Zhao Zhen was regarded as an unfilial son who did not learn and did not know, and sat silently on the dragon chair without saying a word.

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-- Stupid human beings, we have long since had Wi-Fi coverage in public places.

My face hurts.

I wanted to come up with something to make a splash, but I didn't expect people to start large-scale production and application. This kind of sour mood, Zhao Zhen said that his heart is very complicated.

The war was urgent, Zhao Zhen silently repaired his cracked self-esteem, and the courtiers below began to discuss how to deal with it. It's just that this matter can't be discussed for a while, Zhao Zhen saw the meal and ordered the dining room to prepare the meal. Taking advantage of the meal, Yan Shu, who was promoted by Zhao Zhen to the position of secretary of the military department, found a loophole and gave the official family a science about the history of the armament of the Great Song Army, focusing on the scale of the gunpowder workshop.

"During the time of the first emperor, there were 7,000 sunrise crossbow gunpowder arrows, 10,000 bow gunpowder arrows, 3,000 thistle cannons, and 20,000 leather cannons in the workshop." Yan Shu said, "It's just that after the death of the first emperor, the abolished Empress Dowager Liu listened to the government and didn't care about the gunpowder workshop, and now it has become a place for idlers." ”

Zhao Zhen was shocked, with an output of tens of thousands, this is a firearm, how could he sign the Tanyuan Alliance?

When he actually saw the finished firearm he had imagined, he was silent.

The so-called gunpowder arrow was completely different from what he thought, that is, a powder cartridge was tied to a little behind the arrow, and after it was lit, it was shot out quickly, and it was set on fire to the enemy camp. In terms of lethality, it is slightly better than ordinary bows and arrows, and can be attacked by physical attack at the same time.

But this is completely different from what Zhao Zhen imagined, but fortunately, the tribulus terrestris cannon made him regain a little familiarity. The so-called tribulus cannon is to mix iron tribulus in the gunpowder bag, and when the gunpowder bag explodes, the iron tribulus terrestris inside shoots away. The power of the gunpowder pack is not great, and the lethality of thistle terrestris is naturally not strong, but it can still cause temporary chaos in the enemy army.

Zhao Zhen's cracked self-esteem was quickly repaired, and by the way, it grew a lot. Although he is a bit of a scumbag, he is also a person who has made soil explosives, and his power is not as good as that of a professional, but when the number is combined, it is absolutely no problem to blow up a room.

Zhao Zhen immediately found the right position in his life, go to Ya's Renzong, and he wants to be the martial emperor!

But Zhao Zhen's ambition did not affect Li Yuanhao at all, he won many battles, and the Song army had no power to resist under him, until the follow-up reinforcements arrived, he barely resisted the fierce offensive, but in general, Li Yuanhao still slowly advanced the Song realm step by step.

Zhao Zhen looked at the battle report sent every day, and secretly ruthless, and as soon as he turned around, he locked himself up to develop explosives. Many raw materials in ancient and modern times have different names, and they have to be purified and processed, even if he knows it in his heart, he is not sure that he can replicate the power of modern earth explosives for a while.

At least the earth explosives can still blow up the mountains and quarries if they are done well, and the gunpowder made in the workshop now is only igniting fire and smoke to create chaos.

During this time, Zhao Zhen was strongly criticized by the imperial history and the ministers, after all, although Zhao Zhen had already released rumors that he wanted to refine new gunpowder, but in the eyes of outsiders, those chemical realities were no different from alchemy. If the country comes out with an emperor who is obsessed with alchemy, it will be a pill.

It is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to spare one.

Zhao Zhen was tough enough this time, he was originally a hidden angry youth, and he was twisted a little crooked under the pressure of the system, and he was ruthless to take a different path. In the "History of the Song Dynasty" given to him by Yusheng, this war was fought for several years, and tens of thousands of people died in the northwest of the Song army alone. The only country he recognizes now is Song, not to mention that the territory of Western Xia is within the country of planting flowers, as long as Li Yuanhao starts a war, Zhao Zhen can regard this as a foreign invasion.

Hmm, Li Yuanhao is a genuine party member, and he is indeed a foreigner.

The court is now bent on the main war, and they admit that the Liao State is because the Song-Liao War has been fought for many years, and in the end, the two countries can no longer drag on before they shake hands and make peace. But Western Xia? Before this, they were vassals who had to exchange horses for living supplies, and suddenly jumped out to stand on their own and wanted to take advantage? There is no such thing!

If you don't use Xixia to kill chickens and set an example for monkeys, if others learn from it, the Great Song Dynasty will have no future.

Maybe Zhao Zhen is indeed talented in chemistry, he finally made an ancient Nobel Prize, and even the house and people blew it up. What is better than Nobel is that he has a lot of loyal protector shields, and in the end he only has his hair ripped and his body is stained with black ash. And the attendants who guarded him off the disaster were not lightly injured, but fortunately no one died, Zhao Zhen generously asked the imperial doctor to treat them and rewarded them with a sum of money.

For the palace, which has always been frugal and stingy in the style of painting, this is already very merciful.

There was such a big movement in the palace, the front and back harems were alarmed, at first I thought it was an earthquake, and then I saw the house that was blown up, and I felt that it was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and people were panicked for a while. Zhao Zhen didn't care at all, wiped his face clean, didn't even change his clothes, and pointed to his achievements at the ministers who gathered, "How about the gunpowder I made?" ”

The ministers who had been criticizing Zhao Zhen for not doing his job and indulging in alchemy swallowed their saliva carefully, and knelt on the ground together, "Long live my emperor, long live my emperor, God bless my emperor, God bless the Great Song!" ”

If they all have such power, not to mention the little Western Xia, they all have confidence after destroying the Liao Kingdom, okay?

