The Dingbei Army did not ignore the Western Xia, and Yang Zhi, Min, Liu Xiang and others successively sent letters to the generals of Qizhou Zhekeqiu and Yan'an Liulu, asking them to beware of the sudden attack of Western Xia and ask Taiyuan for help if necessary. For this reason, Zhao Kai specially asked Yang Zhi to go back to Taiyuan, Zhao Kai believed in Yang Zhi's judgment, but he had to convince Xu Huiyan, Zhang Xiaochun and others that the foundation of the Dingbei Army was still very weak, and it could not withstand any internal twists and turns.

Yang Zhi knew Zhao Kai's intentions, and the conquest of Hetao strengthened Yang Zhi's advantage in the clouds, forming a line from Yingzhou to Jingzhou, and becoming a preparatory battlefield for the tug-of-war with Xia Jin in the future. The grassland is full of wolves, Yang Zhi showed his strength in order to deter all parties, but it also aroused the scruples of many people in Taiyuan, after all, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it has emphasized the use of literature and martial arts, and the general commanders are civilian officials, Zhang Xiaochun and others are difficult to change this concept; They would rather let the Zhe family dominate one side than suffer a little loss of their reputation, so what they want is to go to Hebei and leave a name in history regardless of victory or defeat.

Yang Zhi was clear about these gates, so as soon as he came up, he let people hang up the maps of Hedong and Western Xia, and began to explain the battlefield: "After the 200,000 troops are transferred to Tongguan, even if the Sixth Route of Shaanxi is in a group with me, compared with the strength and equipment of Western Xia, we are at a clear disadvantage; in the face of Western Xia, we only have the strategic initiative, and we can decide when to start a war and fight there." ”

None of the officials and generals present thought that there was anything wrong with this, and they knew in their hearts that today's meeting was a meeting for Zhao Kai to exert pressure, and Yang Zhi was here to cheer for Zhao Kai; Yang Zhi continued: "Once the Western Xia is launched, the battle plan should be in full swing, and the main force should attack from the Huanqing Road under the cover of the Western Xia army attacking the Yanyan Road, trying to seize the Yongxing Army Road in one fell swoop, so that the Xihe Road, Qinfeng Road, and Jingyuan Road will lose their support and depth, and the victory of the Western Xia will be eight points certain. ”

"This is pure conjecture, the six roads in Shaanxi are all elite soldiers, hundreds of villages along the way, don't say that the Western Xia may not send troops, even if the Western Xia comes from the country, the war is likely to be scorched. Wang Yu couldn't bear it, although he knew that what Yang Zhi said was the most likely situation, he still objected: "Similarly, if we want to take Dunyan Road and Qizhou, we may also be in a state of anxiety." ”

Wen Da was about to refute, but Yang Zhi stood up first: "General Wang, you are wrong. ”

"I was wrong, can you tell me, what is wrong?" Wang Yu looked at Yang Zhi mockingly, he had always felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, nominally he was in a high position, but in fact, Huang Di's army had been in Taiyuan, Wang Yu felt that he had been hollowed out, and the victory of Yang Zhi, Zong Ze, and Zhang Suo had tripled the territory of the Dingbei Army, but Wang Yu and Zhang Xiaochun felt that the officials in Taiyuan had not received any benefits.

Yang Zhi calmly looked at the map and raised his hand to stop Wang Yu's counterattack: "Let's first think about whether the Yan Yan Road and Qizhou will be able to block the attack of the Western Xia? If the Yan Road and Qizhou fail and we lose the fortresses that have taken hundreds of years to build, will we be able to resist the Western Xia army alone? Once the Western Xia army enters Hedong, will the Jin army in our eastern, southern, and northern directions also come to join the war? The last question is, will we come to Taiyuan to sing an elegy, or are we going to sweep the world? King Jizo Bodhisattva once had to exhaust all sentient beings in the six realms before he could attain Buddhahood, but what do you say? Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha. Only when we fight to the end and restore peace to the Central Plains can we achieve a positive result. ”

