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Chapter 203
Frustrated in this battle, Li Chongjiu held a military meeting and gathered all the generals to sum up the experience and lessons of this battle.

"The subordinates of the last general did not strictly follow the military discipline of ambushes, and tied up the horse's mouth. As a result, the cavalry of the Song army found their traces, and they were besieged in the valley by the enemy. When all the brothers came to rescue, they all suffered a lot. Will be very guilty and willing to be punished by the Khan."

He took off his armor on his forehead, exposed his upper body, stood up and knelt on the ground, and said: "Khan, please punish the general."

Li Chongjiu stood up and said, "Forehead care."

Before Li Chongjiu finished speaking, Wang Mahan, Yinghefu, Sun Erniang and others also stood up together and said: "Khan, I will apologize later."

Li Chongjiu said: "The generals don't need to blame themselves. The disadvantage of this battle is first of all the responsibility of this Khan. The loss of this battle is that I didn't know the enemy. Although the Song army was born as a bandit, it has been in the army for a year. The soldiers are brave and strong. , Well-drilled, well-armored soldiers are by no means comparable to the uncivilized Khitan tribe on the grassland. Although our army is brave and sturdy, our discipline and organization are still insufficient."

"Secondly, it's going to be slightly..."

This is what Li Chongjiu should reflect on. He knows that he is only a middleman in terms of general strategy. He used his luck to win the battle against the uncivilized Khitans. There is still a big gap between the top players in the world.There is no way to do this. Since the founding of the Taizu of this dynasty, although there have been small wars, it has generally been peaceful.Li Chongjiu was a businessman before crossing. Although he studied history in college and read a lot of military books, he was not good at commanding in front of the battle. Simply put, his command value was mediocre.

And Li Chongjiu's generals, such as Su Su, Sun Erniang, Wang Mahan, Er Tuo, Ying Hefu, they are just generals of a thousand.As for Etuo and Yinghefu, as outstanding generals in Shi Dexi, they are very familiar with small-scale battles with thousands of people, but if they encounter such a situation where both sides dispatch separately, large-scale battles with more than [-] people will be unqualified.To sum up this battle, the tactics arranged by the previous military council were seen through, and the strategic and tactical arrangements were led by Song Jingang from beginning to end.The only thing that the Cangtou Army relied on was the mobility of the grassland cavalry, no matter how fast they attacked or retreated, they could withdraw and leave at any time when the situation was unfavorable, so that no more casualties were caused.Otherwise, if all of Li Chongjiu were replaced by infantry, the consequences would be dire.

Just as Li Chongjiu was discussing with the generals, a messenger came over and said, "Prefect, Jinyang has an emergency report."
Li Chongjiu has a sufficient intelligence system in Yanmen, Taiyuan, and several counties of Shangdang. These are the connections left over from the establishment of the Escort Bureau, so any major event in Taiyuan can be passed on to him within a few days.

Li Chongjiu took the letter over and saw that there were three contents. One was that Li Yuan recruited tens of thousands of soldiers in Taiyuan in the name of preparing to attack Liu Wuzhou and Li Chongjiu.

Second, rumors suddenly spread in Jinyang, claiming that Emperor Yang of Sui was planning to attack Korea again. This news made people panic for a while.As we all know, after the siege of Yanmen, Emperor Yang of Sui had agreed to stop the Liaodong campaign. Right now, civil turmoil is raging all over the world, and people's grievances are boiling in all counties of Taiyuan.

The third is Li Jing, the magistrate of Mayi County, who went to Jiangdu after being locked up.

These three seem to be unrelated to each other, but when pushed together, many things can be stripped from the clues.From the last line, Li Jing, the governor of Mayi County, went to Jiangdu from the lock.The so-called change means to report treason. If Li Jing wants to report common people or general rebellion, there is no need to lock himself up and go to Jiangdu.So he locked himself up and went, in fact, to use officers and soldiers to protect himself. Li Jing was already Mayi County Prime Minister, forcing him to lock himself up and change, he could only sue the higher-ranking officials for treason. Man is likely to be his chief officer.

Second, the conquest of Goryeo is purely fictional. Now that the world is in chaos, Emperor Sui Yang has no spare troops to conquer Liaodong. This must be a rumor deliberately created by others to make the people hate the court.

In the end, the matter of Li Yuan's recruitment of soldiers was to crusade against Liu Wuzhou and Li Chongjiu, but the reasons were very grandiose, and there was no fault at all.But after thinking about it, it is only a blink of an eye to recruit troops at this time, whether it is to suppress the rebellion or to rebel.

Li Yuan's rebellion was imminent. After reading the news, Li Chongjiu felt as if a clock was ticking in his heart.In history, Li Yuan swept through Guanzhong and Shanxi in less than half a year after starting his army, and it was so difficult for him to even fight a Shanggu County, so when will he be able to take Hebei.Now in front of Li Chongjiu, the distance from Yi County to Fanyang is only sixty miles away. If Song Jingang is allowed to send reinforcements to Fanyang City, then Li Chongjiu will lose this battle and can only return without success.And how to fight tomorrow's battle is indeed a question.

