After taking a look at Nanchuan Village, Aligu cursed fiercely.

He returned from Taozhou and attacked Hezhou City. If he wanted to break through Hezhou City, he had to break through Nanchuanzhai, the southern gate of Hezhou City.

Moreover, there were two young generals guarding Nanchuan Village, Wang Shan and Wang Hou. In fact, these two people could not be called Wuming. They followed their father Wang Junwan and Wang Shao, and had already made great achievements.

If it weren't for their small strength, everyone might not believe them too much. Otherwise, both of them could take the army out of the city and wrestle the arm of Aligu to see who has the strength.

Therefore, Ali Gu has been fighting for several days.

At the beginning, Miao Shu was still not relieved. Aligu came with a 70,000 horse and infantry army, but a few days later, Miao Shu finally had tea with confidence and boldness in Hezhou.

He could not go to Nanchuan Village for a few days, but instead lost a large number of soldiers. Aligu was furious and ordered the burning of more than 20,000 houses around him to plunder 30,000 hu of grain stored in the cellars of the local foreigners. Then he forced thousands of people from the two tribes of the Piao family and the Yang family to serve the people and turned to Xizhou.

In fact, the more Aligu does this, the more foreigners will be disappointed by him on Xihe Road.

Of course, including Nanhuizhou, there can only happen once. If this happens again and again, it means that the Song army is unable to protect it, and then many foreign troops will turn to Xixia or Tubo. But it is not because of Aligu's lack of knowledge. So many soldiers and horses have to be eaten. In this era of cold weapons, they are foreigners again, and they are very hungry. Not to mention killing, setting fires, rob food and grass, they can't do anything.

Aligu slid to Xizhou again, and Miao Shu was powerless to do anything about this. Xihe Road had too few troops.

Moreover, according to Wang Ju's plan, the Aligu part is not allowed to be concerned for the time being. The main attack on Taozhou is still the one in the area, but the ghost chapter is very difficult, so Miao Jue divided his poor troops into one to support Zhongyi.

So now, except for a very few important fortress cities, the rest of the fortresses have given up.

But everyone agrees with Wang Ju's plan. The two countries' forces united. Nearly 200,000 were there, and the surrounding Song Dynasty only had Qinfeng Road, Xihe Road and Jingyuan Road. The three routes combined together, how many troops can they have? Moreover, there are also many troops to use Mingsha City.

I can only concentrate my troops and eat one bite at a time.

As for Xizhou, Miao Su was not worried, because there was a tiger general there, that was Wang Shan’s father Wang Junwan. There were many kings in this battle, including Wang Junwan’s father and son, Wang Hou, Wang Guangzu, Wang En, Wang Min, Wang Wenyu, Wang Wenzhen… But it was not what Wang Ju intended. There were too many people with the surname Wang.

However, Miao Su was suddenly shocked and thought of a serious problem. That is Dingxi City.

If Aligu can slide to Xizhou, it can slide to Dingxi City. Once it attacks on both sides and breaks Dingxi City, Lanzhou will be in danger. And the fatal thing is that Yu Zang Huama, Dingxi City, is originally a person with both ends of the rat.

So he immediately notified Zhang Yu of this judgment with a fast horse. This was very likely. Zhang Yu immediately ordered that Wang Guangzu of Ganquan Fort and Liu Shunchen, who was stationed in Jingbian Village, would lead two generals and soldiers to settle in Dingxi City before the Tubo people arrived. Han Xu of Qinzhou settled in Ganquan Fort, and Zhao Shuo led his troops to Gongzhou for reinforcements.

After giving this order, Zhang Feng sighed slightly, don’t think that Aligu is slipping fun. In fact, it is very dangerous to slip like this. If the Song army had enough troops, it might have allowed him to go to the next 90,000 (and 20,000 in Taozhou) to go but not return.

But the troops in his hands were insufficient, so he had to watch Aligu slip rampantly.

In fact, all plans were formulated, otherwise Zhang Feng would rather eat Aligu than deal with Xixia, because as long as the 90,000 troops were chewed down, the Song Dynasty could easily recover Huangzhou and then deal with Xixia slowly.

But now it is obviously too late to change the plan.

In fact, Aligu only slid to Xizhou and did not dare to slid to Gongzhou and Qinzhou again.

The truth is the same as Li Yuanhao jumped out of Chang'an City. His action scared the Song Dynasty. In fact, Li Yuanhao did not dare to force the attack on Chang'an City. Although there was a lot of wealth in Chang'an City, it would be trapped here as long as it attacked. Even if it was captured, Li Yuanhao would suffer heavy losses. However, there were still a large number of troops stationed on Shaanxi Road, and he surrounded him from all sides. Even if he got a lot of wealth, he would not want to go back. So he showed his might and quickly retreated.

However, Xizhou is also difficult to attack, so Aligu turned his attention to Dingxi City again, which is inevitable.

But he felt that his troops were a little dispersed, so before using troops to Dingxi City, he issued an order to Guizhang to set up a flying bridge in the northeast corner of Taozhou to allow him to communicate with each other.

