The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 124 Old Li, I'm Sorry

"Haha, I didn't expect the prince to know the origin of this tea. It seems that there is a reason for the tea's fragrance."

Hu Yanzan is not a rough man, he has a lot of knowledge about his family background.

"This tea is bitter after one sip, and the fragrance will gradually become fragrant after the second sip. This is what one of my relatives told me." In the previous life, when Zhao Xu followed the old man, the old man always liked to drink tea after drinking. .

Every time he always likes to talk about some big principles, but he didn't understand them at the time, but now he misses them a little.

Seeing Zhao Xu lost in thought, Hu Yanzan couldn't help but shouted, "Prince, prince..." Zhao Xu recovered after he shouted a few times.

"Ah, let me ask you, can you stop calling me prince, I'm really not used to the name of prince, you should call it another, this is not above the court." Zhao Xu took a deep breath of tea.

"Then what does the prince call you?"

"Then call me by my name!" The name is a code name, which is what Zhao Xu thinks, but Hu Yanzan.

"I don't dare, so I'll call you son, and why don't you call me a fool?"

"It's up to you. By the way, I have something to tell you this time. I heard that your martial arts is a pair of steel whips passed down in your family. I really want to see it. I don't know why I don't have such a good fortune. ?" Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"Ah ma'am, no, since it is my blessing and the blessings accumulated by my ancestors, my lord, I am so honored that someone will bring me my steel whip. My lord, please follow me to the training place in my backyard. "Speaking of Hu Yanzan, he led Zhao Xu to the practice field in the backyard.

It seems that this is the place where Hu Yanzan usually practiced. Looking at the decorations around here, there are all kinds of stone locks and weapons.Zhao Xu weighed the stone lock with his hands, and it was still not light.

On the weapon rack next to it are seventeen kinds of weapons, including guns, swords, halberds, axes, battle-axes, hooks, forks, maces, hammers, hammers, shovels, sticks, lances, clubs, crutches, and meteor hammers.

Some people here may say, isn't it often said that there are eighteen types of weapons, why there are only seventeen types here, and there is one more thing missing, yes, it is the whip.

Just because Huyan's family's family martial arts is the whip method, and the weapon is of course a steel whip, so people in his family think that the eighteen kinds of weapons and whips are the most precious, so they put them in other places alone.

At this time, Hu Yanzan brought his weapon, the steel whip. Although it is called a steel whip, it is made of iron.

If you look carefully, it is section by section, and there are thirteen sections of merit, each section is closely connected and integrated into one.But not without the edge.

Hu Yanzan's steel whips are double whips, also known as male and female whips. The left hand is lighter and the right hand is heavier. Each whip weighs about eleven or two catties.The whip is easy to carry and can be wrapped around the waist or folded up and placed in a pouch.

Zhao Xu nodded to signal for Huyanzan to start. Huyanzan immediately waved his double whips when he received the signal. All he heard was the whistling wind, but no double whips.

At this moment, Hu Yanzan's figure flashed and suddenly entered the wooden pile surrounded by several thick pillars in front of him. When Zhao Xu was puzzled, Huyanzan hit the wooden pile with both whips fiercely, but that The stake didn't respond at all.

At least it looked the same on the surface, Hu Yanzan hit the surrounding stakes one after another, but he only hit each stake once, then put away his double whip and walked out of the stakes.

Just before he reached Zhao Xu, the wooden pile behind him suddenly shattered, not broken, but shattered. On a person, whether that person still has life or not.

In fact, not every whip has such an effect. This is because Hu Yanzan has exhausted all his strength, otherwise it would not be like this, but usually it is not necessarily so.

"Hahaha, okay, the Huyan family's double whips really deserve their reputation." Zhao Xu was not stingy with his praise, and he could tell at a glance that this was a whipping method for fighting on the battlefield, and it really wouldn't work if it was put on the rivers and lakes.

"My lord, I'm overwhelmed. This is a family-inspired whip technique that can only show its power on the battlefield." Hu Yanzan also didn't say how famous his own whip technique was, but instead mentioned its usefulness.

To say that the most famous person who used the steel whip was Yu Chigong of the Tang Dynasty. With the steel whip in his hand, he made great military exploits for the Tang Empire.

"Okay, you don't have to belittle yourself. You want to go to the battlefield. Well, I just came here this time to ask you if you would like to go to Yangzhou with me. I lack a pioneer under my command, so why am I not interested? ?”

Hu Yanzan's eyes lit up when he heard this, the value of a person like him is on the battlefield, if you let him enjoy the blessings honestly, I'm afraid he will really feel uncomfortable.

"The last general is willing to follow the prince, and if he has his life, he will die." Hu Yanzan's face was full of excitement, being able to go to the battlefield was better than anything else, otherwise he would not have been seriously injured and lost his memory in the battle against Li Yun.

The next day was October [-]st of the first year of Jianlong in the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin ordered that in October, Zhao Kuangyin ordered Zhao Xu to deploy as the capital of Yangzhou camp, Li Chuyun as the capital supervisor, and Song Yanwo as the capital's envoy to conquer Li Chongjin.

