Chapter No Escape
The imperial guards had a transcendent status and were directly under the jurisdiction of the little emperor. They were neither dispatched by the Privy Council. The appointment of officials could not be passed through the Ministry of War. Even the salary was paid by the inner warehouse, which was like the emperor's private army. This book was not in line with the laws of the court, and it was also a sharp sword hanging over the heads of civil officials, blocking them from the natural barriers for weakening the imperial power and making them unable to sleep or eat.
Therefore, there were also court officials who wanted His Majesty to give up the power of military service and put the guards under the jurisdiction of the court, but no one dared to mention it to the young emperor. Because everyone knew that the establishment of the guards in front of the imperial army was a product of a special period and a manifestation of the incompetence of the court. At that time, Lin'an was facing the danger of falling. Only six court officials went to the palace, and the rest of them all abandoned the emperor and fled. It can be said that this was one of the direct reasons that caused Empress Dowager Xie to open the city and request surrender.
With this unspeakable criminal record, all the civil officials were ashamed to speak. After all, even if they showed loyalty to those who had betrayed themselves, they would be very irresistible. In addition, the imperial guards spent a lot of money, so the court could not afford to raise this giant gold-swalking beast, so they turned a blind eye and swallowed their anger and let the little emperor "Hu Wei".
It is precisely because of the special status of the imperial guards. Ni Liang, the general, also jumped out of the Three Realms and was not in the Five Elements. No one except the little emperor? He led the scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered
Now Ni Liang said hello and went to chase Yuxi Timur. Zhao Mengjin could only take over the command. He also knew in his heart that these subordinates dared to "rebel" and did their own thing, which was actually related to the little emperor's way of using generals. He had said many times that soldiers must strictly abide by military discipline and act according to orders, and there should be no slight violation. However, officers must have a sense of battlefield, and do not obey the rules in commanding operations, and do not obey norms, and be good at adapting to local conditions and the times, seize the opportunity and take the initiative to complete the tasks assigned by superiors!
These words sound nothing wrong. Nowadays, communication methods are behind, and the message is transmitted slowly, and it is difficult for generals to grasp the situation on the battlefield in real time. Especially when large army combat, the troops are often distributed on a vast battlefield of dozens of miles or thousands of miles. If you ask your superiors for everything and then execute orders, then the battle will not be fought. Therefore, including the young emperor, the dispatched troops must be granted the right to fight, that is, to give the generals in the front to a certain degree of independent command, so that they can respond in a timely manner according to the battlefield situation.
It was the little emperor who loosened the officers in disguise, so that some people could exert this autonomy to the extreme. At present, Ran Anguo is the one who is best at. Ni Liang at least reported to Jiang and asked him to inform the action plan. At this time, the enemy and our army were completely mixed up, and the troops were fighting on their own. The army could not find the division, the division could not find the regiment, and the regiment did not know where their soldiers were interspersed!
Originally, according to the combat plan discussed by Zhao Mengjin and others, it was to stop the vanguard, cut off the tail, and attack the middle to eat the Yuxi Timur Legion, but now all the troops are interspersed among the enemy, and there is chaos. If you want to command, you can't find the troops, so you can only guard the command post and wait for each troops to send back the news. This feeling of blind people riding blind horses is simply a torment for them.
The news ahead was only sent back after midnight, and these scattered news made Zhao Mengjin even more confused. He could not determine the location of the quasi-groups of each unit. Most of them were our unit pursuing the enemy, and the results were great. Our army had penetrated deep into the enemy's army, and in the melee... and other such vague battle reports made it difficult for him to determine the outcome, and all he could do was to continue waiting.
By dawn, gunfire and shouts of killing had gone away, and the surrounding battles had basically ended. At this time, some soldiers from their own side returned, including the imperial guards, imperial guards, state troops, and even the Mongolian Yuan enemy soldiers who had fallen into the trap. After a long inquiry, I realized that the battle was already in chaos at the beginning. The Song army's troops boldly interspered, divided, infiltrated, and fought fiercely everywhere, using chaos to conquer chaos, and never gave the opponent a chance to breathe. They could not even tell the enemy and us until the final stage.
During the melee, the Song army disrupted the enemy's command system and disrupted their breakthrough deployment, causing the Mongolian and Yuan army to suffer the same dilemma as the Song army. The defeat was like a mountain, and the generals searched for a way to break through. They were also stunned. They could not distinguish the direction in the dark night, were not familiar with the terrain, and did not dare to raise fire to explore the way. They ran away when they heard the gunshots, walked when they saw the road, ran around. Those who were shot to death, those who were trampled by horses, those who fell into the canal, and those who fell into the paddy fields were countless. Some ran after running in the middle of the night to find that they had returned to the starting point.
