Zhao Jiu did not immediately set out to conquer Guanzhong after Yiyoumen Tuogu. In fact, after ensuring the loyalty and mobility of the center through Tuogu, he first held a comprehensive court meeting and clearly proposed a strategy to protect Guanzhong at all costs.

goal, and then required the entire imperial court to exert all its operational capabilities to ensure military operations.

Of course, the most important thing is to make certain military arrangements before the imperial commander goes on a personal expedition.

As a passive defender, how to deploy troops is always a huge problem... After thinking about it, it is almost the same as the last response. Zhang Jun needs to defend the Huaihe River and Jingdong, and Yue Fei needs to mention the front of Kaifeng Mansion and Daming Mansion.

The Jin Army faced off head-on. Otherwise, what would happen if the 40,000 to 50,000 people gathered in Damingfu by the Eastern Route Army went south?

The troops that can be mobilized in the short term seem to be the same as last time, and the number of these troops and the speed at which they are gathered in Guanzhong have already been learned by Wanyan Lou through the last strategic investigation... This is a conspiracy, and there is nothing we can do about it.

The conspiracy, the horror of Wanyan Lou's room has begun to take shape.

Of course, neither Zhao Jiu nor the entire Song Dynasty court could just sit still and wait for death.

Therefore, as the Zhao Guan family officially set off to the west after the meeting, the imperial camp in the southeast was immediately issued an order to move the rear army north. At the same time, the imperial court in Guanxi, the Central Plains, Lianghuai, and even Bashu and the southeast region also issued a call for rebels.

', The reward of the 'people's army' is to provide official rank, title, and the number of imperial students to encourage powerful families to contribute people, efforts, and money.

And these are the contents of the Di newspaper that Liang Jiaying, a fellow Jinshi in the army, read a few days ago.

As for the current first day of April, Secretary Liang saw the arrival of Jin Wu Huan, and the official family and the imperial squad entered the camp. They reported their identities, and after the handover was completed, they still started from the same year as themselves, that is, the Jinshi

Yu Yunwen, the living man, received the task of reading the newspaper... In Yu Yunwen's words, the officials made an explanation more than once. This is the most important task of joining the army and no one should neglect or misinterpret it... But when Secretary Liang received today's

After just reading a copy of the newspaper, I was stunned on the spot, then dizzy and panicked for a moment.

However, this time, it was not that Guangzhou Jiayingzi had little experience. The serious Jinshi who were directly accompanying the emperor were all frightened. Some shed tears on the spot, some were shocked, some beat their chests and feet, and some even wanted to break into the Book Master.

, but was stopped by the Imperial Guard who had been well prepared.

Without him, this time the Di newspaper directly recorded the incident of Zhao Guan's family Yiyoumen Tuogu!

The article was written by the person involved, Yu Yunwen, the living man, and then submitted to his old friend Hu Quan, editor Hu. Except for the part about scolding Taishang Daojun, the rest of the article was entered... Faced with this kind of strong emotional color

, and it is unusual for these young political elites to have these reactions to serious political events related to the country and its destiny.

Even they didn't know that this supplement had caused chaos in the Imperial College as early as when the imperial students were copying the residence reports. Fortunately, Chen Gongfu of the Imperial Academy had some courage to directly lead the guards of the Imperial Academy to physically block the door, otherwise these imperial princes would have

The students probably burned Uncle Zhao's house because of the fact that Zhao Guan's family had gone on an expedition the day before!

As for the extremely innocent family of Uncle Zong Zhengzhao, they immediately tore down the gate of their house two or three days ago after receiving the news. Then the sons of the family slept in the yard all day and night under mosquitoes and dew, not daring to do so.

Returning to the room.

However, returning to the present moment, after the emotions were vented, everyone was speechless - in the face of the war, the emperor is determined to this point, what can he do as a minister?

As a result, there was a commotion for a while, and all the Jinshi who accompanied the army had no choice but to hold their own opinions and go to read with the officers in the army... The imperial class is no better than others, because there are many civil servants and scholars accompanying them, so it is

The true meaning of "Jinshi enters the capital" must be read to every soldier.

"Officials, with all due respect, is this really useful?"

Entering the summer, the sky was getting darker and darker. The Chinese army's tent and the Privy Council accompanying the army had ordered Liu Ziyu to look through the open tent door for a long time. When he turned around, he couldn't help but stand in the dark.

, Zhao Guanjia, who was also looking at the situation outside with his hands behind his back, gave advice. "The matter of Tuogu is related to the country. Putting this kind of thing in the official newspaper and letting the officials, scholars, and imperial students know about it is already a little scary. As for ordinary soldiers,

...The military pay is sufficient, rewards and punishments are clear, and kindness and power can be combined. If you tell them this, they may not understand what righteousness is!"

