Qian Song

Chapter 138 Artifact? ! (Ask for a monthly pass!)
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Liu Guangshi is 33 years old this year. He used Yin as a supplementary official and served in the third class.

It is undeniable that Liu Guangshi could not be what he is today without the help of his father Liu Yanqing.

However, Liu Guangshi cannot be completely denied because of this.

It is true that Liu Guangshi is the second generation of the army, but there is still something about Liu Guangshi.

Not to mention anything else, when others thought Niu Meng was useless, Liu Guangshi saw that Niu Meng might be of great use, so he was willing to take care of Niu Meng, and called Niu Meng "Niu Xianggong".

Niu Meng managed to get a big thick leg in Song Junzhong, so he naturally racked his brains to find a way to please Liu Guangshi.

As time went by, Niu Meng roughly figured out the reason why the generals of the Song army didn't want to see him.

To put it bluntly, there are actually three things:
First, Niu Meng did not bring many people.

Most of the Song Army who crossed the river this time were the Western Army and the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, that is to say, most of them were soldiers.

The reason for this is mainly because the Song army finally seized an opportunity to cross the Yangtze River. Of course, they first transported soldiers and landed on the beach; secondly, it was also because Liu Yanqing and others felt that Niu Meng, the Jiangning mansion guard, surrendered. , will definitely be able to control the Huben Navy and bring a large number of soldiers from the Huben Army, and with the Huben Navy in Jiangning Prefecture, the Song Army will be able to lift the blockade of the Huben Navy on the Yangtze River. Naturally, what will the Song Army want to transport? What to transport, and with the soldiers of the Huben army, even if they can't fight, they can still help transport food, grass and luggage.

——Under normal circumstances, soldiers are only in charge of fighting, don’t care about anything else, some soldiers usually even have to get their armor from auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands, and even a soldier has several auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands to serve them .

But what Liu Yanqing and others never expected was that Niu Meng was such a waste that he failed to capture the Huben Navy, not to mention that he didn't even bring many soldiers from the Huben Army.

This made it impossible for the Song army on the northern front with insufficient troops to get any supplements, not to mention that they didn't even have civilian husbands, and they had to take the food, grass and luggage by themselves.

How could these arrogant warriors have a good attitude towards Niu Meng?

Second, because Ma Kuo was eager to recruit Niu Meng, the conditions for Niu Meng were too high.

This aroused the jealousy of many Song army generals.

From the point of view of these generals of the Song army, they threw their heads and blood for the Song Dynasty, but in the end what they got was not as good as Niu Meng, the rebel.

This made these Song army generals extremely unbalanced.

It is precisely because of this that, let alone Niu Meng, even Ma Kuo was squeezed out by the soldiers of the Song Army.

The third one is the fire in Jinling City, which burned the grain, grass, and luggage to a great extent.

It turned out that there was nothing wrong with it. The soldiers were only responsible for fighting the war, and the civilian officials were responsible for the food, grass and supplies.

But who would have thought that after Liu Yanqing and his Song army crossed the Yangtze River, the Huben Navy from Zhenjiang and the remnants of the Huben Navy from Jiangning Mansion actually blocked the Yangtze River again.

This made it impossible for Zhao Song's follow-up army and food and grass to be transported at all.

Later, Li Cun sent the Hangzhou Huben navy who had been following him all the time, and locked Hengjiang from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

In this way, if Zhao Song wanted to deliver food, grass and luggage to the Song army who had crossed the river, he had to detour to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to Jiangzhou, and then transport it overland.

This difficulty is not ordinary, the key is that it is too time-consuming.

Due to the actual situation, the Xuanfu Division could only send people with good water skills to sneak across the Yangtze River, and told Liu Yanqing and other Song Army soldiers who had crossed the river that they would first find a way to solve the food and supplies, and the Xuanfu Division would try to give them as much as possible. Find a way to raise money.

The soldiers of the Song Army who had crossed the river were dumbfounded, and hurried to check how much food and supplies there were in Jinling City.

