Chapter 345: Don't say I'm not despicable

The staff officer who was asked immediately replied: "Based on the letters from the magistrate of Wuqing, the subordinates can confirm that the last army of the Khitans, as expected, went to attack our riverside camp, but was subjected to an unimaginable fierce counterattack."

"Unbelievable fierceness," Zhao Xing repeated this sentence in a low voice. Suddenly, he was overjoyed: "We only have a few cannons in the camp to talk about a hundred people. These people have more defense and insufficient counterattacks. If the Liao people were subjected to a great intensity - what does this mean? It means that my reinforcements have arrived!"

Jiang Zhiqi looked around and asked in a low voice: "Reinforcements? Where can I have any extra reinforcements on the north side of the Song Dynasty? Hey, could it be that I was holding the Japanese army and urging the Holy Army to cross the river? That guy Cao Yu..."

Zhao Xing burst into laughter: "Pengrily, Gong Sheng has no courage to cross the river, and the reinforcements are still my Guangnan troops. When I set off, I ordered the two armies of Ping Yao and the Demon Elimination of Demons to gather and stand by, and I was going south. I originally planned to guide Nanyang by sword. But after the commander Chen Buqun retreated to Guangdong, he brought my new order. Now, either the Demon Elimination of Demons or the Demon Elimination of Demons is heading north. I only have these two armies on hand to have experience in combating mountains and able to withstand the cold in the north.

I guess Shuai Fan must have brought reinforcements across the river. Only he has the courage to launch a counterattack, and the others will only defend closely... According to Shuai Fan's character, after he repels the Liao soldiers, he will definitely lead the army to follow me - I believe that we will see him in Wuqing City soon."

Zhao Xing's prophecy came true quickly. Shuai Fan was an impatient person. After repelling the attack from the Liao people, he sent the wounded soldiers to the south bank and quickly sent a horse to Wuqing City to test. Before the Liao negotiation minister had arrived in Wuqing City, Shuai Fan had already led a large group of troops to Wuqing City.

The first Song army entered the city was the 300 iron armored fast cavalry. The war horses under their crotch were Spanish war horses that Zhao Xing had been domesticated on Danluo Island for several years. They were tall and burly, and were very suitable for the cold climate in the north. This war horse was obviously much taller than the Mongolian horse, and the horse knights also chose the strong man in Huanqing and the tall muslim slaves in the Liao Dynasty.

The majestic war horses, the powerful knights, and the iron Kai, who were stamped with war horses and horse knights, brought indescribable depression to the Liao people when they entered the city. Wu Qing's "refined and peaceful" Xiao Tuo'er's expression was almost crying - it's over. The Liao people were originally the dominant cavalry, but now the infantry is not as good as the Song army, and the cavalry is actually behind the southern people. They can't live this life.

At the same time, the expression on Jiang Zhiqi's face was simply wonderful - yes, this is my Song army cavalry. With them, when the Liao army besieged the city, at least someone protected us to break through.

The Song army came together and was in high spirits. Except for the personnel trained in the camp, most of the soldiers went to welcome the cavalry into the city. They suddenly straightened their chests and looked down at the Liao people with a condescending expression. That's right, the Taiwei said right. What is civilization? This is civilization! We keep creating, and the Liao people only know how to repeat everything about their fathers and ancestors. If they violate it, they will insult them as "anti-traditional". But in fact, this is a beastly behavior, and only beasts repeat it in this generation. In China, we are the "spirits of all things" and hold high the top of the food chain.

Zhao Xing didn't care about the Song army's cavalry entering the city, and he threw everything to the officers below. He was busy plundering the war horses from Wuqing City.

Although Wuqing City is small, it is very common to have many war horses stored because it is close to the ancient pasture of Helu Sacré, the Liao Kingdom. Zhao Xing casually plundered and found tens of thousands of war horses. He woke up in his dreams these days. As for the broad daylight, he only knew how to fight against the group of war horses, but when he met the vanguard sent by Shuai Fan, he saw them riding horses. Zhao Xing immediately lost interest in Khitan war horses. He curled his lips and said disdainfully: "I don't know. I was shocked. It turned out that these famous Khitan horses stood with my own horses, just like donkeys. It was funny. I had been happy for these war horses for several days."

