I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 338 The Last Meeting Before the War

Although more than 20 years have passed since the Battle of Haoshuichuan, the people of Qinzhou have a deep understanding of war.

Zhao Xi did not give the order to fortify the wall and clear the country, mainly due to the influence of the humanitarianism of later generations, he ignored this point.He really didn't care if the Xixia people could plunder the food and grass.

But the people of Qinzhou have done this very well.

Since the beginning of the war, the people have dragged their families into the mountains.

The Xixia people's rangers collecting grain and grass ran farther and farther.People have war horses, excellent war horses, and the distance of a hundred miles, I really don't care.

What's more, the Xixia cavalry who attacked the Yongxing Army and Huichuan Army and pinned down the two wings of the Song Dynasty were only two or three days away from the main battle line.

In other words, the entire territory of Qinzhou, from Xiaoguan to Dingchuanzhai, has been completely occupied by Xixia people.

I don't know if it counts as real occupation.

Xixia people don't guard their camps, but from the south of Xiaoguan, every thirty to fifty miles, there are a thousand or two thousand horsemen... This is the back road.

The Xixia people attacked almost all the way, leaving rangers all the way to ensure a smooth retreat.

The border stronghold was broken, but the cavalry they sent out did not chase down the defeated soldiers of the Song Dynasty. This is the biggest difference from the past.

This point is different, being suppressed by the situation of driving straight in... In the past, the rangers sent out could kill the defeated soldiers, and they could also collect supplies from those villages.

"The people of the Song Kingdom seem to know their Highness the Crown Prince very well. Knowing that there is no chance of winning, they fled early. Even the defenders are the same."

"Keep all the elite by his side, and don't care about the life and death of the border guards at all... He really cherishes his life."

This is the most common understanding of Xixia people.

This person, once a certain point of view is formed in the mind, all factors will be explained around this point of view, and all factors can be explained as supporting the establishment of the point of view.

Just like the current Xixia people.

During the siege, the Xixia people did adapt their war horses to gunpowder bombs. At the same time, they also felt that there were no additional troops in each border village.

Therefore, I understand that the whole Qinzhou is like a solid wall and clear fields.

The prince of the Song Dynasty was afraid of death, so he left all the elite in Qinzhou, and didn't care about the guards in the border village.

This also figured out why the soldiers could not be found after the camp was broken, because the soldiers all ran away and became ordinary people directly, hiding in the mountains to avoid the war.

It is estimated that most of the common people on the border of Qinzhou think of Zhao Xi in this way.

Zhao Xi couldn't care less about these, let alone not knowing, even if he knew, he wouldn't care... The final result is the best explanation.

At this time, he was calling all the generals to make the last deployment before the station.

The defenders of Sanchuan Village retreated last night and returned directly to the main force, and the defenders of Desheng Fort will retreat the day after tomorrow.In three or five days at most, the main force of Xixia will enter the Haoshuichuan area and come into contact with the Central Route Army.

This was the last general meeting before the siege, including Guo Kui and Chong Er.

Of course, Zhe Xingke and Cao Lin were also present... The new army was the main force in the encirclement and suppression campaign.

"The big battle is just a few days away, I guess it will be within ten days... Mobile warfare, we have no advantage against the Xixia people, so we must use our strengths to attack their weaknesses. If we want to win this battle, we must fight Positional warfare. This is why I ordered the ministries to enter the stronghold in advance."

"Nearly 20 cavalry, it is impossible to attack across the board, and there is no situation where tens of thousands of people fight in a single area. The battlefield, the next time, should be the north of the entire Qianlong City, and every place is a battlefield .”

Hundreds of thousands of people fighting against each other... Zhao Xi couldn't imagine it, and it wasn't such a big battlefield.

This is the Song Dynasty, not the later generations.Even the famous decisive battles of later generations were fought in different forms of battles by soldiers from both sides in different cities and different battlefields within a radius of hundreds or even hundreds of miles.

The Hundred Regiments War of later generations spread from the north of southeast Shanxi to the south of Yanbei, and even the west of Hebei was also a war zone.Not to mention the bigger three major battles.

This time, although the main battlefield is preset at Haoshuichuan, Zhao Xi knows that the entire Qinzhou territory, north of Haoshuichuan, will be a war zone.

The tactical literacy of the soldiers of the country and the dynasty forced Zhao Xi to deploy enough troops in any combat area to form a situation where the more fought the less... Only in this way can this battle be won with an overwhelming advantage.

"Now Haoshuichuan is surrounded. That is to say, Haoshuichuan will be the first battle of this war, and the victory or defeat is related to the whole battle."

"Now I order...the East and West Routes to garrison about ten miles from Deshengbao to Yongningzhai, forming a narrow and long passage with a width of twenty miles. The combat mission is to block the retreat of the Xixia people to both sides, and wait for the opportunity to retreat or be defeated. The Xixia people dispersed, so that they could not retreat in an organized way, and laid a good foundation for the troops along the way to ambush and encircle. This will determine the outcome of this war.”

"All the new troops, as well as all the chariots and wheel guns, are all deployed in the Haoshuichuan area, forming a situation of encircling the Xixia people, leaving only the opening in the north for them to retreat."

"After Haoshuichuan starts, according to the situation of the battle, I will issue an order to attack. When the Haoshuichuan attack starts, signal fireworks will be sent at the same time. After seeing the signal fireworks, the east and west roads will advance to the middle road to block and disperse the Xixia people. .”

"Once the scattered combat missions are completed, the east and west routes will also send signals, and the signals will be advanced step by step, so that the soldiers who have ambushed in the entire Qinzhou mountain forest in advance can start to carry out large-scale and indiscriminate encirclement and suppression missions."

There is no way, the current communication is like this, only this relay communication method can be used.

At intervals of three to five miles, the signal fireworks are still effective, and fireworks orders have been arranged in advance.

Of course, Zhao Xi did not give up the role of messenger soldiers, and still arranged messenger soldiers, but the role was more inclined to check for gaps and make up for omissions.Once a melee situation is formed in this area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers, the messengers really won't be of much use, and they are really not as useful as the fireworks order.

After all, the scope of the war zone is too large, don't look at three to five miles... This is a circle, not a straight line, but layers of three to five miles, one three to five miles within one three to five miles.Zhao Xi's arrangement is too fragmented.

If you let the messengers run away, it is very likely that the first point to go out to fight, the whole army will be wiped out, and the soldiers at the last point have not received the order to go out to battle.

The generals who participated in the meeting were already clear about the grand strategy, and had no objection to Zhao Xi's arrangement.

To be honest, in all previous battles, the coach has always only considered the main front of the offensive, and no one would have considered the entire theater after the offensive.

After the main battlefield is over, not to mention the various strongholds, the entire army and soldiers are all fighting on their own and entering a state of melee. There are no combat missions and no combat objectives at all. It is purely luck to fight encounters .

It has never been deployed like His Royal Highness, and it is almost detailed to the point of every command.

This allows every command in the country to have a target to attack, and at the same time, there is no need to worry about being surrounded and wiped out.

(End of this chapter)