With the order of the imperial court, the war machine of the Great Song Dynasty began to be activated.

Today's Great Song Dynasty has undergone continuous changes, and it has long been no longer as old as before, coupled with the sufficient treasury of the Great Song Dynasty, a large number of material people began to be mobilized to the northwest with an order.

At the same time, the Privy Council began to implement the development of a battle plan!

"Enlighten the official family! The Privy Council had already drawn up a plan to attack the Xia, but combined with the imperial court's intelligence on Western Xia. I'm afraid this battle is quite dangerous! ”

In the vertical arch hall, the privy envoy Zeng Bu frowned.

"Why?" Zhao Xu frowned.

He was immersed in the dream of destroying Western Xia, recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, and dominating the world, but Zeng Bu's words poured cold water on him.

In the past, the Great Song Dynasty was in internal and external difficulties, and the Liao State was blocking it, but the Great Song Dynasty was not able to destroy the Western Xia, and now the Great Song Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, and it can't even destroy the Western Xia?

"Fan is about to lead troops to destroy Western Xia!"

"What?"

But Zhao Xu glanced at Fan Zheng solemnly, with his understanding of Fan Zheng, he knew that Fan Zheng would definitely not be untrustworthy, besides, Fan Zheng had accumulated enough credit, there was no need to lie because of this!

"Message, this time to attack the Western Xia battle, Fan Zheng is the commander!" Zhao Xu said with a final word.

Suddenly, the entire vertical arch hall fell silent.

The three prime ministers nodded slightly, the reason why they supported Fan Zheng was because the official family was unstable on the one hand, and they needed to use the ambition of dominating the world to make the official family wake up from the beauty, and on the other hand, the Western Xia was the first battle of the Great Song Dynasty to dominate the world.

Fan Chunli said angrily: "Even if these are all smooth, you led the army to Xingqing Mansion smoothly, but Xingqing Mansion has already been solid after a hundred years of operation in Western Xia, and the Song army has been fighting hard day and night for eighteen days and failed to capture Xingqing Mansion, how can you be confident that you can capture Xingqing Mansion, you are not afraid that the Great Song Dynasty will repeat the incident of Pingxia City." ”

"Ahh

However, everyone knows what is going on with Fan Zheng's 200,000 army, they are just some rabble, sweeping across the entire Dali like locusts, and there is no military law at all!

Zeng Bu said in a condensed voice: "Qiqi official, although the strength of the Great Song Dynasty has increased greatly, but the Western Xia is also brave and good at fighting, with hundreds of thousands of domestic troops, our army is on an expedition, and the Western Xia is waiting for work, and there is a city wall to block, our army does not have much advantage." ”

The other ministers also listened attentively, and they were naturally very interested in the evil formula of breaking through the capital of a country in World War I.

As soon as Fan Zheng said this, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were all cheeky.

As Fan Zheng said, although the Western Xia has become stronger now, it is only the smaller Great Song Dynasty, and the overall strength of the Great Song Dynasty is still above the Western Xia, not to mention that the Great Song Dynasty will recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the future, and the Western Xia is imperative in this battle, and it must be won.

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Fan Zheng frowned, this method was the method of destroying Xia by Mongolia in the previous life, but this method took a long time, and now that the Liao State has not been destroyed, once the Liao State continues to assist the Western Xia, it will definitely make Song Xia fall into a war of attrition again.

Fan Zheng retorted: "What about being young? Back then, Huo Qubing was able to defeat the Huns at the age of eighteen, and besides, it was not that Xia Guan had not commanded soldiers and horses! ”

At this moment, Fan Zheng suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "Qiqi official, the minister asks for orders to lead the troops and destroy Western Xia!" ”

The other ministers also stared at Fan Zheng deadly, thinking that they had just heard it wrong.

And now that Western Xia has the earth-shattering thunder, and with the advantage of the city wall, coupled with the divine arm crossbow and cold forging armor, it is simply a miniature version of the Great Song Dynasty, which is as tricky as a hedgehog.

