Looking at the eyes of Lao Chong and Di Qing, Zheng Lang also knew that they had taken a fancy to this opportunity.

Di Qing snorted: "You can attack, launch a moderate onslaught." ”

"What are you talking about?" Li Zhengyuan asked confusedly.

"Attack Western Xia, and respond to Fulin on the side," the old seed said.

"Attacking the West...... Western Xia ......"

Zheng Lang said in a low voice, "Let me think about it again." ”

It's about Khitan.

Being in the bureau, it is impossible not to consider the Khitan.

There were many reasons for the Khitan conquest of Western Xia.

After receiving the benefits of the Song Dynasty, he promised to mediate between the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia.

Zheng Lang has no objection to the increase of the year's currency next year, from strategic considerations, if the Song Dynasty fights on both sides, it will be more auspicious.

Then mediated, who knew that Yuan Hao, after several wars, the country was exhausted, and really began to agree to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty. Later, it seemed that the peace negotiation was successful, and the Song Dynasty was not violated again. But don't take it seriously, if it weren't for the Khitan attack on Western Xia, which made Yuan Hao undecided, and he himself was killed by the old anti-plot of the old race, God knows if he would continue to attack the Song Dynasty after resting and recuperating.

The Khitan promised to reconcile, that was a word of entrustment, do you really want the two countries to reconcile? If you continue to fight, it will do no harm to the Khitan. So he sent an envoy to prevent the two countries from negotiating peace, and Song Chaoyang disobeyed and agreed, but continued to negotiate peace. Yuan Hao directly refused.

The Khitan felt very shameless.

got the benefits of the Song Dynasty again, and asked for the surname to give the Song Dynasty an explanation.

That's the main reason to play.

The death of Princess Xingping.

Liao Xingzong has always been indignant about his sister's unfair treatment.

This is a very emotional person, and Zhao Zhen has a tacit relationship in private, and often makes some paintings to bring to Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen also writes a few words to him.

So Yuan Hao is lucky, the two big brothers are good babies.

Her biological mother is extremely vicious, and she still gives her some names, unlike the ordinary ruthless royal family, who disregards the feelings between relatives for the sake of power, and wantonly kills for revenge. Feeling unfair for his adoptive mother, he loves his younger brother very much. As a direct result of his death, his good brother rebelled against his son.

Although he was for the country, he endured it, but the tragic death of his sister made Liao Xingzong always have a bad anger towards Li Yuanhao in his heart.

At Zheng Lang's suggestion, scouts were sent to spread rumors in Khitan territory.

Not deep, the two countries have been friendly for decades, and the difficulty of scouting is not high, and there is a field in Hebei, and the scale of the transaction is very large.

It seems that it doesn't cost much money, Zhao Zhi and several bigwigs agreed, and there are already scouts who have infiltrated the Khitan border and spread rumors.

It also played a role in fanning the flames.

If there is no accident, because he suffered a big loss on Fulin Road and suffered serious loss of troops, next year Yuan Hao asked the Khitan to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty and cooperate with his military attack on the Song Dynasty. The Khitan soldiers went to Youzhou and did not move forward, and Yuan Hao was extremely dissatisfied with this. (Grandma's, really like right now, laughs)

But Yuan Hao still has scruples in his heart.

In the following years, the Khitan Jiashan Party members were unbearable to the harsh exploitation of the Khitan and launched an uprising. Li Yuanhao took the initiative to cooperate with the Khitan to suppress the uprising. The main army he sent out, but the Khitan took all the captives as their own, which aroused Yuan Hao's resentment.

So he instigated the Dull tribe to rebel against Liao and return to Xia, and instigated the Duer people to harass the Khitan border.

New hatred and old hatred, Liao Xingzong finally set out to conquer Western Xia.

This battle was of great help to the Song Dynasty.

The Khitans finally realized that they were no longer the Khitan who had won all battles before, and the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia had gained more and more the upper hand in repeated wars, so what about fighting with themselves?

