Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

"Han Shizhong, lead the team forward!"

"Yes, command!"

A Western Army military attaché not far away shouted, waving the small red flag forward in his hand.

More than a thousand cavalry, including Han Shizhong, began to ride forward.

Behind them, a large number of soldiers had stopped moving forward. The open area along the river, nearly ten miles away from the enemy, is quite suitable for setting up a large camp.

The camp must be close to the water, and if there is a mountain, it will lean on the mountain.

Dig trenches, set up horses, place antlers, erect fences and walls, and build arrow towers.

No With a large number of siege equipment, it is impossible to capture a large camp.

In fact, a military camp is more difficult to defeat than a city.

Unless one party is defeated.

But if one party is defeated, there is no need to attack the military camp. Most of the people in the camp will just run away.

If During the stalemate stage, there is really no record of directly conquering the enemy camp.

It is also necessary to choose a high place in the military camp and build a watchtower. It must be at least three feet tall, ten or twenty meters high.

In ancient times, there were not a lot of tall buildings. Under the premise, it is enough to find a slope with a height of tens of meters or build a watchtower on the flat ground to overlook the battlefield. The vanguard will lead the cavalry to charge.

The formation commander will lay out arrays one by one according to the distance and battlefield range.

Tour 403 After the Yishi scouted the enemy's flanks, they restricted the movements of the enemy's cavalry.

From the pre-Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Sui, and Tang dynasties to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it was also the peak in the history of Chinese warfare.

After the Five Dynasties, it began to decline.

Looking at various records of the generals of the Ming Dynasty, It was too tragic to watch.

During the Battle of Sahu, Yang Hao, a civil servant, was the manager and made a lot of jokes.

The Fourth Route Army could not cooperate at all. The main force was dispatched, and the other routes were still on the road.

There was no reconnaissance.

There was no counterintelligence. , the plan to send troops, including the date of departure and the route map of the march, were clearly checked.

The soldiers led by Da Dao Liu Qing walked for more than half a year, and then entered the dense forest of Kuandian. By the time he arrived, the other three routes were all The regiment was wiped out.

Then he was wiped out by the regiment again.

There were no military stations, no reconnaissance, and no strongholds along the way. He just walked from Sichuan to Liaodong in a daze. He was beheaded in a daze.

This was a veteran general of the Ming Dynasty.

Logistics The supply of military supplies was a mess.

When we went out to worship the sky, the sword was blunt and could not cut off the head of an ox.

Everyone said that the Song Dynasty was weak. After all, there was still a Western Army in the Forbidden Army of the Northern Song Dynasty. The performance of the Southern Song Army was 10,000 blocks behind the Southern Ming Army. You can't see the tail lights of the Southern Song army at all.

Even at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, they still carried the Mongols for nearly fifty years, and Meng Gongshi was even on par with the Mongols! The defense of Diaoyutai was so heroic that even Meng Ge Khan died in Sichuan. Xiangyang was defended until it could no longer be defended. All the elite soldiers and generals were killed in the battle. The city was attacked many times. It was crippled and then repaired.

Baidi and Xiangyang could not be captured, so they detoured from Yunnan and Guizhou, but they still could not remove the nail of Xiangyang. If

Xiangyang could not be captured, there was no way to move south along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. They wanted to cross the river from the south of the Yangtze River to attack Jiankang, and then go down to Hangzhou to attack the northern army. It's too difficult.

If the Southern Song Dynasty had not collapsed financially, it would have been unable to raise troops.

Sichuan was crippled, the south was penetrated several times, Mongolia also destroyed Tianfang, and foreign trade was stagnant. The Southern Song Dynasty really had no money.

Otherwise... maybe... Just like Annan and the Japanese country, they can withstand it.

Civilization will never be destroyed and will never end.

The two Song Dynasties have the shame of Jingkang, but overall performance, the end of the Ming Dynasty still cannot be seen in the Song Dynasty.

