Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 67 Other children have toys, why don't I have them!

"Fu Xuan, we are 26 years old this year, and we are in our prime. If we are lucky enough to bury our bones in this green mountain, our lives will not be in vain." Yue Fei pointed the iron spear in his hand at the entrance of the canyon, and said with a particularly complicated mood.

When Yue Fei saw Crescent City, he knew that defending Crescent City would be a mortal situation!

Crescent City was short of food and food, and the [-] soldiers defending the city had no fighting spirit. I was afraid that the defenders of Crescent City would abandon the city and flee as soon as the golden soldiers arrived at the city.

Yue Fei didn't have high expectations for them.

Fu Xuan accompanied Yue Fei to stand on the hill.Both of them were leading their tall horses.

Looking down from the hills, on the dim stone walls of the rugged Xingzhou Canyon, there are winding plank roads.

In the depths of the canyon in summer, there are rivers with a depth of three feet, turbulent rivers, and countless hidden reefs. During most of the year, people use plank roads to and from the Grand Canyon.

The narrowest part of the Xingzhou Grand Canyon, Qingtianyixian Gorge, stands on the canyon in summer and looks down at the feet. The water flows continuously, and there is a waterfall not far away. The stream is crystal clear and cool to the bone.

In the gorge, not far from each other, there are stones stuck in the throat, and each stuck is a waterfall. Under each waterfall, there is a small stone pool of different sizes, ranging from three to five feet deep to one foot shallow.Dog-toothed.

During the rainy season, there are groups of waterfalls, which are very spectacular. At that time, let alone people walking, it is difficult for apes to climb.

The gorge is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.

But it's winter!The surface of the water was frozen, and Wanyan Zongwang's followers could pass through.

This natural moat is now a thoroughfare.

There are many low stone houses on the top of the mountain in the distance. Behind the stone houses is a palace with golden glazed tiles, shining brightly in the morning sun.According to legend, it was the barracks where Huang Chao was stationed at the end of the Tang Dynasty. You can faintly see the horse racing track, and the golden glazed tiles are Huang Chao's golden palace.

Looking at the terrain map, Fu Xuan pointed to the pass at the foot of the mountain with his horsewhip and said, "The south of the canyon is Tianming Pass. Even if the pass is in disrepair for a long time, it can at least block Wanyan Zongwang's footsteps for three to five days. By then, attack back and forth. , Wanyan Zongwang's army must have suffered heavy losses."

"Then to the north of the mountain is the only way Wanyan Zongwang must pass. The Qingtian Yixian Gorge, which is about [-] steps wide and [-] steps long, can bypass Tianming Pass. After that, there is a road all the way. It takes less than ten days to reach Maling Pass. .”

"Yue Shuai, why don't we go to Maling Pass and stick to it? From Xingzhou to Taihang, the mountain road is difficult and extremely rugged. If we stick to Maling Pass, we can stop Wanyan Zongwang's goal of fighting Zong Han."

Yue Fei nodded, agreeing with what Fu Xuan said.

After looking at the map yesterday, he knew that the Xingzhou Canyon in winter was a thoroughfare and there was no danger to defend.

The tactics of retreating to defend Maling Pass are very practical.

But Yue Fei is more aware of the role of Maling Pass.

Yue Fei pointed to the location of Maling Pass and said: "We can certainly preserve our strength by retreating to Maling Pass, but it also hinders the pace of Zhong's army rushing to help Taiyuan. After all, there is only one pass. We blocked Wanyan Zongwang and Zhong Zhong's army. The family army rushed to the aid of Taiyuan."

"If you block Maling Pass, you will also block the way for the Zhong family army to advance! It's a dilemma."

"Wouldn't it be better for us to leave the pass when the Zhong family's army arrives outside Maling Pass, and attack Yan Zongwang back and forth?" Fu Xuan said immediately.

"Iron Buddha, people wear armor and harness. Its value is extraordinary!" Yue Fei is very envious of the Iron Buddha of Jin Kingdom, which was once the unique skill of the Han family.

In fact, whether it is Xixia's iron kite, Liao's Tielin army, or Song's Burenjia, or even the current Tiefutu, they are all born out of the Xuanjia army in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the smelting technology is the same. The veins are all cold forged armor with mountain patterns.

However, due to the differences in iron mines in various places, the quality of the armor is uneven, among which the stepper armor of the Song people is the weakest.

"If you want to defeat the Iron Buddha, you will consume a lot of elites, and this is the last place that is not suitable for the Iron Buddha to charge." Yue Fei said with a sigh. .

Pointing to the canyon less than [-] meters wide with his horsewhip, he said, "Although there are mountains behind, the roads are easy to walk and wide. The narrowest place is more than [-] steps away. This is the most suitable place. Terrain!"

Fu Xuan opened the map and looked at it for a long time, and gave Yue Fei a thumbs up. His vision is absolutely unique.

This is indeed the most suitable place for combat.Wait a minute, are you going to fight in the Xingzhou Canyon?Instead of retreating to Maling Pass?

However, he suddenly thought of Yue Fei's first sentence just now that he was lucky enough to bury his bones in this green mountain, and his life was not in vain, and he finally understood Yue Fei's thoughts.

