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Even now the Song army has a large number of troops, and it can't really block the Liao army, the area of the first army in these two states is very large, almost equivalent to four times the area of the original Fulin Road, even if the northern region is abandoned, there is more than twice the area of the original Fulin Road. Not to mention 200,000 officers and soldiers, a million officers and soldiers are coming, and all roads cannot be completely blocked.

The key is that he killed the Yellow River from other roads, how to cross the Yellow River?

There is no suitable ferry, the second Song army is not a dead man, the Liao army moves, and the Song army will inevitably move.

So he had no choice but to hit the idea to the bend of the river, that is, on the other side of the Muna Mountain, all the way to the crossing of the river mouth.

This is not easy, although that section of the river is wide, the water flow is gentle, and there are many green places on the bank, but it is difficult to get wood, and because the Heqing army was taken by the Song army and held above, the Liao army had to turn to the northwest and then rush to the mouth of the bay. This meant that the three armies had to pass through a large stretch of the dry plains, the desert, and the Gobi Desert, and they were much farther away. If it weren't for the fact that the Heqing army was captured by the Song army and the road was blocked, it would have been only more than 200 miles away, but now it would have to walk at least 500 miles.

However, time waits for no one, and it is almost the end of August, autumn is coming, autumn is coming, and here the weather immediately becomes cold.

So he immediately sent scouts to investigate, but even that path was hopeless.

Three days later, the scout came back to report that the Song Dynasty had built many ships, and a large number of fleets carrying many Song troops and supplies had arrived in this bay mouth area, and many Song troops had come ashore, starting from the place where Guanjian was, and five military villages had been built.

This doesn't matter, because of the short time, these military villages can only be regarded as simple military villages, and Guan Jian's fleet continues to be moored on the shore, fortified by land and water.

That is to say, the Liao army does not want to control this place in a short time, so the Liao army will go north, and the Song army here will also go north, and it will still not be able to escape.

This is terrible news.

Khat began to think crankily, or retreated, crossing the entire loop and crossing the river from Hue (opposite the mouth of the river).

This is really a cranky thought, this road is actually the road that Mogus withdrew, but Mogus crossed the river from the southern province of Weicheng, and Hue had to be further north.

Moreover, Mogus took away a lot of materials from Xiazhou to ensure his logistics along the way, and all of them were cavalry, and they were fast. There are also many cavalry in this Liao army, but there are more people, as well as the people of Western Xia who drag their children and daughters, and if they want to cross the entire Hetao, I am afraid it will take a month.

Now the Hetao has not completely deteriorated, and this line may not be all desert areas, there are many dry plains, the Gobi desert area, but ninety percent of the areas do not have sufficient water sources, not to mention the logistics consumption, just one water source, let the Ute Ra headache.

Logistics is also a problem, if it goes well, the logistics in his hands now are enough for this group of people to reach Yunzhou smoothly, but if there is a through, there will be no logistics.

Moreover, crossing the Yellow River, it is impossible to withdraw from the Beihetao area occupied by the Song Dynasty, and it is necessary to continue to run through a large area of desert Gobi region, and withdraw from the west side of the Wolf Mountain to the area of the Obstructors. It was for him to take the masses to the Divination, how could the sparsely populated Divination Department supplement the logistics of nearly 200,000 people?

Moreover, there is a greater shortage of timber in this area, and the two Xixia forts near Hue have been controlled by the Song army, and the Song army is not a dead man.

The more he thought about it, the more headache he had, and he even had a more crazy idea, sending an elite to counterattack Linzhou of the Song Dynasty, which was even more unrealistic idea, Linzhou now controls the entire west of the Quye River, including the entire Tumaochuan Basin, most of the Tuhun River (Bald Tail River) Basin, without the natural danger of the Quye River, it is not far from the Liao Army, a hundred miles away, but the Song Dynasty built many forts, and there are a lot of troops left behind.

The Liao army took all the large armies to the south, attacked Linzhou, and then ran through the entire Linzhou, crossed the river from the Baode Ferry, and then ran through the Baode army and the volcano army of the Song Dynasty, and fled back to the Liao State. Is that possible?

