Half of the first month has passed, but the heavy snow that has been falling since the end of last year has not stopped at all, and the fluttering snowflakes continue to fall from the sky, which has completely covered up the Tokyo Bianliang City in that white.

Even the royal street straightway, which has always been responsible for clearing the snow and opening the way, has now accumulated a thick layer of snow, and people can make a creaking sound when they step into it, not to mention the other streets and alleys. Such a harsh climate is a disaster for the people of the city, especially those businesses that have not opened since the Chinese New Year.

In the past, Tokyo in New Year's Day was particularly lively, not only the shops along the streets were prosperous, but even the small stalls that were erected at random could make a lot of money, but this year's Great Song Capital City was particularly deserted, and there was hardly half a figure on the streets.

The shopkeeper of Suding Pavilion held a stove in his hand, snorted white steam, and sighed with worry: "I didn't expect that this year would be a natural disaster, and our seven years of Xuanhe will really be difficult!" ”

The account room next to him also smiled bitterly: "Yes, now the war in the north is tense, and the capital is like this, this year is really difficult for our Great Song Dynasty, is this God warning and punishing?" ”

As soon as he spoke, he saw the shopkeeper quickly reach out and cover his mouth: "You old thing, you dare to say such things?" If people hear about the report to the government, don't implicate me and our entire store. ”

The bookkeeper let go of his hand, looked around carefully, confirmed that there was no one, breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice: "Now the situation in Tokyo is tense, and the government took a few drunken and complained that my Northern Expedition will be defeated, don't hurt people." ”

The bookkeeper nodded vigorously again, but he was sighing in his heart, what is the use of just doing this, is there no one in the capital and even in the Great Song Dynasty who said that the Northern Expedition would be defeated and that it would be victorious? But he didn't dare to say this, but he felt that his heart was getting more and more congested.

In just one year from the sixth to the seventh year of Xuanhe, many major events have happened in the Great Song Dynasty, and in summary, they are even more troublesome than the previous years. In fact, if you really want to talk about it, since the year after entering the Xuanhe year, there have been two major chaos in the Great Song Dynasty, namely the uprisings and rebellions in Liangshanbo and Jiangnan, and all of them were quickly pacified and suppressed.

However, in the past year, uprisings broke out in the southeast and northwest one after another, although the power of these anti-thieves was far from being comparable to that of Liangshanbo and Jiangnan, but it also made the local government rumors and exhausted. Several peaceful battles were fought, and all the money and food in the official warehouse were consumed.

Then, in the autumn, floods broke out, and the Yellow River suddenly diverted its course, causing disasters in several counties in Gyeonggi and displacing more than 100,000 people. When the imperial court finally made great efforts to settle the victims, a locust plague broke out in the unaffected places, resulting in the local autumn grain harvest almost being wiped out, so that the imperial court could only reduce the grain tax in these places, and urgently transfer a large amount of money and grain from the treasury to help the localities.

If such a series of disasters were to be placed in other dynasties, the imperial treasury would have been stretched thin and unsustainable. But in the Great Song Dynasty, they have not yet broken their muscles and bones, and even they can send troops to the Northern Expedition in this year

The Liao people launched a series of great battles.

You must know that whether it is ancient or modern, the battle of conquest is still a competition of financial and national strength in the final analysis, and the Great Song Dynasty, which has been hit by natural disasters one after another, is comparable to a two-front battle at this time, but it still relies on the wealth accumulated over the years to bear.

Although in fact, sending troops to the Northern Expedition to attack the Liao State was a national policy set many years ago, and by the sixth year of Xuanhe, it was already ready to be sent - the Song State continued to transfer troops to the border between the two countries in the past few years, and sent a large number of military rations, weapons, armor and other baggage to the border pass, which had long aroused the suspicion of the Liao people, and they had already made an agreement with the Jin people, and the other party had chosen to suddenly send troops to attack the Liao city in this year, so that the Great Song Dynasty had no room for retreat - although Tong Guan's soldiers went out of Yanmen Pass to launch the Northern Expedition in the spring shortly after the beginning of the year, At this time, there were no natural disasters in the country, and everything could be carried out in an orderly manner, but after the autumn, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. But even so, the support of the Great Song Dynasty for the front line has never made any mistakes, whether it is heavy grain and grass, or the replenishment of soldiers, they have done it to the end.

But what all this has come in exchange is not a series of great victories, but terrible news of continuous losses. In this year, even though Tong Guan had done his best, even though the Jin people in the north had won successive battles, they had already killed half of the Liao Kingdom in a hurry, and it seemed that they would not be able to keep Kyoto. However, the Song army always suffered losses under the Liao people, not to mention the loss of troops, and even failed to capture a few cities, and in the end, they could only temporarily retreat to the Baigou River, and the Liao army guarding the border was in a stalemate, and the situation was quite bad.

