Volume Four, Chapter 57: Heaven Shaking (2)
The north of Huangwei Mountain is full of mountains and fields, and there are Jurchen camps. Every night, there is a bonfire like a sea, but looking down at the dangerous military camp on the mountain is terrifying.
This way is Zonghan’s personal town, because it crosses Huangwei Mountain and goes straight into the Fenhe Valley, which is convenient for the passage of the army. Moreover, the passes here have a more defensive system than the dangerous defense at Yanmen Pass, and it also seems a little simpler.
Whenever during the day, you can see the Jurchen horses galloping around, but they go around to collect food and fodder. At night, there are also fires walking like dragons, shuttleing back and forth to intimidate the morale of the defenders in front of you.
With the advantage of military strength, the Jurchen horses scattered very wide on the front, driving the ragged and endlessly equipped Cangtou Bus and other auxiliary troops to test along the vast front, looking for whether there are passable mountain paths and bypass the roads of the military camp. As long as the flaws are found, the Jurchen elites who have been waiting will flock in and tear the gap into larger and larger until they can no longer be blocked.
In addition to finding flaws, a series of tentative battles broke out. The Jurchen army was mainly composed of auxiliary troops and tribal troops, finding some military camps that looked slightly isolated and surrounded and attacked.
The method of attacking the village is when there are not enough equipment. The first choice of the barbarians is to expel Shengkou and fill the trenches with their lives. However, after Xiao Yan transferred the business and transportation of Yunnei, he finally retreated and adopted a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. At this moment, Yunnei had no enough Shengkou to plunder and drive the Jurchens. Even if he plundered some, he still had to work in the camp. He used thousands of lives to fill the military camp, which was not the Jurchens and the Jurchens, and there was no such condition.
You cannot break the village by brutal methods. The only choice is to shoot a strong bow and crossbow to cover it. Then use the auxiliary army to carry the side cards to cover it. Then fill the trenches and pile up soil, open the attack channel, and then use simple long ladder ants to rush up.
This method of attacking the village is of low effectiveness, and you can imagine. First of all, it is not to mention whether you can use a strong bow and crossbow to suppress the defenders on the village wall. Even if you try to fill the road with hundreds of lives, the ants will spread out. Whether you can continue to invest in troops to occupy the village wall is a huge problem. The defenders are concentrated and are not disturbed by the attacking firepower. You can easily regain the village wall that was robbed for a while with just one counterattack.
Or do patiently and meticulously do local work, split the military camps you want to capture, and then patiently consume the troops and equipment in the military camps little by little.
But how could the defense system run by Han Shizhong just let the Jurchen Tartars attack? They can help each other, and if they are attacked, they will support each other. Moreover, the defenders are a strong army that dares to go out to the camp to fight in the field. With the Jurchen Tartars' attack level, it is really difficult to open up the defense line here.
The Jurchen Tartars spread their heads and tried repeatedly, but they did not find a mountain road that could pass through certain military horses without defense. After trying to attack several small military camps, they lost a lot of lives under the attack of guards such as arrows, crossbows, and gray bottles. They never touched the wall of the camp.
He deliberately exposed his flaws to lure the defenders to fight. The defenders came out, but relying on the formation of military camps to fight. In the field battle of Yicheng, he instead defeated the attacking troops, mainly the auxiliary army, and fought with the troops.
If there is a strong army to guard this defense line, it can be said to be as solid as a golden force. Moreover, the Song Dynasty could afford to consume more than the Jurchens. The Jurchens could only afford to consume the broken Yunnei, while the Song Dynasty was backed by Hedong Road and also had a lot of land to transport military resources and fodder. As long as the Jurchens were exhausted, Han Shizhong would not dare to launch a large-scale counterattack then!
The defense line here is stable, and Han Shizhong is not even worried about Yue Fei. The area around Yanmen Pass has the dangerous terrain and the strong pass are still above his own place!
However, the Jurchen Tatars exerted the front line in this way, and repeatedly tried and attacked the tribes that could be consumed by the auxiliary army and tribes. However, there was also an advantage, which was that they firmly attracted the main force of the Shenwu Changsheng Army, which was led by Han Shizhong, to the defense line.
For defense and attack, one must maintain a complete line of defense. The defenders actually consume more troops than offense and defense. Because the attacking side can choose the key points at will and concentrate their forces to attack and fight. The defenders must maintain the integrity of the entire defense system and cannot be completely unprepared anywhere. Once a little shaken, the highly mobile Jurchen army may make a breakthrough and advance, and the entire line of defense will be shaken!
Fighting on the defense line can certainly be free to work. However, the troops are firmly tied to the defense line. The Shenwu Changsheng Army has more than 16,000 main soldiers, together with the auxiliary army, are distributed among military camps of all sizes. A certain reserve team must be concentrated just in case. Even if Han Shizhong wants to take into account the direction of the Kelan Army, he really cannot draw any troops. The only hope is that the Yan King's army, which has already set out to fight, will arrive quickly.
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The morning breeze was strong and he crawled into the enemy building of a famous Gaoyan Village in the south of Huangwei Mountain, making a whimper.
Han Shizhong stayed in this enemy building.
Zong Han personally led the army to face him. No matter how broad Han Shizhong was, he dared not not to visit the front line and grasped the movements of the Jurchen army at any time. Gaoyanzhai was located in the middle, and there was enough water to drink horses. The terrain was slightly wider and flat, so he could lead the army and horses to help him. Therefore, he chose this place to set up a central army.
As soon as the sky was clear, Han Shizhong jumped off the Hu bed and rubbed his face hard. The personal guard had already come to a pot of hot soup for him to wash. Outside the enemy building, there were also Sima, the military assistant generals, waiting to repay the situation last night.
While wiping the square scarf on his face, Han Shizhong ordered without raising his head: "Let them come in and repay the military information one by one!"
The guards opened the door and the cool morning breeze immediately surged in, which made Han Shizhong feel energetic. The generals waiting outside and Sima, who were in charge of all matters, entered one by one, and returned the military information from yesterday to the present.
"…………The Tartars besieged Shangdengzhai, and the Jurchen army was the main force of the Bird Supplement Army and the Mihu. The Jurchen army and horses supervised the formation. After a battle, they killed thirty-seven, and captured the first survivor, but did not ask about the situation of Bird's military. The Jurchen Tartars supervised the formation had about as many sceptics as they could, so they could not catch up. They turned around and left."
"…………… Jiasi Village was attacked last night. The Tartars wanted to set fire to the walls of the village. They were found while carrying firewood and crossing the trench. A burst of arrows shot over. Then the Jiasi Village raised the fire and went out of the village to fight in the infantry battle. The heading level 51 was beheaded. There was a level 3 of the Zhen Jurchen. The commander of the left wing commander Mo Cunzhong asked for rewards for the defenders of Jiasi Village."
"……………………… Last night, another 3,000 stones of grain and fodder were transported, and 27,000 bunches of grass were transported. There were also four hundred long axes sent by the Hedong Railway Supervision, but the iron smelted from Hedong was not as crisp as the weapons sent from Bianliang. Please tell us whether the four hundred long axes were collected or distributed.
"…………The transport trucks were broken, and the animals on Hedong Road were also insufficient. The placing commander said that he had done his best. If this continues, I am afraid that the food, fodder, and all kinds of military supplies will be reduced."
Han Shizhong snorted, not wanting to deal with these trivial matters.
Since retreating to the Hedong edge of the border, these sporadic wars have been happening. The beheadings are basically tens of levels, and they are basically auxiliary troops. Last night, the four camps of Jia were beheaded fifty-one, and there were three Zhenjurchens in it, so they reported to ask for the prize. When did the Shenwu Ever Winning Army actually fall to this level?
As for the transfer of the rear, although the war is logistics. No qualified general does not care about this aspect. However, the defense line here has been operating since the Shenwu Changsheng Army arrived in Hedong. It has accumulated food and grass military funds. Now it is not only piled up like a mountain, but also has no shortage. Even the transfer of the rear is cut off. It consumes more energy than the Jurchen Tartars in person.
The defense line is stable and there is no shortage of military resources. Logically speaking, as the general, he should be satisfied. However, Han Shizhong has not been able to sleep well these days. Every night, he is always worried about where something happened! The biggest worry is that he is west of his home. So he always has a military horse in his hand, ready to support that direction at any time. According to Han Shizhong's thoughts, the Zhe family's military horse can be considered a battle. Even if the Jurchens break through the border from the direction of Kelanzhou, the Zhe family can at least support it for a while? At that time, he turned around and rushed back to support it, it should be too late?
Just as Han Shizhong was about to cheer up and deal with these fine objects in the army, he heard the sound of fast horse hooves suddenly sounded outside. For a moment, many cavalry rushed towards the middle army of Gaoyanzhai!
Han Shizhong pushed away the general in front of him who was still waiting for his instructions and strode out of the enemy building. Standing on the wall of the village, he looked up and saw more than ten cavalrymen, dancing with flags on their backs, galloping towards them! Before entering Gaoyan Village, he shouted loudly: "The Tartars came out of the entire line and attacked the village!"
