Chapter 846 The purpose of the strategy is not to seek one city and one corner
The Xia army's camp attack tactics in Yinzhou City were seen through, and the five thousand Xia soldiers who sneaked into the camp at night were killed by the ambushed Song army. Although they did not take advantage of the situation to break through the city that night, Yinzhou City was Having lost more than 30% of his troops, if Xiao Tang decided to attack the city by force at this time, the resistance he would encounter from the enemy would be greatly reduced.
However, when the Xia Kingdom's Shizhou, Xiazhou and other places' armies saw that Yinzhou was in danger, they gathered their armies again and carefully guarded against the Song army's sneak attack. When they arrived at Yinzhou City, they found that the Song Army company camp below the city had already been deserted, and not a single soldier was seen.
More than ten days later, Xia Army commanders such as Zuoxiang Shenyong Army Division and Xiangyou Army Division stationed in the eastern part of Xia State received urgent reports that the army led by Xiao Tang had reached the boundary of Shizhou in the west of Yinzhou, Shendui. The post and other military strongholds had been suddenly attacked by the Song army, and more than 3,000 soldiers were lost.
The Xia army with nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses fell to nothing. The generals in the army also thought that since Yinzhou was the Bianting Prefecture where the Song and Xia sides fought most fiercely, the Song army on the eastern front would have to seize that place first if there was any movement. Moreover, since the enemy troops attacked the city and also set up an ambush to besiege the city for reinforcements, they certainly did not want the defenders inside the city and the reinforcements outside the city to cooperate with each other, so they did not expect that they would gradually gain the upper hand in the siege battle. The Song army resolutely withdrew its troops, and then took a detour to kill the general in Shizhou, the headquarters of the Xiangyou Army in the Xia Kingdom's twelve military divisions, which was only a few dozen miles away from Yinzhou.
In fact, the strategies Xu Guanzhong proposed to Xiao Tang, whether it was to besiege the city, mobilize reinforcements and annihilate the enemy's field forces, or lure the enemy out of the city to kill the soldiers and horses guarding Yinzhou City, were just a link in his strategy. Xiao Tang sent troops this time. The ultimate purpose of invading Xia Kingdom is to disturb peace in the eastern region of Xia Kingdom.
Whether it is Xiao Tang or Xu Guanzhong, they are also very clear that the goal of the Song Dynasty's decision to divide the army to attack the Xia Kingdom this time is to conquer all the military strongholds on the Hengshan boundary, so that the Xia Kingdom loses the barrier. The Song army wins because it has more soldiers and sufficient food. As long as the Xia people occupy the sacred land of Hengshan and then attack Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, the Song Dynasty can completely suppress the Xia Kingdom militarily. Conquering one city or one corner is just a partial war in a comprehensive campaign. The goal, starting from the strategic level, is to force the enemy troops guarding the eastern capital of Xia Kingdom to focus on one thing instead of another, as long as it can influence the whole body. Zhong Shidao, Zhong Shidao and Zhong Shizhong, led by the generals of the Western Army, can more easily advance with their troops. Encroaching on the Xia Kingdom's Hengshan territory.
Although it is very dangerous to lead a large army to be so arrogant in the enemy's territory, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Shizhou and other military states in Xia are adjacent to Dasong River East Road and Yanyan Road. Xiaotang seems to have no rules now. The march route that we are looking for can actually be said to be wandering in the border areas of Song and Xia, not to mention that the team under his command now includes Liu Zhongwu, Liu Qi, Wu Jie, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, Hua Rong, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Niu Gao, and Wang Jin. Many other think tanks and generals, as well as Li Yongqi, Xuan Zan, Hao Siwen, Peng Qi, Han Tao, Wang Wenbin, Dang Shiying, Dang Shixiong and other generals obeyed orders in front of the official account. Most of the troops under the rule of Yan Yanlu are now obeying His own orders... So when Xu Guanzhong considered the strategic goals of the Song army, the topography of the Song-Xia border, and the current direction of the war between the two sides, he made a plan and mentioned it to himself, Xiao Tangdang understood that now You don’t have to be so cautious anymore
Be careful, but take the initiative to plan the deployment of troops and horses on Xia's front line.
