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Text Chapter 73 I asked if Lintai had long been famous (1)

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    When Wang Shixian went south, he left fifty garrison soldiers in Guancheng. The discipline of the headquarters was very strict. Wang Shixian never believed that these soldiers dared to abandon Guancheng and loot places while he was away. An ominous premonition emerged in his heart.  He shouted loudly: "Wang Dechen! Come back quickly!" Wang Dechen was stunned, and subconsciously wanted to turn his horse around and ask his father why he wanted him to retreat. Suddenly, in the darkness of the night, a crossbow arrow came through the air and hit the ground not far in front of Wang Dechen.  Countless torches and flags were raised high on the Guan City. In the light of the fire, the swords of the soldiers shone brightly, and the spears were like a forest. A person on the Guan City shouted loudly: "It has been a long time since the Jingchu army took down Lingquan Pass! Zheng Dutong has something to say.  Give it to Gongchang Wang Shixian. If you want to return to Gongchang, find another way!" Wang Shixian was also a little surprised. Where did this Song army come from? Could it be that it fell from the sky?  Before Zheng Yunming arrived in Sichuan, he had already made waves in the Sichuan market.  He ordered Cao Wenqi to send his younger brother Cao Wenyong to Sichuan first and buy horses from central Sichuan along the way to prepare for the army's arrival in central Sichuan.  In other places, the idea of ??purchasing civilian horses to serve as army horses is mostly dismissed by experienced military strategists as the opinion of scholars. These civilian horses kept in stables by the Han people have bulky bodies and bloated limbs, and are only suitable for pulling carts and grinding.  They cannot be driven as war horses. Horses raised as war horses must adopt the free-range mode, which means they need large pastures. This is a condition that the Central Plains does not have.  But this matter cannot be generalized. For example, in this special battlefield in central Sichuan, there is actually not much difference between war horses and civilian horses.  The reason for this is that most of the troops in Shu, as long as they are not elite troops near the entrance of Shu, purchase local horses from Sichuan for use as military horses.  Sichuan horses are short in stature and have strong limbs. They are suitable for traveling long distances in mountainous areas carrying goods, but are not suitable for short-distance galloping and fighting.  Therefore, the war horses used by the Sichuan army are basically similar to the pack horses used by the people.  Of course, the Shukou army used a large number of Qin horses purchased from the Tubo tribe in the northwest. They were a variant of the Hequ horse. They were tall and good at running long distances.  But these were all obtained from the trade with the Golden Kingdom of Tubo in Longnan. Now that all Shukou has fallen, the source of Qin horses has been cut off. Zheng Yunming can only rely on local war horses in Sichuan.  But having said that, the local horses in Sichuan are not completely without advantages. Even the Mongolian horses, which are famous for their endurance, are not as good as the Sichuan horses in mountain combat. Cao Wenyong contacted old customers and familiar heroes along the way.  Horses were levied at double the high price, and soon more than 3,000 local horses were levied for Zheng Yunming.  Naturally, these war horses cannot compete with Mongolian mounts such as Mongolian horses and Hequ horses in the open land, but Zheng Yunming designed a different way of using these mountain horses.  He did not use these horses as cavalry mounts, but used these horses as infantry mounts.  In short, it is to build a mounted infantry. This is not inspired by irrelevant concepts such as dragoons or motorized infantry from another time and space, but from the teachings of his opponents, the Mongols.  When the Mongols use troops, whether infantry or cavalry, they all give a horse first. Of course, the cavalry has several good horses, and the quality of the horses is higher than that of ordinary infantry. However, there is a big difference between infantry with mounts and without mounts.  The mobility of infantry with basic mounts is much higher than that of dismounted infantry. Although it cannot be compared with regular cavalry, especially the unpredictable nomadic cavalry, it can no longer lag behind the enemy's large-scale cavalry regiments during short and medium marches.  wind.  Before establishing a real cavalry capable of competing with the Mongolian cavalry, using mounted infantry was Zheng Yunming's only option.  Fortunately, Zheng Yunming was well prepared for this. When he was training troops in Jinghu, he required all infantrymen to master a special skill in addition to the usual skills, which was horseback riding. He also purchased a batch of civilian horses for use as training horses.  He didn't need infantrymen riding war horses to clash around the battlefield, he just needed them to be able to ride long distances with all their equipment.  From this point of view, people really have to admire Zheng Yunming's foresight.  After discovering that Wang Shixian's rear team no longer followed the main force to retreat north, but stayed to monitor him, Zheng Yunming immediately responded.  They set up fake lights and ceremonial guards in the camp, put straw men at the sentry posts instead of soldiers, and then left a small number of people in the camp to beat drums, blow trumpets and raise flags, to give the illusion that there was nothing unusual in the camp.  However, the army secretly slipped away from the south gate of Puzhou. It first gathered 3,000 troops from the back Wei army, the trapped army, and the Zhenwu right army, and handed them over to Wang Deng's command. They rode the newly purchased Sichuan horses and bypassed Wang Jun's troops on the small road.  During the investigation, Wang Shixian's troops were pursued in parallel.  If a large army goes out, Wang Shixian's troops also have horses, so they may not necessarily be slower than Wang Deng in terms of speed.  But this was the scene when they went south. When they returned north, they carried captured cloth and grain carried in carts, driving thousands of people, and the marching speed was no more than twenty miles a day.  