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Empress Dowager Yeli did not dare to delay at all, and after returning to Beijing, she quickly informed several confidants of Su Jin's coercion and the current situation, and everyone was indignant and cursed the Song people for their wolf ambitions, because the intentions of the Song people were clearly revealed, and to put it bluntly, the Song people paid for the Great Xia to send troops, so that the Xia army and the Liao army would fight to the death.

Scolding and scolding, when the Empress Dowager Yeli asked them what they had to do to solve the crisis, they were speechless again; Yes, even if they know the intentions of the Song people, they can only 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 the bag; And the cities of Great Xia are concentrated in the south, if these cities are occupied, will it be possible for everyone to return to the northern pastures and Gobi to live a nomadic life? Moreover, the Song people's ability to defend the city is famous, as long as the city is captured by them, even if the army goes south to seize it, I am afraid that it will be powerless.

In view of this, the ministers could only acquiesce to the transaction between the Queen Mother and Su Jin, and could only sacrifice the integrity of the country at the expense of the Great Xia army.

The Empress Dowager Yeli knew that the ministers would not object, and even she herself could not resist Su Jin's coercion, not to mention these courtiers, unexpectedly the new emperor Li Ning Lingge was furious, and fell several precious things in the palace, the Empress Dowager Yeli chose to ignore it, and Li Ning Lingge could only anger the three former emperor's favorite concubines to vent their frustration, and the puppet emperor's life was not easy.

Zhang Yuan and other ministers of the northern army could only accept their fate after learning the news, and now they are controlled by others, they can only suppress the anger in their hearts and act according to the will of the queen mother; Zhang Yuan quickly assembled the army, more than 300,000 troops quickly advanced to Helan Mountain, the army of the Liao people was just ready to pull out the camp and withdraw the army, but had to quickly cancel the order, because the enemy army came rapidly, at this moment the retreat is undoubtedly to leave the backbone of the Xia army, once attacked, the army will be defeated like a mountain, that will be a taboo for soldiers, the two sides in Helan Mountain under the posture of confrontation, but no one dares to do it first.

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Su Jin did not delay, and gave the court an excerpt to explain the current situation, and then set off with a personal guard of more than 1,000 people without waiting for the reply of the imperial court.

Su Jin only instructed them to always pay attention to the movements of the two countries and remain vigilant, and explained that Li Zheng hurriedly assembled and transported the materials that promised to assist the Xia people, because if the materials were short and the logistics could not be guaranteed, he would be Sun Wu's rebirth Zhuge and would not be able to escape the fate of failure.

When passing by Xingqing Mansion, the Empress Dowager Yeli sent a messenger to accompany Su Jin with the Empress Dowager Yizhi, and the Xia Kingdom did not understand why the Empress Dowager had to let this Su Jin command the battle of life and death involving hundreds of thousands of people, and this Su Jin was still the culprit who coerced Great Xia; The Empress Dowager Yeli is like a mirror in her heart, Su Jin's ability Xia Guo is unparalleled, and if he can't win against others, he can't imagine that he can win this battle; What's more, his desire to win this battle was not under the Great Xia monarchs, and the Song people were afraid of the revenge of the Liao people, so Su Jin would inevitably do everything possible to inflict heavy losses on the Liao people, so as to achieve his goal, so the Empress Dowager Yeli was not worried that Su Jin would play tricks at all.

On the Gobi Desert 20 miles below Helan Mountain, the armies of Xia and Liao confronted each other from afar, and the barren land that was originally uninhabited was suddenly turned into a miasma by hundreds of thousands of people.

The Xia State raised more than 300,000 soldiers across the country, while the Liao people had 170,000 troops, and the total strength had reached 470,000. Not only that, the number of people on both sides is still increasing, the Xia State relied on the armor and weapons aided by the Song State, and in a short period of time, 80,000 new new Ding arrived, while the Liao people had no way to retreat, and had to increase the number of troops from the country by 100,000 again, and the total number of troops reached 600,000 by the middle of the month.

Such a huge army is gathered here, the entire southern foot of Helan Mountain is densely covered with military tents, dense and dense tomb-like tents stretch for dozens of miles, the shrubs and stones on the Great Gobi have been swept away by both sides, used to build camps and make fires for warmth, and even the lizards, snow rabbits, wild wolves, and gophers living on the entire Gobi have all been killed and used as food for the stomach.

Neither side had the intention of making the first move, in addition to strengthening the defense, only made a small-scale tentative attack, without exception, the small force of the tentative attack became cannon fodder, the cavalry of 5,000 people can be regarded as a strong army in peacetime, but rushed to the front of the enemy within 30 steps of the whole army was annihilated, under the dense cloud of feathered arrows, 5,000 people were easily pinched to death like a group of ants, without causing the slightest damage.

