Expected things rarely happen; Unexpected things happen all the time.

Open the map and look at the offensive route of the Northern Expedition army, and you will find that this Northern Expedition seems to be risky, but in fact it is extremely cautious.

The Eastern Route Army, the Middle Route Army, the West Route Army, etc., the three-way army presented a zigzag shape, attacking the north, and the military distribution was strong at both ends and weak in the middle.

The middle road is the weakest, mainly because Xiangyang is too protruding, and it is a plain area, once Xiangyang is lost, the situation in Hubei and Hunan will be completely eroded, and then Jiangnan will also be shaken.

For the sake of the overall situation, the main force was used to defend the Xiangyang area, and the middle route army sent no more than 30,000 troops, mainly to harass and break the meeting, to attract the attention of the Jin army, and to respond to the attack of other Song troops.

It's just that no one thought that it was originally the weakest first line army, but at this moment, it has achieved a great victory, and more than 10,000 main forces of the golden army have been lost here.

This era is not a later generation, the population is sparse, and the grassland peoples are even more sparsely populated.

The Jurchen clan does not necessarily have a million, less than 200,000 can ride horses to the battlefield, and with the auxiliary army, the national strength is only 500,000.

Under normal circumstances, the standing strength of the Jin Army in the whole country is maintained at about 200,000, which is most conducive to protracted warfare. And this 200,000-strong army is also the foundation of the Jin Army.

As long as these 200,000 troops are destroyed, the Jin army is not far from extinction.

This time, half of the 30,000 army led by Wan Yanchang was cavalry, which was the elite division of the Jin State, and this time it was a fiasco and suffered huge losses.

Such a defeat, fought three or five times in a row, the Jin army was broken; Eight or nine times in a row, it is not far from the death of the country.

This time, the Song army achieved a great victory.

It's just that at this moment, Li Pojun didn't have time to be happy. There was no time to celebrate, but to count the casualties.

Listening to the reported casualty figures, Li Pojun only felt a pain in his heart, after this battle, the middle route army can be said to be broken and suffered heavy losses.

After this battle, the Central Route Army was almost abandoned, and it was impossible to launch an offensive and expand the results of the battle.

Unless reinforcements from Xiangyang are dispatched. There is a new force to join, but with the emperor's cautious temperament, he will not agree at all.

"That's it! Be content! ”

Li Pojun restrained his desire to attack, and he already had the desire to retreat in his heart.

It's just that it's obviously too early to retire at this moment.

So, small units were dispatched. Attacking everywhere, the momentum is huge. A pair is going to attack Bianliang. The recovering of the old capital of the Song Dynasty was secretly, but it began to move the people of Luoyang, and then moved south.

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In the middle route army, the moment of the victory of Luoshui.

Hangzhou is conducting a draft event to add beautiful beauties to His Majesty the Emperor's harem.

And the Jin army mobilized the main force. Attack to the northwest, strive to eliminate the Western Army, and capture Hanzhong and Sichuan in one fell swoop.

And at this time. Under the city of Huai'an, Yue Fei led a large army to confront the Jin army.

After the continuous onslaught, the Song army's attack was very fast, and the fortresses soon fell, and the city of Huai'an was also crumbling, as if it was about to be broken.

At the moment when Huai'an was about to fall, the main force of the Jin army led by Zong Han arrived.

The Song army shrank its forces, and the Jin army stormed.

After a fierce battle, the Jin army suffered heavy losses, leaving countless corpses but not yet breaking through the Song army camp.

Then, Song and Jin began to try to attack again and again, scouts kept fighting, and then small groups of troops clashed, back and forth fierce battles more than a dozen times, each with a victory or defeat, but also tested some details of each other.

And then there was the long standoff!

At this time, in the big tent of the Jin Army, a group of Jin Army generals were discussing fiercely.

"This Song army is not simple!"

"This Song army is not only not simple, it is simply demonic, and its combat power is not inferior to our army! The only deficiency is that there are only fewer cavalry! ”

"It's better to cut off its food!"

"The grain road, hoarded on the small island of Hongze Lake, the Song army's sailors are strong, how can they break through!"

"Why don't you strike! If this confrontation continues, when will it be a head? ”

"Damn it! This Song army is really difficult, it's better to fight, I won't believe it if I wait, and I can't break through the Song army camp! ”

"Marshal strike!"

"Marshal attack, wait any longer, the bird will have faded out of the bird a long time ago!"

The generals of the Jin Army present asked for orders to attack.

