Of course, Wang Hou can't let the elites from Kaifeng Mansion mess around in Lanzhou, and the elites are still waiting to exchange the heads of the Tubo people for houses......

"Don't underestimate Brook Rosa, this thief has always been good at fighting, and there is also the help of the powerful chief Doropa. Doropa and his three sons were warlike and would rather look up to them than despise them. ”

When Gao Yu heard Wang Hou's words, he valued the three sons of Rosa and Dorobah in his heart...... These five heads should be worth a lot of houses, right?

"Xi Cheng Luosa and Doroba are both brave and unscrupulous, Qingtang is already scattered, everything is difficult, they also borrowed Zhao Huaide to start an incident with the Song Dynasty, cannibalism, and chaos in the family, which is simply the way to seek death." Gao Yongnian's voice sank a little, "What really needs to be guarded against is the Western Thief!" There is news that the Jin King Cha Ge of the Western Thief has always been brave and strategic, and he is now presiding over the whole army, and wants to regroup and fight with us. However, the matter of reorganizing the army is not something that can be done overnight, and this time there should not be much strength to interfere in the Hehuang war, but I am afraid that it will be harmful again in the future. ”

The hard work of the two brothers, Wei Ming Qianshun and Wei Ming Chage, was actually scared out by the house slave soldiers named "Tian Khan" Zhao Ji - it's terrible, Wei Wushu's standard, and he is still fighting to the sky, and he would rather die than retreat!

After Brother Cha returned to Xingqing Mansion, he told his brother what he had seen and heard, and the two brothers hugged and cried for a while.

The Great Song Dynasty is out of the Heavenly Khan, what can the Great White Gaoguo do!

In order not to be the emperor and minister of the country, the two brothers also fought, and the elder brother Qianshun made his younger brother Brother Cha the king of Jin, and let him preside over the military reform with full authority, and gave Shang Fang the order hammer to control the three armies (do not listen to the order, first beat and then play). And Brother Cha put forward the suggestion that all the people should be soldiers, prepare for war in Tuntian, and take turns to go to war. At the same time, a large number of strong crossbows were also put forward to enhance the defense capability of the troops.

However, there was a process for these reform measures to be effective, and before the reform was completed, the Western Xia army was still in a weak position, and it was impossible to start a decisive battle with the dominant Song army in the Hehuang region.

Tong Guan said with a long smile: "Now the focus of the western thieves is on the Wuding River and Lingzhou, and the ones that can be used on the western front are the soldiers and horses of the Renjia family. He paused, "It would be nice if we could trick the loyal soldiers and horses of Rindo out of Zhuoluo City and around Qingtang City." ”

After the Battle of Hengshan, the Song army had a full psychological advantage over the Western Xia. Besides, Tong Guan still has powerful Imperial Knights and Dragon Warriors in his hands, although there are only 5,000 people, how many elites can the Renduo family have? It's three or four thousand, which is not enough to see at all.

"I can give it a try. It is better to divide the soldiers into two roads, all the way out of Jingyuguan to take the north road, all the way out of Anxiang Pass to take the south road, two roads into Huangzhong, will be under the city of Huangzhou. After capturing Huangzhou, they stopped at the Thirsty Donkey Ridge and waited for the next year's battle, so that most of the Western Thieves would send Renduo's loyal soldiers and horses to cross the Six Ridges to aid Qingtang City. Wang Hou said the plan to lure the party into Qingtang, and he was full of confidence in his judgment between his words.

Now Tsongkha Tubo is roughly three territories, one is Huangzhou, which is controlled by Doropa; One is the green pond occupied by the brook and the river; There is also a piece of Kuozhou controlled by Luo Shijun, the great leader of the Tubo Tribe. However, Luo Shijun ordered the wall to be grassy, which is not worth mentioning. It was Brook Rosa and Doropa who had to be dealt with.

Wang Hou's plan was very simple, first divide the troops into two routes, take the Huangzhou controlled by Doropa with the matter of Mount Tai pressing the top, and then spend the winter in Huangzhou with the army, leaving time for Renduo Baozhong to reinforce Xiluo Sa. As long as Renduo Baozhong led his troops to cross the Liuling Mountains and enter Qingtang City, then the Song army would be able to wipe him out along with Xi Cheng Luosa's troops.

As soon as the main force of Renduo Baozhong is finished, the original basis of Zhuoluo Supervision and Military Division in the right wing of Western Xia is Zhuoluo City, which is also in the pocket of the Xihe Army. Although Wang Hou didn't know that Zhao Ji and Cai Jing were each playing a big game of chess, and they both regarded Zhuoluo City as a key location, he also thought of capturing Zhuoluo City.

The city of Zhuoluo and the Kaluo River behind the city of Zhuoluo were the large strongholds of the Western Xia near Lanzhou, and once the place was captured by the Song army, the Western Xia had to retreat to the Qin Wangchuan. The terrain around Qinwangchuan is not precipitous, and it is very difficult to defend. In this way, the initiative on the battlefield on the Western Front will completely fall into the hands of the Song army.

If the Song army can go one step further and directly take Qin Wangchuan, then Western Xia will be split in two!

However, even if you can't capture Qin Wangchuan, just taking Zhuoluo City is enough to mobilize the main force of the Western Thieves in the Wuding River area to help the west. In this way, the area around the Wuding River would be completely controlled by the Song army - after the loss of Hengshan, the area around the Wuding River would be the last barrier to protect Xingqing Mansion. But compared to Qin Wangchuan, Wuding River is not so important.

