Otra looked at the map.

Even if the Song army has a large number of troops, it cannot truly block the Liao army. The area of ​​these two prefectures and one army is very large, almost four times the area of ​​the original Fulin Road. Even if the northern region is apart, it will have more than twice the area of ​​the original Fulin Road. Not to mention 200,000 officers and soldiers, one million officers and soldiers will not be able to completely block all roads when they come.

The key is how he crosses the Yellow River from another road to the edge of the Yellow River?

There is no suitable ferry crossing, and the two Song troops are not dead. If the Liao army moves, the Song troops will inevitably move.

So he had to turn his mind to the river beside the river, which is the opposite bank of Muna Mountain, and all the way to the section of the river ferry.

This is not easy. Although the river is wide, the water flows smoothly, and there are many places for trees and trees to scatter on the bank, it is difficult to obtain trees. Moreover, because the Heqing army was taken away by the Song army and was strangled above, the Liao army must turn northwest and then rush towards the bay entrance. This means that the three armies must pass through a large section of Ganyuan, desert and Gobi desert, and are much farther away. If the Heqing army had not been taken by the Song army and the road was blocked, it would have been only more than 200 miles away, but now it would have to go at least more than 500 miles.

However, time is not waiting for anyone. It is almost late August. Autumn is coming and autumn is coming. Here, the weather immediately becomes cold.

Therefore, he immediately sent a scout to inquire, but even this road lost hope.

Three days later, the scout came back and reported that the Song Dynasty built many ships, a large fleet of ships carrying many Song troops and supplies arrived in this bay entrance area, and many Song troops came ashore. Five military camps were built at the critical location.

This doesn't matter, because the time is short, these military camps can only be regarded as simple military camps. The fleets of key ships will continue to be moored on the shore and fortified on the land and water.

In other words, the Liao army would not be able to control the place for a short time, so the Liao army headed north, and the Song army here would also go north at the same time, and still could not escape.

This is extremely bad news.

Otra began to think randomly, or retreated, crossed the entire Hetao, and crossed the river from Hue Du (opposite the Tengkou).

This is really a random thought. This road is actually the road that Mogus retreated, but Mogus crossed the river from the southern part of the Shangweicheng, and Hue crossed further north.

Moreover, Mogus took away a lot of supplies from Xiazhou to ensure his logistics along the way, and was all full of cavalry, with fast speed. There were also many cavalry in this Liao army, but there were more civilians and the people of Xixia who were carrying their children and daughters. It would probably take a month to cross the entire Hetao.

Now that the Hetao has not completely deteriorated, this industry may not be all desert areas, with many Ganyuan and Gobi Desert areas, but 90% of the areas do not have sufficient water sources. Not to mention logistics consumption, just one water source makes Otla very troublesome.

Logistics is also a problem. If it goes well, the logistics he has in his hands is enough to make this team arrive in Yunzhou smoothly, but if there is one through, there will be no logistics.

Moreover, if you cross the Yellow River, it is impossible to withdraw from the Beihetao area occupied by the Song Dynasty. You have to continue to run through a large desert Gobi area, and retreat from the west side of Langshan to the area of ​​the Zubu people. That is, let him bring the crowd to Zubu, and with the sparsely populated Zubu troops, how can the logistics of nearly 200,000 people be supplemented?

Besides, there is even less wood in any area, and the two Xixia Fortresses near Huedu have been controlled by the Song army, and the Song army is not dead. If he moves, the Song army will also mobilize its troops.

The more Otla thought about it, the more headache he felt. He even had a crazier idea, sending an elite force to counterattack Linzhou of the Song Dynasty. This was even more unrealistic idea. Linzhou now controls the entire west of the Quye River, including the entire Tumao River Basin, and most of the Tuhun River (Tuwei River) basin. Without the natural danger of the Quye River, it is not far from the Liao army, and it is about a hundred miles away. However, the Song Dynasty built many fortresses and there were also many left-behind troops.

The Liao army led all the troops south to attack Linzhou, and then ran through the entire Linzhou, crossed the river from the Baode Ferry, and then ran through the Baode Army and the volcanic army of the Song Dynasty, fled back to the Liao Kingdom. Is that possible?

In fact, if he really does this, his fate will be even worse. In addition to distributing part of his troops at Wankou, Xingzhou also distributes most of his troops back to Hedong, there is also a military operation there, a military operation that forces the Liao Kingdom to lower its head.

Moreover, some of the troops had infiltrated into Hedong before.

If the Liao army came in one go, they wouldn't know how to die.

