Chapter 48: I’m sure!

Wang Anshi rushed over when he heard the news and heard Song Shenzong's cheerful laughter from afar: "Haha! Haha!"

The laughter was loud and contained endless joy, as if there was a huge happy event. Wang Anshi couldn't figure it out and couldn't figure it out: "What happened to the official family? So happy!"

"Yes! What happened? The official family is so happy." Lu Huiqing arrived immediately and couldn't help but mutter.

"Since the official ascended the throne, there has never been such a time of joy. Even if the victory in Xiongzhou has not been as happy as it is today. Look at this, I don't know how long I have been laughing." Lu Gongya also arrived, and was surprised.

They followed Song Shenzong for a long time and knew very well about Song Shenzong's character. They had never encountered such a happy thing as today. They could not help but be curious and did two things in three steps and entered the house.

Song Shenzong laughed loudly while looking at the memorial, his eyes narrowed together with only a small slit left. If he didn't pay attention, he wouldn't see it at all. He thought he had squinted all of them.

"Officials, why are you so happy?" Wang Anshi couldn't help it and hurriedly started asking.

"You see for yourself." Song Shenzong threw Wu Ji's memorial to Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi unfolded, Lu Huiqing and Lu Gong came up one by one, one by one, and the three of them looked at the memorial and couldn't help but gasp and exclaim in unison: "Two thousand miles across the Liao territory?"

The incident of two thousand miles across the Liao territory has not happened for hundreds of years since the founding of the Song Dynasty. I had to be shocked. Everyone had a round mouth and could stuff an egg into it.

"I'm not right!" Mr. Lu muttered.

"It seems that it should, it seems, right!" Wang Anshi also said something strange.

We can't blame them. They really traveled two thousand miles across the Liao territory. This was the first in the history of the Song Dynasty and it was too shocking.

"This Wu Ji is really bold. Well, if it weren't for the official's excitement, I would have considered him as a charge of sending troops privately. Uh, the official's case was to let him do things cheaply, and I would have no name for him to participate in it." Lu Gongzhe turned his mind, but found that he could not do anything to Wu Ji at all, and was very depressed.

"I asked Wu Ji to act cheaply, and he gave me such a big surprise. Haha, not bad! Not bad!" Song Shenzong laughed before he said: "If the army of the Song Dynasty is like this, why worry about not being strong?"

"Yes!" Wang Anshi was also full of emotion: "Since the demise of the previous dynasty, China has never had such a feat. It is a feat that travels across two thousand miles!"

"Is it a feat?" Song Shenzong shook his head.

"Officials, this is not a feat, what else is a feat?" Lu Huiqing asked hurriedly.

This question was asked by Wang Anshi and Lu Gong. They thought so, looking at Song Shenzong and waiting for him to give the answer.

"It's really a feat. But it's about to turn into a surprise, and a bigger feat is behind." Song Shenzong was extremely happy, stroked his hot face, and threw the memorial in his hand to Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi took it and the show was about to begin. Lu Gong and Lu Huiqing came up one left and one right. As the three looked at it, Wang Anshi's hand shook, and the memorial almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he reacted quickly, so he did not fall and copied it in his hand.

"This, this..." The three important officials looked shocked, their mouths widened, their eyes widened, and they stuttered for a long time, and there was no more text.

"Are you unbelievable?" Song Shenzong saw the expressions of the three of them and enjoyed them very much: "I was shocked too! If I hadn't watched them over and over again, I would have thought Wang Shao was lying to me!"

"Official family, can this work?" the three of them asked in unison again.

The three important officials were familiar with literary affairs, but were not good at military affairs. They were really unsure of this kind of boldness that subverted the basic strategies of the Song Dynasty.

For hundreds of years, the Song Dynasty implemented the strategy of "institutions to control cavalry", with infantry as the main force and cavalry as the auxiliary, and this idea was deeply rooted. However, Wang Shao's memorials were mainly cavalry as the main force and infantry as the auxiliary force, which was contrary to the strategy of the Song Dynasty, and it was impossible to be shocked.

"I can't figure this out, so I called you to discuss it." Song Shenzong stroked his forehead and said, "When it comes to martial arts, we are not as good as Wang Shao. Wang Shao is so sure, it shouldn't be worse."

Speaking of military use, Wang Shao is an authority, and even Lu Gongzhu has to admit it. Although he was very unhappy, Wang Anshi and the other two kept nodding.

"Show you another memorial." Song Shenzong turned around, found a gold-painted box, opened it, took out a memorial, and said, "This memorial was written by Wang Shao and Wu Ji. I read it many times, and the more I read it, the more I felt it was reasonable. In addition, Wu Ji went deep into the Liao territory to plunder, and I felt that the Song Dynasty's strategy of using foot to control cavalry was problematic."

As he said that, he threw the memorial to Wang Anshi. The three of them watched together, and while they were surprised, their chin swelling and their feet were swollen.

After robbing the annual monies, Wang Shao went to the return letter to pass the imperial edict and had a dispute with Wu Ji. In the end, Wu Ji convinced Wang Shao that the Song Dynasty should change its strategy and no longer use infantry to control cavalry, but to use cavalry as the main and infantry as the auxiliary, and carry out a major abduct against the Liao Kingdom to achieve the goal of fighting to support the war. Finally, the two wrote this memorial together.

When the memorial was delivered, Song Shenzong was a little unbelievable at first, but the more he read it, the more he felt it was reasonable, so he put it away with it. In addition, Wu Ji went deep into the Liao territory to plunder as evidence, which forced Song Shenzong to believe it.

