"Dee to Haikou?" Zhao Huan frowned even more after hearing Yao Gu's words.

He has been an official family for several years for "Jingkang Jiyi", but how could he not know what they thought?

These young men like to fight wars!

Of course, liking to fight doesn’t mean you have no brains to fight, and you have to pick up the opponent. You can pick up the persimmons and pinch them with softness!

Therefore, Jingkang Jiyi was not very interested in Henan and Hedong battlefields, and adopted the delay tactic. Relying on the strongholds in the mountains and mountainous areas to resist step by step, trying to drag down the opponent, at least until the opponent loses interest in attack. This is actually the most correct method. It is simply unrealistic to try to defeat the Zhou army in one or several main battles.

At the same time, they are actively looking for a target for the war in other directions.

"They don't want to attack Jiangning, do they?" Zhao Huan looked at Yao Gu.

The old man shook his head quickly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, they are not confused, how could they go to attack Jiangning?

Now it's three points in the world. How could they have the idea of ​​playing Jiangning? Attacking Jiangning is a matter of some territory on the border. If you want to beat Jiangning, you have to take all the Jiangnan. How could the East thief and Zhou stalked?

Moreover, Jiangning built a Matou Fortress along the Yangtze River in Jiangzhou... A series of forts were built along the mountain-surfaced river, hundreds of giant cannons were laid out, completely blocking the water surface of the Yangtze River. In addition, Guangji County on the other side of the river was transformed into a fortress, and hundreds of giant cannons were also deployed along the river. Yue Fei of the Jingchu army personally investigated many times, but he said that he could not break it."

Nowadays, the Eastern and Western Song dynasties are both knowledgeable military strategists who manage the military and national defense, so they are very professional in deploying war defense. There is no such thing as not being able to guard the Yangtze River without Xiangyang.

In the areas of Matou Mountain, Jiangzhou and Guangji County, Qizhou, where the first line of defense were chosen to arrange the first line of defense in the Eastern Song Dynasty, the width of the river was less than two and a half miles. Not to mention using cannons, even with bed crossbows and stone generators, it was easy to block.

The Matoushan Fortress and Guangji Castle were both extremely strong and could not be broken by land generals. Moreover, the long encirclement was ineffective for them! Because the two fortress castles were built by the river, there were docks for transporting and replenishing supplies.

Unless the Western Song Dynasty could gain control of the river, the two fortresses would continuously receive energy from the downstream.

To gain control of the river surface, you have to break the two fortresses first... Otherwise, if you aim at more than 200 giant cannons on the river surface, the Jingchu naval army will only be wiped out!

By the way, although the artillery soldiers of the Song and Zhou dynasties do not have easy-to-use flowering bullets, they already have chain bullets and arson bullets. The latter is a hot iron ball, which can be filled with a wooden board and then blocked with a gunpowder.

If more than 200 heavy artillery fired arson bomb together, the giant ship drifting upstream would burn out in a short while.

In addition to the two fortresses that are helpless, at the intersection of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River, there are also Jiujiang Fortress and Hukou Fortress, as well as Hukou Water Army Military Port.

At Hukou Military Port, the First Yangtze River Fleet of the Eastern Song Dynasty was also deployed. The First Yangtze River Fleet was composed of sailboats that could sail at high speed in the Yangtze River. Although the firepower of these ships is not outstanding, they can carry out high-speed impacts!

Under the cover of the firepower points of Matou Fortress, Guangji Fortress, Jiujiang Fortress and Hukou Fortress, it is enough to defeat any fleet coming from the upstream.

"Since you can't defeat Jiangning, what else can you get Haikou?" Zhao Huan asked.

"The Privy Council's advice is that we can go south from Chengdu Prefecture Road to Dali!"

"Going south to Dali?" Zhao Huan sighed, "What crime will be given to Dali Guoan again this time? Or is it false?"

Of course he didn't want to attack the innocent Dali Kingdom. After all, Dali Kingdom was nominally a vassal state of the Western Song Dynasty, and it did not pose any threat to the Western Song Dynasty. It was a harmless existence.

"This time, I am guilty of uneasiness. This time I will pretend to attack Guo." Yao Gudao, "The prince of Jiaozhi is uneasy and should be attacked. The army that attacked Jiaozhi must pass through Dali... If Dali does not allow it, it will be charged with attacking."

"What if Duan Heyu and Gao Shunzhen agreed to borrow the road?"

The Duan Heyu mentioned by Zhao Huan is Duan Yu written by Jin Yong in later generations. His father is Duan Zhengchun, who has many lovers and many daughters.

I don’t know if Duan Heyu in history would play the Six-Meridian Divine Sword? Even if he really knows the Six-Meridian Divine Sword, it would not be of much use. Because the ace troops of the Western Song Dynasty had plate armor and heavy smoothbore rifles... they were probably quite lingering.

Yao Gu smiled and said, "Then abolish the Dali vassal states and change them to several banish states, so that the Duan and Gao families can be heredited."

Zhao Huan sighed: A 200-year-old country, you can just destroy it, isn’t it too domineering?

"Who will attack Dali?" Zhao Huan asked again.

He knew that he could not prevent the demise of Dali... because the people below needed to make meritorious contributions, and Dali seemed relatively weak, so he could only destroy the country.

Weakness is the biggest sin!

"The Privy Council believes that the Guanzhong Army and the Jingchu Army should each form a division," Yao Gudao, "the troops and horses can be deployed to allow Yue Fei to take office."

Now, when the Western Song Dynasty war is not required to be promoted by civil servants, they are appointed as the commander-in-chief of the three armies.

