Zhao Pudao: "Generals, Song is weak and Jin is strong, and the chances of victory in the Northern Expedition are slim, but this time we have to fight, because there is no choice." Strategically, the Jin army is attacking the northwest, and we are indifferent, we cannot form a strong aid to the northwest, and beggar-thy-neighbor and sit back and watch the decline of the northwest will only lead to the collapse of the whole situation! ”

Yue Fei said: "It's just the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, there are not enough cavalry at all, at this moment the cavalry is just more than 20,000, and the combat power is far inferior to the Jin army. ”

Zhao Pu nodded, this is indeed Song Jun's weakness.

The field battle needs cavalry cover the most, but the Song army's cavalry is small in number and poor in quality, and when fighting against the Jin army, it is often three enemies and one enemy, and five enemies and one may not be able to win.

"What does General Yue think?" Zhao Pu asked.

Yue Fei said: "Your Majesty, the Jin army will focus on attacking the northwest, and when the Jin army vigorously attacks the northwest, it will not be too late for our army to dispatch again!" ”

Zhao Pu's heart lit up, and he understood a little.

The generals were not against sending troops, but against being the first to send troops.

The establishment of Liu Yu's puppet state of Qi was, to some extent, a barrier between the Song and Jin dynasties, and the two countries cut off from each other. The Jin army could use the pseudo-Qi to force most of the main forces of the Song army and concentrate the main forces to attack the northwest.

And these generals have no opinion on sending troops to crusade against Liu Yu; It's just that there are some differences in the timing of sending troops, and they feel that when the main force of the Jin army has not yet attacked the northwest on a large scale, it should not be dispatched for the time being, and at least when the main force of the Jin army is mobilized to the northwest in large numbers, when the battle is carried out in the northwest, it is not too late to attack again.

At this time, sending troops in advance is equivalent to attracting the Jin army to attack in advance, and it is possible that the Jin army will give up the northwest strategy and concentrate on the Central Plains to annihilate the main force of the Song army.

Makes sense.

It's just that Zhao Pu still shook his head. The generals only consider it politically, but rarely from the overall situation.

In the Northwest War, after the start of the battle, the dispatch of troops again certainly relieved the pressure on the Eastern Front. It's just that when the troops are sent out, it may be too late. Once the Western Front is lost, once there is an accident in Guanshan, it will be meaningless to achieve another victory on the Eastern Front at that time.

Zhao Pu shook his head. looked at the generals present and said, "Do you know what the purpose of this Northern Expedition is?" ”

"It's for training soldiers and tempering soldiers with bloody battles!"

"In order to combat the arrogance of the pseudo-Qi!"

"To relieve the pressure on the Western Front!"

The generals present said one after another.

Zhao Pu shook his head and said: "These are just one reason, the real reason is to eliminate gold phobia!" ”

The generals present looked at each other. I vaguely understood.

"The battle of Song and Jin is not only a competition of national strength. The army and the people's hearts are competing. It's more about self-confidence. Self-confidence is not everything, but the confident side has a good chance of winning. In the battle of Song and Jin, what our dynasty lacked was not horses, but self-confidence! ”

"Self-confidence is important. It's like the Jin Army, why dare to have 400 iron horsemen to attack thousands of our Korean army. It is because Jin Jun has self-confidence; And why is it that as soon as our army of more than 100,000 people encounters a small setback, it is a big mess and begins to run away, which is a lack of self-confidence...... Training, discipline first; Strong army, actual combat first! Zhao Pu said calmly.

"And the army of my dynasty, what is most lacking is not horses, horses do not have them, I can buy them; It's just that my self-confidence is insufficient, and I can't do anything about it, so I can only be cast in a bloody battle. In fact, this is also normal, the Song and Jin wars and our dynasty lost millions of troops and lost half of the rivers and mountains. It is not only the land and the people that are lost, but also self-confidence. It's useless to talk about it, only bloody battles, only when you have seen blood, and in the end there is no collapse, can you become an army! ”

"In this Northern Expedition, I don't expect you to recover how many cities, nor do you expect to kill many Jin troops, but I just hope to eliminate gold phobia after the First World War!"