This is also because of the terrain. There is Mount Lugu in the north of Taozhou. Wang Shao attacked Taozhou and climbed this mountain. However, it was a surprise attack. Now Aligu does not need the so-called surprise attack. Moreover, setting up flying bridges is for easy access, so why bother to climb over the tall and steep Mount Lugu. In addition, the only mountain pass was built by Tubo earlier, and the Yeli Pass was now occupied by the Song army. One man was the pass, and ten thousand men could not open it. Even Aligu in Nanchuan Village could not capture it. Besides, it was such a dangerous pass?

Therefore, flying bridges are mounted on Taoshui, so you can reach Xizhou from east to the Taoshui and along Mabang Mountain to the north. As for Zhongyi, Zhongyi dared not use troops at the beginning, Aligu didn't care at all.

Or you have the courage to go out of the city to fight. We are waiting for you. After leaving the city, how much combat power can your Song army exert?

…………

Wang Ju didn't expect that Ali Gu was so bold that he actually slid to Xizhou. Looking at the arrows that Tubo arrived on the map, Wang Ju also wanted to eat them.

But after watching for a long time, Wang Ju also sighed.

"Taibao, why do you sigh?" Xu Jiang asked.

"Duke Xu, if General Wang Chao decisively led more than 100,000 Dingzhou officers and soldiers to cross the Liao Dynasty's retreat when the Liao Kingdom was heading south, would the Kou Lai Guild agree to Zhenzong's Chanyuan Alliance? Or if Li Yuanhao's troops could not restrain his greed and attack Chang'an City, several officers and soldiers from Shaanxi and the imperial soldiers from the capital surrounded from all directions?"

After saying this, Han Zhen may understand.

Aligu slipped too far, but he was different from the Song army's attack on Xia. Although the Song army was defeated under Lingzhou City, they drove out the forts along the way together, so as long as they could escape, they could escape back. However, although Xihe Road is short of troops and even abandoned most of the forts, the important forts and forts are still under the control of the Song army.

In fact, Aligu does this seem arrogant, but in fact it is very adventurous.

Even if Wang Shao had a great alliance, he would use his troops to take down Mabangshan first, then Xizhou, and then use troops to Hezhou Taozhou. Even so, he almost cut off the retreat of the Tubo people. Therefore, at the important location along the way, he built several forts to ensure supply security, and then gradually recovered Xihe.

How could it be as rampant as Aligu? Moreover, Aligu's army is not entirely cavalry. Like Wang Shao, the horse and infantry are mixed.

"It would be better to transfer the officers and soldiers of Jingzhao Road earlier," Han Zhen also sighed.

Wang Ju shook his head.

The most capable officers and soldiers on Jingzhao Road were nothing more than the Poches of Zheng Baiqu, but they followed Gao Zunyu to Lingzhou and suffered heavy losses. The tens of thousands of Poches trained back then were only more than 10,000 left.

Maybe it will be used, but when you get the real battle of Xia, you will definitely win the world. Now there is no need to fight this kind of tug-of-war, and you can't bear to mobilize these soldiers anymore.

Don’t take the remaining Poche seriously. As for the injunction, several generals with strict military disciplines were also transferred to the front line one after another, and the remaining officers and soldiers should not take it seriously.

There are also officers and soldiers on the Fuyan Road, which are too far away and should not be mobilized.

There were not many officers and soldiers actually participating in the battle. The key points were that the four forts still had to be left behind. As for the foreign soldiers, the current foreign soldiers were like Poche, half-grass and half-cultivated. Otherwise, the court would pay too little compensation. It was because of the income from farming and pastoralism and tax exemption that they increased their income and increased their income and had the confidence to go to war. But the summer harvest was about to rise. Unlike the Western Xia, a mountain barrier made the weather in Shaanxi a little warmer than in the Western Xia, and the summer harvest time was also several days earlier. Therefore, the number of officers and soldiers in the four routes was quite large, but they could not be fully mobilized...

At the same time, Wang Juzhang used troops, unlike Wang Shao. Wang Shao was a big fight, while Wang Zhang and the other two were good at various calculations.

If it was Wang Shao, then some of the troops could be drawn from Lanzhou. Although it was not as many troops as Aligu's hands, Wang Shao would definitely dare to fight.

But if it were Wang Ju and Zhang Ju, there would be a plan. Unlike Xixia, Wang Zhang and others had already set up a good game in Mingsha City, but Aligu unexpectedly slid to Xizhou, where could they have time to arrange any good plans?

Then it's time to calculate.

It is not possible to stick to the city. Even if you keep the forts and villages, you will still be beaten passively.

As for going out of the city to fight, the Song army was actually not as weak as Aligu thought.

Especially when dealing with the Tubo people, the Song army has never been afraid of it. The problem is the force...

If the troops were about the same, Wang Ju and Zhang Ju might dare to attack the army of Aligu. Besides, the head general of Xihe Road was Miao Su, even if he suffered major casualties, it would be worth it. After this army was eaten, Huangzhou would be ready.

