Chapter 381 Emergency Reinforcements to Yinzhou!
Even if Weiming Anhui is a pig, he knows how important Yinzhou is.
The main force of Xixia is now concentrated in Hongzhou. The goal is to kill the security forces of the Song Dynasty and directly attack the Yan'an Prefecture on the Yanyan Road. After breaking through the Yan'an Prefecture, the troops will march to Chang'an.
A small number of troops were stationed in Youzhou, Longzhou and Shizhou on the Hengshan defense line.
This is embarrassing. As long as Anhui dares to go south, the movements of the Xixia army will be completely exposed immediately.
With the Hongshan defense line empty, what will happen to the Song army in Yinzhou?
There's nothing wrong with it. We just want to attack all the state capitals such as Shizhou, Longzhou, Youzhou, Hongzhou, and Yanzhou that lie in the hinterland of Hengshan.
Even if the Song Dynasty could not mobilize a large number of soldiers and civilians to effectively occupy these places in a short period of time, it could at least cut off the retreat of the main Xixia army that penetrated into the Song Dynasty, right?
What would be the consequences of a Xixia army hanging alone and surrounded by the Western Army of the Song Dynasty?
No Xixia coach would dare to imagine such a battle situation.
There is a high probability that the entire army may be annihilated.
Once all the elite troops assembled in Hengshan were wiped out, Hengshan's military force would be almost exhausted. The Song Dynasty would have failed the Xixia people's good intentions if they did not take Hengshan over.
Weiming Anhui would never dare to do that.
Let alone Li Qianshun, who would chop him up alive and give Hengshan to the Song Dynasty, which would completely eliminate the threat of Xixia, the Jin people would probably hang him up and beat him up a hundred times.
Weiming Anhui felt cold sweat on the back of her palms.
The strange change in this situation made him shudder.
Fortunately, the army was still in Hongzhou and did not start a war with the Song army.
"Quick! Quick! Recall the Hongzhou army! Quick!" Weiming Anhui almost roared.
He didn't even ask Li Qianshun for advice on this decision.
Because judging from the current situation, there is no need to ask for instructions.
The result of asking for instructions was exactly the same, and it even delayed time. Instead, he was scolded by Li Qianshun.
As long as any state capital in the Hengshan defense line is breached by the Song army, Xixia will attack with all its national strength.
Just like if any of the three towns in the north of the Song Dynasty was attacked by the Khitan or the Jin Kingdom, the Song Dynasty would use all its national strength to defeat it.
Because that is the lifeblood of national defense.
Once the war situation reaches that point, it is no longer a matter of both sides engaging in a war of attrition, but rather one side may be wiped out.
On the evening of the day when Weiming Anhui received the news, the news that Li Yanxian overthrew Ying Li and pursued Xia Jun to the desert reached Xingqing Mansion.
Li Qianshun's reaction was this: "Retaking Lanzhou with the three thousand elites mobilized by the Jingsai Army can block the Song army's return path!"
Ren Dejing's reaction was as follows: "Your Majesty is wise and powerful, but the Song army is just a clown. In front of our great soldiers, they actually tried to use their arms as a chariot, struggling to the death, and overestimating their own capabilities!"
King Shu Li Renli also said: "The Song army became proud and complacent after winning a battle. Then the Song general thought he was Liu Fabu!"
At this time, a voice came from outside: "Report! An urgent military report came from Shizhou!"
"Come in!"
When Li Qianshun received the military report from Shizhou, he was petrified on the spot.
Brother Richard asked: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
"Quick! Quick! Quick! Let the prime minister call back all the troops and march eastward to Yinzhou! Quick!"
Everyone looked at each other in disbelief.
Li Qianshun is a person with a gentle personality, but at this time he was like an angry lion, roaring: "Hurry!"
The fall of Yinzhou undoubtedly caused a flash flood and tsunami in the Xixia court.
On the evening of March 24, the same day that Weiming Anhui and Li Qianshun received news of the fall of Yinzhou respectively, the General Production Department of Jingzhao Changan also received the urgent news from Liu Qi.
