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Ning Xin Tong Guan not Pig

This is a stack of manuscripts with names and similar personnel files. After each manuscript, there is a guarantor attached. Zhao Shixia flipped through a few pages and looked up at Shitong. Shitong explained: "This is the review file issued by the Maritime Surveillance Office. According to regulations, every person who goes to sea from Dengzhou must have a guarantor and a certificate of his hometown... [The latest updates are all in...]

Dengzhou is currently purchasing a large amount of sulfur, saltpeter, iron, wood, fur, and wool. It is allowed to export porcelain, tea, silk, frosting, etc. Because the market tax has not been withdrawn, and the Goryeo Liaodong Road is close to, it can be used to travel around a few days, so the profit is very thick, and there are many people applying for ship leads to the sea. Our maritime surveillance center basically does not reject personal applications, but when issuing ship leads, we often like to talk to the applicant about the experience of foreign vassals - the above are important passages picked from their chats."

A stack of manuscripts followed by a map.

The above are full of symbols, and the 12 Military Offices of the Western Xia were marked on it, forming a thin red line. The red line was winding along He Lanhuang and Shaanxi. Zhao Shixia stroked the hand mushroom along the red line, and suddenly shed a cold sweat.

Geographically speaking, there have always been two "violent funnels" in ancient China. A "violent funnel" in the west, starting from the Altai Mountains in the north and ending at the Qilian Mountains in the east. This line mainly works in the Han and Tang Dynasties. During the Five Barbarians and Invasion of China, the Qiang people, Turks, and Xiongnu all entered the Central Plains along this corridor. Now this line is covered with the forces of the 12 Western Xia Army Division. The violent funnel in the east is from the Daxinganling Mountains to the Taihang Mountains. As long as the Central Asian nomadic tribes cross the Helan Mountains, Yinshan Mountains and Yanshan lines, they are basically like unstoppable, as if they enter a nobody's land, competing for the Central Plains, almost like exploring objects in their pockets.

"Where are our troops?" Zhao Shixia asked while wiping his cold sweat.

"No troops", Shi Chuan replied: "The soldiers in western Shanxi, general He Lanhuang, Shaanxi gunmen, archers, prefectures and generals, either fight against Fang La bandits in the south, but have not yet been destroyed; or they have been ruined in the Liao Dynasty - the three thousand-mile defense line is only the social soldiers and a few regiments left. As for the local wing army, there is no need to mention, they are soldiers and those who do hard work, not soldiers."

"Does the court know?"

"I know - Yuwen Xuwu's memorial has included the military forces in Shaanxi and He Lanhuang. Although we have not talked about the mobilization of Western Xia, our military forces are clearly stated. The Jin envoy also read the memorial in Yuwen Xuzhong in Bianliang. In order to question the Jin envoy, the people from the Privy Council took out the original memorial for the Jin envoy to show it. This means: We don't care about the empty military force, and the Jin people also know it clearly."

Zhao Shixia trembled and put the stack of information on the table. He took a few breaths of breath and asked carefully: "Changqing seems to be not optimistic about the Liao Kingdom, which is currently attacking Liao. What is the situation?"

Shi Chuan walked to a wall in the study room, opened the curtain on the wall, and exposed a map that was large in the wall. He paused for a moment. He pointed at Xu Ning: "I forgot to say something, and immediately hold a map homework training class so that all senior generals can learn to identify the new version of the map - this new version of the map will be distributed with the musket."

Xu Ning rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "Are you going to fire a musket? Finally there is a weapon."

Shi Chuan once again reminded him: "First install cannons, gather Huanggu, Dengzhou, Penglai, and Mizhou commanders to learn artillery control technology - pay attention to the dynamics of Black Tornado Li Kui in the direction of Mizhou."

After saying this, Shi Chuan pointed to the map and took a quick stroke and continued to Zhao Shixia: "There is nothing to talk about in the Liao Kingdom. After the Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao Kingdom, Mr. Li, was killed, was civil strife in Yanjing, and the Khitans and Han people distrust each other. Although the first Northern Expedition, the Song army left behind 500,000 weapons and supplies, and it is said that the copper coins used to reward military merits were piled up like mountains, and no one was willing to pick them up when the swords and guns were discarded on the roadside - but the Liao Kingdom now has no soldiers or soldiers.

The war was fought for financial resources and troops, food and grass. The Liao Kingdom was already poor and only the spoils left for the previous battle, but these spoils belonged to those who defeated the soldiers. The Yanjing official mansion had no money. Our Song Dynasty was strong and we had to spend all our money after a defeat to plan the second war. The Liao Kingdom was poor and in such a short time, he had the financial resources and material reserves?

