Water Margin: From today on, Liangshan is my decision!

Chapter 78 Grand Song Gao: Eighty thousand vs twenty thousand, the advantage lies with me!.

A month later.

Gao Lian led the Song army and arrived at the capital city of Puzhou.

Puzhou Zhizhou led the Puzhou officials and the box army to wait at the city gate early.

“I’ve seen Captain Gao!”

“I’ve seen the lieutenant!”

When they saw Gao Lian, Puzhou Zhizhou and others stepped forward to salute.

Gao Lian didn’t say much, and directly asked: “What is the situation of the Liangshan thief now, tell Mrs. Ben well!” ”

“The rest, needless to say!”

When Puzhou Zhizhou and the others heard this, they smiled.

Immediately, he led Gao Lian and a thousand other generals of the Song Forbidden Army into the Puzhou capital city, and in the city, a large camp was established early. For Gao Lian and other generals to be stationed and commanded.

Inside the marshal’s tent, the Puzhou box army commanded, pointed to the map, and introduced.

“The Liangshan thieves are building a defensive line on a large scale at the junction of Yanzhou and our Puzhou. With Yuncheng as the core, a heavy defensive line was laid down, and its nearest place was to enter the territory of Puzhou, and in a hilly area, dense watchtowers, fortresses and countless trenches and earthen walls were established.”

“Trying to block my Great Song Heavenly Army from the defense line!”

Gao Lian took a deep look at the map, and the Puzhou capital city was only more than a hundred miles away from the so-called closest defense line. For more than a hundred miles, the cavalry of the Liangshan thief can easily appear outside Puzhou City.

It is no wonder that the whole of Puzhou is looking forward to the Great Song Heavenly Army. He was noncommittal and did not immediately draw conclusions.

Instead, he opened his mouth to ask about the military deployment of the Liangshan Army: “On this defensive line, how many troops will the Liangshan thieves deploy?” How many soldiers, how many farmers, and how many of them are elite?! ”

At this time, Puzhou Zhizhou stood up and replied: “Return to the imperial lieutenant, according to the establishment of the Liangshan thief.” The military system under Liangshan Thief is divided into two types: field guard and militia guard. ”

“Among them, the field guard is the field elite, and the most brave and fierce soldier among the Liangshan thieves, similar to my Great Song Forbidden Army.”

“The militia guards, on the other hand, are composed of various township soldiers, which is similar to but different from our Great Song Army. The militia guard of its Liangshan thief is no different from the military tun. Farm and collect grain when the farm is busy, and train the troops when the farm is idle’. ”

“But because the Liangshan thieves were frantically confiscating the land of Yanzhou and Jeju. In addition, the Liangshan thieves sinisterly conscripted the young and strong people in every Zhuangzi into the militia. As a result, the militia guard of the Liangshan thief has a strong reserve force. ”

“On the surface, a militia guard of the Liangshan thief, composed of sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and crossbowmen, has a strength of eight or nine thousand. But in fact, the young and strong of a state are basically its militia, so its reserve force is hundreds of thousands, or even two or three hundred thousand troops. ”

“This move of the Liangshan thief is so frustrating that the whole people are soldiers!”

“Therefore, on the battlefield, if it cannot completely annihilate its militia guards, it will soon be able to replenish its troops and armaments and restore its combat effectiveness.”

“In addition, the Liangshan thief sits on the eight hundred miles of Liangshan Po, and according to the convenience of the water conservancy terrain, it has not weak ordnance manufacturing capabilities. Its militia guards are not to be underestimated, they are extremely tricky existences, and they can be said to be invincible! ”

When Gao Lian heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

After listening to this, he immediately understood.

The field guard among the Liangshan thieves, that is, similar to the Great Song Forbidden Army, has more than 10,000 troops.

And its militia guards, Puzhou Zhizhou said terrible, but in fact, in his opinion, isn’t that some village soldiers? The township soldiers of the Great Song, there are countless of them!

Millions of them, that’s fine. But what is the use of township soldiers?!

