The atmosphere in the back hall of Lin'an Palace was a bit dull. In addition to Zhao Bing, there were also Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang, Wang Yinglin, Minister of War Chen Renweng, and Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council of the Privy Council. This meeting should be considered a special meeting, specifically discussing the response to the "Langzhong Incident".

At this time, two documents were circulated in the hands of several people. One was a joint letter from Liu Shiyong, the commander of the Sichuan-Shu regiment, and Zhang Da, the commander of the 10th Army, about the whole story of the Langzhong incident and a so-called "good news" from the Mongolian Yuan. In Zhao Bing, there was also a report from the Sichuan-Shu Station of the Affairs Bureau. This report was sent back to Lin'an through its own channels the day after the "Langzhong Incident" occurred, which was two days earlier than the Mongolian Yuan court learned about it.

Zhao Bing, who came from the modern era, also knew the importance of communication. After regaining Jiangnan, he used the complete post station system set up by the Mongolian Yuan to rebuild his message transmission network. Similarly, the first thing to recover for each place to recover is the post station system so that the court can react as soon as possible after learning about it. As a result, the army said that the fastest ship and the best horse were not in the army, but belonged to the post station system, but the post station was the industry of the emperor's family.

Therefore, Zhao Bing had first learned about the content of the Langzhong incident through the Affairs Bureau, but the spies were not from military origins after all, and they were a little vague about the description of the battle, but it was enough for him to make a judgment on the nature of the incident. The letters of Liu Shiyong and the others described the beginning and end of the battle in detail, which was more professional and facilitated to judge the cause of the failure.

Based on the three reports, it can be seen that the incident occurred in advance, and the main reason was the internal struggle between the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties and the Wang family's struggle for interests. Therefore, the cause was by no means what Wang Weixiao called an emergency, nor was it the encounter between the two sides in a forced manner as Liu Shiyong said, which should be considered a political event.

Based on this analysis, Zhao Bing restored the original appearance of the incident. The cause of the incident should be that after the signing of the peace agreement between the two parties, the Wang family was unwilling to give up their vested interests and colluded with the Ganmala side who tried to obtain a throne. Kuokuozhen attributed this to the Wang family because Tiemur had been stranded in the Song Dynasty for a long time, thus framed Wang Pingchang, in order to suppress Wang family and tried to force him to withdraw from Xichuan according to the order.

As for this battle, the Song army suffered considerable losses, but it was not as exaggerated as the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty's good news. Instead, their losses were much greater. However, wars have always been like this, and false reporting of military achievements is also a stubborn disease that is difficult to eliminate. However, there is also a rule that the more you promote a great victory, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are,

However, Zhao Bing also saw the change in the battle situation from this battle, and there were also lessons. According to Zhang Da, the conflict with the Wang family was the Second Regiment of the Third Division of the 10th Army. They were ordered to take a boat to go up the river to Langzhong area to receive it. Because the Wang family has been unwilling to abide by the peace agreement and retreat, the two sides have conflicts from time to time, all the troops are very vigilant. While they send people to contact the Wang family, they build camps at the ferry.

Of course, the Wang family refused to withdraw their troops, and the reasons were naturally huge. So the Song army sent an advance camp to reconnaissance and advance to Langzhong City. On the way, they encountered enemy soldiers driving the people outside the city to move forward to Hanzhong. It should be noted that although the causes of the war were different, the purpose of the ancient war was population, land and resources. The agreement between the Song and Meng was that people were not allowed to move, and they were not allowed to destroy cultivated land, life, production facilities and houses.

Seeing this, the advance camp stepped forward to stop the enemy from driving the people. The Mongolian and Yuan dynasties not only did not stop, but began to massacre the people who refused to leave. The Song army clashed with the enemy, and their troops were superior, but they still maintained restraint. The two sides only had a fight and the enemy was defeated and retreated. But soon a large number of enemy troops arrived and still tried to abduct the people.

At this time, the situation reversed and the enemy army had the advantage of its military strength. The leader said that the people outside the city were all driven by the Wang family, and were private property, and were not included in the agreement. The Song army stepped forward to argue with them, and not only did they not listen, but continued to massacre the people. The Song army had no choice but to stop it, killing and injuring more than a dozen enemy soldiers. Seeing that the enemy was defeated, the remaining people retreated.

In order to regain the people, the Song army then launched a pursuit. After pursuing for several miles, they suddenly found that there were at least two thousand-person enemy troops on the surrounding high ground, and the banner was the army led by the Wang family. They looked down at the entire battlefield from a high place and had a tactical advantage. The commander of the Song army was quite experienced in combat and knew that once they retreated, they would be chased by the enemy. However, the place they were in was flat and unobstructed, and they could only line up to face the enemy and confront the enemy.

However, the enemy did not launch an attack immediately, but waited for work and kept harassing the drums and roars. The Song army could only prepare for battle on the spot for several hours in the summer afternoon, and inevitably showed fatigue. At this time, the enemy launched an attack, and the guns and cannons in the hands of the Song army were of course not fire sticks. When they advanced to the range, the guns and cannons fired one by one.

