However, many ministers still felt very sorry, after all, Wang Ju's banking department had already spread out, although it was not established, but the success of the immature Gyeongju Development Fund in Gyeongju meant that once the more mature banking department was established, it would build a better future for the Song Dynasty.

Wang Ju himself did not have a long time in Zhongshu, less than eight months, but in these seven or eight months, he did a good job, not only to rectify the minister's money, science and field affairs, but also under his auspices, the government affairs of several roads in the south were extremely smooth.

All these represent that Wang Junai is a rare all-round talent in government, economy and military.

And yet that's it.

But happy people are happy.

This scandal is out, and you don't want to go back to politics.

If it were normal, they would be fine, but no, something bigger would happen soon......

After Wang Ju returned home, he immediately packed his luggage and hurriedly took a boat south.

Then Zhao Niannu's mother and son couldn't stay in the capital anymore in the midst of the city's discussions, anyway, the matter has been made public, so it's better to leave the capital with Wang Ju.

Ordinary people are just crying and laughing now, this is because the prince doesn't love officials and beauties.

Lao Wang was so depressed that he wanted to cry.

If it is replaced by the Tang Dynasty, maybe Princess Anle and Princess Taiping will be able to reap a benefit. Why did you meet a princess in the Song Dynasty?

Could it be that the eldest princess is a peerless beauty? No, although it's a little beautiful, it's also a half-old. Let's talk about love, how many beautiful girls and prostitutes are there in the capital? Even because of Wang Ju's fame and official position, as well as his love for his concubine, I don't know how many pretty heads want to enter the Wang family.

Or because of the poor background. So in the eyes of Wang Ju. Princesses are different......

Therefore, the more Wang thought about it, the more depressed he became.

…………

Yuanfeng five years.

Late June.

The eunuch reported: "Your Majesty. Zhang Quanzhong and Huang He have already entered the palace and are waiting for His Majesty to summon them. ”

Zhang Quanzhong is also a child of the Zhang family, many times failed in the imperial examination, but he is a little talented, when Wang Ju was in Quanzhou, in order to govern, he used both grace and power, and also attracted some local wealthy families. At one time, Zhang Quanzhong was also summoned to his side as an assistant to assist him in governing Quanzhou, but soon after Zhang Quanzhong was lucky to be admitted to the Jinshi.

Although the ranking is not high, only the fourth rank, but because he was once Wang Ju's assistant and has practical political experience, he was recorded as the head of a small county. Last winter, Zhao Ji sent someone to the other side to summon Wang Ju back, and thought of this person.

Huang He is the original little Huang Gonggong.

More than a year has passed, but it has been an extremely tragic year.

Wang Ju left the capital.

The other side almost laughed out loud.

Since Wang Ju entered Beijing. The Liang brothers and sisters were frightened, and they didn't mention the military exploits in the south. The Battle of Dashun City and the Battle of Gyeongju really killed Western Xia miserably. Liang Yibu immediately ordered all troops on the border not to enter the Song realm.

Just as they were terrified, the news came. As soon as Wang Ju left, the Liang brothers and sisters were relieved and bold, and immediately executed Li Qing, and Li Bingchang was imprisoned.

And so it all went on.

But unlike in history, this time because the morale of the Song army is higher, the armor is more perfect, and the number of cavalry is a little more than in history, but these thousands of cavalry are not too much of an impact on this huge battle, and the main thing is the first two.

Therefore, the advance speed was relatively fast, and more Tangut people were killed.

There are not many other changes, it is still the Fifth Route Army, Xizhou Li Xian and Dong Yu's adopted son Ali Gu joined forces to send troops to Lanzhou, and went north to Quwu Mountain and Tiandu Mountain, but because the battle was launched in too haste, the logistics have not been able to keep up, so the speed of going north is very slow.

The second and third roads are the 150,000 soldiers and horses of the Yanyan Road and the Fulin Road, which once won Yinzhou, Shizhou, Xiazhou, and Youzhou, but because the supply could not keep up, it would snow heavily outside Yanzhou, and the soldiers were cold and hungry, and they collapsed one after another, and they lost nearly 50,000 people before they let the Western Xia kill many soldiers.

The fourth road is 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Liu Changzuo, heading north along the Hulu River.

The fifth road is the main force of the Song Dynasty, 90,000 troops, 90,000 people, and the commander is Gao Zunyu, who launched an attack from Gyeongju to Western Xia.

Why Ko Zunyu?