Some of the Song army ran away, some captured a lot of enemy soldiers, but they could not kill them on the spot, but they could not let them go, so they divided the troops to send the prisoners and seized spoils back to the camp. However, the battlefield was already messy and they could not find their headquarters at all. But they knew that their defense line was by the river and the command post was nearby, so they gathered here and "carried" many enemy soldiers. Some of the enemy soldiers were just hungry and could not walk. Seeing the fire here, they wanted to take advantage of the chaos to grab some food, but who knew they were thrown into the trap.
After dawn, the battle was basically over. All units began to gather their troops, clean the battlefield, and return to the camp. Zhao Mengjin listened to the reports of the generals of each unit and figured out the whole battle. It turned out that Ni Liang also discovered that the enemy was trying to break through, but without waiting for him to mobilize troops to intercept them, he found that the Fifth Army had begun to attack. He was worried that he would accidentally hurt his friendly troops during the melee, so he ordered that the artillery was not allowed to be fired, but the situation became more and more chaotic, so he simply opened the eastern defense line and let the enemy flee.
The east of the battlefield is the sea and the north and south of the river. Ni Liang judged that the enemy was in chaos, and there were no supporters in front and pursuers behind. Without organization, they were unable to build bridges and cross the river. They could not escape the circle even if they were freed. And there were still trapped beasts fighting. If they were strictly guarding, the enemy would have to fight to the death in order to survive. But if they let go of the tunnel, they would only care about escaping their lives. They just had to chase them along the way.
However, when Ni Liang found a large group of enemy cavalry breaking through, he realized that this might be the enemy's commander, so he sent someone to report the battle situation to Jiang and lead the cavalry brigade that had been in control and then chased after him. He ordered the troops not to wait for orders, and rushed wherever there was an enemy, so as to disrupt the enemy, so as not to let the enemy have a chance to breathe...
At this time, Yuxi Timur, who escaped into Jiading City, was still in shock. After eating some of the unburned Jiao Mi found by his personal soldiers from the burned granaries, he recovered a little. Thinking back to what happened last night, it was like a dream. At that time, Sesanna and Hatusun suddenly led their troops into the central army. His own team of 10,000 people suffered heavy casualties and was held hostage by the two, and he forced him to break through the night.
Of course, Yuxi Timuer knew the purpose of the two, but under the sharp sword, he could only surrender, so he was forced out of the camp under the name of patrol and night patrol. However, their actions were soon discovered by other departments. For a time, the commander abandoned the army and ran away alone and spread the entire camp, and the camp was instantly blown up. The plan of breaking through secretly was exposed, and the two didn't care much about it and broke out to the east while the chaos was in chaos.
After being blocked by the Song army, they finally found a small path after a fierce battle, breaking through the block and breaking out, but Hatusun got separated in the breakthrough, and the more than 5,000 people who accompanied him were only less than 3,000. When Yuxi Timur learned that Sesanna and his friends planned to go to Liujiagang to seize ships and go to sea, and returned to the Central Plains by sea, they thought it was a behavior of seeking death.
You should know that these people are all landslides, they do not know how to know how to control the sails and ships. Even if they successfully seize the ship, they will be buried in the sea. The only ones who are familiar with water battles in the army are Huihui navy, but Sesanna and the other two dislike the return of the water army, Wanhu Mahemu, and they have no intention of joining them to break through. So the result of this plan of caring for the head and not caring for the butt can be imagined.
However, after learning about their plans, Yuxi Timur did not argue with them, but instead continued to move forward with them in a submissive manner. However, they soon lost their way and the pursued Song army caught up. Sesanna led his army back to fight, but the enemy did not fight against them. Instead, some of them dismounted and blocked with firearms, while the other part did not dismount. Once their attack was frustrated, they would immediately pursue them. Therefore, both sides were like cat-playing mice, running and fighting, but they could not get rid of the Song army chasing behind them.
Yuxi Timur, who had already planned, found an opportunity to take advantage of it. He took advantage of the opportunity that both sides had no time to take care of it and led a group of confidants and unknown soldiers to leave the brigade. Finally, he got rid of Sesanna's hostage and led about 500 troops to the main road to Jiading in the south. After passing through the southward situation, he realized that he had fallen into the trap, and at the same time he also ruled that the Song army in Jiangbei had withdrawn long ago.
In this way, Yuxi Timuer thought that there would not be too many Song troops in Jiangbei. Even if he captured Yangzhou, he would be unable to continue to invade north and control the entire Huainan area. Even Yangzhou was not even captured. Everything in the past was just an illusion created by the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty. Then he could only return the same way and cross the river, which was much smoother than embarking on the unknown road on the vast ocean.
Chapter completed!