Brother Richard was extremely shocked: The Song Army actually sent a group of surprise troops to attack the Xijing City of Daxia Kingdom over a long distance!
However, at tonight's military meeting, when he saw the panic expressions of his generals, he deliberately showed an expression of indifference.
"Hahaha!" Brother Richard pretended to be relaxed and said with a big smile: "Running long distances and going deep alone are taboos for military strategists!"
"Now our army has reported on the expedition, and the Song army actually sent a force of only a few thousand soldiers to attack a long distance in a detour. The lone army penetrated deep into the hinterland of our Daxia Kingdom to attack a strong city like Xiping Mansion in Xijing."
"Hahaha...Isn't this an egg hitting a stone?"
"I think this Song army wants to repeat the disastrous defeat suffered by Liu Fa's troops three years ago!"
When the generals heard what coach Richard said, they all shouted...
"The King of Jin is wise!"
"Jin Wang Shenwu!"
Especially the ten captains of the Iron Kites Army. They all participated in the battle in which the Iron Kites Army commanded by Brother Richard defeated Liu Fa's troops of the Song Army. Looking back now, they are all confident and proud...
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Their praises were louder than the last.
This also gave those Jingzhou generals present who were temporarily recruited to increase their confidence that they could win the battle with the King of Jin.
Brother Richard ordered: "In order to boost the morale of our army, after the generals return to camp tonight, they will inform every soldier in each battalion step by step to let them know:
Three years ago, I led an army of 3,000 iron kites to defeat the Song army of Liu Fa who had penetrated deeply into the territory of Xia Kingdom, and forced Liu Fa, the famous war god of the Song Dynasty, to flee off a cliff. Our country of Great Xia only had a small army.
A small soldier can kill Liu Fa after falling off the cliff, obtain his head, and be promoted to a noble rank..."
Listening to the heroic deeds of King Jin, the generals showed proud and confident smiles on their faces. After accepting their orders, one by one, they knelt and licked King Jin King Richard more shamelessly, praising and praising him...
Brother Richard felt very comfortable being licked by his generals. He ordered: "Tomorrow after breakfast, the entire army will go out to destroy all the Song troops that invaded our Xijing."
The generals were confident and took the order to withdraw.
Early the next morning, Xia Jun gathered at the school military field in Jingzhou after having breakfast.
King Richard of the Jin Dynasty, who was wearing a helmet and crown, was riding on a tall war horse. After inspecting the three thousand iron kite troops under his command, he leaped on his horse and whipped up his whip to arrive at several soldiers who had recruited 10,000 Xia troops from Jingzhou.
In front of the square formation, the review was completed one by one...
Brother Richard drew out his sharp scimitar and pointed it to the south of where they were, which is where the Xiping Mansion in Xijing is. He shouted:
"The whole army goes out to save Xijing!"
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According to the marching speed of Brother Richard's troops, it should have taken two days to reach Xiping Mansion in Xijing, but Brother Richard led his army and marched for four days and three nights.
Brother Richard is an extremely rare person in Xixia Kingdom who is both wise and brave, and can be called the invincible first general. The main reasons why he ordered to slow down the march are:
As soon as he came, he had already determined that Xiping Mansion, with its high city and deep ditch, would never be broken by thousands of Song troops in a short period of time;
Secondly, he led 3,000 iron kite troops and 5,000 Jingzhou elite soldiers and horses forward. He also had to take care of the 5,000 soldiers escorting grain and grass who were left behind for more than ten miles to prevent the Song army from attacking the Xia army.
of food.
Thirdly, based on the enemy's report from Tan Ma, he analyzed that the Song army outside Xijing City should have only three to five thousand men. However, the Song army dared to go deep into the hinterland of Xia Kingdom alone. Isn't it obvious that they were here to die?
But the Song Army dared to do that, which proves that the Song Army most likely set up an ambush on the Xia Army's way to rescue Xijing...
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After marching for four days and three nights, Brother Richard finally led his army to the wilderness eight or nine miles north of the city of Xiping Prefecture on the evening of the fourteenth day of the eighth lunar month.
He ordered: Set up camp here, strengthen defense, bury pots and make rice...