Now only Otlahusi knew about it, so he had to send some elite troops, but in that case, he could only send snacks to the Song Dynasty. With the heavy losses of the elite army, his troops were even more embarrassed.

However, Otla was not a crazy master. After thinking for a long time, there was no choice but to send a scout to sneak into Hedong. A few people could do it. Besides, this turned out to be the land of the Liao Kingdom, and some soldiers were very familiar with the terrain here.

Then he asked the Liao Kingdom to send heavy troops behind the mountain, not only to rescue their more than 100,000 troops, but also to fight for national destiny.

Now the two countries have become enemies. If Otla loses this battle again and even loses its entire army, the Liao Kingdom will immediately fall into a disadvantage, let alone expect the Song Dynasty to continue to accept 500,000 yuan a year, and it will even shake the rule of the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Liao Kingdom.

Only by continuing to send heavy troops, attack from both sides, defeating the Song army, and taking back the two armies and one state can the Song Dynasty continue to force the Song Dynasty to bow its head.

Then he ordered the three armies to be recruited and continued to stay in the upper reaches of Zhuolun River. There was sufficient water source and the aquatic plants were relatively abundant, which could at least solve the problem of grass. Not to mention that this rank brought many livestock, war horses had to fill them.

However, trapped here, like being locked in a large prison cell... Otlah was so stupid.

After he issued the order, Yu Tian sighed: "Wang Ju is not dead, Liao is in danger!"

In fact, he was wrong again. His opponent in this battle was not Wang Ju, but Zhang Yu.

As for Wang Ju, he has already begun to resettle immigrants.

After repeated invasions over the past few years, there are only more than 200,000 households in Xixia, and the real land is vast and sparsely populated.

But this is a good thing, which means that the court can migrate more people to settle. As long as the Han people reach nearly 70%, the land will be managed after the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the imperial court gave generous conditions, allowing Hedong Road, Shaanxi Road, Lizhou Road and Jingxi Road to post documents in various prefectures and counties in the western regions to encourage the people to register spontaneously and come to the northwest.

The condition is to provide these people with food and supplies during the migration process, and send special personnel to lead the way. After arriving at the destination, the court will provide various daily necessities and farming equipment according to the five, five to ten, and ten, and three levels of each household, until the food and grass before the autumn harvest next year, and related cold protection materials, and then provide sufficient arable land and related livestock according to the upper, middle and lower levels of the country, and at the same time, provide forty stakes, sixty stakes and eighty stakes or equivalent silk for each household.

Of course, this large-scale migration will inevitably arouse opposition from local tyrants. Therefore, the court adopted Wang Ju's opinion and allowed the tyrants from these regions to come to the northwest to purchase land, which was divided into five levels. The best fertile land costs only two jin of coins per acre, one thousand five hundred jin of coins per acre, one thousand five hundred jin of coins per acre, one thousand five hundred jin of coins per acre, and one fifth jin of coins per acre.

But there is a condition that tenants who are equivalent to the cultivated land they purchased must be brought over, so as to prevent these powerful people from hoarding land and leaving these cultivated land barren and unable to play an immigrant role. However, the court continued to provide a preferential condition, that is, even if the tenants come over, subsidies will still be issued according to the standards of other immigrants.

Although these subsidies have not fallen into the pockets of various powerful people, the tenant farmers they brought with them immediately settled, which means that they can collect rent smoothly next year.

This is used to alleviate the pressure brought by the opposition of the powerful, and at the same time it has more or less brought a lot of income to the court.

In addition, there were many good news in the northwest, and even the powerful Liao Kingdom's more than 100,000 troops were put into pockets by the Song Dynasty, so that everyone had no worries. Therefore, many powerful people actively participated in the opposition.

In fact, this is also a manifestation of wealth accumulation and nowhere to go. If you put it in a bank, you think the interest rate is low and you are afraid of the policy instability, but if you invest it on the land, the land will not run away. Without the banking department, the effect of this policy will be better.

However, it takes too much money, especially in the battle with the Liao Kingdom, which will consume more supplies. The cost of escorting materials such as armor and cloth is even better, mainly food and grass.

In order to meet the needs of the frontline and the cage tactic, the court had to order Jiaozhi and Guangnan to hire sea ships to urgently transport three million stones of grain.

However, these food and grass must not only be transported to Shaanxi Road, but also to the farther front line step by step. Even though Wang Ju used many prisoners of war and the people of Xixia to let them be responsible for transportation through labor-for-relief, the consumption was amazing.

