"This battle cannot be left unfought."

Wanyan Zongwang gritted his teeth and said:

"If you don't fight, let Hangou easily occupy Gaizhou, and Liaoyang won't be at peace for a moment in the future!"

"Cut all the wheat and seedlings in the field and feed them to the horses! Kill all the animals and eat meat! If we win this battle, we can still go out and grab it! ”

It's hard to make, but it has to be.

If the Qi army occupies Gaizhou, then in the future, the Qi army can attack the Liaozhong Plain at will, and if it can fight, it will run away.

This is a fatal strategic disadvantage, and no one wants to accept it.

"Then let's fight!"

Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Zongbi also made up their minds, and they seemed to have returned to the era of thirty years ago, when the young Jurchen princes rode horses, brandished maces and horse lances, and followed Emperor Taizu to attack the Liao army.

At that time, the entire Jurchen army was only 30,000 men, which was even less than now.

And the Liao army has 700,000!

But the winner is still Daikin.

The winner is always Daikin! Always! Since it is in the future!

"Mobilize all men over the age of 13!"

Wanyan Zonggan announced loudly:

"Tell those Aha that if they win this time, they will release their Aha identity, and the master will give them land!"

"Every dingkou, every grain of grain, and every sheep of Dajin must be used in this battle!"

……

At this time, Wanyan Zongfu had died of illness a year ago, and Emperor Dajin was the eldest grandson of Taizu, Wanyan Hera, but the emperor himself had no rights, and the ruling party was still the Bo Jilie Conference.

And now, there are still five Jurchen left, and they are called the three princes of the Jurchens: Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongwang, and Wanyan Zongbi.

Then there is Wanyan Zonghan, who belongs to the Dajin Sect, and the general with the surname Fushi Lie Zhining.

Among the five Bo Ji Lie, Wanyan Zonghan was in the north to intimidate the birth of Jurchen, and Su Shi Lie Zhining defended Xu Shiyang in southern Liaoning in Yaozhou, so the state politics of the Jin State was still presided over by the three princes.

After deciding on the policy of a decisive battle with the Qi army in Gaizhou, the Jurchens began to carry out a general mobilization in the country.

All men over the age of 13, whether Jurchen or any other ethnicity, were to participate in the war.

In this way, the Jin army was able to mobilize 40,000 Jurchens and 150,000 Aha.

The number of people is not small, but the equipment is very sad.

Even the Jurchens had only half of the armor at this time, and almost half of the armoured soldiers were horses.

As for Ahha, even if he was well-armed with an iron knife or an iron-headed spear, most of them had only a sharpened stick.

The only advantage in terms of equipment was that the Jin army had built a lot of guns, and the Bo Jilie believed that Aha equipped with these weapons could at least support the Qi army's firepower for a while, creating a fairer opportunity for the Jurchen armor soldiers to fight in a white-handed battle.

What if they can't do that, no one wants to think about it.

Even more tragic than the equipment was the supply of the Jin army.

In preparation for the decisive battle, the Jurchens did not hesitate to forcibly confiscate the last food and seeds left by all the people, regardless of whether that person was Aha or Jurchen.

At the same time, the seedlings that were about to mature in the field were harvested, and most of the livestock, including young animals, were slaughtered.

With such a multi-pronged approach, the Jin army has gathered a lot of food, but this food is probably only enough to support one battle, no matter whether the battle is won or lost, if the Jin army cannot grab enough food after the battle, many people will starve to death in the Jin country this winter.

Many, many people!

Even so, the movement of the Jin army was limited at every turn because of the food problem.

First of all, their main force could not leave Gaizhou too far, because if it was farther away, the food consumed on the march would be enough to give the Bo Ji a headache.

But you can't sit and wait, because the Qi army is not fast when it escorts the migrant convoy, and it is not good to sit and eat food.

Therefore, Wanyan Zonggan proposed to concentrate some rations for a small number of elite cavalry, treat them as mobile troops, take the initiative to attack, bypass the place with heavy cover, and attack those convoys in the rear of the main force of the Qi army that lack the cover of the main army.

If they are lucky, these mobile troops can overcome one or two car formations, and it is estimated that the food they will not only give them will not lose money, but they will also be able to earn a little more money back.

In order to motivate the soldiers to fight bravely, the three princes gave a large amount of money to reward the soldiers—after decades of looting, food and other necessities were consumed, but most of the inedible gold, silver, and jade silk were still concentrated in the hands of a few nobles.

The Jurchens rewarded the Qi army with three firsts, a field soldier with five firsts, and an officer with ten firsts!

This reward sounds very good, and it is even comparable to the reward given by the Great Zhou court to the Jurchen heads during the Zhou Jin War more than ten years ago.

But in fact, the domestic economy of the Jin Kingdom was on the verge of collapse, and the large accumulation of precious metals and silk satin did not have much positive significance for the Jurchens, who were blocked on all sides and had no foreign trade at all.

After the Jurchens began to fully mobilize, the domestic food prices in Jin soared again, rising to the point of 80 stones!

In other words, a Jurchen armor soldier can kill 16 Qi army field soldiers in a row to scrape together enough money to buy one stone of grain!

……

Lin'an, the imperial city.

"Is the Qi army going to recover Liaodong?"

The young Emperor Longdao bluntly asked several of his close ministers:

Bachelor of Senior Administration, Governor of the Governor's Office;

Bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, Governor Bao Zheng;

and the Privy Councillor Tong Guan.

The real prime minister, Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhang Shiwen and Fu said that he was sick at home because he was at home because he disagreed with the emperor's policy, and now he has not participated in political affairs for almost three months.

The emperor and Wen Zhong didn't have much to say about it, and the two of them, one felt that Wen Zhong was too deeply involved with Qi Province and was not trustworthy.

The other felt that Daddy was always pressing on his head and was very uncomfortable.

Wen Zhong was not there, but they felt a lot more relaxed.

Hearing the Son of Heaven ask a question about the military, Tong Guan, who had obtained the qualification to be listed as a leader for suppressing Fang La, hurriedly stepped forward and replied in a low voice with his head down:

"The slave doesn't think so."

Tong Guan was born as a eunuch, and although he was ranked as a ruler because of his military merits, he was still able to call himself a slave in front of the heavenly family.

What's more, Tong Guan was a eunuch promoted by the Emperor Taishang, and he was also a member of the main peace faction in the past, and he could only be careful with his tail between his legs in the Longdao Dynasty - he himself knew very well that the official family didn't clean himself up, but he just didn't want the main battle faction to completely control the court.

"Oh? Why? Let's talk about it. The Son of Longdao asked with great interest.

"Now the Jurchens claim to have assembled an army of 600,000, even if this is bragging, half of them are still there, 300,000 gold troops, this is an invincible Jurchen!"

Tong Guan picked the words that the Son of Heaven liked and said:

"The slave maid thinks that the Governor's Mansion wants to expand the control area in Liaodong this time, so that in the future, they have no intention of recovering Liaodong."

"Just not now?"

"It's ......."

Tong Guan raised his head and looked at Wen Zhong and Bao Zheng.

However, neither of them had any intention of helping him.

However, he could only reluctantly tell the truth:

"The slave maid thinks that the Governor's Mansion really wants to recover Liaodong - the strength is not good now, and they will do it one day in the future."