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Li Cun didn't want to care about Yan Zonghan and Yan Zongwang.

Because in Li Cun's mind, the border generals Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and Su Dong will definitely be able to guard the border pass.

Moreover, Li Gang, the warlord of the Yanyun region, is a rare Wenchen of Dong Junjun, and he has no problem with the military administration of the Yanyun region.

The key is that the Yanshan Mountains and the Great Wall on them play a role as a barrier to resist the southward movement of the nomads in the north, and the passes such as Juyong Pass, Shanhaiguan, Songting Pass, Gubeikou, Lengkou, and Xifengkou, which were completely recovered by Li Cun, are guarding several traffic channels through the Yanshan Mountains.

The key point is that Yuwen Huangzhong has already sent back the news that the Jin people are going south this time, mainly to respond to the Zhao Song Dynasty, not to let Li Cun destroy the Zhao Song Dynasty, and then concentrate their firepower on the Jin Kingdom, so they may not necessarily launch too much offensive against the Daqian Dynasty.

Therefore, after weighing it, Li Cun still decided that if you go outside, you must first settle inside.

Of course, the reason why Li Cun decided to pacify the Central Plains region first was also because the Central Plains region was too important.

At the beginning of the chaos in the world, because the Central Plains could be attacked on all sides, the centrifugal force of the collapse of the four sides was enough to tear apart the situation in the Central Plains, and make the Central Plains a turbulent meeting place.

At that stage, the torrent of turmoil was enough to wash away any effort to hold the Central Plains.

In the alternating changes of historical chaos and division, in the stage from governance to chaos and from integration to division, it is often difficult to divide according to the four wars of the Central Plains, and it is often easy to use the dangerous places of the mountains and rivers in the four corners; In the stage of moving from chaos to order and from division to convergence, only those who go out of the four corners to fight for the Central Plains have the opportunity to fight for the world.

At this stage, if you still stick to a corner, it will be difficult to get rid of the situation of partial hegemony after all.

Therefore, in any overall competition, the Central Plains is a place to fight.

Enterprising the world, the Central Plains is the place where it must be taken; Stabilize the world, and the Central Plains is the control center.

Only the Central Plains is the real arena for the champions.

Only the geographical conditions of the Central Plains extending in all directions can obtain the situation of controlling all directions.

Li Cun has now reached the stage where he must get the Central Plains region - if Li Cun can't get the Central Plains region and make his territory be separated by the Central Plains region for a long time, then, sooner or later, one day, Li Cun will have to lose one of his territory, and it may even be possible that both of his territory will have to be lost.

As far as its own geographical situation is concerned, the Central Plains region can be roughly divided into four regions, each of which shows different strategic significance by virtue of different geographical conditions.

These four areas are: the northwest Sanchuan River Valley, the southwest Nanyang Basin, the southeast Huai River upper reach, and the northeast Hanoi region.

Today, the Nanyang Basin in the southwest, the upper reaches of the Huai River in the southeast, and the Hanoi region in the northeast are almost all owned by Li Cun, but the Sanchuan River Valley in the northwest is not completely under Li Cun's control.

This is almost equivalent to saying that Li Cun has worked hard for a long time, and he is just short of this last moment.

Let's ask, in this case, how could Li Cun give up?

Didn't say it.

Li Cun gave Li Gang an order on the one hand, asking them to do a good job of border defense and not to slack off; On the one hand, he gave orders to Zhao Ding, Chen Kangbo and other local officials, asking them to suppress the defeated soldiers, bandits, and rebels in the territory as soon as possible, and at the same time do a good job in disaster relief and spring ploughing; On the one hand, he urged Wu Lan, Zhai Xing, Zhai Jin and others to exterminate the Song army in their war zone as soon as possible.

After Wu Luan, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin received the order, they fought one after another, and successively defeated the Song army of Fan Ne, the Song army of Zhao Ye, and the Song army of Wang Xiang.

Seeing this, Zhao Gou and the others were even more anxious, for fear that the next one to be defeated by the cadre army would be the Generalissimo's Mansion of the World's Soldiers and Horses.

Therefore, Zhao Gou and others have been trying every means to break through the blockade of the cadres and enter the border of Shaanxi.

In order to be able to escape to Shaanxi, Zhao Gou and others even wanted to divert to Hedong, and then cross the Yellow River from Hedong into Shaanxi.

But all the passes in Hedong were firmly guarded by the cadres, and Zhao Gou and them couldn't fight at all.

