When the sky will be clear, Zhao Liang will wear a gray linen military uniform and ride a horse on horseback on the south bank of a small red bun called Dawang Creek outside the village of Xiaohongbao, five or six miles north of the town of Ruqian.After the Great King Creek is the small red castle village.Last night, Zhao Liang sent the "gun doctor" has occupied the small red castle village, and in the village, it has become an extremely important support point.

The small red castle village is of course a castle, and the center of the village is a red castle with a history of more than 200 years.There were several knights who lived in the castle, and the land around the small red castle village also belonged to these knights.

However, as firearms have evolved, the importance of knights has been greatly reduced.The Great Zhou Republic did not need to maintain a large class of knights, so the knightly class was mostly converted into citizens or kulaks.The knights of the small red castle village have also disappeared, the red castle has long been abandoned, and there are many beautiful and comfortable courtyards around the castle, which is the residence of the residents of the small red castle village.

Of course, the residents of the small red castle village have run away, and the warehouse where the grain is stored is also burned, leaving only an empty courtyard.So no one resisted the “gun doctor” occupation.

The main support point of the IRA on this battlefield is a low ridge facing the small red castle village.The name of the ridge is called Jiangshan, and the town of Jiangdian is at the foot of the mountain on the west side of Jiangshan.In addition, there are several low mountains on the northwest and southwest sides of Jiangdian Town, thus forming a basin-like terrain.

However, Zhao Liang will not be stupid enough to attack these mountains and ginger shop towns, his plan is to bypass Jiangshan, and then inserted between Jiangdian Town and Xiangcheng Daxian Fort.Caught in the town of Ginger Shop and Jiangshan Zhou Jun.

"King," Zhao Liang put the machine-grow Zong Yizhi at this time, passing through a bridge over the Great King Creek, to Liang Xiang, whispering: "As you always expected, Zhou Jun did arrange heavy troops east of Jiangshan."At the same time, they have deployed a number of infantry on the ridge of Mount Ginger, and there should be howitzers on the other side of the ridge.”

The east and south sides of Jiangshan are the Great Plains without danger, and the north is not far from the water.To the west of the mountain is a low hill.And the east and west to the ginger mountain is like a wall, blocking the south of the Xiangcheng porch.

Therefore, as long as Zhou Jun wants to fight in the field south of Xiangcheng, he will inevitably rely on Jiangshan Defense.

The Jiangshan itself and the Jiangdian town on the west side are easy to defend, with terrain and solid buildings to rely on.

At this time, the IRA Army was equipped with a large number of howitzers, and a army had six howitzer companies, with a total of 36 5-inch howitzers.If they are deployed at the foot of the northern mountain of Jiangshan, they can accurately bombard the enemies of Mount Jiang with flowering bullets.Considering the quality of the flowering bullets of Zhou Guo, Jiangshan will surely become the sad mountain of the enemy!

Since Jiangshan and Jiangdian Town on the side are easy to defend, the plains east of Jiangshan are the center of gravity for both sides.

Therefore, although the two Songs and the Zhou Army are encamped in the south-north confrontation, the battle against each other is placed in the southwest of Jiangshan, and it is the layout of the southwest-northwest.

The two Songs were north of Dawang Creek, the left wing from the village of Little Red Fort, and the right wing spread to the west bank of Rushui, putting out a 15-stream wide front.

The front line of the army is much longer.Jiangshan and Jiangdian Town are both must be guarded, and Wuyuan Town has arranged an infantry brigade in each of the two places.Then relying on the eastern foothills of Jiangshan to carry out key defense, the two infantry divisions from the ginger Shandong foothills all the way to the south shore of the Yushui, launched a 7-level wide key defensive zone.

“Go away!”Zhao Liang will nod his head, "Look at it."

Speaking, he took his own guard and the mechao regiment and ran behind the Song Army, which was laying.

Some Western Song soldiers found their commander and suddenly cheered: "The king is a thousand years old!The king is a thousand years old. . .

The cheers grew louder and louder, and soon resounded throughout the battlefield.

It seems that the prestige of the great Song King who has been employed in the battlefield for decades is still very high!

...

In the eastern foothills of Jiangshan, Wuyuan Town put its own flag tree on a castle that was left 200 years ago.The sight here is very good, overlooking the whole battlefield, so it became his headquarters.

