Li Qing, the king of Yan, observed outside the city of Chuzhou for a long time, and Li Qing's personal guards were on guard all around, and I don't know how long it took for Zhao Ge to come to the side of Li Qing, the king of Yan, and said: "Lord, the Song army has built perfect fortifications with Chuzhou City as the core, and there is clear flowing water as a shipping channel, and the Song army can continuously transport grain and grass from the south of the Yangtze River to this point.
Li Qing nodded and said, "Does this king remember that there is another big city in Chuzhou?"
"Yes, my lord."
Zhao Ge said to Li Qing: "Another important defensive town of the Song army is Lai'an City, which is located on the west bank of Laishui, where the Song army has also deployed heavy troops. ” Li Qing took the telescope away from his eyes and said: "Let's meet the big camp first, you will report to this king on the specific deployment of the Song army in Huainan, and our specific action plan needs further consultation." ” "It's the prince, the last general understands," Zhao Ge said to Li Qing.
After returning to the camp, Li Qing immediately gathered all the generals, the Song army in the transition from offensive to defensive, its strategic situation still changed, followed by the Song army's defense system and military deployment in Huaibei, through a series of additional troops The Song army is now not only a million troops in Huainan, but also more numerous.
After sorting out all the information, Zhao Ge came to everyone with his baton and said, "Generals, according to the information we have obtained, the total strength of the Song army in Huainan has exceeded 1.5 million troops, and this 1.5 million army is distributed in various strongholds north of the Yangtze River; The focus of the Song army's defense was mainly Chuzhou, Zhenzhou, and Hezhou, which were located north of Jiangning Prefecture, because these three places were directly aimed at Jiangning Prefecture, the center of the Great Song Dynasty; Among them, Chuzhou is the top priority of the Song army's defense, the Song army deployed 800,000 troops in Chuzhou, of which 600,000 troops were deployed in the fortifications centered on Chuzhou City, and the remaining 200,000 troops were mainly deployed in the Lai'an area.
In addition, the Song army also deployed 300,000 troops in Zhenzhou and Hezhou, and the defense of Zhenzhou focused on Liuhe as the core, and the defender of Zhenzhou was Zhang Miao, who also served as the defense of Yangzhou and Taizhou."
Zhao Ge introduced the Song army's defense in the entire Huainan, and Li Qing, the king of Yan, said after listening: "You have just heard the generals in General Zhao Ge's introduction, that is to say, the Song army deployed millions of troops in the distance from Taizhou in the east to Hezhou in the west, and the Song army established a complete Yangtze River defense line with its back on the Yangtze River, and the Song army also had hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of warships of the Jiangnan Naval Division to rely on; That is to say, if we want to destroy the Great Song Dynasty, we must destroy them first, according to the establishment of the Song army, these millions of troops cannot be all soldiers, there should be a considerable number of auxiliary soldiers, so you don't have to worry, according to our previous battle plan, we hope to be able to carry out roundabout operations, that is to say, to avoid the key defensive locations of the Song army, and start from the weak point, but now it seems that it is difficult to achieve this, after all, the Jiangnan naval division of the Song army is not vegetarian. ” Li Qing's speech made all the generals feel uneasy, and as a commander, you are like this.
Then can you still expect the brothers below to play with their lives Therefore, as soon as Li Qing's words came out, the overall momentum of the Xia army was basically half discharged, so the Xia army did not attack; Because Li Qing knew that this battle to destroy the country could not be solved by a quick battle, and after losing a large number of elite soldiers, the overall combat capability of the Xia army had decreased a lot, and Li Qing had to retrain the soldiers to restore the Xia army to its best state.
In the next three months, Li Qing rebuilt a Jiangbei camp in the north of Chuzhou City, or a Jiangbei City, the Xia army relied on Jiangbei City for military deployment, and the Xia army continued to transport a large amount of grain and grass here, and the Song army soldiers who were originally ready to resist desperately did not wait for the Xia army, so they began to relax, and the Great Song Dynasty court, which was actively preparing for the war, also began to gradually slow down the pace of deployment.
Let's talk about Li De, the king of Liang, after Li De led the Yuzhou army to withdraw from Luzhou, he did not attack the Song army, but retreated to Dabie Mountain and disappeared, of course, the 200,000 Xia army could not really be gone all at once, Li De was also recuperating and waiting for the next move; It is not that Li Qing is equal, but it is necessary to wait, one to wait for the Song army to relax its vigilance, and wait for the Xia army to recover to the best combat strength, in addition, it takes a lot of time for the important baggage assembly of grain and grass, weapons, gunpowder, and war horses, whether the Xia army has mastered the waterway, and after crossing the Huai River, the baggage of the Xia army needs to be transported to the front line little by little by land.
Three months later, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, Li Qing, the king of Yan, sent his former henchman Yan Shu to prepare an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty, Yan Shu came to the city of Chuzhou with a large number of jewelry gifts, Yan Shu shouted to the city gate: "Go and tell your commander, this general Yan Shu has something important to see him." ” The future guarding the door replied after seeing Yan Shu: "Wait here." ” The guard general hurriedly came to the Chuzhou Marshal's Mansion, and after seeing the seed master, the general said: "Report, report, report to the marshal, Xia General Yanshu asked to see, saying that he wanted to meet the marshal." ” Seed Master Dao frowned and said, "Yan Shu, what is he doing at this time, is it because he wants to spy on my Chuzhou." ” "Dashuai, then we will see or not see."
The Keeper asked the Planter.
The seed master thought for a while and said, "See, why don't you see it, I want to see what tricks Li Qingyou is playing this time." ” The guard came to the north gate of Chuzhou City and ordered: "Open the city gate" The heavy gate of Chuzhou City "squeak" opened, Yan Shu with dozens of his relatives immediately drove into Chuzhou City, as soon as Yan Shu entered the city, Yan Shu began to observe the defense of the Song army, Chuzhou City was indeed built solid, and soon Li Qing came to the gate of Chuzhou Marshal's Mansion, but no one came to greet him.
Yan Shu smiled and said, "Isn't your Great Song Dynasty known as a state of etiquette, do you treat a country's envoys like this?"
A Song general said: "Hospitality is its own way of hospitality, but General Yan, do you dare to say that you are a class?"
Yan Shu smiled and said: "This general came this time to be ordered by Emperor Xia, and he came to negotiate peace with the Great Song Dynasty, since the Great Song Dynasty is so hospitable, the general can only go back to report to His Majesty, saying that the Great Song Dynasty has no sincerity to negotiate peace." ” Yan Shu's words naturally quickly reached the ears of the seed master Dao, but the seed master didn't believe what Yan Shu said at all, but Song Jiang did not embarrass Yan Shu and quickly let Yan Shu in; Yan Shu saw the seed master in the lobby and saluted and said, "Outer general Yan Shu, meet the seed handsome." ” The first is offered, Tianyu wishes everyone a happy new year and all the best: