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It is believed that although the Song Dynasty encountered an unprecedented crisis, it still had cohesion, and Bianjing and the local government were still under the control of the emperor and the center.

This confidence is not only reflected in Ma Kuo, but also in the hearts of Zhao Heng and Zhao Kai, and in the hearts of Tong Guan, Li Gang, Yuwen Xuzhong, Zhe Yanzhi and others. In their opinion, the Song Dynasty has a strong foundation and as long as it comes out the right strategy, it will take a few years for the Song Dynasty to stand out in the world.

It is precisely because of this blind and strong confidence that after Zhao Heng and Zhao Kai ascended the throne, they both resolutely implemented the main war strategy to the outside world, but did not come up with practical reform methods at home, especially in economic policies, and continued to implement the original set of levying and levying intensive taxes without fundamental changes. This led to the increasing conflict between Bianjing and the local government and the increasingly fierce conflict between officials and the people.

Also because of this confidence, the emperors from Zhao Heng to Zhao Kai and the centers of the two dynasties did not treat Li Hu and the Hu Lie Army correctly. They stubbornly regarded Li Hu and the Hu Lie Army as enemies, which led to Bian Jing's continuous strategic mistakes.

In fact, Bianjing took a step back and gave Li Hu and Hu Lie Army greater benefits. He first solved the Jurchens and recovered Hebei and Youyan. With the strong foundation of the Song Dynasty and implemented a series of changes, they could indeed quickly recover their vitality. The Song Dynasty, which had recovered its vitality, was a real behemoth, and Li Hu and Hu Lie Army could not shake it at all.

However, the emperors and ministers of Bianjing were blindly confident and despised Li Hu, and were afraid of Li Hu while suffering consecutive defeats on the battlefield. This contradictory psychology and this kind of worrying about gains and losses made them lose their correct judgment and clear ideas in the rapidly changing situation, which ultimately led to strategic mistakes.

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The fake Li Hu did not convene the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture and Henan Prefecture to learn about Shaanxi and Jingjin. Li Hu must have scoffed at the conditions of Bianjing. Now that he understands the dilemma of Hulien Prefecture, will he accept the conditions of Bianjing?

Li Hu has always liked to put it to death and live a life of death. He liked to fight with all his might. So he knew that occupying Shaanxi was a desperate situation, but he still refused.

One thing is clear. If he retreats back to Taiyuan, then he will only stick to Daibei as a vassal king in the future, so he will never choose this path. His goal is the reign of the Song Dynasty. His way to seize the reign of the Song Dynasty is to first hold the emperor to seize power. Now he has lost the opportunity to hold the emperor to seize power. If he wants to continue to follow this path, he will have to lie in Luoyang and stare at Bianjing with a fierce look so that he can give Bianjing a fatal blow at any time. As for the Hebei War, it is a good opportunity to consume the strength of Bianjing. He will never throw the main force of the Tiger and Steve Army into the Hebei battlefield.

So, when Ma Kuo proposed the conditions for Bian Jing, Li Hu had long been confident and agreed in one go.

It takes time for the Huli Army to occupy Shaanxi, and it takes time for the control of Sichuan, Shu and Jinghu. According to Li Hudi's estimate, it will take at least four months to half a year to achieve the established goal. In other words, Li Hu will not leave Luoyang before the end of this year.

Ma Kuo concentrating and pondering. Li Hu stayed in Luoyang for half a year and cut off the connection between Bianjing and the northwest. Then the Huli Army had half a year to control the entire northwest. From this, it can be inferred that Li Hu did not want to give up the northwest easily and retreat to Taiyuan.

"Your Majesty is preparing to launch the Hebei War in early July. This requires the cooperation of the Huli Army and the local government." Ma Kuo asked tentatively. "How much force does the Husband intend to invest in the Hebei battlefield?"

"How many men do Your Majesty need?" Li Hu asked.

