Chapter 627: The Economic Benefits of War
With the death of Aruda, the battle in Yangcheng was completely over, and the B brothers rushed to Datong Mansion in the south with Aruda's message and Zhao Li's expectations.
At the beginning of the war, Zhao Zhen used the army in his hand to drain the water of the siege of Fengshengzhou, and at the main passes, the city sent people to guard it, so that the news of the war could reach the ears of Yelu Zongzhen one step later.
The most difficult problem in ancient warfare was communication, and the transmission of war reports was the most important.
The great grandson once said: The one who can win because of the change of the enemy is called a god. Know each other and know yourself, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles; I don't know who he is, I win and I lose, I don't know who I don't know, I will die in every battle.
It seems to be a simple sentence, but it breaks the true meaning of war, and even in the era hundreds of years later, his tactics are still being used, information warfare, and asymmetric strikes are all interpretations of Sun Tzu's Art of War over and over again.
Zhao Zhen didn't feel that he was smarter than the ancients and sages, so it was better to follow the words of the sage at a glance, so he used the stupidest and most effective method to cut off the communication between Fengshengzhou and Datongfu, so that the entire Fengshengzhou became a Jedi.
Of course, Zhao Zhen did not completely deny the Liao people the news, but the time when they got the news should be controlled by themselves, and the easiest way was to let the messengers of the Liao people use them for their own use.
The Yangcheng attacked by Zhao Li is at the back of Fengshengzhou, and Yangcheng is also the last city in Fengshengzhou, once Yangcheng is taken, it means that the entire Fengshengzhou will fall, which means that there is no need to hide anything from Yelu Zongzhen.
Zhao Zhen's army was advancing behind the messenger sent by the Liao people to Dadingfu, Ba Litong did not know that he had become a sentinel of the Great Song army, and there would be Great Song soldiers stationed everywhere he passed, but he was unaware of it and continued to go to Dading Mansion in Zhongjing.
The two brothers didn't know they were being used at all, and the people with the black hand let them go along the way, although for some reason, but this was the official's explanation.
It wasn't until they watched the two brothers leave Fengsheng Prefecture and enter the Huai'an realm of Datong Mansion that the people with black hands quietly left, and they could be regarded as having fulfilled the will of the official family and could return to Naturalization Prefecture to return to Song Xiaoyi......
Zhao Zhen stood in front of the sand table, and Song Xiaoyi beside him kept planting the red flag representing the Great Song Dynasty on the sand table, and soon the entire city of Fengshengzhou turned into a fiery red color, and Di Qing on the side could see his joyful eyebrows rising even with a serious face.
Fengshengzhou was an important state capital connecting the north and south of the Liao Dynasty, and it was also a much-needed land for horse grazing in the Great Song Dynasty!
Taking down the Great Song Dynasty here is equivalent to cutting off the Liao Dynasty's waist, and the next thing is to stabilize it, and there is no need to attack in a hurry.
As long as the two places of Xijin Mansion and Fengsheng Prefecture are stabilized, Zhao Zhen's plan will be completely completed, and the rest will slowly encroach on the encirclement and suppression.
War is never an overnight thing, on the contrary, the war often drags on for a long time, the Great Song Dynasty began the Northern Expedition before the New Year, and now it has entered the middle of April, but even this speed, in Di Qing's opinion, is already quite fast.
Zhao Zhen calculated, it has been half a year since he left Tokyo City, and now that the overall situation has been decided, he doesn't have to worry about the rest of the things, only Datong Mansion is still in the hands of Yelu Zongzhen, so don't worry about it slowly.
Zhao Zhen's original plan was to complete the recovery of Yanyun and attack the Liao Dynasty in one year, but now it seems that more than one year is enough.
But his good mood was soon interrupted by the old man on the side.
Xia Zhu stood aside and looked at the undulating mountains and rivers and couldn't help but cry, Yanyun's homeland! The hometown of China! This piece of gold lost in the Great Song Dynasty will finally return to the hands of the Han dynasty in Zhengshuo, China!
For the sake of this land, how many elite soldiers were sacrificed by the Great Song Dynasty, Taizu died before his ambition was paid, how many soldiers were lost by Taizong's two defeats in the Northern Expedition, and Emperor Zhenzong sought stability and peace without taking advantage of the victory to pursue, which made Yanyun exile for many years.
Looking at Xia Zhu's appearance, Zhao Zhen took out the handkerchief in his arms and said to him: "The boss is not a small person, and he still cries chicken numbers, and he is not afraid that others will see the jokes......"
Seeing the bright yellow handkerchief in Zhao Zhen's hand, Xia Zhu hurriedly took it in his arms, stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears with his cuffs and said: "Your Majesty has made an immortal achievement, opening up the precedent of my Great Song Dynasty, and the frontier of peace and eternity, which is really the work of an emperor through the ages!" ”
Zhao Zhen waved his hand, Xia Zhu's words were really numb, what he did was the duty of a king, and it was not to expand the territory or anything, but to recover the territory that belonged to the Great Song Dynasty.
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Zhao Zhen underestimated the status of this land in the hearts of the Song people, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, the eternal pain in the hearts of the Song people, when the news of the resumption of the Xijin Mansion reached the city of Tokyo, the whole city was ignited, people rushed to tell each other, the royal road rubbed shoulders, the city was empty alleys, the sound of the mountains calling long live was like a roar, it is said that the roofs of some people's houses were not strong, and they were collapsed......
As the prime minister, Pang Ji just took advantage of the excitement in the hearts of the people to issue a conscription order prepared by Zhao Zhen in advance, the advantage of the Great Song Dynasty against the Liao Dynasty is the advantage of numbers and geography, the Han people are naturally good at defending the city, and the Song people who rely on defense can easily deal with two or three attacking Liao.
Maximizing his own advantages is the key to winning the war, Zhao Zhen wants to make Xijin Mansion and Fengsheng Prefecture into an iron bucket that water can't splash, and he wants to trap Yelu Zong Zhen in Datong Mansion.
If you want to encroach on Datong Mansion, you must have enough troops, otherwise the Liao people who are good at running will definitely break through the defense, if you can't leave Yelu Zongzhen and the hundreds of thousands of elites in his hands, Zhao Zhen's plan will be greatly reduced.
Now the situation in the Great Song Dynasty is very good, and the status of soldiers is constantly improving, Zhao Zhen's conscription order is impassioned under the polish of Pang Ji and a group of Chongwenyuan scholars, and it can even be said to be demagogic......
The city of Tokyo alone recruited 100,000 people...... Although they joined temporarily, the equipment and expenses on their bodies were not weaker than the regular forbidden army, so a large number of military orders appeared, all of which were allocated by the treasury, which was the imperial court spending money to drive the development of factories and the economy.
Seeing Pang Ji's frowning appearance, Ding Wei knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Pang Xianggong is distressed about the national funds? ”
Pang Ji raised his eyebrows and smiled: "You can laugh at it, why is the old man distressed?" Tell me about the doorway, shall we? You are the best in the court when it comes to goods! ”
Sure enough, it is the appearance of a country, and he can guess from his expression that he took it, Ding Wei said with admiration: "Pang Xianggong has good eyesight, and the money is not wronged at all, the recruitment of the official family needs ordnance, cotton clothes, and armor, which are all produced by factories designated by the imperial court, if they can't complete it, they need to appoint more factories by the imperial court."
In this way, the number of factories has increased, and if there are more factories, there will be fewer homeless people, and if there are fewer homeless people, the world will be safe, and after the factories have finished producing military supplies, they can also produce civilian use, so that next year's tax revenue will naturally increase......"