The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

This tactic of pocket formation appeared very early in China. The famous Battle of Maling when Sun Bin used the method of "luring the enemy to set up an ambush" to kill Pang Juan is a typical pocket formation. High-quality update to the West, the Greek coalition defeated the Persian fleet at Sala

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Naval battles, the Battle of Calle in which the famous Parthian general Sulena defeated one of the three Roman giants, Calasus, etc. There are countless related battles, and many names have been derived, such as closing the door to catch the thief, and going up to the house to extract the ladder.

, beating dogs with closed doors, catching turtles in jars, etc.

Setting up a 'pocket formation' is one of the basic tactics, and its standard process can be summarized in twelve words - setting an ambush in advance, luring the enemy deep, and gathering together to annihilate them. The specific method of using the pocket formation is very simple. First, lay out a trap and send out a group of enemies.

Troops move forward to lure the enemy into a trap, and then the ambush troops rush out to disrupt the enemy's formation, seal the trap, and finally surround and annihilate the enemy.

Military commanders at home and abroad in ancient and modern times are familiar with this tactic and have tried it repeatedly. It can be called a universal tactic, and a tactic can be used everywhere. This is a miracle in the military field full of contingency. But since people have no idea how to put their pockets.

The formation is so familiar, so why does one always fall into the trap?

The key to setting up a 'pocket formation' is to 'lure the enemy deep'. The key to luring the enemy deep is whether the 'bait' can give the enemy enough attraction. In the Battle of Wagram, a figure like Napoleon will be there

In front of the bait, Ling was stunned and defeated. Although he burst his pocket in the end, it also shows how easy it is to take advantage of human nature's greed for profit, weakness and other weaknesses.

From this point of view, whether the commander can overcome his own character weaknesses is the key to victory or defeat, but it is precisely because it is difficult for most people to escape the limitations of human nature. Therefore, they are defeated by themselves...

Han Li was not obviously in the majority. He learned that Zhaozhou had been attacked. Gaoyi and Baixiang had been conquered, and all the people and property were taken away by the Wuma Mountain rebels. Although he had obtained the true determination, it was an empty city, and he was immediately angry.

He vomited blood and fell to the ground. When he woke up, regardless of his illness, he first beheaded Zhaozhou's guard general Tutong Wanhu Eluguan, and then summoned all the troops to march to Wuma Mountain.

When Han Libu led his army south, he led more than 60,000 troops. These were regular soldiers, and there were basically the same number of casual soldiers, which are generally not included. Although he suffered losses along the way, his vitality was not damaged.

Including the collected Song troops and surrendered troops, the number was no less than 110,000.

In this siege of Wumashan, Han was desperate to recruit all the troops from the villages and counties, except for the walled forts that maintained the communication lines, and to arm all the handymen, a total of 80,000 people, which concentrated almost all the available resources of the West Route Army.

The troops mobilized. This cannot be said to be Han Libu's madness. It can only be said that Zhao Tao's 'bait' is big enough to make the flames of revenge burn brightly...

Zhao Tie climbed up to Dongshan and took a look. He saw numerous Jin army camps in front of the mountain and in the mountains. He could not see the edge. There were Jin troops guarding every commanding height and the road leading to the outside of the mountain. Not to mention that even a bird would have to fly over.

See if Jin Jun is in a good mood.

"Your Majesty, the Jin army adopted the strategy of locking the city step by step and gradually advanced into the mountains, gradually compressing our depth and trying to trap us in the mountains!" Zhao Lian said.

"Hmm. This move is cruel enough. Is the road out of the mountain blocked now?" Zhao Tong asked.

"All the mountain passes leading to Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, and Zhending have been blocked by the army. Only the road leading to Jingxing is still passable. The high-quality update is that Jingxing Road is still under our control!" Zhao Lian immediately replied

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"We are surrounded by three and one is missing. To enter Jingxing, we have to cross a hundred-mile plain. Hanli didn't want to lure us to break out from there, so his iron cavalry came in handy. Moreover, there are many steep cliffs on the west side, which is not conducive to attack. Look,

Come on, he's not angry yet!" Zhao Tong said with a smile.

"Haha, I think he is confused. The mountains are not conducive to cavalry fighting. They can only dismount and fight. And the weather is getting warmer. The soldiers of the Jin Army can tolerate the cold but not the heat, which will lead to a serious decline in combat effectiveness. If I only fight on the periphery,

Or you can lure the enemy out of the mountains and then send troops to retreat to the side, forcing the enemy to fight decisively in the plains. Never do stupid things like encircling the mountains with a large army, otherwise you will be the only one who will be dragged down!" Zhao Lian said.

