"The officials don't know that the old place of Liaoxi Jinglu, especially the Tiande Army, Yunnei Prefecture, Dongsheng Prefecture, Fengzhou and other places at the foot of Yinshan Mountain are very empty. There used to be a large number of Pishi Army tribes in that area, Yelu After Yanxi lost a large area of land and tribes in the east, he retreated to this area to gather all the tribes of Pishi in an attempt to make a comeback. However, because he did not listen to the advice of Dashi Linya and others, he blindly advanced and suffered another defeat. Those who followed Yanxi Xi's Pishi tribe was either massacred by the Jurchens or fled to Mobei or the territory of the Western Bandits. Therefore, all the states at the foot of the Yin Mountain were wiped out... And that area is a good place with fertile water and grass and a warm climate! I am worried that He If Bule fails to enter the east of the river, he will be stationed at the foot of Yinshan Mountain and become the Jurchens' vassal screen in the southwest."
The one who was explaining to Zhao Kai the situation in the Yunzhong and Yinshan areas in the Hanyuan Hall of the Luoyang Palace was Yelu Yujian, who had led the way for the Jurchens and wiped out all the Khitans in Yunzhong and Yinshan.
In terms of familiarity with the northern grasslands, in Zhao Kai's camp, if Yelu Yujian is considered second, absolutely no one dares to be considered first.
Therefore, the issues he raised now attracted great attention from Zhao Kai, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, He Guan, Wang Yuan, Wang Zhen, Zhe Yanzhi and others.
Wang Zhen, the commander of the armies in Hedong who came from Taiyuan, tugged at his beard and said: "Guan, our troops in Hedong are limited and it is impossible to set up defenses everywhere. We can only concentrate our forces to guard the two major armies of Daizhou and Ninghua." The opening is to protect Taiyuan. Moreover, our troops in Daizhou are also concentrated in the west and south of Yanmen, and are fortified layer by layer along the road leading to Xinzhou.
In the rest of Daizhou, there are only a few empty troops... If Hebule wants to invade, I'm afraid he will have to lose a lot of territory! But it would be easy to spread our troops out to guard the border entrances and block the barbarians on the grasslands. But if the gold thieves come, the defense will not be complete. They might even let the gold thieves kill them all the way to Taiyuan City! "
When Han Shizhong heard Wang Zhen talk about the lack of troops, he quickly interjected: "There are not many troops in Hedong, and the troops in Hebei are even tighter... Today's government troops are said to be 400,000, but most of them are Ban troops. , there are only four months of active duty in a year, which also includes the time spent on duty and on the way home. The actual time in the military camp is only a little more than three months on average. Even counting tens of thousands of Long March soldiers, we have There are only a few hundred thousand troops available at any time! If we want to gather the three armies, the cost will be..."
This is where the military system is bad! Most of the government soldiers are squad soldiers, serving for a few months every year and spending most of their time at home.
Therefore, the government army system can cope with large-scale troop dispatches, but it is difficult to support a long-term war of attrition!
The recruitment system is just the opposite. It can fight for a long time, but the scale is limited. If too many soldiers are recruited, Zhao Kai's poor court will not be able to pay military salaries!
However, when dealing with Jurchens, the disadvantage of the Fu army system not being able to fight for a long time is not a problem. Because the Jurchens are also military and civilian. And they are not herdsmen, but a people of fishing, hunting and farming.
As long as they are a people who farm the land, they will be tied to the land and it will be difficult to carry out expeditions for a long time.
And it is difficult for the farming, fishing and hunting army to go on long expeditions, and it is difficult to truly conquer the grassland... The grassland tribes can fight if they can, but they can wander around if they can't. How could the army of the farming people chase them around the grasslands every day?
Even if the court distributes money, the logistics will drag the country down!
Therefore, the powerful Jin Kingdom later had to build the Great Wall to defend against the endless invasions of the grassland tribes.
The Liao Kingdom of the Khitan people had good control over the grassland - because the Khitan people were a semi-nomadic and semi-agrarian people, they could also drive their cattle and sheep all over the grassland to hunt down the nomadic tribes. Moreover, they can also place their own tribes on the grassland and seize the territory of the enemy tribes. Rather than leaving after the fight, and then letting the enemy come back to recuperate.
From this perspective, Daliao is actually a very good neighbor to the north... If it were not for the historical problem of the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, spending 500,000 coins every year to buy peace on the northern border would be a great deal. .
Zhe Yanzhi, whose hometown will soon be robbed, frowned and said: "No matter how much it costs, we have to fight! The Mongols are nomadic people, and they are different from the Jurchens who fish, hunt and farm... They You can move your family to the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and then be invaded by invaders every once in a while. Will the area north of Taiyuan still be inhabitable by then?
Officials and ministers believe that it is better to kill the thieves in one fell swoop than to guard against thieves for a thousand days. Even if the three armies have to be summoned, it is worse than guarding against the Mongols day and night in the future! "
Their home base is located in the east, west and north of the river, and is not protected by the two large openings of Ninghuajun and Daizhou - those two large openings are only the main passage from Daibei to Taiyuan. If you don’t go there, you can also pass through the mountainous areas in northwestern Shanxi.
If we want to protect all the mountainous areas in northwestern Shanxi, we have to build the Great Wall!
But Zhao Kai is so poor...how can he have the money to build the Great Wall?
