A few days later, the news from the fine work made the Great Xia Junchen overjoyed, it was the guy named Su Jin who guarded Weizhou, although the background of this person is unknown, but it is said that he is just a hairless young man, for such a result, Li Yuanhao is naturally ecstatic.

"The Song Dynasty was unmanned, and the border town was such an important place, and it actually sent a nameless person to guard it, isn't this nonsense? Zhao Zhen was deaf, I dare to assert that the Song Kingdom will die in the hands of Zhao Zhen, hahaha. ”

In the face of Li Yuanhao's ecstasy, there were not many ministers who echoed him, and everyone didn't dare to disagree casually, so they only secretly said in their hearts: "An unknown milky person? I'm afraid it's not the case, you must know that this person ate the three thousand elite iron horsemen of the Jianing Army alive, and also captured the prince Ning Ming, it is okay to say that the origin is unknown, but it is probably unrealistic to say that the milk smell has not dried up, it should be a little fox with seven tricks. ”

Li Yuanhao is naturally not blindly trusting, he can rely on today is not a nonsense, the reason why he is very happy is to give everyone a kind of confidence, at the same time, compared to Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan, this Su Jin is indeed a soft persimmon, if it is said that the victory or defeat against Han Qi or Fan Zhongyan in this battle is in the number of five or five, after facing this Su Jin, the chance of winning is much greater.

On the 10th day of the first month of July, Li Yuanhao issued an edict ordering the Jianing Army, the Baotai Army, and the Shenmeng Army in the Left and Right Chambers Military Division to assemble in Huizhou, and these three armies each led 50,000 troops, with a total number of 150,000 troops; This time, Li Yuanhao was bound to win, gathered all the main forces of the east and west roads, and at the same time personally came to Huizhou City as the commander, appointed Li Jiqian as the commander of the vanguard army, and led 30,000 cavalry as the vanguard; appointed Yeli Wangrong Yeli Yuqi as the commander of the left and right armies, each commander of 40,000 cavalry marched on both wings, and he led the remaining 40,000 cavalry as the central army, sitting in the rear to supervise the battle; Zhang Yuan served as the chief strategist with the army, and a large number of civil and military ministers came with the army, and they made a powerful contribution to the plan, all in all, they vowed to take Weizhou in one fell swoop and give the Song Dynasty a blow to the head.

This assembly took more than 20 days, the most important thing is that the collection of materials and grain and grass is a big problem, so many troops consume food and forage every day is a big number, the consumption of food and the consumption of food during the war are two concepts when there is no war, when there is no war, the soldiers have two meals a day and one dry and one thin enough to support, and in wartime they must eat and drink enough to raise enough strength, and the horses can not be dealt with with fodder, they are fed with concentrate, just people eat these grains and grass chewed by horses are enough to make people worry.

What's more, Great Xia is now in a difficult period again, the war has destroyed production, and the treasury has bottomed out the grain and cannot mobilize so much grain and grass; In the end, Yuan Hao had to go to the extreme, all the people who had grain in their households had to hand over half of the 'loan' to the imperial court, and those who did not borrow it were punished for the crime of collaborating with the enemy; this way of borrowing things was probably unprecedented and unprecedented, even so, it still caused several popular uprisings, and cut off hundreds of heads, so that the required grain and grass were gathered.

At the beginning of August, the 150,000 Xia army began to make a feint to the front line of Huanqing Yanyan on the East Road, and the first part of the Youzhou Jianing Army was dispatched in advance and began to attack the Zhao'an, Fenglin, Xinzhai and Dalang forts in front of Yanzhou Mansion on Yanyan Road, forcing the Yanzhou army to increase troops to each village; At the same time, Li Jiqian's vanguard appeared fifty miles north of the West Gyeongju Mansion in Yanzhou in just one day, exposing them to the eyes and ears of the Gyeongju scouts.

For a time, the situation in Yanzhou, Gyeongju, Huanzhou and even Mulangzhai, Zhao'an, Fenglin, Dalangbao and other places on the two roads of Yanyan and Huanqing suddenly became tense, and the battle clouds were dense and imminent; Even Fan Zhongyan did not expect that the goal chosen by the Western Xia army was to attack the eastern road, which made all the plans discussed with Su Jin, Han Qi and others in Weizhou come to naught.

However, Fan Zhong was not afraid of drowning, he had 70,000 soldiers and horses on hand on the east road, and there were intertwined fortresses and walled fortresses as bridgeheads for layers of buffers.

