~.< Shuhai Pavilion >-~     Chapter 364 A gentleman, a king is a son (1)

Looking at the eyes of Lao Zhong and Di Qing, Zheng Lang also knew that they were interested in this opportunity.

Di Qing shouted softly: "You can attack, launch a moderate attack."

"What are you talking about?" Li Zhengyuan asked in confusion.

"Attacking Xixia, we will respond to Fulin on the side," said the old clan.

"Attack the West... Xixia..."

Zheng Lang whispered: "Let me think about it again."

I want to Khitan.

It is impossible to ignore the Khitan when you are in the game.

There were many reasons for the Khitan conquering the Western Xia.

After gaining the benefits of the Song Dynasty, he promised to mediate the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia.

Zheng Lang did not object to the increase in annual monies next year. From a strategic perspective, if the Song Dynasty fought on both sides, there would be more dangers.

Then mediated. Who knew that Yuan Hao had really agreed to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty after several wars, and the country was exhausted. Later, the peace talks seemed to be successful and did not invade the Song Dynasty again. But don't take it seriously. If the Khitan had not attacked the Western Xia, Yuan Hao was unstable, and he was killed by the old counter-espionage plan, God knew that after he had resuscitation, he would continue to attack the Song Dynasty.

The Khitan agreed to reconcile, which was a entrusted statement. Do you really want the two countries to reconcile? If you continue to fight, it will be beneficial to the Khitan without any harm. So you sent an envoy to stop the two countries from discussing peace. Song Chaoyang obeyed the slander and agreed, but continued to discuss peace. Yuan Hao directly refused.

The Khitan felt very embarrassed.

He got the benefits of the Song Dynasty and simply gave the Song Dynasty an explanation.

This is the main reason for going to the battle.

Princess Xingping's death.

Liao Xingzong has always been indignant about his sister's unfair treatment.

This is a person who values ​​emotions and has a private relationship with Zhao Zhen. He often writes some paintings to Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen also writes a few words to him.

So Yuan Hao is lucky, and both of his big brothers are good babies.

His biological mother was extremely vicious, so she still gave her some title, unlike the ordinary ruthless royal family, who ignored the feelings between relatives for their rights and wanted to kill revenge. She felt unfair for her adoptive mother and was very friendly to her younger brother. It directly led to the rebellion of his son after his death.

Although he endured it for the country, his sister's tragic death made Liao Xingzong always feel angry towards Li Yuanhao.

Zheng Lang suggested that he send a scout to Khitan to spread rumors.

If the two countries have been in good relations for decades, it is not difficult to deal with scouts, so there is a deliberation in Hebei and the transaction scale is very large.

It seemed that it was not spending much money. Zhao Zhi and several bigwigs agreed. Scouts had already sneaked into the Khitan border and spread rumors.

It also played a role in fanning the flames.

If there is no accident, because he suffered a great loss on Fulin Road and his troops were seriously damaged, Yuan Hao asked the Khitan to send troops to attack Song next year to cooperate with his military attack on the Song Dynasty. The Khitan soldiers arrived in Youzhou and failed to move forward, Yuan Hao was extremely dissatisfied with this. (***, it really looks like the moment, laughing)

But Yuan Hao still had concerns in his heart.

The next year, the Dangxiang tribe of the Khitan Jiashan tribe could not bear the harsh exploitation of the Khitan and launched an uprising. Li Yuanhao took the initiative to cooperate with the Khitan to suppress the uprising. However, the Khitans took the lead in captivity, but the Khitans took all the captures as their own, which aroused Yuanhao's resentment.

So he incited the Dai'er tribe to rebel against Liao Guixia, and instigated the Dai'er tribe to harass the Khitan border.

With new hatreds and old hatreds, Liao Xingzong finally set out to fight against Xixia.

This battle was of great help to the Song Dynasty.

The Khitans finally realized that they were no longer the Khitans who had won every battle. The Song Dynasty and Xixia were increasingly prevailing in the repeated battles between them. So what about fighting with themselves?

This directly led to the Song Dynasty's repeated conquests against Western Xia. The Khitans only care about the benefits of the Song Dynasty, but dared not protest and stop them. Moreover, because of the deterioration of relations with Western Xia, they did not send troops to provide assistance.

If he achieved success this time, Yuan Hao would dare to be arrogant and take in the Daier clan.

In fact, he only accepted eight hundred Dai'er households, and there were not many people, which meant no great significance to both countries. Li Yuanhao was not worried about being a Dangxiang person, otherwise it would be impossible for him to send troops to suppress the Dai'er uprising for the Khitans.

But these eight hundred households played a fuse.

After thinking for a while, Zheng Lang decided to beat him hard.

As for whether the Khitan will go to the Western Xia, Princess Xingping's death has laid gunpowder.

If there is no accident, the benefits of the Song Dynasty will be given next year.

The rebellion of the Dai'er tribe can be operated.

But this battle must be won, otherwise the annual tribute from the Song Dynasty will be a disaster in the future.

And it can be calculated.

It turned out that the Song Dynasty had only tens of thousands of troops stationed in Shaanxi, and now the force reached more than 200,000, and at its peak, it reached more than 300,000. Materials were transported from the Central Plains, farther than to Hedong and Hebei. In order to defend, it was necessary to continuously build villages and forts. This expenditure alone required at least 15 million guan a year. If the action was slightly larger, it would be gone if it was 20 million guan.

