After entering June, the weather became hotter and hotter, and the Great Song Emperor Zhao Tan moved to Yanjing to escape the summer, and the left and right ministers stayed in Beijing to handle government affairs, accompanied by Li Gang and Xu Jingheng, two governors who participated in politics. In the past, if the emperor left Beijing, he would have attracted the persuasion of the ministers to stop it, but now everyone has gradually become accustomed to the emperor's style, and now the country has formed a new bureaucratic system and administrative procedures after more than ten years of construction and political stability, and the central and local governments do not need the emperor to worry about everything, and they also give him leisure.

In the past, the emperor often dispatched tens of thousands of people, which cost a lot of money, and brought huge pressure on the national finances, causing his vassals to oppose the emperor's travel. But this one, unlike his ancestors, likes to be light and simple, and opposes extravagance and waste. Besides, now that the treasury is full, I don't care about the small money that the emperor spends. In addition, the social order of the Great Song Dynasty was good, people were full of food and drink, who had nothing to do to rebel, and now it would be great to have forty or fifty people under the king of Zhanshan, where would he dare to stare at the emperor's guards.

Therefore, Zhao Ta did not encounter any resistance to this trip, and he led the two brigades of guards and related people and other 10,000 people to leave Beijing and go to Yanjing. And he did not go to Yanjing City to live, but to the Yanfangdian Palace outside the city, which was once the Liao Emperor's bowl out of the palace, and later there was a period of time outside the city Wushu safari residence, Zhao Ta had a camp here to command the battle when attacking Yanjing. Since then, it has been retained as a palace, and there is a special person to maintain it on weekdays, although he has never been there since, after learning that the emperor is coming, Yanjing Mansion has done special maintenance, and the two brigades of the loyal and brave army are responsible for the perimeter of the guard.

Yanfangdian is a hundred miles in circumference, the smoke is vast, and the birds and beasts are hidden in it. Here you can go boating and fishing, and you can also run horses and hunt. It's much cooler than Bianjing, and Zhao Ta is very fun. But his main task here is not to eat, drink and be merry. Once the war began, it would become the material supply base and soldier assembly place of the Song army's Northern Expedition, and one of the rear transit places of the battle.

As a mastermind of a war, Zhao knew that there was a big difference between the complete conquest and domination of a country and a war aimed at plundering. If you just grab a handful and leave, you don't need to use a large army, and the preparation is much simpler. However, in order to occupy a country, it is necessary to use a variety of resources, not only to have an army to attack cities and plunder land. It is also necessary to have the relevant people to quickly take over and establish power and rule.

In addition, it is necessary to have sufficient reserves of materials to deal with a war that may last a year, or even years, and to ensure the supply of troops and localities, otherwise it can only be a victory of the tiger. The battle of the Great Song Dynasty to recover Yanyun was a good negative teaching material, and it was precisely because of the insufficient material reserves in the early Song Dynasty that the army had no food and weapons; After receiving Yanjing, he could only hastily collect grain and grass from Hebei and Hedong to help the people in the newly harvested land, which led to the dissatisfaction of the people in China. The seeds of mutual hatred were sown. And this kind of emergency financing was difficult to last, and finally because of the lack of food, it led to a rebellion, and soon lost the territory that had not been covered under the attack of the Jin army.

And the fucking traffic and transportation capacity of this era necessitated early preparation and the establishment of supply bases on predetermined offensive routes and assembly points. So that it can be quickly sent to the front. Located north of the Yellow River, Yanjing was a large city close to the Song-Jin border, and could transport supplies from the southeast via the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. As a material distribution center, it has inherent advantages. In order to ensure the suddenness of the outbreak of war, it is not possible to brazenly transfer materials on a large scale. In order to prevent arousing the vigilance of the Jin State, it is necessary to make secret preparations as soon as possible.

In addition to touring the mountains and rivers, Zhao Tan inspected the roads and material hoarding points in the Yanjing area. He also ordered the construction and widening of the road between Pingzhou and Dadingfu on the pretext of allowing for the exchange of caravans, the construction of ports along the coast, the establishment of sea transportation lines, and the increase in the speed of material transshipment. At the same time, in the name of preparing for famine and fighting disasters, the states and counties along the way were allowed to build warehouses and reserve materials to cover people's eyes, which was actually used as a supply station and transportation node on the way forward of the army.

Just when Zhao Tan was in full swing to lay out the battle of the Northern Expedition, he suddenly received a piece of information from the Intelligence Department, saying that the Taishi of the Jin Kingdom had asked Emperor Jin for a pension after completing his Yan Wushu. In Zhao Ta's previous life, in his childhood, the name of Wushu was actually much more familiar than Ah Guta, Wu Qimai, and even Zong Han and Han Li, because whether it was in storytelling or comic books, he always appeared as the number one villain, and he belonged to a villain who committed a great crime and did not kill enough to be angry with the people. Its collection of fierce and cruel, cunning and treacherous, lustful and inward-looking, stupid, all the qualities of bad people, and the appearance is even more flattering, basically and the monster in the mythical story is born by a mother.