"Yue Fei..." Zhao Huan nodded, "It's a good general, okay, let him go. Where is he now?"

"Report to Your Majesty," Yao Gu said with a smile, "Yue Fei led his troops to fight on the front line of Nanyang a few days ago. He fought several battles with the Eastern thieves, and they won and lost each other. He also took some advantage. However, the Eastern thieves mobilized more than 10,000 iron-armored cavalry to the front line of Nanyang. Yue Fei's troops had no chance to perform, so they were transferred back to Xiangyang."

Yue Fei is now the pillar of the Jingchu Army, and the troops he leads are all aces. Even if he encounters a powerful Zhou army, he will fight!

Since Nanyang is the barrier of Xiangyang in the north, the Jingchu army sent him out to support the battle in the direction of Nanyang.

The commander of the legion who was opposed to him in Nanyang was Wu Haogu's other son Wu Tiege. The commanders who participated in the battle were Liu Qi, Wu Lin, Han Chang, Yang Zheng, Murong Wangzhi, Ximen Kuo and others, all of whom were young talents in the Zhou army.

Unfortunately, there is no way to deal with Yue Fei with so many talents. Under his interference, the battle to siege Nanyang was very difficult. I even suffered a few big and small defeats!

For this reason, Brother Wu Tie was scolded by Wu Yixin. Wu Yixin even wanted to transfer Wu Jie back from Japan to replace Brother Wu Tie. It was Wu Yi's position that he had said good things for a long time.

However, Wu Yixin was still not relieved of this "stupid" younger brother. In order to ensure that there were no mistakes in Nanyang's battle, he mobilized his old 4th Cavalry Division (the original Ten Thousand Houses of the East Liao Left Army) from the Bashang Grassland to go south to reinforce.

When this powerful iron-armored cavalry cluster entered the Nanyang Basin, there was not much room for Yue Fei's troops to perform.

Because Yue Fei's army cannot compare with the Zhou army in terms of firepower, it cannot fight a dignified formation and can only rely on flexible maneuvers to deal with the Zhou army.

When the cavalry cluster of Zhou's army arrived, Yue Fei's troops lost their mobility advantage. They were unable to move, and they dared not fight hard battles. So Yue Fei retreated back to Xiangyang to rest.

"What if Yue Fei is transferred away, what should I do in Nanyang?" Zhao Huan asked, "Do you really want Nanyang?"

"Your Majesty, the terrain around Nanyang has always been beneficial to the Northern Army." Yao Gu replied, "Now Ye County and Fangcheng are all gained by the enemy, and Nanyang is trapped in a heavy siege, which is just a delay. However, even if Nanyang is lost, Dengzhou still has some potential. The Jingchu army took advantage of Yue Fei's opportunity to restrain the Eastern thieves and built Dengzhou Fortress, Guanghua Army Fortress and Dengcheng Fortress. It is completely possible to resist step by step. In a few years, the Eastern thieves could not remove the two fortresses of Dengzhou and Dengcheng, and as for Guanghua Fortress, it would be impossible to be broken!"

Guanghua Fortress is located on the edge of the Han River and is in the upper reaches of Xiangyang. For the Jingchu Army, which has a naval army, it is an immortal stronghold. The price to be paid to break this fortress is something the Great Zhou Republic Army is unwilling to bear.

So even if Nanyang is lost, the Western Song Dynasty's defense system north of Jingchu is still very complete!

As for the gains and losses of Luoyang, it is not fatal. Because there are also a series of fortresses such as Xin'an, Yanchi, Shanzhou, Jiechi, and Hezhong, which are almost all bastions. The terrain is more dangerous than the other.

Therefore, even if Zhou State pulled out Luoyang and Nanyang Fortress, it would only make its Central Plains defense line complete.

For the Western Song Dynasty, what really poses a threat is the failure of the Hedong battlefield. Because once the Western Song Dynasty fails in Hedong, the Zhou army may advance to Fenglingdu, which is across the Yellow River from Tongguan.

In this way, the place in the heart of Guanzhong will be threatened!

Therefore, Qu Duan, the former Tongzhi Privy Council, had personally taken charge of Hezhong Prefecture and directed the defense of the entire east-west and south battlefields of Hebei.

In the east and west Hebei, several divisions of the Shuofang Army had already entered the Prefectures. Under their shock, the Prefectures and Zhe family could not turn to the Zhou State. As long as the Zhe family did not turn against each other, the situation in northwest Shanxi could always be maintained.

Yao Gudao: "The Privy Council believes that the Eastern thief is in Hedong, and Henan's offensive will not last long. It will be almost over until next year. At that time, we will just attack Dali... This is called losing from the Eastern thief, taking from Dali. It is not a loss!

After we conquer Dali, we can coerce Jiaozhi to surrender. Once Jiaozhi surrenders, the court will have an outlet to the sea."

It turned out that the Jingkang Jiyi from the Western Song Dynasty was still making this idea. They knew that Henan and Hedong would lose, but it was better or worse. How much did it lose? So there was a punching bag that could make contributions to the prestige of the country and then make up for the lost interests.

Looking at the four surroundings of the Western Song Dynasty, there is no one else to beat you now except Duan Yu of Dali.

Zhao Huan breathed a sigh and said leisurely: "I'm afraid that the third brother will not want to let the eighth brother follow me!"

What should I do then? Will you be fucking brothers?"

Yao Gu replied: "Your Majesty, it is a great achievement to take over Dali Kingdom. There are many people who can be promoted and made a fortune. If you can fight in the future, let's talk about it in the future."
Chapter completed!