The reason why the Great Song Dynasty won consecutive battles was that the greatest credit was the earth-shaking thunder, and the country it attacked was a country without sky-shaking thunder.

The other hundred officials also sank in their hearts, which was also the reason why they were worried, with the earth-shattering thunder, the loss of attacking the city was too great.

The Manchu monarchs and ministers were still thinking hard about countermeasures, when they suddenly heard an unbelievable voice.

Suddenly there was an uproar, no one thought that Fan Zheng would pin his hope of breaking through Xingqing Mansion on his evil side!

"It's nonsense, Xingqing Mansion is not Dali City, which is backed by Cangshan Mountain, and its plains on all sides have no tricks at all, so they can only attack it!" Zeng Bu rebuked angrily.

There is also the main army that has surrounded the Western Xia royal family, but the generals are contradictory, and the Yellow River canal water was released by the Western Xia, flooding the Song army, so that the Song army suffered heavy losses, and finally returned with a heavy defeat.

Fan Zheng couldn't help sneering when he saw this, when he proposed a big roundabout war, it was to start with Western Xia, but what was the situation of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, it is not an exaggeration to say that the wind and rain are shaking, not to mention that there is still the Liao State on the side.

"This battle is indeed quite risky!"

But no one can deny that Fan Zheng does have the legendary experience of supporting 200,000 soldiers!

Suddenly, Fan Zheng's voice resounded throughout the audience!

However, before Fan Zheng could speak, Zeng Bu had already objected: "This method is not possible, the Great Song Dynasty spends too much money every time it sends troops, and if it fights against Western Xia for a long time, it will inevitably ruin the great situation of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Now the Great Song Dynasty has adopted a great detour strategy, although it has captured a large amount of territory, but it has given the Western Xia and Liao States a chance to breathe."

"Fight down!"

Fan Zheng sneered: "Since everyone thinks that Western Xia is getting stronger, can it be that the Great Song Dynasty will sit idly by and wait until the future to raise tigers?" ”

Fan Zhengxia said proudly: "Today is different from the past, the Great Song Dynasty faced the threat of Liaoxia back then, and now the Liao State has Jurchens on the side, and there is no time to take care of the Western Xia, even if the Western Xia is strong, but the overall strength is still weaker than the Great Song Dynasty, if the Western Xia can't be destroyed one-on-one, then how can the Great Song Dynasty recover the sixteen states of Yanyun!" ”

Unexpectedly, the first person to oppose was Fan Zheng's father, Fan Chunli!

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "The strongest weapon in Western Xia now is the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, and the Heaven-Shaking Thunder was created by the lower officials, and I am the one who knows firearms the most in the world!" Xia Guan's expedition will definitely be able to restrain the gunpowder weapons of Western Xia! ”

Hearing Fan Zheng use the word Xia Guan again, the green tendons on Fan Chunli's forehead burst out.

"You are so young, how can you lead an army!" Fan Chunli snorted coldly.

When Fan Zheng went out to Dali, it was indeed 10,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 soldiers at the beginning, but when the army arrived at Dali, Fan Zheng's soldiers and horses were as high as 200,000, sweeping the entire Dali country.

However, Fan Zheng said word by word: "Weichen said, as long as my Song army arrives at Xingqing Mansion, the minister has one side, and Xingqing Mansion can be like Dali City, and fight down!" ”

In Fan Zheng's view, it is precisely because the Western Xia has become stronger that the Great Song Dynasty will fight this battle again, otherwise in the future, the Western Xia will grow stronger and will definitely pounce on it again like a wolf, and at that time, the losses suffered by the Great Song Dynasty will be even greater.

"Looking at it from below, the Western Xia must fight, it is better to attack in all directions and plunder the cattle and sheep population of the Western Xia, so that with only a few battles, the Western Xia can be completely decayed, and even force the Western Xia to return to the Great Song Dynasty!" Yang Wei offered a strategy, which immediately attracted the support of many old parties.

