"The gold thief has already arrived in the city, I don't know what my father has planned?" After chatting for a long time and talking a lot of nonsense, Zhao Pu began to point out his intentions.

As soon as he said the word gold thief, Song Huizong's face subconsciously trembled, a little frightened.

"Some people say they want to negotiate peace, some people say they want to fight, do you say war or peace?" Song Huizong did not answer, but asked.

Zhao Pu was shocked in his heart, this question itself has a trap. If it is peace, the typical capitulation faction spreads out, and its reputation is stinky on the streets; But if you talk about war, you are also looking for death, the main battle faction of the Song Dynasty has always had no good end, Li Gang is tragic, Zong Ze is tragic, Yue Fei is tragic.

"If you want to fight, are we qualified? Tong Guan commanded 200,000 Western Army, which was defeated as if it were devastated: the 300,000 forbidden troops in the capital were all defeated overnight. Now there are only less than 100,000 weak divisions defending the city, and it is very difficult to guard the huge Bianliang and a drop in the bucket. If it is a battle, within ten days, Bianliang will be lost! Zhao Pu said lamentingly, these are facts, no one likes them.

But if these facts are publicized, he will definitely have a bad reputation.

No one likes the capitulationists, especially the Celestial Empire.

Song Huizong listened, his face twitched, and he said gloomily: "It's a pity! These years have been negligent in armament, otherwise the war situation would not be so erosive! The Western Army is the elite division of our dynasty, and it is easy to destroy Fang La, but why is it such a waste when you encounter a gold thief. Those imperial envoys said that Tong Guan was not proficient in battle formations and commanded blindly, but is this really the case? ”

Zhao Pu was upset for Tong Guan here, and said: "Those imperial envoys really don't have a backache when they stand and talk, and their buttocks hurt when they sit and talk." At that time, Lord Tong Guan resisted the attack of Western Xia in Shaanxi, which made Western Xia helpless, not to mention that Lord Tong Guan was incompetent at that time; Lord Tong Guan put down the rebellion of Fang La, why didn't he say that Lord Tong Guan was wasted at that time; Now fighting against the gold thief, Master Tong Guan has failed, but he doesn't know the battle formation, and he commands blindly! Outrageous. Master Tong Guan may be the first general to be defeated by the Jin Army, but it is definitely not the last, and those so-called famous generals will also be defeated by the Jin Army's iron cavalry. The most important thing is that Tong Guan is a eunuch, and eunuchs and Wenchen are natural mortal enemies. What is supported by Tong Guan, Wenchen is resolutely opposed; What Lord Tong Guan opposes, Wenchen resolutely supports, regardless of right or wrong! ”

"In that big defeat, Lord Tong Guan bears important responsibility, but it is too immoral to buckle the basin on the head of Lord Tong Guan!"

In Zhao Pu's opinion, Tong Guan still has the ability, he doesn't have the ability to suppress the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals of the Western Army, and he doesn't have the ability to quell the Fang La rebellion?

Tong Guan's Western Army is not as effective as the Yue Jiajun and Han Jiajun in later generations, but it can also be comparable to Liu Jun and Liu Shiguang. Just because Tong Guan is a eunuch, the eunuch has always been despised, and some of his merits and merits have been unlimitedly shrunk and discredited; And his shortcomings, the stain, are infinitely magnified.

As a result, Liu Jun and his ilk became one of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty; And Tong Guan became one of the six thieves.

In fact, the Jin army is not a paper paste, the Jurchens who rose in the white mountains and black waters are extremely strong in combat, and many Song Dynasty troops have suffered big losses, including the so-called four generals of Zhongxing. Even the most powerful Yue Fei has suffered the defeat of the Jin Army.

It's just that the Chinese need idols, they need the immortal god of war, how can the god of war defeat the battle! As a result, some of Yue Fei's classic battle examples were infinitely promoted, and those defeats were quietly erased at this time.

"If the Jin army attacks the city, it can only hold out for ten days, and after ten days, Bianliang City will be broken. The gap is so big! Then we can only negotiate peace, or even surrender! Song Huizong's face was a little gloomy. He is a faint king, and governing the country is a mess, but it doesn't mean that he is stupid, once the Jin army attacks the city, it may break the city in ten days, which is a bit exaggerated, but it can't last long.

"If the Jin army attacks the city, the city will be broken in ten days, but will the Jin army attack the city?" Zhao Pu said suddenly.