The court had to issue 20 million chunks of "national debt" again, which led to many ministers opposing it. Some people calculated the accounts and could only calculate the amount. The consumption of war in recent years has reached more than 300 million chunks of expenses, which does not include many invisible expenses! If it is included, it can even reach more than 400 million chunks, which has not happened since ancient times!

At the same time, such large-scale military use and logistics transportation have led to the abandonment of production of the people in Hedong, Shaanxi, and the people are not afraid of it. After all, the imperial court was hired, but the grain production of both routes was severely reduced. At the same time, each dou of millet rose from less than ten cents to fifteen cents, each dou of wheat rose from more than thirty cents to fifty cents, and each dou of rice rose from seventy cents to nearly a hundred cents, and the price of grain in the capital was even more expensive.

In short, it has produced a series of vicious effects.

But at this time, good news came.

That was the steam locomotive that Shen Kuo was responsible for. After several years of research and development, it was finally put into use in Sanmenxia.

It is not the kind of train in later generations. Its carriages are loaded with less than twenty stones per carriage, which is less than a ton. It is equivalent to a large carriage. Each front of the car can transport forty cars, with a maximum speed of eighty miles per hour, which is equivalent to driving twenty kilometers per hour. It is placed in Sanmenxia because there are many slopes and the speed is less than ten kilometers per hour.

Its service life is about one thousand hours and requires a major repair. Its lifespan is not too long, but it is also an amazing progress.

The Sanmen's canal transport was nearly 8 million stones a year, and in the Song Dynasty it was only two or three million stones a year. However, it also depends on whether a large-scale war was launched, the canal transport volume would immediately expand, just like in the past two years, the Sanmen's canal transport volume reached nearly 10 million stones.

But with this locomotive, I plan to travel five or six times a day, which is four or five thousand stones. After deducting the bad weather, I plan to complete the 800,000 stone of canal transportation in two hundred days. Including rotation or overhaul rotation, twenty locomotives are enough to complete the entire Sanmen canal transportation. Only thirty or forty "drivers" and dozens of craftsmen responsible for maintenance. Then the boatman is no longer needed, and thousands of people who use small cars to push supplies are no longer needed. As long as the dispatch is properly arranged, the downstream cargo ship will be loaded immediately, and the upstream cargo ship will follow and load the cargo ship immediately, and then a large number of warehousing and warehousing personnel on both sides will not be needed. From then on, the people near Shanzhou were completely out of this sea of ​​suffering.

Also, because its loading capacity is very large, including the weight of the head less than fifteen tons, rather than more than one hundred tons and two hundred tons like later generations, and the rail head is longer and the pressure pressure also decreases accordingly. This means that as long as the bridge is solid, it can pass through and the requirements for the road surface are very low. Although the technology is backward, the cost is not too high.

These data are not used on Sanmenxia, ​​but may be used in many areas, including the front line, such as Lingwu Avenue from Lingzhou to Huaian Town. Although it passes through Hengshan, the road in this section of Hengshan is relatively flat and wide. The remaining roads are also relatively good. There are few rivers, mostly small rivers and there are not many rainy seasons. A "railway" can be built. At its speed, it can travel 700 miles a day, which is faster than cavalry. Then you can quickly send materials and troops to the city of Lingzhou, and then match it with the Yellow River shipping, so you can easily control this area in the future.

This alone is of great significance, and the reason why some scholars and officials attacked Wang Ju was also because this area was too far from the Central Plains, it was difficult to mobilize troops and materials, and China's power would be consumed in the future.

There is no reason to attack now.

Moreover, with this road, you can easily send green salt and northwest-related specialties to Huai'an Town, which facilitates trade and trade.

Therefore, when Sanmenxia was opened to traffic, Zhao Xu personally led his ministers to Shanzhou to watch. After watching, Long Yan was very happy and appointed Shen Kuo as an official title on the spot. He also allocated relevant money and silk to ask Shen Kuo to be responsible for the construction of this "railway". Shen Kuo was even more in tears. Since the defeat in Yongle City, he has become infamous, and because of the expensive development of such a motorcycle, it has led to many criticisms.

Today, he finally achieved results and he has been renamed from now on.

After hearing the news, Wang Ju felt lucky that Shen Kuo's success this time came in time, otherwise he would have delayed the research and development.

Moreover, this is also a huge industry, which will have an immeasurable effect on mining, smelting, casting, processing, transportation, and commerce.

As for those ministers, just object. Anyway, I will leave in a few months.

