As a result of this delay, the situation became more unmanageable by the end of August.

The woods are full of treasures. In addition to the Liao army sent by Lao Xiao who was stealing a large amount of timber, those poor Liao people saw that the governor of Xiongzhou was removed from his post due to the policy, and now no one cares about cutting down trees, so more and more border Liao people poured into the territory of the Song State to obtain edible fungi, wild animals, medicinal herbs, etc.

This caused Han Qi to scold and issue a message to bombard the Great Demon King, saying: It was because of his overkill and instigated Sima Guang to impeach Zhao Zi that this situation was created.

The Great Demon King responded without showing weakness: Don't think about putting any questions on my head, in fact, Zhao Zi's behavior is not used to your Han braincase, Sima Guang may not be able to evacuate him if he does not impeach him, but in terms of his Zhao Zi's IQ, even if he continues to stay in Xiongzhou, he will not be able to successfully solve these problems, right? Han Xiang, if you are wrong, don't just blame others, use Zhao Zi to solve the problem of the boundary river, of course you have the mistake of being a bad person, if you make a mistake, there will definitely be a corresponding price, what's so strange about this!

Zhao Zi, who was waiting for his new post in Beijing, couldn't help but feel with tears in his eyes: Is it easy for me to be tough once? Even if you don't do it well, you immortals can't fight, is it necessary to extend the problem to my IQ? I'm not stupid, I'm under pressure, the problem of the boundary river has accumulated over time, and the inaction of many consuls is equivalent to freezing three feet and not a day's cold, in that case, Han Daxiangye angrily declared war on Jiaozhi in a high-profile manner, and instructed me to "strictly deal with the Liao people" with very severe words? How can I understand and govern? Is it easy to Lao Tzu?

But there was no response to each other in the follow-up, and the cultural war did not escalate. This is because the war in the southwest has officially begun, and before that, it was only a declaration of war and no official war, and the Jiaozhi army has just been staying at the border and observing very obscenely, and continues to increase troops.

However, after Han Qi declared war, theoretically Jiaozhi and Song officially entered a state of war, and there was no concept of trampling on the country. After the conflict escalated in the Korean Strait and the Jurchens began to counterattack the merchant ships of the Song State, killing a large number of Song people and expensive assets, the Jiaozhi army, which is now about 20,000 people, decisively crossed the border and launched two local field battles with the Song State.

There is no obvious tendency to win or lose, but at present, the forbidden army on the Guangnan Road is only in the early 10,000s, Li Shizhong is cautious and conservative, and when he has two exploratory field battles and finds that the combat strength of the Jiaozhi army is not low and the morale is high, he chose to retreat, stationed in Guizhou and Yongzhou respectively, and chose to wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

Subsequently, the Jiaozhi army rushed to the Hongshui River and removed most of the bridges to cross the river, which was tantamount to hindering the ability of the central part of the Li division to support Yongzhou.

At this point, it was officially declared that Yongzhou of the Great Song Dynasty was in an emergency, and it was besieged by the Jiaozhi army in a state of declared war.

Guangnan Clerk arrived in the capital, and the Great Demon King learned about it and angrily accused Li Shizhong of making a strategic mistake!

In this regard, even Wang Anshi does not have much temper. It is true that under the condition that the Song State was generally unable to fight, Li Shizhong's troops were at an absolute disadvantage and did not magnify the mistakes, and after only a few hundred people died, he chose to wait for reinforcements, which was much better than Chen in that year to a certain extent.

But today, the political line of the Great Demon King may be criticized, but in terms of specific military strategies, no one in the whole country dares to criticize the Great Demon King.

"The mud can't hold up the wall!"

Wang Yan muttered to himself, "I didn't understand, what kind of tactics did Li Shizhong fight?" Are you scared when you see how many of them there are? Since you can play a result with half the force and play a situation with no obvious victory or defeat, it is already a good start? This proves that the quality of the Jiaozhi army is not as strong as imagined, and the military spirit of the decisive battle is not as strong as imagined. This shows that they themselves feel that they are not right. In that case, why don't you dare to fight to the death? The purpose of trial and error is to choose whether to fight or not to fight after testing the reality of the other party. The result of Li Shizhong's trial and error was that "the Song army is not left behind", so why retreat? Doesn't it mean that his trial-and-error tactic is to take off his pants and fart? ”

"He's still not in the role of a military commander, he's still cautious in his political thinking."

