"I've been waiting for eight years, and I've finally got what I wanted!" Zhao Gou laughed heartily, and the grievances that had been suppressed for a long time finally broke out, and he said loudly: "For eight years, I have been holding back for eight years!" In the past eight years, the Jin soldiers have repeatedly invaded the Great Song Dynasty, and have been resisted by our soldiers several times, with heavy casualties. Now that the time has come, I have decided to start an all-out war, and use the strength of the whole country to counterattack the Jin soldiers, so that those who are eyeing the Great Song Dynasty can have a good look at the strength of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty, are you ready to go to all-out war with the Jin soldiers?"

"That's what I mean!"

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that it is not appropriate to start a war with the Jin Dynasty at this time!" The opposing minister said respectfully, "In the past eight years, although the Jin people have repeatedly invaded the Great Song Dynasty, our soldiers have repelled the enemy several times, and the loss of materials and other materials in each major battle is more than millions, if there is really a large-scale war, I am afraid of more than 10 million taels." ”

"In addition, if there is a war between the two countries, whether it is the Great Song Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, the people on the border of the two countries will once again face dire straits, and the war will start, and the lives will be devastated. My Great Song Dynasty is a state of etiquette, how can it be compared with a barbarian country, and it is reasonable to negotiate peace with the emperor of the Jin Dynasty to avoid the serious consequences of war. ”

"Lord Wang's words are wrong!" Zhao Yougong stood up and said: "The national strength of our Great Song Dynasty is becoming more and more prosperous, and in just eight years, commerce, agriculture, etc. have all developed rapidly, and the strength of the army is increasing day by day, and it will be disarmed every year, especially those old and frail soldiers. ”

"In eight years, the Jin people repeatedly attacked, the emperor took into account the overall situation, decided to focus on defense, and did not fight a decisive battle with the Jin people, at that time the national strength was weak, the people were panicked, and the people were not happy. Now that the country's fortunes are prosperous, and the second emperor of Huiqin of the Great Song Dynasty was captured by the Jin, have you forgotten that the second emperor is still in the hands of the Jin? ”

"Such a great shame must be shameful! The Great Song Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and it takes the initiative to negotiate peace so that the people will not suffer for many years, but Emperor Taizong of the Jin Dynasty does not care about this, what he wants is the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty. If he really had the heart to negotiate peace, he had already withdrawn from the army, how could he repeatedly invade the Song Dynasty? ”

"The two countries are at war, and the emperor of the Jin Dynasty can stop his troops with reason alone, so how can there be a war? How could they send someone to capture the second emperor and go, and what the second emperor is doing now, we don't know, if there is any case, then we will be vain courtiers. ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu knows that if there is really a big war between the two countries, then the increasing prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely come to an abrupt end, and the people will be implicated in the scourge of war, which is really unwise!" The ministers who opposed the war with the Jin Dynasty put the safety of the people of Jiangshan Sheji and Liming first, and the reason for Zhao Yougong's refutation was also based on the overall situation, each with its own advantages, and there were endless arguments.

"That's it!" Zhao Gou interrupted everyone's argument and said in a deep voice: "Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has never been such a great shame, and this shame must be shameful!" When a foreign enemy comes to attack, what is the use of us arguing endlessly in the court? ”

"I want a solution to this problem, not a bickering! Negotiation of peace is in the case of the other party's will, and now the Jin Dynasty will not give up at all, and how to negotiate peace, the only way to negotiate peace is to fight a decisive battle with the Jin Dynasty, so that the Jin people know that our Song people are not so easy to bully. ”

"If you blindly retreat, the Jin people will press forward step by step, and in the end, it will not be our Great Song Dynasty to become the meat on the chopping board, and they will take it. I don't want to be ashamed of the people of the world, ashamed of the foundation established by Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong, and I don't want foreign enemies to underestimate my Great Song Dynasty and bully me Great Song No one! ”

"This is my will!"

The emperor was furious, and everyone didn't dare to say much, Zhao Gou was born in martial arts, and the momentum on his body was not something that ordinary people could resist. Even though some people objected, Zhao Gou still insisted on going to war, but there were fewer lords and factions, and most of those officials above the second rank chose to fight the main war and start a full-scale war with the Jin Dynasty.

