"Our Song Dynasty has been in charge of the Western Regions for a hundred years, why can't we afford the 200,000 army to go to war with Mongolia in Shuye?"

Zhao Xin's face was a little gloomy. Although there was a diplomatic relationship between the Western Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty and they both recognized each other's existence. However, both countries (and the Eastern Song Dynasty) both held the idea of ​​ultimate unity. They firmly believed that long-term separation would lead to unity!

In this way, it is a problem who unifies it!

If the Great Zhou used the encirclement and suppression of Temujin to usurp the leadership of the Xia, then the one who will unify the world in the future will probably be the Great Zhou...

"Your Majesty," Han Tuozhou, the left prime minister of the Song Dynasty, came forward and said, "The battle of the Western Expedition must be won. As long as you win, everything is easy to say. If you cannot win..."

If you can't defeat it, you will be in trouble!

Now the Western Song Dynasty is a feudal military country, and wars must be carried out continuously to meet the needs of the military class below to make achievements. Moreover, wars must be won more than defeated, and it is not enough to defeat wars in the long run.

The last battle of the Central Plains was defeated... If this battle of the Western Expedition was defeated again, the consequences would be unimaginable. Maybe a revolution would really start and destroy Zhao Xin's precious life.

Therefore, in Han Tuozhou's view, ensuring victory in the Western Expedition is the most important thing. As for the false reputation of the leader of the Xia Dynasty, it is not important at all.

As long as you win, there will be no major problems in the Western Song Dynasty.

"Therefore, it is a good thing that Zhou State is willing to come forward to organize the anti-Temujin alliance." Han Tuozhou said slowly, "It's better than them joining the Temujin alliance?"

"The alliance between Zhou Guo and Temujin?" Zhao Xin gritted his teeth. This possibility cannot be 100%. Even due to the "China First" trend, they dare not publicly unite Temujin, but will they secretly support Temujin?

Han Tuozhou continued: "Even if the Zhou Kingdom will not join forces with Temujin, it will not be able to piece together an anti-Temujin alliance... With the strength of our dynasty, there is no way to unite the Western Liao, Jin tent, Egypt, Eastern Rome, and Western Rome (referring to the Holy Rome) countries to jointly oppose Temujin.

Only Zhou Guo and Jiangning could accomplish this kind of thing!

If there was no alliance to encircle Temujin, Temujin would be able to obtain weapons and gunpowder by extorting Western Liao, Jin tent, Egypt, and two Romes. The war in the Western Regions would last for a long time!”

Now the Western Song Dynasty recognized the Zhou Kingdom, but still did not recognize the Eastern Song Dynasty. However, they rarely used the name of the Eastern Song Dynasty, but instead used the "Jiangning side" as a substitute.

Zhao Xin snorted coldly, then there was a silence, and after a while, he said: "Then I will join forces with Zhou Guo for the time being..."

His eyes slowly swept across the ministers in the hall, and finally fell on Yue Ke, the official in the Privy Council. "Yue Qing, I have agreed to join forces with Zhou Guo. The battle of the Western Expedition must be won! Are you sure you will win?"

"As long as you send 200,000 troops, I will be sure to win!"

"Okay!" Zhao Xin paused, "So who is the head coach?"

"Your Majesty, I recommend Guo Baoyu as the deputy commander of the Western Expedition." Yue Ke said, "As for the candidate for the Western Expedition, I think the prince should be appointed so that after winning, the prince should be established in the West."

The establishment of a vassal king was a system of the Western Song Dynasty. It has been implemented for eighty years since Zhao Huan established the Jingchu Palace. Basically, every generation of the Western Song emperors would establish one or two vassal kings.

Zhao Xin ascended the throne shortly after he ascended the throne, and there was no time to establish a vassal king, and there was no place to enfeoff.

"Okay!" Zhao Xin nodded, "My eldest son is a concubine and has been ambition to join the army since he was a child. He has just graduated from the Huashan Martial Arts Hall. He can be in charge... In addition, Kings of Jingchu, King Dali, King Shule, King Gaochang, King Tubo, King Khotan and King Qingtang also have to send their eldest son to lead the guards to follow the battle!

This time, I am going to have an eldest son going to the west!”

...

The edict to initiate the Western Expedition of the eldest son was soon copied and posted inside and outside the gates of various counties in the Western Song Dynasty. At the same time, a notice to recruit military households, martial scholars and martial scholars to join the army was also accompanied by a notice to recruit military households, martial scholars and martial scholars.

