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On the second day of the month, the Mao army led the fifth, sixth, and seventh army and the Yisheng army.

Yelu Ma Ge accompanied Mao Jun, Chu Xiaoyao, Tan Hongyi, Lu Junyi and Geng Shouzhong around the city to find a suitable main attack direction.

"How many enemy troops are there in the city?" Mao's army stopped and turned to ask Yelu Ma Ge.

Yelu Mage shook his head, "There are different opinions about prisoners. Some say that the troops of Baimaqiang Town are all in the city, and some say that the main force evacuated a few days ago, but one thing is certain, the Dangxiang people firmly kept the walls and cleared the fields and moved away all the valuable things in the city. I heard that the Yanchi craftsmen and residents in the city began to evacuate half a month ago, and the Baimaqiang Town Military Supervision Department and local officials also retreated to Helan Mountain three days ago."

"Strengthen the walls and clear the fields?" Mao Jun frowned slightly and then asked, "Have the scout discovered it?"

"The scouts 100 miles away, and no Dangxiang's army was found." Yelu Mage pointed to the northwest and southeast directions of Yanchi. "There are endless Gebi Beach around them. If the Dangxiang's army wants to ambush us in this area, it will be impossible to hide its traces."

Mao Jun thought for a moment, his eyes were filled with worries, "If the Dangxiang people retreated to the right wing Chaoshun and held the heavy troops to defend the Keyi Gate, the next battle would be difficult to fight."

“This is what we expected.

"Yelu Mage's expression was also very serious, "There is 1,4500 miles from Wulahai City to Keyimen. The food route is too long and the cost is too great. The Huliu Mansion cannot bear it. If we cannot conquer the Keyimen before winter comes, this battle will definitely return without success." Then he leaned closer to Mao's army and asked in a low voice, "When will Fan Zuji arrive?"

Fan Zuji is Fan Zhichang, who is now a member of the Huliu Mansion and one of the central officials.

"He is with Shuai Dong." Mao Jun said. "It will be here in a few days. If it weren't for him, the general manager wouldn't have made up his mind to attack Xixia."

"He was a local respondent in the Song Dynasty. He had been in the Western Xia for more than ten years and must have known many secrets." Yelu Mage said. "If he could provide some useful land, we might be able to conquer the Keyimen."

Mao Jun smiled and said nothing. Yelu Mage and the Khitan army had great expectations for this battle. It was obvious that as long as the Huli Army took down Helan Mountain, the main force of the garrison army would be the Khitan army. The Khitans could occupy a larger territory and gain more profits. Thinking of Li Hu's generosity, Mao Jun felt very uncomfortable. Everyone knew that this was a stopgap plan for Li Hu. But Li Hu could really control the Khitans? The hatred between the Khitans and the Han people was very deep. How long could this stopgap plan last? If this strategy failed, how would Li Hu deal with the Khitan army?

"Ship Mao. When will we attack?" Chu Xiaoyao rode his horse and walked closer.

"Attack immediately." Mao's army pointed at Lou Bobei and said loudly to Chu Xiaoyao. "You command the Fifth Army of Hulie and the Yisheng Army to attack the Dongcheng first. At dusk, I personally command the Sixth Army of Hulie and the Seventh Army of Khitan to attack the South Gate."

Chu Xiaoyao bowed and took the order and rushed away.

"How many troops can you transfer to me?" Mao Jun looked at Yelu Ma Ge and asked with a smile.

Yelu Mage stretched out a finger and said, "Give you ten thousand people."

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On the third day of the seventh month, Wulahai City.

Li Hu received a letter from Datong, and Luo Qinghan urgently told him that Taiyuan had changed its strategy and wanted to help Hu Lie Mansion guard Datong and cooperate with the Hu Lie Army to attack Xixia. The letters from Wang and Tong Guandi were also delivered.

Li Hu read the letter carefully and discussed with Chai Yun, Yuanye and others for a long time, but he was not sure about the real purpose of Taiyuan.

