Deciding to go to war does not mean that you can go to war immediately, just as deciding to fight does not mean that the winning rate of the battle is very high, or that the decision-making people really think that they will win when they go to war.

At least from Zhao Jiu's perspective, the choice to take the initiative was largely because the situation had been involved, so he just made up his mind. Before and after that, the other senior officials also agreed and opposed what they should oppose... For example, Zhang Jun always believed that it should go to the expedition, and Liu Ziyu also opposed it from beginning to end.

However, since the emperor made a decision to go to the war, Liu Ziyu had to keep silent, because at least the officers and the people below had to think that going to the war was a victory. Liu Ziyu had to pretend to be convinced.

But the same thing is true: going to war is not something you can go to war immediately.

How to gather a unit of 100,000 people? Who comes first and who comes? Which route is their respective? How should the troops be so, how should they allocate logistics? Who will listen to the enemy when so many generals fall together?

All these things need to be arranged and resolved one by one.

On this day, after Zhang Jun made another memorial, demanding to send troops and "persuading" Zhao Guan family, things began to become complicated and cumbersome.

From the perspective of high-level planning, one thing comes up is the question of who stays in Chang'an.

Zhao Jiu had already made arrangements for this. He first hung up a brand new Jinwu Banner in Chang'an City and officially settled in the palace of Chang'an City... Although there were long-term guesses inside and outside Chang'an, the emperor's caution in moving to Guanzhong still shocked the entire Jingzhao.

However, Zhao Jiu quickly pulled Yuwen Xuzhong into the old palace of Chang'an City and gave the Golden Wo flag to the other party.

Obviously, when Luoyang is about to be exposed, he still wants to play psychological warfare with those in Loushi, but he let Yuwen Xuzhong stay in Chang'an in his own name.

As for the Weiqiao Bridge, it was handed over to Liu Ziyu, and Zhang Jun was still responsible for logistics... and he himself was preparing to go directly to the front line camp to personally lead the army under the banner of Yuwen Xuzhong.

Anyway, the virtual and real can have a little confusing effect.

In fact, this arrangement is expected by senior civil and military officials. The Zhao Guan family has been willing to sacrifice its position for a long time. From the day of entrustment, everyone has basically had expectations.

However, after this high-level plan was quickly decided, it was true that it was the stage of sending troops, something happened that shocked the Zhao Guan family. The three troops of Guanxi who had been hiding behind Jingzhao were originally ready to go to the front line, but after hearing that the official family came to Chang'an, under whom, they actually asked for a reward from the city.

How to say it?

In amazement, Zhao Jiu was not angry, and even felt that this matter was unexpected and reasonable.

This is reasonable, not that this matter should be like this, but that Zhao Jiu woke up almost immediately. This army was originally at this level... This is the original Western Army, with combat effectiveness and combat experience may even be richer. However, in essence, it is still an old army with a very "Da Song Dynasty" characteristics. It is the army that directly gave up on the battlefield because of insufficient silver bowls for rewards. It is also the army that would occasionally kill good people and watch the destruction of friendly forces.

Moreover, after several major defeats, this army only received military pay again for half a year. After seeing the equipment and treatment of the Imperial Camp troops, it seemed that it was not unreasonable to hear that the Song Dynasty officials had come to this point.

However, compared with Zhao Jiu's calmness, Zhang Jun and Yang Yizhong were obviously embarrassed because of this matter. The former was the actual commander of these troops, facing the decisive actions of the imperial camp and Wu Jie's achievements in the three northern Shaanxi routes; while the latter was obviously ashamed of the previous speech to the Zhao Guan family, and the Western Army had done the combat power guaranteed.

Of course, no matter what, Zhao Jiu is familiar with this kind of thing.

The rewards, or the excretion fee, Zhao Guanjia asked Zhang Jun to send them without hesitation... Otherwise, what? Increase taxes to the Southeast and Jingxiang. Bashu even prepaid taxes for two years this time. Dongting Lake has begun to rebel. There will be no other problems in the future. What is the purpose of being so desperate? Isn’t it just that I am not restricted by money and grain at the moment?

What's more, the Western Army is indeed a little poorer.

At the same time, Zhao Jiu asked Yang Yizhong to select 30 officers below the command level, all of whom were the most noisy in the process of asking for the excise fee. Then he handed over the list to Liu Xi, Liu Qi and Zhao Zhe, and asked them to kill them immediately in their respective names to show their warnings to others.

Let me say that Yang Yizhong did this because his Imperial City Division was so useful when he arrived in Guanxi. It was because his grandfather Yang Zongmin was originally the general in charge of Chang'an, who was stationed in Chang'an and was responsible for the defense of the entire Guanzhong. Later, he died in Chang'an when Lou Shi was destroyed. He had a connection and prestige in the local area, so he could do it cheaply.

