Before the Song-Jin War, the Western Xia had already fought with the Jurchens, that was when the Jurchens pursued the remnants of the Liao Army, the Western Xia people sent troops to help because of the Liao princess, and the 30,000 cavalry were eaten up by the Jurchen 10,000 iron horsemen, so they no longer dared to go against the Jurchens.

Fortunately, the area where the Tangut people are located is a poor place, just like a lump of stool, and the Jurchens don't bother to take it at all, so the Tangut people have survived until now, but the Great Song Dynasty has suffered, but it is conceivable that if the Great Song Dynasty is completely defeated by the Jurchens, the end of the Tangut people will come, so during the Song-Jin War, although the Tangut people have never helped the Great Song Dynasty, nor have they helped the Jurchens, of course, they also helped the Great Song when the plateau tribes wanted to take advantage of it, and wiped out several tribes.

However, today, seeing that the Great Song Dynasty successfully defeated the Jurchens and was reborn from the ashes, the hearts of the Western Xia people began to be restless again, and on the sixth day after Luda's funeral, the northwest border came to the report of the sneak attack of the Western Xia army, and the Song army was caught off guard and suffered a small loss, but Zhang Xian, the deputy marshal of the Western Army stationed at the border, had reacted in time, mobilized soldiers and horses to counterattack, and successfully stabilized the battle line.

It is reported that the Jurchens sent 50,000 troops, 30,000 cavalry, and 20,000 infantry troops, according to the previous judgment, this is half of the largest army that the Tanguts can dispatch, and it is estimated that they also want to take advantage, and they don't really want to fight with the Great Song Dynasty, that is, they want to pick up the game that the big guys have played for more than a hundred years and continue to play. By the way, let's test the current military strength of the Great Song Dynasty and its attitude towards the Western Xia people.

When he got the news, Yue Fei, who was just about to get up and go to Chang'an to deal with official business, was shocked and angry, and at the same time felt a little excited. When the Great Song Dynasty military was extremely depressed because of Luda's death, the Western Xia people jumped out and took the initiative to seek torture and death, this kind of good thing is really not often encountered.

Although Western Xia is hard and smelly, the land of Hehuang is indeed a very important strategic place, during the Xining period. Emperor Shenzong's battle of Kaibian under the leadership of Wang Shao once made the Great Song Dynasty occupy the land of Hehuang, but at that time, the struggle between the old and new parties in the Great Song Dynasty also rose to the point of life and death. The party strife in the imperial court inevitably affected the military, Wang Shao was defeated, the results of the war were abandoned, and Sima Guang came to power in the years after Xining's reform. Almost destroyed the entire Xining Reform.

Therefore, Sima Guang's old age was extremely sinful. Putting one's personal preferences and the interests of one's own party above the entire country and the nation, just because the results of the border opening campaign were achieved under the rule of the new party, they wanted to destroy this victory, and did not care about the interests of the country and the nation at all.

Yue Chuan acknowledged Sima Guang's talent. However, he was very dissatisfied with his extremely conservative political views, and almost did not repay the results of the army's life to the Western Xia. Ignoring the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and ordinary people, and treating the country's righteousness as a struggle of will, how can such a person be worthy of the court's posthumous seal? Although Emperor Zhezong chased and belittled Sima Guang, Yue Tuo was still not satisfied, and the above table wanted to remove Sima Guang from the list of famous ministers and include him in the list of ministers who misled the country.

This is the only time that Yue Tuo attacked the deceased, many people don't quite understand, including Zhao Huan doesn't understand very much, Yue Tuo has always been known for his gentleness, and has never had such a drastic move, and then Yue Flip told the reason why he did this, Zhao Huan understood, but still didn't include Sima Guang really in the list of ministers who misled the country, but just instructed the historian to write Sima Guang's biography clearly, and the merits and demerits have their own descendants to comment, at this moment, the dead are great, let's not do this kind of thing.

The harm brought by the old and new party struggle to the Great Song Dynasty is obvious to all, and now there are naturally descendants and supporters of the old and new party members in the DPRK and China, time has passed, and the things at that time do not need to appear again, and Zhao Huan will never allow the emergence of the old and new party disputes, so after comprehensive consideration, he did not agree to all the requirements of Yue Xuan.

But the importance of the Hehuang Valley is self-evident, the plateau is a rare agricultural land, the soil is fertile, the plateau tribe who occupies here can be fattened a circle, the Great Song Dynasty occupies here but failed to hold, has been a pity, now this is occupied by the Western Xia, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to re-establish the advantage of the Western Xia, it needs to occupy here, open the road to the heart of the Western Xia Xingqing Mansion.

In the heyday of the Western Army before the Song-Jin War, it once attacked the gate of Xingqing Mansion, but the change of Fang La made the dream of the Western Army fall short, and then the Western Army went downhill until the moment of rebirth, but before that, most of the main forces of the Western Army were transferred as the existence of the National Defense Army, so the strength was not enough, and there was no war against the Western Xia, and the Western Xia was also very honest and did not make any mistakes, so the Western Army did not care.

This time, Western Xia crashed into the muzzle of the Great Song Dynasty, whether it was Zhao Huan or Yue Fei, they all decided to do something to Western Xia, otherwise when the army went on an expedition against the Jurchens, it would be not good to divide their energy to deal with Western Xia.

