Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 211
Boom~boom~boom.

Feeling dizzy, half asleep and half awake, Yelujing always felt that the one after another explosions were still noisy in his cochlea, which was very annoying. Then an unusually nauseating feeling came over him, and he turned over and vomited. .

"Your Majesty, are you feeling better? Come on, drink some water."

"If you don't drink, the more you drink, the more dizzy you will become, vomit~~!!"

He didn't even finish half of his words, but he couldn't help but vomited again. Then he turned over and lay on the bed, but he felt pain everywhere in his body.

After all, Yelujing was wearing armor, and the mines made of black powder were not powerful enough to kill Yelujing.

However, the gravel, iron sand and other objects buried in the mines still pricked him all over. The big pot full of broth that exploded was poured on his body, causing burns in addition to the trauma. It was really terrible. My whole body ached, coupled with the endless auditory hallucinations and vomiting in my ears, I really couldn't get out of bed.

And it also ruined his appearance by the way.

Yelujing, who originally had a bad temper, was now so angry that she wanted to kill someone.

"What are the casualties among the soldiers?"

"This……"

"To tell the truth, is it a heavy loss?"

"There are not many killed in the battle, only more than 1000 people, but there are [-] injured, half of whom can't get out of bed now, and nearly [-] people have their legs broken and become disabled by the bombing. Soldiers Their morale...is very poor."

In fact, the 6000 injured people might as well die directly. The Liao Dynasty had a conscription system. There was no compensation or pension for those who died in battle. The most they could do was to give their families more pasture, livestock, or arable land. To put it bluntly, it was a waste. It was not financial money, and it was all after the war, but now six thousand people were injured in one breath. Not to mention delaying the march, would it also delay at least several thousand more people to take care of them?

Yelujing was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then sighed slowly: "This new gunpowder made in the Song Dynasty is really powerful, and its uses are endless. It's just a shame that we were negligent in our precautions."

However, there were some people who refused to open and lift which pot. It was not even possible to tell whether it was intentional or unintentional. They seemed to console themselves: "This cannot be blamed on Your Majesty for being reckless. After all, we have not fought against the Song Army in recent years. Although I have heard about the power of the Song Army's new gunpowder, who would have thought that this thing could be used in this way? It would be great if Xiang Guo was also in the army. He had fought with the Song Army for many years and was familiar with the power and uses of this new gunpowder. He said Maybe, he could be more careful, and we wouldn’t have to suffer such a big loss.”

"Humph!"

Yelujing snorted with an unkind expression, couldn't help but clenched her fists under the quilt, and then gave the person who spoke a vicious look.

Does it mean that he, as the emperor, is not as good as Yelu Wuzhi, the prime minister?
He didn't know whether this person was intentional or unintentional. Yelu Wuzhi's prestige in the Liao Kingdom has been too high in recent years. Taking advantage of the opportunity of this northwest hegemony, he has been in charge here for more than half a year. Military power has actually become a serious concern for him.

Although he was able to become the emperor thanks to the support of Yelu Wuzhi, he was an ambitious emperor who wanted to centralize power. The old man Yelu Wuzhi had already made him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles just by being alive. My back felt like a lump in my throat.

Although this contradiction has not been made public, in fact, who in the country with a slightly higher status can't see it?At this time, the other person is still injured, and he said this without even getting out of bed. Isn't this a blatant expression of dissatisfaction with him?
Trampling on himself, the Emperor of Liao, and praising the prime minister of Yelu House, what the hell is his motive?

However, in the current situation, this contradiction cannot be put on the surface at all costs. I can only break my teeth and swallow it in my stomach. I am about to say something to temporarily expose the matter, but I can't bear it. My head was buzzing for a while, and I vomited again.

"Your Majesty, you still need to pay attention to rest."

"Well, that's fine, then I'll take a rest."

After that, I couldn't help it anymore and lay back on the bed again.

