Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 512
Yelu Deguang was not as urgent as Zhang Zhao thought, because the situation at this time was not simply beneficial to Zhang Zhao's side, but it was similar to Yelu Deguang.

After controlling Xingyang, Gongxian and Yanshi, the Khitans have broken through the Rotary Gate Pass, one of the eight passes in Luoyang.

For the Yongliang army, Luoyang's place of victory has completely failed, and the Liao army is now in the Luoyang Basin.

Moreover, Yelu Deguang has great trust in Gao Song's military ability. Brother Guang knows that Gao Song is one of the few heroes he can completely trust.

For another person, Kim Yong was beaten ten to one outside the city, and he was probably eaten by Murong Nobunaga. Gao Song can still retain most of the main force. This is ability.

Moreover, Gao Song also wrote a secret letter, and reported it to Yelu Deguang through a small boat down the Yellow River.

In the letter, Gao Song summed up the three advantages of Yongliang cavalry.

One is the multi-horned crossbow, which makes the Yongliang cavalry's long-range strike power very terrifying in the first collision.

The second is that the explosive speed of war horses is astonishing, especially the impact speed of armored cavalry, which is far higher than that of Khitan cavalry.

In the case of heavy armor, the Khitan armor often suffers a lot in terms of charging speed.

The third is that the combat method is different from the past. The heavy cavalry of the Yong army adopted the attack mode of charging on the wall. When there are dense crowds, the lethality caused is very terrifying.

And Gao Song also proposed a countermeasure. He suggested that Yelu Deguang adopt a combat habit that is more inclined to fight against the blockers.

The common wolf pack tactics of the prairie cavalry are mainly wandering and harassment, and they do not seek to take the initiative to go up to close combat.

To deal with the heavy cavalry charging on the wall, Takamatsu suggested that when encountering heavy cavalry, try to avoid direct confrontation as much as possible, and attack the auxiliary units around the heavy cavalry first.

For example, in his own failure this time, Gao Song believes that the key point is that the Khitan cavalry were driven together by the Yongliang hussars, and then repeatedly attacked by the armed cavalry, which caused a lot of losses.

Gao Song also saw the only shortcoming of this method of warfare, that is, although the charging heavy cavalry is extremely powerful, it is very dependent on the cooperation of other arms. At least compared with traditional heavy cavalry, it requires overall cooperation.

As for the advantages of the Yongliang iron cavalry multi-horned crossbow, Gao Song did not say, because this is purely an advantage in equipment, and there is basically no solution.

Unless Yelu Deguang can immediately take out thousands of horned crossbows, and let the soldiers practice quickly.

After receiving Gao Song's report, Yelu Deguang probably had an idea in his heart, and through Gao Song's tactical analysis, he also roughly analyzed the current routine of the Yongliang Army.

That is to say, I want to lead the Liao army to the Luoyang Basin where Yanshi City is located, and use the not-so-wide Luoyang Basin to let the cavalry with fast acceleration and advanced tactics repeatedly charge and kill the cavalry of the Liao army.

Uh.
It cannot be said that it is wrong, Zhang Zhao did have this intention, but it was not the main reason.

Yelude only hit the right shot. He guessed the reason wrong, but the result was correct.

So, apart from Yelv Pode's [-] cavalry in Yanshi City, Brother Guang still stood still in Gong County, never crossing the Xiaoyi Bridge, or entering Zhang Zhao's ambush circle.

This made Zhang Zhao very depressed. Yelu Deguang's idea should be to wait until the follow-up army and supplies are ready before going west. In other words, he wants Zhang Zhao to take the initiative to attack.

But Zhang Zhao was also in a dilemma. If he took the initiative to attack, due to the lack of reliable ports on the south bank of the Yellow River, the pressure of transshipment would be great.

There were more than [-] cavalry from Khitan in Zhongli City and Heyang, and in order to prevent these cavalry from harassing the rear and grain roads, Zhang Zhao had to keep at least [-] cavalry behind, which was not worthwhile.

While having a headache, father and son Zhao Hongyin and Zhao Kuangyin arrived together. These two father and son are natives of Luoyang, so they were sent out by Zhang Zhao to investigate the military situation.

Zhao Hongyin's face was dusty, and when he saw Zhang Zhao, he quickly put his hands together and said, "Your Majesty, the general has already found out that the Khitan people really saved their hands, and they often send small boats from Zhongyi City to Gong County to report the situation.

In addition, the Mengjin Pass had already been ruined and could not stop the Youyi Army of the Liao Kingdom. The Khitans could even pass through this pass and go to the riverside to peek at the situation in Zhongli City in person. "

Good guy, Zhang Zhao said that Yelu Deguang has not been in a hurry, and his feelings are that his blockade is not tight enough.

It turns out that there is a three-character geographical pattern between the Yellow River, Mangshan Mountain and Yanshi.

The Yellow River is the uppermost one, Mang Mountain is in the middle, and the south of the mountain is Yanshi.

And between Mang Mountain and the Yellow River, there is a very narrow passage, which is where Mengjin Pass was located in the Han Dynasty.

Not only could Gao Song send a report to Yelu Deguang via a boat on the Yellow River, but the Khitan scouts could also pass through Mengjin Pass to investigate closely and verify with their own eyes whether Zhongli City was in danger.

With such a convenient way to obtain information, Yelu Deguang certainly can take his time.