"Zong Han said he was going to expedition to the desert, and came to make an agreement with the Chief Commander to not attack each other. If all this was true and credible, then the Jin army would not be able to go south in the next one or two years." Chai Yun said, "In this way, the Chief Commander's new strategy cannot be realized. He can only return to the old strategy, continue to fight Xixia, take down Helan Mountain, and occupy the entire Hetao area. In other words, we can accept the Taiyuan strategy."

Li Hu pondered for a long time and suddenly asked, "Why did Wuyan come? He was in the Eastern Tent and gave Zong Wang a plan. Even if Huanglong Mansion decided to attack the desert in the north, it had nothing to do with the Eastern Tent. Why did he come to the Northern Tent?"

"Zong Han's Northern Expedition, of course, has to take into account the safety of his rear." Chai Yun said, "Now he can't occupy Daibei, so he has to try every means to restrain Daibei. The best way to restrain Daibei is of course to let Zong Wang threaten Youyan. As long as Zong Wang makes an attacking position, the situation of Yanyun will become very tense..."

"No, no, it won't be like this. I think the Jin army is going south, and it's only in these few months." Li Hu frowned deeply and said in a restless manner.

Chai Yun and Yuanye were shocked, not knowing why Li Hu made such a judgment.

"Because Wu Yan appeared?" Yuanye asked.

Li Hu nodded. When both sides bowed and said goodbye, Wuyan's eyes were sad, angry and desperate, which gave Li Hu an ominous premonition. For several days, Wuyan's eyes had been swaying in Li Hu's mind, making him feel palpitations and uneasy. The uneasy mood caused him to think of his father's story, so he was thinking about the situation and deducing the possibility of the Jingkang disaster. Today he knew that Taiyuan's strategy had changed, and the change in Taiyuan's strategy was obviously conducive to the development of the situation and could make up for the crisis in Datong.

"What you mean is that no matter whether we attack Xixia or not, the Jurchens will go south to attack the Song Dynasty?" Yuanye was incredible and felt that the Jurchens were too crazy.

"The battle for protecting the Budagang is over

The fight to defeat the 700,000 Liao army by 20,000 people, gave the Jurchens the powerful Zihu to find a reason for himself, "If you are Wu Qimai, do you want to establish your prestige in the Jin Dynasty? Is it better to go to the desert or attack the Song Dynasty south?"

Chai Yun and Yuanye were silent. The answer is very simple. Of course, it is better to go south to fight the Song Dynasty. The desert is too big. If the decisive battle in the desert refuses to fight, where will you find them? If you fight for a year or two, there may be no results. On the contrary, the Song Dynasty is close to you, and Yanyun and Hebei are all rich places. You can return with a full load if you attack and plunder. Xixia is a good example. If you win, you will have to blackmail. If you defeat, you will negotiate peace. Anyway, you will not suffer any loss.

"Are you sure the Jurchens are going south?" Although Chai Yun knew that Li Hu had extraordinary talent, if such a thing was wrong and made a wrong decision, the Hulie Mansion might be over. "You must know that Bianjing and Jurchens are joining forces to beat us. Taiyuan suggestion may be one of the strategies for Bianjing to attack and kill us. If the wolf is brought into the house, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Yes, General General, be careful." Yuanye also advised, "Bianjing formed an alliance with Jurchens to attack and kill Datong, intending to use the knife to kill people, while Jurchens used their strategies and used the power of the Song Dynasty to capture Datong. Taiyuan demanded to enter Daibei at this moment, which was very likely to be an internal supporter for the Jurchens. When the Jurchens attacked, they turned against each other in the city, and such Datong would be defeated."

Li Hu smiled bitterly. Taiyuan and Hulie Mansion had no trust, and there was no trust between Hulie Army and Northwest Army, so things were difficult to handle.

"Let's do this, let the Hedong Army come in first.

"Li Hu said, "Now we have common interests and needs of Taiyuan, and we have not broken up with Bianjing. If Bianjing issued an order to dispatch the Hedong Army to the north on the grounds that the main force of the Tiger Marine Army was invasive to fight westward and Datong's troops were empty, we had no reason to refuse, so we would let the Hedong Army come in first."