Unlike the "one-time" Wen Juren in the early years, the current target shooting and taking the military is composed of two long-term fames: "scholar" and "juren". However, these two fames are not effective for life, but are linked to service. The Western Song scholars who have the fame of "gun scholar" and "gun Juren" have the obligation to be summoned to the army as musketeers. In fact, they are reserve soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty!

If they are unwilling to serve in the reserve service, they will lose their fame and honor. They will no longer be allowed to take the imperial examination in the future, and they will also lose the treatment of official households brought by fame and fortune and have certain tax exemption and exemption (force labor) privileges.

However, under normal circumstances, these "target scholars" and "target scholars" will not evade military service. Because their ability is to make achievements on the battlefield... What they learn is the essential skills of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism"!

They are their duty to go into battle to kill the enemy and make achievements!

In the last Central Plains War, the Gun Doctor Team, composed of "Target Scholars" and "Target Scholars", was the ace army of the Western Song Dynasty.

Compared with ordinary musketeers who use mass-produced smoothbore rifles and can only rely on long spear formations, bastions or other fortifications (there were ordinary musketeers in the Western Song Dynasty), their tactics are very flexible. They can not only shoot in a array, disperse attacks, attack ambushing, and snipe enemy officers on the battlefield. Sometimes they can also ride horses, fight with scout cavalry, and shoot the opponent's scouts at the forefront.

It was precisely because of their outstanding performance that the Western Song Dynasty fought against two in the Second Central Plains War, and it was not defeated, and it also caused casualties to the Eastern Song and New Zhou that were no less than our own.

During this time, Zhao Xin, the eldest son who was related to the fate of the Western Song Dynasty, of course, had to dispatch his ace musketeers.

There are now 40 million people in the Western Song Dynasty, and there are about 200,000 poor scholars and doctors who passed on their families through studying and shooting, accounting for about 5% of the population. And there are about 150,000 people with martial scholars and above.

They won’t mobilize them all, and they can’t use so much. They can only mobilize 30% of scholars in the draw of lots. Even if they go to the battlefield and kill the enemy, they have to draw lots! Song Zhen was also very gentle and was ruined.

However, if the Southern Song Dynasty had this motivation in history, it would not make much money in the imperial examination, but instead took archery... Hundreds of thousands of scholars became masters like philosophers, and the Mongolians could not get in.

Now the 50,000 scholars and scholars who have won the lottery are of course very excited to carry their own customized version of the mesh gun, and are heading towards Chang'an with great courage...

At the same time, about 100,000 military household soldiers were mobilized. They mainly fought for musketeers, spearmen, and baggage soldiers.

There are also about 20,000 regular officers, engineers, cavalry and artillery who will join the expeditionary force.

The remaining 30,000 posts are provided by seven vassal kings including King Jingchu, King Dali, King Shule, King Gaochang, King Tubo, King Khotan and King Qingtang.

In addition to recruiting troops and forming an army, the Western Song Dynasty also needed to prepare some weapons, horses, vehicles and equipment, and also to raise a large amount of food and grass.

Weapons, horses, vehicles, and equipment are not a problem. First of all, there is not much needed. The Western Song Dynasty has no money, so it can only take the path of integrating troops with the people, allowing the people to hold a considerable amount of weapons.

Among them, the military household can hold weapons including plate armor, smoothbore guns, and crossbow machines! There are only restrictions on the number of holdings, but the scale is still very wide.

Ordinary civilians are not allowed to own plate armor and heavy smoothbore guns (this smoothbore gun has been eliminated in the East), but the smoothbore gun that can own ordinary armor and light smoothbore guns is a kind of light smoothbore gun. After gaining fame, "target shooting scholar" and "target shooting juren" can also purchase all weapons including plate armor and heavy smoothbore guns.

Therefore, the mobilized scholars, juren and military households basically brought their own weapons. The Western Song Dynasty court only needed to prepare some heavy weapons and reserve weapons, as well as gunpowder, arrowheads and other consumables.

However, the supply of food and grass for large military personnel is a very troublesome problem.

The 200,000 army went to more than 10,000 miles away! It was impossible to transport grain from Hexi and Guanzhong. Even if you transfer grain from King Shule and King Gaochang of the Western Regions, there were still more than 2,000 miles of long distances.

The loss of grain transport in the middle of 2,000 miles can reach almost 90%!

In other words, if King Shule and King Gaochang wanted to prepare food and grass for 200,000 expeditionary troops for one year, the food they actually raised was enough for 2 million people to use for a year.

Moreover, the long distance for transporting grain for these 2,000 miles is only from Gaochang City to Suiye City!

As for the west of the Broken Leaf... Haha, I'm afraid it's time to rely on troops to cultivate farms and raise them on site to solve the supply, so I have to mobilize so many troops.

