"After I arrived at the Western Prefecture, I thought about several battles in the north carefully. Except for the battle of the city, I forced the enemy to the desperate situation in Xishan, and only more than 60% of the enemy was wiped out. Even the remaining victory in Yanmen Pass could not wipe out 50% of the enemy, let alone wiped out the entire enemy. However, in the battle of Hei Liaohe in Liaodong, I captured or killed nearly 70% of the enemies, and the remaining Liao army fled. No army had taken shape and fled. If it were not for insufficient troops, that battle could wipe out 90% of the enemies!"

"Song Qing, there is no way. Most of the enemies are cavalry, and the speed is fast."

"It's the speed!"

In fact, there is another example. Yelu Xiuge did not have much force in his hands in the Gaoliang River battle, and Yelu Xiuge was unconscious. The generals of the Song army were in good command, and in that case, they killed the Song army very miserably. If Yelu Xiuge had more force in his hands and did not fall into a coma in that battle, it could be said that most of the main force of the Song army would stay in Youzhou.

This is the pain in Zhao Kuangyi's heart, and Song Jiu cannot say it.

Another example is that Yelu Xiuge killed Cui Yanjin and others very badly, and chased them from Jumahe to Mozhou, but did not defeat the Song army in a comprehensive manner. Zhang's army was beheaded by Yelu Xiuge, but his subordinates safely retreated to Waqiao Pass.

So Yelu Xiuge saw the tenacity of the Song army.

But what would happen if Cui Yanjin's troops were far away in Youzhou without the protection of the rear cities and forts?

Therefore, Song Jiu said again: "Most of our dynasty are soldiers and their armor is heavy. More than ten years ago, when General Gao Huaide was in Hezhou, he thought it was happy. I was also happy. In fact, it did reduce the casualties of soldiers. But in Liaodong, the Liao army was defeated and captured many weapons and armor. Some of the armor and weapons were thrown away by our army when Gao Lianghe was defeated."

Song Jiu said it very tactfully. In fact, there were too many things lost in that battle, including various weapons, armor, food, supplies, soldiers, talismans, flags and drums, including some Fuhu crossbows, tiger cannons, gunpowders...

"The Khitans have changed the armor of our dynasty and removed nearly half of the armor. I curiously sent people to interrogate some of the captured generals. Most people don't know, but two generals know about this, that is, the armor of our dynasty is not suitable for Khitan soldiers, such as the armor of the dynasty. The vests are too heavy, which affects the speed. I didn't pay much attention at that time, thinking that it was the Khitans who were cold-resistant and did not like to focus on heavy armor. When I returned to the capital and came to the Western Palace, I realized that there were also many Khitan soldiers captured.

Partly it was transformed by seizing our dynasty armor, which was also lighter. I thought of one thing. Our dynasty assisted the Liaodong Jurchens, and the first was transformed by changing out old armor. Later, when I arrived in Liaodong, Your Majesty deliberately created some new armor, but they were all for saving helmets. There was only one helmet, as well as arm guards and jackets. But it was this simple armor. Since the weight was only half of the armor of our dynasty armor, the Jurchens made the battle more flexibly on horseback.”

Song Jiu’s statement here is not completely correct.

In history, the Song Dynasty was short of iron at the beginning of its founding. There were not many soldiers equipped with iron armor. It was not until the rise of Western Xia that the Western Xia Iron Harrier was fully equipped with heavy armor and had strong combat power that the Song Dynasty began to pay attention to heavy armor. Then to the heavy armor cavalry of the Jin people, Zhao Gou lamented how to defend the enemy without armor, and the heavy armor armed forces reached its peak.

Because of the emergence of Song Jiu, the steel production of the Song Dynasty surged, so heavy armored infantry and cavalry appeared in advance.

But it cannot be said that Song Jiu is anti-trend.

Because this trend is not progressive in military history, but a kind of regression.

Without speed advantage, it is difficult to win. Although heavy armored armed forces have reduced casualties, they seriously drag down speed. If you marching, if you can't catch up, you will not be able to quickly reach the decisive battle site, and even the enemy will be prepared in advance.

