In the early autumn of the 18th year of Jingyuan Dynasty, King Shizong of Jing Dynasty ordered the entire army to complete Yan Alu's order, to use all the strength of the country, and the troops were directed towards Jinling! At the same time, Jing Shizong's five sons, Wang Yanchu, who had already arrived at the southern front, raised 50,000 cavalry and 5 infantrymen.
Wanbei's 50,000-strong army and the entire army of 150,000 people launched a thunderous attack on Chiang Ching's original army.【】
Wherever the troops of Wanyan Chu's army went, the former guards could not resist them! They retreated straight to the Platform Pass, where they could barely stabilize their position.
In Taiping Pass, Jiang Jingyuan's 200,000 troops guarded the pass going south.
Zhang Hejun on Jiangdong Road, after receiving a notice from Jiang Jingyuan requesting for cooperation, had already moved closer to Huainan Road from the side.
A war surrounding the platform gate is brewing.
The advance of the Beijing vanguard cavalry has been exhausted, and Platform Pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Beijingers have no choice but to enter into temporary repairs and confront Chiang Ching-yuan's army in front of the pass!
Jiang Jingyuan, who had an army of 200,000, did not take the initiative to attack, but stayed quietly in the pass, waiting for the Beijing people to exhaust their momentum.
On the upper floors of Platform Pass, there were densely packed soldiers standing in uniform. These soldiers were all full of energy and high-spirited, and they did not show the slightest trace of depression from their defeat in the previous days.
This fully shows that the contraction of the entire army in the past two days did not have much impact on the morale of the army.
After a dozen generals accompanied Jiang Jingyuan to inspect the pass, they all looked outside the pass.
Outside the city gate, everywhere are the camps of the Beijing people!
"Commander, the people in Beijing have been calling for formation for two days! Why don't we go out to fight?"
Jiang Jingyuan is in his early forties, but his face looks like that of a man in his fifties, with deep and wide eyebrow lines. He is a veteran of the army and has not left the army since he was sixteen years old.
I have come step by step to where I am today, and it is only now that I have this opportunity to show my talents.
Jingren suddenly went south, and he had been paying attention to Jingren's movements, and it was not that he didn't notice it at all.
However, the long border line and the specific location of the Beijing people's march south are really difficult to detect. Moreover, the army was fortified on the border line. The two armies were intertwined. From the beginning, they entered into a desperate fight. The sealing army did not have the upper hand. There was nothing.
A hundred thousand troops were unable to defeat the Beijing cavalry.
Therefore, once the war broke out, the arrangement of retreating to Platform Pass was a strategy he had already planned. Before that, all kinds of heavy supplies had already been secretly transported into Platform Pass! The main force of the former escort army, including the military tent,
They have already moved to the Taiping Pass. All the new troops are conducting emergency drills inside the pass. Only a small number of defenders are left on the border to confuse the Beijing army's sight.
In his imagination, if the Beijing people really want to go south, the Platform Pass will be the main battlefield for the decisive battle between the former escort army and the Beijing people.
There are three major benefits to the decisive battle at the platform level!
First, no matter which direction the Beijing people rush from Huainan Road, they have to pass through the Platform Pass. Holding the Platform Pass is equivalent to cutting off the Beijing people's way. The Beijing people can't do it even if they don't want to fight at the Platform Pass.
With a well-prepared iron wall, they fought against the Beijing soldiers scattered in the wild. The decisive battle did not begin, and the Feng army had a huge advantage.
Secondly, Platform Pass is only four days away from Jinling City, and all kinds of supplies will continue to come. In order to protect Jinling, the entire army will work together. Therefore, guarding Platform Pass, the military morale is firm, supplies are sufficient, and everything is occupied.
The location is favorable.
Third, luring the enemy into the closed territory stretched the enemy's supplies, diluted the enemy's vigor, and created an opportunity for Zhang He's army to pounce in from the side. As long as the Jingren cannot take the platform pass within ten days, then
Zhang Hejun rushed out from the side, or directly cut off the Beijing people's food route. The fifteen armies of the Beijing people were just a plate of food, and they would eat as much as they came.
Therefore, when Jiang Jingyuan heard the general saying that he would take the initiative to attack, he just smiled and shook his head!
Another general said: "You are stupid! We are sitting in the great pass, why do we need to grind our teeth with the Beijing people at the pass! The commander is forcing them to attack the pass by force. We have an army of 200,000 in the pass, and we have to defend it.
There are more people blocking it than working on it, so we can eat as many people as they come."
"Then we can't let the Beijing people be arrogant! When we retreated, I lost more than a thousand horses in my hands, and I am gritting my teeth to take revenge."
Because they didn’t know where the Beijing people were going south from, there were still many soldiers on the front line to confuse the enemy! When the Beijing people rushed in, there were more than 10,000 people who had no time to retreat back to the pass! If it hadn’t been for this increase in troops, Chiang Ching would have had soldiers at his disposal
, he didn’t dare to make such a big investment.
"It's time for you to kill the enemy." Jiang Jingyuan coldly walked to the Beijing camp outside the pass, turned around and walked towards the commander's mansion at the bottom of the pass.
A group of generals also quickly followed the commander into the commander's mansion.
There is a huge sand table in front of the stone hall of the Shuai Mansion, which marks the general terrain near the platform.
As soon as Jiang Jingyuan entered the stone hall, he took off his helmet and handed it to his guards, pointed at the sand table and said, "Where is Zhang Hejun now?"
The military staff general pointed to a small flag and said: "We arrived at Qizhen yesterday!"
Jiang Jingyuan frowned and cursed: "We were in Heli the day before yesterday, and we just arrived in Qizhen yesterday. The distance between the two places is only fifty miles. It is not a mountain road, there is no waterway obstruction, and the road is not muddy. Is he climbing?"
The entire military tent was quiet and there was no sound at all.
Zhang Hejun was not under Chiang Chingyuan's control. No matter how angry Chiang Chingyuan was, it was of no use.
"If we go like this, it will take at least eight days before we can encircle the pass outside the pass! If Zhang He misses my good deeds, I will skin him." After Jiang Jingyuan finished speaking, he took a big drink of water and stood next to the sand table.
A general said: "The platform pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Will Wan Yanchu divide his troops and pass by the side?"
Jiang Jingyuan glanced at the general and did not refute. He just continued in the tone of the general: "Tell me."
"If Wan Yan Chu wanted to divide his troops, he would have to separate his cavalry and go south. To the west of Taiping Pass, there are all mountains, and there is also the Huai River. It would be difficult for the cavalry to move, and it would take a very long time. So it is impossible. It is.
There is still a gap on the east side of the platform pass."
Another general said: "I'm afraid there is no gap in the east! The Huai River flows from east to west, bypassing the Platform Pass, completely blocking the Beijing people. This is originally a natural line of defense. And the east side is
There is Zhang Hejun on Jiangdong Road. Zhang Hejun is heading towards Taiping Pass, how can the Beijing cavalry survive?"
"The Beijing people also have naval forces! The cavalry may not be able to cross the Huai River. Don't forget, since the Beijing people dare to invade our border, crossing the Huai River should be planned. If such preparations are made, why should the Beijing people invade?
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"If the Beijing people had prepared to fight across the Huai River early in the morning, they would not have entangled with our army at all. The border is so long. They would have quietly come in first, crossed the Huai River directly, and passed between Zhang He's army and our army."
"Maybe the people in Beijing didn't do this because they wanted to attract our army's attention!"
"Use the entire army to attract our army's attention?"