There are always many helpless things in this world that need many helpless people to do helplessly, and no matter whether they will die or live after this thing is done, the people who do it must have no hesitation and no doubt without any retreat, so everyone is unwilling to do such a thing.

However, such a thing has happened in the seed division, and the entire Northwest Corps has also encountered such a thing, and 200,000 iron-blooded men have encountered such a thing, and each of them is full of helplessness and disgust, but what can this be? Do they have a choice? The answer is undoubtedly no.

With no choice, no retreat, no support, and even no will, they had to drag their tired bodies on the northern expedition to Yanyun.

Really tired, very tired, and a lot of wounded soldiers, from the beginning of the fourth year of Xuanhe sent troops to counterattack the party, the battle became bigger and bigger, directly turned into a war, the whole army of the Western Army mobilized, carried out the war to destroy the summer, fought for a year and a half, before and after and many people including the party people fought, wiped out at least 200,000 party troops, scattered, captured more than 200,000, can be described as brilliant results, directly disabled the main force of the party army, now according to estimates, without 20 years, the party can not recover combat strength.

And in the end, the Dangxiang army that was disabled by Yue Fei's 5,000 cavalry was the Imperial Forest Army of the Emperor Dangxiang, the last "elite" team, after this army was disabled by Yue Fei, the Dangxiang people no longer had the strength to invade the territory, and what they need to worry about most now is whether the Song army will come directly, but soon they will not worry about the Song army, because their feud Tubo has already sharpened their knives.

Neither the Dangxiang people nor the Tubo people will no longer pose a threat to the northwest and southwest borders of the Great Song Dynasty, this is the conclusion that Emperor Huizong got through the secret report, therefore, Emperor Huizong desperately transferred the Western Army back in advance, because from the perspective of the hostile relationship between the two sides, the Dangxiang people can really be regarded as traitors to the Song Dynasty, one grade lower, while the Khitan is one grade higher than the Song Dynasty, which Emperor Huizong cannot tolerate.

Only by taking back the sixteen states of Yanyun can we really drive the Khitan out of the Han land, and can we truly protect our own land and interests, all of which must be established on the premise that the sixteen states of Yanyun are impregnable, otherwise, all the prosperity and prosperity are in the mirror.

This point, including Emperor Huizong, all the officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties saw it very clearly, and they also understood it very well in their hearts, but Emperor Huizong's mistake was that he did not see the situation in the world clearly, and Yue Tuo looked at the mistakes of Emperor Huizong and even the mistakes of the entire Great Song Dynasty from the perspective of future generations.

Especially in the Great Song Dynasty under the centralized system, the central government's national-level strategic decisions will not be hasty, let alone determined by the will of the emperor alone, so it must be the consensus of the vast majority of the entire ruling group, who are the ruling groups? A considerable number of elite-level figures were born in the people, born out of the imperial examination, and climbed to the top step by step by relying on real talent and real learning, they are not mediocre people.

But in their eyes, in the eyes of the Han elite of that era, the sixteen states of Yanyun were really much more important than the northwest of the party.

Taking the northwest can have horses to form cavalry, you can greatly improve the composition of the Song army, and obtain the strength to counterattack north, but it takes time, within the time frame of the formation of the most basic strategic cavalry counterattack force of the Song army, if Hebei collapses, then everything is nonsense, if you can take the sixteen states of Yanyun before you can, hold it with a large number of infantry, and close the country before the strategic cavalry force is built, then you can keep the safety of Hebei before that.

This is a multiple-choice question, a multiple-choice question with a very obvious answer, if any of the Song people of that era proposed to take the northwest first and then Yanyun, maybe it would be a traitor, so the Song people undoubtedly chose the sixteen states of Yanyun, but they all ignored one question - did their army have the strength to take the sixteen states of Yanyun from the Liao, and then hold the sixteen states of Yanyun from the hands of the Jurchens?

No one thought about this problem, perhaps they simply thought that the Liao people were already in decline and vulnerable, and they had an alliance with the Jurchens, and it was easy to take the sixteen states of Yanyun.

The master took many aspects into account, and then thought about it carefully, thinking about the entire strategic plan from the position of a veteran of a hundred battles, and spent a few days, and wanted to spend some more time perfecting the strategy, but the words of the eunuch of the supervising army made him angry and helpless: "The official family said that the Western Army must start a war within ten days after it arrives in Zhending, if it doesn't go to war, this sword of the Son of Heaven doesn't mind taking the life of another commander!" ”

The planter was very sad, very helpless, and even more angry, but the sword of the Son of Heaven stained with the blood of Zhang Ying and Tan Zhi was shining in front of his eyes, and the planter understood that his fate was to die on the battlefield, but he was not so shamefully killed on the battlefield, the status of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty was indeed very low, but it was not insulted like this, the Western Army was a real soldier!