Qu Duan, who was also in the tent, could sneer instinctively and wanted to ridicule him, but when he saw an official on the side who heard the sound and stopped to peek, he suppressed it.

"What Liu Qing said is absolutely true."

Unexpectedly, Zhao Jiu, who turned back to his seat after hearing this, did not directly refute the opponent at all. "If you want the soldiers to use their lives, provide military pay, rewards and punishments, kindness and prestige are the most fundamental things. Without these, it would be unavoidable to use empty words to influence the soldiers."

Ridiculous... But since the establishment of the imperial army, the imperial court can be said to have devoted all its efforts to nourishing the soldiers and ensuring military pay. Although there are still many shortcomings and random thoughts, it is really impossible to do more in this regard for a while.

, it is also helpless to try to cheer up before the battle at this time."

Seeing the official turn around, several guards in the tent immediately lit candles. Liu Ziyu also lowered the wide tent door with his own hands, and then turned around.

"As for whether the soldiers understand the righteousness?" Zhao Jiu spread out the map and continued to smile. "Do you understand? It's best if you understand, and it doesn't matter if you don't understand. Everyone is using their lives. It's hard for the scribes who accompany the army to let them

If you have nothing to do, as long as one person out of a hundred understands it, it will be worth the time these Jinshis have been talking about it."

Liu Ziyu became more and more speechless, but could only nod.

At the same time, as the lights in the tent were lit one after another, they matched the bonfire outside the tent and illuminated the faces of many accompanying officials in the tent. Among them was the Privy Councilor Wang Boyan... and below the Privy Councilor, the Privy Council Secretary-General

There were no less than twenty or thirty people who had joined the army, were editors, and had the duty of escorting Hanlin scholars, Shiren, Lianglang, accompanying the imperial camp, and the direct army generals in the imperial squad. However, they filled the central army tent early.

steaming.

It was in such a state that Zhao Jiu began to ask Hu Hong, a layman, to lay out the map.

"For officials, it's actually better to enter the pass..." The guard of Sishui Pass who came out to greet him turned out to be a scribe, and he came from a well-known family. He was a new commander of the Eight-Character Army, named Fan Yihong.

When you see this, you can't help but be careful. "You will have a big house when you enter the customs, so you can eat as you like."

"I'm an orphan, so why would I want a big house?"

Zhao Jiu didn't even raise his head, stroking a simple map and said. "Let's not talk about this matter. I got military information today and said that Wanyan Lou's family sent his son Wanyan Huonv to divide his troops to attack Danzhou (southeast of Yan'an, next to the Yellow River,

Today's Yichuan), Wu Jie hurriedly left Luochuan to support, but was defeated again at the hands of Lou Shi and his son. Danzhou had no help and surrendered directly. With Danzhou lost, Yanzhou (southwest of Yan'an, north of the Guanzhong Plain)

The main road of Luoshui (today's Fu County area) was attacked from two sides. In addition, Wu Jie suffered a serious loss of troops and horses. How do you think we should deal with it? Should we defend or withdraw?"

"Don't worry about this for now!" Qu Duan was about to speak, but Liu Ziyu took a step forward and faced him seriously. "In the official family, except for Lou's family, the military situation is vague at this time. That's Mrs. Han.

I am afraid that the captain is still on the way, but since the imperial commander is about to enter Luoyang, and the military situation everywhere is expected, I think it is time to make a plan for this westward journey as soon as possible to avoid the unpredictable military situation ahead.

Be prepared for a certain number!"

"What kind of strategy?"

Zhao Jiu looked serious. "Does the Privy Council have an opinion?"

"Yes." Liu Ziyu raised his voice in response. "Now the situation is gradually becoming clearer. It is the Jin army attacking from the west and diverting it from the east. The east and west armies have nearly 200,000 soldiers... More than 50,000 soldiers have joined forces with the puppet Qi troops to try to use Daming Mansion

As a node, connect the east of Jingdong to contain the front army of the imperial camp and the right army of the imperial camp; while the 150,000 people join forces to go west, intending to annex Kansai..."

"This is nonsense!" Qu Duan finally couldn't help but interjected and yelled. "The Privy Council is in charge of the country's confidential military affairs. These things have been known to everyone a month ago, but now they treat it as important military information and come to the imperial road...

Is this how the Privy Council works?"

