Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

After talking, Zeng Keda and Qin Ming couldn't help but bow to their previous short-sightedness.

Su Xia and Li Dong only led more than 2000 naval troops (with [-] boatmen) to attack Daming Mansion (nearly [-] Xiang Imperial Army troops were stationed there), and the results were fruitful!

Su Xia pointed at the map with a smile and said: "This is the blitz war! Everyone has seen the results of the blitz war."

Zeng Keda's originally somewhat empty eyes suddenly turned bright: "Sir, what is a blitzkrieg?"

A scene suddenly appeared in Su Xia's mind - Blitzkrieg was originally a war mode created by the famous German general Heinz Wilhelm Guderian.

In World War II, the German army used aircraft, tanks and other motorized advantages to develop a quick advantage and suddenly defeated the enemy and achieved victory.

But for this group of people, it was obvious that they couldn't understand Su Xia's explanation.

Su Xia thought about it and then explained: "The so-called blitzkrieg means launching an attack suddenly at lightning speed to win. The attack is often launched at unexpected times."

Lin Chong on the side answered: "Sir, when you sent out my cavalry in the previous battle outside Gaoqing City, is it considered a blitz?"

"Yes, it can be considered a blitz, but the distance is relatively short and the attack distance is shorter. After all, your cavalry detachment at that time was equipped with Jingdong Road horses, and Jingdong Road horses are very fast, and the best attack radius is only fifty miles. We The use of cavalry in surprise operations was unexpected for the Song Army.

"Three Kingdoms. Book of Wei. Biography of Guo Jia" once recorded: "Soldiers need to be quick. To attack people from thousands of miles away... use light troops and attack them to cover up their surprise."

In other words, the process of blitzkrieg requires three points: speed, surprise and concentration. These three are indispensable!

When using cavalry to fight infantry, speed is an absolute advantage. Therefore, I have expanded your cavalry detachment into a cavalry brigade. In the future, the iron hooves of the cavalry will surely defeat any enemy and launch attacks with the tactics of large detours, large outflanks, and surprise attacks. "

Lin Chong nodded seriously, and the officers around him also nodded. They couldn't help but be shocked by Su Xia's military theories.

Zeng Keda and others couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: The so-called civil and military skills are probably like this.

In fact, what Su Xia never said was that the two armies showed different fighting modes during the battle.

Now among Su Xia's National Protectorate Army, the third and fourth corps among the four corps are relatively weak in combat effectiveness. Therefore, it is more necessary for the National Protector Army navy and the first and second corps to set an example during combat.

The navy and the first and second corps were brave and good at fighting, unlike the troops of Zeng Keda and Qin Ming's third and fourth corps.

Although the predecessors of the Third and Fourth Corps were the Wuwei Army and the Xuanyi Army, they were both troops capable of fighting.

Among the Forbidden Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, they were considered elites who could fight, but they had to be well-organized and able to fight effectively!

Su Xia was more at ease and relied on the First and Second Army Corps of the National Defense Army. After all, these two troops were elite troops founded by themselves.

The third and fourth corps still need to be tempered. The battle in Gao Qingcheng is a tempering. Although there are casualties, this is war.

He also knows that only by experiencing something like a hearty battle can an iron army be forged!

Su Xia was not a war madman, and war was not the goal. Deterring the Northern Song Dynasty was the goal.

Now the Northern Song Dynasty is attacking itself. It repelled several attacks and frightened Zhao Ji. Then it took the initiative to attack and forced Zhao Ji to sue for peace. Only then can the long-term stability of the border be guaranteed.

Therefore, the rivers of blood flowing at this time will be for the future peace and prosperity of the country and the people.

But these soldiers obviously don't know it yet, and they feel it's not worth it.

Su Xia had her own idea about this. There was so much land, why not give it to the soldiers?

Therefore, he has been promoting and encouraging the distribution of fields to soldiers, but the fields are not divided into many areas to prevent soldiers from risking their lives because of too much land!

After the soldiers got the land, what were they afraid of sacrificing their blood for food and their wives and children?

Everyone rushes to fight!

They are fighting for their own beliefs and interests.

The Sixth Corps was established in the same manner as Damingfu.

The Sixth Corps was established on the basis of the Teaching Corps.

The commander of the corps (called the commander-in-chief) is a person selected from the teaching corps and the joint defense corps, coupled with some veterans transferred from the first and second corps for rotation training.

In particular, a considerable number of the officers and soldiers of the teaching corps came from the sergeants who were captured in the battle outside Gaoqing City.

Regarding the choice of commander of the Sixth Corps, Su Xia decided to let Sun Li, the sick lieutenant, take over.

Sun Li was quite capable. He had been in charge of the Dengzhou Xiang Army before, which was fairly stable.

After Su Xia proposed this candidate, no one had any objections.

Although Sun Li was not a god in military skills, he was really capable in fighting. In terms of ability, he was no worse than the five tiger generals of the Liangshan Horse Army. I don't know why he was driven to the ground.

Su Xia analyzed it and asked Sun Li to command the Sixth Corps. With the cooperation of his younger brother Sun Xin, the cooperation must be in place during the war.

Su Xia disrupted the army's organization and ensured that the Sixth General Army was completely his own.

The Sixth Corps has 5000 soldiers and four combat detachments. Its equipment is slightly inferior to that of the First and Second Corps, but it is much more powerful than the Forbidden Army of the Northern Song Dynasty.

At the same time, Su Xia also established a quick-response mobile detachment, transferring Shi Jin, who originally led the mobile detachment in the Ping Navy, as the leader of the mobile detachment, and transferred the bed crossbow captured in the previous battle to Ling Zhen fire support corps, and the captured divine arm bows were distributed to each detachment.

After a few operations, Su Xia has managed all the armies to be docile and the adjustments are even more in place!

.......

At the beginning of the fourth year of Zhenghe, the situation changed dramatically this year.

Aguda of the Wanyan tribe of the Jurchens grew in power and became the leader of each Jurchen tribe, and began to carry out his anti-Liao cause.

The rise of Jin caused some internal and external troubles for the Liao Kingdom.

Su Xia decided to take advantage of these troubled times and Zhao Ji and Gao Qiu were not ready to attack in time to disrupt the economic foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty first!

He is familiar with history and knows that a large number of banknotes were issued in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although modern experts have never found the banknotes of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time (the reason is that they are difficult to preserve), historical books do prove that there are a large number of banknotes.

Mainly "Jiaozi".

(Note: Jiaozi: originated in Sichuan, and the circulation area is mainly Sichuan. Because Sichuan used iron money at that time, it was inconvenient to circulate and carry around, so paper money Jiaozi came into being)

Su Xia decided to use counterfeit banknotes to replace the real "Jiaozi". On the one hand, it destroyed the economic order of the Northern Song Dynasty, and on the other hand, the paper money used to make it was purchased and recycled in large quantities from the Northern Song Dynasty, causing the economic situation to collapse and causing them to be overwhelmed by economic attacks!