"Ahead is the fork of the Yellow River, where the Yellow River is divided into two..."
A party guide who was leading the way just pointed tremblingly at the fork of the Yellow River in front, and spoke in a low voice to the Jurchen knight behind him.
Ahead is the bifurcation of the Yellow River that divides the mighty Yellow River into two channels, one south and one north. The Yellow River, which divides into north and south, did not always separate, and finally became two large rivers. Instead, at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, with the help of the terrain of Yinshan Mountain, the North River in it was forced to turn south again, and finally there was a north-south merger. And what is surrounded by the north and south channels of the Yellow River is an extremely fertile plain!
Nature has endowed this land with not only two Yellow Rivers, but also two mountains that can shield the cold wind from the north and provide the plain with melted snow water to replenish moisture in spring and summer. The two mountain ranges, Heishan Mountain, also known as Yangshan Mountain, are arc-shaped and located in the north and northwest of the plain flanked by two Yellow Rivers. Another mountain range is the Yinshan Mountains, located in the east and northeast of this plain.
If you look down from a high altitude, as long as you are not blind, you will immediately discover the benefits of this plain. In the gray and yellow northwest of China, the most green areas are three large areas of land. Lingzhou and Xingzhou together are considered one, the foot of Yangshan (Black Mountain) is considered one, and the other is At the foot of Yinshan Mountain - it was the land that Wu Qi bought and allocated to Hebule.
Among these three large green areas, Lingzhou and Xingzhou are the smallest, while the two plains at the foot of Yin and Yang Mountains are almost the same size, and they are still connected... This large area If developed, there would be at least 30 to 40 million acres of fertile farmland!
If they were all used to house government soldiers, an average of 200 acres per household would be nearly 200,000 households! If it were wider, with one household per 300 acres, it could accommodate hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the government!
As early as the Warring States Period, the Chinese nation was interested in this treasure land, and both Qin and Zhao countries developed in this area. After Qin Shihuang unified the world, he sent Meng Tian to lead 300,000 troops to seize territory. The Huns were driven away and the treasure lands at the foot of Yangshan and Yinshan Mountains were snatched away. Later, Jiuyuan County was also established, one of the 36 counties in the world. At the same time, a large number of people were moved from the interior to this area to cultivate and defend the area... It is a pity that the ancestors established the territory and the descendants could not hold it.
When the Song Dynasty was founded, Yangshan and Yinshan were not included in the territory. Even in the era of Song Taizu and Song Taizong, one could only take a look at the hometown of Jiuyuan County from a distance... But who would have thought that, The Song Dynasty "restarted" once. After installing the two old systems of Fubing System and Military Merit Jue, and using the three super golden fingers of "hot pot", "casserole" and "copper frying kettle", it was actually fast. Fight back to the foot of Yangshan Mountain!
Once the land at the foot of Yangshan Mountain belongs to the Song Dynasty, then the Emperor of Luoyang and the King of Mobei will become one... By then, the good days of the Great Jin Kingdom will be over!
Wanyan Xiebaoduan sat on his horse and looked at the spectacle of the surging Yellow River suddenly splitting into two on the flat ground. He felt very emotional in his heart!
Now the fate of the Great Jin Kingdom seems to have reached an important fork like the Yellow River... Whether the country's fortunes will continue to prosper or take a turn for the worse depends on this "War of the Four Emperors"!
Beside him, the Jurchen general Wanyan Loushi also stood up straight, looked at the big fork in front of him, nodded slightly, and praised: "Not bad... This place was chosen well! As long as it's here By building a stronghold at the mouth of the Chucha River and setting up more than a hundred cannons, the river mouth can be completely blocked with mud bombs and explosive pots. The Song people's fleet cannot pass, and it will be difficult for their army to cross the river and go north to the Black Mountains. Even if the river is successfully crossed, the food and grass will be lost. It is also difficult to transport. As long as we divide our forces to guard Wu Lahai City and several important mountain passes in Heishan, we will be invincible! Xie Bao, it seems that my general Dai Jin has a successor... Wait until the battle is over With this battle, I can retire with peace of mind."
"It's a reward," Wanyan Xiabao said with a smile, "Juniors still need to practice hard. The Optimus Prime and Jihailiang of the Great Jin Kingdom must be veteran generals like you!"
"Hahaha..." Wanyan Loushi laughed, "You have such a sweet mouth, why do your dad always say you have a bad mouth and ask me to be more careful?"
This...has a bad mouth? Xie Baoxin said: Why does my mouth smell so bad? Why are you talking nonsense, dad?
Seeing Xie Bao's confused look, Lou Shi laughed again, "Xie Bao, you picked the battlefield well... The officials of the Song Dynasty would fight like this, could you predict it? If you can guess how your opponent will fight, then you can He is a truly famous general!”
Wanyan Xiebao smiled and said: "Zhao Kai's behavior is a bit crazy and it is difficult to predict... But once our stronghold at the fork of the Yellow River is 10%, Zhao Kai can only choose between the upper, middle and lower strategies.
The best strategy is to raid Xingzhou, capture Li Qianshun and Brother Richard by surprise, and then use Xingzhou as a stronghold to advance Xu Tu... If Zhao Kai takes this strategy, he himself will be safe, but Li Qianshun He is bound to die, and the Yelu Dashi is also in danger! If Yelu Dashi is gone, Zhao Kai will lose even if he catches a Xingzhou.
