The Battle of Jiangshan, which took place on September 19 and 20, 226, ended with the tragic victory of the two Songs and the defeat of the Zhou Army.

According to the later declassified file comparison of the two sides, the loss of the winning side is actually much larger than that of the defeated Zhou Jun.

In less than 18 hours of fierce fighting, the casualties and missing of the two Songs and Song forces reached more than 15,000!The loss of less than 10,000 people.This is still because of the panicked retreat by the Western Song cavalry division chased a, otherwise the Zhou army lost up to 7,000 people, not even half of the two Song forces.

The most elite army of Western Song was actually beaten by a group of Zhou Guo soldiers who went to the battlefield for the first time!

This was beyond everyone’s expectations at the time.

Therefore, after the war in Jiangshan, there was a very interesting situation in the report submitted by the commanders of both sides.On the side of the Song Army, Zhao Liang will overestimate the results he has achieved, and believes that about 50,000 people in a army that has blocked his Zhou army has completely defeated, and the number of people who have been killed and taken prisoner exceeds 20,000.

On the other hand, the loss of the Song army was underestimated.They reported the number of killed and captured at about 10,000, which was comparable to their own losses.

Therefore, the battle of Jiangshan was judged to be the victory of the two Songs at that time.

Zhao Liang, who won the terrible victory of Jiangshan, will not be able to bear the tired losses of the troops, and on September 21, led the winning troops to the east - which was later considered a major mistake, because it gave Wuyuan Town's headquarters time to recover.

However, at that time, Zhao Liang would not dare to ignore the existence of the 19th Infantry Army of the Zhou Army advancing to Beijiao Town, which was pulled from a wooden boat dragged by a steam tug along the water and was transported to Xiancheng by land, and then entered west by land.

When Zhao Liang concentrated on the 18th Army of the Zhou Army in Wuyuan Town, a division was sent to scare the 19th Army of the Zhou Army.On the 19th and 20th days, the division and the 19th Army of the Zhou Army had frequent front-line contact battles and also suffered considerable losses.

In this series of front-line contact battles, the cavalry and gunners who were proud of Xi Song actually suffered a lot of losses.The gun doctor tried to hit the target again, and could not make up for the disadvantage of the equipment.

The rifles, gunpowder and bullets used by the IRA's loosers are the products of the machine industry!

And the gunmen use all the equipment produced by the manual workshop, which is not comparable at all.

Therefore, the rifle in the hands of the IRA's loosers is farther and more accurate than the rifles of the gun doctors.

There is also a gap between the cavalry on both sides!It is also strong and weak.The horses of the Zhou cavalry and the rifles and pistols used were better than the Sith-song cavalry, and their breastplates were stronger and thinner.

In this case, Zhao Liang will not be willing to use valuable cavalry and gunmen to shield the battlefield, preferring to use a show of discord to defeat the 19th Army of Zhou Jun.

However, the 19th Army of the Zhou Kingdom adopted a conservative evasive tactic after learning of the defeat of the 18th Army.On the one hand, the advantages of cavalry and loose soldiers are used to cover themselves; on the other hand, they retreat along the water to the city.

Zhao Liang led the department to speed up, and finally did not catch up with the fifth army of the Zhou army, but was led by the other side to walk for several days.When the fifth army of the Zhou army was indented into the porch of Haocheng, Zhao Liang's people were exhausted.

Moreover, the number one name of the big Song will have studied the battle of Jiangdian Town on the way to pursue the 19th Army, so he was not sure about the attack on the city - the bastion of Xiancheng is good to deal with, and there will always be a dead end of fire.But there are many tall buildings in the bastion of the city, which are small fortresses...

Therefore, after the 19th Army of the Zhou Army withdrew into Xiancheng, Zhao Liang will immediately lead the soldiers back to Jiangdian Town.After two days of rest in Jiangdian Town, I waited for the arrival of the two Dongsong infantry divisions from Xiangyang Province before they began to advance to Xiangcheng again.

It was now the Republic of September 27, 226.

In other words, Zhao Liang would delay the full seven days after the battle of Jiangshan before making another advance north.

In order to protect his back road, Zhao Liang will leave a division in Jiangshan and Jiangdian Town and Ruqing Town (the 7th and 10th Divisions of Western Song), and only lead the 11-died heavy army group north.

Then Zhao Liang will encounter things that surprised him on the north bank of Yushui, south of Xiangcheng.Seven days ago, he was defeated by the 18th Army of the Great Zhou IRA, actually has regained its vitality and began to defend the north shore of Rushui.And the number seems to be more than before, is the reinforcements big?

