Where did the Queen Mother go?

On the night of July 14th, the senior generals of Aguda's troops who walked out of the Thousand Miles of Pine Forest a day ago were thinking about the same problem.

Where did Empress Dowager Xiao’s army go?

The 40,000 Liao soldiers who were supposed to follow Wanyan Zongwang at the mouth of Aguda's 140,000 army suddenly disappeared!

In fact, the main force of Wanyan Zongwang could not see Empress Dowager Xiao's main force, but Zong Wang's defender was in contact with Empress Dowager Xiao's forward. But last night, Empress Dowager Xiao's forward suddenly disappeared.

This morning, Wanyan Zongwang, who learned about this situation, immediately sent most of the cavalry in his hand to search. However, after searching for the whole day, he did not find Empress Xiao's army.

Not only was the army gone, but even the "small army" disappeared.

Obviously, Empress Dowager Xiao was not that naive, she fooled Wanyan Zongwang!

Wanyan Zongwang, who knew that she had been fooled by Empress Xiao as a monkey, finally saw Aguda who was excited that night.

"What? There is no trace?" Aguda suddenly stood up from the seat, "Wu Li Bu, you are considered a long-time general, why are you making such a confused person?"

Wanyan Zongwang looked at his father who was so thin that he was almost crying. Why was she fooled by that woman Xiao Sesse? How could she be so easy to deceive?

Although this woman has been very brave in using military forces in the past few years, sometimes she will reveal big flaws. But when did Xi and herself grasp other people's flaws?

This girl’s flaw is visible and cannot be grasped!

This time it was the same. I was about to be fooled, but I ran away with a fake shot... and my father was so sick that he ran away in vain.

No, it’s not as simple as a waste of time!

This time it is a battle of national destiny between Jin and Liao!

Xiao Sesse could not be so slow, and he didn't even know this. Even if she didn't know, would Wu Haogu not know? The embassy of Zhou State in Datong had long notified Zhou State merchants in Datong Prefecture to retreat... In other words, Zhou State was ready to send troops to help Empress Xiao!

In this case, why would Xiao Sesse not make good plans for the Jin Kingdom?

"Father, Xiao may return to Baoyi Pavilion." Wanyan Zonggan said, "The Zhou army may go north to Baoyi Pavilion to join it. If we form a brigade of 70,000 to 80,000 people, we will not be sure to win in the field."

Wanyan Zongwang shook his head and said, "It is safe to withdraw the Baoyi Pavilion, but it is a situation of lasting resistance. Xiao's army has been extremely bold in recent years and should not return to the Baoyi Pavilion."

"Bold?" Wanyan Zongbi sneered, "Can you still go to Linhuang Mansion?"

"This..." Wanyan Zongwang thought about it and nodded, "It was Xiao who took the risk of raiding Linhuang Mansion City!"

"How could Xie Ye be the general who was attacked by sneak attack?" A Gu laughed. He was very confident about Wanyan Xie Ye's younger brother.

Xi also has the best ability to use troops in the Jin Dynasty. Moreover, after fighting with Xiao for so many years, he still doesn't understand this bold and arrogant woman? How could she be attacked by her?

Zong Wang nodded, "It's true... Linhuang Mansion is a strong city and will not be so easily compromised!

Father, what should we do?"

"Cross the Heihe River first," said Wanyan Aguda, "It will not be too late to make a decision after finding out the enemy situation."

There is no way to make a decision now, and I don’t know where Empress Xiao goes!

Instead of guessing, it is better to send someone to look for it. The 40,000 army will not disappear out of thin air.

Aguda sneered: "If she really goes to Linhuang Mansion City, she will be trapped in her own way! Our 140,000 people and Linhuang Jiancheng City will not be able to take down tens of thousands of people? Besides, there are still 40,000 surprise soldiers there!

Even if Zhou Jun really takes action, we can still be undefeated!"

...

When Aguda led his army across Heihe to set up camp and set up a camp, his younger brother Wanyan Xie already knew where the empress dowager was going?

The last time I looked for him!

He also brought tens of thousands of troops to make trouble with murderous intent...

As soon as the Eastern Liao army arrived, they immediately divided the road and siege the city!

First, we used Camel City to siege!

There were more than 15,000 camels in the left and right armies of Empress Dowager Xiao, and a large number of four-wheeled vehicles. Now the camels were put down, pricked their hooves, and then mixed with the vehicles to form an encirclement. About 500 camel cannons were also set up and placed in various places in the Camel City. This camel cannon, which is actually a large musket, can fire shotguns, which poses a great threat to the Jin soldiers with intensive impact!

The iron beads enter the body, and they are still broken even if they are not dead!

Moreover, Empress Dowager Xiao's army also had a small amount of 4 kilograms of cavalry cannons. The weight of 4 kilograms was almost fired against the city wall. She installed a shotgun and sprayed infantry, and the cavalry had a large number of shots.

So when Wanyan Xie saw the Tuocheng encirclement of the Eastern Liao Army, he didn't have the courage to reorganize his army and go to war.

There is no courage to fight, but he will not admit defeat.

"Okay, the army gathers... I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of people! This time, Xiao Sesse, the female fox, was stuck. When the extremely fierce army arrived, Xiao would have no place to run away!"

"Left behind, Xiao knew that Linhuang City was strong, but he still raised his troops to surround him. I'm afraid there was any trick, right?"

