Chapter 646 The Great Wall (2)
Teams of soldiers crossed over the pontoon bridge.↖,
This shows that the information of the Jiaozhi people is still limited, and Wang Ju likes to do the most is to march at night.
It was nearly fifty miles from Gaoling Village to Pingliang Ferry, which was not close. However, the Song army arrived at Gaoling Village very early and the three armies rested. Then they set off in the middle of the night. The cavalry started. Qu Zhen trained thousands of cavalry in Qinzhou. He and Wang Ju only brought 2,500 cavalry, and more than 3,000 cavalry were placed behind.
But he did not arrive first, but slowly arrived at Gaoling Village in the Song army that was trained overseas.
For today's battle.
Then 30,000 infantrymen began to set off.
Wang Ju watched them go to the distance in groups and nodded with satisfaction.
Compared with the northern officers and soldiers, the southern officers and soldiers are much shorter, but after more than a year of training, it can be seen that there have been significant changes in them.
His eyes were very tight and resolute, and some people had murderous aura in their eyes. The military discipline seemed very strict. Although he had been running around in the middle of the night, his team was not messy and neat. It seemed that Yan Da had indeed put in some effort. Even if this army was placed in the north, he could be separated from the imperial guards.
The last team of officers and soldiers stepped across the floating bridge, and Wang Ju wiped the sweat from his forehead.
By the end of February, Jiaozhi began to become hot. Fortunately, the rainy season in Jiaozhi was clearly distinguished. After April, it began to enter a long rainy season, which continued until after autumn. It was hot now, but there were fewer rainy days.
So Wang Ju also needs to end the battle as soon as possible.
During the rainy season, let’s come with another group of people…
The battle ahead began.
More than 3,000 cavalrymen did not rush into Li Changjie's army directly, but kept guerrilla warfare around.
This trick was not invented by Wang Ju. Referring to Yelu Xiu Ge's counter-attack against the Song army, this method was used once to force Cao Bin's tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to march for a few miles a day. When it was Yuanmeng, this tactic was even more perfect.
Li Changjie was gone either.
Jiaozhi is surrounded by tropical areas and dense rainforests, so you can see elephant soldiers, but there are rare cavalrymen. If they are really placed in the rainforest, it will be a paradise for Jiaozhi people. The key is on the north side of Tiande Mansion, which is a mature area. Either flat rivers, highways, or rice fields.
The rice fields are not swamps. The mud depth is limited, and before leaving, Wang Ju deliberately prepared something, that is, the new horseshoe. The difference between it and the original horseshoe is its comparison. If it is a little wider, the pressure will weaken, so the horse will still run happily when it steps into the paddy fields.
Li Changjie had no choice but to let the three armies line up to defend and retreat while defending.
The 20,000 Jiaozhi army advanced with difficulty. Every time they walked a mile, they would leave dead bodies behind.
Moreover, under the sniper of this cavalry, the scouts sent by Li Changjie were unable to inform him of the news. It was not necessarily that all the scouts were killed by the Song army, but that these scouts could not get close to the main army. If it were just the harassment of these cavalry, Li Changjie was still sure to bring the three armies to Tiande Mansion City.
What he was most worried about was that the tens of thousands of Song Dynasty infantry behind him were far away, but if he could endure hardships and march from night, his army's marching speed was dragged down by these thousands of cavalrymen, then the huge Song army would catch up in the afternoon.
He really got it.
Thinking of this, he saw that the three armies took half a day to walk less than ten miles, so Li Changjie had to order: "Leave the baggage and withdraw the troops quickly."
Can't drag on it anymore.
However, at this time, Qu Zhen also came with two thousand cavalrymen.
In this way, although the Jiaozhi army left behind its bulky baggage, the marching speed could not be faster under the snipers of more than 5,000 cavalrymen.
Wang Ju looked at the distance with a telescope, and 20,000 soldiers and horses were right in front of him. He said, "The three armies are resting immediately and eat some dry food."
The 30,000 troops stopped and began to eat dry food and drink water silently.
Wang Ju looked at them and walked here, tens of thousands of soldiers were also exhausted. Wang Ju general Yao Xiong waved over with his hands and said, "You are tired of sending orders to the three armies. You are tired, and the Jiaozhi people are even more exhausted under the encirclement of cavalry. Victory is right in front of you. As long as you break through Tiande Mansion City, half of the wealth in the city will be used to reward!"
"Okay," Yao Xiong called a commander to convey Wang Ju's order.
