687,Battle of the Daimyofu (3)
Zheng Fei commanded all the Heavenly Dao armies to launch a fierce attack on the enemy's position, but the Song army retreated all in the city, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the Heavenly Dao army did not carry out a tragic siege battle.
In a few days, there was no big gain except for capturing a few small strongholds of the Song army, but the Tiandao army up and down used this to boost morale, and the side with fewer troops took the initiative to attack the side with more troops, and the side with more troops did not dare to come out to fight, and only hid in the city as a turtle with a shrunken head, what a strange phenomenon is this?
Zheng Fei was also a little crying and laughing when there was such a result, the reason why he took the lead in launching the attack was for two purposes, one was to play the morale and courage of the Heavenly Dao Army, and to bring up the breath of the Heavenly Dao Army, so that the whole army could understand that although there were many enemies and they were menacing, there was nothing to be afraid of, and the brave won when they met on a narrow road!
The second is to use this battle to show the strength of the Heavenly Dao Army to the Song, Liao, and Xia armies, to deter the Liao and Xia armies from the side, to create conditions for the plan to recruit them that will be implemented in the future, to prove to them that the Heavenly Dao Army has the strength to protect them, and at the same time to suppress their arrogance.
Zheng Fei knew that the current situation of the Song State was very bad, Zhao Huan was almost fighting this battle with all his national strength, trying to complete the battle, anyway, if he didn't do this, he would soon suffer a comprehensive attack from himself, if there was no help from foreign aid, it was only a matter of time before he was wiped out, instead of being so passive, it was really better to take risks and use Liao and Xia to completely defeat himself, from this level, Zhao Huan's approach was not a problem,
It's a pity that the Song State now has no national strength to support such a super war, according to intelligence, Zheng Fei speculated that the Song State can only choose a quick victory in this battle, and if he wants to exchange a victory with the least casualties, the best way is to retreat to the city and delay the time, as long as it drags on for three months, the Song Dynasty will not be able to hold on, this battle will win without a fight, and it can also destroy Zhao Huan's wishful thinking of "Lianjin to destroy Liao and resist Xia", but if you do that, Xia, Liao and Liao may still force the Song State to cede the twelve states in the northwest and the thirteen states in Hebei, Zhao Huan can only be forced to agree in order to avoid making a strong enemy, which Zheng Fei does not want to see, and at the same time, this will also make Zheng Fei miss a great opportunity to defeat the Song, Liao, and Xia kingdoms in vain.
Therefore, Zheng Fei also decided to take a risk, the Manchu Song court requested, and they came to a big war, who expected that he hurried to the battlefield and took the initiative to attack, Song, Liao, Xia The three armies did not dare to fight, this strange phenomenon made Zheng Fei vaguely understand one thing, it was not the Song army that did not want to fight, but the Xia army and the Liao army, it was the retreat of the Xia army and the Liao army, which caused the Song army, which did not have the courage to fight with him alone, could only shrink up.
Why were the Xia and Liao armies reluctant to fight? Zheng Fei thought about it and thought of only two possibilities, one is that they waited for Yeluchun's 200,000 army to arrive, and then went to war after completely occupying the advantage in troops, which showed that the combined forces of Song, Liao, and Xia, which looked like nearly one million troops, were not a united whole, and Song could not command the Xia and Liao armies to work for themselves as they wanted.
The second possibility is that they didn't want to help Song Guo defeat themselves at all, Zhao Huan was secretly calculating them, how could they not be secretly calculating Zhao Huan? Like what...... Not only did he get the land from the Song State smoothly, but he didn't help the Song State really destroy himself, but left himself to torture the Song State constantly, and then he could continue to blackmail more benefits from the Song State!
This situation made Zheng Fei suddenly discover that in this seemingly simple three-country alliance, the three forces of Song, Liaoxia and Xia were unified on the surface, but in fact they had their own calculations, intrigue, deceit, and use each other, forming a big drama of praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind, and what was even more ridiculous was that they all thought that they were the yellow finches that could laugh to the end, and regarded themselves as the poor cicadas that could be slaughtered by them.
