As the conflict between the two sides deepens, armed conflicts for their respective interests are inevitable. From a military perspective, the Yan Xiao armed forces are dominated by infantry, and the combat format tends to be on the risk of defending, thus giving the enemy the opportunity to slowly dispatch troops and generals. The ending is often defeated and killed. However, as the intervention of Xingchao deepens, especially the number of military personnel dispatched, the combat effectiveness is enhanced, and the tactics have also changed.

The Yan Xiao armed forces naturally no longer took the country militia and the county's local yamen runners seriously, and the competition also changed from secret to openness. The township Dong, sent by the Yuan government, was no match for Li Zheng and the Semu Ren Jiazhu at all and were unable to resist, either being killed or fled. They quickly took over the country's regime and filled the power vacuum at the grassroots level.

Large-scale rural chaos will naturally cause the counterattack of the Mongolian Yuan government, and they send troops to attack. However, the Yan Owls' armed forces no longer passively defend. They use the terrain with high mountains and dense forests and water networks, and are familiar with the advantages of geography. They completely abandon their previous practices and sell private salt with rich profits, which makes them equipped with a large number of ships and pack animals, and can use these tools to quickly transform into a team mainly based on mobile combat.

In the water net area, fishing boats, sampans, and even floating basins are used to maneuver. When the enemy chases, they have moved to the other side or go downstream to escape their pursuit. In relatively flat areas, the salt owls have taken advantage of the greater number of carries in their teams. Whether it is horses, mules, or donkeys, they make full use of them. Everyone is equipped with livestock. When there is a shortage of shortage, one horse or even two riders to achieve mobile combat.

What the Yan Owl armed forces originally did was to trade secretly, not only avoid checkpoints, but also avoid the inspection team. Therefore, they were no longer familiar with the local geography. It can be said that every path and every river are familiar with. They also have a large number of potential supporters in the countryside, constantly providing them with intelligence and logistics support. In this way, they can run hundreds of miles a day, and when they find that the enemy is tired or dispersed due to pursuit, the Yan Owl armed forces will concentrate on one blow to give the enemy a fatal blow.

The envoys of the Emperor Xuanwei, Jiangxi, had personally led a team of 10,000 people to fight against the enemy. They led their troops to chase the Yan Xiao armed forces for three months, and the journey lasted thousands of miles, and hundreds of people died of illness during this period. The Mongolian cavalry sometimes ran a hundred miles a day and often couldn't eat a meal all day. They often lasted for more than ten days without getting off the horse, so tired that they couldn't raise their hands. They needed to tie their shoulders to the reins with cloth straps to move forward. When they needed to rest, they didn't look for bed, but got off the horse and found a place to drink a little sour wine to recover and continue chasing.

But even so, the Mongolian cavalry still found desperately that the enemy was always ahead. When the opponents took the initiative to stop and wait for them, they were often already raising their energy and ready to fight after they were arranged. Those who are familiar with history know that this is very similar to the tactics of the nomadic peoples in the grassland when they were at a disadvantage when they were fighting. Ironically, in the face of this tactic that was very similar to their ancestors, the finals could not come up with any way.

The person who finished it could sit in the position of Xuanwei Envoy, which means that he was definitely not a fool. He had many advantages such as fighting, bravery in combat, and often led by example. However, he still could not eliminate the Yan Xiao armed forces, but instead suffered losses and lost his troops and returned home in a defeat. In fact, the dilemma he encountered was a headache for all regular soldiers throughout the ages: guerrilla warfare.

Military victory has made the territory controlled by the Yan Xiao armed forces increasingly larger, and Zhao Bing sent military and political officials to integrate them in time, and even sent troops to directly support them in battle many times, thus turning the forces into court armed forces and establishing bases. Through this successful model, five armed forces have now been established, Huai'en, Weisheng, Huaide, Xiongsheng and Huaiyong. The troops of each army vary in size, the most are 70,000, the fewer are 200,000, and the fewer are 200,000. In addition, there are some independent armed forces that are not organized, with a total strength of nearly 200,000. As for the number of civil supporters, no one can tell, perhaps more than one million.