The first Northern Expedition Song army was defeated by the rogues and gangsters in Yanjing City—most of them were Han people. After the civil strife in Yanjing, the team was disbanded. The Khitans were unwilling to distribute weapons to the Han people formation. The number of Khitans in Yanjing City was originally small. At this critical moment, the Khitans were afraid that they would go out of the city to fight. The Khitans in the city could not subdue the Han people, and they were even more unwilling to leave Yanjing. Therefore, no soldier outside Yanjing City stood guard and stood guard."

"There is no soldier or soldier in the wild."

The same words were also abandoned by Xiongzhou. The speaker was the garrison of Zhuozhou, Liao Kingdom, the leader of the ever-victorious army, and the man Guo Yaoshi.

Tong Guan didn't know how to fight, was good at talking and conspiring. Although the first time he surrendered the Liao people, Tong Guan just liked to persevere. As the saying goes, "persistence is victory." This time, Tong Guan finally achieved some results.

Since Empress Dowager Xiao delivered the surrender seal, the Liao envoy returned to Yanjing crying all the way. Everyone along the way knew that the Liao Kingdom was about to perish. The Liao Kingdom had no more soldiers and was in chaos. The Empress Dowager only cared about playing with men and not about the fate of the country. Therefore, the Liao Kingdom was filled with a mentality of abandoning the ship, and everyone wanted to leave the ship that would sink.

When the ship was about to sink, the mice on the ship knew first that Guo Yaoshi was such a mouse. He immediately found Tong Guan and surrendered Zhuozhou and the always-winning army. Tong Guan asked about the facts and reality of the Liao Kingdom. Guo Yaoshi replied: "The Khitan still adopted a similar tribal alliance method to govern the Han people. The entire Liao Kingdom divided four capitals, each of which belonged to each other and was not related to each other, and the Han people were the same. Between cities, between cities, between counties, and between states, they only accepted the direct jurisdiction of the capital, and each was completely autonomous and completely independent.

Now that the old emperor has just passed away, Yelu Zhun ascended the throne, he was panicked again with Xiao Da descendants. Moreover, the Han people and the Khitan are now suspicious of each other, and the original army in the country was destroyed by the Jin people, and now there is no soldier in the country.

If the prime minister attacks along the way, then everyone will defend the city where they pass by. But if the prime minister opens the city and attacks Yanjing directly, the cities along the way will not be blocked - there are neither soldiers nor military generals, what will they use to stop them?"

Tong Guan was overjoyed and had no time to wait for the subsequent troops to arrive. He immediately ordered Liu Yanqing to lead a 100,000 army to Yanjing.

In Dengzhou City, Zhao Shixia shook his head after hearing what Shi Chuan said, "Changqing, as you say, several young soldiers can defeat the Liao Kingdom, why are you not optimistic about attacking Liao?"

Shi Chuan grinned: "Not a few small pawns, a few pigs can defeat the Liao Kingdom in the past - but unfortunately, the official family would rather believe Tong Guan than pigs. Tong Guan would rather believe Liu Yanqing than pigs. The old breeding strategy has fallen, and all those who can fight in the Northern Army were driven away. The rest would be flattering."

Zhao Shixia was incredible. He shook his head for a long time and continued to refute: "Are there not many hundreds of thousands of troops who can fight?"

"They don't know why they fought - the Western soldiers have been fighting for more than a year, and they were immediately transferred to the battlefield after just returning from the south. The soldiers were already tired of war and homesick, but the court has not fully fulfilled the rewards for the expedition to Fang La. Why did the soldiers fight the Northern Expedition? Are there any soldiers who have won the country and land? It's okay to give money without land, will the court give money?

There is no money or land, and some people may be purely for honor and military achievements—but the group of flatterers under Tong Guan have always been famous for their strong attacks. Even those who are greedy for military achievements cannot make little contributions when they are under Tong Guan. Why do you let them fight? On the contrary, the Liao people defend their territory and their families, and their purpose is very clear, so they will be defeated in this battle! There is no luck!"

After Liu Yanqing was ordered, he led a 100,000 army northward. Sure enough, he did not face any resistance when he knew Xu. Liu Yanqing had no military experience and had never learned how to manage the army. He led the army northward, and his interest was playing with women along the way. Liu Yanqing collected beauties of various ethnic groups in Liao, set up flesh screens and tents, and marched only ten miles a day, and immediately camped for pleasure. Influenced by him, the Song army, who was dissatisfied with 100,000 yuan, burned and killed all the way, and knew that the war bonuses were fought.

As we walked, the team was completely dispersed, and the team that had spread for dozens of miles - the people around the commander of Shaanxi might be Huizhou soldiers, and the commander of Shanxi were Yanzhou soldiers - they couldn't understand each other's words.

The army walked straight for half a month, standing on the high ground of the camp, and still able to reach Tong Guan's camp behind him. Guo Yaoshi repeatedly urged him. After being scolded by Liu Yanqing for another half month, he finally encountered a group of ten thousand rabs pieced together by Xiao Gan in Liangxiang, a southern suburb of Yanjing.