"Sortie?" Zong Han stood up and shouted; "Attack! Don't I want to strike? But Yue Fei's kid is not simple, the camp is impenetrable, if our army attacks strongly, it may not be able to break through the camp if it is all dead. wanted to cut off the grain road, the Song army wanted us to cut off the grain road, and at that time it happened to attack from all sides and make dumplings. ”

"I want to lure him out of the city to fight, but this kid is the most slippery, not at all in the field of our army, it is a confrontation in the camp, it seems to want to survive us!"

"This kid is difficult!"

As soon as he thought of the general of the Song Army, who was more than ten years younger than him, Zong Han was so angry.

Yue Fei!

Before the war, he had no idea that there was such a person.

After the war, he didn't take Yue Fei to heart.

However, now that Yue Fei was remembered by him, he hated it so much.

Yue Fei is very young, but the camp he has set up is extremely rigorous and unbreakable, and there is not a trace of loopholes to drill.

The soldiers were extremely cautious, and they wanted to attack the Song army's grain road, but they were calculated several times in a row, and thousands of soldiers were lost.

In front of the camp, he provoked repeatedly, wanting to provoke the Song army and go out of the camp to fight, but Yue Fei turned a deaf ear and seemed to be deaf.

Zong Han used all kinds of means, but it was helpless, the large camp of the Song army stood there, constantly confronting the Jin army, and the big battle was never fought, and it was only a small battle of a few hundred or thousands of people.

It's been two months in a row, and it's still a standoff.

made Zong Han extremely angry, but helpless.

The Song army had a sailor, which could take advantage of the canal to transport grain and grass from the south of the Yangtze River, with less loss along the way; However, the Jin army needed to transport grain and grass from the land, which was large and slow.

Since ancient times, Jiangnan has been a major grain-producing area, with more grain; However, after years of war, the people in the north have long been unable to make a living, and there is a great shortage of grain and grass, and there is not much grain in stock.

It's just that if the confrontation continues like this, the final loser must be the Jin Army.

"Don't know how to break the enemy?" Zong Han said.

"It's better to take a countermeasure!" At this time, a Han adviser said, "During the Qin State, the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, Bai Qi and Lian Po confronted Changping, which was on par, and at that time, the Qin State played a counter-strategy, saying that Lian Po was going to rebel, causing Zhao to change generals and replace Zhao Kuo as a general. Zhao Kuo led the army to advance, but was cut in half by the Qin army, divided and surrounded, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army, and 400,000 Zhao troops were killed! Our army also has to play a counter-strategy! ”

The Han strategist slowly said the plan of the counter-plot.

The anti-intermediary strategy is one of the 36 strategies, which has been used repeatedly and has been successful repeatedly. This plan takes advantage of the distrust of the people's hearts and the speculation of the people's hearts.

And this plan was used on Yue Fei again.

"The Song Dynasty had extremely strict control over the army, and there was no possibility of rebellion at all, and there was no possibility of rebellion with 200,000 troops, mixed people's hearts, and it was impossible to rebel. said that Yue Fei rebelled, no one seems to believe it! It doesn't seem to be feasible! Zong Han shook his head.

The Song Dynasty had extremely strict control over the army, and it was a factional scuffle, so there was no chance of rebellion at all, and the imperial court controlled the grain and grass, and there was no capital for rebellion

The Han strategist said: "The king, the most fearful of the generals rebelling." Saying that the military generals rebelled is the best weapon to kill the generals, and there is no need for clear evidence, Wenchen only needs to say something! ”

Zong Han said: "The emperor of the Song Dynasty entrusted Yue Fei with the great responsibility, how can he not trust it!" ”

The Han strategist said, "You can say it another way, spread the details, rumors that the general of the Song army, Yue Fei, was cowardly, and did not dare to fight against our Jin army, and the rumor was that the emperor of the Song Dynasty would definitely change the generals in battle, even if he did not change the generals, at that time, Yue Fei would inevitably lead the army to attack in order to win the trust of the king, and then the opportunity for our army would come!" ”

Zong Han nodded, his face was full of joy, and he seemed to approve.

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"Marshal, why don't you fight?"

"Raising soldiers for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, how can we wait to be full of food in the big camp all day long and have nothing to do!"

"Does the marshal send troops? So-and-so's bones are already crispy! ”

In the camp of the Song army, the generals were asking for battle, looking excited.

It has been two months since they met, and apart from the small-scale collision, the Song army camp has maintained a standoff, which makes the generals present a little impatient.

"Marshal, the victory of Luoshui has come, Li Pojun has defeated the Marshal of the Jin Army, Wan Yanchang, and he will be able to break through Bianliang in the near future, and we are still sitting here, how can we see people?"

At this time, Deputy Marshal Wang Shouyi spoke.

"Marshal. It's all a war petition! At this time, two guards came into a large basket, and in it were all letters of invitation. (To be continued......)

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