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Chapter 241 Northern Expedition Plan

Zhao Chen and others headed towards the combat site of the General Staff Headquarters!

There are now more than 500 people in the combat office, and these more than 500 people are composed of outstanding officers in the army! They all have combat experience, and they all perform extraordinary in combat, know how to use wisdom! In addition, they have more or less cultural background, which is also valuable in this era! In this era, the literacy rate is extremely low, and most soldiers are not literate. These people are undoubtedly cultural elites in the army! Over the past year, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, Yue Fei, Qu Duan and others have also imparted knowledge to these people and passed their experience to the staff of these combat offices!

The entire combat office is also divided into several institutions, including the handling of emergency intelligence, including the handling of domestic and foreign forms, including the formulation of strategic plans, etc. Now the combat plan for Xixia is a strategic plan, and the two agencies of emergency intelligence jointly formulated!

Zhao Chen has arrived here at this moment, and he is watching this combat plan!

The combat plan was written in an abnormal detail, including an analysis of the domestic situation in Xixia, the number of troops to be used this time, including logistics transportation, rough offensive routes, etc. The combat plan had more than ten pages. It took a while before Zhao Chen finished reading this combat plan!

"Your Majesty, we really do not have the power to fight three sides now! So before we use force against the Western Xia, we must restrain the Jurchens and King Kang!" Qu Duan, the director of the Operations Department, said at this moment.

"How to restrain their power?" Zhao Chen said.

"For the Jurchens, we can use the rebels in Hedong and Hebei! Now the number of rebels in Hedong and Hebei has exceeded 300,000, and these rebels are under our control! The leader of the rebel army, Wang Gui, was originally your close friend of Your Majesty, and he is also the elder brother of General Yue Fei. They will not disobey our orders! This time, the 300,000 rebels will launch an attack on important strongholds in Hedong and Hebei, making the Jurchens unable to advance westward! If necessary, we even sacrifice all the 300,000 rebels! Let them restrain the Jurchens at all costs!" Qu Duan said.

"Sacrifice all?" Zhao Chen frowned gently.

"For the sake of overall victory, necessary sacrifices are acceptable! Otherwise, we will really fall into a situation of attacking from three sides, and Guanshan and Hanzhong will be lost! At that time, we will never have the power to turn the world back!" Qu Duan said.

"Where is King Kang? How to restrain them?" Zhao Chen said.

"It is necessary to restrain King Kang to the Wu-level General! We must create an illusion that the Wu-level General is about to go down the Yangtze River! We can send a large number of intelligence personnel to the south to create rumors! In this way, King Kang will inevitably mobilize a large army to move south, and they are unable to look west!" Qu Duan said.

"Not bad!" Zhao Chen nodded.

"Xixia is also a major country in the northwest. It has a large territory, a large city, and a force of about 400,000! If we want to fight against Xixia, we must use the power of at least two armies! Moreover, the food, grass and supplies accumulated over the past year must be used on this battle!" Qu Duan said again.

"Mobilize two armies! Li Xianzhong led the Shaanxi Imperial Army from Yongxing Road to enter the Xixia territory, Zhao Zhe led the Jingyuan Army from Qinfeng Road to enter the Xixia territory! The two armies advanced together, with the Shaanxi Imperial Army as the main force, and the Jingyuan Army mainly carried out sabotage operations!" Wang Shu walked aside.

"Your Majesty, neither army will be able to do it! Xixia can fight against our Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years and is strong! After Your Majesty ascended the throne, we will promote infantry exercises, and our army's strength will be increased by at least ten times compared to before! But even so, we cannot underestimate Xixia. I think the Huanqing Army must mobilize at least half of its troops! In this way, only by entering Xixia with a large army of 250,000 can we win the battlefield and change the situation of attacks on three sides!" Yue Fei said.

Zhao Chen nodded! There are all these combat plans, but these people just explained in more detail!

"Your Majesty, after we received the information that Xixia was ready to move last winter, we immediately began to formulate relevant combat plans! Moreover, we have ordered the army to start mobilizing war! Especially the imperial guards in northern Shaanxi, the Jingyuan army is ready to attack at any time! In addition, we have sent people to notify Hedong Pacification Envoy Wang Gui, so that Wang Gui, Lantern Festival, will do everything to attack Hedong and Hebei Jurchen strongholds! We have also sent a large number of intelligence personnel to the south of Jiangnan! Your Majesty, if you do not return, we will start war against Xixia on the Lantern Festival! Now that you are back, you need your Majesty to make a decision!" Yu Yunwen said.

Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, not expecting that they had planned everything and mobilized everything!

"Your Majesty, in fact, Xixia is a threat we must face! Even if Xixia is not ready to move, we must fight against Xixia! If Xixia suddenly emerges from behind during the battle between King Kang and Jurchens, that would be awful! So before we truly fight with King Kang and the female, we will make it difficult for Xixia to go south!" Qu Duan said.

"Your Majesty, Xixia is just taking a momentum now! They sent Li Qianming here, probably to test Your Majesty! If Your Majesty surrenders, they will inevitably put forward more excessive conditions! If Your Majesty does not surrender, they will have an excuse to go south! Now Xixia should not be ready for war, and there should be differences in their country! Now is a good opportunity to attack Xixia! We suddenly launched an attack, and they were not prepared for any preparation, so we can catch them off guard!" Yue Fei said.

