Listening to Liu Fa's words of dissuasion, Tong Guan's face sank obviously, and he said coldly: "My Great Song Dynasty and Xia thieves have been fighting intermittently for more than a hundred years, and the previous time from the north of Pingxia City occupied the vicinity of Nanmu, and embezzled the Tiandu Mountain Supervision and Military Division to guard the key villages, and conquer the Xia thieves to attack the Hengshan Forts is just around the corner, and my West Road army should take advantage of the situation to enter the river and take the Shuo Fang, and it is possible to collect the land of the summer soil barrier in one fell swoop!"

Xia Zipingxia's defeat begged for peace, and the Liao State intervened in the previous time, and a certain family eliminated the Xia thieves in one fell swoop. In recent years, the Liao lord has been deaf and unreasonable, and the female direct departments in the country have set up a country in eastern Liaodong to establish the country as gold, and the Liao country has no time to look westward. General Liu, now that the Xia army is afraid of the momentum of our army, they dare not make a big deal, shouldn't they take advantage of the situation to enter the hinterland of the Xia country at this time? ”

Liu Fa scolded secretly in his heart, and said that Tong Guan's words were high-sounding, but the second half of the sentence revealed the true thoughts in his heart, pacifying the border troubles in the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty for more than 100 years, and making immortal achievements, then Tong Guan, who already held the military and political power of the Great Song Dynasty, will inevitably be respected to the point of incomparability.

But that's not how the battle was fought.

Tong Guan planned to send troops to attack the Shuofang land, originally for the Tang Dynasty in the northwest region to defend the Turkic Khanate and set up one of the ten knots of Tianbao Shuofang Town, the seat of governance is located in Lingzhou (now Wuzhong City, Ningxia), now has been renamed Xiping Mansion by the Xia State, and is also located in the Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Xia State, leading to the key area of the military states, and now the West Road Song Army built Zhenwu City, conquered the area of Renduoquan City is located in the east of the Hehuang Valley, and it is necessary to travel more than 1,300 kilometers to send troops to attack Shuofang, and the northeast is endless. In the sparsely populated Tengger Desert, there are still several Xia military supervisors and military divisions guarding them layer by layer, rashly going to the hinterland of the Xia country to kill, isn't this drilling into the encirclement of the enemy?

What's more, Liu Fa has already heard the report and learned that Brother Cha, the king of Xia Guojin, also led his troops westward and led the commanders of the various ministries to come to confront the Song army on the west road.

Liu Fa, who had been fighting and killing the Xia army for a long time, knew that Brother Cha was planning with troops, and it was difficult for the enemy to find out, and he could be said to be the number one enemy in the Xia army. If the Song Army of the Western Road rashly moved lightly and entered the hinterland of Western Xia, how could he let go of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

Liu Fa thought in his heart, and hurriedly persuaded Tong Guan: "Tong Xuanshuai, although the Xia thief seems to shrink the soldiers and horses, to avoid a head-on duel with our army, is the so-called suspicious trace, must not be observed, now my three roads of the Great Song Dynasty civil service, the Xiang army and other state military divisions coordinated hundreds of thousands of people, but the Western army is only more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and now the battle line stretches for more than 2,000 miles, our army is going to occupy the important place of the Xia State Border Court Military Town, and secondly, we have to beware of the Xia thief to attack our army's rear road, and the number of soldiers and horses is already stretched.

I didn't think that our army still had to build a fortress and build a military fortress, step by step, and slowly try to encroach on the summer realm, not to mention that the Xia army is now uninjured, and our army has been fighting for days and days, and the people are sleepy and lacking, and they are afraid that they will meet the enemy's way if they rush to send troops, and the chances of victory are definitely not great. Wangtong Xuanshuai thinks twice, and the best strategy to break the enemy must be considered in the long run. ”

Tong Guan grimaced, snorted heavily, and said: "Slow Tu Slow Tu, since a certain family was ordered by the imperial court to the northwest of the border court to supervise the army, it has been fighting with the Xia Kingdom for more than 20 years!" A certain family was born by the official family, and the summer thief has been in trouble so far, but a certain family of the direct religion is disrespectful and deserved, and vows to calm the west to calm the people in peace. Shu does not live up to the commission of the imperial court.