After repeated failures in the expeditions and suppression, the Mongolian and Yuan government troops gradually adopted a defensive force, concentrating their troops around the prefecture, and the remote areas of the countryside could no longer be effectively managed. While the Song army consolidated the base areas, the armies also developed to the surrounding areas, forming a large area of ​​gray areas. The grassroots officials who managed the countryside did not dare to do anything freely. On the one hand, they were always afraid that the royal army would come back to get a list, so when doing things, the city would leave some way out. On the other hand, they and the local people were also considered fellow villagers in the countryside, so they were also a bit stunning to do things.

More importantly, under the collective pressure of the people, they will also bargain with the Tartars appropriately. The reasons are ready-made and they are also caught in a lot; and the Tartars have to nod and say yes. In short, we all want to assist the Khan in building a paradise together. The problem is that we must always show the image of a kingly army that is like slandering the people and saving the people from water and fire. In short, in order to help us better serve you, we should also put some gold on our faces. Otherwise, we become dog traitors who everyone calls for beating, how can we still be on the road in the future? How can we still serve the Great Jin Kingdom?

Besides, the court has to collect taxes every year. If you fight and fight, it turns the place into ruins and make people determined to resist to the end. In the future, not to mention collecting a large amount of taxes every year, you may also need to invest endless stability maintenance fees and military expenses. This account is clear, so you can always figure it out clearly, right? In general, the Tartars are also politically wise people, especially those upper-class people, who are more politically wise. It is not good for them to do too much. So they will naturally respect the relevant requirements put forward by the traitors, and all parties have tacit understanding and reached a delicate balance.

Zhao Bing gave strong support to each base area. In addition to allocating a large amount of salt every year to solve the expenses of each base area, he also supported a large number of weapons and armor. However, most of them were cold weapons replaced by each army and the weapons captured by the Mongolian army. There were only a few small weapons such as medium-sized, light crossbows and thunder guns, and there were not many. This was also his concern that once a full counterattack was launched, their frontal combat capabilities would be insufficient, resulting in unnecessary losses.

Of course, it was not that Zhao Bing did not want to change the armed forces in these places, but he was really willing but not capable. Due to the continuous expansion of the army and the replacement of firearms, Qiongzhou's lack of resources was unsuccessful, and it was already very difficult to maintain these basic cadres in Qiongzhou. In order to save steel, only the cavalry now has been equipped with iron armor, while the infantry can only be equipped with half-body armor and iron helmets. However, even so, the armor is not made of iron, but a very modern "ceramic" ceramic deck...

Zhao Bing knew that after the popularization of muskets, due to the extremely penetrating force of firearms, the iron armor became a burden that affected the movement and could not play a protective role at all. Therefore, it was gradually eliminated. He knew that modern times gradually re-equipped again, but the main function was to protect shrapnel and stray bullets. At present, only he equipped muskets himself, but the enemy did not, so the armor still had a protective effect.

The use of ceramics as bulletproof armor is very popular in modern times. Its hardness is much higher than that of metal and its strength is sufficient to block bullets. Moreover, while ceramics are impacted and cracked, they can absorb a large amount of energy and can still relieve impact force. The density of ceramics is only about half of the metal, or even lower, so they are relatively light in weight and are not easy to deform; however, ceramics also have the innate defect of "brittleness". Once the impact force of the armor plate is higher than the limit that the ceramic sheet can withstand, it will not deform like metal materials, but will directly break, in short, it is a disposable consumable.

However, Zhao Bing's choice of advanced ceramic armor is more of a helpless choice due to resource shortage. The breastplate he "designed" is similar to a modern high-neck bulletproof vest, which can effectively protect the neck, torso and crotch. The outside is wrapped in thick linen and divided into dozens of small bags to insert ceramic blades, which is convenient for replacing damaged armor plates and will not affect the soldiers' mobility. The inner side is a soft pad made of silk flocs as a buffer layer to further reduce the damage to the body of the impact force. It is tightened with a belt under the armpit to form a layered protection of the lower side of the torso, so that soldiers can complete wear alone.

Zhao Bing thought that the shabby armor he "invented" would be disliked by the army, but he did not expect that it would be loved by the majority of officers and soldiers after the trial. First of all, this new armor weighs lightly, only about seven kilograms, and of course it is not light, but it is ten times lighter than the Infantry Armor that weighs more than 60 kilograms in the past. However, its protective power is not worse than that of the iron armor, which is enough to resist the direct shooting of strong bows and the spear-slashing of guns, which greatly reduces the weight of individual soldiers.