When these war conditions continued to spread back to the south, the people of the entire Great Song Dynasty were a little unacceptable. You must know that before this year, the people of the world are quite optimistic about this Northern Expedition, after all, the Great Song Dynasty has been oppressed by the Liao people for a hundred years, and it has already made countless bloody men indignant to pay them every year, and now, the Great Song Dynasty is strong, and the Liao people have gone into decline, and even the small Jin people in the north can fight them so that they are unable to fight back, how did they get to their side, but they have lost consecutive battles?

As the saying goes, there is no harm if there is no comparison, watching the Jin people continue to expand their achievements, but their own family is like this, the people are naturally dissatisfied with the court, and there are many strange words. Later, the city of Tokyo was full of collective views on the Northern Expedition, and bluntly said that they should give up fighting again and make another alliance with the Liao.

This made the monarchs and ministers of the main battle faction led by Zhao Ji and Cai Jing very annoyed, and they were also worried that this wind would inevitably make the discussion of peace wide, which would bring greater trouble and even affect the morale of the troops at the front. So he simply used strong pressure and arrested many people who sang the Northern Expedition of the Song Army on the street, which temporarily stopped this trend, but if things want to take a turn, they still need the Northern Expeditionary Army to make achievements.

It's just that according to the current situation that the Song army has switched from attack to defense, and can only stalemate with the Liao people in the area of the Baigou River, it is quite difficult to turn the tide of the war. For this reason, the emperor has issued several strict decrees, ordering Tong Guan to go north as soon as possible, start a decisive battle with the Liao, and win a big victory.

It is said that the wording of this last decree is even more severe to the extreme, and it is even more clear that if Tong Guan can no longer win the decisive battle, then he can only be removed from his post as commander-in-chief of the three armies, and a new commander will be appointed, and he will be escorted back to Tokyo for trial. And this will was sent out of the capital division only yesterday, and today it has been spread in the officialdom of the capital on a small scale.

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It was only in the evening that he learned of this will, which made him frown deeply: "Thousands of miles away, Your Majesty actually plans to remotely command the front-line battle, no wonder our Song army will be defeated in successive battles." It is said that the upward and downward effects, I can foresee that half of the major defeats on the front line should be attributed to this! ”

Over the past year, the Great Song Dynasty has changed a lot, and the monarchs and ministers are very busy. However, Sun Tu, who used to be a busy man, has become a rare idler in Tokyo. He has long been devoid of any dispatches, but his identity is valuable enough, and he has truly become a rich and idle marquis that countless people envy.

In addition to eating and sleeping every day, it is to flip through books, and accompany the family to take a walk in the capital and surrounding areas, so don't live too chic. After such a year-long carefree days, Sun Tu looked a little fatter than before, and coupled with the beard he deliberately mustered, the nobility on his body was also much heavier.

Of course, this is secondary, and more importantly, the Sun family has added another population. After many attempts, Hu Rong finally gave birth to a daughter for Sun Tu. Although Hu Rong was a little disappointed about this, Sun Tu, the father, was not good for this daughter, not only named Sun Rui, nicknamed Feng'er, but also held his daughter in his arms all day long, almost refusing to let go, which made his son Tiger Head a little jealous, and always pestered his father, so that he could only hold it one by one......

And after seeing that her husband loved her daughter so much, Hu Rong finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, she still made up her mind, and she must give birth to a son for her own Langjun next.

At this time, Sun Tu was hugging Feng'er in his hand, but he didn't pay attention to his son pulling him at his feet, wanting to hug him, but his eyes were fixed on the big map hanging on the wall in front of him. This is drawing the specific situation of the advance and retreat of the Song and Liao armies in the north, and he shook his head again and again: "Although the area around the Baigou River is dangerous to defend, it is not a good place to use troops after all." If Tong Shuai really obeys his will and risks a head-on battle with the Liao, I am afraid that the result will not be optimistic, and even ......"

Based on his limited historical knowledge before the crossing, he only knew that the Great Song Dynasty failed to take Youzhou in the end, and then relied on the Jin people to send troops to buy Youzhou City, which had become an empty city, from them. But it was precisely because of this that the weakness of the Great Song Dynasty was completely exposed, which made the Jin people invade the south in the ensuing big way, resulting in a great tragedy.

In Sun Tu's view, the battle of Baigou River is likely to be the key point in the battle of the entire Song, Liao, and Jin Kingdoms. It was precisely because of the defeat in this battle that the Great Song Dynasty suffered a great loss of vitality, and finally led to the inability to break through the Northern Expedition. It's just that even though he sees this and knows the direction of history, he still can't do anything.

In this year, although he has a noble status and a comfortable life, the only thing is that he no longer has any real power. Not to mention military power, it is extremely difficult to ask a certain yamen about trivial matters, and everyone guards against him like a thief. This made his words impossible to pass on at all, so how could it affect the battle situation ahead?

And at this moment, the housekeeper suddenly ran over with an excited expression: "Master Hou, there is a will in the palace, let you enter the palace tomorrow!" ”

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Mu has thought about it.,One volume spans two years.。。。。

A new volume, Sun Tu is going to go on the expedition again, and today is Monday, so I ask for a ticket for Yuehou Zhuangxing。。。。。