In fact, if he really does this, the end will be even worse, in addition to dividing part of the troops in Wankou, Xingzhou also divided most of the troops back to Hedong, there is also a military operation there, a military operation that forced the Liao State to lower its head.

And some of the troops had sneaked into the east of the river before.

If the Liao army gets in, they don't know how to die.

Now it's just a matter of thinking about it, so he only sent a part of the elite, but in that case, he could only send snacks to the Song Dynasty, and with the heavy losses of the elite army, his troops and horses were even more embarrassed.

However, after all, he was not a crazy lord, and after thinking about it for a long time, he had no choice but to send scouts and sneak to the east of the river, and a few people could still do it if he sneaked back, and this was originally the land of Liao, and some soldiers were very familiar with the terrain here.

Then he asked the Liao State to send heavy troops behind the mountain, not only to save their hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but also a battle of national fortune.

Now that the two countries have turned their eyes into enemies, if this war is lost again, or even the whole army is annihilated, the Liao State will immediately fall into a disadvantage, not to mention that the Song Dynasty will continue to pay 500,000 years old for a year, and it will even shake the rule of the sixteen states of Yanyun in the Liao State.

Only by continuing to send heavy troops, flanking attacks on both sides, defeating the Song army, and recovering these two armies and one state, can we continue to force the Song Dynasty to bow its head.

Then he ordered to organize the three armies and continue to stay in the upper reaches of the Zhuolun River, where there is plenty of water, and the water and grass are relatively abundant, at least to solve the problem of grass, not to mention that this line brings many livestock, and the war horses must be fed.

But being trapped here is like being locked up in a large cell...... Hold back.

After he finished issuing the order, he sighed in silence: "Wang Ju is immortal, and Liao is in great trouble!" ”

In fact, he was wrong again, his opponent in this battle was not Wang Ju, but Zhang Qi.

As for Wang Ju, he is already starting to settle immigrants.

After several years of repeated crippling, there are now only more than 200,000 households in Xixia, and the real land is vast and sparsely populated.

But this is a good thing, which means that the imperial court can move more people to settle down, as long as the Han people reach nearly seventy percent, the Song Dynasty will be able to manage all the land.

Therefore, the imperial court gave favorable conditions, allowing the prefectures and counties in the western areas of Hedong Road, Shaanxi Road, Lizhou Road and Jingxi Road to post a wide range of texts to encourage the people to sign up spontaneously and come to the northwest.

The condition is that these people will be provided with grain and grass materials in the process of migration, and send special personnel to lead the way, after arriving at the destination, the imperial court will provide a variety of living utensils and farming tools according to the three levels of each household of five, five to ten, and ten mouths, respectively, until the next autumn harvest of grain and grass, related cold materials, and then according to the upper, middle and lower three places to provide sufficient arable land, as well as related livestock, and at the same time according to the household level to provide each household with forty, sixty and eighty yuan or equivalent silk.

Of course, this kind of large-scale migration will inevitably cause opposition from the local Haoqiang, so the imperial court adopted Wang Ju's opinion and allowed the Haoqiang in these regions to come to the northwest to buy land, which is divided into five grades, and the best anointed land only costs two yuan per acre, 1,500 yuan for the second class, consistent money for the third class, 500 wen for the fourth class, and only 200 yuan for the fifth class.

However, there is a condition that tenant farmers equivalent to the cultivated land purchased must be brought in, so that these tyrants do not hoard land and leave it barren, and they will not be able to play the role of emigration. However, the imperial court continued to offer preferential conditions, that is, although the tenant farmers came, the subsidies were still paid according to the standards of other immigrants.

Although these subsidies did not fall into the pockets of the wealthy and powerful, the tenant farmers they brought with them immediately settled down, which also means that they will be able to collect rents smoothly next year.

This was used to alleviate the pressure caused by the opposition of the powerful and powerful, and at the same time, it also brought a lot of income to the imperial court to a greater or lesser extent.

And the northwest has been rewarded one after another, and even the hundreds of thousands of troops of the powerful Liao State have been put into the pocket of the Song Dynasty, so that everyone has no worries, so there are many heroes and strong people who oppose the change and actively participate.

