At the same time that Zhao Ta was dispatching troops in Yingzhou, Zong Han, the capital of the Jin army on the Western Road, ordered the troops in Quanbo to be transferred to Fengshengzhou, while Tong Guan ordered Ma Kuo and Xin Xingzong to bring military envoys to Zong Han to negotiate, asking them to hand over the affairs of Ulzhou, and by the way, to find out whether the Jin army really had any intention of invading the south.

Before Tong Guanxing, he instructed Ma Kuo to lower his posture when he arrived at the Jin army, not to dwell on the details of the etiquette, and showed his hole cards, and only negotiated with them to deliver the two counties of Flying Fox and Lingqiu, and the rest of the places could be ceded to the Jin State. At this time, he still had the illusion of recovering the lost territory by mouth, and he did not make any preparations militarily!

"Zong Han's Western Route Army has gathered nearly 100,000 people in Fengsheng Prefecture, and their intentions are very obvious, and the target of their attack is the Hedong region and the Xijing region on the other." Zhao Ta pointed to the large map hanging on the wall and said, "Now the intelligence shows that the Jin Army's target is more focused on the Hedong region, but we are also facing tremendous pressure in Xijing, especially in Tiancheng County and Hongzhou in Xijing Prefecture and Shuozhou and Yingzhou!" ”

"Lord Wang, how can you tell that their target is Hedong? Maybe Zong Han wants to avenge the defeat of Aguta's pro-conquest, if we concentrate our forces on the east road, but the Jin army attacks Xijing from the north, the troops in Yuanzhou and Dezhou are weak, once the reinforcements are not in time, Xijing will be passive! Zhao Yong said.

"Yes, Lord Wang, there is only one brigade and one garrison brigade in Texas, but we have to shoulder the defense task of a hundred miles wide in the front, and although there are more than 20,000 people under Yelu Yuchen, we also have to guard against the Xia army in Dongshengzhou and the Jin army in Yunnei, and the second brigade in Shuozhou has all been transferred to Yingzhou, where there are only a few thousand state troops. No matter where the Jurchens break through, the most threatened is Shuozhou! Zhang Pu, commander of the second brigade of the Krup Army, said.

"I agree with the judgment of the prince. Now the Jin army is in a position of attacking from the east and the west, and it is not difficult to see that the Jin army launched this southern invasion campaign with the goal of our Great Song Dynasty Bianjing. It is precisely because of the failure of the Aguda pro-conquest. Zong Hancai will not choose the southbound route of Xijingcheng, but take the shortcut of Ulzhou. It is also possible to use Hengshan in Ulzhou as a barrier to cover his flanks and avoid our attacks, of course, it is not ruled out that Zong Han will send a partial division to attack and harass our Xijing Prefectures in order to contain our army, so that he can rest assured that he will go south to attack Yingzhou, and then invade Hedong! Zhao Xin said.

"If we preemptively occupy Ulju and control the various mountain valleys, will we be able to stop the Zonghan tribe from moving south?" Zhao Yong suggested that if he controlled the pass, he would only need a small number of troops to defend it and defend it with danger, so as to block an enemy several times his size. This is the most troop-saving way to do this, and most of the troop can be used in other theaters.

"It's too late now, Sticky Han has ordered the Chang Sheng Army who defected from the Jin State in Longde Mansion to send troops to Fanzhi County in Wutai Mountain, and the Chang Sheng Army who defected from Yizhou and other troops to go out of Feihu and Lingqiu counties, and rush to the border to listen to the reality of my preparation for the border." Zhao Ta said that it is difficult to transmit information at this time, and when the intelligence officers in Ulzhou crossed the mountains and mountains to send the information, the enemy army had already arrived.

"Then what does Lord Chen Bing Hun Yuan mean?" Zhao Yong asked, since the prince already knew that the road and the valley were all controlled by the enemy. Then the situation has been reversed, and it will not be easy to capture the pass again, so what is the point of mobilizing military forces here?

"The problem now is that we can't accurately judge which of the two teams of the enemy army going south is the main force and which is the partial division!" Zhao did not answer Zhao Yong's question. Stood up and walked back to the map and said, "From Ulzhou, take Lingqiu to attack Fanzhi, then attack Daizhou, and then go south to Taiyuan." This road seems to be smooth, but it is necessary to capture the two passes of Bottle Village and Yanmen Pass; It seems difficult to take the road of Xijing. But they could bypass Xijing City to avoid attacking the fortified positions and go south along the Sanggan River. Take Yingzhou to the south, there is no danger along the way, but until the city of Taiyuan. It depends on whether Jin Jun thinks that Yanmen is better, or Yingzhou is easy to attack! ”

"If I take the line of the Sanggan River, it is now a harsh winter, the river valley is dry, and even where there is water, it has frozen, and there is no problem for people and horses to pass, but it will take a little effort to cross the Yanmen, there are tens of thousands of righteous victorious troops there, even if they only defend and do not attack, they can be stopped!" Li Lei, commander of the third brigade of the Krup Army, said.

"Well, now the Jin army only sent those troops out of Lingqiu to explore the road, which also shows that they are not sure that they can take Yanmen Pass, so the main force may send troops from Fengshengzhou, our army does not know the situation, and will definitely shrink its forces to defend Xijing City with all its might, but they have a false shot to bypass Xijing City and divert to the Sanggan River Valley to go south quickly, although there are Jincheng, Heyin, and Mayi on the road, but the Jin army is strong, can be attacked and surrounded, and it is not as good as Yanmen!" Zhang Pu said.

The prince's words made everyone suddenly, and they concentrated their troops in Hunyuan, and went north to the Sanggan River to cut off the route of the Jin army to the south and reinforce Xijing; If the situation permits, you can go to Hedong to threaten the flank of the Jin army and copy its rear road; Even if necessary, he was able to storm Ulzhou, control the Jin army's southward pass, and trap the Jin army in Hedong.

