Chapter 396: The 200,000 army strikes a thunderous blow
Although Zhao Ji is an artist emperor who has no intention of political affairs, he is dedicated to the pursuit of eating, drinking, and having fun, flowers, birds, fish and insects, and he has always been a faint trick, and finally made a shame of Jingkang in history, and he became a prisoner, and even was made into lamp oil after death, which can be said to be extremely tragic.
But it must not be that Zhao Ji is a fool emperor, and there is any flaw in IQ.
In fact, in the entire imperial court center in the late Northern Song Dynasty, except for Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong, who may have been a middle-of-the-en-law, the others went up to Zhao Ji, down to Cai Jing, Gao Yu, Tong Guan, Wu Min, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, these powerful traitors and surrender factions, which one is not the essence of the human spirit?
In fact, the biggest reason why such a thing as Jingkang's shame happened was because of the party's internal struggle, and when the catastrophe came, he was still bent on fighting for power and profit.
When the Jurchens called, they were not thinking about how to resist the enemy, but how to stabilize their position of power and how to suppress their political enemies.
Then there is the inertial thinking of negotiating peace, and I always feel that the Jurchen barbarians will leave after snatching it, and they are lucky, and finally the situation is out of control, resulting in great shame.
However, for the Liang Shanjun, the elite of these elites, they have the same idea, there is no infighting, and they do not tear each other down, everyone thinks that they must exterminate this group of traitors as soon as possible.
There is no other reason, Liangshanbo is too close to Bianjing, and it is less than 400 miles from Pingchuan.
After the strength of the Liangshan army grows, as long as Lin Chong is willing, he can come to Bianjing City at any time and wipe them out!
For this point, everyone thinks very clearly, if Liang Shanjun fights, he will definitely not just grab a handful and leave!
Therefore, after Wang Hao, Cai Jing and others finished speaking, including Zhao Ji, everyone was still a little browbrowed, but they just felt that one head and two were big.
It's easy for the two to say, but it's so hard to do!
You must know that the 40,000 Liangshan army is now marching to the vicinity of the Weisheng army on Hedong Road, which is only about 800 miles away from Bianjing, and the Liangshan army goes straight to the Yellow River.
The 80,000 soldiers and horses of the Badu Prison have not yet been drawn, and when they are assembled, maybe the Liangshan army has driven straight into Bianliang City, and you must know that the main force of the 40,000 Liangshan army is a cavalry army with 10,000 people equipped with two horses.
Not to mention the dispatch of large armies from all over the country to encircle and suppress, and when the armies from other places arrive, I can't imagine what the battle situation will be like at that time!
Not to mention that in addition to soldiers and horses, there must also be military spending.
The army of the Great Song Dynasty usually doesn't spend much money when it is raised, but once a war starts, the cost is incalculable.
There must be a fee for pulling out, a reward for going to the battlefield, and even pulling the bow many times in battle, and charging many times to use money.
Once the time comes, the money that should be given to the soldiers is not given, at least passively avoid the war, or at worst, the hall will be scattered!
Originally, in this battle of the Western Army against the Western Thieves, the money had already been spent like flowing water, and in the end, there was no choice but to issue an additional 20 million yuan in banknotes, and life was a little better.
But now the gang of rebels of the Liangshan Army suddenly appeared, and they dispatched the army twice to encircle and suppress it, and they spent 5 million yuan at once; This time, he coaxed the Liangshan army to fight the western thieves, and used up almost three million guan at once, but the result was the current situation.
Knowing this, it was better not to accept Liang Shanjun's recruitment at the beginning, at least without having to pay these three million; And it won't be as passive as it is today.
However, if you are worried, you will not be worried, and you still have to deal with it when it comes to the end.
At the moment, Gao Yu took the initiative to ask Ying to lead troops to recruit Liangshanbo; He Guan commanded the troops to intercept the main force of the 40,000 Liangshan Army, and then dispatched the ten-section envoys canonized during the Shenzong Dynasty and the Zhezong Dynasty to listen to it!
Originally, these ten festivals were: Wang Huan of Henan and Hebei Jiedu, Xu Jing of Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu, Wang Wende of Jingbei Hongnongjiedu, Mei Zhan of Yingzhou Runanjiedu, Zhang Kai of Zhongshan Anping Jiedu, Yang Wen of Jiangxia Lingling Jiedu, Han Cunbao of Yunzhong Yanmen Jiedu, Li Congji of Hanyang Jiedu of Longxi, Xiang Yuanzhen of Langyu Pengcheng Jiedu, and Jingzhong of Qinghe Tianshui Jiedu.
