After all the other generals left, Yang Congyi led Luo Cong aside.

"What else do you have to explain?" Luo Cong saw that the other party did not speak, so he asked tentatively.

"For Zhending Mansion and Yanjing, the emperor is very anxious and eager to recover all the old lands. The emperor has previously bypassed the three provinces and directly issued an edict to the commander of the front, although I have explained in detail to the emperor that the recovery of Zhending Mansion and Yanjing cannot be rushed, but the emperor may have the same idea, unable to restrain himself, and will issue an edict again. I also told you just now, the time is really not ripe, it is not appropriate to make a big move, if the emperor really bypasses the three provinces and the Privy Council, and directly issues an attack order to you, you must communicate to me as soon as possible! Yang Congyi stared at the other party's eyes and said these words to his face.

Luo Cong was taken aback, his face changed instantly, and he asked in surprise: "How could the emperor bypass the imperial court and the lord and give me such an order?" Probably not, leaving the adults, how to fight this battle? ”

Yang Congyi immediately waved his hand to stop: "You can't say that." The court is away from me, and it is still the same court, and without me on the front line, I can also fight, I am not that important. The emperor has great ambitions in his heart, Zhending Mansion, Yanjing, Datong Mansion, and Liaoyang Mansion will all be taken, and he hopes that the sooner the better. And no one in me and the old ministers of the court is willing to take risks, after all, it is not easy to achieve such results in just ten years. ”

"We must remember that we are going to accomplish great things for the ages, not small things in front of us. As long as we follow the established strategy of the imperial court, Zhending Mansion and Yanjing are at our fingertips, and then our army will immediately go to the northern grasslands, completely cut off the possibility of nomadic barbarians going south to plunder, and establish a great cause comparable to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties! Compared with the great achievements in the north, what is Zhending Mansion, even Yanjing will become a rear base. ”

"When you are commanding troops on the front line, you have a strong ability to discern crises and take a long-term view. The Xiongnu more than a thousand years ago, the Turks five or six hundred years ago, the Khitan more than two hundred years ago, the Jurchens a few decades ago, and the current Mongolian tribes, they are all from the north of the Central Plains. Why should we take away the food that our people have worked so hard to grow and what we have created with our hard hands, and if you want it, you can exchange it. In order for them to be willing to exchange for an equivalent price, it is necessary to have force capable of conquering them, otherwise everything is empty talk. ”

"What are we fighting desperately for? Isn't it just to restore peace in the world? Will the people be able to live and work in peace and contentment? Only by entering the steppe and solving the northern problem can it be solved once and for all. The pattern in the heart must be big, and the vision must be long-term. This is the map obtained by the Privy Council Secret Secretary sent people deep into the north, you see, how vast the land of the north is, compared to the South Sea, the West, not much better! ”

Yang Congyi said, took out a rough map and handed it to Luo Cong.

On the map, four or five thousand miles north of Yanjing are all on the map, although it is not detailed, but the map still marks the settlements of many grassland tribes.

As you can see from the map, there are people living in the north for 3,000 miles, and there are hundreds of tribes of all sizes marked down, with tens of thousands of people in large tribes and hundreds of people in small ones, scattered in the vast and boundless grassland.

And as can be seen from the map, each of these tribes is not close to Yan Kyoto, with a minimum of five or six hundred miles and a maximum of three or four thousand miles.

Looking at it, Luo Cong immediately thought of a problem, the transportation of horses and grain and grass for military supplies.

There are no roads in the northern grasslands, and there are roads everywhere, and with horses you can advance and retreat freely, without horses, you can't catch up, you can't run away, and you can't supply grain and grass materials.

Immediately, Luo Cong thought of the fact that after seizing Hejian Mansion three years ago, the imperial court immediately established a large-scale horse farm in Hejian Mansion, it turned out that it had been prepared for a long time, and before the recovery of Zhending Mansion and Yanjing, it was already breeding horses and preparing to go north to the grassland, and the imperial court was really thinking big!

As far as he knew, in just over two years, several horse farms in Hejian Province already had 40,000 or 50,000 horses, and if they continue to be cultivated at this rate, it should not be a problem to breed 50,000 usable war horses in less than five years.

50,000 war horses are enough to form 30,000 elite cavalry, and there are 30,000 cavalry, when they can gallop across the grassland and run rampant, he can wait for this day!

Luo Cong looked at the map of the north in his hand, and he was very excited in his heart.

However, Yang Congyi's purpose in showing him the map was not to let him imagine galloping the northern grasslands, but to give him a more ambitious goal, so as not to be tempted by the current merits and ruin the overall strategic situation of the imperial court.

So he quickly reminded: "You can train and prepare in advance for the matter of going north to the grassland, but the premise is that we can successfully recover Yanjing, Pingzhou, Laizhou and other places, if we want to recover these places without hurting our vitality, we must wait for the opportunity, and we must not be greedy for merit!" ”

"My lord, I understand, I will definitely prepare with all my heart, before the court is fully prepared, without the order of the court, I will not act rashly!" Luo Cong put away the map and made a promise.

