Zhao Ta understood that his current identity and responsibilities no longer allowed him to go to the battle array, all he had to do was to provide strategic guidance and grasp the timing, and the specific tactics were up to those commanders and generals to worry about. When his gaze turned to the two young talents of the Jin Kingdom who guarded the left and right marshals' mansions, he found that their expressions were not as 'exaggerated' as they were in history, but rather a little naïve, lacking discipline in the arrangement of troops. Especially in the face of emergencies, the response is weak, even helpless, and there is no strategic vision at all.

However, Zhao Ta quickly figured out the joints, and the root of the problem still appeared in himself. The Jurchen talent training method is more like the current 'passing on the help', especially the training model of military generals is more like a master leading an apprentice. They selected potential and talented children in the family to take them with their experienced fathers and brothers to fight with them since they were young, and completed their primary education in the baptism of blood, and those who could survive on the battlefield also accumulated rich combat experience and gradually became independent generals.

Brother Ying was like this back then, and so was Ah Guta, so that the talents in the clan continued to emerge, and there were many famous generals, Zong Han, Han Fu, and even Wushu all grew up in this way. But after the two southern invasions, the veterans of the Jin State were consumed in the civil strife again and again, and when Wushu realized that there was no successor to the talent 'broken generation', he selected Wan Yan Liang, Wan Yan Yong, Fusan Zhongyi and other outstanding sons to cultivate.

However, by this time, the Song army had completely gained the upper hand, forcing Wushu to make heavy concessions and reach a peace agreement with the Song, and the large-scale war between the two countries was terminated, and the offensive strategy of the Jin State changed to total defense. Large-scale wars were also gone, and skirmishes on the border and the suppression of nomads became the main tasks of their armies. As Wan Yan's condition worsened. The imperial power was further weakened, and the ministers became the main body of the Jin state. It is necessary to strictly enforce the rule of culture, select capable officials, pay attention to financial use, and attach importance to the atmosphere of literati.

After the Jingkang Incident, the Jin army went south many times, attacking Henan, Shaanxi, and Shandong, and approaching the Yangtze River defense line, and the war continued year after year. This allows Wushu to train the next generation with the old training model, and also makes Wan Yanliang and others stand out. However, the birth of Zhao Ta changed this qiē, the Jurchens in the past set of traditional ways of cultivating talents failed, and the young people who lost the war could not be tempered and could not accumulate combat experience, but they quickly rose to a high position under the arrangement of Wushu and became the backbone of the Jin army.

These rookies who suddenly flew up to the high branches found that the war seemed to be far away from them, but power was close at hand, and the older generation such as Wushu did not set a good example for them. They quickly found their respective directions and entered the role, getting involved in political battles, using the political arena as a battlefield, and the army in their hands became a bargaining chip in their struggle for power. It's a pity that the army in their hands is no longer the elite soldiers of a hundred battles in the early years of the founding of the country. It is a generation that has grown up in peace, and without the fierceness and courage of its predecessors, the Jurchen is invincible and has become a legend.

The new generation of elites of the Jin Kingdom who lack war experience and vision. failed to see through the series of actions of the Great Song Dynasty before the outbreak of the war were deliberately set a trap for them, but mistakenly regarded these as opportunities. As a result, the bold military action triggered the 'retaliation' of the Great Song Dynasty, but it was still not ready for the outbreak of war. And when the Song army attacked in a big way. When they swore to the Northern Expedition, it was difficult for them to adapt, and they even played their own small calculations, and the strategies they adopted were inevitably naïve and clumsy.

As the pillar of the Jin Kingdom, Wushu naturally understood that the battle between Song and Jin would break out sooner or later, so he also actively prepared and invested a large amount of money to build boundary trenches, renovate cities, and train troops. In order to make room for young people, those experienced veterans can only be marginalized, and they are depressed and depressed, so they naturally do not contribute to their work, let alone carry forward the spirit of 'passing on the help and leading' and impart the experience of marching and fighting. This directly led to a decline in the training level of the army and a weakening of the morale of the army.

As I grew older and had too many things to worry about, I had limited energy and had no time to pay attention to everything. As a result, when he found that a lot of money and energy had been invested, the effect was not good, and when he realized the severity of the situation, it was already difficult to turn it around. However, several successors were very interested in politics, and began to form gangs to seize power, so he immediately drove them out of the capital and scattered them to avoid causing a catastrophe.

When the Song and Jin sides had a strict conflict, Wushu was already terminally ill, and the upper dynasty had to carry it, let alone put it on the battlefield. Far away from the battlefield, he has no way to understand the real situation on the battlefield, so he can only make countermeasures according to the reports from the front. In the face of exaggerated or minimized or even contradictory news from all sides, how can Wushu make correct judgments, and the result is that one side loses the other, and one after another makes mistakes, and falls into passivity.