After killing people, Zhao Jiufu officially issued the list as the emperor. On the grounds that the Jin army had been destroyed by Guanzhong and had many unowned lands, he promised to give local soldiers military merits and land, and a Jin army head was rewarded with ten acres of land. The Imperial Camp military camp also had similar regulations, but it directly promised to take out the previous Henan military camp and use public to make private rewards.

As for the Westerners in the Imperial Camp, those who want to buy property in Kansai will also be allowed to participate in the Kansai military merits and field.

To be frank, Zhao Jiu is a typical blank check because the imperial camp is fine. After all, there is a Henan military camp to protect him. But he has only been here for a few days. How can he know how many idle fields the Jin army left after sweeping Guanzhong? How can he know whether these idle fields have been surrounded by these military leaders, officials, and landlords?

But there is no way, at this time, he has to do this!

He made a wish to the upper-level military leader, which he did as soon as he arrived. Now he had five or six strategic commanders, five or six military commanders, one commander, and one commander directly sealed them out. He gave money to the middle and lower-level military officers, and just smashed them out. He made a promise to the lower-level soldiers... Since ancient times, can there be any other means to motivate the army?

Besides, if this battle is won, even if the land in Guanzhong is occupied, he can let those people spit out these lands. If he loses and Guanzhong is gone, what should he say?

In short, as Zhao Song's official family, who was in charge of Chang'an, gritted their teeth and took everything out, no matter what, the huge war machine was still hastily launched... While these messy things were dealt with in a hurry, the remaining troops in Guanxi had already taken action in accordance with the various instructions issued by Chang'an City.

Qu Duan, Liu Lin and Li Yongqi were ordered to go south at a rapid speed;

Under the command of Wang De and Wang Yan, the central army of the Imperial Camp advanced left and right, and divided their troops to Pucheng, Meiyuan, Xiabi and Fuping to advance rapidly... It was the boundary position of Huazhou and Yaozhou areas, and it was also the opposite area at the junction of the Weibei Plain and the hilly plateau in the north where Wanyan Loushi was located at this time;

On the tenth day of May, the troops from Xihe Road, Lizhou Road, and Qinfeng Road were finally deported. Under the leadership of their respective generals, they crossed the Wei River and the main force of the Loushi Division in the northeast direction were driven.

At this point, the Song and Jin war suddenly entered a new stage.

Of course, if Bachelor Kobayashi’s estimate of Yue Fei’s side was nothing wrong, the one who really brought the battle into a new stage was of course Yue Pengju’s Imperial Camp Forehand Flying North on Dragon Boat Festival.

But Zhao Jiu didn't care much about the success or failure of Yue Fei, and even the gains and losses of Luoyang. He clearly wrote a private message to Li Yanxian to intercept all military information in Kanto and ensure that the Jin army in Luoyang could not harass Guanxi. To do this, he was the first-class meritorious minister in this battle.

Of course, Li Yanxian knew it was amazing and trustworthy.

In fact, Zhao Jiu had only one thing in his only military response to Luoyang, that is, he sent Zhai Jin's eldest son Zhai Cong and his two hundred elite soldiers back to Luoyang from the Nanluo Water Path.

That's all.

On May 12th, during the hot summer season, Zhao Jiu also set out to leave Chang'an. On May 14th, he came to Fuping. Suyi Town behind Xiaming was the Weibei Logistics Base Camp scheduled by the Privy Council Office, and was stationed by Zhang Jun. Zhao Jiu did not stop here. He just regarded everyone as his "trump card" that he had always regarded as his own, that is, the three or four thousand soldiers gathered together in the same way as Zhai Cong, and stayed here, and continued to head northeast.

On May 15th, at the morning, after a summer rainstorm that suddenly came last night but also quickly left, Zhao Jiu personally led the imperial troupe Zhi and the two Beiwei troops to the four cities of Pucheng, Fuping, Meiyang and Xiazhi, about ten miles northwest of Jingyao Town.

This is the front-line camp established by the 30,000 troops of the West Third Route Army. It is chaired by Liu Xi, the governor of the Xihe Road, who is the highest official position, the oldest seniority and the strongest combat power among the West Third Route Army. This place is only seventy or eighty miles away from the Baishui South Bank camp where Loushi is located.

"Let's see if you are the official."

The sun was bright after the rain, and the weather was rare to be refreshing. The governor Liu Xi invited Zhao Guanjia, who had just arrived, to climb the plateau next to the Gaowang Camp. "I did not stand the camp in Jingyao Town, but stood behind this water siege ten miles away from Jingyao Town. One was to escape the heat, and the other was to sluggish the water siege and muddy Jin army cavalry..."

Zhao Jiu looked at it according to his guidance and saw that the unique plateau terrain in the northwest had already appeared here... The so-called plateau is a platform with steep sides on all sides and flat in the middle. This is because soil erosion makes the gullies pass through the plateau, like lines drifting on the ground, thus forming this terrain similar to irregular chessboards.