Whether it is the establishment, finance, people's livelihood, The army of the Southern Song Dynasty was overwhelmingly superior to that of the Southern Ming Dynasty. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Even the late Ming Dynasty during the unification period cannot be compared with the Southern Song Dynasty.

As far as the level of the Battle of Saarhu was concerned, not to mention the four Zhongxing generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, even the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty could not fight such a useless and bad battle.

The subsequent great victory of Ningjin was nothing more than a huddled defense.

In the subsequent Songjin War, there were only about 100,000 Ming troops, which was almost all the elites of the Ming army at that time.

In the end, we still couldn’t win.

No matter what, the Song Army always did an excellent job in logistics, ordnance, and military supplies.

Because finance has always been tilted towards the military.

Even in the Renzong period when the three redundant burdens were extremely heavy (cbda), or in the Huizong period when there was waste and squandering.

The army's military salaries, military supplies and logistics are always guaranteed.

The Northern Song Dynasty was good at controlling military force with culture, but it was impossible for it to be so stupid as to cripple its own army like the Ming Dynasty.

In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, King Qin's troops from Shanxi and Shaanxi border troops arrived at the gates of Beijing. The court did not pay the troops, nor did they even give them food. The officials of the Ministry of War moved these frontier troops here and there like monkeys.

The Ming army also stipulated that no food would be given on the day the camp was established. As long as the troops continued to be mobilized, they could continue to be without food. so smart.

It's a pity that the big soldiers didn't cooperate.

The Shanxi frontier army and the Shaanxi frontier army immediately mutinied and left. Later, many of them became bandits, and many more became the backbone of the anti-bandit forces.

Many of the Qinwang soldiers in various provinces were the same. They had no food, no pay, and no whereabouts. In the end, many of them mutinied and dispersed.

The same goes for the emperor Chongzhen. Even if he couldn't do the most basic protection, he would go to the city to summon the generals and inspect the soldiers and horses. This was not a cosmetic thing.

There's nothing pitiful about him hanging himself.

Do everything yourself.

In the end, he passed the blame to the officials.

You are the emperor, not a puppet emperor.

During the seventeen years of Chongzhen, the number of ministers killed was only inferior to that of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Di's killing of ministers of Jianwen lineage was a continuation of the war and was not the norm. Zhu Di could not compare to Chongzhen in his ruthlessness.

Indiscriminate killings were carried out. Once in the second year of Chongzhen, dozens of ministers including the Minister of War, the Governor, the Governor, and the General of the Army were killed.

He holds great power and acts arbitrarily. In the end, he does not blame himself for his subordinates' mismanagement, but blames his ministers.

I can only say that my stubbornness will never change.

The main force of the Song Army in front of us has many shortcomings of the Northern Song Army.

In terms of strength, it is far from comparable to the era of ZTE's four generals.

But after all, they are elites who have fought with the Xixia people for hundreds of years. They have been fighting for many years in recent years. They have rich battlefield experience and their military quality is at the peak of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Although it has declined, they are still disciplined.

Along the way, strongholds will be set up wherever they can defend. Along the waterway, there will be dry strongholds to assist with the defense.

Where there are bays, shallow currents, and bifurcations on the water, water forts will also be set up.[]

Hundreds of thousands of troops, plus hundreds of thousands of civilians, were extremely dense. There was no problem with the speed of the dispatched troops. Everything was in order. Although it was not as high as the Han and Tang armies, it was not as fierce as the later Southern Song army. Dare to fight, but at least the Northern Song Army, especially the Western Army, is a mature and qualified army, especially led by qualified generals such as Zhong Shidao, even Tong Guan, although his reputation was later discredited and recognized by later generations Although he was a traitor, at least before the fiasco of Baigou and the defeat of Taiyuan again, Tong Guan was also a qualified commander.

This army that was above the passing line encountered disadvantages, but it continued to put pressure on the enemy.

Such is the state of the battlefield.

If you ignore a small disadvantage, it will slowly accumulate into a big disadvantage. Once the enemy repeatedly seizes the opportunity to suppress you before the battle, it is like playing chess and being pushed by others to make moves, and ultimately you will lose everything..