The new armor is simple to maintain. If the armor is damaged, it only needs to be replaced and reused. However, the iron armor is different. It needs to be wiped and oiled frequently, otherwise it will rust. Especially in the humid and high-salt environment in the south, it needs to be maintained frequently. If it is damaged, it can only be repaired by a special craftsman. It is very cumbersome to wear. Anyway, Zhao Bing cannot complete it alone yet. He also needs the assistance of others to tighten the various straps.

The biggest advantage is that it is low cost and simple processing. The production of ceramics has long been an ordinary industry in the Song Dynasty. Although industrial production has not been completed, the output is also huge. The manufacturing of ceramic sheets does not have much technical content and can be fully produced in large quantities. However, iron armor requires hundreds or even thousands of armor sheets to be pruned together. It takes several months to produce a pair of armor. If you can replace it with new armor, you can save a lot of money and manpower...

"Master Lu and all my dear friends, I agree to mobilize various anti-Yuan forces to gather the power of the dynasty to recover Jiangdong!" Zhao Bing nodded after pondering for a long time.

"I am obeying the sages!" Lu Xiufu immediately politeed after hearing this.

"I will obey the order!" Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie and others also polite.

"My dear friends, this battle not only concerns the dignity of our Song Dynasty, but also concerns the great cause of restoring the country. I hope you will work together to help me achieve my wish!" Zhao Bing said firmly when he helped everyone.

"Your Majesty, I will definitely live up to my expectations!" Several people bowed again.

"Well, this war is of great importance. I want to personally conquer Jiangdong!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and asked everyone to take their seats without any tribute.

"How can Your Majesty take risks? I am willing to lead the army to the war. If you fail, you will be punished!" Zhang Shijie had just sat down, but after hearing this, his butt jumped up immediately as if it was filled with a spring.

"How can you take risks with your majesty as a 100-month-old man? I am willing to go on the battle on your majesty!" Lu Xiufu also stood up to dissuade him.

"Your Majesty is the foundation of the Song Dynasty. If there is any mistake, how can I explain to the people of the Song Dynasty!" Wen Tianxiang stood up and politely said. Since the Battle of Yashan, he realized that the little emperor was the hope of revival, and only he could gather all forces together. Therefore, if he was defeated, he would still have hope of making a comeback. But if he was in trouble, he would have no chance to turn the tables.

"Don't persuade me, my dear friends. This battle involves a wide range of areas. Someone needs to be in charge of the command. You can't even be lazy!" Zhao Bing smiled.

"Yes, Your Majesty has been to Qiongzhou since the second year of Jing Yan, keeping his strength and cultivating elite troops, waiting for the day when the war to restore the country was launched. If you cannot personally conquer this battle, you will be afraid that you will be regretful for life!" At this time, Ying Jieyan agreed with the little emperor.

"What I should say is exactly. We have personally seen how much hard work and how many difficulties Your Majesty has put in, so that we can achieve the grand occasion of today and usher in the battle to return to the hometown..." Just as everyone was shocked, Liu Fu also stood up and said. After saying that, his eyes were filled with tears, his lips trembled, his voice was choked, and he was so excited that he couldn't help himself.

Everyone immediately fell silent. Thinking about the fact that the little emperor was only six years old when he went to Qiong, he was still a naughty boy. But he not only gained a firm foothold here, but also in crisis when he was in a crisis, giving them a place to live. After that, he survived a crisis with his perseverance and courage. Not only did he turn the originally deserted Qiongzhou into a prosperous place, but he also built an elite army with a force of 200,000 troops, and finally ushered in an opportunity for change. His achievements not only continued the national lineage of the Song Dynasty, but also created a new era.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to follow you, please be sure!" Lu Xiufu suddenly turned around and said again.

"Prime Minister Lu, we must mobilize all forces to coordinate military and political affairs. How can we leave easily? It is my Majesty who is in charge of the army and his escorts!" Wen Tianxiang immediately stopped him when he saw that Lu Xiufu had taken the lead.

"Wen Xiang is so bad. You are the leader of the previous few battles, but I have not made any achievements. I must not miss this time!" Lu Xiufu shook his head and refused, like a rattle.

"Haha, you can go either way. Anyway, the Sa family must not be missed!" Zhang Shijie said with a smile when he saw the two prime ministers' faces flushed.

"It's wrong for Shushu to say this. Could it be that the two of us old men stayed behind?" Liu Fu said dissatisfiedly.
Chapter completed!