What Zhao Xing said is also the sigh made by modern Olympic coaches.

Back then, at the Olympics, Chinese equestrian coaches asked players to ride on the Ili horse that they thought was majestic. When they arrived at the competition field, they found that they were riding an animal called "donkey". Because of thousands of years of castration habits, Mongolian horses were seriously degenerated, and the short ones were almost the same as donkeys.

Because of this discovery, Chinese equestrians later changed into foreign horse racing, and they thought it was embarrassing to ride donkeys...

Shuai Fan did not feel the difference in the war horses. He rushed all the way with the reinforcements, worried. When he saw Zhao Xing, he shouted ecstatically: "Sir, we succeeded. We actually shake the southern part of the Liao Kingdom with three thousand people. We succeeded?!"

Zhao Xing looked around and saw that there were no outsiders everywhere. He lowered his voice and asked back: "Don't yell, don't behave well if you take advantage. Look, how much can these war horses be sold? Is it enough to compensate for our shell money?... Well, what else can we do?"

Shuai Fan's expression gradually cooled down. He lowered his voice and said sadly: "We can only do this - we have done our best, but the Liao Kingdom did not use all our strength. I heard that the Liao Kingdom did not even issue a mobilization order, and we... and we used almost half of the troops in Guangnan in this battle. I just brought the Demon Elimination Army, but unfortunately these troops were not adapted to the severe cold and the non-combat reduction was extremely serious."

When Shuai Fan said this, the subsequent "Demon Elimination Army" was wearing fiery red clothes and lined up to enter the city. Along the way, the unwelcome Liao Han people looked at the strange-looking and silent team entering the city with cold eyes.

The Demon Elimination Army is Guangnan's own army. Zhao Xing spared no effort when equipting this army. From the outside, in addition to equipping weapons according to the requirements of the times, the clothing and armor were also equipped according to the highest standards of this era. They were simply worthy of the title of "Demon": a military uniform similar to a modern jacket, with fiery red helmet tassels on the iron helmet, fluffy and towering tassels on the face.

This pair of face armor is considered "Westernization" for people nowadays, but the Song people seemed to be completely Xianbei. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the beautiful Xianbei man, King Lanling, liked to wear a pair of iron masks and hide his handsomeness with Xianbei style behind his hideous iron face. The King Lanling at that time felt that this was "very Xiongnu". Every time he went into battle, he liked to stare at the enemy through the hollow eye holes on the mask, making people feel a hint of hell.

Of course. If a Westerner was here, after seeing this mask, he would only exclaim "Seljuk" and would never think that this was his own "Westernization".

Jiang Zhiqi rushed over after hearing the news, looking at the army, opening his mouth and unable to speak for a long time. After a long time, he let out an inexplicable sigh: "Everyone calls Guangdong 'monster'. I know what 'monster' is today."

This army was trained by Shuai Fan, and he was most likely to be slandered by others. When he heard Jiang Zhiqi's words, he quickly put down his serious matters and defended anxiously: "Why are the 'monsters'? The masks on their faces are completely in the style of Wei and Jin dynasties. It is said that in the past, Lanling King and Xianbei Murong Ke all liked to wear such masks to charge into battle... Look, is this the unrestrained and unruly beauty of the famous scholars of Wei and Jin dynasties? That kind of lines, exaggerated and wild, is there a kind of long songs that are pleasing to the eye?"

Jiang Zhiqi smacked his lips and sighed: "I just think they are wearing masks, ghostly, hideous and terrifying... There is a word "demon" in their military numerals, which I feel is appropriate. Wear this armor and look at it at a glance, it is very suitable for the word "demon".

Shuai Fan was anxious. He was about to jump up when Zhao Xing grabbed him. After Zhao Xing grabbed him, he continued to ask the question just now: "How far do you think we can go?"