If you don't analyze it from Zhao Ji's psychology, it can't be said that Gao Zunyu is useless, he has performed brilliantly in the Battle of Xihe many times. In fact, Li Xian, who later shocked the Western Regions, is now not as good as Gao Zunyu.

Or to take a person as an analogy, like Cao Bin, he did well in Pingshu, but the reality was that the enemy was very weak. He performed well in the Battle of Pingnan Tang, but it can be seriously analyzed, because he was grinding outside Jiangning City and almost made this southern expedition fail. In fact, among the military exploits of the Pingnan Tang Dynasty, the greatest meritorious person was Wang Ming, followed by Pan Mei and Liu Yu, not Cao Bin. Therefore, when the Northern Expedition was right, when it encountered a stronger opponent, it was suddenly beaten out of its original form.

But from the analysis of Zhao Ji's psychology, the Song Dynasty dispatched a total of 300,000 troops and 200,000 formal people in this war, why do you say that it is a formal people, because the war came too suddenly and was not well prepared.

That is, 500,000 people arrived in the territory of Western Xia, and the people mobilized in the rear were even more numerous.

Therefore, most of the elite army of the Song Dynasty was mobilized, so Zhao Ji needed a person who believed in commanding the Chinese army, and if he controlled the Chinese army, he would be able to control the other four armies.

This person is ......

Although the early results were greater than in history, because they advanced faster than in history, Gao Zunyu not only forcibly ordered Liu Changzuo to stop the siege, but also forcibly ordered Li Xian to cross the Yellow River. Li Xian was unwilling, but Gao Zunyu gave orders many times, and Li Xian had no choice but to lead the army across the Yellow River.

And so the worse came out.

Not only did the Middle Route Army and Liu Changzuo's army suffer heavy losses, but the strength of Li Xian's army remained the most intact in history, but this time it was also affected, and luckily he judged it in time, and immediately killed to the south and brought most of the troops back to Lanzhou.

This is the reason why Wang Ju has repeatedly tested Zhao Ji.

He couldn't remember the exact time, but he knew it would happen either this year or next.

But isn't it a chance? Maybe it's a chance.

It was only at the beginning that the Liang family imprisoned Li Bingchang, which indeed led to the opposition of many powerful people in China. The country was in turmoil.

However, they are fighting for orthodoxy. It doesn't mean that it has fallen to Western Xia. Opposite. As the Song army pressed, it was twisted into a rope, diverting the contradictions aroused by the Liang family.

The timing is also wrong, the Song Dynasty sent troops in July and August, and it was able to take Western Xia within three months? I can't take it, well, winter is coming.

Even if Liu Changzuo captured Lingzhou City, he would not be able to destroy Western Xia. Because the weather was very cold by then, and the forces of Western Xia may have been compressed in the cities of Hexi, including Xingzhou. How can I take it down?

And there is also Liao. Will they sit back and watch the Western Xia be destroyed?

Therefore, the most correct way to do this is to "attack in the middle".

The seed is a lone wolf, which is not easy to cooperate with, but it can also be used. After all, Fulin Road and Yan Yan Road can be regarded as the strongest armies of the Song Dynasty.

Take the silver state first, and immediately hold it. Then, after taking Shixia Youzhou, all the cities and forts were destroyed. But it can't go any deeper, otherwise supply is the biggest headache.

Why?

Because these areas of Yinxiayou are the nest of the Western Xia, most of the tribes are loyal to the Western Xia and are not easy to rule. Therefore, the city was obtained. It is also impossible to occupy it, otherwise two or three hundred miles of supply roads. It will become a fatal path for the Song army. This truth is the same as when Wang Ju took the initiative to give up Yanzhou.

However, Yinzhou is not a big problem, although it is also the nest of Western Xia, but there is Linzhou on the top, and there is the Suide army below, and the reinforcements can arrive at any time, and they can transfer food and supplies from Yanzhou and Hedong.

However, as long as Yinzhou was taken, the Song Dynasty would be able to occupy half of the Donghengshan region.

The goal of the Middle Route Army is simpler, that is, Yanzhou, or by the way, all the forts in the rear and around Yanzhou will be removed, and then they will stop immediately.

Liu Changzuo's army also stopped after taking Xiao Pass.

Li Xian's goal is not Lingzhou, until he reaches Tiandu Mountain. However, in this arrangement, the strength of the Central Route Army will be reduced, and the strength of the two routes will be strengthened.

That is, the tactic of flying with both wings.

