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There are several battlefields on the entire front line of the Daimyofu, from east to west, from north to south, and almost all the dangerous places along the junction of Jingdong and Song Border have two armies facing each other.

Originally, according to the meaning of the Song court, the Song, Xia, and Liao Three Kingdoms Alliance Army should have launched an attack on the Tiandao Army a long time ago, but the commander of the Xia Army, Brother Cha, disagreed, he insisted on waiting for the other 200,000 troops of the Liao State to arrive and then act together, he is not stupid, starting a war early is equivalent to losing the strength of the Xia Army early, why is this? The Great Xia Kingdom can't suffer this loss!

The Song court was helpless about this, but there was nothing they could do about it, so they could only wait for the remaining 200,000 Liao troops to arrive earlier.

But in fact, this is just Chage's excuse, he wishes that the remaining 200,000 Liao troops will never arrive, and the 200,000 Xia troops will eat and drink here, which is called a comfort.

And the reason why Emperor Li Qianshun agreed to send troops to participate in the war this time was mainly to get the twelve states in the northwest, as for promising the Song court to help them eliminate Zheng Linfeng, Li Qianshun was actually not interested at all, because after weighing the pros and cons, he realized that it would be much more beneficial for the Xia State to let this Zheng Linfeng continue to exist than to destroy him, and the appearance of Zheng Linfeng directly caused the division of the Great Song Dynasty, and also directly and seriously weakened the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, which was simply an ideal result for the Xia State.

Therefore, Li Qianshun secretly instructed Brother Cha to have two tasks, one is to help the Song State fight against Zheng Linfeng and ensure that the Song State will not be destroyed by that Zheng Linfeng. Xia and Song have been fighting for so many years, no one has been able to destroy anyone, although Xia Guo hates Song State, but on the whole, Song State is still an acceptable neighbor, in case Zheng Linfeng really wants to destroy Song State, the situation may be different, emerging countries will always have a strong desire for foreign expansion, Li Qianshun is almost certain that if Zheng Linfeng really replaces Song State, Xia State will be greeted by a new round of bloody and bloody war.

The second task was the opposite of the first, that is, to try to prevent the Song State from destroying that Zheng Linfeng with the help of Liao and Xia. Once the Song State destroys Zheng Linfeng, its strength will be greatly restored, which is also what Li Qianshun does not want to see.

In short, it is to maintain the status quo of Song Guo and Zheng Linfeng as much as possible.

Although out of caution, Li Qianshun did not secretly pass through the wind with the Liao State, but he believed that the Great Song Dynasty, which was divided and weak, and had a sworn enemy regime of the Han people of the same race that no longer tortured it all the time, was the most beneficial to both the Xia State and the Liao State, and the Liao Emperor and his Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces should have understood, and he also believed that the reason why the Liao Emperor was willing to send hundreds of thousands of troops to the war must be for the same purpose as himself!

So based on these, Brother Cha didn't want to fight this battle at all, he had already made up his mind to work and watch as much as possible, and then after cooperating with the Liao army to symbolically drive Zheng Linfeng to the south, the two countries put pressure on the Song State at the same time, asking for twelve states in the northwest and thirteen states in Hebei, forming a pattern of Song, Liao, Xia and Zheng Linfeng in the Central Plains!

According to Brother Cha's observation, now on this battlefield, even if the 200,000 people of the Liao State have not yet arrived, the combined forces of the Song, Xia, and Liao Kingdoms that have been in place have nearly 700,000 people, and these 700,000 people are either the Northwest Army with the strongest combat effectiveness of the Great Song Dynasty, or the strong army of the two countries of Liaoxia, and the combat effectiveness is terrifying! Not to mention that there are still 200,000 absolutely elite palace tent troops of the Liao Kingdom about to arrive!

Although Zheng Linfeng's side is said to have a total of 700,000 troops, Zheng Linfeng also has to divide troops on his territory to guard against the Song State on the long border line from south to north, and this part of the army needs at least 300,000 according to Chage's estimate, so Zheng Linfeng can only bring 400,000 people to this battlefield at most.

