Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 914 Siege
"Your Majesty, it's not good, the Song army is attacking the city!"

Wanyan Yinshu Ke was woken up from his sleep and sat up angrily.After waking up for a while, I hurriedly got out of bed.Seeing a soldier outside the bedroom, he panicked.

Wanyan Yinshuke said angrily: "What's the big deal about attacking the city? It's really unseemly to look like this!"

After saying that, he hurriedly put on his armor and ordered his soldiers to lead him to see it.

As soon as I left the government office, I heard the roar of cannons, which seemed to come from all directions.After stopping and listening for a while, Wanyan Yinshuke said: "There seems to be no sound from the north."

The soldier said: "The Song army attacked from the east and south gates, leaving only the west gate and the north gate."

Wanyan Yinshuke nodded gloomily and said nothing.

To the west of Fenzhou is Zixia Mountain. There is no way out, so there is no need to attack the city.Attacking the east and south gates, leaving only the north gate, is a classic siege of three towers.Wanyan Yin Shu has been through battles for a long time, so it can be seen at a glance.But he also knew that the North Gate left alone would inevitably escape death.

Climbing the tower, under the cover of torches, I saw the Song army forming a military formation outside the east gate, and I couldn't see the end at a glance.In the darkness, a ball of fire appeared from time to time, and a cannonball hit the city wall.There are already many gaps in the parapet wall, but the city has no power to fight back.

Wanyan Yinshuke said to the gunner: "Why don't you fight back? If you knock out the cannon outside the city, what else can the Song army do?"

The gunner said in embarrassment: "The cannons outside the city are all in the black shadow, and they can't be seen clearly from the city wall. There is really nothing we can do."

Wanyan Yinshuke gave the gunner a hard look and remained silent.

The gunner's aim depends on mathematical knowledge, and it is unreliable to rely solely on experience.The gunners in Wang Xiao's hunting army can calculate the distance based on the firelight and other markers, and then adjust the muzzle.The gunners who are good at Wanyan Yinshu are not good, they can't even do math.

On such a night, the artillery outside the city did not need to change its position and could safely bombard the city wall.

After watching for a while, Wanyan Yinshuke turned to the south wall without saying a word.

This is the same as the East City Gate. The Song army is already waiting outside, and artillery is constantly coming to the city.The Song army outside the city was shadowy, and the artillery was in the darkness.In the city, you can only see the glow of the fire when it is fired, but no shadow of the artillery can be seen.

After standing on the city wall for a long time, until he felt that the city wall under his feet began to shake and could not hold on for much longer, Wanyan Yinshuke sighed and walked up to the city.Back at Zhouya, Wanyan Yinshu sent an army to the east, south and north to test the Song army's defense.

After more than an hour, the three troops reported back.The Song Army's defense in the east and south directions was very strong, with no gaps at all.The north gate was not defended by the Song army. It was not until five miles away that the Song army encountered an ambush.There weren't too many ambush troops, so we broke through easily.

Wanyan Yinshu sighed: "With the strength of the Song Army, I don't believe that the defense of the North Gate is so loose. Everyone knows this trick of surrounding three towers. But it was used so obviously. The Song Army generals It’s also talent.”

The deputy general Asi Bo next to him asked in a low voice: "Then what should we do? Don't go through the north gate?"

Wanyan Yinshu smiled bitterly: "If you don't go through the north gate, where can you go? Why did the generals of the Song Army guard Queyi's north gate so loosely? It's because they know that we have only one way to go to the north. Either we don't leave the city, we leave the city. We can only go through the north gate. The north gate is undefended, which tells us that they want to leave the city and fight again!"

Alibo closed his mouth, feeling an ominous premonition in his heart.

Wanyan Yinshu thought for a while and said: "Light up the troops and horses immediately and prepare to leave the city! There are a thousand soldiers left in the city, led by Da Jibu. What will happen, we can only leave it to fate. After we leave the city, we will go north with all our strength! "

Alibo said hello and turned around.

Wanyan Yinshuke looked at the dark night outside, feeling very angry.He still had more than 1 soldiers. A few years ago, who could have stopped him?Even if there are [-] Song troops in front of them, they dare to fight all the way through.But now, if you can't beat it, you just can't beat it. It's useless to think about anything.

I hope that the number of Song troops besieged in front is not large, and they can return to Taiyuan after paying the price.

After looking at the sky, Wanyan Yinshuke returned to the official hall and ordered his soldiers to pack up and salute.Now that I think about it, coming to Xihe by myself is really asking for death.Liu Chengyi looked back at the sky, and there was already a hint of fish belly white on the horizon.

The Jin army in Xihe City will definitely escape today, and they have no other way to go.Liu Chengyi was here just to disrupt the Jin army's formation, and then went to defend Zixia Mountain Road.This is the characteristic of Wang Xiaolie's army.I rarely use intrigues and tricks, I just tell you openly and openly that I am here waiting for you.

So what if I tell you?

Compared with the Jin Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had advantages in manpower and material resources, and even in state management.In the past few years, Wang Xiaolie has occupied a vast territory and made full use of these advantages.Fighting against the Jin army does not require conspiracy at all.

