The robber cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty, which attacked again, had returned to Yan'an Mansion in triumph. This time, because they had gone too deep and stayed in enemy territory for too long, they were not able to bring back all the people and animals they had plundered, but disposed of them......

However, they did not return empty-handed, and they could keep up with the marching procession, and the horses were brought back, among which there were many good horses of the river meander, and at a glance they knew that they were the military horses of the western thieves. In addition, he also brought back more than 400 heads, all of which were the heads of the Western Thief generals!

In fact, there were far more than 400 people killed by them, but the fake son of Wu Haogu and the Jurchen warriors of Wanyan Xianye were all lacking in heart and eyes, and they didn't know that there was such a thing as taking a chance. Therefore, the civilians killed by them were men in the prime of life, and they were not cut off for military merit.

Although they lack heart, Wu Haogu, who is their commander and profiteer, is a bargain. So he immediately went to Yan'an City with Zhao Zhongge and Huang Zhisheng, with his entourage and hundreds of disgusting heads to see Tao Jiefu - now Wu Haogu's nerves are getting thicker and thicker, when he first arrived at this era, he was afraid when he saw the heroes of Liangshan, and now he is not so afraid when he sees the heads of hundreds of Western thieves, at most he is silently reciting in his heart: God bless!

In the festival hall of the Shuai Si of Dunyan Road, Wu Haogu not only met with Fu Shuai Tao Jiefu and Tong Guan, but also met Wang En, the head of the soldiers and horses of Dunyan Road, who had just been transferred from Zhiwei Prefecture to Yan'an.

This Wang En is not young, his beard and hair are all white, but he looks energetic, and his figure is also abnormally tall, and he looks like a rare tiger general.

He is not a general of the Western Army, but a Kaifeng person, born in the front of the palace, because he is good at riding and archery, he was favored by Emperor Shenzong, sent to the Northwest Army, accumulated military exploits, and rose to the position of the head of the soldiers and horses all the way - in fact, before Wang Anshi abolished the change of military law, although the Kaifeng Forbidden Army was wasted, it was not without generals!

After greeting each other, Wang En looked at Wu Haogu, who did not look like a good general, just frowned slightly, and said: "I thought that there would be no good generals in Kaifeng after the abolition of the war, but I didn't want to see rising stars like Gao Shiyan, Wang Zhengchen and you Wu Chongdao again this year." ”

Gao Yu is now internationally recognized as a good general! Rindo and Baozhong were all beaten and surrendered by him, what else is there to say?

However, when Mr. Wang mentioned "Wu Chongdao", his tone was always a little disdainful. It seems that Wu Haogu, a profiteer, replaces Captain Gao to lead the troops, and he is a little unrecognized!

The Kaifeng Forbidden Army has made the Western Army laugh at it for so many years, and finally rose under the leadership of Gao Taiwei, but because of the traitorous ministers, it was commanded by a real estate developer who bought a house......

"Mrs. Wang has won the award," Wu Haogu didn't care about such an old-timer, "How dare the younger generation be called a rising star?" ”

Wang En shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Why aren't you a rising star?" To tell you the truth, the old man still has your masterpiece in the gift of Kaifeng Mansion, and there is also the old man's industry in the Jiehe Commercial Market, and the old man has made a lot of money.

It's just that this leads the troops to fight...... Can you really do it? This is no joke! If it doesn't work, let Master Gao Yan do it for you. The old man is the head of the soldiers and horses, and he has done this master. ”

This is not very good to say, but Wang En, as an old-timer of Kaifeng Jiangmen (he is old and has boiled everyone else to death, so he is an old military strategist), Wu Haogu can only be regarded as his son and nephew, so he is also qualified to say this.

And Wu Haogu also knew that he had good intentions...... Even if Gao Yu is allowed to take a trip, his military merits are still indispensable!

But this time the situation is different, and Gao Yu really can't be used to replace Wu Haogu. Because the Imperial Front Sanzhi was adjusted by Wu Haogu with reference to the army/division-level grouping model of the army in later generations, Gao Yu was afraid that he didn't know how to command.

In addition, this time it is a big project to be done in Yinzhou, and Gao Yu has no such experience.

"That's a good dare!" Wu Haogu did not refuse the old lady Wang, he said to Tao Jiefu: "Envoy, it is better to let Gao Shiyan and Su Bochong lead the people of Yanzhou and Yan'an to come to help the officials." ”

Hearing that Wu Haogu was going to transfer Su Zhe's son, and the current Zhifu Shi Su Chi helped him, Tao Jiefu was a little difficult.

Wu Haogu made it clear that he wanted to create an opportunity for Su Chi to make meritorious contributions! Su Chi is a civil official, and he is a serious jinshi, and now he is at the level of a courtier. If the meritorious service is exceeded, the official rank of the fifth and sixth grades is also a matter of an eye. The civil officials of the fifth and sixth grades are important ministers who can declare hemp at any time!

Seeing Tao Jiefu embarrassed, Wu Haogu smiled and said: "Su Bochong has been the county governor for a long time, good at soothing the people, and good at farming, if he leads the Yan'an people and the Tuntian soldiers to Yinzhou, he should be able to catch up with next year's spring sowing." Yinzhou is originally cooked land, with countless fertile soil on both sides of the Wuding River and Mingtang River, and no less than one million acres of arable land. If the land is cultivated properly, more than 1.5 million stone of grain will be harvested next fall! With this 1.5 million stones, the envoy can deploy 200,000 troops on both sides of the Wuding River for a year, and the western thieves can't hold Shi, Xia, You, and Hong Zhuzhou.