"Fortunately you didn't rebel and surrender to the enemy, otherwise I would have suffered a big loss!" Zhao Lian smiled and said, Zhao Lian has been doing some staff work with him during this time and has gradually gotten better. It seems that the battlefield is the best teacher.

"How are the various departments doing now?"

"Your Majesty, now the ministries have given up their peripheral positions and retreated into the mountains according to the pre-war deployment!" Zhao Lian replied.

"Well, the next step is to slow down the speed of retreat. Fight where necessary. Hold on to the more important places and don't give up easily. If you lose them during the day, you can take them back at night and compete with the enemy again and again!" Zhao Tong thought about it!

Want to say.

"Your Majesty, do you mean to put a long line to catch big fish?" Zhao Lian said with his eyes shining.

"Yes, Han Li recently passed the battlefield and is not a reckless person. If we retreat too fast and give up the dangerous pass easily, it will make him suspicious. Just like you said, when fishing for big fish, we need to take more walks. We can't let him

Take off the hook!" Zhao Tong said.

"Your Majesty, now everyone, especially the rebels, have a lot of opinions about us retreating without a fight. They think that we are the same as the Forbidden Army. When we encounter a strong enemy, we are afraid and dare not fight. Then can we take the opportunity to choose the enemy?

Hit him hard along the way to further anger the enemy and boost their morale!" Zhao Lian said out of the blue.

"Okay, I'll leave this battle of Wuma Mountain to you. My only request is 'severely inflict heavy damage on Hanli Bubu and eliminate his vitality.' What you have to do now is to grasp the rhythm and lead the enemy into the mountain."

!" Zhao Tong said with a smile.

Zhao Tong knew that he would be further and further away from the battlefield, and his chances of going into battle in person would be less and less, and he would gradually retreat to the background. However, his generals must mature as soon as possible and complete the transformation from a general to a commander as soon as possible.

, and this requires giving them a chance. You can no longer protect them like an old hen. It is time for them to fly high.

"Your Majesty, this battle is of great importance. It is not only related to whether our Zhongxing Army can return to the Central Plains, but also the future of Your Majesty. I am afraid that I will not be able to shoulder such a heavy responsibility!" Zhao Lian was surprised and happy after hearing this.

But the surprise was still greater than the joy, so he hurriedly declined.

"My next step is to focus on rescuing the Supreme Emperor. Don't think about anything else and concentrate on fighting this battle. If you win, all the problems will be solved. If you lose, we will not be able to meet again in the northwest to regroup and fight again!" Zhao Tao said.

He patted Zhao Lian on the shoulder and said.

"I will do my best to fight this battle. High-quality updates will live up to the trust of the prince!" As a general, who doesn't want to command thousands of troops and horses to fight thousands of miles? The prince granted him full power today. Of course, he was extremely excited.

"The stage has been set up, it just depends on how you sing!" Zhao Tong said with a smile, his plan has been gradually launched, he will gradually introduce Han Li Bu's troops into the mountains, and then tighten the pockets, so that the inside and outside will be coordinated, and the center will bloom.

I hope Zhao Lian will not let himself become Zhang Lingfu on Meng Lianggu...

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With the Queen Mother's return to Beijing and the iron-fisted management of Li Gang and Zongze, Bianjing gradually returned to peace. However, with the arrival of various Qinwang troops and the return of the fleeing common people and dignitaries, the city of Kyoto, which had experienced a catastrophe, returned to normal.

It's full of life like spring.

And people with different agendas are also trying to get some benefits from it. Businessmen want to make a fortune while there is nothing left to do; ordinary people want to take the opportunity to improve their lives; there are also officials who have fled back to Beijing to ask for re-arrangement of work or work.

They took advantage of the change of leadership to find good jobs; moreover, heroes from all walks of life also wanted to find opportunities to climb a big tree and hug a thick leg; there were also some generals who were loyal to the army and had self-respect for the price, and chose to support the Prince of Qin's Palace.

Or Prince Kang's Mansion.

No matter what the purpose of these people is, they have all set up "Beijing Offices" in Bianjing City, stationed representatives, or went into battle themselves. They jumped up and down to make connections, went through the door, and inquired about information. There were many overt and covert battles in the capital.

When it unfolds, although there is no hail of gunfire and arrows and blood splattering everywhere, the brutality is no less brutal than the bloodbath on the smoke-filled battlefield.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that although it is the Queen Mother who is hearing the hearing, the two emperors are traveling north, and they are not sure whether they are alive or dead. Sooner or later they will have to return to the throne of the prince. Now that all the princes have been rescued, only King Qin and King Kang have the ability to aspire to the throne.

The two princes. They are the most powerful.

