Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

"Report, our army captured more than 8000 enemy heads, that is, the enemies trampled on themselves, and captured more than 1 enemies alive. A total of more than 300 million Song troops were annihilated, and our own casualties were only less than [-]."

Some people say how could this have such a large battle loss ratio, but that is the fact!

(Refer to the Battle of Saarhu, the Ming army lost three of its four generals, and the only remaining one, Li Rubai, committed suicide to show his ambition)

Real victory in war is often so joyful!

It can be said that this battle greatly destroyed the Song Army's combat effectiveness.

After the battle outside Gaoqing City, word spread back to the government and the public, causing great shock!

Hu Shiwen, who saved his life, was almost thrown into prison again.

The news of the defeat was even more sad for Song Huizong Zhao Ji than their defeat against Xixia.

Even a minister in the court couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

They never imagined that the losses would be so huge.

The two guards of the Forbidden Army took advantage of the situation to attack. One governor was killed and another was captured. In the previous attack, it can be said to be unheard of and unprecedented!

The losses were huge and the casualties were so heavy that the whole court was shocked!

Zhao Ji couldn't wait and quickly made preparations for the second campaign to conquer Su Xia.

But while fighting the Xixia Army and trying to quell the civil strife, the 15 troops gathered were definitely not enough. Zhao Ji decided to use [-] troops this time, claiming to be [-]! Su Xia must be completely wiped out.

Taking advantage of the victory, Su Xia and the others could take some time to recuperate.

Regarding the eight thousand captured Song troops, Su Xia decided to let them come and go as they pleased.

Among them, more than 4000 Song soldiers chose to be repatriated to the Song Dynasty, while the remaining 3000 people were retained. Su Xia decided to combine these 3000 people with the previous teaching corps and organize them into reserve teams for each corps. .

Officers and soldiers usually spend half of their time stationed and farming, and half their time training.

In this way, in addition to the original four standing infantry corps, a fire support corps, and a cavalry detachment of the Army, the strength of the teaching corps was expanded to more than 6000 people, all of whom were recruited from the new army and captured Song Dynasty troops. Mainly military.

In order to ensure a smooth campaign, Su Xia organized the navy into two infantry corps. Thousands of horses captured in this battle were trained in rotation, and a group of capable cavalry officers were added to Lin Chong's cavalry detachment. Expanded into a cavalry brigade!

This is the first time Su Xia has proposed the concept of division-level combat troops.

Xiong Hui did not understand the concept of division and brigade level very clearly. Su Xia gave an explanation. The size of the cavalry brigade is the same as the size of the general army. After that, his own cavalry of the National Guard Army will have several brigades to form an iron cavalry. Elite!

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, was already displeased. He simply ignored Taishi Cai and called in Gao Qiu alone: ​​"Su Xia Kou has humiliated the imperial court several times and repeatedly committed treason. You will personally lead the army to suppress it."

At the time when the army was organizing troops, they immediately asked all the troops to help the army and horses, and listened to Captain Gao's orders.

This time, the entire main force of the Tianwu Army was mobilized, a total of 8000 people, commanded by Gu Tingye, the commander of the Tianwu Army, as the vanguard.

Gao Qiu also selected two generals from the Royal Camp Division, and each selected 80 elite soldiers from the four camps of Longmeng, Huyi, Pengri, and Zhongyi, for a total of [-]. He also selected two generals to go with him to kill the thieves. , one is the commander-in-chief of the [-]-strong Forbidden Army. He is the commander of the Zuoyi Guards and escorts General Qiu Yue.

One is the commander of the Youyi Guards, the Chariot and Cavalry General Zhou Ang. Both of them are Gao Taiwei's confidants.

In addition to these 2000 elite men, [-] troops were drawn from the various forbidden armies.

Among these 8 people, the Xiang army is the main force, mainly "allocating [-] elite troops each from Shandong and Hebei. Han Tianlin, the military commander of Tangzhou, Li Ming, the military commander of Xuzhou, Wang Yi, the military commander of Dengzhou, and the military commander of Zhenzhou Ma Wanli, the supervisor of Ma Du, and Zhou Xin, the supervisor of Songzhou's soldiers and horses, each brought [-] soldiers, so a total of nearly [-] Xiang troops were mobilized.

8 Xiang troops, plus [-] Forbidden troops as the central army, and [-] Tianwu troops as the vanguard army, for a total of [-] people!

Claiming to have 15 troops, they marched towards Qingzhou Prefecture.

News of the second consecutive attack and suppression came, but Su Xia didn't feel the pressure.

He looked at the intelligence coming from inside and felt a little melancholy in his heart.

Can an army of 15 really launch an attack?

However, the captains of each corps raised concerns about whether the 3 people who attacked before could withstand a thunderous attack this time with an army of 15.

The 15-strong army seems to be a lot, but Su Xia also put forward his own thoughts: "The Song Army only claims to be 15, but in fact it is only 8. Our four corps (excluding the cavalry brigade) each have a strength of 5000." There are more than 6 people. The cavalry brigade and fire support corps, plus the joint defense corps, the teaching corps, and the two navy corps, the total strength is nearly [-], so why be afraid?"

Xiong Hui also said at the side: "The pioneer officer Gu Tingye and his Tianwu Army are the absolute main force of the Song Army. In fact, the 8 people in this court are just Gu Tingye's Tianwu Army. The President's Lieutenant Gao Qiu is not worth a carry."

Seeing that Zeng Keda, Qin Ming and other generals still felt invincible, Su Xia directly asked them to go back and rest first, leaving Li Dong and other navy generals to stay.

Su Xia went ahead and said: "Qin Ming, Zeng Keda and others all think that this battle is impossible. If we fight, we will lose. Li Dong, what do you think?"

Li Dong looked melancholy, looked at the map and said:

"Master Xiong is right. We can use the method of encirclement and reinforcements. We can assemble one of them and surround Gu Tingye's Tianwu Army. We will see how Gao Qiu moves. If Gao Qiu still leads his troops to rescue Gu Tingye, we can split the route. Attack and eat part of Gao Qiu.

As long as Gu Tingye's Tianwu Army is trapped by us, it's like Gao Qiu is a giant, but his fist has been chopped off by us, it's not enough evidence. In addition, we definitely don't need to just wait, our navy can also be dispatched at the right time. , meet the enemy! "

Su Xia was shocked by Li Dong's words. He did not expect that Li Dong's command tactics coincided with his, and asked directly: "Then do you know why I called you here?"

Li Dong looked at the map and pointed directly at the section of Shandong East Road on the map: "I am a naval general, commanding two naval forces. Your Excellency, you came to me because you must have wanted me to lead the navy thirty miles upstream. Raid the army assembled on Hebei East Road from the plains?"

Su Xia nodded, "Li Dong knows me! Can our navy fight like this and then raid Hebei East Road?"

Li Dongdao: "Such a battle cannot be accomplished only by those with great courage, nor can it be fought by an army with loose military discipline. Although the navy of our national defense army can fight, the attack on land requires the coordination of the elite army." Only by fighting, and then attacking against the current, as long as it succeeds, going down the river will be a piece of cake!"