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Regarding the Northern Expedition to recover Yanjing, the seed master Dao disagreed with it and even resisted it.

He reiterated his view that "it is impossible to win by provoking a war first." "Today's actions, such as robbers entering the neighbor's house, we can't save them, but instead take advantage of the fire to rob and share the spoils with the robbers, how can we? ”……

In order to persuade Zhao Ji to give up the Northern Expedition, Chongshidao even asked his old partner Zhao Long, chief of staff of the Western Army, to go to Bianliang, Tokyo, in an attempt to persuade Zhao Ji, Wang Hao, and Tong Guan.

And then the eggs.

All in vain.

Ma Zheng, who was born in the Western Army, Ma Kuo's father, was sent by Zhao Ji to the Weizhou Western Army Headquarters early to convey the mobilization order.

After that, within ten days, Zhao Ji issued seven gold medals in a row, conveying the same order, and the tone became more and more severe each time, and the last one even had words such as "The army cannot arrive in Xiongzhou at that time, and the opportunity will be delayed, but the master of the system is asked".

Gold medal, also called the royal gold wooden card, only in the transmission of 100,000 urgent military reports, can be applied, a day and night to go 600 miles, so that people hold the gold and red cards, every time you pass a station, you have to change a good horse, gallop through, like lightning.

The imperial court issued seven times in a row within ten days, and Zhao Ji's eagerness to use troops can be imagined.

In this regard, although he was unwilling, he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly made arrangements for dispatching troops and urgently mobilizing.

The Western Army, which once had 200,000 or 300,000 people, is now only 110,000 left.

Some people may ask, where did the nearly 200,000 Western troops go?

A few years ago, Tong Guan has been using troops against the Western Xia, naturally there are some casualties, only the battle of Tong'an City, the Western army has tens of thousands of casualties, plus the people and servants, nearly 100,000 victims.

Two years ago, Tong Guan conscripted Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, and transferred 150,000 troops from the Western Army, mainly the Huanqing Army and the Yan Yan Army.

After two years of campaigning, most of the 150,000 troops were killed and wounded.

For the rest, after the suppression of the Fangla Uprising, except for a small number of soldiers (mainly the Zhijia Army) who returned to the northwest, the rest stayed in the northwest of Jingbei Road, that is, Huaining Mansion (or Chenzhou Mansion), and never returned to the northwest.

There is nothing wrong with the Western Army being able to fight well, but the Western Army also has a big problem, that is, it is extremely xenophobic, and even the people sent by the emperor cannot integrate into it.

There are a number of reasons for this:

For example, the Song Dynasty's consistent attitude towards military generals made the soldiers of the Western Army very distrustful of the imperial court.

For example, the Song Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, and always let a group of civil servants who did not know how to fight command them, military generals who knew how to fight.

For another example, the Western Army has always been inherited from family to family, from father to son, from son to grandson, the army is the home of the soldiers of the Western Army, and it is the life of the soldiers of the Western Army, how can they hand over their family and life to outsiders they do not trust?

Wait a minute......

In short, the imperial court did not believe in the Western Army, and the Western Army did not believe in the Imperial Court.

As a result, the Western Army is a bit obedient but does not listen to Xuan.

For this kind of thing, it is unbearable for any emperor.

But the Song Dynasty still had to use the Western Army to defend the Western Xia, and it also had to use the Western Army to extinguish fires everywhere.

Therefore, the relationship between the Western Army and the Song Dynasty court slowly continued.

However, although this relationship can continue, it does not mean that the emperor does not want to solve it.

happened to catch up with Tong Guan and dispatched half of the Western Army to suppress Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, and caught up with Liu Yanqing, the commander of this half of the Western Army, who was a rare "traitor" in the Western Army, and was willing to be at the mercy of Zhao Ji and Tong Guan.

As a result, this part of the Western Army was renamed by Zhao Ji - Shengjie Army.

The Shengjie Army still nominally belonged to the Western Army Command, and the imperial court did not explicitly stipulate that the Shengjie Army should be separated from the Western Army.

However, the Shengjie Army has obtained the number of "Shengjie Army" separately.

Moreover, unlike the Western Army, the Shengjie Army's supplies and salaries were all directly allocated by the Privy Council, and their treatment was much more generous than that of the armies in the Western Army headquarters.

