The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1031 Allying the Enemy and Retreating the Enemy

The Song Dynasty now has a million troops, not just a million but far exceeding the number of 100 million. In fact, it should be 180 million people, including 80 forbidden troops, about 50 marshals, and 20 border guards.

Here is an explanation of why there is a frontier army. The difference between the frontier army and the Marshal's Legion is that the Marshal's Legion is a legion under the command of a Marshal, and the Marshal will follow there when he sets out.

For example, Du Gao, Zhao Yun, Di Qing, Tai Shici and other legions all have this attribute, but the frontier army is different!

The frontier army is an army fixed on the border, such as the Great Wall on the front line of Bingzhou, Lingzhou, Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Liaozhou.

That is, the frontier army and the marshal lead the joint defense, and the rear army after the marshal is transferred is a legion stationed in place.

Nowadays, the frontier defense of the Song Dynasty mainly relies on marshals and frontier troops stationed together, but because the Song Dynasty covers a large area, there are only 20 frontier troops.

Mainly on the northern line of the Great Wall defense line, a small part of the Great Wall defense line from Liangzhou, Lingzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Liaodong are frontier troops, and the rest are stationed in Haizhou and Daozhou.

If it wasn't for Lu Heng who opened up the sea trade, won Haizhou (Malaysian Archipelago), Daozhou (island country), opened up the Maritime Silk Road and the Western Silk Road, the business of the Song Dynasty was extremely developed, and it was impossible to support such a huge army.

And the 80 forbidden army was slowly expanded to its current size after five years after Lu Heng proposed the medium-sized cavalry.

All the soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty were only loyal to the emperor, and the commander-in-chief could be replaced as long as Lu Heng ordered it.

Taking the Forbidden Army as an example, the Forbidden Army is the Tianzi Legion, which is composed of various legions, including the Jingsai Army, Ruijinqi, Xiongnu, Dangxiang, and Xianbei Three Battalions of the cavalry, and the Panlong Forbidden Army, Li Jilong, Murong Yanzhao, and Shi Bao of the infantry Lao Niu. , Fang Qifo, Fang Maung, Cao Bin, Han Shizhong, Pan Mei, Wu Lin, Guo Shouwen, a total of sixteen small legions are collectively called the Forbidden Army.

The same goes for other large and small armies, the most typical example being Du Gao's army, under which Zhang Liao, Zhang Jie, and Deng Yuanjue also operated together. In addition, Lu Wenlong, Yang Zaixing, and Gao Chong all had their own armies.

Lu Heng's Great Song Dynasty is not a strong branch and a weak branch, but a strong branch is also strong, but it is not so easy to rebel. Let alone the absolute control of the forbidden army, other legions must control at least half of the legion leaders inside. May raise the flag of rebellion.

If it was just this, he would have to face the encirclement and suppression of other legions, not to mention the strongest imperial army.

Far away, the military system of the Great Song Dynasty is now very complete, and the Mongols' roundabout tactics, Lu Heng envisioned to use infantry to defend against them, and use cavalry to defeat them.

Defense with infantry, as long as the Mongols come to attack, whether it is a field battle, siege or transportation of grain and grass, it is actually a crossbow battalion to shoot at each other. If you are good at shooting, my infantry regiment is a big hedgehog. You can't bite me, but it is better than you Be better at shooting and remain invincible.

The cavalry breaker is the battle between the legions after a large-scale war. The light cavalry is the main consumption. After the pursuit battle, let the medium-sized cavalry with good endurance and dexterity who can follow the Mongolian cavalry pursue them, and prevent the Mongols from easily escaping. policy.

Of course, all of this is Lu Heng's own idea. In reality, it will take a battle with Mongolia to be effective.

Speaking of the battle with Mongolia, this is the purpose of Lu Heng summoning the top talents of the Military Aircraft Department to come together, and he said a shocking sentence: "I intend to temporarily cease the war with Liao and Jin, and first break the Mongolia. How do you feel?" ?”

When the ministers heard Lu Heng's wording, "intent" actually meant to have this intention rather than a decision, but this intention also surprised everyone.

Everyone knew that Lu Heng attached great importance to Mongolia, but they didn't expect that he would attach so much importance to Mongolia, and he was willing to give up destroying Liao first!

But including Chen Gong, Jia Xu, Tian Feng, Jushou, Xu Shu, etc., Zhuge Liang, Yu Yunwen, Ding Wei, everyone's eyes lit up.

The two general opinions before are either to maintain the status quo, look at the Mongols, Liao and Jin, and fight to the death, and finally the Song Dynasty will enter.

Either destroy the Liao first and form an alliance with the Jin to fight the Mongols. These are the two main plans in the past two years.

But now Lu Heng has given a new plan first, first truce with Liao and Jin to repel Mongolia, and then we will solve it internally!

In the eyes of everyone, the Liao Kingdom is already a plate of Chinese food. It is the same for breakfast and dinner. On the contrary, the Mongols are the biggest threat. A generation can swallow a golden man.

Moreover, if Liao and Jin do not agree to this suggestion, they have to agree. The choice is not theirs but the Song Dynasty. Now that the Khitan and Jurchen are at war, if they do not agree to backhand the Song Dynasty and join Mongolia to attack from the south, even the Liao-Jin alliance is absolutely top. Can't live.

Wanyan Agu is not stupid to fight, he will not do such a stupid thing, let go of a temporary ally, and leave himself a strong enemy.

Whether Ye Luxian is stupid or not, Lu Heng doesn't know, but Xiao Chuo, that is, Xiao Yanyan, is not stupid, she is a woman who knows how to advance and retreat, otherwise she would not have signed a century-old alliance like the 'Chanyuan Alliance'.

Lu Heng had this idea because he had a flash of inspiration after seeing the battle report. The Jin and Liao alliances still have the power to fight. For Song, there are no more than three choices.

The first united Mongolia first destroyed Liao and Jin and then fought a decisive battle with Mongolia.

The second is to unite Liao and Jin to repel Mongolia, so that Mongolia has no threat. Song turned around and swallowed Liao first, and then slowly consumed gold.

The third type is also the one that Lu Heng had abandoned a long time ago. Looking at Mongolia, Khitan, and Jurchen, after the Liao and Jin were destroyed, the Great Song Dynasty entered the arena.

Obviously Lu Heng chose the second option. Since Liao and Jin have the strength to fight, why not combine their strength to kill the strongest first!On the contrary, facing these two clans, Lu Heng is sure!
"Veteran seconded!" Tian Feng was the first to stand up this time, and then Liu Ye, Xu Shu, Ju Shou and others stepped forward to second after thinking about it.

Lu Heng also looked at Yu Yunwen and Zhuge Liang, and nodded slightly after thinking for a while.

But Zhuge Liang said: "Even so, the original plan cannot be discarded. Da Song will charge some interest for Liao to repel the powerful enemy!"

Zhuge Liang's words made Lu Heng smile in his heart, this kid is bad!
The previous policy Zhuge Liang said was actually a plan to let the army build a city at the end of the private canal Bidanhai on the south side of Yanran Mountain and the Xiongnu River. The construction of these two cities would control Yanran Mountain in the Song Dynasty and further erode the territory of the Liao Kingdom.

The Jurchens will never have any objection to this, at most they will show up for the Khitan people on the surface, and it is absolutely impossible for the Liao Kingdom to take the risk of going to war with the Song Dynasty and Mongolia at the same time.

In this way, the Song Dynasty sent troops to the north, not for nothing, but for being able to gnaw hundreds of miles of territory again, and at the same time force Liao and Jin to confront Mongolia together for the time being, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)