Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

"The Great Detour Strategy!"

The officials were shocked. According to the plan of the Great Roundabout Strategy, the Song Dynasty's next plan was to wait until the Liao Dynasty was in civil strife, find the right time to destroy Xixia, and then fight a decisive battle with the Liao Kingdom.

"The officials should think twice. Now is not the best time to destroy Xixia." Lu Dafang objected.

However, the current situation is due to the death of Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Xixia. Although Xixia dominates the Shao Kingdom, it has made the relationship between Liao and Xia closer through the marriage between Liao and Xia. Attacking Xixia at this moment may cause a joint counterattack by Xixia and Liao.

The old party opposed it one after another. The old party has always been opposed to war. The reason why the old party agreed to the Great Roundabout Strategy was because the Great Roundabout Strategy was the same as the Song Dynasty's policy of first easy things and then hard things when they unified the world.

But now Zhao Xu is forcibly advancing the Great Detour strategy before the time is ripe, which naturally makes the old party extremely opposed.

Zhao Xu frowned. When he was in power as a young man, he was in a period of rapid progress, so naturally he couldn't stand the conservative policies of the old party.

The new party was eager to give it a try. Zeng Bu said proudly: "I have reported to the officials that I think it is possible to implement the Great Roundabout Strategy. Now our Song Dynasty has strong soldiers, horses, and sufficient financial resources. We are stronger than Xixia and can implement the second step of the Great Roundabout Strategy. "

According to the New Party's vision, if you want to destroy Xixia, how can you just wait and see? Now that Xixia has just experienced civil strife and weakened its national strength, the Song Dynasty is booming, and its weapons, money and food are the highest in history. There is no opportunity to create opportunities.

"Absolutely not! Soldiers are very dangerous. Even if a country is big and warlike, it will surely perish. If we are not sure of victory, how can we start the war lightly!" Yang Wei objected repeatedly.

As for the old party, they are quite satisfied with the current situation. The Song Dynasty has won several foreign wars in succession. It has more than enough self-preservation but insufficient offense. It is not oppressed by foreign enemies and prevents the Song Dynasty from starting the war lightly. This This is simply the ideal situation for conservatives.

"Although the country is safe, it will be in danger if it forgets to fight. Last year, Xixia and Liao jointly attacked the Song Dynasty for no reason. How can we be willing to not avenge this revenge? What's more, with the Liao-Xia marriage now, with the support of Liao, it won't be long before... Xixia will once again become a serious problem for the Song Dynasty, and the ministers and others believe that it is necessary to implement the great detour strategy in advance and not allow Xixia to have a chance to breathe." Zhang Dun said fiercely.

The current situation is extremely clear. Neither the Song Dynasty nor the Liao Kingdom is sure of defeating the other. Naturally, they will not start the war lightly, and the main focus of the struggle is Xixia.

The intention of the Liao State was to support Xixia to continue to attack the Song Dynasty and let the Song Dynasty continue to weaken, while the Song Dynasty tried its best to suppress Xixia and wanted to completely destroy Xixia once and for all.

Xixia can be said to be a battleground for the world's powers. Whoever wins Xixia will have the upper hand. Now that the Liao Kingdom has bound Xixia through marriage, what the Song Dynasty can do is to carry out a roundabout strategy in advance and completely destroy Xixia.

However, officials in the Song Dynasty had different opinions on whether to forcibly destroy Xixia, and the old and new parties argued endlessly.

Su Song was also hesitant. Naturally, he did not want to start a war lightly. Of course, he could not sit back and watch Xixia rise again and continue to threaten the Song Dynasty.

"For the record, since the Grand Detour Strategy was proposed by Fan Taicheng, it would be better to ask Fan Taicheng for his opinion." Su Song changed his words.

The old and new parties couldn't help but look at Fan Zheng.

Both the new party and the old party believed that Fan Zheng would agree with their views. After all, in the new party's view, Fan Zheng proposed a grand detour strategy with the purpose of annihilating Xixia. Now is the time when Xixia is at its weakest, and it is a good time to defeat Xixia.

The old party is also full of confidence. The officials implemented the great roundabout strategy in advance, which obviously violated the steps of Fan Zheng's previous great roundabout strategy. Now there is no civil strife in the Liao Kingdom. If they rashly attack Xixia, they may suffer the same fate as the Liao Dynasty. Xia Allied Forces attack.