"The more it is better." Ma Kuo said. "The 30,000 garrison troops in Bianjing will not move. In addition, there will be 40,000 troops in the surrounding areas of Bianjing and on both sides of the Yellow River. In this way, the troops will be about 80,000. Zhuang Zhong, Yao Shuai still has more than 50,000 people. Liu Shuai still has more than 10,000 people. Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, Lin Chong, and Geng Shouzhong have 40,000 people. After An Xi suffered a heavy blow, Yue Shuai still has 70,000 people. However, the elite troops are less than 10,000. In this way, there are about 190,000 troops in Hebei battlefield. If Hu Shuai supports 100,000 troops from Taiyuan, then this battle will definitely win."

"Hundreds of thousands?" Li Hu looked up at Ma Kuo in surprise, "Do you know how many people I have on my hands?"

"According to our estimates, there are at least 200,000 to 250,000 troops in Hulie Mansion." Ma Kuo laughed, "I heard from Shuai Shuai that you wiped out the Xixia Capture Army in the battle of Luotuo River and captured 100,000 people. Even if you suffered heavy losses in Datong and suffered significant losses in Helan Mountain, you will definitely not lose 100,000 troops. I guess there is a mistake?"

Li Hu knew that the number of troops in Hulie Mansion was not a secret to the Zhe family, so he did not defend himself and immediately spread the map of the case. "Tieying, Hou Guai, Dong Zhongsun in Datong, Luo Qinghan and Zhang Guanyu arrived in Taiyuan. Now I will send some troops to guard Chang'an and Luoyang. In addition, Yue Fei, Lu Junyi arrived in Hebei, Song Jiang, Lin Chong and Geng Shouzhong went to Jingji. How many troops can I have to deploy now?"

When Ma Kuo heard Li Hu's words, he was secretly shocked and knew that Li Hu did not want to participate in the Hebei War.

This time, Li Hu voluntarily gave up Yunnei in order to help Zhao Kai seize the imperial throne, but he took Taiyuan and actually took a big advantage. However, in this way, Datong's defensive situation was very tense, requiring at least a hundred thousand troops, and the Huli Army also lost the advantage of counterattacking Fengshengzhou, which allowed the Jin army to kill Hebei from Youyan without scruples.

Datong

In order to garrison troops, Taiyuan also needs heavy troops to garrison. In addition, Li Hu also needs to ensure that Dan Datong is lost and Taiyuan is in fierce battle. Li Hu can only withdraw Huliu's Mansion to Chang'an. Luoyang must also hold on, and Bianjing also hopes that Li Hu will stay in Luoyang for the time being, because if the Hebei War is defeated, Bianjing will lose its strength and be unable to resist the Jin army, then Li Hu will take action. In this way, the Huliu's army will be distributed in five battlefields in Datong, Taiyuan, Chang'an, Luoyang and Hebei. Their troops are indeed too dispersed. It is indeed unrealistic to expect Li Hu to dispatch 100,000 troops into the Hebei battlefield. In the short term, Li Hu will not be able to do it.

"If Bianjing delays the Hebei War and starts the attack at the end of August or early September, I will give me more than a month to buffer, and I can redeploy my troops." Li Hu said solemnly, "It's not that I don't participate in the Hebei War, but the main force of the Huli Lie Army has just traveled thousands of miles from Taiyuan to Guanzhong and Luoyang, and now it is going to return to Taiyuan to enter the Hebei battlefield. It takes time to transfer back and forth. So many troops cannot be adjusted by just talking, and the army lacks food, grass and supplies. Even if we return to Taiyuan, there will not be too many troops to enter the Hebei battlefield."

Ma Kuo frowned and said nothing. The most important task of this trip was to convince Li Hu to enter the Hebei battlefield. Without the participation of the Huli Army in the Hebei War, the chances of victory were not great, and the emperor urgently needed a victory to consolidate the throne. Although no one competed with him for the throne now, his reason for deposing Zhao Heng was very far-fetched. If he could not quickly win the Hebei War, what would he use to shock the world?

Li Hu refused to participate in the war with sufficient reasons. He did not refuse on purpose, but there was no way. Besides, there was no shortage of Tiger Lieutenant Army on the battlefield in Hebei, especially Yue Fei, who formed a team of more than 100,000 people, and lost more than half of the battle in Jiashan. No matter how combat effectiveness of this team was, the Tiger Lieutenant Army was put on the battlefield. People in Hebei knew that the Tiger Lieutenant Army was fighting bravely, not only in Hebei, but also in Datong. Soon, everyone in the world knew that the Tiger Lieutenant Army fought bloody battles in the northern border. Even if this Hebei War was defeated, it would not damage the Tiger Lieutenant Army's reputation for resisting the Jin Dynasty. On the contrary, the reputation of Li Hu and the Tiger Lieutenant Army will become more and more popular with the defeats again and again.