If rescue is not available, it will not be able to rescue in time.

If you chase the enemy, without speed, you will not be able to wipe out the enemy completely. If you don’t have speed, you will be defeated. Instead, the entire army will be destroyed.

Therefore, it was not until the Yuan and Mongolian army appeared that the light armor and light cavalry fully utilized their speed advantages, creating the most powerful army in the history of cold weapons in the world.

Song Jiu said again: "So I just thought of this problem. Although heavy armored infantry and cavalry reduced casualties, it dragged down speed. They could not wipe out the enemy completely, and even failure would cause them to fall into a desperate situation due to speed drag. Therefore, I believe that craftsmen must be sent to further improve their armor, remove some non-fatal body parts of the armor, and reduce their thickness."

"If that..."

"Your Majesty, I don't plan to reduce its defense. Although in order to reduce weight, some armor pieces are removed and the thickness is reduced, the cost of armor cannot be reduced. First of all, steel, no matter what steel, it is not completely iron, and there are other metals. Some of these metals play a role in strengthening toughness, some play a role in rust prevention, some play a role in strengthening, but some play a role in strengthening, but some play a role in some reaction. Although there is no technology to distinguish the composition of these metal alloys at present, the finished product can be tested. Let craftsmen test the quality of the smelting of subway ores and choose special high-quality iron ore to make armor. Secondly, each pair of armor increases the number of times to improve its strength and toughness. That is, it reduces its weight, but it cannot reduce costs, and strengthens its defense."

After Song Jiu's expectations, Zhao Kuangyi immediately agreed.

Song Jiu suddenly wanted to laugh. Zhao Kuangyi agreed so quickly was nothing more than Gao Lianghe. At that time, he was personally commanding in a heavy vest, which resulted in the horse not being very fast when he ran away, and was almost chased by the Khitans and had no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground. If Yang Ye had not arrived in time, he might have been captured by the Liao people.

The king and his minister discussed for a while.

It has nothing to do with technical issues, it is the responsibility of the Ordnance Supervision.

What we discussed was the issue of anti-corruption.

A pair of armor weighs nearly fifty kilograms, but the cost is as high as forty jin. The cost of iron accounts for a small part, mainly due to manufacturing costs.

Therefore, the phenomenon of ink greed is serious. In the past, many armors were unqualified due to ink greed. Now, the weight is reduced by one-third to half, and the space for ink greed will be greater.

This must be done from selecting iron ore, to smelting of iron and steel, and then to producing argon sheets, with a set of stricter supervision and inspection measures.

Song Jiu also said one thing: In the future, the Song Dynasty will not be a civil war, but the main enemy will be nomadic peoples, so the occupation of field battles will increase.

Therefore, the Fulu crossbows in the army must be miniaturized, but Cao Bin should actually correct it. However, Cao Bin, as the Privy Councilor, was a ignorant master, and still produced many large Fulu crossbows as before, which caused unnecessary waste.

After the discussion, Zhao Kuangyi said, "Song Qing, let's have a meal with me today."

Song Jiu opened fire at Zhao Pu, a little ignorant of the general idea, but Zhao Kuangyi was not surprised, but liked it instead, because as Song Jiu said, he was not good at the art of power and plotting.

If such a minister is not good at the government affairs of the Chief Secretary, it will be like that, but he is good at the Chief Secretary. His military talents are not good and his ambitions are not great, so Zhao Kuangyi attaches great importance to it.

However, Zhao Kuangyi suddenly said another sentence: "Song Qing, why did the dancing man in your family still let her stay overseas? Who did you think of me?"

"ah."

Song Jiu said in surprise, and made Zhao Kuangyi happy, saying, "Do your business for me well, that is the greatest peace."

"Thank you, Your Majesty," Song Jiu said.

Zhao Kuangyi didn't care much at the beginning. However, his mother went there for several years and didn't let her come back. With Li Yu's death, didn't Zhao Kuangyi feel suspicious? But he was not afraid of Song Jiu's caution.

After dinner, Song Jiu went back.

Pan Lian'er asked worriedly: "Official, did you provoke Wang Pu today?"