There was no way, Zhao Gou and they could only enter the west from the Sanchuan River Valley.

But the Sanchuan River Valley blocks mountains on three sides, and the Yellow River in the north is horizontal, which is almost a mountain and river four stops.

Luoyang City is located in the Sanchuan River Valley. Surrounded by mountains, forming a dangerous obstacle; The river flows up and down the perimeter and can be connected with the outside.

Most of the passes around Luoyang are also based on the mountains and rivers of the Sanchuan River Valley: Tongguan rejects its west, and chokes the danger of the letter; The tiger firmly blocked its east, choking the passage between the northern foot of Song Mountain and the Yellow River; Yin Que blocked its south, choking the passage of the Yin River valley between Song Mountain and Bear's Ears Mountain; Mengjin blocked its north and choked the Yellow River crossing; In addition, Guangcheng Pass controls the passage through the Ruhe River Valley, and Yuyuan Pass controls the passage from the direction of the Yinghe River.

Therefore, the Sanchuan River Valley is an important passage between the east and the west, and its position is particularly important in the relationship between the east and the west, and if Zhao Gou wants to go west, it is necessary to open up this important channel.

And Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, and Wang Xiang were actually defeated by Wu Lu, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin when they were fighting this important passage.

Now, Fan Ne and they have completely failed, and it is Zhao Gou's turn to take them.

In Zhao Gou's view, this is no longer a matter of strategy, but a matter of life and death.

Under the threat of death, Zhao Gou changed his previous image of weakness, he reined in the remnants of Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, and Wang Xiang, and personally led the generalissimo's mansion of the world's soldiers and horses to advance to the Luoyang Military Region.

It is worth mentioning that Zong Ze, who experienced the last defeat, rode alone to the mountain of Wang Shan, who was originally active in the Puzhou area, and claimed to be hundreds of thousands of horses, and then persuaded Wang Shan to serve the Zhao and Song dynasties.

In addition, after retreating westward, Zong Ze used his three-inch tongue to recruit Yang Jinbu, a hornless cow who had been active near Luoyang and claimed to be 300,000 horses.

Since then, Zong Ze has supported hundreds of thousands of soldiers, claiming to have millions of soldiers, and the army has a great reputation.

Zhao Gou and Zong Ze joined forces to launch a charge against the cadres in the Luoyang area.

Because the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, Wu Lan, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin were tired of parrying and had to ask Li Cun for help.

Li Cun knew that this was the dying struggle of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and even a dying counterattack, which must be taken seriously.

Therefore, Li Cun was extremely bold and only left 20,000 pro-troops to guard the Gyeonggi region, and sent all the remaining men and horses to Zhao Li, so that he could take them to the Luoyang area to prepare for the final decisive battle with the Zhao and Song dynasties.

But at this time, Du Chong proposed to Zhao Gou: dig the Yellow River to block the reinforcements of the cadre army.

Du Chong is a person who likes fame, is cruel and murderous by nature, but lacks strategy.

During the Shaosheng period, Du Chong was admitted to the Jinshi, and was repeatedly promoted to the examination of Gonglang and Guanglu Shaoqing, and later served as the prefect of Cangzhou.

In the early years of Jingkang, Zhao Huan added Du Chong to the Jiying Palace, and then returned to Cangzhou as the prefect.

At that time, Li Cunhua Song, there were many people who came from Yandi to live in Cangzhou, and Du Chong was worried that they were the internal response of the Daqian Dynasty, so they were all killed, regardless of men, women, and children.

Not long ago, Du Chong served as the guard of the Daimyo's Mansion, boasting that "the handsome ministers must not sit on the throne, and should take the reckless stone as a matter", it seems that Han Xin is the reincarnation, not only can strategize, but also personally lead the troops into battle.

But as soon as Zhao Ding and Wang Yan arrived at the Daimyo's mansion, Du Chong was beaten away by Wang Yan.

Later, Du Chong went to Zhao Gou's Generalissimo Mansion.

Now, Du Chong jumped out and gave Zhao a poisonous plan to dig up the Yellow River.

Whoever thought that Zhao Gou, who wanted to escape for his life, was about to red-eyed, not only did he think that Du Chong's plan was vicious, but also thought that it was a life-saving plan, and immediately sent people to open the embankment of the Yellow River, so that the water of the Yellow River poured into the river, and from the water into the Huai, blocking the necessary place for the cadres and reinforcements.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Gou appointed Zong Ze as the commander-in-chief to attack various passes and fortresses in Luoyang.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Luan, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin went to the front line to command and conduct a decisive battle with the Song army.