Han Shizhong was stunned and turned around and shouted: "Put some armor! Where is Niu Gao? Where is Qu Da Si? Come up with someone and take a look!"
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Countless horns were whistling. Teams of Jurchen horses seemed to cover the range within their sight. On the earth, dust was rolling, and teams of Jurchen horses rushed towards the south. In addition to the auxiliary army and tribal troops, there were also Jurchen soldiers, surging like iron streams, reflecting metallic light after metal.
Thousands of soldiers and horses, with auxiliary troops and tribal troops as vanguards, drilled into the thousands of ravines of Huangwei Mountain, and at least at the same time, attacked dozens of military camps! More than 10,000 or 20,000 troops were used? And there were also brigades coming from the north continuously!
This offensive was launched before the sky was clear. It was a mess in front of dozens of military camps. However, the Jurchen army did not care about life on this full-line offensive, but just stubbornly fought in front of the military camp. One team could not attack, and the other team went up again. They also built a camp in front of the military camp, as if they were preparing for a long-term siege!
When Han Shizhong arrived at the front line, the war had lasted for half a day. Han Shizhong arrived at a beacon tower on a high mountain, and the scene in front of him was clear.
Before many military camps, the sound of killing was shocking the sky. The Jurchen horses rolled up layer by layer like tide. In the military camps, there were many strong bows and crossbows, which were densely fired like locusts. Some military camps also had stone cannons, and the polished stone bullets flew out and fell into the dense Jurchen army, which was covered with blood.
After the Jurchen army attacked and attacked the wall of the village, the gates of the military camp were opened from time to time. The heavy armored infantry warriors of the Shenwu Ever Victory Army came out with their long weapons. The cold light swept, and layers of Jurchen army killed and dispersed the Jurchen army that rushed to the wall of the village!
The life consumed by the Jurchen army during the day was several times more than before!
What Han Shizhong saw was such a scene of fierce fighting on the whole line. The Jurchen army still looked like they were determined to fight like this. Even if they were filled with human lives and teeth, they would still have to chew the defense line of the Shenwu Changsheng Army!
Niu Gao, who was standing beside Han Shizhong, had his blood rushing and he brimmed with boxing: "Master, just fight like this! Pull the central army up and accompany the Jurchen Tartars to the end! See how many lives these dogs and Tartars have!"
Qu Gai behind Niu Gao could not stop nodding, and this sentence was also deeply rooted in his heart. Following Han Shizhong, apart from fighting one or two cavalry battles in Yunnei and cutting off several Tartar heads, it was difficult to see blood at other times. It was already boring for birds. The Jurchen Tartars seemed to be fighting hard this time, so why don’t they kill them?
Han Shizhong's face was as deep as water.
Such an offensive seems tragic. However, the defense system built by the Song Dynasty, coupled with the strong army such as the Shenwu Eternal Victory Army, cannot be filled with human lives? And it cannot last long, how many days can such an offensive last? How could it be done by famous generals in such a light loss of life?
The mountain wind floated over with the sound of shouting and killing, but Han Shizhong was shocked.
This is to hold the main force of the Shenwu Changsheng Army! In this offensive, in addition to the more than 2,000 elite central troops he also has, other forces must be firmly nailed on the defense line, at least not before the offensive declines. The Jurchen Tatars had to nail their main force to the front even if they sacrificed so many lives. Needless to say, there is an opportunity for other places to take advantage of it!
There is no problem with Yue Fei, so the west has opened a gap for the Jurchen Tartars!
What exactly does the Zhe family army, who is the thief, eat?
Han Shizhong suddenly turned around and waved his hand and ordered: "Send the cavalry out to inquire about the military situation in the west! Repay quickly!"
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In a slightly worn-out armor, Zong Han looked back and looked east, watching the distant Virgin Marshals driving the auxiliary army and tribal troops to come forward and join the flesh and blood grinder before the Song army camp.
And what was rolling westward in front of him was all the army dominated by the Zhen Jurchens!
This time, the army of 100,000 went south, 60,000 from the Zhen Jurchens. In front of Yanmen Pass, he led 40,000 directly. Except for the remaining 10,000, led by Xi Yin, who drove the tribe army of the auxiliary army to drag down the Southern Dynasties in front of him, the other elite troops headed westward and headed south along the gap opened by Silver Technique!
Sure enough, the Southern Dynasty's army was still what he knew. Although a strong army suddenly emerged, the others were still vulnerable!
Then, let’s see which of us is moving faster! (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!