This battle must be fought and won.
Since war is inevitable, at least let the people suffer less.
Yan Yu ordered all the people of all the states and counties along the Yangtze River to move inward, and return to the city at least two hundred miles away from the enemy's frontal battlefield to gather there.
The advantage of this is that dozens of cities in Linxian County are protected from the invasion of war.
In fact, in Yan Yu's heart, this is his final bottom line, even if he is defeated, even if he dies on the battlefield, even if the horse leather shrouds, even if the enemy breaks through the Yangtze River, but these dozen or so empty cities are the best gift to the enemy, and the city without any people living and without any affairs is the best defensive weapon to avoid the living things here and the jade burning together.
Of course, it is an eternal truth that soldiers fight, and the people carry grain and engage in logistics.
But at this time, this arduous and glorious work was all handed over to the gentry along the route.
These great clans must enlist their women in the army.
First, this is a bad move by Yanyu, I didn't want to do this, but I just tried a little, but the effect was too good, so it was rolled out, this is the gentry family can't bear to put the children of each family into the army, so there is a phenomenon of impersonation of slaves in the family, the war is imminent, who cares about this, but, this has caused mutual suspicion between the big clans, no one is willing to let their children join the army, that's good, then use your family slaves to join the army, these slaves don't think they are a minority, At least 100 slaves and miscellaneous servants donated by a large clan were more than 100 people, so in more than half a month, a logistics convoy of seven or eight thousand people was formed.
The female workers cook on the fire, the male workers transport, and the other junior workers mainly sew and mend for the soldiers, and do some chores.
Second, those who are unwilling to donate slaves have to take money, in fact, at this point, Yan Yu is not worried at all, this war preparation work is too good, the military salary of three million is directly allocated from the household department, which has not used a single trace of the army, if it is really calculated, the military salary of the imperial court and the original salary and training funds in the army add up to seven million taels.
Of course, Yan Yu cares about these basic work, which is personally commanded by Jiang Han, the governor of the left army, but the battle has begun, only an hour before Yan Yu arrived at the front line, news came from Xiaofei's vanguard that the two sides had started a war.
The Yangtze River moat, how to cross.
But now Datang's naval forces have to transfer warships from the distant South China Sea to fight, and although they have to travel day and night early, it will take at least five or six days to arrive.
However, the naval warships of the Great Song Dynasty on the opposite side suddenly looked at more than a thousand, although the size was not large, and the equipment was far inferior to Yanyu's Dafu ship, and most of them were placed on it by archers, and carried out naval combat attacks with weapons such as bows and crossbows.
However, many things are like this, it is better to talk than nothing, others have it, you don't, other people's things may be broken, but who knows if this will be a turning factor in the tide of the war.
Of course, Yanyu also had warships, but the poor dozens of small sailing boats and the larger fishing boats that had been temporarily requisitioned came in handy after simple modifications.
As the commander of the front line, the first thing he should do is not to increase their prestige and destroy his own momentum.
On the first day of the war, Yan Yu issued an order to ask these dozens of small warships to take the lead in charging, but they only waved their flags and shouted, and did not actually fight.
Dozens of small ships are no more than a thousand warships, and this is something that anyone can see.
But if we can't beat it, can't we scold?
Can't you scold him?
Therefore, now the only task of the Datang Navy is to scold, until the enemy can't bear it, to seek the best fighter and annihilate the enemy on land.
Although the air force was also weak, Yan Yu soon put them into actual combat.
When 300 Farker-1 fighters and 200 Fake-2 fighters, whose performance had been greatly improved, took off to the other side of the Yangtze River and dropped countless gunpowder and bombs against the enemy, the army of the Great Song Dynasty had already begun to be in chaos.
This was before the two sides began a land war.
Datang's fighter planes attacked five times a day, day and night, so after three days, Da Song finally couldn't hold back his inner anxiety and prepared to cross the river with the whole army to fight.
Although these Falk fighters are brave, although the combat effectiveness of hundreds of them is not as good, they are facing the opponent's 300,000 strong troops, and the Great Song Dynasty is also wise, they no longer use trebuchets or strong crossbows to shoot at the sky indiscriminately, because the so-called Datang Air Force is actually composed of hot air balloons that look inconspicuous in the sky, and the only result of this is that many bows and crossbows and flints they shoot end up smashing into their own army.
At present, they have only laid out many dark rivers and hidden channels around the barracks that lead from the Yangtze River, and once the air force launches a fire attack, in fact, the real casualties are not large.
However, such a method can indeed disturb the enemy's military morale and allow Yanyu to buy more time.
Zhao Kuangyin is a very wise person, he will not let these seemingly small carving skills, or strange and obscene skills, determine the real victory or defeat on the battlefield.
The 300,000 strong troops of the Great Song Dynasty, the iron cavalry is high-spirited, and it is the time when the will to fight is the strongest.
The fighters' strong will to fight needs to be stimulated.
It's up to you how you motivate.
At least, looking at it now, Yan Yu's navy and air force did cause a certain degree of trouble to the army of the Great Song Dynasty.
However, from the current point of view, this kind of troubled problem only exists at the level of the troubled military mentality, and the moment has not yet really come when it wants to play a truly decisive role in this war.
But also quickly.
On the tenth day of the confrontation between the two sides, that is, the night before the real navy of Datang appeared on the Yangtze River.
The 300,000 strong troops of the Great Song Dynasty attacked decisively, and they took thousands of small boats to secretly break through the surging waves on the Yangtze River, and killed the other half of the river in the middle of the night, the Chinese army team of the Tang Dynasty.
The two armies fought at night, and neither knew who would be able to defeat whom.
Because, the victory or defeat is not something that can be seen now, and now the whole army, whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Great Song Dynasty, all the soldiers will bring out their heartfelt killing character.
Not to mention that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are not as tall as the northern soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, but everyone knows that the competition on the battlefield is not about who is taller than whom, but who is more ruthless than whom.
This is what Yan Yu told the soldiers.
This phrase is doing its real job.
There is no doubt that the Great Song Dynasty was the aggressor, they wanted to annex the 3,000 miles of mountains and rivers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but it was easier said than done, and war became the only way to resolve the dispute between the two sides at this moment.
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The blood flowed into the river, and the river water flowed into the Yangtze River.
When the next day, when the 200 naval warships of the Tang Dynasty entered the intended battle site, the river water they saw at this time was indeed red.