The Song army lost 400,000 people on the first day of the war, except for the 300,000 troops who were basically wiped out by the explosion, and then trampled into meat sauce by 100,000 cavalry, in fact, most of the 100,000 horses were captured by the Xia army.
On the first day of breaking through the defense line, the Xia army iron cavalry only advanced fifty miles to the south, and divided the troops to cross the canal to occupy Changhe Town, such a speed of advance is not consistent with the Xia army iron cavalry at all, the reason why such a thing happened, and the second line of defense of the Song army is inseparable, in order to curb the rapid assault of the Xia army cavalry, the Song army dug a large number of paddy fields behind the Great Wall, and formed a square form of water channel network.
In the camp where the Xia army of Changhe Town advanced southward, Li Qing, King of Yan, Li Ke, King of Changshan, Zhu Xu, Yan Shu, Zhao Ge and other generals at all levels were there; Li Qing pointed to the map to make the next strategic deployment and said: "Now we have broken through the Great Wall defense line of the Song army, but this is only the beginning, the greater difficulty is in the back Because the Great Song Dynasty excavated a square canal network composed of paddy fields in the north, it has had a great impact on the advance speed of our cavalry, which will win a lot of time for the Song army to gather troops, so our time is very tight, we must try to expand the results of the battle before the Song army's elite heavy troops are assembled; In the next battle plan, we are still divided into three routes, with this king leading 100,000 iron cavalry to the south along the east bank of the canal, attacking the areas of Dezhou, Qizhou, and Bozhou, and threatening the Daimyofu from the east; The fourth brother led 100,000 iron cavalry to attack Jizhou, Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, Zhaozhou, Cizhou and other places to threaten the Daimyo Mansion from the west; The remaining army of more than 200,000 led by Zhu Xu, the general of Pingbei, attacked the remnants of the Song army along the Great Wall, and led the army to attack Pingding, and cooperated with the king of Hengshan to eliminate the Song army salient led by Zhang Miao."
Li Qing did not choose a more radical strategy and concentrated superior forces to attack the Daimyo's Mansion, but chose a more stable combat plan to advance step by step; In fact, this is not what Li Qing is afraid of, but this attack is different from the past, the purpose of this attack on the Xia army is very clear, that is, to capture the city, and it is a protracted war, so it is very important to stabilize the rear, Li Qing does not want his backyard to catch fire when he moves south, such a lesson is enough once.
Late at night in the Daimyo's Mansion, in the Zhaowang Mansion.
Zhao Qun hurriedly came to the lobby and was anxiously waiting for Zhao Chen, after seeing Zhao Chen, Zhao Qun said to Zhao Chen: "The prince's big thing is not good, according to the spies to report that the Great Wall defense line has been lost, the 300,000 army led by General Wang has all been wiped out, and now the Xia army's iron cavalry has advanced to Changhe Town." ” Zhao Yan didn't believe it at all when he heard this, and laughed and said: "Zhao Qun, do you think it's interesting to joke with this king with this, it's not too early, go back to wash and sleep early" "Lord Wang, the last general did not lie."
Zhao Qun knelt on one knee and continued: "The defense line of the Great Wall has really been broken by the Xia army, and the army under General Wang has been completely annihilated."
"No way, this can't be."
Zhao Yan roared angrily; "That's 300,000 troops, the king's most elite 300,000 soldiers and horses, and there is the Great Wall as a barrier, how could the Xia army suddenly break through?
"I don't know."
Zhao Qun knelt on the ground and continued: "According to the report, there was a sudden loud bang in the north early this morning, and then the Great Wall collapsed for a long time, and the cavalry of the Xia army rushed in through the gap. ” Zhao Yan sat on the ground when he heard this, and at this moment Zhao Yan understood that the Xia army must have used gunpowder, and this loud noise was also made by gunpowder, but how the Xia army used gunpowder to collapse the Great Wall Zhao Yan still doesn't know, and there is no need to know now, what Zhao Yan has to do now is to find a way to block the pace of the Xia army going south and organize troops to fight against the Xia army.
Zhao Yan got up from the ground and muttered: "Don't mess up, don't mess up, let this king think about what to do." ” After calming down, Zhao Yu immediately issued two military orders: "Zhao Qun sent someone to send an order to Xiao Yuanshan stationed in Dezhou, and asked him to lead the Liao army's iron cavalry to block the Xia army's southward pace, and this king then led the army to support; In addition, he sent someone to send an order to Zhang Miao, asking him to give up the attack on Zhending Mansion, and lead 300,000 elites south to Zhaozhou. ” "Yes, the last general will go and give the order."
Zhao Qun immediately took the order and left.
After losing the 300,000 elite troops on the Great Wall defense line, now there are only more than 500,000 elite troops left in Zhao Yan's hands, in addition to the 300,000 elite troops in Zhang Miao's hands, there are 100,000 elites stationed in the Daimyo Mansion, and the other 100,000 elites are the remnants of the Liao troops commanded by Xiao Yuanshan stationed in Dezhou, which should be the only large-scale elite cavalry unit in the Great Song Dynasty.
Just when the Jizhou Army broke through the Great Wall defense line in the north of the Song army, Li Wu gathered 200,000 elites in Wuguan and prepared to attack the Jiancheng Shangnancheng established by the Song army outside Wuguan; This city is only fifty miles away from Wuguan, and it is an important stronghold for the Song army to curb the Xia army's exit, in order to curb the Xia army's exit, the seed master Dao gathered 100,000 troops in Wucheng to defend the city.
In the Wuguan Marshal's Mansion, Qin Hu walked towards Li Wu's study, and after seeing Li Wu, he reported: "Lord Wang, the 200,000 army has been assembled in Wuguan, and the siege equipment and gunpowder are ready. ” "Have the 20,000 Praetorian Guards arrived?"
asked Li Wu with great concern.
"The prince has arrived, and they have brought a large number of advanced firearms."
Qin Hu said excitedly; "Some of the last generals have never seen it."
"The siege guards are the protagonists this time, and it depends on them whether they can take the fortified city of Shangnan."
Li Wu sighed; "Order the army, attack tomorrow, and before attacking Shangnan, we must pull out all the strongholds of the Song army outside the city."
"Yes, the last general commands" Shangnan City is located in the north of Danshui, south of Bear's Ear Mountain, before it was just a small county town, after becoming the boundary of Song and Xia here, the Great Song Dynasty began to expand and strengthen Shangnan City, the outer city wall of Shangnan City is all built with rammed earth bricks, the city wall is about three zhang five high, the bottom base is about six zhang wide, the top width is about four zhang, and every other distance in order to strengthen the city wall also build a pier platform, there is an arrow tower on the pier platform, there is a female wall and a battlement on the top of the city wall, the inner side of the city wall is provided with a road to climb the city, and the urn city is provided outside the city gate to protect the city gate.
The city is divided into two cities, mainly garrison, the whole city has only three city gates, an east gate, a west gate and a south gate, and outside the city also dug a moat that is three zhang wide, there are also a lot of small pillboxes in the north of the south city of Shangnan, and the main city forms a mutual coordination trend, if you do not pull out the peripheral pillboxes to attack, the attacking army will all be within the attack range of the crossbow arrows of the Song army.
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