The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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The Empress Dowager Yeli didn't dare to delay at all. After returning to Beijing, she quickly informed several confidants of Su Jin's coercion and the current situation. The people of Song Dynasty paid for Daxia to send troops, and let Xia's army fight against the Liao army.

Cursing is scolding, but when the Empress Dowager Yeli asked them what clever plan they had to solve the crisis, they spoke to each other again; it was itching. The intention of the people of the Song Dynasty is to let them reap the benefits of the fishermen, otherwise they will march mercilessly, and many southern state capitals, including Xingqing Mansion, will be included in their pockets; Most of the cities are concentrated in the south. If these cities are occupied, is it possible that everyone will go back to the northern pastures and Gobi to live a nomadic life?Moreover, the Song people were famous for their ability to defend the city. As long as the city was captured by them, even if the army went south to capture it, there was nothing they could do.

In view of this, the ministers can only acquiesce in the deal between the Queen Mother and Su Jin, and can only sacrifice the Daxia army in exchange for the integrity of the country. If people die, they can encourage births and increase the population. When the country is destroyed, there will be nothing up.

The Empress Dowager Yeli knew that the officials would not object, and even she herself could not resist Su Jin's coercion, let alone these officials, the new emperor Li Ningling was furious, and dropped several precious things in the palace. The Empress Dowager Yeli chose to ignore it, and in the end Li Ningling could only vent his anger on the three former emperors' favorite concubines to vent his depression, and the life of the puppet emperor was not easy. [

Zhang Yuan and other leading officials in the north could only accept their fate after hearing the news. Now that they are under the control of others, they can only suppress the anger in their hearts and act according to the Queen Mother's will; Zhang Yuan quickly assembled the army, and more than 30 troops quickly marched towards Helan Mountain , the army of the Liao people was just about to pull out their camp and withdraw their troops, but they had to cancel the order quickly, because the enemy army was coming quickly, and retreating at this moment is suspected to leave the back of the Xia army. Once attacked, the army will be defeated like a mountain. Big taboo, the two sides set up a confrontation at the foot of Helan Mountain, but neither of them dared to strike first.

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Su Jin didn't delay either, and wrote a note to the court to explain the current situation. Afterwards, without waiting for the court's reply, he set off with more than a thousand personal guards. The generals in the army tried their best to dissuade Su Jin from taking such a risk. But Su Jin knew very well that at this juncture, even if Xia Ren had a hundred courage, he would not dare to do anything to himself.

Su Jin only asked them to keep an eye on the movements of the two countries and be vigilant, and told Li Zhongzhong to quickly assemble and deliver the supplies that he promised to assist the Xia people, because if the supplies were in short supply and the logistics could not be guaranteed, he himself would not be able to escape the fate of failure even if Sun Wu was reborn and Zhuge was reborn. I was not sure of winning, so I could only rely on crowd tactics and God's blessing.

When passing by the Xingqing Mansion, the Empress Dowager Yeli sent an imperial envoy with the Empress Dowager Yizhi to go with Su Jin. None of Xia Guo understood why the Empress Dowager insisted on letting this Su Jin lead a battle involving 10 people. The chief culprit who threatened Daxia; the Empress Dowager Yeli was like a bright mirror in her heart. Su Jin's ability is second to none in Xia Guo. If he can't beat others, he can never imagine winning this battle; The people of Song Dynasty feared the Liao people's revenge afterwards, so Su Jin would definitely do everything possible to inflict heavy damage on the Liao people, so as to achieve his goal, so the Empress Dowager Yeli didn't worry that Su Jin would play tricks at all patterns.

In the Gobi Desert with a radius of 10 miles below Helan Mountain, the Xia and Liao armies faced each other far away. The barren land that was originally barren was suddenly turned into a miasma by hundreds of thousands of people, and it was quiet for a while.

The Xia State has more than 30 soldiers across the country, while the Liao people have an army of 17, and the total force has reached 47. Once a fight starts, it will be a super war; not only that, the number of both sides is still increasing. In a short period of time, 60 new troops were added to the aid of armor and weapons, and the Liao people could retreat, so they had to increase another [-] troops from home, and the total strength reached [-] in the middle of the twelfth lunar month.

Such a huge army is assembled here, and the entire southern foot of Helan Mountain is densely covered with military tents. The densely packed grave-like tents stretch for dozens of miles. The shrubs and stones on the Gobi have been swept away by both sides, and they are used to build camps and light fires to keep warm. , Even the lizards, snow rabbits, wild wolves and gophers living on the entire Gobi were all killed and used as food for food.

Neither side had any plans to act first. In addition to strengthening the defense, they only made small-scale tentative attacks. With one exception, the small groups of tentative attacks became cannon fodder. It is considered a powerful army, but the entire army was wiped out within thirty steps of the enemy's front. Under the blockage of dense feather arrows like a dark cloud, 5000 people were easily crushed to death like a group of ants. Cause the slightest damage.