A very bad hunch began to appear in the heart of General Zhao Liang... Once the homogenous people of the Great Week Republic were mobilized, they had almost infinite war potential.

Only the Western Song of the army and the gun doctor population is worth mentioning in front of the big week!

No matter how bad the premonition is not good, Zhao Liang will not be able to give up easily now.So he led the troops eastward on September 22, in the east of Linyi County in the southeast of Xiangcheng (the water is curved in this area, a long way to the north and south, a moment to the east and west), and then straight to the city of Yingchang.

Of course, the goal is to attract the Zhou army near Xiangcheng to fight.

His advice on the fence was a success, and a double success!

The hundreds of thousands of Songs who were surrounded by the encirclement of the 18th Army were not only the re-established IRA, but also the 19th Army of the IRA, which was strengthened in Xiancheng.

In the face of two enemy forces from the west and south, Zhao Liang will only repeat itself, with the strength of a division to contain the 19th Army, with a division of strength to guard the city of Yingchang.The remaining nine divisions advanced westward into the 18th Army.

When Zhao Liang's nine divisions and the 18th Army of the Zhou Army encountered it in the territory of the Changchang Prefectural Prefectural Society, Zhao Liang would be surprised to find that the number of Zhou Jun coming from the direction of Xiangcheng was more than the previous encounter in Jiangshan!

There is more than one army, at least one half or even two armies.

It is clear that the 18th Army of the Zhou Army in the direction of Xiangcheng has not only regained its vitality, but also has been greatly strengthened!

The military mobilization of the original Great Zhou Republic, nearly a month after the outbreak of the war, has achieved considerable results.

The state capital of Henan Province has completed the first phase of mobilization.Almost all reservists have reported to the local defense officers, and most of the men between the ages of 18 and 28 have received notices of enlistment.Most of them have also reported and begun to receive recruits.

In the Republic 225 census, Henan Province had 1.02 million households and more than 8.4 million households.The total number of working-age men and reservists who meet the requirements of the first phase of mobilization is as high as 450,000.Of these, 360,000 are now in the hands of the defense departments of the state capitals in Henan Province.

In other words, in Henan Province alone, Zhou Jun has 360,000 reserve troops to use.

In addition, in large-scale bastions such as Xiangcheng Daxuan Fort and Yancheng Daxuan Fort, there are military arsenals belonging to the head of the Henan Defense Department.

Therefore, the rifles, artillery, ammunition, clothing, and various equipments stored in the armory of Henan Province are equipped with 600,000 troops!

This is only the first mobilization of a province!If the whole Great Zhou Republic were to turn to a state of war, tens of millions of troops would be able to pull it out.

This is the war potential of an industrialized country with a population of ection 80 million.

Only the Western Song, which can only arm hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, will soon find that he is a trivial little role.

Even if they have good soldiers, it is not worth mentioning.

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Since the first phase of mobilization in Henan has been completed, the 18th Army, which was withdrawn from the Jiangshan battlefield to the 18th Army of Xiangcheng Daxuan Fort, was soon strengthened - Xiangcheng was not far from Zhengzhou Luoyang, the population of Henan Province, so when Zhao Liang led the ministry to chase the 19th Army, the reservists in the mobilization of Luoyang and Zhengzhou had arrived in Xiangcheng.

A large number of reserve troops arrived in Xiangcheng were immediately replenished into the 18th Army, which not only made up for the losses of the Battle of Shanshan.It also added a complete shelf division stationed in Xiangcheng, so the 18th Army now has four fully loaded divisions, with a total strength of 64,000.

The number of 19th troops from the north of Haocheng is even higher, with a total strength of more than 70,000.

The two armies combined, the total strength has reached 134,000.

In addition, there are two armies that have just completed the rectification, which are moving from Kaifeng Province and Xuzhou to Yingchang Province.

Although there is no regular IRA defense in the city, the number of militiamen also exceeds 20,000.

Unknowingly, Zhao Liang, who has been invincible all the way from Xiangyang Province, is falling into the sea of citizens' armies in industrialized countries!

On September 28 and 29, Zhao Liang did not realize that he was in crisis.He also thought he had a good chance of annihilating the 18th Army.

However, he also tasted enough of the strength of the Zhou Army position in the battle of Jiangshan, and did not want to attack the Zhou Army, which is in strict defense.