In fact, this is also a manifestation of wealth accumulation and nowhere to go. I am afraid that the interest rate is low in the bank, and I am afraid that the policy will be unstable, but if I invest in the land, the land will not run away. Without the Department of Banking, this policy would have worked even better.

However, there is too much money, especially in the battle with the Liao State, which will consume more supplies, and the cost of escorting materials such as armor and cloth is a little better, mainly food and grass.

In order to meet the needs of the front line, as well as the cage tactic, the imperial court had to use fast horses to order Jiaozhi and Quang Nam to hire sea ships and urgently dispatch 3 million stone of grain.

But these grains and grass had to be transported not only to the Shaanxi Road, but also to the front line farther step by step, even if Wang Ju used many prisoners of war and the people of Western Xia to be responsible for the transportation in the form of work relief, but the consumption was amazing.

The imperial court had to issue another 20 million yuan of "national debt", which led to the opposition of many ministers. Someone calculated the accounts, and just by being able to calculate it, the consumption of the war in the past few years has reached more than 300 million yuan, and this does not include many invisible expenditures! If it is included, it can even reach more than 400 million, something that has never been done since ancient times!

At the same time, such a large-scale use of troops and logistics transportation, led to the waste of production of the people on the two roads in the east of Hedong, Shaanxi, not to mention the uproar of the people, after all, the imperial court was hired, but the grain production of both roads was seriously reduced, and at the same time, each bucket of millet in the north rose from less than 10 to 15 yuan, each bucket of wheat rose from more than 30 yuan to 50 yuan, and each bucket of rice rose from 70 yuan to nearly 100 yuan, and the grain price in Beijing was more expensive.

In short, there was a series of malignant effects.

But then there was good news.

That is the steam locomotive that Shen Kuo is responsible for, after several years of research and development, it was finally put into use in Sanmenxia.

It is not the kind of train of later generations, its carriages are very small, each carriage carries less than 20 stones, that is, less than a ton, which is equivalent to a large horse-drawn carriage, each locomotive can pull 40 carriages, and the maximum speed is 80 miles per hour, which is equivalent to 20 kilometers per hour, and it is placed in Sanmenxia, because there are many slopes, and the speed is less than 10 kilometers per hour.

It has a service life of about 1,000 hours and needs to be overhauled, which is not too long, but it is a great improvement.

In the Han and Tang dynasties, the Sanmen Cao Yun was close to eight million stones a year, and in the Song Dynasty, there were only two or three million stones a year, but it also depends on the fact that if a large-scale war is launched, the Cao Yun volume will immediately expand, like the Sanmen Cao Yun volume has reached nearly 10 million stones in the past two years.

But with this locomotive, it is planned to make five or six round-trips a day, which is four or five thousand stones, and after deducting bad weather, it is planned that in two hundred days, one locomotive can complete the transportation of 800,000 stones. Including rotation or overhaul rotation, twenty locomotives are enough to complete the needs of the entire three-door transportation, and only thirty or forty "drivers" and dozens of craftsmen are responsible for maintenance. As long as the dispatch is proper, the downstream cargo ship will be loaded immediately, and the upstream cargo ship will follow and be loaded onto the cargo ship immediately, so a large number of warehouses on both sides and the officials who manage the warehousing will not need it. Since then, the people near Shaanzhou have completely escaped from this sea of suffering.

And because its loading capacity is very small, including the weight of the nose is less than 15 tons, not more than 100 tons and more than 200 tons like later generations, and the track is small, the nose is longer, and the pressure pressure also decreases, which means that as long as the bridge is strong, it can be passed, and the road surface requirements are also very low, although the technology is backward, but the cost is not too large.

These data are not used in Sanmenxia, but may be used in many areas, including the front line, such as Lingzhou to Huai'an Town, this section of Lingwu Avenue, although through Hengshan, but this section of Hengshan road is also relatively flat, the rest of the road is also relatively good, and there are few rivers, mostly small rivers, not much in the rainy season, the same can build a "railway", at its speed, can travel 700 miles a day, faster than the cavalry, then you can quickly send materials and troops to Lingzhou City, and then with the Yellow River shipping, In the future, you can easily control this area.