As a direct result, the Song Dynasty conquered the Western Xia many times, and the Khitans only cared about receiving the benefits of the Song Dynasty, but they did not dare to protest and stop it, and because of the deterioration of relations with the Western Xia, they did not send troops to help.

If he had won the merit this time, Yuan Hao would not dare to be arrogant and take in the nerd clan.

In fact, only 800 families of nerds were accepted, and there were not many people, and it was of little significance to both countries. Li Yuanhao is not worried that he is a party member, otherwise it would be impossible to send troops to suppress the uprising of the Duer tribe on behalf of the Khitans.

But these 800 households played the role of a fuse.

After thinking about it for a while, Zheng Lang still decided to fight, and beat him hard.

As for whether the Khitan will go to Western Xia, the death of Princess Xingping has already planted gunpowder.

The benefits of the Song Dynasty, if there are no accidents, will also be given next year.

The rebellion of the nerd clan can be carried out.

But this battle must be won, otherwise you will get the New Year's coins of the Song Dynasty, and it will become a scourge in the future.

And it can be calculated.

Originally, the Song Dynasty garrisoned only a few tens of thousands of troops in Shaanxi, but now the number of troops has reached more than 200,000, and at its peak it reached more than 300,000. Materials are transported from the Central Plains, farther than to Hedong and Hebei, in order to defend, to continue to build forts, only this expenditure, at least 15 million or more per year, the action is slightly larger, 20 million is gone.

It will not wage war.

If we continue to wage war like we are now, the cost will be close to 30 million!

The total income of the Tang Dynasty in a year was not enough for the Song Dynasty to spend all the way in Shaanxi for a year.

In 20 years, it will be at least 300 million.

The money saved, will not be deposited in the treasury, one is used in other places, do some practical things, such as water conservancy, the second is a waste of redundant expenses, the third is to return to the people, lightly punished, and then with the loyalty and benevolence of Renzong, the people will truly usher in the peaceful and prosperous world.

Song Yingzong is not a thing, and it is not too bad, although Song Shenzong is inferior to Zhao Zhen, it is okay for the people.

Zhezong is promising, but unfortunately short-lived.

Four generations of relatively wise people-monarchs ruled, without the existence of a huge black hole in the northwest, what height would the Song Dynasty reach!

Finally said: "Yuan Hao fell into Fulin, and was dragged for at least four months, we attacked in mid-October, and ended at the beginning of winter." ”

The longer Yuan Hao dragged on, the greater the domestic pressure on Western Xia.

Zheng Lang also has a selfish heart.

He knew that Fengzhou was lost, but he had no choice but to let the imperial court send more than 50,000 troops if he wanted to hold it, including the killing of many people on Fulin Road.

Can the imperial court draw so many troops?

And the war on Fulin Road took place after the loss of Fengzhou, and a qualitative change occurred.

Yuan Hao didn't know how many soldiers he had killed by the six killing gods of Zhang Kang, Zhang Qi, Wang Ji, Wang Kai, Zhe Jimin, and Gao Jixuan.

So push back the clock.

Lao Chong and Di Qing didn't know about the rest of the matter, but they knew that the longer it dragged on, the heavier the burden on Western Xia.

Zheng Lang said: "Although this winter is not as warm as the winter of previous years, it is better than last year and the year before that, and next year after the year, there will be a big cold again." ”

It's a heavenly opportunity.

But the weather can determine the course of a war.

Of course, I can decide the tuntian production of the Northwest horse, too.

As long as it was not as cold as last year, from October to mid-winter, Song Bing could withstand this cold. And because of cotton planting, some soldiers were rewarded during training and put on jackets made of cotton, and because of the trade with Fanzi, they detained a batch of animal skins to make jackets.

With winter clothes, the hardiness surname is improving.

After mid-October, the Tangut people believed that the Song soldiers were afraid of the cold and would be negligent.

Lao Chong and Di Qing glanced up at Zheng Lang, not doubting, but with some admiration in their eyes.

The ancients didn't understand, and thought that people with the ability knew astronomy and geography. Since Zheng Lang knows the mineral deposits overseas through the principle of Ge Physiological, knowing the weather is nothing.

