After the canonization of the crown prince, the Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo basically lived a reclusive life, and everything in the court was basically handed over to the crown prince Li Wu to deal with, and for these Li Wu handy, all thanks to Li Liangzuo's careful cultivation, Li Wu already has the potential of an excellent emperor.
In the past five years, the Great Xia Empire has been thriving under the governance of the crown prince Li Wu, and at the same time, the Xia army has strengthened training, especially with firearms, in the past five years, the Xia army has stored a large number of grain and grass baggage, weapons and armor and gunpowder in Nanyang, Kaifeng, and Mangdangshan camps, and the gunpowder stored in the three places of the Great Xia Empire has millions of gold, and at the same time, the Royal Forest Legion and the Praetorian Guard Legion have all completed the replacement of firearms, and other legions are also equipped with firearms battalions, and their firepower has been greatly strengthened.
At the same time, the Song army has not been idle in the past five years, in addition to opening up its territory to the south, the Song army is still in the northern Song-Xia border area with one million soldiers, and these million troops are respectively commanded by the Jianghuai army commanded by the master of the road, the Jianghan army commanded by Wang Kai and the Sichuan Shu army commanded by Wu Jie; As for Zhang Miao, who has been fighting in the south all these years, the most elite 400,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty are all commanded by Zhang Miao, and the reason why the Southern Army can become the most elite army of the Great Song Dynasty is that the Southern Army can become the most elite army in the Great Song Dynasty.
It is because they have been fighting non-stop, especially the tropical jungle warfare is very familiar, over the years the Song army has swept the entire southeast peninsula, in addition to the Dali Kingdom, others such as the Li Yue Dynasty, the Champa Kingdom, and the Angkor Dynasty have all surrendered to the feet of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Bagan Dynasty has also been beaten by the Xia army and lost its armor and can't hold on for long.
In order to prevent the southward attack of the Xia army, the Song army began to be equipped with a large number of firearms in the three major armies in the north, because there was no artillery and bird guns, the Song army prepared a large number of earth-shaking thunder and rockets, the Song army's gunpowder production in various places is even more than twelve hours a day has never been interrupted, of course, there is still a gap between the gunpowder of the Song army and the gunpowder of the Xia army, first of all, the gunpowder of the Song army is not the best formula, and secondly, the gunpowder used by the Song army is still powder, but the granular gunpowder used by the Xia army, although both sides are black powder, but in terms of power, The firearms produced by the Song army were still inferior to those of the Xia army.
In the early 11th century, the East had already entered the battle of hot weapons, and the whole world still used cold weapons or even more backward weapons; The Xia and Song armies became the most powerful military forces in the world, and even the Seljuk Turkic Empire could not be compared; Not only militarily, but also economically, the Xia and Song dynasties together could basically account for more than ninety percent of the world's GDP at that time, and in this regard, there was still a bit of a gap between the Great Xia Empire and the Great Song Dynasty.
In the past year, several princes and many generals led by the crown prince Li Wu have really worked out a huge plan; In the prince's study in the East Palace, Li Wuzheng was making a final summary with Xili Qianbu, Qin Hu, Li Yanze, Yan Shu and others, and in front of them was a huge map of the Great Song Dynasty, which clearly indicated all the local information, including the number of troops, population, grain and grass reserves, etc.; Moreover, each city also has a detailed map, down to the latrines and wells, which are clearly marked; Of course, this is a master map, with a lot of submaps.
"Your Highness, do you say that Your Majesty will be able to approve our plan?"
asked Crown Prince Li Wu.
"This prince doesn't know either."
Li Wu put the final battle plan in front of him and said: "We have done everything we can, and the final decision is still in the hands of our father, and we cannot mobilize a single soldier without the consent of our father; To tell the truth, Prince Ben is really a little envious of my eldest brother, although he is far away in the Western Regions, but if he is unhappy, he can send troops to attack at any time, how cool is that" "Your Highness is cautious, it is not good if this word reaches His Majesty's ears."
Xili Qianbu said to Li Wuquan.
"Okay, don't talk about this, this prince will go to his father to report this matter now, you go back and wait for the news first," Li Wu picked up the chapter and said.
"Resignation of the Ministers" After everyone left, the crown prince Li Wu came to Ziwei Palace with the concerto, Li Liangzuo has nothing to do all day and night, although Li Liangzuo is well maintained now, but after all, Li Liangzuo is now a sixty-two-year-old man, both physical strength and energy are not as good as before, now Li Liangzuo is exercising every day, there are basically no big fish and meat, and the things of men and women are avoidable.
Qilin Palace, in the past ten years, Emperor Xia Li Liangzuo has lived in the Qilin Hall most of the time, the Qilin Hall is located in the deepest part of the Ziwei Palace, surrounded by water, there are two corridors that can lead to the shore, and there is also a dragon boat, in order to facilitate the Xia Emperor fishing, the craftsmen in the palace also specially built a fishing pavilion for Li Liangzuo, most of the fish in the Taiye Pond are wild, of course, some goldfish are stocked.
Li Liangzuo, who was fishing in the fishing pavilion, heard a rush of footsteps behind him, and immediately signaled them not to approach, at this time Li Liangzuo's forehead fish float was floating up and down, and there was already a big fish biting the hook underwater, after the fish float was all underwater, Xia Huang Li Liangzuo pulled the rod violently, and a golden carp was instantly dragged out of the water; After Li Liangzuo caught the fish, took off the hook and put it in the fish basket next to him, he waved his hand again after re-attaching the fish food to the hook and putting the hook into the water.
Xiao Fuzi came to Li Liangzuo's side and whispered, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asks to see you." ” "Announce him in," Li Liangzuo said softly.
"Slaves obey" Xiao Fuzi left quickly and then came to Li Wu's side and said, "Your Highness, Your Majesty has announced your visit, but Your Majesty's steps should be lighter. ” "Got it."
Li Wu said.
Li Wu came to Li Liangzuo and knelt down and said: "Erchen to see my father, long live my emperor, long live, long live."
"Get up" Li Liangzuo didn't look back and said directly: "Say something" "Erchen and several generals wrote an attack plan against the Song Dynasty and asked my father to preview it."
The crown prince Li Wu got up and said to Li Liangzuo.
"Put it there first, I'll see it when I have time."
Li Liangzuo said.
"Yes."
After a while, Li Liangzuo didn't hear the sound of Li Wu leaving, so he asked Li Wu again: "What else is going on?"
"Father, now our army has sufficient food and grass and high morale; Although the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty is rising, it is still not comparable to my Xia army, and the sons think that this is a good time to dominate the world, and ask his father to order the south to destroy the Song Dynasty.
Li Wu knelt on the ground again and said.
"I know, you can go back first" Li Liangzuo still said: "I will consider it at my discretion." ” "The son of the minister retired, and the father lived forever."
Li Wu said with a final salute.
Li Liangzuo did not say that he agreed, nor did he explicitly object, even if this matter was so stranded, but Li Wu did not know what Li Liangzuo meant; Li Liangzuo naturally also considered the matter of attacking the Song Dynasty in the south, and the reason why Li Liangzuo did not respond was because he felt that the time was not ripe enough, and Li Liangzuo waited for another opportunity.
In fact, it was not only against the Song Dynasty, but also a few days ago the Jin King Li Bingchang also sent a battle plan against the Seljuk Empire.
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