The Northern Expedition is irreversible.

After replying to his suggestion, Yue Fan once again got a private letter from Zhang Ying, which told him that because of the two great victories of the Western Army and the Southern Expedition to Fangla, Emperor Huizong's self-confidence was extremely inflated, and the matter of the Northern Expedition to Yanyun that several generations of emperors had never forgotten became the mainstream again.

Wang Shi's Northern Expedition, the people of Yanyun Han have been humiliated by the Liao people for a long time, and they will eat pot pulp to welcome Wang Shi, if Wang Shi goes on a northern expedition, he will win, this is the opinion of the courtiers of the main battle faction.

This is the mainstream opinion, Yue Chuan can only sneer and smile bitterly, they don't understand human nature, they only understand political struggle, like Zhao Guangyi a hundred years ago, they don't make any progress, they think that they are also Han people, as long as they appear, the Han officials in the land of Yanyun will take the initiative to follow, and then smoothly take the land of Yanyun, achieve immortal achievements, and then close the door of the country and continue to live their own life of ups and downs.

They never thought about whether the Han people in the land of Yanyun were willing to take the initiative to surrender, Zhao Guangyi thought the same a hundred years ago, and then he was dragged under the city of Youzhou, and the person who blocked him to the death was precisely the Han people, a Han of different nationality blocked the emperor of the Han people, and saved the Liao State, this is probably the biggest shame and the most incomprehensible thing in Zhao Guangyi's life, and now, Zhao Ji also did not understand, maybe they will never understand, because until now, Yue Tuo does not understand.

But the officials of the Great Song Dynasty in front of them always took out the righteous name of the king to do things, and took it for granted that the king would be victorious, but they never thought about it, is the Great Song army really the king division?

What frightened Yue Chuan even more was that Emperor Huizong did not plan to send the main force of the Western Army to the Northern Expedition, but planned to draw the elite of the elite from the 100,000 forbidden army elites that Yue Chuan had reorganized some time ago, almost 80,000 people, and then cooperate with the 120,000 forbidden troops of the Beijing Division under his personal control to form an army of 200,000 to form a northern expedition to Yanyun.

The Western Army is still fighting with the Dangxiang people under the city of Lingzhou, and they can't get away for the time being, and Emperor Huizong's self-confidence is inflated, thinking that there is no need to rely on the Western Army for everything, and the forbidden army is also very capable of fighting, isn't it?

However, this incident did cause controversy in the court, and many anti-war ministers in the court believed that the alliance with the Liao State was made by the ancestors and lasted for more than a hundred years, and both sides abided by it, so why did the Great Song Dynasty take the initiative to betray the covenant? The previous correspondence between Emperor Huizong and the Jurchens was still relatively secret, and not many people knew about it, but this time Emperor Huizong was ready to fight, so he announced his previous preparations.

The Jurchens were cultivated from a small tribe into a country, the Great Song Dynasty contributed a lot, for several years, through the Bohai Strait and a person who was given the name Zhao Lianghei, the two sides exchanged with each other, the Great Song Dynasty completely copied the entire Han political and economic system to the Jurchen tribe, helping them to establish a country, the Jurchens got the secret support of the Great Song Dynasty, and gradually grew up, and can compete with the main force of the Liao army, otherwise, a tribe with a population of less than one million, how can it compete with the Great Liao with a population of tens of millions?

Yue Chuan learned the news from Zhang Ying's letter and had an epiphany, why was there a shame of Jingkang, and why the Jurchens were able to defeat the Liao State with a population of 10 million and the Song with a population of 100 million!

It can be said that today's Jurchens are completely cultivated by the Great Song Dynasty itself, so the Jurchens surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty and said that it was an alliance, in fact, Emperor Huizong and the Jurchen leader Wanyan Aguta thought that the time had come and decided to send troops together, but because the Western Army could not get out of the fierce battle in the northwest battlefield, and the opposition in the court was not small, so he decided to appoint Zhang Ying, the privy envoy who had always been obedient and "experienced in battle", as the commander, and the great eunuch Tan Zhi, who had made great contributions, as the supervisor of the army, commanded the 200,000-strong army of the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, and made immortal achievements.

Whether it was before or after the war, the opposition in the Song court never stopped, and even the king of Goryeo sent someone to say to Emperor Huizong that Liao is a country of brothers, and it can be safe, and the country of Jurchen tigers and wolves is a great trouble.

Yue Chuan still remembered that in the Northern Expedition in another time and space, the Western Army almost collectively opposed the invasion of Liao from top to bottom, and even when the Liao people found out that the Song army was coming to Yanyun, they thought that the Song army was here to support, and sent people to ask for help, but when they arrived at the Song army camp, they found that the Song army was here to attack! The unjust war, this is the evaluation of the Western Army as the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army on this war, so they passively avoided the war, coupled with the fatigue of continuous combat and dissatisfaction with Tong Guan, the Western Army collapsed.