So he nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Di Qing asked again: "Is it in Shimen Gorge, or in the front gorge without smoke?" ”

Wuyan Gorge is dozens of miles long, the west side almost extends to Tiandu Mountain, the east end extends to the later Heicheng Town, and the east section is called Wuyan Qianxia. Later, the Song Dynasty built Pingxia City and Lingping Village here. Stretching to the south is Shimen Gorge.

This place is even more famous, and the ruins of Shimen Pass, one of the seven passes in Yuanzhou in the Tang Dynasty, are here. There is also a place of interest, the Mount Meru Grottoes.

The strategic significance was extremely important, and the Turks of the Sui and Tang dynasties mostly invaded the Central Plains from here.

During the time of Zhezong, the Western Xia built a smokeless gorge village in Shimen Gorge, which caused the Chinese explorers to dare not cross the border.

The Song Dynasty built the Xia City here, which also directly threatened the safety of the Western Xia people, and the Empress Dowager Liang personally led an army of 300,000 to defeat in order to remove this nail, and was defeated, bringing back less than 100,000 people. After the construction of this city, the Western Xia songs said, singing and having fun, were all occupied by the Han family, how could it be embarrassed. The Song people took my job.

Li Yuanhao has created everything, although he has been haunting back and forth from here, attacking the Song army, he has not really realized the important surname here. This was especially true in the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang did not expose it.

If you don't build a city here, once you build a city in the west of the city, Dushan will be directly exposed to the attack of the Song army, and Yuan Hao will go crazy.

Zheng Lang was not even more prepared for this.

However, after the original discussion, it was decided to choose one of these two places as an ambush point.

Zheng Lang asked rhetorically: "General Di, what do you think is a good place?" ”

"I sent a spy to see that the gorge is rich in water and grass and is located in the north, which makes it easier to attract the enemy. However, the terrain is vast and flat, and it is not easy to set up ambushes. The terrain of Shimenxia is narrow, easy to set up an ambush, but it is located on the south side, the enemy's troops are afraid of insufficient, and may not be able to chase into Shimenxia, and the enemy will not send people to check, if our army sets up an ambush on the mountains and mausoleums on both sides of Shimenxia, the enemy will not let go of this place. ”

The enemy scouts saw that the ambush did not work.

It is best to go directly into the Wuyan Gorge to set up an ambush, but it is too close to the territory controlled by the Tanguts, and it is even more difficult to set up an ambush.

"How is the grass and trees in Shimenxia?"

"There is a small river in Shimen Gorge in front of Shimenxia, with lush vegetation and ambushes, it is easy to hide, but it is not easy to avoid the spy of the enemy crown."

Zheng Lang smiled, and there were almost several light mountains on both sides of Shimenxia in the future, and it seems that the environment of the Song Dynasty is generally better than that of later generations. He said, "What do you see, General? ”

"It's best to take another look and know the entire terrain of Wuyan Gorge before you can make a decision."

Di Qing said: "I'll go in person." ”

"General Di, don't be in danger." Zheng Lang said.

The fierce man Zhang Qi in Fuzhou is invincible in the world with his own bravery, alone, went to the enemy territory to check the terrain, was found by the Qiang people, and countless Qiang people pursued, although he finally fled back, but he was seriously injured, plus the old injuries before, he attacked together before and after, and died early in middle age.

Di Qing's command ability surpasses that of Zhang Dashen, and his bravery may be far from Zhang Dashen.

"Zheng Xianggong, I'll be careful."

"Be careful and careful, a thousand armies are easy to obtain, a general is hard to find, you are not a personal security, but also one of the safety of the Song Dynasty. It's not for you to save your life personally, but for my Da Song to protect my own safety. ”

"Jung Sang-ko......"

"Go as you go, bring more guards, and besides, don't let others know your identity, otherwise the enemy will besiege you with heavy troops."

"Whoa."

Anyway, the battle time was postponed to mid-October, and Zheng Lang said again: "If the enemy is ambushed, how will we arrange it in the future?" ”

The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "How many troops are there in Xixia Henan?" ”

Unlike at the beginning, to this day, the Song Dynasty knows all the big news in Western Xia.