If you take the states on the banks of the Wuding River, you will definitely be able to declare Ma and worship the prime minister! ”

Xuan Ma worships the prime minister!

And Wu Haogu, who said this, is a confidant of the official family and a disciple of Su Dongpo...... If he is willing to operate for Tao Jiefu, the right minister may not be able to be the right minister, but a deputy minister or a person who knows the affairs of the Privy Council is still nine out of ten.

Wang En on the side shook his head a little, "Wu Chongdao, you think about the matter of Tuntian simply...... It is not enough to just take Yinzhou City. Bring the map! ”

In the festival hall, he hurriedly took a map of the Wuding River Basin and spread it on the desk.

The old general pointed to the Wuding River on the map and said: "The terrain of the middle reaches of the Wuding River is that Henan is mountainous, while Hebei is relatively flat, with only a few hills. The land suitable for cultivation and grazing is all in the flat land of the north of the Wuding River, especially on both sides of the Mingtang River, which is particularly rich, and the Shangjun in ancient times was there. ”

The Wuding River and Mingtang River basins are actually the Yulin of later generations, at the junction of the Loess Plateau and the Mu Us Sandy Land. Although it is generally in a relatively arid area, there are dozens of rivers of all sizes passing through the territory, and Haizi Lake is dotted around, which is a rare land suitable for farming and grazing.

And it is not like the northern Shaanxi Plateau, where the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the hills and beams are intertwined, but there are large areas of flat land that can be defended without danger.

"To the north of Shangjun is the Hetao prairie with fertile water and grass!" Brother Zhao Zhong, who was beside Wu Haogu, interjected at this time, "The Khitan has set up the envoys of the Heqing and Jinsu armies in the Hetao area, and the party members have set up the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division. If we graze cattle on both sides of the Mingtang River and in the Tuntian of the Wuding River, we will easily be looted by thieves who have gone south from the Hetao steppe. ”

To the west of the Wuding River basin is the Gobi Desert, and once the Song army controls the entire Wuding River basin, the Western Xia will definitely destroy the water sources in the Gobi Desert to prevent the Song army from crossing the desert to attack Xing and Lingzhou.

Therefore, the Song army did not have to worry about the enemy in the west - hundreds of miles of desert, without a reliable water source, the army could not pass through at all. And even if there is a water source, the food consumed by walking in the desert for ten days will put the logistics of the Western Xia army in a difficult situation.

However, the Hetao prairie in the north of the Wuding River Basin is a breakthrough that cannot be closed!

"Hehe, I really have an insight!" Wang En touched his beard and smiled, and then looked at Brother Zhao Zhong who interjected, this is a tiger general!

Wang En asked again: "Do you have a way?" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Zhongge nodded, took out a book from a shoulder bag he carried with him (this kind of shoulder bag was common in the Song Dynasty), and placed it on the map table.

What is it?

Wang En squinted his old eyes and glanced at it, and saw that the white cover of this thick book had "Yinzhou Pacification Strategy" written on it.

Zhao Zhongge flipped through the book "Yinzhou Pacification Strategy" to page 169 (the number of pages is indicated in Arabic numerals), and then pointed to a line of headlines and said: "This is the Hejian crusade strategy formulated by the military Ji Yi's command, that is, to use the method of sending troops to crusade to temporarily expel the party tribes in the land between the rivers, and then use cavalry to cover it." ”

The "land between the rivers" he refers to is the area inside the big bend of the Yellow River, which is about the territory of the later Ordos City. It is not the Mongols who live there, but the nomadic Dangxiang tribes, whose lifestyles are diverse, ranging from the aristocracy and bureaucrats living in the cities, to the Dangxiang people who farm in the valleys or riversides, and the Dangxiang people who maintain a relatively primitive nomadic state.

Moreover, not all party members were in the territory of Western Xia, and there were also many party members in the Song and Liao states. The fuse of the war between Liao Xingzong and Wei Ming Yuan Hao was that Yuan Hao lured the party members in the Hetao area in the Liao State to join him.

For these nomadic party items, the short-term solution proposed by Zhao Zhongge is to use cavalry to expel the pulldown. Something that can be appeased is not something that can be solved in the short term, and it is easiest to solve it by force.

As long as you can create a no-man's land one or two hundred miles deep, you can use cavalry to cover it. It is not easy for the western thieves to invade the Tuntian District in the area of Mingtang River and Wuding River.

Of course, it is not so easy to successfully carry out the eviction and masking missions. If it weren't for the powerful palace palace royal horse straight, Zhao Zhongge would not dare to make such a plan.

Wang En's eyes were dizzy, and he couldn't see the small characters clearly, so Tao Jiefu asked his staff to read it word by word, and he himself listened to it. And after listening, Tao Jiefu was already impressed by Wu Haogu.

Whether the Hejian crusade strategy is feasible or not is another matter, but Wu Haogu's military commander obviously understood the situation of the Hejian Dangxiang tribe and the situation of the Hejian grassland in a short period of time.

The efficiency of intelligence gathering alone is already better than that of his own staff!