Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

On December 26, 27, and 28, three consecutive days, the General Staff Headquarters held three meetings.

Zhao Chen, Yue Fei, Qu Duan, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, Wang De, Zhao Zhe and other high-level military officials participated in these three meetings, and the heads of various departments of the General Staff Headquarters also participated in these three military meetings! Everyone conducts final research and final discussion!

This time the battle is of great importance, and it is not under the battle of Xixia, so it must be handled with caution, and there must be no mistakes in the slightest!

On December 29th, an emergency mobilization order was issued again among the entire Forbidden Army! All the soldiers of the Forbidden Army have made final preparations, and they all know that they will leave within ten days! But except for the top generals of the Forbidden Army, the rest of the Forbidden Army generals don't know where they are going!

In the blink of an eye, New Year's Eve has arrived. Although there are lights and festoons in Wugong County, you can see that there is a tense and solemn atmosphere everywhere! Whether it is the soldiers of the various armies or the young people of the Production and Construction Corps, they all know that the war is coming!

It was snowing heavily, and it was already late at night, but the officers in the staff headquarters still didn't have a rest!

Today is the last day for Zhao Chen to settle down, and it is also the time to finalize the battle plan.

Zhao Chen, Qu Duan, Yue Fei, Yu Yunwen and others are all at the battle station at the moment, and they are still standing in front of the huge map.

"Your Majesty, we just received letters from Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Li Xianzhong, Liu Kai and others this morning. They put forward their opinions on the battle plan! But generally, they agree with the plan formulated by the General Staff Headquarters! In the north, we The Northern Expedition is about to start! In the central region, we focus on defense! In the south of the Yangtze River, it is a battle that determines the situation in the world! We can lose in both the north and the central region, but the battle in the south of the Yangtze River must not fail!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Of course I understand this!" Zhao Chen said.

"At present, we have finalized all the details of the Battle of Guanshan in Central China and the Battle of Jiangnan! Now all that remains is the Northern Expedition. According to the plan of the General Staff Headquarters for these days, the focus of the Northern Expedition lies in a quick word! We will take it by surprise! An important stronghold in the north separates the two armies of the Jurchens going south from those in Hedong, Guanshan and other places! The Jurchens have already mobilized a month ago, and it will take about three months for them to come from the north! We must rush In front of them! Therefore, this requires extremely high mobility! Therefore, we decided that this Northern Expedition will be composed entirely of cavalry! At present, the Imperial Army has 70,000 cavalry, and the Imperial Army cavalry is the main force. Ten thousand cavalry! These cavalry will go all the way north, enter Xixia, and then attack Datong, Daixian, and Yanmen Pass along the grassland from Xixia, and take all the important passes north of Hedong in one fell swoop! After that, Yue Fei, Liu Kai and others will lead the army Go north, stop Yan Chang and Jin Wushu! If possible, occupy Yanjing!" Yu Yunwen said.

Now the staff headquarters is divided into operations department, intelligence department, and logistics department. On the surface, Yu Yunwen is in charge of the logistics department, but when Zhao Chen is away, he is responsible for managing all the affairs of the staff headquarters! It's just because he was too young, so he was not given a corresponding position! Now that Zhao Chen is here, it is Yu Yunwen who will explain everything.

"Your Majesty, the focus of the current discussion is whether the 110,000 cavalry are too few and not strong enough? My opinion is that the 100,000 infantry of the Huanqing Army should also be sent to the north for the Northern Expedition together! In this way, the total number of our Northern Expedition The strength has reached 200,000! These 200,000 are enough to deal with the complicated situation in the north! According to the information we have obtained, although the Jurchens sent two armies to the south, many of their two armies are composed of Khitans The newly attached army, and some are the wild Jurchen troops captured by them! According to the analysis of the Operations Department, whether it is the new attached army or the wild Jurchen army, the combat effectiveness is definitely not as good as the real Jurchen army. Even if our 200,000 people It is also enough to deal with their two armies on the frontal battlefield! Only in this way, the pressure on Guan Shan will be a bit greater! Therefore, please His Majesty to make a decision!" Qu Duan said.