Yang Jin, who had just joined the Zhao Song Dynasty, wanted to show himself well in the Zhao Song Dynasty, so he took the lead in attacking the defense area that Zhai Jin was responsible for.

How can Zhai Jin be afraid of a mountain bandit and grass coward?!

When Yang Jin sent hundreds of cavalry across the water to invade Zhai Jin's camp, Zhai Jin took him to attack halfway, chased Yang Jin for dozens of miles, and destroyed Yang Jin's four camps, but in the end, because of the war horse under his crotch, Zhai Jin fell into the trench and was killed by Yang Jin.

Zhai Jin is the first general of the Daqian Dynasty in the Luoyang Theater (although Zhai Xing is the elder brother, his ability is not under Zhai Jin, but because Zhai Jin first voted for the Daqian Dynasty, it has always been Zhai Jin who served as the commander of the Luoyang Theater. Although Wu Lan served as the commander-in-chief of the Hedong Theater, because Wu Lan later reinforced the Luoyang Theater, the major affairs of the Luoyang Theater were actually dominated by Zhai Jin. The key is that the people in the Luoyang Theater have identified Xiao Zhai Xianggong as the chief general of the Luoyang Theater), therefore, Zhai Jin's death is a huge blow to the Luoyang Theater.

The Song army took this opportunity to rush over from Zhai Jin's defense area, and then passed the pass and killed all the way to Tongguan.

After Fan Zhixu, who was guarding Tongguan, learned of this, he personally led an army of 30,000 out of the pass and took Zhao Gou and them into Shaanxi.

By the time Zhao Li led the reinforcements to reach the Luoyang battlefield bypassing the already flooded river, it was too late—at this time, even the Zong Ze Department behind the palace had already retreated to the west of Tongguan.

After getting the report from the front, Li Cun, who had not lost his temper for many years, kicked the dragon eucalyptus out more than two feet away.

But none of this can make Li Cun out of this endless evil breath!

Li Cun immediately turned around and returned to the harem, and then went to the Emo Palace.

After all the scourge of Wei's, Xing Bingyi, Tian Chunluo, Jiang Zuimei, and all the other women in Zhao Gou's palace, Li Cuncai eliminated this infinite evil anger.

But—

Afterwards, Li Cun regretted it very much!

It was Zhao Gou who provoked him, and it was not these innocent women who provoked him, but he took his anger out on these innocent women, which was too wrong.

Moreover, Xing Bingyi ...... again

After reflection, Li Cunfeng Wei and Xing Bingyi were Jieyu, that is, Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei were rewarded by beauties, making them rise a little faster than other women.

This can be regarded as Li Cun's compensation for them.

But then again, although Li Cun reflected, Li Cun still couldn't hold back, and slept in the Emo Hall for three nights in a row.

It can be seen that Li Cun has indeed figured out the truth or something, but he can't control his heart that wants to take revenge on Zhao Gou.

Li Cun issued an order, posthumously gifted Zhai Jin as a lieutenant and an envoy to the Guanghua Army, and appointed Zhai Xing as the commander of the capital of the Luoyang Military Region, and rewarded 20 children of the Zhai family in a row.

In addition, Li Cun also used Wu Ling and Zhao Li's ineffective rescue as an excuse to demote the two of them by one level, let them make meritorious contributions, break through Tongguan, wave their troops to the west, and recover the Sixth Road in Shaanxi.

Who would have thought, as soon as Li Cun's order was issued, Li Gang played, and after speaking, Yan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang had officially begun to knock on the pass, among which the Wanyan Zongwang Department that attacked Songting Pass, to be precise, the Goryeo army of its department, the offensive was quite fierce, and they rushed to the pass several times.

The good news is that so far, both Songting Pass and Yehuling have been held very steadily, and the Jin people have not been able to attack the pass so easily.

The bad news is that the Jin people don't seem to be attacking sheep, but they really want to kill the pass.

Li Gang asked Li Cun to send a support army as a reserve, just in case.

As a last resort, Li Cun could only transfer Yang Zaixing's troops and Yao Xing's troops to the north.

But the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat was late and encountered a head wind.

At this time, southeastern Henan, southwestern Shandong, Anhui, northern Jiangsu and other places all reported to the imperial court that their places had been hit by catastrophic floods.

