Liu Qing doesn't look like he's just a military chief, but the one he is in is not simple at all.

Although this is not the personal soldier of Zhang Jianbei, the commander of the forward, it is the military chess capital of the entire forward army, that is, the flag is played on the battlefield. Although they don't need to go into battle to kill the enemy, their role is also very important, and the level of danger is not low. The weight of military chess is not low, if there is a strong wind outside, ordinary people can't hold it at all, so all of them, except for Liu Qing, are all strong men with tall stature and full strength.

This arrangement not only takes care of Liu Qing's request to go to the front line, but also does not allow him to go to the front line of the soldiers. It's no wonder that the soldier said strange things when he saw them all.

Before Cai Dao served as the third envoy, even Chai Rong, who loved soldiers like a son, had never given such good treatment to the soldiers of the forbidden army.

For most of the soldiers of the forbidden army, even if they die here today, they are actually worth it, since they entered Hebei, their food is actually higher than in Bianliang City, and the food may be able to make people full, after all, the amount of food for each soldier is not the same. For example, no one has ever seen him eat enough.

But three meals a day, each member of the standing army has a pound of meat to eat, and each of the Tuntian soldiers has half a pound of meat for a meal. 500,000 people, three meals a day, even pork or chicken and duck meat, the consumption of a day is astronomical.

This is why Cai Dao has accumulated so many years to be able to cultivate so many farmers who breed fat pigs or chickens and ducks in the Gyeonggi area and Luoyang Prefecture.

However, Cai Dao didn't think too much about it.

It can be said that this war with the Liao State must be completed in one battle, and it is best to solve it quickly.

Therefore, to give these forbidden troops who are about to go to the battlefield and go into battle to kill the enemy to eat a good meal, Cai Dao thinks that this is the most important thing that he, the commander, should do. After the war really began, there must have been many deaths.

However, it is not here, not the Song-Liao border of Hejian Province, but the western Liaoning corridor, where Yuguan is.

What Soldier A and Liu Qing said was not wrong.

In the era of cold weapons, it was very difficult for infantry to deal with cavalry. Although the Mo swords of the Tang Dynasty were good, that was because they did not meet the Mongols of later generations, and when the Mongols encountered European cavalry with more advanced armor and weapons, it was not a single arrow that broke the entire European coalition army.

What's more, once the fight starts here, Wanyan Agu will definitely not let go of this God-given opportunity. For the Liao State, it was about to be the time to fight hard, and at this moment, the Liao army did not know that the biggest opponent of the Great Song Dynasty army was the Jurchens who were full of 10,000 people.

With Yanshan and Yuguan, or even the entire Liaoxi Corridor in hand, Cai Dao was sure that the Jurchens would fall outside Jinzhou or Yuguan. The ideal state is that the war between Song and Liao ends quickly, and the Great Song Dynasty assists the Liao State to continue to hold on, and the Khitans block the Jurchens' initial and most crazy attack in Liaodong.

And Yelu Yanxi must abdicate and make way for Xian.

Then if you want to achieve the most ideal state, you must be on the battlefield, or take advantage of the gap between the defeat of the Liao army, or Yelu Yanxi, and establish a new monarch of the Liao State who is wise and friendly to the Great Song State.

The words of the soldier Jiashichang, Liu Qing and Han Xiang were quickly spread by well-intentioned people in the army.

There are quite a few people who support the views of the trio.

After Cai Dao found out, he was only surprised that Liu Qing, a scholar, had a very strong prediction ability, but he only gave an order - in the future, the foolish man will be full.

After that, there was no movement.

Regarding this strategic posture of the Song Dynasty army, in the Yanjing Palace, Yelu Yanxi watched His Royal Highness's civil and military ministers arguing.

These ministers gave the emperor of Liao, who was now in a panic, three strategies.

The best strategy is to give up facing the enemy head-on and use the advantage of the Liao cavalry to interrupt the grain transportation channel of the Song army.

Someone did suggest that they simply throw off Cai Dao's 500,000 army and use the cavalry of the Liao State to rush south, even if they can't really break through Bianliang City, they can also let the warriors of the Khitan tribe have a good look at the Huahua world in the Central Plains, and if conditions permit, they can break through some more county seats.

The people who put forward this idea and the people who attached it were all military generals, of course they knew that the Khitan cavalry was good at field warfare and was not good at attacking cities, although the Liao State also had Han troops, but they were not good at riding horses, and it was not realistic to expect them to go to the Central Plains with them, and Cai Dao's army was in front of them.

However, there are also many county towns in the Central Plains, as long as the Khitan cavalry marches quickly, there must be many county towns that are either broken by them, or it is very likely that they have not immediately closed the city gates, and they have rushed in.

In this regard, the civilian officials and a small number of generals did not agree with the military plan of the majority of the generals, and these people were also divided into two factions.

Some civilian officials and generals have come up with a middle strategy.

Their opinion was compromised, and the Liao cavalry could bypass Cai Dao's camp and break through to the two roads of Hebei. However, they repeatedly emphasized that in the current season, even if the Liao army could get rid of the Song army with the speed of cavalry, it would not be able to cross the Yellow River.

However, now is the time when there is no green and yellow, not only the nearly 300,000 soldiers or millions of people gathered in Yanjing need food, but even the war horses also need enough food and grass. Therefore, the state of the war horses of the Liao State is not the best now.

What's more, those generals who have shown signs of greed for merit have forgotten a more important thing, now that the Yellow River has thawed, if there are not enough ships, can you expect the Liao cavalry to cross the river on horseback?

Cai Dao is not a fool, he must have prepared in advance.

And the next policy,

It was also the last party, mainly civilian officials, who suggested that Yelu Yanxi should fight a decisive battle with the Song army in this place. 200,000 cavalry, plus more and more Han troops joined, the Song army on the opposite side only had a mere 500,000 troops, and it was simply impossible to stop the iron cavalry of the Liao army.

One thing is divided into three factions, and what they say has a certain amount of truth, so neither of them can convince the other.

In the end, it is Yelu Yanxi himself who has to make a decision.

In fact, in his heart, Yelu Yanxi was still afraid of Cai Dao, the commander who led the army. This guy fights, and is notoriously restless.

Once the Liao army bypassed the army of the Song Dynasty and cut off the grain route of the 500,000 Song army, it was possible that it would fall into Cai Dao's tricks.