The person who also talked to Wanyan Xie was to judge the Linhuang Mansion, supervising the army, Wanyan Chang, and the Jurchen name Ta Lai, was the son of the late Duboli Wanyan Ying Ge.

"What a deceptive plan?" Wanyan Xie also smiled, "I just want to lure out the army of Dubojiliu... But what can I do if I pull it out? This time the Western Army has come out in full swing, with an army of 140,000! Can they still eat? Not to mention the Eastern Liao, what can I do if the Zhou Kingdom sends troops?

Moreover, I hope that the troops of Zhou could go north. Once they went north, the south of Huanghe would be empty, and there would be a chance for Nianhan and Yinshu."

The task of Nianhan and Yin Shuke is to raid the south bank of Huanghe River, and if you have the chance, you will raid around Dading Prefecture.

To achieve this goal, the Zhou army stationed in Dading Prefecture must be led to the Korqin Grassland.

...

"Governor Wang, Linhuang Mansion City is ahead!"

The cavalry flew to Wang Yan's horse. The three divisions of the Linhuang Army marched north together. They set out from Dading Prefecture, crossed the Huanghe River north and then entered Linhuang Fort first, and later went north to Baoyi Pavilion.

A few days later, Empress Dowager Xiao returned in Heihe and the news came from east to Linhuang Prefecture City. At the same time, the Dongliao Military Opportunities Corps also issued an order to go north to Linhuang Prefecture. The command and jurisdiction of the Zhou army have always been very clear. The Dongliao Military Opportunities Corps is the commander-in-chief of all Zhou troops on the battlefield of the Dongliao. Even an infantry division brought to Dading Prefecture by Wu Haogu was also under the command of this military Opportunities Corps!

So after receiving the order to go north, Wang Yan immediately led his 41,000 army (including a siege artillery battalion stationed in Baoyiguan), brought all the cannons and baggage, and advanced northward in a mighty manner.

The Zhou army brigade, from Khitan and Jurchen, was very different from that of the soldiers and horses. It was not composed of cavalry, but an army of mixed infantry, cavalry and artillery. The brigades carried long spears, crossbows, or infantry carrying swords and shields, as if they were filled with sight. Teams of cavalry dressed in wart armor swam and protected each side of the army. However, what scared the enemy of Zhou the most was the artillery team that looked a bit too large.

The Linhuang Legion originally had 16 artillery teams, and later it added a siege artillery battalion with 4 teams of 12 kilograms of artillery (each team has 4 balls). There were 20 teams (equivalent to company) artillery, with 112 cannons! This number is nearly 40% more than what Emperor Napoleon believed in history as "enough" standard Napoleon believed that two cannons were enough for every 1,000 people. According to this standard, the 40,000 Linhuang Legion had 80 cannons.

The artillery configuration of the Zhou army, even without additional strengthening, exceeded the standards of the Napoleon era.

Of course, when the two armies face off, they don’t mind that there are too many cannons. If there are too many cannons, they are powerful! But when the troops move, they will have a headache!

Although the Zhou army's cannons had a two-wheeled gun mount and a two-wheeled ammunition front mount, the two could form a four-wheeled carriage that was easy to drag. However, due to the lack of tall and strong horse-drawn horses, the bronze cannons were too heavy to cast, and the relatively heavy artillery mounts were also designed. The artillery of the Great Zhou Republic Army became the largest horse purchaser in the Great Zhou Kingdom.

On average, a cannon organized by the Zhou army requires 60 horses to be pulled! Among them, 20 cannons and 40 dragged the rest of the artillery troops. Of course, these horses cannot be rotated in a row and must take turns to pull the carts and cannons.

In other words, a artillery team with 6 artillery and 160 artillery requires 360 horses to be equipped... more horses than cavalry with one man and two horses!

Moreover, all of these 360 ​​horses need to be used to purchase artillery from the market, but they will not bring their own horses to join the army.

In order to drag 112 cannons to the battlefield, the Linhuang Legion prepared nearly 7,000 horses for them!

That is, the Zhou Kingdom, which owns Dongliao, a vassal country that produces horses and has more than 30,000 knight manors in its local area, cannons provide so many horses without any effort. If it were the Song Dynasty, the cannons were enough, but there would be no horses that could pull cannons.

So in addition to the cannons placed on city walls and warships, the cannons of the Song Dynasty's new army were very light, and most of them had "six twelve cannons" weighing around 250 kilograms and could only fire six taels of iron bombs. This was the mini cannon sold to the Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, the senior leaders of the army, including Wang Yan, deputy governor Wu Chen, commander Wu Yiyong, artillery director Ma Yong, cavalry director and commander Wu Hong, commander of the First Cavalry division, were all confident in breaking the Linhuang Mansion City.

Now that he heard the news from the cavalry, Wang Yan turned his head and asked Wu Haogu's eldest son Wu Yiyong, "The opportunity is good, how many days can you break the city?"

Wu Yiyong smiled: "It's hard to say that I haven't seen the terrain and city walls... but it won't last more than three days!"

"Three days are enough?"

Wu Yiyong nodded: "It's enough for us!"

Ma Yong, the artillery director and Ma Zheng's younger brother, also said: "Although the Jin soldiers bought many six taels of cannons, they could not master the artillery skills so quickly. Artillery is not easy to learn well! It is useless to have cannons, and the prismatic castle is just a large target. Moreover, the Jin people cannot completely transform the Linhuang Mansion City. At most, they can build several prismatic castles. It is useless!"

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