The people of the Folded family looked at each other with a look at each other.

"Cao Guang, are you playing with me?"

Zhe Keqiu said with a gloomy face.

"It's just a traitor, and I can't exterminate them with 5,000 elites of my family's army?"

He suspected that Cao Guang's dog thing looked down on the strength of his family's army!

Looking at the moody folding, Cao Guang became more and more frightened.

"General Zhe, that rebel is very powerful, some time ago, I defeated the two thousand soldiers in Qinzhou City, and it is said that they have nearly a thousand cavalry."

Zhe Keqiu frowned and pondered, if it was really what Cao Guang's dog thing said, then his 5,000 folded family army really didn't seem to be enough.

"Yanzhi, Yanwen, I'm giving you 3,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 cavalry, remember to give me all my work in one battle to exterminate that group of traitors."

"I personally ask Your Majesty for your credit!"

Because he was his own son who led the troops, he was unusually generous, and in a word, there were 4,000 soldiers and horses, and even 1,000 cavalry.

You must know that the war horses of the Great Song Dynasty are rare things, even if it is the entire Zhejia army, the cavalry does not add up to much, at most more than 3,000 horses, but now it is given a third at once.

"Yes, Father!"

Zhi Yanwen and Zhi Yanqi said loudly to Zhi Keqiu.

Zhe Keqiu nodded in satisfaction.

……

Xixia Royal City, Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion!

The envoy of the Qian family came to the Western Xia royal city and went straight to visit the left prime minister of Western Xia.

"The Qian family of the Great Song Dynasty, Qian Yi has seen Prime Minister Zuo."

The eyes of the left prime minister of Xixia opened and closed, and the eyes were incomparably yin.

"What's the matter? Since your Great Song Dynasty has already turned against my Great Xia Kingdom, are you a Song person who came to my Xia Kingdom to find death? ”

There is murder in the tone!

"Back to Prime Minister Zuo, the head of my family asked me to bring you a word, the one who robbed the Great Xia New Year's coins was a group of thieves from the Great Song Dynasty."

"It's not that Da Song wants to fall out with Da Xia! And that anti-thief was bold, and he brutally killed the young master of my Qian family, and my Qian family asked the Great Xia Kingdom to send troops on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty to exterminate the anti-thief. ”

"When this matter is completed, the Qian family will have a good reward!"

Qian said expressionlessly, he was a dead soldier, so he was naturally not afraid of death.

"Hehe......"

"On behalf of the Great Song Dynasty, is your Qian family qualified to represent the Great Song Dynasty?"

Prime Minister Zuo opened his mouth to question, his tone was cold and abnormal, and the coldness and murderous intent in his voice were extremely dangerous.

"Naturally, my Qian family has been deeply involved in the southeast for hundreds of years, and the background is extremely profound, as long as the Qian family is willing, the holy decree of asking the Great Xia Kingdom to send troops to suppress the thieves can be sent to the Great Xia Kingdom soon."

Qian Yi said, his tone was full of confidence in the Qian family's heritage.

Prime Minister Zuo bowed slightly, such a family does have such a background.

"That's not enough!"

It's just that Prime Minister Zuo's old voice said.

"It's time to double the New Year's coins given by the Song Kingdom to Great Xia."

Prime Minister Zuo said leisurely, but Qian Yi was in a dilemma.

He really can't decide on such a matter related to national politics as the New Year's coin, even if the Qian family is deeply connected in the DPRK, he can't influence such a thing.

"Prime Minister Zuo, it's difficult to double the year's coins!"

"But my Qian family can give a batch of treasures and goods to the Great Xia Kingdom, how about the Qian family's filial piety to the Lord of the Great Xia Kingdom?"

Qian Yi said tentatively.

Prime Minister Zuo said after a moment of silence.

"I need to make it clear to my Great Xia Lord in this matter, and the old man can't make a decision."

Qian Yi quietly relaxed after hearing this, and said that at this point, the high-ranking and powerful Zuo Prime Minister in Western Xia could be regarded as agreeing.

What kind of lord of the country, it's completely a little better looking!

……

On March 17 of the fourth year of Xuanhe, the Dangyu army conquered Qinghe City!

On March 18, conquer the Black Mountain Cottage!

On March 21, conquer Ulan Fort!

……

In April, the Dang Capture Army Peak arrived at the city of Xizhou!

The land of Qinzhou, Xizhou, and Minzhou was swept away by the Dang army.

Except for the state city, all of them fell into the hands of the Dangling Army, and the strength of the Dangling Army expanded to 6,000, nearly a battalion of troops.

Although most of them are still training recruits, the two full schools are still successfully fully equipped.

All plate armor, shields, ring-headed knives, spears!

Earthquake Thunder is still proportional.

But muskets also appeared in the Dang Army, and the first to be equipped was the personal guards around Chen Yan, equipped with twenty flintlock pistols, and that bronze cannon.

But more people are still cold weapon troops!

In these years, cold weapons are the decisive factor that really determines the outcome of a war, and what really determines the outcome of a war is definitely not whether the firearms are sharp, but the hand-to-hand combat ability of an army.

Even at the intersection of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the wars between the European powers were supplemented by firearms, and the fight for bayonets was the stage that really determined the outcome of the war.

Even in the time of the Opium War, the decision to win or lose the war was a battle with bayonets.

At that time, the equipment of the Manchu army was no worse than that of the great powers, and in the stage of firepower between the two sides, the Manchu army could still hold on, and even the two sides still had contacts.

But as soon as the war entered the stage of fighting bayonets, the Manchu army began to rout as an organization.

Therefore, in this era, whether an army is strong or not depends on the army's cold weapon combat capability, and it is not until it enters the era of rear-loading guns that cold weapons gradually disappear from the army's main weapon sequence.

The most important aspects of an army are discipline and teamwork, and although the rest are also important, they can only be regarded as trivial compared to these two.

Discipline is military discipline, that is, obedience, military orders like a mountain, those who resist will die.

Teamwork is the cooperation of soldiers on the battlefield to form battle formations in order to seek maximum efficiency to kill and damage the enemy.

On the battlefield, these two points are the most fundamental source of the army's combat effectiveness, and only by doing so can the army form a powerful combat strength in a short period of time.

Therefore, even if the firearms ratio is a little lower temporarily, Chen Yan doesn't care!

In these years, there are not many real kills that firearms can cause, especially when the number is not enough, at most it is just to listen to the sound and scare the other party.

To really distinguish the winner and loser, it still depends on hand-to-hand combat!

Therefore, when Chen Yan instructed the Ministry of Industry in charge of Guo Jiangtou to make weapons, it was still mainly plate armor and cold weapons, but the batch production of firearms also had to be put on the agenda.

As soon as he thought that he might have to face the Jin Army in the future, the cluster charge of tens of thousands of Tiefutu, Chen Yan felt his scalp tingle.

Without thousands of cannons to base up, he really has no bottom in his heart!

The Swinging Army is still slowly expanding in size, and as the Swinging Army gets stronger and stronger, it has become much easier to recruit new recruits.

The land of the three states, although it is a bitter cold land, is enough for the development of the army for the time being!

Looking at the tall city wall of Xizhou City in front of him, Chen Yan slowly raised his hand, he had not yet decided whether to capture Xizhou City or not.

Will you attack the city immediately, or will you prepare to encircle the point and send reinforcements? If you encircle the point to send reinforcements, wouldn't it be embarrassing if Song Jun came too much and couldn't eat it? !