After killing all the Song prisoners and burning Changge City, Li De set his next target on Xinzheng; Xinzheng is the base camp of the Song army's operation, and all the grain and grass required by the Song army to go south are stored in Xinzheng, and taking Xinzheng is equivalent to cutting off the roots of the Song army's southward movement, and it will also draw a successful end to the war.
When Li De marched to Xinzheng, Zhang Dunli had already led thousands of remnants of the army to retreat to Xinzheng, and successively collected the defeated troops, and urgently transferred some soldiers and horses from the surrounding areas, and barely gathered 20,000 people in addition to the young and strong in the city; These 20,000 people are completely a rabble, Zhang Dunli did not plan to use these 20,000 people to kill the Xia army, for Zhang Dunli, as long as he can hold Xinzheng, the Song army will win.
In the camp of the Xinzheng Song army, Zhang Dunli's face was full of sadness, the 150,000 army, which was almost all the mobile forces of the Song army in the Central Plains, this time all lost, for the next battle Zhang Dunli was very clear, it was impossible to quickly exterminate Li De's army, and it was impossible to compete with the elite of the Xia army with the newly recruited soldiers, so Zhang Dunli wrote two secret letters to ask for help from Zhao Wang, Zhao Yu and the commander of the Western Army.
"Marshal, the 20,000-strong army has been prepared, and all the weapons and armor have been sold."
Zhang Dunli nodded and said: "Okay, the herald orders the army to hold the city, and no one is allowed to go out of the city to meet the battle without the commander; At the same time, the defenders of each city were ordered to close the city gate immediately once they found the traces of the Xia army before the reinforcements arrived, and in addition, all the people, grain and grass outside the city were moved to the city, and not a grain of grain could be left for the Xia army. ” "Yes, the last general commands" Due to the lack of troops, Zhang Dunli can only choose to clear the wilderness, as for whether this tactic can work Zhang Dunli does not know, in Zhang Dunli's opinion, he can only gamble now, because only in this way can the losses of the Great Song Dynasty be reduced to a minimum, if the Xia army can not seize grain and grass from the Song army for a long time, the 50,000 troops under Li De can only be starved to death.
Although the strong wall Qingye was able to minimize the losses of the Great Song Dynasty, it also had huge hidden dangers; The Central Plains has been a place of four wars since ancient times, although it is a plain area of a horse and a flat river, but the strategic location is extremely important, and at this time the Central Plains is not to mention the importance of the Great Song Dynasty; The Central Plains region is the rear foundation of the Northern Army of the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Army, and the rear grain, grass, weapons, armor, soldiers, etc. of the two major army corps all come from the Central Plains, and all the baggage of the Northern Army and most of the baggage of the Western Army must be transported to the front line from the rear through the Grand Canal that runs through the Central Plains.
Li De led the Xia army to break into the Central Plains, for the Great Song Dynasty like a fish in the throat, if it can not be removed as soon as possible, I am afraid it will affect the rear grain road of the Song army, after the victory of the Battle of Changge, the importance of Li De's lone army began to show again, in the imperial capital of the Great Xia Empire, Li Liangzuo in the Ziwei Palace, after learning the news of the Battle of Changge, although the surface is very calm, but the heart is very excited, Li Liangzuo's previous strategic plan can also be said to be successful due to Li De's entry into the Central Plains, But at this time, Li Liangzuo no longer cares about the gains and losses of one city and one place, and Li Liangzuo has a long-term vision.
Ziwei Palace, inside the Imperial Study.
Several important ministers of the Great Xia Empire were all present, and Li Yanzong, Marquis of Wu'an, reported to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, according to the information we have, His Royal Highness Yongwang has led his army to fight a fierce battle with the Song general Zhang Dunli in Changge two days ago, and our army has annihilated 150,000 enemies in this battle, and the strength of the Song army in the Central Plains has basically been completely annihilated, and His Royal Highness Yongwang is currently marching to Xinzheng. ” "Yes, he is worthy of being my son."
Li Liangzuo smiled; "This kid's mind has finally opened up; Tell me about the losses of our army."
"Your Majesty, the losses of our army are not large, only more than a thousand people, and the army under the command of His Royal Highness King Yong is basically not damaged in the slightest."
Li Yanzong said to Li Liangzuo; "It is said that when His Royal Highness King Yong fought a decisive battle with the Song army, he used the fire ox array to deal with the Song army's car formation, and tens of thousands of fire oxen were rushed by the Song army, and our army took advantage of the situation to attack and kill and won a complete victory."
Li Liangzuo nodded with a smile and did not speak, at this time Li Xiaoren, the king of Yan, said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Dunli's 150,000 army was destroyed, and in a short period of time, the Song army in the Central Plains has no ability to besiege this lone army of King Yong, Your Majesty, do you see if you use this opportunity to let King Yong withdraw."
"No, you can't withdraw yet."
Li Liangzuo immediately objected and said; "Now that the situation in the Central Plains is very good, it is the time for our army to show its might, and the evacuation at this time is not a delay in the fighters."
"Your Majesty, although the Song army was defeated, according to the report of our spies, the Song army has begun to clear the wilderness, and I am afraid that it will not be good for our army after a long time," Li Yanzong also said.
Li Liangzuo walked to the map and said: "The Central Plains is a rich and prosperous place, it is still very easy to feed this 50,000 army, just grab a point, Fuzi passed the decree that Yipintang wants the right to assist Li De, and he will give what he wants; As long as Li De led an army of 50,000 in the Central Plains, the Great Song Dynasty was like a fish in the throat, and the Song army had to draw a large number of troops back to defend; In the past, I always wanted to occupy the Central Plains quickly, but I was a little anxious, Li De led the army to attack the Central Plains, the first step of our strategic plan has been successful, and the significance of attacking the Central Plains is even greater than attacking Luoyang, because with these 50,000 troops, we have the ability to cut off the rear grain routes of the Song army at any time, and tell Li De not to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, his existence is not to capture how many cities, but to disturb the rear of the Song army, to disturb the grain routes of the Song army, and I have no grain and grass to see how the Song army will fight this battle."
"Your Majesty means to use this Central Plains War to eat all the main forces of the Song army," asked Li Xiaoren, the king of Chu.
"Yes, I want to eat all the main forces of the Song army north of the Huai River this time, this is the elite troops of the Song army, eating them is equivalent to cutting off the right arm of the Great Song Dynasty, without two arms, the Great Song Dynasty will not have to be mixed."
Li Liangzuo said with a smile.
Hearing that Li Liangzuo wanted to eat all the great armies of the Great Song Dynasty in the north, all the ministers took a deep breath, Li Liangzuo no longer cared about the Central Plains, what he wanted was to make the Great Song Dynasty suffer a great injury, and at the same time lose the Central Plains, but also let the main force of the Song army be wiped out, the Song army's army in the north can be two or three million, and it is not easy to eat them in one bite.
If the Xia army is attacking step by step, although it will cause great damage to the Song army, but the Song army can also withdraw while fighting, and the elite troops of the Song army can withdraw to the north of the Huai River or even to the south of the Yangtze River, as long as there are 100,000 elites there, the Song army can use these 100,000 veterans to build a million army after filling the new recruits, the Great Song Dynasty has never lacked soldiers, what the Great Song Dynasty lacks is the last battlefield, have seen blood, have combat experience, even if they have fought defeated the veterans; And now what Li Liangzuo wants to do is to eat all these veterans of the Song Army.
Once the Northern Army and the Western Army are lost, the Great Song Dynasty may really have no soldiers available.
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