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Zhang Jun's so-called two-pronged plan is actually not clever, but he first entered Shu to manage Sichuan and Shaanxi, in case the Chinese army really killed from the sea, then Zhao Gou led the Southern Song Dynasty civil and military officials and the Southern Song army into Shu.

But—

Although Zhang Jun's plan for both sides is not clever, Zhao Gou is tempted!

The western region, including Sichuan and Shaanxi, is a place that Zhao Gou loves and hates.

The Western Army was undoubtedly the strongest army in the Great Song Dynasty.

However, due to the confusion of the command system (Shaanxi has six troops of the Economic and Strategic Pacification Division, and there are troops of the Hedong Economic and Pacification Division), and Fan Zhixu, who acted as the envoy of Shaanxi, was defeated by the 3,000 Jin Army, and had no prestige, and it was difficult to command the other five-way Song army, so after Wang Yan led the army westward to join forces with Zhang Xian, it took only one month to successively attack Dongcheng, Fengxiang Mansion, Chang'an, Qinzhou and other places in Yan'an Prefecture, and defeated the three main forces of the Jinglu Pacification Division of Yanyan, Yongxing Army, and Qin Feng.

Later, people from all over Shaanxi responded to the call of the Pacification Division of the Yanyan Road Passage to rebel against the Chinese army and defend the country - mainly for the former.

The people of the west, who love the land very much, defend their homeland, is something that flows in their bones, deeply rooted.

Therefore, all of a sudden, heroes rose everywhere, and several rebel armies led by Meng Di, Chong Qian, Zhang Mian, Zhang Jian, Bai Bao, and Li Jin all had strong combat effectiveness, and even dared to fight the Chinese army head-on.

With the cooperation of these rebels, the pacification division of the Yanyan Road Jinglu recovered Tongzhou in one fell swoop, and took advantage of the emptiness of the Chinese army stationed in Shaanzhou to send troops to recover Shaanzhou in one fell swoop.

Tongzhou is located on the north bank of Weishui to the east of Chang'an, because the terrain on the south bank of Weishui is narrow, it is not easy to deploy heavy troops, so Tongzhou has become an important town to attack Chang'an or defend Chang'an.

Not only that, Tongzhou is also an important support point for the defense system of Tongguan and Pujin Pass.

Therefore, when the Song army took control of Tongzhou, it cut off the communication between the Chinese army in Chang'an and the Chinese army in Tongguan and Pujin Pass.

The occupation of Shaanzhou by the rebel army also cut off the direct communication between the Chinese army in Shaanxi and the Chinese army in Henan.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Xian and Wang Yan, commanders of the Shaanxi Central Army, heard that Shaanxi and Tongerzhou had been recaptured by the Song army and their own back roads were cut off, they did not dare to attack Xizhou again, and hurriedly led their troops to retreat eastward.

The Xihe Road passed through a little pacification, so Zhang Shen sent the Song generals Zhang Yan and Liu Weifu to lead the army to cover the Chinese army retreating eastward.

But Liu Weifu did not want to be under Zhang Yan's command, so he led the army from Wushan out of Baoji to attack the Chinese army rangers.

As soon as Liu Weifu left, Zhang Yan's forces were greatly weakened, and he was careless about the enemy, so he was ambushed by the Chinese army in Wulipo near Fengxiang, and was defeated by the Chinese general Yang Congyi, and Zhang Yan himself was also killed in Wulipo.

After the defeat of Zhang Yan, Zhang Xian changed his mind, no longer in a hurry to attack Tongzhou and Shaanzhou to open up a channel with Hedong and Henan, but to garrison Fengxiang, and sent Yang Congyi to lead the army north to attack the main force of the Jingyuan Road Jinglu Pacification Division.

Yang Congyi's troops quickly routed the main force of the Jingyuan army from the flank.

It's a pity that just when Yang Congyi's troops were about to completely destroy the main force of the Jingyuan Army, Qu Duan, the commander of the Jingyuan Army, suddenly led his troops to kill, and then repelled Yang Congyi's troops and kept the position west of Qingxiling.

Since then, Jingyuan Road has been slightly pacified by Xigong by Quduan, who has become the de facto leader of the Jingyuan army.

Later, Qu Duan took advantage of the gap between the war to recruit displaced soldiers in Jingyuan, expand the army and train troops, and gradually became a stronger force in the Western Army.

Therefore, Qu Duan not only became the speaker of the Jingyuan Army, but also slowly became the actual leader of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty (not an absolute leader, but there were more generals of the Western Army who listened to Quduan), as for Fan Zhixu, the leader who originally represented the Great Song Dynasty, now he has lost power, and there are few generals left to listen to him.