Shuai Fan calmed down and replied: "The Liao Kingdom has more than one Nanjing Road, and there is more than one Han family on Nanjing Road. Now, when the Emperor of Liao knows this, once he appoints a new Nanyuan King, the situation will be completely unwilling. The Liao Kingdom is a big country that can mobilize hundreds of thousands of cavalry at will. In the Hundred Years of the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom has always had an advantage. Facing the Song people, they have psychological advantages.

Psychological advantage is a very wonderful thing. Once you look down on someone from the bottom of your heart and lose to such a person, you will feel unwilling to give up and fight for your own face until all your strength is exhausted. In this way, we need more soldiers, and we need longer preparations..."

Shuai Fan was silent for a moment. He admitted frankly: "The musketeers have technical advantages when facing cavalry, but this advantage is not obvious yet. To the north of the Yellow River, the Liao people have turned it into a large pasture. The terrain here is flat and open, suitable for cavalry to detour in a large range..."

After a pause, Shuai Fan continued to add: "I have heard of your combat experience. I think you have actually found a way to deal with us against General Han in the position, which is to use the troops to attract us on the front, and then use the cavalry to detour, constantly conduct multi-point attacks, and disperse our firepower output.

However, because his troops were too small, the frontal troops failed to attract our firepower and did not achieve the tactical goals, which led to the collapse of the two wings too quickly and the detoured troops lost their effect. If the Liao people had more troops, I am afraid that the adults would fall into a hard battle and the outcome would be unpredictable."

Shuai Fan has not yet mentioned a characteristic of the Liao people fighting, which is to drive away the people to "climb first" and use the huge number of people to consume the firepower of the defenders.

Muskets in this era were also afraid of long-term shooting. If the Han brothers were willing to burn their boats and drive away a large number of people to consume the firepower of the Song army. After the barrels of the Song army were hot, a large number of Liao cavalry launched another attack, the Song army had to use the butt stock to resist the Liao cavalry.

Zhao Xing knew this, so he insisted on entering Wuqing City to defend based on the city. The conversation between Shuai Fan and Zhao Xing made Jiang Zhiqi, who was excited, calm down. He was silent for a moment and asked again: "Mr. Zhao, if you think, how many musketeers do we need to train to resist the Liao soldiers?"

Zhao Xing did not answer this question, and Shuai Fan added: "Our musketeers, one thousand soldiers can withstand three times the Liao cavalry, and ten thousand people can withstand at least five times the Liao cavalry. If we train them in a targeted manner, we will not be at a disadvantage even if we face seven times the enemy. But now it is not possible. We have already gone far enough. Musketeers rely too much on logistics supplies. Once the Liao Dynasty mobilizes, our six thousand troops will be deeply trapped in this quagmire.

Sir, the cold weather alone can kill half of our people, and the Liao people have lived here for generations. A blanket can sleep in a snow nest. We cannot do it. Our soldiers are too delicate. Many of them have been infected with frostbite. If they are stationed in the wild, the Liao people can lose more than half of us by sieging us alone.

Sir, you and I know that the musket team is a delicate army. They cannot fight during rain and snow. The current climate is not good for us, and the war is delayed until summer... To be honest, we are now fighting against the entire Liao Kingdom by all the way. The court wants to discuss peace; the musket team that I can take advantage of in the Song Dynasty is already...

We still have an army, but the Ping Yao Army cannot withdraw in Dali, and the other two armies have not completed training. At present, these are the soldiers we can use. Our Song Dynasty is far from ready for war, but the Liao Kingdom is a half-soldier and half-agricultural country. As long as he is given time, he can mobilize the country's strength at any time.

In addition, we are not fully informed of the Liao Dynasty. We do not know which generals of the Liao Dynasty are particularly capable of fighting, and how many troops are of each army. We do not know the enemy, but we know ourselves very well. In the short term, the Song Dynasty will not be able to mobilize other forces. As for Lord Jiang just asked, how many musketeers need to be trained, hum, muskets that take kickbacks are different from muskets that do not take kickbacks. If the military weapon surveillance team makes muskets, it will be useless to make them. At most, they can use self-killing."

