Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

The country of Xixia is very interesting, and the center is in Xingqing Prefecture.

To the east of Xingqing Mansion is Helan Mountain, to the south is Xiping Mansion, and to the south of Xiping Lingzhou is the vast sea.

In the Song Dynasty, Hanhai refers to the sandy land south of Lingzhou.

Not to mention the west, the desert.

There are also deserts to the north.

Therefore, if you want to attack Xingqing Mansion, you will face harsh natural environment if you attack from all sides.

By the time you come over, the Xixia army has already deployed their defenses, and you just need to rest and wait for work.

At the peak of the Liao Kingdom, it suffered a great loss from the Xia campaign.

The Jin Kingdom in official history simply did not fight Xixia, even at the peak of the Jin Kingdom, it did not fight Xixia.

Among the grievances between Song and Xia, what is even more terrible is that the Xixia people occupy the front line of Hengshan.

Yanzhou, Youzhou, Xiazhou, Hongzhou, Shizhou and Yinzhou in Hengshan, from west to east, are all places with rich products.

And because of the terrain of Hengshan, it means that whoever occupies it can deploy the elite here, and can raise soldiers while producing, so that they can wait for work at leisure and wait for the opponent to come from afar. All they need to do is set up an ambush in advance.

Chapter 1020 Extinguishing Xia Chess Game (Second Change)

Xixia is a smelly and hard stone.

The Liao Kingdom came back in defeat, the Song Dynasty fought it for more than 100 years, and finally killed it, the Jin Kingdom suddenly rose.

The Kingdom of Jin didn't move it, but the later Mongols did.

But even Genghis Khan had to fight five times before killing Xixia.

For this reason, Genghis Khan died of illness here.

The indestructibility of Xixia has something to do with its terrain and its military system.

Zhao Guanjia asked, "Was Shizhou attacked first?"

"Yes, Shizhou was hit first."

"Has there been any movement from Xixia?" Zhao Guanjia asked again.

"Haven't received it yet."

"Then don't worry. Although we have a strong army in the Song Dynasty, we must not underestimate it." Zhao Guanjia said calmly, "Xixia is hard to destroy. The terrain is complicated. The second is that all the people are soldiers. The total strength of Xixia The number reached 50, and the Military Intelligence Department has repeatedly reported that the Xixia people have been mining iron ore in Xiazhou and Youzhou over the years, and their strength will only become stronger than before."

Xixia has 50 troops?

This is true.

Xixia's military system is even more terrifying than Jin Guo.

In Xixia, a family is called a tent.

According to historical records: Men who reach the age of 15 are ding, and the rate is two ding and one ding is drawn.

It means that one will be drawn from two men who have reached the age of 15. If there are four men in a family, two will be drawn.

There are a total of more than 300 million people in Xixia. If they are drawn in this way, 50 troops can be drawn.

As for the figure of 50 troops, there are also records in historical materials.

Of course, all the soldiers engaged in logistics are included.

Zhao Guanjia continued: "Yanzhou and Youzhou each had [-] defenses before, but since I captured Yinzhou, Li Qianshun deployed [-] troops in Yanzhou alone, and [-] troops in Youzhou. The Hengshan defense line can be described as It’s a bloodbath.”

In Xixia, where all the people are soldiers, there is no problem with the Xixia court paying money. They all perform military service, and they perform military service while farming.

In the area of ​​Yanzhou and Youzhou, in addition to refining salt, iron is also smelted.

Basically, it is used by one person as five people.

Zhang Jun said: "So Your Majesty has a long-term vision and deployed heavy troops in Linzhou and Fugu."

Zhao Guanjia said in a rather solemn tone: "If it is a local war, our army will defeat the Xixia army. It will not be a problem, and it will not be very difficult. It is even possible to take a few bites of the Hengshan Army Town, but I don't have time."

Zhao Ning looked at the map on the table attentively, and said: "The potential of the Jin Kingdom has not been completely exhausted. There will be civil strife within the Jin Kingdom in the next six months, but with Wushu, we will not stop there. What is worrying is that after this failure, Jin Wushu will join forces with other grassland ministries to fight against our Great Song Dynasty, so there is not much time left for me to destroy Xia, and the previous fortress tactics are not in line with the current overall situation."

Zhang Jun also looked at the map in front of Zhao Guan's house.

The royal driver walked steadily, and being able to ride with the emperor was already the highest treatment.

Zhao Ning pointed to the map and said: "Our army has taken Shizhou now. Xixia has two strategies to deal with it. Either press heavily into Shizhou, push the front line to Shizhou and Yinzhou, and try to take Yinzhou back. Let's drive out of Hengshan completely, or..."

Zhang Jun took the words and said: "Either the army will go south from Hongzhou and Weizhou, enter our Yongxing Army Road and Huanqing Road, expand the front in an all-round way, and force the main force of our army to retreat from Shizhou by encircling Wei and saving Zhao."