"Your Majesty, this military camp is still a little crude after all, and it is hard to say whether the Song army has left any traps or tricks in it. Why not...retreat to Jialin County first? I think the reinforcements from the Prime Minister will be arriving soon. .”

This was said by the chamberlain beside me.

Yelujing, who already had a splitting headache, became furious. Regardless of the pain on his body, he kicked the waiter in the face and knocked him to the ground. Then he pointed at Sang and Huai and yelled: "You are a bitch slave who eats the inside and outside, do you want the Prime Minister to come?" , taking advantage of my injury to take over all the military power of Daliao? Looking for death!"

"Forgive Your Majesty, Forgive Your Majesty."

Upon seeing this, the chamberlain hurriedly lowered his head. The faces of the ministers behind him were not very good-looking. Naturally, they understood the meaning of his accusation.

"I know and are in harmony with the Prime Minister, the monarch and his ministers. I know his loyalty, and he knows my trust. Since ancient times, there is no such harmony between the monarch and his ministers as I do with the Prime Minister. There is no selfish concern, so that the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Dynasty work together to achieve ZTE. They are all villains like you, always intentionally or unintentionally trying to sow discord between me and the Prime Minister."

"Ah this... this... the villain would never dare to do it, there is absolutely no such intention."

"You dare to alienate me from the prime minister and my ministers. How can I tolerate you?"

After saying that, Cang was stunned on the hospital bed, drew out his sword, and stabbed the attendant to death with one sword. However, he finally frightened the foreign ministers, and the nobles were so pale that they dared not say a word anymore.

"Today, we will recuperate. Tomorrow, if there are any wounded who cannot be moved, they will stay here and deal with them by themselves. The whole army will pursue Zhao Guangmei and avenge our Daliao soldiers."

"But Your Majesty, if we pursue you again tomorrow, we might just... just... chase you to Yinzhou."

"Ok??"

Yelujing grabbed the sword that was still stained with blood.

"I understand, I understand, I will give you the instructions now."

After saying that, he ran away without looking back.

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the other side.

After receiving the latest battle report, Yelu Wuzhi also remained silent for a long time. Then he ordered all the waiters to stay away from him, and then he found an open space on horseback.

"Yelüjing, I am your mother! I am your mother, you are a foolish, foolish, and heartless bastard, why didn't you let the gunpowder blow you up? Why aren't you still dead? I...I even want to kill you. You’re gone!”

Angry, so angry.

After the battle has been fought like this, if we still pursue him, we pursue him to Yinzhou instead. Isn’t this sick?To put it bluntly, isn't this just because he is afraid that he will compete with him for military power?But now, is this the time to talk about this?

Has he forgotten who supported him as the Liao Emperor?Besides, I am a member of the clan after all, and I should be called my uncle for the rest of my life. Do we no longer have such a basic trust among relatives?
Yinzhou!
Then he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Originally, this battle was supposed to be fought on Shazhou, but because I was a little more willful, I took the initiative to place the battlefield in Liangzhou.It's not impossible to fight in Liangzhou. This place is the territory of the Tubo people. Everyone is fighting away from home, but at least the Tubo are allies, and they still have some advantages in terms of people and geographical location.

As a result, I went to Yinchuan again now.

Yinchuan is the territory of the Dangxiang people. The Dangxiang people are now so good with the Song people that they are almost as good as each other. The three families of Li Zhe and Yang all sincerely want to submit to the Song Dynasty. There are rumors that there will be another generation of troubleshooting troops in the future. Jiedushi will no longer be succeeded by his father after his father dies.

Isn't this taking the initiative to change one's home game to an away game?Just to hunt down the King of Song and Qin?

But you have to be able to kill them, because they will soon join forces with the party members.

What's more, as for the terrain of Yinchuan, half of it is desert. It is difficult to transport supplies. Even hunting grass valleys is not easy. Maybe if you enter the depths of the desert, you will not be able to get out. However, the Song Army can eat the Li family's food. , solve it on the spot, the difference will be huge.