Jiang Zhiqi was stunned for a moment and immediately remembered the famous "military weapon supervision case". He smiled embarrassedly and replied: "Since this musket is a powerful weapon in the military and national state. As long as we select trustworthy people, there will always be ways to create qualified muskets and measure the material resources of the court. It is always stronger than that of Guangdong, so that the court can come forward..."

Zhao Xing interrupted Jiang Zhiqi's reverie: "You are talking about 'rule of man'. I hope a clean person can accomplish all this, but why don't we start from the system? My Song Dynasty originally had a 'tome bidding system'. It's better to leave the businessman to make muskets and let the merchants make excellence. We just need to verify the quantity and check the quality.

Don’t tell me anything about ‘Military and national weapons, and they cannot be easily handed over to the people’. My Guangdong firearms are all made by merchants. They are merchants, but you have to know. They are merchants of the Song Dynasty. Their patriotic ideas in their hearts are no less than those of the court ministers, and even more profound than those of the court ministers. As long as we strengthen management from the system and eliminate the possibility of musket technology leaking, they will complete the amount we need.”

Shuai Fan made the difficult statement to Jiang Zhiqi, but actually hoped that he would bring this to the court and told the court: If the court stands aside in this battle, then don't blame Guangnan for pulling his hands in time.

Zhao Xing's interruption actually hoped that Jiang Zhiqi would tell the court. He did not want the court to lose the courage to fight, so he told the court obscurely: We already have the correct method of purchasing weapons. As long as we choose the right method, we can quickly arm ourselves with sharp weapons. In this way, the Liao Kingdom must be invincible.

Before Zhao Xing finished speaking, Shuai Fan added dissatisfiedly: "I think the musket technology has been leaked. When Lord Zhao stepped down from Huanqing, the court sent a thousand pear blossom gunmen to Huanqing. Unfortunately, Lord Zhao didn't have time to use it, so it was all cheaper to Lu Huiqing. Later, Lu Huiqing could not pay military pay, and Huanqing soldiers began to steal weapons - Lu Huiqing himself did this job, so the Xixia people had already obtained our pear blossom gun technology.

Moreover, when we fought with the Liao people this time, we had lost the soldiers of both cities, and the weapons of these people were also in the hands of the Liao people. However, this is nothing. The frequency of the renewal of my Guangnan musket is faster than the frequency of someone changing the concubine. The Liao people have to go to the fifth generation musket, but we have already created the seventh generation musket, which is lighter than the original musket and has a longer range."

Zhao Xing interrupted thoughtfully: "Although it is the fifth generation musket, it still carries many mature technologies, such as flintlock technology, gunpowder pool technology, and bayonet technology... However, it is not easy to imitate these muskets. First of all, without drilling boring machines, the Liao people could not create barrels, and the barrel technology could not keep up, which limited the power of their muskets.

It is not scary for the Liao people to seize our muskets. I am most afraid that the corrupt officials of the military weapon surveillance "seize" our musket equipment."

Shuai Fan continued to add: "There is also gunpowder - when our soldiers retreated, they had already lit all the gunpowder bags that could be found. The gunpowder field was updated very quickly. The Liao people took our muskets. Without qualified gunpowder, it was still useless. The most important thing is saltpeter. Now more than 80% of the import volume of saltpeter in the Song Dynasty is in the hands of our Guangnan Navy. Even if the Liao people developed a new musket, we could not consume so much sulfur and saltpeter just by competing with him."

Jiang Zhiqi calmed down and felt that for a moment, too much information had penetrated into his mind. He quickly begged for mercy: "Two, take a break, I will write down what you just said. Lord Shuai. If you have cavalry, please communicate with Nanban as soon as possible. I want to report the situation here to the court and let the court make a decision..."

After saying that, Jiang Zhiqi quickly said goodbye. He was going back and recorded all the information he had learned, and reported it to the court with his views and Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan's views.

After Jiang Zhiqi left, Shuai Fan continued to suggest: "Sir, I haven't said it just now - let's stop: When the first emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne, the great men suppressed the north and south of Bianjing and threatened the court. Now impeachment in the court is everywhere, and we rashly exchanged fire with the Liao people, and it is very likely that we will become abandoned soldiers. Now, it is important to protect ourselves. I am here to pick up the great men, sir..."

