"Your Majesty, take care of yourself and do not act alone!" The heads of the four armies gathered in Zhuozhou camp, discussed the next combat plan, and then said goodbye to the emperor. Ni Liang fell to the end, but he was still worried.

"Don't worry, the enemy's rangers are active nowadays. Be careful on the way. Do not show off when you encounter an enemy. Do not conflict with them. Everything is to return to the camp safely!" Zhao Bing nodded and reminded.

"Your Majesty, all scouts have reported that the enemy sent many small cavalry troops to penetrate the surrounding area. Now the trend is unknown. My subordinates are worried that they are planning a major action, which will be unfavorable to Your Majesty!" Although the camp is more than 100 miles away from the capital and there are large troops stationed in front of them, the camp's protective power is very weak, especially the inn is still outside the city, Ni Liang is not without concern.

"There will not be many enemy troops who can cross our army's numerous obstacles, and there will be no more enemy troops infiltrating here. The surrounding garrisons will arrive quickly after receiving the alarm, and it will not be possible to break through the camp in a short time." Zhao Bing said without caring.

"I am still worried. Our army is now in a state of unstoppable power and has completed the strategic encirclement of the capital. It is more difficult for them to break our army's siege. If we take the camp directly and threaten His Majesty's safety, it may lead to the collapse of the entire army. Now they are eager to jump over the wall. Let's draw some troops from the guards back to the guards!" Ni Liang said worriedly when he saw that the emperor did not take it seriously.

"I will pay attention. After completing the encirclement of the capital, never leave the camp. All troops are not rich. After several months of war in Jin, the number of troops has been reduced. Moreover, you have a large range of combat and have tough battles to fight. Don't worry about the camp!" Zhao Bing refused, "On the contrary, you should be more careful. You are not allowed to charge. You should also bring more guards when you go out. I still have a few good horses to take with me!"

"Your Majesty..." Xu Hong and the guards led more than ten tall war horses, and Ni Liang didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"These horses are all good. Not only are they fast sprinting speed, but they are also good at endurance. They can run continuously for a hundred miles without decreasing speed." Zhao Bing pulled a horse and said, "This chrysanthemum is in her prime. If you can't carry your big war horse, you can ride it!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Ni Liang didn't say much, and took the reins with a deep bow.

"You have to take good care of your governor. If there is any mistake, I can't forgive you!" Zhao Bing pointed to the personal guards who came with him and taught a lesson.

"Don't worry, your Majesty, as long as one of us is still there, we will never let the governor hurt a hair!" said the chief commander of the governor of the guard camp in the chief.

"Well, go!" Zhao Bing replied to the gift. Ni Liang and his personal guards saluted again before turning over and leaving the camp and struck the horse!

Zhao Bing didn't care about Ni Liang's suggestion, but Xu Hong did not dare to be careless at all. He adjusted the defense of the camp and expanded the warning scope. He arranged a horse-blocking barricade outside the two arrows and built a camp. He also moved the car camp outside the inn wall and used the van to build an inner defense line. He also added a poster in the hall and built fortifications. He also ambushed the sharpshooter on the commanding heights.

Seeing the officers and soldiers of the personal guard regiment and the baggage brigade busy in the inn, Zhao Bing didn't say much. After all, not only him was there in the camp, but also the ministers and officials of various departments. If they were attacked by the enemy, half of the officials of the court would be trapped, and the losses were really unbearable.

At present, all the large army of the Song army gathered around Dadu, forming a trend of closing the door and fighting dogs, but it was not smooth sailing. In short, the closer we got to Dadu, the more frequent and fierce battles there were, there were five or six battles with more than 10,000 people, and dozens of battles with more than 1,000 people. As for the harassment and encounters between small troops, there were countless.

Although the battles were frequent and fierce, Zhao Bing asked all units to advance in a group manner and not to divide their troops without authorization. The distance between the groups should not exceed one day's marching distance, so as to avoid night march and camping in places with complex terrain. Although his tactic of steady stand and steady progress slowed down the speed of advance, it was also very necessary.

Many people think that when facing a cavalry group, the infantry group does not have to worry about the attack of the cavalry group as long as it is always in a defensive position or successfully set up a camp. But the fact is that in the era when cavalry dominates the battlefield, it is difficult to do it. The reason why he does this is to avoid covering each other when encountering large groups of enemy cavalry, avoiding being defeated by the enemy one by one, resulting in a situation where the whole world is collapsed and lost.

By using group marching, even if they encounter large groups of enemy troops, they can form formations to protect themselves, and use their firepower to support the reinforcements of surrounding troops, and even form a counter-encirclement against the enemy. The facts also prove that Zhao Bing's strategy is correct. In several major battles, the enemy was concentrated against their own cavalry, hoping to annihilate or defeat the army, break the encirclement of Dadu, and force the Song army to retreat and re-adjust.

