But no matter what, from a military perspective, Wanyan Huo Nu's attack on the Bao'an Army was just attacking the Bao'an Army, and there was really no strategic value at all.

Relatively speaking, Danzhou, which is adjacent to the Yellow River, located to the east of Fuzhou and southeast of Yan'an Prefecture, should be the place that should be truly paid attention to. If the Jin army has any intention of moving south, whether it is to occupy and expand the territory west of the Yellow River, or to follow the example of Loushi before and go down the river to take Guanzhong, they should start from here.

In fact, during the Battle of Yaoshan last year, while Lou Shi led the main force southward along the Beiluo River, Wanyan Huo Nu, who was entrenched in Yan'an Prefecture, led a detachment along the Yellow River to march into Danzhou.

And it was a huge success.

Therefore, from the perspective of Wu Jie, the front-line commander, he really couldn't understand why Huo Nu didn't come to Danzhou, but instead went to fight the Bao'an Army.

However, Huo Nu did not attack Danzhou, but instead attacked the security forces which had no strategic significance.

As for the quick reaction in Chang'an, it was not because Yuwen Xuzhong, Hu Yin and others were still completely ignorant of military affairs and were giving blind orders, nor was it that they suddenly became famous ministers who knew military affairs. Instead, as civil officials, they combined the information about the civil unrest in the Jin Dynasty and the death of Nianhan with the situation of Wanyan Huonu's inappropriate deployment of troops stationed in Yan'an Prefecture, and guessed Huonu's subtle mentality and situation early on.

This time the Jin army marched south after the autumn, which was consistent with the usual timing, but it was very likely that Wanyan Huonu sent troops on her own initiative.

And if this is the case, then Huo Nu's attack on the Bao'an Army would seem reasonable... Because without the cooperation of the main force of the Hedong Jin Army, Huo Nu would not be able to truly move south, and it would be impossible to form any strategic goals. Instead, it would be more realistic to provoke border conflicts and then swallow up the Bao'an Army for their own benefit.

What happened next verified this conjecture... Throughout the end of August and the beginning of September, as Huo Nu launched the offensive, the Song army's Guanxi base camp responded hastily, and Li Yanxian in Shanzhou also kept passing on messages, but they all repeated one fact, that is, the Jin army in Hedong did not have a large-scale response.

When Wu Jie personally led 10,000 elite troops from the rear of the imperial camp into Gyeongju and began to fight with the Jin army to the north for the fort, the difficulty and weakness of Wu Jie in using troops became more obvious. It can be said that, at this point, the fact that he had sent troops on his own was completely confirmed.

Of course, having said that, it is impossible that the people of Song Dynasty were just caught off guard by the living woman.

"Live girl!"

In mid-September, the news that Huo Nu had sent troops on her own initiative reached the Shangshutai in Yanjing. Some powerful figures became furious on the spot and even threw memorials to the ground.

However, this person was none other than the Third Prince Erlido, who had always had a good temper and was now a devout Buddhist, and was currently the Prime Minister of the Jin Prince's capital province.

This contrast inevitably caused all the civil and military officials of the Jin Dynasty who were discussing matters in the Secretariat to look at each other sideways... Only some people were truly shocked, while some people immediately realized after a little thought that it was natural that Erlido was most sensitive to living women.

I have to interrupt here and talk about the distribution of the highest power in the Jin Dynasty at that time.

It is said that since the death of the founding emperor Aguda, due to political traditions, military deployment, blood relations, succession of the throne, founding achievements and other reasons, the Jin Dynasty formed a situation of three major political factions for quite a long time. They were the faction of the former leader Wuqimai, the faction of Aguda's sons, and the faction of Nianhan who represented the interests of distant clans.

However, the Battle of Yaoshan changed everything. As internal conflicts intensified, the former king Wuqimai suddenly suffered a stroke. Nianhan took the opportunity to imprison Wuqimai's sons. In addition, it happened that he had just accidentally seized the military power of Talai in Daming Prefecture. He suddenly suppressed Wuqimai's faction and actually controlled the government.

However, as the saying goes, "no flower lasts forever", although Nianhan, who actually controlled the government, deliberately won over and divided Aguda's sons, he still ignored the unity of the political interests of the Wanyan clan's close relatives, and overestimated the ability of his own branch to control the government, so that Aguda's sons suddenly launched a rebellion at the Secretariat, killed him, and seized power.

After the Shangshutai Incident, the Nianhan faction completely disappeared in the central government. Nianhan and his son were physically eliminated, and their powerful followers, such as Wanyan Xiyin and Wanyan Yinshu, were bribed, controlled, and annexed. The Wuqimai faction was not re-employed due to disputes with Aguda's sons over the most basic issue of the throne. Wuqimai was still under house arrest, and his sons were exiled. However, Talai, the Wuye brothers, and Pu Jianu and others were retained in the court after the new emperor ascended the throne.

In other words, at this time, the Jin Dynasty's central government, not to mention the young emperor's young age, was actually in power with Aguda's three eldest sons. In addition to abolishing the core leaders of the other two factions, they also included some core figures of the two factions in order to achieve political balance. At the same time, in order to complete basic political reforms, the Jin Dynasty's central government also recruited a large number of Han officials from Liao and newly surrendered Han officials from the south as political supplements.

To be fair, this result was already a remarkable political harmony for the Jin Dynasty, which had just separated from the tribal alliance and was bound to switch to the Han system.

In particular, Wanyan Wushu, the fourth son of Aguda, who actually masterminded the Shangshutai rebellion, can be said to have made huge political sacrifices for the overall situation and gave up a large number of political benefits that were originally within his reach, thus establishing a relatively stable political structure.

However, the foundation of the Jin Dynasty was there, and no matter how the political structure was established, some core issues could not be discussed.

For example, the three brothers who actually held power, the eldest prince, the King of Liao, and the Minister of Military and National Affairs Wanyan Oben, had been serving in Aguda's central army since he was a child, and later became Bogile and participated in government affairs. He had never had field military power, but had great prestige among the central nobles... Before and after the coup, because of the Jurchen customs, he had a certain nominal right to raise the new emperor, so his core interests were in the Jurchen central noble circle of the tribal alliance.

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