Listening to Yan Shu's words, many ministers in the court nodded silently, obviously they recognized this decision.
Nowadays, except for the 300,000 Imperial Guards, there are no more troops around Bianliang City. However, it is obvious that the Imperial Guards must protect the safety of Bianliang City and cannot be mobilized to the front line.
Although some new soldiers have been recruited around Bianliang these days, they lack training. Even if they are sent to the front line now, they may not be able to play a big role.
There are many soldiers from the Song Dynasty in the south, but it will take time to transfer them to the north. Moreover, the soldiers in the south have been at peace for a long time, and no one knows their combat effectiveness.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to transfer the most elite Western troops to the north, perhaps to turn the situation around.
No matter how bad things go, the Western Army will not be defeated by the people of the three tribes if they enter. Either way, both sides will suffer in the end. This creates the environment and conditions for the two sides to sit down for peace talks.
As of now, no one thinks that the Song Dynasty can win this battle. As long as the defeat is not too disastrous and ugly, it is the best result.
When Zhao Zhen heard that the Western Army was to be mobilized, he also thought about it and nodded, "In this way, everything will be led by the Privy Council, with other important ministers supporting each other, so that we can work out a solution as early as possible."
After exhaling, Zhao Zhen felt very tired and regretful.
If we had known that the situation was like this, we should not have listened to these ministers and sent Wang Deyong to the front line. Perhaps Su Shi had been taking the lead, and the situation would have been different.
By the way, where is Su Shi now? Is it really possible to stay in Baozhou and watch the show?
The Su Shi that Zhao Zhen was thinking about was not in Baozhou or Xiongzhou. Instead, he had led people northward long ago. Now,
Now he has entered Yongqing City, the southern border of Liao Dynasty.
Yongqing City, one of the border cities in the southern part of the Liao Kingdom, faced the Song Dynasty Bazhou.
Since the Tan Yuan Alliance, there have been no major wars here. Even two years ago, Su Shi led the Su family army in the Liao region, but it did not affect this place.
This time, facing the three tribes attacking the Song Dynasty, Su Shi regarded this place as the first place to attack.
When Su Shi suddenly appeared under Yongqing City with an army of 90,000 people, the Liao army in the city was stunned by what happened in front of them.
The three tribes are attacking the Song Dynasty. At this time, the Song soldiers are not strong enough to defend themselves. How could they take the initiative to attack them? Are these Song soldiers crazy?
There was no preparation at all, and the Song army was powerful. In just half a day, Su Shi's army entered Yongqing City through the ladder and occupied this city of Liao Kingdom.
In fact, Su Shi could have taken Yongqing City by sneak attack, just like when the Black Cavalry traveled across Liao Dynasty before, they captured many Liao cities by sneak attack.
But Su Shi did not do this. Instead, he used human lives to fill the siege method and stormed Yongqing. He was training his troops.
There are 90,000 troops, and there are 70,000 civilian soldiers.
These 70,000 people are willing to fight tooth and nail because they can get benefits from Su Shi.
But sometimes, it doesn't mean that you can win the battle if you are willing to work hard.
If you want to prevent these civilian armies from suffering heavy casualties in the future, if you want them to be able to create more brilliance, and if you want to make the three local armies become elites in all battles, the only way is to keep fighting and fighting.
When there are too many wars, the fittest will naturally survive.
Although people will still die, it is better than being under protection all the time.
, and eventually died due to lack of strength to participate in the war. In this way, by attacking a small town and training troops, there will be far fewer casualties.
After capturing Yongqing City, an army of 70,000 civilians killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 3,000 people. It only achieved the result of killing 1,200 Liao soldiers.
It seemed that Su Shi's losses were heavier, but that's not how the accounts were calculated.
Originally, the price paid by the siege party would have been greater. In addition, the common people's army's combat power was mediocre, but just paying such a price to capture the city was already considered a victory.
A more potential victory is that the 20,000 civilian soldiers who participated in the siege this time were tempered.
Among the 3,000 wounded, 2,000 had minor injuries and could continue to fight after treatment. Only 1,000 were seriously injured and might have to leave the People's Army.
Calculated in this way, after the first battle, at least 17,000 civilian soldiers have been trained in actual combat. Once these people participate in the next war, they will have more experience, and they will not die so many people again.
After Yongqing City was captured, Su Shi ordered people to rob it all and escort all the Liao people here to Bazhou in the rear.
Aren't your three clans wreaking havoc in the Song Dynasty, burning, killing, looting and doing everything they can?
What you can do, I, Song Jun, can also do.
They also burned, killed and looted, but any Liao people who did not surrender were handed over to the 70,000 civilian soldiers for training.
Those who surrender will be sent back to the rear along with a thousand wounded.
Also sent away at the same time were various benefits that Su Shi had promised to the People's Army participating in the war. For example, trucks of rice and noodles were all to be sent to the relatives of the People's Army in the rear.
