When Anda Khan learned that the Nantang barbarians from Dongsheng City had run out again, and even brought many tools and materials, and ran directly to a place seven or eight kilometers away to start construction of the city, Anda Khan had not done anything at the beginning.
We know exactly what these Southern Tang barbarians want to do.
But Anda Khan is also a hero, but after being confused for a moment, a terrifying scene was instantly sketched in his mind!
A bastion defense line extending from Datong Prefecture to Dongsheng City, and from Dongsheng City to Yinshan Mountain. This first long and huge defense line may not seem as scary as the Great Wall on the surface, but there are as many as 100,000 fortresses along the way.
There are dozens of them, and each fortress is easy to defend but difficult to attack. They are not far apart and can support each other.
After these bastions are stabilized, it is estimated that the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty will build a new Great Wall to connect the various earthen bastions.
By then, this will be a line of defense that can cut off the entire Tumochuan and Hetao areas.
It is self-evident what kind of threat such a line of defense can pose to the Tatars, which is quite terrifying.
After such a scene emerged in his mind, Anda Khan knew that he had only two choices left, either to completely withdraw from the Hetao and Tumochuan areas, or to choose to conquer Dongsheng City and interrupt the Tang Empire's expansion.
The hand of the grassland.
It is impossible to retreat to Tumochuan by withdrawing from the Hetao. If the 30,000 households on the right wing retreat, they will lose their foundation. Once the foundation is lost, I am afraid that the entire 30,000 households on the right wing will not be able to gain a foothold on the grassland.
If you don't retreat, then you have no choice but to fight.
But directly attacking Dongsheng City is definitely not a wise choice.
After pondering for a long time, Anda Khan worried the generals, and then issued an order to withdraw the troops!
They want to retreat from the outskirts of Dongsheng City!
After retreating, do you just flee north in despair?
Absolutely not!
Instead, they went south!
To attack Dongsheng City with 20,000 men garrisoned, even if Anda Khan invested all his troops, he might not be able to conquer it. However, the simple earthen fortresses in the south do not have such strong defensive capabilities.
Although it is difficult to attack, as long as you are willing to pay thousands of casualties, you can definitely win it, and then block the supply line of the Southern Tang barbarians here, forcing the Southern Tang barbarians to mobilize their troops.
In the process of mobilizing troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the barbarians defeated them one by one on the grassland.
In this way, we can maximize our cavalry advantage!
Deng Xide was not surprised that Anda Khan did this. The reason why he sent troops to the north to continue building the city was not to really build another hundreds of kilometers of defense line, but to put on this posture to force Anda Khan to make changes.
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It would be best to force Anda Khan to attack Dongsheng City. Of course, Anda Khan was not stupid. He did not choose to attack the city, but chose to attack the rear. This was also within Deng Xide's expectation.
Immediately, he was the one who ordered the troops and said: "The cavalry corps is ordered to closely monitor the movement of the main force of the Tatars. At the same time, orders are sent to the rear to let the forts be guarded to the death. The first corps will concentrate its forces and be on standby!"
"Instruct all the departments in this headquarters to prepare for battle!"
When Anda Khan went south, there was a great possibility that he would attack and completely cut off the supply line. Moreover, Anda Khan must have known that the few people he sent would be useless, and even the ten thousand cavalry would be useless. He wanted to completely blockade the ninth
The army's supply line would require at least 20,000 to 30,000 heavy troops.
Otherwise, they won't be able to defend it even if it's defeated!
After several months of planning, the Tatars were finally pushed to the point of a decisive battle step by step, which made Deng Xide quite excited.
His original plan was to use the early construction of the city and defense lines to force the Tatars to have a decisive battle with him in Dongsheng City. Although the current decisive battle location cannot be in Dongsheng City, it is the same in other places.
As long as there is a large-scale decisive battle, it will be a good thing for his Ninth Army.
As Deng Xide's order was passed on, the headquarters of the Ninth Army, the cavalry corps, and the units of the First Corps were all ready to prepare. At the same time, they also carried out certain maneuvers to prevent the main forces of each unit from being too scattered and giving the Tatars every opportunity to defeat them.
But their maneuvers were still centered around the defense line.
Anda Khan didn't care about the response of the Southern Tang Barbarians. Originally, he had a backup plan and wanted to take the opportunity to mobilize the Southern Barbarians' main force in Dongsheng City, and then sent a partial division to sneak attack Dongsheng City. However, he found that the Southern Tang Barbarians
Although the main force moved south, there were still 5,000 troops stationed in the city.
Dongsheng City was garrisoned with 5,000 troops. Without the 20,000 or 30,000 troops, there was no hope of being able to attack the city. The partial division he left was only about 10,000 cavalry, so there was no hope at all, so he simply sent this partial division to another
I was transferred back.
