I am Da Song

Chapter 320 The Strategic Advantage Gained by the Song Army

Zhang Jun's vision is more like that of a prime minister, and he is not limited to the territory of the Xixia battlefield.

Instead, he pointed to the map and said to everyone: "Since the fall of the Liao Dynasty, the Xijing Yunzhou (Datong) and Nanjing Youzhou among the five capitals of the Liao Dynasty have been taken back by our dynasty."

"Therefore, the territory of the Liao Kingdom occupied by the Kingdom of Jin is equivalent to opening the hinterland towards me. I think that soldiers should be sent to the border in Yunzhou and Youzhou at the same time, so as to encircle Wei and save Zhao."

"In this way, Yue Xianggong led the army to help Xixia, which inspired the resistance of the Xixia monarchs and ministers. The army of Youzhou and Yunzhou deterred the Jin army. It forced the country to panic and withdraw its troops voluntarily."

Zhao Huan looked at Privy Envoy Zhang Shuye and asked, "What do you think?"

Zhang Shuye thought about it and said: "We have a peace treaty with Jin after all. If the war spreads beyond Xixia, I am afraid that Hebei, which has just recuperated for a few years, will reignite the flames of war."

Zhao Huan nodded solemnly, it has only been four years since Da Song passed the Jingkang crisis.

The whole country is in a state of recuperation.

But even so, Song Dynasty also quelled the domestic rebellion, cured the flood, and was forced to fight two border wars.One is to fight back against the invasion of the Kingdom of Jin, and the other is to regain the hometown of Longyou.

If this is another Northern Expedition, there will be another large-scale national war with the Kingdom of Jin.

Even if the Song Dynasty's finances can support it, the manpower of ordinary people cannot support it.

There have been four wars in four years, each time about 20 people were mobilized... This is a restful and lonely rest.

Zhang Jun was resolute and said, "If the hand and feet are bound by a paper peace, wouldn't it appear that the court is pedantic and incompetent? Now the main force of the Jin army is in the territory of Xixia, and there are weak troops in the country of Jin."

"The country will increase its troops to Yunzhou and Youzhou, and the Jin country will only be frightened, and it is impossible to take the initiative to go south to fight."

"But the key lies in our North Korea's deployment of the Northern Expedition, which can clearly show our North Korea's attitude to Jin and Xia. It prompts Xixia to resist firmly and forces Jin to fear and retreat."

"It will make all the countries in the world see clearly our determination to protect the vassals, and make all countries admire the king and send envoys to pay tribute."

Zhao Huan thought about it seriously for a moment, and felt that Zhang Jun's proposal was quite satisfactory.

Although Da Song didn't want to get involved in the war, he couldn't blindly appease.

For an expansionist regime like the Jin Kingdom, his ambition must be completely extinguished the first time he tries to break the regional structure.

So Zhao Huan finally made up his mind and said: "Prosper and destroy the country, inherit the peerless world, lift up the Yimin, and the hearts of the people of the world will return. As the kingdom of heaven, our dynasty cannot do nothing. Just do what the prime minister says."

"The Privy Council transferred the main force of the Serbian Army to Yunzhou. The main forces of the Shenwu Left Army and the Shenwu Empress Army were transferred to Youzhou."

"Let the main force of the Shenwu Right Army march from Jingzhao Mansion to Xingqing Mansion immediately."

Under Zhao Huan's decisive actions, Song Jun has already made the most decisive intervention.

However, the changes in the Xixia war situation still caught the Quartet countries by surprise.

At the beginning of September, when Xixia's envoys finally arrived in Tokyo and asked Song Dynasty for asylum and mediation, Li Qianshun, the leader of Xixia Kingdom, did another thing that was unexpected by the Privy Council of Song Dynasty.

After barely resisting the Jin army for a month, he gave up the defense line of Helan Mountain because of repeated defeats, and led his army to retreat southward from Helan Mountain.