This is the life money of the common people. Su Shi said to Du Feng, the deputy captain of the Black Cavalry Brigade who was responsible for escorting the goods, "
Tell the Song army in the rear that if anyone dares to interfere in such a matter, when I return to the Song Dynasty, my head will be taken from his head to comfort the souls of the heroes who died in the battle."
There is no unnecessary nonsense. Anyone who has the idea of this thing is a killer.
If others said this, it might just be a means of intimidation. But when Su Shi said it from his mouth, he really dared to do it.
Even the prefect of Yizhou and the deputy commander of the Northern District of the Secret Intelligence Department were killed when Su Shi said they would be killed. Su Shi's reputation had long been resounding throughout the northern region, and no one dared to ignore Su Shi's remarks.
At the same time, several carts of gold and silver were escorted back, worth approximately 400,000 guan.
This is the battlefield harvest that Su Shi sent to the treasury.
When Su Shi got the 5 million yuan from Song Chu, he said that he would hand over 30% of what was captured on the battlefield to the national treasury to use for the expenses of this battle.
Su Shi means what he says.
He also believed that Song Chu would be very satisfied the moment he received the money. He also expressed an attitude in disguise to other courtiers, including Zhao Zhen, let's see who can really fight, Bei
In whose hands should the border military power fall?
Accompanying the silver car was a secret letter written by Su Shi to Song Chu. The main content was Su Shi's apology, saying that the harvest was too little and he was a little embarrassed.
But this is all because of the limited military power in his hands. If the entire Song army in the north is under his control, the harvest will be several times what it is now. I am afraid that it will not take a few battles to return all the five million guans.
, you will earn what you give.
Su Shi didn't know if this would have any effect, but it was better than nothing, at least
Song Chi will cause a fuss after receiving the letter, which should be enough to give some people a headache.
Qingquan was captured, and Su Shi only ordered the army to rest for one day before continuing northward, aiming directly at Gu'an City.
At this time, news of Song's army in the north also spread to other nearby Liao cities.
New Town.
Zhang Jian is setting up a formation here. It involves the food and drink of the 100,000-strong army, as well as the assembly of the 100,000-strong army behind him, which all require his command and care.
But at this time, the news that Yongqing City had been breached suddenly came. Zhang Jian, who was looking at the grain and grass register, was really shocked.
Why did the Song army go north?
Now that Xincheng is besieged, the entire western region of the Northern Song Dynasty has fallen into the hands of the three tribes. What they should do now is not to send reinforcements to rescue Xincheng, but shouldn't they fight the three tribes there?
"Have you found out who the enemy general is?" Zhang Jian felt bad and looked at the messenger who came to report the news and asked.
"I don't know yet. I heard from the people who fled back from Qingquan City that the people who came here are all Song people. Their clothes are not uniform, and their swords and weapons are not uniform."
"People of the Song Dynasty?"
"Are you saying that the people who attacked Qingquan City were Song people? This is impossible, absolutely impossible." After Zhang Jian heard this, he directly rejected it.
The people of the Song Dynasty were the kindest and gentlest people. They were far different from the people of the Liao Dynasty. From time to time, you could see people going out for shopping on the streets. Such scenes were rare to see in the Song Dynasty.
Without someone to organize and direct, it would be impossible for the Song people to take the initiative to attack their Daliao city.
"Check, send people to check again, no matter what, Song Jun's
The Lord will figure it out who it is.”
When Zhang Jian issued the strict order, the Liao troops who were originally preparing to go to Xinzhou from Xincheng also stopped their western expedition.
Before getting any definite information from Song Jun, he decided to take a look before talking.
Just after seeing this, on the third day, another news came that Gu'an City had been destroyed.
All the two thousand Liao soldiers in the city died in the battle, and only some of the wealthy gentry in the city escaped. They were the ones who sent this news.
According to what these escaping gentry said, those who came were indeed Song people. But they were different from ordinary people. When they attacked the city, they seemed to be desperate for their lives. Even when facing the archers of the Liao army, they continued to move forward.
of surge coming.
Gu'an City was also captured. This result made Zhang Jian unable to sit still any longer.
It is true that because of the need to mobilize an army of 200,000 to attack the Song Dynasty, most of the troops in the cities in the southern border of the Liao Kingdom have recently been mobilized.
Otherwise, it would not be that easy to capture these cities.
But even if there were not many troops left to guard the city, with the fortified city as a screen, ordinary Song people could not conquer it just by attacking.
However, Gu'an still fell so quickly, which only proves that the Song army that came was not weak, had a large number of people, and had a strong will to fight.
As the cities of Qingquan and Gu'an were defeated one after another, Zhang Jian had to pay attention. In order to prevent these Song troops from continuing to destroy the Liao border, Zhang Jian decided to fight with them.
At this time, 30,000 Liao troops had been gathered in the new city. They were going to be sent to the front line of Xinzhou. They were intercepted by Zhang Jian. Early on the fourth day, he led 40,000 troops straight to the direction of Gu'an.
Go, he wants to find the main force of the Song Army and fight with it
Let's fight together to defeat each other in one battle.