After the Jin soldiers besieged Taiyuan City, the Song soldiers came to the rescue of Taiyuan. Sun Yi, a famous general in Hedong of the Song Dynasty, led less than 2,000 reinforcements to help, and fought with the Jin soldiers under the city, and the gate of Taiyuan did not dare to open. After several days of fighting, the Song soldiers were wiped out and Sun Yi died. However, the states in Hedong did not stop the rescue, and the second general of Hedong was directing 20,000 troops to aid Taiyuan, with Liu Guangshi, deputy general of the Ma Bu Army on Yanyan Road.

Zhe Keqiu was ready to cross the Tianmen Pass, but Zong Han had already sent troops to guard the pass, so he had to go to Jiaocheng instead, preparing to join forces with Liu Guangshi. Due to the long journey with Liu Guangshi's army, the soldiers were already exhausted, and when they were about to take a rest, the Jin soldiers, who were waiting for work, rushed to help, and the two armies fought fiercely north of the Fen River.

Under the onslaught of the Jurchen iron cavalry, Liu Guangshi's troops collapsed, and he led the army to retreat, rushing to the deep rear, and giving all the flanks of the friendly army to the Jin soldiers. As a result, the Song army made Han Quan, and knew that Jin Ningluo said that he would die, and the soldiers would die seven or eight, and the rescue of Taiyuan failed again. Subsequently, although the Song Dynasty envoy Lu Yundi entered the city to convey the edict of ceding Taiyuan, the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan, like the two towns of Zhongshan and Hejian, rejected this humiliating decree.

Entering April, the Jin Dynasty West Route Army, which had been out of the army for nearly half a year, was increasingly tired and lacked food and grass at this time, Zong Han used the "city lock method" to build heavy fortifications to surround Taiyuan, leaving the general Yinshu to continue to besiege the city, and he led the main force to retreat to the clouds to escape the heat.

After Zong Han returned to the north, Yinshuke swept away the outer prefectures and counties of Taiyuan, and successively captured Wenshui, Xidugu, Qi County, Taigu, and Yu County with partial divisions, and defeated Fan Kui, Shi Xu, and Gao Fengbu, the local troops of the Song army who rescued Taiyuan, and Taiyuan City was still in danger...

Jianxi cautiously walked into the prince's study, which now looked like a combat duty room. Large maps hung on the walls, detailed maps of Hedong were spread out on the floor, and half-human-height dossiers were piled up. The long table was full of information sent by the Intelligence Department and the Military Intelligence Department recently, and the prince slept in the mountains and seas.

"Second master. It's dawn! Seeing Xi, he sighed and gently pushed the prince and said, the prince has been busy all night.

"Oh!" Zhao Ta sat up and rubbed his face and said, "Has the briefing from the Intelligence Department been delivered?" ”

"Second master, not yet, but the envoy of Western Xia is here again!" Seeing that the prince got up, he hurriedly opened the curtains, blew out the candles in the house, and instructed the little yellow doors to wait for the prince to wash.

"No, let them go back." Zhao Ta wiped his face. Rinsed his mouth and said.

"Lord Wang, you still have to see it, we closed the field with Xixia, closed the trade route, and withdrew all the caravans in Xixia, the loss is too great, they are the third batch to send Qinghe, Dongshengzhou, let's also take it back, and the small one is almost the same!" Miki said.

"Hmph. How many benefits have you eaten from them, and you have worked so hard to make peace with them! Zhao Ta looked at it and said with a cold snort.

"Second master, the conscience of heaven and earth, I didn't accept a penny from them this time. You have to trust me! Seeing that Xi was swept by the prince, he felt a cool breeze on the back of his neck, and hurriedly swore an oath.

"Cut. Your words are the same as those of the party, and you are not sure. I've heard that the food in the Guards Brigade is not very good now! Zhao said with a smile.

"Oh?! The little one got it! Seeing Xi's eyes, he turned around for half a circle and understood what the prince meant, and hurriedly said. The matter of the envoy of Nasixia ......"

"See, the matter here is not a matter of silver, there are some things that we can't do no matter how big the loss is, this is a matter of the national body, and we can't give in easily!" Zhao Ta said solemnly.

"Yes, second master, I understand!" Seeing that Xi agreed in a sneering manner, but this time he had a bad relationship with Western Xia, and the prince cut off all business contacts and assistance with them, and there were at least hundreds of thousands of losses in the house, which made Jianxi still a little distressed, and now the prince actually admitted the compensation.

Zhao Ta waved his hand and asked Jianxi to prepare breakfast, he knew very well why Xixia came to the door frequently, but this was not the time to solve it, he had to teach the Xixia people a profound lesson. In fact, Zong Han withdrew from Taiyuan and returned to the clouds, where did he go to escape the summer, but to solve the party people.

At the beginning, in order to smoothly invade the south, the Jurchens resorted to a heavy plan, promising land and land to lure the Tangut people to come to help, hoping that the Xia people could restrain the Song army and make themselves have no worries, and how could the greedy Tangut people let go of this God-given opportunity. But after the Jurchen military progress was too smooth and the Song people were vulnerable, they regretted the promise they had made. So greed met cunning, and the Tangut people thought that their fists were not as hard as the Jurchens, and their arms were not as thick as others, so they had to swallow their anger and admit it.

Li Qianshun and Brother Cha thought that they had made a lot of money, but they didn't expect that they were a black boss, not to mention working for half a day for others, and they were beaten up when they wanted to ask for a salary, and even the original rental house was taken away by the landlord, and they had to quit Xijing in disgrace.

