Datong Mansion is the Xijing of Liaoguo, and it is also the most prosperous city in the clouds, Yang Zhi has such an ambition, but it makes Master Tianxin feel a lot of relief, so he jokes: "The Great Song Dynasty in Youzhou is not in a good war, and nearly 200,000 troops were beaten by Xiao Gan and retreated in Xiongzhou." ”

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "The army is impermanent, we can't manage that side, let's talk about Yunzhong, the master is familiar with the mother department of Basi?"

Basi Mother Department, a tribe in the southwest of Liao State, Liao Daozong Da'an descended to Liao for ten years, as a Liao subject country, Liao Daozong allowed Basi Mother Department to pay tribute to Liao indefinitely, and had the obligation to conscript, but there was no quota for sending troops. After Basi's mother army descended to Liao, it was repeatedly invaded and conquered, and was successively broken by the deputy deployment of Xiao Alu in the north of the mountain and the southwest of the recruiting division, and the king of Xia, Li Qianshun, and now wandering around in the grasslands south of the desert.

Master Tianxin suddenly understood Yang Zhi's plan and asked: "You are preparing to use the Basi Mother Department to contain the Liao Kingdom, you must know that their appetite is not small, even the Great Liao can't satisfy them." ”

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "The Central Plains is rich in products, I have a way, it seems that the master can contact them?"

"Western Xia can be like this, what about the horse thieves in the desert?" Master Tianxin was not easy to fool, and did not answer Yang Zhi directly, Yang Zhi smiled and said: "Master, I am a layman, and these things must be done slowly. I know your worries, if King Zhao defects to the Great Song Dynasty and stays in Datong, you are worried that when Emperor Tianzuo kills him, King Zhao's subordinates will kill him. Let me tell you, Emperor Tianzuo doesn't have that chance, he was defeated by the Jin State this time, he has no ability to fight Datong Mansion again, as for Western Xia, so be it, I will send someone to escort you to Yingzhou to see Zhao Kai, King of Yun, and wait for me to defeat the Western Xia army once in Shuozhou, how about you let King Zhao dedicate Datong Mansion again?"

"As soon as the word is decided, when Datong Mansion is stable, I will find someone from the mother department of Basi. "Master Tianxin has both the chips and the time to postpone, how could he not agree, and by the way, tell Yang Zhixi that the Xia army is coming east. Yang Zhi thanked him and asked Liang Juewu to accompany Master Tianxin to Yingzhou, and Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, was overjoyed and admitted Yang Zhi's agreement with Master Tianxin. The prefectures and counties of Datong Prefecture add up to 320,000 ding, even if the number of personnel is sharply reduced due to various reasons, the Liao people can still pull up an army of 10,000 or 20,000, so it is best to win without a fight.

The reason why Yang Zhi is so simple is also because the war is just around the corner, before Master Tianxin came, the scout reported that he had discovered that 18,000 Western Xia troops had entered Qifeng Mountain, and they would soon reach Shitou Mountain. Wettou Mountain is next to Qifeng Mountain, the mountains are vertical and horizontal, the peaks and peaks are stacked, the plants on the mountain are scarce, the rocks are bare, and only the generation close to the source of the Sanggan River is densely forested.

Combined with what Master Tianxin said, Yang Zhi thought that the idea of the Western Xia people was to take down Shuozhou and other places at once, after all, the Jin State had not yet reached Datong, and defeating the Song army was the most important; but for two consecutive days of scouting returns, only 18,000 Western Xia troops were found, Yang Zhi and Zhu Wu felt very strange, no matter from which point of view, the Western Xia army would not be able to fill the number of 20,000 because of the number of troops, even if it was a division of troops, it would be a whole number.

Zhu Wu stared at the map and said: "If the troops are divided, the main force of the Western Xia army will be more than 30,000 people, otherwise it will be meaningless to divide a few thousand people to attack Shenwu County." There should be no 50,000 people, because there is no war between Xia and Liao, the main thing is to prevent those tribes from robbing, and there are only 50,000 troops in the entire Xia Prefecture, of which only 10,000 are captured. ”

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "The target should still be Shuozhou, but it will take a road in the mountains that ordinary people can't see, it should be a night walk, it is spring, you can hide in the mountains during the day, and walk at night, but they have to set off before these eighteen thousand people, if you come along the Qifeng Mountain, only the Hongtao Spring near the source of the Sanggan River is the most suitable, far away from the avenue, there are water sources and forests." However, the Western Xia army can go south first, from Guanshui Mountain, then there are more options to choose from, it is not easy to find in the dense woods, Luya Mountain, Black Camel Valley, Qingcaoliang, Haiquangou can all be used as intersections. ”

Yue Fei thought for a while and said: "Luya Mountain and Qingcaoliang have to pass through Tianchi, even if it is spring, it is not easy to calculate the synchronization time with another army, Haiquangou is too close to us, so in addition to Hongtao Spring, it seems that Heiluogou is the most suitable." But if I were to divide the army into two groups, Haiquangou and Heiluogou were less than 50 miles, and the army would be ambushed in Haiquangou, and suspicious troops would be placed in Heiluogou, waiting for an opportunity to move, and if you found the people in Heiluogou, and the people who went to attack, I would suddenly appear to flank the front and rear; if there were many people, I would hold back and wait for the army to arrive before attacking, and there would be no problem with putting 5,000 men and horses in Haiquangou. ”

Zhu Wu said with a smile: "The two thousand people that are missing in Qifeng Mountain are exactly placed in the Black Camel Valley, and that is the twenty-five thousand army. ”

Yang Zhi groaned and said: "It shouldn't be so simple, both roads are due west for Shuozhou, so it will become a decisive battle with us, and the Western Xia army is the best at long-distance running and flanking attacks." ”

Yue Fei smiled lightly and said: "If there are many troops, according to what Senior Brother said at the beginning, send 10,000 people to Hongtao Spring, and the three-way army will come out together, and there will be just one way to kill behind our battle." I'll just wait to go out, and let Shi Qian go to Hongtao Spring. ”

Yue Fei is now in charge of the scouts, and has almost walked through the nearby areas, so he naturally knows that he can't rely on the people in the army, so he has to move away from time to time, Yang Zhi thought for a while and said: "If Gongsun Sheng and them come back, let Mr. Gongsun Sheng and Sha Jing go together." ”

Yang Zhi and Zhang San are not allowed to leave at will, and Gongsun Sheng is the most suitable; Sha Jing is a Liao native and a monk of Tianxiong Temple, so it is more convenient to do things in the area of the original Liao State. Yue Fei said with a smile: "They are all back, and there is another one named Yelu Yue, who says that he is your brother." ”

Yang Zhi said happily: "They are the descendants of Yang Gon's branch, and it should be that King Yun promised to ask the court for a surname." When you're drinking, come over when you have time. ”

Yue Fei can be regarded as half a Shaolin disciple, so he naturally knows who Yang Gon is, but now that he is shouldering a heavy responsibility, he still forgets it; Sha Jing and Gongsun Sheng didn't say a word, so they set off with Yue Fei, Shi Qian and others; Yang Lin and Cai Fu brought Bo Deng and Yelu Yue to see Yang Zhi, and after a few words of the two sides, Yang Zhi let a banquet be set up and called Zhu Wu, Zhang San, Bei Songlin, Zong Bian, and Lu Zhishen to accompany him.

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