"It is a foregone conclusion that the Jin army will attack the Song Dynasty in the south, and our use of troops in Xijing this time is aimed at resisting and consuming the strength of the Jurchens, giving Hedong and even Taiyuan time to prepare for war, and then duel with the Jurchens under the city of Taiyuan!" Zhao said.

At present, there are still many people in the court who fantasize about the relationship between Song and Jin, just like the relationship between Song and Liao in the past, and use the old coins and silver to buy a border peace from the Jin State, but the Jurchens made full use of this psychology of the imperial court, and sent envoys to the Song Dynasty from the left and the right, nominally to celebrate the major victory of cooperation between the two countries and celebrate the birthday of the Song Emperor, but in fact they sent envoys to secretly inspect the mountains and rivers of the Song Dynasty. On the other hand, it was also to create the illusion that the Jin State was willing to maintain the status quo with the Song Dynasty, paralyze the Song Dynasty, and prepare for the southern invasion. What Zhao Ta can do in Xijing is to give them a wake-up call!

This operation set the tone, and everyone formulated operational plans and assigned combat tasks around the possible future war, and of course it was inconvenient for the prince to come forward, with Zhao Yong as the commander in charge, Zhao Xin as the deputy marshal to assist Zhao Yong, and the infantry of a brigade of the loyal army brought by the prince was also assigned to them to fight, and the prince's guard brigade was still serving as a reserve.

The plan has been decided, it has come to dinner, needless to say, it is a big family to eat the prince. Of course, in order to celebrate the prince's marriage to the 'second room', it is indispensable to add food and wine, and Zhao Xin also has to do the friendship of the landlord as a bride, and 'borrow' some money from the prince to generously buy cattle and sheep to reward the old subordinates and the generals of the loyal army. Xiao Bisheng is newly married, after being full of wine and food, of course the prince will not let Zhao Xin go back to the camp, and he can't wait for everyone to say goodbye and can't wait to take his wife to take a mandarin duck bath...

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Tong Guan was disturbed by the news collected every day, all kinds of signs indicate that the Jurchens have a large number of soldiers, and they are definitely not going to carry out a joint military exercise with the Song people on the border, Tong Gonggong's duty is to ask for the abolition of the garrisons in Hebei is still in his ears, and it will be the Jurchen southern invasion soon, isn't this deliberately convenient for others? So he sent Ma Kuo and Xin Xingzong to the Sticky Han army again, hoping that they could make Sticky Han not invade south through their own efforts. Otherwise, the official family will be held responsible, and although Tong Guan is already the king of the county, he is afraid that he will not be able to escape the punishment.

Ma Kuozhi Lu Dao Sticky Han has always been a hard-line figure representative who opposes the cession of Yanjing's land, in order to achieve the goal, he did not hesitate to compliment Sticky Han against his will, but he still refused to change his mind, he had to retreat and beg to show the hole card given to him by Tong Guan - only delivery of Flying Fox and Lingqiu County, as for other places, the Song people have taken the initiative to give up, expressing remorse, if they agree, they will inform an exact delivery time, and if they have any personal needs in the future, they will try their best to meet them, but the result is still in vain!

And just when Ma Kuo was still grinding with Zong Han, the people of the East Road led by Han Libu set out from Pingzhou to attack Qingzhou first, and had captured Lanzhou on November 26, and on the 28th, the Jin army went down to Jizhou. On December 2, Guo Yaoshi went to Yanshan Mansion to ask Cai Jing whether he could attack the Jin army, but Cai Jing asked Chang Sheng's army to continue to camp in the eastern suburbs of Yanshan Mansion, and only asked him to send Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren troops to attack the Jin army. When Ma Kuoyu returned to Taiyuan Xuanfu Division, it was not known that the Jin army led by Han Libu had captured a large area of Yanshan.

Ma Kuo reported the results of the negotiations to Tong Guan, saying that at present, it seems that the southern invasion of the Jin army is almost a foregone conclusion, and Tong Guan was shocked when he heard it! Three days later, Zong Han sent Wang Jieru and Sa Lumu to envoy Taiyuan Xuanfu Division, but what they sent was the most unfortunate ultimatum. After they saw Tong Guan, they clearly informed the other countries with an extremely arrogant attitude that they had decided to use troops against the Song Dynasty.

Tong Guan still had illusions, and kindly asked why Jin Guo had to use force, saying that he could talk about anything. Wang Jieru gave the Song Dynasty an unacceptable condition, 'ceding the land of Hedong and Hebei roads, with the Yellow River as the boundary', so that the troops could be dismissed and repaired...

The reality is cruel, in fact, on the same day that the golden envoy entered Taiyuan, Zong Han had already raised troops and led the army south, and the envoy was just to cover people's eyes. Tong Guan, who was unprepared for the war, could imagine his appearance after learning the news, and while urgently ordering Ma Kuo to draft a recital overnight, he was already preparing to escape from the dangerous city.

On the seventh day, Tong Guan invited Zhang Xiaochun, the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, to discuss the matter together. It is better to say that it is a matter of deliberation, and he actually left the garrison in the name of personally reporting the situation on the front line to the imperial court, but pushed the responsibility of defending the territory to Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan. Everyone persuaded Tong Guan to stay in Taiyuan, but in exchange for a reprimand, Tong Guan actually said that he was just a propaganda envoy, not a local minister, and the responsibility of the local garrison was the local official!

Zhang Xiaochun didn't expect Tong Guan to be so afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and when things happened like this, he laughed angrily and ridiculed Tong Guan in front of everyone, saying that he was defending Taiyuan, the city was in me, and the city was broken, and I died... (To be continued......)