"You said the Jin army would not attack the city!" Song Huizong was puzzled, "You can capture the city in ten days, why don't you attack the city?" ”

"Ten days of intense attack, the Jin army will indeed capture Bianliang, but if it captures Bianliang City, the Jin army will die at least 30,000 people!" Zhao Pu said with a smile: "The Jin army takes the Jurchens as the core, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and there are rumors that the Jurchens are less than 10,000 and invincible. When the Liao State was in power, it had always provoked the Jurchens to kill each other, or exploited the Jurchens, in order to suppress the Jurchens. And when Wanyan and Agu beat the unification of the Jurchen, the strongest is only tens of thousands. In today's heyday, I guess that the Jurchens are only 150,000 people, and most of the others are miscellaneous armies such as Khitans and Bohai people. In order to prevent the counterattack of the Bohai people and the Khitans and suppress the remnants of the Jurchens, the Jurchens had to leave at least 50,000 garrisons in the old land of the Liao State and attack southward, but there were as many as 100,000 troops, and the troops were divided into two routes, attacking and annexing the state all the way, and containing 50,000 Jurchens. This time, the Yellow River directly points to Bianliang, and there are only as many as 50,000! In some small cities can be abandoned, but some strategic places must be heavily defended, and there are only 30,000 Jurchens in the south! ”

"The Jin army that went south to Bianliang this time had a Jurchen army of 30,000, a miscellaneous army composed of more than 40,000 Bohai people, and a Khitan people, which formed the Jin army. Among them, the Jurchen army is the most powerful, charging forward in every battle, and everywhere it goes, it is broken; And the miscellaneous army composed of the Bohai people and the Khitan people is inferior in combat power, and they belong to cannon fodder, and their faces and hearts are not in harmony! When fighting a tailwind war, move forward bravely; Once you encounter a setback, you will not move forward. ”

"The strength of the Jurchens lies in the field battles on the plains, not in the siege of cities. Once the city is attacked, I estimate that at least half of the Jurchen army will die under the city. Such a huge loss is not something that the Jin army can afford at all! ”

"We have a lot of wealth in the Great Song Dynasty, today we have destroyed 100,000 forbidden troops, and tomorrow there will be 100,000 forbidden troops, and the strong reserve soldiers are enough to withstand repeated defeats and heavy losses. But the Jurchens can't do it, they are all those people, and one dies and one is less. ”

"The Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they are invincible, this is the biggest advantage of the Jurchens, but it is also the biggest disadvantage of the Jurchens, the population is too small. Once the loss of as much as 30,000 is broken, it will be broken, and the Bohai people and Khitan people will also be ready to move. Therefore, I think that the Jin army will not attack the city, although it can break through Bianliang City in ten days, but the losses are too heavy to exceed the scope of the Jin army. As long as the Jin army is not a fool, it will not attack the city, at most it will be a symbolic attack, besiege but not attack, extort a lot of money while consuming our army's will to fight! ”

Zhao Pu is not a full-time politician or a full-time debater, and what he said is a bit messy, but he also said the general meaning. When Song Huizong heard this, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, as long as the city was not broken, everything would be fine.

"Don't be careless. The Jin army can't capture Bianliang City, but it can trap Bianliang City to death! Zhao Pu sighed again, "Bianliang City has a population of one million, and the scale of how much grain and vegetables need to be transported from the outside world every day must be amazing, which is Bianliang's Achilles' heel." The Jin army did not have to attack the city, but only needed cavalry to block the grain route of Bianliang, which was short of food sources, and the siege was enough for seven or eight months, which was enough to trap Bianliang City to death. At that time, prices in Bianliang City will inevitably skyrocket, and if some unscrupulous businessmen take the opportunity to raise prices again, the situation will be even worse at that time. ”

"It's amazing that you have that kind of insight." Song Huizong praised and said, "However, you have neglected the treasury of our dynasty. It is said that at the time of Taizong, a capable minister said that Bianliang City has a large population, and the daily consumption of grain is very huge, and there is no barrier of the sixteen states of Youyun, once the Liao army goes south, cutting off the grain route, it can trap Bianliang to death. So the treasury was established, and the treasury stored enough grain for a year! Song Huizong said with a smile.

The Song Dynasty had always had no shortage of smart people, and they were keenly aware of the shortcomings of Bianliang, so they proposed to establish a treasury to store a large amount of grain. The amount of food is huge, enough to support the city of Bianliang, which has a population of one million, for a year. Not at all afraid of besieging the city and starving to death.

This is equivalent to the reserve system of small Japan in later generations, small Japan lacked oil, once the war broke out, cut off the source of oil, then starved to death, so a large amount of food reserves, just in case, not afraid of 10,000, afraid of just in case.

At this point, Zhao Pu is also in awe. It's just that no matter how good the system is, it can't withstand the erosion of corruption.

"Father, why don't you send someone to check it out in person, there must be a huge shortage of grain in the treasury, and some officials are greedy for ink?" Zhao Pu sighed.

The grain stored in the treasury can last for a year, but in his opinion, the grain in the treasury is empty, and it would be good to be able to last for half a year.

Grain reselling from the national treasury is happening from time to time even in the twenty-first century; Moreover, it was the Song Dynasty where corruption was rampant, and it was bound to happen.

Zhao Pu could only pray secretly in his heart that the corrupt officials had some conscience, and that they should not lose too much grain in the treasury.