Chapter 602: March 17

Xiao's scorching sun was delayed due to his own interests and thoughts, and it became an indefinite wait.

After several contacts and negotiations with the Great Demon King, he found that the Great Demon King was like a tube of toothpaste, which came out every time he squeezed it, which made people itch, but he was unwilling to sign the agreement. Every time there will be a new topic, there will be "sincerity", and each time it will take three days to think about it.

This situation made Xiao's scorching sun gradually lose patience and start to go crazy, and then the big demon king was polite and gentle on the surface, but in fact, even the language made it clear that it was a delay, and he didn't care about the fact that he was about to go berserk.

On the other side, located in the camp of the Nanjing Expeditionary Army of the Liao State, Xiao Hui was anxious.

Seeing that the weather has warmed up, with the deepening of the northern evacuation of the Song State, the best time for war against the Liao State is being missed. Counting the days, half a month has passed since Xiao's scorching sun should have responded, but he still hasn't returned?

At this point, Lao Xiao didn't plan to wait, and basically knew the plan. This is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy. It is clear that his Great Demon King is brushing his face and scaring everyone with the aura of the return of the God of War, so as to win the time for his great evacuation of the northern part of the Song Kingdom.

Such a plan cannot be achieved by anyone, only the Great Demon King. Who would have thought that at this time, he would have such a deviant anti-routine strategy?

The bad thing is that Xiao Hui herself is too cautious, and the great retreat in the north of the Song State is mostly interpreted as a good thing among the Liao army. They thought that whether it was the Great Demon King's strategy or helplessness, in short, the withdrawal of the Song people was not a bad thing, which meant that the resistance encountered when entering the army was weaker, and the Liao State could easily obtain a large area of land in the north of the Song State.

It is precisely because of such remarks and ideas that Xiao Hui has repeatedly delayed until now, wanting to wait for the news of Xiao's scorching sun and delay sending troops to attack the Song Dynasty.

But it really doesn't work, you can't wait any longer, Xiao s scorching sun may have his own minds, is it the urine of diplomatic bureaucrats, whether it is the Song Dynasty or the Liao people, most of them have a virtue. This is a war of countries that eat a lot of meat, and we cannot count on the results of diplomacy.

So now, sixteen days have passed since Xiao's scorching sun theoretically returned, and Xiao Hui decisively raised his account.

After the war drums sounded, Xiao Hui sat in the handsome position, looked around at the dozens of generals from all sides and departments, and said lightly: "I think that I have missed the best date to send troops, but it is not too late to make amends, and I can't wait for Xiao's news of the scorching sun, so it is time to decisively enter the Song Kingdom." ”

After a pause, he said: "Don't have psychological pressure, my Da Liao is not undeclared war." The reason for the war has come from scratch, when the Song people provoked the Great Liao to attack Suzhou Port, in line with benevolence and morality, our side carried out sincere negotiations and signed a treaty, one of the treaties is the removal of Wang Yan, the person responsible for Suzhou Port, but his comeback now is equivalent to the Song State negating the original treaty, so we must use a strong counterattack to redefine the Suzhou Port incident. ”

"General, there is something to say about the humble position." An old Xiao henchman nodded slightly when he saw Xiao Hui, and continued, "The comeback of the Divine Machine is indeed a reason for war, there is no doubt about it. But he thinks that since he has reached the point, he can try to wait. Now it can be seen that Song Guo's actions are empty city plans, not traps. Then it doesn't matter if he completes the evacuation, the Song people have withdrawn, which is more conducive to the conquest and occupation of our army? ”

Xiao Hui said: "However, this is nonsense. Although the Song people did not resist much after evacuating, it also meant that our army would not achieve great results in the early stage of the march, and it would not be able to boost the morale of our army and destroy the confidence of the rear of the Song State. Responsibly, this is necessary in the early stages of the war, and it is precisely where the advantage of the attacking side lies. If the evacuation of the Divine Crane is fully completed, it will be equivalent to him erasing the unequal status of the attackers and defenders in the early stage of the war, which is not good for our attackers, but it retains the vitality of his defenders. At first glance, he seems to have lost his power and humiliated the country and lost a large amount of territory, but in fact, in line with his policy of internal relocation of industry and technical personnel thirteen months ago, he retained the vitality of the Great Song Jedi counterattack. ”

"At the same time, the large-scale evacuation of the Song Dynasty is equivalent to causing fatal logistical pressure for the offensive of our Liao army when the autumn harvest is still early. Ladies and gentlemen, if there are mistakes, they must be corrected, if we send troops half a month early, the logistics line will not have to bear a lot of pressure, and we may get a lot of grain and grass from the territory of the Song Kingdom, which will be enough for us to advance to the Daimyofu. But it's hard to say now, this gap is enough for the gods to make a lot of deployments. Now, he was a truly great strategist, and he would rather have the reputation of losing a large part of the country, but he wanted to limit the number and speed of our troops, so that we could not advance quickly to the industrial town of the Daimyo. If we force this to do so, there is a risk of logistical disruption and going alone. ”

Everyone couldn't help but shush after hearing this.

Xiao Hui sighed and said: "I regret not at the beginning, we have fallen too far behind, it seems that we have used the situation to lay out very early, but we have to admit the uniqueness of Shenjiyan, he was thirteen months ago, when his political career was at the most critical, but he was already preparing for this all-out war between major powers." Foresighted to this point, the name of the famous artist at that time was well deserved. ”

At this point, Xiao Hui got up: "Cross the boundary river and march immediately!" Time is the lifeline of this war, if we can't push it to the second-line defense circle of the Song State at the right time and fully occupy the grain and industrial base of the Song State, then I dare not say that Da Liao will definitely lose, but there is no doubt that with the size and blood-generating ability of the Song State, we will fall into the real quagmire of war at that time. In that situation, there may be a problem with the position of Goryeo, Western Xia, and Cochin, and maybe we are the ones who have caught fire in the backyard! ”

"Swear to follow the great general Ping Song to the death!"

