Qian Song

Chapter 142 Steady Profit without Loss (Ask for a monthly pass!)
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Didn’t the Song army of Liu Yanqing’s department not go to battle? Li Cun ordered more than 2000 small counterweight trebuchets and hand-pulled catapults to fire a large number of stone bombs into the camp of the Song army of Liu Yanqing’s department day and night.

Anyway, Li Cun already has a lot of binoculars, and by sending a few more conscientious lookouts, he will definitely be able to check the dynamics of Liu Yanqing's Song Army clearly.

Whenever the Song army under Liu Yanqing had the intention to fight, Li Cun immediately sent his personal guards and horse troops to fight, and at the same time retreated the small counterweight trebuchets and hand-pulled catapults to prepare for the decisive battle.

It must be admitted that Liu Yanqing's sparse formation can greatly reduce the hit rate of small counterweight trebuchets and hand-pulled trebuchets.

But the generals of the Huben Army have binoculars in their hands, so I will hit places where there are many people, or even the tent where you sleep.

It doesn't take much, as long as the small counterweight trebuchets and hand-pulled catapults of the Huben army can kill a hundred soldiers of the Song army every day, they will make a steady profit.

Don't forget, this is not as simple as killing a hundred soldiers of the Song Army, it also involves the rise and fall of the morale of the two armies.

In the battle of the cold weapon era, morale is very important.

The Song army of Liu Yanqing's department just huddled in the camp like this. They couldn't eat well or sleep well every day, and they had to be alert all the time. It will kill them.

This kind of pressure is absolutely difficult for ordinary people to bear for a long time.

On the other hand, the Huben army, sorry, we don't have many other things, that is, there are many people, three shifts, or even four shifts, there is no problem, anyway, it is just manipulating the trebuchet to bombard randomly, I don't need to go to the regular army, I send civilians to cooperate and know how to throw stones Machine-operated engineering army can do it.

Liu Yanqing's Song Army also tried to move the troops back as a whole.

Seeing this, the more than 2000 small counterweight trebuchets and hand-pulled catapults of the Huben Army moved forward, and even stood at the gate of the Song Army camp of Liu Yanqing's department and shot artillery stones inside.

What's more, Li Cun also ordered people to fill in the trap that Liu Yanqing dug out with great difficulty, and moved the antlers and horse-repelling array that Liu Yanqing made with great difficulty to his camp, and even All Liu Yanqing's wooden fences were moved back to his camp by Li Cun, and the tortoise shell-like camp that Liu Yanqing built with great difficulty was razed to the ground, and a big gap was forced open for him.

And if Liu Yanqing sent crossbowmen to fight, Li Cun would send towers forward, relying on his own more bed crossbows and a longer range than Liu Yanqing's crossbowmen, bullying Liu Yanqing's crossbowmen.

All in all, since Li Cun has a telescope, a bed crossbow, a large number of military craftsmen, and an army of 50 million, he can also mobilize nearly a million people in Suzhou City who are interested in the Huben Army. Under the circumstances, Li Cun decided to take Liu Yanqing's Song army.

Let's talk about Liu Yanqing.

The harder Li Cun beat and pressed, the more Liu Yanqing stopped fighting.

——Before, Liu Yanqing only suspected that Li Cun might have the means to wipe out his troops. As Li Cun was so impatient to force Liu Yanqing out of the camp for a decisive battle, Liu Yanqing was almost certain that Li Cun did have the means to wipe out his troops The method, before knowing exactly what method Li Cun has, with Liu Yanqing's conservative character, he definitely doesn't want to fight (to die).

As a result, the two sides have been at such a stalemate...

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Jin envoys Helu and Dadiwu left the Kingdom of Jin in the first month of this year, arrived in Dengzhou by boat in early February, and arrived in Bianliang City in Tokyo in mid-May.

After that, Haolu and Dadiwu were almost put under house arrest by Quan Yanbang in Tongwenguan.

Until mid-August, no one talked with Helu and Da Diu about the joint attack between the north and the south to destroy Liao.