Stop Wanyan Zongwang's troops at the Grand Canyon!Block at least three to five days!

Then wait until Zhong Pu arrives and annihilate Wanyan Zongwang.

"That's heavy cavalry! Yue Shuai!" Fu Xuan's hands were shaking. There were only 6000 of them, and there were still a bunch of chariots that hadn't passed any battlefield tests.

The opponent is the founding elite, at least [-] elite cavalry, at least [-] Iron Buddhas are there!

Although the narrow terrain is not conducive to the deployment of the main force of the remaining kidnappers, the two thousand Iron Buddhas are enough to charge and tear their defense line!

Yue Fei nodded and said, "That's heavy cavalry! It's a pity that I don't have heavy cavalry in Song Dynasty. Otherwise, heavy cavalry can counter the enemy and defeat the enemy."

What is the power of an armored army equipped with armor and harness?

In the past, Li Shimin, Emperor Shizong of the former Tang Dynasty, used five hundred Xuanjia troops to attack Dou Jiande's one hundred thousand soldiers!

Heavy cavalry is so fierce.

The Tiefutu's men and horses weighed more than 500 kilograms in total, and at the speed of five steps in an instant, wherever it went, it was like a giant hammer, cutting through all the enemy's formations!

The configuration of the heavy cavalry is a load-bearing horse, which is used for charging, one horse is used to transport the armor of the people and horses, and the other horse is used to drive and alternate with the consigned horses.It is called Sanma Bingdi.

The supplies consumed are about sixteen times more than that of an ordinary infantry.

The mountain-pattern cold-forged armor has an excellent defense effect on various weapons. Except for the heavy crossbow, there is no weapon that can effectively break through this kind of iron armor.

On the basis of the Xuanjia army's outer Xuanjia, Tiefutu added another layer of inner armor, and padded the compartment.

Even if it is a heavy infantry, if they want to block the charge of the heavy cavalry, they will die together.

Blunt weapon armor is good, but the production cost of blunt weapon is extremely expensive, the head is heavy, and without long-term training, how can it be possible to operate the blunt weapon satisfactorily?
If you train five blunt weapon soldiers, you can probably train one heavy cavalry.

If you have money to train soldiers with blunt weapons, why not train heavy cavalry?
Soldiers with blunt weapons are only used to break armor, and due to speed and other reasons, soldiers with blunt weapons cannot achieve a one-for-one battle damage ratio.

The use of heavy cavalry is also very simple.

The light cavalry harassed and disrupted the enemy's formation, while the heavy cavalry accelerated slowly, launching a thunderous blow, and defeated the opponent with one hammer.

In the face of absolute strength, any fancy fists and embroidered legs are useless.

This is the power of heavy cavalry.

The value of each heavy cavalry is about [-] cows, and the soldiers themselves need a lot of long-term training to become a heavy cavalry rider.

This is also one of the reasons why Yue Fei chose to fight the opponent in the canyon. The opponent's light cavalry kidnappers cannot be deployed, which is extremely beneficial to them.

Your own chariot formation will not be disturbed by the opponent, and you can block the pace of the enemy's heavy cavalry.

Marriage officials are all wearing armor, and they are all infantry armor. Compared with the Iron Buddha, the defense is not too weak. When the heavy infantry fights against the heavy cavalry, they fight all by themselves and consume the opponent's elite. Harvest Qingqi.

The terrain here is particularly unfavorable to the cavalry. It is a river course. Although the ground is frozen, it has passed the beginning of spring and the ground has become somewhat warm.

This is geographical advantage.

Looking at the terrain of the canyon, Fu Xuan knew that if he wanted to complete Zhong Pu's strategy of leading the Zhong family army to rescue Taiyuan, he had to stop the opponent here, but he asked a little puzzled: "Heavy cavalry is the country's sharp weapon. Invincible, why do Xixia have iron cavalry, but our Song Dynasty only has infantry?"

With five thousand heavy cavalry, how could Wanyan Zongwang be so arrogant?

Drive more than three thousand miles, go straight to Bianjing City?

Yue Fei shook his head, some things he could say, some things he couldn't say, the heavy cavalry was very powerful, but it was also one of the main reasons that led to the separatism of the feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty.

The consumption of heavy cavalry is too great. Raising a heavy cavalry of 1 people is equivalent to raising an elite army of nearly 20 people.

The consumption was too great. The richness of the former Tang Dynasty could not afford to support a large-scale Xuanjia army. In order to reduce the financial burden, the method of using land instead of salary was chosen, because the army controlled the financial power.

In the former Tang Dynasty under the government military system, the army was indeed very powerful, but the feudal towns were separated, and the people were in dire straits.

The fusion of military power and financial power will only breed separatist forces like feudal vassals and towns.It is not conducive to the unification of the country.

Yue Fei knew very well why the Song Dynasty did not have heavy cavalry, and it was not without horses. 20 years ago, Qingtang became the territory of the Song Dynasty.

Qingtang horses are no worse than Jinren's horses. Why don't we have heavy cavalry?

It was because of Zhao Song's lineage, a deep-rooted fear of losing military power, so that Song had no heavy cavalry.

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