Therefore, once the Mongol people settled at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, the territory of Zhejia would be in dire straits!
Zhao Kai turned to look at Yelu Yujian again, "Lieutenant, what do you think? Can you kill the thief in one fell swoop?"
Yelu Yujian shook his head: "In the official family, there are at least 20,000 to 30,000 households of Mongol people! This time, most of them come with their whole family, and they will definitely settle at the foot of Yinshan Mountain first, and then join the invaders as young men. Grab them if you can. Grab it, leave if you can't grab it... Moreover, there are many white Tatar tribes north of Yinshan Mountain, and they may also be annexed by the Mongol people who belong to the black Tatars, and join the invaders with them.
In addition, there are many living Tatars on the grassland, and they can be captured and used as dead soldiers... If you want to kill them all in one fell swoop, I am afraid it will be difficult to do so. Unless we can go straight to the Mongol lair at the foot of Yinshan Mountain! "
This is not the time of the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, the grassland was cold and dry and could not support too many people. Moreover, the prevalence of Buddhism severely reduced the combat effectiveness of the grassland people. There are a lot of people on the grasslands now, so there are a lot of cannon fodder. Moreover, most of these cannon fodders believe in the Immortal Heaven, are fierce and sturdy, and are not afraid of death. If you can't destroy their lair, how can you possibly wipe them out just by defending the pass?
"How is it possible to fight to the foot of Yinshan Mountain now?" Han Shizhong shook his head repeatedly, "And the Mongol tribe will run away. It is difficult for our infantry to catch up. We have to use all cavalry... but we only have so much on hand. Can all the available cavalry be sent to attack Yinshan? Even if they are sent, they can't stay there forever!"
Zhao Kai exhaled and whispered: "It seems that we can only ask Dashi Linya to go south!"
After saying this, he turned to look at Yelu Yujian, "Captain, Dashi Linya governs the grassland, I govern the Central Plains...how about it?"
"The official family," Yeluyu said when he saw it, "the big stone forest teeth can defeat the Mengwu, but they are no match for the Jurchens!"
Yelu Dashi only had more than 10,000 Khitans in his hands. Even including Xiao Heda's troops and the Khitans in exile in the Black Mountain area, he could only manage to raise 30,000 households. With this small amount of troops, it is absolutely impossible to defeat the current Jurchen.
Zhao Kai smiled and said: "If Da Shi Lin Ya can defeat the Jurchens, how can I dare to invite him back? Taiwei, please do your best. Go to Zhenzhou City and tell Da Shi Lin Ya that we will fight the Jurchens together. I, Da Song I am the master, and they, Liao, are the auxiliaries... And I only want to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and I can give the Khitan 500,000 annual coins!"
Just asking for the Sixteenth State of Yanyun is just talk. Zhao Kai has no intention of giving up the land of Liaodong!
But he can't put everything in his pocket now, otherwise what if Yelu Dashi quits his job and goes directly to the Western Regions to open Xiliao?
With him gone, Zhao Kai will have to build the Great Wall like Zhu Yuanzhang in the future!
Yeluyu smiled and said: "With your majesty's promise, Dashi Linya will definitely be willing to come south! However, Kedun City, Zhenzhou owned by Dashi Linya, is far away. Even if he wants to go south, he will not be able to reach it this year. Doesn't this make sense? How to deal with Le?"
How to deal with it?
Zhao Kaixin said: It is best to kill him... Then there will definitely be no Temujin! If you can't kill him, think of other ways!
"How about luring the enemy deeper?" Zhao Kai thought for a while, "Let go of Yanmen Road and lure Hebule to near Xinkou..."
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"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live..."
Just when Zhao Kai turned all his attention to Hebule, his good brother Zhao Huan had already put on a special thin armor and stood on the tower of Wansheng Gate at the north gate of Jinling Imperial City. , inspecting his 30,000 new armored troops.
I have to admit that Zhao Mingcheng still has two skills... In less than two years, he has raised a new armored army!
I don't know if they can fight, but the appearance is definitely no worse than Zhao Kai's Tiance Army... It's impossible for everyone in the Tiance Army to be armored!
Iron armor in the Song Dynasty was very expensive, and cold-forged armor was not widely available. Now only Luoyang Iron Factory can produce it in small quantities. The price of hot-forged armor is equally astonishing. A piece of iron armor costs sixty or seventy dollars, which is really not expensive!
Just 100,000 pieces of iron armor is equivalent to six to seven million strings!
If you include the divine arm bow and other cold weapons, as well as a large number of less practical firearms, as well as other equipment, equipment, oh, and as many as 20,000 horses.
The expenditure on equipment and horses for these 100,000 new army divisions alone is as high as 15 million yuan!
In addition, the personnel expenses of this army (military pay, military rations, recruitment materials, rewards) have also been spent at no less than 15 million yuan!
A huge investment of 30 million yuan was used to build these 100,000 elite soldiers... If these soldiers are not elite, I really can't afford so much money!
And Zhao Mingcheng is generally an upright official, and the Wu Jinshi who led the army have just become officials, and have not yet learned how to take bribes, so they really spend all their money on the army... Although they don't know how to do it. A lot of people were killed, but there was still a lot of money that was really spent on the knife edge.
So standing at a high place and looking at the silver light reflected from the armor below, Zhao Huan's confidence suddenly rose!
As long as such an army can number 300,000, half of his country will be as stable as a rock!