Many soldiers didn't know how big the Tiande Mansion was, but they knew what the mansion was and what the city was. They thought it was the mansion of the Song Dynasty. So they immediately cheered.
This order came in time and drove away most of the soldiers' fatigue.
Wang Ju immediately ordered the troops to divide into three groups and go first, so that the two groups could encircle.
After the two groups of soldiers left, Wang Ju then quickly pursued the middle lane.
After an hour, the two armies could meet each other with their naked eyes.
Seeing the three dark Song troops behind, and Tiande Mansion City was not far ahead, the Jiaozhi soldiers didn't care what Li Changjie ordered, and they all fled to Tiande Mansion City one by one.
"Kill." Qu Zhen ordered decisively.
This time, more than 5,000 cavalry stopped harassing each other, but rushed directly into the Jiaozhi army and began to fight.
Yao Lin stood on the top of the earthen mountain and saw the situation on the battlefield. He also ordered: "Strike."
He and Huang Jinman led three thousand infantrymen to rush out of the military camp and blocked their heads and attacked.
The 20,000 Jiaozhi troops were quickly torn apart and they started to tangle and kill each other. In fact, if Wang Ju led the rear army to kill, the Jiaozhi troops would undoubtedly be defeated at this time.
It was getting darker and the defenders in the city wanted to go out of the city to rescue him, but when they saw the dark Song army behind him, they stood on the top of the city and were trembling. Who dared to go out of the city to welcome the rescue?
The three Song troops finally rushed over.
At this time, thousands of Jiaozhi troops gathered from the rear at the ferry also came to Tiande Prefecture City.
However, the battle was over. More than 5,000 Jiaozhi troops were shot and killed by the Song army, and more than 7,000 people were captured, only one-third of them, and they escaped into the city by luck.
Li Changjie stood on the top of the city and watched the Song army camp outside the city.
He murmured: "There's trouble."
If the Song Dynasty also learned about Jiaozhi's shamelessness and cruelty, then the blood value would be competed. Where can Jiaozhi compare with the Song Dynasty? Moreover, the Song people built two lines of defense, occupying Liangzhou and Su Maozhou. They can defend when retreating and attack when advancing.
Li Changjie was wrong. Wang Ju competed with the people of Xixia for blood value, but would he compete with Jiaozhi for blood value?
Unless Li Changjie really becomes the God of War.
That night, the three armies rested.
Li Changjie wanted to steal the chicken, but in the middle of the night, he quietly fell more than a thousand soldiers from the city wall with ropes. As a result, as soon as he touched the front of the camp, he was shot back by a series of arrows.
Yao Lin and Wang Ju were sleeping in the central army's tent. When they heard the sound outside, they got up. After looking at it, they didn't even give an order, and then they went back to the tent. Yao Lin said, "Jiaozhi is ridiculous, he actually played night attack in front of Shaobao."
Wang Ju smiled and the two of them went to bed.
The next day, the trouble really came.
Wang Ju did not launch an attack on the city, although this so-called prefecture was only the size of a county town in the Song Dynasty... but divided his troops to plunder.
In fact, who can't be a hooligan? Moreover, there were some impeachment soldiers in the Song Dynasty. They used to belong to Yanda, Yao Lin or other generals. Many of them had been to Shaanxi for plagiarism, and many had been to the border. Not only did Jiaozhi plunder, but Xixia also plunder. The methods were also more clever. They were only strictly guarded on the Shaanxi Route, and they could not plunder and massacre like Jiaozhi. These impeachers had no experience in plundering, but they had seen how the Xixia people plundered... Just imitate it.
Teams of cavalry go out, teams of infantry go out.
In the evening, they escorted countless people and forced them to use their cars to push their homes' food and valuable goods back to the military camp.
Li Changjie and the officials of Tiande Mansion looked at the city, and their eyes were so loud that they were bloodshot. Li Changjie went down the city and it was unwise to go out to fight, but if this continued, the entire outskirts of Tiande Mansion would be swept into a deadly place by the Song army.
So he asked his personal guards to escape to the other side of the river with his souvenirs, and informed the rear, allowing the hesitant reinforcements on the other side of the river to immediately take a detour from Fuliang Mansion to attack Guangyuanzhou from Fuliang Mansion, and use the strategy of surrounding Wei to save Zhao to force the Song army to retreat.
In his opinion, the Song Dynasty brought so many troops, and the troops behind him were relatively empty.