Sun Ang and Zhang Xiaochun exchanged glances with each other, and Sun Ang frowned slightly: "Manager Yang, what do you mean, say it directly, don't hide it." ”

"Okay," Yang Zhi pointed to the map and said, "General Wang Yu ignored the strategic purpose of our coming to Taiyuan, that is, not to give up the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, whether we are marching east or west, the only purpose is for the overall situation." Now the commanders of Shaanxi Sixth Road are Huanqing Shuai Wang Yi, Xihe Shuai Wang Yi, Jingyuan Shuai Xigong, Qin Fengshuai Zhao Dian, Yan Shuai Zhang Shen and Yongxing Marshal Fan Zhixu, compared with the group of people who are Seed Master Dao, Yao Gu, and Liu Zhongwu, it is not a little worse.

Let's take a longer view, Song Jin is the main force in this war, Bianliang failed, only 200,000 horses and horses will be transferred out of Tongguan; nominally the mobilization is the people and horses of the king of Huanqing Road and the king of Xihe Road, but the men and horses of Qinfeng Road and Jingyuan Road have already been transferred out of the northwest with the seed division and Yao Gu, and the Yanyan Road has almost all come out as early as the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, and they are almost all lost on the battlefield of Yanyun.

Let's change the angle, Wan Yan Gao chose to make a detour to attack Hedong and force Tongguan, will he not be prepared at all, the biggest possibility is that the Jin State and the Western Xia have reached an alliance, so the Xiping Mansion is in the current situation, and the Western Xia just let Ren Dejing toss alone, because they can't lose a chance.

The Western Xia imitated the Great Song Dynasty, the number of captured troops was about 100,000, the forbidden army was 30,000, and the country was divided into left and right compartments, and 12 military supervision divisions were set up, with a total of more than 500,000 troops, including 70,000 people guarding the capital Xingqing Mansion, 50,000 people guarding Xiping Mansion in the southeast, 50,000 people stationed in Helan Mountain in the northwest, 50,000 people on Youzhou Road in the left chamber and 50,000 people on Yanzhou Road in Henan Province responsible for defending the Song Dynasty, 70,000 people on Anbei Road in Hebei Province responsible for defending Jinguo, and 30,000 people on Ganzhou Road in the right compartment responsible for defending Tubo and Uighurs.

If the Western Xia sent troops, the large armies that could be mobilized were Youzhou Road, Yanzhou Road, Anbei Road, Capture Army, and Xingqing Mansion, and the maximum could reach more than 300,000, and the troops left behind on the Great Song Dynasty Yanyan Road and Huanqing Road were only 350,000, and I am afraid that more than half of the new soldiers would be needed, so it was possible that both roads could not resist the attack of the Western Xia; Qian Gai was now bent on rescuing the siege of Bianliang, and he would definitely not stay in Jingzhaofu to control the overall situation, and once the two roads were lost, the Shaanxi Sixth Road would face the possibility of being broken by the other side.

At that time, no matter what happens to the three states outside the river, Hedong will be on the defensive, and there will be no more strength to attack. The Jin army will definitely join forces with the Western Xia to attack Hedong, because the gang of Bianliang, 20,000 or 30,000 Jin troops can make them cut their land and beg for mercy, and we will face more than 400,000 troops from all walks of life. If we don't take the lead and sit back and watch the Central Plains fail, it is short-sighted, and all our original efforts are meaningless. ”

Without waiting for the others to react, Yang Zhi ended his tirade in an accentuated tone, and there was silence in the room, and even the partial generals who were going to brush up their sense of existence were stunned. Zong Ze let out a long sigh of relief, Yang Zhi's strategic acumen surprised him again, Zong Ze knew that it would be difficult for anyone to refute Yang Zhi now. Even Wang Yu can't help but open his mouth now, the facts are very clear, when the time comes, Guanzhong will be a copy of Hedong a year ago.