Although the defenses established in Hebei and Hedong were all defended.

But the current situation is so serious that it is hard to imagine.

The Jin army's march south this time was fully launched.

Let's talk about the eastern front. After Wanyan Zongfu abandoned Cangzhou, he went all the way south. His troops were divided into many routes. In the land of Qilu, the autumn wind had the potential to sweep away the fallen leaves.

Cities and towns across Qilu did not have time to strengthen their defenses. During the Song Huizong era, they were almost as vulnerable as rotten wood to the Jin army's offensive.

In the final analysis, the defense on the eastern front lies in Cangzhou, and the other defense lines are almost as if they are in vain.

This cannot be blamed on Li Gang. After all, it is impossible to transform into an impregnable line of defense within a few months of taking office.

Zongze was different. Zongze had been sent to Hebei since the first year of Jingkang to fight against the Jin in Hebei and gathered enough prestige and troops.

Moreover, the center line is closer to the capital, so all resources can be mobilized faster.

Moreover, there is another important reason for the large-scale loss of Jingdong East Road (Shandong Province): Wanyan Zongfu adopted a strategy of both soft and hard tactics.

Judging from the latest Eastern Front battle report received by Zhao Ning, Liu Yu has surrendered and arrived at Wanyan Zongfu's military camp.

Liu Yu, as the director of prisons at Hebei West Road and a provincial boss, surrendered.

This prompted the surrender of many officials in the heart of the Eastern Front.

Zhao Ning immediately realized that the situation was not good.

Under normal circumstances, surrendering to an enemy country requires a psychological struggle.

Surrender does not mean surrender. Officials must first weigh the pros and cons.

If you surrender to the past, will you be better off than you are now?

Since the situation is even worse, why surrender?

If you want to hang out, who should you hang out with?

Everyone is unfamiliar with the Jin Kingdom, and they have a deep-rooted belief that the Jin people are barbarians and do not respect etiquette.

This makes those officials psychologically repulsive to Jin people.

In order to eliminate this rejection, the Jin people will definitely support Liu Yu.

That is to say, in history, Liu Yu was supported in establishing the Puppet Qi.

Liu Yu was a Han Chinese and an official of the Song Dynasty, and a high-ranking official.

If he forms a puppet regime on the Eastern Front, the psychological burden on those officials to surrender will inevitably be reduced a lot.

Just like if you want to change jobs at a foreign company, before changing jobs, you will worry about whether your future boss will have a completely different culture and philosophy from your own, and whether he will target you.

If you find out that your future boss is a colleague from your previous company who you have heard of who has similar ideas to yours, or even your classmate, your psychological burden will immediately be reduced a lot.

If so, under the coercion and inducement of the Jin army, more and more people on Jingdong East Road will surrender.

Once Jingdong East Road is in the hands of the Jin people, Zhao Ning will have his right arm chopped off.

How can we do it in the future... Oh no, how can we build the Eastern Economic Belt in the future?

What's even more serious is that Wanyan Zongfu has arrived in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is the intersection of Jingdong West Road and Jingdong East Road. It is also the place that must pass from the east to the south from the north, and it has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

In the Song Dynasty, it became even more important.

Because the Bianhe River and Si River all flow through here.

The place where taxes must pass through in the southeast.

And this place is not far from Huainan East Road.

Lianghuai was the richest place in the Song Dynasty, with 97.36 million acres of fertile land. It was one of the places with the largest tax and cash income.

The situation has now entered its most critical moment.

This is no longer a question of defense or not, let alone one or two wars, but an impact on the food and population of the Song Dynasty.

Food and population are the foundation of a country.

Nothing can truly shake the foundation of the country than this.

The survival of the Eastern Front is related to the wealth of the country.

Once the eastern front is occupied, Zhao Ning has only two options:

1. Move the capital to Chang'an.

Once the capital was moved to Chang'an, although it could rely on Guanzhong Tianxia to defend the city, it would mean giving up most of the eastern region to the Jin people.

Moreover, Guanzhong had withered during the Song Dynasty, and local taxes could only support a small army.

The Song Dynasty, which had lost its eastern and central plains, let alone guarding Chang'an, was afraid that the Shaanxi provinces would first collapse internally due to lack of food and military pay.

After finally stabilizing the situation, Zhao Ning could only occupy a small area of ​​​​the Guanzhong Plain.

Second, move the capital to Hangzhou, follow Zhao Gou's old path, use the rivers and ravines in the south of the Yangtze River to block the Jin Army's cavalry, trade space for time, vigorously develop the south, and wait for the opportunity.

This way there will at least be fiscal and food income.

As long as you have these two things, you can slowly reorganize your army.

If so, you must start an escape route.

Zhao Ning sighed. He had tried his best in such a terrible situation.

We have really tried our best, all possible arrangements have been laid, and every key person is shining in their respective positions.

He can't cast immortal magic and can only wait for the situation to change.

The key lies in the northwest.

So, in such a situation, what kind of person does Northwest need?

A person who is trying to save a building from collapsing?

No!

We need someone who is determined to take charge of the battle, someone who dares to send all the northwest armies to the battlefield and use the lives of the Western armies to fill this war.

There was no major defeat on the middle line, and Cangzhou on the east line was still there, but the Jin army had penetrated into the richest places.

What about the Western Front?

The Western Front needs a major battle of unprecedented scale. Regardless of whether it is defeated or not, it still needs an unprecedented war.

Because the Western Front is not meant to be defended!

Someone must die, countless people must die in battle.

Those passionate men of flesh and blood were destined to never return to their families from the moment they went to the battlefield.

Beginning on October 15th in the second year of Jingkang, Wanyan Lou's army of 100,000 troops marched westward from Taiyuan, and their frontline was directed at the towns in Shaanxi, and the war on the western front began in full swing.

Different from the defense on the central line, and different from the deep and hard tactics on the eastern front, Wanyan Loushi encountered the strongest resistance as soon as he entered Shaanxi.

And it is resistance in a frontal battle.

From a tactical command level, how powerful is Wanyan Loushi?

At the beginning of the Jin-Liao War, Wanyan Aguda had only 3,700 cavalry, all of whom were wealthy.

The Liao Kingdom gathered an army of 100,000 to defeat Wanyan Jurchen.

Wanyan Aguda sent Wanyan Loushi to lead 3,700 cavalry, and marched overnight with the goal of Chuhedian. At dawn, they crossed the Huntong River and sniped the Liao army like lightning.

With more than 3,000 cavalry, he cut the 100,000 Liao army back and forth, and defeated the 100,000 Liao army.

Since then, Wanyan Jurchen has risen strongly.

In the battle of Daru Ancient City twelve years ago, the Liao Kingdom assembled another 200,000 troops, and Wanyan Aguda recalled Wanyan Lou's room overnight.

Wanyan Loushi led Aguda's most elite cavalry, and launched 9 lightning outflanks against 200,000 Liao troops in a short period of time!

Aguda was worried that the Lou family was in trouble, so he sent the powerful general Wanyan Zongxiong to help Wanyan Lou family.

Before Wanyan Zongxiong arrived, Wanyan Loushi had already charged back and forth among the Liao army countless times, killing horses so bloody that the people were as bloody as human beings. The Liao army was defeated.

It can be said that this person is Wanyan Aguda's confidant and favorite general, and he is known as the "God of War" in Jurchen.
Chapter completed!