Two months later, the news of Wan Yanliang's death spread to Bianjing and Liaoyang.

Dongjin Wanyan Yong immediately mobilized 50,000 troops to attack Dading Mansion.

Due to the new emperor's accession to the throne, the army was confused, and the Xijin defenders did not dare to face the battle, so the whole army retreated to Linhuang Mansion, gathered 40,000 troops, and formed a confrontation with Wanyan Yong's army.

The nearly 100,000 troops on both sides are not far apart, just waiting for an order from either side, a big battle is about to break out!

Previously, Wanyan Liang killed a large number of military and political ministers in a fit of anger because of the loss of Hedong and Guanzhong, which caused turmoil in the situation between the DPRK and China.

In addition, Wan Yan Liang was gone, and the relatives of the important ministers and the various departments of the grassland who were persecuted by him in the early years began to move, so the troops stationed around Datong Mansion, Wan Yan Guangying did not dare to mobilize them easily, otherwise he would have transferred troops to support Linhuang Mansion and Dading Mansion on the front foot, and someone would dare to gather troops to attack Datong Mansion on the back foot.

The time that young Wan Yan Guangying needs now, he needs time to stabilize the situation in the court, gather and appease the military and people's hearts that were defeated by his father Wan Yan Liang.

However, the game of the Three Kingdoms has reached the middle game, Wan Yanyong will not give him a chance, and Zhao Yan will not give him a chance.

On February 24 of the ninth year of Beiding, Wanyan Yong went to Dading Mansion in person to prepare for the imperial drive of the capital to Linhuang Mansion.

On March 15, Wanyan Yongqin led an army of 70,000 from Dading Mansion, preparing to capture Linhuang Mansion, four or five hundred miles away, in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Bianjing, thousands of miles away, was also preparing to launch a new offensive.

The palace, the palace of diligence, a monarch, a minister and an inner servant.

"Make peace with Wan Yan Guangying? My Great Song soldiers and horses can go straight to Datong Mansion and recover Yunzhong, why do you want to negotiate peace with him? Why do we have to negotiate peace even if we win? Zhao Yan didn't understand, and he immediately asked rhetorically.

Yang Congyi said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, the outside of the pass is different from the Central Plains, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are few flat official roads in various places, and the march and the supply of grain and grass are very big problems, although the new emperor of Xijin has not been on the throne for a long time, but the army outside the gate is still there, if we rush out of the pass, we can't eliminate the main force of the Xijin army in a war, and there is no point in fighting out of the pass, even if we capture Shuozhou and Datong Mansion, there is no supply of grain and grass, and we can only give up and retreat to the pass." Without enough horses and a strong cavalry, we would not be able to stand outside the pass, even if we had the upper hand. The negotiation of peace seems to give Xijin time, but in fact, it also leaves us enough time to prepare. Now we have a horse farm in Hejian Fu, and then we can build horse farms in Hedong, Guanzhong, and northern Shaanxi, and we don't have to wait long, after ten years, the Great Song Dynasty will be able to have enough war horses to train an elite cavalry. On the grassland outside the pass, an elite cavalry of 30,000 people can gallop across the country without fear of any opponent. When the time comes, step and ride in harmony, don't say that in the clouds, it is deep in the Mongolian steppe, and even in the north of the clouds, thousands of miles away in the desert, you can also go. ”

Zhao Yan understands the truth and the current situation of the lack of horses in the Great Song Dynasty, but he is still unwilling, why can he recover Hedong, Guanzhong, and northern Shaanxi in three months, but he can't recover Yunzhong in one go?

"Can't we concentrate our forces and destroy the Xijin army in one battle?"

Hearing this question, Yang Congyi was a little speechless, but he could only explain again: "Your Majesty, the Xijin Jurchen and the grassland tribes are different from us, they are not an agricultural culture, and they will not live in one place for a lifetime or several generations. If we concentrate our forces to attack Datong Mansion, from Yanmen Pass to Datong Mansion the army will have to walk for about ten days, there are these ten days, the people of Xijin Monarchs and Ministers can take all their belongings and move thousands of miles, except for an empty city, we can get nothing, once we choose to stay in Datong Mansion, the Xijin cavalry can plunder our grain route from Xinzhou to Datong Mansion as they like, the cavalry comes and goes like the wind in the vast grassland, there is no war horse as good as them, it is impossible to entangle them, and they cannot be severely damaged, The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty can only be slaughtered by them, and the grain and grass and military supplies we supply to Datong Mansion will all fall into the hands of Xijin, unless every time we send grain and grass to Datong Mansion, we will send tens of thousands of troops to escort them. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yan was a little discouraged, the enemy has horses, and he is willing to give up the land, and there is really not much way to take them, is Yunzhong just giving up?

"Xijin turmoil, such a good opportunity, it's a pity not to recapture Yunzhong!"

"You can't run in the clouds, sooner or later it's ours, the emperor only needs to wait patiently for ten years, build a horse farm, train cavalry, as long as the Great Song Dynasty has a strong cavalry, it may not be impossible to regain the merits of Han Wu!" In fact, we have a lot to do now besides the cloud. ”

"Oh, what's in it for you?"

Yang Congyi said: "First negotiate peace with Xijin Wanyan Guangying and strike troops in Hedong, which can not only reduce the pressure on our border passes and recuperate the people's livelihood, but also allow Xijin to concentrate on and force to deal with Wanyan Yong in the east, so that they can restart the war in the north and consume troops and people's strength." Now that Xijin's strength is weakened and the political situation is unstable, it is more difficult to deal with Yan Yong, so we have to help him. ”

"Help Sikin? How can I help? Zhao Yan frowned.

