Yelu Zhangnu detained all the important royal families in Tianxiong Temple. In this side hall, the eight-armed demon subduing King Kong is enshrined, and the dim light makes King Kong's angry eyes look particularly hideous and terrifying. Just in front of the King Kong statue, Concubine Wen knelt on the ground, closed her eyes and prayed. Her face was cold, her clothes neat but not luxurious, and she was not as uneasy as the other royal families. In the corner of the side hall, Yelu Yanxi's queen Xiao Duoli and the two concubines were all defeated, and they were on the ground, and the other golden branches and jade leaves were not much better. In the past ten days, Yeluzhangnu only gave them one gruel a day, and they were so hungry that they did not even have the strength to stand up.

Suddenly, the heavy door of the palace was pushed open with a "squeak", the light was dazzling, and the person who came couldn't see his face clearly, and asked, "Which one is Concubine Wen?" ”

The eyes of all the royal families looked towards Xiao Sese, and the queen Xiao Duoli was even more lazy and showed resentful eyes. Xiao Si Se raised his head and stood up with a calm expression.

Brother Yelu Tiege walked up to her, bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty Dashi is invited, Her Royal Highness Concubine Wen will come with the end." He always knew that in addition to Yelu Zhangnu, Dashi had allies in Shangjing, but he didn't know which one it was. When he came to Tianxiong Temple today, Yelu Dashi was nowhere to be seen, so he asked him to invite Concubine Wen, so he guessed the clue and was very polite.

Xiao Se Se didn't speak, turned her head to look at her son, the emperor's eldest son Yelu Ao Lu Hu's face was pale, and his usual heroic demeanor was not at all. She sighed secretly.

The stone waited in the side hall next door, and the guards outside the hall straightened their bodies as straight as iron spears. Jerod's back was to the temple gate, and he was clothed in a white skull. He turned, and the two of them looked at each other, hearing only the sound of muffled breathing. Jerod retreated and closed the door of the temple.

After a long time, Yelu Dashi sighed and said in a low voice, "Cersei." "Take a step forward.

Xiao Sese took a step back and said in a deep voice: "General, please respect yourself." She looked up, her eyes cold as water.

"The faint king has been conferred," Yelu Dashi said in a deep voice with his arms around her shoulders, "and no one can separate us." His words were scorching, not like a general in the northern country, as if he had returned to the time when Hanlin Chengzhi and the Khitan talented woman swore an alliance under the moon. Just after that day, Yelu Yanxi visited Xiao's mansion and brought Xiao Sese back to the palace, and a few months later, she was named Concubine Wen.

Xiao Sese struggled a few times, looked at Yelu Dashi, and said in a deep voice: "Is the general still ready to fulfill his previous promise and support Ao Luwei?" ”

Yelu Dashi's face suddenly turned cold, he was silent for a moment, looked at the sun and moon embroidered on the coat that symbolized the Khitan imperial power, and said with a wry smile: "Cersei, the heart of the army, I have to do it, become the king and defeat the king, this road cannot be retreated." As he spoke, he held Xiao Sese's hand in his palm and said in a deep voice: "We Khitan people don't care about the hypocritical etiquette of the Han people, the faint monarch is dead, and I will make you a concubine." Tart Geli and Yu Jian monitored Yelu Zhangnu for me, and Xiao Suxian also contributed a lot, and I will reuse it. ”

Xiao Sese's heart suddenly sank to the bottom, and his strength seemed to be drained, listening to Yelu Dashi in his arms, two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks, I don't know whether it was excitement or remorse.

Yelu Ao Lu and Yelu Yu are Xiao Sese's brother-in-law and brother-in-law. Both of them held military power, and when Yelu Dashi did not go to Beijing, they secretly restrained Yelu Zhangnu for Yelu Dashi. Xiao Suxian is Xiao Sese's brother, this family was originally the Bohai royal clan, after the Khitan destroyed the Bohai, the big clan moved to Shangjing to control the Bohai Sea remotely, and in the future, Yelu Dashi will use troops to Tokyo Road, and it is necessary to rely on Xiao Suxian's power. He had promised Xiao Suxian to restore the old system of the Bohai Kingdom, and Xiao Suxian persuaded Xiao Se Se to secretly communicate the news for Dashi, so that the courtiers who were originally attached to Concubine Wen and the emperor's eldest son secretly helped Youzhou to raise troops.

As the generals waited outside the palace, Urgon Murb looked enviously at the palace and said to Yeluyanshan: "My father Khan used to say that heroes and heroes should chase their enemies like sheep, plunder their possessions, rob their horses, and see their relatives wash their faces with tears and ravage their wives and daughters. His Majesty Dashi is a true hero. ”

Yelu Yanshan also smiled: "That's right. He pressed the hilt of his sword and looked at the side hall where Yelu Yanxi's other wives and children were watching.

In this night, there was a fire in the capital, and Yelu Yanxi's queen Xiao Duoli was killed by the rebels, and at the same time, there were Concubine Xiao Shigu, Yuan Concubine Xiao Guige, Yelu Yanxi's six sons, as well as close relatives of the Xiao family and dozens of nobles in the capital who were inclined to Yelu Yanxi. Yelu Dashi took the surviving Concubine Wen Xiao Sese and named her a noble concubine. Yelu Yanxi's other daughters and unnamed concubines, Yelu Dashi will reward everyone as concubines, but it is strictly forbidden to be established as a wife. Only Xiao Sese's daughter Yelu Yu Liyan was named the princess of Bohai, and officially married Xiao Lili, a confidant general, to reward his courage and loyalty.