Many of the generals who followed Lao Xiao Bing to Xingqing Mansion knelt on one leg.

At this point, March 17 has become a new chapter in the wheel of history, which is destined to go down in history, at the node of the world war, on March 17, the official start of the Song-Liao all-out war.

More than 300,000 cavalry of the Liao State crossed the border in seven routes, such as Xiaonanhekou, Bazhou, Huatazikou, Dashi, Wushan, Caocheng, Baoning, etc., and officially launched the strategy of cutting down the Song Dynasty......

In just two months since the Great Demon King came to power, he has been working hard and low-key to deploy troops. This was to gain a small amount of time to confuse the Liao State and make up for the damage caused by Han Qi's improper policies to this period at that time.

Until now, at the end of March of the eighth year of Jiayou, the domestic pill atmosphere in the Great Song Dynasty has not been eased, on the contrary, there is a more and more serious trend.

The Funing Army had already withdrawn from Beijing's major industrial town and marched into Bianjing.

This is the recognized iron army of the Great Song Dynasty, the only army that can fight. Moreover, the Daimyo Mansion is recognized as the first industrial town, and the economy and politics of the Great Song Dynasty are one-third. At this point, many people interpret the withdrawal of the Funing army as a pill, which is unacceptable, although the Great Demon King did not call for the relocation of the capital, but seeing that the situation has been bad to the limit, this operation of the Great Demon King seems to represent the possibility of the Daimyo Mansion falling under the iron hooves of the Liao cavalry.

If there was no mainstay Funing Army, which led to the loss of the defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion, then the Liao soldiers would have approached the capital of the Great Song Dynasty sooner than expected.

At this point, the whole capital was panicked.

Now Gyeonggi's power seems to be increasing, but the news of many local battlefield emergencies is like snowflakes. However, in fact, no reinforcements were received anywhere. The Great Demon King has only one sentence for everyone: self-reliance and hard work.

In addition to making people pay special attention, it is also inevitable that people feel that on this issue, the Great Demon King is no different from the cowardly prime ministers in the past.

It is the tradition of the Great Song Dynasty that the most significant feature of the Great Song Dynasty since ancient times is that it is not to send out the Gyeonggi army, but to shrink external forces to protect the security of Gyeonggi.

The Great Demon King is even more excessive now, and the people of Gyeonggi have found that even the Sichuan army that Han Qi intended to use for the deployment of Guangxi has entered Beijing at the earliest, and now that the Liao State is marching in a big way, he has not pulled the excess forces to the north? What does this make many people not understand the operation?

During this period, if the propaganda is not appropriate, confidence cannot be stabilized, and the public opinion will gradually fall out of favor and gradually deteriorate in the country with such a climate situation.

The advantage is that this is the consistent urine nature of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people have become accustomed to such a court, and the exemption and fault tolerance rate will be relatively high. After all, there were almost no disappointing times in the past when the Great Demon King was disappointed, and everyone is willing to wait patiently to see.

This is the reason why Wang Yan dared to walk a tightrope during this period, and he was almost using the last credibility of the Great Song Dynasty regime and all the character accumulated by the Great Demon King in the past as collateral to brush his face!

Because even Wang Yan can't help it. It is necessary to abandon the first line in the north, and it is an empty plan as a last resort.

Now that the Funing Army is no longer cavalry, in order to preserve the morale of the army, it is impossible to temporarily collect the war horses of their various armies, which will affect the morale of the army and lead to the lower overall combat efficiency of the Great Song Dynasty. In this case, Shen Jiyan believes that the Funing Army can no longer exert the nature of a sharp knife.

If it is not reorganized, the idle and accustomed Fourth Army will have forgotten what it is all about fighting.

So even if he was distressed, Wang Yan had to transfer the Funing Army back and participate in the reorganization of the entire system structure of the Fourth Army.

The Great Demon King is going to carry out a super-large operation on the military system in a limited time, with the help of the high fault tolerance rate of the national war. Using the Funing Army as the command structure and "bankruptcy and reorganization" of the Fourth Army was the final way out for the Great Song Dynasty.

It doesn't necessarily have much power either. Because freezing three feet is not a day's cold, it is certain. However, he was sure that he could barely turn the Fourth Army into a working army.

Then as long as the route is not scattered and the cohesion is not dispersed, after they are put into the battlefield, they will slowly mature in the continuous combat bloodshed. This is the process of natural selection, and practice is always the most effective way to educate.

If there was enough time, Wang Yan could slowly change the nature of the Great Song army in a moderating way. But now there is no time.

According to the previous situation of the Great Song Dynasty, even if the prime minister is willing to offend people, it is almost impossible to completely reorganize like this, and the interests touched are too great. However, the prestige of the Great Demon King in the army is special, and it is something that the Great Song Dynasty has never had. In addition, at the moment of national crisis, many magnates and politicians have compromised with the big demon king politically, so the error tolerance rate is naturally high in this situation.

After nearly two months of surprise attacks since coming to power, the reorganization of the Fourth Army has gradually come to an end when the Song-Liao War officially broke out. Under the supervision of the new command structure, a small number of troops have completed the change of equipment and entered the stage of intensive training.

Quality training for field warfare and survival is almost incompatible. Sharpening guns in battle can only be the simplest political brainwashing, coupled with the simple and crude "one-two-one", so that they urgently adapt to uniformity and discipline......