Although the Converted Army is not all cavalry, everyone has horse riders and high-speed maneuverability, which ensures the success of the Converted Army. If there is no horse rider, Wu Ji would not dare to go deep into the Liao territory to rob.

"You said, how to deal with it well? This matter is too big, you must speak freely." Song Shenzong looked solemn, frown tightly, and looked at the three of them.

This is a major issue related to the two strategies. Once a mistake is made, the consequences will be unimaginable and no one dares to speak nonsense. Wang Anshi and the other two looked at me, and I looked at you, but didn't speak.

"Jiefu, let's talk about it." Song Shenzong had no choice but to name the name.

"Officials, when it comes to military use, they are not the head of the minister, and what they say may not be accurate." Wang Anshi was humble first, and then said: "The Song Dynasty has implemented the strategy of using schools to control cavalry for decades. However, for decades, the Song Dynasty has controlled the cavalry of the Western Xia of Liao? No! Not only has it not controlled the cavalry of the Western Xia of Liao, but it has been suppressed. Today is one defeated and one defeated tomorrow. Over the past few decades, the Song Dynasty has suffered too many defeats."

This is the truth, it just sounds too ugly, but Song Shenzong listened very seriously and his brows frowned even tighter.

"When it comes to cavalry as the main one, it was not created by Wu Ji, but a strategy that was widely promoted in the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties." Wang Anshi, a man who was well-versed in ancient and modern times, did not understand military tactics, knew many historical events: "The Song Dynasty might as well use history as a mirror to learn from ancient and modern times. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were also a shortage of horses. The Han army had few cavalry, so they could only guard the city, which was similar to the current situation in the Song Dynasty. Han Wu built a large number of cavalry. The strong Han army, led by Wei Huo, traversed the desert and killed countless enemies. The strong Han army was famous. "Those who violated the strong Han will be punished even if they are far away." Such bold words have been passed down to this day."

Lu Huiqing and Lu Gongzhu were also well-versed in ancient times. When they heard this, they kept nodding.

The scene in the early years of the Han Dynasty was similar to the Song Dynasty. It was short of horses and could not form a large number of cavalry to suppress and fight against foreign races. However, the Han Dynasty had a brilliant emperor, namely Emperor Wu of Han, who avenged revenge, turned the world, defeated the Huns, and defeated the Huns so that they only exist in historical books.

However, the Song Dynasty did not change this situation until it perished.

"It is obvious which one is better or worse than the cavalry or infantry." Wang Anshi continued, "Li Ling led 5,000 infantry into the desert and attacked more than 100,000 Xiongnu troops. Shanyu personally arrived. He retreated while fighting, but ultimately did not retreat to the Han territory. Although there were traitors who reported it, there was also the reason for the infantry. If the cavalry could not be defeated, retreat immediately, so that Li Ling would not surrender to the Xiongnu."

Li Ling surrendered to the Huns is a heroic story. He surrendered to the Huns to hide for the time being and waited for the opportunity to return to the Han Dynasty. However, a traitor named Li gave advice to the Huns in order to please the Shanyu and trained the army for the Huns according to the Han law. The information of the Han Dynasty was wrong and mistakenly became Li Ling. Li Ling surrendered to the Huns and never gave any advice to the Huns in his life. Emperor Wu of Han was furious and killed all of Li Ling's family. For this matter, the Grand Historian was castrated for saying a few good words to Li Ling.

Later, the information finally came to light. It was not what Li Ling did. Emperor Wu of Han regretted it, but it was too late.

Li Ling surrendered to the Huns mainly because he led most infantry and had too few cavalry to retreat quickly. If he led cavalry, he would probably retreat to the Han territory and there would be no tragedy.

"If there were no large number of cavalry, Wei Qing would not have raided Hetao for a long distance. Huo Qubing sent troops to Hexi twice, and would not have defeated the 240,000 Xiongnu army in Hexi, nor would he fight to the Western Regions. You know that Huo Qubing attacked Hexi for the first time, and led 10,000 elite cavalry for the first time, and the second time, he led 20,000 elite cavalry for only 30,000, all of them were cavalry, but he achieved such great results. Cutting off the right arm of the Huns lies in the cavalry." The battle examples mentioned by Wang Anshi are one of the most classic cavalry examples in Chinese history.

Huo Qubing attacked Hexi and sent troops twice, with a total strength of only 30,000, but it defeated the 240,000 Huns in Hexi and captured all the Jin people who sacrificed the sky. This is because Huo Qubing fully utilized the advantages of the cavalry, made full use of the high-speed maneuverability of the cavalry, and launched a severe blow to the Huns.

He always appears at times and places that the Huns could not imagine, and in ways that the Huns could not imagine, he gave a fatal blow to the Huns' unexpected objects.

"Also, the reason why Li Jing dared to attack Yinshan at night was that the army of the previous dynasty had war horses and was quick to move. Although he led only three thousand people to attack Yinshan and took Jie Li Khan's nest. Behind him, there were more than 100,000 troops from the previous dynasty who entered all the important places, cut off the Turks' retreat, and finally captured Jie Li Khan alive."

After Wang Anshi's analysis, Song Shenzong became more and more enlightened and said, "So far, Wang Shao has already held 80,000 war horses, enough to build an army with all equipment war horses. This kind of fighting style has not been used by the Song Dynasty, so let them try it. If it is feasible, it will be implemented nationwide in the future! Well, I'm sure!"
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