The 3000 men under Liu Chengyi's account really fought to the death with Wanyan's silver-skilled army of more than 1 gold troops, and the outcome was still open to question.However, Wang Xiaolie did not need him to take such risks, as he already had too many troops.Liu Chengyi only needed to lightly touch Jin Jun, turn around and retreat.

The current situation is that the puppet Qi army cannot defeat the Song army, the Song army cannot defeat the Jin army, and the Jin army cannot defeat Wang Xiaolie's army.And the longer time passes, the more obvious this trend becomes.The combat effectiveness of the Jin Army has already reached its ceiling, while the combat effectiveness of the Song Army and Wang Xiaolie's armies is rising.

The core of the military's combat effectiveness is its organizational capabilities.When organizational capabilities reach their peak, an army's combat effectiveness will generally reach its peak.Weapons and equipment, morale, general level, etc. are of course also components of combat effectiveness, but they are not the core.

When we look back thousands of years, especially if we have experience in modern history, we should understand this.If you still don't understand, you can't say you have mastered the laws of war if you are obsessed with weapons, morale, etc.Can we win without mastering the laws of war?sure.As long as your opponents don't understand either.

Why did barbarism defeat civilization?Because civilization has not yet mastered the laws of war, it has even learned barbaric methods to manage its army.Using one's own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points will certainly not lead to good results.As for saying that Song and Ming could not defeat their opponents because they used culture to control force, that is just nonsense.

In 20, Sun Yunxiao wrote an article called "Summer Camp Contest", which became a nightmare for those born in the [-]s.At that time, television and newspapers reported that Chinese children had lost to Japanese children. What should we do in the future?Parents used this report as an excuse to strictly train their children, and the scene was spectacular.In fact, less than a year after this report was published, Beijing Youth Daily wrote an article to refute it.But in the past [-] years, Sun Yunxiao's article has been widely circulated in society, and there are almost no refutations.

As a modern person, you should understand the nature of the army, its composition, and the source of combat effectiveness.It should be understood that when analyzing the reasons for the poor combat effectiveness of historical dynasties such as the Song and Ming dynasties, one should analyze the organizational strength of their armies.How the army's organizational capabilities declined, how it collapsed, how it couldn't compare to the emerging barbarians.During the battle between the two sides, we should analyze how the organizational capabilities of both sides change and evolve.

If we can only come to the conclusion that we must use culture to control military force and make loyal ministers and good generals, it is not worthy of saying that we have learned contemporary history lessons and contemporary historical analysis.

We have a lot of this fallacy.Wang Xiaolie was not able to analyze the reason why it was widely spread. Anyway, that was the fact.

Just like when I was scrolling through Douyin in my spare time, a scholar named Wang Dongyue swore on stage that China has no contractual spirit.It is said that if a person in a rural area borrows money from someone and asks to write an IOU, he will immediately turn his back on you and deny you.It is said that the Chinese people ignore others and are extremely tolerant of their relatives but reject contracts.

In fact, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, contracts could be seen everywhere in society.Not to mention borrowing money from relatives, but borrowing money from me, it is natural to write an IOU.

These scholars say that the Chinese people have this and that problem, and when they use this to analyze Chinese society and China's way out, how many of them are the same as saying that China has no spirit of contract?In the past, a Taiwanese named Bo Yang wrote a book called "The Ugly Chinese", in which he called a large number of China's bad traditional habits the root of China's bad nature, giving it the term "sauce vat culture".In fact, is that the bad nature of the Chinese people?Facts have given the answer.

Many educated people feel that they have mastered a certain social law and think that if others learn this, the world will be turned upside down.In fact, how can there be so many social laws for you to master?Not to mention, can people really grasp the laws of society?

Just like Wang Dongyue's class, it is said that Chinese civilization is in the pre-theistic period.Because Western society divides human civilization into the theological age, the philosophical age, and the scientific age. Chinese civilization does not belong to these three eras. Before the theological age, it is called the pre-theistic period.

This kind of behavior of learning a few terms and concepts from the West and then making up one's own terms is common among educated people.If you fall in, you will soon find that what they say makes sense, and you may even become their believer.

The core of the military's combat effectiveness is its organizational capability, and all research on the military should start from this point.Weapons and equipment, fighting will, and general abilities are of course also components of combat effectiveness, but they are relatively minor.

Now the organizational ability of Wang Xiaolie's army is much higher than that of other armies.Not only that, its equipment and logistics capabilities are also far superior to that of the Jin Army.Only by understanding the combat effectiveness of Wang Xiaolie's army from this aspect can we understand why the Jin army is so ineffective now.

There is a saying that says, think big and start small.It's not good to play high, and it's not good to just focus on the local area.In order to do things well, we must not only see the overall situation, but also take into account the immediate situation.

When Wang Xiaolie entered the Taiyuan Basin and fought against the Jin Army, he suddenly found that the situation was much better than he expected.Even if the Jin army comes in force to help, Jiang Min may not need to enter Datong first before he can win.In this case, trying to preserve the strength of the army and destroy all the enemies has become a new goal.

(End of this chapter)