After a while, all the people who should come came and all the people who should leave were gone.

The entire highest decision-making team was right next to Zhao Xing. Everyone looked bad, frowned, and looked helpless and panic on their faces.

Zhao Xing sat on the chair and pressed his temple with his hands, trying to relieve the headache, but it could not be relieved no matter what.

He seemed to have calmed down, but in fact it was not.

"Tell me, what should I do? How to save Xiangfan? The 80,000 troops are gone. Now the court can no longer produce any large army. The Ming army goes south on a large scale. Xiangfan is dangerous, Jinghu is dangerous, and Song Dynasty is dangerous. What should we do at this time?"

His slightly hoarse voice and anxious words seemed to indicate his uneasy mood.

But there are many people in the highest decision-making team who are more panicked than him, but few are calmer than him.

But fortunately, Yu Yunwen was calm.

Yu Yunwen, who was beaten up and was still bleeding from his nose, immediately made a comment.

"Your Majesty, although Li Xianzhong was defeated, the two cities of Xiangfan were still in the hands of our army. The Ming army could not abandon the two cities of Xiangfan and head south on a large scale. The two cities of Xiangfan were still the barrier of the Song Dynasty.

As for the reinforcements, there are 30,000 Sichuan and Shu reinforcements. If they can reach the battlefield, plus the Xiangfan defenders, they will still have 70,000 troops, and most of them are elite Sichuan and Shu. They have strong combat power. The current situation is not that bad."

Zhao Xing was a little relieved when he said this. He looked at Yu Yunwen's miserable look with bleeding noses, sighed and asked the imperial physician to come and deal with Yu Yunwen.

"With that being said, Li Xianzhong's entire army was wiped out, and half of the troops in the three towns in Jiangnan and Lin'an's imperial guards lost. The army that he finally pulled up suffered heavy losses. It was just a battle, just a battle! Is the army of the Song Dynasty really so weak?

I spent a million chunk of money to pull up the army, and spent a lot of materials to invest, give them food, clothing, military pay, weapons, and training. I also parade myself, but it was just a battle, a battle!"

Zhao Xing was heartbroken and frustrated.

"Your Majesty, compared to this, I think the most important issue is the Ming army's new firearm..."

Hu Quan, who was sitting beside him, rubbed his swollen face and said hurriedly: "The last news sent by Li Xianzhong said that the Ming army had two new firearms. The reason why he was defeated was that he could not fight against these two new firearms.

A firearm can use this to break a military formation, while a firearm can penetrate shields and armor. Li Xianzhong cannot fight against it, so he loses a lot. If he cannot fight against it, there is probably no one in the court now.

If the Song Dynasty could not know how to fight against this kind of firearm, no matter how many troops there were, they would probably not be able to fight against the Ming army. After all, we cannot expect that it will rain every day."

"Firearm! It's a firearm again! It's a damn firearm again! Why is the Ming munitions so powerful? Why can't I fight against it? Do I have a firearm in the Song Dynasty? Do I have a firearm that can be used in the Song Dynasty? Why can't I fight against the Ming army?!"

Zhao Sheng was furious and smashed the tea bowl in his hand to the ground.

The ministers could not answer this question.

It seems that when the Ming army fought with the Jin Kingdom, they were very good at using firearms. The Jin army suffered a lot of losses in terms of firearms that the Ming army was good at.

After the Ming Dynasty replaced the Jin Dynasty, it went to war with the Song army. The Song army suffered losses on firearms many times and was blown up by the Ming munitions.

The Southern Song Dynasty court has always attached great importance to the research and development of firearms, so it attaches great importance to the fact that the Ming army has such powerful firearms. It has continuously tried to improve the Southern Song Dynasty's own firearms and achieved certain results.

But in the end, we cannot compete with the Ming army.

At that time, the Ming army's firearms, rockets and Thunder Cannons shocked the Song army. In terms of siege warfare and water warfare, the Ming army used the firearms they were good at to give the Song army a great threat.

The styles of the firearms of the Big Rocket and Thunder Cannon cannon can be created in the Southern Song Dynasty. From the outside, it looks exactly the same and the inside is similar, but for some reason, its power is much worse.

The officers and soldiers who have seen the power of Ming munitions described it as saying that the munitions exploded with great sound and power, the detonation of fireballs was huge, and the air waves were even greater. Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty firearms, the light of fireflies competed with the sun and the moon.

Of course this is a bit exaggerated, it means that.

Later, some craftsmen asked that the problem might be the gunpowder of the Ming army. Perhaps the Ming army had more useful gunpowder, so it was so powerful, but it was difficult for them to get the gunpowder formula of the Ming army.

Occasionally, the firearms that the Ming army did not explode successfully were fished out in the water several times. When they opened them, they found that the gunpowder was already wet. Even if they looked at it after drying, they would not have the previous effect, so it was difficult for them to track it backwards and imitate it.