In this time and space, the protagonists of the Northern Expedition were replaced by Zhang Ying and the 200,000 forbidden army that did not exist before, and the combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Western Army's forbidden army and Zhang Ying, whose military ability was far inferior to Tong Guan, what kind of results could be obtained? It seems that everyone can guess, but why is Emperor Huizong so sure? Why is it so determined to march out against public opinion? The reason is that through the matchmaking of that guy named Zhao Liangsi, he already knew that the Jurchens could defeat the Liao.

Although the momentum of Jurchen development over the years has been too strong, so fierce that Emperor Huizong himself was also worried, so he agreed with the Jurchens that if the Liao were destroyed, the Song recognized the Jurchens as the Northern Dynasty, and the two sides changed from a vassal relationship to an equal relationship, and the specific method was to transfer the 500,000-year-old coins originally given to the Liao people to the Jurchens.

The emperor's authority has not been valued for a long time, but under the sudden war situation, the emperor's authority was remembered by people for a long time, Zhang Ying was sent to the battlefield again, and in this regard, Zhang Ying did not feel afraid, nor did he feel excited, he said to Yue Chuan very rationally and calmly, he felt that he would not be able to come back this time, but it didn't matter, he was destined to be a person who would die on the battlefield, he didn't like the disputes in the court, although he was a literati, but he often remembered the bits and pieces on the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, He wanted to go back to that time, and, given the chance, he was willing to give it a go.

His intuition is very accurate, Yue Chuan really wants to say that his intuition is very accurate, he very much hopes to write a letter to persuade Zhang Ying not to go north because he is sick, this northward journey will definitely lose his teacher and humiliate the country, Zhang Ying's reputation for pacifying the Jiangnan rebellion is not guaranteed, almost not guaranteed in the evening, this is not bad, in case one is not good, even his life will be lost, the Song forbidden army has been completely rotten, even if there is his own reorganized 100,000 troops in it, it is the same, it is useless, it can't beat the Liao people at all! Not to mention the Jurchens who followed!

But it's a pity that this letter was written by Zhang Ying a month ago, and it was sent to him, a month later, at the end of February of the fifth year of Xuanhe, Zhang Ying had already led the army to Yanyun, and it was irretrievable.

Zhang Ying will soon have a face-to-face communication with the Jurchens, the most powerful military owners in this era, maybe it will be face-to-face, the Song army without cavalry, the weak Song army, those old forbidden troops, can they really boost the country's prestige? Is Zhang Ying confident? When he saw the iron cavalry and the murderous Jin Army, would Zhang Ying remember the words he had said to him?

I don't know all of these Yue Flips.

For a moment, Yue Chuan wanted to write a letter to Emperor Huizong, asking Emperor Huizong to promise that he would lead the 30,000 elite troops he had obtained from the bandits in the past year to go north to assist Zhang Ying in attacking Yanyun......

In a trance, Yue flipped the pen to write the fold, but after writing the first word, he suddenly stopped writing, trembling all over, his right hand couldn't help but want to put down the pen, the left hand held the right hand to prevent the right hand from letting the pen fall, the left and right hands didn't seem to listen to Yue Tuo's own control, and even two Yue Flip were constantly fighting, one wanted to go north, and wanted to fight with the first person who understood himself in this era, even if he couldn't be glorious together, he couldn't be crowned king together, he had to die together.

The other Yue Tuan didn't want to do this, he just wanted to support his own army, protect the water and soil in the troubled times, save the lives of himself and his family, and protect all the people within his ability......

After all, it's just a fear of death......

When has it been, and I'm still like this? Am I still afraid? Am I still so cowardly? Am I still so incompetent and selfish? I thought I had grown up, but I was still like that? I still can't go north, I still can't be the one who can shine? After all I have experienced, I still haven't changed at all? However, I have already ......

By the way, I know, I finally know...... I know, I fight with bandits, I won't die, but I fight with the Jurchens, I will definitely die...... I'm not afraid of death when I know I won't die, I'm afraid of death when I know I'm going to die, so am I afraid of death or not?

I'm still afraid of death, I'm still selfish, I'm still stupid, I'm still cowardly......

I have never changed, until now, the most fundamental me is still the original me, the cowardly, incompetent and stupid Yue Tuo has never left, so long, he still has not left, even if he is feared and feared by the entire Jiqian Erzhou, the stupid and selfish Yue Tuo still exists, and what people are in awe of may be just a shell, inside the shell, the timid and cowardly soul is shrunk in the corner and trembling......

In fact, Yue Tuo wanted to know why, those heroes recorded in the history books could die generously, and they could ignore the most basic survival instinct of human beings as creatures and give up their lives...... National righteousness is an empty word, so empty that it is impossible to define at all, or there is no need to define it at all, just die for the country......

But is it so easy to die for the country? Yue Fan really wanted to ask Zhang Ying, why did he go to death generously when he knew that he would die, and why did those national heroes who knew they would die knowing that they would die, but still went to die, why is this? Why?

Li Ruoshui, Li Yanxian, Zhao Li, Zong Ze, Li Gang, Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, can you tell me why, why are you not afraid of death, why can you die generously? Why are you able to abandon your instincts and act with all your loyalty? What kind of spirit, what kind of driving force, can make you like this? Tell me! Let me know!

Why exactly......

I really don't want to be cowardly like this anymore......

Yue flipped the pen in his hand and fell to the ground......

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