"Can we win this battle?" Zhao Chen said.

He really didn't expect that he would face such a situation when he just returned to Guanshan!

"Your Majesty, our soldiers are united! We will definitely win!" Qu Duan said.

"Your Majesty, make a decision!" Yue Fei said again.

"Send the order to continue, the imperial guards in northern Shaanxi, Jingyuan army, and Huanqing army head north to attack Xixia! I personally supervise the battle, Quduan and Yu Yunwen follow me! The military minister Yue Fei stayed in Guanshan and took charge of military affairs in Guanshan and acted cheaply!" After a long time, Zhao Chen said suddenly!

The opportunity of war cannot be missed. Once it is missed, it is difficult to find another opportunity! Originally, whether it was Yue Fei, Qu Duan, and Yu Yunwen, they thought that they could wait until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but today the Xixia envoy arrived, and the Xixia heart was obvious, and there was no delay at this time! Therefore, Yue Fei and others asked Zhao Chen to make a decision immediately! When the army headed north, it was also the day when Wang Gui launched a large-scale attack in Hedong and Hebei, and it was also the day when rumors in Jiangnan were rumored! This was a war close to the battle to destroy the country. As an emperor, Zhao Chen personally supervised the war, so that the soldiers would not dare to slack off. He understood the importance of this war and defeat the enemy!

Zhao Chen was amazed when he looked at the combat plan in his hand! This was a combat plan that fully considered all the situations in the four aspects of the country, Jiangnan, Jurchen and Xixia. Before the emergence of the Military Affairs Office, it would be almost impossible to formulate such a plan! This is the crystallization of the wisdom of hundreds of people in the combat office. To some extent, it has proved the words put forward by the Germans that even the best genius commander in history could not be as good as a well-organized general manager! Even Yue Fei, the god of war in this era, wanted to analyze so much domestic and foreign intelligence by himself and formulate a plan to restrain the Jurchens and King Kang, and to enter the Xixia in such a short time. At the same time, it was almost impossible to mobilize and allocate wars as soon as the intelligence appeared!

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From the moment Zhao Chen issued the combat order, Guanshan’s huge war machine began to move!

Thousands of soldiers from the Imperial Camp rode horses in all directions, some headed towards northern Shaanxi, some headed towards Fengxiang Mansion, some headed towards Jingyuan Road, and some headed towards Dasanguan! The troops from all directions will be mobilized according to the combat plan of the General Staff Headquarters, and the food and supplies from various places will also be transported towards the Xixia direction! The soldiers of the Production and Construction Corps are responsible for transporting the food and grass. According to the combat plan, if necessary, these soldiers of the Production and Construction Corps will also go to the battlefield and participate in the Xixia battle!

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, in the Baoan Army area in northern Shaanxi, it was still snowing here!

There are more than a hundred simple houses on a desolate land, which belongs to a military camp of the imperial guards in northern Shaanxi!

The cold wind whistles and the sky is extremely dark! Under such circumstances, the soldiers here are still training!

Thousands of soldiers were holding spears in their hands, and they were in a neat manner. With the sound of "killing" shouts, they kept assassinating ahead! They used all their strength!

The weather was extremely cold, and the soldiers' faces were red with cold, but no one stopped, and no one fell behind! The "kills" were heard from afar, and the sound was neat and sharp!

In addition to them, there were soldiers running in the distance. They came from a long distance, panting and sweating all over! The soldiers ran to the barracks and laughed!

Further away, in the snow, there were some soldiers training in the snow with their shirtless! They gritted their teeth and endured the freezing, but none of them were behind and none complained! They wiped the snow on their bodies, and waves of biting cold came, and their skin became red! When the training stopped, the soldiers also laughed!

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from a distance, and three people rode horses towards this side from afar! At that moment, someone immediately met in the military camp!

"Who?" someone asked loudly.

"Urgent military information! Urgent military information!" The three people were also wearing Song army uniforms, and the leader said loudly at this moment.

"What emergency military information?" asked the soldiers in the barracks.

The three of them had stopped their horses at this moment. The three of them got off the horses and ran over one by one, saying, "Where is General Mo? Let him come out quickly! It is an emergency military situation of the military headquarters!"

When he heard that it was the emergency military information of the military headquarters, someone immediately went to find General Mo who was in charge of the military camp!

Not long after, a general in his twenties ran towards this place! He was the head of this military camp, Mo Biao, the commander of the Third Army of the Shaanxi Imperial Army!

When he came here, the cavalry who came to report the news immediately sent a letter from the general's headquarters!

"Summon the army immediately!" Mo Biao finished looking at the ten lines and said loudly.

"General, what's the matter?" said a deputy general next to him.

"We are going north to join the war! General Li Xianzhong sent an order, and we immediately went to Yan'an Prefecture and joined the army of Yan'an Prefecture. The 100,000 Shaanxi-northern imperial guards will enter the territory of Xixia within five days and conquer Hongzhou!" Mo Biao said.

"What?" The deputy general stayed there!

"You are not going to summon the army yet? Within half an hour, we must pack everything up and go to Yan'an Mansion overnight!" Mo Biao said loudly.
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