These are all the calculations in Zhang Jun's report on the Xia Xia strategy before the Battle of Shizhou.

The Military and Political Council also gave clear advice on logistics.

The logistical consumption of the two tactics is basically the same.

"I have already deployed defenses in Huanzhou, Dingbian Army, Security Army, and Yan'an Mansion. There are two key points in this battle. One is the Yinzhou front. Whether Liu Kai can advance quickly, Shizhou is not a real place for the Xixia people. The pain point is Xiazhou." Zhang Jun continued, "Many iron mines of Xixia people are in Xiazhou, and Xixia's iron smelting business is located in Xiazhou. Once Xiazhou is taken, Xixia will not dare to divide troops to encircle Wei and save Zhao. Liu Kai's army can then contain the main force of the entire Hengshan in the Xiazhou area, and Weizhou in Xixia will only be able to defend. If our army can capture Weizhou's defense line, the front can be directed at Yanzhou. At that time, the main force of Xixia in Youzhou You will be attacked from the back!"

Zhao Guanjia nodded, obviously satisfied with Zhang Jun's tactical arrangement this time. He said: "Li Qianshun has a total force of 7 troops in Heishan Weifu Army Division and Heishui Town Yan Army Division in the north. Wan Dajun is stationed here, what do you think?"

"Leave it to Li Yanxian and Orihikozhi."

"Oh?"

"Li Yanxian entered Yingli with the elite of Xihe Road. He has fought this line before and is very familiar with it. His role is to threaten Xixia's Xiping Mansion, so that the [-] Xixia elites in Xiping Mansion will not dare to act rashly. Hexi, contain Xixia's [-] troops in Hexi, but..."

"But what?"

"The Gaochang Uyghurs have always been eyeing Hexi. Xixia deployed defenses in Hexi just to guard against the Uyghurs. If our army attacks Hexi, the Uyghurs will definitely take advantage of the fire and loot them, trying to catch the fisherman."

Zhao Guanjia said with a smile: "I'm afraid that he won't come to rob!"

Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood the meaning of Zhao Guanjia's words.

Zhao Guanjia added: "Have all the post stations in Shaanxi been arranged?"

"Everything has been arranged, and it will only take three days at most to spread the military situation from Yinzhou to Jingzhao Mansion."

A smile appeared on Zhao Ning's face: "Okay, I want to see Li Qianshun to know how to play this game of chess."

On August 28th, the day Zhao Ning arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, Youzhou's military newspaper had already been rushed to Xingqing Mansion.

The Song army's attack on Shizhou shocked the senior officials of Xixia.

Li Ganshun scolded loudly in front of everyone: "Song Guo sent troops to our court for no reason, it is really shameless!"

"Your Majesty, is there any misunderstanding?" Pu Wang Li Renzhong came out and said, "We have expanded our discussions with the State of Song. At this time, the State of Song and the State of Jin are at war. China will definitely not start a war with me blindly at this time."

From Li Renzhong's point of view, what he said was absolutely correct.

Even Li Qianshun and Brother Li Cha couldn't figure out why the Song army suddenly attacked Shizhou?

Li Qianshun froze for a moment, then asked with a gloomy face: "Is Li Liangfu's information really correct?"

Brother Li Cha came out and said: "What I received was indeed the disastrous defeat of the Song army. Li Liangfu dared not lie about this matter, and I even sent multiple scouts to investigate, it is true."

"This shouldn't be!" Li Qianshun was also a little suspicious of life, "You want to tell me that Zhao Guan's family lost the war with the Kingdom of Jin, and at the same time started a war with me, Daxia. He wants to fight on multiple fronts?"

Isn't this self-defeating!

"This..." Even Brother Li Cha, who was always cunning, was a little confused.

Wei Ming Anhui said: "Unless the Jin army is blocked in Anbei Mansion and Li Liangfu falsely reports the military situation, the Song army will never dare to attack our army!"

Chapter 1021 Controlling the Overall Situation (Third Change)

The Jin Army was blocked in Anbei Mansion?

Brother Li Cha shook his head, and said: "Multiple reports show that the Song army has suffered heavy losses in Anbei Mansion, and the information was just sent back in early August. It is also impossible to cease fighting immediately. Even if there is a tendency to cease fighting at this moment, the Song Army in Shaanxi has not received instructions from Bianjing, and it will never act hastily. However, Bianjing’s instructions to send troops to Shaanxi must be at least one month in advance! From An The military order from the Beifu was sent back to Bianjing to let Zhao Guan’s family make decisions, and it would take ten days to send an urgent report from eight hundred miles away, and the time for each link could not keep up!”

"But now this information cannot be falsified! The Song army has sent troops!"

Li Qianshun, who has always been good-tempered, almost roared out at this moment.

"According to Song's military system, without Bianjing's instruction, it is impossible for Shaanxi to do anything!"