For example, with the name of Wei Shouquan, Zhang Zhi, Zhang Jiang, Yang Kuo, Xu Minzong, Zhang Wenxian generation mastermind, with Zhong Dingchen's canonical documents, with Cheng Wei, Ke Cheng reward, Du Wo, Ruding, Duoduo Matteo, Weiji main soldiers and horses, Yeli Renrong main Fan Xue. There are also Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, who also have a very important status in Western Xia, but not as much as the former.

He also placed the 12 superintendent military divisions, and the right of the commission was divided into 70,000 people, from Hebei to Wulajiao Mountain, in order to prepare for the Khitan. 50,000 people from Baibao, Anyanzhou, Luoluo, Tiandu, and Weijingshan in Hongzhou, Henan, to prepare for Huan, Qing, Zhenrong, Yuanzhou, and 50,000 people on Youzhou Road in Zuoxiang, to prepare for Dun, Yan, Lin, and Fu; 30,000 people on Ganzhou Road in the right chamber to prepare for Xifan and Hui; Helan garrisoned 50,000 soldiers, Lingzhou 50,000, and Xingzhou Xingqing Mansion 70,000 people, with a total of more than 500,000.

The approximate distribution of troops, for example, there is no bad relationship with the Khitan now, but because of the death of Princess Xingping, Yuan Hao is a thief, and he arranged some troops in Hebei in Western Xia, that is, the Beihetao in the south of Yinshan, less than 70,000, and after the battle with the Khitan, the 70,000 troops are more than 70,000.

If you want to expand the results of the battle, the first line of defense is to start from the White Leopard City, to the north of Huizhou, to the northwest of the Zhenrong Army Weijing Mountain, these 50,000 horses.

Yuan Hao smoked again, and he would be beaten into a sieve by the Song army of Jingyuan Road.

This is a theory, but it is impossible in practice, and there will be more to come. It is estimated that 120,000 people in Helan Mountain and Xingzhou will not be able to rescue, but 50,000 horses are stationed in Lingzhou.

Di Qing's eyes flashed, and he said, "Do you want to launch a tentative attack on Lingzhou?" ”

Whether it succeeds or not, this is of great significance.

The old man was also moved, but he calmed down for a while, shook his head and said: "It's not appropriate, at this time, Lingzhou is not going to Lingzhou, the Western Xia thieves have strengthened the city wall, up to three zhang, easy to defend and difficult to attack." It's too far away from my realm, and the army attacks all the way, if Yuan Hao suddenly kills back, it is possible that the whole army will be wiped out. ”

Zheng Lang also thought it was too risky, and said: "Win the reward, according to the situation, attack Weizhou or Mingsha City, whether it is successful or not, quickly decide, and return quickly." ”

"Good!" Di Qing said.

The hundreds of thousands of troops of the Song Dynasty have fought until now, and they don't even dare to take half a step forward in the territory of Western Xia, but they have suffered several heavy defeats and are too bad.

But he has a low status and dares to be angry but does not dare to speak.

Zheng Lang is the number one governor of Jingyuan Road, and he is favored by the emperor, the representative of Wenchen, since he said that he is fighting, the opportunity is so rare, what is there to hesitate.

Once the general direction is decided, the detailed steps are discussed.

In fact, this is the third time to discuss, the first time is Zheng Lang and Di Qing, and the second time is Zheng Lang and Di Qing, Lao Chong, Zhang Fangping, and Zhao Xun.

Li Zhengyuan was frightened when he heard this, and asked, "Zheng Xianggong, do you want to report to Your Majesty?" ”

"Yes, you can write this recital."

"I can't write."

"Hear now, you don't understand?"

"Can I understand?"

"You sit here and listen to it yourself, and you can't understand it, can the ministers of the court and the central government read a letter and make a correct judgment? Han Qi hasn't fought yet, and it is bustling, and the world knows it, and the result is a big defeat for Haoshuichuan. I will tell Your Majesty about this, but not now. That's why I called you to come and listen, just to be a witness. ”

Li Zhengyuan didn't know what to say.