This is not that Fan Zheng is arrogant because of the evil side, but that there are many people in the court, and if it is leaked, it will not be beautiful, besides, no one dares to guarantee that the shame of Jingkang in his previous life will not be repeated, he wants to accumulate more credit and firmly control the general trend.

At the beginning, he was robbed of the power of destroying the country by Fan Zheng with the evil formula, and now Fan Zheng has repeated his old tricks, claiming that he can use the evil method to break through Xingqing Mansion in one battle!

"Yuanfeng Wulu Xia fiasco!"

"Evil Recipe!"

The hearts of many ministers sank, now that Western Xia is already a monolith, and there are more benefits of earth-shattering thunder and city walls, the possibility of the Great Song Dynasty wanting to destroy Xia in a short time is too small.

"At the same time, Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia, is also a British lord, and during his reign, he changed the law and reformed the law to unify all the forces of the Western Xia, which is really a force of all parties, and now the Western Xia has greatly increased its national strength, and it is also not what it used to be."

In addition to worrying about Fan Zheng's safety, Fan Chunli was also worried that Fan Zheng had messed up the destruction of Western Xia, after all, the opportunity in front of him was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"Fan Mou leads the troops, you can follow the master system, recruit some military advisors who are proficient in military affairs, form a military division group, and three stinkers have beaten Zhuge Liang, so not only can you easily handle military affairs, but also check and fill in the gaps to avoid the lesson of the last Yuanfeng five-way summer fiasco again!"

Although everyone knows that this battle must be fought, they are not optimistic about the situation of the war at all.

Moreover, without the elimination of Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty would simply not be able to deal with the Liao State wholeheartedly, and even the more powerful Jurchens in the future.

However, Fan Zheng looked at the ministers, shook his head and said: "The law does not pass on the six ears, this law is related to the final success or failure of the Great Song Dynasty's battle to destroy Xia, there must be no negligence, please keep it secret for the time being!" ”

However, this time is different from usual, Xixia is the old enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, the famous generals of the Great Song Dynasty are helpless against the Western Xia, how dare Fan Zheng destroy the Western Xia at a young age!

"No! The destruction of Western Xia is a major event of the country, how can it be easy to talk about it on paper! ”

The other ministers also glanced at Fan Chunli suspiciously, the father and son sang and harmonized, how could they be playing a double reed.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said, "No! Yes, 200,000 soldiers! ”

I think that back then, with the support of the Liao State, the Western Xia continued to attack the Great Song Dynasty, causing heavy losses to the Great Song Dynasty, declining day by day, and the three redundancies becoming more and more serious.

However, Zeng Bu said again: "Even if the Jurchens have the assistance of the Great Song Dynasty, it is unknown whether they will contribute to the work, or even if they oppose the Liao, how long they can hold out, according to the deduction of the Privy Council, the Jurchens contain the Liao State for half a year at most, and the Great Song Dynasty wants to destroy the Western Xia in such a short period of time. ”

"The minister is willing to make a military order!" Fan Zheng said solemnly to Zhao Xu.

Fan Chunli sneered: "Who doesn't know what's going on with your 200,000 soldiers and horses, even the people in charge of escorting grain and grass in the Great Song Dynasty are not as good!" Impeachment Command Operations! ”

Fan Zheng was born as a doctor, but he made great achievements in the army, and Fan Zheng's achievements were all in the two battles of Pingxia City, and he formulated a big detour strategy, not to mention participating in the battle of destroying Dali.

At the beginning, under the Pingxia City, the Great Song Dynasty used the Pingxia City built in a short period of time, and with the help of the earth-shaking thunder, 300,000 Xia troops could return, and today's Xingqing Mansion is far better than the original Pingxia City in terms of city walls, manpower, and even earth-shaking thunder, how did the Song army break through such a majestic city.

Many courtiers regretted it in their hearts, and even pointed the finger at Fan Zheng's great detour strategy, which was Fan Zheng's proposal to go south to fight in a roundabout way, so that the Great Song Dynasty missed the opportunity to recover Western Xia.