A true soldier can distinguish between right and wrong, not blindly obey orders, although it is a soldier's duty to obey orders, but if this order is absolutely wrong, then where should a soldier go?

Soldiers are also human beings, and they also know how to think, Lin Chong and Luda, Yao Gu and Yao Pingzhong, Seed Master Dao and Seed Master, Yue Fei and Zhang Xian, they are not unable to think, so they are so painful and unwilling, so when the battle strategy was announced in the seed division, Lu Da could no longer hold back the anger in his heart, and said loudly: "Seed marshal, Luda is seriously injured, please allow Luda not to participate in this battle, and our army has a lot of wounded soldiers, the army has lost its combat effectiveness, and please allow this army not to participate in this battle!" ”

After speaking, Luda was about to leave, and seeing the yin fire in the eyes of the eunuch of the prison army, the seed master couldn't help but shout: "Presumptuous!" The military camp is heavy, and the military affairs are important, how can you be allowed to play! Take it right and left with me, and scold me ten times! A day of confinement! ”

Luda honestly accepted the punishment with a sad and indignant face, the seed master is his old superior, his first Bole, he can have today, there is no doubt that the seed master supports him, and the support of the seed army to the Lin family army is also undoubted, Lin Chong didn't say a word, he stood there silently, his face was painful.

The generals in the army were all in pain, but there was nothing to do, the damn eunuch took the sword and fox of the Son of Heaven and the fake tiger might, and the seed division began to arrange tasks immediately after, pointing to the map and sand table and began to distribute the tasks and completion deadlines of each army, the analysis was very detailed, worthy of being the general of the Western Army, but such a distribution and military ability could not make himself and the generals of the Western Army feel happy.

What is this?

The strategy in the division is to defeat the Liao border army, the troops are divided into three ways to drive straight into the six states in front of the mountain in the sixteen states of Yanyun, after gaining a firm foothold, and then take the back of the mountain, pay attention to advancing in tandem, to avoid the second northern expedition of Emperor Taizong Yanyun, Pan Mei has already attacked the back of the mountain, and Cao Bin in front of the mountain has been defeated.

Therefore, the main force of the attack army in front of the mountain is the Lin family army with the strongest combat effectiveness, and the main force of the attack force behind the mountain is the Yuejia army with strong combat effectiveness and full of vigor, Lin Chong is steady, Luda is fierce, it is a perfect match, Yue Fei is sharp, Zhang Xian is calm, it is a perfect match, the main general and deputy general of these two armies are a perfect match, so the combat effectiveness of these two armies is so strong, Tong Guan is very discerning, and spares no effort to build these two armies, but it is indeed to create two super troops, but ......

The division also understands that these two troops have the strongest combat effectiveness, the most ferocious fighting, the most brilliant results, and the most serious damage, the Yuejia army's 5,000 iron cavalry and 10,000 battle armor are now less than 10,000, the Lin family's army's 30,000 strong troops are now less than 15,000, and the 200,000 strong troops of the entire Western Army are now unable to make up 130,000 combatable soldiers, which is already the end of the strong crossbow...... No...... I am already exhausted and unbearable to fight, and after only a few days of rest, I will not be able to recover my combat effectiveness at all, and more importantly, the fighting spirit will no longer exist.

The lack of combat power can be made up for by fighting and training, and the fighting spirit is gone, how to make up for it? The planter has brought a lifetime of soldiers and fought a lifetime of battles, and he doesn't know how to get back the will to fight.

Looking at the silent generals in the division, I recalled that more than a year ago, when the Western Army swore to go out to fight the party, the high morale, peak combat effectiveness, brilliant results, brave and good fighting generals, the party people were beaten with no power to fight back, and the mission of more than 100 years was about to be completely completed, and the Western Army could continue to go deep into the Western Regions through the party territory and recapture the Western Regions that had been lost for more than 200 years.

But now, everything is in vain, the Western Army has its own limitations, the Western Army is a local force, not a national defense force, their mission from the birth is to deal with the Dangxiang people, they have been told by their parents since they were born to eliminate the Dangxiang people, not the Liao, not the Jurchens.

Everyone has their own right and wrong in their eyes, and soldiers pay more attention to distinguishing between right and wrong, and wrong things.

The commander of the seed master could not stop the order, but what answered him was a silence like death.