Wan Yan Zonggan looked at his younger brother with a shocked face, and he was so excited that he even wanted to finish Yan Zongwang's collar:

"What nonsense are you talking about? Ravages of war? These lands are the fattest and good! You're going to burn it all ourselves? ”

Wanyan Zongwang said coldly: "Now that it's like this, we won't be able to plant these lands without giving up." ”

This is true, and it is better to make a painful decision to give up than to leave these areas and only turn these areas into bleeding wounds.

It's like a wounded arm, it's very important, no one wants to give it up, but if the pus-bleeding arm is not cut off, the whole person will die.

"Moreover, giving up a piece of land can contain Hangou for a long time."

Wanyan Zongwang felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he thought that he had to explain clearly and get everyone's consent:

"Since the Han dog landed in Lushun, whether it is offensive or defensive, they have the advantage everywhere, because Liaonan is close to the sea, and the Han dog maneuveres by boat, coming and going without a trace!"

This is a considerable strategic advantage, in this case the Qi army can freely choose the time and place of attack, and southern Liaoning is mountainous, and the land maneuver of the Jin army cannot keep up with the pace of the Qi army at all.

So every time the battle was the Qi army concentrating superior forces to defeat the Jin army, and the Jin army suffered heavy losses every time, and the more it fought, the weaker it became.

In fact, in retrospect, since the Qi army ran to Liaodong, the Jin army stopped the advance of the Qi army for the longest time, and it was in the scorched earth of southern Liaoning after Fuzhou, retreating all the way to Gaizhou.

Now, if you do it again, there are two benefits.

First, extend the supply lines of the Qi army and limit the mobility of the Qi army.

The south of Haizhou is not close to the sea, and the advantages of the Qi army's naval division cannot be brought into play, and when fighting on the Liaozhong Plain, the highest mobility is and can only be cavalry.

The Jin army was confident that it still had a bit of an advantage in cavalry - as long as it could gather superior forces.

Moreover, if the Qi army attacks again, it can only transport supplies from Gaizhou through the scorched earth area, and the extended supply line needs to be protected by more troops, and the loss on the road will be large.

Second, large scorched earth areas could prevent the Qi army (even if only temporarily) from launching regular raids like this one.

The infantry could not keep up, and the cavalry of the Qi army launched an attack across the scorched earth area, and it was difficult to get the support of the strong infantry of the Qi army.

"But they'll come sooner or later."

Wanyan Zonggan said sadly:

"The scorched earth area can stop them for a while, but they will come sooner or later, a year? Two more years and they'll be able to walk through the scorched earth area, so what are we going to do then? Burn Liaoyang to scorched earth? ”

"At that time, Hangou also had to build some tun villages on flat land!"

Wanyan Zongbi gritted his teeth and interjected:

"Then it's up to us to see which of us is better at looting!"

When the three princes were still arguing, Wanyan Zonghan always watched coldly.

None of these three men are the Khan of Dajin, but they are now enforcing the rights of the Khan.

These three guys even dared to kill the nobles of the Bo Ji level on the Internet, and it can be said that the original rebellion of Wanyan Yinshu was also forced by them to have no choice.

As the only non-clan in Dajin today, unless he is forced to have no choice, Wanyan Zonghan will never say a word more in politics.

It's just that this doesn't mean that he doesn't have any opinion on the current situation - when it comes to fighting, Wanyan Zonghan boasts that he is stronger than the three princes.

Fortunately, the three clans also thought highly of themselves, and they didn't ask for Yan Zonghan's opinion.

This made him secretly relieved, if he had to say it at this time, then Wanyan Zonghan's view of the situation was that Dajin was almost finished, and it was time to think about a way out!

'I will never give you a burial!' ’

……

On April 15 of the fourth year of Longdao, the spring offensive of the Qi army on the front line of Yaozhou achieved major results.

The Qi army destroyed dozens of front-line beacons of the Jin army and burned hundreds of villages.

In this battle, the Jin army successively lost more than 1,500 armor soldiers, nearly 2,000 Banding and unarmored real Jurchens, more than 10,000 women, children, old and weak, and nearly 20,000 Aha.

Such a loss completely deprived the Jurchens of the possibility of making up for the shortage of manpower, and what was even worse was that all the territories of the Jin State south of Haizhou had to give up spring plowing because of the approach of war.

After the retreat of the Qi army, the Jin State implemented a scorched earth strategy, with Haizhou as the dividing line, and all the population south moved north.

As a result, the Jurchens lost more than a quarter of their arable land.

In addition, the population that migrated north was hungry and cold, which caused the price of grain in Liaoyang and other core Jurchen control areas to rise rapidly.

By May and June, the price of grain near Liaoyang had exceeded 80 guan one stone, a figure close to 150 times that of Jiangnan!

As a result, a large number of slaves were starved to death, the population of Jin was further reduced, the labor shortage was getting bigger and bigger, and many cooked land far from the river that was difficult to cultivate was forced to be abandoned, which will inevitably aggravate the food crisis in Jin in the next few years.

At this time, the Dajin Kingdom, which could mobilize 80,000 armor soldiers and 300,000 Aha slaves at its peak, has been reduced to the point of maintaining a maximum of 30,000 armor soldiers and 100,000 Aha slaves.

With such a force, not to mention suppressing the Qi army, whether it can resist the Muguls is a huge problem.

The existence of the Kim regime was already in jeopardy.

……

The Jin army's scorched earth policy south of Haizhou actually gave Qi a wide buffer zone.

It was indeed not easy for the cavalry of the Qi army to cross the scorched earth area to launch a new attack, and similarly, the Jin army also lost the possibility of bypassing Gaizhou and plundering the Tunbao of the Qi State in southern Liaoning.

This allows Qi to be more assured and boldly deploy to restore southern Liaoning, as well as production and life.

According to Xu Shiyang's deployment, Qi will build a new arsenal on the Gaizhou front line in order to replenish the front line nearby.

In terms of mineral resources, the Ministry of Industry of Qi began to deploy and develop limestone resources, coal, iron, gold, lead, copper and other resources in southern Liaoning.

Limestone in particular, the limestone of southern Liaoning is the largest source of such minerals in Qi, and the mining of these deposits is very important for Qi's infrastructure construction.

Of course, in this era, mining is a very dangerous job, and it will inevitably consume a large number of people in Qi.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang planned that the miners who went down the mine would mainly use slaves to complete the work, so that they would not be too distressed if they died too much.

However, in addition to southern Liaoning, Qi Province and Hebei Province also have to open new mines, especially Ji Province, which is very rich in coal and iron resources and has the foundation for the establishment of a strong coal and iron consortium, so the slave population of Qi is also insufficient.

Xu Shiyang must find a way to find more slaves from elsewhere in recent years.

According to the research of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, to complete the industrial and mining deployment envisioned by Xu Shiyang, more than 500,000 slave miners will be needed in the next five years, and 50,000 people will need to be added every year to replace the waste population.

In addition, the singles of the Qi State also need to be appeased by 200,000 young foreign women every year.

Regardless of the demand for slaves elsewhere, these two alone add up to about the total population of a small country at this time.