Lu Jiang said: "What is the eldest brother going to do?" ”

Lin Chong said: "Naturally, the evil landlords near Liangshan, and even the entire Jingdong Road, who do a lot of evil on weekdays and deceive the villagers, will be investigated, and then go to the door one by one to borrow grain, and if they are extremely evil, they will be killed directly." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Then some of the grain was distributed to the poor villagers around, and the rest was all carried to Liangshan. ”

Huan Yi was overjoyed and said: "This is the best, so that I have money and food in Liangshan, and I have a source of soldiers, and I have the support of the people." ”

Lu Jiang thought farther: "Although this is good, but after all, the development is slower, if these evil landlords around see me Liangshan do this, they no longer do evil, and treat the villagers well, what should we do, not to attack the state and county?" ”

Lin Chong said with a smile: "What about attacking the prefectures and counties, with the current armament of the Great Song Dynasty, when Liangshan grows stronger, the soldiers and horses are well trained, only twenty or thirty thousand troops are needed, and almost all the areas around Jingdong Road can be swept away, but I don't want to directly confront Zhao Song too early now, and when the time comes, we will fight to the death, but let the Jurchen barbarians pick up the cheap." ”

Seeing Lin Chong's appearance of being a bamboo in his chest, Lu Jiang hurriedly said, "Big brother already has a good plan?" ”

Lin Chong said with a smile: "I can't say a good policy, say it and discuss it with the two brothers."

I mean, it is naturally possible to build a high wall, accumulate grain, slow down the rebellion, and attack the prefectures and counties, but unless it is absolutely necessary, try not to have a large-scale confrontation with Zhao Song too early, but at the same time, we must also prepare early, so that even if we have a large-scale confrontation with Zhao Song, we are not afraid.

My previous plan was to make money in business first, cooperate with the borrowing of grain from the evil landlords, and develop quietly, but this strategy has not changed.

It's just that things will inevitably have accidents, although we don't want to, but after Liangshan grows stronger, it will inevitably attract the imperial army to conquest.

In my opinion, now the more than one million troops of the Great Song Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of the Metropolitan Forbidden Army have been completely rotten, and the combat power is almost negligible;

The forbidden army in various military states, especially the military states close to the border, still has some combat effectiveness, but we are not afraid of them, if they dare to come, we can eat them little by little.

There are only two things I'm afraid of, the first is that I'm afraid of the endless attacks of the imperial court, and the dead are all our own people, which wastes national strength, but let the Jurchens pick up the cheap, but I also have a plan to deal with this at that time, so I'm not very worried.

What I am most afraid of is that if the imperial army is repeatedly defeated in my Liangshan, the western army may be transferred to attack my Liangshan, and at that time, it will be difficult for not only Liangshan to continue to develop and grow, but also may be under the strong pressure of the western army, the brothers on the mountain will inevitably have different hearts, some people want to recruit peace, some people want to rebel, and then there is a danger of annihilation.

So, just in case, the best thing to do is to find something to do for the Western Army. ”

"Find something to do for the Western Army?"

Huan Yi was puzzled: "Hasn't the Western Army been a thief in the West for the past two years?" ”

Lin Chong said: "That's true, now my Great Song Western Army is divided into two fronts, east and west, and the western thieves are competing for a tug of war in the Hengshan and Hehuang areas.

The Western Army was a battalion step by step, backed by the strong national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and pushed the camps one by one, thinking that the judgment of the brother might be that this year, or next year, the Hengshan of Western Xia would be lost, and at the same time, it would be driven out of the Hehuang area.

At this stage, our Great Song will achieve a complete victory.

Then the Song-Xia War will enter the most critical moment, originally the Western Xia lost Hengshan and Hehuang, and there is no danger to defend, and my Great Song Dynasty is flanked on both sides, if it is fought well, it will definitely be able to fight all the way to Xingqing Mansion in less than three or five years, and destroy the Western Xia in one fell swoop! ”

General Lu said: "If this is the case, the Western Army and the Western Thieves are in full swing, and the Western Xia and my Great Song Dynasty have a blood feud, and they can destroy the Western Xia in one fell swoop, as long as our Liangshan does not make too much trouble, the imperial court should not easily mobilize the front-line Western Army to fight my Liangshan?" ”

Lin Chong nodded, speaking of which, although the Great Song Dynasty military strength is weak, it is fighting almost every year, after signing the Yuanyuan Alliance with the Liao State and ending the war in an all-round way, the Great Song Dynasty has been fighting with the Western Xia almost every year, and the Western Xia is the biggest enemy of the Great Song Dynasty and the only mortal enemy now.

The history of Western Xia is not popularized, anyway, it is a robber country, located in a small land of four wars, resources and food are also insufficient, but it can miraculously rise and survive tenaciously, the reason for this is that the Liao State has been vigorously supporting behind it, so as to consume the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty.

But the Great Song Dynasty itself was too frustrated is also an important reason, the repeated defeats of the Great Song Dynasty made the Western Xia rely on the plundering of the Great Song Dynasty again and again, and the looted money, grain and materials ensured the survival and operation of the Western Xia;

The common men and women who came from the plunder became coolies, slaves and fertility tools, and the strong men became the Bang Linglang (professional cannon fodder, charging forward in every battle), so that the Western Xia was not only not exterminated, but became stronger and stronger, and even occupied a military advantage over the Song Dynasty for a long time, which was a disaster for the northwest of the Song Dynasty for nearly a hundred years.

Fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty later had Wang Anshi's reform, and the northwest region carried out military reforms, and the northwest army had relatively independent command and command powers, and the combat quality of soldiers and generals was greatly improved.

In addition, almost every soldier is a child of Guanxi, a family has served in the army for several generations, and the man does not live to be thirty, almost every soldier of the Western Army and the Western thief have a deep blood feud, plus the Northwest man can endure hard fighting, and he values righteousness and life, so a brave and good fight, the world's best Western Song Army came into being.

Later, Emperor Shenzong opened the border and stuck the neck of the Western Xia, and the battle between the Western Xia and the Western Army became more defeated and less victorious, and they retreated;

Until now, the Liao State is getting weaker and weaker, and the Jurchen is rising, the Liao State is too busy to take care of itself, and it can't control the little brother of the Western Xia, but the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty is getting braver and braver.

But the Great Song Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, and the tradition of always beware of military generals rebelling broke out again at this time, and the combat effectiveness of the Western Army was so strong, the Great Song Dynasty was naturally extremely uneasy.

So I sent a Tong Guan!

It's not Hei Tong Guan, in fact, compared to Cai Jing, Cai You, Wang Hao, Gao Yu and others, Tong Guan is very good.

Although he went to the northwest to supervise the army for the emperor, held the military power, and had great power, Tong Guanyi did not command indiscriminately, and second, he did not eat empty pay and drink the blood of the soldiers, and even divided a small part of his greedy money to subsidize the army, buy people's hearts, and do his best to do things.

In short, Tong Guan is such a very self-motivated, has a relatively high ability to govern the army, and is very good at grasping military power, a big corrupt official, a minister, but also a good commander.

So far, the Western Army has been able to fight the Western Xia so well, and Tong Guan has made great contributions, but unfortunately, people will change.

In the original history, after the Western Army captured Hengshan and Hehuang and won a complete victory, Tong Guan swelled, thinking that the Western Xia army had lost its heart and intended to conquer the Western Xia in one fell swoop.