Wang Yan slapped the table at home, in front of Zhao Zongshi and Wang Anshi, and said: "It's not that he Li Shizhong can't figure out the reality. Rather, it was in the army of the Great Song Dynasty that he achieved his political correctness, which led to the uselessness of trial and error tactics. This is because he has political pressure to retreat without a fight, but he fights to the death, he is always a literati who does not have such integrity, and I understand the mentality of wanting to achieve a dominant advantage at the beginning, damn when I sat down with Yang Huaiyu to play cards, I also wanted to win him with a straight flush from the beginning, but is it realistic? ”

"The autumn harvest has just begun, and when the wind does not fall, give up the interests of the food in the field, give up the interests of the people, abandon the people in the field, and retreat the army to the state city? This is not a military strategy, to put it bluntly, it is a political trick! It was the bureaucracy's unmistakable mentality, and the erroneous policy guidance of the Great Song Privy Council, which let him know that there were four reinforcements anyway, and he would not lose anyway. ”

But that's all there is to it. In this war, Wang Yan is not a commander, he only has the right to complain, but he has no right to intervene.

In fact, after the declaration of war, the Great Demon King was no longer anti-war, which was what made Wang Anshi, Han Qi and Zhao Zongshi very happy.

Regarding the specific military strategy, the big demon king's complaints will not be disgusted, so that Zhao Zongshi and Wang Anshi are willing to follow the big demon king's train of thought, this thought is somewhat reasonable.

Wang Anshi read his beard and asked, "What does Yan'er mean?" ”

Wang Yan said: "Isn't it obvious, trial and error can continue to try without victory or defeat." Dad, you and Han Qi's four-way support for the southwest is absolutely unnecessary. This is a monk carrying water to eat, and two monks carrying water to eat. It's not that Li Shizhong can't fight, it's that Han Qijia's prestige gave him pressure after his high-profile debut, and it gave him a lot of confidence, which caused him to be unwilling to endure hardships anymore. Since you can wait for the support of reinforcements and military funds from the four routes, of course, you can give up the autumn grain, and you can hold on to the state city and fight a war that will not be lost. ”

"But the problem is that it's a waste of resources, it's an act of detachment from the masses. Although you can't win the battle, you will definitely have to run, but you really can't pretend to be forced, and you can't cut off the living force. However, without falling behind, giving up the masses in the wilderness and giving up autumn grain is an irresponsible act of detachment from the masses. What does this make the masses think? The soldiers have imperial food to eat, and the food in the field is not in Li Shizhong, in the end, as long as he does not lose the war, he will have an official position and wealth, so what about the people? Is this a soldier who is supported by the people? Although this is not an obvious mistake militarily, there are serious flaws in political thinking, at least if I were a common citizen of Quang Nam, I would not trust these armies. ”

At this point, Wang Yan knocked on the table and asked, "So I'm going to ask, is there no support from the masses?" Is it really possible to win the war? Even if several armies intervene in a high-profile manner and win, will they be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time? They all thought I was a god, and when the volunteers entered Qingtang, if there was no guerrilla cooperation, how could I fight? I was captured and killed by Zhuo Luolan a long time ago, and the so-called guerrilla tactics are actually the mass line. Any deviation from this line at any time will theoretically not be able to fight any war. ”

"Then it is very simple to gain the support of the masses, and there is no shortcut. The first point is to care about their interests, if you treat them well, they will naturally trust you, which is a very simple truth. Now, as an army supported by the common people, he shrank back without losing and gave up a large area under his rule, I dare not say how much the consequences are, but I dare to say that this is politically incorrect, and it is Han Qi's 'two monks carrying water and eating policy'. ”

"It's so funny. This is the new generation of 'handsomes' you want to cultivate? Correspondingly, the 500 people of the infantry army Si Dengzhou Water Military Region, who are known as waste materials, under the command of Chen Ergou, in the difficult environment of the two frigates, they are fighting Jurchen pirates everywhere. What if they also wait? What about retracting like Li Shizhong and waiting for a new frigate to enter service? Then the engineering ship of our industrial division must not cry blind? So what does the Nagasaki naval base want to build? ”