The next day, thousands of Jiaozhi troops on the other side of the river withdrew, and Wang Ju did not ask and continued to send his subordinates to plunder everywhere. In the evening, he escorted many people back to the camp.
After three consecutive days of plunder, Wang Ju conquered the city.
How did Jiaozhi do it, Wang Ju did it.
That is, use mud to pile the earthen mountain, align with the city head, and then rush into the city.
This method is not so clever, and the reason is very simple. Either learn to build Tushan in Xixia, which was a distance from the city wall, and then shoot at the earth mountain. When Wang Ze rebelled, the Song Dynasty also did this when attacking Enzhou. Either learn to study Jiaozhi and block Tushan directly under the city wall, but how many people would die? However, Yongzhou had been defending for dozens of days at that time, and it was estimated that the weapons guarding Yongzhou had been exhausted and the troops were insufficient, which made the Jiaozhi people succeed.
Wang Ju doesn't know how to learn the whole thing. There are still many Jiaozhi troops in Tiandefu City, those who fled into the city, thousands of reinforcements behind them, and some military and civilians in the city.
Therefore, these people were forced to carry mud bags with their knives and arrows and threw them under the city walls.
No matter what the people in their own home are, they can't do it, they can shoot arrows.
The common people threw down the mud bag and fled, but the Song army behind them was even more fierce than the Jiaozhi on the top of the city. As soon as they turned around, the arrow flew over.
At the end of the day, countless people died, and the mountains were piled up higher and higher.
Li Changjie cried in the city.
This is the real retribution.
He summoned his subordinates together and said, "The three armies are ready to break through at night. All the people in the city surrender and do not resist, otherwise the Song army will learn from us...the city massacre!"
Then he plucked the sword and was about to commit suicide, but everyone persuaded him to death.
It was night. The scouts on the tower hurried down and reported: "Shaobao, there is something unusual in the city."
Wang Ju immediately went up to the tower, watched the city with a telescope, and then came down, summoning the generals: "The Jiaozhi people are going to escape."
It is best to leave the city, but in order not to disturb the Jiaozhi army in the city, the orders were secretly taken. At first glance, the vast military camp was the same as before, and the actual orders had been brought to the hands of each instructor.
At the third update, the city gate suddenly opened, and a large number of Jiaozhi troops rushed out and fled eastward. However, the Song army had been prepared for a long time. First, Qu Zhen led the cavalry to block the front, and then Yao Lin and Yao Xiong led the three armies to kill from behind.
Wang Ju, with the remaining rear army, quickly rushed into the city and issued an order: "The three armies will be allowed to move freely until dawn, but one of them must not be burned to avoid damaging property."
This is revenge and a deterrence, because these people have a purpose and must be detained for a while. They cannot be detained during this period, but they must also be allowed to work. If they think that Song Jun is benevolent, that would be bad...
Anyway, Wang Ju couldn't understand this.
The city became hell. When fighting outside the city, nearly half of the more than 10,000 Jiaozhi soldiers were killed, and some were caught. The rest fled in all directions. In the night, there was no way. Then they escorted a small number of prisoners of war into the city. Faced with the situation in the city, Qu Zhen and Yao Lin knew about it, pretended not to see it, and asked their subordinates to join the carnival.
But another battle continued to start.
Nearly 10,000 troops from the other side of Jiaozhi, touching Guangyuanzhou like a thief. However, Guangnan Africa had 30,000 soldiers and 40,000 soldiers. Even if Yanda had not brought back the more than 30,000 troops, the number of troops that could be mobilized by Guangnan West Road reached 60,000.
Everyone touched each other. The veteran general He Bin and his 15,000 Song soldiers also touched Guangyuanzhou. At night, he touched the enemy camp and launched a sudden attack on the Jiaozhi army at dawn.
In fact, the Song army, who had been fully armed after half a year of practical training, did not need to attack, and they also defeated the nearly 10,000 Jiaozhi army calmly.
When the two armies handed over, Jiaozhi once again left more than 3,000 dead bodies and fled back in a panic.
Wang Ju in the east asked some of the Song army to escort the people and seized materials back to Song territory. There were some valuable things in the city and in various villages outside the city, and notified the people near Liangzhou to come and clean up.
Then Wang Ju blocked several ferry crossings with rocks and led his army to the east. There was a relatively prosperous place to the east, Yong'an Prefecture.
Tao Bi, the governor of Yongzhou, also came. He was responsible for urging these people in Jiaozhi to build the Great Wall... (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!