"Fuzi passed on my will, crowned Yongwang Li De as the king of Liang, and led the army to attack the Central Plains," Li Liangzuo decreed.
Li Liangzuo's canonization decree is a great incentive for Li De, although the title of King Liang is a prince compared with King Yong, it is equivalent to an increase of half a level, and Liang Di is located in the Central Plains And now Li De's department is no longer a lone army for the Xia army, but an army of strategic significance, which is enough to affect the strategic situation between the Xia and Song dynasties, although now on the surface the Xia army occupies a great advantage, but in fact, the Xia army's advantage is being lost little by little.
Zhou Wentai, the deputy envoy of administration, said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, now that the war has lasted for almost a year, our army's grain and grass reserves are not running out, if it weren't for the fact that the armies from all walks of life captured some from the battlefield before, I am afraid that our army would have run out of grain before the autumn harvest, although the autumn harvest has been completed now, but this year's grain production is not high, if the battle is long, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to our army."
"What about the other baggage," Li Liangzuo asked with a frown.
Zhou Wentai continued: "The reserves of weapons, armor, and arrows are still very sufficient, but there are not many military uniforms, quilts, military shoes, etc. ” "What's the use of more ordnance, it's going to be winter in more than a month, I don't want to see my soldiers fighting hungry and wearing single clothes, this matter is a major event in my court, led by the king of Chu to cooperate with all the departments of the court, we must solve the required baggage as soon as possible; The follow-up defense line of the Song army is still very strong, and I am afraid that a protracted battle will be fought, and the baggage required by the various armies must be fully prepared," Li Liangzuo said.
"Wechen will do his best to receive the order," Li Xiaoren said.
From the date of the Great Xia State, grain and grass has always been the shortcomings of the Xia army, although there have been some improvements over the years, but it still cannot be compared with the Great Song Dynasty, there are two main aspects that restrict the grain production of the Great Xia Empire, the first is the land, although the Great Xia Empire seems to have a vast area, but there is very little fertile soil that can grow food crops, and now there are more Guanzhong, Hebei and Hanzhong are much better than before, as for the Northeast Plain under the rule of the Anton Protectorate in the northeast, it is now a wasteland, and the Great Xia Empire has no ability to develop it at all.
The second aspect is the population, although the population of the Great Xia Empire has been quite a lot, it has reached more than 13 million people, but most of the real strong men have already gone to the battlefield, and now the soldiers of the Great Xia Empire are one out of ten, that is to say, one of the ten people is going to join the army to fight, and a large amount of grain and grass and soldiers are needed to fight, but the hesitant labor force is going to be a force, so the grain production has declined, which has caused a vicious circle, and in the long run, the Great Xia Empire will break out in famine, thus completely collapsing.
Look back to the outside of Xinzheng City, Li De's army has been stationed here for two days, because the Song army used the city wall as a cover to condescend, in addition to the high pool of Xinzheng City, Li De did not attack rashly, but chose to completely surround Xinzheng, Li De is considering whether it is enough to lay Xinzheng, it is obvious that it is good to take Xinzheng, but the Xia army will also suffer great losses.
Outside Xinzheng City, the summer army camp.
The deputy general hurriedly came to Li De with a letter, and before the deputy general could speak, he was scolded by Li De: "Didn't this king say it, it's okay to disturb this king a lot, get out" The adjutant general stubbornly said: "But Lord Wang, this is a secret decree sent by His Majesty, and the last general will not dare to delay." ” As soon as Li De heard that it was Li Liangzuo's letter, he immediately came to the spirit, took the secret letter from the hands of the adjutant general, and after checking it, Li De opened the secret letter, Li Liangzuo did not say much in the letter, but only encouraged Li De a few words, and told Li De about the addition of Li De as the king of Liang, as for the other Li Liangzuo did not give clear instructions, after all, Li Liangzuo was not very clear about the situation on the battlefield in the Central Plains, so he did not command blindly.
"Lord Wang, what did Your Majesty say in the letter?"
the adjutant general asked curiously.
Li De put the secret letter away and said: "My father just crowned this king as the king of Liang, and did not give any instructions or send any tasks. ” "Lord Wang, this is a great thing," the lieutenant general said with a smile.
"It's a good thing, but why did my father crown this king as the king of Liang?"
Li De walked to the map with his hands behind his back and thought about it; "Liang is the Central Plains, my father named this king as the king of Liang because he wanted this king to stay in the Central Plains, does my father mean" Li De seemed to understand Li Liangzuo's intentions, so he immediately said to the adjutant general: "Order the army to pack up and prepare to leave Xinzheng tomorrow." ” "Leave," said the adjutant in surprise; "Where are we going to leave Xinzheng, Lord Wang?"
"The Song army is well defended in Xinzheng, we have no chance, it is better to leave as soon as possible, as for where to go, this king has his own plan to carry out his orders."
"Yes, this will be arranged in the end" In the early morning of the next day, Li De led an army of 50,000 to the east, and with the departure of the Xia army, the siege of Xinzheng was naturally resolved, but looking at the direction of the Xia army's departure, Zhang Dunli frowned tightly, for the Xia army to give up the siege of Xinzheng, Zhang Dunli actually did not feel happy, but very uneasy, because the Xia army went east closer to Bianliang, and the closer to the Grand Canal, the Grand Canal at this time was the main artery of the Song army, if the Xia army shot at the Grand Canal, the situation would be very unfavorable to the Song army.
Because the Grand Canal is located in the hinterland of the Song army and the distance is very long, so the Song army did not arrange any defensive forces on the Grand Canal, if the Xia army wants to cut off the Grand Canal, it is very simple, you can attack any point on both sides of the canal, once the canal is blocked, the Song army will suffer huge losses.
Aware of the danger of the situation, Zhang Dunli immediately sent people to inform the various towns along the canal to let them join forces to protect the canal grain route, and at the same time reported the situation to Zhao Yan, and asked him to quickly send troops to support, for the increasingly erosive situation in the Central Plains, Zhao Yan had no time to take care of it, because the Xia army led by Li Qing had approached the defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion and launched an attack on the defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion, and the troops in Zhao Chen's hands were only enough to hold the defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion, and he was unable to care about the Central Plains at all.
Besides, Li De was carrying out a crazy plan at this time, and after Li De led his army eastward, he soon captured a county town of Weishi, and soon captured Xianping east of Weishi; Xianping is an excellent strategic location for Li De, which is only more than 50 miles away from the Grand Canal, the main artery of the Song army, and only more than 80 miles away from Bianliang, Tokyo, the Great Song Dynasty, that is to say, after occupying Xianping, the cavalry of the Xia army has the ability to reach the Grand Canal or Bianliang within one day.
At this time, the Bianliang River Grand Canal did not realize that they were already under the peak of the Xia army, Bianliang City was still as prosperous as before, as if the world was peaceful, although the people of Bianliang had gone south, but the people of Bianliang City still had millions of people, and the other was that the tanker boats on the Grand Canal were still going north and south in an orderly manner, and they transported boatloads of supplies from the south to the front line of the Song army in the north, and continued to transfuse blood for the soldiers in the north of the Great Song Dynasty.
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