Yue Fei arrived at the Privy Council as quickly as possible to discuss the matter with Wu Yong, Yue Fei locked himself in his home and began to write a crusade against Western Xia, making plans for this battle, and the major generals began to be vigorous and ambitious.

On March 16, the fourth year of Jingkang, at the Great Imperial Meeting, the privy envoy Wu used the above table to express his views on the matter of the Western Xia Koubian, advocating that the Western Xia should immediately send troops to conscript, and even "prepare for the destruction of the country", the Western Xia is "shameless", "must be destroyed and then quickly, in order to comfort the spirits of the first emperors in the sky", "with the head of the party and the thief chieftain, worship the temple", etc., bluntly saying that the shamelessness of the Western Xia and the necessity of the Great Song Dynasty must be crusaded.

Prime Minister Zhao Ding expressed a little opinion on Wu Yong's opinion, such as whether the current money and grain reserves of the Great Song Dynasty can support a war to destroy the country, before the war, we have to see if we can fight, not to say that we will fight, we must fight, Western Xia has no reason to commit a border, if you don't fight, where is the majesty of the Great Song Dynasty? But how to fight, how to fight, and to what extent, it is worth continuing to discuss, just defined as a war to destroy the country, can the Great Song Dynasty have such money and grain reserves?

To put it bluntly, in a word, there is no money.

Poor, poor, although Jingkang's three-year income is better than the first year and the second year, but compared to the Xuanhe year, it is already so bleak that it can't be seen, many places in the Great Song Dynasty have been exempted from taxes, and the few places that can continue to pay taxes can only barely maintain the operation of the imperial court, not to mention that many places still need the central government to pay for construction and maintenance, not to mention the astronomical military expenditure for today's Great Song Dynasty.

It is already difficult to maintain, and it is even more difficult to act, if you want to do anything to the Western Xia, you can only transfer food from Guanzhong and Shuzhong, but Guanzhong and Shuzhong consumed all their strength in the third war, and the people cannot afford another national war, and it will take at least three years to recuperate before the Great Song Dynasty can gradually ease up.

Zhao Ding said that it is possible to counterattack on a small scale, but it must not destroy the country at every turn, the Great Song Dynasty does not have that grain reserve, once the fight is stalemate, there is no food supply, and the Western Army will suffer heavy losses.

Yue Fei's battle plan didn't come up, his face turned blue, he thought that his battle plan had an eighty percent chance of success, but this was based on enough food, without this foundation, even the righteous path imperial soldiers couldn't do it.

Wu Yong and Zong Ze looked bitter, fighting, need money, need food, need the support of the people, but the war with the Jin State consumed almost all the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Great Song Dynasty is a patient who has just recovered from a serious illness, and he can't withstand the big toss, although the Western Army has enough combat effectiveness, and Yue Fei is also sure enough, but fighting a war can not be done by relying on the army and the commander alone, without food and money, the army cannot leave the station.

Zhao Huan looked at Zhao Ding's performance with a solemn face, and rubbed his temples depressedly, he knew that Zhao Ding was not against the war, but worried, if Zhao Huan insisted on fighting, Zhao Ding would definitely obey his orders, but how to continue after that, once the war entered a stalemate, how would it be good? Zhao Ding wrote, it is possible to fight, and at present, he can guarantee the food and salary of 100,000 troops for two months, and after that, it will be gone.

The dignified Great Song Dynasty, hundreds of millions of people, the conquest needs of 100,000 troops can only be guaranteed for two months, Zhao Huan really deeply felt the weakness of the Great Song Dynasty now, and more and more understood that Lu Da knew that he would die but still insisted on going, and understood the pain of Yue Xuan, the Great Song Dynasty really couldn't withstand the big toss.

Recapturing the Hehuang Valley and the Hexi Corridor is indeed the correct strategic goal, but the money and energy required to invest are beyond the current capacity of the Great Song Dynasty.

But Zhao Huan still has a trace of obsession in his heart, a little thought, the Great Song Dynasty has recaptured the Yanyun that Emperor Taizu has never forgotten, but he has not yet recaptured the Lingzhou that Emperor Taizong has never forgotten.

Solve the first one, of course, you can't favor one over the other, don't solve the second one, in the final analysis, Zhao Huan is the descendant of Zhao Guangyi, not Zhao Kuangyin.

Therefore, Zhao Huan set his sights on Yue Tuo, who had never spoken, Yue Tuo, who had always brought him hope and results, and Yue Tuo, who had always been his treasure chest and think tank.

"Yue Qing, what do you think about this matter?" Zhao Huan put down the fold in his hand and sent a message for help to Yue Huan, and the courtiers seemed to be accustomed to Zhao Huan's difficulty in finding Yue Tuo, "Yue Qing" is Yue Tuo's special name, Yue Fei was called "General Yue", at this time, "Yue Qing" was also in a dilemma, and he couldn't think of any good ideas, but the emperor asked, and Yue Tuo couldn't help but answer.

Staring at the hopeful gaze of the imperial court, Yue Tuo also felt a lot of pressure, Yue Tuo, who had just been freed from Luda's death, was exhausted, and did not have so much energy to think about it so completely, he did write a song before, but like Yue Fei, he didn't pay attention to the problem of food, and at this time, he noticed his negligence. (To be continued.) )