In these days, there have been continuous losses of troops and generals. The name of Xiao Tang, the commander of the Eastern Song Army, has become more and more famous among the Xia Army. Although the current Xiao Tang is not as good as Di Qing and Fan Zhongyan in the previous Song-Xia wars. Shi Dao, Liu Fa and other important ministers and generals are so famous that they can teach the Xia people to change their looks, but now the Xia people also regard him as a great scourge to the enemy. Now the Xia Kingdom's left wing has the brave military commander, Xiangyou Army The Xia army under the jurisdiction of the department also wanted to immediately set up their formations and have a decisive battle with Xiao Tang's troops so that they could settle the matter once and for all. Therefore, the Xia army continuously sent out sentries to spy on Qingqi while encircling the Song army led by Xiao Tang. Outflank, forcing the opponent to take the initiative to seek a decisive battle with one's own army.
After all, there are mountainous mountains and insurmountable fortresses in the south of Xiazhou, Shizhou and other military states. Xiao and Tang could invade their own territory from Yinzhou, a territory that frequently changed hands between Song and Xia, but As the Song army moved deeper to the west, it became easier to grasp its whereabouts.
However, all this was within Xu Guanzhong's expectation.
About half a month later, General Xia Jun from the Xiangyou Military Division and the Shenyong Military Division in the left wing received a report that the Song army led by Xiao Tang had indeed only raided a few military strongholds under Shizhou, and immediately moved west to Longzhou Shibao Village. , after clearing the direction of Niu Xinting, they immediately sent out fast horses to report to the Jianing Military Division of Rongwei Long, Hong, Xu and other military states, instructing the other side to send heavy troops to intercept the Song army, and at the same time ordered 50,000 troops to head west. The pursuit was intended to attack Xiao and Tang's troops from both sides. In the past month or two, the Xia troops in Xiazhou, Shizhou, Yinzhou and other places were disturbed by Xiao and Tang. However, it was also because the Xia Army generals who commanded the army became increasingly impatient and unbalanced, and unknowingly fell into the ambush carefully deployed by Xu Guanzhong, Xiao Jiasui and other counselors under Xiao Tang...
The undulating mountains are overgrown with shrubs and weeds. The Xia army's soldiers and horses are meandering forward at the northern foot of the mountains. In this part, the soldiers and horses also advance to the nearby slopes first, and look out in the valleys to beware of the sudden attack of the Song army from an ambush.
However, those rangers only noticed that there were no enemy troops hiding in the nearby dense bushes, but they did not realize that many shallow pits for hiding had been dug in the large grass not far from the foot of the mountain. Although the pits were not very deep, they could still be used. People hide their entire body in the cave, cover the top of their heads with wooden boards or shields, and cover it with grass and soil, leaving only gaps for people to breathe. Although scouts or hunters who are good at tracking in the mountains can detect the clues carefully, However, the Xia army was eager to catch up with Xiao Tang's troops, and Shizhou was more than a hundred miles away from Longzhou. How could the army's scouts conduct detailed inspections and delay the pursuit of the Song army?
The soldiers who led the Song army in ambush were Liu Qi and Wu Jie, two generals from the Western Army. Since they had lived in Bianting for a long time, they had carefully read the terrain map of the nearby mountains that had been included in the control of the Song Dynasty. He knew the terrain well, and Wu Jie had been fighting with the Xia army for a long time, and he was also very good at setting up ambushes and traps. At this time, the Western Army led by Wu Jie and Liu Qi held their breath and concentrated. They first quietly watched the Western Army's cavalry, and the former army, The Chinese army marched from a position seventy or eighty paces ahead, and immediately afterwards, the Xia army's rear troops were getting closer and closer to them.
"Kill!" Liu Qi took the lead and jumped up from the shallow pit. He raised the long bow in his hand and shot out an arrow. He shot the Xia Army general through the heart with an arrow!
The soldiers of the Song Army who were hiding behind the valley also stood up one after another. They took up the bows that had been strung in the morning and looked at the soldiers in the rear of the Xia Army. Another heart-stopping whistling sound suddenly sounded.
Countless sharp arrows have also shot out in response to the string!
The ambush led by Liu Qi and Wu Jie was not only within the most lethal range of long-range weapons such as the God's Arm Bow, but there were also many uneven mounds of various sizes in front of their lurking position, which was not only conducive to avoiding enemy fire.
With a cluster of arrows, the Xia army was suddenly ambushed. For a moment, they did not even notice where the enemy troops were hiding. In their panic, they did not know where to fight back.
"Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish!!!" A bunch of sharp arrows suddenly shot out. In an instant, the soldiers in the Xia army's rear formation were like mowing grass, and they were knocked down in large areas.
There was a panic, and amidst the continuous howls, a Xia Army general shouted hysterically: "There is an ambush, it's a sneak attack by the Song Army!"