"Zhongjian Central Division arrived thirty miles south of Gu'an on the eighth day of April. As the army advanced, there were two encounters and more than 2,400 enemies were wiped out. The chariot fleet had set up camp, and the cavalry was waiting fifty miles behind the camp.
Order, and put the scouts fifty miles from east to west on alert."
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, Wang Shunchen captured Xincheng without sacrificing 1,500 soldiers and annihilated 3,700 enemies. The army is currently resting in Xincheng and plans to move north in three days. The Liao army is at Qigou
Close the defense army."
"On the seventh day of the lunar month, the troops of Zhou and Dong troops came to Wuqing City. Wuqing defended the Guo family of the Han army in Northern Liao Dynasty, and was familiar with the siege methods of the Central Plains. The battles were back and forth many times, and the fighting was fierce. The army strictly followed the imperial court's policy of small sacrifices and big gains.
The combat principle is to concentrate artillery fire on Wuqing. The city of Wuqing has not been taken yet, and the battle is still going on."
"Zhe Kexing's troops attacked Yizhou. However, Yizhou is located on the eastern edge of Taihang Mountain. For the chariot army, it is not as smooth as entering the plains to fight. Zheke's troops used every ten tanks as a combat unit and divided them near Yizhou.
They fought together and cooperated with the cavalry to encircle and suppress the Northern Liao cavalry, hoping to drive the Northern Liao army to Yizhou City and then launch an attack on the city."
"In addition, the fourth prince led the marines to land at Zhigukou and launched a continuous harassment war. However, because there were not many Liao troops at Zhigukou, there was no report of the results for the time being."
Since the beginning of the war, daily reports have been carried out, and Zhao Xi and the cabinet have been working together in the council hall.
At this time, the court, especially the officials and cabinet, were completely focused on the war, and all court affairs were left to the respective yamen to make their own decisions. Zhao Xi also authorized the prince to handle daily court affairs with full authority.
War is the most important thing in the Song Dynasty today.
"From the current point of view, the strategy is being implemented very well. It is basically carried out in accordance with the established strategy and has basically achieved its goals."
Zhao Xi looked at the sand table and compared it with the report read by the official...
Zhao Xi, the four generals of the Imperial Guard, arranged their advance areas according to their respective combat characteristics. If Zhe could be flexible but not impulsive, he would focus on the Yizhou side; Zhou Tong and Wang Shunchen were good at attacking, so he arranged for them to lead the advance;
Zhong Jianzhong has the best overall view of the four. When the army advances, he needs to take into account the advancement of the entire front.
"The official family, the generals of Hedong Road are calling again to ask when they will attack."
"I'm so impatient! There's a lot of fighting going on, why are you in such a hurry? Everyone, I'm thinking that in all the encounters and positional battles that the four-pronged army does, I feel like I can't see where the main force of Beiliao is~"
The main force? Their thoughts were all on strategic advancement, that is, reporting on the results of the battle. The cabinet also listened to the progress of the advancement, and no one paid attention to the main force of Beiliao.
There is definitely a main force in Beiliao, there is no doubt about this.
"Collect all battle reports and make statistics on the Liao army that wiped out the enemy! Do it quickly!"
Wang Anshi also felt this and the problem. Since the war started, he has been pushed forward. He was full of ideas about annihilating the enemy and annihilating the enemy. He really didn't think about checking the details of annihilating the enemy.
"Don't worry, the generals at the front have their own calculations. If the battle requests of various armies are followed, the advancement progress will never be just this distance. In other words, before the main force of the Liao army has been encountered, all the commanders have noticed it, and only then
Let’s make little progress.”
"However, I do think that maybe a little advance from the front will do wonders!"
The steady strategy was drawn up by the imperial court, and the officials agreed with it. At this time, the officials suddenly said that they wanted to make a bold advance...
"Guan family, but the Liao army wants to enlarge its army and go deeper? Judging from the early wars between the Liao army and our country, they used auxiliary troops, that is, the Han army Lin Ya to lure them, thereby attracting our army to pursue or go deep. The Liao army took advantage of the cavalry
, after widening the distance, the cavalry will divide the troops to surround us and form a siege on us within a specific area!"
"Not only that, the Liao army will also use the surrounded team as bait to lure other teams to support, so as to encircle the point for reinforcements. They will even use the advantage of the cavalry to stretch the battle line and carry out harassment and surprise attacks.
Achieve the goal of defeating each of us."
Wang Shao's knowledge of military affairs was genuine. After all, he had led an army and fought in battles, so he understood the official's intentions instantly.
"Officials..." Zhang Dun was about to say something, when the officials who had just gone out to compile battle reports came in.
“Let’s hear the summary first and then discuss!”
Sure enough, judging from the battle reports of various ministries in Hebei Province, more than 10,000 enemies have been wiped out so far, and there are only a very small number of Pishi troops, let alone the palace guards.
It is even suspected that these annihilated Pishi troops were employed in the Han army to supervise the war.
In other words, the fighting was quite lively, but in fact there has not been a real war yet...
"Officials, are you going to summarize the battle report and let the front line know?"
This is very important, at least Wang Anshi thinks it is important.
"No need. The Hebei Province side can identify the situation of annihilation of the enemy in the report, which means they have a good idea. On the other hand, the Hedong and Northwest sides should summarize the battle reports and let them know, so as not to cause more trouble."
In this war, the imperial court gave considerable autonomy to the generals at the front. Fighter opportunities were fleeting and traveling between the imperial court and the front line could easily lead to missed opportunities.
Zhao Xi was afraid that Hedong Road and the northwest army would not be able to resist the attack.
"Zihou, what do you want to say?"
"Guan Jia, I think that sending troops appropriately to rush forward will help lead to the tactics of Northern Liao. Do you want to order some troops in the front to rush forward?"
Our own side is the real main force, but the enemy's main force has not been seen yet. This battle has been a confusing one.
Zhang Dun felt that it was entirely possible to use the strategy to his advantage, allowing some of the combat power to advance forward, leading to Bei Liao's tactical arrangements, and at the same time making adjustments to Bei Liao's tactics to avoid unnecessary surprises.
Zhang Dun’s idea is not wrong...
"Since the imperial court has an order to give autonomy to the generals at the front, don't break your promise. Zihou, everyone, you must trust our generals, their judgment of the battle situation, and the best tactical use."
"I'm thinking that our steady progress is nothing more than a delay in the war, and there may not be uncontrollable accidents. Let's wait and see."
In view of Guochao's steadily advancing tactics, how would Bei Liao fight this battle? Zhao Xi was also thinking, putting himself in Bei Liao's shoes. It seemed that there was really no good way.
Harassment, luring and pursuit, and turning back to kill were the most common tactics used in Bei Liao.
Either attack the food road, cut off the logistics supplies, and then continue to attack and kill the various ministries fighting for the food road...
Regardless of the current situation in Hebei Province where dozens of millions of armies from the Song and Liao armies are fighting against each other, it would be impossible for such a small number of people to be ignored on the vast plains of Hebei Province.
Not to mention a single cavalry team, even thousands of cavalry can do it if they want to get behind the opponent from the gap. Of course, it will be a bit more difficult if there are more.
It is impossible for either side to detect the movement of five thousand or even tens of thousands of troops and horses.
Perhaps the Northern Liao Dynasty would adopt such a method... Yelu Yixin still had military talents, and the tactics of this rebellion were worthy of learning by the Northern Liao imperial army.