Qian Song

Chapter 314 Two generals who rose from the flames of war (ask for a monthly ticket!)
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After occupying Qinzhou, the Gan army marched westward along the Weishui River, intending to capture Xizhou, and then marched towards Xingyuan Mansion where Zhao Gou was located, and completed what Li Cun told them to capture Zhao Gou and destroy the Western Song Dynasty. The court's strategic strategy.

But when the Gan army hit Gongzhou, the Gan army was ambushed by less than 1000 troops led by the commander Liu Kai.

In this battle, the Gan army suffered a rare defeat.

——In this battle, the 2000 elite troops of the Gan army were almost wiped out. The commander Guo Mian was killed, the middle-level supervisor Li Lu was killed, and more than a dozen commander-level mid-level officers were killed or injured. In the end, only less than [-] troops followed the original road Returning, Qianjun's previous overwhelming offensive was also forced to stop.

Guo Mian, the commander of the Qianjun Army who was ambushed by Liu Kai this time, is a general who Wu Jie values ​​very much.

His family was represented by Guo Ziyi in the Tang Dynasty. He was a general for several generations. He was loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and was deeply respected by future generations.

The current generation of the Guo family is dominated by the three brothers Guo Qin, Guo Hao, and Guo Mian.

At the beginning, when Li Cun and Liu Yanqing fought decisively, Li Cun set up a new moon formation and captured a large number of Song generals. Among them, the most famous and best-developed brothers were Wu Jie and Wu Lin.

In addition to the two brothers Wu Jie and Wu Lin, the three brothers Guo Qin, Guo Hao, and Guo Mian were also captured and subdued by Li Cun at that time.

After that, the three brothers Guo Qin, Guo Hao, and Guo Mian followed Li Cun to fight in the north and south.

Later, after Li Cun became emperor, he seldom led troops in battle, so he divided the three brothers Guo Qin, Guo Hao, and Guo Mian into Wu Jie's subordinates.

When recovering Yanyun sixteen prefectures, Guo Qin followed Wu Jie to guard Yuguan. During the battle with Wanyan Zongwang, he was shot by Liu Ya and unfortunately died in battle.

Wu Jie has always regretted this matter, so he has been vigorously promoting the two brothers Guo Hao and Guo Mian.

The two brothers Guo Hao and Guo Mian also strived for success.

Especially Guo Hao, he is a relatively balanced general, has a certain military ability, and is also a good hand in internal affairs.

Wu Jie has always brought Guo Hao by his side and used it as his own deputy, while Guo Mian was sent by Wu Jie to lead the troops. This time, Guo Mian was sent as the main force of the westward advance, hoping that Guo Mian would make some more military exploits.

Unexpectedly, Wu Jie's kindness cost Guo Mian's life.

First of all, it must be said that Guo Mian's aggressiveness must have a lot to do with Guo Mian underestimating the enemy.

But then again, because the army fought too hard and smoothly in the early stage, it was like whoever rushed fast and who made great achievements in battle, so at this time, some generals underestimated the enemy and rushed forward , is also normal.

Of course, this also fully shows that Guo Mian is only a second-rate general, because real generals will not make such mistakes.

And when Guo Mian, a second-rate commander, underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, and met Liu Kai, a first-rate famous general, it was no surprise that he achieved such a result.

Simply put:
When Liu Kai ambushed the army of Guo Mian's department, he saw that Guo Mian's main force was too large and there were a large number of horse troops. It was impossible for his department to be the opponent of Guo Mian's department. The main force passing through Guo Mian's department was changed to ambush the supply troops of Guo Mian's department.

With mental calculations and no intentions, coupled with the fact that the combat literacy of the supply troops is not high, Liu Kai led his subordinates with less than a thousand people to wipe out the supply troops of Guo Mian's Ministry in one battle.

And that's not the worst.

The worst thing is that Liu Qi seized a large amount of supplies and ammunition of the dry army.

This includes ten heartless cannons, 150 tiger crouching cannons, two hundred swarming bazookas, five hundred boxes of thunderbolts, and a lot of ammunition.

In fact, if some soldiers of the Song Army who don't know anything about firearms seized the munitions of the Gan army, it would be no big deal, because even if they got the munitions, they would not use them, and they might even blow themselves up. up.