Fan Zhixu's ability to fight is not good, but there is absolutely no problem with his character.

In view of the fact that he could no longer control the western region, Fan Zhixu immediately wrote to the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, asking Zhao Gou to send someone to replace him, so that the strongest Western army in the Great Song Dynasty could not be turned into a plate of scattered sand, and finally broken by the Chinese army one by one, moreover, Fan Xuxu also recommended Xi Yi, Li Mida, Tang Zhong and other capable and loyal generals and officials to replace him.

Since the Song Dynasty, the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty, one, counted one, all did not trust the generals, and when they came to Zhao Gou, they reached the peak.

Zhao Gou, who had seen the generals rebel many times, was already extremely distrustful of the generals.

What's more, Qu Duan was not the leader of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty elected by Zhao Song at all, but he himself seized the power of Xigong, and he himself took advantage of the chaos to grow.

In Zhao Gou's view, Qu Duan's approach is a typical warlord, and he may become the second Li Yan.

Let's ask, in this case, how could Zhao Gou rest assured that the hope of the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty would be handed over to Qu Duan?

But then again, the reason why the Western Front was defeated but not defeated, and the reason why the Sichuan-Shaanxi Line was still under the control of the Southern Song Dynasty, was also fortunate because there were people who led Quduan to resist.

In this case, Zhao Gou really couldn't take the end of the knife.

What's more critical is that the Sichuan-Shaanxi line, there is a problem, not only the curved end.

Before the signing of the "Great Unification Peace Conference" in the Song Dynasty, Zhang Xian and Wang Yan personally led their armies to recapture Tongzhou and Shaanzhou respectively, and continued to advance westward, recovering Fengxiang, Chang'an and other places successively.

Later, the "Great Unification Peace Conference" was signed, Zhang Xian and Wang Yan gave up Fengxiang and Chang'an, retreated eastward along Weishui, and gathered in the area of Tongzhou and Hezhongfu to hold the Xinhe Bridge to ensure the traffic on both sides of the Yellow River, and also to ensure that they could directly move their troops westward when recovering the Sichuan-Shaanxi line in the future.

After the Chinese army withdrew eastward, Qu Duan led the army into Qinzhou, and Liu Xiliang and Wang Zeren led the army into Fengxiang and Chang'an, each with one side.

Soon, Liu Xiliang was expelled from Fengxiang by the volunteers, and had to take refuge in Quduan.

However, Qu Duan killed Liu Xiliang and annexed his subordinates.

At this time, Wang Zeren was also pacified by the newly appointed Yongxing Army and drove Guo Yan out of Chang'an.

At that time, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty could not take care of the western region at all, so it could only let Fan Zhixu continue to control the military horses of the Sixth Route in Shaanxi.

But Fan Zhixu's ability is too limited, and his prestige has been wiped out by the Jin army, so it is really difficult to convince the public.

As a last resort, Fan Zhixu promoted Qu Duan to the training envoy of the Jizhou regiment and served as the commander of his own temperance department.

However, Qu Duan did not appreciate it - when Qu Duan learned that Meng Di and other leaders of the rebel army had accepted the command of Fan Zhixu, he was unhappy, so he issued an announcement, saying that the Chinese army had returned from crossing the river and the war had stopped, so he should not delay the agricultural time, and then used this as an excuse to order all the rebels south of the Wei River to be dismissed, and the vigorous popular anti-China movement was forcibly suppressed.

As a result, the people in the area of Yanyan Road were panicked and feared that the Chinese army would attack again, so they migrated one after another, which in turn caused panic throughout the western region.

It can be said that the current Sichuan-Shaanxi line and the current western region are a mess and warlords have divided them.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Gou is reluctant to enter Shu.

Zhang Jun is willing to go to Shu for Zhao Gou to operate the Sichuan-Shaanxi line, which is a good thing.

Let's not talk about the back road that Zhang Jun said.

If the Southern Song Dynasty wanted to recover its homeland, even if it was just to protect itself, it was inseparable from the most powerful Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhao Gou to let the Sichuan-Shaanxi line and the western region continue to be chaotic like this.

Moreover, there is no one in Zhao Gou's hands who is more suitable than Zhang Jun to manage the Sichuan-Shaanxi line and the western region.

Therefore, without much consideration, Zhao Gou appointed Zhang Jun as the envoy of the Xuanfu of Sichuan and Shaanxi, not only to Xingyuan, but also to visit customs, reprimand traitors, to recruit heroes, to win the hearts of the generals of Sichuan and Shaanxi for the Great Song Dynasty, and to operate the Sichuan-Shaanxi line and the western region for the Great Song Dynasty......

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