Brother Cha believes that if Zheng Linfeng is a smart man, under such a huge disparity in strength, then Zheng Linfeng should adopt a strategy of tightening his defense, relying on the abundant materials in the southern part of the Great Song Dynasty to fight a protracted war with the Song, Liaoxia and Three Kingdoms Alliance, and strive to drag this battle from summer to autumn and then from autumn to winter.

For example, a war of 100,000 people, counting the consumption of logistics supply troops, every month, even according to the minimum consumption level, it will need to consume about seven or eight million guan, and 700,000 people is at least 35 million guan, which is so much in a month, which is an astronomical amount!

His Zheng Linfeng's territory is the granary and rich land of the world, he is not short of money and food, and his soldiers are few, in terms of consumption, this has become an advantage, so he can afford to drag it,

But the Great Song Dynasty can't afford to delay, according to Chage's intelligence, the Great Song Dynasty has emptied his treasury in the past two years because of years of rebellion and war, and now the Song Dynasty in order to fight this war, in its existing territory crazy additional rounds of taxes, plus from Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others copied tens of millions of family wealth barely made up more than 70 million, 70 million Guan sounds like a lot, but at most it is only enough to support hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line for two months, Even if the Song Dynasty continued to dig three feet from all over the Song Kingdom and scraped together tens of millions of yuan, it would support it for another month or two at most, and the Great Song Dynasty could not afford to drag it out, so it could only hope for a quick victory.

So as long as Zheng Linfeng gritted his teeth and held on for a maximum of three months, dragging this battlefield to the cold winter, the Great Song Dynasty would not be able to support it, and he could only retreat, he Zheng Linfeng would be able to win without a fight, and at the same time, this also achieved the goal of Xia and Liao, not only to maintain the status quo, but also to negotiate with Song Guo on the terms of the territory, although I didn't help you destroy that Zheng Linfeng, but my brothers and I also contributed to the troops, it is you who can't protect the grain and grass and can't complain about us, and the negotiated territory should be unconditionally honored. It's a big deal, when you have enough food and grass next year, my brothers and I will help you fight again.

Brother Cha's idea was perfect, but to his surprise, according to the intelligence, only three days after Zheng Linfeng led his army to the battlefield, the Heavenly Dao troops on each battlefield launched an attack on the Song, Liaoxia, and Three Kingdoms Alliance at the same time!

Brother Cha couldn't help but secretly scold Zheng Linfeng from the bottom of his heart for being a fool, and secretly said that he was not carried away in a series of victories with the Song State, and actually took the initiative to attack when the troops were at a disadvantage, wasn't he looking for death?

No way! Brother Cha immediately made a decision, even if Zheng Linfeng wanted to find death now, he couldn't let him die, he immediately ordered that all the Xia troops everywhere were not allowed to fight, and if they wanted to fight, let the Song and Liao armies fight.

Coincidentally, the commander of the 100,000 horses of the Liao army who arrived in advance, Xiao Chara, who stayed in Xijing, Liaoxi, also made the same choice, Xiao Chala was loyal to the Liao Emperor, and this time he led the 100,000 troops in Xijing to come here for three purposes, the Liao Emperor secretly ordered him, one is to find an opportunity to replace Ye Luchun to take the 200,000 Nanjing army into his hands, the second is to find a way to continue to maintain the situation of the Great Song Dynasty split, and the third is to get the thirteen states of Hebei agreed with the Song. Therefore, in the face of the attack of the Heavenly Dao Army, Xiao Chara also made the same choice as Brother Cha, ordering the Liao army to resolutely retreat, not to fight with the Heavenly Dao Army, and to let the Song army and the Xia army fight if they want to fight.