"It is reported that Liaoyang Mansion has mobilized 50,000 troops to march westward, and is preparing to capture Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, which were robbed by Xijin a few years ago. If Yan Yong recaptures Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, the power of Dongjin will inevitably increase greatly, and Xijin will be further weakened. Either of them is too strong, which is not a good thing for the Great Song Dynasty, only if they are equal and can fight indistinguishably, and the Great Song Dynasty sits firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, it is profitable. Therefore, we should immediately organize our forces and launch an offensive against the Yanjing region and Pingzhou under the control of Dongjin, so as to contain Dongjin, and if it goes well, we can also recover the land north of Hejian Province. At this time, Zhending Mansion will not act rashly, once we use troops in the direction of Yanjing and Pingzhou, Liaoyang Mansion will not dare to attack Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion with all its might. As long as Linhuang Mansion is not lost, Xijin can form a confrontation and tug-of-war with Dongjin, and in the end, whether it is Xijin or Dongjin, their fate will be controlled in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"A little fight, when is the head! Since it is necessary to mobilize troops, it is better to fight together with Xijin and Dongjin, attacking Yanjing, Pingzhou, and Zhendingfu. Take advantage of Xijin's inability to look south, can't you recover Zhending Mansion in one fell swoop? ”

The imperial court recovered dozens of state capitals in Hedong, Guanzhong, and northern Shaanxi in half a year, which made Zhao Yan full of confidence, and it can even be said that he was a great achievement.

In fact, since Zhao Yan ascended the throne as emperor, he has recovered most of the land occupied by the Jin State after the Jingkang Rebellion, and his martial arts can already rank among the top three among all the previous Great Song emperors.

However, if you take this opportunity to recover Zhending Mansion in one fell swoop, then it can be said that in just over ten years after ascending the throne, he has recovered all the land of the Great Song Dynasty that was seized by the Jin people more than 40 years ago, and completely owns all the land owned by Taizu Taizong since the Dynasty.

Now that the complete work of recovering all the lost territories is gone, there is only one Zhending Mansion left, how can Zhao Yan not be in a hurry?

Yang Congyi didn't know Zhao Yan's thoughts, but he understood that this was definitely not the best time to recover Zhending Mansion.

So he comforted and explained: "The reason why the previous recovery of Hedong and Guanzhong was able to win in one battle without dragging mud and water is because the imperial court made sufficient preparations, first took Taiyuan and Xinzhou, and cut off the passage for the Jin army to support and escape from the Guannei, so that the Jin army in Hedong and Guanzhong had no way to go to the sky, no way to enter the ground, and they could not be defeated or escaped, so that they could be eliminated and recovered, and Hedong and Guanzhong could be quickly stabilized." The Jin army there has at least three choices, one can resist stubbornly and be wiped out by us or surrender, the second can abandon the city and go north, cross the mountains and mountains, and return to the northern grasslands, and the third can defect to Dongjin, so that Zhending Mansion and Yanjing can be connected. If they storm Zhending Mansion before taking control of the Yanjing region, the forced Jin army of Zhending Mansion will not be able to continue to stay in Zhending Mansion, among the three choices, their most likely choice will not be to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, if they choose to betray Xijin, they will of course choose to defect to Dongjin Wanyan Yong. Once the Jin army of Zhending Mansion is the same as the Jin army of Yanjing, the strength of General Wanyan Yong will increase greatly, and it will be more difficult to recover Yanjing in the future than to ascend to the sky, so we must not stimulate and persecute the Jin army of Zhending Mansion, and let them stay in Zhending Mansion. When we first control Yanjing and cut off their way to flee north, the Jin army of Zhending Mansion will have only one way to surrender to us, and then Zhending Mansion will be able to return to the Great Song Dynasty without spending a single soldier. ”

Although Zhao Yan was unwilling, he also understood that this was the best way.

The imperial court has no money to start any war, and if you want to use troops externally, you have to allocate funds from the inner treasury, but at the moment the inner treasury is not rich, not to mention that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are staring at him and his inner treasury, and then want to bypass the three provinces and directly order the front-line generals to wage war, I am afraid that his teacher Shi Hao will have to resign.

In Lin'an that year, he first launched the Northern Expedition to bypass the three provinces, and last year suddenly launched the Northern Expedition to Hedong and Guanzhong, he once again bypassed the three provinces, bypassed Prime Minister Shi Hao twice, and quietly gave orders to the front-line commander-in-chief, making a group of old ministers in the DPRK and China anxious.

The so-called one can be two and three, as the emperor, he can still weigh the weight, and the current court must not be mediated without Shi Hao.

"Then how long will it take to regain Zhending Mansion?" As an emperor who was bent on reviving the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Yan had to give in.

Yang Congyi replied: "It won't be too long, as long as Hedong, Guanzhong, and northern Shaanxi are stable, and the court is ready, within three years, Yanjing will be taken, and then not only Yanjing can be taken, but also Liaoyang Mansion can be taken, and Zhending Mansion itself will be restored." ”

"I remember you didn't say that before, why did you delay it for another three years?" Hearing that he would be able to take Yanjing and Zhending Mansion in three years, and Liaoyang Mansion, the capital of Dongjin Kingdom, Zhao Yan's heart was light.

"There are some changes in the current situation, and it will take a few more years to avoid hurting the national strength, and only then will we be able to conquer the northern grasslands." Yang Congyi is not in a hurry or impatient, as if everything is in his chest.