This significance alone is not trivial, and the reason why some scholars and doctors attacked Wang Ju is also because this area is too far away from the Central Plains, it is not easy to mobilize troops, and it is not easy to exchange materials, and China's strength will be consumed here in the future.

Now there is no reason to attack.

And with this road, it is easy to send green salt and related specialties from the northwest to Huai'an Town, which facilitates business and trade.

Therefore, when Sanmenxia was opened to traffic, Zhao Ji personally led the ministers to Shaanzhou to watch, and after reading it, Longyan Dayue added an official to Shen Kuo on the spot, and allocated relevant money and silk, so that Shen Kuo was responsible for the construction of this "railway". Shen Kuo is even more tearful, since the defeat of Yongle City, he has a bad reputation, and because of the development of this kind of locomotive, it costs a lot of money, which has led to many criticisms.

Today finally has the results, and he has been justified since then.

After Wang Ju heard the news, he also felt fortunate that Shen Kuo's success this time came in a timely manner, otherwise if it was delayed, this research and development would be suspended.

Moreover, it is also a huge industry, which will have an immeasurable effect on mining, smelting, foundry, processing, transportation, and commerce.

As for those ministers who oppose it, just oppose it, anyway, they will leave in a few months.

In fact, these objections are also unreasonable, such a large-scale battle will inevitably bring some negative effects to the country, but what about the positive side? Let's talk about immigration, which not only makes the northwest easier to manage in the future, but also completely relieves the pressure of dense population in Hedong Road, Shaanxi Road, Lizhou Road and other areas. Just like Hedong Road, because the land is narrow and there are many people, the price of an acre of ordinary private land has reached five yuan, but how much is the income in a year? If you plant millet, twenty dollars! If you plant wheat, fifty dollars!

And Wang Ju didn't have much troops in his hands, so he began to concentrate on relocating immigrants, building forts and cities, and stabilizing the northwest, so he didn't have to be afraid that some people would say that he was in charge of too many troops, which would be unfavorable to the imperial court.

The Liao State sent troops again.

Yelu Hongji has been very attentive to this dispatch from the beginning, and even the summer bowl and autumn bowl were not held, and he stayed in Youzhou City.

In fact, there was no need to wait for Yelu Utra to submit a request for support, and Yelu Na had already sent someone to report the situation in Hexi to Yelu Hongji with a fast horse, so Yelu Hongji personally led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Yunzhou.

After receiving the request of the Utera, he immediately took these soldiers and horses, with the chief commander of the palace to check Yelu Dabeinu, and the forbidden army to supervise Yelu Te as the deputy commander, and requisitioned tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from these states behind the mountain, combined with an army of 100,000 to rush to Dongshengzhou, and sent scouts to agree with Utera on September 20, and the two armies attacked together. It's September 20, and it's fast.

But Yelu Hongji did not come to the front line in person, and his Lao Tzu almost made the Western Xia people cut their noses in Hequ, which made Yelu Hongji a little afraid, but he personally sat in Yunzhou to command, which can be regarded as an incentive.

At the same time, he sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to express strong dissatisfaction with the Song Dynasty.

When the two Liao envoys came to the capital, Zhao Ji did not meet them, but Cai did meet them, and he only said one sentence, you go to the front line of Daizhou to take a look, and what to say when you come back after you have seen it.

What is there in Daizhou, it's not good, the two Liao envoys thought of one place, and immediately rushed to Daizhou, but it was too late.

The huge armies of both countries opened fire again.

On the twentieth of September, the Song army launched a fierce attack, and at this time they had little food and grass, and if it were not for the many grain and livestock brought by the Western Xia who defected, they would have been left without food.

Therefore, the three armies of the Liao State are almost desperate.

However, the problem is that this delay is another month, giving the Song army more time, the military villages on the various mountain roads are basically completed, and more supplies and weapons are transferred from the rear, we do not underestimate your Liao army, and you are desperate, but we don't come out to fight you, just defend.

This is the Western Army, the strongest army of the Song Dynasty, under the successive victories, the morale is strong to the extreme, and this time the court rewards are quite generous, the previous batch of rewards have been handed over to their families by the local government, and because of the post department, their families informed them of this news through letters, the more morale is the more prosperous.

