Ba Lisu's silence does not mean that he agrees with Wanyan Wushu and Han Chang's new strategy... In his opinion, this strategy is too wishful thinking, because whether this strategy can work, and in which direction it will work, all depends on it.
Look at the decision made by the young Emperor Zhao and Song in Nanyang City.
How do you know people will be scared away?
What if people don't run?
Moreover, the Jin army has suffered successive setbacks, and a considerable part of its 35,000 main force has been lost, and its morale has been severely damaged. If a mistake is made due to negligence, the Emperor of Song will actually run away and go to Xiangyang.
So what?
Whose?
Of course, having said that, Chi Zhanhui died suddenly, which made Wanyan Wushu completely uncontrollable in the army. With three people in the military council and a fourth prince, what could there be to say about Ba Lisu?
For him, when Wanyan Wushu and Han Chang showed that they would rather fight to the end in Nanyang, the military discussion was meaningless. At this moment, the other party was willing to come up with a reasonable explanation, a seemingly
A still feasible strategy, a plan that still has enough room for adjustment in the future, is already a way to save face...what else do you want?
In this way, with the silence of Ba Lisu, and with the arrival of the twelfth lunar month, of course, in the final analysis, it was because of the powerful artillery battle strength that Nanyang City suddenly showed that the Nanyang siege that had lasted for twenty days was skipped directly.
The originally expected stage of flying cannons and rocks has entered a slightly more relaxed stage of stalemate and besieging the city.
The reason why it is said that the city is besieged rather than besieged is because after that artillery battle, the Jin army not only stopped siege, but also made some contraction... The emptiness in the south of the city and the emptiness in the east made the Song army unable to resist.
I consciously tried some actions, and finally found to my surprise that I had regained contact with the outside world.
This is of course a good thing, because this is the most anticipated situation in Nanyang City - the Privy Council has raised so many people to join the army, and it has a comprehensive and complicated plan with various filings.
In this plan, there is a solution that is generally recognized by the civil service system, or simply the central government of the entire Song Dynasty, which is to wait until the Jin army is seriously frustrated under the city, and then the city can hardly hold it, Zhao Guan's family might as well go south decisively.
Entering Xiangyang, when the time comes, the Jin Army will completely lose its goal... maybe it can restore life to the dying Nanyang, and also make the Jin Army completely lose their chance to advance.
However, the problem is that this day came so quickly that Nanyang City and even Xiangyang City in the south felt a little unprepared.
It is completely understandable that the Jin Army was defeated by the sharpness of Nanyang City's artillery carts, because the artillery carts in Nanyang City were indeed so sharp that even the Song Army himself could not believe it. But correspondingly, no one can guarantee that.
At this time, the Jin Army lost a certain amount of combat effectiveness.
If the Zhao Guan family went to Xiangyang as planned, whose fault would it be if they were stopped by the Jin Army cavalry on the way?
As a result, during the twelfth lunar month, a war pattern similar to a sit-down war began inside and outside Nanyang City... It was not without sporadic conflicts. The Song Army's messengers were often blocked by the Jin Army's cavalry, and the Jin Army would also be blocked by the city walls if they were not careful.
The Song army took the opportunity to fire two artillery pieces...but compared to the first half of the month after the war, it was insignificant.
"Can we take the opportunity to clean up the inner trench and renovate the Yangma City?"
On this day in the first ten days of the twelfth lunar month, it was rare for the city to take on a new look, and everyone who had been tired for a long time rarely changed into official uniforms and came to the palace hall to meet. After Chen Gui, the Minister of War, who was in charge of city defense, gave a brief report on the city defense matters, Zhao Guanjia, who was sitting above, suddenly A question was asked.
"I thought we could give it a try." Chen Gui was startled for a moment and then immediately responded. "This is just a good way to test and lure the Jin army to see if they are really afraid... If they really sit back and watch us attack the inner trench with the After the renovation of the Sheep and Horse Wall was completed, it was confirmed that the Jin army was going to give up the siege."
"Yan Qing." Zhao Jiu nodded slightly, but didn't take it seriously. He just turned to look at Yan Xiaozhong and followed him. "You need to mobilize civilians to assist Chen Shangshu in this matter."
Yan Xiaozhong, who had the authority to know Nanyang Mansion, immediately responded.
After these words, for some unknown reason, the palace was quiet for a moment. After a while, someone finally spoke at the right time: "Your Majesty, the Chief Minister Hu Yin, please speak."
"Say." Zhao Guanjia, who was obviously distracted, stared at Hu Yin and answered casually.
"I think that if the Sheep and Horse Wall and the inner trench are renovated and the Jin people really dare not harass them, it means that our army's artillery vehicles are really sharp and the Jin people are really scared. In this case, why not let the Privy Council make some plans early..." Hu Yin blurted out.
Hearing this, the civil and military officials around the palace breathed a sigh of relief, apparently feeling that Hu Mingzhong, the censor Zhongcheng, had said what everyone wanted to say.
"What's the plan?" Zhao Jiu's expression remained unchanged.
"Can we imitate the battle of Shangxiacai in Huaihe River and destroy the enemy's camp, so that the Jin army has no foothold and hastily marches north?" Hu Zhongcheng answered seriously.
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"No." After a while, in the silence of the whole hall, Zhao Guanjia also said seriously.
"Rather than destroying the enemy's camp, the previous plan is more stable." As a rare old man in the palace, and still considered the Prime Minister, Lu Haowen really had no choice but to bite the bullet and speak. "If the Jin army really just sits back and watches, Once the repairs to the Sheep and Horse Wall are completed, Nanyang will have no worries at least in the short term. Why don't the officials look for an opportunity to go south to Xiangyang?"
This was an established plan, and after Nanyang resumed communications with outside the city, the first thing it received was communications from the direction of Xiangyang. There, Xu Jingheng, Wang Boyan, and Liu Ji sent letters to Nanyang City, asking the officials to find an opportunity to go to Xiangyang. go.
In other words, even if Lu Haowen was the only one to speak up, this destination was supported by four important ministers at the level of Xianggong, so it should not be underestimated.
Moreover, there really is a reason to go to Xiangyang... Firstly, it was because the original plan was there, so why bother with extraneous matters; secondly, Xiangyang is different from Nanyang. Although Nanyang is a larger city, it has a developed economy and a large population. , itself could not be called a fortified city before the reform of Liu Ji's old rules, but Xiangyang is located across the Han River, and it has natural dangers and has been a fortified city since ancient times.
Zhao Jiu said nothing about this... Of course, a good official should fully listen to opinions before making a decision.
However, unexpectedly, despite the full support of the four ministers and the planned plan, after Lu Haowen finished speaking, no one said anything in agreement, not even Li Guang, Hanlin, who had privately expressed concern that Zhao Guan's family would not go to Xiangyang. Bachelor Li Ruopu and others turned a deaf ear.
This made Lu Xianggong a little panicked.
ps: Everyone go to bed first...I will code another chapter on Friday.
Today on the way back from get off work, I saw a barber shop open. I got my hair cut. Along the way, I felt that I was the prettiest guy on Zhichun Road. When I got home, my cat didn’t even recognize me.