Hejian Mansion.

As March begins, the ice and snow begin to melt. The so-called snow does not make it cold and the snow becomes cold, and the weather enters an extremely cold state.

However, this is not a big problem for the Xia army. Today, Xixia soldiers have cotton coats, quilts, cotton shoes, and keep warm and cold.

In addition to the development of animal husbandry in Xixia over the years, the supply of meat is very sufficient, and ordinary soldiers can raise their bodies to fight the cold, so morale is not a problem.

Moreover, the supply of supplies from the sea, especially vegetables and fruits transported from Ryukyu, and various seafood from the sea, made the soldiers feel very happy.

On this basis, Wang Shao was even more ruthless about the rectification of the army.

The Xia army has combat effectiveness, but its military discipline is not qualified. At least it cannot meet the requirements of the people's soldiers required by Ouyang Bian, especially the soldiers originally reorganized by the Western Army.

Although we have been training according to the standards of banking supervision guards, the time has not been long enough to truly form a temperament.

On the one hand, Wang Shao was paying attention to the trends of the Liao Kingdom, and on the other hand, he was very concerned about the army. The war could not be fought for a while. This war would eventually happen, but once it happened, the level was quite large, and even the Liao Kingdom would take time to prepare.

This period of time is a good time for Wang Shao to rectify his army.

People cannot be idle, and soldiers cannot be idle. Generally, people will lose themselves when they are idle, but when soldiers are idle, major problems will happen.

People who govern the army know that soldiers must be busy with things every day and have no way to be idle every day to maintain stability.

Either let the soldiers train or talk about soldiers farming, they can't be idle anyway.

Wang Shao asked the army to train military discipline. As a commander who has brought veteran soldiers, Wang Shao naturally knew that military discipline is the principle of combat effectiveness.

So among the nearly 100,000 troops that Wang Shao had gathered, he began to train from queues, daily dormitory hygiene discipline, three disciplines and eight major attentions, and the recently added patriotic content.

This patriotism mainly refers to China. This China refers to the Daxia, Liao and Song countries that were divided from the territory since the Han and Tang Dynasties. It focuses on telling everyone that the Daxia was engaged in a just war, including the two wars in the Song Dynasty, and the upcoming Xia and Liao War, which was actually a war of national unity.

When Wang Shao was staring at the training, the court's instructions also came. It was an opinion formed by the Secretariat, reviewed by the Ministry of War, and sent to the Ministry of War. There was also Ouyang Bian's seal on it.

This is a grand strategy formed by the imperial court about the relationship between the Song and Liao dynasties.

The opinion said that regarding the relationship with Liao Kingdom, Xia Kingdom still adheres to the principle of friendly interaction. The two countries should have friendly exchanges. If there is a conflict, conflicts should be reconciled through envoy exchanges. Daxia will not shoot the first arrow.

The dispute between Daxia and Song State was not a war of aggression, but a war of unity. As the successor of the Tang Dynasty, Daxia had the right and obligation to unify the country. As the internal affairs of its own country, foreign countries should not interfere, and should not interfere in the situation of war.

If a foreign country dares to send troops blatantly, the Minister of War will make a decision based on the situation, including declaring war, counterattack, persuading surrender, and occupying. The Daxia court will support and affirm the decision of the Minister of War Wang Shao.

After reading the order, Wang Shao couldn't help laughing. Zhe Ju next to him couldn't help but ask curiously: "Marson, why are you laughing at?"

Wang Shao handed the opinion to Zheju: "Come on, you guys will take a look together."

The staff generals next to them also surrounded Ju Jiyang, Rao Zhiying, Lan Shaohua, Sang Zhongliang and others. After looking at the ten lines, they also laughed.

Zhe Ju laughed and said, "Our court is also magical. Where can we fight for this thing?"

Wang Shao had a deep vision: "You are thinking about it now. This is where His Majesty is so talented."

Zhe Ju said in surprise: "Oh, what does the marshal mean?"

"Look, there is a handwritten book from Your Majesty here, which shows that Your Majesty was involved in the discussion and the narrative is also very consistent with Your Majesty's style.

Your Majesty has always liked to let go and delegate power. This time, Your Majesty gave me the right to fight and peace directly, and asked me to make a decision based on the situation, rather than letting the court decide.

This means that we have a great right to achieve the best results based on the situation, rather than the best results recognized by the court."

Rao Zhiying smiled: "What the Marshal said is that the general is outside and the king has no choice but to follow the order. Your Majesty knows this truth well. He might as well give the power to the Marshal and let the Marshal decide whether to fight or not. In this way, we don't need to wait for the imperial court's orders. If it is time to fight back, it will not miss the opportunity to fight."

Wang Shao nodded: "The question of whether to fight or not is actually explained very clearly. We will not fire the first arrow, but if the Liao Kingdom dares to take a step, we can hit the head-on.

With such a big battle in the Liao Kingdom, would they not attack the border? This is simply impossible! Therefore, this battle will definitely be fought!

However, we have to talk about how much we fight and what results we achieve!"

As soon as Wang Shao said this, several people suddenly became excited.

Lan Shaohua shouted: "What result? Isn't this simple? Since they are offending the border, we have to teach them a lesson and give something. I think it's better to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. At this point we will no longer be threatened from the north!"

Ju Jiyang also said: "I agree with this. Of course, it is not good for us to take the initiative to attack, but since they are invading, we will take this opportunity to regain the Sixteen State of Yanyun.

The court's idea was nothing more than to strive to build a stable Shaanxi Sixth Road and the newly acquired large tract of land. This is similar to our acquisition of Yanyun Land. As long as we can regain the Yanyun Land, the Liao Kingdom wants to invade, we have to think carefully."

Ju Jiyang's words made Wang Shao's eyes lit up.

Wang Shao was one of the most outstanding strategists in Daxia. He planned step by step to capture the Hehuang land for the court, and gained great strategic space for the Song Dynasty. It was precisely because of his strategic vision.

Judging from the current situation, the war between Xia and Liao is inevitable, and the intensity will not be low, and it may even be a national war. From his perspective, defense is a good way, but this does not conform to the style of the Western Xia army.

If it was the Song Dynasty, defense was the only choice, because the Song Dynasty's logistics capabilities were too poor. Zhao Xu was not so much the emperor of the Song Dynasty as the prefect of Kaifeng. What he could manage was just a place like Kaifeng Prefecture.

But Daxia is a real national system with extremely strong logistics capabilities. Daxia's corporate system can probably be equivalent to a state-owned enterprise system, and its ability to integrate resources is definitely the top player of this era.

Therefore, offense is the optimal solution.

However, Wang Shao still needs to contact the Liao Kingdom before he can make a decision on how to fight this battle. After all, the Liao Kingdom is not the Song Dynasty.

Although Ouyang Bian said that the combat effectiveness of the Liao army was similar to that of the Song Dynasty, Wang Shao did not know the level of the Liao army during the century-long peace between the Liao and the Song Dynasty. This would only take a fight to know.
Chapter completed!