So he divided his nine divisions into two, and the strength of five infantry divisions was pressed from the front to the 18th Army of the Zhou Army.Then three infantry divisions and one cavalry division went south first, pretending to fight the 19th Army of the Song Army in the north, and then marched north to join the decisive battle.

In the later history books was blown into the name of the world, in fact, a little stupid Wu Yuan town is indeed fooled.He led the strengthened 18th Army in the area of Zhanli Town in Changsha County, and launched another battle with the five infantry divisions commanded by Zhao Liang.

Unlike the last Battle of Jiangshan, in this long society battle, Zhou Jun did not guard the danger, but came to a stand with the Song army on the Great Plains.

Wuyuan Town hopes to defeat General Zhao Liang, the unstoppable Western Song, with the help of heavy shelling.

So at the beginning of the battle, more than 100 cannons of the Zhou army concentrated on fierce fire.The middle of the Song Army's front was bombarded for an hour, and tens of thousands of shells were fired.The positions of the Third Division of the Western Song Army and the positions of the five artillery battalions of the two Songs were all into a sea of fire.

In terms of artillery fire, the Western Song army cannot be compared with the Great Zhou Republic at all.

After the end of the one-hour artillery battle, Wuyuan Town decisively invested two infantry divisions and launched a round of impact.Zhao Liang will also invest in the strength of two infantry divisions.

More than 30 battalions of infantry from both sides, all queuing for gunfire, shot each other on a wide battlefield.During this period, a large number of scattered soldiers used rifles to carry out accurate snipers.

Of course, so many infantry did not rush up and fire.Instead, it cooperated with the artillery to attack in turn, and simply said that the artillery finished the infantry, and the infantry rushed to the artillery bombardment.

There is no trick at all, hard-to-rload combat, a dozen is a day.

Zhou's advantage in the artillery, correct, hard, the main gun is more - the last time from the ginger mountain battlefield retreat has thrown a lot of cannons (all nailed to the fire), the result is back to Xiangcheng after the completion.

This kind of thing cannoned was a valuable asset for the Western Song Army.For the industrialization of the Great Republic, it was nothing but consumables.

In the Western Song Dynasty, there are obvious advantages in infantry that rely on queuing to shoot and white soldiers to fight.

Xisong does not have compulsory military service, all are military households, gunmen as soldiers, naturally take the line of elite soldiers.

Therefore, their infantry can bear relatively large casualties, and fire at a close distance from the Zhou army's guns to the close distance of the Zhou army's front line.

The rifle salvo at this distance is extremely powerful and can cause a fatal blow to the opponent!In many cases, two rounds of close-range salvos can destroy the morale of the enemy.

However, the power of the Zhou Army's artillery counterbalanced the life of the elite of the West Song's close-range guns.

The battle was thus caught in the glue, the losses of the two sides were not comparable, until the twilight, the three infantry divisions and one cavalry of the two Songs and the two Songs arrived at the battlefield and joined the decisive battle, only to force the rising Wuyuan Town to once again order the troops to withdraw from the battlefield under the cover of night.

The two Songs and Song forces immediately launched a pursuit war, forcing the 18th Army in Wuyuan Town to abandon a large amount of equipment, heavy weight, and also tossed eight infantry battalions behind the temple, only to escape back to Xiangcheng Daxing ridge.

However, a month later, the 18th Army of Wuyuan Town once again regained its vitality.Not only was it restored, but it also became the 12th Corps, with two and fifty thousand infantrymen (the 18th Army, the 30th Army), and once again returned to the battlefield.

In this month, Zhao Liang, who wanted to kill the Kaifeng Province, was entangled by the 19th Army commanded by Zhou Jun's famous commander Wu Xiu.

The 19th Army took advantage of the opportunity of Zhao Liang to pursue Wuyuan Town to defeat the Western Song infantry division responsible for restraining himself, and then entered the Yingchang Province and the Yingchang Militia Division, and turned the latter into the eighth division to which he belonged.

After Zhao Liang's return, Wu Hu, who has eight divisions, once again avoided war.In the following month, Wu Hugh's 19th Army adopted a oxen-bose-style tailing tactic, and in order to avoid a decisive battle, he closely bit the two Song forces in the invasion.

They did not dare to go north to open the palace, but had to wander around Yichang, Ruzhou, Chenzhou and Caizhou.

Although he won a lot of battles and pulled the Huaihe Line of the Zhou Army, he lost the opportunity to open the palace north... The war on land in the Central Plains was still in the midst of lasting.