Wang Deng had never organized all his troops to march on horseback before, but fortunatelyIn addition to purchasing horses, Wen Yong also hired more than a hundred old caravans who were active in the Southwest Yipao Gang all year round. These old caravans were good at organizing large groups of people and animals to move forward in horse teams.  In addition to the soldiers, they also carried enough dry food for ten days and enough arrows and ammunition. With these three thousand people, they naturally could not stop the 20,000 experienced Ganlong cavalry in the wilderness. What they relied on was to be the first to attack.  Wang Shixian's troops previously occupied dangerous terrain, and then relied on their experience in defending the city and their superiority in firearms to block the enemy's retreat.  Although the Sichuan horse is short, it is one of the most famous beasts of burden in the world. It is common to carry three to four hundred kilograms of tea on its back while walking on the tea horse trail.  Although the Bronze General and Iron General are heavy, it is entirely feasible to carry a Bamboo General and spare ammunition on a horse.  Wang Deng's team carried more than eighty bamboo generals.  If Wang Shixian could foresee that a Song army would detour from other roads and advance to his front, his response would actually be very simple.  Dozens of elite spies were sent to the front, rear and both wings. Once the whereabouts of the Song army were discovered, they immediately moved their troops to intercept them. Even if they could not annihilate Wang Deng's highly mobile troops, they were enough to repel them.  But since entering Shu, the Mongolian army has never encountered fierce resistance. For a general, arrogance and underestimation of the enemy are like poison that sticks to the bones. Even though he knows to be careful, he will still unconsciously relax.  Wang Shixian was poisoned by this. Not only did he remove the spies on the left and right wings, he even didn't bother to send out the spies in the north direction. Except for Wang Jun's troops at the rear, who sent more than 200 spies intensively.  , the entire army was in a state of no alert.  He obviously underestimated the Song army's timidity.  After Wang Deng received the order, he quickly led his troops to set off and searched for dangerous places along the way. However, due to various reasons, the passes on Yulu were not suitable for blocking the Mongolian army.  After advancing all the way to Lingquan Pass, we found a suitable place.  When the more than fifty officers and soldiers guarding Guancheng saw a large group of soldiers and horses coming at night, they did not expect that the Song army was attacking. They only thought that the army was about to withdraw its troops and go north to cross the border. So they released the troops and Wang Deng led his troops to capture Guancheng in one fell swoop.  Wang Deng's seizure of Lingquan Pass made the position of Wang Shixian's army suddenly awkward. Shortly after the army was blocked at Lingquan Pass, news came that Zheng Yunming himself had led the army to Si Ma Bridge on the outskirts of Chengdu, and was stationed at Si Ma Bridge.  When they got down to the camp, they were not in a hurry to attack, but worked overtime to build the camp. They were obviously ready to attack Wang Shixian from both front and rear.  This is the so-called step-by-step strategy in the art of war. Anyway, Lingquan Pass is in hand, Zheng Yunming has also successfully escaped the surveillance of Wang Jun's troops, and the chance of winning is already 70%. There is no need to really fight to the death with Wang Shixian under the walls of Chengdu.  On the contrary, Wang Shixian was not only in the embarrassing situation of being attacked from both sides, but also completely separated from Wang Jun's rear army. As a member of the imperial army who stayed behind to sweep after the Kuoduan army returned to the north, he was supposed to just loot some states along the way.  County, by the way, defeated the remaining Song army in central Shu, but now he is subject to the aggressive actions of this Song army. Of course, he has absolute confidence that his troops are capable and capable of fighting. Even if he is attacked from two sides, he will never  They will be easily defeated by this Song army, but now the soldiers are thinking about returning home. If a battle must be fought, any unexpected consequences may occur.  But at this time, Wang Shixian did not panic at all. When the Mongolian army of 100,000 people surrounded Shimen Mountain, he handled military affairs in an orderly manner. This calmness was the basis for the Wang family to dominate Longnan for more than ten years and finally become a powerful vassal town in the Mongolian Empire.  .  Wang Shixian decisively issued three orders: first, he set up a camp three miles below Lingquan Pass, with deep ditches and high forts, making an appearance of comprehensive defense; second, he dispatched 3,000 cavalrymen divided into ten teams, led by Sun Shuwen, the general manager in front of the tent.  They took turns advancing towards the Song army's camp to harass them, shooting at the defenders in the camp with bows and arrows.  Zheng Yunming had no time to reorganize his troops and send troops to attack.  Third, he sent his confidants to go around the trail and notify Wang Jun to lead his troops to join him, forming a pincer attack on Zheng Yunming.  This is almost the best way for a general who is suddenly in crisis. Even if it were Zheng Yunming, he couldn't think of a better response than Wang Shixian.  Wang Shixian set up a camp in the open land, which seemed to be a cocoon. However, in fact, Zheng Yunming was able to surround Wang Shixian's camp when the cavalry strength of both sides was equal. Zheng Yunming had less cavalry, so it was impossible for him to attack the entire army.  Wang Shixian carried out a complete siege and built a strong fortress to prevent Zheng Yunming from launching the most deadly surprise attack on his men, and he would not be afraid of Zheng Yunming using an infantry formation to squeeze him. In both cases, Ling  The enemies at Quanguan will not just watch the friendly troops fighting under the pass, but will attack from a flank.  But as long as Wang Shixian built a good camp and dug a good trench, the opponent would be helpless even if he attacked from both front and back.
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