The reason for this arrangement is to punish Song Taizong Gaolianghe for losing a battle without reward.

It also occupies an absolute advantage in terms of troops, although the Liao army seems to have a lot of numbers, but the refugees of Minfu and Western Xia are deducted, how many soldiers are there?

And relying on the village to defend, itself occupies an advantage, under various factors, no matter how desperate the Liao army is, it has never been able to break through the Song army's defense line.

Yelu Dabeinu also launched an attack from the east of the river.

These Liao generals are actually quite capable of fighting, but Guan Jian is now across the Yellow River, and Dabei Nu also expressed a headache.

At this time, Liu Shen, the deputy envoy of the Third Division of Youzhou who accompanied the army, put forward a suggestion, it was obviously too late to build a ship, but it could be rafted into a row, twisted together with iron chains, and then put the ends down, with the help of the current, rush to the opposite bank. Although this section of the river is not too fast, it is much more turbulent than the side of the estuary, and the current will wash the rafts against the opposite beach. Then send warriors to rush to the ferry and occupy the beachhead. Then add flat boat planks to these wooden rafts, set up a formal pontoon bridge, and the army crossed west.

It seems to be a good idea, and the Great Compassion Nu adopted it, and the Song army seems to be helpless about it, after all, the distance of the divine arm bow is not reachable, and the artillery can't do full coverage, and now the cannonballs are really expensive, and the Liao army is not afraid of sacrifice, so they can only watch them move all the stones away, and several huge wooden rows take shape.

When the Song army launched an attack, Dabei Nu also ordered the wooden platoon to be lowered, and under the urging of the waves, several rows of wooden platoons rushed to the beachhead in the west of the river, and many Liao soldiers rushed to the opposite bank with the help of wooden platoons. Zhi Kexing had no choice but to give the order to release arrows, some Liao soldiers were shot to death, and some Liao soldiers were bumped in the waves because of the wooden platoon, and they were bumped into the big river, but under the heavy reward of the great compassion slave, more Liao soldiers jumped on the wooden platoon.

At this moment, suddenly bundles of sorghum straw floated upstream, and at the same time, there were many oil stains on the water surface. But it was too late, the Song army fired rockets one after another, and a fire immediately broke out in the center of the river, and most of the Liao soldiers were burned to death.

The wooden platoon plan was declared a failure.

However, this fire attack gave Dabei Nu an inspiration, there are several good ferries on the side of the bay, the bottom ferry is the Hekou Ferry, located in the west of Dongshengzhou City, only a few miles away from the state city, and once the Yellow River is crossed, it is only more than 200 miles away from Jinsu City, as long as it is on the opposite bank, under the combined attack of the two Liao armies, no matter how many troops the Song army has, it will also be defeated. Moreover, Dongshengzhou City is not too far from here, and you can transfer the army to Hekou Ferry in one day's journey.

But the problem was that the Song Dynasty had many warships moored on the big river, and these warships were equipped with arrow stacks, and if the Liao army wanted to cross the river, the Song army only had to sail the ships over and hide in the arrow stacks to release arrows, and the Liao army would not be able to move along the river.

But now there is a ready-made method, under his order, part of the Liao army transferred to Hekoudu, and some cavalry came to the upper reaches of Hekoudu, preparing forage bales, as for the fierce fire oil, the Liao State had it very early, but it lacked the relevant refining technology, and it was not as powerful as the Song Dynasty.

Properly prepared, they were ready to start burning the Song Dynasty warships, but at this time, the Song army suddenly sent two boats, and they also dragged the wooden rafts, taking advantage of the countless bays in this area, and placed the wooden rafts in the center of the river with iron anchors. The grass and oil came upstream, blocking the two rows of wooden rows one by one. Liao Jun was dumbfounded, should this be burned or not? They didn't burn, the Song army burned it for them, and one rocket after another shot over, the flames were blazing, but they didn't burn a single hair of the Song army.

The Great Compassion Slave is more anxious, one drum is exhausted, the second drum is exhausted, and the third drum is declining, and he doesn't need to scout to inquire in Hexi, and he knows that he is desperate at this time, but he has not seen the army cross the river for a long time, and if this breath declines, there will be no more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and even with his own army The morale is low, maybe the Song army will cross the river with victory, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses will be buried here, and it will really become a battle of national fortune.

