It has been more than 10 days since the Qingtang War broke out again.

In the early days of the Blitzkrieg, they were simply overwhelmed, relying on the guns provided by the Liao, in addition to the efficient and brave warriors of the Western Xia warriors, they were equipped to surpass the Song garrison in Qingtang.

This is because of the lag of the bureaucratic apparatus of the Great Song Dynasty and the competing interests, and the Hedong military system, as the second echelon, has not yet changed its uniform.

They are not equipped with enough cavalry, and it was the "Great Song Banner" that protected them in the past, but once they are really attacked, the combat power of the 20,000 Hedong Army is not even comparable to the 10,000 cavalry of the Qingyi Ghost Chapter, which is certain.

At that time, the Qingtang War paid a great price, and the population was originally relatively small, but after the Qingtang War, the government lost nearly 200,000 young and middle-aged men. In addition, under the protection of the Song garrison, focusing on the development of production, and giving up the thinking of the first army, from the official march of the Western Xia, the Qingyi Ghost Chapter can only be equipped with about 10,000 cavalry.

The military command of the Qingtang battlefield is even now in the hands of the Song army, from the beginning of the invasion, the Song army general Cao Zhong ordered the Qingyi ghost Zhang Shuai cavalry to go north along the Datong River, intending to replicate the Dumen Mountain Battle of Di Qing, the god of war, and use the cavalry to attack the logistics line of the Western Xia army.

However, the wrong thinking and unfavorable communication with the Qingyi ghost chapter caused the slowness of action.

The reason why Di Qing only used 1,000 fine horses to fight Dumen Mountain back then was speed and efficiency. But Cao Zhongqi, who did not have prestige, communicated with Qingyi Ghost Zhang, but still decided to attack with 10,000 cavalry, intending to echo the north and south.

But how can the recruitment, mobilization, marching, and logistical deployment of 10,000 cavalry be done in a short time?

In this regard, the cavalry team of Qingyi Jieguizhang only passed through the Nanzong area, and had not yet formulated a specific strategy for attacking the Western Xia logistics line, but the twenty field battalions deployed by the Song army in Zongcheng and Tonghuang were no longer able to withstand and were defeated.

As a last resort, the defeated Song army retreated to the Huangzhou camp. At this point, the strategic point of rushing to the Datong River was lost.

While losing the supply line from Lanzhou in the Song Kingdom, Huangzhou, a strategic town in Qingtang, was in an emergency. This is tantamount to announcing that the more than 70 field battalions deployed by the Song army in the eastern front area of Qingtang have been officially trapped, and although the battle damage is not large, the sharp spirit has been lost, and the mood of the pill has gradually permeated the Qingtang area.

What's even more fatal is that although the strategic situation has progressed to this point, the news of the outbreak of the Qingtang War due to the lag has not yet entered the capital of the Great Song Dynasty. But he has already entered the Privy Council of the Northern Mansion of Liao.

As a result, the tribal armies of the various tribes of the Liao State were gathering in Shangjing.

The situation won't be going to ferment anytime soon, but it's not going to be too slow. These tribal armies similar to mercenaries, before the Liao Guoshan Army was not in danger, they were indeed very executive and brave and warlike troops.

Now, due to the rise of manufacturing and agriculture and animal husbandry in the Song Kingdom, materials are becoming infinitely more and more, and the days everywhere have begun to improve to a certain extent. But the culture is still lagging behind, and the tribal rules of the law of the jungle make them want more meat when they have food. And Lao Xiao revealed to them a long time ago that the big meat was in the Southern Song Dynasty.

No one knows if it's really time to eat big meat, in short, the larger Qingtang War has broken out again, and at the same time, in the entire vast territory of Daliao, the support of the chiefs and lords are relatively efficient towards the Khitan "leather family king banner".

This is happening in reality. But in fact, the first three rows of the Liao State, including Lao Xiao, are not yet clear about whether they will go to war.

Just like when the Qingtang War broke out last time, the Liao Guoshan army was also partially assembled on the front line of Nanjing Road, whether it was going to be a battle, Yelu Hongji himself may not be clear, and it must be judged according to the current situation.

So now, in the same way, after a large number of tribal armies began to assemble, they just waited to see the situation in Qingtang, as well as the various situations in Guangnan, Bohai, and the southeast five roads of the Song Kingdom.

Of course, what is certain is that if it does break out this time, the intensity will be significantly higher than the last time by an order of magnitude. After all, last time it was only the Liao clan's own Shan army gathering, even if it was to fight, it would definitely be mainly blackmail, and it would be a local war with limited intensity.

But now the entire steppe wolf pack is moving, because the pigs are fat, Song Guozhen is too rich and tempting.

Once the situation breaks out, then Lao Xiao and Yelu Hongji will also be passively tied to the chariot by the local tyrant lords of the tribe, and only blackmail may be able to satisfy the Khitans, but it is far from satisfying these tribes such as Enemy Lie, Chazha Thorn, Meriji, etc.

In short, the more north the people are, the more fierce they are, the more they want the land and resources of the Southern Dynasties, and the more they want to eat big meat!

If you want to fight, the most efficient way is not to wait for these earth lords to support the army to participate in the battle, of course, the elite Shan army will attack quickly, and then blow the rallying cry after winning the first battle.

But Lao Xiao did the opposite, he could fight or not, so he was not in a hurry to send troops. Just slowly blow the rallying cry and wait for the spies of the Imperial City Division of the Song State to send the current situation of the Liao State back to the Bianjing Imperial Court.

Of course, this news will be transmitted back to Bianjing. During this period, the focus of intelligence work was on the Liao State rather than the Western Xia, coupled with its own internal problems, the resources of the Imperial City Division were greatly reduced, and the Qingtang War broke out.