Zhao Xu was in charge of everything, and Zhao Xu appointed Hu Yanzan as the vanguard. What was puzzling was that Zhao Xu only brought [-] forbidden troops, and none of the other troops.

Everyone was puzzled, but no one dared to come out and ask why there were only so few soldiers. The number of soldiers in Yangzhou City was several times more than this.At this time, a person who had disappeared for a long time took over, and he was Gao Huailiang.

During this period of time, Gao Huailiang and Cao Bin were in charge of training the forbidden army. Cao Bin still had time to follow Zhao Xu to the north, but Gao Huailiang never showed up.

Now Gao Huailiang has been named General Xuanwei of the fourth rank, and his actual official position is the deputy commander of the fifth rank of the infantry, which is the same as Cao Bin's position.

"Brother Cao, what do you mean by the prince? You only bring so many people. I'm not saying that the prince's ability is problematic. This is too little."

Gao Huailiang has also become acquainted with Cao Bin recently, and the relationship between the two is very close in private.

"Hehe, brother Huailiang, should you have confidence in the soldiers you have trained? Even if you don't have confidence in yourself, you should have confidence in the prince, right?"

No matter who Cao Bin is, he always looks polite and courteous to everyone, which is why he is very popular.

"What did Brother Cao say? How can it be called soldiers I trained? That's the prince's attention. Everything is done according to the prince's instructions, so it was actually trained by the prince." In fact, Gao Huailiang just an executor.

"Let me tell you, my lords, the crown prince asked me to be the vanguard, so the soldiers are a little less." Hu Yanzan also came to join in when he heard what they said.

Before Cao Bin and Gao Huailiang had time to speak, Zhao Xu turned his horse's head back here. He was not riding a horse, but his unknown mount. As soon as he turned his head, the horse of Cao Bin and the others immediately stopped moving.

Recently, Zhao Xu discovered another interesting phenomenon. All the horses were trembling in front of this thing, like a mouse seeing a cat.

Helpless, he had no choice but to move on, but twisted his body backward from time to time:
"1 people is already a lot, and there are thousands of us ahead." The thousands of people he said were Fengying and Jinyiwei who had already been arranged around Yangzhou.

"Besides, where is our navy? The navy led by Song Yanwo is there. We are not fighting alone."

Song Yanwo was appointed by Zhao Kuangyin as the platoon envoy this time. He himself was not in Bianjing, but commanded a navy on the river.

As early as the fifth year of Later Zhou Xiande, when Later Zhou attacked Southern Tang, Song Yanwo led a navy army to attack Southern Tang as the commander of You Shenwu. Later, after Southern Tang sued for peace, he also stayed there it's here.

According to the normal development of history, he had a daughter who became Zhao Kuangyin's queen, but now it seems impossible.The three of them felt relieved when they heard what Zhao Kuangyin said. Song Yanwo's combat power on the water should not be underestimated.

Zhao Xu went on to say:
"Li Chongjin just relied on the favorable terrain of the Jianghuai River to repair the city defense of Yangzhou and take a defensive position. This is the way to seek death.

Besides, he used the common people to build the city wall without authorization in Yangzhou, and expropriated the money of the merchants without authorization, which is already outraged.

He didn't have any outside help, and the imperial court stopped sending him food and grass, and he couldn't last for a few days, why should we use the army! "

Everyone heard that it was indeed the case. They only knew about fighting, so they hadn't thought about these things. After thinking about it, they also felt that a [-] army was enough to deal with it.

"Master Li." Zhao Xu called out, and Li Chugeng, the Metropolitan Superintendent, rushed over immediately. He was always watching the situation of the army.

"What orders does the prince have?" Although Li Chugeng was one of the founding fathers of the Song Dynasty, he did not make much contribution, so he always wanted to make meritorious service. He thought it was an opportunity to follow Zhao Xu to pacify Li Chongjin this time.

"Master Li, the governor ordered you to go down and the soldiers must maintain military discipline along the way, not to harass the people along the way, and go to Yangzhou to besiege the city, so as not to hurt the people in the city."

"If there is any violation, you will be punished severely, do you hear clearly?" Zhao Xu said this very seriously, with a deadpan expression on his face.

Li Chugeng would also fight a cold war to the death, it seems that the prince is real, he quickly said he knew, and went down to perform his duties.

As Zhao Xu walked, he was thinking about what to do next. He didn't pay attention to people like Li Chongjin at all. All he thought about was unified affairs.

He has never forgotten Qin Shihuang's entrustment to unify China again, and then, if he has the ability, to cross the ocean and eradicate Xu Fu's descendants.

This is the first time he has promised others in this era. He must do it, but before completing these, he must first stabilize the newborn Da Song.

Li Chongjin, who told you that you are the first bird? After you are put down, Song Dynasty basically has no separatism, and no one dares to rebel anymore. I'm sorry, Lao Li.

　I'm not in the mood to type, the exam is not going well, and I almost don't have a degree certificate
　　
　
(End of this chapter)