The generals of the Wang family still maintained the tradition of leading by example. As a result, generals at all levels died in the first round of shooting, and hundreds of soldiers were either killed or injured. However, the high morale of the Wang family army quickly stabilized their situation and did not retreat. They pushed forward with the Song army's bullets and continued to fire bows and arrows.

However, after huge casualties, the enemy advanced slowly, and then they changed their formation and used shields to attack forward in the form of a column. The penetration power of the Song army's muskets could only be killed or injured after shooting through the shield, and could not injure the people behind them. The heavy weapons they equipped were only Baizi Guns and Mortars, with limited firepower, making it difficult to cause large-scale damage to the enemy.

The enemy was advancing forward one after another with this tactic of casualties. When the two armies were less than twenty steps apart, they used the smoke generated by the shooting to silence the final attack. After the Song army's soldiers also used bayonets to fight with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, but after strict sting training, they were not at a disadvantage in the battle. They actually defended the front line, but also began to suffer major casualties.

However, the commander of the Song army led the army to find that the enemy's troops were becoming increasingly dense, and reinforcements continued to join. It was judged that the enemy's troops must be several times more powerful than him. If they were exhausted, they would be wiped out. Therefore, they decisively ordered the artillery squad to fire all the shells, and the soldiers threw out all the grenades they carried, and retreated in the opportunity of chaos in the enemy.

Of course, it was impossible for the entire army to retreat safely when the enemy was large and we were few and the two armies had already contacted each other. The commander personally led the soldiers of one capital to cut off the rear, but he only persisted for less than two quarters of an hour before being overwhelmed by the enemy. And they used the short opportunity they had won to sacrifice themselves to allow the rest of the troops to successfully break through. Later, they retreated back to the camp with the friendly troops they had found.

In this battle, the Song army was killed and commander of the Song army, with more than 200 soldiers, and more than 100 injured, but they also annihilated thousands of enemies. It seems that there are not much casualties in general, but after the Northern Expedition, it is very rare for a battalion to make such a great sacrifice, so the response caused by the various divisions of Sichuan and Shu was also very shocked to Zhao Bing.

In the post-war summary, Liu Shiyong and Zhang Da believed that the reason for the failure was mainly because of the smooth progress recently, and the troops had developed carelessness, which led to being lured by the enemy. In addition, they underestimated the enemy's fighting will and should actively prepare to retreat alternately after discovering the middle of the slum and sent people to ask for help. The commander of the army was too confident, thinking that even if the enemy's strength was several times higher than that of them, it would collapse after suffering major casualties, and it would be difficult to break through their defense.

On the other hand, the lesson is that they think the tactics currently used still have room for improvement. When facing the enemy's formation that reduces the area of ​​the ammunition, they can give up the wheel shooting and use the entire battalion to shoot at the same time to maximize the damage. In addition, we should also pay attention to the changes in the enemy's tactics. The enemy will also try to lure our army to shoot too early and then use the shooting gap to launch an attack. In addition, when they are fired by our army, in addition to using formation changes, some enemy troops have already consciously bent down and only get up again after the shooting is completed and the firepower is weakened...

"Your Majesty, I think the Mongolian Yuan side has been reluctant to implement the peace talks and has provoked trouble, causing serious casualties to our army. We must fight back!" Wang Yinglin said first after reading the war report.

"Well, what Wang Xiang said is right." Lu Xiufu nodded, "The nature of this matter is very bad. If we do not make a strong counterattack, we are afraid that the Mongolian Yuan side will become more severe."

"I also agreed to impose punishment on the Mongolian Yuan, so that they can fulfill the peace agreement as soon as possible and withdraw from Xichuan!" Wen Tianxiang also expressed his opinion.

"Yes, we cannot let the Mongols act recklessly, but we need to discuss carefully how to punish, how to grasp the degree, and what effect to achieve!" Zhao Bing was still very satisfied with the tough attitude of the three important officials, at least indicating that the successive victory had given them the information that they could defeat the Mongols. He pondered for a moment.

"I think our dynasty has just moved to rest and recuperate, which is not conducive to launching large-scale wars again. Instead, it is best to launch local attacks and punish enemies!" Lu Xiufu said.

"What the Prime Minister of China said is that our army can launch a limited war, which can not only show our dynasty's attitude to the Mongol Yuan, but also does not affect our dynasty's current policy. It can also use delays in the opening of the mortal, punish the culprit and compensate for losses to put pressure on the Mongol Yuan!" Wen Tianxiang said.

"What do you think Wang Xiang?" Wen Tianxiang's words made Zhao Bing feel deeply pleased. In the past, he could be said to be straightforward, dared to think and act, and lacked strategy. However, by presiding over the Sichuan-Shu War, he has become much more mature. He can consider the problem from a different perspective and listen to other people's opinions.
Chapter completed!