"Do you have any good suggestions? Especially the Heyang army and the people of Luoyang, who are familiar with geography, as long as they have good suggestions, they will all be rewarded!"

After Zhang Zhao listened to the report, he asked Yan Ruise about the upper and lower military academy of the Heyang Army who was being interviewed by him. Of course, local snakes like them are best at this kind of thing.

All the military schools whispered to each other, and one military school stood up, "If your majesty can reward this servant with two hundred coins, then this servant has a plan!"

Zhang Zhao is not surprised at all. The Military Academy of the Five Dynasties Yabing, no matter what emperor or king you are, speaks so directly. If you have money, you can do things easily.

"Let's talk about it, if it is useful, not to mention two hundred guan, even three hundred guan is not much."

The military academy scratched its head and smiled, "Pu grew up by the big river since childhood, and there are many big river boatmen in his family. Although many of them were killed by the Khitans, there are still some of them.

The Heyang Army originally had hundreds of sailors, but now there are dozens of them.

If the king can trust the servants, the servants can gather them together to intercept the Khitan communication boats. "

Zhang Zhao's eyes lit up, this is a solution, but he still has doubts.

"There are people, but the boats on the big river have been raided by the Khitan people long ago. Where are you waiting for boats?"

"This is easy. We have many warships going down the river. Why don't we conscript civilian men and drag them downstream." This was Zhao Kuangyin's suggestion.

Right!Zhang Zhao nodded, sailing on dry land, isn't that also the elegant government of the new dynasty!The omens are good.

"Your Majesty can also ask someone to repair the Mengjin Pass. One can stop the Khitan Rangers from infiltrating, and two, even if there are boats that slip through the river, they can be chased along the river to prevent them from coming to the shore."

Zhao Kuangyin continued to suggest that Zhang Zhao was even more satisfied, "Then I will appoint my father Zhao Hongyin as the envoy of Mengjinguan, and you as the deputy envoy, fully responsible for controlling Mengjinguan and intercepting Khitan letter ships on the big river."

Just do what you say, Zhang Zhao asked Zhao Hongyin, Zhao Kuangyin and his son to seal off Mengjin Pass, and at the same time asked them to recruit Yellow River boatmen and fishermen.

More than [-] civilian husbands were conscripted to carry out the elegant administration of the new dynasty and sail on dry land.

At the same time, Zhang Zhao is also going to show Gao Song a little bit of strength, because there are not all ways to deal with Zhongcheng City.

This has to start with the location of Zhongli City. The Yellow River section in Luoyang is only more than [-] meters wide. Zhongli City is built on the sandy state in the water, so the distance is even closer.

It is only a little over 100 meters from the north bank, and the south bank is slightly wider, which is about 80 meters. This distance is just within the range of a large trebuchet.

It just so happened that Zhang Zhao's Yongliang studied trebuchets very early. The craftsmen of various ethnic groups led by Liu Di, the director of the Ministry of Industry, had basically figured out the principle of counterweight trebuchets.

Zhang Zhao immediately asked Li Xiaojie to summon Liu Di, and ordered him to quickly assemble at least three large trebuchets.

Since the pontoon bridge is narrow and I can't attack it, then use a trebuchet to hit it, and see how many trebuchets you, a small town on the sandy state in the middle of the river, can withstand.

In order to show that he really wanted to deal with Zhongcheng City first, Zhang Zhao began to release a large number of cavalry from the beginning of July.

The Yongliang cavalry crossed Yanshi City and began to harass the Khitan people everywhere, covering and moving away the people from the east of Luoyang to Zhengzhou, while the infantry continued to approach Yanshi City, pretending to attack by force.

Yelvode believed it was true, he was not afraid of Zhang Zhao attacking Yanshi City at all, but planned to withdraw Yelupode's troops eastward as soon as Zhang Zhao attacked.

But just when Yelu Deguang was about to withdraw, he suddenly found that the Zhonglicheng letter boats that had been coming all the time were intercepted by a warlike water army on the Yellow River.

At Mengjin Pass, where the mountain road is narrow, the Yongliang army also began to appear. They seemed to be rebuilding Mengjin Pass.

On July 21, You Yiqi of the Liao Army sentry sentry, before the Mengjin Pass was completely closed, brought back news that terrified Yelu Deguang and all the Khitan generals.

The Yongliang army built four catapults more than six feet high, and they were constantly bombarding Zhongli City.

Although Zhongli City is strong, it is too small to withstand the bombardment of such a large catapult.

Once Zhongli City falls, the blockade of the Yellow River will immediately fail.

Although Yelu Deguang wanted to lure Zhang Zhao to fight in Gong County, it didn't mean that he thought he couldn't beat Zhang Zhao, but just to increase his own advantage.

But now Zhongcheng City is in a huge crisis, and the communication has been cut off again. Brother Guang has been struggling all night, but he can't think of any good solution.

And this feeling of having to wait is really tormenting.

In addition, the logistics and supplies were basically in place at this time, so Yelu Deguang gathered hundreds of civilian husbands who were lucky enough not to be exhausted to death, performed the ghost arrow shooting ceremony, and set off in Gong County to swear.

Zhang Zhao was furious when he got the news, and he also took more than a thousand Khitan soldiers captured in Luoyang City, Tokyo, to be beheaded collectively outside Yanshi city, sacrificed the flag with the blood of the Khitan people, and then really started to storm Yanshi city.

The time for the decisive battle has finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)