"Liang'er, if he had a strong spirit and high moral character, I would be in awe and fearful. But if he lost his energy and was willing to be a dog that bites people. Is a person who entered the coffin worth worrying, no matter what qualifications he had before?"

"How did Your Majesty make Zhao Pu do whatever he wants?"

Song Jiu shook his head: "No, I thought His Majesty was too indulgent to Zhao Pu, but now I know it's not."

Zhao Kuangyi deliberately talked about Shen Yilun, Chu Zhaofu, Lu Duoxun, and Wang Renshan. In fact, Zhao Pu punished many ministers, but why did he deliberately mention these four people?

Not only because they have high official positions and high qualifications, but if they think so, Song Jiu has no cure.

In fact, these four people have one thing in common, that is, they have a close connection with Zhao Kuangyin! Even Lu Duosun.

When Zhao Kuangyi first ascended the throne, in order to calm the people, he gave these four high officials and generous salaries, but he could never be considered his. Not to mention that Shen Yilun and the other three were the heroes of Zhao Kuangyin's domineering house, even Lu Duosun was also transferred by Zhao Kuangyin.

But it seems inappropriate to let Zhao Kuangyi do it himself. After all, these people laid some auxiliary foundation for his successful ascension to the throne, so they took the opportunity to win it together by taking advantage of the conflict between Zhao Pu and them. If Xue Juzheng did not die of illness, he would also be taken down.

Maybe Lu Duosun was a little wronged, but this was the price of Zhao Kuangyi asking Zhao Pu to be his loyal thug.

Not just because of Zhao Tingmei.

In other words, the only one who is the real abandoned child among them is Lu Duosun, and he can only be considered half of the abandoned child.

As for the others, it has nothing to do with abandoning his son. Although Zhao Pu assisted Zhao Kuangyi in defeating Zhao San, Zhao Kuangyi gave Zhao Pu the power to Prime Minister and could not have paid such a great price again.

The four big bosses went down and moved a lot of space to let Zhao Kuangyi transfer the people he felt safe to enter the two palaces. This is the truth. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi repeatedly prevented Song Jiu and Zhao Pu from confronting each other.

He called him into the inner palace, gave a subtle reminder, and released another meaning. All this is under my control and you don’t understand, so don’t do your own cleverness and ruin my major affairs.

Song Jiu said again: "Your Majesty said I will take my mother back to the capital."

"Then let's take it." Pan Lian'er said. In fact, the mother was heartless. Li Yu died, which made her sad for a while. Then she got better. She stayed in Nanyang and regarded her as her mistress. Although the weather was hot, she was originally from Jiangnan and was a little heat-resistant than the northerners. In addition, the unrestrainedness of the South China Sea and respected each of them, which seemed to have become Liu Chan, who was happy in Nanyang.

When Pan Lian'er heard this news, she was relieved and depressed, but she was finally a family, one in the South China Sea, one in the North China, and the other in the capital. What did this become?

"Let's take a look." Song Jiudao.

Zhao Kuangyi deliberately asked Song Jiu to call back his mother, and also asked Song Jiu to take peace of mind. He seemed to have confidence to control it. But Song Jiu was worried. If the situation did not develop well, even if it was him, he would still be used as a chess piece by Zhao Kuangyi, at most, the result would be better than Lu Duosun.

Therefore, Song Jiu did not regret what he did.

People are good at being bullied, horses are good at being ridden, people are like this, and countries are like this.

If you really don’t say a word, Zhao Puyu may not let him go. If you don’t say a word, you will give people the impression that you can be bullied.

At that time, Wang Pu would also take seventy-two ministers to bite him like he did when he dealt with Lu Duosun. At that time, Zhao Kuangyi might not be able to protect him if he wanted to protect him.

So, if the situation is favorable, I will bring my mother back.

Pan Lian'er suddenly became worried: "As you said, then General Cao Bin and his father will be in danger."

Song Jiu shook his head: "They are different. His Majesty wants to take Yan Yun back, but if he lacks a safe coach, he will be unable to live without them for a while."
Chapter completed!