Looking at the days getting colder day by day, the north wind is trembling in Huazhou, because of the Great Song Dynasty's all-out preparation for the war, it is also becoming increasingly noisy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Every day, the troops and materials that marched from Bianliang in Tokyo to the north were countless, and the river flowed endlessly from morning to night, and all industries in the city were also affected by this and gradually prospered, but Huang Jie was worried in his eyes when he saw such a scene.

Since he went from the Jin Kingdom, Huang Jie also knew that whether it was the Khitan or the Jurchen in the north, because of his survival habits, he liked the cold and did not like the warmth, and he was not tolerant of heat war, so since the Qin and Han dynasties, whenever the northern barbarians invaded the south, the time was in late autumn or cold winter.

Of course, there is also a saying that these nomads are not good at farming, and the nomads themselves rely on the sky for food, so once the year is bad, encountering the so-called white disaster (snow disaster), people and livestock frost sickness death and injury, they will choose to go south to invade the Central Plains.

Huang Jie naturally scoffed at this statement, everyone knew that these barbarians went south empty-handed, carrying only a mouth on their shoulders?

Not all of them came on horseback, wearing armor, holding weapons, carrying bows and arrows, shouting and howling all the way, burning, killing and looting!

Therefore, when the news came from the front line that the Jin army continued to increase troops at the original junction of Song and Liao, Huang Jie was really worried that the Jin army would go south.

Since sending Hua Rong and them to the front line, the channels and field of vision of the Imperial Chariot Army alone have expanded at least ten times compared with the original, and the news of the deployment, garrison, and transfer of the Jin Army has also been much more comprehensive than that of the Song Army's sentinels. In about half a month, the falcons, who had studied the Khitan language and part of the Khitan script and the form of the Khitan army, also roughly figured out the deployment of the Jin army.

After all, at this time, the Jurchens had not yet come up with their own set of systems, so the system of the army's structure, shape, banner, etc., was still applicable to the Liao State. According to the news from the falcons, the Jin army entrenched in the area of Xijin Mansion was actually less than 70,000 people, and the Jurchens were actually less than 40,000, and the remaining 30,000 or so were servant troops composed of Tatars, Bohai, Zahu and a very small number of Liao Han'er.

After Xiao Gan suddenly raised troops to take most of the area east of Yanjing, and took control of Shanhaiguan (Yuguan), Luanhekou and Gubeikou, the situation of the Jin army was indeed in a relatively passive state.

Moreover, until this time, it was also by falcon that they also found out, entrenched in Datong Mansion Ye Lu Chun was actually not idle, although it was rumored that Ye Lu Chun because of the escape from the Xijin Mansion because of the anger and rush to attack the root of the disease, after arriving in Datong Mansion was ill, but now the Liao army of Datong Mansion is actively preparing for war, and in September and October this autumn, the two states of Naturalization and Fengsheng (now Xuanhua, Zhuolu, Hebei) that were lost when they ran away were recaptured, and the strategic space of the Jin army was compressed in the center of Xijin Mansion and south to Fanyang, Yongqing, north to Ruzhou (now Yanqing, Hebei), Danzhou, east to Jizhou (Jixian County) such an area.

So, to put it nicely now, this Jin army is being attacked from three sides, with the Liao army in the west, the Xi army in the east, and the Song army in the south. But compared with the poor combat effectiveness of the two sides in the previous Liaojin battle, it is not difficult to find that the current form is not that three wolves surround a sheep, but that a hungry wolf is blocked by three sheep.

If the wolf is not very hungry, then the problem is still not very big, and if the wolf is hungry, I am afraid the consequences will be ...... It's unpredictable.

In the eyes of Huang Jie, for now, although the Jin army and Ye Luchun's Western Liao are mortal enemies, the difference between the two sides in terms of strength and strength is huge. So theoretically, if the Jin army wants to break through, going directly to the west is the best choice.

However, Xiao Gan's Xi State took the Gubei Estuary and the Luanhe Estuary, and also held the Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) that was convenient for cavalry movements, and it was also a force that had recently pulled up the banner, although it claimed to have 100,000 horses, but it was not necessarily a group of rabble, if the Jin army really wanted to break through and open a road with the current Jin country, then it was also a good choice to wave the army to the east to break Xiao Gan's Xi army.

As for the Great Song Dynasty, there were originally 200,000 troops on the front line of Xiong, Ba Erzhou and Baigou, and now they are constantly reinforcing troops from all over the country to the north, I am afraid that the Song army on the border has exceeded 250,000, and it should be the most unwise choice for the Jin army to go south.

However, Huang Jie didn't know why, as the weather became colder day by day, the sorrow in his heart intensified, and even when he dreamed back at midnight, he began to have occasional nightmares about the Jin army going south. Although his nightmares are very different from those with clear visions and clear contexts, Huang Jie believes that these vague nightmares also have the ability to predict the future.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of Jingkang, the Jin army finally made a large-scale move.

On this day, the Chinese army of the Jinguo West Route Army in Yanjing once again sent additional troops to the front line of Fanyang and Yongqing, and also sent about 10,000 young and strong people to accompany them, and also sent an envoy to ask the Great Song Dynasty to send the remaining money needed to redeem Yanjing, and asked the Great Song Dynasty to send people to receive the city.

However, according to the investigation of the Song army's sentinels, the current Yanjing City can only be regarded as a ruined ruin, and the requirements of the Great Song Dynasty have not been met in half of them.

At the same time, Han Jinbao at the front also assigned Hua Rong and them to investigate the situation of the Jin army at close range, and learned that the Jin army had stationed 40,000 troops in Fanyang, Gu'an, and Yongqing, and at least 30,000 of them were Jurchen soldiers.

After receiving this news, Han Jinbao hurriedly reported it to the Chinese army's seed master Dao, Liu Yanqing and Tong Guan, but after the three of them discussed, they failed to reach an agreement. Chongshi Dao believed that although it was unlikely that the Jin army would move south, the Song army should also be fully prepared, so he suggested that all units on the front line should stick to their respective defense areas, and resolutely resist if the Jin army crossed the Baigou.

Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing believe that Jin Jun's actions are intended to exert pressure, perhaps to blackmail the money of the Great Song Dynasty, and he will definitely not go south after that, either east or west. Although the differences between the two sides could not be discussed, Tong Guan's authority was slightly higher than that of the Seed Master Dao, so he also sent an envoy to contact the commander of the Jin army and asked him if he was going to take the ransom of the Great Song Dynasty and turn around to deal with Yeluchun or Xiao Gan.

After the envoy went, Huang Jie didn't know how the commander of the Jin West Route Army, Yelu Zonghan, replied, but according to the news from the channel of the imperial chariot army, Tong Guan sent a messenger on the 22nd of the lunar month, and a messenger from a stagecoach came back on the 26th, and on the 27th, Tong Guan ordered Bazhou to organize the shipment of more than 100 carts of various materials to the Jin army camp in Yongqing, and declared that the more than 100 carts of materials were the "New Year's goods" of the Great Song Dynasty to "support" the Jin army for the New Year.

As for what agreement Tong Guan reached with Wanyan Zonghan, since it was still confidential at this time, he should only discuss quietly with Zhao Guan's family, and naturally he would not inform Huang Jie, an idler who was cold in Huazhou and could not return to Beijing.

However, just after the calendar had just turned the last page of the first year of Jingkang, and the time was pushed to the first day of the first month of the second year of Jingkang, an unknown number of Jin troops were quietly breaking through the weak defense line of the Song army in Wolf Mountain, not far southwest of Yizhou (now Yixian County, Hebei), and waved the army south! (To be continued.) )