Zhao Xing laughed: "The court's reaction... I have considered it well these days - you are right, our situation is very dangerous. But you forgot that there is a party struggle now, and you forgot that Lu Huiqing. There is no truth under the party struggle. In the past, all the civil and military officials of the court had to believe that Lu Huiqing won the victory of the anti-aggression war by "refusing to resist and holding troops."

Party members never lack means to fool the people, and I am now the target of the two parties. As long as I make a little gesture, there will be a lot of local party members who are worried about it - even if we are at the city of Bianliang, someone will help us explain and package us with the "great glory".

Aren’t you going to send a letter to Nan'an? I’ll send me a few letters. I want to contact the government forces. After so many years, I should have rewarded my management forces - don’t say I’m not mean!”

Shuai Fan was silent for a moment. He said again: "When it comes to Lu Huiqing... I just came from the south bank and got the news: Mr. Fan Chuncui had arrived in Huanqing. As soon as he arrived in Huanqing, he immediately impeached Lu Huiqing to take the blame and concealed his defeat as a victory. The court had issued an order to deprive Lu Huiqing of all the rewards and moved him to the governor of Hangzhou.

In addition, as the mountain mausoleum envoy, Zhang Dun escorted the coffin of the emperor to be buried. The road was snowing heavily and the road was muddy and difficult to walk. Your Majesty dismissed Zhang Dun as the prime minister in the name of disturbing the imperial mausoleum. He demoted Zhang Dun to Lingnan. I heard that Zhang Dun was driven out of the government office, and the government sent someone to inspect his luggage."

"It's too much, too much," Zhao Xing shook his head and said, "It's too petty. Why are you going to inspect his luggage? The Song Dynasty has no hobby for scouting homes. The inspection of luggage is just an insult. After all, Zhang Dun was the former prime minister. It's a bit cold to be so mean to a prime minister."

Shuai Fan hunched: "Zhang Dun opposed King Duan's succession for his actions, so of course this King Duan would take revenge. It is said that the officials were embarrassed afterwards and asked the ministers on the left and right afterwards, "I treat Dun like this, and I will not be polite, right?" The Censor Fu Qian flattered and said: "The kindness and courtesy are too strong." But I heard that the officials still knew themselves and admitted: "I do not want to use a policy to demote Dun, but I am guilty of being a follower Lingjiao for not being in office, for fear that someone would discuss it later."

It is said that Zhang Dun was demoted to Yuezhou, so that he would not go to Lingnan. Zeng Bu persuaded His Majesty to agree to this matter, but his Majesty was still hesitating, but he first ascended the throne and probably would not violate his prime minister too much..."

Zhao Xing sighed: "I have no personal prejudice against Zhang Dun, but it is just because of state affairs... In the past, I was able to protect the Yuanyou party members. Why did Zhang Xiang think I could not protect him? What was he afraid of? He didn't dare to teach in Lingnan."

Shuai Fan laughed: "How many officials who were demoted to Lingnan have returned alive? Zhang Dun is a sensible person, but how could he care whether he would go to Lingnan? He is testing the attitude of the officials towards him... I heard that Zhang Yuan, the son of Zhang Dun, heard that Mr. Su was resentful and was afraid that Mr. Su would take revenge on his father, so he wrote a letter to Mr. Su to ask for his father. He heard that his poems and essays were grieving, and he deserved to be the top Jinshi. "

Zhao Xing curled his lips: "When his father persecuted his master, Mr. Su, why didn't Zhang Yuan jump out and beg him? Now he jumped out, are you embarrassed?"

Shuai Fan laughed and turned the topic back: "I heard that the Liao Dynasty's deputy Privy Councilor Wang Shiru was rushing to Wuqing County... In fact, I didn't hear that our whistle investigation was confirmed: Wang Shiru stopped in Anci City and wandered; the wounded Korean general planned to arrive at Wuqing for a while. Previously, he had sent people to the military camp on the south bank to discuss our army's route and asked us not to harass the villagers along the way. After I negotiated with him, I dared to arrive lightly."
Chapter completed!