What a stinky move!

And what made him feel most defensive was that he clearly knew that this was a bad move made by Yelujing's willfulness. He was either chasing King Qin or hiding from him, but he could only do it. Use your hot face to touch his cold ass.

Because others are kings and you are ministers.

When we go to Yinzhou, our Liao emperor will be heavily surrounded by the Song army. Zhao Kuangyin is not just for food. He has also marched in person. Yinchuan must have become the main battlefield. He has an elite army of more than [-] people. If the troops stay in Liangzhou, they will really be in trouble.

Moreover, he refused to save the emperor and died while watching the emperor besieged. This was a crime he absolutely did not dare and could not bear.

After all, the relationship between Yelu Wuzhi and Yelu Jing is similar to that of Dorgon and Shunzhi, but they are not as awesome as Dorgon. No matter how big the conflict between the two people is, this is also an internal matter within our clan. Son, the muzzle still needs to be exposed to the outside world.

How to fix it?Well, even though we know Yinchuan is a mud pit, we still have to jump into it.

So he had no choice but to lead the army to Yinzhou again. Almost as soon as he arrived, Zhao Kuangyin led the main force of the Song army to surround him. Not long after, Guiyi's army and Zhang Qiong's party advanced. Things have been hastily arranged on the sandbank, and all the light cavalry have come from the west to join in the fun.

In this small Yinzhou, almost 70 soldiers and horses from both countries were crowded here in a short period of time, fighting each other. The military formations were all arranged in lumps. Even Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but sigh: "This special How the hell did the battle end like this?"

With such a style of play, there is no strategic planning at all. It is all about tactical ability, which is also very beneficial to the Song Dynasty. Naturally, the Song Army will not think about changing the situation, so it spends every day with the Liao Army, especially Zhao Guangmei. , just stick to the camp every day and never take the initiative to attack.

Then he divided all his pro-army regiments and stockholder veterans to temporarily take over the party troops of various ministries, but he took advantage of this golden opportunity to hold the military power of the disaster army in his own hands.

Naturally, Li Yixing also had some objections. However, firstly, the situation was indeed stronger than the others, and there was really nothing he could do against Zhao Guangmei at the moment. Secondly, Zhao Guangmei did give too much.

Although the army lived and fed in Yinzhou, Song Ting really paid for it, and none of the soldiers dared to rob the people under Zhao Guangmei's nose. Anyway, as long as the difference was big enough, the merchants would be able to reimburse them afterwards. Seventy to eighty percent.

For this reason, Yinzhou, where the Party members live, implemented the invoice system first in Kaifeng. At least the vast majority of foreign goods have now implemented invoices.

The Song Army has always had the habit of using merchants to transport military supplies. Zhao Guangmei also specifically ordered the merchants to continuously transport specific supplies. Then, these merchants became very responsive after learning about the situation in Yinzhou. They got up and brought goods from all over the world to sell here. The Uighurs even tried their best to get some dancing girls to come here to attract business. What's more, even the merchants in Khotan actually sold goods here in just one month. Touched it within the time.

All I can say is that your mother is truly worthy of being the number one commercial nation in the tenth century who claimed that all people were businessmen. I admire you, I admire you.

More and more merchants brought more and more products. It was obviously still a war period, but just because the Song army paid, Yinzhou City actually made great strides in development and became prosperous. In a month, it actually It is almost surpassing Xiazhou.

To put it bluntly, the Song Dynasty is now in a transitional stage between physical currency and banknotes. Because of the banknotes, commercial banks can borrow very cheap banknotes from their own money banks at any time. At least for now, this thing Because it has just been officially accepted by the people, the credit limit is still very large. After receiving the banknotes, there are fewer and fewer merchants who are willing to go to Kaifeng to exchange them for copper coins and then transport them back.