However, although Liu Kai has not been reused by the Zhao and Song Dynasty over the years, he has never given up on himself because of this. On the contrary, he has been working hard to enrich himself, and has been studying the fighting style of the Gan army, and thinking about defeating the Gan army. Army tactics.

As for the firearms of the Qianjun, Liu Kai has studied them to the point that he is more familiar with them than any general of the Qianjun.

Some people may say, this is not right, how could Liu Kai come into contact with Ganjun's firearms?

Please!

The two sides are at war, although the Gan army has been winning and the Song army has been losing, but the Song army can always pick up some of the Qian army's firearms even if they are picked up on the battlefield, let alone captured.

In this case, as long as you are willing, you will definitely be able to get some dry army firearms, and then figure out how the dry army firearms are used.

in short.

Liu Qi is an expert in using dry weapons.

Therefore, after getting so many firearms from Qianjun, Liu Kai's eyes lit up, and he immediately decided to give Qianjun a big gift.

Soon, under Liu Kai's command, Liu Kai's department took out half of the firearms they had seized to ambush Guo Mian's department, who learned that their supply unit had been ambushed and hurried back to rescue.

As a result, needless to say, Guo Mian's troops were almost wiped out...

The fierce and powerful offensive of Qianjun before was also forced to stop because of the defeat of Guo Mian's troops.

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It is no coincidence.

Under the fierce and powerful offensive of the Gan army, officials and generals at all levels in Shanzhou fled one after another. Some officials and generals even hated how fast their parents gave him two legs. how fast.

Only Captain Shi Hao Li Yanxian did not escape.

Not only that, but Li Yanxian also took the initiative to stick to Sanci Mountain, a battleground for military strategists.

Li Yanxian's real name is Li Xiaozhong, he has little ambition, and the people he associates with are all heroes, and he practices riding and shooting in his spare time.

Because he lives on the border, Li Yanxian often observes the situation of the mountains and rivers, and sometimes takes advantage of the Xixia people's grazing to capture good horses and go home.

In the first year of Jingkang, when Li Cun attacked the Song Dynasty for the first time, Zhao Huan issued a decree to serve the king, and all counties and counties recruited soldiers to serve the king.

So Li Xiaozhong called the militia to apply, and 3000 people went to the capital to rescue the king.

Later, Li Xiaozhong may succeed Jielang because of his active efforts to rescue the king.

When the Gan army surrounded Taiyuan, Li Xiaozhong wrote a letter to Zhao Huan, thinking that the imperial court's rescue of Taiyuan would not work at all, and impeaching all the officials who did not know the soldiers would harm the country.

As a result, not only did Li Xiaozhong's good strategy not get the attention of Zhao Huanjun and his ministers, Li Xiaozhong was also ordered to be hunted down by a commander, and he was forced to flee and changed his name to Li Yanxian.

After that, Li Yanxian went to Hedong Road to join the army in the planting division. Because he successfully spied on the intelligence of the Qian army's retreat to the north, he was able to fill in as a school lieutenant.

The Song army was defeated in Hedong and died in the battle. Li Yanxian went to Shanzhou to pay homage to Zhizhou Li Mida.

Li Mida asked Li Yanxian for advice on the defense of the Northwest. Li Yanxian put forward pertinent suggestions and gave detailed answers, so he was left as a lieutenant general and stationed in Mianchi, Henan Province.

Later, when Li Cun attacked the Song Dynasty for the second time, Fan Zhixu commanded the Sixth Route Western Army for reinforcements.

Before setting off, Li Yanxian suggested to Fan Zhixu: "Xiaomian is a dangerous pass, and it is difficult to garrison a large army. It is easy to cause the army to break up when advancing or retreating. We should divide the road and find an opportunity to leave the pass. We should also guard Shaanxi with half of the army. further action can be taken.”

But Fan Zhixu didn't know about soldiers, and he was self-willed. He didn't listen to Li Yanxian's advice at all. Instead, he blamed Li Yanxian for being greedy for life and fear of death, and frustrated the army, so he dismissed Li Yanxian and transferred him.

As a result, Fan Zhixu marched into Qianqiu Town, but was defeated by Niu Gao with [-] cavalry, and the officials scattered.

This time, the Gan army marched westward in a big way. Li Yanxian saw that everyone ran away, but he resolutely set up a banner of resistance on Sanci Mountain.