"Your Majesty, the army should be mobilized immediately!" Wei Ming Anhui said loudly, "This is a large-scale military operation aimed specifically at our dynasty. From now on, we must immediately take the most severe counterattack!"

If you want to say that Wei Ming Anhui has seen through Da Song's true intentions, that is pure nonsense.

As far as Song Dynasty is now fighting Shizhou, the monarchs and ministers of Xixia will never immediately think that the Zhao family is going to destroy Xia. After all, the two countries have fought for more than 100 years.

Wei Ming Anhui is a pro-gold faction, and Brother Li Cha is a pro-Song faction. He said these words purely out of his own political interests.

Li Renzhong said: "There is no need to mobilize an army. The army in Youzhou and Yanzhou is enough to deal with the Song army, unless the entire Shaanxi Song army comes here, but that is impossible."

"How is it impossible!" Wei Ming Anhui retorted, "Did you forget that during the reign of Song Shenzong, the Song army came from five directions, and later Zhao Ji was in power, and the Song court used troops against me in Daxia to take Hengshan?"

After Wei Ming Anhui said this, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became a little strangely quiet.

Li Qianshun looked at the Wei name An Hui, and said, "You mean, the Zhao family wants to raise troops to destroy us?"

"It must be."

"If you were Zhao Guan's family, and the Anbei Mansion was still at war with the Kingdom of Jin, and the fight was not going well, would you choose to start a full-scale war with me at this time?" Brother Li Cha asked.

"As I said just now, there must be something wrong with Li Liangfu's information!"

"What's the problem?" Brother Li Cha replied, "Could it be that the Jin army suffered a disastrous defeat in Anbei Mansion? Or the Jin army has already withdrawn and we don't know?"

"There is a possibility!"

"Impossible! You are named An Hui just because you want us to send troops to fight against Song State so that you can explain to Father Jin!"

"Prince Jin, you are insulting this old man!"

"Do I still need to say that!"

"Your Majesty! The State of Song has already dispatched troops! Do we have to just watch and do nothing!" Wei Ming Anhui shouted.

"Your Majesty, we don't even know the reason why Song State attacked Shizhou, let alone how many Song troops have arrived and what their next move will be. The best way now is to send an envoy to question Song troops." Brother Li Cha said, " Find out the truth."

"Your Majesty! If we hesitate for a moment and miss the opportunity, we will be passive every step of the way!" Wei Ming Anhui said, "Think about why the envoy Song left suddenly, this is a sign!"

Li Qianshun thought for a while, thinking that there were still so many deals between Song Dynasty and Xixia, and thinking that he had deployed a total of 17 troops in Youzhou and Yanzhou. beat."

"Yes!"

On August 29, Zhao Ning stayed in the palace in Chang'an City.

When I came to Chang'an, the first person I met was Hu Quan.

"I see you, Your Majesty."

"Excuse me."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"When did you arrive in Chang'an?"

"The minister has only been here for more than ten days."

"How is the arrangement for handing over the banknotes?"

"An order was issued to temporarily close the banks of Huangzhou, Huizhou, Huanzhou, Dingbian Army, and Security Army."

"Will it affect the people?" Zhao Ning asked, "Will the people think that the imperial court will no longer allow copper coins to be exchanged?"

"There will be more or less influence, which is inevitable, but if anyone wants to exchange copper coins, they can come to Chang'an."

"I'm worried about a sudden run, and Jingzhao Mansion doesn't have enough copper coins to store."

"As long as those big merchants don't come to exchange, if ordinary people want to come, the amount of copper coins is still enough. As for the merchants, I have been calling for them a few days ago. The time has come for the court to need them. If you cooperate, there will be a lot of benefits in the future. If you don't cooperate well, you will be responsible for the consequences. After this conversation, I think they will not move around at will."

Zhao Ning nodded, obviously very satisfied with Hu Quan's arrangement.

Zhao Ning thought of the three financial crises in European history. The first was the Dutch tulip bubble, the second was the South Sea bubble in England during the reign of King George I, and the third was the Mississippi bubble in the Bank of France.

Especially during the reign of Louis XV, the Mississippi bubble of the Bank of France was a typical run, which led to the devaluation of banknotes.

When the reputation of the currency collapses, it cannot be resolved with a few words by just a single person.

When things are going well, people praise heroes, but when crisis comes, people just want to protect themselves and vent their anger at the same time.

As for the financial crisis in the Song Dynasty, it is purely a bookworm's imagination to think that Zhao Guanjia can solve it with a few words.

However, what Zhao Guanjia has more confidence than Louis XV and George I is that he has stronger control over the big nobles and big businessmen.

And those bubbles in European history were undoubtedly after the hype started, and the big nobles and big businessmen wanted to deliberately exchange large amounts of money or get away and run away.

In Da Song, do you dare to get away and run away, or deliberately exchange large amounts?