At this time, looking at the map, you can see that about 50,000 cavalry are roaring southward, and in the rear is the main force of the Ninth Army, the 13th Infantry Division, about 15,000 people.
On the flank of the 13th Infantry Division, there are about 14,000 cavalrymen of the Cavalry Corps!
Most of the castles in the south are garrisoned by nearly a thousand troops. Further south, near the Great Wall, is the first corps consisting of a main infantry division and two reserve divisions sent to reinforce the battle.
This First Corps is not an inherent establishment of the military, but a temporary establishment established specifically for this campaign. It is also a temporary establishment within the Ninth Army and does not have a formal designation.
Just like the cavalry corps, it is directly under the command of the Ninth Army. Its troops are also drawn from various departments under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Army. The commander of the first corps is also concurrently served by the division commander of the 8th Infantry Division, the main force of the department.
The regiment model is also an attempt made by the Tang Army in recent years. It is similar to the temporary brigades and temporary divisions in the early years. They were specially established for a certain battle and were directly under the direct control of the army.
temporary preparation.
This is because the military-level headquarters of the Datang Army has gradually evolved into a theater headquarters and is no longer the field army headquarters in the early years. Although the number of troops under its jurisdiction may not be large, no matter how many troops it has
, its mission is to be responsible for combat missions in a certain direction and area, but all troops that enter this area to fight are under the jurisdiction of this army.
As a result, during war, the size of a certain army may become very large. For example, the Ninth Army currently has three main divisions, seven reserve divisions, and two artillery brigades.
, two cavalry divisions, seven cavalry regiments, and the military headquarters also has professional auxiliary units such as the Engineer Corps, the Ark Bridge Regiment, and the Military Medical Corps.
The total strength of the above-mentioned ministries exceeds 90,000, which is a very large number. According to the early field army model, these troops are organized into three armies.
Moreover, in addition to the active-duty troops, even the dozen or so transportation groups that originally belonged to the Logistics Department are now under the dispatch and command of the Ninth Army. The total number of civilians in these transportation groups has reached 30,000.
In this way, the total number of active soldiers and civilians under the Ninth Army has reached 120,000.
With such a large-scale force, although the Ninth Army's military headquarters has complete functions and has dozens of staff members, it is still difficult to directly command each unit.
Hence, there is Corps Mode!
The Cavalry Corps and the First Corps are independent corps.
Deng Xide led the main force of the Ninth Army Headquarters southward. The First Corps was on standby at the edge of the Great Wall, while the Cavalry Corps was wandering near the main force of the Ninth Army Headquarters.
As for the Tatars, Anda Khan took them all the way south, and then came to Nanlimbao and stopped!
When Major Pan Deyue, the fourth commander of South Limburg, saw the tens of thousands of cavalry outside in the darkness, his mouth was half open, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. At this time, a captain next to him cursed: "Damn it.
, these Tatars see us as easy to bully, and they come to beat us in South Limburg every time. This is the fourth time!"
Pan Deyue also came to his senses at this time and showed a wry smile: "Although our Nanlinbao is located in a strategic area, it happens to be in this canyon. To the south is the Great Wall, and to the west and north are flat plains. If I were
If the Tatars want to cut off our supply lines, I will choose to attack here!"
When he said this, Pan Deyue didn't know whether to say he was unlucky or lucky.
Before coming to South Limburg as commander, he was a captain of the 13th Infantry Regiment with the rank of captain. Because he had served several times in escorting supplies and killed many Tatars, he was promoted to major.
He passed a threshold that many lieutenants find difficult to cross in their lifetime.
But after being promoted to major, his superiors transferred him to South Limburg as the commander!
What kind of place is South Limburg? It was attacked by the Tatars three times! What's more important is that unfortunately, it was defeated every time.
After the city was breached, most of the soldiers who defended the city had no chance of escaping. When they were attacked for the first time, Cao Guangtao, the first commander of Nanlinbao, was lucky enough to escape with his remaining soldiers in embarrassment, and then came back with reinforcements to counterattack, but
During the counterattack, he was injured, and the injury was not serious, so he was sent to the Great Wall for treatment.
The second and third commanders who followed were both particularly unlucky. Both were killed on the spot without even a chance to be injured.
The past few months have passed, and the officers and soldiers stationed in South Limburg have been replaced one after another. Whether they are soldiers or officers, the officers and soldiers currently stationed in South Limburg have been found to be the soldiers who were stationed in South Limburg from the beginning.
Got it!
not a single one!
Of course, the Tatars were not much better. That time they were able to capture South Limburg without losing several times their casualties!
The small Nanlimbao was buried with the corpses of Tatars and Tang army soldiers. Sometimes, you can smell the smell of blood under the city!