In more than half a month, the Xia army successively broke through the Song army's northwest two defense lines, so that the whole world shook, in order to block the Xia army's offensive, the Song army to the gap in the defense line to re-establish the defense line, the Xia army's attack action brought a great shock to the entire Song court, the Song Dynasty spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to establish the defense line was so vulnerable.
Jiangning Mansion, the Great Song Palace.
Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures, and the entire court was in a commotion, and everyone was talking nonsense, Zhao Xu said angrily: "Don't say anything about it, shut up for me." ” Seeing that Zhao Xu was furious, all the people didn't dare to speak, and lowered their heads, Zhao Xu asked everyone: "All Aiqing have told me that the defense line established by my Great Song Dynasty spent tens of thousands of taels of silver, why is it so vulnerable to my vulnerability, now the Xia army in the north has occupied the first line of the Great Wall, and the Xia army in the west has been in Zheshui, you can tell me how long my Great Song can hold it."
Facing Zhao Xu's anger, Zhang Dan, as the prime minister, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, although the Xia army broke through the first line of defense of our army, the Xia army did not inflict heavy damage on our northern army, and our army can still fight again; Although the old minister does not understand military affairs, but the old minister also read the military report sent from the front, the Xia army broke through the Shangnan defense line when the loss was huge, General Wang Kai desperately resisted, and finally because the Xia army occupied an absolute advantage in the strength of the army, so it was forced to give up Shangnan City, although General Wang gave up Shangnan City, but also successfully from the Xia army's tiger mouth will be my Song Dynasty 100,000 troops" "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that this Wang Kai is a talent that can be created, and he should have no worries about sticking to the Zhejiang water defense line."
Zeng Bu also stood up and said; "Weichen thinks that His Majesty should reward Wang Kai."
"Spread the decree, crown Wang Kai as the general of the thief, the deputy commander of the Western Army, and assist the Seed Master Dao to defend against the attack of the Xia Kingdom from the west."
Zhao Xu thought about it for a moment and made an order.
"Your Majesty's Shengming, Your Majesty's Shengming" After the court meeting dispersed, Li Bao hurriedly came to the palace, although Li Bao's position was not high, but it was Zhao Xu's direct power, so Li Bao was easy to see Emperor Zhao Xu; An internal supervisor walked into the imperial study and said to Zhao Xu: "Your Majesty, General Li Bao asks to see you." ” "Li Bao, why did he come here at this time" Zhao Xu said with some surprise; "Let him in."
After Li Bao came in, he saluted Zhao Xu and said, "Weichen Li Bao greets Your Majesty." ” At this time, Li Bao was covered in blood, and his face was full of smoke and dust, Zhao Xu was shocked when he saw it, and asked Li Bao: "Why did Aiqing come to this place, didn't you tell me a few days ago that I was going to patrol the sea, why did you come back so quickly?"
"Your Majesty, Weichen is incapable of living up to Your Majesty's expectations."
Li Bao knelt on the ground and said.
"What does Aiqing have to say, get up and say."
Zhao Xu helped Li Bao up and said.
Li Bao reported to Zhao Xuyu: "Five days ago, Wechen led five ships to the sea to inspect, but not long after going to sea, Wechen encountered a group of pirate ships embroidered with skull flags, there were more than 20 of them, Wechen fought with them, and finally lost three ships, and then escaped back in the night; Wei Chen later inquired about the ships that came and went, and only then did he know that this group of pirates was very powerful, there were hundreds of large sea ships, and all the sea ships that went to sea in the Great Song Dynasty had to pay protection money to them, and if they were responsible, they would be sacked by pirates; Weichen also learned that this group of pirates was called the Beihai Gang, who came from the northwest, and they even defeated the Wa Kingdom; Weichen thought that this matter was not so simple, so as soon as he arrived at the dock, he was anxious to report the matter to His Majesty, disturbed His Majesty, and asked His Majesty to punish the crime. ” "It doesn't matter."
