The five-year spring offensive lasted from the end of April to the beginning of July.

A large number of cavalry units galloped across the Liaozhong Plain in companies, and the Jurchens dispatched brigades to encircle and suppress, and the cavalry companies retreated one after another.

The Jurchens could not withstand the logistical pressure of large-scale mobilization and retreated, and the cavalry company gradually followed.

The Jurchens sent small cavalry units that could be logistically withstanding, only to be repeatedly beaten by the Qi army with similar strength.

For the first time, the cavalry of the Qi Army, which had the dual advantages of tactics and strategy, gave full play to the 16-character tactical mantra of "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I advance, the enemy is stationed and disturbs us, and the enemy is tired and I fight."

The three princes of the Wanyan family were extremely sad to find that they really had no way to take the cavalry of the Qi army, so that the cavalry of the Qi army once appeared under the city of Liaoyang, which deeply shocked the entire Jin State regime.

It was not until the beginning of July that the Qi cavalry was satisfied with the killing and withdrew from the Liaozhong Plain.

At this time, they left the Jurchens with thousands of soldiers killed, hundreds of villages burned, more than 5,000 women, children, the old and the weak, more than 5,000 Aha slaves dispersed, and countless losses of cattle, sheep and livestock.

What makes the Jurchens even more shocked is that there is no spring ploughing in the south of Haizhou this year, and nearly half of the cultivated land in the south of Liaoyang has not been able to complete the spring ploughing work, and the rest of the land is only hastily cultivated.

What's more, Qi Jun has tasted the sweetness, and there is no doubt that he will come again during the autumn harvest, and when the time comes, this year will be directly equivalent to a dead harvest!

The Jurchens are a fishing and hunting people, which is not wrong, but fishing and hunting cannot support a country's finances, so after the establishment of the Jin State, the Jurchens have begun to transform into a mixed agrarian and nomadic regime, and fishing and hunting are just a supplementary means.

If you don't plough for a year, there is no doubt that the economy of the gold country will collapse.

Now Liaozhong has eighty guan and one stone of grain, and maybe it won't be able to beat one hundred and fifty guan by next year, so if you don't need Han people to fight, Dajin Guo itself will starve itself to death!

"Something has to be done!"

Wanyan Zongbi jumped anxiously in the main hall of the Liaoyang Palace:

"We need food! Grain!! Grain!!! ”

Wanyan Zonggan said helplessly: "We all know where the problem is, but where does the food come from?" We don't have food! ”

"Now the only people around who have food are the Han people in southern Liaoning." Wanyan Zongwang also said: "But we don't have the ability to grab food from southern Liaoning." ”

"The Goryeo maids in the east are easy to grab, but now there is Xiuyan in the middle, and the Qi army in Phoenix City, we can't get by."

"The Mughal slaves in the west are easy to deal with, but they have no food at all, and they can't feed so many people if they grab some cattle and sheep."

"Sauron in the north is even poorer than a dog, and the food he eats on an expedition is not as much as he consumes."

"So what now? Watching starvation? Wanyan Zongbi shouted angrily: "Or do you want to give Liaozhong to Han Dog, and let's go back to the deep mountains and old forests to be savages?" Even if we are savages, will Xu Shiyang's Han dog let us go? ”

Absolutely not, everyone in the world knows that.

"Then think about it from a different angle."

Wanyan Zongwang says:

"Xu Shiyang regards my Dajin as a barbarian, and he must be destroyed as soon as possible, so will he let go of the Mugwu and the party members?"

"......" Yan Zongbi was silent.

"You mean, to unite with the Mughals?" Wanyan Zonggan asked.

"That's right! If possible, add party members. Wanyan Zongwang confirmed his thoughts: "Zamuhe will not be easy in the face of Xu Shiyang, the pressure will not be easy, he has food from Shanshan over there, give us a little support, and it should be no problem to survive this year." ”

"What about next year?" Zong Bi asked.

"I'll think of another way next year." Wanyan Zongwang replied: "Perhaps, give us some time, we can contact the Zhou people in Jiangnan." ”

"What about contacting them? They are now in power with the main battle faction and will not give us food. ”

"Not necessarily." Wanyan Zongwang said with a smile: "Now the Qi State still respects the Zhou Emperor, but they have a little sign of obedience to Jiangnan?" In the eyes of Emperor Zhou, Xu Muhe and Xu Shiyang's father and son are probably also chaotic ministers and thieves, right? ”

"As long as we renew the peace treaty with Emperor Zhou, no longer require them to be vassals, and ensure the status of Emperor Zhou, Emperor Zhou will definitely not bother with us about the past."

"Then the grain from Jiangnan can't be transported."

"No, what we need is for the Zhou army to threaten the Qi army from the south."

Wanyan Zongwang said hopefully:

"No matter how bad the Zhou army is, it is still known as the 800,000 forbidden army, and it can always be done to contain the 30,000 Qi army, right? Then there are the Muguls, who control 200,000 strings and contain the 30,000 Qi troops in Hebei Province, right? When the time comes, we will concentrate our forces to attack southern Liaoning, we only need to deal with the remaining Qi army, as long as we recover southern Liaoning, we will be able to farm and boil salt with peace of mind, slowly restore our national strength, take our time, and don't worry. ”

In this way, there is indeed hope.

Qi has been building an anti-Jin encirclement network, but they are too strong and put too much pressure on everyone around them, so Jin Guo also has the opportunity to build an anti-Qi encirclement network in turn.

At that time, it is still possible to turn the tide again.

Unfortunately, at this time, the three princes of the Wanyan family, Bo Jilie, did not know that the Qi army had already fought a fierce battle with the Mongolian army, and at this time Xu Shiyang had reached some mutually acceptable agreements with Zamuhe.

As for the Great Zhou, Emperor Longdao was indeed very wary of the booming Qi State, but he didn't have anything to do now.

Because the Great Zhou was the real ruler and the scholars ruled the world, the emperor's disgust and vigilance towards the Qi State could not resonate with the scholar class, because everyone began to invest in the enterprises of the Qi State and expected to pay dividends from them.

Interests are related, and it is easier to convince others than any righteous and moral articles.

Of course, Jiangnan is not without people who are very disgusted with the Qi State and the Xu family, such as those who were suppressed after the main battle faction came to power, those Confucian sticks who regarded Xu Shiyang's exile of the saint family as the greatest atrocity, those die-hard royalists, and Weng Shuping.

Counting up, it is possible that the Jiangnan forces that advocate suppressing Qi are not small, but they all have their own political opponents, and the pressure on all sides is not easy.

……

After the seventh month of the fifth year of Longdao, after sweeping the grassland and breaking the two great victories in Liaozhong, the Qi State began to exert pressure on the Shanxi-Han army.

Xu Shiyang demanded that they be loyal to the Qi State, and told them unequivocally that the Qi court did not recognize the jurisdiction of the Shihou over the people of Shanxi, and that all the people of Shanxi should be organized into Qi people.

In the announcement that Xu Shiyang exuded a chill, he unceremoniously said that if the Shanxi people were unwilling to be loyal and accept the adaptation, then they would be severely punished.

But if they choose the right path, Qi is also willing to give them a certain degree of policy preferences and economic compensation.

The decision on whether to agree or not is limited to five years before Longdao.

By November 20, all of the families are to send representatives of their status to the Spring City for the annual meeting.

All non-attendees will be deemed to have declined.