"The official family doesn't know that the old place of Jinglu in western Liaoning, especially the Tiande Army, Yunneizhou, Dongshengzhou, Fengzhou and other places at the foot of Yinshan Mountain are very empty. There were originally a large number of Pishi Army tribes in that area. After Yelu Yanxi lost a large area of ​​land and tribes in the east, he retreated to this area to convene Pishi divisions in order to make a comeback. However, because he did not listen to the advice of Dashi Linya and others, he blindly advanced and suffered another defeat. The Pishi tribes that followed Yanxi were either slaughtered by the Jurchens or fled to the northern desert or the western thief territory. Therefore, the states at the foot of Yinshan Mountain were empty... And that area is a good place with plump water and grass and warm climate! I am worried that if I fail to enter Hedong, I will station at the foot of Yinshan Mountain and become a vassal screen for the Jurchens in the southwest."

In the Hanyuan Hall of Luoyang Palace, the person who explained the situation in the Yinshan area to Zhao Kai was Yelu Yujian who was the leader of the Jurchens and swept away the Khitans in the Yinshan Mountains.

In terms of familiarity with the northern grasslands, if Yelu Yukan recognizes second place in Zhao Kai's camp, no one dares to recognize first place.

So the questions he raised now were Zhao Kai, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, He Guan, Wang Yuan, Wang Bing, Zhe Yanzhi and others attached great importance to them.

The commander of the Hedong army from Taiyuan, Wang Bing, held his beard and said, "Officials, our troops in Hedong are limited and we cannot set up defenses everywhere. We can only concentrate our troops to guard the two big holes of Daizhou and Ninghua Army to protect the comprehensiveness of Taiyuan. Moreover, our troops in Daizhou are still concentrated in the west and south of Yanmen, and are built up layers of defense along the road leading to Xinzhou.

In the rest of Daizhou, there were only a small amount of troops... If Hebule wanted to invade, he would probably have to lose a lot of territory! But if the troops were spread out, they would be easy to block the barbarians on the grassland. But if the Jin thieves attacked, they would not be fully guarded. Maybe they would let the Jin thieves kill all the way to the city of Taiyuan!"

When Han Shizhong heard Wang Bing talk about the lack of troops, he quickly interrupted: "Hedong has not many troops, but Hebei has even tighter troops... Nowadays, the government soldiers are said to have 400,000, but most of them are squad soldiers, only four months in service a year, which also includes the time in the Shangban and the way home. The actual time in the military camp is only a little over three months on average. Even if we count tens of thousands of soldiers in the Long March, we only have tens of thousands of troops available at hand at any time! If we want to meet the three armies, the cost will be... "

This is the bad system of the government troops! Most of the government troops are squad soldiers, who serve for several months every year and spend most of their time staying at home.

Therefore, the government system can cope with large-scale troops dispatch, but it is difficult to support a long-term war of attrition!

The recruitment system is the opposite. It can fight for a long time, but the scale is limited. If there are too many soldiers, Zhao Kai's poor court will not be able to pay military salaries!

However, when dealing with the Jurchens, the shortcomings of the institution system that cannot be fought for a long time are not a problem. Because the Jurchens are also a unity of military and civilians. Moreover, they are not herdsmen, but fishermen, hunting and farming races.

As long as the nation is a farmer, it will be tied up by the land and it is difficult to conduct an expedition for a long time.

And the farming, fishing and hunting army that is difficult to expedition for a long time will be difficult to truly conquer the grassland... The grassland tribes can fight if they can beat them, but they can't walk around. How could the army of the farming nation chase them every day and wander around the grassland?

Even if the court issues silver, the logistics will have to drag down the country!

Therefore, the powerful Great Jin Kingdom later had to build the Great Wall to defend against the endless invasions of grassland tribes.

The Khitans' Great Liao Kingdom controlled the grassland well - because the Khitans were semi-nova and semi-farming peoples, they could also drive cattle and sheep to chase and kill those nomadic tribes. Moreover, they could also place their tribes on the grassland and steal the territory of the enemy tribes. Instead of leaving after the battle, and let the enemy come back to recuperate.

From this perspective, the Daliao is actually a very good neighbor in the north... If it weren't for the historical issue of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it would be a great deal to spend 500,000 yuan to buy peace on the northern border every year.

Zhe Yanzhi, who was about to be robbed in his hometown soon, frowned and said, "No matter how much it costs, you have to fight! The Mengwu people are nomadic people, which are different from the Jurchens who fish, hunt and farm... They can move their homes to the foot of Yinshan Mountain and then invade every now and then. Can people still live in the north of Taiyuan?

Officials, officials think that it is better to kill thieves in one fell swoop than to defend against thieves for a thousand days. Even if you want to meet the three armies, it is worse than to beware of the Mongolians day and night in the future!”

Their Zhe family's old nest is located in the east and west areas of the Hebei region, not under the protection of the two large holes of Ninghua Army and Daizhou - the two large holes are just the main passage from Daibei to Taiyuan. If you don't go there, you can also pass through the mountainous areas in northwest Shanxi.

If we want to protect all the mountainous areas in northwestern Shanxi, we have to build the Great Wall!

But Zhao Kai is so poor...how can he have money to build the Great Wall?

