Qian Gai didn't expect the pressure to be concentrated on himself, and when it really came to the time to join the army, the students were not too active, and only more than 200 people came. These students are not really stupid, how can they not know that the Dingbei Army is attacking Western Xia, and the clouds are tight, and they are unable to take care of it at all; Jiangnan is also following the policy of elite soldiers, and what they are doing is the plan of defense.

And the displaced people are even less, now Zhu Shengfei and others are recruiting troops, the treatment of the Xinjie army is not as good as the troops of Zhu Shengfei and others, and it will be the vanguard of the north, there are very few people who come, and it took half a month to recruit five or six hundred people. Qian Gai was disappointed, and wanted to mobilize officers from Henan to assist, but was rejected by the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, the Xinjie Army, like the Shengjie Army, is an army directly under the Privy Council, even if Li Hui is King Kang's person, he will not allow such an opportunity to be ruined.

Li Hui has his own difficulties, and the DPRK and the Central Committee have already begun to discuss: In the event that Bianliang is lost, whether to let people like Yang Zhi or Yue Fei enter the Privy Council and come to Jiangnan to take charge of the war; if Qian Gai makes such a start today, one day Yang Zhi and these people will come back, they will bring back a large number of people from the northwest, and they can turn Jiangnan into the world of the Dingbei Army, which Li Hui does not want to see.

Qian Gai turned out to be the boss of Fan Zhixu and Tang Chong and others, and he was once in a high position, but he didn't expect that he would fall into such a field now, but after listening to Li Hui's analysis, Qian Gai had nothing to say, after all, even he was not optimistic about the battle situation in Bianliang, let alone others. However, Li Hui still helped, and from the Xiang army in Chizhou and other places, he transferred 300 veterans who had been on the battlefield and Qian Gai to serve as the commander of this army.

In fact, up and down are like a mirror, Qian Gai is Qinzong's favored minister, and now Qinzong is using a group of officials who came back from Hebei to make a fuss everywhere, Song Huizong is very annoyed. In the eyes of Song Huizong, even if the third Zhao Kai is unruly and the ninth Zhao is difficult to become a great weapon, it is better than Song Qinzong;

Xia Renzong is most worried that the Dingbei army will not die, the Western Xia army has disappeared, after Cao Zimu led the Dingyan army to the west, the Western Xia army in Xingzhou suffered huge losses in the war, and now 30,000 people are defending the city, how to arrange, it is a bit difficult in terms of numbers. Fortunately, seeing that the weather is getting colder, Brother Richard estimates that he will be able to use the ice and snow to seal the city in less than half a month, and then Zhao Kai will really have no heart to attack.

However, when Song Huizong sent people to Chang'an again to ask for help, he learned that Fan Zhixu was already ill, and Yang Zhi was in charge of the war in the river, so he had no ability to go to Bianliang at all.

Fan Zhixu was a little disappointed, and went to Tongguan to meet Yang Zhi with illness, after several years of war, Fan Zhixu has understood that it is easy to get a thousand troops and difficult to find, compared to Bianliang's side, Yang Zhi is better than Zhang Jun and others who have no spiritual energy, even if Yang Zhi is willing to go alone, in Fan Zhixu's heart, Bianliang's situation will be a little better. Zhao Kai sent an order from Lingzhou, ordering Yang Zhi to stabilize Guanzhong as the first need, Zhao Kai still has some responsibility in this regard, and will not make Yang Zhi embarrassed in this regard, Zhao Kai knows very well that only Yang Zhi stabilizes the rear, can he continue to hold on in Lingzhou.

Fan Zhixu understood the disappointment of the Dingbei army with Zhao Gou's army, and saw that Yang Zhi refused to take the risk, so he could only reply truthfully to Hangzhou. Zhao Kai felt that Yang Zhi should be asked to reduce his worries, and create opportunities for other subordinates to balance with Yang Zhi and the others. Zhao Kai set up five armies and appointed Zhang Suo, Wang Ping, Min, Zhang Shen, and Sun Ang as the commanders of the five armies.

When Yang Zhi heard this, he understood what Zhao Kai meant, this time he raised the level of the Five Protectors, just to distinguish his own troops, and Zhao Kai's plan to check and balance himself has not decreased, but it is just a different way. Zhao Kai's other action was to send Cao Qianli to Chang'an, in the name of assisting Zhao Duofu in dealing with the workshop matters, Yang Zhi knew that Zhao Kai's purpose was to have a conflict between Cao Qianli and himself, so as not to collude with the two.

