Chapter 757

One by one, the officials dispersed, and only a few key officials remained. Wang Yang, Zhe Keshi, Gao Shize, Seed Master and Youzhou Tong sentenced Tang Xuncheng.

"The attitude of the court is like that, but they are not us, we are the people in charge of these three states, and we need to be responsible for the 400,000 soldiers and civilians in these three states."

Speaking of this, Wang Yang couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly. "At the beginning, Wang still hoped to use the land of Sanzhou as a lure, so that the eyes of Western Xia and Liao fell here, but what he didn't expect was that if such a situation really occurred, the pressure on the land of Sanzhou would be so great."

"Liaoguo, can you really make up your mind to start a war with my Great Song Dynasty?" At this moment, Tang Xuncheng still has a lot of uncertainty in his heart. After all, the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom have been at peace for decades.

Decades of peace and quiet are enough to make many, many people forget the pain and hatred that the war has brought to each other.

"Could it be that the Liao State wants to take advantage of the fact that Western Xia is now weak and take advantage of the fire to rob?"

After listening to Tang Xuncheng's hesitant analysis, Wang Yang did not get annoyed, but nodded and analyzed. "I don't rule out the possibility of that, but there are a few points that I would like you to consider."

"First, the repeated wars between my Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, my Great Song Dynasty frequently prevailed, in this case, the lord of the Western Xia State proposed marriage to the Liao State, and then, the Liao State sent an envoy to reprimand me for the Great Song Dynasty, and after that, the Xuanwei envoy of the Northern Yuan went to Tokyo Bianliang with the Western Xia envoys, and the Great Liao wanted to report the grievances for the Western Xia no matter what, and the posture of being the master of the Western Xia......"

"Under such circumstances, if the Liao State really wants to deal with Western Xia, it can indeed catch Western Xia off guard. Moreover, if the Liao State enters the Western Xia, will my Great Song Dynasty watch and do nothing? At least the official will definitely not sit and watch the play. ”

That is to say, if the Liao State attacked the Western Xia, and Wang Yang attacked from the south to the north, under the attack from both sides, the Western Xia, which was already in decline, would inevitably end up ruining the country.

But the question is, wasn't the frequent overtures and help of the Liao State to the Western Xia in vain? What's more, could it be that the Manchu civil and military ministers of the Liao State are all fools, and can't they see that the current Great Song Dynasty is forging ahead and strengthening the army?

As soon as the Western Xia was destroyed, it can be said that there is no buffer between the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty, and the two most powerful countries in the world will inevitably go head-to-head.

Compared with the enterprising and prosperous Song Dynasty, the country is rich and the people are strong, frolicking for pleasure and neglecting government for decades, resulting in the decline of national strength, the domestic people are not living, thieves are everywhere, and the Liao State, which is constantly broken in the north, really has the confidence to be tough and tough with today's Great Song Dynasty?

No matter what others think, but Wang Yang thinks it's impossible, at least Liaoguo won't be stupid to this extent.

"Maybe there is another possibility, that is, Western Xia completely surrendered to the Liao State and united with the Liao State to ...... south" This is not from Wang Yang's mouth, but the high-minded nephew Gao Shize.

Hearing this, everyone's faces couldn't help but look ugly again, if the Western Xia and Liao allied forces went south, who else could they deal with, the land of Yan, You, and Hongzhou was definitely the first to bear the brunt.

"This possibility is not impossible, it will even be very large, after all, if it is really the Liao State that wants to go south, how can the Western Xia, who already needs to take refuge in the Liao State, sit idly by?" Wang Yang took a deep breath, his face sinking like water.

"This chess game is too big, I live in a corner, it's really difficult to grasp, but I didn't expect that the lords of the court and the central government actually ......" Gao Shize seemed to be taken aback by his own brain hole, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

His words are also very reasonable, after listening to Wang Yang's analysis and judgment, Gao Shize also faintly felt that Wang Yang's judgment was likely to be the closest to the truth.

However, before the incident happened, who had the ability to stand up and overturn the tone that had been set by the court discussion? Without evidence, everything is speculation.

"No matter what, no matter whether the Liao army is coming to our Great Song Dynasty or going to Western Xia, the land of Yan, You, and Hong must be ready to fight at any time." Wang Yang's gaze swept over the main officials in front of him, and his expression was very serious.

All the officials present nodded heavily. "Don't worry, my lord, we will not dare to slack off in the slightest."

"There is another big problem, that is, if the army of the Liao State is really coming at us, then this Youzhou must bear the brunt of it, and Youzhou is lost, and the entire land of Sanzhou is equivalent to completely opening the door to the enemy. And whether Youzhou can be as stable as Mount Tai depends on the judgment of General Chong and Tang Tong......"

"But please rest assured, if you have any difficulties, just say them, and the official will try to find a way to solve them for you." Wang Yang looked at the seed master in front of him and said to Tang Xun.

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Needless to say? There must be a lot of difficulties, the first is the lack of troops, the second is the lack of weapons and equipment, the third is the lack of protective gear, in short, Youzhou is now lacking in addition to the complete city defense.

Because Youzhou is located in the northernmost protrusion of these three states, bordering the Sand Sea in the north, in the left and right directions, although it is the control area of Western Xia, it only borders Hongzhou in the south.

In the event of a war, Youzhou will inevitably be the first point of attack, and only after taking Youzhou can it connect the east and west sides of Western Xia.

So this is also the reason why Wang Yang decided to transform Youzhou into a military fortress armed to the teeth for the first time after he took charge of Sanzhou.

"Now that the defense facilities of Xinyanzhou are complete, there is no need to be too anxious about the internal facilities, so I think it should be possible to transfer 15,000 troops from Xinyanzhou to garrison Youzhou, what do you think?"

"That's no problem, Youzhou is a key place, and with today's troops, it is indeed too weak, but the Xiang army has no armor, which is a great trouble......" The seed master replied with both joy and worry.

"Yanzhou also has 2,000 spare Yuan You crossbows, 5,000 bows, and 3,000 spare soft steel crossbow arms, as well as 200,000 crossbow arrows and arrows, which will be handed over to Youzhou at that time, but before the reinforcements of my Great Song Dynasty arrive, the time you need to defend is not short, so you still need to find a way to prepare for the crossbow and arrows yourself."

"That's no problem, the lower officials will definitely inform Zhufang as soon as possible and make every effort to make crossbows and arrows." Tang Xuncheng didn't dare to slack off, and replied. "In addition, there are 800 Yuanyou crossbows in Honshu, 500 Shenjian crossbows and 2,000 bows, and they will all be taken out to equip the soldiers when the time comes."

"In Hongzhou, I remember that there are 1,200 crossbows and 2,000 bows, and when the time comes, I will inform General Huang and Master Dong and let them also send them to Youzhou."

What does it take to defend the city? The main reliance is on the strong city defense, throwing arrows and crossbow arrows at those attacking enemies, giving the enemy a lot of damage.

If you lack long-range weapons and can only fight in close quarters, you are giving up your advantage. Therefore, Wang Yang gritted his teeth and made up his mind to hand over all the inventory of long-range weapons to Youzhou.

In this way, the box army is 25,000, the border army is 10,000, the elite cavalry is 3,000, and the total number of bows and crossbows has reached 20,000.

However, if you want to reduce casualties, then the obvious big problem of armor, even the scheming Wang Daguan can't help but be a little dumbfounded at this moment.