Zhang Jun was so excited that his hands were trembling. He quickly ordered someone to pass the news back to Tokyo and inform His Majesty the Emperor.
However, at this time, the General Production and Construction Division was once again involved in controversy.
Looking at the overall situation, the army under the command of Wang Shu is currently stationed in Huanzhou, Dingbian Army and Baoan Army, preparing to arrive at the Xixia army heading south from Hongzhou.
But the situation has changed, and the Xixia people will inevitably move their entire army to Yinzhou.
So what should the king do with his troops?
Should he continue to stay with the Dingbian Army and wait for the Xixia army to withdraw from Hongzhou, and then take the opportunity to attack Hongzhou?
Or should we immediately march eastward to support Liu Qi and defend Yinzhou?
If we take the opportunity to attack Hongzhou and Yanzhou, can we capture them?
The mountains to the south of Hongzhou are criss-crossed, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. If we can't defeat it, our great troops will be wasted here. But what should we do if Xixia concentrates its forces to recapture Yinzhou?
However, if the army goes to support Yinzhou, it will mobilize an army of hundreds of thousands to march eastward, and a large amount of food will be needed.
Food is money, which means increased military spending.
Shaanxi is currently filling the gap in previous pensions, and its military expenditure is in deficit.
This is the point of controversy.
This is often why decisions are difficult to make.
Finally, Zhang Jun mobilized all his forces and gave Wang Shu an order to quickly march eastward to support Liu Qi.
As the strategic envoy of Fuyan Road, Liu Qi can naturally mobilize troops and civilians directly to Fuyan Road, but the current number of soldiers and civilians on Fuyan Road is obviously unable to meet Yinzhou's needs.
So this matter could only be done by Zhang Jun personally giving orders to Jingyuan Road.
That night, the General Production Department issued the highest mobilization order, urgently mobilizing 200,000 soldiers and civilians eastward to Yanyan Road, immediately entering Mizhi Village from Suide, and then entering Hengshan Yinzhou, all under Liu Qi's orders.
There is precedent for these.
After Shenzong Chao Zhong'e captured the Hengshan defense line, Xu Xi built Yongle City, and Xixia came with all its might.
Before the Xixia army came, many scouts of the Song army frequently reported to Xu Xi that the Xixia army was coming, but Xu Xi did not believe it.
The reason why he didn't believe it was simple. He didn't see the Xixia army with his own eyes, so there was no such thing as the Xixia army coming with overwhelming force.
As a result, the Song Army delayed the most important preparation time.
It is true that Zhang Jun is not good at commanding and fighting. That is because he is not a general and has never been on the battlefield, but this does not mean that he does not understand strategy, nor does it mean that he is as stupid as Xu Xi.
There is a precedent from Xu Xi. Once the Hengshan defense line is broken, Xixia will come with all its national strength.
The focus of the current battle between the two sides is not the Hongzhou Xia army on the border going south to attack Yan'an Prefecture, but the battle for Yinzhou City!
Yinzhou became the key to the Sixth War between Song and Xia!
The highest-level mobilization order from the General Production and Construction Department was distributed to Jingyuan Road and Yanyan Road that night.
In order to ensure safe arrangements, Liu Lin was still stationed at Huanqing Road, just in case.
Although this mobilization order has been issued, it may not be able to mobilize so many people in a short period of time.
This incident once again shows that war is not just as simple as frontline operations, but mobilization and logistics in the rear are also top priorities.
The two sides have entered the resource mobilization stage to see whose mobilization power is stronger.
Three days later, Wang Shu received Zhang Jun's order and began to mobilize troops from the Dingbian Army and the Security Army to march eastward.
On March 28, the fourth day after Zhang Jun received the urgent report from Liu Qi, Zhang Jun's memorial arrived in Tokyo.
The news that Yinzhou was captured by Liu Qi was placed in front of Zhao Ning.
This is a battle report that can choke Xixia!
Chapter completed!