So when the news of the Song Dynasty preparing to fight against Mongolia reached Samarkand, Temujin, who had already firmly held the position of overlord of Central Asia, was not panicked at all. Instead, he laughed happily in front of his son and his ministers.

"If the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty were going to send troops to war, I still have a little concern. This Western Song Dynasty... is not worth mentioning at all. How many years can I walk on such a long road with two feet!"

The great Genghis Khan smiled and said to his son Shu Chi: "Zhu Chi, you will bring a team of ten thousand people to Shaye."

"Father Khan," Shu Chi stood up and bowed, "Do you want your son to stick to the Thunder Ye City?"

"Stay?" Temujin smiled and said, "That's what Han people, Khitans, and Jurchens like to do. We Mongolians will not stay in the castle and wait for the enemy to fight."

After hearing this, Shu Chi felt cold sweat on her forehead.

He was not the biological child of the Khan, but the "brutal child". It turned out that when Temujin had just made his debut in the Dashi Guards in his early years, his mother, who stayed in her hometown, told him that she had a relative and married Borte from the Hongjila tribe. But this Borte was stolen by the nearby tribe shortly after the marriage!

Later, it was only with the help of Jamuka, who was also in the Oshima Guards, that he snatched Borte back. But it was nine months later!

Borte, who was robbed, was already pregnant with Liujia, and later gave birth to a son, Shuchi...

So Shuai's status in Temujin's family has always been embarrassing, and there is always an illusion that someone wants to harm him.

Now that he is cheap, I want him to lead 10,000 people to deal with the powerful Western Song Dynasty. No matter how you look at it, it’s a trap!

"Father Khan, do you want your son to lead his troops to fight the Western Song Dynasty?"

Temujin smiled: "You can beat them?"

"My son... can't beat it."

"Father Khan, please be willing to fight at Chagatai!" Temujin's second son Chagatai immediately jumped out.

Among all Temujin's sons, Chagatai doesn't like his brother without Shu Chi the most, he is the eldest son!

"Chagatai!" Temujin still smiled, "You can't beat them either!

But it doesn’t matter. We Mongolians will defeat the tough battles we will not fight. The climate in winter in grasslands, deserts, mountains and Saiye City will naturally defeat the Han people for us!"

Now is the era of the Five Barbarians of the Han Dynasty! Even the weakest Western Song Dynasty among the three heroes of Xia, there are 150,000 scholars who kill without blinking! The hard-bound custom-made smoothbore guns in their hands are not vegetarians. Within 100 steps, the gunshots are extremely fired!

No matter how awesome the Mongolian warriors are, you can be better than bullets? So a tough battle that is evenly matched is not within Temujin's consideration.

His method is scorched earth tactics!

Temujin said: "Shu Chi, you should go. Don't fight with the Han people. We have fewer Mongolians and can't afford to change one to one. So we have to defeat them with strategies! The weakness of the Han people is that they will not drive away cattle and sheep to grazle, so they must rely on long transportation lines to replenish food and grass. When the transportation lines are too long, they will choose to replenish supplies on-site.

Our solution is to put them into the Saiye City, then cut off their logistics line, and at the same time completely destroy the Saiye and the Saiye. No grain left behind, a cattle and sheep, and a complete house. All farmland and water conservancy ditches should be destroyed as much as possible."

"What about the people of Sailye City?" Shu Chi asked.

Suiye City was originally a large stronghold of the Han family in Xiliang, and an important transit station on the Silk Road on the land. It is very prosperous and has a large population. It is also open to the surrounding area, which is a very good territory.

Now the Han family and all the knights who depended on the Han family have disappeared, but there are still many ordinary people.

"Take the craftsman to Samarkans," Temujin said coldly, "kill everything else!"

Of course Temujin likes to kill people! Is that too much? He often massacred when he conquered the Golden Horde, the Dashi Empire and the Mongolian tribes!

However, compared to Temujin in history, his killing nature is much more restrained. After all, he is a civilized person now and believes in Guangming Tianli. So he only kills people when he thinks it is necessary...

In his opinion, killing all the people around Saoye is completely necessary!

If you don’t kill them all, you will not be able to completely implement scorched earth. Because there will always be some food hidden by the people!

Moreover, there are many rich valleys on the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains near Saiye, and the Mongolians do not have the energy to search one by one... they dare not do that!

Muskets are not rare in Sailye City. Many hunters and valley knights in the Tianshan Mountains are good at hunting with muskets. If the Mongolians have to crash into it, they may become targets!
Chapter completed!