At the moment when the naval army embarked on the journey of attacking Liaoyang Mansion, it also marked the beginning of the all-out war between the Song and Jin countries, and the Song army dispatched 11 armies, five artillery brigades directly under the two countries, three naval divisions and four marine brigades attached to it, in addition to the Guards, the Desert Army and the Cavalry Hunting Army as reserves, and then there were various border state armies to serve as guards, escorts and consolidate the tasks of the occupied areas, with a total strength of 400,000 people, which can be said to be pouring out.

At present, the Song army is divided into two main attack corps, the Northwest Group and the Southern Group, which are divided into two deployment divisions. The two groups divided their forces again, and the Northwest Group launched an encirclement and annihilation of the Servants and Loyal Righteousness in the border area on the one hand, and attacked Changchun Prefecture on the other road, threatening its Beijing division; As soon as the battle began, the Southern Corps divided its forces again, attacking from the front on one side, and detouring back to Liaoyang Mansion by sea on the other, cutting off its rear route.

Now the Song army has divided its troops to attack in four directions, but the emperor wants to divide his troops again, and asks the Haizhou Navy Division to carry the marines to cooperate with the Jurchen Five Kingdoms to capture the Liaodong Peninsula and completely cut off the Jurchens' sea routes. In this way, the Song army was divided into five routes, which spread out on the Song-Jin border for thousands of miles, forming a fan with Pingzhou as a dot. His idea was immediately opposed by the ministers who followed him......

In fact, at the beginning of the war planning, everyone advocated the use of the traditional tactics of splitting the road and attacking together, and some people suggested that it was inappropriate, especially the old ministers who had experienced the three dynasties such as Li Gang, Zhang Suo, and Ma Kuo. Although these people were civil ministers, they had implemented the policy of governing the military with literature in the previous Song Dynasty, so they had also presided over the military, and they were not experts, but they had also dabbled, especially Li Gang commanded the whole army as the prime minister in the Jingkang period and commanded the defense of Bianjing.

After the Jingkang Revolution, these people also reflected on and discussed the repeated defeats of the Song army in foreign wars, thinking that the Great Song Dynasty had repeatedly failed in the wars against Liao, Western Xia and Jin. Although there are various reasons, the main military reason is the division of troops. The various ministries are not subordinate to each other, and there is no way to coordinate and support each other under the leadership of multiple leaders. They were broken by the enemy individually, and the defeat along the way collapsed the entire front, and finally failed.

In particular, after the first battle of Bianjing, Li Gang was excluded by Geng Nanzhong and others and led the troops to reinforce Taiyuan, which he experienced all kinds of embarrassments and difficulties, which he will never forget. Several armies totaled more than 200,000 troops, but because of poor coordination, they fought separately, and were defeated by Zong Han with less than 50,000 troops, and also took the life of the veteran master Dao. Since then, the Great Song Dynasty has no troops to fight, so that the Jin army was powerless to stop it when it went south for the second time, and this lesson was too profound.

When everyone analyzed that the emperor was able to win many battles despite being significantly less powerful than the opponent's troops, they thought that it was precisely because the emperor had strong control over the army that he could do orders and prohibitions, and because he could always concentrate his limited forces to deal a fatal blow to the enemy along the way, disrupt the enemy's deployment, and turn the tide of the war. Even if the strategy of dividing forces is adopted, it is often to contain the enemy with a small number of forces, and still concentrate forces on the other side to maintain local superiority. That's how he can win every battle.

Therefore, when Li Gang proposed in public that he should adopt the strategy of attacking separately and together, advancing at the same time, and meeting troops in Huining Mansion, Li Gang and others thought that this violated the emperor's consistent principle of using troops. Instead, we should insist on concentrating our forces and attacking all the way to break into the territory of the Jin State, directly take the Jurchen Jingshi Huining Mansion, and then sweep the whole territory. Although Li Gang is only participating in political affairs now. He did not have real power, but he served as prime minister after the emperor succeeded to the throne. He assisted the emperor in rectifying the rule of officials, reforming the official system, restoring production, and stabilizing the government, so he was deeply respected by the emperor and his ministers. His opinion is certainly not to be taken lightly.

After Zhao Ta knew the opinions of Li Gang and others, he specially summoned a group of them to explain. He thought that first of all, after years of development, the Great Song Dynasty had a strong national strength and an increase in military strength. In addition, if you attack all the way, although you can advance highly, the enemy also has legs, and if you can't fight, you will run, and the result will be a rout, and you will not be able to destroy the living force of the Jin army, which will bring great trouble to the later purge and rule, and it may take years, or even more time, to stabilize the situation.

In addition, the tactics of attacking from multiple directions are now adopted, first, it can make the enemy unable to figure out which way is the main attack and which way is a feint, forcing the enemy to disperse his forces and fortify everywhere, so as to effectively contain the enemy's forces on all sides; Second, the various units of the Song army seemed to be scattered, but in fact they echoed each other, and retained strong reserves that could reinforce each other; In this operation, only two command organs were set up, namely the emperor's camp and the northwest and southern deployment divisions, and the authority of the metropolitan deployment divisions was granted, which reduced intermediate links, eliminated the drawbacks of multiple commands, and ensured that the military orders could be fully implemented.

Zhao Ta successfully persuaded Li Gang and others to implement the plan proposed by the Privy Council, which also gave the leading generals of all parties room and leeway. Judging from the current war situation, it was very successful, the Song army opened up a number of battlefields in a row, and the two marshals of the Jin army were pinned down in their respective defensive positions and could not move, and the mobile forces were afraid that the Song army would attack the east and the west, and they did not dare to reinforce on a large scale, so that they fell into an extremely passive situation......