"Compared to the north and the south of the Yangtze River, the Guan-Shan war is already in a secondary position! In Guan-Shan, we even allow failure, and we can even give up all the territory east of Fengxiang Mansion! Therefore, send more troops to the north Right! Even so, there are still 500,000 troops in Guanshan, and I think they can still cope with the pressure of the upcoming war." Zhao Chen said.

"Okay! Then listen to Your Majesty." Qu Duan nodded.

"Northern Expedition, with Yue Fei as the commander, Liu Qi and Zhang Xian as deputy commanders!" Zhao Chen said again.

On this point, Yu Yunwen, Qu Duan and others did not object.

Yue Fei is the military god of this era, and Liu Kai is a famous general in the early Southern Song Dynasty. His achievements far surpass Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi and others! If there was a list of famous generals in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Kai should be able to rank in the top five, second only to Yue Fei, Wu Jie, Han Shizhong, Wu Lin and others! Zhang Xian is the main general of the Yue family army, and his strength is also extremely strong!

With the three of them commanding the army, there is great hope of victory in the Northern Expedition.

"In the battle of Guanshan, we still have 500,000 troops, with Qu Duan as the commander, Li Xianzhong and Zhao Zhe as the deputy commanders!" Zhao Chen said.

Qu Duan is the number one person in the Western Army after he became a teacher. He is an all-round talent in both civil and military affairs, which is well known in the world! Li Xianzhong was the number one Han general in the mid-Southern Song Dynasty! The two of them, together with the General Staff Headquarters, were sitting in Guanshan, Zhao Chen was also very relieved.

"As for the battle in the south of the Yangtze River, naturally Wu Jie will be the commander in chief and Wu Lin will be the deputy commander! I'm just following the past to stabilize the situation in Jiangnan!" Zhao Chen laughed.

After a whole day, until now, a smile finally appeared on his face! His heart finally relaxed a little!

During this period of time, the situation in the world has changed, and even Zhao Chen has a feeling of being overwhelmed by mountains! Now that he has a plan and a goal, he begins to relax.

"Your Majesty, the army of the Northern Expedition will also leave immediately!" Yue Fei stood up at this time and said.

"Okay! I want to see off the soldiers myself!" Zhao Chen said.

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In the middle of the night, in the Forbidden Army barracks between Wugong County and Fufeng County, the dull sound of war drums began to beating.

The moment the war drum sounded, countless soldiers in the barracks got up from their beds.

Then they put on their clothes immediately, and the other clothes, food, etc. they had to bring had already been prepared! In the past few days, the army has issued two emergency mobilization orders, and the soldiers in the army are already ready for battle!

This time the imperial army dispatched cavalry!

The earliest Yue Fei led the imperial army to defeat Wanyan Huonu and captured Guanshan. At that time, more than 20,000 cavalry were formed! After the Battle of Xixia ended, Zhao Chen sent 100,000 horses into Yue Fei's army, and Yue Fei formed another 50,000 cavalry! Therefore, the number of cavalry in the imperial army has reached 70,000, but 50,000 of them are young cavalry who have only been trained for half a year!

However, although they only trained for half a year, they worked extremely hard! They start training every day before dawn, and they don't come back until late at night! Each of them has two war horses, and the war horses can take turns to rest every day, but they never rest! Even soldiers in later generations have weekends and holidays, but they have not had any weekends or holidays in the past six months! It was not until the emergency mobilization order was issued that their training began to be slightly reduced, because they needed to conserve their energy and set out to fight as soon as the military order was issued!

In just a quarter of an hour, all the cavalry in the barracks gathered together! All the food and supplies have also been brought to the people everywhere!

After that, the 10,000 cavalry in the barracks began to head towards Wugong County!