Ten days later, Yelu Dashi officially usurped the throne and changed the name of the year to Yanqing. When the news reached Bianliang, everyone gritted their teeth and scolded this chaotic minister and thief, as if he had usurped the throne of the Liao State instead of the Great Song Dynasty. In recent years, Emperor Zhao You has been addicted to taking pills, his energy has exhausted greatly, and he feels that his time is running out, and he intends to replace the eldest prince Zhao Ke with the third prince Zhao Qi into the East Palace. After the courtiers quarreled, they still sent an envoy from Cheng Qin Hui in the imperial history to send a letter of state to Da Liao.

Yelu Dashi also reciprocated the peach, and returned the temple vessel that Taizu Yelu Abaoji plundered from Bianliang, a bronze tripod of the Zhou Dynasty weighing more than 2,000 catties and four legs as a national gift to Bianliang, and asked the Song State for peace. This is an unprecedented event since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the court and the Sifang Prefecture have been congratulated into the court, thinking that the return of the country to the Central Plains is the Son of Heaven with benevolence and virtue. Even the Qingliushi people also wrote poems to record them. Zhao You was also extremely proud, although he politely rejected the request of the Liao Emperor on the grounds that there was no precedent for harmony in this dynasty, but once again gave back countless gold, silver and silk. The Liao and Song dynasties were as good as ever, as if they were truly brothers.

During this period, the artillery battalion that had been prepared for a long time by the Xia State was officially established, and Zhao Xingde was unexpectedly appointed as the centurion of the gunner battalion. He was also the only one of the five gunner centurions who did not come from the city's artillery battalion. The new battalion was like a blank sheet of paper, and the initial military regulations were based on the earlier artillery infantry battalion, and the marching division ordered the centurions to train their troops while compiling the regulations suitable for their own battalions. Depending on the results of the training, the military government will compile official artillery battalion drills and operational regulations. According to the plan of the General's Office, after the artillery battalion is matured and tested in actual combat, it will be expanded tenfold to establish an artillery corps with 300 guns. These secrets are unknown to Centurion Zhao De.

Zhao Xingde was distressed that he had left the infantry sergeant he was familiar with. The gunners were all from the city's artillery battalion, and they didn't take him as an alien centurion in their eyes at all. Except for one or two who were faintly aware of something, the other centurions were also waiting to see him laugh. Only Wang Tongdeng, the cavalry centurion who was also from Chengying, fully supported him, and even told him privately that he could borrow troops to help him suppress his unconvinced subordinates, Zhao Xingde refused with a wry smile.

Zhao Xingde had his own method, taking advantage of the opportunity of the centurion to compile his own regulations during the whole training period, and tried to standardize every word and deed and every move of the gunners with regulations, including the need to salute when he saw the officers. He numbered all ten gunners in each group, and the commander of the ten was responsible for aiming and proofreading, and conveying the password to the whole group. Five gunners loaded and fired the guns at the command of the Ten-Commander, and the other four were responsible for carrying cast-iron rounds and gunpowder packs from the ammunition trucks to the guns, which in turn were handed to the gunners.

The first to be codified was the "Battle Doctrine", which required field artillery forts to be spaced more than two feet apart to avoid interference between adjacent artillery groups in busy battles. As soon as the gun carriage was removed from the wagon, the gunner, who was preparing the ammunition, had to lead the horses to safety behind the cart. The four ammunition men returned to the ammunition truck, five gunners stood behind the guns, and the Centurion stood upwind on the sides of the guns.

After getting Zhao Xingde's military order, it should be ordered by the ten commanders: "Prepare!" "Two gunners stepped forward from behind the gun, one with a brush and a stick to push the shells, and the other was ready to take the shells and kits from the ammunition men, and he was responsible for loading the ammunition into the chamber. The third gunner was located next to the breech, and he had to keep the fire door clean and dry, especially not to get wet with the brush of the first gunner. A fourth gunner will stand behind the gun, and he will punch holes in the powder pack through the fire door and insert the straw filled with gunpowder for ignition.

When all the preparations were completed, Zhao Xingde gave the order to "fire!" The fifth gunner, hearing the command of the Centurion to "open fire", immediately fired the gun with a fire fold. Artillery firing was accompanied by a huge recoil, and the five gunners, in addition to the Ten, had to immediately push the gun back to the fort and begin to clean the chamber in preparation for another fire. The Ten, on the other hand, observes where the shells land and decides empirically whether the aim of the gun needs to be adjusted.

This "battle code" is dozens of pages thick, not only referring to the operating habits of the existing city fire gunners, but also mixed with Zhao Xingde's imagination and fabrication. He envisioned the transformation of the vague combat operations of an artillery group into a coordination with very clear doctrines.

"On the real battlefield, if you don't tell him how to do it, many people don't know what to do, and operating something as complicated as artillery, even if the instructions I write are not good, it's better than not having detailed instructions." Zhao Xingde comforted himself.

When this order was sent to the Firearms Department for filing, Wang Yunzhong shouted: "Such a complicated order is simply that the soldiers have become string monkeys." He smiled bitterly at Changshi beside him: "This is a centurion, or a nerd." Why didn't he go to the Academy? ”