng hurriedly said: "So the teacher already knows?"

Li Buqi said: "I don't know. I just see that you are not normal. Tell me, which girl do you like? How did you meet? How many times have you met?"

Zhao Sheng smiled, and confessed honestly: "It was the young lady of Yang Shi's family who joined the army of Jingzhao Mansion. She met her when she was watching the lanterns at night in Shangyuan. After that, she happened to meet her twice."

You squat in front of other people's house every day, and what do you say "coincidentally"?
It took Li Buqi a long time to remember that Yang Shi looks like a fairy, and his daughter should be born well.Li Buqi said: "If you really like it, then I will mention it to Yang Shi. But the official family still needs you to ask for it yourself."

Zhao Sheng asked with a guilty conscience: "Can I ask for it?"

Yao Gang said, "So many people don't want you to get help because of marriage, so why didn't they persuade the officials to allow you this marriage?"

Zhao Sheng patted his head: "That's right! If that's the case, I'll go and beg my father."

When the spring breeze blows in early February, it seems that Qinfeng and Huanqing roads in Shaanxi suddenly stopped.In the eyes of the Xixia people, this is normal. It is the busy season for the Song people at this time, and everything must be centered on agricultural production.However, the atmosphere on the border between Liao and Xixia became tense, and the tribal cavalry of Liao invaded the Xia territory several times and cut off traffic, which is a bit abnormal.

In view of the fact that Li Buqi spent money to hire Liao tribes to help in the war last year, this incident immediately aroused the vigilance of Wuzang Huopang. Not only him, but basically all Xixia generals could feel that something was going to happen in the east.Looking at the large-scale expansion of the Huaining Village and Suiping Village next to Suizhou by the Song Army and the continuous testing of Suizhou's reality, the Song Army's intentions are obvious.

The Song army's occupation of Suizhou can open up the connection between Yanzhou and Fuzhou.Apart from Xing, Ling, Liang, and Su prefectures, the areas with the most developed agriculture in Xixia are Hengshan, Suizhou, Mizhi, and Jialu.If the Song army occupied Suizhou, Mizhi and Jialu would also be in danger, which cannot be allowed by Wu Zang.While ordering the left wing of the Brave Army Division to deploy troops to strengthen the border guards, he personally mobilized the army to move eastward to prepare for the battle.

Because Zhao Sheng did not catch up with the Suide War, which is known as the decisive battle of the Song-Xia War, he has always been worried about it, and has devoted himself to collecting documents about this battle for many years for analysis.Many years later, he wrote a book about the Song and Xia Wars, which analyzed the Suide War in detail.

Li Buqi's combat purpose is to consume as much of the Xixia people's vitality as possible on a preset battlefield, paving the way for future advances in Hengshan.Therefore, he deliberately let the Xixia people see his intention to attack Suide to lure the main force of the Xixia army.Wuzang Xiepang hoped to wipe out part of the Song army, deter the Song army, and also wanted to take the opportunity to consume domestic hostile forces that did not agree with him, so he happily went to Suide.

Later generations discovered an embarrassing detail from Zhao Sheng's book. The reason for this great battle involving more than [-] people was largely due to the fact that the commanders of both sides—Li Buqi and Wuzang Huaipang— — want to experiment with their new toys.

At that time, Li Buqi trained [-] militiamen after a year of hard work, which not only became the most reliable combat force in his hands, but also an experimental force for him to establish a pure firearms army.At the beginning, this army was equipped with more than a thousand hand guns and three-eye guns. Later, matchlock guns equipped with rough handguards and handles replaced the hand guns and three-eye guns. In the winter of the second year of Jiayou, they can be called authentic matchlocks. The weapon of the gun is finally equipped with this army.In the Song Dynasty, apart from the Zhenwu Army and the Shenji Battalion guarding the capital, only the Shaanxi militiamen were equipped with [-] such muskets.

In terms of artillery, this militia is equipped with three 18mm bronze cannons with 7.5 times the caliber, 17 5.5mm bronze cannons with 12 times the caliber and 24mm 4 times the caliber in addition to the muzzle gun and the tiger crouching cannon. Twelve bronze cannons and two experimental 12mm mortars.

In addition to tube-shaped firearms of various calibers, the militia has an engineer battalion, which is responsible for firing some weird weapons produced by the military supervisor, such as the god fire flying crow, fire dragon water, swarm of bees and thunder, so this battalion also Equipped with ballistas and trebuchets.

Li Buqi has always said to Zhao Sheng that "the battlefield is the best testing ground for testing weapons", so he intentionally lured the Xixia people here to test the effectiveness of his gunpowder army.

It's the same over there.During the one-year war, the Xixia army also obtained some firecrackers, torsion ballistas, and trebuchets, and imitated them.Before the Suide War, the immediate troops of Wuzang Huaipang and the most elite iron kite had equipped more than 2000 hand guns, and even began to equip large-caliber fire guns. The Xixia Poxi Army was also equipped with crossbows and torsion stones machine.Many Xixia generals, including Wuzang Yepang, also hope to see how powerful these new weapons are in the war.

The two commanders have the same thoughts, so the mode of this battle is destined to be different from the previous ones.

According to the inside story disclosed by Zhao Sheng, Li Buqi had already prepared a substitute who looked very similar to him long before he went to Shaanxi.Before launching the campaign, he asked his substitute to stay in Jingzhao Mansion instead of him, but he quietly sneaked into the army of Qingjian City.

The Song army stationed in Qingjian City to cover and build the fortress, so they didn't intend to cover up too much, and the Xixia side had already detected it.Therefore, Wuzang Huopang wants to imitate Yuan Hao to ambush the Song army. After arriving in Longzhou in mid-March, he takes a short rest and immediately encircles Qiangzhai and Anding Fort in an attempt to lure the Song army in Qingjian City to guard along Tuyan River or Yan'an Mansion. The army came to rescue along the Qingshui River.

But Li Buqi saw through the scheme of Wuzang Yepang, and imitated Mao Zedong's "you hit yours, I will hit mine". After learning that the Xixia army appeared, he immediately sent troops to Suizhou, posing as if to attack Suizhou.

Li Buqi dared to do this because he understood that the Xixia people's logistics organization is relatively poor. It is spring, and the food for the army may still be able to support it for a while, but the grass has just grown and it is not enough to graze horses on a large scale. Spread a hundred miles to graze the horses?The Xixia people mainly use cavalry, but the cavalry consumes too much, and it is difficult to stay in one place without sufficient preparations. This time, the Xixia people can only stay here for half a month at most, and they can only fight quickly, so it is impossible to have enough Patiently waiting for Song Jun to throw himself into the trap.Sure enough, after learning that the main force of the Song army was going straight to Yanzhou, Wuzang Yepang had no choice but to lead the army preparing to set up an ambush for a long-distance attack, and caught up with the Song army led by Li Buqi by the Huaining River.

After the Song army discovered that the Xixia army was rolling in, it immediately shrank, leaned against Huaining village and stood up for self-defense.The Xixia army arrived continuously and surrounded the Song army.

On March 22, Meizang Pang personally led 5000 Xixia cavalry and 5 infantry before arriving at Huaining Village. Wan joined forces with him to fight against Li Buqi with an army of [-], the governor of Huaining Village, Fuyan Road Duzhe Jishi led [-] infantry and cavalry stationed in Huaining Village, [-] people in Suiping Village, and thousands of bows and arrows in the two villages. With a total of [-] people in hand, a great battle kicked off.

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