Zhao Xu said: "I'm afraid Aiqing is too worried, a group of small pirates still dare to be the enemy of my Great Song Dynasty. ” "Your Majesty, Wechen is worried that I'm afraid things are not so simple."
Li Bao said to Zhao Xu: "Wechen is worried that this group of so-called Beihai Gang pirates is actually not a group of pirates, but the Qinglong Sailor of the Great Xia Kingdom; Your Majesty can think of what kind of forces can have hundreds of large and medium-sized sea vessels, and they are well-equipped and well-trained sailors."
"Aiqing is saying that this group of pirates is the sailor of the Xia Kingdom."
Zhao Xu frowned and said; "It's too impossible, how could the sailor of the Xia Kingdom come here?"
"Your Majesty, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if."
Li Bao said to Zhao Xu; "If they are really the sailors of the Xia Kingdom, or if they are taken into the arms of the Xia Kingdom, it will be dangerous to my Great Song Dynasty; Although the sailors under the command of Wei Chen have a small scale to defend the Yangtze River waterway, Wei Chen does not have the energy to protect the long coastline of my Great Song Dynasty, if they are really Xia Army, they can land in any place on the coast of my Great Song Dynasty, so that the coast of my Great Song Dynasty is full of wolf smoke; And what is even more dangerous is that they cut off the trade on the sea of our Great Song Dynasty, which can be a fatal threat to the taxes of the imperial court. ” "Then how does Li Aiqing think I should deal with it," Zhao Xu said with some shock when he heard Li Bao's analysis.
Li Bao suggested to Zhao Xu: "Weichen asks Your Majesty to immediately issue an order, the coastal areas should be strengthened and guarded, and the imperial court is also asked to allocate funds to speed up the construction of sea ships, the land south of the Yangtze River can provide high-quality sailors, and only a little training can be used to train a sailor, and after the sailor is trained, we can defeat the pirates." ” "Okay, just do what Aiqing says, and I can make an order."
Zhao Xu said.
The news of the loss of the Great Song Great Wall defense line and the Shangnan defense line made the people in the north of the Great Song Dynasty frightened, seeing that the entire Central Plains region would once again fall into the flames of war, and the people living in the north of Xuzhou once again began a large-scale southward migration operation, and the southward migration of the people of the Great Song Dynasty was tantamount to a heavy blow to Li Liangzuo, who had already regarded the Central Plains as his own cyst, and also recognized the people of the Central Plains as the people of Daxia, and the population loss of the Central Plains had a great impact on Li Liangzuo's strategic plan in the later period.
Li Liangzuo in the Ziwei Palace, the capital of the Great Xia Emperor, has received good news from his two sons, but Li Liangzuo is very dissatisfied with the results of the battle, the reason is that the losses of the Xia army are too heavy, in order to break through these two lines of defense, the Xia army has lost more than 200,000 troops, although a large part of them are government soldiers, but it also makes Li Liangzuo heartbroken, these young and strong are the productivity of the Great Xia Empire, and not one more death means that the Great Xia Empire has lost a part of the productivity.
"Brother Huang, this is just the beginning, isn't this loss too great," Li Liangzuo said to Li Xiaoren.
Li Xiaoren said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty's Song army has invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in this line of defense; Our army has broken through this line of defense with a loss of nearly 200,000 people, and it is conservatively estimated that the Song army has lost at least 500,000 troops so far, and they are all the elite forces of the Song army. ” "Brother Huang has a point."
Li Liangzuo continued: "But this battle also allows us to see that the combat strength of the Song army is improving, especially the generals in the Song army are making rapid progress, this Wang Kai is a typical example, if the Great Song Dynasty is allowed to grow like this, I am afraid it will eventually become a big disaster."
Just when Li Liangzuo was worried about the future, a secret operation in Hanzhong was being intensively planned.
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