Everyone knows what King Qin did. He was definitely the military god of the Song Dynasty. He conquered Xixia and rejected the Jurchens. He marched east of the river and made Xixia surrender in the middle of the river and did not dare to invade. He solved the siege of Taiyuan and blocked the Jurchens who went south for the second time from the Yellow River.

north; die this time

After his resurrection, he rescued Zhongshan, regained his true self, and snatched back the Queen Mother and the princes from the tens of thousands of troops. He was said to be the strongest. After the official family was captured, he was the direct, eldest, and virtuous man. He was also the Queen Mother's son, so he was said to be the emperor.

It's a hands-on matter.

But it is not as good as God, but the situation is great, but Han Libu's army is besieged in Wuma Mountain. The outcome is unpredictable, which makes things logically subject to great variables. Some people who want to join the King of Qin will

Fell into wait and see.

If King Kang hadn't pledged Jin Ying, no one would have known that there was such a prince among the many princes. If many princes hadn't been kidnapped by the Jin army at the same time, he might not have had the opportunity to inherit the throne in his lifetime, but

God just favored him and gave him such an opportunity.

Now King Kang is holding the edict of Empress Dowager Meng, the persuasion of the ministers, and the jade seal passed down from the Song Dynasty, with the support of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses behind him. At first, some people were timid about King Kang and avoided fighting, and fled to Shandong.

There were some criticisms of their willingness to rescue Bianjing, but now that the King of Qin was trapped, they had to consider establishing a good relationship with the candidates who were still likely to inherit the unification, so as not to make a wrong bet and end up in vain.

If no one had taken them seriously during the Qing Dynasty, but now that the country is in turmoil, it is the time to hire people. Maybe there will be a battle for the throne between brothers, and the competition will be strength.

, then it is necessary to unite all the forces that can be united and at the same time disintegrate the power of the enemy camp. So both sides sent representatives to contact all forces...

When Wang Yan was young, he had a bold personality and loved to read military books. Later, he was ordered by his father to go to the capital and was affiliated with Gongma's disciples. After being tested by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was awarded the title of Qinghe Wei. Later, he joined the Jingyuan Army and served twice with Zhongshi Dao.

In Xixia, he had made military exploits. During the Jingkang period, the Jin soldiers besieged Bianjing. Wang Yan abandoned his family and went to Hebei to fight against thieves and serve the country. He surrendered to Zhang Suo and was promoted to the governor of the capital.

Wang Yan led an army of 7,000 men to forcefully cross the Yellow River and attack the Jin soldiers in Xinxiang County, Weizhou. After a day of fierce fighting, the Song army regained Xinxiang and achieved its first major victory since crossing the river. The Jin army dispatched tens of thousands of elite soldiers to surround Wang Yan's army.

Because the imperial court refused to send reinforcements for peace talks at that time, his troops were left alone.

Wang Yan saw that he was outnumbered and had no external aid, so he broke out. His soldiers were few and poorly equipped. After breaking out, he crossed the Yellow River to reunite the scattered soldiers and only 700 soldiers remained. The Jin army offered a heavy reward for his capture.

However, the army was often short of food and people's hearts were unstable. Wang Yan was worried about unexpected events.

He had to change his sleeping place every night. When his subordinates saw this, they said: The reason why we abandoned our wives and children and risked our lives to follow you was because we were moved by your loyalty and indignation and expected to avoid the national humiliation. Now we actually let

Are you restless and doubting us? Then we are really not human beings.

So these surviving soldiers tattooed the characters "Serve the country wholeheartedly, swear to kill the golden thieves" on their faces to show their loyalty, and the Eight-Character Army was born. Wang Yan was even more inspired by this, shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, and gathered rebels in the Taihang Mountains

, the two rivers responded, more than 100,000 people responded, and the golden drum stretched for hundreds of miles and shocked the two rivers.

After the Jin army went south for the second time, Wang Yan fought hundreds of battles with the Jin army. Countless people in Henan were recaptured. However, because the imperial court advocated peace at that time and demanded that the rebels be disbanded, supplies were cut off. Food and grass became a big problem.

But he was stronger than the horse, tightened his belt and persisted until the Jin army moved south again.

Wang Yan, who insisted on resisting the Jin Dynasty, learned that Zongze was left behind in Tokyo. On the one hand, he stepped up military training. At the same time, he sent someone to contact Zongze, who stayed behind in Tokyo, and agreed on a date to prepare for a large-scale attack on the Jin. Zongze received Wang Yan's letter and summoned him to Tokyo.

Discussion. In April, Wang Yan led ten thousand elite troops across the river to Kaifeng.

But at this time, the situation had changed. The Queen Mother returned to the court and Zongze took up a post in the Privy Council. Zhao Gou returned to Beijing. Zhao Gou immediately recruited Wang Yan in the name of the Marshal's Mansion and appointed him as the Hebei West Road Recruitment Envoy. Wang Yan thought well.