The generals of the Iron Kites Army led by Brother Richard all commented one after another:
"Prince Jin, the Song army has been camping outside the east city of Xijing for several days and has been harassing the east city of Xijing. Why don't we quickly deal with the enemies outside the east city of Xijing?"
"This is reasonable. The King of Jin, the last general, requested to go to war and surprise the Song army!"
"Haha..." Brother Richard smiled slightly and said leisurely in Dangxiang dialect: "Our army is coming from north to south with great momentum. I am afraid that the spies of the Song Army have secretly followed and reported it to General Song, so what about me?
What about the surprise attack on the Song army?"
The generals thought that the words of the Jin King who was good at conquering and fighting were reasonable, and they all nodded in praise.
Brother Richard smiled confidently and added: "Our army has come a long way. We must first rest and have a good meal before we start to argue. I have my own clever plan to defeat the enemy!"
The counselors under King Jin’s tent complimented: “Since King Jin led the army, he has won every battle, and I am the Optimus Prime of Great Xia!
I am not very talented. I see that the King of Jin is not in a hurry to enter the Xijing city to join forces. Could it be that he wants to cooperate with the Xiangqing army in Xijing and defeat the Song army outside the east city in one fell swoop?"
"Hahaha!" Brother Richard, the king of Jin, patted the counselor's shoulder and laughed happily. Instead of using Dangxiang language, he said in less fluent Chinese:
"Those who know me are sir!
"However, what I know from reading the Han Dynasty's military books is: 'The military is a major event of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival.'"
The Han counselor in the King of Jin's tent was extremely impressed, his expression was flattering, and he was full of compliments.
He felt that he was serving as a counselor to Richard, the wise and brave King of the Jin Dynasty of Great Xia, and it was really a useless place for a hero!
Brother Richard smiled slightly, turned to the party language he was most familiar with, and ordered: "The meeting is dismissed."
The generals exited the Chinese army's tent...
Brother Richard stopped the counselor who was about to retreat and gave him a task:
Let him take the handwriting of the King of Jin, dispatch a team of guards to protect him, enter the city from the north gate of Xijing, which has never been attacked by the Song army, meet with the commander of the Xiangqing army left behind in Xijing, learn about the strength of the troops in the city, and study how to defeat the enemy by cooperating with the inside and outside.
count.
The counselor took the order and left the camp...
Brother Richard said to his trusted guard captain: "Quickly prepare your horse for me. I will leave the camp in person to see how the Song Army camp outside the east city of Xijing is arranged. It is worthy of the strongest in our country."
Are the cavalry's iron kites charging into the camp?!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The trusted captain knew that Brother Richard had the habit of personally observing the enemy's situation before every battle, so he did not dare to say anything to persuade him not to leave the camp to observe the enemy for safety reasons.
Brother Richard put on the attire of an ordinary Xixia cavalryman, carried a strong bow, hung an arrow pot, and rode a fast horse with a scimitar. He led ten elite bodyguards similarly dressed and quietly left the camp, heading towards Xijing from outside the North City of Xijing.
Touch it outside the east city...
Brother Richard was not bold enough to go directly outside the Song Army's camp. He led the escorting cavalry to a high mountain three or four miles away from the Song Army's camp outside the East City of Xixia, overlooking the Song Army's camp.
Although several batches of scouts from the Iron Harrier Army had also come here and reported to him the enemy's information, Brother Richard always felt that he felt more at ease after seeing it in person and seeing it with his own eyes.
Brother Richard stood among the trees on the high hillside, building a pergola with his hands. With the afterglow of the setting sun, he saw the tall Song army camps about three miles away from the east city of Xijing, which were neatly arranged and the guards were well arranged.
Brother Richard, who has many years of experience in fighting against the Song Army, smiled slightly and said: "I see that the Song Army's camps are neatly arranged and well-defended;
However, the size of its camp can only accommodate three to four thousand soldiers;
They also camped on a flat land, which is perfect for our Daxia Kingdom’s Iron Kites Army to charge into the camp and kill the Song enemies!”
The guard immediately flattered him in party language:
"Goodbye, 'Excellent'!"
