Nanyang, in the camp of the summer army.
This place is personally garrisoned by Li Wu, the crown prince of the Great Xia Empire, and at the same time, the most elite 200,000 troops of the Great Xia Empire are gathered here, including 100,000 Imperial Forest Army and 100,000 Janissary Guards, these 200,000 troops are all-firearms army, equipped with 250,000 bird guns and more than 600 artillery pieces of various kinds, including heavy siege artillery, and a large number of return artillery as support weapons.
These 200,000 troops are all the efforts of Emperor Li Liangzuo of Xia for ten years, and the weapons they are equipped with are also the weapons that the Great Xia Empire has accumulated with great difficulty in the past ten years, but the horror of this army is still unknown to anyone, because they have never shown their sharp minions.
"His Royal Highness the Prince."
Li Hu'er shouted to Li Wu after coming to the big tent of the Chinese army.
"It's just you and me here, why bother."
Li Wu said to Li Hu'er: "Something happened in a panic." ” "Big brother."
Li Hu'er immediately changed his words and said: "The sentry cavalry reported that the Song army had moved, and Wang Kai personally led 200,000 troops out of Xiangyang and went straight to Dengzhou, and the soldiers pointed directly at Xiangyang. ” "Okay, great."
Li Wu smiled and said, "I'm afraid he won't come; How is our army preparing?"
"The 200,000-strong army is ready."
Li Huer reported to Li Wuyu.
"Where is the third Yuzhou legion now?"
asked Li Wu'er.
"One hundred thousand Yuzhou troops have secretly arrived in Xincai City."
Li Hu'er said to Li Wu.
"The 100,000 army of the third child is the key to our victory in this battle."
Li Wu said with some concern.
"Big brother, don't worry, there won't be any problems on the third brother's side."
Li Hu'er said to Li Wu.
"I hope so."
Li Wu said: "Okay, don't talk about this, everything is according to the original plan; You will lead the troops to set off tonight and enter the designated position, and you must completely eat this Song army. ” "Yes, my brother will arrange it."
After Li Hu'er finished speaking, he left the big tent of the Chinese army, and that night Li Hu'er led 50,000 imperial forest troops to leave Nanyang and go east.
The next day, Li Wu led an army of 150,000 and began to move south, although Li Wu had an army of 150,000, he claimed that he only had 50,000 soldiers and horses, and the army was also moving in concealment, and the speed of the march was very slow, and the daily march was only twenty or thirty miles; The movements of the Xia army have been under the supervision of the Song army, and from the high altitude, it seems that both the Song and Xia armies are marching towards Dengzhou, which will be the key to the whole battle.
In the camp of the Jianghan Army, the Chinese army tent.
General Song reported to Wang Kaiyu: "Marshal, our army has reached the south bank of Chaoshui, and tomorrow we can cross the river and reach Dengzhou, and it is expected to take Dengzhou City within three days." ” "Where are the Xia army's reinforcements?"
Wang Kai asked the Song general.
According to our spies, the Xia army is only more than 50,000 people, marching twenty or thirty miles a day, and now it is hundreds of miles away from Dengzhou and cannot be reached in half a month."
Song Jiang said to Wang Kai.
"Don't be careless."
Wang Kai said: "The speed of marching twenty or thirty miles a day is definitely not the normal speed of the Xia army, will there be any conspiracy in this?"
"Probably not, according to the information we have, the reason why the Xia army marches slowly is related to the Xia army's armament."
General Song said to Wang Kai: "It is said that the Song army is equipped with a weapon called artillery, which is very powerful, but this weapon has a fatal shortcoming, that is, it is slow to fire and very heavy; The last general thought that it should be this new weapon that slowed down the marching speed of the Xia army. ” "Well, it's very likely."
Wang Kai agreed; "The herald orders the army to cross the river tomorrow, and I ask to take Dengzhou before sunset tomorrow."
"Yes, the last general commands" Dengzhou is an important strategic support point for the Xia army to attack Xiangyang, the Xia army once hoarded a lot of grain and grass, weapons and gunpowder here, but now only part of the grain and grass is left here, as for the rest of the baggage has been transported away by the Xia army in advance, in addition to the Xia army guarding Dengzhou is not many only more than 1,000 people, and most of them are old and weak, facing 200,000 Song army Dengzhou lost is only a matter of time.
In the early morning of the next day, the Song army crossed the river in batches and began to attack Dengzhou City, the Xia army defending the city resisted stubbornly, giving the Song army great damage, but the two fists were difficult to defeat the four hands, under the attack of the 200,000 Song army, more than 1,000 Xia troops finally abandoned the city and fled north, and finally escaped from the clutches of the Song army only more than 100 people, the Song army recaptured Dengzhou is equivalent to recapturing an important strategic stronghold, relying on Dengzhou The Song army can carry out the next step of the Northern Expedition or the Eastern Expedition.
Eyes let us return to the northern battlefield, at the junction of the Jiaodong Kingdom and the Great Xia Empire, the 200,000 Jiaodong Army has been assembled, is attacking from Zizhou to Qizhou, the 200,000 Jiaodong Army is Xiao Feng's entire family, the Song Army's Northern Expedition can be described as a long-planned plan, for the common benefit of the Jiaodong Army and the Song Army came together, according to the strategic plan designated by the Great Song Dynasty, the 200,000 Jiaodong Army soldiers Song Army Northern Expedition a key chess piece.
The Song army hoped to use the Jiaodong Army to contain the army in the north of the Great Xia Empire, and at the same time hoped that the Jiaodong Army could take the Daimyo Mansion and cut off the logistics and grain routes of the Xia army, just like the Xia army occupied Mangdang Mountain that year; Today's Jiaodong Army is the Yuzhou Army that went deep behind the enemy line, and this strategic plan of the Song Army is completely copied from the plan of the Xia Army back then.
Qizhou City, Yan Shu led 100,000 Jizhou Legion to wait, as for Yan King Li Qing led the naval division warships have gone out, but it is not easy to attack Jiaodong from the sea, at this time Li Qing did not know that the Great Song Dynasty naval division battleships have begun to go north under the command of the naval commander Li Bao, this time the Great Song Dynasty naval division dispatched thousands of warships, 200,000 naval division soldiers to carry out cross-sea landing operations, accompanied by a large number of grain and grass armaments.
"Report, report, report to the general, the Jiaodong Army has arrived outside Zhangqiu City."
A spy came to report.
Yan Shu immediately and decisively ordered: "Summons General Zhao Ge, and fight and retreat to lure the enemy deeper." ” "Yes, Commandment" After the herald left, Yan Shu immediately summoned the generals to deploy a new battle plan, although Yan Shu only had 100,000 Jizhou Legions, but these are all elite troops, and there are firearms to help, Yan Shu intends to eat 200,000 Jiaodong Army in one go, although the Jiaodong Army has 200,000 troops, but the real elite is about 100,000, Yan Shu did not put it in his eyes at all, under the unified deployment of Yan Shu, the Jizhou Army immediately launched an operation.
Outside Zhangqiu City, inside the Jiaodong Army camp.
"Your Majesty, our army is ready."
A general came in to report to Xiao Fengyu.
To tell the truth, let Xiao Feng start a war with the Great Xia Empire, Xiao Feng really had a drum in his heart, but the matter had already been done, and there was no place to buy the regret medicine, so Xiao Feng could only go forward.
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Xiao Feng immediately issued a military order: "The herald army immediately attacked the city, and Zhangqiu must be captured before the reinforcements of the Xia army arrive." ” "Yes, the last general commands" The second update will be presented as: