What exactly is Cai Dao's entire strategic plan?

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The winter of the fourth year of Tianyou is particularly cold, from the beginning of winter, the whole land of Hebei has been snowing one after another, and it has never stopped. Even these Liao soldiers who have been living in the north can't stand such a severe cold, except for the soldiers who patrol every day, they all hide in their not warm beds, and they refuse to get up when they die.

On the sixteenth day of the first month of the fifth year of Tianyou, the soldiers of the forbidden army who had eaten the Lantern Festival in the city of Bianliang City, in addition to leaving 50,000 forbidden troops and 100,000 Tuntian soldiers, Cai Dao personally led an army of 500,000 to the expedition.

These 500,000 horses are not a lie, but a real number.

In addition to the 150,000 forbidden troops who stayed in Bianliang City, Cai Dao took 500,000 with him, including 150,000 standing forbidden troops, 350,000 Tuntian forbidden troops, and the remaining 250,000 Tuntian forbidden troops went directly to Mizhou on Jingdong Road.

The chief general of the three yas, Pan Xiong had already led 100,000 people to the sea for an expedition. As the commander of the front division of the palace, Di An stayed in Bianliang City, so only the guards and the pro-army Ma Jun commanded Cao Hu.

The pioneer officer, but he is a disciple of Cai Dao - of course, he has to teach Zhang Jianbei the art of war.

This disciple of his is indeed competitive, not only became the first place in martial arts, but also graduated with the first place in Taixue. At the beginning, when Cai Dao asked Zeng Zhao to recommend the seed brothers, he recommended this kid to the command of the seed master.

He alone, just in the Western Army, has been training for a full eight years.

Zhang Jianbei's return to the forbidden army was also the year before last.

Before leaving, Cai Dao only said one word to this kid: "Zhang Jianbei, when I gave you this name for my teacher, I just hoped that you would be able to point to Tianbei." Remember, you must not let the teacher become a tearful Zhuge Liang! ”

"No! Master, the boy will definitely not disappoint you. ”

Looking at Zhang Jianbei's distant back and looking at the wind and snow in the sky, Cai Dao sat in the carriage and said softly: "It's finally going to start!" ”

There were livestock, sleds, and the light, warm down jacket and amphora felt hat on the head of each forbidden soldier, and cotton shoes made of pigskin soles on the feet, although the soldiers of the Song Dynasty marched in the cold days, it was not as difficult as the soldiers imagined.

It's finally time to begin!

In the cold winter, the Yellow River can only appear in the future, and in this time and space it has been frozen like a whole iron plate by the cold weather, and some good deeds have tried to shovel the ice a few times with the shovel in their hands, but as a result, they only left a few shallow scratches on the ice. This is undoubtedly the greatest boon for the army that needs to cross the Yellow River.

After the whole army crossed the Yellow River, the Liao State got the news at this time.

It was that Han Shusheng who found out about this matter for the first time, and immediately informed this extremely important military intelligence to the Liao State Yanjing Xijin Mansion to stay behind. However, the left-behind adult didn't take this information seriously at all. The weather outside is unbearable even for their Khitans, not to mention the fragile Song people.

When the vanguard of the Song Dynasty army had just stepped into the boundary of Hejian Mansion, the Tanma of the Liao State saw a large number of Song army troops with their own eyes, and Yanjing Xijin Mansion stayed behind to be really anxious.

At this time, Yelu Yanxi was in Chunzhou, summoning the chiefs of the surrounding Jurchen tribes to come to the court, and after hearing the news suddenly, his initial reaction was the same as that of the left-behind guard, of course, he didn't believe it. However, when Han Shusheng's urgent document was handed over to him, Yelu Yanxi had to believe it. Because, Han Shusheng said conclusively in the letter that the general who led the army of the Song Dynasty this time was none other than Cai Dao.

Of course, Han Shusheng was not so powerful that he could see Cai Dao with his own eyes, and he had no way of knowing the specific military leader of the Song Dynasty army, and he only added Cai Dao's name to it in order to arouse the vigilance of the guards. As a result, he really had to guess correctly, and he also achieved the goal he wanted - to arouse the great attention of Yelu Yanxi.

Cai Dao personally led the army, and he couldn't help but ignore the faint monarch who had just succeeded to the throne.

Yelu Yanxi immediately sent people to gather troops in various places, 500,000 people is not a small number, even if the Song army is all infantry, then the Liao army must at least prepare 200,000 cavalry to arrive in Yanjing, so as to ensure that the Liao army will not be in a passive state at the beginning of the war.

The situation on the border changes three times a day.

However, who knew that when the Song army entered Hejian Mansion, the Song army actually entered the city of Hejian Mansion and did not come out.

The other party's behavior made Yanjing stupid to stay and unify the time.

At this time, the envoy of the Liao State also arrived at Hejian Mansion for the first time, this person is the same sect of Han Shusheng, and Han Derang's direct descendant Yelu Hailang Ye called to open the city gate and was brought to Cai Dao.

Cai Dao didn't have time to ask, but Yelu Hailang opened his mouth first and asked: "Taishi Cai, you personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to the Song-Liao border this time, but are you ready to be the enemy of my Da Liao?" ”

This envoy Song spoke very slippery, more standard than Cai Dao, a not very authentic Song person, who spoke official language, and when he spoke Song dialect himself, he always carried the accent of his hometown.

"This envoy, I, Cai Daogui, am the Taishi of a country, and I have nothing to do when I am full, so I will lead the troops to the expedition on this cold day. I can't blame the Great Song Dynasty for this matter, but I can only blame your Emperor Your Majesty. Take a good look for yourself! With that, Cai Dao handed the harshly worded letter from Yelu Yanxi to Yelu Hailang.

When Jelu Hailang picked it up and looked at it, he immediately fell into flames. Yelu Yanxi's wording was very harsh, but Taishi Cai, you are the prince of a country, and you can't really take the content of this letter as true, can you?

Besides, according to Yelu Hailang's own estimates, it is very likely that his majesty himself forgot about this matter, and for a while, Yelu Hailang was gagged by this letter from their majesty, and did not know how to answer.

Cai Dao didn't give him time to react, and said angrily: "You go back and tell Yelu Yanxi that since he dares to destroy the hundred-year goodness between Song and Liao, this Taishi will personally lead an army of 500,000 and wait for him in Hejian Mansion in person!" If he doesn't dare to come, this Taishi will stay until the flowers bloom, and then he will take back the sixteen states of Youyun for my Great Song Emperor. ”

Yelu Hailang automatically filtered out Cai Dao's last words, he thought that Cai Dao was talking big, in order to intimidate their Emperor Majesty. However, there is still room for maneuver in this matter, and the Song army will definitely not attack in such hellish weather again.