Throwing away the grain and grass is a clever move by Li Qing, which can not only distribute the weight of gold, silver and jewelry to other carts and speed up the march, but also give the Liao army an illusion that something has been robbed by someone, and as for who robbed it, you can know with your toes that it must be the rebel army in the rear of the Liao army In fact, since the Song-Liao War, there have been a lot of rebels in the occupied areas of the Liao army, and they also exist in several provinces newly occupied by the Great Xia Empire, but because of the relaxed policy of the Great Xia Empire, very few ordinary people have joined the righteous army, and because of the strong combat effectiveness of the Xia army, the righteous army is doing some things to rob homes and houses, which is similar to bandits; However, in the areas occupied by the Liao army, it was different, because of the brutal rule of the Liao army, the rebel army won the support of the people, and the rebel army in various places often attacked the Liao army. \ Li Qing did not tell Li Ke and Li Hao the reason for throwing away the grain and grass, but they were quickly guessed by the two, with these robbed gold, silver, jewelry and silk cloth, under the protection of three thousand guards, all the way to the north, that is to run as fast as you can, after all, being a thief is weak-hearted, in fact, even if it is discovered by the Liao army, it is nothing, so he relied on the strong soldiers of the Great Xia Empire to bully the Liao State, and the Liao State could only swallow his anger.
This time, the three brothers Li Ke, Li Hao, and Li Qing snatched this batch of things from the hands of the Liao State is worth more than six million to say the least, and this is easy to divide, one person got more than two million taels, as for the number of guards below, it depends on their princes, two days later, the Xia army returned to Raoyang, and after entering the territory of the Great Xia Empire, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Ke said to Li Hao and Li Qing: "The things have been divided, we will stop during this time, transport these things back first, everyone will rest for a few days, as for the next time, we will notify each other when the time comes." ” "Okay, then we'll go back tomorrow," Li Hao said with a smile.
Li Qing wanted to say something more, but he didn't say anything when he saw that Li Ke and Li Hao were on the rise, in fact, Li Hao wanted to strike while the iron was hot at this time, but looking at the appearance of Li Ke and Li Hao, Li Qing could only dispel this idea; Li Qing thought that he had done a good job, but Li Qing didn't expect that he would soon be found out by the Liao army, and the Liao people were not stupid, the rut prints and horseshoe prints were all from the territory of the Great Xia Empire, and he knew what was going on with his toes.
But Yelu Yanxi suppressed this matter, after all, at this time, the Liao State had already started a war with the Great Song Dynasty, and there was a Hebei Province of the Great Xia Empire in the middle, if it fell out with the Great Xia Empire at this time because of this matter, the 150,000 Liao troops who went south would really become homeless, so the Liao State did not delve into this matter, but at the same time, it also strengthened its precautions, and deployed a large number of troops in the southern Liao army occupation area and the border line of the Great Xia Empire to prevent the Xia army from coming again.
Three months have passed unconsciously, and in 1087 A.D., 25 years of Bactria assimilation; This year, the Song and Liao countries had a bad time, even during the Chinese New Year, the war between the two countries was not broken, and the winter of this year was surprisingly cold, except for the early winter when the Liao army launched several attacks on the Daimyo's mansion, the rest of the time was basically in the city, which was a very valuable time for the Great Song Dynasty.
Taking advantage of this period of time, Zhao Wang Zhao trained soldiers and horses in the Daimyo Mansion, and hoarded grain, grass and gunpowder, after this period of training, in addition to some minor conflicts, the originally weak Song army has begun to grow up gradually, although the Song army is still dominated by foot soldiers, but now the Song army has basically been reborn, and unconsciously this Song army has begun to become stronger.
In the Daimyo Mansion, in the Xingyuan of King Zhao, a high-level military meeting of the Song army was being held.
"Lord Wang, after three months of training, 20,000 of my 200,000 army of the Great Song Dynasty were recruited in the later stage and have completed the training, and all of them have mastered the use of new firearms; Among them were 40,000 iron horsemen, 50,000 spearmen, 30,000 heavily armored foot soldiers, 20,000 sword and axe men, and the rest were crossbowmen and thunderbolts.
The seed master reported to Zhao Yan.
"How do we arrange our firearms?"
asked Zhao Yan.
"Lord Wang, this time our firearms are composed of earth-shaking thunder, rockets and new-style sky-shaking monkeys and 10,000 arrows piercing the heart, and the sky-shaking monkeys and 10,000 arrows piercing the heart can be said to be the enhanced version of the earth-shaking thunder, these firearms need not many people to operate, but they are powerful."
Seed Master Dao said.
"Generals, Your Majesty has sent several secret letters urging this king to fight a decisive battle with the Liao army as soon as the time is ripe; In two days, spring will begin, and the king wants to fight a decisive battle with the Liao army under the city of the Daimyo Mansion after the beginning of spring, I don't know what the generals think" Zhao Yu asked the generals.
"Lord Wang, do you want to wait a little longer, after all, our soldiers and horses have just finished training."
Seed Master Dao said.
Zhao Yan shook his head and said: "Can't wait any longer, because of the winter, the Liao army stopped moving, once the spring Liao army is bound to have a large-scale operation, if the Liao army can't capture the Daimyo Mansion for a long time, maybe it will send a part of the troops to surround the Daimyo's Mansion, and then send troops to the east and south, and then our situation will be very passive." ” I have to say that during this period of time, Zhao Zhao's military strategic vision has improved rapidly, after all, what to learn from whom, during this time, in addition to seeing the training of soldiers, Zhao Yan is to conduct sand table exercises with Seed Master Dao, Liu Changzuo and Li Xian and others, although it is only on paper and not as good as really leading the army to fight, but for Zhao Yan there is still a great benefit, and in this regard, Zhao Yan showed a strong military talent.
Then Zhao Yan and the generals began to discuss the battle plan, after all, this large-scale war is a battle of life and death for the Great Song Dynasty, we can imagine that once the Song army is defeated, even if the Liao army suffers heavy losses, it can also drive straight into the Song realm to occupy or loot the Central Plains, and it is very likely to cause a passive situation of encircling Bianliang again, so as the commander of this army, Zhao Yan is cautious, because the Song army can no longer afford to lose.
At the same time, there was also movement on the side of the Liao army, after being robbed by the Xia army, although the Liao army did not seek revenge from the Xia army, but the people in the occupied area were expropriated to make up for the losses, because there was not enough food and cold clothing, the people in the Liao army occupied area survived less than one percent of the whole winter, and there was a barren scene everywhere.
In Yongjing Military Town, Yelu Yanxi called Yelu Renxian and Yelu Yixin back to discuss the next combat action; Although Yelu Renxian and Yelu Yixin quarreled again in this meeting, the big battle plan also came out, that is, to attack the Daimyo's mansion, and Yelu Yanxi took advantage of this discordant relationship between Yelu Renxian and Yelu Yixin to grasp the balance for the sake of the two, so as to achieve the goal of truly taking power; This is also known as the Emperor's Technique.
In order to take the Daimyo's mansion, the Liao army made sufficient preparations, built a large number of siege equipment, including more than 100 catapults and large bed crossbows, in addition to siege vehicles, crashes, rushing cars, etc., on the day of the beginning of spring, the Liao army came out of Wei County and Guanshi respectively from both sides of the Daimyo's mansion.
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