Because of the loss of the Wuding River, Xingqing Mansion would fall into crisis in a few years (the Song army had to first settle in the Wuding River and only conquer Xingqing Mansion after the harvest), but the Western Xia could also move the country westward. Don't look at the Western Xia can't defeat the Song Dynasty, but when they arrived in the Western Regions, the two Uighurs didn't fight casually?

And once Qin Wangchuan is occupied by the Song army, then it is impossible for Western Xia to escape, so they can only sit and wait!

Therefore, the importance of Qinwangchuan is actually greater than that of Wudinghe.

Wu Haowen suddenly interjected at this time and asked: "If you want to fight like this, you have to have 50,000 soldiers, and if you attack for about a year, can you get the soldiers' rations?" ”

"I can't take it out," Uncle Zhang said with a smile, "how can there be so much food?" An army of 50,000 men, and a large number of horses. If we take into account the consumption in the transportation process, the offensive consumes at least two million stone grain and horse material a year, how can it be supplied by relying on the reserves of Lanzhou, Xizhou, Hezhou, Minzhou and Taozhou? ”

"How can you fight a war without food and grass?" Wu Haowen was stunned.

"Of course it's Tubo!" Uncle Zhang said at night, "It will take the army to occupy Huangzhou for a month, so it is enough for Lanzhou to hoard grain and grass on Anxiang Pass and Jingyu Pass that can be consumed by the army and the people for two months, and then they can eat what the Huangzhou Domain has." ”

"Will they give it to us?" Wu Haowen couldn't understand.

Wang Hou nodded again and again: "Ken's, Ken's...... My Great Song Heavenly Soldiers convince people with virtue, why don't they refuse? ”

The biggest difference between Tsongkha and Western Xia was that there was no strong central power. Therefore, in a war with Western Xia, once the other side loses, it will be fortified and cleared, so that the invading Song army will not be able to raise grain and grass on the spot. Tsongkha Tubo had no way to clear the wilderness, so the Song army could ask the Tubo tribes in Huangzhou to provide grain and horses...... It's not okay not to give, and the Great Song Xijun is also very good at convincing people with virtue!

Wu Haowen still didn't believe in the effect of subduing people with virtue, so he frowned and asked, "When can we send troops?" ”

Uncle Zhang said: "It should be ready in June and July." ”

……

In June, when the southeast wind was strong, Su Shi and Wu Side returned to Jiehe Shang City from Tamna Island on the Zhaocai oar.

The market is more prosperous than ever, and there are construction sites everywhere inside and outside the city. The docks of the Jiehe River are full of all kinds of seagoing boats, and dock workers in short coats and bare arms are shuttling back and forth to carry all kinds of goods.

The area of the port terminal is much larger than the last time Wu Side left, and many newly built wharves have appeared. Not only have the areas along Jiehe South City been used to build wharves, but there are also many wharves along the banks of Jiehe River City for transporting livestock and timber.

There are two more pontoon bridges on the boundary river, and there are cars and horses coming and going on them!

In the coastal area outside the city of Jiehe River, there are a large number of shipyards, outside the west city are all shipyards for building inland river boats, and outside the east city are shipyards for building sea ships, all of which are very busy. In the distance, you can hear the sound of clanging and the sound of workers' labor trumpets. In addition to the boat yard and wharf, there are more than a dozen tall waterwheels on the edge of a large section of the river west of Jiehe City, and I don't know what they are used for?

A little farther away from the boundary river on the south bank, there are schools lined up. There are Yuntai Xuegong Jiehe Branch, Jiehe Knight Academy, Jiehe Shipbuilding School, Jiehe Dongkai Academy, and several newly-built schools that Wu Side doesn't know what they teach.

To the west of Jiehe City, a little further away from the riverbank, there are many chimneys emitting black smoke, as well as the brick kilns without roofs that are unique to Jiehe commercial markets. Black smoke fills the air, and soot and dust drift everywhere.

Although the environment of the city has shown a tendency to deteriorate, the entire Jiehe commercial market has also shown a unique vitality - this is the vitality of capitalism!

Su Shi looked at the lively scene in front of him, and then thought about the scene he saw on Tamna Island and the port of Hakata in Japan, which almost belonged to a different world. He became more and more unable to understand Wu Haogu.

Jiehe, Haizhou, and Kaifeng Mansion are so good, why is there any need to plot against those poor and wild territories? What's the point? And people don't treat him very well, he is a dignified official of the Great Song Dynasty, and he still eats behind closed doors in Hakata in Japan, and he is not even allowed to go to Dazaifu. I just sent a few Japanese sesame officials to Hakata to deal with the matter.

It's so shameless! It's just a hot face to iron the cold ass of these widows......

The "Zhaocai" stopped at the dock of the Jiehe Ship Master School, and several sailors skillfully dropped anchor and lowered the cable, and the gangplank was quickly set up. Su Shi couldn't bear it for a long time, but he hadn't set foot on the land of the Song Dynasty for more than half a year. So he was the first to step off the pedal, and behind him, there were several short men and women in Han clothes, all of whom looked shocked, just like those who came out of some poor country and came to Kaifeng Mansion for the first time.

Wu Yanzhao, the secretary of the Jiehe Shipbuilding School, had already heard the news and greeted him, and he hugged his fists at Su Shi from a distance: "Brother Zhongnan, but Brother Zhongnan?" But I'm looking forward to you! ”

Su Shi also hugged his fists and saluted back: "It turned out to be Wu Siye, I haven't seen him for a long time...... Can praise be in the Boundary River? ”

"Yes, but not in the city." Wu Yanzhao said, "He went hunting in the suburbs of Hebei again, and it is estimated that it will take a few days to return." ”