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Chapter 238: If you are not called Qingping, you can’t be happy (7)

It is known that the Song Dynasty’s horse administration was poor. How could it defeat the Western Xia, which had the elite cavalry of the “Iron Harriers”?

Later, Fan Zhongyan proposed a battle plan, namely the fortification tactics.

In fact, this set of tactics was mentioned by Li Jilian during the reign of Emperor Taizong, but it was not taken seriously until the outbreak of the Song-Xia War and Fan Zhongyan was appointed as the Deputy Envoy of Shaanxi to carry forward the strategy.

The method of combining forts and archers was too slow. It took half a century from the reign of Emperor Renzong to the reign of Emperor Zhezong to form a strategic encirclement of Western Xia.

Lu Changqing thought of gunpowder, and she planned to recreate the musket from Shen Rou's world.

The predecessor of the fire gun was the musket invented in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was a weapon of little use but of great historical significance.

Just use muskets and explosives to start blasting. The sooner the two countries are unified, the less suffering the people of the two countries will suffer.

Even though the Song Dynasty had to pay compensation for its defeat and the people had a hard time, the situation in Western Xia was not much better.

The four words "warmongering" are enough to describe Li Yuanhao. Every time he launched a war against the Song Dynasty, he almost mobilized the whole country, and often tens of thousands of troops would fight against a certain front of the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty. Although he could win, he suffered heavy losses every time.

Moreover, Western Xia did not have that much wealth for Li Yuanhao to squander, so during the war between the two armies, there was a lot of complaints in Western Xia.

Therefore, early unification is the correct policy for props.

Without the materials to make it, Lu Changqing could only provide the blueprints.

Sure enough, Zhao Zhen soon summoned Lu Changqing and asked him what the musket on the drawing was.

Lu Changqing replied: "It is a kind of firearm. On New Year's Eve, fireworks were set off in the palace. I got inspiration from it, so I drew this blueprint."

Zhao Zhen took the blueprint farther away and looked at it again and again, wondering, "What is the connection between a copper pipe and fireworks?"

"I think fireworks can explode from the ground into the air. If we put iron bullets and stones in a copper pipe and ignite gunpowder, can the force of the gunpowder explosion also push those iron bullets and stones into the air?"

Zhao Zhen suddenly laughed and said, "Your idea is quite peculiar."

“The Tanguts are good at fighting on horseback, so the only way to defeat them is by using archers to shoot from a distance, but a bow can only shoot one arrow at a time, and arrows are not easy to make.

But this fire gun is different, it can hold iron balls and stones, and can be loaded with several stones at a time, and its striking range is much larger than that of a bow and arrow."

Of course, there are also disadvantages, such as poor accuracy, troublesome loading, and the possibility of explosion...but this is the best weapon Lu Changqing can think of under the current level of technology.

"From what you said, this thing is actually more useful than a bow and arrow? It can shoot several stones at a time. Is it an improved Zhuge Crossbow?"

Lu Changqing corrected: "No, it's called a fire gun."

Zhao Zhen put down the blueprint, and asked with a serious expression: "Can this thing really be made?"

"can!"

"You are full of confidence." Zhao Zhen looked at Lu Changqing, not knowing whether he was speaking out of inspiration or just looking for someone to chat with. He suddenly asked, "Fu Ying, do you think Zhao Yuanhao dares to go to war with us?"

Lu Changqing thought for a moment and said tactfully, "Sir, do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

"Of course it's the truth."

"My truth may not sound good, but I think he dares."

Zhao Zhen frowned, "You seem to be always afraid of Zhao Yuanhao, why?"

"Your Majesty, I have talked to you about this issue before. In the second year of Jingyou, he led his troops to suppress the rebellious Uighur tribes in three states in less than a year. This is enough to prove that Zhao Yuanhao is by no means as stupid and incompetent as the ministers in the court seem.

I believe that Zhao Yuanhao's harassment of the four borders of Shaanxi over the past year or so is mainly to test the court's attitude towards him and to paralyze us so that we will despise him so that he can pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger. "

"Does he have such a brain?"

Lu Changqing: …

"Sir, don't underestimate any enemy."

Moreover, Li Yuanhao is accompanied by two Song Nanqians with outstanding abilities.

Previously, Huang Chao rebelled after three failed battles. Now, a man named Zhang from Song Dynasty failed in many examinations (some say he was dismissed from the palace examination), and he took his good brother Hu to rebel against Song Dynasty and join Xia Dynasty.

In order to attract Li Yuanhao's attention, Zhang and Hu changed their names to Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao respectively. [At that time, Li Yuanhao was still called Li Yuanhao, and had not yet changed his name to that non-mainstream name: Weiming Nanxiao]

This trick was indeed effective, and he was brought before Li Yuanhao as soon as summer came.

Li Yuanhao asked them why they violated his name. Zhang and Wu shouted: "You don't even care about your surname, why do you care about your name?"

Li Yuanhao: Have personality!

Just this one sentence made the overbearing boss Li Yuanhao keep these two little elves.

It was this Zhang Yuan who caused Song to suffer a great defeat in the war against Xia.

Zhang failed to pass the imperial examination and was unable to realize his ambitions, so he bore a grudge against the Song Dynasty and was determined to destroy it.

In the Battle of Haoshuichuan, Zhang Yuan assisted Yuan Hao in defeating the Song army led by Ren Fu and others. The number of Song soldiers killed was as high as 10,000. Later, he wrote a poem to mock Xia Song and Han Qi, and wrote a long list of official titles when signing his name: "(Western Xia) Grand Tutor, Shangshu Ling, and Zhongshu Ling Zhang Yuan accompanied the emperor here."

After the Battle of Haoshuichuan, Zhang Yuan suggested that Yuan Hao send troops to Weizhou and wait for an opportunity to take Chang'an. Yuan Hao adopted his advice and planned the Battle of Dingchuanzhai. Ge Huaimin and his generals Cao Ying, Li Zhihe, Zhao Xun, Ye Zhichun, Wang Bao, Wang Wen, Liu He and other 16 generals were all killed in the battle, and the Song army of more than 9,400 people was almost wiped out.

History is so unreasonable that it often changes its direction because of a few individuals.

"I think you overestimate him." Zhao Zhen said disapprovingly.

So angry!

As soon as he spoke to Zhao Zhen, Lu Changqing wanted to let Li Yuanhao slap Zhao Zhen in the face at Sanchuankou.

But no.

Because the Song army suffered repeated defeats during the war between Song and Xia, there was a gap in the generals of the Song court.

No, it should be said that a fault phenomenon has already occurred.

The previous thirty years of peace were indeed beneficial to the country's recuperation, but they also allowed the Song army to live in comfort for thirty years. Having not experienced a large-scale war, the country became slack, and so did the army.

Otherwise, when the battle of Sanchuankou broke out, they would not have sent an old scholar like Fan Yong and a general like Liu Ping who changed his career lately and had never fought a big battle to command the army.

Coupled with the subsequent Battle of Haoshuichuan, the young talents that were cultivated with great difficulty during the Song-Xia war were sent to meet the King of Hell before they had even had time to grow.

To say that the Song army was weak, in fact it was not that weak. On many battlefields, it was not as incompetent as later generations intuitively felt. It was just like the National Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it was quite tenacious on local battlefields.

But it was this outstanding performance on local battlefields that reflected its overall military incompetence, because the tragedy of the Song Dynasty was never that it was weak, but that it clearly had an army with good combat effectiveness, but always lost the war in the end.