Chapter Eighty-Eight: Unfinished Ambition

"Little brother doesn't have to be polite!" Mr. Zhou has a lot of Jianghu flavor, his voice is loud and full of energy, as soon as he opened his mouth, he let Chong Yanfeng predict that the other party is a practitioner, and the level of kung fu can not be seen for the time being, just by virtue of his bearing and age, he guesses whether he should be a weak hand, and Chong Yanfeng is uncertain that the other party's kung fu may be a few more powerful than himself.

Lao Xueyu didn't make more polite introductions, I saw him take out Chong Yanfeng's previous article from the cabinet under the table, and handed it back to Chong Yanfeng with a smile, "I've already polished my pen, you go back and take a good look, maybe it will be of great use in the future!" ”

"Students follow the teacher's teachings!" Chong Yanfeng said respectfully, for this kind of help that does not ask for anything in return, Chong Dashao inevitably feels warm in his heart.

"Don't be polite with me!" Old Xueyu smiled and patted Yanfeng's shoulder, "My brother is an all-rounder of Wen Taowu strategy, and he also likes your article, I hope you can explain some of the content to him, you discuss it slowly, I won't participate." ”

"Congratulations to the teacher!" Although Chong Yanfeng was full of doubts in his heart, he didn't dare to waste the etiquette, and after sending the teacher away, he arched his hand again to the old man who was sitting, "The kid's article is vulgar, and I ask the old-timers to give me advice!" ”

"If you don't dare to teach, you have the right to be a nagging old guy and talk to you a few words!" The old man smiled and asked Chong Yanfeng to sit down, "You and I are just chatting and discussing when we meet, the name of the old-timer sounds too awkward, you just call me Lao Zhou, as for how about I call you a little friend?" ”

"Dare not obey the ......" The old man's open-minded personality is against the appetite of Chong Yanfeng, and the young man is also quite tired of the red tape of the ancients, how can the other party not let him raise his hands in favor of doing this.

"Xiaoyou is worthy of being a person who is a kind of family army, and he knows the situation in the northwest well, first set the Western Xia and then collect Youyan, and it was also this strategy to be a bad minister back then, but unfortunately his old man can't see it!" The old man sighed first, and then continued: "The strategy in your article is very clear, but the specific tactics are not mentioned too much, can you explain it to the old man?" ”

Wang Anshi's foreign strategy was roughly divided into three steps, the first to collect Hehuang and surrender the Tibetan tribes, the second to pacify the Western Xia, and the third was to send troops to attack Liao to recapture Yanyun.

If it weren't for the Jurchen crisis being too urgent, there would actually be a more secure way to deal with the Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty used to play the two swords of economic blockade and military action, but the war can actually be more complicated, and the economic sanctions are far from enough, and it is the king to take the initiative to control or even promote the economic collapse of the Western Xia, and the military attack must also go hand in hand, but unfortunately it is too late to simmer slowly, and the current situation is that even if the Jurchens can't eradicate the party members before they go south, they need to make the other party's vitality hurt. Otherwise, once the two-front battle will drag the Great Song Dynasty into the bottomless abyss.

"Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, and the kid thinks that under the premise that my Great Song Dynasty has a huge advantage in national strength and resources, unless there is an excellent opportunity, I really shouldn't risk the big army to fight deep into the territory of Western Xia. The best thing for the party is to send cavalry to harass, ambush, and cut off grain routes after clearing the wilderness. At the beginning of the war, we should focus on steady and steady fighting, build camps along the first-line stronghold of Huanqing in Yanyan, force the party to attack, and then give full play to the advantages of our army in defending the city, and then concentrate superior forces to annihilate its living forces. ”

At the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty was indeed repeatedly victorious, and Li Yuanhao himself was praised as a figure like the god of guerrilla warfare, but we have to say that although the Great Song Dynasty was defeated, it cannot be arbitrarily said that the strength of the Great Song Dynasty field battle is not as good as others, you must know that Li Yuanhao won several major battles such as Sanchuankou and Haoshuichuan with more than ten times the number of troops, not to mention that it was not easy to win.

For example, in the battle of Sanchuankou, the Western Xia army attacked the Song army with more than ten times the elite cavalry troops, and in the case of a huge advantage in strength and cavalry against infantry, the party people did not take any advantage in the field battle, and it took four days to barely eat the Song army without even the city, and then it was even more frightened by the strength of the Song army, and did not even dare to consider expanding the results of the battle, but after the victory, they retreated in disgrace.

During the period of Song Shenzong, the Song army of the five roads of the army attacked the Western Xia, although the strategic purpose was not achieved and the army suffered heavy losses, but the failure was mainly due to the weather was not strong, even the field Song army in the series of battles also comprehensively suppressed the Western Xia, the second generation of the helmsman of the family army was the result of the brilliant results, the field battle made the party people cry dad and call the mother basically from that meeting, the battle of the Song army won the town is basically all the credit of the plant, of course, the first generation of armed eunuch Li Xian also performed well, he basically maintained a record of victory in the field of the party people.

In the Zhezong period, Zhang Zhi was even more abused by the Western Xia people could not find the north, the Song army was not afraid of the Western Xia in the field battle, and there was more strong national strength and advanced weapons as support during the Huizong period.

"Extensive cultivation of the camp, not only Fan Shengren has advocated it, but Lord Chong'e has also personally entered Beijing to face the saint to mention this matter, but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and the plan was not only not implemented, but also Xu Xi's 200,000 soldiers and civilians died in vain!" Mr. Zhou sighed deeply again, "The unfulfilled wishes of the ancestors now seem to be able to only be fulfilled by Xiaoyou's generation!" ”

"It's our duty to wait!" Chong Yanfeng got up and replied respectfully, the other party mentioned the late martyr of the Seed Family, and Chong Yanfeng's expression immediately became solemn, "Pacifying the Western Xia is not only the ambition of the Seed Army, but also the wish of all the Western Army and all the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and it will definitely come true in this life!" ”

After the failure of Yuanfeng's five-way expedition to the west, both sides of Song and Xia can be said to have suffered heavy losses, at the moment when both sides were physically and mentally exhausted, the general of the E-E was still active on the border, the E-E. sent the Yan army of 20,000 steps to ride out of Dongchuan to attack Youzhou, and the field battle beheaded the other party's general and defeated the 30,000-strong cavalry army of the Western Xia, and then the E-e entered the capital to write the book to seize Hengshan first, and then along the Yinzhou and other places to repair the walled city, steadily grasp and advance layer by layer, do not worry about the Xixia people do not obey.

It's a pity that it backfired, a man named Xu Xi gave a bad dish in the matter, the other party not only disagreed with the correct opinion of the plant, but also had to build a huge city in a place where there was no water source, and even kicked the opposing Zhue out of the Yan army, this is the sequelae of Taizong's emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, a small second forced literati can dispose of the battlefield at will, and can integrate the military regime.

As a result, there was a Yongle city on the Yongle River at the junction of Yin, You, and Xia states, a city without a water source, and the Yan Yan army, which had won a hundred battles and made the Xixia people frightened, deteriorated after the unjust treatment of the people of Chong'e, Xu Xi was a genius who could bring the wolves into lambs, after he missed the opportunity to retreat or fight a decisive battle, Yongle City was quickly surrounded by the Western Xia and then captured, and the 30,000 elite Yan army that was carefully trained by the Chong'e also disappeared, and more than 100,000 people died in Huangquan.

The fiasco of nearly 200,000 casualties has never been achieved since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and this incident has dealt a great blow to Chong'e.