Zheng Lang sneered in his heart, although his military talent was not as good as that of the old race, but he had later knowledge, historical memories, coupled with the old race's planning, Di Qing's command ability, the three of them partnered, no matter how bad it was, I am afraid that no one else in the Song Dynasty could do it.

Commanding the people in the court?

Who else can do it besides Lu Yijian?

It is Lu Yijian who can only say that the dispatch is meritorious, and after a few years of fighting, fortunately Lu Yijian carefully managed for the country in the court, so he was able to overcome the difficulties. As for the military, Lu Yijian still couldn't get through.

Shaanxi Fourth Road, Pang Ji, Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan don't count on it, not to mention the bigwigs in the court.

……

After discussion, Zheng Lang sent a team of men and horses again to rush to Hedong, Fulin Road has now become the racecourse of Western Xia, and it is impossible to survive, so he can only go to Lanzhou, Hedong, the east bank of the Yellow River, waiting for an opportunity to listen to the news.

There are more people in this group, there are fifty people, Zheng Lang asked them to sneak into Fulin as much as possible to inquire about the news after they arrive at their destination, and it is best to get in through the gap and get in touch with Fulin. Then, every three or five days, a message about the fighting on Fulin Road must be sent back.

Further arrangements can be made in the rear.

After the scout team left, Zheng Lang sent a letter to Fan Zhongyan, the Western Xia army was fighting on Fulin Road, let's build a thin waist city.

Its significance is not trivial to Jingyuan and Huanqing Second Road, and Fan Zhongyan readily agreed.

But Zheng Lang again carried out the army formation in the rear.

Drawn, five thousand people were drawn out to form a new army, called the Slender Waist Army.

This army will cooperate with Fan Zhongyan to build the city of Slender Waist.

If this city is completed, Huanqing can be connected with the Jingyuan front, and the three rebel forces in the rear will be blocked, so it must be tall and strong. Otherwise, after Yuan Hao's army returns, he will definitely attack it.

If you want to build a tall village, it takes at least a few months, and some can last for more than a year.

In the future, it can be gradually heightened and widened and reinforced, but there must be a large appearance within one or two months, and if you want to have a large appearance, there must be many people.

The slender waist army is to increase the number of people who build the city, and the main manpower is still from Huanzhou, and its city is also in Huanzhou.

Not only did Fan Zhongyan give the main labor and financial resources for city construction, including the reform of the three ministries, but also handed over to Fan Zhongyan. It was originally Fan Zhongyan's credit, and Zheng Lang didn't want to share the food.

In fact, Zheng Lang is already preparing for disarmament.

The 5,000 members of the slender waist army are all soldiers who have performed very badly in the process of training.

If you reward it to this point, and then you don't perform well, it can be regarded as a cure.

There are more than these 5,000 people, and they have chosen one of them again, most of them have heavy burdens in their families, such as wives and children, they are orphans in the family, the main laborers in the family, and some people who are thin and frail and sickly, and their performance is not good.

If these people are placed in the army, not only will they not increase their combat effectiveness, but they may become a burden.

After building the Slender Waist City, they will all be sent home.

In the future, I will have to choose, and it is this thin-waisted army that will be chosen first.

Then do the pulling.

40,000 troops came to Tiansheng Village and Qianning Village together for military training. The training is fake, and the Gongwei Huanzhou builds a thin-waisted city.

It is not far from the city of thin waists, but on the east side of the Wuyan Qianxia, it continues not to alarm the Western Xia people.

The Tiandu Shanxi Xia army soon heard the news and did not expect Zheng Lang to carry out a counterattack.

However, once the slender waist city was built, the three tribes of Tibet were completely isolated, and the significance was not trivial, but Henan was short of troops, and in desperation, he could only report to Yuan Hao.

Yuan Hao was very angry, but there was no way to do it, so he said, let them build.

Well, since the city is built, let's build it. Focus on building the city, will not counterattack the Western Xia, and slowly take the Linzhou Prefecture with peace of mind.

But this time his invasion finally annoyed Zhao Zhen and made a strong order.