As the person in charge of Zhao Song's envoy this time, He Lu was so anxious that his mouth and tongue were sore, his nose was bloody and his urine was yellow.

He Lu really couldn't wait any longer, couldn't wait any longer, so He Lu rushed out of the Tongwen Hall, ready to go to the palace to meet Zhao Ji, and asked Zhao Ji to give them Da Jin an explanation.

Quan Yanbang felt that he could no longer stop Helu, so he quickly promised Helu that he would give Hollu an answer in the shortest possible time, so that Helu must trust him one last time.

Seeing that Quan Yanbang spoke sincerely this time, He Lu agreed to give Quan Yanbang one last chance.

Afterwards, Quan Yanbang went to see Zhao Ji and told Zhao Ji that the Jin envoy should not be detained any longer, otherwise it would be easy to offend the Jin people and make the Jin people resent me, Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji, who was about to be overwhelmed by the war in the southeast, remembered that there were two more Jin envoys detained in the Tongwen Hall.

Zhao Ji thought about detaining these two gold envoys for more than half a year. If they continued to detain them, it would be unreasonable.

Zhao Ji also heard from Quan Yanbang that He Lu and Da Diwu probably didn't know about the southeast rebellion.

Zhao Ji thought about it, and sent Wang Fu to deal with the two envoys properly.

Wang Fu believes that the battle in the southeast has not yet come to fruition, and the troops used to attack the Liao Kingdom with the Jin people are all in the southeast to suppress the bandits. They have previously imagined that the alliance with the Jin to destroy the Liao and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, now it seems that It must be impossible to proceed on time, and even this matter may be stranded indefinitely.

Therefore, there is no need for Da Song to send envoys back to the Kingdom of Jin.

However, the good relationship between Da Song and the Kingdom of Jin, which was established with great difficulty, cannot be broken because of this.

After comprehensive consideration, Wang Wei discussed with Zhao Ji to see if it was possible for He Lu and Da Diwu to bring back a copy of their credentials.

Zhao Ji felt that Wang Fu's idea was sound, so he ordered someone to write a high-level letter of credence:

"The emperor of the Song Dynasty wrote a letter to the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty: the special envoy of Yuanqin, who recommended Huayan, has a good contract, and is well aware of the decree of sealing the border. However, the long-awaited letter was recorded in the previous book. All the things in the Han area are the same as the first discussion. As soon as we hear that the army will arrive in Xijing, we will use it to attack. Follow the Qingqiu, and I will be blessed. Today, Bojin Helu and Dadi Wuhui have a few gifts, but they are different. A piece of paper, dedicated to Chen Xie, not publicized, sincerely white."

The breadth and depth of the Chinese language is indeed true.

This reply should be as elegant and polite as possible, and as polite as it could be, but it just said nothing, solved no problems, and lacked any substantive content.

My Great Song Dynasty can only be assigned to Yanjing and other pre-mountain states, do I agree or not?

"And as discussed at the beginning".

But this initial discussion is the discussion of Ma Zheng or Zhao Liangsi.If it is Ma Zheng's proposal, then it is agreed; if it is Zhao Liangsi's proposal, then either it is not agreed, or it is necessary to continue the discussion.

Will my Song Dynasty send out troops, when will I send troops, and how will I attack Yanjing?

The letter didn't say anything at all, and I just didn't say anything.

However, I didn't let you make this trip in vain. There are gifts, credentials, and sincerity, right?

At the same time, Zhao Ji still hasn't forgotten "unannouncement".

It means that the Song-Jin Alliance is still a secret agreement, we must keep it a secret, and you Wanyan Aguda should not make a fuss all over the world.

After dismissing the two episodes of Helu and Dadiwu, Zhao Ji immediately focused his attention on the war in the southeast region.

Zhao Ji is very dissatisfied that Tong Guan has not been able to wipe out the banditry in the southeast after more than half a year since he sent troops.

In the past half a year, because of the war in the southeast, the Zhao and Song courts spent money like water, and their income was much less.

