Everyone saw that Zhao Tan's days in Suzhou seemed to be pleasant, but in fact, he was also worried in his heart, and he didn't know if he could hide it from the Jurchens this time, and even deceive the hundreds of officials in the court, so as to complete the preparations for the battle, so as to achieve the suddenness of the battle and blitz the Jin country.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has sent a message!" Seeing Xi walked into the pavilion, he gave gifts to the official family and Huang Jingchen respectively, don't look at the fact that he is now the head of the Inner Servant Province, but he is still in awe of Huang Jingchen, and he does not dare to be the slightest presumptuous in front of him, and reports in a regular manner as in the past.

"What did he say?" Zhao Ta stopped talking to Huang Jingchen and turned his face and asked.

"Your Majesty, Ma Shilang said that he had released the seized envoy and sent him out of the country as a gift, and he also made certain concessions, but the Jurchens were too greedy, demanded excessively, and wanted to restore the tribute, which was obviously insincere, and he wanted to terminate the talks!" See the joy of returning.

"Well, you send someone to tell him that it should be harder when it should be harder, and it is okay to pay tribute, but the premise is that the King of Liao and all the clans, ministers and hundred workers who were captured must be returned, and if they don't agree, they will continue to talk, and they must not stop!" Zhao Ta thought for a while and said.

"Ma Shilang also said something about the situation of Deputy Envoy Qin, saying that he had betrayed the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, please ask His Majesty whether to remove him!" Jianxi hurriedly agreed.

"No, you won't be able to sing if you replace him, tell you to just keep an eye on him, don't startle the snake, because it's a big deal for a while!" Zhao Ta hurriedly said.

"Yes, little one understands!" See Xi replied.

"This deputy envoy of Qin is the Qin Hui in the imperial history of the previous dynasty?" Huang Jingchen interjected, he was one of the founders of the Intelligence Department and the most trusted person in the early years of Zhao Ta's business. So neither of them avoided him when they spoke.

"It was this person who suddenly returned to China at the beginning of the year. Said to have escaped from the hands of the Jurchens! Zhao Ta took a sip of tea and said.

"The meaning of the official family is very distrustful of him, but this person's official reputation was still good before. He also fought against Jin, has he completely changed? Huang Jingchen still had a good impression of Qin Hui, but the emperor must be suspicious of him, he said suspiciously.

"This person once learned from Wang Boyan, what can he learn from him, in the past, he used to deceive people, and now he actually deceived me!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.

"There may not be evil masters who are evildoers, Your Majesty will not be able to do this and the other, because Wang Boyan offended you and had a preconceived idea!" Huang Jingchen also smiled.

"How could it be. Uncle Huang, you think that a minister of an enemy country who has been kidnapped by the Jurchens must be strictly guarded, and it is a unique coincidence to successfully escape, and Qin Hui not only came back with his wife, but also brought a whole boatload of property, and what is even more strange is that he is a scholar who can take care of several Jurchens with his hand, isn't this too strange! Zhao Ta rolled his eyes and said.

"Oh, it's strange enough, and it's suspicious enough!" Huang Jingchen nodded.

"So I asked people to check what he has done in Jinguo in the past few years, this kid is really good. not only became Zong Han's confidant and relied on him, but also became the guest of honor of the Jurchen nobles, competing to feast him. They were accompanied by their concubines! Zhao Ta said with a sneer.

"Hehe, maybe he's deceiving those Jurchens so that they can let down their guard and get out!" Huang Jingchen said.

"If he just wants to live better, he thinks of a snake as a Jurchen. It's just a loss of subtleties, but it's not a big deal. But he repeatedly leaked secrets in the negotiations with the Jin people, and that is a national thief! Zhao said.

"Therefore, His Majesty will plan and send him to negotiate. Borrow his hand to deceive the Jurchens! Huang Jingchen was secretly happy in his heart, Qin Hui was unlucky enough, he was a little liar and met a big liar, the emperor started by deceiving people since he was a child, and now it has evolved to a terrible level, he has made it clear that he is cheating, graceful and generous deception, with a strong concept, so that after the world is deceived, he is still thinking about whether to return to deceive with cheers, how can Qin Hui be an opponent, and this time he is really sold, and he is still counting the money for others!

