Chapter 562: People Eat People(1/2)
Everyone felt the murderous intent buried behind Lu Huiqing's words and kept silent. Wang Ju's utilitarianism, which only leads to success or failure, once made Zhang Zai speechless, but I have to say that sometimes it really works.
Just like now, under this unprecedented victory, the people across the country celebrate, and any conspiracy is still a bluff.
Lu Huiqing said again: "Last twelfth lunar month, Han Yun sent news that 300,000 Xia troops were about to invade Qingzhou. What do we think at that time?"
I was scared at that time, and I just hoped that the news that Han Yun had found was fake, so I had any other ideas. So Wang Ju gave the order in a dangerous situation and said that being able to defend Qingzhou was the greatest victory.
Everyone also thinks so. As for defeating the 300,000 Xia army, they have never thought about it.
"The two armies were in a stalemate some time ago, what were our thoughts at that time?"
Whatever you worry, what you fear, what you expect... are all negative thoughts, and even the great victory in Anjiang Fort made Zhao Xu very happy.
Who dares to think about the final result? The number of Xia soldiers who were injured and killed is almost twenty times that of the battle in Anjiang Fort!
Now that we have a big victory, all kinds of ideas have come out.
This is not Lu Huiqing's words for Wang Ju, but rather a shameless mockery of Wen Yanbo and others.
Wen Yanbo said unhappily: "Wang Ju made three plans, let the court make decisions. Aren't we making decisions? Lu Huiqing, you are too biased."
But Lu Huiqing is definitely not easy to mess with. He stared at Yang Hui and asked, "That day you arrived at Baibao City. The sky was approaching dusk. From Baibao City, it was Hengshan Road to the west. The road was rugged and narrow. Why did you hurry to the barracks despite the arrival of night? The court just asked you to preside over the peace talks, but at that time our army had already defeated the Xia army. Is it necessary to continue the peace talks so urgently?"
"Although the Hengshan Man is known for his fierceness, people can govern you. They beat you up like this, not only do you not hold grudges, but you continue to make the court retreat again and again. Is this your personal grudge and consider the overall situation, or is it lacks blood? If you lack blood, why are you so cruel to Your Majesty and reforms?"
This matter... Yang Hui was so embarrassed.
At least you, Yang Dacaizi, want to be harmonious, and you have to wait until the bruises on your face are healed.
But the truth is not the case. Is it really killed by the Fan people of Hengshan? But Yang Hui had no evidence to prove it, so the mute had to suffer a loss.
Wang Gui was a good old man and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to adopt Wang Zi'an's worst strategy. Although it's a pity, it's the safest."
There is nothing to say to you if you have fought for this.
Moreover, Wen Yanbo knew in his heart that when young Ni Huaifang was preparing to rebel Xia and surrender to the Song Dynasty, Cheng Kan reported to the court, and the court disputed it, but the dispute between the two governments had not yet ended, Xixia comforted Qing Ni Huaifang. After Zhao Xu saw this record, he suspected that Sima Guang leaked the secret to the people of Xixia. Although the matter was left unresolved, it once made Zhao Xu feel very sorry.
What’s a pity is not Qingnihuaifang, nor is it expecting Qingnihuaifang to capture Xingqing Prefecture, Lingzhou for the Song Dynasty. What really makes the emperor regret is this section of Hengshan.
But that Hengshan is located in the northwest of the Baoan Army, which is behind Pingrong Village. But even if you get it, it is far less than the Hengshan section of Wang Ju, and its thickness is less than that of the Hengshan section of the Great Wall Mountain. The Hengshan section of the Great Wall Mountain is isolated on both sides of the enemy territory. Now the Hengshan section of Qingzhou is all taken down by Wang Ju. The time is too late. Xixia has not yet been defeated at that time. Now Xixia is defeated and it will take at least several years to recover. If you are not prepared, you will not only face hard battles, but you may not have time to build a fort. But the Hengshan section occupied by Wang Ju is now occupied in front and sweeping away the villages that resisted, and the remaining soldiers have already carried prisoners of war to build a fort.