Zheng Fei sneered at this, whether it was Zhao Huan or Emperor Xia and Emperor Liao, they all felt that they could have the last laugh, so let them laugh to their heart's content, the more they laughed, the more careless they were, and the more opportunities they left for themselves, and all they could do was to calmly grasp their shortcomings from their intricate relationship and give them a fatal blow!
Zheng Fei continued to implement the original plan, and ordered the whole army to immediately stop attacking and withdraw from the battlefield now, since the other party is either unwilling to fight or dare not fight, then don't shave your head and pick your head hot, just accompany them to continue to wait, and wait until they are willing to fight.
Of course, Zheng Fei's purpose in doing this was not to adopt delaying tactics and drag down the Song Kingdom, but to take advantage of this time to wait for the arrival of a person, who was none other than Zhang Shuye.
Zheng Fei has decided to adopt Song Yan's strategy to collect and surrender the Xia and Liao armies, but to achieve this goal, it is not enough to rely on his own mouth, even if he spreads Zhao Huan's conspiracy of "uniting Jin to destroy Liao and resist Xia" in the ears of everyone in the Xia and Liao armies, without evidence, Zhao Huan can completely refuse to admit it, and even bite back and say that this is his own plot to fabricate rumors to divide the Triple Alliance, and the final result is likely to not reach the point where the Song army and the Liaoxia army will turn their faces.
Therefore, what Zheng Fei needs most now is evidence, evidence that Zhao Huan and Jin Guo secretly formed an alliance. But how easy is it to get evidence? At present, it seems that in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Zhao Huan has done an extremely good job of keeping it secret, at least even people of Zhang Shuye's level have never heard of the limelight.
Zheng Fei thought about it, and thought of a compromise solution, that is, since he couldn't get "physical evidence", then find a way to get "human evidence", and this "human evidence" was none other than Uncle Zhang!
This time, Zhao Huan was in power, and the ministers of the old emperor's cronies and the ministers of the party of the former Yun Wang were punished for crimes, exiled and killed, but Zhang Shuye was not implicated in any way because he was the famous Cai Jing's sworn enemy and his reputation for being upright, and he still served as Zhongshu Shelang, and was in the core of power in the Great Song Dynasty.
This gave Zheng Fei a chance, Zheng Fei decided to "transfer" Zhang Shuye back, so that he could find a way to serve on the front line of the Song army, and then in an "accident" he was "captured" by himself, he could announce that he had passed the "interrogation" of Zhang Shuye, and obtained from him the confidential information of the Song court's intention to unite the Jin State to destroy Liao and resist Xia.
At the same time, in order to increase credibility as much as possible, Zheng Fei did not give up the idea of getting Zhao Huan's secret "physical evidence" from Jin Guo, so he thought of Ma Zhi, Ma Zhi said that he set up an eyeliner next to Zhao Huan, it was this eyeliner who accidentally learned the confidential information, Zheng Fei wanted to give it a try, to see if he could get any physical evidence from Zhao Huan through that person, although the possibility of success was very small, but after all, there was still a chance to give it a try.
Zheng Fei summoned Ma Zhi to the front a few days ago and asked him if he was still sure that he could contact the eyeliner he had set up next to Zhao Huan, especially if that person would continue to obey his orders.