"This kid is a masochist, if he changes his life early after returning to China, although he will not be reused, he can also get food and clothing, but it's a pity that he..." According to the bad analysis, he is a masochist who betrayed his personality, and even after returning to the Han region because he was severely devastated in the north, resulting in psychopathology, he still could not restrain himself from serving the abuser faithfully.

"Everyone has their own ambitions, how can they think about it!" Huang Jingchen sighed and said, at his age, he can already see everything, and he has no regrets, what he thought about back then was just to repay the queen mother's kindness and be ordered to raise the young master, who knew that he could now ascend the throne and dominate the world!

"Yes, current events create people, and creation makes people, maybe he is gambling his life on the future and winning a future!" Zhao Ta said with emotion, if Qin Hui hadn't crossed over by himself, with his 'wisdom' and the support of the Jurchens, he might still be the 'celebrity' who was alive and leaned towards the government and the opposition, and left a stench for 10,000 years after his death...

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Entering August, the wind and rain were more victorious, and Zhao Ta also ended his leisurely vacation, although he still stayed in Canglang Pavilion, but it seemed to be more like a war department, and every day there were silver medal-holders' who came to present military information, and the Intelligence Department and the Military Intelligence Department also sent the collected intelligence through their respective channels.

Looking at the documents full of bookcases, I was secretly glad that I brought Zhao Xin, she was not only a competent wife, but also a competent secretary and staff officer, in the early years with the emperor's military life and independent military career, so that she had a wealth of military knowledge and keen eyes, so that she could pick out what Zhao Ta needed from the vast sea of documents, which no one in Zhao Ta's entire military system could match.

"The 20,000 men and horses of the Longyi Army stationed in Xi'an have moved to Taiyuan, and the armies of various states in Shaanxi have also entered combat readiness; The Datong Lion Wing Army has arrived in Guihua Prefecture in the name of protecting autumn, and the government troops of Hedong Road and Hezhong Road have also gathered in Ulzhou, with a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses; The Zhending Tiger Wing Army has already advanced to the vicinity of the Baigou River in Xiongzhou. The border armies of Hebei East Road and West Road entered a state of combat readiness and gathered 50,000 troops near the Jiehe River! Zhao Xin summarized the deployment of troops and informed the officials.

"Order Zhao Yi to suspend the retirement of veterans. But the recruitment and training of new recruits cannot be stopped; Zhao Li was ordered to divide the graduates of the military academies into various departments as soon as possible, and Zhao Yan rushed to the Datong front line to command the armies in a unified manner. Zhao Yong stayed in Zhending to command and coordinate all departments; Zhao Lian led the wolf generals, leopard generals, and the heavy artillery battalions of the 1st and 2nd Artillery Brigades to move to Dengzhou in the name of the exercise, and the other three armies also had to replenish supplies and horses to complete combat preparations; Inform Li Gang and Zong Ze's cabinet to switch to a wartime state, do a good job in receiving the personnel and material storage and distribution of Youyan's state capitals, and fully cooperate with the battle to recover Yanjing! Zhao Ta looked at the map and planted the flags marking the various armies.

"Official, are we going back to Beijing too?" Zhao Xin quickly compiled the official description into a document and handed it to Jianxi to use the seal, and asked after sending it out in the form of an edict.

"No, let's go to Mingzhou in a few days, take a boat and go north to Yingzhou by sea!" Zhao Ta put the handsome flag in Yingzhou's position and said.

"Yingzhou is still in the rear of Yanjing, isn't the purpose of our campaign also to capture Yanjing Mansion? The two-way attack force is enough, and the water army needs to be used! Zhao Xin glanced at the map and asked in surprise.

"Well, we don't just want to recover Yanjing this time. It is also necessary to recapture the twelve states such as You, Ji and so on, eat the entire Wushu group, severely damage the Jin army, and prepare for the capture of Liaodong! Zhao Tan said with a smile, this plan had been agreed on before leaving Beijing, but out of secrecy, it was only known to cabinet members and a few generals who participated in the formulation of the battle plan, so even Zhao Xin only knew that Lu Dao wanted to recover Yanjing, but he didn't know that the scale and scope of the Lu Dao operation was so large.