Liu Yanqing did not fight and ordered the Song army to set up camp and confront the Liao army along the Lugou River (Yongding River) - he planned to continue playing with women in the camp until Xiao Gan was wearing his bed skills opposite and had to surrender.

In Dengzhou City, Zhao Shixia swallowed a few times quickly and said, "Changqing, I just heard that you have prepared ten wings, about 15,000 muskets. What is the worst case?"

"This time, the last family fortune of the Song Dynasty was torn out in two hundred years. All the pile warehouses in various places were opened, money and grain were emptied, and all the weapons and armor were transported to Liao in the north failed. We not only had no soldiers, no money and grain, but also no weapons, and even no iron nails. In the end, we will be like the current Liao Kingdom, and we can only ask the common people to fight with wooden roots!"

The war fought for national strength. The Song Dynasty Ting had just ended the He Lanhuang War, followed by the rebellion in the south, and taxes were greatly reduced. Under this circumstance, the Song Dynasty Ting carried out the southern bandit suppression, and then carried out the first without breathing. In the second Northern Expedition, even if the Song Dynasty occupied 70% of the world's wealth and launched such national wars in succession, what else could be left in the end?

After drawing a circle on the map, Shi Chuan continued: "The only remaining ones are Dengzhou, Haizhou's little force, and Zhang Shuye's army. The court issued an order to promote Yuwen Xuzhong and Qin Hui to the office, and Zhang Shuye also submitted a memorial. However, this guy has always been tough, and the court probably doesn't want to transfer him to the capital for trouble, so he pretended not to see Zhang Shuye making trouble. Of course, Zhang Shuye refused to hand over the army, and the court pretended to be confused."

In real history, after the failure of the Northern Expedition, only Zhang Shuye of Qingzhou had an army on hand, which could harass and restrain the Jin soldiers. Now he has two allies, namely 15,000 musketeers in Dengzhou, Haizhou.

"Stay here," Shi Chuan patted Zhao Shixia's shoulder and said sincerely: "After the failure of the Northern Expedition, the northern land was not safe anywhere. Only I have gathered heavy troops here. Once I reach that situation, I have a lot of things to do and need a lot of help."

"The court", Zhao Shixia said arduously, halfway through his words, and his tone was sobbing that he couldn't continue.

"Everyone knew that the Privy Council was also opposing the Northern Expedition, so there was a judicial tutoring room. When officials in the world saw the crisis, they wrote to write to the public and talked about the matter. There were Yuwen Xuzhong and Qin Hui in Dengzhou; there were Zhang Shuye leading all officials shouting louder on the east and west roads of Beijing; Shaanxi, Shanxi, He Lanhuang, Xiongzhou, and Zhending all the officials in the north were shouting for crisis-but the officials didn't listen, what would you do?!"

Shi Chuan sneered a few times and continued, "I didn't think that I would go to the Northern Expedition and rely on my own troops to take the right route, which might change the situation of the war, but the Western Army is good at excluding and robbing me. I don't have the strong foundation as strong as the old strategy, nor the old strategy's majesty that "100,000 soldiers only respect my orders". Since even the old strategy has never been able to fight Tong Guan, I should stay away."

"Will 15,000 be too little?" Zhao Shixia became worried instead.

"I can't save too much," and I was also very depressed when talking about this issue: "The court was urging me to the point where the iron material was urging me to be covered with crossbows. As long as there were too many in the warehouse, I would urge you to move north quickly; if there was a few spare money in the yamen, I would immediately urge you to go and buy iron materials and other things. Now even the prices of kitchen knives on the market have soared, and the court's demand for food is even more unsubstantiable.

The price increase of grain will inevitably lead to artificial increases. So far, I have only saved 50,000 guns and more than 100 artillery pieces. This is only stored secretly on overseas islands. But now the wages of labor are rising sharply. Just supplying soldiers with food is already poor enough to deal with. I have to raise more soldiers. Even if I have enough guns, what can I pay them for?"

Zhao Shixia stared at the map for a moment and said in confusion: "The failure of the Northern Expedition, besides Xixia, are there other enemies - Xixia is weak and impossible to swallow my Song Dynasty. Just give me a little breath."

"There are also Jin people--" Shi Chuan suddenly said: "Zhang Shuye saw this, so he detained the army on the east and west roads of Beijing: I, Yuwen Xuwu, only saw the weakness of the Song Dynasty. Qin Hui's memorial mentioned the Jin people implicitly, but now Jin people are our ally, so although everyone knows it, they dare not say it."

Zhao Shixia was still trying to find the loopholes in Shitong. At this time, Huan Niang suddenly walked away and said with a nervous look: "Brother, Jin Envoy returned - the Jin Envoy who went to the capital to urge troops. He ran into Wang Shu, the secret envoy of Goryeo who was asking for his brother at the door. The two sides fought. Jin Envoy killed three servants of Goryeo, the two sides were still fighting. Brother, who should we help?"—or!!...
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