On the other hand, in Song Jingang's camp, the generals were filled with joy.A general said with a smile: "Today I won more than 500 horses from the enemy in the first battle. These are all high-quality Turkic horses. Please give me a few more horses from the commander."

The general next to this man reprimanded: "I'm so hopeless, but I'm so happy with just over 500 horses. The so-called champion just came from the grassland to give us horses." Speaking of this, everyone laughed loudly .

Song Jingang looked around with a smile, and said: "In today's battle, the champion Hou was indeed the champion of the three armies, but from my perspective, his tactics are mediocre. Such a general can only be called a brave general, not a general. But the grassland The power of the cavalry is indeed astonishing to me."

Song Jingang thought that in today's battle, Li Chongjiu equipped these cavalry on the grassland almost according to the standards of the Han army. Many cavalry not only had armor, but also had strong bows, and were equipped with iron arrows, horseshoes, and scimitars.In this way, the combat power of the prairie cavalry has greatly increased, not to mention that the prairie cavalry is good at field combat.On the other hand, in his own army, the cost of raising cavalry is very high. In the 500 army, there are no more than 200 cavalry. Today, more than [-] people were killed in the first battle, which really made Song Jingang heartbroken.

He really envied Li Chongjiu for having so many cavalry, so he said immediately: "Everyone, you can see that although our army won the battle today, the casualties of the two armies were about the same. The army is all cavalry. Even if it is defeated, it is very easy to retreat. Therefore, our army must form more cavalry. The [-] horses will be divided up. Everyone who is good at riding and shooting in the army will form two regiments cavalry."

"No, Commander." All the generals clasped their fists together and said.

Before dawn the next day, Song Jingang immediately ordered the three armies to make meals at the fourth watch and dispatch troops at the fifth watch, and set off early for Fanyang to relieve the siege.If the siege of Fanyang is not eliminated for a day, Song Jingang will not feel at ease, so he urged the army to advance early.The road ahead was very flat, without any dangerous places like valleys and dense forests of reeds, so Song Jingang didn't have to worry about being ambushed, so the three armies walked slowly along the road.

In just half a day, Song Jingang's vanguard cavalry could enter Fan Yang, and the siege of Fan Yang would be lifted.

But before walking three or four miles, on the long road, Li Chongjiu's brigade of prairie cavalry appeared.Song Jingang immediately ordered the front army to stop, and set up the formation with Mo Daomen, sword shield soldiers in front, archers and crossbowmen in the middle, and cavalry in the rear.This is the standard formation for resisting cavalry attacking infantry. Mo Daomen and sword shield soldiers are used for melee combat, archers and crossbowmen deal with cavalry cavalry and shoot, and kill and wound the enemy's charge, while cavalry is used for pursuit, or the reserve team that is disadvantageous in battle.Unexpectedly, after the appearance of the enemy cavalry, they did not rush to attack the formation, but spread out in all directions among more than 1000 cavalry, peeping around the formation of more than 300 steps, neither stepping forward nor far away.

Song Jingang secretly felt that it was weird, and all the generals under his command also suggested that the enemy's army was no more than a thousand riders, so they just charged forward and attacked.But Song Jingang refused, and waited for half an hour. Seeing that the other party had no other intentions, Song Jingang raised his flag and ordered the two thousand former troops to march forward.

You must know that the formation of infantry against cavalry is very densely arranged, covered with spears outside, wishing to pile up like a hedgehog, and always line up horizontally, that is, the most powerful attacking force faces the cavalry head-on.For example, in the movies, it is a joke to see a lot of light cavalry attacking such a heavily guarded infantry phalanx. If the infantry is arranged in such a strict formation, and the cavalry rushes forward, it will be difficult to attack even if the cavalry is in a mess.

The advantage of the light cavalry lies in speed, rather than taking human life to break the formation, so when Song Jingang's infantry marched forward, the cavalry horn sounded, and these rangers retreated in a hurry, without even shooting an arrow.

Seeing the enemy fleeing in embarrassment, all the generals and soldiers of the Song army cheered and laughed at the enemy's vulnerability with various voices.Just when Song Jingang breathed a sigh of relief, he saw that the fleeing cavalry in front of him did not run around aimlessly, but spread to the two wings one after another, appearing on the flanks of the slowly advancing infantry.Seeing this scene, Song Jingang secretly thought that something was wrong, and immediately ordered the infantry to stop advancing, and at the same time ordered the cavalry to step forward to protect the flanks.

The flanks are always the weakest part of the infantry phalanx, because the crossbowmen in the horizontal row can only face the front, unless the infantry is arranged in a circular formation, there is always the danger of the flanks being attacked by the cavalry.But the defect of the circular array is also the fatal defect of weak organic power.

Song Jingang was worthy of being a famous general, and the general ordered to stop it. The infantry in front stopped, and the cavalry copied from the left and right flanks to cover the flanks.If it were an ordinary cavalry, it would be regarded as retreating because there was no trace.However, after seeing the enemy cavalry, the cavalry here approached one after another, intending to fight.The cavalry of the two sides raised their bows and shot at each other. When it comes to riding and shooting, Song Jingang’s cavalry was no match for the cavalry on the grassland. There are only a few people on the cavalry side.

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