"Deputy Commander Qu!" Liu Ziyu is also known to have a bad temper. How could he endure Qu Duan and even scold him back. "Today is the first day of April. How many days ago was it a month ago? Not to mention that there is something about Yiyoumen in the meantime.

, the big court meeting, and then the march here! Not to mention the serious military situation, some news always needs to be confirmed by the three of us..."

"If you confirm it like this, the official family has been ruined long ago!" Qu Duan was not afraid, skipping 'Yue Qian' and sneered. "Don't think I don't know that you have a personal grudge with the manager of Taihang Mountain Ma Kuoma. He

You always treat the messages you send with selfishness, so much so that when you were in Nanyang last time, you abolished the official position for personal reasons! I just ask you, so what if you confirmed it repeatedly? Did Ma Kuo deceive you? He was thrown into prison by your father and his son.

Here, the Jin people released him, but he abandoned his family to fight against the Jin. Why did such a loyal person deceive you? Just because he has enmity with you? Even if he has enmity with you, he must have no enmity with the officials.

, I have no enmity with the scholars and people of Lianghe, Guanxi, and the Central Plains! Let me tell you, a yamen like you with a civil servant background, even if you wield swords and guns, learn some skills of soldiers and horses, it is just pretending. The Jingkang incident was because of the country

Major events are controlled by people like you father and son..."

Liu Ziyu was still patient before, but at the end of the hearing, the other party actually talked about his late father who died for his country, and he was so unscrupulous that he suddenly sneered, and then chanted word by word in the tent with his hands behind his back:

"If you don't build a business in Guanzhong, you will go fishing on the river."

There was silence in the tent for a moment, and Qu Duan's face turned red from holding back.

And at this moment, Zhao Jiu, who had been quietly listening to the two fighting each other, suddenly laughed: "Yang Yizhong."

"I'm here." Yang Yizhong followed the voice and moved forward.

"Roll up the tent door again." Zhao Jiu calmly ordered. "Let the officers and soldiers outside, as well as the Jinshi officials accompanying the army, see clearly what is going on here, so as to avoid curiosity."

Yang Yizhong was startled for a moment, but he still passed over the awkward situation between Qu Duan and Liu Ziyu, and stepped forward to roll up the curtain himself.

"Go on." After the tent door reopened, Zhao Jiufang pointed at Liu Ziyu.

"Here!"

Liu Ziyu took several deep breaths, suppressed the anger in his chest, and continued to report to the officials. "Good instructors know that the Privy Council believes that whether you want to defend or fight, if you want to win this battle, the first thing to do is to isolate.

"

"What should I say?" Zhao Jiu was slightly refreshed.

"The purpose is to try our best to prevent the various branches of the Jin Army from gathering in Guanzhong." Liu Ziyu gradually calmed down. "The Jin Army was divided into three, but in the end it was only the army that entered Guanzhong that had to fight with all its strength. Therefore...

"

"Therefore, the top priority is to prevent the enemies of Taiyuan from reinforcing Lou Shi as much as possible." Zhao Jiu suddenly realized, and he said it directly. "But Danzhou has been lost. If the Jin army comes from Yan'an, what if Danzhou crosses the river to support it?"

"No." Qu Duan explained before Liu Ziyu. "What the officials don't know is that on both sides of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, starting from Longmen, there are many mountains and narrow roads. If the Jin people wanted to gather from northern Shaanxi, they would only have to extend to Yan'an Prefecture.

The river can be used as a grain road between Hedong and Hexi, and then it has to make a circle from Yan'an Prefecture and then go south... This road means that the Jin people already have Yan'an Prefecture, and the Jinning Army and the three states outside Hewai are approaching.

Food, supplying fifty or sixty thousand people is already the limit, it cannot be too much! The Five-Road Expedition to Xia failed completely because they ignored logistics. The Lou family must be three points better than the civil servants of this dynasty."

Zhao Jiu nodded slowly: "I understand what you mean... It's not that Lou Shi doesn't want to gather an army at the beginning, but the troops in northern Shaanxi are limited, and he has to count on the Hedong Jin Army to come from Hezhong Mansion for support, so you want me to be in Shaanxi

Deploy heavy troops between the prefectures and the same prefectures, try to isolate Pujin and Fenglingdu, and block most of the enemy from the east of the river?"

"That's exactly what I mean." Qu Duan still answered first.

Zhao Jiu nodded slowly, but then shook his head: "Can Shaanzhou Li Yanxian's troops defend the two states?"

"Not enough!" Qu Duan responded to the situation. "The enemy has 100,000 troops. Even if we defend across the river, we still need 60,000 to 70,000, and we have to fight with elites..."
To be continued...