The commander of the Shengjie army is Liu Yanqing's eldest son Liu Guangguo, Xin Xingzong's brother Xin Yongzong, Wang Yu and other absolute cronies of Tong Guan.

In addition, the Shengjie army never returned to the northwest, but went directly to Huaining Mansion to rest.

In short, the imperial court completely isolated the Shengjie army from the Western army, and the Western army did not want to admit that the Western army, which originally belonged to the Huanqing Army and the Yan Yan Army, was still the Western Army.

The imperial court clearly ordered that the Shengjie army should also go on the northern expedition with the army.

Considering that the Shengjie Army was originally a unit under Liu Yanqing, the seed master Dao ordered Liu Yanqing's second son Liu Guangshi to go to Huaining Mansion with a military order, urging this army, as the first group, that is, the front army, to go to the front line first, and there must be no mistake.

Considering the poor combat effectiveness and lax discipline of the Shengjie Army, the Seed Master Dao did not take the heavy responsibility of selecting the front army (vanguard) equally, but handed it over to Yang Keshi, a famous brave general of the Western Army, and asked Yang Keshi to lead the main force of the elite Jingyuan Road of the whole army of 15,000 people as the selection of the front army, and set off quickly.

In the mobilization orders issued by the imperial court in succession, according to Zhao Ji's instructions, there is a sentence "Easy defense with the Hebei army, and the whole division will be out".

But the Hebei Army has already existed in name only, and there are not many troops that can be easily defended, and those who come are useless.

Therefore, if the Western Army really "comes out with all divisions," it will be treating national defense as a child's play.

Moreover, the Song State still wanted to lock Li Yan in the clouds, how could it be possible to rely on the Hebei Forbidden Army, which had long been unable to fight, to be transferred?

Therefore, the seed master Dao resolutely made a decision to let Yao Gutong, the commander of the Xihe Road, lead a total of 30,000 troops from various military regions to stay behind, fully responsible for the defense of the northwest, and at the same time leave some seeds for the western army, after all, this is a national war, who dares to guarantee that these people who went out on the expedition will definitely come back?

Yao Gu was too lazy to go out, and he was unwilling to be controlled by the Seed Master Dao, this decision was completely in line with his wishes.

However, Yao Gu's son Yao Pingzhong has always been brave and resolute in his desire to fight on the front line.

Seed Master Dao met Yao Pingzhong's request and asked him to lead 10,000 people of the Xihe Army to Hebei.

Xihe Road is the farthest away from Hebei, and Seed Master Dao estimated that this group of men and horses would not be able to reach the front line last, so Seed Master Dao took it as a rear army and gave him the task of taking over the whole army, in fact, he wanted the Xihe Army to be the general reserve of the whole army.

In the seed division, he led the Qin Feng army, and Liu Yanqing led the rest of the Huanqing army and the Yan Ting army as the left and right armies respectively, and set off later than Yang Keshi.

He led the headquarters and the remaining Jingyuan Army as the Chinese army.

Considering that after the army set off, the supply and replenishment of grain, grass and other military supplies were bound to deal with the imperial court and local transfer departments, and the planting master specially appointed Tong Guan's relative Wang Yuan and Tong Guan's love general Xin Qizong as the grain protection general-called grain protection, in fact, the planting master Dao was to use their relationship with Tong Guan to ensure the military supply of the whole army.

The rush of the expedition gave rise to a variety of practical difficulties, which led to complaints among the soldiers.

In addition, due to the improper issuance of certain orders, some contradict each other, and some are inconsistent, resulting in constant conflicts between certain people or certain troops.

In short, it is unfavorable to be a teacher, and most soldiers have negative or even resistant emotions.

To put it bluntly, the Western Army has been in the northwest for too long, too long, they have regarded this land as their home, they thrive here, there is their small home, there is their attachment, therefore, it is okay to fight here, it is okay to die, as long as you don't go out, plus there are examples of Huanqing Army and Yan Yan Army going out and never coming back, so they are as reluctant to go to Hebei to fight as the commander of this army.

Nevertheless, the disciplined discipline of this army overcame all the negative factors, and after receiving the order of the planter, the troops were ready to go out as quickly as possible, and were generally able to set out on time for the front according to the very hurried schedule laid down in the order.

The 80,000 Western Army, which had been silent for three years, with a deep attachment to the northwest, passed through the vast northwest wilderness, passed through the mountains, and gathered on the Hebei front......

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