According to a quick count, more than 200,000 people have drowned in these areas, and the deaths caused by displacement and plague have been several times greater, and the Lianghuai region, which should have been the richest and most prosperous, has been destroyed, and nearly 10 million people have been left homeless and reduced to refugees.

After Tang Ke learned of this, he also gave Li Cun a recital, reminding Li Cun: "The river breaks the inner yellow, and then diverts the north to flow, and the embankment is strong in the south and weak in the north." Once the river breaks through the south, it will go all out to quickly block it. Otherwise, in the long run, the terrain on both sides of the strait will be high in the north and low in the south. Once the south embankment bursts, the water is fierce, and the state is invaded and the city is forced. When the flood season occurs, the disaster will definitely be heavier, and the losses will definitely be greater. In addition, the Yellow River flows north and floods northward, and merges with the Haihe River, and the disasters of the two rivers are superimposed. The Yellow River flows south and the south pan, and the Huanghuai River merges, and the two river basins are only afraid of being wiped out. ”

Li Cun didn't understand much about what Tang Ke said, but he clearly understood that he had to hurry up and control the Yellow River, otherwise when the flood season came, it would be a big trouble.

To be honest, Li Cunzhen is unwilling to control this broken Yellow River.

The three emperors of the Zhao and Song dynasties, Song Renzong, Song Shenzong and Song Zhezong, all diverted the Yellow River according to Li Chui's "Book of Guiding the River in the Shape of Sheng", causing large areas such as Shandong, Jiangsu, and Henan to become flooded areas, barren fields, and displaced people.

In order to clean up this mess, the Zhao and Song dynasties had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources every year to manage the Yellow River and provide disaster relief.

This directly increased the already heavy financial burden of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

It can be said that the fury of the Yellow River caused by the "Three Easy Returns to the River" in history directly destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin State took over the Yellow River Valley.

In the face of the depressed Hebei and the flood-ravaged Yellow Flood area, the Jin people are also very big.

Let's put it this way, this hot potato caused the Jin Dynasty government to invest a lot of manpower and material resources every year, and in the decades from Jin Shizong to Jin Zhangzong, the Jin Dynasty suffered countless floods of the Yellow River, and each time the Yellow River flooded caused the Jin Dynasty government to be anxious.

It was not until the end of the Jin Dynasty that the Yellow River problem was resolved to a certain extent.

According to historical records, the Jin State sent 8.7 million people to solve the Yellow River problem at that time.

You must know that the total population of Jin at that time was only 56 million.

This is almost equivalent to the prime of the Jin State's manpower to fight against the Yellow River.

Later, Mongolia rose in the steppe.

Soon, the Mongols moved south, and the Jin dynasty fell.

There were many factors that led to the fall of the Jin Dynasty, but the issue of the Yellow River was undoubtedly one of the most important ones.

From this, it can also be said that Li Chui's plan to divert the Yellow River avenged the destruction of the country for the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the Yuan dynasty replaced the Jin dynasty in ruling the Yellow River, this issue remained unresolved.

From the founding of the Yuan Dynasty to its demise, the Yellow River issue was the number one issue that plagued the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River flooded, and Emperor Yuan Shun forcibly recruited millions of people to govern the Yellow River.

This led directly to a peasant uprising.

That is, the so-called "one eye of the Mo Dao stone people, instigating the Yellow River to rebel in the world".

Yuan Dynasty pawn.

From the publication of the "Daohe Xingsheng Book" to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were more than 300 years.

During these more than 300 years, the Yellow River destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty.

This is a veritable "artifact of national destruction"!

In the face of such a fierce "artifact of destroying the country", it is as strong as Li Cun, and he is unwilling to provoke, or even dare not provoke - Li Cun is really afraid that the Yellow River will destroy his own Daqian Dynasty.

However, in the past 80 years since the Yellow River was diverted, there have been 33 overflows, a total of 55 times, and the average flood is once every 2.4 years.

And this is the data after governance.

Otherwise, the Yellow River must have flare-up every year, and several times a year.

This really can't be tolerated by Li Cun.

What's more, Zhao Gou was a fool and broke the Yellow River, which made the problem of the Yellow River even more serious.

There was no way, Li Cun could only squeeze out one word from between his teeth: Treat!

Subsequently, Li Cun issued a holy decree appointing Tang Ke as the head of the river, with full responsibility for recruiting displaced people through work-for-relief, mobilizing half of the financial and human resources of the Daqian Dynasty, and rationally governing the Yellow River......

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