But why did Zhao Xu feel a pity? Hengshan was so important. The Song Dynasty had a section of Hengshan in hand. The entire northwest would soon undergo earth-shaking changes.
This worst strategy is probably the bottom line that the emperor can bear.
Lao Wen did not express his opinion, and the others also agreed.
Zhao Xu said a little disgustedly: "That's it, Duke Wen, you immediately draft an edict and send it to the northwest."
This is not a joke, the front line is waiting for the court to make a decision.
Lu Huiqing sighed and said, "It's a great time, it's a pity."
It would be nice to be able to snatch a piece of Hengshan from the tiger's mouth, but can you occupy Yanzhou at the same time? Don't mention destroying the entire Xixia.
Lu Huiqing was really wrong. If these big guys become united and enterprising and really agree with the two strategies of the upper and lower levels, they will really push Wang Ju into the fire pit.
However, this is also Wang Jushi's morality and lack of understanding of military affairs. Therefore, speaking out this best and middle strategy is actually called asking for a price everywhere, waiting for these big men to pay back the money.
OK, his goal is achieved.
Otherwise, if I just say that I only occupy this section of Hengshan, maybe there will be many changes.
A gentleman deceives him, but for these ministers now, he can only fight against poison with poison.
Zhao Xu waved his hand and said, "Let's go, everyone, by the way, come to Xuande Gate to watch the fireworks party in the evening."
After saying that, he left the palace without waiting for the ministers to leave.
"What fireworks will come?" Some ministers asked inexplicably.
In fact, it was the performance of these people today that made Zhao Xu extremely disappointed. Otherwise, he had planned to discuss it. There was a rare victory. The king and his ministers feasted together, and everyone had a happy meal. It was dark. Let's go to Xuande Gate Tower to watch the fireworks together.
Why this firework is also related to the spread of rumors among the people.
In the Battle of Gyeongzhou, some new weapons and things appeared, such as divine arm bows, tiger squatting cannons, thunderbolt bullets, and new armor. This has appeared long ago, and even the improved various knives, spears, and vine shields, at least these important officials knew about it.
But in addition to these, there are some things that everyone doesn't know about.
The most popular things among the people are these things, just like myths, even the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace are spreading them.
Of course, Zhao Xu didn't believe it, but he was also curious, so he called Zhang Ruoshui to ask.
Skateboards and anti-slip shoes were temporarily made in Sanyuan. Zhang Ruoshui didn't know much about this, but this was the least magical. The nomads in the north in the deep desert had already had snowboards, and some learned people even found more than a dozen related historical records.
Anti-slip shoes have not been recorded in history, but their principle is very simple, which is to add long nails underneath.
The most amazing thing is the following things, the first is the Qianli Mile Mile.
Zhang Ruoshui knew that Wang Ju had asked Guangzhou's maritime merchants to customize lenses at Dashi very early. Then he was commissioned in military equipment, but the qualified products were taken away together. Now without lenses, Zhang Ruoshui could not display them to Zhao Xu.
Zhang Ruoshui knew even more about the super hot tincture. It was refined in a gunpowder workshop outside the military weapon supervision city.
As for the two things about Feitian, Zhang Ruoshui didn't know. Wang Ju took away leather. Leather was used in the military, so where did Zhang Ruoshui pay attention?
In addition, there are ropes, which are useful in the military.
Or it was just some custom-made safety buckles, but Wang Ju didn't deliberately explain it, and Zhang Ruoshui didn't pay attention.
The rest are the stove and hot air pipes, and the winch that quickly retracts the balloons for soldiers to change shifts, which was made in Sanyuan. It has nothing to do with military weapons supervision.
So Zhang Ruoshui could only shake his head.
But Zhang Ruoshui knew the last thing, that was the fireworks, which only appeared once, and achieved the most beautiful siege.
But before leaving, Wang Ju deliberately explained that it is not very useful in military affairs, and it is used once, and can only give military equipment supervision and promotion a chance to correct its reputation, so as not to make some scholars and doctors.
Now it blooms and can be released.
Therefore, Zhang Ruoshui repeated what Wang Ju said before leaving to Zhao Xu.
