Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

As the saying goes, a small amount is not a gentleman, and non-toxic is not a husband.

While talking and laughing, Gao Qiu revealed the truth about why he wanted to kill those dozens of people.

It would be unbelievable to say that all these 30-odd officers were deserters.

It can be said that the vast majority of these people commanded the soldiers to resist, and some even lost their jobs.

But Songcheng County was occupied by Su Xia after all. It was hundreds of miles deep into the hinterland. Su Xia's army seemed to be in an uninhabited territory. How could the officials not be angry?

In addition, this group of forbidden troops stationed in Songcheng County were not commanded by his trusted followers. As the captain in front of the palace, Gao Qiu naturally wanted to take action. This was also a show for the Western Army in the future.

If there is any disadvantage during the battle, or if you dare to disobey my command, there is only one word - death!

These words made the Flying Tiger General Bi Shengxin, who was eating elbow meat, a little panicked. He never thought of such a reason.

As a close confidant of Gao Qiu, he was panicking. What was he going to do?

From now on, if you fight on your own, if you don't fight well, will you be "clicked" by Gao Qiu?

Bi Sheng, who became more and more nervous as he thought about it, began to eat meat a bit slowly. However, Gao Qiu, who was good at discovering people's details, knew how to observe psychology, and knew the slightest, said hurriedly: "Our own people are still different, mainly the Western Army, that Liu Yanqing, he is going to lead an army of nearly 8 people to fight. These Western troops are all on the wild road, and Liu Yanqing himself is not one of my people. If he doesn't listen to the greetings and orders when the time comes."

Li Bangyan came to the side and said: "Master Gao, if you want to change generals before the battle, why not ask the censor to give him a copy, so that the emperor can carefully consider the candidate."

Gao Qiu shook his head: "I'm afraid that's not possible. After Hu Shiwen was assassinated, there were not many people left to fight for us."

Gao Qiu was actually a little worried in his heart. Su Xia was naturally difficult to deal with. Gu Tingye was from a noble family and didn't have much contact with him, but Gu Tingye's death shocked him greatly.

He understood very deeply that the Su Xia Army's combat effectiveness was not in vain.

Just now these people were talking about Hu Shiwen, and these traitors began to "secretly hurt themselves" again. They asked the military patrol shop and the Kaifeng Mansion police officers to investigate, and arrested a large number of people and questioned them, but they could not find the assassin. .

All he knew was that he was a skilled archer who had set the arrow on a teahouse eighty steps away. The furious Cai Jing couldn't find a place to vent his anger, so he ordered the Kaifeng Mansion to arrest the teahouse owner and put him in prison. He beat him severely until he was dying. Give it out!

When this bastard Cai Jing did this, the people complained.

But Cai Jing and the others don't care about this.

In fact, in addition to Cai Jing and Grand Master Cai, Gao Qiu's accomplices also included people like Li Bangyan.

To be more realistic, Gao Qiu, Tong Guan and others are not actually a group of people. Although they are all bad people, we know that the world is not black and white.

Likewise, not all bad guys become a group.

Traitors also need to be divided into gangs. For the time being, Gao Qiu, Cai Jing and others are standing together, but where is Tong Guan?

As one of the powerful eunuchs and six thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty, he originated from Cai Jing. He has always been close to Cai Jing, but after he was promoted, the distance became farther.

In the first year of Zhenghe (1111), Tong Guan was awarded the title of Captain of the Inspectorate and was sent as envoy to Khitan. This was the pinnacle of his status as an extremely human minister!

Think about it, for a eunuch or eunuch to go on a mission to a foreign country, it can be said that it is unprecedented and unprecedented.

Someone summed it up for him, saying that Tong Guan’s life created several great achievements in Chinese history!

The eunuch who held the army the longest;

The eunuch with the greatest military power;

The eunuch with the highest title;

eunuchs on mission to foreign countries;

It's not easy to do one of these four well, but Tong Guan did all four.

Similarly, as the commander-in-chief of the army, he naturally struggled with Gao Qiu for power, so the two did not "like each other" as written in Water Margin.

Since Hu Shiwen was killed, whether it is Tong Guan, Gao Qiu, Cai Jing and others, they have strengthened their security forces. In fact, Hu Shiwen can survive. It's not that Su Xia wants to kill such a waste, but he must die if he knows the secret of He Hua.

After Hua Rong came back, the seventh corps was specially established among the troops commanded by Su Xia.

In the cold weapon era, bows and arrows were of course one of the important weapons, and Su Xia's Seventh Corps was a unit mainly equipped with bows and crossbows.

In addition to various crossbows such as the divine arm bow, the main equipment also includes large bed crossbows, fu crossbows, and trebuchets used for sieges and land occupation, etc.

These equipment were mobilized and commanded uniformly. A considerable part of the crossbows came from the Song army captured during the first anti-Song army battle, and the crossbows and feather arrows were also used in the surprise attack on Daming Mansion (Chapter 138) What was obtained, coupled with a large amount of materials obtained from Songcheng County, directly armed the Seventh Corps.

Su Xia asked Hua Rong to serve as the commander-in-chief of this battle.

Xiao Li Guanghuarong is good at archery. Such a corps is established with two detachments and an infantry combat detachment.

Among them, the 1st detachment of the 2000th Corps is mainly equipped with bows and arrows and has about 1500 people, including [-] archers.

The second detachment is equipped with crossbows, trebuchets, tanks and aircraft from the cold weapon era, and so on.

The third detachment is a conventional infantry combat detachment.

It can be said that the Seventh Corps can be regarded as a fire support corps as a cold weapon.

In this way, Su Xia has the Hot Weapon Fire Support Corps commanded by Ling Zhen, and the Seventh Corps (Cold Weapon Fire Support Corps) commanded by Xiao Li Guanghuarong are two major combat corps.

In this way, in terms of force allocation, we have six main combat corps: the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh, as well as the fire support corps directly under Ling Zhen, a cavalry brigade under Lin Chong, As well as a unit that Su Xia relied on particularly - the National Defense Army Navy adapted from Ping Haijun and Cheng Haijun (commanded by Li Dong, with extremely strong combat effectiveness) and various joint defense corps and other units, with a total strength of nearly 6.

Through the surprise attack on Daming Mansion and Songcheng County, Su Xia's strength was greatly enhanced.

As for Gao Qiu and the others, the imperial court was composed of a mixture of the Western Army and the Forbidden Army. A total of 14 troops were dispatched under the command of Gao Qiu. They originally planned to launch the war at the end of the spring.

But Song Huizong also realized that it seemed that the war against Su Xia had to be postponed.

Because of the occupation of the weapons and equipment depot in Songcheng County and the large number of "fake banknotes" incidents in Chengdu Prefecture on Sichuan [-]th Road, Zhao Ji's conquest of the Soviet-Xia war had to be postponed for another two months.

At this time, Xixia and Liao also figured out that there was a war in the Song Dynasty, and now was the time for them to take advantage of it.

But the Liao Kingdom now has some of the same internal worries.

People who are familiar with history know that in 1115, the fifth year of Zhenghe, Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda (Wanyan Min) unified the Jurchen tribes and launched an army to rebel against the Liao Dynasty (now the fourth year of Zhenghe). That was only one year away from now. Years have passed.