Chapter 1,245 What Shen Kuo Sees

Gong Mengyou was dejected: "The general who has lost his master has no choice but to let it be dealt with. However, Gong Mengyou also has some experience in this battle."

"The people of the Song Dynasty should not despise it, but the sky-shaking thunder and the crane-shank crossbow are not without restraint. Our army also has convenient and quick methods for ascending the city. I successfully tested these under Huanzhou City, and once defeated Huanzhou City...

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"That's enough!" Liang Gewei was furious: "I'm still talking nonsense! It's okay to lose 15,000 elites in this battle, but how do you explain the three hundred steel armors? How do you explain the Imperial Palace's Golden Whip Banzhi? Prince Consort Du

Yu He Luo Lingzhi, how do you explain it?"

Meng Mengyu looked dejected and was still talking to himself: "...I already had a chance to win and could go to Huanzhou in one day. Unfortunately, after entering the city, I encountered a new weapon of the Song Dynasty. After that thing exploded, it could use iron sand and stone pills.

Sweeping the streets, you will be killed or injured within a dozen steps, even with heavy shields and fine armor... The Imperial Palace Golden Whip Banzhi is like this..."

Liang Yongneng remained silent until he suddenly asked: "Even so, the people of the Song Dynasty in Huanzhou have lost their courage. Even if they lose in the city for a while, they can just withdraw to organize their forces and fight again. Why did they retreat later?"

"Yes, the general had originally withdrawn his troops and regrouped, preparing to capture Huanzhou again the next day..." He suddenly stopped here.

Liang Yongneng frowned: "What's wrong? Is there some sudden military situation?"

"This...this..."

Liang Yongneng asked: "Did the Song Dynasty send reinforcements?"

"No."

"Is it because you can't keep the army rations?"

"No...no."

"Is there a mutiny in the camp? The sergeant forced you to withdraw?"

"No."

Liang Yongneng leaned back on his seat: "There is no reasonable reason, and there is no Golden Arrow, the general manager of the Fourth Army, to withdraw the troops without authorization. What on earth were you thinking at that time?!"

"This... this..." Gong Mengxi wanted to defend himself several times, but finally lowered his head: "It's... it's me... I was temporarily blinded by the devil..."

"Haha..." Liang Gewei sneered twice: "Even if we are retreating, we have to have a plan. How can we run away first when encountering a night attack and abandon the prince-in-law? This will lead to the loss of more than 10,000 people in our army?"

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Meng Mengyu raised his head and said: "This time we hit Huanzhou, we gained a lot. We got the Song Dynasty's explosive tubes, thunderbolts, and crane-shank crossbows. These are powerful things. I don't have any in Daxia, and the Song Dynasty people have always regarded them as secrets."

, I wanted to bring these things back, so the Song people attacked at night, so I ordered the Prince Consort to seize the rear of the central army and hold on until dawn, while I led the light cavalry to bring back the three important weapons."

"I didn't expect that the Prince Consort couldn't resist for even an hour. If I had known that, I would have asked him to bring weapons while I stayed behind..."

"Really?" Liang Gewei sneered: "You are loyal. Please note that the Prince Consort Lieutenant's Army was defeated precisely because the Song people used the steel armor you gave them to form 300 heavy cavalry in one day and formed an array at night.

Impact!"

"Are you still worried about the weapons of the Song Dynasty?!" After speaking, Liang Gewei suddenly slapped the armrest of the chair: "It is because of your ignorance that the Song Dynasty now has iron kites!"

"Ah?" Meng Mengyou raised her head in panic: "How is it possible? How could they do it? I am a walking armor, without a vest, how can I get an iron kite?"

A person came in from outside the tent, it was Liang Yongneng's powerful general Wei Minglongyu.

Liang Yongneng ignored Gong Mengxuan and said, "Captain Prince Consort, you didn't hurt your face, did you?"

Weiming Longyu gave Gong Mengyou a hard look and said, "Fortunately, the prince-in-law was hit in the side by the Song Dynasty's riding sword."

Liang Yongneng sighed: "As long as the person is right, just pretend to be alive and send him to Xingqing Mansion."

Wei Minglongyu said: "The person who sent the body of the Prince Consort is Shen Kuo, the pacifying envoy of Shaanxi Road Economics. This is the letter of credence he gave to our court on behalf of the Song Dynasty."

Liang Yongneng read the certificate of credence and handed it to Gong Mengxi: "You should also read it."

Mengmengyu turned pale after reading only the first clause. The first clause said that he killed the people indiscriminately and drove them to death. The Song Dynasty wanted his head.