"What then?" Chai Yun asked.

"We propose two conditions, and both Taiyuan are acceptable to the local conditions." Li Hu said, "The commander of this army must be a lie. This army must be divided into two, one in Datong and the other in Fengshengzhou, so that we can minimize the threat to Datong."

"After the Hedong Army entered Yunzhong Road, did Bian Jing agree to the Northwest Army launch an attack on Xixia in October?" Chai Yun continued to ask, "From the current terrain of the Song Dynasty, it is impossible to launch a war against Xia."

"Indeed, the Song Dynasty has been in constant civil strife. At present, the main force is used to suppress rebellion. There is no reason to launch a war against Xia." Li Hu said, "But I believe Tong Guan. Tong Guan has too much influence on the emperor, especially in border affairs. The emperor absolutely believes in Tong Guan, otherwise Tong Guan would not have been invited at this time."

Chai Yun and Yuanye agreed with Li Hu's point of view. Tong Guan, a man who fought for twenty years in the northwest, served as the commander of the Northwest Army for twenty years. His understanding of the Northern Barbarians was completely different from that of the Bian Jing's North Barbarians. As he said in his letter, it was only a matter of time before the Jurchens went south. At the moment, even if the Tiger Lieutenant Army defended Daibei, it would not affect the overall situation, and it would not be possible to stop the Jin army from going south, because even if Bian Jing was surrounded by the Jin army, he would never let the Tiger Lieutenant Army go south.

In the view of Bianjing, there is no essential difference between the Tiger and the Jin army, especially now, the Tiger and Lieutenant Army has a much greater threat to Bianjing than the Jin army. When the Jin army goes south and harms the Central Plains, will Bianjing still dare to let the Tiger and Lieutenant Army go south to support? That wouldn't it lead a wolf into the house? The Tiger and Lieutenant Army cannot go south to rescue, and the Northwest Army cannot be mobilized, because the Northwest Army wants to stop the Tiger and Lieutenant Mansion from going south and defend against the Western Xia. The Northwest Army is the strongest combat-capable army of the Song Dynasty. If this army cannot be transferred to the Hebei battlefield of the Central Plains, it will be very difficult for the Song army to defeat the Jin army. It is far from enough to rely on a natural danger of the Yellow River.

To this end, Tong Guan thought of a solution, which was the "Pingyan Ce" set, but the opponent changed from a Khitan to a Jurchen. The prerequisite for defeating the Jurchen was to defeat or severely damage the Western Xia, allowing the Song Dynasty to avoid fighting on both sides, so that Bianjing could conscript the Northwest Army into the Central Plains and Hebei to fight, while the Tiger Lie Army assumed the responsibility of guarding the border. At that time, the opponents of the Tiger Lie Army were Dangxiang people and Jurchen people, Daibei and Hetao were both battlefields, and Li Hu couldn't take care of himself, so where was there any strength to go south?

Tong Guan’s northwest strategy is as practical as "Pingyan Ceremony". The emperor and the prime ministers of Bian Jing had no reason not to agree. There was only one unfavorable condition, that is, the dispute between Prince Yun and the imperial rule. This unfavorable condition would lead to the civil servants of Bian Jing opposing attacks on Xixia, or making trouble for them, and making a big fuss about military capital.

"Do you think Tong Guan can convince Bian Jing?" Yuan Ye asked.

Li Huzheng focused on it. No one was more familiar with Tong Guan than him. At the beginning, the situation in Yanjing was very unfavorable to Tong Guan, but he responded calmly, not only took back Yanjing, but also avoided the attacks of his opponents without any danger, and retired home safely. A year later, Tong Guan returned and was in charge of the military of the Song Dynasty again. On the other hand, Cai Jing, although he was the prime minister for the fourth time, he stepped down for the fourth time after only four months. This shows the weight of Tong Guan in the emperor's mind, and it is also possible to imagine the emperor's dependence on Tong Guan in military terms.

"So, will we reply to Datong immediately and sue Taiyuan?"
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