When Zhao Gou issued the order, he immediately began to deploy and dispatch, so that the household department, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Privy Council and other departments immediately requisitioned grain, grass, materials, etc. Even if there is no war, the grain and grass must arrive first, and Zhao Gou arranged Youzhou as a grain and grass hoarding point, and all the materials are concentrated here this time.

In the land of Yanyun, only Youzhou is located in the middle, and it is very convenient to go anywhere. However, just in case, Ulzhou and Zhuozhou have also become the first choice for granaries in the land of Yanyun, and the granaries of Ulzhou are used as backups, and Liu Qi led the army to resist the invasion of the Western Xia army, and grain and grass reserves are also needed.

In eight years, the military department secretly built millions of arrows, bows, crossbows, spears, swords and other weapons, and few ministers knew about these things, all of which were planned by Zhao Gou to fight the Jin Dynasty, so the six ministries all supported Zhao Gou's decision.

Jin Taizong Wanyan Sheng left spies in the Song Dynasty to spy on intelligence, and the Song Dynasty also sent spies to pay close attention to the Jin Dynasty's every move, which is only part of it. Zhao Gou asked the people of Amber Villa and the secret training organization to all devote themselves to it, especially since all the personnel in the organization had gathered in the land of Yanyun as early as when Zhao Gou was the king of Yan.

After Zhao Gou returned to Beijing and ascended the throne, he immediately issued an order to disperse everyone and divide into three parts to act separately, on the one hand, to inquire about the domestic situation of the Jin Dynasty and the deployment of the march, on the other hand, to spy on the news of the second emperor of Huiqin, and finally to find out the local terrain.

For eight years, the spies walked all over the streets and alleys of Dadingfu, but they didn't find out the news of the second emperor of Huiqin, and even they managed to sneak into the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, but there was still no news, which made Zhao Gou a little strange, it was not that the Jin people were very tightly guarded, and it was impossible to be impermeable at all, which made Zhao Gou choose to continue to inquire about the news.

The most troublesome thing is to find out the local terrain and the garrison armies in various places, which cannot be done in a day or two. The weather in the north is very bad, often sandstorms, heavy snowfall, etc., delaying the trip, and eating mostly cattle and sheep and other things, and the water and soil are not normal for a long time.

It took more than three months for those people to go to find out the news before they could fully adapt to the climate there, and some places were also rugged and difficult to walk, and some places were valleys or low-lying places, all of which had to be recorded, and then returned to Zhao Gou, and he asked the Ministry of Industry to start drawing maps.

Zhao Gou is already very prepared, and he is almost the east wind. Now that the east wind has arrived, naturally it will not wait.

At the same time, Zhao Gou announced the holy decree in front of the ministers, appointing Zhao Yougong as the marshal of the Northern Expedition, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun as deputy marshals.

Yue Fei was named the deputy marshal of the North Road of the Jin Dynasty, Han Shizhong was the deputy marshal of the East Road, Liu Guangshi was the deputy marshal of the West Road, and Zhang Jun was the deputy marshal of the East Road, and they were divided into four routes, each commanding an army of 50,000. Yue Fei and Zhang Jun attacked Nanjing Mansion on the left and right, and used this as a breakthrough to attack Dading Mansion in Zhongjing; Liu Guangshi and Han Shizhong attacked Xijing Mansion on the left and right, and continued to go north to intercept the connection between the Jin Dynasty and the Western Xia, completely isolating the Western Xia Kingdom.

When Liu Guangshi and Han Shizhong attacked from Dushiguan Jin to the north, they continued to march to the east road, and then converged with the two armies of Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and let Yue Fei and Zhang Jun lead an army of 100,000 to attack Liaoyang Mansion, and after taking the city, they negotiated peace with Goryeo in the name of the Great Song Dynasty to prevent the Jin Dynasty from forming an alliance with Goryeo.

After eight years of preparation, when the time was ripe, Zhao Gou began to think about how to attack the Jin Dynasty and completely destroy the Jin Dynasty, so after thinking for a long time, he decided that it would be more appropriate to use such a deployment. If you want to capture the Jin Dynasty, you must first let the Jin Dynasty have no troops to help, and only when you are isolated and helpless can you have a chance to completely destroy them.