Song’s cheers reached his ears, but he didn’t understand.

Because now Huaxia Sanxiong is still using the same Chinese characters, but there are three official words.

The Grand Zhou Republic is the official language of Tianjin, the popular language of the western Song is the Chang'an official language, and the East Song uses Jiangning official language.

Of course, the basis of the three official words is still the Central Plains Yayin.Communication with each other is not too much of a problem.It is just that the battlefield is too noisy now, so Wuyuan Town has not understood for a while.

“What are they talking about?”He asked the boy next to him.

Han Shantang worked as a military attaché in Chang'an and was able to speak fluent Chang'an.

"It seems that the commander of the enemy is Zhao Liang, and General Xi Song always wins."

“Zhao Liang, I guess it’s him too!”The battle is so good, it’s not that he is!”Wu Yuanzhen nodded, "The new version of the Army's Campaign Command has a lot of space to say about him?"

"Yes," said Han Shan Tong, noding and laughing, "so we know him well."

Han Shantang went to the Army Academy and was also a professor at the Military Academy, and he was very well aware of the several classic battles that Zhao Liang will command at the end of the Mongolian-Song War.

And Zhao Liang will probably be the most able-playing general of the Zhao Song royal family in history, 50 years in the army, after more than 60 battles, of which he commanded a total of 8 battles, all won!And six times to less to win more, and to give the enemy heavy damage.

“How will he fight?”The town asked again.

"The officer doesn't know."

“You say you know him?”

Han Shantang laughed, “Because you understand, I don’t know!”What is the thought of Zhao Liang, how can it be so easy to guess?”

“How are we going to fight?”

Han Shantang said: "The advice of the lower officer is to stay enough to reserve the reserve team to see how Zhao Liang will play cards... Zhao Liang will be good at using soldiers, and the elite soldiers of the Western Song are also powerful, and the number is twice as high as us."

That is why we should delay and consume the enemy's tactics to avoid rapid failure.”

His advice sounds a bit of a morale, but it’s really the best.

Zhao Liang and his command of the West Song elite are difficult to deal with, if there is no advantage in the strength, they will not ponder to win the battle.

It is good to be able to lose a little bit in the battle, and to achieve a strategic victory at the same time.

At the strategic level, it is Zhao Liang who will be in an unfavorable situation, and the national strength of the two Songs alliance behind him is not as good as that of the Great Zhou Republic.Therefore, once he can not win quickly, it will inevitably lead to failure.

“All right!”Wuyuan Town nodded, "Order the troops to dig trenches and make fortifications ... we are going to fight a defensive battle of positions."

...

On the plain east of Jiangshan, two well-trained armies have already launched their own arrays.

In order to cover their own deployment, both sides sent light infantry and cavalry to compete for buildings and roads in the center of the battlefield.

The buildings that became the object of the competition were three huge courtyards, all of which were very strong, and could be used for the deployment of artillery with a little modification.Therefore, it has become a battle between the two sides!

For the two Songs and the Allied forces, after capturing the three courtyards, they were able to use it as an artillery position to bombard the front of the Zhou Army.

For Zhou Jun, delaying the fall of the three courtyards as much as possible can win the time for the infantry trenches for their own infantry.

The method of allowing the infantry to rely on the trenches to defend was actually the first adopted by the Western Song in the Mongolian-Song War.Their gun doctor was a loose soldier, did not need to form an array, had a trench bunker or something, that was the best.

Therefore, in the Hundred-Year Mongol Wars, the construction technology of infantry trenches and infantry bunkers has been continuously developed.

By the 14th century, the engineering shovel had become an important equipment for the Huaxia Sanxiong infantry, like the smoothbore gun.

In the Da Zhou and the East Song Army, the engineering shovel was popularized to every infantry.

Therefore, in the ability to dig pits, the army of the big week and the East Song Dynasty came later.

In addition to digging pits, Zhou soldiers are also building artillery bases.Unlike the deployment of concentrated artillery by the two Songs and the two Songs, Zhou Jun adopted the tactics of dispersing and maneuvering the use of artillery today.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a large number of artillery bases in advance and repair the road.

In order to cover the construction, Zhou Jun could not easily give up the three courtyards.

There were bursts of shooting and shouting in the three courtyards and the surrounding roads, and the sound of horse-hoes trotting across the ground in the middle and in the wheat fields.