As a result, the only type of food left in Jinling City was rice, which was only enough for the more than [-] Song troops who had crossed the river for more than ten days.

This made those Song army generals who hated Niu Meng hate Niu Meng even more.

In the words of these generals of the Song Army: You can't even dedicate a city, what use can you be?

Later, Liu Yanqing asked Niu Meng which nearby city had the most food and supplies.

Niu Meng said that Zhenjiang has the most cities.

In order to solve the problem of food, grass and supplies, and because after the capture of Zhenjiang City, all the important military towns along the south coast of the Yangtze River were taken back by Zhao Song. Next, only when Tong Guan and others figured out a way to solve the tiger and ben water army, Zhao Song's follow-up army It will be easy to cross the Yangtze River, and food, grass and luggage can be easily transported across the Yangtze River.

But Liu Yanqing fought Zhenjiang City for several days, but failed to take down Zhenjiang City.

And the grain and grass in Jinling City had begun to bottom out.

During this period of time, the Song army on the northern line had passed the excitement of crossing the Yangtze River, especially after repeated setbacks here in Zhenjiang City, they finally realized that they had become a deep lone army.

It was against this background that Liu Guangshi gave Niu Meng a good look, and after racking his brains, Niu Meng said to Liu Guangshi: "I have food in Zhejiang and Zhejiang in the Song Dynasty, and there are a lot of them."

So Niu Meng told Liu Guangshi about Xiuzhou City.

After Niu Meng's reminder, Liu Guangshi remembered that Yuwen Huangzhong had mentioned in the secret report to Tong Guan that Xiuzhou City had been standing by for help, and there were still 300 million stones of grain in Xiuzhou City.

Liu Guangshi immediately found Liu Yanqing and proposed to attack Xiuzhou to rescue Xiuzhou City.

But Liu Yanqing felt that if the food roads were not opened up, the army could not act rashly, let alone divide the troops easily, otherwise it would be easy to be divided and wiped out by the ants.

In fact, the reason why Liu Yanqing had such a conservative view mainly came from the few battles Li Cun fought in Jiangbei.

Liu Yanqing has studied Li Cun's style of play carefully, and feels that Li Cun is particularly good at creating combat opportunities and capturing the opponent's loopholes to expand the results infinitely. Therefore, in a battle with Li Cun, you must never use refueling tactics. If you want to fight, you must fight a decisive battle with dignity .

In addition, although there are still 10,000+ Song troops in Jiangbei, only Tong Guan's pro-army wins the Jie army. Most of the other troops are Xiang troops and civilian husbands. Jiangbei, Tong Guan will definitely not let him go, Liu Yanqing.

Therefore, Liu Yanqing ordered that while continuing to attack Zhenjiang City, the army would be divided into two groups, stationed in Jinling City and Xiashu Town respectively, and guard each other's horns, waiting for a chance.

Da Dao River is only a dozen miles away from Xiashu Town, but Liu Yanqing did not order Song Jun to cross the river - he was worried that the ants would set up an ambush on the other side of the river, so he ordered the former army to stop advancing, build fortifications along the river, and set up defenses on the spot.

From this, it is not difficult to see how cautious Liu Yanqing is.

Seeing Liu Yanqing being so cautious, Liu Guangshi had a premonition that his father might make a serious mistake this time. What would happen if he missed the opportunity to rescue Xiuzhou City and the court couldn't get through the food channel in a short time?
After persuading Liu Yanqing for two days, seeing that Liu Yanqing was unmoved, Liu Guangshi decided to lead his [-]-horse army to rescue Xiuzhou City privately.

For convenience, Liu Guangshi also brought Niu Meng with him.

Liu Guangshi's troops rushed all the way to Xiuzhou.

This morning, only tens of miles away from Xiuzhou City, Liu Guangshi and others suddenly heard a loud noise that shook the sky and the earth.

The loud noise was so loud that Liu Guangshi and his horses were startled.

"what's the situation?"