In the popular version, Wushu was in the Southern Song Dynasty's counteroffensive against the Jin Kingdom, and the large array he laid was broken, only to be captured by Niu Gao, the head of the legendary Fu General, and died laughing on him, while Wushu was to death. In fact, this is just the good wish of later generations, hoping that with the fatalistic view that the wicked will have evil retribution, the vultures will be punished as they deserve. In fact, the Wushu encountered by Zhao Ta was not only not stupid, but also known as a good general in the army, and it is not an exaggeration to be a good ruler, it can be said that he faced the main enemy after becoming the emperor......

Three years after Zhao Ta succeeded to the throne, the battle to recover Yanyun could be said to be the first face-to-face contest between the two, before one of them was just a frustrated prince, and the other still followed his brother to play the role of running errands. After the first battle between the two, Wushu had realized that the expansion of the Dajin Kingdom was coming to an end; The Great Song Dynasty had just taken a breath and started the war out of political and defensive considerations, and would not pose a threat to the Jin State for the time being. Therefore, Wushu judged that the Song Dynasty would not be able to fight again after the victory, and would turn its main energy to internal affairs.

Therefore, after returning to China, Wushu firmly stood on the side of Wanyan in the struggles of various factions in the country and held peace talks with the Great Song Dynasty. The development of things turned out as expected, although Zhao Er was happy, he did not raise troops again after being 'played' twice, but maintained a certain degree of restraint, and obviously he also realized that this was not the best way to solve the problem with war. This correct prediction also allowed Wushu to withdraw from the fight to the death with the royal tycoons such as Tart Lai, Zong Pan, and Zong Jun who tried to plot and rebel, and finally won the victory, and Wushu also became the actual helmsman of the Jin Kingdom step by step.

In fact, Zhao Ta's purpose in launching the battle to recover Yanyun was as expected by Wushu, he wanted to be politically recognized, and to gain defensive depth was not to destroy Jin in one fell swoop, in fact, he had just calmed down the chaos in the country at that time, and the economy had just recovered, and he was not able to run the huge Jin State. According to his analysis of the political situation of the Jin State at that time, Wan Yan Kang had just succeeded to the throne and was determined to reform, the struggle for power was inevitable, and it was the right time to launch a limited war, and the Jin State would also try to make peace after defeat to avoid the expansion of the war.

Therefore, Zhao Ta resolutely stopped the offensive and put back the Wushu under the favorable military situation, and he understood that if he forcibly acted against it, he would not only ruin the dawn of Zhongxing, but also re-involve the Great Song Dynasty in a rambling war, thus threatening his nascent regime. In the subsequent negotiations, he knew that Wan Yan was playing tricks and conspiracies, but he did not break it, and cooperated with him to find a political backer through the exchange of prisoners, provoking civil strife that lasted for several years.

This time the battle between Wushu and Zhao Ta can be said to be that Zhao Ta has a slight upper hand, and he did not completely defeat Wushu, but the two smart people used each other to win time and opportunity for each to further fight for power. In the period that followed, although the two sides were still in conflict, they did not launch a major battle, and the only advantage was that Saili's defection allowed the Great Song Dynasty to take Linhuang Mansion lightly, which made a hole in the defense circle of the Dajin Kingdom. Zhao Ta and Wushu also completely completed the transformation of their identities, he became the real emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, pacified his own backyard, and completed the first stage of Zhongxing. The Wushu defeated all political opponents and became the ruler of the Jin Kingdom under one person......

Wushu, who had obtained the supreme power, wanted to change the overstretched financial situation of the Jin State at this time and launched a war of aggression against Goryeo, but he clearly realized that in order to achieve victory, he must avoid the Song Dynasty's participation in the war, so he chose to suddenly send troops in the autumn and winter, wanting to take advantage of the severe cold of winter to prevent the Great Song Dynasty from sending troops, and quickly force the King of Goryeo to surrender, creating a fait accompli, so that the Song Dynasty lost the reason to intervene.

Wushu's plan was correct based on the situation at the time, but he underestimated the level of combat readiness of the Song army, and Zhao Ta sent troops to reinforce Goryeo as soon as he received the news, and completed the transfer of troops before the cold winter arrived, forming a confrontation with it in Pyongyang, making Wushu's battle plan a sandwich meal. Subsequently, the defeat of the naval division and the protracted attack of Pyongyang forced Wushu to withdraw its troops, but they were intercepted by the Song army layer by layer, resulting in a great defeat, while the Song army took advantage of the situation to penetrate deep into the territory of Jin State and capture Liaoyang City.

At this time, the situation was extremely dangerous for the Jin State, the Song army on the land border had completed the assembly, with the arrival of spring, the waterway was gradually unblocked, as long as an order was given, the Song army could quickly break through the border line and go deep into the territory of the Jin State, and join the Song army in Liaoyang. At this time, the Jin army, which had just experienced the defeat of Goryeo, suffered heavy losses and could not fully resist the invasion of the Song Dynasty, and it can be said that it was time for life and death.

But in such a serious situation, Wushu made an amazing move that even Zhao Ta found difficult to do, he actually put down his body and begged Song for peace, and did not hesitate to pay a heavy price. And he only relied on an expired trump card, so that the Song army had to give up the attack, so that the Jin State once again escaped the disaster of annihilation, and his courage made Zhao Ta also have to admire, secretly citing himself as his biggest opponent, and now if he dies or steps down, the battle he prepared for Jin is not much more interesting...... (To be continued......)