Chapter 476: The situation is reversed again, and the pig turns
The lifeless situation in the world is changing, and some talents and ordinary people are not aware of it, but some angry youths, military critics, and capital groups who have greatly benefited are intoxicated and indulged in the transformation of the southern and northern wars of the great bird.
It is still far from victory, after all, the two main armies of Western Xia have not been injured, and although the volunteer army crossed the Huangshui and took Zongcheng, it is not yet firm, and the entire strategic situation has not been completely reversed.
However, it did not affect everyone's chicken blood mood at all, and since then, they basically feel that Shenji Yan will not lose, because he has not fallen behind in the most difficult and darkest moments, so the situation in the future will only slowly get better.
The biggest attraction for groups now is the concept of a strong nation. The weak Song regime has gone from a weak country that can only shrink into the cracks and spend money to buy peace, and is harvested by barbarians every few years, and is slowly appearing in front of the world as a strong country and with a new look.
The shock of a cowardly regime's Jedi counterattack in the darkest moments, once won, is indescribable, even if many of them have not yet officially enjoyed the dividends of war......
At the same time as the overall chicken blood of the Song State, the internal political situation of the Liao State was fried.
Sima Guang, who brought back diplomatic news from the Liao State during the critical period, officially became a destabilizing factor in the Great Song Dynasty during this period.
The weather has cooled down in late October.
In the headquarters of the Hehuang Xing Camp of the Volunteer Army, which was temporarily set up in Zongcheng, at night, after reading the newspapers from the imperial court under the dim oil lamp, Wang Yan, who had obviously lost a lot of weight, slapped the paperwork on the table, and the oil lamp overturned, causing a small fire and scaring Chen Ergou to quickly extinguish the fire.
"Let's take a look at the paperwork, this is Da Song!" Wang Yan pointed to the newspaper that was almost burned.
After everyone circulated it in turn, their faces were very bad.
Ma Jinxi was illiterate, so he muttered to Mu Guiying for the specific content.
The content of the newspaper from the imperial court this time was probably that Sima Guang, who was originally stranded in Shangjing in the Liao State to make diplomatic efforts, was not welcomed. However, since the Volunteers crossed the Huangshui, the political situation in Liao has also undergone drastic changes, and it has begun to negotiate with Sima Guang of the Song State, who opposed the policy of the Volunteers, many times.
As negotiators, Xiao Yanshan and Xiao Hui's request to Sima Guang was: let the Song State immediately withdraw the Volunteer Army, and the Western Xia is not marching troops, not killing people, and maintaining the current pattern.
This is an unequal treaty, and Sima Guang, although a little cowardly, is not stupid, and refuses to negotiate on this point.
Immediately afterwards, on October 5, the Volunteer Army was releasing satellites, and the news of Zongcheng's victory reached Shangjing, causing the Liao State to panic. Yelu Hongji really didn't want the Song State to become strong, and he didn't want the Song State to gain greater depth in the Hehuang region, so he summoned the Song State's diplomatic ambassador Sima Guang again to negotiate.
The second request of the Liao State was: for the sake of mercy and in order not to cause excessive bloodshed, the Song Volunteer Army should all withdraw from the Hehuang area, and at the same time the Western Xia army also withdrew, and the three parties shook hands and made peace, and the Hehuang area was still ruled by the Tubo and Qiang people.
Sima Guang again rejected such an unequal treaty.
But Sima Guang's argument is not whether the Song State Volunteers withdrew or not, but who was right and who was wrong in the incident?
Therefore, in the third negotiation, Sima Guangju was in the objective factor that the emperor of the Song State was becoming increasingly weak and there was a fear of chaos within the Song State, and in principle recognized the withdrawal of the Song Volunteer Army, but did not accept the fact that the Song State was wrong. Sima Guang believes that it is a bloody and unkind act in Huangzhou, which violates the justice of the world and puts aside serious war crimes. So while demanding that the Western Xia withdraw its troops, the Western Xia also had to pay reparations to the Na Gang regime and the Great Song Dynasty.
In the last tripartite talks, it was uncertain whether the Western Xia army would lose the war, but according to the current situation, Wang Yan's troops were too fierce, and the protracted war that dragged on would be even more unfavorable to the Western Xia. Therefore, even if he thought that Sima Guang's conditions were a bit excessive, he agreed in principle and promised to return to China as soon as possible to discuss with the Empress Dowager of Western Xia.
In this way, under the suppression of the Liao hegemony and fifty sticks each, the tripartite talks reached a basic unanimous intention, and after signing a so-called declaration of unity, Sima Guang quickly returned to Bianjing, and questioned the "inappropriate act of deploying volunteers under difficult national circumstances" in the imperial court.
With Sima Guang's instigation, Emperor Zhao Zhen was temporarily delirious, and the anti-war faction within the Great Song Dynasty was definitely not small.
Of course, in view of the all-encompassing achievements of the Volunteer Army, which has given the Great Song Dynasty a lot of face, this time they cannot be regarded as surrenderers, but anti-war factions. The reasons for opposing the war are all strange, but the mainstream view is the issue of finance and food security: although everyone now believes that Shenji Yan will not lose the war, the main forces of the two major armies of Western Xia are still there, and Wang Yan is not a god, and it is impossible to destroy them quickly, so it becomes a tug of war for national strength, which is extremely unfavorable to the finance, food, economy and other aspects of the Great Song Dynasty.
There are many people who hold this view, including Lu Gongshu, Sima Guang, and even Fu Bi.