There is similarity to the ridge. The ridge is a land with a ridge in the middle, and the ridge is a land with a small mountain in the middle, which is considered a deformed plateau.

The camp established by Liu Xi was next to a plateau with small hills, that is, the island. It was at Zhao Jiu's feet, but did not occupy this high ground. Instead, it chose to set up a village at the lower level, because there was a large green water sieve in front of the open land.

Liu Xi was silent for a moment, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The official family is the lord of all people. The emperor of the Song Dynasty has a noble status, so I am afraid it is difficult to get involved in the military battles... Now that Liu Shenjun is not here, there is nearly 80,000 royal troops within dozens of miles around this place, but there is a royal commander. I am here, Pucheng and Meiyuan, and there is a deputy commander of the king..."

"No need to say too much, my intention has been decided." Zhao Jiu interrupted the other party as if he didn't understand the other party's meaning. "You must live and die with the army, so you don't have to persuade me."

Liu Xi was silent for a moment, but he didn't dare to say much after all, so he had to nod, and then followed Zhao Guanjia to turn around and go down the plateau and return to the water lake.

When the official camp was invented, he hurriedly hung up the "Yuwen" banner. Liu Xi, Zhao Zhe, and Liu Qi turned to the camps, but finally couldn't help complaining to his brother halfway through:

"There was a message when he set up a village the day before yesterday, saying that Qu Duan had entrusted his troops to Zhang Zhongfu brothers and rode alone on the iron elephant and headed south. I knew it was not good. Who would have thought that this coach was still taken away by Qu Da. It can be seen that no matter how hard he worked to guard the border, he could not show more face in front of the official family, and even more so that he could pass the imperial examination for a Jinshi!"

Zhao Zhe pretended to have never heard of it. Liu Qi was helpless when he heard this and could only persuade him a few words, but he did not say much.

Let’s say that everyone knows that the Zhao official family cannot lead the troops themselves, and this official has always advocated that those who do not know the soldiers are not commanders. Therefore, no matter how many layers of identity and flags the official family has, there is always someone who wants to be the chief military commander of this more than 100,000 army!

When the central army in the Imperial Camp was divided into two and Wang De and Wang Yan were unable to command each other, it was likely that Liu Xi and Wang Yuan competed for the position of command. In fact, they had started fighting openly and secretly in Chang'an before. After this battle, Liu Xi went first and was ordered to act cheaply, almost thinking that he was going to get the position of command.

Who would have thought that the official's attitude was ambiguous? Qu Duan went south very quickly, which made Liu Xi completely lose his mind.

After all, Qu Duan was the number one general in Guanzhong before and the actual military leader of the North Third Route. With the Western Army, which is of high qualification, Liu Xi really had no choice but to jump out to seize the position of commander.

In fact, even Liu Xi’s complaint was somewhat suspicious of admitting his defeat.

But in the evening that day, when it was not dark, a few cavalry rushed in from the north and came to meet the saint. As the commander-in-chief, Liu Xi naturally had some whistle horses to see and then hurriedly give back. According to the scene of the whistle horses from afar, they could not see clearly from afar and had no flags. However, everyone recognized the famous divine iron elephant in Guanxi, which showed that Qu Da was back.

At this point, Liu Xi's last thought was completely overwhelmed. He just waited for the officials to gather everyone tomorrow and pointed out the position of the coach clearly in public.

"You are Wu Jinqing?"

Halfway through the archery, Zhao Jiu saw a yellow-faced general entering the shooting range behind the central army's tent under the leadership of Wang Yuan and Yang Yizhong, and then took the arrows away and turned around and smiled. "It should be okay if I Qu Duan guarded Fangzhou for you, right?"

"I am afraid." Wu Jie, who had been running all day, was sweating profusely. He knew that the young man in front of him who was more expensive than silk must be the official Zhao Song family. He was also a little nervous. However, the military situation was urgent. He still knelt down and saluted while trying to raise his head to inquire. "My subordinates are also old subordinates of Qu Jinglei, so it is okay. But I don't know what instructions did you have to ask me to be alone? Please tell me clearly."

"That's right." Maybe because this place is next to Shuize, Zhao Jiu, who was not sweating much, simply threw down the bow and arrow, stepped forward to support the other party, and smiled slowly. "Jin Qing should know that there will be a war in the country. Guanxi, here, we should have let Han Liangchen give orders for me and take charge of military affairs. However, although he is in Tongzhou on the other side of the Beiluo River, he has other important tasks. So I want to entrust the only 100,000 tribes in Guanzhong to you, and ask you to swallow Lou Shi for me... but I don't know if Jin Qing is willing?"

Wu Jie was stunned... and said that the first thing he thought of was not thanking him, but it was Qu Da who came to Fangzhou to use his iron elephant to make his face reluctant to leave.
Chapter completed!