Liu Guangshi reined in his horse and asked, "Where did the loud noise come from?"

Niu Meng identified the direction, and said: "The direction of Xiuzhou City, this sound must be made by unscrupulous artillery!"

Hearing what Niu Meng said, Liu Guangshi remembered that the explosions he heard when he first entered Jinling City that day were indeed very similar to the loud noise just now.

Liu Guangshi has actually seen such things as artillery, including Thunderbolt, and even used it himself.

Zhao Song set up the Imperial Arms Institute, which was under the Ministry of Industry.Responsible for the management of weapons production throughout the country, and has a large-scale weapons workshop under its jurisdiction, which can produce 300 million pieces of various weapons every year.Moreover, it has already been able to produce "iron artillery", an explosive firearm with great lethality and destructive power.

In fact, as early as the end of Tang Dynasty, black powder had been applied to military affairs, and the so-called "flying fire" was an early rocket.

Zhao Kuangyin was born as a general and knew the importance of weapons.

Moreover, apart from cold weapons, hot weapons also received Zhao Kuangyin's attention.

Therefore, during Zhao Kuangyin's period, Feng Jisheng, Yue Yifang and others made the rocket a mature weapon.

By the time of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, the thunderbolt, fire thorns, and fire thorns had all appeared, and they were personally checked and accepted by Zhao Heng.

Thunderbolt firearms and fire thorns are firearms thrown by human hands. Their appearance is somewhat similar to grenades of later generations. Their basic structure is to knead iron nails, asphalt, arsenic and other killing materials with paper or hemp, and the outer layer is made of black gunpowder. The package, the outermost layer is covered with turpentine, and the enemy is killed with the fragments after the explosion and the poisonous smoke produced by the combustion.

The Thunderbolt, which has always been regarded as a secret weapon by the Huben Army, actually already existed, but in Zhao Song Dynasty, it was called "Tiantianlei". It was made of pig iron and filled with gunpowder. Shards can penetrate armor.

But in the eyes of Liu Guangshi and the Song generals, the power of the Zhentianlei firearms is not bad, but they can't be thrown too far, so they are not very useful.

The power of the iron cannon is not bad, and it can shoot quite far, but this kind of thing is not accurate, the power is just that, it is troublesome to use, and if you are not careful, it will blow up or cause a fire.

In fact, the use of rockets and artillery during this period is not small, and they can be regarded as routine equipment. For example, in the battle against Xixia 40 years ago, the rockets and artillery used by the Western Army in the Northern Song Dynasty were in units of ten thousand and one thousand. .

However, because firearms are flammable and explosive, and they are troublesome, and their power has no obvious advantages, the soldiers of the Song army are not willing to use them.

The key point is that the soldiers of the Song Army now have better bed crossbows and divine arm bows. These two magical weapons are not comparable to these messy firearms in terms of range or accuracy, and there is no danger of hurting their own people. .

Therefore, Niu Meng Xianbao said at the beginning that the Huben Army has two secret weapons, the unconscionable cannon and the Thunderbolt, a kind of Song Army soldiers who laughed and felt that the people of the Huben Army were really a bunch of bumpkins, and we were all unwilling to use it. , They turned out to be secret weapons.

At this time, seeing Niu Meng wanted to brag about the heartless cannons and bombing thunders of the Huben army, Liu Guangshi, who felt that Xiuzhou City might have been breached, was in the mood to listen to Niu Meng bragging about these useless weapons?

So Liu Guangshi interrupted Niu Meng and said: "Mr. Niu, the city of Xiuzhou is in danger. You should send someone familiar with the road to inquire about it. Is it necessary for us to rescue him?"

When Niu Meng heard this, he quickly sent his cronies to scout out to find out the news.

It didn't take long for the sentry to come back and report that there might not be millions of troops under Xiuzhou City, and the banner of the Huben Army had already been hung on Xiuzhou City.

Knowing this situation, Liu Guangshi sighed for a long time. He keenly felt that the situation was not very good...

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