And my Great Song Dynasty has sufficient grain and grass military resources, high morale, and the three armies are life-threatening, taking advantage of the rebellion of the female direct departments in the Liao people's country and have no time to interfere, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take the enemy's hinterland in one go, so that the Xia army is terrified, and in a few years, it will definitely be able to pacify Di Qiang and restore my Shuobian! General Liu, you are a veteran general who has experienced a hundred battles, and you must also know the treacherous ways of the soldiers, and do it for the generals to see the opportunity, and have their own laws. ”

Although Tong Guan's face sank like water, he was already very displeased, but when it came to the lives of tens of thousands of sons and daughters under his command, Liu Fa, who was originally quite majestic in the army, immediately raised his head and said loudly: "Xuan Shuai Jun's will, he did not take the order to move forward, but more wins, less calculations are not victorious, once our army takes Shuo Fang to teach the Xia army to perceive, when it is ambushed and besieged by the enemy, it will not only frustrate the spirit, I don't know how many soldiers and sons will die on the battlefield in vain, then the Xia army will take advantage of the weakness, I am afraid that it will be our army soldiers and horses that are difficult to take care of!" It is a major event for the general, and I hope that Xuan Shuai will not make a hasty decision! ”

Tong Guan was even more angry when he heard this, and his face was already extremely ugly! In an instant, he remembered that the generals of the Western Army represented by Liu Fa had always been perfunctory in their dispatch and appointment. After the authority in the Western Army became more and more powerful, Tong Guan immediately advocated sending troops to attack the Xia Kingdom, and also knew that although the Xia Army was good at fighting bravely, but now it was difficult to support it alone, as long as the Western Army Qu three armies were killed, if they wanted to destroy the Xia Kingdom and achieve their own immortal achievements, it was just around the corner, but the most important premise of this war was: The command of the Western Army must be firmly controlled in their own hands!

As for his sudden decision, how small the odds of sending troops to take Xia Guoshuo's Xiping Mansion are, Tong Guan and Liu Fa's probability of treating him is also very inconsistent, and in Tong Guan's opinion, this bet is worth fighting, and he can afford it; However, according to Liu Fa's point of view, it is very likely that the lives of countless sons and daughters in the army will be sacrificed in vain this expedition, but the chances of victory are very small, and there is no need to take risks and act rashly.

What's more, before Tong Guan summoned Liu Fa to come to discuss, he had already thought very clearly, no matter whether the military plan to take the Western Xia Shuo side would completely fail this time, he still had the ability to make his own side profitable.

Seeing that Liu Fa's face was becoming more and more gloomy, and he dared to contradict and offend the military orders he had given, Tong Guan was even more sure in his heart that this time he coerced Liu Fa to lead the army to go on the expedition, but it was a wonderful method for himself that could be profitable no matter what.

Thinking of this, the anger on Tong Guan's face gradually dissipated, he looked at Liu Fa fixedly, and said word by word: "General Liu... At that time, when I swore to the Northern Expedition and conquered the Xia thieves, your official Fuxi River was a strategic envoy, and bluntly said to the official that the Xia thieves were weak, and they would definitely succeed, and they would definitely succeed in one fell swoop, and teach the Xia thieves to lose all the rivers and mountains, but now they can't advance an inch, and bluntly said that it is difficult to win the attack on the Xia thieves, which is ...... But why? ”

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There are many things to do during the day....... I am not very satisfied with the hasty completion of this chapter, because it involves historical records, and the characters are perfunctory in combination with the motives and contradictions of historical deeds.........