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"Zhao Lian, how is the war going in the Northwest Corps?" Zhao Tan's camp advanced to Yingzhou, and the brigade also rushed to rendezvous, and the supreme command organ of the Great Song Dynasty was also established, and the high-favored capital deployment division moved forward to Laizhou to command.

"Your Majesty, according to the latest battle report, after conquering the Wuzhou defense line, the Lion Wing Army made a detour to the northeast to gather the remnants of the enemy in the lower reaches of the Talu River, and now they have established a defense line on the south bank of the Talu River to prevent the enemy from escaping south into the Zuo Shuaifu; After the Longyi Army destroyed more than 10,000 enemies, it detoured to the southeast, and the current forward has reached the area of the Duck River; After the boundary trench of Yongbian Fort was overcome, Wanyan Yulie's troops suffered heavy losses in the battle with our army, fled in the direction of Taizhou under the response of Fusan Zhongyi, and entered the meadow area east of the Yazi River and west of the Talu River after being blocked by the lion general. Zhao Lian pointed to the map and explained in detail.

"It is almost April, and the rainy season in the northwest is coming, when the roads are muddy, the rivers are swollen, and there will be large swamps on the meadows, which are not conducive to the maneuvering of the cavalry and artillery, and the fighting must be ended before the rainy season arrives." Zhao Ta nodded.

"Your Majesty, Du Yuhou also thinks about it, but the three armies have just gone through a big battle, and he wants to rest for a few days, and now that the weather is getting warmer, the river is civilized, and the ice row is surging in the water, the Jin army can't cross the river for a while, so he thinks about resting and then launching a joint attack!" Zhao Lian said.

"Hehe, Zhao Li is bent on beating the water dog!" Zhao Ta said with a smile, and immediately understood his thoughts, now that he has lost the two big cities of Changchun Prefecture and Taizhou, the boundary trenches have collapsed across the board, and all the baggage supplies have been lost, and the grain and grass he carries with him are limited, and they will be exhausted in a few days, and the military spirit will be unstable at that time, and Zhao Li wants to wait until then to start.

"Didn't Majesty always teach us that we are cheap and not sticky, sorry God, how dare Zhao Li forget it!" Zhao Lian said to everyone with a smile, causing a burst of laughter.

"Yes, Fusan Zhongyi must be scolding God, he wants to flee in the southeast direction because he wants to cross the Duck River to meet the reinforcements sent by Huining Mansion, but he didn't expect the weather to suddenly warm up and the river to be civilized!" Dou Jun grimaced and said with a smile.

"I can't remember anything else, but I remember these clearly!" Zhao Ta Yan said with a smile, "Send someone to tell Zhao Li that the weather is changing at a time when the weather is unpredictable, and he must pay close attention to the changes in cold and warmth, and he must not let the cooked duck fly again." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, my subordinates will order someone to send a message to inform you!" Zhao Lian obeyed.

"Lou Qian, now that the river is civilized, you must ensure that the materials can be delivered on time, and you must not delay." Zhao Ta turned his face to the burden of the division and said to Lou Qiandao.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, your subordinates have ordered the Second Brigade to prepare for building a bridge, and once the ice is drained, a pontoon bridge will be erected immediately, and your subordinates have prepared hundreds of boats to hide along the Hunhe River, which will never delay the transportation of materials." Lou Qian said.

"Well, you have to send the materials to Changchun Prefecture to establish a new material transfer station, and make material reserves for the next battle, and the ammunition and siege equipment must be sufficient!" Zhao Ta nodded, satisfied with his preparations.

"Your Majesty, Tongzhi now wants to forcibly cross the Liuzhou River to attack Xizhou, I don't know what His Majesty wants?" Zhao Yong asked with the battle report he had just received.

"Let him wait two more days!" Zhao Ta immediately stopped.

"Your Majesty, the naval army attacking Liaoyang Mansion has been on set off for two days, and it is about to start. If after Yan Liang learned the news, his subordinates were worried that he would abandon Jinzhou and retreat north because he was worried that the back road would be cut off, then our goal of annihilating Zuo Shuaifu would be frustrated. Zhao Yong didn't expect the emperor to refuse, and hurriedly said.

"Wan Yan Liang is full of youthful vigor, he has never suffered a big loss in our hands, he has always been eager to fight with us and make contributions, he will not abandon the city and leave, nor will he come to the aid of Liaoyang Mansion. What worries me the most is that Xizhou's Sali Drink, he is a veteran oilman, and he has fought with us for many years, so he may see through our plan! Zhao said.

"Your Majesty, then we should quickly capture Xizhou and annihilate its troops to get rid of future troubles!" Zhao Yong was a little confused, the emperor was afraid that he would break through the plan and not beat him, isn't this a contradiction?

"It's easy to defeat him, but it's hard to catch him, back then, under the sinister form of Goryeo, he could escape back to Jin alone, can you guarantee that you can catch him this time? And this time we failed to cut off the connection between Xizhou and Jinzhou, he will quickly flee back to Jinzhou after the Liuzhou River defense line is lost, and he will never fight to the death with us! Zhao Tan said with a chuckle.

"Then what does His Majesty want to do?" Zhao Yong thought about it and asked, he understood that now the Southern Corps had been sent except for the Guards as a reserve, and there were no troops to send to land behind it again.

"Rebellion!" Zhao Ta looked at everyone and smiled...... (To be continued......)