"Shi Chang' is right!"
As long as these guards follow Brother Richard and pretend to go out of camp to observe the enemy's situation, for the sake of safety, they will not call Brother Richard the King of Jin. Likewise, Brother Richard will not call himself the lonely king or the king.
Brother Richard led his men to observe the Song army camp until nightfall. After he saw with his own eyes the smoke rising from the cooking pots buried in the Song camp, he said:
"The size of the Song enemy's camp is small, and it is possible that they deliberately made false claims to confuse our troops to explore. However, judging from the size of the pots they used to cook dinner and the amount of smoke rising from the kitchen, I can tell that the Song enemies who are attacking our Xijing city only have three to four thousand people."
Several guards were in great admiration and immediately praised in Dangxiang language:
"Shi Chang' is so right!"
"Goodbye, 'What a great leader'!"
Brother Richard, who believed that what he saw was believing, was very proud. He was confident that what he saw was believing the enemy's situation, and he expected a crushing victory in the internal and external battle launched by the Song Army!
However, Jin King Richard underestimated the ability of the famous general Han Shizhong who was entrusted by Zhao Guan's family.
Han Shizhong led his 10,000 elite troops in a long-distance surprise attack before arriving at the east city of Xijing in the Xixia Kingdom. He had already divided his troops along the way. He ordered Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, and Niu Gao, who were former Enkewu Jinshi this year, to lead troops to set up ambushes along the way.
Yue Fei led his troops as a mobile force ready to bite the hardest bone...
Therefore, it seems that the Song army Han Shizhong's troops outside the east city of Xiping Prefecture in Xijing only numbered 3,000 troops. In fact, Han Shizhong acted according to the tips and tricks given by Zhao Guan's family.
Before that, Han Shizhong was thirty miles away from Xijing, the capital of Xixia Kingdom. After opening a tip bag given to him by Zhao Guan's family, he saw what was written on it:
"If a good minister leads a surprise army and arrives outside the city of Xijing in the Xixia Kingdom, if the enemy defends the city, our Song army does not need to attack by force, but can harass the tired enemy first;
Our army shows weakness to lure the Xia army out of the city, or to attract Xixia reinforcements, so that we can ambush and attack them.
The battlefield is changing rapidly, and I have given my good ministers the right to command the battle according to the situation of the battle. "
At that time, after Han Shizhong saw the secrets written by Zhao Guanjia in the brochure, he was so moved that his eyes moistened and he continued to say:
"Today's officials know the soldiers and generals well, and the humble minister Han Shizhong is so embarrassed that he still wants to repay the kindness of the Holy One."
Han Shizhong knew the official's tricks, so he planned a general strategy, specific tactics, marching formations, troop deployment, generals, etc. These were all decisions made by the leading generals. This was a sign that previous Song emperors could not trust.
The generals have released their power!
Han Shizhong has been in the army for more than ten years. How could he know that in the past, the generals of the Song Dynasty led heavy troops to battle, and not only had to be controlled by the eunuchs who oversaw the army, but they also had to fight according to the formation maps given by the emperor.
Nowadays, after the great change of character, the Zhao Guan family no longer sends eunuchs to control the generals who lead troops on expeditions, and they no longer randomly give formation plans to the generals. This allows the generals to truly display their military capabilities!
At this time, Han Shizhong in the Song Army camp had already learned from Tan Ma that the most powerful warrior in the Xixia Kingdom, the unparalleled general Jin King Richard, was leading the strongest heavy armored cavalry in Xixia, the Iron Harrier Army, and the auxiliary troops.
A total of more than 10,000 soldiers came to camp outside the North City of Xijing.
Han Shizhong knew that the enemy he was about to face was very powerful;
However, he was not timid at all.
After he had a large number of gunpowder weapons given by Zhao Guan's family, and the four heroic and capable Wu Jinshi generals assigned to him, he knew that the overall strength of his troops had been rapidly improved, and the combat effectiveness of his troops had become very high.
Stronger!
Han Shizhong was eager to have a head-to-head collision with the Iron Kites, who had defeated the famous Song general Liu Fa, using gunpowder weapons and the strongest iron cavalry in Xixia!!