Southern Song Dynasty military god

Chapter 252
Yan An and Yang Zheng are actually not optimistic about the battle of Rao Fengguan.

Although when he was in Heshangyuan, Wu Jie adopted Liu Wei's strategy and used long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows to cause huge damage to the Jin soldiers, so that the Jin soldiers had to retreat after suffering heavy losses. The results achieved under the terrain, and more importantly, there were two unexpected attacks by Liu Wei, which disrupted the Jinbing's position.

However, Rao Fengguan is different.

Raofeng Pass is not Monk Yuan, but a gateway pass, leaving little strategic depth for the Song army, and defending the pass is the only task, and there is no room for maneuver.This is a difference in geography.

In terms of people, it is true that the soldiers and horses under Liu Wei and others have become more elite, but they are not the main force of the Raofengguan garrison. The real main force is Wang Yan and Liu Ziyu. There are a lot of bows and crossbows, but what about Wang Yan?

"Wang Yan's soldiers and horses may not all be crossbowmen, let alone real elite cavalry and archers like you." Yang Zheng couldn't help shaking his head, although he strongly demanded that Wu Jie obeyed his promise to send troops to help Liu Ziyu, but this time, he actually already had the idea of ​​sharing life and death with Rao Fengguan.

"Don't be too discouraged, guys!"

Among the three, perhaps only Liu Wei was calmer in his heart.He is frank not because he is sure to defend Raofengguan, but because of the historical battle of Raofengguan, Wu Jie was supposed to lead troops and horses to supervise the battle in person, but in the end, he still lost this round.

Therefore, in Liu Wei's view, the worst result was nothing more than that. Even if the Jin soldiers took down Raofengguan, they still failed to successfully invade Bashu in the end.In the entire period of the Great Jin Kingdom, the Jin people failed to really enter Bashu, and Bashu was broken by foreign races. It will probably wait until the Mongolian Yuan Empire more than 100 years later. This is also when Liu Wei strongly urged Gaojiazhuang to move to One of the important reasons for Bashu.

For Liu Wei, Yan An and Yang Zheng were quite convinced, especially after the Battle of Monk Yuan, they thought that Liu Wei should have some "sureness" in saying this.

"No, the two elder brothers are good generals. You should know that all miracles have their reasons, but in this battle, I really can't find where the miracles are!"

In the expectant eyes of Yang Zheng and Yan An, Liu Wei shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "Since your lord has asked us to help defend Rao Fengguan, then we will do our best! There is not only one Rao Fengguan in this world, If you want to enter Bashu, there is not only Raofeng Pass! In this battle, as long as you can buy precious time for the allied forces behind, so that they can make sufficient preparations, I think that the task will be completed! Therefore, the two generals must not have any unrealistic thoughts of dying for the country, let's hurry up, get to Raofeng Pass earlier, and buy more time to rest!"

In fact, Liu Wei's consideration is very realistic. Even if the military god is alive, what he hopes for when facing a war that cannot be won is to exchange space for time.

The key reason why the German army was invincible in the early days of World War II was that its "lightning tactics" made the enemy's idea of ​​using space for time repeatedly failed, and they were always in a state of being caught off guard.

Under the urging of Liu Wei, the team continued to move forward, and Liu Wei, who was sitting on the horseback, was actually unwilling to lose this round, but he still couldn't remember that the battle of Raofengguan had Wu Jie and Wang Jie. Yan, these two generals can be called everyone, with about [-] soldiers and horses, and they are also supported by Xiongguan. Where did they lose?

Liu Wei didn't know that because of his appearance, Wu Jie didn't personally lead the troops to Raofeng Pass. It was because of the reduction in the number of soldiers and horses that finally Liu Wei arrived at Raofengguan a day earlier than Sally!
Historically, Wu Jie's soldiers and horses arrived almost at the same time as Saliha, so that Sariha was taken aback, thinking that his plan to fool the Song army had completely failed, but later learned that Wu Jie was able to lead the army When I rushed three hundred miles in one day and night, I couldn't help but secretly marvel.

And at Raofeng Pass, Liu Wei also met Wang Yan for the first time.

Wang Yan, who had passed his forty years, seemed a little older than his actual age.This person had an unsatisfactory life before the age of 40. The two finally got back together, but suffered the defeat of Golden State again, and they were under heavy mental pressure.

When he heard that Liu Wei and other three generals were sent by Wu Jie to help defend Raofengguan, Wang Yan's mood was actually very complicated.

As the guard of Jinzhou, because he did not listen to Liu Ziyu's advice because of his self-will, he was fooled and lost Jinzhou carelessly, which became an indelible shame in his life. Standing firm in Raofengguan, Wang Yan naturally hoped to "make up for his mistakes", Achievement wins.