Fan Chunli couldn't help but look embarrassed, he originally wanted to oppose Fan Zheng leading troops to the battle, but after arguing with Fan Zheng mercilessly, he found that Fan Zheng had cleared all the obstacles to his expedition!

"Moreover, Xixia has already created a heaven-shaking thunder, plus Xixia has a divine arm crossbow and cold forging armor. Once the Great Song Dynasty attacked Western Xia, Western Xia would probably suffer heavy losses with the help of earth-shaking thunder and city walls! ”

The ministers couldn't help but be stunned, frowning and looking at Fan Zheng.

"I just made a mistake in the Great Roundabout strategy, the Great Song Dynasty should have taken advantage of the two great victories in Pingxia City to completely destroy the Western Xia with the help of gunpowder.!"

"Rebel, don't talk nonsense!" Fan Chunli gritted his teeth.

"It's just 10,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 soldiers!" Fan Chunli said disdainfully.

When the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of the Western Xia was in power, the harem was in power, the lord Shaoguo was suspicious, Song Shenzong decided to destroy the Western Xia once and for all, and the Great Song Dynasty Five-Way Army set off, which could be described as smooth sailing along the way, but it was lured by the Song army to go deeper, but the supply of military food was not continued, and it was snowing heavily, and the soldiers were greatly damaged.

Zhao Xu was suddenly solemn, and at this moment the ministers finally understood that Fan Zheng did not speak wildly.

"Earthquake Thunder!"

"What did Fan Taicheng just say?" Zhao Xu stared at Fan Zhengdao deadly.

Although the ministers couldn't help but doubt that there was any evil recipe in this world that could easily break through the capital of a country, there was a precedent for Fan Zheng to cross Cangshan and break the capital of Dali in a war, which couldn't help but make Fan Zheng's words a little more convincing!

"I don't know what the evil recipe is?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but say in his heart.

The people who are in the court are all veterans of several dynasties, and they naturally know the lesson of the last defeat in the Western Xia, when it was still the Yuanfeng period of Song Shenzong.

If the Great Song Dynasty really had a group of military divisions who were proficient in military affairs as Fan Zheng said, they would definitely be able to detect the Xia army's flooding plan in advance, and perhaps they would be able to destroy Xia at that time.

The hearts of many officials sank.

Fan Zheng was not ashamed but proud: "Even if there are 200,000 pigs, it is 200,000, besides, Xia Guan went to Liangzhejiang Road this time, and he can hire six masters, even if he is young, he still handles government affairs in an orderly manner, Fan believes that since government affairs are like this, the same is true of military affairs." ”

Did these ministers have the courage to directly confront the two countries of Liaoxia back then?

Zhao Xu's eyes were firm and said: "This battle must be fought, and this battle must be won!" ”

Baiguan frowned, although Fan Zheng's words were reasonable, but they were quite dissatisfied, besides, who can be sure that Fan Zheng is not talking on paper, and wants to take the opportunity to seize the military power to attack Western Xia to grab merit for himself.

Fan is the inventor of the earth-shattering thunder, and he is also the person who knows the most about gunpowder, and the Pingxia City he designed has twice made the Western Xia return home, and he has the experience of commanding an army of 200,000 people.

"However, the walls of Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia are high and strong! With sufficient grain and grass, coupled with the benefits of earth-shattering thunder, it is indeed very small for the Great Song Dynasty to break through in the short term. Cai Jing also objected.

"Now that the Western Xia has become a general trend, the Great Song Dynasty may lose the opportunity to destroy the Western Xia!"

And this time the destruction of the Western Xia will be his best opportunity to accumulate prestige.

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the whole court.

The officials of the Manchu Dynasty looked at Fan Zheng in shock, no one thought that the commander who destroyed Xia in the end would be such a young Fan Zheng.

However, after thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is no more suitable candidate for Fan Zheng, after all, Fan Zheng is the only one who has the experience of winning consecutive battles in the Western Xia and commanding an army of 200,000 people.

(End of chapter)