Some local people did not understand the military discipline of the generals, and were frightened by the propaganda of the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty, so they came to join Li Yanxian, hoping to protect their family and country under Li Yanxian's control.

Li Yanxian said to those who came to attach himself to him: "Yanxian is not from this county, unlike you and others who have lived here for generations. Today Yanxian is still working hard to protect the country. If you don't do your best, someone will kill you Wait, rob your property, wife and daughter, are you willing to accept it?"

So everyone joined the army one after another.

Li Yanxian soon got more than 2000 horses. He moved the old and the young to Tuhuazhai, and selected elites to garrison camps in Sanci Mountain, Shizhu Mountain, Datong Mountain and other places.

Li Yanxian said to the crowd: "Although the Qian army has been invincible in many battles, it is easy to win. In the past, the generals of the Song army were unable to deal with it. Now we have a favorable location and a way to win, which is enough to defend ourselves."

Li Yanxian then taught everyone how to make gunpowder weapons.

To be honest, the gunpowder weapons made by Li Yanxian have many problems, and their power is far inferior to the granulated black powder firearms used by the Qianjun.

But Li Yanxian obviously studied the firearms of the Qianjun with his heart.

Therefore, although Li Yanxian's imitation gunpowder weapon is far inferior to the real gunpowder weapon, it already has the shape of a firearm, and can barely be used to fight against the Ganjun.

Soon, a partial division of the Gan army, led by the commander Yue Heng, attacked Sanci Mountain.

Li Yanxian resorted to a clever strategy, first sent some elite soldiers to ambush, and then led his subordinates to fight head-on with the dry army with homemade gunpowder weapons.

When the two sides were fighting in full swing, the ambushes that Li Yanxian had set up before suddenly came from behind the Qian army.

Yue Heng's troops were caught off guard and fled in chaos.

As the news spread, people in the vicinity rushed to join Li Yanxian, and Li Yanxian's team expanded rapidly.

Li Yanxian led these militiamen to imitate a large number of Qianjun's firearms, and then divided his troops into four groups, and captured more than [-] barracks of Qianjun one after another in less than a month.

Li Yanxian became famous in the first battle.

After the Gan army occupied Shanzhou City, in order to free up the main force to penetrate the Sichuan-Shanxi area with all their strength, they only left [-] regular troops in Shanzhou City, and asked the surrendered soldiers and soldiers who had not escaped to assist in the garrison. He took an official position and ordered him to recall the citizens back to the city.

Li Yanxian seized this loophole in the Gan army and took the opportunity to send soldiers into the city.

Soon after, Li Yanxian led his troops to attack the south gate of Shanzhou, and the soldiers of the Gan army immediately went to Nancheng to resist.

But that night, Li Yanxian's pre-ambushed navy set out from Xindian, went downstream to Mengquanpo and Longtanggou in the northeast of Shanzhou City, sneaked into the city, and joined forces with the troops in the city to attack.

The generals who defended the city fought to the death, and were finally killed by the militiamen of Li Yanxian's tribe, leaving less than a thousand, so they had to abandon the city and flee.

Li Yanxian regained Shanzhou City in one fell swoop.

But Li Yanxian was not satisfied with this. He immediately united with various rebels to guard Shanzhou, and appointed Hu Yeyi, the leader of the Hedong rebels, as the leader of Yanhe.

Hu Yeyi was dissatisfied that Li Yanxian only gave him this small official position, and planned to plunder the Nanyuan of Shanzhou, but was trapped and killed by Li Yanxian, and got five thousand of his followers.

Hu Yeyi's rebel leaders Shao Long and Shao Yun originally wanted to avenge Hu Yeyi, but they surrendered under Li Yanxian's persuasion.

Li Yanxian then took advantage of the victory to cross the Yellow River and set up a camp in Zhongtiao Mountain. People from Puzhou, Xiezhou and Taiyuan came to join him.

Therefore, Li Yanxian sent Shao Long and Shao Yun to lead troops to attack Ruicheng in Shanzhou, Yuxiang in Hezhong Prefecture, Jiangxian and Zhengping in Jiangzhou, and Jiexian and Anyi in Xiezhou.

Wu Jie, who didn't pay much attention to Li Yanxian's militiamen before, knew that he had made a big mistake, so he hurriedly transferred Wang Yan to fight Li Yanxian.