, everyone is fighting against gold. Return

No matter who is in charge, at least everyone is getting official food and no longer has to worry about food and salary issues. Zhao Gou successfully took them under his command. In the same way of making officials and making wishes, Prince Kang's Mansion recruited several rebel armies.

Enriched one's own strength.

Zhao Gou has now entered the court, and his military strength is several times that of King Qin. However, he has ignored one problem: money is needed to do things, and military supplies are needed. Now the mountains and rivers are broken, the treasury is empty, and there are so many soldiers.

People eat and feed horses all with money! But what the Marshal's Mansion lacks is money. The territory they control has been requisitioned several times and has been completely wiped out. The same is true for Bianjing City, so there is nothing they can do to send some money and food to the armies.

Wang Yan's more than 10,000 people only received 50,000 guan of military pay, which was just enough to pay severance pay. They originally hoped to be supported by the court and get some weapons, but this little money was really a drop in the bucket, and they couldn't even survive for a few days. So,

Wang Yan approached the Marshal's Mansion for money and food, but was declined politely, leaving him to find a way on his own. In desperation, he had no choice but to seek help from his old leader Zongze.

Zongze didn't have overnight food, so he asked Wang Yan to go to the Prince of Qin's Mansion to try. He also knew that the Prince of Qin's Mansion and the Prince of Kang's Mansion were in the same situation, but the people were poor, the horses were thin and the hair was long, and they couldn't even eat, so why did they talk about cutting gold?

Hikoya

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and try his luck. Unexpectedly, when he found someone at the door, he was asked about the situation without saying a word. They immediately allocated him 50,000 shi of grain and 100,000 yuan of military pay. Wang Yan was extremely emotional and felt that he had chosen the wrong door.

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Fan Ne, who was stationed in Yongqiu, had more than 50,000 men, and he was stationed near the capital. He was a force that should not be underestimated. He even accounted for one-third of the troops in Prince Kang's palace, so Zhao Gou had always treated him

I take good care of you, but

Fanner actually announced in public that "Tokyo is now on edge" and wanted to flee south all the time. He also declared in public that "if you fight, you will have no soldiers, and if you follow the rules, you will have no food. If you don't surrender, you will leave." These words even spread to Bian.

Beijing.

Zongze and Zhao Ren discussed whether to send troops to exterminate Fan Ne. This kind of person would always be a hidden danger if he stayed around, and getting rid of him would not only eradicate this cancer, but also legitimately weaken the power of Prince Kang's palace. Zhao Ren also felt justified, and when they were ready

When the troops were dispatched, Li Jun hurried over and conveyed the prince's order. Since the prince had already made arrangements, the two had no choice but to stop and leave the task to him for execution.

When Li Jun arrived at Yongqiu, he did not go to see Fan Ne directly, but got in touch with his subordinates through various relationships. Zhao Tong knew this kind of thing, and he had to spend money without bloodshed, so he had already conveyed the order

To various cabinet shops in the mansion, the special envoys he sent can withdraw funds for activities at will.

With financial backing, Li Jun was naturally decisive in his work. He used various excuses to entertain Fan Ne's generals, give them money and gifts, and naturally this generous God of Wealth soon became known to Fan Ne and took the initiative to make friends with him. Li Jun

Then beat the snake and follow it

Guan Shang gave him a lot of face and knew that he liked to gamble, so he opened a gambling game in his house and invited everyone to come. He started gambling almost every day to chat with Fan Ne. Not only did he deliberately lose money to him, but he also paid everyone back before leaving.

Give two thousand guan as a gift.

Intentionally or unintentionally, Li Jun revealed his identity as the Prince of Qin's Palace, and Fan Ne's generals "understood and understood" reciprocated the favor. Not only did they deliberately leak the secrets of Prince Kang's Palace, but they also sang praises for the Prince of Qin in front of Fan Ne. Li Jun finally succeeded in

The soldiers of Prince Kang's Mansion wedged themselves in and seized the opportunity.

Fan Ne was also a sensible person. After careful consideration, he finally spoke up and reached an agreement with Li Jun. After the King of Qin escaped from danger, he would join the King of Qin and help the King of Qin win the throne. Li Jun immediately passed the news to the prince, and Zhao Tan ordered him to

He sent 500,000 guan to Fan Ne to reorganize his troops and pay military salaries, and promised that he would be allowed to serve as an official in the court afterwards.

Compared with the generosity of Prince Qin's Palace, Prince Kang's Palace was too petty. The people they sent out only had a thousand coins. Apart from food and drink, they had almost nothing left, and they only promised the title of deputy commander in vain. Zhao

Tama took the opportunity, waving the money string with one hand and fiddling with the musket with the other, to put these people into his pockets one by one... (To be continued...)