There is no war.

If the war is started like this now, the cost will be close to 30 million RMB!

The total income of the Tang Dynasty was not enough for the Song Dynasty's expenditure in Shaanxi for a year.

In twenty years, at least 300 million yuan was staked.

This money will not be saved in the treasury. First, it is used in other places to do practical things, such as water conservancy, second, it is wasteful and redundant, and third, it is to return it to the people, light taxes and slack collections, and with Renzong's loyalty and kindness, the people will truly usher in a prosperous era.

Some of Song Yingzong's things are not bad, nor are they too bad. Although Song Shenzong is more inferior to Zhao Zhen, he is still good to the people.

Zhezong was promising, but unfortunately he lived a short life.

The four generations of relatively wise rulers governed by the ruler. Without the huge black hole in the northwest, what level would the Song Dynasty reach?

Finally, he said: "Yuan Hao fell into Fulin and was dragged for at least four months. We will attack in mid-October and end in early winter."

The longer Yuan Hao delayed, the greater the pressure on Xixia.

Zheng Lang also has a selfish intention.

He knew that Fengzhou was lost, but he had no choice but to defend it with the terrain of Fengzhou and the power of being isolated overseas. Many people, including the murder of Fulin Road, had to be sent to the court to send more than 50,000 troops.

Can the court draw so many troops?

The war on Fulin Road took a qualitative change after the fall of Fengzhou.

Yuanhao didn't know how many soldiers he killed by Zhang Kang, Zhang Ji, Wang Ji, Wang Kai, Zhe Jimin and Gao Jixuan.

Therefore, push the time backwards.

Lao Zong and Di Qing didn’t know what happened next, but they knew that the longer they delayed, the heavier the burden on Xixia.

Zheng Lang also said: "Although this winter is not as warm as in the previous few years, it is better than last year's previous year. By next year and next year, great cold will occur again."

This is the secret of heaven.

But the weather can determine the direction of war.

Of course, it can also determine the production of military farms in the northwest immediately.

As long as it was not as cold as last year, Song Bing could withstand this cold from October to mid-winter. And because of cotton planting, some soldiers were rewarded for training and put on cotton jackets. Because of the transaction with Fanzi, they put a batch of animal skins down to make jackets.

With winter clothes, cold resistance is improving.

After mid-October, the people of Xixia believed that the Song soldiers were afraid of the cold and would be careless.

Lao Zhong and Di Qing looked up at Zheng Lang, without any doubt, but some admiration appeared in their eyes.

The ancients did not understand, and believed that those who are capable knew astronomy and geography. Since Zheng Lang knew the minerals overseas through the principles of studying matters, he knew the weather was nothing.

So he nodded and said, "Okay."

Di Qing asked again: "Is it in Shimenxia or in Wuyanqianxia?"

Wuyan Gorge is dozens of miles long, extending almost to Tiandu Mountain to the west, and extending to the later Heicheng Town at the east end. The section to the east is called Wuyan Qian Gorge. Later, the Song Dynasty built Pingxia City and Lingpingzhai here. The place extending to the south is Shimen Gorge.

This place is even more famous, and the ruins of Shimen Pass, one of the seven passes in Yuanzhou of the Tang Dynasty, are here. There is also a famous historical site, the Sumeru Mountain Grottoes.

The strategic significance was extremely important. Most of the Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties invaded the Central Plains from here.

During the reign of Emperor Zhezong, the Western Xia built Wuyanxia village in Shimenxia, ​​which led to no Chinese cavalry daring to cross the boundary.

The Song Dynasty built Pingxia City here, which also directly threatened the safety of the people of Xixia. In order to remove this nail, Empress Dowager Liang personally led a 300,000 army to attack and was defeated. She brought back no 100,000 people. After the construction of this city, Xixia songs and songs said, "Singing and Musical Lands were occupied by the Han family, how could it be that the Song people took my job."

Li Yuanhao was invented in everything, although he had appeared back and forth from here and attacked the Song army, he had not really realized the importance of this place. This was even more so in the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang did not reveal it either.

If you don’t build a city here, if you build a city in the west, Dushan Mountain in the west is exposed directly under the attack of the Song army, Yuan Hao will go crazy.

Zheng Lang was even less prepared for this.

But after discussion, it turned out that it was decided to choose one of these two places as the ambush point.

Zheng Lang asked back: "General Di, which one do you think is good."

"I sent a spy to see. Wuyanqian Gorge has a rich water and grass and is located in the north, which is easier to attract enemy troops. However, the terrain is vast and flat, and it is not easy to set up ambush. Shimen Gorge is narrow and easy to set up ambush, but it is located on the south side. The enemy troops may not be able to chase into Shimen Gorge, and the enemy will not not send people to check. If our army sets ambush on the mountain monuments on both sides of Shimen Gorge, the enemy will not let this place be spyed."

When the enemy scout saw it, the ambush no longer worked.

It is best to enter the Wuyan Gorge directly to set up an ambush, but it is too close to the Xixia people's control, so it is even more difficult to set up an ambush.

"How about the plants and trees in Shimenxia?"
To be continued...