Chapter 1511: White Tiger Festival Hall, Imperial Strategy
The complexity of his mood made him feel that he seemed to be a little older. Originally, he led tens of thousands of soldiers of the Western Army to hear that the two emperors, the royal family, the court ministers, and even a large number of ordinary people who were captured by the Jin army were rescued by Xiao Tang when he defeated the Jin army.
But now in such a situation, the mind of the cultivator has changed, whether he should try to control Xiao Tang for the sake of the imperial court, he found that he was a little confused. The master Dao also knows very well that he is in his last years, and the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, the official family, and the border guards in this life has long been exhausted, but there are still many things that he can't do...... Both then and now.
Fang Jin's official family seems to be indeed cronyism, forced by the momentum of the Jin army and easily controlled by foreign invaders... And the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were still as deceitful as the party struggled for power, resulting in the abnormality of the dynasty's program...... And what you Xiao Tang did was indeed at the most critical juncture of Jiangshan Sheji, although for the imperial court, you were a rebel and thief who turned his back on the official family and rebelled, and now he is a tyrant who coerces the emperor and takes advantage of the national disaster to support the army and respect himself, and sooner or later he is afraid that he will have to fight against the Song court. But you have never deceived me, and your long-cherished ambition is for the sake of the people of the world!
That's it... The Jurchen Tatars in the north subverted the Liao Dynasty and established the Nuo Empire, if one day you Xiao Tang can wipe out the strong foreign invaders, the old man's life may have already ended, and how do you think of the imperial court for the time being, it will definitely conform to the will of the people...... The old man asked himself in this life to be loyal to the country, but how can I control the aftermath of my death?
After all, the complex and contradictory Seed Master Dao just sighed, and immediately let the righteous army under Xiao Tang meet him, and went straight to Bianjing City with the tens of thousands of Western troops under his command.
After the soldiers of the Western Army entered the city in Bianjing to settle down, and after the seed master Dao personally went to the inner hall of the imperial city to meet the official family, he also held a military meeting with Xiao Tanghua to discuss the next important matter of resisting the Jin foreign invaders.
After all, the southern invasion of Jin was defeated, although it was frustrated by the prestige of the invincible in the past, and the border army led by the small Xianggong has also gone to Hedong Road to resist the army of Jin Guoxi Road. At present, from the strategic level, the most important thing is that the righteous army of Xiao Tang and the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty will join forces to finalize the strategy of purging the Jin military that invaded the territory of the Song Dynasty, and then plot a counteroffensive to the Northern Expedition.
After three o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Tang and his henchmen held a military meeting with the generals and generals such as Seed Master Dao and Zhang Shuye, and the chosen location of the council was the palace marshal's mansion controlled by the old thief Gao Yu, the captain of the three yayas.
As for Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and other leaders when they entered the military hall with Xiao Tang, they looked up and saw the four big characters "White Tiger Festival Hall" written on their foreheads...... Now that they were able to follow Xiao Tang calmly into the White Tiger Festival Hall, discussing and discussing the military affairs of resisting foreign enemies, Lin Chong and Yang Zhi sighed in their hearts, and they couldn't help but glance at each other and smile.
According to the battle report from Hedong Road, the Jin army, which was also as powerful as the West Road, had already broken through Shiling Pass and other key places, and the forward soldiers and horses had already arrived under Taiyuan City. However, the western army of Bianting, Liu Guangshi and others had previously led their troops to aid Taiyuan, but they were defeated by the Jin army on the north bank of the Fen River. As for Zhang Xiaochun, the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong and the governor of Taiyuan Mansion, and Tong Guan, who was retained as the deputy governor of Hedong when he fled south, Wang Yu, commanded the Xuanfu Division soldiers to defend the city, but the war was very tight......
It seems that the Jin army has also received the news that the soldiers and horses on the East Road were intercepted and defeated by Xiao Tang, and the commander Wan Yan has also been killed in battle. It seems that the tenacity and war-resistant characteristics of the Jurchen fierce soldiers and horses have been vividly embodied, and the commander Wanyan Muhan allocated troops and horses to surround Taiyuan at the same time, and ordered his general Yinshuke to sweep away the counties of the outer prefectures of Taiyuan, Wenshui, Xidu Valley, Qi County, Taigu, Yuxian and other places have been captured and lost, and Fan Kui, Shi Xu, and Gao Feng's Song army who went to rescue Taiyuan have also been killed by Yinshuke.
At the critical juncture when he heard that Taiyuan and even Hedong had fallen, the generals of the Song army, such as Xianggong Xiaozhong, Yao Gu, and Zhang Hao, led their troops to the rescue, and the three armies were horns of each other, trying to solve the danger in Taiyuan, Xiao Tang's mind moved, and he couldn't help but secretly say: Although I and a group of brothers worked together to finally turn things around, so that the catastrophe in the official history of Jingkang's shame would not worsen, and more innocent people would be brutally violated by foreign captives... However, in the same official history, the Song court fought a defense battle with Taiyuan as the main battlefield in order to resist the Jin Dynasty's southward advance...... Didn't it also end with the defeat of the Song army and the loss of Taiyuan, which caused the Jin tribes to encroach on the entire territory of Hedong Road?
Although according to the original trajectory, the Jin Army West Road Army led by Wanyan Muhan should have captured Taiyuan Mansion, the strategic center of gravity of Hedong Road during the second southern invasion of the Song Dynasty, and then waved south, echoing the Jin Guo East Road Army led by Wanyan Libu, and meeting in Bianliang, Tokyo, thus causing the shame of Jingkang. However, even if Zhao Huan, the cowardly and incompetent Song Qinzong in the official history, accepted the Jin army's offer to cede the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan and Hejian to retreat, but the Taiyuan army and people refused to obey the holy decree of losing power and humiliating the country, and still rose up to block the soldiers and horses of the western road of the Jin country who intended to take over the city.
Even if there were soldiers of the forbidden army who fought desperately on the Hedong Road, the Song army that rushed to the aid from all walks of life was defeated in successive battles. Although now that the army of the East Road of the Jin Kingdom has been defeated, and the commander Wan Yan has been killed by himself, Xiao Tang also knows very well that if he does not wave his army to help, and assists the Song army to resist the offensive of the Jin army with Wan Yan Muhan as the commander... I am afraid that the Song court's civil ministers interfered in military affairs, the intrigue and disagreement broke out among the generals and commanders in the army, and the forbidden army volunteers who desperately resisted in various places will eventually be broken by the Jin army...... A series of tragedies such as I'm afraid they will still be staged according to their original trajectory. The Jin State will eventually encroach on the entire territory of Hedong Road, and from many perspectives such as geography and current situation, it will become a sharp blade hanging over the head of the Gyeonggi Road in the Great Song Dynasty, and its own army and the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army will also fall into a very passive situation strategically.
The soldiers and horses of the Taihang Mountain Lianhuanzhai Rebel Army led by Fu Xuan, Meng De, Liu Ze, Jiao Wentong and other brothers, as well as Liang Xing and Zhao Yun, were also dispatched to Hedong Road to organize the righteous anti-Jin armed forces according to my order, and now they finally have a place to use... Xiao Tang thought about it in his heart, but he still couldn't help but hesitate for a while: now that many state capitals on the two roads of Hebei have fallen, presumably the Jin State side will also send another general from the east road south to attack the places under the rule of Gyeonggi and Jingdong......
If this is the case, then should I personally lead the army to Hedong to help, or should I stay in Gyeonggi and Shandong to set up a defensive line?