Therefore, once the Mengwu people settled their homes at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, the territory of the Zhe family would be terrible!

Zhao Kai turned his head and looked at Yelu Yu again, "Taiwei, what do you think? Can you kill the thief in one fell swoop?"

Yelu Yuji shook his head: "There are at least 20,000 or 30,000 households in the official family! This time, most of them came from the clan. They would settle down at the foot of Yinshan Mountain first, and then invade with green and strong people. If they can, they will rob them, and if they can't, they will leave... Moreover, there are many white Tatar tribes north of Yinshan Mountain, and they may be annexed by the Mongolians who belong to the black Tatars and invade with them.

In addition, there are many raw Tatars on the grassland, which can be captured to serve as dead soldiers... If you want to kill them all in one fell swoop, it is probably difficult to do so. Unless we can directly attack the nests of the Mengwu people at the foot of the Yinshan Mountains!"

Now is not the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, the grasslands were cold and drought, and they could not raise too much population. Moreover, Buddhism prevailed, which seriously reduced the combat effectiveness of the grassland people. Now there are a large population on the grasslands, so there are more cannon fodders. Moreover, most of these cannon fodders believe in immortality, fierce and fierce, and are not afraid of death. If they cannot raid their nests and rely on defending the pass alone, how can they be destroyed?

"How can we fight to the foot of Yinshan now?" Han Shizhong shook his head repeatedly, "And the Mongolian tribes will run away, and our infantry will be difficult to catch up with, so we have to use all cavalry... But how many cavalry we can use at hand? Can we send all to fight Yinshan? Even if we send it, we can't stay there forever!"

Zhao Kai breathed and whispered: "It seems that I can only ask Dashi Linya to go south!"

Speaking of this, he turned his head and looked at Yelu Yu, "Taiwei, Dashilinya manages the grassland, I manages the Central Plains...how?"

"Official family," Yelu Yu said, "The big stone forest can defeat Mengwu, but it is not the opponent of the Jurchens!"

Yelu Dashi only has more than 10,000 Khitans in his hands. Even if Xiao Heda's men and Khitans in exile in the Heishan area, it is already over that they can gather 30,000 households. With this little force, it is absolutely impossible to defeat the current Jurchens.

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "If Dashi Linya can defeat the Jurchens, how dare I invite him back? Taiwei, please work hard and go to Zhenzhou City and tell Dashi Linya that we will fight the Jurchens together, I will be the main Song Dynasty, and they will be the auxiliary... And I only want to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and give Khitan an annual 500,000 yuan!"

I only want to ask for the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, but it’s just a talk. Zhao Kai didn’t plan to give up the land of Liaodong!

But now he can't put everything in his pocket, otherwise what if Yelu Dashi quit and ran to the Western Regions to drive the Western Liao Dynasty?

He left, and Zhao Kai would have to build the Great Wall like Zhu Yuanzhang in the future!

Yelu Yuji smiled and said, "With Your Majesty's promise, Dashi Linya will definitely be willing to come south! However, the Zhenzhou Kedun City, which Dashi Linya owned, is far away. Even if you have to go south, it will not be possible to arrive this year. How should I deal with this Hebule?"

How to deal with it?

Zhao Kaixin said: It is best to kill...then there will definitely be no Temujin! If you can't kill it, think of other tricks!

"How about luring the enemy into the depth?" Zhao Kai thought for a while, "Let go of Yanmen Road and lure Hebule to the vicinity of Xinkou..."

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"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live..."

Just as Zhao Kai turned all his attention to Hebule, his good brother Zhao Huan was already wearing special light and thin armor, standing on the city tower of Wanshengmen, the north gate of Jinling Imperial City, and inspecting his new army of 30,000 iron armor.

I have to admit that Zhao Mingcheng still has two tricks... In less than two years, he pulled up a new iron armored army!

I don’t know if I can fight, but it’s definitely not worse than Zhao Kai’s Tiance Army… It’s impossible for everyone to wear iron armor for everyone!

The iron armor of the Song Dynasty was very expensive, and cold forged armor was not available. Now only Luoyang Iron House can produce small quantities. The price of hot forged armor is as amazing. It is not expensive to have sixty or seventy silos for a single iron armor!

Just 100,000 iron armor is six or seven million!

If we include the Divine Arm Bow and other cold weapons, as well as a large number of ineffective firearms, as well as some other equipment and equipment, and oh, there are as many as 20,000 horses.

The equipment and horse expenditure of the 100,000 new army division alone is as high as 15 million guan!

In addition, the personnel expenses of this army (military pay, military rations, recruitment items, rewards) have also cost no less than 15 million guan!

With a huge investment of 30 million jin, we built these 100,000 elite soldiers... This soldier is not so talented, I'm really sorry for so much money!

Zhao Mingcheng is generally a clean official. The martial Jinshi who led the troops have just become officials and have not learned to embezzle and accept bribes, so he really spent all his money on the army... Although he was slaughtered a lot because he didn't know how to do it, there was still a lot of money that was actually used at the edge of the knife.

So standing at a high place and looking at the silver light reflected from the armor below, Zhao Huan's confidence suddenly aroused!

As long as such an army can reach 300,000, half of its territory will be as stable as a rock!
Chapter completed!