How did the Jin Kingdom defend against the harassment of the Mongolian cavalry entering the enemy's
I read a review from a book friend and said that it is impossible for troops with high mobility to harass behind enemy lines. Let me give you an example.
What a coincidence, it really happened in history, it was a tactic used by the Jin Kingdom to defend against Mongolian cavalry from raiding behind enemy lines.
Due to the rise of Mongolia in the northern grasslands, the junction between Jin and Mongolia was mostly flat grasslands and plains, which could not be defended at all. The Mongolian cavalry that penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom came and went like crazy, burning, killing, looting, and returning with full loads every time.
When the Jin State mobilized troops to come over, they often left and could only eat ashes. To completely defend the front, one million troops were not enough on a front more than a thousand kilometers wide, so the Jin State built boundary trenches.
The northeastern part of the project starts from the water mouth project on the right bank of the Nen River and ends at the intersection of Daqingshan Mountain and Tumut Plain in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, with a total length of 1,600 kilometers.
The boundary trenches have trenches, earthen walls, and side forts. Each fort can garrison thousands of troops. If all the troops are garrisoned, hundreds of thousands of troops will not be able to fight, which is obviously impossible. So the Jin Kingdom can only reduce costs and let the grasslands attached to them
The tribe helped to guard a section, such as the Wanggu tribe.
Is it useful? It has a little effect in the early stage, but it is almost useless in the later stage.
In 1210, Temujin led an army of 100,000 people south to attack Jin, and Jin sent 450,000 people to fight.
The original boundary trench could no longer stop the Mongols, so the Jin people mobilized civilians to build a 300-kilometer boundary trench, costing 700,000 yuan in labor.
However, this boundary trench was easily broken through by the Mongols, and the Jin army was forced to retreat, which later led to the Battle of Yehuling, the result of which everyone knows.
Back to this book again, after Zhu Quanzhong lost the mountainous area in western Henan, you came to give him advice on how to encircle the enemy's cavalry or mounted infantry on the flat terrain.
Here’s a little tip: from Xinyang to Shouxian, it’s about three hundred kilometers wide, and you can break through at any point.
How many people will Zhu Quanzhong send to defend? I assume that there is a fortress within thirty miles, and the garrison is 6,000 according to Jin Kingdom standards. About 25 forts are needed, with a total of 150,000 garrison troops. This is the fortress garrison, and you need the same number of garrison troops.
Mobile pursuit force, because your mobility is not as good as others, so you need a large number of infantry to be distributed everywhere so that you can get to the scene of the incident as soon as possible, so you need 300,000 troops.
Tell me, where can we find 300,000 troops? He can't even mobilize 50,000 mobile troops, so how can he defend himself?
Another tip: Weibo doesn't allow you to use the road, it just blocks the road to Huazhou. In fact, you can go directly to Zhengzhou from Heyang, which is also smooth and smooth.
In Ruzhou, there is also a gap plain here.
If Zhu Quanzhong built the border wall and trenches, he would probably need to prepare 600,000 troops.
Also, did you forget the previous chapter? He also mobilized troops to encircle and suppress... What Zhu Quanzhong lacked was the army. The interior was so empty that there was almost no government army. Once the troops from the front line were transferred back, the front line would collapse. If the troops were not mobilized from the front line, the interior would be
erosion.
He is the situation facing the Jin Kingdom today.
The main force was restrained by the Mongols, who continued to make detours from the flanks and penetrate deep into his rear.
Historically, the Mongols even passed through the Southern Song Dynasty and returned directly to the southern hinterland of the Jin Kingdom. How can you prevent it?
If you want to break this situation, you can only take the initiative to attack. If you defend, you will die.
Take the initiative to invade the Mongolian grassland. The attacking Mongols will be saved and the Mongolian cavalry will be forced to stop running around and come back to fight you.
Of course, the Mongols gave the Jin people this opportunity. In the Battle of Yehuling, the Jin army of 450,000 people was wiped out.
If Zhu Quanzhong takes the initiative to attack, his situation will be worse than that of the Jin people, because he has enemies in the west, north, and south. If he mobilizes his whole body, your main force will be transferred to the north, and the attack will begin from the south. Your main force will go south, north, and west. Attack, you are exhausted.
Even the Jin Kingdom, which had a million-strong army, did not even manage to encircle and eliminate the mounted infantrymen who had penetrated deep into the hinterland... How could Zhu Quanzhong, who had only about 100,000 troops at this time, do it? The Jin Kingdom could at least mobilize 500,000 mobile troops. Zhu Quanzhong Even 50,000 is difficult.