Around this time, the weather was also cold. The three armies stopped, and waited for the next year to see what else was going on in the Liao Kingdom and Western Xia. If not, consolidate last year's gains, especially strengthen the defensive forces of Lanzhou, Quwu Mountain, and Tiandu Mountain. In this way, the connection between Western Xia and the Hexi Corridor could be blocked. Although the Western Xia also migrated to Gan, Su, and Sha, many of them were still mostly Uighurs, who had always been close to the Song dynasty. In addition, Western Xia is not good, and the roads are basically blocked, so these states can rebel.

Losing the Hexi Corridor, as well as the area south of Xiaoguan, most of the Hengshan, what does Western Xia still rely on?

Of course, if the form is good, you can also attack directly.

Moreover, in the second year, there is more time, logistics can be continuously transferred to the front line, and the people will not be so hard. Coupled with months of consolidation, it can be advanced or retreated.

But the possibility of the latter is extremely small, and in the second year, will the Liao State still not be able to react?

But it reacted, and the Song Dynasty also ate half of Western Xia. In particular, the Hexi Corridor, a major trade route.

However, there is one of the most important conditions for this, that is, the imperial court unconditionally and completely trusts Wang Ju and puts him in charge of all the armies of the Five Roads. Otherwise, they will fight separately, for example, if they continue to ignore the logistics and run towards Yanzhou one by one, it will not be possible to succeed in the end.

But this is not possible.

Even if you believe unconditionally, Wang Ju will not choose to attack in such a hurry, the risk is too high.

So Wang Ju thought about it again and again, and finally chose an extremely cruel strategy to break the game.

On the contrary, in this battle, the performance of the Western Xia was very eye-catching, Liang heard that the Song army was attacking, and asked the generals, some people said, there is no need to refuse, but the wall is clear, even if it is deep, gather strong troops in Ling, Xia, Xing, and send light cavalry to cut off its feeding, the army has no food, but it can be trapped without a fight.

Sishana used this strategy, and it was successful.

However, the Western Xia suffered equally heavy losses in this battle, so after pursuing for hundreds of miles, they were unable to catch up anymore.

He seized several states in Western Xia in succession, and only sent a small number of officers and soldiers to stay behind. When the heavy snow came, the three armies collapsed, and it was impossible to escape back along Yooha-seok, so they fled directly from the direction of Yanju into Gyeongju or Yeonju.

However, the Western Xia did not have the troops to immediately take back these states, or the officers and soldiers left behind in the Song Dynasty did not dare to stay here any longer, and after they withdrew their troops and went back, the Western Xia successively sent people to take over these states.

The repercussions of this war were far-reaching.

Of the 500,000 soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty, only half returned.

Qinggang Gorge Liweizhou Road, ten out of ten to join the army nine do not return. The white bones are like rustling like snow, and the general is on the lookout platform.

As for the materials consumed, it was even more incalculable, and even allowed Western Xia to seize a large number of sophisticated armor.

And many soldiers were confused at first, if it was changed to Qingli Shi, it would be a habit anyway, it didn't matter.

But it wasn't the Qing Dynasty, the Song Dynasty looked so powerful, Xihe said that it was taken back, and the two battles of Gyeongju and Dashun City defeated the Western Xia people. In the south, it is even more impressive, destroying two countries and reducing one country, almost effortlessly.

Why are the losses so great?

When I think about it this way, I think of a person. Is it because I met a princess? Is it the sky falling?

Especially Liu Changzuo and other generals, under the leadership of Wang Ju, they have all made great contributions, and their self-esteem is also very strong, but they were defeated like this, and the tragedy in their hearts cannot be spoken.

I can't figure it out, is it because of a Qi business tax that Wang Ju has to be forced away? Besides, how did such a hidden thing find out? Why do you have this ability not to deal with the Tangut people?

Not only that, but even ordinary soldiers are depressed in their hearts. In the past, because of their poor performance on the battlefield, the people looked down on soldiers, so the Song Dynasty spread a sentence that good iron does not make nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers.

As Wang Ju and Wang Shao led them to fight brilliant battles on the battlefield, the people also began to respect them.

But I never thought that the two of them withdrew from the battlefield separately, and they were beaten out of their original form in just one battle.

The armies retreated to the Song realm one after another, with each fort to defend, and the Western Xia army did not pursue.

However, they had to retreat to the rear in order to replenish their food and grass supplies, and one after another some of the defeated troops fled and joined them. Therefore, all the way to retreat, there were defeated troops all the way to converge, and there were many soldiers hugging each other and crying loudly along the way.

The whole Shaanxi Road is the soldiers crying, and the people crying...... (To be continued.) )