On the way of his withdrawal, the sandstorm that Xixia and Song Dynasty had been looking forward to since the beginning of the war finally arrived. The Jin army was trapped at the foot of Helan Mountain and could not pursue it. Li Qianshun was able to escape smoothly.

This scene caused countless ministers of Xixia to feel sorry for their wrists and cry. As long as the Xixia army persists for four more days, the Jin army may be disrupted by flying sand and rocks. The Xixia army will once again reproduce the glory of their ancestors and defeat the enemy!

But the current Xixia king no longer has the vigor of his ancestors, he is used to kneeling and submitting.Once the knees are softened, it will be difficult to harden the waist, and the flesh and blood will be in the mountains.

Since Song Zhezong sent his troops to attack Xia, Xia's army was completely defeated. He was used to being weak.

After kneeling for a long time, the Jin army rose up, and before the soldiers arrived, he directly asked to surrender.

When King Zhao Huan came to the world, his authority was as fierce as the scorching sun, and the Jin army dared not look directly at it.

He didn't even dare to face the king's prestige directly. With the combination of great song's grace and power, he handed over the thousands of miles of land he had occupied while the great song was in trouble.

Finally, under inertia, he flinched again this time, unable to straighten his back to fight against Jin Guo's powerful soldiers.

When the Jin army was trapped in Helan Mountain, Li Qianshun fled southward with his palace and concubines non-stop.It wasn't until he fled to Xiliang Mansion that he took a breather.

But he fled to Xiliang Mansion not to reorganize the defense line here, but to send people south to enter Longyou Duhu Mansion to ask if he could get asylum.

This scene is so ironic. Xixia had repeatedly attacked Tubo along this route. Although they were defeated repeatedly, they were indomitable.

But in this generation, the same route has become the escape route for the lord of Xixia.

It took only two months for the Jin army to penetrate the territory of the Xixia Kingdom from north to south, and drove its monarch to the foot of the mountains next to the border of the Song Dynasty.If you escape again, you will flee into the territory of Song Dynasty.

Without the guard of the army, Xingqing Mansion easily became the possession of the Jin Army.

After conquering the capital of the next country, the Jin people went into a carnival, Wanyan Loushi ordered the massacre of the city for seven days.

The entire Xingqing Mansion was engulfed in flames, more than [-] Dangxiang members were massacred, corpses piled up in the city, and blood flowed like rivers.Only more than [-] craftsmen and artists survived.The tombs of the Xixia kings were excavated, and the Jurchens took the treasures from the tombs and exposed their remains in the wild.

The Jurchens once again showed the world their cruelty and barbarism.

Without the consideration of the Xixia army's resistance, the Jin army began to massacre and plunder in Xixia in an organized manner. This country, which has been established for nearly a hundred years, is full of blood and war on the land.

The corpses of the dead people filled the field, and there were no pedestrians, chickens and dogs within thousands of miles.

When the Song army arrived, there was almost no life in the huge Xixia country, only a few tigers and leopards appeared in the middle of the grass, gnawing on the rotting corpses.

Xixia Xingqing Mansion no longer needs rescue, and the distance is full of ghosts and monsters, and there is no human habitation.Yue Fei had no choice but to lead his troops to station in the Xiangqing Military Division to collect refugees, consolidate the defense line, and wait for orders from the imperial court.

The development of the situation can be described as ups and downs, from the fierce fighting between the Jin and Xia armies, to the Song army being forced to be involved in the war, to the Jin country sending envoys to strongly protest the Song army's threat from Chen Bing.

Up to now, the situation has become a little clearer, and people in the world have suddenly discovered that with the deployment of Song Dynasty Prime Minister Zhang Jun, the strategic advantage has completely turned to Song Dynasty!
Especially in the direction of Xixia, Da Song simply won!Both militarily and economically, Song Dynasty has obtained unimaginable benefits since the war began.

Even if the Jurchens fought bloody battles for more than two months, and massacred cities and plundered thousands of miles, but in the face of Song's income, that is not worth mentioning.

(End of this chapter)