In fact, these oppositions are unreasonable. Such a large-scale battle will inevitably bring some negative impacts on the country, but what about the positive side? Let’s talk about immigration. It not only makes it easier to manage the northwest in the future, but also completely relieves the pressure of densely populated areas such as Hedong Road, Shaanxi Road, Lizhou Road and other areas. Just like Hedong Road, because the land is narrow and there are many people, the price of an ordinary civilian land per mu reaches five jin of coins, but how much is the annual income? If you plant millet, twenty cents! If you plant wheat, fifty cents!

Moreover, Wang Ju did not have much military force, so he began to concentrate on resettlement of immigrants and build a fortress city, and to stabilize the northwest. There is no need to be afraid that some people say that he has too many soldiers, which will be detrimental to the court. Wang Ju cannot be famous for rebelling, and Zhang Ju should also be famous for rebelling.

The Liao Kingdom sent troops again.

Yelu Hongji has been very concerned about this dispatch since the beginning, and even Xia Nabo and Qiu Nabo have not been held. He stayed in Youzhou City.

In fact, there is no need to wait until Yelu Orat requests support, Yeluna has sent people to report the situation in Hexi with fast horses to Yelu Hongji, so Yelu Hongji personally led tens of thousands of troops to Yunzhou.

After receiving the request from Otla, he immediately took these soldiers and horses, including Yelu Dabeinu, the chief inspector of the imperial guards, Yelu Temo, as the deputy commander. He also recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the states behind the mountain, and combined a hundred thousand troops to rush to Dongshengzhou. He also sent scouts to Otla to make an agreement with Otla on September 20th, and the two armies attacked together. Even September 20th, it was fast.

But Yelu Hongji did not come to the front line in person. He almost let the Xixia people cut their noses in Hequ, which made Yelu Hongji a little scared, but he personally took charge of Yunzhou to command, which could be considered an inspiration.

At the same time, he sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Song Dynasty.

Two Liao envoys came to the capital, but Zhao Xu did not meet him, but Cai Que met him. He only said one thing, go to the Daizhou front line to take a look, and you will say something when you have seen it and come back.

What's wrong with Daizhou? The two Liao envoys thought of one place and rushed to Daizhou immediately, but it was too late.

The huge armies of the two countries opened fire again.

On September 20, Otra launched a fierce attack on the Song army. At this time, they had little food and grass to ride. If it weren't for the Xixia people who had defected to bring a lot of food and livestock, they would have been out of food.

Therefore, almost all the three armies of the Liao Kingdom were fighting desperately.

However, the problem is that this delay was another month, which gave the Song army more time. The military camps on various mountain roads were basically built and more supplies and weapons were transferred from the rear. We did not underestimate your Liao army, and you were fighting desperately, but we didn't come out to fight you, we were just defending.

This is the Western Army, the strongest army of the Song Dynasty. After repeated victory, the morale was extremely strong. Moreover, the imperial court rewards were quite strong this time. A batch of rewards had been handed over to their families by local governments. Because of the establishment of the Post Office, their families informed them of this message through letters. The more morale the stronger the more prosperous it is.

The reason for this arrangement was to punish Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty and defeat the battle without reward.

It also has an absolute advantage in terms of military strength. Although the Liao army seemed to have a large number of people, how many soldiers were there to deduct the civilians and the refugees of Xixia?

Moreover, relying on the camp to defend, it has an advantage. Under various factors, no matter how desperate the Liao army fought, it could never break through the Song army's defense lines.

Yelu Dafeng Nu also launched an attack from Hedong.

These Liao generals are actually quite capable of fighting, but now they are separated by the Yellow River, and the Great Compassion Slave also expressed a headache.

At this time, Liu Shen, the deputy envoy of the Third Division of Youzhou who was with the army, made a suggestion that it was obviously too late to build a ship, but the rafts could be made into rafts, twisted together with iron chains, then put the ends down, and use the water flow to rush to the opposite bank. Although this section of the river is not too turbulent, it is much faster than the estuary ferry, so the water flow would rush the rafts to the opposite river beach. Then send warriors to rush over to occupy the beach. Then add small boat boards to these rafts, and set up formal pontoon bridges, and the army crossed the west.

It seemed like a good idea, so the Great Compassion Slave adopted it. The Song army seemed helpless. After all, the distance between the divine arm bows was not enough, and the artillery could not be fully covered. Moreover, the shells were really expensive now. The Liao army was not afraid of sacrifice, so they could only watch them move all the stones away and several huge wooden rafts formed.
To be continued...