Looking at the glances Zhao Xu and Manchao were looking at the officials, Fan Zheng sighed, stood up and said, "Fan thinks that the officials and all of you have misjudged Xixia's strength."

"How do you say this?" Zhao Xu asked confused.

Fan Zheng said solemnly: "Today's Xixia has been weakened by the Song Dynasty's continuous cold war, and its real power has been greatly reduced. However, Xixia is a serious concern of the Song Dynasty, how can it be easily eliminated."

"I agree with Fan Taicheng's words!"

Everyone in the old party rarely agreed with Fan Zheng's point of view. It was indeed too hasty to send troops to Xixia at this moment.

"Then the Song Dynasty will miss this God-given opportunity!" Zeng Bu frowned.

He did not have Fan Zheng's divine perspective and did not know how much damage the Jurchens would cause to the Liao Kingdom. In his opinion, the current situation in Xixia and the advantages of the Song Dynasty were enough for the Song Dynasty to destroy Xixia.

"Back then, both Renzong and Shenzong thought about wiping out Xixia once and for all, but they both suffered a huge defeat. Although the Song Dynasty is now stronger, the trapped beasts are still fighting. Xixia still has sharp weapons such as iron kites, cold-forged armor, and divine arm bows. Even if the Song Dynasty barely defeats them, with the oriole of the Liao Kingdom behind them, it may be difficult to destroy Xixia." Fan Zheng retorted.

Zhang Dun said forcefully: "How can we know without a fight? Will the Song Dynasty have to wait until Xixia rises again in the future to continue attacking the Song Dynasty?"

Everyone in the New Party nodded their heads. The New Party pursues a border-opening policy and has always advocated being tough on Xixia. Moreover, Xixia is a territory that was split from the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty is eager to take it back.

Fan Zheng asked rhetorically: "What if the Song Dynasty is defeated?"

Zhang Dun was stunned for a moment, sweating profusely.

Zeng Buqiang said: "How can we be defeated? Now the advantage lies with us, the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty has occupied the farmland in the southern part of Xixia. With the help of thunder, it is enough to destroy Xixia."

Zhao Xu nodded. It was with the help of the thunder that could attack that Song Dynasty had the confidence to destroy Xixia.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "Although the new Thunder Thunder has been improved, it can only go as far as thirty steps. The last time we defeated Xixia, we just relied on surprise. Now that Xixia is on guard, it is not enough to change the situation of the battle."

In this era, battles are still dominated by cold weapons. The Xixia army has the advantage of war horses, as well as cold forged armor and divine arm bows. Having used gunpowder weapons at close range once, the Xia army must be on guard. I am afraid that the next attack will not be so smooth. .

Zhao Xu frowned. He was full of confidence that he wanted to destroy Xixia in one battle and achieve unparalleled achievements. However, he did not expect that Fan Zheng, who supported him the most, opposed the battle.

Suddenly, Fan Zheng changed his words and said: "But as Zhang Xianggong said, how can you know without a fight!"

Zhao Xu was overjoyed and said, "Fan Taicheng also agrees to implement the second step of the Great Detour Strategy in advance?"

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "The beating that Wei Chen mentioned was not to fight Xixia, but to fight Tubo!"

"Fight the Tubo?"

All the officials looked at each other in confusion, not understanding that just now they were discussing whether to attack Xixia, but in the blink of an eye Fan Zheng actually proposed to attack Tubo.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "After our Song Dynasty captured Qingtang, Tubo was instigated by Xixia and has been unstable, intending to regain the land of Qingtang. Now our Song Dynasty has cracked the cause of the Qingtang, and the various tribes of Tubo are fighting each other." Divided and independent, it is time to eliminate this potential threat."

Zeng Bu frowned and said: "We destroyed Xixia in order to advance the grand detour strategy. Now if we leave Xixia as a powerful enemy without getting rid of it, and instead create new enemies, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?"

The officials nodded slightly, not to mention the new party, even the old party thought Fan Zheng's move was inappropriate.

According to the old party's intention, it was best not to start a war, but Fan Zheng was better off. On the contrary, it was not enough to have a strong enemy in Xixia, but another battlefield had to be found.