The key is that the difference in military strength is too big, or if you mobilize strong men and horses from various foreign troops from the local area and use the Tubo people to deal with the Tubo army of Aligu, how big a puzzle would you have to dare to do this?

But it cannot be said that Wang Ju and Zhang Yue are not as good as Wang Shao when they are together. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses.

The chance is great, but the stomach is too small and I can't eat it, so I have to stop eating it.

Wang Ju put down the urgent reports in his hand and thought about it again.

The Song army had never really taken action, but at this time, Wang Ju had already judged the approximate result.

So he went to the Sansi, looked through the general account of the country's income and expenditure, and then checked the future surplus of the Song Dynasty in his mind.

Well, it is a surplus. Although the income of the Song Dynasty dropped to 180 million, this income can basically be maintained. Although there will be no stimulus of 30 million next year, there will be no stimulus of 31 million infrastructure, the Third Southern Road has begun to transfusion blood to the court. Although it is not much, it can keep the income even.

From this year on, there will be no funding for infrastructure construction, nor will it be used for subsidies for guaranteeing ma households and minor households.

Therefore, starting from this year, if the military expenditure is not counted, more surplus can be generated and the future national annual surplus can be calculated roughly.

Of course, if a major disaster occurred in the Song Dynasty, Wang Ju would be sad. But did the Song Dynasty have major disasters in the past few years? Wang Ju thought about it carefully and although he couldn't remember it clearly, it seemed that at the beginning of Yuanyou in history, the country should not have had major disasters.

But there is another Tubo, so I don’t know how much surplus the inner treasury has... Wang Ju thought to himself and then met Zhao Xu.

"Your Majesty, if you want to pacify Xixia, you must at least gather most of the troops from Shaanxi and Hedong."

Zhao Xu nodded, and now he knew that it was really not easy to destroy Xixia.

"But Aligu betrayed the court. Once our army invaded northern expedition, Aligu would either take the opportunity to embezzle Gansu and other states, and would undoubtedly become a big shot immediately. It would destroy a wolf and give birth to a tiger. Even with his boldness and arrogance, maybe he would take the opportunity to counterattack Xihe Road, or even Qinzhou and Weizhou. Then our army would lose its throne in Xixia, and eight out of ten would fall behind when Guan Yu was in Xiangyang. At that time, our army would be in danger again."

"I'm worried about this too."

"Don't worry, you don't have to worry. After all, the territory left by Tubo is not too large. Aligu is an Uighur, and many tribes are dissatisfied. Although they have reached the territory of Huangzhou and have fewer British tribes close to the Song Dynasty, I believe that some tribes would rather approach our dynasty than accept Aligu. Of course, it depends on whether our dynasty's army is strong..."

"Your idea is to take Tubo first and then destroy Xixia?"

“That’s right.”

The plan had to be changed, and even the destruction of Xixia would be put into the next year, but it was originally agreed that it would be the destruction of Xia next year.

It must be made clear, otherwise Wang Ju will be in charge of the officers and soldiers of the six routes in Shaanxi, and Zhang Ju will be in charge of the officers and soldiers of the Hedong route. He has always had a close relationship with Wang Ju. If someone makes a fuss and makes Zhao Xu suspect, the war will not be able to continue.

But this problem is not big, and Zhao Xu can't even understand this.

However, Zhao Xu asked worriedly: "How long will it take?"

"It won't be long... This battle will bring a big surprise to His Majesty."

"oh."

Wang Ju didn't say anything about surprise, but it was coming soon.

Therefore, after this battle, Xixia might have completely regained food. After Wang Ju went to Shaanxi Road, he could manage Huangzhou with peace of mind. As long as Xixia did not restrain it, it would not be so difficult to take Huangzhou. Another thing is that Aligu had just barely rectified the internal internal orders of Tubo. If he was given time, the various Tubos in Huangzhou could be closely integrated, but now... although it was not a scattered sand, it was not a piece of iron plate. At this time, it was less difficult to use Huangzhou than during the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty. In another four or five years, Aligu would be given time to integrate, which would be two different.

But Wang Ju changed his voice and said, "If you can succeed with your generals, the northwest will be safe."

Without Tubo, going to the west, there will be a large desert Gobi Desert. Although there are people and few people, they cannot pose a threat to the Song Dynasty. Or will the Uighurs, who are more distant, dare to be unfavorable to the Song Dynasty?

Then there may be some small rebellion inside, but this won’t require much army.

The Song Dynasty could be at ease in the north.

"But in this way, the scale of the war has become larger and the soldiers are expensive. But I have always been extravagant to use military forces, not to be extravagant, but to motivate the soldiers. So I just went to the Sansi, looked at the state's fiscal revenue and expenditure, and thought about it again, afraid that the finances will still be insufficient."

"There are still some storage in the inner warehouse..."

"I know, but how much money can the inner treasury have? So I came up with a solution."

"What's the solution?"
To be continued...