Chapter 333: Undercurrent (59)

"Your Majesty, is it too hasty to withdraw the army overnight, my Great Liao Army has 200,000 troops, and there are many people, and it may not be realistic to withdraw the troops overnight. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

As soon as Wanyan Shengcong's decision came out, some high-level officials of the Liao State immediately stood up against Wanyan Shengcong's decision.

How easy is it to evacuate nearly 200,000 troops overnight? And also without alarming the Zhao army in the city. Now that the army of Jingshi City is gathered, if the Liao army retreats rashly, how should the Liao army deal with it if the Qinwang army in Jingshi City goes out of the city to pursue the Zhao army. These are all difficult problems in front of the withdrawal of the Liao army.

After all, the current Zhao army in Jingshi City is not the Zhao army that was slaughtered before, and there are not a few Zhao Junqin Wang Jun who can fight in Jingshi City.

The Qin army, the Jinling Chengqin Wang army, and even the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Tengbao Battalion were all able to pose a great threat to the Liao army. This is the most worrying issue at the top level of Liao.

"No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it, the most important time for us right now, we have to complete our plan before Zhao Ren reacts. We are now in the hinterland of early Nanzhao, fighting near the Jingshi City of Nanzhao. We have to be fast! ”

The soldiers are fast and fast, and the Liao army with cavalry as the main force is even more so, and the Liao army is known for its mobility, which may be the only remaining advantage of the Liao army in the hinterland of Dazhao. If the Liao army does not make good use of this advantage, the Liao army will appear very passive.

"Your Majesty, dare to ask where we are going after leaving Jingshi City? When will I return to Liaojing? A high-level Liao State asked, from Wanyan Shengcong's decision-making, many high-level officials of the Liao State have realized that Wanyan Shengcong has no intention of continuing to attack Jingshi City, and the next thing the Liao army has to do is to do its best to plunder, destroy, and weaken the military potential of the northern part of Great Zhao.

Not all the high-ranking officials have the same ambitions as Wanyan Shengcong, and many high-ranking officials of the Liao State are already very satisfied with the current status quo of the Great Liao Empire, and are satisfied with their comfortable life in Liaoyang City. After all, the life of the Manshu nobles is much better than the previous life of wandering in a fixed place outside the border wall of Liaodong.

In the eyes of many high-level leaders of Liao, although Liang Yuan is not the hometown of long-term love. Although the Central Plains is prosperous, the foundation of the Manshu people is still in Liaodong, and the dream of basing themselves on the Central Plains is still a bit far away for the Manshu people. At least in the eyes of many high-level leaders of Liao, this is the case.

This time, they have the mentality of getting a ticket and leaving. All they did was plunder the wealth of the Central Plains and let them live a more comfortable and comfortable life.

Now, among the high-level leaders of the Liao State here, many people have already had the idea of teaching Liaodong.

"Our next target is the canal in Dazhao." Wanyan Shengcong said, "To be precise, it is the granaries on both sides of the Dazhao Canal. ”

Wan Yan Shengcong said, Wan Yan Shengcong turned his back and pointed to the canal route on the map.

There is a big difference between the Great Zhao Dynasty and the previous dynasties, and the Great Zhao Dynasty is more economically significant than the Tang Dynasty, that is, the economic center of gravity of the empire has completely shifted from the north to the south.

Before the Tang Dynasty, Chinese civilization had already had a tendency to shift its economic center of gravity to the south. The rebellion of the feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the subsequent rise of nomads in the northern regions, disturbed the Central Plains. Under the frequent wars in the northern region, the economy has suffered serious damage, and there was even a tragic image of no one for hundreds of miles.

The southern region, after the Tang Dynasty, was mainly controlled by the Han Chinese ******, and the southern region was less war-fighting than the northern region. The relative stability of the political environment has provided a relatively stable external environment for the economic development of the southern region. In addition, the unique geographical advantages of the south and the inevitable Han people in the north brought labor and advanced technology to the southern region.

The southern region soon surpassed the northern region and became the center of gravity of the Chinese civilization economy.

In the Great Zhao Dynasty, most of the imperial court's financial revenue has relied on the southern region, it is no exaggeration to say. Without the economic support of the southern regions, this vast empire would not have been able to sustain itself.

Although the economic center of the Great Zhao Empire is in the southern region, the contradiction is that the main threat to the Great Zhao Empire is not in the southern region. The main foreign enemies of the Great Zhao Empire were all in the northern region, and in order to resist foreign enemies, during the Taizong period, the empire moved the capital from Jingshi City in the south to the northern region.

However, after the destruction of the war, the northern region was no longer able to provide effective material resources for the empire to fight against foreign enemies. In the course of the Empire's armies fighting against the northern barbarians, almost eighty percent of the military supplies came from the southern regions of the empire rather than the northern regions.

And this channel for the transportation of materials is the Grand Canal that runs through the north and south. This canal, called the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is the longest man-made canal in the world, and there is no one. The King Kong Grand Canal, as the name suggests, is the Grand Canal that connects the city of Beijing and Hangzhou.

The canal was like a major artery, connecting the north and south ends of the empire, providing a continuous supply of blood for the empire. It is no exaggeration to say that this canal is a bloodline of the Great Zhao Empire, as long as this bloodline is cut off, it will be a great blow to the soldiers of the Great Zhao, and it can also reduce the pressure on the Liaodong region.

Emperor Taizong chose the capital of the empire in Jingshi City, which is located at the northern terminus of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. Jingshi City happened to be at the eastern point of the Great Wall's defensive line. Jingshi City is located at the intersection of the Great Wall and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, which can better balance the military and economic balance of the empire.

This is the reason why Emperor Taizong chose the capital of Jingshi City.

"The grain is bulky, and it is not easy to bring it out to Liaodong with the barrier of Guanshan. The gains outweigh the losses in seizing grain out of customs. Wan Yanmu said that Wan Yanmu was often responsible for the management of the grain and grass of the Liao army, and knew that it was not easy to bring these things out of Liaodong. In contrast, it was more convenient and cost-effective to plunder the light gold and silver from the Central Plains.

"I didn't say I wanted to bring grain to Liaodong." Wanyan Shengcong said, the current Liao Empire does not need to do things to grab grain for its own use, after Goryeo annexed to the Liao State, if the Liao Empire wants food, as long as it opens its mouth to ask for it directly, it can be solved with its mouth, there is no need to do it yourself, "My purpose is to destroy the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in Southern Zhao!" The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is known as the blood of the north and south of Nanzhao! I want to cut off this bloodline of Nan Zhao! ”

Wanyan Shengcong said the real purpose of attacking the cities along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and Wanyan Shengcong's attack on the cities along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal was not for robbery at all, but for destruction. (To be continued.) )