At first, Xixia thought that with the subsidy on this territory, he was doing some business with the Jurchens, and he could leave the relief of the Great Song Dynasty. Fortunately, it was the season of the spring famine, and if he wanted to exchange something for food, Prince Yan not only blocked the door, but also prepared to reopen the trade route to bypass them in Western Xia, and no longer share the huge benefits brought by trade with them.

Now the Western Xia not only has a shortage of food, but also has no salt to eat, so they can only turn to Tibet, but they also took advantage of the fire to rob and offered a high price, which made the Western Xia complain. The courtiers condemned the two brothers for throwing watermelons for sesame seeds, and the people had nothing to eat or drink, and they couldn't even afford to eat salt, so they honestly began to flee with their clans, and those who were not honest were ready to rebel.

The Xixia brothers seem to have been forced to use force again, but they know that as long as Prince Yan is in the northwest for a day, even if he is downtrodden to the point of cultivating the fields, no one in the Western Xia will have the courage to fight him. The only way to do this was to turn to the Hui and the Tibetans to use troops and extort some food from them to survive the famine. But those people are now fighting with Prince Yan, and his caravan has opened a port over there, once the army is used against various countries, an accident will leave an excuse for Prince Yan to find fault.

All roads can't go through, and the Western Xia can only go by asking for help from the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Great Song Dynasty is making a mess of the Jurchen affairs, and no one has time to deal with them, so they can only turn to the 'soil emperor' Prince Yan in the northwest for help, but this time he was offended miserably, King Shu personally came to the door several times and ate the closed door, and today is the same, no time!

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Zhao Ta had breakfast, moved a little for a while, Zhao Yan and Zhao Li had arrived, they came here in the name of 'congratulating the prince's birthday', but this stay has been a month, every day and the prince hid in the study and didn't know what to discuss, anyway, as long as there is no order, no one dares to enter this study.

"Lord Wang, since the edict was issued on March 16, the three-way soldiers and horses who came to aid Taiyuan stopped after a few battles, and now Zong Han has left Taiyuan, leaving only Yinshu Ke and Wanyan Lou Room 20,000 troops, it is a good time to use soldiers, but they are still holding their troops, have they given up!" Zhao Yan looked at the battle report from Taiyuan and asked puzzledly.

"It is said that General Chong recovered some of the lost territory in Hebei and entered Pingding, Shanxi from Jingcheng, Hebei. Yao Gu sent a division from Longde Mansion and Zhang Hao sent a division from Fenzhou, and they went north together, and the three armies relied on each other and supported each other. It should be said that this is a very good military plan, which is enough to deal with the golden soldiers and iron horses! Zhao Li also didn't understand this, the three elite Western armies, so many men and horses, had been out for two months, and they were wandering around so unhurriedly, wasting military salaries and grain and grass in vain, but Taiyuan was living like a year.

"Do you really think that this time the forbidden army will be able to relieve the siege of Taiyuan, don't forget that 'the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible', this sentence!" Zhao Tan said with a smile that due to the defeat of the Krüd Army several times, and the training and equipment of the Loyal Warrior Army were even better than it, so the Loyal Warrior Army inadvertently thought about it from their own perspective, but forgot that the Loyal Warrior Army and the Krüd Army were unique in this world.

"Oh, the prince is right!" Zhao Yan quickly reacted, "Although the Jurchen army is small, they have just defeated the hundred-year-old grassland power Daliao, with many cavalry, strong morale, strong combat effectiveness, and they are good at plain field warfare; However, although our forbidden army was large in number, it had just experienced defeat, the cavalry was scarce, the morale was low, and the combat effectiveness was relatively strong, and it was longer than the city battle, but shorter than the plain field battle. But this time the siege was mainly in the field, and the chances of winning are indeed debatable! ”

"Yes, Zong Han used the 'city lock method' to dig deep trenches on the periphery of Taiyuan City, set up roadblocks, build camps, and encircle the city like an iron bucket, and it is indeed difficult to break through the layers of blockade with a forbidden army that lacks cavalry and is good at defense but not offensive!" Zhao Li said, "If the Jin army only besieges Taiyuan City with one part, and with the advantage that its cavalry is better than mobility, concentrates its forces to attack it all the way, and defeats it one by one, this battle is not optimistic!" ”

"Yes, what worries me is this, the three divisions of the Seed Division, Yao Gu, and Zhang Hao are directly dispatched by the Privy Council, and they are not under their control, so there must be a lack of coordination, and the speed of the march is inevitably fast and slow, which creates fighters for the Jurchens to annihilate one by one, and with the consistent style of the forbidden army, a rout all the way will lead to defeat on all three roads!" Zhao Ta said with a wry smile.

The Great Song Dynasty's distrust of the generals seems to have reached a pathological state, causing them to like to 'mix sand', all the way the soldiers and horses are eager to send him seven or eight commanders, unrelated to each other, four or five soldiers and horses are mixed, let them monitor each other, in case of mutiny, no one can command anyone, leaving the Great Song Dynasty to defeat again and again, but he does not repent, it is really self-inflicted!

"The prince is right, it's been almost two months, the middle part of the seed division went out to Pingding, but Yao and Zhang did not move, and did not follow up in time, the seed department had to return to the division Zhending, in the name of raising salaries, it must also be worried that the lone army will go deep and it will be difficult to deal with it, so it has to come out of this self-protection strategy!" Zhao Yan nodded and said, the ability of the various departments of the loyal and brave army to win many battles is inseparable from the unified dispatch of the prince... (To be continued......)