"Generals fight to your heart's content! Don't be afraid, don't be scared to death by the Jin army, you'd rather be beaten to death than scared to death. If the generals win, I am here to celebrate your achievements; If you lose, I will accompany you to make a comeback. With the strength of the water division, block the Yangtze River; There are also guards to guard important places along the line, even if they lose, they can keep half of the country stable! ”

At this point, there is no room for it.

This battle has to be fought if it is not fought, and the worst is already prepared.

This time, more than 300,000 troops were dispatched, including 100,000 elite soldiers and 200,000 auxiliary soldiers, who may return with a great defeat or even be wiped out. But Zhao Pu doesn't care, the army that can't fight is a waste of food to keep.

Only a bloody battle can eliminate goldphobia.

In order to eliminate the fear of gold, even if half of the army is wiped out, it is worth it.

As long as you come back from a bloody battle, even if the number is small, it is the fire that extinguishes gold. As long as it is cultivated carefully, sooner or later the fire will become a prairie fire.

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January 7, 1130 A.D.

This day used to be the moment when the Jin army broke through Bianliang, which was the shame of Jingkang and the national shame of the Great Song Dynasty.

On this day, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty wanted to sacrifice his ancestors and go on a northern expedition to pseudo-Qi.

On the streets of Hangzhou, all the people of Hangzhou are waiting for the military parade to be held.

After the expansion, Hangzhou already has a trace of imperial atmosphere, the roads are spacious, the population has increased dramatically, the flowers are blooming, and there has been a vigorous and upward vitality.

Under the command of the Guards, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was going to lead the civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and the mighty horse team passed through Yangzhou City, and after going around the city, they set off towards the outside of the city.

At this time, thousands of people were empty, and the queue to see the excitement was lined up to the suburbs, waiting for the emperor to show up.

At this time, Su Yi, the leader of the secret guard of the Jin Kingdom, also stood in the crowd with a few disguised subordinates, stretching his neck and waiting for Zhao Pu to appear.

Just when he was proud, the neat and loud military song suddenly sounded.

"Arise, you who do not want to be slaves! Full of blood burning, desperate to the death! Destroy the Jurchen Hulu and restore my great Song Dynasty. There is no humility in the princehood, and the marquis is in this time. Use our flesh and blood to forge a new Great Wall, fight against the Jurchens, recover the clouds, and restore our Celestial Empire............"

This is the Song Army Song!

Under the passionate singing, rows of bright soldiers wearing armor appeared, many of them had fought fiercely in Hedong, participated in the defense of Yangzhou, and fought in Xiangyang, all of them were veterans, and they were also the most elite part of the Bazi Army.

The biggest characteristic of these soldiers is that they are young, the oldest is only in their thirties, some are only sixteen or seventeen years old, most of them are from poor backgrounds, on the eve of the Song and Jin Wars, most of them are the lowest level of the people, but after the Song and Jin Wars, they rose rapidly, and their official positions rose rapidly.

In today's troubled times, it is the time to fight, go to the exam to start with a subtle little official, I don't know when I will come out, it is better to be a soldier officer, maybe I can fight for a future.

This is the path to rise from the grassroots!

"These soldiers are elite ......"

Su Yi is an expert in leading soldiers to fight, and he can see at a glance that the thousands of guards soldiers in front of him are the elite of the elite, with a killing aura and an indifferent atmosphere, which makes people feel chills unconsciously when they look at it from a distance. (To be continued......)

PS: Finally finished writing, a little tired. The main thing is the bottleneck of thinking.

The most important thing in a novel is not the plot, not the writing, but the gas.

People breathe a breath, and the Buddha is a stick of incense!

The anger is in the people, and the anger is dead.

This book tries to write about blood, not blood, and passion, not cool.