However, Zhao Tan has always regarded these elites in his memory in his previous life as his fierce rivals, and he did not dare to relax in the slightest; while comprehensively improving the mechanism for training and selecting officers, while maintaining the army's combat effectiveness by training instead of fighting, he also sent troops to fight in all directions to improve actual combat ability and accumulate combat experience, and practice new tactics. In addition, we should step up the research and development of weapons and equipment, constantly improve the performance and lethality of weapons, and make preparations for future wars.

From the current point of view, Zhao Ta's strategic expectations have been achieved, and a 'accidental' incident has been turned into a full-scale war between the two countries, and the Northwest Corps has completed a roundabout volley, forming a situation of encirclement and annihilation of the enemy's right marshal's mansion. At this time, the Southern Corps had also completed the preparation of campaign troops and materials, and began to deploy, and could launch an attack only after an order. From the analysis of the current situation, the Great Song Dynasty has occupied the time and the people, and has half of the chance of winning......

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Sa Lijiu has been in the army for forty years, he is a veteran of the battlefield, and he rushed to Laizhou to arrange troops to prepare to counterattack the invasion of the Song army. But he did not give the order to enter the full combat readiness, and the reinforcements also stayed in Laizhou to rest, because it was not a matter to stop thieves every day. And years of experience in warfare taught him that wars often did not break out until the commander arrived or the decree was issued.

Now that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty has announced his personal conquest, the troops in front must wait for him to come, otherwise it will be contempt for the imperial authority, and now it is reported that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is still stopping in Yanjing, and it will take some time to reach the front line, so he judged that there will be no fight during this time. However, in the early morning of March 21, the Song army suddenly launched an attack, they raided the outposts along the border, and then the army quickly marched along the main road to the boundary trench, and the special combat detachment lurking here simultaneously seized the bridge erected on the boundary trench and established a bridgehead.

The army that arrived later suppressed the enemy troops on the trench wall with heavy artillery fire, destroyed the city defense facilities, and the sappers blew up the trench wall with the help of artillery fire, and the Song army brigade immediately poured in from the gap and climbed the trench wall. The Jin army's brigade was still arranged in the second line, and the boundary trench was insufficient to resist the surprise attack of the Song army, so it could only abandon the city and flee, but one day the Jin army's painstaking management of the boundary trench defense line for many years was broken through, and the Song army approached Laizhou City.

After receiving the news of the Song army's surprise attack on the boundary trench, Sa Liyu immediately led troops to reinforcements, not wanting to meet the rout in front of him halfway, only to know that the boundary trench had been lost, and the brigade was rushing to Laizhou along the main road. Sali was shocked, knowing that as soon as the boundary trench was lost, the entire defense line would collapse, and he hurriedly gathered the remnants of his troops and retreated to Laizhou. But as soon as he entered the city, a messenger from Xizhou arrived, saying that Song Shuishi appeared on the coast of Haibin County and wanted to land here.

Sa Liyu is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield, and he did not panic, the current shape is not much different from what he analyzed before, although he lost the boundary trench, but he also figured out the intention of the Song army, they wanted to attack and block the territory of the Zuo Marshal's Mansion into two sections, and annihilate each after dividing and encircling. He made a quick decision, ordered to abandon Laizhou City, and led the whole army and people to immediately move to Xizhou overnight. When the advance of the Song army was still twenty miles away from Laizhou, they saw that the north was fiery red, reflecting the night sky. When the Song army arrived in Laizhou the next morning, the city had been burned to the ground.

After retreating to Xizhou, Sa Liyu immediately ordered the pontoon bridge on the Liuzhou River to be burned, and deployed troops at various ferries to seize the boats and boats on the river and scuttle them at the mouth of the sea to block the channel. At the same time, the coastal defense line was strengthened, and the Song army was guarded with heavy troops to prevent the Song army from landing from the coast. Then he requisitioned the young and strong to form an army to assist the army to defend the city, and in a few days, Xizhou City was built into an iron wall and rebuilt a defensive line. But at this time, the news from the Great Song Dynasty said that Zhao Er's driving had just entered Pingzhou, which made him puzzled and scolded this opponent who was unruly about the rules.

When Zhao Ta decided to take the oath in advance, he took into account that this would arouse the vigilance of Jin Guo, as the generals feared that the loss of suddenness would make it difficult to break through the enemy's first line of defense, but he could change his itinerary and choose the target of the first attack to regain the initiative. And he unconventionally used the waterway as a feint, deceived the veteran Sa Li, and forced him to give up coming to the state. But his decisive abandonment of Laizhou to retreat to Xizhou still made Zhao Ta very impressed, if he only delayed for half a day, even if he hesitated a little, he would be caught up and besieged by the Song army, and the retreat would evolve into a rout, and it would be difficult to return to Xizhou safely.

And just when Sali was waiting to prevent the Song army from attacking by sea, Zhao Ta was marching for the naval division and the landing force in Yingzhou Port, and at this time, the Leopard Wing Army and the Tiger General had already boarded the ship, and they would sail into Liaodong Bay with the help of the just approaching monsoon under the escort of the Dengzhou Naval Division to open up another battlefield...... (To be continued......)