"Okay, remember what you said today. You are in charge of the military power of Hejian Mansion and have an army of 50,000 in your hands, and you have a heavy responsibility, so you must not take it lightly. Yang Congyi nodded slightly, looking cautious.

"Don't worry, my lord, since the imperial court handed over the Hejian Mansion to me and handed over the 50,000 troops to me, I will definitely live up to the trust of the imperial court and the trust of the adults!" Luo Cong raised his hand and saluted, promising again.

"Then let's do it, after Yan Yong sends reinforcements to Pingzhou, I will return to Jinan Mansion, and then Hejian Mansion and 50,000 troops will be fully entrusted to you, don't let the emperor down, and don't embarrass the court."

"Yes! I remembered. ”

Luo Cong raised his hand and saluted again, and then said goodbye and left.

Yang Congyi was the only one left in the hall, and he immediately fell into deep thought.

The surrounding situation of the Great Song Dynasty is not as good as expected, and even if you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss.

First of all, in addition to the tens of thousands of garrisons in Dading Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion, the rest of the troops are in Jinzhou, Laizhou, Pingzhou, and Yanjing areas, there are about 200,000 people, and it is not easy to eat them, on the contrary, if they want to go south, they are fully capable of occupying Hejian Mansion in one fell swoop, and the troops will be in Jinan Mansion and Yidu Mansion in Shandong.

As for Shandong's worries, Yang Congyi's coping strategy was to form a strong naval army, wandering in Laizhou Bay and the southern part of the Bohai Sea all the year round, and occasionally sending a few warships to appear in the coastal waters of Liaodong Bay, showing their faces, and containing Yan Yong with a naval army that could quickly maneuver to Chenzhou and Liaoyang Prefecture, so that he did not dare to rashly gather troops to go south to Shandong.

However, if Wan Yan Yong is determined to take a risk by not wanting Liaoyang Mansion, the navy may not be able to contain Wan Yan Yong, and this possible danger cannot be ruled out.

The second is the Jin army of Zhending Mansion, they have sixty or seventy thousand troops, most of them are still horse troops, and the equipment is relatively sophisticated, the key is that they are very close to the Daimyo's Mansion, once they break through the Daimyo's Mansion, they will be able to come to Bianjing within two days, and now it cannot be ruled out that the commander of the Zhending Mansion is crazy, desperately going south, and a fish is dead and the net is broken, seeking a name for eternity.

Although the imperial court deployed a full 100,000 troops in the Daimyo Mansion to prevent the Jin army of Zhending Mansion from suddenly going south, but the Daimyo's Mansion and Zhending Mansion are surrounded by vast plains, and no matter how many troops can't block all the roads, even if the road is blocked, the Jin army with all the horses can cross the wilderness and farmland to the south, and there are no mountains and rivers, nothing can stop the cavalry going south, so Bianjing has been facing a real threat all these years.

Yang Congyi's strategy to deal with the Jin army of Zhending Mansion was to try not to provoke them, minimize direct conflict with them, loosen the outside and tighten the inside, adopt a comprehensive defense, prohibit the people of the Daimyo Mansion from entering the Zhending Mansion, reduce the communication between the two sides, and strictly control the way they obtained information, so that the Jin army of Zhending Mansion always did not have a clear judgment on the area south of the Daimyo's Mansion and did not dare to act rashly.

Until the last moment, no one is forced to live, and no one wants to open their backs and fight back desperately.

Yang Congyi is not realistic, and there is no need to force a fierce beast to fight back, just need to slowly consume it, wear down its fighting spirit, drag down its body, let it become a pair of skin and bones, cut off its back road, and give it some food and benefits, it will naturally be possible to attach.

But if the imperial court insists on going its own way, forcibly gathering troops to attack Zhending Mansion, 70,000 Jin troops go south, will definitely erode the Daimyo Mansion, Xingren Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, Guide Mansion and other places, the Great Song Dynasty has no equivalent cavalry troops, the other side 70,000 people go south to wreak havoc, galloping horses, it is difficult to form an effective blockade, it is likely that after they are raging, they can also turn their horses' heads, go to the north, and throw themselves into the arms of Yanjing Wanyan Yong.

If this is the case, even if the Great Song Dynasty made Zhending Mansion, the gains outweighed the losses, and it also greatly strengthened Wanyan Yong's strength, and if he wanted to recover Yanjing, he didn't know what year and month he would have to wait for.

In addition to this, there is also the Western Xia in the west.

Song and Xia two countries in the west of each other war for decades, spent countless national strength, now Guanzhong, northern Shaanxi recovered, Song and Xia territory re-border, friction will be inevitable, once the two countries go to war, Guanzhong, Hedong will be contained by the Western Xia, will have no spare strength to deal with Datongfu, Zhending and Yanjing, the road to recover Yanjing, will become long.

Although the Western Xia Emperor Li Renxiao sent a special envoy to Bianjing last winter to repair relations between the two countries and was willing to coexist peacefully and sign a peace treaty, the two countries have been entangled in enmity for a hundred years, not that they can make peace if they want to, and no one can guarantee that there will be no changes at the border gates and that the two countries will not be dragged into war.

This is the trilemma that Bianjing is facing, any one of them will become a dream bubble.