Ma Zhi pondered for a moment and said, "Like this kind of intelligence personnel placed next to the prince of the central government, because of the extremely dangerous nature of the work they are engaged in, their identities belong to the top secret of the Yanyun Society, and they generally adopt a one-line contact method, and there are very few people who know their true identities, and because of Zhao Huan's identity as the prince, placing people next to him may bring disaster to Yanyun if he is not careful, so this dead man is not only carefully selected by his subordinates, but also very loyal to me. The secrecy of his identity has reached the highest level, and the person who knows his identity is not only a subordinate, but also a subordinate cronie, now, I have escaped from the Yanyun Society, and that cronie has also died in the pursuit of the imperial court, and there is no second person in the world who knows his true identity, even the new president who replaced him will not know. And I don't believe he will defect to the new president, because it will be too dangerous, and the new president will probably kill him. There is only one path in front of him, and that is to continue to lurk in the East Palace. Therefore, the subordinates can give it a try, and if they can connect with him again, they should be able to command him. ”
Zheng Fei immediately ordered Ma Zhi to tell in detail the method and joint code to get in touch with the dead man, and then asked Ma Zhi to write a letter to the dead man, which had proved Ma Zhi's identity and gave him an order, ordering him to find a way to find evidence of Zhao Huan's secret communication with Jin Guo.
Subsequently, Zheng Fei ordered someone to quickly send Ma Zhi's best-trusted carrier pigeon to Tokyo, so that the intelligence officers in Tokyo immediately began to get in touch with the dead man.
Now, so many days have passed, presumably Zhang Shuye and the intelligence officers of the Investigation Bureau in Tokyo have received their respective orders and started to act, so Zheng Fei decided that he could take this time to wait for Zhang Shuye and the arrival of "physical evidence".
As for how long he can wait, it almost entirely depends on how long Yeluchun's 200,000 army can wait to reach the battlefield, which is really a coincidence, Zheng Fei originally asked Yelu Caijie to return to Yanjing to persuade Yeluchun to agree to delay the time The purpose is to take advantage of this time to defeat or severely damage the Song-Xia coalition army, but he didn't expect that although he is no longer ready to deal with the Xia army, Yeluchun's delay has also won a critical period of time for the new plan.
Moreover, Zheng Fei is not ready to reveal Zhao Huan's true plan to Ye Luchun in advance, with Ye Luchun's understanding of himself and Jin Guo, he should not need any evidence to believe his words, and now reveal it to him, he will definitely not hesitate to immediately recall his 200,000 troops to return to Yanjing for self-protection, which will greatly weaken the strength of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and will also be more conducive to Zheng Fei's next actions, if it was placed in the past, Zheng Fei would definitely do it, but now it will not, Through this matter, Zheng Fei completely saw the cunning nature of Yeluchun, Yeluchun is not a completely trustworthy ally, just like this time, as long as the conditions are met, he will betray the alliance with himself at any time, and he doesn't even care at all that his daughter has just married him,!
If the Jin State really attacked his city in the future, he has reached the moment of life and death, Zheng Fei can hardly guarantee that he will not change his banner and surrender to the Jin State, don't forget, his old friend and old subordinate Yelu Yujian has already surrendered to the Jin State, and it is not impossible to have Yelu Yujian's contact around, then the idea of using Yelu Chun to resist the Jin State will become empty talk at that time.
Therefore, Zheng Fei will let Yeluchun's 200,000 army arrive here smoothly after delaying for a while, and then ...... Swallow them! Take the initiative into your own hands!
It's just that ...... like this, Zheng Fei couldn't help but think of Yelu Caijie, if he really did it, the most hurt person must be Yelu Caijie, but there is no way, such as today's troubled times, from the emperor to the commoners, all of them can't control their own destiny, just like they are actually the same, there is the possibility of disappearing in an instant, in order to let more people live, it is inevitable to make sacrifices, even if it is worth it to bear the guilt of a lifetime!
Now all Zheng Fei can hope for is that Yeluchun can send Yelucaijie back before he acts, and then he can make up for her in other ways, but Zheng Fei knows that this possibility is very small, Yeluchun doubts that he can survive this catastrophe, whether it is out of father's love to protect her or for other purposes, he will not let Yelucaijie come back for the time being.
Thinking of this, Zheng Fei's heart was even darker, and his mind couldn't help but flash the nostalgic glance of Yelu Caijie when he was leaving...... You okay? My wife, I hope you, don't hate me .......