"The official family is going to seize and control Yuguan with the marines of the water army, first, to prevent reinforcements from the Jin army in Liaodong. The second is to cut off the retreat of the Jin army in the Youyun region, so the wolf and tiger generals who went to Dengzhou will also go to sea by boat? As soon as Zhao Xin heard this, he realized the role of the water army, but he still had doubts.

"The Jin army has heavy troops in Juyong Pass, where there are many mountainous areas that are not conducive to cavalry combat. The prefectures and Jiehe adjacent to Hebei have always been important places for the Jin army to defend and invade our country, and the terrain is changeable, and it is not to use troops, but to attack from the north and south, which is conducive to our army to give full play to its advantages. What happens when we suddenly appear in their backs and stab them in the back? Zhao said with a smile.

"The official family means that the waterway is the main attack, and the other two roads are feints. to attract reinforcements from the Jin army in Yanjing and Pingzhou, and it would be too risky for you to personally command the battle to recover Yanjing. If the other two attacks are unfavorable, the official family will fall into the encirclement! Zhao Xinyan said.

"It's really smart, I also thought of it, but this battle is important, and there are many troops participating in the battle, the attack time is sequential, and it is difficult to contact each other, and the situation is ever-changing, if the situation is transmitted back to Beijing and then disposed of, it will lose the opportunity, I went to Yanjing to facilitate unified dispatch and command, and then we have strong troops and are well-equipped, how can we fail!" Zhao Ta scratched Zhao Xin's nose and said.

"Then I will also go out with the official family and recover Yanjing with you!" Zhao Xin said firmly, although the official family said it easily, but the Youzhou Jin army is not less than 200,000, and the strength is not weak, and they have snatched a large number of military weapons from the Great Song Dynasty, and the equipment has been greatly improved, and it is not a soft persimmon that can be easily pinched.

"Well, it depends!" Zhao Ta said vaguely that although he was full of confidence, there were not a few cases in history where troops equipped with hot weapons were defeated by cold weapons troops. Domestically, some historical books have long emphasized that the Ming Dynasty led the world in firearms technology, and it seems that the Ming Dynasty had the most powerful army in the world, but the fact that the Ming army was vulnerable seriously troubled the Chinese people.

Beginning in the late 16th century, the Ming army actually entered the era of arquebuses and artillery. The Chinese army at that time was by no means the image of "swords, guns, swords, halberds" commonly seen in movies, but similar to the European armies of the Renaissance, with everyone holding muskets and guns and artillery in battle. However, it was such an "advanced" army that suffered a crushing defeat of 100,000 to the 60,000 Houjin army in the Battle of Sarhu.

What's more, in the defense of Liaoshen two years later, with an absolute advantage of 180,000, equipped with countless firearms, and still in the strong city defense, it was actually annihilated by the 60,000 Houjin army, which was dominated by cold weapons. A year later, the 130,000 Ming army was destroyed in the defense of Quang Ninh, and tens of thousands of newly created bird guns, three-eyed guns, Buddha Lang machines, and Hongyi cannons became the enemy's trophies. This series of fiascos was actually lost to a backward and numerically inferior cold-armed army.

Although Qi Jiguang, Sun Chengzong, and others also worked hard to reform the establishment and tactics, and introduced new tactics such as "firearms chariots" and "musket three-stage shooting," they were often difficult to implement in actual combat, and at the same time, there was a serious shortage of generals who had both such tactical skills and skills, and it was impossible to improve and popularize tactics based on feedback from actual combat.

The Ming army, which popularized firearms on a large scale, can be said to be not much stronger than the ancient army, and in fact there is no essential difference from the indigenous tribes that popularize automatic weapons in modern times. That's why Zhao Tacai set up a military academy, trained elite soldiers, and postponed the shameful battle of recovering Yanjing to today, three years later...

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, Woxin first greetings to everyone, thank you for your support, I wish you all a happy Year of the Horse, happiness and peace!! At the same time, please take a few days off, and we'll see you in the next year... (To be continued......)