Due to reality and wanting to be less pressured by public opinion, Zhao Ji, the instigator, cut down a lot of expenses to support this crucial bandit suppression in the southeast.

This made Zhao Ji, who was used to living a luxurious life, extremely uncomfortable.

The key point is that the southeast is extremely important to the Zhao Song Dynasty. Without this territory, Zhao Ji may have to live like this in the future.

Thinking about living such a hard life all the time, Zhao Ji shuddered.

Therefore, Zhao Ji desperately hopes that Tong Guan can quickly wipe out the banditry in the southeast and let him return to his former comfortable life.

As a result, Zhao Ji inevitably came up with the idea of ​​urging the war.

But Zhao Ji is also a person who doesn't express his attitude easily - he usually only gives some hints and asks the courtiers to guess by themselves.

By the way, this is also one of the reasons why Zhao Ji is surrounded by a large number of treacherous officials and jesters. After all, if you want to figure out the emperor's mind, those loyal and direct ministers will definitely not be able to catch up with these treacherous officials and jesters.

Like this time.

Zhao Ji didn't tell Tong Guan directly, you have been suppressing the bandits for so long, why haven't you wiped out the bandits in the southeast, how long are you going to delay?
Zhao Ji just picked up a pear that had just come down, and asked someone to send it to Tong Guan quickly.

Seeing that Zhao Ji sent a pear, Tong Guan guessed that Zhao Ji must have meant something.

Tong Guan immediately found Li Zongzhen, who was good at figuring out Zhao Ji's mind, and asked Li Zongzhen to help him interpret Zhao Ji's meaning?
Li Zongzhen only glanced at it, and said firmly: "The pears ripen around September, and the officials reminded Minister Xuan that it is almost September, and Prime Minister Xuan has sent troops for more than half a year, and urged him to end the war as soon as possible."

Not to mention Zhao Ji, even Tong Guan was very dissatisfied with the war in the southeast.

Let’s talk about the teacher’s way first.

Yes.

Before Zhong Shi Dao fought smoothly, Fang La's main force was wiped out in the first battle.

Anyone who understands peasant uprisings knows that as long as ant thieves cannot be completely eliminated and given a chance to breathe, he will immediately make a comeback, and because of the experience of the first failure, the second time Usually louder and harder to kill.

Therefore, as long as Zhong Shi Dao can't completely get rid of Fang La's group of rebellious ant thieves who dared to build a new system, no matter how beautiful the battle before Zhong Shi Dao is, it will be useless.

Let's talk about Liu Yanqing.

At least there was a big victory over there, and you have also crossed the river for a month or two. Why is there no progress at all?
Therefore, Tong Guan asked his staff Ji Yiwen to write a document for Zhong Shidao and Liu Yanqing to urge them to march in and wipe out Fang La and Li Cun, the two groups of ant thieves.

Tong Guan's ingenious text showed that Tong Guan and Zhao Ji behind Tong Guan were anxious, so in the documents for Zhong Shidao and Liu Yanqing, not only frequently used words such as "quick" and "urgent", but also Use the words "to tease" to severely blame Zhong Shidao and Liu Yanqing.

"Dou Nao" means to avoid the enemy because of timidity.

The literati under Tong Guan didn't know how insulting the word "Touch" was to the general.

Let's not talk about Liu Yanqing first.

It only said that after reading the documents written by Tong Guanshou, Zhong Shidao tore the documents to pieces. He said angrily: "It's funny, the soldiers are killing me. I joined the army with my hair and never retreated. I am old now. I can bear it." Is this a crime?!"

Zhong Shidao immediately held a pre-army meeting, and strictly ordered all the troops not to be negligent, and Fang La and the gang of ants must be wiped out within a month.

As for what was considered before, sending a partial division to support Liu Yanqing was also shelved by the lack of sufficient troops because of Zhao Ji and Tong Guan's urgent urging.

In short, Zhong Shidao is going to go all out, and he must completely wipe out the Fang Layi army as soon as possible, and then consider attacking the Huben army with Liu Yanqing...

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