These new weapons have played a lot in the battlefield. However, due to funding, all the three armies cannot be replaced. Even Wang Ju cannot send many people to find shallow oil mines and develop crude mining technology. Otherwise, if there are millions of kilograms of super hot tincture oil on the front line this time, how powerful will it be?
But when fireworks are introduced to the market, they can bring a lot of additional income to military weapons supervisors.
It’s not only for money, but the country has a rare victory, but also to celebrate it in moderation.
So this fireworks meeting came.
As night fell, many people in the capital saw the officials bring their families outside Xuande Gate, so they followed them curiously.
There were soldiers outside Xuande Gate under martial law, and many craftsmen in the square placed firecracker-like things on the ground.
This time, I shoot at the sky, not at the top of the city, and don’t deliberately put it on the wooden frame.
The craftsmen then ignited the fuse of the fireworks.
In a blink of an eye, the sky is filled with fire trees and silver flowers.
This thing has been in the past for a thousand years and people have been watching it for a long time. Moreover, it appeared in people's sight for the first time. Looking at the colorful blooming in the night sky, eighty-year-olds' eyes were almost glaring.
Wen Yanbo also murmured: "No wonder the Xia army in Yanzhou was stunned, so he asked the officers and soldiers to quickly climb to the top of the city and take down Yanzhou."
The fireworks continued to bloom, lasting for two quarters of an hour, which was almost half an hour before it slowly ended.
The common people came to their senses, looked at the yellow clothes on the Xuande Gate Tower, and cheered in unison: "Long live the Song Dynasty, long live Your Majesty."
Gao Taotao was also very happy to see it, and with the cheers of countless people, he said: "This child has done a good job this time, but my dynasty is a country of benevolence and righteousness. Unlike the Huawaihu people, those prisoners of war should be released if they can."
Zhao Xu didn't say anything. He was thinking in his heart, but he didn't know that the wife of the family had slandered in front of his mother.
Thinking of this, a gloom rose from Zhao Xu's smiling face...
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A large number of prisoners of war pushed the baggage cart and arrived at the gate of Yanzhou City.
Not only were there prisoners of war deliberately released, but also a group of prisoners of war taken to Rouyuan Village after the Anjiang Fort. On the day of the battle, Li Sangou locked them all into a temporary cell. After the war, Li Sangou also fulfilled his promise and gave a large number of rewards.
It's just that there are so many things that I've been delayed for a few days.
So he simply released the prisoners of war with the released prisoners of war.
But these people were not happy. More than 4,100 prisoners of war entered, and only six or seven hundred were able to go back alive. In fact, Li Sangou still thought that they had lived too many people. In order to fulfill his promise, he now gave out a large amount of real gold and silver, which was so large that Li Sangou felt hurt.
But then these prisoners of war became happy.
They suffered heavy casualties, but if they were not taken to Rouyuan Village, they might not have a good result. When they came, there were 300,000 troops, and less than 100,000 people could return safely. Half of these 100,000 troops went to Hexi again to fight desperately.
Moreover, Liang Yi was so unsuccessful, and all the list and other information were left to Song Jun. Even if Liang Yi wanted to hold them accountable in the future, he could not be held accountable.
But this group of people came from all over the Western Xia. Except for the prisoners of war in the Hengshan area that Wang Ju had already occupied, they immediately asked them to go home. The rest were brought with them and their own silver rewards and chariots to Yanzhou to gather, and then let them go home from Yanzhou.
In addition to this group of prisoners of war, there were also some prisoners of war who performed well, and seven or eight hundred were released in advance, of which more than 200 were prisoners of war in Yanzhou.
Some of the people blocked the city gate have already recognized their relatives, and they have met them one by one, hugging each other and crying.
"Officials, the people are innocent." Qiong Niang also wiped her tears and said.
"Qiong Niang, when our dynasty governed the place, there was almost no tax and labor service, but the people in this area were unruly, so Taizu had to send many important generals to the northwest. But today, Xixia ruled here, and the tax and military service were heavy. Why did the people here sing this song instead, why didn't they follow the Western Qiang (Western Qiang, referring to Tubo),
The Western Qiang has bowed to me.
I am the master of mainland affairs,
To be continued...