The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 663 Sending troops to Xiangping
The reason why Lu Heng insists on fighting cavalry with foot is not because Lu Heng is obsessed, or because of that sentence. Lu Heng naturally knows that the best weapon for fighting cavalry is cavalry.

But the problem is that both the Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty founded by Lu Heng were based on the land of China, and they were all dominated by Han Chinese, so they were inevitably a farming nation.

It's not that farming peoples can't raise horses, but that they use their weaknesses to match the strengths of the enemy. First of all, the production of war horses in China is not as good as the vast grasslands. Even after the unification, only Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou will produce some warhorses Well, things are rare and expensive. War horses are not generally expensive in China.

War horses are very expensive. If war horses need to eat grass and grow fat, the dry grass must be high-quality aquatic plants, and there are no such good aquatic plants in China, so they can only be fed with beans to maintain a balanced nutrition.

As mentioned above, one cavalry can support ten elite infantry, but this is still ordinary cavalry, not elite cavalry. If it is elite cavalry, it needs to be doubled.

It's not that Lu Heng doesn't pay attention to war horses, but that the empire will build a new empire to learn from the past.

In order to fight against the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty resorted to militarism and emptied the savings of several generations to raise a large number of cavalry to fight on the grasslands. He had to admit that Emperor Wu's achievements were brilliant, but he didn't get much territory in return, and the people in the later period complained and blamed themselves. The imperial edict almost touched the foundation of the Western Han Dynasty.

This is still the defeated Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Let’s look at another example. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was also ambitious in the early days. In the sixth year of Xiping, he sent Xia Yu and other 10,000+ cavalry to attack Tanshihuai in Xianbei in three ways.

In this battle, the Han Dynasty was defeated and almost wiped out the whole army, which directly emptied the savings that Emperor Huan gave to Emperor Ling. Regardless of the fact that Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling were always put together in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Emperor Huan is not a faint emperor if he can be called "Huan". But an outstanding Emperor!

As mentioned earlier, it can be said that this great defeat led to the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty's control in Xiliang, and the beginning of the troubled times. This great defeat directly wiped out the new force of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are 3 horses!
Do you think this event is far away from now?You must know that Cai Yan, a beautiful woman in the sixth year of Xiping, was just born, while Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and other princes at the end of Han Dynasty have grown up!
Victory such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is just a matter of poverty for the people, and defeat such as Emperor Han Ling directly leads to the destruction of the country. How can such a lesson from the past make Lu Heng not hesitate?

Therefore, the best way is to be able to develop a combat method of using foot against cavalry and using one's own strengths to restrain the enemy!

As for those who are above the cavalry, they retort that you are going to beat others, and the vast grassland is chasing others with four legs with two legs of infantry?Unlimited harassment to death, believe it or not, it's a joke!

Again, it all depends on the tactics. Why do the prairie hunters have to go straight to Huanglong and seize the wolf to live in Xu?
RTS is also called real-time strategy game in later generations. There is a trick called defensive tower tactics, which is to continuously create defensive towers to attack the opponent's hometown. This trick actually appeared thousands of years ago in China.

Fan Zhongyan of the Northern Song Dynasty proposed this strategy, constantly building strong cities to encroach on Xixia's territory, and finally achieved the goal of cannibalizing and disintegrating the opponent.

Why do you have to go to the vast grassland to play hide-and-seek with the cavalry on the opposite side?Complete the so-called 'Achievement of Sealing the Wolf and Living in Xu'?Can't we use national power to nibble a little bit?

The vast expanse of grassland is useless even if large-scale cavalry is defeated. It is better to expand city by city. After Lu Heng asks the Royal Academy to research cement, the time and cost of building cities can be greatly reduced.

In this way, while building, eating away at the same time, after the infantry has the ability to fight against the cavalry, as long as the defense can be balanced, Lu Heng is not completely banning the cavalry, but hopes that healthy development will not be all treasures on the cavalry.

Long story short, looking back at the situation, at the current stage when the Jurchens were still good at fighting in the field and not good at defending the city, after Lu Heng defeated the armies of Wanyan Zhong and Wanyan Chenghui, Xinchang County was at his fingertips.

Wanyan Zhong also had no intention of defending the small county town of Xinchang, so he directly led his troops back to Xiangping and at the same time sent someone to ask Wanyan Aguda for help.

It was also very easy for Lu Heng to take Xinchang. The local people saw that it was the Han army that defeated the Jurchen army, and immediately opened the city gate to let Lu Heng's Song army enter the city.

In Liaodong during this period, the people's hearts can be said to be still in the Han Dynasty or in the Song Dynasty. Instead of enslaving foreigners and not allowing the Song Dynasty to enter the city, Lu Heng's title of the number one prince in the world is still very useful!
That's why Lu Heng sent troops directly after Wanyan Aguda took down Liaodong, so that Wanyan Aguda didn't have time to digest, which was to weaken the Jurchen in a disguised form.

After taking Xinchang County, Lu Heng will face Xiangping, the administrative center of Liaodong. Wanyan Aguda will never sit still and wait for death. He will definitely send reinforcements. The reinforcements are even on their way. In addition, Xiangping is also one of the best in Liaodong. Fortified City.

It can be said that the real hard bone is waiting for Lu Heng to gnaw, but once Xiangping is won, all the initiative is in Lu Heng's hands.

Because Xiangping's geographical location happens to be stuck in the middle of Liaoxi County and Lelang County, once this place is occupied by Song Dynasty, Jin State's control over Lelang County will be greatly reduced, so Wanyan Aguda has to go around to rescue Lelang County Passing through Liaodong County would be very troublesome and dangerous, and it would be easy to be cut off by Lu Heng. From a tactical point of view, Wanyan Aguda would probably give up Lelang County.

As for Liaoxi County, it is sandwiched between the Great Wall defense line and Liaodong County. The situation of being an enemy is very unfavorable to Wanyan Aguda. It can be said that Lu Heng is very likely to control the entire Liaodong County.

Lu Heng and the Military Aircraft Department discussed that once Da Song wins Xiangping, it can be said that he has taken the absolute initiative in the battle for Liaodong. If Lu Heng is Wanyan Aguda, he will give up Liaodong and retreat to Xuantu County to let Liu Yu stick to it This place, so as to find other places to break through.

However, it is not ruled out that for special reasons, such as iron ore, resources for combat readiness, etc., Jin Guo is in Liaodong and Lu Heng.

The fact is exactly as Lu Heng expected, when the news of the Great Song's capture of Xinchang came out, Jin Wushu and Liu Yu immediately accelerated their march to Xiangping. And Jin Wushu was responsible for leading the Jurchens to attack the Song army in the field with the advantage of cavalry.

What's more, when Wanyan Aguda learned that Lu Heng's Song Dynasty had been forced to Xiangping, after analyzing the pros and cons of Wanyan Sagai, Yang Pu, Han Fang and others, he decided to send another army to rescue Xiangping , and this army was led by Wanyan Zongwang, a famous general of the Jin Kingdom that Lu Heng had always feared.

Therefore, there will be such traitors in every era. If Yang Pu and Han Fang had to fight for Wanyan Agu in the beginning, but now they are facing the orthodox and personal interests of the Han people, these traitors will also choose personal interests. !

(End of this chapter)