From the middle to the end of the twelfth lunar month, the two sides confronted each other for more than ten days, but they were not sure of victory, so they could only continue to confront each other until the last heavy snow fell one after another before the year, and the extremely cold weather began to make the two sides' battles more difficult. The army can't go on calmly; for the Liao people, the supply line is too far away, and the supply of materials, food and grass will become more difficult with the heavy snowfall, and for the Xia army, life is also difficult. Fighting in the country of Xia, but here is the Gobi wasteland where birds do not lay eggs, and supplies are equally difficult, and more importantly, the country of Xia can't afford it, and they don't have any stocks of food, grass and fuel to supply.

The patience and momentum had reached the limit, and the two sides had no choice but to plan to attack.

The battle plan has been discussed dozens of times, and dozens of plans have been rejected one by one. Although Su Jin has not been awarded the position of generalissimo, he has full rights. For Zhang Yuanren, Jingde, Li Jiqian and others The battle plan proposed by Su Jin was unceremoniously crossed out. In Su Jin's view, such a war would not be effective with their crappy plans, not to mention that Xia Jun seemed to have a large number of people, but never In terms of combat power, it is not an opponent at all.

On the morning of this day, the battle meeting in the big tent was held again. Zhang Yuanduan presided over the meeting after taking the main case, while Su Jin could only sit cross-legged on a futon beside him. Snot out.

"Everyone, the weather is turning cold. I don't know when this snowstorm will stop. It is not an option to endure it like this. In the end, our Great Xia army will eventually run out of food, and soldiers on horseback will also start to freeze to death. We can't continue After waiting, I suggest that we discuss how to formulate a battle plan today, and launch an attack on the Liao people today." Zhang Yuan said slowly.

"Xiang Zhang is right. The soldiers are wearing thin clothes, they have run out of fire starters, and they are burning hay for warmth. How can we fight like this? Some people always reject the battle plan, but they can't come up with a good way. Is it possible? I don't want to fight at all, I just want God to consume the armies of the two countries, whoever freezes to death and starves to death first will be defeated?" Li Jiqian said harshly.

Someone let out a low laugh, Li Jiqian was accusing Sang and Huai of accusing Su Jin of banishing him.

Zhang Yuan glanced at Su Jin, whose eyes were blurred, then turned his head and said, "Let's talk about it, how to play?"

The crowd was silent for a while, then Ren Jingde said: "I still stick to the method proposed earlier, with 5 new troops as the death squads charging the enemy's front, General Ximu and General Li led 20 troops to attack the enemy's flanks, while the central army [-] troops took the iron kite army as the front row, and went straight to the enemy's middle army. When the iron kite army attacked, the [-] new troops had already consumed two or three rounds of enemy arrows, so they would not be attacked by feather arrows again. advantage, why worry about the enemy not being defeated?"

The crowd said silently, Ren Jingde was ruthless, and 8 recruits took the lead. This is to completely use these 20 recruits as cannon fodder. It is conceivable that these [-] recruits will survive their lives; The attacking side will naturally suffer greater losses. This is the consensus of both parties, otherwise they would not have stared at each other for more than [-] days. [

"Well, the final general agrees with General Ren's plan, which can be slightly modified. The enemy's left wing is backed by the side slope of Helan Mountain. The terrain is condescending and it is not easy to attack. It can be restrained by [-] cavalry, and the right wing can increase its force to achieve better results. "Xi Muwei's name is thick but subtle, but she really does her best to think about the country of her lover and queen mother.

Everyone nodded. There was not much room for thinking in the current situation. Some people even talked about winning or losing and how to fight, just wanting to fight, and hurriedly finished the idea of ​​leaving this devil's land.

"Master Su, what do you think?" Zhang Yuan still wanted to ask Su Jin for his opinion out of politeness and the Queen Mother's order.

Su Jin rolled her eyelids, took her hands out of her rolled up cuffs, rubbed them together and said, "It's not right!"

"Cut!" Someone whispered contemptuously. This guy was pretending to be old-fashioned. He was wrong when everyone proposed a plan, and he didn't see any good ways. He was completely here to disrupt the situation.

"Lord Su, someone suggested that you should leave this place quickly. You are a distinguished guest of Daxia. No one has time to protect you in a big battle. You don't need to watch here. Now that the army is fighting, there is room for maneuver. You don't have to worry about it." This battle cannot be fought." Ren Jingde taunted Su Jin unceremoniously.

Zhang Yuan waved his hand to stop Ren Jingde's words, turned to Su Jin and said, "Master Su, what's wrong?"

Su Jin said: "It's not right to fight recklessly. There is no certainty about the outcome. Since I have been entrusted to command this battle, I can't be sure. We don't rely on luck for gambling. This is hundreds of thousands of lives. Once the battle is defeated, none of the lords and generals here will survive, maybe you are not afraid of death, but how can I put my life in your hands."

"Bah, what is it!"

"Timid and timid, what are you doing with your preposterous words?"

Everyone shouted angrily.

Su Jin put his hands behind his back and said, "Am I a coward? Ask your Zhang Xiangguo if I am a coward?"

Zhang Yuan thought, it's no wonder that you are cowardly. You dared to go to Huizhou to burn food with a dozen people, and planned a coup to assassinate Li Yuanhao. If such a person is cowardly, is there any courageous person in the world?

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