Do you want to fight the Northern Expedition?

It must be fought, but it is definitely not now, and the military might of the Great Song Dynasty is actually not as strong as it seems.

In the past few years, none of the successive successes have been won in real hard battles.

Yang Lin knew this well, and the fall of Western Xia was more because Western Xia hoped to fight a war to recover the disadvantage that was gradually eroded.

This gave Tong Guan a chance, and he could defeat the Western Xia so smoothly by mistake, and he has not completely pacified the territory of the Western Xia so far. Many party nobles still control large territories and have soldiers and horses in their hands.

If it weren't for Yang Lin's deception, he would have fought a battle with the 37 barbarian tribes in Dali in the mountains and mountains in the southwest, and the Great Song Dynasty would not have been able to win.

The Khitan, as a huge empire with a master and a mediocre lord, is dying but still has the foundation, and has lost its ambition to go south, and the monarchs and ministers are immersed in the last afterglow of the Great Liao.

Such a behemoth is a natural barrier, which can block the more ferocious and ruthless alien races from the north for the Song Dynasty, which is not strong enough, and buy more time to develop and become stronger.

The Ancient Tea Horse Road, the place where horses are raised in the northwest, all kinds of border passes are plagiarized by foreign soldiers, and a good situation is in front of you, at this time do not take advantage of the situation to train strong soldiers, but to use the long-tired Western Army and Tong Guan private soldiers and untrained recruits recruited by Hebei to provoke a big war, the big war of the two largest empires in the world, it is simply stupid.

For the sake of their own power, these people forcibly want to gamble on the national fortunes of the Han dynasty, and Yang Lin must stop them in public and private.

Yan'an Mansion is an important town in the north, the natural person Ding Fanmao, Yang Tianai sat on a horse and looked at a towering city tower in the city, about nine zhang high, leaned over and asked: "Father-in-law, look at that building, it's so high." ”

Chong Guiyi was very proud, and said triumphantly: "That's the Zhenqiang Tower, which was built by my grandfather!" Yang Lin smiled dumbly, scratched her little nose, and said, "Surname, I know your majesty." ”

Yang Lin didn't ride slowly, and he was only pulled away by Lu Qian for three days... When he entered the city with the people of the Banzai Battalion, all the generals and officials of Yan'an Mansion came out to greet him.

Today's Yang Lin is the backer of the entire Western Army, when the generals of the Western Army entered Beijing to beg for people and ran into walls everywhere, gritting their teeth and pulling their belts and starving to fight to the death with the party members It seems to be yesterday, and the Western Army naturally attaches great importance to this big tree.

After the columns were seated, the generals of the Western Army who heard the news came from various military states one after another.

After a period of greetings, Yang Lin got straight to the point and said: "The Mongolians' request to open a border exchange market has crossed the Khitan, and the entire grassland is under the rule of the Khitan, and they may not condone such hairpins." ”

When the seed master heard this, he chuckled in his heart and said, "Shaozai, the Khitan nominally controls the Mongolian tribes, but in fact has never treated them as their own people. The Khitan aristocracy has been moving westward for a long time, hunting herdsmen, plundering women and children as slaves, and now the Mongolian tribes choose to open the market, which is not very harmful to the Khitan, so there should be no overreaction. ”

The general of the border pass, after all, is not a member of the imperial court, and has the limitations of his vision.

Yang Lin sipped his tea and said: "Opening the border mutual market is by no means ordinary, this move Khitan doesn't care, it is equivalent to giving a head start to other tribes." Moreover, what Mongolia imported into the Great Song Dynasty was some armaments, especially war horses.

No matter how stupid the Khitan people are, they won't sit idly by and watch us have endless war horses, who doesn't know that the Great Song Dynasty is rich, and it is not difficult to buy Mongolian horses after letting go of the border market..."

The generals smiled, Yao Gu got up and said: "Shaozai, this matter is not difficult, if the Khitan dares to go south, his subordinates are willing to act as pioneers." ”

The seed master still looked arrogant, and said lightly: "You can fight Montenegro first, go out of Xijing Road, take Dading Mansion, surround Shangjing, and capture Emperor Liao alive." ”

Yang Keshi slapped the table and spitted sideways: "Say that the Mongolian tribes will move together, and everyone will go north together to capture Yelu Yanxi alive." ”

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The generals in the northwest discussed it enthusiastically, and the scene was very jubilant for a while.

Yang Linqi's fingers trembled, grabbed the teacup and threw it on the ground, and suddenly quieted down.

"Now that the Western Xia has just finished fighting, the party departments have not yet returned to their hearts, and Tubo is eager to try, and the northwest frontier is not monolithic. At this time, I didn't want to clean up the right and consolidate the Hetao, so I even thought about going to fight the Khitan!

Although the Khitan is no longer as brave as it used to be, there are still millions of soldiers and horses, and thousands of generals, how can it be so easy to fight.

The territory of the Khitan extends to the East China Sea in the east, the Tianshan Mountains in the west, the Xing'an Mountains in the north, and the Baigou River in Hebei in the south, which is several times larger than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

Now the Khitan is riddled with diseases and is gradually declining, and all races in the country are unwilling to submit. Isn't it to help them integrate the whole country and rise again when they attack the Khitan now? ”

In fact, the Khitan nation is really not as ferocious as the Jurchens and Mongols.

In 947, Liao Taizong led his army south to the Central Plains and captured Kaifeng Bianliang, Yelu Deguang ascended the throne in Bianjing and proclaimed himself emperor, and changed the name of the country to "Great Liao". After that, they withdrew from the Central Plains by themselves, only occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, and returned to the grassland to dominate the king.

The generals were speechless, and the planter said haha, hugged his fists and said: "The martial artists are ignorant, Shaozai is angry, what Shaozai is going to do, our Western Army listens to Shaozai." ”

He waved his hand gently, and someone brought new tea, Yang Lin sighed and said, "To solve this matter, Mongolia, Khitan and our Great Song Dynasty must sit down and talk." ”

"Shaozai just said that the Khitan must be intolerable, and when you sit down and see the Mongols, won't you have to open the table and start a war in the hall?"

Yang Lin smiled and said: "From the perspective of the interests of the Khitan country, they are not allowed to talk, but from the perspective of the interests of individual Khitan people, it may not be the case." Now the Khitan government is in the hands of Xiao Fengxian's brothers, this person is greedy for money and power, if he is bought out, there is nothing to do in the Khitan! ”

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Buying off the powerful ministers of the enemy country and betraying their national interests looks like it was used by foreign races on the Han Dynasty in the past.

Acting like this, it's not just the wind and the moon, is there still a little bit of the wind and bones of the Great Song Dynasty.

Seeing a group of generals, they were all a little embarrassed, Yang Lin wiped his eyelids and said: "The strategy itself is not divided into high and low, but the purpose and identity of the person who uses it. Our actions today are for the long-term peace and stability of the Great Song Dynasty and for the eternal peace of the border passes, and we will be able to leave a name in history for people to pay attention to in the future. ”

Yang Lin said

Everyone bowed their heads and was silent, for the generals but knew how to fight and make meritorious contributions, this kind of thing was still a little ashamed of complicity, only the seed master said: "In this case, we will ask for a bribe from the court?" ”

"The princes of the DPRK and China are not short-sighted, how can they come up with money, this matter has been taken by the official. You just need to send someone to escort my people to Khitan and kill Xiao Fengxian with money! ”