This was like a booster, and the whole state apparatus sprang into action at once, without a hint of delay, and the earlier gunpowder workshops were requisitioned, and all the people in them were driven out except for the skilled craftsmen, and a group of people with proper status and trust were summoned to start production day by day.

It's just that Zhao Zhenqian told him that the people who started at the beginning still accidentally made a small accident, but fortunately there was no storage at the time, otherwise there would be a series of explosions, and the fun would be great - the Xixia people did not reach Kaifeng, and they themselves blew up Kaifeng.

Yusheng didn't know what happened in Kaifeng, as early as when the Western Xia army was raised, he rushed to the border. The word invasion has become his flashpoint, he didn't have time to do anything before, but now he has the opportunity, although the invaders are different, but some aspects are always the same.

It's not that Yusheng didn't want to kill the leader directly, but sometimes some rules are not transferred by his will. It is a crime to kill one person, and it is a crime to slaughter ten thousand. Li Yuanhao's luck has made Yusheng unable to attack him, but if he wants him to go to the battlefield to fight with others, he instinctively rejects him. In the end, he still spent Manlou to go to the enemy's rear to make trouble and burn their grain and grass. Without supplies, even if the dog may jump off the wall in a hurry, it may also shake the morale of the army and make them retreat without a fight.

This idea is not bad, but what makes Yusheng embarrassed is Hua Manlou. From the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to bring flowers to the building at all, and he always felt that he was completely incompatible with the bloody battlefield. But his legs are long on Hua Manlou's body, and his eyes are normal again, and it is no longer something that Yusheng can shake off if he wants to. What's more, instead of letting Hua Manlou take the risk alone, it is better to take it with you.

Hua Manlou thought very simply, when Daqing was invaded by the Mongols, the Hua family was never ambiguous in contributing money and efforts, and he also took over the task of escorting supplies, although he couldn't see at that time, but the smell of blood lingered in his nose, and his ears were filled with the painful moans of the wounded. For him, the conclusion of the war between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia has long been recorded in the annals of history, but knowing the result does not mean that he can wait indifferently.

When the Empress Dowager Li of the dynasty had always loved Hua Manlou like a nephew, she should not change for the change of identity. When he heard that Hua Manlou wanted to go to the battlefield, he stopped it, but in the end, he was persuaded by Hua Manlou to take out the money that the official family gave him, and let people buy all the medicinal materials, so that Hua Manlou could go over in the name of delivering medicine. Li Niangniang thought so, Qitong was sending medicine in his own name, and those generals would not throw him to the battlefield without opening their eyes.

Because of this, Yusheng was also treated with the light of the flowers, and some not very confidential military information could also know a thing or two.

The battle situation was very unfavorable to the Song army, although it resisted the pace of the Western Xia for a while, but the battle damage was also huge. At this time, if Western Xia attacked again, the consequences were not optimistic.

In this case, Yusheng decisively adopted the construction of Huamanlou and went to the enemy's rear to set fire.

There is also gunpowder in the army, but the gunpowder in the army is not very powerful, and it is good to use it for ignition. Yusheng wants to use oil the most, which is not easy to extinguish once ignited, but unfortunately it is inconvenient to carry, so he can only settle for the next best. It is said that people kill people and set fires, but Yusheng only sets fires and does not kill people, but it also disturbs the Xixia military camp into a mess. He and Hua Manlou lit a fire and cleared the field, and cooperated very tacitly, and when the army found that the grain and grass were burned, they were powerless to return to the sky and could not be rescued.

It's just that after many successes, even if they never lost their caution, they still accidentally fell into an ambush, and although they retreated afterwards, they all knew in their hearts that I was afraid that this matter could not continue. Fortunately, Hua Manlou was careful, and he didn't just make trouble when he visited the enemy camp many times, he drew a sketch of the distribution of all parties inside the enemy camp and handed it over to the general who led the troops, as for how he would use it, it was a matter for professionals.

After this wave, Yusheng and Hua Manlou hurried back to Kaifeng. He always felt that the power of gunpowder was small, and he planned to pry Zhao Zhen to find a master to reform. As a result, as soon as I went back, before I entered the palace, I heard a loud bang in the direction of the palace. Then, there were rumors that the official family had been blessed with the invention of divine fire.

Yusheng's eyes lit up, if the explosives that Zhao Zhen made out had this power, then there was really nothing to worry about in Xixia.

Zhao Zhen's thoughts were the same, after getting the map drawn by Hua Manlou, Zhao Zhen lowered his head and thought for a while, and looked at Yusheng, "Since you can enter and leave the enemy camp without being detected, have you sneaked me into the capital of Western Xia?" ”

“…… Do you want to? A guess flashed through Yusheng's heart.

"After being dug out, I don't believe that Li Yuanhao can still wave outside!" It's just that the east and the west besiege Wei to save Zhao, and the lives of his people in the Great Song Dynasty are precious, so he won't be a consumable for the war.

Zhao Zhen was secretly ruthless in his heart, now that the number of explosives is small, and when the output is stable, he has to ask Li Yuanhao to bow down and pay tribute.