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Since Li Chong, Wei Songhe, Pan Jiang and others arrived, the situation in the city has finally changed, Li Zhong has been a county order for nearly a year, and he is naturally a good hand in government affairs, in the name of Weizhou General Judgment and Wei Songhe jointly drafted wartime announcements, and strictly regulated the daily behavior of the people in the city to ensure that there is no internal chaos; At the same time, more than 5,000 brave and brave people were selected to establish Weizhou Township Yong, and weapons and armor were issued to enrich the strength of defending the city.

Pan Jiang, on the other hand, vigorously purged the box soldiers deployed in Weizhou, mercilessly killed nearly 200 soldiers who spread cowardly remarks and violated military discipline in the army, removed a large number of incompetent low-level generals, and purged the long-scattered Weizhou box soldiers in a few days. For several days in a row, the public imposition of military law on violators made the atmosphere in Weizhou suddenly become stagnant and tense, and the soldiers and civilians felt unprecedented fear, and they became more cautious in their actions and words.

Su Jin didn't stop them from doing this, to be honest, Su Jin had wanted to do this for a long time, but if someone did it for Su Jin, he naturally couldn't ask for it, after all, it was better to do less to kill people, especially if he killed his own people before the war, Pan Jiang was willing to carry the black pot for himself, so let him go, anyway, he didn't care about the slander of the soldiers and civilians, and Su Jin was happy to have someone to do it for him.

The effect of the purge is obvious, Su Jin is pleased to see that both the soldiers and the common people are more attentive and attentive to the things at hand, and they no longer find anyone who is stealing and cheating, careless and grinding foreign workers, although they are forced to do so under the pressure of fear, but for the upcoming war, this is definitely a good thing.

However, the development of the situation taught Su Jin to wonder a little, at the beginning of August, after all preparations were ready, the scouts suddenly came with news that the Western Xia army was advancing eastward and had already approached Huanqing Road, and the northern suburbs of Yanzhou in the east had begun to fight, and the western thieves were attacking the northern Zhuzhai of Yanzhou, and it seemed that the western thief army was going to attack the eastern road instead of Weizhou City.

Su Jin didn't believe it, and even sent more than 20 cavalry scouts to investigate, and the next day these scouts reported exactly the same, the Western Xia army did confront Fan Zhongyan on the east road, and the two sides were about to start a war.

Su Jin was confused, and immediately summoned everyone in Weizhou City overnight to discuss countermeasures.

The huge candle in the hall of the government is hot; Jingtai, Pan Jiang, Li Chong, Wei Songhe, Wang Dynasty Ma Han and others, as well as more than a dozen middle and high-ranking generals who were all deployed, were all present.

Su Jin informed you of what the scouts were listening to, and finally said: "This matter is quite surprising to me, I never expected that the target of the western thief was actually Yanyan Huanqing Lianglu, not my Weizhou City, how do you think this thing is wrong, what do you think?" ”

Everyone was also a little dumbfounded, everyone was holding back enough strength to fight with the thief, but they didn't expect that the fist was clenched and not sent out, but the opponent in front of him disappeared, almost flashing his waist, this feeling was both frustrated and confused.

"Lord Lu Envoy, Xia Guan also thinks it is very strange, if it is said that Weizhou is naturally the weakest in terms of strength, isn't it rumored that the Western Thief wants to take revenge on the revenge of the Great Adult for capturing the Xia Prince Ning Ming? Why did he suddenly transfer his hatred to Fan Shuai's side? It's really confusing. ”

After Jingtai came, he directly called Su Jinlu Envoy, that code was naturally ignored, Su Jin was a little embarrassed when he heard it, but over time, he accepted it with peace of mind.

"You mean you don't think something is right, too?" Su Jin asked.

"It's true, it's not normal." Jingtai Road.

Su Jin sighed and said, "It turns out that I'm not the only one who feels like this, it seems that I'm not worrying about nothing." ”

Su Jin looked at the other people, Li Chong and Wei Songhe had just arrived, and they hadn't experienced the war, so they probably didn't feel much about this matter, if Ge Huaimin was here, he could ask his opinion.

When Su Jin was about to skip Li Chong and the others to ask Pan Jiang's opinion, Li Chong Shi Shiran spoke: "Lord Fuzun, the lower officials have some opinions on this matter, do you want to listen to it?" Li Chong said solemnly.

Su Jin looked at his dark face, and suddenly realized that Li Chong was also a person who read poetry and books, and he had also read a lot of military history, and he was by no means a pedantic person who read books to death, so he arched his hand and said: "Brother Li, please speak, this is to discuss this matter, and we will listen to it." ”