The troops were sent to the northwest frontier, but there was also a problem that Xiao Tang's army had to face. At first, the troops and horses gathered in several base areas such as Shuibo Liangshan, Qingzhou Liangshan and Taihang Mountain Lianhuanzhai, although there was no strategic depth, they could also concentrate superior forces at any time to point where to fight. And several major battles with the Jin army, it is also possible to dispatch troops and horses in the area under the rule of the Song Realm, and even the Song army to fight together, but now with the increasing geographical scope controlled by their own forces, the rift between them and the Song court is getting deeper and deeper.

What's more, during the period when Wanyan was sent back to the Jin court, the Jin army in the north did not move, and it was inevitable that although the Song court was disturbed by the rebel forces that were gathering in various places, it still needed to dispatch troops and horses to be deployed at the junction of the positions of each other's control forces to be on guard.

Because of this war, it is impossible to gather most of the elite of the Mabu Army to kill directly to the west, and the number of troops dispatched is limited, and the battle will inevitably be lonely. However, before continuing the northern expedition, the battle of the northwest frontier court must be fought first, because the puppet Qi regime of Liu Yu, which was originally supported by the Jin state, has been destroyed, and it is no longer possible to teach the Jin forces to temporarily take over Huaidong, Jingdong, Jingxi, and several other battlefields to invade the Song Dynasty, and the buffer area between the Song and Jin countries and the Hedong region occupied by the Jin army are also all occupied by Xiao Tang. The Song court has negotiated peace with the Jin State, and in the official history, the Jin State attacked the Song Realm, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the Song army of the Five Roads was defeated, resulting in the Battle of Fuping, which caused the vast majority of the state capitals of the Five Roads to occupy the border court to fall one after another......

In other words, if Xiao Tang continues to let the situation in the northwest go unattended and let the Song and Jin countries fight against each other, but due to the existence of their own forces, the two sides have reached a peace, and each other will have reservations, and the Song army will no longer contain the elite soldiers of the Jin State along the way. Just take advantage of the situation and push all the way to Beiping without thinking? Wanyan Sticky Han and Wanyan Lou Room can fight to capture the territory of the Song Realm's border court, and take advantage of the fact that their own rebel armies then encroached on the Jin country, and gathered the rest of the Jin army's elite in the official history that was enough to kill the 180,000 Song troops to lose their armor and attack Hedong, and stabbed Xiao Tang's rear key point.

Xiao Tang is not the kind of stupid and mediocre talent who has no strategic overall view, but is so boastful and pointing fingers. Taking advantage of the rout and shock of the Jin army in the north, the rear was attacked by the righteous divisions and armies of Baozhou and Phi Dao, and the Song court had no time to take care of it for the time being due to civil strife.

According to the previous planning, Xiao Tang then said loudly: "If you want to pass through the land east of the river to open up the west of the river, occupy Longyou, overlook Guanzhong, the military state controlled by the Jin army that is attacked first is enough, and the Song army in the south is watching the fire from the other side, especially in the current situation, it is impossible to make a way with the Jin army." The soldiers under the command of Wanyan Sticky Han and Wanyan Lou are the few remaining elite armies in the Jin Kingdom, and now they can free up their hands and feet to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

After all, most of the brothers had a duty to lead the troops and defend the land... This time I went westward, and I and Liu Jingluo were the commanders, commanding the five armies of Madman, Hengchong, Tianbo, Longxiang, Huyi, and the soldiers and horses of the Taihang Mountain Righteous Army, as well as the leaders of the military division, Fan Rui, Qiao Daoqing, etc., as well as Yao Pingzhong and a number of ministry leaders who went out with the army, and the rest of the brothers of the various departments, according to the previous appointment of the town guard station, each in charge, should abide by it, and do not violate it. ”

When the leaders who participated in the military discussion in the festival hall heard this, some of them couldn't help but change their faces slightly, and their elder brother said that he was in command of the western expedition together with Liu Fa and Liu Jingluo, and it was understandable, after all, Liu Fa had been fighting in the Xiting Frontier for a long time, and became famous in the Song and Xia Wars, and the name of a natural god general was fought in the northwest realm; And the generals of the three armies of Hengchong, Long Xiang, and Tiger Wing, Han Shizhong, Zhai Jin, and Zhai Xing, as well as Yao Pingzhong, who went out with the army, were also fierce generals of the Western Army; As for the mad demon and Tianbo Mabu army led by Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, it can be said that they are the best fighting forces among the rebel armies, and both of them are from Kansai.