Can you fight?!

The only thing that is stronger than the minfu is that the township soldiers are armed. In essence, it is no different from armed people.

He thought so in his heart, but his expression was noncommittal. Without any indication, he turned his head to look at the cavalry commander on the side.

“Send a scout horse to the eastern defense line to see the configuration of the Liangshan thief!”

“Investigate the deployment of its troops, garrison, and armament!”

Gao Lian immediately waved his hand and ordered.

When the cavalry commander around him heard this, he immediately nodded and led the way.

Soon, thousands of scouts rode on two horses and set out from Puzhou and went straight to the Liangshan Army defense line in the east. The cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty was basically used as reconnaissance cavalry.

However, not all cavalry are capable of scouting horses. The first point that I want to do reconnaissance riding is that its riding skills are superb, and it can open a bow on the horse and fight on the horse.

In this era, the reconnaissance horse can be called the all-round and most elite class. Any army is indispensable to the presence of reconnaissance horses.

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Liangshan Army Western Front Defense Line, inside the front line general command post.

“Commander-in-chief, Zhao Song Imperial Lieutenant Gao Lian has arrived in Puzhou, and as soon as possible, he sent thousands of detective horses to scout our army’s defense line”

“Do we need our army to send cavalry to drive them away?!”

Lin Chong, an operational staff officer, reported to Zhang Poyu.

When Zhang Poyu heard this, he shook his head for the first time: “Song Jun wants to see it, then let them see enough!” ”

“Send cavalry? I’m afraid to scare Song Jun away, so I don’t dare to come!” ”

When Lin Chong heard this, he opened his mouth, but in the end he did not persuade.

The Liangshan army gave the western front the strategic task of defending the line, that is, to hold the defensive line and prevent the Song army from killing the territory.

And as for how and how the front-line army fights, it doesn’t matter at all.

As the commander-in-chief of the front, Zhang Poyu can fight as much as he wants. As long as he can hold the defensive line, this battle will be played by him at will.

In short, let Zhang Poyu let go of the play.

The time spent by Zhang Poyu’s side was not short, and Lin Chong could already see that Zhang Poyu wanted to give Song Jun a cruel blow. So much so that he generously asked the Song army to clearly reconnoiter the defensive line.

Of course, relying only on reconnaissance by horseback, that can only find out an approximate one.

If you want to really find out how powerful the defenders are stationed on the defensive line and what their firepower is, you have to send a large army and charge with real knives and guns. Soon, the situation of the western front defense line of the Liangshan Army was revealed to the Song army scouts without any concealment.

The Song army immediately got a clear picture of the situation of the Liangshan Army’s defensive line. Inside Puzhou City, inside the camp of the Song Army.

“More than 20,000 soldiers, nearly 30,000 farmers…”

“This Liangshan thief has expanded his army, right? The three thousand elites expanded to more than ten thousand, and a militia guard was also sent out! ”

Gao Lian looked at the intelligence collected by the detective horse, touched his beard and whispered in thought.

“Captain Gao, according to the intelligence we have detected!”

“The Liangshan thief on the opposite side should have dispatched the most elite field guards under his command, as well as Liangshan guards to garrison the defensive line!”

“Among them, the elite of the Liangshan thief cannot be underestimated. That is a real elite eternal with complete horse infantry and armor and crossbows! ”

“Lieutenant, if you don’t send troops, a little test or two?!”

Puzhou Zhizhou persuaded.

When Captain Gao heard this, he dismissed it and chuckled, “Tempt what?” What is there to tempt? The defense line of the Liangshan thief, at a glance, can not hide anything! ”

“In this battle, our army has 50,000 forbidden troops, more than 30,000 box army soldiers, and the number of soldiers alone is as high as 80,000. And the Liangshan thief? Supporting death is only 20,000 soldiers! ”

“Anyway, with 80,000 against 20,000, the advantage lies in me!”

Immediately waved his hand and ordered the army to move.

Go straight to the main defense line of the Liangshan Army.