In desperation, he thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a solution, that is, to storm Mu Na Mountain. Now the Song Dynasty sent ships to the east of Mu Na Mountain, that is, the original Liao River section, but the capture of Mu Na Mountain, is equivalent to extending the river section to Sancha Bay, the Song Dynasty has so many ships, the river section is more than doubled, then there are loopholes everywhere, the Liao army can wait for the opportunity to cross the river, at most pay some sacrifices. But as long as you cross the river, it is a beautiful victory.

Indeed, this is the biggest loophole in the entire cage plan, if when he retreated from Yanzhou, he decisively abandoned the Western Xia people who had defected to him, regardless of the hardships, directly through the entire Hetao, marched to the other side of the Munashan River, and then sent scouts to order the Tiande army to attack southward, then the Song army had to directly send a large army to fight him head-on, even if some results were achieved, it was far less effective than the back.

But at that time, he was still thinking about good things.

So two months have passed, and now the construction of the forts in Beihetao has been completed, and the reserve reinforcements have also arrived, if it were not for this war, Wang Judu would have prepared to mobilize the army and civilians to build the Great Wall at some gaps in Yinshan.

Now the Liao army only remembered to attack Mu Na Mountain, it was too late for anything, although the Liao army had a few forts on Mu Na Mountain, but not a single fort was taken, on the contrary, some soldiers and horses were folded. But the deadliest of the Song army came.

Many ministers of the Song Dynasty complained about the cost of using troops this time, and some people even said that Wang Ju was borrowing debts to fight!

But this money is not spent in vain, such as troops.

The scale of the Song Dynasty's military strength this time, in fact, from Youzhou to Heqing, including the Beihetao, there are only more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians, and there are more!

Now the war has nothing to do with Yan Yan Road and Huanqing Road, so Liu Changzuo and other generals are all drawn out, and the seed master is the chief general of the West Route Army, in fact, Wang Ju and Zhang Qi originally wanted to let the seed master road serve as the chief general of the middle route army, not only a battle, but also a kind of training, but I am afraid that Qu Zhen will not be convinced, so it was changed to the chief general of the West Route Army, Sun Zhao and Peng Sun are the deputy generals, Guo Jingxiu and Yao Gu are the front moves, and the troops are out of the volcano army.

Liu Changzuo is the chief general of the Middle Route Army, and also the chief general of the three route soldiers and horses, in case they cannot cooperate with each other, and at the same time, at the request of Wang Ju, the imperial court issued an edict allowing Liu Changzuo to have the power of life and death, even if the chief general of the West Route Army and Qu Zhen, the chief general of the East Route Army, if he does not listen to the transfer, Liu Changzuo has the right to behead him! At the same time, in order to give Liu Changzuo more authority, he made Li Xian the capital of the three armies. Xue Yi and Yao Ji were the deputy generals of the Middle Route Army, Wang Guangzu and Wang Wenzhen were the forward, Wang Shilong was the rear line, and the troops went out of the Lan Army.

The main commander of the East Route Army is Qu Zhen, the deputy general is Mi Yun, and the forward is a kind of Pu, which is also the road with the least number of soldiers and horses on the three routes, and the soldiers go out of Yanmen Pass.

The three-way soldiers and horses swept towards Shuozhou, Wuzhou, and at the same time under the banner of capturing the Liao lord alive.

Why can you listen to Yelu Hongji alive, because now all the troops of several states behind the mountain have gotten to a few ferries in Junzijin, or they are trapped in the Turbidity Wheel River, and the entire Liao State behind the mountains is empty, and Yelu Hongji happens to stay in Yunzhou.

Yunzhou is not on the front line, but there is a road leading to Yunzhou from Shuozhou, and the Liao army hoarded a lot of troops in various states that year, and still let Pan Mei take Yunzhou in 30 days, and at the same time also took Yingzhou by the way. As long as the Song army is fast enough, then it is completely possible to take the empty Yunzhou City before the main army of the Liao State is withdrawn, and of course, Yelu Hongji will also be captured alive...... (To be continued.) )