However, even if there were troops led by leaders such as Niu Gao, Shi Xiu, and Li Xiaozhong in Hedong, as well as the leaders of the righteous army such as Fu Xuan of Taihang Mountain, they still pressed most of the other warlike divisions to stay in Hebei and Jingdong. In the past, any time they won a great victory in a confrontation with the main force of the Jin Army, most of them were able to form a situation of borrowing strength. Now only these military horses have advanced into the realm of the Song, Jin, and Xia kingdoms, and they have to face the top two generals in the Jin army, such as Wanyan Sticky Han and Wanyan Lou Room, and only transfer these soldiers and horses or their own brother to recruit in person, is this also a bit risky?

Lin Chong immediately stood up, after all, he had a serious temperament, and said to Xiao Tang: "Although our army has repeatedly defeated the spirit of Jin Yu, but Sticky Han, Lou Room and others have previously crisscrossed Guanxi and repeatedly broken the Song army, and they are indeed worthy of being famous generals in the Tartars, and the army is also fierce and strong, and the enemy must not be underestimated." Brother's thoughts, I also understand, now our army is fighting in the name of the feudal town, and the advance should be fast rather than slow, while the Song court is tired of coping, and the intention to cut the feudal domain can not free up troops to seek another trick, and if it is delayed for a long time, it is easy to be calculated by the Jin Tartars and the Song court... However, although it is extremely important to eradicate the troubles of our army in this battle, the greater the effectiveness of the soldiers' dangerous moves, the greater the danger. In my opinion, if we allocate the wise and brave generals among the brothers to command the soldiers and horses of the Western Army, and slow down the situation in the northwest left and right, we can also achieve the effect of eliminating the disaster, and there is no need to teach my brother to personally take risks. ”

"Now our army is in full swing, and its reputation is only temporarily from the Song Dynasty to a strong domain, and there are still heavy Jin troops in the northwest, and they are afraid of each other, and they only maintain the current situation.

Xiao Tang said leisurely, and said with a smile to Lin Chong: "Brother, there is no need to worry too much, Xu Guanzhong and other brothers and I have already discussed it in detail before, and made another deployment, and the Hedong Road military horses will be led to the west one step ahead." If everything can be as expected by the previous thoughts, the Northwest Border Court will not have strong reinforcements available, and in one fell swoop it will eliminate the hidden danger of Wanyan Sticky Han and Wanyan Lou's command all the way to the rear, and it will be able to directly control the land of Longyou in Guanxi... It is true that the battle of the westward march must be fought first, and in order to bring about as much as possible the situation I envisioned, I must also lead the troops myself......"

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It wasn't until Xiao Tang waited for the rebel army under the command of Liu Fa and Xiao Jiasui to wave his army, and after a little rectification, he raised troops from the Daimyo's Mansion and marched westward, and went straight into the boundary of Hedong Road.

And Lu Zhi under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan Mansion, Weisheng Army and other important military state passes on the winding official road, back and forth dispatch grain and straw, these days in Taiyuan Mansion around the construction of military villages, there are also a large number of people to serve the Taiyuan Mansion around the military fortifications almost repaired completely, rebuilt into a complete defense system, and there is both Li Xiaozhong, who is good at fighting defensive warfare, commanding and dispatching the Jingnan Army, along the way to arrange dangerous passes, as long as the nearby key passes in the northeast region of the river are still under the control of the Xiao Tang Righteous Army, Previously, the Jin army from the west had also come to carry out several small-scale tentative raids, but they had to plunder the villages and squares along the west side of the Hedong Road for a while, and it was difficult to attack the key areas in the east of the river, which were surrounded by thousands of mountains and easy to defend.

Until the righteous army led by Xiao Tang personally entered the boundary of Hedong Road, Li Xiaozhong, Shi Xiu, Niu Gao and other leaders of the Mabu Army led the army to respond. Knowing that the Jurchen detective Ma finally found out that there were a large number of rebels gathering on Hedong Road, and marching straight to the west, they also flew back to report the sound of the investigation, and immediately sent the news that the Xiao Tang rebels were about to march west as soon as possible and reported it to the general of the department......