Zhao Guangmei went to reimburse war expenses as a merchant, but he conveniently used banknotes on a large scale, which greatly benefited the promotion of banknotes, so he didn't feel bad at all when he spent the money.

So Zhao Guangmei, who was obviously the head coach of the First Army, somehow started up his old business again and helped Li Yixing start to make business plans for the Nanjing Army, and even designed a development zone.

Such an approach made the Liao army extremely uncomfortable, and they even felt that if this battle was not fought, they would collapse.

The Liao army recruited soldiers without even basic military pay, and naturally there was no reason to spend money. There were naturally a lot of burning, killing and looting, but the problem was that Yinzhou was not the Central Plains, and the Dangxiang people were not Han people.

It’s not that the Han people are weak or anything. After all, as a farming people, the land is dead and cannot be escaped. If no one is organized, there is a high probability that they will not be able to gain power even if they want to.

In Yinzhou, the desert is solitary and the sun is shining. Every tribe is mobile. In every household, even women can ride horses and shoot arrows. How can it be so easy to grab something?Soon he fell into the vast ocean of people's war.

Originally, the Dangxiang people have been repeatedly picking fights for so many years, especially the Dangxiang people on the Yinzhou side. Compared with the Dangxiang people on the Xiazhou side, they are closer to the Liao Kingdom. This is all determined by geography, and it is precisely Therefore, in fact, Li Yixing's mobilization of Yinzhou after joining the Song Dynasty was very limited, and the people mobilized were mainly the people of Xiazhou.

As a result, the two countries are now at war. The Song army spent money on shopping and brought prosperity to the local people, but the Liao army actually wanted to rob?When our party men don’t have knives at home, right?
So the Liao army had no choice but to find ways to transport supplies from the country to Yinzhou. Then, those party members thought this business seemed to be good, so they robbed the Liao army's supplies and then sold them to the Song army.

Later, he simply killed the Liao soldiers and cut off their heads to sell them to the Song army. Zhao Guangmei thought this was a good move and actually offered a high price per head.

You must know that Yinzhou Dangxiang is much poorer than Xiazhou Dangxiang. Then, everyone happily started to kill Liao dogs everywhere. However, Zhao Guangmei only opened banknotes anyway, and thought that he was still far away from the credit limit. Not distressed either.

Yinzhou, there are sand after sand and mountains after mountains. Li Jiqian originally fought guerrilla warfare here in history. He fought so hard that Song and Liao were unable to do anything against him. Nowadays, these locals are sporadically acting as terrorists. , there was no way to defeat the Liao army.

Of course, they were just small fights. Although they greatly increased the logistical pressure on the Liao army, they did not play any major role in the end. Zhao Guangmei also did this with the mentality that mosquito legs are also meat.

As a result, quantitative changes led to qualitative changes, but even Song Jun did not expect this. In just one month, Tubo could not help but take action.

The leader of Tubo in Liangzhou actually killed the Liao army or robbed military supplies, and then cooperated with the local tycoons in Yinzhou and sold them to Zhao Guangmei through them.

Is it a big impact?The actual impact is actually not that big. Yinzhou itself borders the Liao Kingdom.

But the psychological impact was too great. After the news spread, the top brass of the Liao Army had no reaction, but the grassroots of the Liao Army went crazy.

We traveled thousands of miles, gave up our farming time, and went to this bitter cold land of Yinzhou to eat sand and defeat the Song army. What on earth were we here to do?

Isn't it because the Song army invaded Liangzhou?

Regardless of whether they burned, killed, and looted in Liangzhou, they were indeed fighting for Tubo!
We, on our side, carried Song Yuan to spit, but Tubo still killed people in exchange for rewards?
The Liao army had no good solution to this problem. Who made Tibet a piece of disorganized sand?

As a result, the Liao army mutinied under the confused gaze of the Song army.

(End of this chapter)