These ten knots made the old days were born in the green forest, and later received Zhao'an, many of them have made contributions to the country, each with 10,000 elite soldiers, well-trained and battle-hardened, in Gao Yu's opinion, it is enough to match the Liangshan rebels.
Among them, Jingbei Hongnong Festival, Zhongshan Anping Festival, Jiangxia Lingling Festival, Yunzhong Yanmen Festival, Longxi Hanyang Festival, Qinghe Tianshui Festival are slightly farther away;
However, Wang Huan, the envoy of Henan and Hebei Jiedu (stationed in Wu'an County, Cizhou, Hebei Road, near present-day Handan), Xu Jing, the envoy of Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu (stationed in Shangdang County, Longde Prefecture, now Changzhi City), Mei Zhan, the envoy of Yingzhou Runan Jiedu (stationed in present-day Runan County), and Xiang Yuanzhen (stationed in Pengcheng County, Xuzhou, Jingdong Road), were relatively close, especially the Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu made Xu Jing just block the main force of the 40,000 Liangshan Army on the way to the south.
I heard Gao Yu say: "You can order the other six jiedu envoys to immediately open to Bianjing to converge, and then order the Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu to make Xu Jing converge with the local soldiers and horses to intercept the southbound Liangshan army, Henan and Hebei Jiedu to make Wang Huan enter Hedong from Fukou and attack the rebels behind; Yingzhou Runan Jiedu made Mei Zhan, and Langyu Pengcheng Jiedu made Xiang Yuanzhen encircle and suppress Liangshan Shuibo with his ministers.
The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, so the 200,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court, the net of heaven and earth, and the thunder strike, even though the Liangshan army can fight, but after all, most of them are newly trained troops, how can they not be frightened and captured in the face of such might? β
As soon as he heard that Gao Yu was going to mobilize 200,000 troops to deal with the Liangshan army, Zhao Ji didn't realize that his whole head was big. How much does it cost!
The world is so good, why did Lin Chong suddenly become such a big thief!
However, sighing and sighing, seeing that Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Yang Jian, He Guan and others all agreed, Zhao Ji gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement.
At this time, Cai Jing stood up again and said that he could use the tactics of attacking the heart.
That is, to announce to the world, only kill the head of the thief, and the rest do not ask; Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Zhang Qing and other officers who surrendered to the Liangshan Army would still be reused by the imperial court anyway; Surrender to the Liangshan Army, and if the forbidden army of the imperial court defects before the battle, you can also be exempted from the crime and rewarded!
At the same time, if someone kills Lin Chong, the reward will be 100,000 yuan, and the edict will be controlled; Killing General LΓΌ, Wen Huanzhang, as well as Du Bai, Luda and other high-level officials in Liangshan also had rewards of 30,000 to 10,000 guan, and they were given official positions such as commandery, capital supervisor, and regimental training envoy.
Zhao Ji listened, thinking that millions of guan had been spent, and he didn't care about the money, so he nodded and agreed, but there was a pain in his heart.
I have taken out all my family resources this time, and with several times the strength of my troops, I should be able to completely eliminate Lin Chong, the big thief who bought people's hearts and tried to usurp the throne!
I hope that Gao Yu and He Guan will not live up to my hopes!
May the 200,000 army live up to my hopes!
I really don't want to hear the words Lin Chong and Liang Shanjun anymore!
"How do you want the court to guarantee it?"
At the same time, in Nanguan Town, Weisheng Army, Hedong Road, Zhang Shuye looked at Lin Chong very excitedly and said.
Although the two have different positions and different political views, after such a long time of understanding, Zhang Shuye believes that Lin Chong is a hero who does what he says and does what he says.
At this time, knowing that the imperial court was going to stab the knife in the back and encircle and suppress Liangshanbo, he was willing to continue to lead the troops on an expedition to the western thieves, when all this had never happened.
As long as the imperial court makes a guarantee!
But I don't know what this guarantee is.
For a while, including Zhang Shuye's father and son, Hao Siwen, Tang Bin and other Liangshan generals, everyone pricked up their ears.