From the middle of the month to the end of the month, the two sides confronted each other for more than ten days, and there was no certainty of victory, so they could only continue to confront each other until the last heavy snow fell one after another, and the extremely cold weather began to make the armies of both sides unable to go down calmly; For the Liao people, the supply line is too far, the supply of materials, grain and grass will become more difficult with this heavy snowfall, and for the Xia army, life is also not easy, although fighting in the territory of the Xia country, but this is the Gobi wasteland where birds do not lay eggs, the supply is the same difficulty, and more importantly, the Xia country cannot afford to consume, they have no stockpile of grain, grass and fuel to supply.

Patience has reached the limit, and both sides have to plan to attack in unison.

The battle plan has been discussed dozens of times, dozens of plans have been rejected one by one, although Su Jin has not been awarded any generalissimo or the like, but he has complete rights, for Zhang Yuan, Ren Jingde, Li Jiqian and others put forward the battle plan, Su Jin unceremoniously crossed, in Su Jin's view, such a big war is not their crappy plan can work, not to mention that the Xia army seems to be outnumbered, but 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 sat on the main case and presided over the meeting, while Su Jin could only sit cross-legged on a futon on the side, and the cold air in the tent hit people, freezing everyone straight out of their noses.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the weather is getting cold, I don't know when this wind and snow will stop, it's not a way to survive like this, until the end my Great Xia army will run out of food, and the war horse soldiers will also begin to freeze to death, we can't wait any longer, I suggest that today no matter what, set a battle plan, and launch an attack on the Liao people on the same day." Zhang Yuan said slowly.

"Zhang Xiang is right, the soldiers are thinly dressed, the things that cause fire have run out, and they have all started to burn forage for warmth, how can they fight like this? Some people always veto the battle plan, but they can't come up with a good way, is it possible that they don't want to fight at all, but just want God to consume the armies of the two countries. Li Jiqian said in a rough voice.

Someone let out a low laugh, Li Jiqian was referring to Sang and scolding Huai for Su Jin.

Zhang Yuan glanced at Su Jin, who was in a daze, turned his head and said, "Let's talk about it, how to play?" ”

Everyone was silent for a long time, and Ren Jingde spoke: "The old man still adheres to the method proposed before, with 80,000 new troops as the death squad to charge the front of the enemy, General Ximu and General Li lead 50,000 horses to attack the enemy's two wings, and the Chinese army of 200,000 takes the Iron Harrier Army as the front row, and smashes the enemy's Chinese army. ”

Everyone was silent, Ren Jingde was sinister, 80,000 recruits took the lead, this is to completely ask these 80,000 recruits to be cannon fodder, it is conceivable that these 80,000 people will have no survivors; However, although the heart is hard, the method is a way, and the side that takes the initiative to attack will naturally suffer greater losses, which is the consensus of both sides, otherwise it would not have stared at it for more than 20 days.

"Well, the last general agrees with General Ren's plan, which can be slightly amended, the enemy's left flank is backed by the side slope of Helan Mountain, and it is not easy to attack from a high terrain, so it can be pinned down with 20,000 cavalry, and the right flank will increase the impact of troops in order to achieve better results." The name of the fine mother is thick and fine, but it is indeed for the love of the queen mother's country to think wholeheartedly.

Everyone nodded one after another, there is not much room for thinking about the current situation, and some people even have the idea of fighting no matter how they win or lose, and quickly finish the idea of leaving this devil's land.

"Master Su, what do you think?" Out of politeness and the Empress Dowager's explanation, Zhang Yuan still had to ask Su Jin's opinion.

Su Jin rolled his eyelids, took his hands out of the cuffs he had pulled up, rubbed them, and said, "It's not proper!" ”

"Cut!" Someone whispered disdain, this guy pretended to be old-fashioned, everyone proposed a plan, he didn't say anything inappropriate, and he didn't see any good way, he was completely here to stir up the situation.

"Master Su, someone Ren suggested that you leave here quickly, you are a distinguished guest of Great Xia, no one has time to protect you in a big battle, you don't have to keep an eye here, now that the army has no room for maneuver, you don't have to worry about not being able to fight this battle." Ren Jingde unceremoniously ridiculed Su Jin.

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: "Hard fighting is not appropriate, there is no certainty at all, since I am entrusted with the command of this war, I can't do this uncertain thing, we are not gambling on luck, this is hundreds of thousands of lives, and once defeated, none of the adults and generals here can live, maybe you are not afraid of death, but how can I bury my life in your hands." ”

"Wow, something!"

"Cowardly and timid, what do you do with strong words?"

The crowd shouted angrily.

Su Jin said with his hand: "Am I cowardly? Excuse me, your Zhang Xiangguo, am I timid? ”

Zhang Yuanxin said, you are cowardly, you dare to go to Huizhou to burn grain with more than a dozen people, and planned a coup d'état to assassinate Li Yuanhao, if such a person is timid, is there still a bold person in the world?