A little unexpected, Zhao Liang's soldiers (infantry using rifles) performed no worse than the Sisong gun doctor.Their rifles are obviously better than the wire rifles used by the Western Song, have a longer effective range and a faster rate of fire.And their gun laws are also very good, and the gun doctor shoots the wind at all!

In addition, the light riding of the Zhou army is not easy to deal with.They were all equipped with rifles, which could fire at great distances, causing considerable losses to the Song cavalry.

And their horse speed is faster, and they can avoid close combat when they are not dominant.

Zhao Liang, who found it difficult to rely on the gun doctor and the light cavalry to win quickly, immediately adjusted his tactics and put into six teams of flintlocks.These infantry advanced rapidly in columns, and after falling close to the target academy, they quickly became phalanx.Then the bayonet was launched directly.

Two of the three courtyards were soon lost, leaving only the middle of an abandoned barn still under Zhou’s control.

It turned out that Zhou's army had ambush a team of hand artillery in the barn, and repelled the attack of two teams of Song infantry with pistols and bayonets.The barn was temporarily saved.

However, the barn they adhered to soon became the target of Song army shelling, and they suffered round after round of solid bombardment.

But the barn was stronger than Zhao Liang had expected—the barn was built a decade ago, using a lot of cement and masonry, and building a warehouse and a small building next to the vault, with a short wall on the periphery.

In addition, thousands of packs of wheat were stored in the warehouse before they could be shipped away.The artillery of the Zhou army, which was just ambush in the yard, used to strengthen the low wall, so that it could resist the direct-fire of the long gun.

However, there are also 10 howitzer companies in the two Songs, equipped with 60 5-inch howitzers.

Under Zhu Xinglong's command, these cannons were pushed less than 1,000 steps from the grain warehouse compound to concentrate on fire.

The grenade was shot like rain, drawing a beautiful parabola in the air, and then falling heavily.

But 80 to 90 percent of the grenades didn’t explode!

And the remaining one-and-a-half percent of the grenades also exploded in the air when they did not approach the Zhou Jun position.

In other words, less than one of the ten grenades is more threatening.

This effect of the shelling, coupled with the huge soot on the artillery positions of the Song army, illustrates a problem - the West Song's preparation for war is as hasty as the big week, and even does not even replace their bad artillery and gunpowder with the products of the East Song.

"Let our hand artillery retreat and give up the grain bank!"Wuyuan Town ordered, "Order all howitzers to remain mobile!"

The purpose of the grain warehouse war is only to test the truth and at the same time to fight for the rest of the troops.

Now that the end has been achieved, there is no need to waste time on a grain bank that is doomed to hold.

In addition, the performance of the Song army howitzer also let Wuyuan Town see the hope of winning, or at least leveling.

After the infantry in the Western Song Dynasty occupied the grain warehouse, Zhao Liang will immediately give orders to the whole army.

Today, the two-Song coalition has a total of 10 infantry divisions, and a cavalry division serves on the perimeter.

Of the ten infantry divisions, in addition to one deployment, they attracted the attention of the Zhou Army near the village of Little Red Fort.The remaining nine divisions are divided into two lines.The first line was the five infantry divisions of the Western Song.From the small red castle village to the northeast, the infantry first, third, seventh, tenth, 13th division.

All of them played the famous ace division on the Mongolian and Song battlefield!

The second line consists of three Western Song infantry divisions and one Eastern Song infantry division.They are also strong fighting.

The five divisions of the previous front were all carried out in units of the battalion, each of which was a large square array consisting of four companies.Each company is a three-row cross-robin that can be split into operations.A battalion is four companies, that is, 12 combat formations are discharged.In addition, a command cross team walked in the end, a total of 13 columns.

The first three of them are gunmen, all-colored rifles.The middle six columns are ordinary line infantry, equipped with ordinary smoothbore guns.The last three columns are the pressed hand artillery.

This method of platooning is also summed up by the Western Song in the 100-year-old Mongolian-Song War, and then it was given to the cottage by the big week and the East Song.

The process of engagement is almost always stereotyped, usually starting with heavy artillery bombardment, followed by long-term firing by the looser.When the enemy is weakened by artillery and loose soldiers, the soldiers are killed in the queue, and finally the white soldiers or cavalry assault!