He returned the certificate of credence: "It is not a pity to blackmail Meng Meng to death. I just hope that the governor will give me some time until I can summarize my experience in this battle."

After speaking, his voice suddenly became excited: "Gong Mengxiao is not trying to take credit for himself, but after all, this is the first time that I have truly broken a Great Song Dynasty. Even if I have to die, I want to die with some value!"

"That's enough!" Liang Gewei said angrily: "You want to delay the time and wait for someone from Xingqing Mansion to come to save you, right?!"

"Gewei!" Liang Yongneng stopped him: "Don't talk nonsense!"

After Liang Gewei stopped speaking with hatred, Liang Yongneng looked at Mengmengyi who was kneeling on the ground: "Actually, among the palace guards, I have always been very optimistic about your generals, but it's a pity... A man's reputation can only be gained on horses.

Why, why should we take this path?”

"I can't decide how to deal with you. Even if I'm unlucky in the end, it won't happen in a day or two. I'll go see the Song people first. You... hurry up..."

After saying that, he grabbed the swords on the table, lifted up the tent and walked out.

Shen Kuo was in the side tent, holding a small silver bowl in his hand, sipping the mare's milk in small sips, and looking curiously at the huge tent.

The tent is made of square wood as beams and columns, and the two ends of the wood are covered with copper sheets for reinforcement. It is erected through a mortise and tenon structure for easy disassembly.

The leather tent is made of two layers, the inner layer is linen and the outer layer is cowhide. It looks like it is sewn by hand.

Although the breastplates of the guarding soldiers have been polished, there are still many small marks on them, which were struck by hammers. They have not undergone secondary heat treatment and are cold forged.

Their weapons were very sophisticated, but one look at the patina on the handles and handguards revealed that they were private goods passed down from generation to generation, unlike the Song Dynasty which relied on government distribution.

Their boots are flat leather boots with smooth cowhide soles, which are not non-slip and are usually fine. But if you are walking in the rain, you might get into trouble.

There were a lot of sundries piled up in the tent. It could be seen that even though it was the headquarters of the largest military force in the south of Xia Kingdom, many things still had to be done by oneself.

For example, Shen Kuo saw the cobbler's tools for repairing leather armor.

Many things in the tent have traces of the Song Dynasty, such as the gold basin for washing hands, which was stamped in Zhengzhou; the enamel spit bowl, with red flowers on it, was a product of Shangzhou;

There is also a quill pen on the table. I heard that quill pens are very convenient for writing Xia characters. Xia people copied the style of Meishan quill pens and made a lot of copies.

As Shen Kuo's eyes wandered, he also saw the glass pen holder on the desk, the glass ink bottle, and the storage rack behind the main seat. The tapestry saddle came from Minzhou; Yuzhu's riding whip came from Shu.

Even the brocade used for decoration on the bow pouch turned out to be the Bada halo used by the royal family of the Song Dynasty!

The economic influence of the Song Dynasty on Xixia has become more and more important since Duke Fu governed Weizhou and opened the city of Weizhou.

There is no tea in mare's milk, and the Song Dynasty cut off the tea trade with Xixia. If Xixia wanted to buy tea, they had to buy it from the Qingtang people through Jialiang. Duke Fu only used one trick to easily wipe out the huge deficit in jade supplies from Jialiang to the Song Dynasty.

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Taking another sip of mare's milk, the war prepared by Duke Fu for the Xia people was a war different from all previous wars.

One year's accumulation! Five-pronged advance! Equivalent to the total supplies of sixty wars in the past!

But transportation is too troublesome... Not counting grain and fodder, those three thousand kilograms of big guys have no other way to go than Xiaoguan if they want to enter the Xia Kingdom.

But if you want to go through Xiaoguan, you have to deal with the 70,000 elites here.

The Xia people have seen the power of firearms several times. They received a notice from the Military Aircraft Department, saying that the Xia people have a great understanding of the crane-shank crossbow and thunder, and all the troops along the border must be careful and vigilant in the battle and not be careless.

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At the same time, let the people along the border say whether they have any new suggestions on how to fight Xia under the new situation.

Shen Kuo shook his head slightly. Duke Fu was too steady. He obviously had 50,000 new troops, but he was still considering winning the war by relying on crane-shin crossbows and thunder. Is this still necessary?

But if you think about it carefully, if Xixia is divided, if the Xia people do not gather troops to serve the king, but defend independently, then it is impossible for the new army to take over all the wars, and many traditional wars will definitely occur.

What if we add vans, mines and cannons?

Yes, mines and ambush cannons have larger ammunition and are not as easy to scatter as the bullets of Shenji Gun. They are much easier to manage and do not necessarily have to be equipped by new armies.
Chapter completed!