The advance of Li Jinghuai's main force was not fast, but it was very firm.

The basic process is to rest in the newly conquered party fort on the first day, set off on the second day to advance to the next fort, reach the target on the third day, and conquer the fort on the same day, and then rest to prepare for the next round of attacks.

This kind of step-by-step attack is purely to overwhelm people with momentum, and Li Jinghuai does not think about any gorgeous use of troops at all, because it is not easy to make mistakes.

Li Jinghuai believes that as long as he does not make mistakes, the party members will not have any chance.

The fact is also true, don't look at the speed of the Chinese army's march is not fast, but every time a fortress is conquered, the party loses two to three thousand troops, and the defenders of these fortresses are all fresh forces, and the losses are all permanent losses.

It is impossible for the party members to continue to suffer such meaningless losses in this way, and they now have only two choices:

First, concentrating troops to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army, which can be compared with the combat effectiveness of the two sides, this is equivalent to changing Ling Chi to beheading, except for being a little more happy, the death penalty remains unchanged.

Second, abandon part of the fortresses on the front line, gather the scattered troops, and fight the Chinese army in the most core Xing and Ling areas.

The greatest advantage of doing so is that in the decisive battle in the Jixing and Ling areas, the supply line of the Dangxiang army is the shortest, while the supply line of the attacking Chinese army is longer, and if the supply line of the Chinese army can be cut off, it will be the only chance to turn the tables militarily.

The disadvantages are also not small, after all, it is the most core territory near the capital, the most densely populated, the highest productivity, and a military disaster, the loss is a huge number, and there are no ten or twenty years to recover.

For a normal regime, the battlefield in its own core territory is inherently a defeat.

For Li Qianshun, the emperor of Xia Guodade, he still doesn't want to choose either option.

Here's how he does it:

First of all, send an envoy to negotiate and withdraw the army on the condition that he be a vassal.

Of course, this is impossible, and Li Jinghuai, who is usually amiable to people, even directly hung the head of the party envoy at the door of the barracks -- Huaxia seems to have no tradition of the two countries fighting each other without cutting down the envoys.

After the peace talks were hopeless, Li Qianshun put his main hope on his "anti-China encirclement network."

More than 30 years ago, when the Great Zhou was still in Jiangbei, the Western Army of the Great Zhou had actually gradually overwhelmed the party members, and they had even reached Lingzhou.

However, with the sudden rise of the Jurchens and their southward movement, the Western Army, which was still moving towards Xingling, had to retreat and return to the mainland.

But how can it be so simple to retreat in front of the enemy, Li Qianshun's troops closely pursued the Zhou army, and pursued all the way into the territory of the Great Zhou from under the city of Lingzhou, as a result, the Western Army of the Great Zhou completely collapsed, achieving the biggest military victory in Li Qianshun's life.

Li Qianshun is now in his sixties, and his current health has long been much worse than before, although he is unwilling, he must admit that he has not been able to do it for long on the throne of the Great White High Kingdom.

But in the final moments of his life, Li Qianshun hoped that he could replicate the glorious victory he had won – and if he could, he thought he could become the first great emperor in the history of the Great White High Kingdom to be on a par with the founding emperor Jingzong.

In order to do this, Li Qianshun had to say that the Great Zhou or the Mughal people would attack Huaxia from behind.

According to the currently known intelligence, the Chinese army should have between 100,000 and 200,000 troops attacking Dabai Gaoguo, and at the same time, more than 100,000 troops attacking Fuso across the sea.

In this case, the Chinese army has already fought abroad as many as 200,000 to 400,000 troops, which is already a very staggering number for a Jiangbei regime, and Li Qianshun believes that the Chinese army should have no more mobile troops, and at most a little garrison force.

In this case, no matter how strong the Chinese people are, the two or three hundred thousand Mughal troops of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be suppressed, and the Chinese army will have to retreat.

As long as the retreat of the Chinese army is an opportunity, seize it and win.

It's a pity that the problem now is that Li Qianshun doesn't know whether the Northern Mengwu Southern Great Zhou will be moved by his own envoy and send troops at this time, and everyone will work together to deal with Huaxia.

He now very, very much wanted a means of communication over a distance, which would allow him to contact the messengers in Chahar and Lin'an.

Unfortunately, there was no telegraph, no radio, no satellite telephone, and no Internet in this era, so Li Qianshun did not know whether the encirclement network he was looking forward to would succeed, and he could only choose to bet on the success of his strategy.

……

Xingqing Mansion, after another all-night military meeting before the decisive battle, the most powerful rulers (who are also the patriarchs of the big tribes) of the Great White High Kingdom walked out of the palace and returned to their respective residences.

Walking in the forefront of this group of high-ranking party officials and dignitaries is naturally the most powerful clan leader in the country: Renduo Chuqing of the Ren family, Wu Zang Pang who has no collector, and Ye Xiaoma of the Ye family.

These top party magnates who stamped their feet and had to be earthquaked in the big white and high country are now all sad.

"Your Majesty is still thinking about the victory thirty years ago."

didn't hide the sorrow and said with a sad face:

"Can the Muguls and the Zhou people be reliable?"

"Reliable and unreliable."

Rendo Chuqing replied:

"Even if they follow His Majesty's wishes to copy the back path of the Huaxia people, they will definitely wait for us to lose both!"

Li Qianshun planned to gamble that the Mongol army and the Zhou army would come back to save him, so he did not change his previous strategy, neither withdrawing the defenders of those castles to the south, nor taking the main force of Xingling south to seek a decisive battle.

This means that the defenders of those fortresses in the south have been abandoned, and Li Qianshun will lead the main force to attack only after the Northern Mongolia and Southern Zhou join the war.

Emperor Dade thought very beautifully, but everyone present found it difficult to accept, the reason is very simple, most of the defenders of those fortresses in the south are their tribal soldiers, and now the generals who have been killed and captured in the battle are either surnamed Renduo, or the surname is not hidden, or Ye Xiao, anyway, there is no surname Wei - these clan generals are squatting in Xingling, waiting for the battle of the Chinese army that Emperor Dade envisioned.

"They can wait, we can't afford to wait!" Ye Xiaoma gritted his teeth and said: "When the Chinese army arrives in Xingling, even if we really win, the children are all killed, how can we gain a foothold in the country after that!" ”

The Great Xia Kingdom is a tribal coalition regime, which is actually equivalent to the royal family Weiming and the big tribes such as Renduo, Wuzang, and Ye Xiao ruling the world together.

for they have soldiers.

The soldiers of the famous families were about one-third of the total strength of the Xia State, and the other one-third were the large tribes, and the others were some small tribes, as well as the Tubo (such as Yuzang Huama), the Han Chinese, and the Western Regions such as the Uighurs and Gaochang in Xizhou.

The distribution of power, land and wealth in the Xia Kingdom is also based on the strength of each department, and the Wei family is the strongest, so they are clans, and the other big tribes hold the position of ruler for a long time.

But if his own soldiers are exhausted, no matter who he is, he will definitely not believe in his own merits, and the official functions of the prime minister and privy councillor will keep the family.