However, since the enemy was unable to annihilate the Song army's brigade in a short time, the reinforced Song army arrived in time and had to retreat to avoid being surrounded and annihilated. This formed a situation where the enemy could not stop and could not bear it, forcing them to continuously shrink their troops to the capital. The strategic depth was getting smaller and smaller, and the area of ​​activity became narrower and narrower. They could only concentrate their troops on passes and natural dangers to block the Song army's advance.

However, with the current attack ability of the Song army, they were difficult to defend. Zhao Bing was happy to see this situation. This would avoid large-scale battles with the enemy cavalry, and also annihilate the enemy's living forces outside the Dadu, reducing the pressure to capture Dadu in the future.

Zhao Bing adopted such cautious tactics, which was also based on the fact that the Song army was still the main force of the infantry. Although the cavalry had undergone large-scale expansion, there were only five established cavalry divisions and some cavalry directly under the military division. Not only were they inferior to the Mongolian Yuan in number, but it was also difficult to organize large-scale battles independently, and they were also on the basis of auxiliary positions.

Now the Mongols and Yuan cavalry suffered a loss in the battle with the Song army, and understood that they could not shake the Song army's formation, so once they found out that the Song army had formed a formation, they would quickly avoid it and not fight the Song army. But don't think that the power of the cavalry is that they can wear armor to launch a charge, but they don't know that this is actually one of the many uses of cavalry, and it is far less important than some people imagine. Otherwise, the cavalry's status in military history will not be much higher than that of the Elephant Soldiers.

First of all, when the war reaches a certain scale, the importance of command becomes more and more prominent. When the two armies confront each other, the better commander can often achieve final victory. In ancient times, command activities also followed the process of "reconnaissance-communication-decision-communication-communication", so if you want to successfully command, you need to understand the battlefield situation in real time and issue commands in a timely manner. In other words, the commander must have sufficient ability to obtain and transmit battlefield information.

In ancient times, when communication facilities were backward and lack of detection methods, they mainly relied on light cavalry to complete them. They carried out reconnaissance activities and reported the situation they found. The commander made a judgment on what actions they should take in the next step based on the situation they found, and then sent light cavalry to convey orders to the troops scattered in various places, and each army then carried out relevant actions according to the orders.

In this process, whether the light cavalry can reconnaissance enough intelligence and deliver it to the commander and the commander's orders to the army in time has become an important factor in whether they can take the initiative. It should be noted that when cavalry convey information, they often have to travel through large areas of weakly controlled areas. These areas lack the military presence of both sides, and will become the battlefield for light cavalry between the two sides to fight.

In this battlefield, the two sides are competing for dominance of battlefield information. Which side can gain the advantage in the melee, which side can detect the situation and the military orders transmitted can be delivered in time. On the contrary, not only will it become deaf and blind because of poor reconnaissance information feedback, but it may also cause the army to be paralyzed due to poor order transmission.

Obviously, the strong cavalry not only has advantages in this regard, but the more armies can obtain more information and destroy the opponent's information acquisition and transmission ability. During the Mongolian expedition, it used its large number of light cavalry to conduct frequent reconnaissance, which made every move of the army of European countries under the control of the Mongolian army. As a result, the Mongolian army can always understand the enemy's weaknesses and weaknesses, and launch a fatal attack on the enemy.

As early as the Warring States Period, the famous military strategist Sun Bin discovered that cavalry had "ten advantages", including "covering its food, cutting off its military path", "defeating its Jinguan and launching its bridges". It means that cavalry can destroy the enemy's material transportation channels and destroy important bridges and roads, thereby gaining the dominance of battlefield traffic.

From ancient times to the present, the materials needed to maintain a combat state have always been astronomical. Because these materials are huge and cannot be carried by the army, they often adopt two methods: special transportation teams organized by the rear and special small troops organized by the army to collect materials around the battlefield.

However, both methods have obvious weaknesses: in order to transport as much food as possible to the front line, specialized transport teams can no longer accompany the army to guard the army, so they often have no ability to deal with attacks; small troops have small size and few people, and weak force, and low combat effectiveness are also their main disadvantages.

Therefore, once a slightly large cavalry unit uses its extremely powerful maneuver power to search for transport teams or small troops that collect materials, it is often in danger. Therefore, the enemy has a large number of cavalry and seizes the dominance of traffic. Not only are the marching roads and bridges often destroyed by the enemy, but whether it is the materials in the rear or the materials collected on the front line, it is difficult to be sent to the hands of its own troops due to the interception of enemy cavalry.
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