An hour later, all the 70,000 cavalry of the forbidden army were concentrated in the south of Wugong County.

At this time, Zhao Chen, Yue Fei and others came before the army.

"Your Majesty is coming!" Countless cavalry soldiers cheered!

They rode on horses and saluted in Zhao Chen's direction.

Zhao Chen stopped and looked around, the cheers of the soldiers gradually quieted down.

"Today is New Year's Eve, and tomorrow is the first day of the sixth year of Xuanwu! How time flies, five or six years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the people of the Central Plains have suffered for many years. My father, grandfather, and I The two emperors of the Song Dynasty have also been imprisoned by foreign barbarians for five or six years. This is a great shame that we people in the Central Plains have never experienced! Before this, no king of the Central Plains has ever been captured by foreign barbarians!" Zhao Chen Slowly said.

Hearing Zhao Chen's words, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army were silent, but many of them gritted their teeth! The shame of Jingkang is indeed a great shame never seen before by the Chinese nation! Even after a thousand years, talking about the shame of Jingkang still makes people angry, let alone now?

"I decided to end all of this!" Zhao Chen took a deep breath and said abruptly.

"The last general swears to follow His Majesty to the death!" Yue Fei shouted beside him.

"Follow Your Majesty! We must follow Your Majesty!"

"This must end!"

"Expel the Tartars and restore China!"

Countless angry voices came from the imperial army! Not only Zhao Chen has endured for many years, but every Chinese citizen and Chinese soldier has endured for many years! As a Han Chinese, how can he put such a huge shame and not take revenge? How can China be restored without expelling the Tartars?

"Your Northern Expedition this time, going deep into the enemy's territory, is extremely dangerous! I hope that most of you can survive, and I will clean up the dust for you in the future, and I will drink your celebration wine!" Zhao Chen said.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, we will never let Your Majesty down!"

"Your Majesty, we must be able to win!"

"Your Majesty, we will definitely come back alive!"

The voices of countless soldiers came from below again.

"Your Majesty, it's time for our imperial army to show their strength! We want to prove to the world that our imperial army has surpassed the Jurchens and become the most powerful and invincible army in the world! The Jurchens are invincible. From now on, this sentence It must be given to the army of the Song Dynasty! Back then Huo Qubing led an army of 50,000 into the desert, and the Huns never recovered! Xue Rengui set three arrows on the Tianshan Mountain, and the Turkic people never dared to move again! I, Yue Fei, have the same ambition, I will not be in Huo Qubing , Under Xue Rengui, the soldiers and horses of our Great Song Dynasty are not as strong as those of the Great Han and the prosperous Tang Dynasty! We can completely compete with them, or even surpass them!" Yue Fei said.

"Brother Yue, are you in good health?" Zhao Chen said.

More than two months ago, Yue Fei was injured in Zhongnan Mountain, and Zhao Chen didn't know how he was recovering.

"My body is very good! Besides, I am about to comprehend a deeper realm by killing enemies on the battlefield!" Yue Fei laughed.

"Come here, bring the wine! I'll give it to Brother Yue!" Zhao Chen said sharply.

At that moment, soldiers from the imperial camp brought two bowls of wine, Zhao Chen put one bowl in Yue Fei's hand, and took another bowl himself! The two of them did it in one gulp!

Alcohol was not allowed in the army, but Zhao Chen personally offered wine, and Yue Fei would not refuse.

After finishing the bowl of wine, Yue Fei led the army and headed north without looking back!

Zhao Chen looked at the soldiers of the imperial army who were gradually disappearing, but he couldn't help tears welling up in his eyes. These are good men from China. He knew that after they arrived in the north, they would definitely suffer casualties! For the future of the Han people, for the future of China, they are not afraid of life and death, they are willing to dedicate their lives to this nation, this country, they are the most respectable people in the world!

It was not until all the soldiers of the imperial army disappeared that Zhao Chen led a group of people from the imperial camp towards the west.