The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 290 The Mimeng people surrounded Yinzhou City!
Inside Qinzhou Pass, Song Yingkui looked at Zuo Shaotang standing at the bottom with a gloomy expression!

This guy was so courageous that he took the decision without authorization and captured the capital of Qinzhou with only one battalion of troops, thus invalidating all the previous battle plans formulated by the General Staff Department.

After receiving the news that Qinzhou's capital city had been breached, Song Yingkui had no choice but to rush to Qinzhou Pass to take charge of the overall situation.

The main troops assembled in Minzhou also had to move hastily and rushed to Qinzhou to support the left troops.

Fortunately, the Zheng army was defeated more than expected and no effective counterattack was organized. The main force of the Yungu Army took about ten days to control several major counties and checkpoints in Qinzhou.

After the situation was basically under control, Song Yingkui breathed a sigh of relief and decided to hold Zuo Shaotang responsible for going to war without authorization.

Although it is a good thing in terms of results, the whole process is too risky. Zuo Shaotang can't do it if he doesn't let him have a longer memory!

If all the generals leading troops were like him, blindly advancing regardless of battlefield discipline and tactical principles, wouldn't the Yungu Army have to rely on luck to win battles time after time?

"Jia Zhongpeng will temporarily serve as the commander of the Second Independent Battalion. You will be transferred to the military academy as the chief instructor of the cavalry department. I see that you are good at leading cavalry, so you can bring out a group of students in the military academy." Although this guy made a big mistake. Wrong, but he also made real achievements.After careful consideration, Song Yingkui planned to give him a promotion, and he would first go to the military academy to hang out for a while.

"Although the commander and the general made the decision without any military orders, they still captured two big cities, which is a meritorious service. The general was dismissed from his post, but the general refused to accept it!" Zuo Shaotang said. When he heard that he was about to be dismissed from his position as battalion commander, he was very dissatisfied and spoke up on the spot.

"Who said you were dismissed from your post? The chief instructor of the cavalry section of the military academy is at the deputy regimental level. This is considered a promotion for you! Ordinarily, you should have been deprived of your military position and imprisoned for disobeying military orders.

Don't think that you have achieved great success by destroying the capital of Qinzhou. If you don't do well, you will ruin a whole battalion of my troops!This time, Zheng's army was too careless, and you were so lucky.Besides, I don’t want you to be a military academy instructor forever.With your nature, you won't be able to do errands like deputy leader. After the transition is completed, you will have the position of leader.But let me tell you up front, if you don’t perform well in the military academy, your job will be decided separately! "

Song Yingkui loved and hated Zuo Shaotang!This guy's organizational discipline is too poor, and his bandit nature is hard to change.However, his personal ability is not bad, especially his initiative in selecting fighter aircraft. Other generals of the Yungu Army cannot compare with him.

People who have been bandits are ultimately more courageous than those who are farmers. The other generals of the Yungu Army are more cautious than flexible.

This Qinzhou battle made Song Yingkui realize that the overall combat style of the Yungu Army, including himself, was too conservative and mechanized.Fighting is not about mechanics. Tactical arrangements must be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation.

Let Zuo Shaotang stay in the military academy for a while first, and then arrange him to the newly formed regiment when the time comes. This will not only prevent him from staying in the regiment for a long time and infecting the banditry habits to the generals, but also With his talents, the army still needs creative generals like him.

On the same day, Song Yingkui arranged for Zuo Shaotang to handle the handover and rushed back to Taoyang City overnight to take up his post.

While solving the issue of Zuo Shaotang's appointment, a series of follow-up arrangements after the recovery of Qinzhou began immediately.The pass between Qinzhou and Guanzhong was Sanguan, and a main force group was sent to guard it.There are seven counties and two prefectures in Qinzhou. Among them, Wudu Prefecture and Hengchuan Prefecture in the south are not ready to attack for the time being due to insufficient troops.First, we must completely control several counties near the capital of Qinzhou, and then talk about the next military action.

"After losing Qinzhou, Zheng Jun will probably not give up. We must be prepared to fight another war with Zheng Jun. At present, the lack of military strength is a major constraint, and this situation must be changed as soon as possible.

The Administration Department cooperated with the Military Order Department to recruit troops to form two infantry regiments, using the Qinzhou area currently controlled as the main source of troops.Based on the surrendered troops and prisoners from the Battle of Qinzhou, an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment were formed.Within three months, all four newly formed regiments must be in place.During this period, the administrative normalization of Qinzhou and Minzhou will also be completed.

In addition, the General Staff Department and the Military Intelligence Department must do a good job in strategic planning and intelligence collection for the recovery of Longyou Prefecture, and our army must be prepared to send troops to Longyou Prefecture at any time. "During the temporary military and political meeting at Qinzhou Pass, Song Yingkui made a rough layout and arrangements for the next work.

At present, the total combat strength of the Yungu Army is less than [-]. This number of troops is no longer enough to control the occupied territory.If he wants to control the current territory, Song Yingkui thinks that he must have at least about [-] troops!Among them, the mobile combat force must be about [-].

Qinzhou has a relatively sufficient population. There are about 30 people in the area under actual control. Recruiting a few thousand new soldiers is not a big problem.As many as four to five thousand Zheng troops were captured in this battle. By reorganizing these surrendered troops, several thousand more troops could be produced.

Longyou Mansion in the northwest of Qinzhou is now in the hands of Beixiang. The connection between Yungu's original territory and Qinzhou is only weak due to the Minzhou Mountain Road, so it is safer to control Longyou Mansion in one's own hands.

In fact, Song Yingkui's goal was not only Longyou Mansion.Now that the Qinzhou Prefecture is in his hands, if he goes north and captures Jingzhou, he can use Longshan as a defense line to block external forces and gain control of half of Xisu Province.It will definitely not work if we only take Longyou Prefecture without occupying Jingzhou.

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The expected Zheng Jun counterattack did not appear in a short time. Instead, at the end of May, a message came from the north.

The Beixiang army was severely defeated in Wuyuan City, the gateway to Hetao. The Mimeng people made great efforts to cross the river and attack Yinzhou City.In just a few days, Yinzhou City, the administrative center of Beixiang, was surrounded!

In the nearly [-] years since the founding of the country, Beixiang was the first to encounter the difficulties of being surrounded by troops in the core area.There are various signs that this time, Beixiang really seems to be facing a disaster of national annihilation?

With the increased exposure of the Mi Meng regime and the intelligence personnel sent by Yungu to explore the battlefield intelligence, Song Yingkui also had a general understanding of the Mi Meng army's tactics and military strength.

The Mimeng people's rapid rise in just a few years is not without reason.They somehow mastered the manufacturing process of firearms.There are many artillery in the army, but the method of making artillery is different from that of Beixiang and Yungu Army. They mainly use copper to cast cannon.

According to feedback from intelligence personnel, the Mimeng's bronze cannons have better performance than Beixiang's iron cannons, are more numerous, and are very flexible in use.They directly assigned artillery to the grassroots combat teams and integrated them with the cavalry, instead of specially organizing artillery teams like Beixiang.

Relying only on bronze cannons, the Mimeng's firearms had no advantage over Beixiang.They are also equipped with a large number of giant trebuchets, and they directly use the trebuchets to throw gunpowder packets for field battles and sieges!In terms of performance, this thing is very average, but the key is that the Mimeng used it in large numbers, and they cooperated with their cavalry tacitly. After a combination of punches, Xiang Jun couldn't resist it, and he was defeated one after another!
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