In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 276 The Song Army wants to strike first
Time goes back to December of the third year of Baoqing, Mianzhou, Shukou.

After Cui Yu arrived, Mianzhou had become the headquarters and front office of the Southern Song Dynasty in Sichuan.

During Cui Yu's first term, six large granaries were built in Mianzhou, with a grain storage of 30 shi.

After Zhao Yurui came to power, he came to Sichuan for the second time. After several years of operation, several more Mianzhou granaries were added, accumulating 50 shi of grain.

Cui Yu was nearly seventy years old at this time. During his more than three years in Sichuan, he strengthened the three passes and five states for the emperor, built armor and artillery, and completed the survey of Sichuan's grain fields in November this year.

Basically completed all the tasks assigned by the emperor.

Cui Yu proposed to become an official many times, but it was only approved last month.

Zhao Yurui then adjusted the officials in Sichuan, using Meng Gong as the envoy of the Sichuan system and the commander of the capital of Sichuan.

Zhizhishi used to be the top military and political leader in the Southern Song Dynasty. After Zhao Yurui came to power, Zhizhishi and Dusi were separated from each other in all provinces.

This was the first time that the top military and political leader of the same province was established. Meng Gong was very excited and felt the emperor's trust and importance in him.

Cui Yu has not returned to Guangzhou for the time being, but lives in Chengdu. His son Cui Shusi was transferred from Lin'an County Magistrate to Chengdu Magistrate, and also appointed deputy envoy.

Gao Liangyao, a native of Xixia, was the general magistrate of Chengdu Prefecture and the herding envoy of Sichuan Herding Office. He was responsible for herding cattle, sheep and horses from Xixia.

Before the fall of Xixia, Li Dewang's youngest son followed Meng Jing to Sichuan. After the fall of the country, party members successively escaped the Mongolian pursuit and fled to Shu and Fengxiang.

Zhao Yurui asked Gao Liangyao whether the prince of Xixia should be sent to Lin'an or stay in Chengdu.

Gao Liangyao finally decided to stay in Chengdu. He changed the prince's name to Gao Ying, adopted him as his adopted son, and did not mention the restoration of the country for the time being.

On the fourth day of December, Gao Liangyao also came to Mianzhou.

When he brought cattle and sheep to Sichuan, he also passed through Mianzhou. Now that he hasn't been here for more than two years, the place has simply changed.

Gao Liangyao was shocked when he saw Mianzhou City.

The original Mianzhou City was about seven or eight meters high. Now it is more than two years old. The city is at least 12 meters high. The surrounding moat is much wider and is directly connected to the two rivers Jushui River and Da'an River outside the city.

But there were no cannons in Mianzhou City. Gao Liangyao knew that the Song Dynasty people now placed all the cannons they built in Fengxiang City and the three passes and five states. They basically managed Shukou like an iron wall.

He couldn't help but look back at Shader.

Shader is now the commander of the Xixia cavalry, and he is standing behind him with four thousand cavalry.

After the fall of Xixia, more than 1 households came to Sichuan from various places in Xixia. Gao Liangyao and Shader selected [-] young men from them. Together with Shader's original troops, they formed the last Xixia cavalry. Thousand cavalry are equipped with heavy armor (zhajia), and two thousand cavalry are equipped with light armor (leather armor).

At this time, the last dignified cavalry of the Xixia Kingdom was waiting for something outside Mianzhou City.

After a while, dozens of riders rushed out of the city.

The leader was none other than his old acquaintance, Meng Ying, who had fought side by side against the Mongols.

"Gaotong judge."

"Meng Tongzhi."

The two responded quickly, then jumped off the horse and hugged each other heavily.

Fighting side by side, the friendship of life and death will always be remembered in my heart no matter what.

"The imperial court wants to use troops against Ganliang?" Gao Liangyao thought that the Song people wanted to help them recover Xixia.