However, Wang Yan's confidence in winning was shaken when he learned that the entire army of Salihou was on top, a total of [-] troops!
"The three generals came not far away, I am very grateful, please rest first, and I will clean up the dust for the three generals in the evening!"

"Your Majesty Wang, you are welcome! But my lord arranged for me to come here, just to help the lord to guard against the storm. Resting and cleaning up can be postponed. Let us first understand the situation and go into battle as quickly as possible!"

Although Liu Wei was very prestigious in the hearts of Yan An and Yang Zheng, Wu Jie called Yan An and Yang Zheng to listen to Liu Wei's arrangements before leaving, but before arriving at Raofengguan, Liu Wei asked Yang Zheng and Yan An Yanming, after Raofeng Pass, Yang Zheng, the oldest and highest official among the three, should be invited to come forward. After all, he is dealing with Wang Yan. Easy to do bad things.

Therefore, although these words were all Liu Wei's intentions, they finally came out through Yang Zheng's lips.

"The three generals are really my Chao Yingjie, let's talk about the military situation first! The total number of soldiers and horses brought by the three is..."

"Full, 3000 people!"

"Oh." Wang Yan mused, obviously dissatisfied with the number, isn't it? Although one more person is more combat power, but 3000 people seem to be just a drop in the bucket against an enemy of the order of [-].

"Let's talk about the enemy situation first!"

Most of the things that Wang Yan said next, Liu Yi already knew, and some things that were not clear at first were also understood through Wang Yan's narration.

Counting Liu Wei's 7000 soldiers and horses, the entire Raofengguan is strictly counted as three groups of people, with a total of more than 8000 soldiers and horses. Among them, Wang Yan has the most troops, 6000 people, and then belongs to Liu Ziyu's 3000 people, and Wu Jie's [-] people.

If Wu Jie came here in person this time, he would naturally take charge of everything and become the commander on the battlefield as a matter of course, but now the entire Raofengguan Wang Yan has the most troops and the highest rank, so everyone can only listen to his arrangements.

Even if Yang Zheng and Yan An seemed to recommend Liu Wei to be the supreme commander, under such circumstances, they were too embarrassed to speak up. One must know that the general Tian Sheng sent by Liu Ziyu to assist in the defense of Rao Fengguan, was very concerned about this matter. No objection was expressed.

"The golden soldiers are coming fiercely. I feel that Master Liu's suggestion was very good. We should reject it with a crossbow. I don't know how many people think so?"

Wang Yan's suggestion, or this decision, sounded a bit disapproving to Yang Zheng and others.The tactic of using bows and crossbows to deal with Jin soldiers began with the Battle of Monk Yuan commanded by Wu Jie, and Liu Wei, who sat at the bottom, was the real inventor of this tactic. Now Wang Yan says it is Liu Ziyu’s. For the credit, Yang Zheng and Yan An naturally felt a little worthless for their lord and Liu Wei.

However, when they saw Liu Wei's calm expression, the two of them didn't speak, and they nodded in agreement with Wang Yan's opinion.

Seeing that everyone has no objection, Wang Yan then began to divide the defensive area.

Raofengguan is a huge checkpoint. In a sense, this kind of checkpoint is actually a towering city wall sandwiched between two mountains. There are gates, but it rarely has a moat. connected by mountains.

Below the checkpoint is the avenue, which is also the only way for marching.

The reason why it is called the only way is that it is convenient for a large group of people to pass through, not that this is the only way.

Looking at the map put out by Wang Yan, Liu Wei's heart seemed to be touched suddenly.

"If I want to conquer such a grand pass, either I have a massive cannon fodder team, or I have advanced siege equipment."

Xiongguan is not a siege, as long as the attacking party cannot conquer the level, then the defending team will always be able to obtain a steady stream of supplies from the rear, that is to say, it is impossible to capture the level only by relying on siege.

The purpose of mass cannon fodder is to use continuous attacks to consume the energy and physical strength of the guarding materials and personnel, and eventually lead to the loss of the defense. This can be called soft damage.

And the use of advanced profiteering siege equipment destroys the level itself.Levels are always man-made objects, not mountains and rivers. When hot weapons became more popular and more powerful in later generations, the practicality of such man-made fortifications became less and less.

However, in this battle, although the total strength of the Jin army was two or three times higher than that of the Song army, it was far from reaching the ratio of the "five principles of attack" in the art of war. possible.

So, how did the Jinren conquer this Raofeng Pass?
Liu Wei felt that as long as he could think of the key to conquering this level, maybe, maybe, he would be able to find the real reason why Rao Fengguan was lost in history, so as to save this level.

Staring at the map, Liu Wei quickly ran through various possibilities in his mind.

"Night attack. Sneak attack. Strong attack. Shuiman. What exactly is it? The mountains on both sides are so high and dangerous, how can we overcome them?"

(End of this chapter)