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Before the troops were dispatched, in addition to the intensive drills of several armies uniting together, Gao Yue, Tan Zhizhong, Ximen Cang, Gao Gu, Zhang Jingze, and other supervising troops and generals also carried out repeated deductions in terms of strategy.

Gao Yue found that everyone was most worried about the topography of Baiyu Mountain, it stretched four or five hundred miles to more than 200 kilometers now, most of the mountains were three thousand feet high, and several main peaks were as high as four or five thousand feet, the terrain was spiraling and steep, and the three passes in the west and east were very important, and it was difficult to transfer, according to Tan Zhizhong, it was good for the imperial battalions and horses to stick to the defensive boundary now, but once it moved, it would be good if one stone of grain from ten stones could reach the front line. What's more, even if we break through the dangerous obstacles of Bai Yushan and go to Xiazhou, if the party stubbornly defends the city of Tongwancheng and clears the wilderness, our army will not have enough food, and I am afraid that in the end, we will have to retreat with all our strength, and even lose our troops and generals.

Tan Zhizhong's worries, in fact, Gao Yue also knew it.

In later generations, the Great Song Dynasty also engaged in the five-way expedition in the Shenzong Dynasty, but in the end it was a heavy failure, coupled with the fiasco of Yongle City shortly thereafter, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and people died, and Emperor Shenzong was even more depressed because of this, and he was tired of talking about military affairs, so that he drove in frustration.

But after a detailed comparison, everyone who crossed the river by touching the stones of their predecessors was different, Gao Yue could cross the river by touching the stones of his descendants, and Gao Yue felt that there was still a great chance of winning this large-scale campaign against the party.

Based on the three benefits and three disadvantages previously mentioned by Ye Shiliangbi, Gao Yue further strengthened his conquest plan, and compared it with the battle examples of the later Song Dynasty and Western Xia:

First, at this time, most of the Qiang people in the party were still tribal, although the traitor Tuoba Zhaohui called himself the son of Qingtian, but in fact, Pingxia or the six prefectures, the overall was still their own fight, but the Song Dynasty was different, and the confrontation between the Tang and the party was between the state and the Fanluo; However, the Song Dynasty was different from the military and political defeat of the party in the early Song period, and the Western Xia had transformed into a relatively mature political system, and the Song and Western Xia had evolved into a confrontation between the state and the state.

2. What are the five roads of the Song Army's five roads? Wang Zhongzheng supervised the eunuchs on the Hedong Road, and Chong Ge took the Yanyan Road, and the goal of these two roads was to capture Yinzhou, Xiazhou and Youzhou in the north of Baiyu Mountain; Then Gao Zunyu coincidental, this is also surnamed Gao, and the route of the march is also the same as Gao Yue, out of Huanqing Road, Huanzhou and Qingzhou, Liu Changzuo out of Jingyuan Road by Gao Zunyu control, and then Li Xianjian army eunuchs control the Xihe, Qinfeng Road military horses along the Xihe River to the northeast, the goal of these three roads is to seize Yanzhou and Lingzhou area, and finally the five roads of soldiers and horses will gather in Lingzhou, and then besiege and seize the royal capital of Western Xia, Xingqing Mansion.

So here comes the most crucial difference:

My strategic goals are fundamentally different from those of Song Shenzong!

Song Shenzong's goal was to completely destroy Western Xia, and his strategy was to capture the Lingwu area of Xingqing Prefecture;

As for my goal, I also want to completely destroy the party, but my strategy is to capture Xiazhou and Tongwancheng.

Why there is this difference is very simple, because now Lingwu is still firmly in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, Tang has not been lost, Hetao is also still in the hands of Tiande and Zhenwu, and the party of the Pingxia Department can only start in Youzhou and Xiazhou, occupying Tongwancheng as a pseudo-capital.

Therefore, the difference in strategic situation and objectives often determines whether a war is won or lost.

In fact, in the first half of the battle, the Fifth Route Song Army had successfully broken through the defense line of Western Xia in Baiyu Mountain, that is, in the Hengshan area. Chongge captured Mizhi Village, beheaded 8,000, and recovered the entire territory of Suizhou, Yinzhou and Shizhou; Wang Zhongzheng also successfully detoured from the east of the river to the west and occupied the Wuding River; The most successful was Liu Changzuo of Jingyuan Road, who captured the Moumbi Pass, which was only a hundred miles away from Lingzhou to the north; Li Xian also broke through the ancient city of Lanzhou and advanced to the camp in Tiandu Mountain, which was not far from Liu Changzuo.