It was no point in persuading Ma Kuo. Li Hu agreed to all the conditions of Bian Jing. All he needed was time. As long as he gave him more than a month, he would dispatch the main force to enter the Hebei battlefield. Speaking of this, no matter whether Li Hu was true or false, Ma Kuo had nothing to say.

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After seeing off Ma Kuo, Li Hu urgently summoned Dong Xiaochou, Mao Jun, Huang She and others to discuss the march to Sichuan and Sichuan.

At this moment, Hou Gui, Zhang Guanyu, Zhang Gaoer, and Gao Yuan have led their troops to Chang'an and are preparing to go south to Sichuan and Jinghu. Considering that Bianjing is eager to launch a war in Hebei, and hastily march south to occupy Xiangyang, it will be alarmed. Bianjing will definitely turn against each other in desperation, which may lead to Hebei's defeat, so Li Hu decided to advance to Sichuan and Shu. Sichuan is too far away from Bianjing. When the news came, the Tiger and Martyrs' army had already occupied Sichuan and Shu.

Sichuan and Shu were divided into Xichuan Road and Xiaxi Road in the Song Dynasty. Later, Xichuan Road was divided into Chengdu Fu Road and Lizhou Road, and Xiaxi Road was divided into Zizhou Road and Kuizhou Road. Go south from Chang'an, take the Dasanguan, first go to Lizhou Road, then cross Bashan, and enter Chengdu Fu Road. As long as you take Chengdu, Sichuan and Shu will basically get it.

Several people discussed it and decided to use Zhang Guanyu as the commander and Fan Zhichang as the deputy, leading the Wu Yongjun and Yun Haijun to Sichuan. Fan Zhichang's identity was special, with Fan Zhongyan's grandson. This identity was enough to reach Chengdu, which was enough to reach an army of more than 100,000.

Li Hu is not very clear about how many imperial guards there are in Sichuan and Sichuan, but now Zhang Guanyu and Fan Zhichang are heading south to Chengdu Prefecture under the banner of the Northwest Marshal's Mansion in the name of raising military rations. It is reasonable to be reasonable. If there are unsightly prefectures and counties who are in a dilemma, then use force.

That night, Fan Zhichang rushed to Chang'an overnight with orders.

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After Ma Kuo returned to Bianjing, he failed to bring good news to the emperor, and the central ministers immediately debated the time for the Hebei battlefield.

Li Gang, Yuwen Xuzhong and Tong Guan were very determined. They would transfer the main force of the Hu Lie Army to the Hebei battlefield no matter what, and Li Hu would command the battle. However, the Northwest Commanders such as Zhe Yanzhi, Zhong Shidao and Yao Gu strongly opposed it. They believed that with the strength of the Northwest Army, they could defeat the Jin army.

Since the Northern Expedition, the Northwest Army has never won a victory. The Northern Expedition was defeated in two battles, and Hebei suffered consecutive defeats. Is it really that the Northwest Army is not strong? The commander of the Northwest Army insisted that the responsibility for defeat was not the Northwest Army, but in Bianjing. Now that the emperor of Bianjing has been replaced, the central minister has also been replaced, and the top and the bottom are united, the Northwest Army is definitely sure to win a victory.

The emperor relied on Li Gang, Yuwen Xuzhong and Tong Guan were inclined to launch the Hebei War at the end of August.

The people of the Northwest felt a crisis and a serious crisis. Li Gang and Yuwen Xuzhong both served in Hulie Mansion and had an extraordinary relationship with Li Hu. This time he became prime minister and deputy prime minister was obviously a compromise between the emperor and Li Hu. Not to mention Tong Guan, the emperor was able to successfully seize the imperial throne, Tong Guan made great contributions. These three people took power and firmly suppressed the people of the Northwest. If Li Hu led the Hulie Army to win the Hebei War, the situation would be even more unfavorable to the people of the Northwest.
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