After these news arrived in Bianjing in September, the whole country was shocked and could not be talked about for the time being, because the Liao State did not say what to do with the assembly of these troops, but the whole country of the Great Song Dynasty was officially poured a basin of cold water.

So far, the people have barely been stable, but within the Song government, a group of ministers led by Han Qi have become a pot of porridge, which can really be described as a state of suffering.

The Liao State was really polite and reasonable the previous time, and after adopting the method of diplomatic dialogue, and getting the "apology and compensation, and the temporary dismissal of Shenjiyan", they basically stopped, and no longer pursued the bombing of the Song Navy into the territorial waters of Liao.

But now, for Han Qi, he has encountered a big problem. This time, the Liao State did not notify anyone, and it was not possible to carry out a large-scale army build-up of such a scale, even if it was in his own administrative region to go to Beijing.

Yes, this is certainly not possible between the great powers. For example, the last time the Liao State was assembled, it was because of Yelu Hongji's enthronement ceremony, and the Liao State Privy Council would inform Song Guo in advance and say, "Don't be nervous, don't misunderstand, be calm, my father's country gathered troops for that or something, not to kill people", which is probably the reason.

So even if they didn't know what they wanted to do, Han Qi was really anxious, and the so-called prestige of the great power that had bluffed the Liao State suddenly did not exist? I think that the people of Liao are crazy, what kind of trouble are they going to make when they suddenly engage in such a blind operation?

For this reason, even if the people are working and the money is lost, the Song State must deal with it and make corresponding arrangements. But when the deployment began, Han Qi also experienced the sequelae of Guangnan's willfulness for the first time.

The resources of the four roads in the southwest had just been invested, and Han Qi didn't believe Wang Yan's so-called "you can win if you don't fight", so the four roads couldn't move and were trapped.

The Southeast Five Roads may be able to be moved, but the scale is also limited, because these areas are the most complex areas of the era, with too much clan power and religious thinking. The government, clan, and religion are theoretically natural enemies, and when the three parties exist and suppress each other, they can be relatively stable, and if there is a sudden big change in the deployment of forces, such as the large withdrawal of the forbidden army, the clan thinking and religious thinking will not be forbearing, and they can immediately beat each other out of the dog's brain.

The so-called water grabbing brawl in Chenliu County broke out weakly, and in the southeast region, he could appear in a region with one surname, and then all of them took hoes to go into battle and "fight" with the believers of certain sects. Almost literally fighting, bureaucratic and muddy inaction has led to the possession of a large number of regulatory weapons by these forces. Even in the era of later civilizations, this kind of force will have many home-made powder guns and so on.

And Han Qi is not stupid, he also received some news in advance that the situation in the southeast is unstable and Manichaean Maitreya activities are frequent. So this also made the imperial court unable to move, even if it was known that it did not take many troops to stabilize the situation in the southeast, but the number of troops was temporarily the needle of the sea, once evacuated, once chaos, the damage of the unprotected and trampled on each other would continue to expand.

When Wen Yanbo entered Beizhou to quell the turmoil, it was an example. A handful of Maitreya cult terrorists can do so much harm. It was because after the withdrawal of the garrison, it seemed that the rules did not exist, and everything was possible without rules and the deterrence of the garrison, and finally the Beizhou incident was elevated to the military operation of "Pang Shumi personally in charge", and Wen Yanbo personally led the troops to quell the chaos.

In this way, now that Han Qi is blind, he does not want to correct the Guangnan deployment that has been carried out, because it is impossible to determine that the Liao State is going to fight, and if the Guangnan policy is corrected, it means that this political tear has been lost to the Great Demon King. Han Qi still wants to be faced.

In this way, the Northeast Fifth Road was originally deployed against Liao, and it already existed naturally. The upper fourth army was able to drive out of Bianjing without the first ranks, so there were two roads left in the northwest, and the third road in the middle was the last available resource.

The volume of the third road in the middle is not of much use. The only remaining heavy troops can be deployed on Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road, which can have troops deployed.

At this point, Han Qi is very helpless, whether he can transfer the Western Army is a question, the Western Army is the pillar of the Ximen Country, and it has been deployed against the Western Xia since ancient times, although now although it is impossible to see that there will be a war with the Western Xia, but after all, it is a feud with the Western Xia, whether the Western Army can be transferred to deal with the grotesque behavior of the Liao State, this needs to be weighed.

After only thinking about it for two days, Han Qi made a difficult decision: he issued a document to the head of the Yongxing Military Road Capital, and immediately took 50,000 troops to Taiyuan Mansion in Hedong to deploy troops to deal with the Liao State's transfer of troops and generals.

In addition, Han Qi requested: The Yongxing military system needs to cooperate with the original Hedong Army and Hebei Army to form a visible majestic defense line in Taiyuan Mansion, Hejian Mansion, and Zhending Mansion to deter Liao.

At this point, the Privy Council was a little more psychologically stable. Although it is not majestic enough to compete with the military muscles of the Liao State, it can barely gather more than 300,000 forbidden troops on the defense line of the five roads in the northeast.

It is responsible to say that the only countries in the world that can come up with a defense line of this scale in a short period of time are the Liao State and the Song State and the Indian Asan State, and there is no third one.

In addition to the Privy Council's own bureaucrats, who called this a majestic royal division, the propagandists were also forced to demand that the propaganda be carried out with "majestic and unbreakable defenses", once again stirring up the blood sentiment of the whole country.

Suddenly, the internal content of the Song State changed from fear of Liao to ridicule, and there was a tendency to intensify......