Meng Ying shook her head and said: "The Mongols have stationed heavy troops in Zhongxing Mansion and other places. We cannot attack the fortified city yet."

Gao Liangyao sighed, but he also knew that it was unreasonable for the Song people to attack a fortified city with their current strength.

Meng Ying patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "Don't worry about Qualcomm, we will call you back sooner or later. Xixia and Song are now a family. Your Majesty said that we are like brothers."

Gao Liangyao smiled bitterly, knowing that the Song people were trying to pull them into a trap, but he still knew himself. Now that he was under someone else's protection, he had to have a correct attitude. He quickly said: "How can there be a country? I am also an official of the Song Dynasty and a colleague of Meng Tongzhi."

Meng Ying also sighed softly, expressing comfort, and then he called Gao Liangyao and Sha Deer to the side.

He took out another map from his arms.

The two stared at it, and it turned out to be a map of Tubo. Looking at the map, it seemed that it was a new painting not long ago.

"In the past few years, His Majesty has been letting us trade with various tribes in Tubo, and at the same time, we have made up for the map of Tubo--"

After Meng Ying said a few words, Gao Liangyao suddenly realized: "The imperial court wants to use troops against Tubo?"

Meng Ying nodded: "Temujin is dead. Ogedai and others returned to Mobei for a meeting to monitor the country. Your Majesty estimates that the new Mongolian Khan will not appear in one or two years. This is our opportunity to develop and grow. .”

"This is the Dosma region. When Temujin destroyed Xixia, he captured Xining, Jishi (now Qinghai Xunhua) and other prefectures in the Dosma region along the way, and summoned the local Tibetan aristocrat Zhao Agechang."

"Zhao Agechang ignored it for the time being, but the Mongolian army is very close to his Diezhou (now Gansu Diebu)."

Historically, after Wokuotai destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the prince Kuoduan came again to surrender. Zhao Agechang decisively surrendered, and then helped to recruit various Tibetan tribes nearby. Before long, Mongolia established thousands of households here.

This should be the first of the [-] households in Tubo to defect to Mongolia.

Meng Ying continued: "In the long run, if Zhao Agechang doesn't surrender now, if we don't fight him, sooner or later he will surrender to Mongolia."

Gao Liangyao and Shader nodded decisively.

Now the Mongols are recruiting for surrender and have not led troops to fight. Once Zhao Agechang is taught a lesson, Zhao Agechang will definitely surrender in order to protect his noble status and territory. "Your Majesty means that if we don't contact Tibet, Tibet will surrender to Mongolia in the future."

"At that time, the Tibetan troops and horses will become the servants of the Mongols."

Gao Liangyao and Shader understood deeply and nodded heavily.

When the Mongols destroyed Xixia, there were still a large number of Xixia servants in the army, and they all fought against their own people.

"It's better to strike first." Shader gritted his teeth and said, "If Zhao Age Chang doesn't surrender, he will be completely destroyed."

This guy is now red-eyed. When he left Xixia with more than a thousand cavalry to protect Gao Liangyao and tens of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep, except for some of his family members who followed him and escaped, all his relatives and family members in Zhongxing Mansion were killed by the Mongols. He and The Mongols are sworn enemies.

Moreover, the Mongols slaughtered them all over Xixia at every turn, and now Shader only had the word "kill" in his eyes.

Meng Ying glanced at him calmly, thinking that Your Majesty is really in control.

Then he frowned deliberately: "Your Majesty still wants to recruit them. If you can recruit them, of course it would be best."

Shader said excitedly: "These herdsmen are all untouchables. The more kind you are to them, the less obedient they will be."

"Only by learning from the Mongols and slaughtering a group of them fiercely, the rest will be honest."

Meng Ying sighed helplessly, neither expressing agreement nor objection.

Gao Liangyao felt that his soldiers and horses were going to be used as guns by the Song people, but there was nothing he could do. In the past two years, the Xixia army had trained with the Song army, and with the Song army's armor, it was already quite elite.