In this way, the Xia and Liao armies refused to fight at the same time, and the commander of the Song army, who was originally overjoyed and prepared to fight with the Xia and Liao armies to meet the enemy, was dumbfounded when the new Daimyo's Mansion stayed behind Zheng Xiunian.

Who is Zheng Xiunian? There may not be many people who say he knows, but when it comes to his father, everyone should know that his father is when Zheng Juzhong, Zheng Juzhong is meritorious because of his support for Zhao Huan, when Zhao Huan secretly took charge of the government and abolished Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, Zheng Juzhong as a first-class meritorious hero was naturally rewarded, Zhao Huan pretended to be the emperor, and entered Zheng Juzhong as the left servant to shoot, Kaifu Yi with the three divisions, and the Anyuan army festival envoy, sealed the Chu State, and worshiped the Taishi. Zhao Huan gave him almost all the highest-grade real power and false positions to commend him, Zheng Juzhong was in power overnight, and one person was above 10,000 people.

Zheng Juzhong's family also benefited. Zheng Juzhong has two sons, one is Zheng Xiunian, the other is Zheng Yinian, one was the prefect of Hejian Prefecture before Zhao Huan took power, and the other was Ren Julang.

After Cai Jing was dismissed and taken down, his main cronies were implicated, among which his right-hand man was also his son-in-law, Liang Shijie, who was left behind in Beijing's Daimyo Mansion, was naturally unable to escape, Liang Shijie was condemned as Cai Jing's comrade, and he was also dismissed and exiled after listing a lot of crimes, so that the position left behind in Beijing's Daimyo Mansion was vacant, Zhao Huan waved his pen and directly transferred Zheng Xiunian to be promoted to the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion and the Beijing Guard, Zheng Yinian was also like a rocket and was promoted to the head of the household department. In order to show the grace of the Zheng family, in addition, the Zheng family also has many rewards,

Today's Zheng family, there is the Empress Dowager Zheng in the palace, headed by the prime minister Zheng Juzhong, and the clansmen all serve in dangerous positions in the court, plus their protégés and cronies, which are better than the former minister Cai Jing!

In this battle, Zheng Xiunian, who stayed in Beijing, naturally became the commander of the Song army, as well as the nominal commander of the Liao and Xia armies. Not long ago, before he received the appointment, Zheng Juzhong had written a secret letter to him, in which Zheng Juzhong gave him a detailed analysis of the mistakes made by the various commanders of the Song Dynasty in several wars with Zheng Linfeng, and warned Zheng Xiunian that he must not repeat the mistakes of the past, and at the same time, Zheng Juzhong also explained to him the current grim situation of the imperial court, and asked him to try his best to use the Liao and Xia armies to defeat Zheng Linfeng in the shortest possible time.

Therefore, Zheng Xiunian has been anxious about the 200,000 troops of the Liao army these days and has not yet arrived, they don't come, the Liao and Xia armies just don't go to war, but when they heard that the Tiandao army actually took the initiative to attack, this made Zheng Xiunian very happy, and hurriedly ordered Brother Cha and Xiao Cha to fight with him, but he didn't expect to be rejected by the two mercilessly, especially Brother Cha, the person who Brother Cha hated and admired the most in the Song court was Tong Guan, and the two of them each commanded the army to fight in the northwest for so many years. While treating each other as mortal enemies, it is inevitable that there is some sympathy for each other, but not long ago, Brother Cha was shocked to receive the news that Tong Guan had been executed by the Song Court, Brother Cha was very happy and couldn't help but feel sad at the same time, this time he came to Song to fight, as soon as he heard what the commander of the army was Zheng Xiunian, he was simply a stinky boy who relied on his Lao Tzu to take the position, and he didn't put Zheng Xiunian in his eyes at all, after he received Zheng Xiunian's order, he simply replied with two words straightforwardly, not going, and didn't even bother to say a reason, Zheng Xiunian was angry and helpless, but he didn't have the courage to command the Song army to go out to meet the battle alone, and in the end he could only order the Song army everywhere not to fight, only to defend.