Han Qi said: This group of people does not believe that the Volunteer Army can end the Battle of Hehuang within a year, and now it is the many victories that have led to a better diplomatic situation, and the conditions for peace negotiations can be discussed to a certain extent. However, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and if there is more than profit now, and there is a loss in the follow-up hand, I am afraid that the conditions will not be so good if we want to negotiate again. If there is a continuous defeat, then there will be no feelings and righteousness between countries, and there will be another situation of blackmail on the border of the Liao State and Chen Bing in the Qingli year, which is not possible, but will definitely happen. History has never been gentle, and this is how the barbarians have always blackmailed and harvested the Han people.
Objectively speaking, Wang Anshi believes that the anti-war faction's concerns are not unreasonable. They are not losing their power and humiliating the country this time, and what they are worried about does have the possibility of happening.
In Wang Anshi's private letter to the commander of the Volunteer Army, Wang bluntly expressed his concern about the time limit of the war. Lao Wang thinks that his son's military command is fully mature, but he is not a god, for example, in the seven encounters in the process of crossing the Huangshui River, he met Zhuo Luolan, who quickly corrected his mistakes, and only won three victories, three draws, and one defeat. Then, when the main force of the Western Xia is still there, if the Western Xia court sees the stupidity of the man and adjusts the commander of the expeditionary force to Zhuo Luolan, it is possible to turn the Hehuang battlefield into a protracted war and drag the Great Song into an endless war quagmire. As soon as the Great Song Dynasty, which was dragged down by the war, showed a trace of fatigue, it must be a situation in which the Liao State took the opportunity to blackmail by force, and the development achievements of the past few years would be taken away by the hegemony of the Liao State at one time.
So on this issue, Daddy Wang Anshi's views are not much different from Fu Bi: they all agree that Sima Guang has something wrong, but now that the strategic goal of the Volunteer Army has been achieved and the Western Xia has successfully prevented the Western Xia from occupying the Hehuang region, it is not a feasible strategy to stop profits and truce and recuperate.
Only Han Qi had an ambiguous attitude. On such a major issue, Han Qi is not blindly belligerent, so he did not publicly accuse them of being anti-war. But Han Brain Shell also sent a private message to Wang Yan, attaching a top-secret letter to Wang Yan: "Your father, Fu Bi, including Wang Gongchen, is not unreasonable on this issue, so the old man will not publicly criticize them for their capitulationism." But the old man doesn't trust Sima Guang's diplomacy, so my Privy Council will never issue an order to withdraw troops in the short term. Now that the emperor can't be a director, the old man asks your volunteer army to 'not be ordered outside', and you can still adjust your deployment according to the specific situation on the battlefield. ”
Han Qi's meaning is obvious: this requires Wang Yan to bear certain political and military risks. If Wang Yan, the commander of the volunteer army, thinks that he can continue to fight, anyway, there is no imperial order now, and according to the principle of "the national war army will not be dispersed unless the order of the Son of Heaven is not dissolved", there is no retreat order from the Privy Council. Spicy, the documents under the Shumen in this period can be interpreted as "suggestions", not the will of the imperial court.
"Xianggong, how can this be good? Could you please give an instruction quickly? "After circulating the documents, the commanders of the various ministries were blinded.
On the contrary, Mu Guiying didn't care much, she and her man had seen too much about this kind of thing.
After thinking about it for a moment, Wang Yan tore up the documents and burned them, slowly got up and said: "I am not a god, I dare not guarantee a long-term victory, and I cannot quickly and effectively annihilate the living forces of Western Xia in the Hehuang region. ”
After looking around, he said: "But I think the most difficult moment for the volunteer army has passed, although my Da Song has tightened his belt, but the darkest moment is also passing." Now they just want to stop making profits, and they want to cede the good situation that the soldiers of our volunteer army have obtained by fighting thousands of miles in blood? ”
"This is unacceptable, what anti-war, this is extreme capitulationism, and there are mistakes in thinking, including my father. For those who have been kneeling for a long time, it is difficult for their waists to stand upright. If a person is poor, he doesn't dare to take it if he is given a mountain of gold, this is a small family. ”
Wang Yan knocked on the table and said: "Our volunteer army has paid the price of bloodshed, and the Great Song Dynasty has already borne the main pill risk so far, but all this crisis is gradually eliminated now, it should be the time for profits to run." At this time, the situation fought by the volunteers with blood will absolutely not allow any diplomatic bureaucrats with capitulation doctrine to cede at the negotiating table! ”
All stand upright!
Wang Yan said again: "Withdraw the army? I removed his Yelu Hongji's face, removed his Sima Guang's face, and removed him to eat more of his own face. Since the start of the Battle of Hehuang, more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in a quarter of the administrative region of the Great Song Dynasty have mobilized and participated, and the people in the Hehuang area have been bloodily trampled, and the visible civilian casualties have exceeded 100,000. The accumulation of gold and silver of the Gang regime was looted, and more than 30,000 of the soldiers of the Gang were killed in battle. When our volunteer army came, there were 2,500 people, and now when they moved to Zongcheng, 400 soldiers have buried their bones in Hehuang. ”
At this point, Wang Yan swept his eyes around again and said: "Of course Yelu Hongji can call for the withdrawal of the army, this is not too simple, let him come to this area to execute 150,000 Xixia people in front of me, and compensate me for the mobilization expenses of more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in the Great Song Dynasty, and I will withdraw the army." Because this is the conservation of energy, I don't even add interest to it. ”
Next, the subordinates are depressed, if you don't withdraw, you won't withdraw, as long as you dare to give orders, you will dare to fight forward. However, as we all know, once the big devil spits the mode, it will be endless, and many innocent people will be shot.
"Good, I haven't slept for a long time, go get some rest."
Mu Guiying touched his skull and forcibly dragged him away to rest, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise it felt very weird to hear the big demon king scold his father and old prince here, and it was not a ......