The middle strategy is to storm our hard stronghold at Hechakou... If he can break through our hard stronghold, Li Qianshun may fall to Zhao Kai. Even if he doesn't go to Zhao Kai, Brother Richard will go to Song Dynasty!
But the stronghold at Hechakou is not easy to break! Even if Zhao Kai captured it, his troops would have suffered heavy losses. Even if tens of thousands of party members were added, it would be difficult to capture Wu Lahai City.
And if he can't attack the Hechakou for a long time, then Li Qianshun will definitely side with us, and then he will be attacked from both sides. However, Zhao Kai is brave and good at fighting, and he also has fierce generals like Yue Fei, Dong Jingang, Li Shifu, and Li Xiaozhong... He might be able to fight his way back to Lingzhou. But when I go back, my energy is greatly damaged!
However, Yelu Dashi was able to escape and retreated to Mobei to survive.
As for the next best option, of course I would attack the stronghold at Hechakou with one force, and then divide the troops along the North Road of the Yellow River and go straight to Wu Lahai City... That would be a blessing from God! "
"All three strategies, upper, middle and lower, will lead to defeat?" Wanyan Loushi smiled, "Is there no winning strategy?"
Wanyan Xiebao shook his head, "This junior would never have thought... Zhao Zhao, you are a veteran general and have experienced hundreds of battles. Do you think Zhao Kai has any magic tricks that he can use?"
Wanyan Loushi looked at the bifurcated Yellow River in front of her. The smile on her face gradually disappeared, and her tone became extremely solemn: "It's just a fork of the Yellow River. The river is not very wide and the water is not very fast... Zhao Kai has already asked people to search for ships in Lingzhou. How difficult can it be to force the crossing? So what if the party members are on our side?
It's nothing more than 140,000 versus 80,000... Zhao Kai may not be unable to win! Xianbao, there is nothing wrong with your strategy. But don’t really believe in being invincible! If we can really guarantee undefeation, Zhao Kai will not come!
If he comes... we will have a hard battle to fight! "
"You are asking for a lesson!" Wanyan Xiebao said sternly, "The Battle of Black Mountain must be a hard fight... I wonder how many emperors will die here?"
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"How many people are there now?"
"Guan Jia, there are 22,000 people who followed you from Luoyang. Shaanxi can still gather 30,000 soldiers, including Yu Zang, Da Bin, Mi Qing, Qian Lang, Fu'er and other tribes, as well as Qing The various vassals of the Tang Dynasty could gather up to 30,000 people at most..."
"I still have about 13,000 Khitan soldiers.
"That's ninety-five thousand people!"
"These are all fighting soldiers. If you include the auxiliary soldiers and civilians who accompany the army, the total force will be no less than 170,000!"
"It's not enough! I just got the news that Wanyan Wu Qimai left Xijing and came to Montenegro! The golden thief is also very determined this time!"
Fengxiang Mansion, Lingjiu Mountain. Zhao Kai, an official of the Song Dynasty, was having military discussions with several close generals at this time. The content of the military discussions was to collect heads.
Zhao Kai's soldiers are still too few!
Although there are now nearly 400,000 soldiers in the government, if you include the armies attached to the Song Dynasty, but excluding the Hexi Army, there are 500,000 troops!
However, so many troops were mobilized in stages and scattered on many battlefields such as Zhongzhou, Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi. Sichuan and Jinghu also had to take care of them. It's really a bit stretched... In the early years of the Song Dynasty, the imperial army that could fight a little was not more than 200,000. Relying on these people to support the east and block the west, it is actually possible to maintain the glory of a big country. The ability of Zhao Ji and Tong Guan to tear down the east wall and repair the west wall is actually quite powerful.
But now Zhao Kai wants to recruit more troops... 95,000 soldiers, of which only 52,000 are reliable Han troops, which is really too few.
He is much older now, and his courage in using troops has begun to weaken. He no longer has the arrogance and arrogance of four years ago that he dared to go north to fight against the Jin with only a few thousand people, and there is no mention of the chosen one.
"Recruit troops!" Zhao Kai said thoughtfully, "I don't want the land in Xingzhou anymore!"
"Brother," Yue Fei asked, "do you want all the 1 or 2 million acres in Xingzhou to be used to recruit troops?"
Zhao Kai thought for a while: "Everyone... take it out and distribute it to those who have merit! See how many people can be recruited? If someone can prepare his own weapons, horses, and armor to join the army, he can first record his merit."
It turned out that what he wanted was light cavalry instead of infantry. The insufficient number of infantry could be made up by "pots" and "kettles", but the insufficient cavalry was a big problem that was difficult to overcome.
As soon as he said this, he saw "Wu Hanlin" Lu Xiucai next to him holding a scroll and walking in hurriedly. When he arrived in front of Zhao Kai, he bowed, held up the scroll and said, "The official... ....Urgent report from Xingzhou. Quanfa dispatched Xue Yuanli's secret report to Xingzhou: A large group of gold thieves were found building a fort at the fork of the Yellow River!
In addition, Xue Zhizhou also reported that: There are a large number of Jin soldiers at the foot of Black Mountain, and there are many sheep and horses accompanying them. It seems that they have long-term plans...Xue Zhizhou suggested that the officials could enter Xingzhou as a base, Xu Figure to make progress. "
"Hechakou..." Zhao Kai did not pick up the secret report, but said to himself, "That's right there... The golden thief picked a good place! I don't know if Wu Will begging come?"
