Li Liangzuo's battle plan shocked all the people present, and I have to say that Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo's appetite was too great, not only to eat the Song Army's Western Military Division, but also to eat all the soldiers and horses of the Song Army's entire Northern Army; Moreover, it is necessary to defeat Wang Kai's division of the Western Army of the Song Army, and it must be severely damaged, because only in this way when the Xia Army launches a strategic encirclement, Wang Kai will not have the ability to go north to contain the main force of the Xia Army.
"Your Majesty, the requirements for our army to do so are too high, and I am afraid it will not be easy to achieve."
Li Xiaoren, the king of Chu, said; "And once the battle fails, our army will probably lose the good situation in front of us."
Gao Wei continued: "Although it is risky to fight like this, the gains are also huge, so that my Great Xia Empire can annex the Central Plains and all the territories north of the Huai River in one fell swoop, and Weichen thinks it is feasible."
"However, such a large-scale war on two fronts at the same time requires a huge amount of baggage, and now the treasury is empty, and it is impossible to take out so much baggage to support the war."
Zhou Shengcai said.
"How much grain and grass is there in the local treasury that can be mobilized," Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo asked.
"Your Majesty, there is not a single grain in the treasury, and some time ago the northern grasslands suffered a serious white plague, and the only remaining grain in the treasury has been transported to the north."
Zhou Wentai reported to Li Liangzuo: "And now even the people in the country don't have much food, so they can only survive this winter." ” "Grain and grass are grain and grass again; Every time there is a war, it is food and grass, which is really hateful," Li Liangzuo said angrily.
"Your Majesty, if the war is postponed for another month, I think the problem should be resolved."
Li Yanzong, who had not spoken, said.
"How to solve it," Li Liangzuo asked with a frown.
"Your Majesty, is it your Royal Highness King Yan" Li Yanzong said; "It is reported that His Royal Highness King Yan successively plundered Suzhou, Xiuzhou, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Yuezhou, Taizhou and other places in the Great Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, and seized tens of millions of stones of grain and grass and countless gold, silver, jewelry, and silk silk; Now these baggage are being transported to Hangzhou, and a considerable part of it has been transported to Changguo Island, and the next step can be to transport these baggage back to the northern battlefield, with this batch of grain and grass baggage is enough to maintain our army's operation. ” Li Liangzuo frowned when he heard this, and was silent for a long time before he said: "The herald ordered King Yan to transport the captured baggage back as soon as possible, and at the same time ordered Li Ke, the king of Changshan, to prepare to accept it, and the specific matters are temporarily subject to the arrangements of King Yan." ” "Yes, Your Majesty" Through Li Liangzuo's words, everyone obviously felt that something was not quite right, in the past, Li Liangzuo often used Qing'er when talking about Li Qing, the king of Yan, but this time he didn't even call his name, but directly called King Yan; Several people in the imperial study immediately judged that there must have been some problems directly in the Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo and the Yan King Li Qing, which caused Li Liangzuo's dissatisfaction with Li Qing and him, and even the results of the Jiangnan Battle could not make up for it.
"Brother Huang, you still take the lead in making a vertical and horizontal battle strategy according to what I just said; In addition, in order to make this combat operation a success, I decided to form a supreme command, which will be personally managed by me, with the imperial brother as the deputy commander-in-chief, and the specific affairs handled by the imperial brother, with close cooperation between the Executive Yuan, the Military Affairs Yuan, and the Finance Department."
"Yes, follow Your Majesty's orders" Three days later, the vertical and horizontal operational strategy was officially submitted, and this operational strategy had several sets of plans, explaining all the situations that might occur on the battlefield, and finally it was handed over to Li Liangzuo to wait for instructions, and it took Li Liangzuo a whole day to read the plan and finally approve it.
After the combat plan is decided, the first phase of the operation will be implemented; In order to prevent leakage of secrets, Li Liangzuo has done a lot of work in secrecy, and the battle plans that were first sent out were all written in secret language, and a plan was sent to different people to transmit, and finally integrated according to the serial number, and the generals in various places only had their own part of the plan, and they didn't know about other battlefields at all; In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Song army, Li Liangzuo decided to start with the Yongzhou Army first, so the battle plan for the first phase of the western battlefield was copied in two copies, and four people were sent to the hands of Li Hu'er, the general of Luoyang Huben, and the hands of Li Wu, the king of Qin, the camp of the summer army in Zheshui.
Just as preparations were being made in the western battlefield, Li Qing, the king of Yan, launched another offensive against the Song army on the Jiangnan battlefield; Li Qing, the king of Yan, led 40,000 iron cavalry to leave Huzhou and went directly north along the west bank of Taihu Lake, along the way the Xia army cavalry basically did not make any stops, and the towns along the way did not commit any crimes, but even so Li Qing also took five days to kill near Changzhou City, you must know that it is only more than 300 miles from Huzhou to Changzhou to take the west road, and it can be reached in two days according to the normal speed of the Xia army, but due to the large number of rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, this time has more than doubled.
When the Xia army arrived at the city of Changzhou, it was late at night, which was good news for Li Qing, although the Xia army cavalry was now very tired, but without further ado, Li Qing decided to launch a night attack on the city of Changzhou immediately; After all, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Xia Jun.
"Lord Wang, I have found out that the Song army must have at least 100,000 soldiers and horses in Changzhou City, and now it is commanded by the Song general Chen Yu, this person is a wine bag and rice bag, and he knows that drinking and playing with women is not a matter of worry."
A general reports to Li Qingyu.
Li Qing nodded and said: "This is a good news for us, we have to find a way to enter Changzhou City now, the grain and grass of the Song army are likely to be hoarded in the city, what can you do?"
"The last general thought that he could take advantage of the darkness to send people to climb the city wall and solve the Song army guards to open the gate to welcome the army into the city."
"It doesn't work."
Zhou Yang Shudao; "There is a moat outside the city of Changzhou, the river is three zhang wide and more than one zhang and five feet deep, most of our army are northern soldiers, there are few people who know how to water at all, and if the number is small, it will be sent to death, and our plan will be discovered by the Song army."
"Okay, don't fight."
Li Qing said: "This king has a way, don't we still have more than 100 sets of armor of the Song army, put them on to open the gate of Changzhou by fraud." ” "Lord Wang, let the last general go this time, and the last general will be familiar with the dialect of Jiangnan."
Zhou Yang pleased.
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you."
Li Qing finally said: "You must be careful. ” "Yes, the last general commands" Zhou Yang took more than 100 elite Xia soldiers to Changzhou City dressed as Song Army, and when he came to the moat, Zhou Yang shouted: "Hurry up in the city and open the city gate for Lao Tzu." ” Immediately, a man's head flashed out of the city and shouted to the outside of the city: "The general has an order, you can't open the city gate at night, you still spend the night outside the city, and the city gate will naturally be opened tomorrow morning." ” "Bastard."
Zhou Yang scolded; "What kind of thing is he, Chen Yu, even dared not to let Lao Tzu enter the city, Lao Tzu entered the city on the orders of His Majesty There is something important, and it will cost you your head if something important is delayed."
Zhou Yang really frightened the captain, and the captain pleaded and said: "General, if I open the city gate for you, I'm afraid General Chen won't be able to spare me."
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