Yang Zhi believed that the Cao family brothers were no less wise than themselves, and the two of them could also see this, except for a few henchmen, the rest of the people Yang Zhi didn't even say hello. Anyway, Zhao Duofu had already tried all the ways, and when Lu Tianshan couldn't stand it, he could still push everything to Qinzhou, after all, the Shaanxi transfer envoy was Liang Xun.

Li Gang is still a little patient in Xiangyang, he knows the importance of his position, since ancient times, if you want to hold the south of the Yangtze River, Yangzhou and Xiangyang are indispensable fulcrums, not to mention that now the Dingbei Army is in the northwest, and the connection between Huaixi and Chang'an is far more important than Bianliang. Li Gang now has the same worries in Huaixi as Yang Zhi, worried that after the collapse of the Western Army, he will lose his troops in vain, and Huaixi will be unable to defend at that time.

This is the feeling that only after changing positions, Li Gang said to Chen Gui with emotion: "If I was in Taiyuan, I would have figured out this, at that time Zhang Xiaochun was defending Taiyuan, I didn't need rescue at all, as long as I held Zezhou, Puzhou and other places, and ensured Chang'an, I would not let the seed master road be tired of running around, and when the Jin army besieged Bianliang, I could counterattack the Daimyo's Mansion." It's a pity that at that time, I cared too much about the gains and losses of one city and one place, and was led by the nose by the Jin army, and finally lost completely. ”

Li Gang said that Zhang Xiaochun was still a little unbearable, the original anti-gold famous general has now become the prime minister of pseudo-Qi, and it has to be said that it is a creation to make people. Most of the people at Li Gang's level know the inside story, and the people sent back by Song Qinzong from Youzhou did things that the Jin people could not do, so that there were many changes on both sides of the Dingbei army and King Kang;

Chen Gui saw it clearly, and persuaded: "Things will pass, the thunderbolt cannon designed and improved by Yang Zhi is indeed much more powerful, but Yang Zhi suggested using a copper cannon, worried that the iron cannon would explode." ”

Chen Gui is a master of arms, but also a fan of Yang Zhi, since sitting in De'an, has been imitating the Dingbei Army's Tuntian system, building forts around De'an; even the long bamboo pole assault rifle now used in Yang Zhi's army was first designed by Chen Gui, so Yang Zhi used improved thunderbolt cannons and war horses to exchange this technology with Huaixi.

In the face of the persuasion of the old rules, Li Gang calmed down and put forward a plan, let Yang Zhi be in charge of the war east of Luoyang, and the armies of Huaixi, Luoyang, and Yingchangfu were all handed over to Yang Zhi to command. This is the bottom line of Li Gang's discussion with Chen Gui and others, but in the eyes of Zhao Gou and Zhai Xing, Li Gang is deliberately making things difficult.

Li Gang said it well, but in fact, it was clear that he wanted Zhao Gou to return to Hangzhou, so both Zhao Gou and Zhai Xing directly rejected this suggestion. Li Gang then stopped being verbose, and asked the Huaixi states to seize the time to prepare for war, prepare to clear the wilderness, and let the Jin army lose the advantage of cavalry. Li Gang and Liu Zhengyan both knew that before Bianliang fell, only a part of the cavalry of the Jin army would use their speed to kill Huaixi, as long as they didn't give a chance to take advantage of it, they could make the other party have no gain.

Regarding the situation on the Chang'an side, Li Gang saw very clearly, Yang Zhi would not have no ability at all, there were still tens of thousands of troops in the Tuntian camp in Shaanxi, although the combat effectiveness was a little weaker, but it was stronger than the people in the hands of Zhai Xing and Wang Yan, even if he was unable to solve the siege of Bianliang, it was absolutely no problem to open up the road from Huaixi to Chang'an with his own pinch. However, without Zhao Kai's order, Yang Zhi would never have transferred all the troops from Shaanxi; just relying on the men and horses on the current Yongxing Military Road, Yang Zhi would have almost no possibility of dispatching.

Li Gang sent a letter to Song Huizong, explaining the current situation in Huaixi and why he refused to reinforce Bianliang, Li Gang suggested that Song Huizong still contact Zhao Kai in accordance with the procedure, and only if Zhao Kai made up his mind, Yang Zhi could take action. Under the urging of Hangzhou again and again, Zhao Kai had to throw the pot to Yang Zhi, asking Yang Zhi to decide the front-line war on his own, including reinforcements to Luoyang. Yang Zhi naturally did not rush to dispatch, but with an order, he could mobilize troops and grain and grass equipment.