The spies they sent to the Ming Kingdom never had any contact with anything related to Ming arms. The Ming army kept the firearms very tightly and could hardly find any information about firearms in society.

This made the spies of the Southern Song Dynasty very strange.

The Southern Song Dynasty firearm gunpowder recipes can be sold at Lin'an for a price. There is no news when it comes to Ming Dynasty?

Guru

Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty court was quite helpless and felt that the Ming munitions were not too strong and could not dominate the trend of war. Wars still had to rely on physical fighting, so they didn't care too much.

But they didn't expect that the times changed this time.

This time, the Ming army's new firearm can actually be fired and destroyed one army at a time?

What a terrible firearm that was?

How can this be used to fight the Ming army's attack?

Even the truly capable senior officials in the highest decision-making circle are at a loss for this problem.

The most capable Li Xianzhong was defeated by the Ming army's firearms. No matter how capable they were, they were not professional in fighting. They dared not say that they must be better than Li Xianzhong in their military use.

Even in the current Southern Song Dynasty, there is no longer any general who is stronger and more famous than Li Xianzhong. When Wu Lin goes to fight in Sichuan, Shu, and Wu Lin still has to keep an eye on the defense line in northern Sichuan and not move lightly.

Unless the Southern Song Dynasty court decided not to Sichuan and Shu, it would probably be possible to order Wu Lin to leave Sichuan and Shu to preside over the Xiangfan war.

But did Wu Lin have a way to face the Ming Dynasty's firearms?

Zhao Xing sighed to the sky and lamented his destiny.

Chen Junqing, the Minister of War, saw Emperor Zhao Xing's helplessness, immediately became angry and stood up. He immediately stood up and volunteered.

"Although I am stupid, I have read a few military books briefly. I have studied some military affairs briefly. I dare not say that I am better than Li Xianzhong, but I can still defend the city. In the worst case, Xiangfan was not protected, and the Ming army went downstream to Jiangnan.

I would like to lead troops to defend Luzhou and Anqing Prefecture to prevent the Ming army from taking advantage of the situation to attack. If it can be stopped, it will be given to Your Majesty's great blessing. If it cannot be stopped, I will be detrimental to the major affairs of the country. I will die to repay Your Majesty's kindness!"

Chen Junqing was once a disciple of Zhang Jun. He dared not say how capable he was, but at least he was still comparable to Zhang Jun in terms of integrity. Zhao Xing also knew this, so he still had some trust in Chen Junqing.

In this situation, Chen Junqing took the initiative to ask for troops to fight and go to the most dangerous place to face the Ming army's attack, which gave Zhao Ling a little more comfort in her heart.

However, is Chen Junqing's behavior a behavior of saving the country or sending death?

This is indeed questionable and hard to say.

Because anyone can be sure that Chen Junqing is not the opponent of the Ming army. It doesn’t take much effort to invade Huainan West Road and completely take away the land of Jiangbei. Chen Junqing couldn’t stop him, and the court had no more troops to allocate to Chen Junqing.

The troops in the three towns in Jiangnan were already scarce, and the Lin'an court only had 40,000 garrison troops left, and the combat power was also Schrödinger's state. I don't know if there is one or not.

Zhao Xing even felt that there was no reliable general around him, and even Yang Cunzhong, who was by Zhao Gou, was stronger than the generals in his hands.

Judging from the current situation, continuing to send troops out is like seeking death, and this suggestion was not approved in the end.

Zhao Xing no longer knew what to do, so he could only appoint Zhou Linzhi as the acting Privy Councilor again at Ye Yiwen's suggestion. Yu Yunwen and Hu Quan continued to serve as deputy Privy Councilors. Everything else was the same, and no changes were made.

The ministers were protesting a lot, but Zhao Sheng went to court to curse and then expressed his intention to appoint a few old guys to lead troops out to resist the Ming army. These old guys were so scared that they were half dead. They kept saying "This is not a treatment for a Confucian minister", and then quickly called him sick and stayed in the door.

This behavior made Zhao Xing both angry, funny and heartbroken.

What is the treatment of a Confucian minister?

What is the treatment of a Confucian minister?

Why haven't I heard of it or understand it?

If someone dares to force you, I will tie you up and throw you to the front line to fight. Let’s see if you can still use your mouth to get rid of the enemy!

After Zhao Xing made such a statement, all the censors in the court were shut down, fearing that they would be sent to the battlefield by the emperor to die. Then Zhao Xing determined something.

At the critical moment, few people were willing to die for him, and many people wanted to survive. Even though they all knew the Ming Dynasty's policies and Su Yonglin's cruelty, they still did not dare to fight to the death when the enemy was in the face of the enemy.

They don't have the courage to survive than die.

His Song Dynasty might eventually end up in ruins because there were too many such people.

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