Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

Su Xia looked at the Song Army general. Seeing that Su Xia was young, the man did not kneel down.

Upon seeing this, the officer of the Iron Armored Army kicked him fiercely: "You still don't kneel down."

Su Xia waved her hand: "Forget it, forget it. Who are you?"

Na Malingzhi was calm and confident, and said with some pride: "I am the commander of the Guangnan West Road of the Great Song Dynasty."

Su Xia looked at his aura and said calmly: "That's a fifth-rank official. I was the commander of both armies in Pinghai and Ninghai at the time, and my rank was higher than yours."

As soon as these words came out, Malinzhi couldn't help but be shocked, "You...are you Su Xia?"

"This is none other than Mr. Su Xiasu, the commander-in-chief of our National Defense Army." Li Dong on the side added.

"You are so young." Malinzhi, who was in his 40s, looked at Su Xia in disbelief.

However, Su Xia obviously didn't want to pay attention to this question. He had seen through the "fatigue" of the commander and asked directly: "General Ma, how long will you fight with my armored army?"

At this point, Malingzhi looked a little indignant: "You use the elite iron armor of the Western Army of the Song Dynasty to fight against paper armor like ours. How can we defeat it?"

Su Xia frowned: "The so-called Western Army you called has long been transformed into our National Defense Army. How did you find out that they used to be the Western Army?"

"The elite armored army led by General Liu Guangshi covered their horse eyes with black cloth before attacking quickly. The whole army was covered with black armor. No one in the Song army knew who was unknown. The reason why we were defeated was because we were defeated. In our own hands.”

Seeing that Malingzhi was still dissatisfied, Su Xia said calmly: "Did you know? Just when you were fighting with the Iron Armored Army, my elite light cavalry had already rushed to the ground two hundred miles behind by General Hua Rong, attacking your troops from both front and rear. As expected, Zhao Wuji, your core unit outside the city of Guangzhou in this attack, has been defeated, and the rest of the troops will lose their command due to the ambush of our third line of infantry and Xiaolianzi Village and become the turtle in my urn."

After Su Xia finished speaking, a messenger came galloping from a distance, dismounted and flew to pay homage: "Your Majesty, General Li, I have been ordered by General Hua Rong of the cavalry column to report that our unit has completed the harassment of the enemy. Cutting off the effect, chasing and annihilating more than a thousand of Zhao Wuji's troops, the enemy was routed to the direction of Liucheng. At present, our troops are cooperating with the army to attack front and back to intercept and kill the Song army along the way."

Su Xia and Li Dong were overjoyed.

Malinzhi on the side was still in disbelief. He never expected that the combined attack of tens of thousands of troops would be reversed in less than half a day. He suddenly understood that all his previous advances were just a dragnet set by Su Xia and the others!

Su Xia, who had already taken control of the overall situation on the battlefield, once again ordered: "Instruct all armies to resolutely eliminate the small group of enemies who are stubbornly resisting. Order the armored army to speed up the attack and completely destroy the enemy's will to resist. The navy dispatched elite infantry units to assist. The cavalry armies from all directions will attack and be sure to achieve a complete victory."

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This city defense battle centered on the battle of Xiaolianzi Village. Su Xia's National Protectorate Army dispatched all of Wu Song's westward marching column, all of Hua Rong's fast cavalry, all of Liu Guangshi's armored cavalry, and Jin Ming's musketry brigade, totaling 300 troops. people, as well as several naval infantry units, with a total strength of more than [-] people, launched a decisive battle with the Song Army in the north of Guangzhou.

In this battle, the Song Army's participating forces included regimental training, Xiang soldiers, elite Forbidden Army troops (Zhao Wuji, Malingzhi) and other units. The main force of the Song Army assembled on Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road and Jinghu South Road was about 5000 people.

During the battle, the Song army's command and coordination failed, and the army could not execute orders and prohibitions. As a result, the army was defeated like a mountain during the battle. The National Guard Army annihilated more than [-] Song troops. Among them, all the captured enemies were commanded by generals and soldiers below Malingzhi. More than six thousand people.

After experiencing this battle, Zhao Wuji's troops, the main force relied on by the Song Dynasty on the Guangnan West Road, were severely weakened and had to retreat north of Jingjiang.

In June, Song Jingjiang's (today's Guilin) ​​military commander Xiancheng surrendered to the National Guard Army, and most of Guangnan West Road had been occupied by the National Guard Army.

Su Xia's actual control territory further expanded.

After learning that Song Huizong Zhao Ji was defeated again, he was furious and decided to dismiss Zhao Wuji and investigate. Fortunately, Li Bangyan entrusted him to take charge of Yazhou's military affairs, but Zhao Wuji was completely doomed.

Yazhou, which is today's Hainan Island, except for the changes in the settings of individual states, Hainan Island during this period basically followed the previous generation's organizational system for jurisdiction, with the color of ruling the Li people's area.

Zhao Wuji led the remaining soldiers to retreat on this small island. Song thought he was giving Su Xia a profound sword, but he was undoubtedly "meat" on the chopping block for Su Xia.

The entire Li people's land where Yazhou is located has no more than 2000 soldiers, all of whom are local soldiers. The Song Dynasty's imperial army only has [-] people. In addition, the more than [-] people Zhao Wuji fled with him are nothing to be afraid of.

In August of the same year, Su Xia appointed Li Dong as the commander-in-chief of the army to suppress Zhao Wuji, commanding half of the main force of the navy, all mobile warships, and the infantry Wu Song's troops, a total of 4000 people.

Su Xia formulated a policy to persuade people to benefit and drive Song Dynasty out of the island.

In addition to the army, the fleet carried a large amount of supplies, including palm, cloth, looms, etc. to distribute to the islanders.

Of course, Su Xia had his own purpose in doing this. The island was high in mountains and densely forested with trees. If the Li people did not submit to him, they would most likely be covering for themselves. Therefore, he had to occupy the entire Yazhou and provide material exchange, and finally let Zhao There are countless hiding places where Wuji is, forcing a decisive battle.

In order to achieve this goal, the National Protectorate Army mobilized supplies to the island twice. With a step-by-step approach to win over people's hearts, they launched two conflicts and battles in Yazhou and Zhenzhou (now the southern part of Hainan Island), and eliminated The momentum of the Song Army, in October, the main force of the Song Army on Hainan Island, except for a few troops and Zhao Wuji, led to the dense forest, most of them surrendered, and occupied the whole mirror without any blood.

In November, Su Xia mobilized mobile warships to withdraw to pursue and destroy Japanese pirates. At the same time, the designation was changed from a corps to a division, with brigades, battalions, companies, and platoons under it.

The entire army was reorganized into fifteen combat divisions, deployed according to numbers [-] to [-], with each division commanding more than [-] troops.

In early November, he commanded the First Division of Zhao Wenhui (Zhao Wenhui: Su Xia's Yuan troops) fought fiercely with the Song Army in Hengzhou. Later, Zhao Wenhui's troops were changed into Guards Divisions, the garrison was adjusted, and the railways along the road were built at the same time. The invention of the steam engine also And large-scale steel smelting.

The following year, in the seventh year of Zhenghe (early 1118), Zhao Wuji's remnant army fought a decisive battle with the National Protectorate Army commanded by Li Dong in Yashan. Most of Zhao Wuji's troops were annihilated, and they tried to escape to Penghu (today's TW area). Zhao Wuji fled to Nanyang. , whereabouts are currently unknown.