Wang Yan was not a second-rate general like Yue Heng. After he arrived in Puzhou, he immediately put away the arrogance that had already appeared in the generals of the army, and tried his best to fight Li Yanxian.

But Li Yanxian is not the kind of second- or third-rate general, he is also a first-rate famous general, and he also has the advantages of geographical advantage and harmony.

In this way, the two sides saw each other repeatedly in Puzhou, and no one could defeat the other.

Later, because Wu Jie sent Wu Lin to reinforce Wang Yan, Li Yanxian took the initiative to retreat when he saw the reinforcements from the Gan army arrived.

At this time, in the east of Tongguan, only Shanzhou City controlled by Li Yanxian was still in the hands of the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty, and its situation was very critical.

But Li Yanxian was not afraid of this. He stepped up the construction of the city wall, dug deep the moat, expanded his armaments, vigorously cultivated the land, and moved his family from Gongzhou to Shanzhou, expressing that he would die with his family and live with the city.

Li Yanxian's loyalty moved all listeners.

Wu Jie sent Zhao Li to attack Shanzhou City.

Zhao Li and Li Yanxian fought for seven days and seven nights under the city of Shanzhou, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

In the end, Zhao Li, who saw that there was no chance of winning if the fight continued, had to temporarily evacuate from Shanzhou City.

Soon after, Wu Jie moved from Jiangzhou to Puzhou and Jiezhou, and sent troops to Shanzhou.

After Li Yanxian learned about it through espionage, he set up an ambush in Zhongtiao Mountain, severely damaged Wu Jie's army, and captured 18 generals above the command of the Dagan Dynasty. Wu Jie escaped by chance.

Not long after, Shao Long, a general under Li Yanxian's command, recovered Guozhou, and Li Yanxian ordered him to know Guozhou.

Li Yanxian appointed another general under him, Dang Song, to know Tongzhou.

However, since Tongzhou City was still occupied by Qianjun General Wang Yan at this time, Dang Song set up his office in Xiazhai [-] miles away from Tongzhou City.

Zhao Gou, who was almost terrified by the Gan army, was overjoyed when he heard about Li Yanxian's series of miraculous victories. I'm so happy I can't sleep."

Therefore, Zhao Gou granted Li Yanxian the magistrate of Shanzhou and the comfort envoy, Shengwu Jielang, Gemen Xuanzansheren, and gave him a robe, a spear and a sword.

At this time, some gentry and nobles in Hedong who were still loyal to the Zhao Song Dynasty and bandits and rebels who were loyal to the Zhao Song Dynasty secretly sent people to join Li Yanxian, hoping to cooperate with the Song army inside and outside to regain Hedong.

Li Yanxian guessed that the Qian army would join forces to attack Shanzhou soon, so he immediately sent someone to Xingyuan Mansion to ask Zhao Gou for support of [-] cavalry, and asked Zhao Gou to immediately send a large army across the river to attack north after the Qian army attacked Shanzhou. Jiangzhou, Jinzhou, Fenzhou, Bingzhou and other places went straight to the key places of the Qian army.

Li Yanxian also told Zhao Gou with certainty that if the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty used troops like this, the dry army would withdraw to save themselves, and then cross the river westward from Lanzhou and Shizhou, and return via Yanzhou and Yanzhou. Taking advantage of the victory and pursuing the lost ground.

However, Zhao Gou didn't believe that the Arabian Nights that Li Yanxian said could be successful at all, so he awarded Li Yanxian Youwu Doctor, Ningzhou Observation Envoy and Tong, and Guo Erzhou System Envoy, and then persuaded Li Yanxian to give up Shanzhou and empty the city to clear the country. , According to the insurance, gather together, wait for the opportunity to move.

Li Yanxian was very disappointed with Zhao Gou's short-sightedness. He also judged from this that Zhao Gou was also a person who did not understand military affairs. Moreover, not only Zhao Gou did not understand military affairs, but all the chief executives around him also did not understand military affairs. If such a good opportunity to regain lost ground is not utilized, how can this turn defeat into victory under such a critical situation?
After hesitating again and again, Li Yanxian wrote another memorial to Zhao Gou, expounded his overall strategic concept in detail, and patiently analyzed to Zhao Gou that Shanzhou could not be lost, as the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty would be completely destroyed. Trapped to death in the Sichuan-Shanxi area, and did not follow Zhao Gou's "suggestion" to withdraw from Shanzhou...

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