"Just us?" Gao Liangyao asked at this time.

"Of course not. Wait a moment and it should be here."

Meng Ying said that the Song army dispatched [-] cavalry and [-] infantry camps in this battle.

Among the Xixia cavalry, there were [-], and the Song army had [-], of which [-] were light cavalry, wearing leather armor.

Among the other [-] cavalry, all have been equipped with heavy armor, which is almost all the armor built in the entire Sichuan region in the past few years since Zhao Yurui ascended the throne.

Each cavalryman has two horses, bringing a total of more than 4 horses.

Gao Liangyao was shocked when he heard this. Now the people of Song Dynasty were crazy. They imitated the Mongols and went to war with one man and two horses.

When Gao Liangyao was called this time, he was asked to take about a thousand people from the herding station to be responsible for supplies and pastoral care along the road.

They were stationed outside the city that day, and the Song army served them with good wine and delicious food.

In the next few days, soldiers and horses came one after another from Fengxiang and Xingyuan Mansion (Hanzhong).

Gao Liangyao found that the soldiers and horses coming from the two sides were different, but they were all very elite.

Fengxiang came with infantry, and Xingyuan Mansion came with chariots and cavalry.

One of the cavalrymen has two horses, one with a rider and one with armor. They also have a single sleeping bag like the Mongolians. They basically plan to walk and sleep there.

After the Xingyuan Mansion cavalry put on their armor, he saw that all of them had masks.

Only then did he realize that this was the cavalry trained by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty on an island called Jeju. He had been training for three years.

The leader and commander was Li Pingxia, who was very tall and mighty, but it was this name that made him unhappy.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Pingxia arrived, and on the ninth day of the lunar month, Meng Gong arrived.

The two parties met and talked happily.

This time the general in charge of the army was Meng Gong, Li Pingxia was the vanguard general, and Meng Ying Shadel was the left and right deputy generals.

On November [-], the car camps (artillery camps) from Xingyuan Prefecture arrived in Mianzhou one after another.

Gao Liangyao saw the true appearance of the Song Army's artillery at this time.

This time, two artillery battalions were sent out in Sichuan, with fifty cannons. Most of them were medium-sized cannons from the past, less than three hundred kilograms. There were only two heavy cannons of one thousand kilograms. Because it was necessary to consider that the distance was long and might not be easy to travel, the artillery battalions There are more than 1000 people in the army, equipped with [-] horses, mules, and [-] carts.

Originally, Meng Gong planned to equip each infantryman with a horse, because the horses here are barely enough. Horses are also produced in Sichuan, but they are not suitable for use as war horses, but they can be used by the infantry.

Later, I thought that Tubo had many war horses, so I gave up.

On the 3000th, the [-]-foot battalion of the first army mobilized by Fengxiang arrived in Mianzhou. There was originally an army of more than [-] infantry battalions waiting here, and the two troops plus the artillery battalion totaled more than [-].

Gao Liangyao was shocked again when he saw the Song Army's infantry camp. Everyone in the Song Army was wearing armor. Almost all the pikemen and infantry archers in the front were wearing heavy Zha armor. The divine arm bows in the rear array were clad in leather armor. Most people were wearing masks.

Gao Liangyao himself also owns a pair of Song Army's new infantry armor, which weighs forty kilograms. It mainly improves the defense of several key points on the face, head, shoulders, and chest, specifically to prevent long-range arrows.

He knew that if he were to shoot against the Song Army now, no army could outshoot the Song Army.

Song Jun's upper body was wrapped like a brown rice, and his defensive power was quite astonishing.

But this suit of armor also has a shortcoming: the upper body is heavy and the lower body is light.

If a soldier who is too thin wears it, he will feel top-heavy when walking.

Generally speaking, this set of Zha armor is used for standing defensively. The Song army specifically used it to protect themselves and shoot at the enemy.

(End of this chapter)