But why did it collapse in the second half of the stage? Gao Yue knew that because the strategic goal set by Song Shenzong was not to seize Hengshan and finish the matter, but to make great achievements, and to directly hit Xingqing Mansion and liberate Empress Dowager Liang.

It's fatal.

At that time, the Empress Dowager Liang of Xixia listened to the advice of her subordinates, concentrated all the elites in Xingqing Mansion, and sent light cavalry to plunder the grain route of the Song army, fighting the standard "strong wall and clearing the field", and then implemented the tactics of counterattack.

As for the Song army, after they asked to break through Baiyu Mountain, the preliminary assembly point of the Fifth Route Army was Huanzhou, from Huanzhou to Xingqing Mansion, but there was a distance of 700 miles, and it was mostly desert! What's even more terrifying is that Huanzhou is indeed located at the intersection of the northern end of Qinfeng Road, Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road, Li Xian, Gao Zunyu and Liu Changzuo did not have trouble coming here, Huanzhou is roughly equal to Gao Yue's previous fierce battle with Xifan Ma Chongying's Anle Prefecture, but Chong Mo and Wang Zhongzheng can be miserable with their two two more than 100,000 troops, plus 100,000 people, finally arrived in the north of Baiyu Mountain, and had to slowly walk hundreds of miles west to get to Huanzhou......

The army marched to Suojiaping, Xiazhou, where heavy snow fell, the army was exhausted, and 100,000 soldiers were defeated without a fight; Wang Zhongzheng's 60,000 soldiers, plus a similar number of people, went north along the Wuding River, plunged into the sandy wet area, the men and horses sank and the dead were heavy, and finally walked to the Naiwangjing in Youzhou, where the military rations were exhausted and collapsed without a fight.

After the defeat of these two roads, Gao Zunyu and Liu Changzuo were not good, although they arched to Lingzhou, but the troops did not have an advantage over the Western Xia of Xingqing Mansion, the grain road was cut off, and the military camp was flooded by the Yellow River dug by the Western Xia, and they fled in defeat.

Li Xian didn't go to join in the excitement, and after seeing that the roads were unfavorable, he withdrew his troops directly.

"If Emperor Shenzong formulates a practical and feasible strategic goal, for example, Chong Ge and Wang Zhongzheng seize Hengshan, and then build a fortress on the mountain range, recruit the Qiang to fall into righteousness, encroach on Xiazhou, Youzhou and Yinzhou, and cultivate in the Wuding River Tuntian to solve the problem of military rations, and Gao Zunyu and Liu Changzuo are also satisfied with capturing Tiandu Mountain, and also build a fortress here, step by step, and slowly shorten the attack distance of Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia, after the opportune time comes, the west and the east will advance together, relying on the national strength of the Song Dynasty, it will definitely be able to crush the Western Xia."

Now Gao Yue's strategy is very feasible, he dispelled everyone's concerns, and came up with a set of plans: "We must first occupy Baiyu Mountain, cut off the Pingxia Party in the north of the mountain and the Liufu Party in the south of Shannan, and then all the roads will suppress, first destroy the Liufu and Lishi Party in Shannan and Weibei, and then advance in parallel to besiege Tongwancheng and exterminate the Pingxia Party." Then Gao Yue pointed to the map, "The problem of military rations is not big, Lingyan uses the water transportation of Feng'an all the way, and stores grain in Lingwu and Yanzhou City; Gyeongju all the way to the grain in Mobobao; Yan Yan all the way to the grain in Diaoyin City; And Hedong and Zelu all the way are stocked in the newly built Qingjian City. Half of the lost manpower was taken over by the archers of the towns and the hired poor, and half by the caravans. ”

Now Gao Yue concentrated light goods, such as cotton cloth, silk silk, and the most precious products in the north, in the Yingzhong military market, and immediately opened the goods to attract the inspection organizations in various places, mobilizing the merchants of Lingwu, Ningqing, Fengxiang, Xingyuan, Hedong and even Gyeonggi to transport grain and grass to gather everywhere, and then push down the price of light goods and sell them to the caravan, and the difference in price was used as the caravan's foot money, so as not to cause additional burdens to the people.

But for the party items in the encirclement network, Gao Yue, as the commander of the imperial camp, issued the most severe ban on business on the five roads!

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