The Han and the Hu in Liaodong are mixed, and the people's hearts are much more fluctuating than those in the Central Plains. When An Lushan Shi Siming raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, the people had a saying that the future lord of the world would come from the northeast. Later, the Central Plains Bandang, the Khitan and the Xing, the Liao Dynasty classics recorded that Taizu Yelu Abaoji had shot a black dragon in Shangjing, and the dragon fell to the west of the Yellow Dragon Mansion. It is rumored in Liaodong that this dragon vein should be on the true dragon son sooner or later. Han Chang raised troops against Liao, and many of the Han army regarded themselves as "ministers of the dragon".

The marshal of the Han army was able to stand in Liaodong for decades without dispersing, and took the advantages of the Xia and Song dynasties. The Han family is the co-leader of the Han army, but the young master of the Han family succeeds to the throne and holds power, and he must first be recognized by the generals, but after the upper and lower names are decided, the rules are actually extremely strict. Han Ningshuang's purge of Han Guo's henchmen earlier has been a common occurrence in the past few decades. Although it limited the development of the Han army itself, it did eliminate most of the half-hearted people.

Xu Detai learned a lot when he was young, and when he joined the Han army, he was generous and fierce, and he wanted to assist the Ming Lord to drive Hu Xinghan and make meritorious contributions. After decades of running and fighting, although he is ranked among the third leaders in Kaizhou Village, his ambition has faded little by little. Han Ningshuang's performance made the old ministers of the Han army quite pleased, and the idea of "Conglong" in the past involuntarily popped up again. After Zhao Xingde arrived in Liaodong, he collected the displaced people, organized the army, and conquered the city, in Xu Detai's eyes, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed that he was accumulating strength and recruiting heroes in order to make a big move. He was secretly wary, but now that he saw Han Ningshuang and Zhao Xingde getting closer and closer, he actually had some thoughts of being happy to see it happen. However, this thought was hidden in the bottom of my heart and did not dare to reveal it at all. None of this is the way of a human servant.

This is also a different position, if Jin Changtai and others are replaced, they will never think that Zhao Xingde has the heart of self-reliance. Although the Xia State only occupied Bashu in Guanzhong, it shared the Central Plains with the Great Song Dynasty. But when the sergeants looked at the countries in all directions, they all had a faint sense of pride and pride, just as the people of the Zhou Dynasty looked at the barbarians in the four directions. From the ministers of the Xia Kingdom to the soldiers and the common people, they all have a way of self-defense. What about the high-ranking officials of the Liao State? is as powerful as Han Chang, and in the end he died and the clan was wiped out, which is far less stable than the status of the captain of the Protector Mansion. The people of Xia are more prosperous than the people of the leading country. There are the income of the granting of fields, the rank of the lord, the lord and the shadow household, and most of the sergeants have a lot of income. A while ago, the eighth battalion of Chengying issued dozens of different profits. The sergeant of the Chengying Battalion was calm, and the originally poor garrison was simply drooling.

In the Han military camp under the city of Liaoyang, the garrison was lined up in five rows, each platoon of 100 people, and under the command of the centurion, the five steps of brushing the chamber, loading ammunition, tamping, erecting the gun, and igniting were completed in turn. This kind of fire gun made of fine iron is also called a hand cannon in Liaodong to distinguish it from an iron barrel cannon. Therefore, this musket battalion was also called the hand cannon battalion by the Han army. Zhao Xingde only smiled bitterly when he heard this. Because the iron used was a little shoddy, the bore wall of the firearm had to be thickened a lot during trial production. This led to the body of the gun being much heavier than the Song Guohuo gun, and if it was transformed into a Zhangxu spear according to Zhao Xingde's previous idea, it would be difficult for the garrison to hold it because the front end was too heavy. Later, the handle of the gun had to be shortened. In order to take advantage of this extra weight, a small axe was added to the lower end of the spear. Many of the garrison soldiers were from woodcutters, so they were very familiar with axes.

The firing command in front of the enemy in the fire battalion is the simplest five, but the actions of the entire operation are subdivided into more than twenty, and Zhao Xingde's requirement is that the movements of each 100-person garrison must be consistent, just like a queue drill, and the whole team will be punished if they can't do it.

Liu Zhijian is now the governor of the fifth garrison battalion, accompanied by his "one! "Two!" "Three!" "Four!" "Five!" The sound of the garrison, the neat and coherent movements of the garrison, actually carried a sense of familiarity and beauty.

"It's good to train like this, is it good-looking, is it used in war?" Gao Bolong said with a pout. Just the day before yesterday, Han Ningshuang specially asked Wang Xuansu to train the hand artillery battalion according to the method of the Xia State camp to make up for the lack of archers in the Han army.

"You'll know if you've been on the battlefield." Tong Yunjie said in a deep voice. He already sincerely admired Zhao Xingde. Now he is in charge of the Han army's artillery battalion, and is always enthusiastic to explain to his colleagues the intentions of Xia Guoying's various measures.

"Few of our recruits have seen blood. Don't look at the usual roaring power, if you are really going to battle, the Liao cavalry rushed over overwhelmingly, but I am afraid that the courage has long been cowardly. This hand cannon is extremely troublesome to fire, if you don't practice carefully, I'm afraid that few people will be able to really fire it at that time. This method of training may seem clumsy, but in fact it is very safe. ”

Gao Bolong's face suddenly realized: "That's true, this method is easy to use." He looked up at the Xia State camp not far away, and sighed, "It's a pity that our Han army has a shallow foundation, if there are more than 100,000 elites in the Shuaifu back then, I'm afraid that Shangjing will also take it." ”

In the captain's tent, bows, arrows, sabers and other things were hung on the wall, and under an oil lamp, Zhao Xingde sat cross-legged in front of the bookcase, reading a letter. Chen Dong asked him for advice on how to use the displaced people to train the villagers. After seeing Chen Dong's whimsical idea of using a demeaning scholar as an officer, Zhao Xingde couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. Zhao Xingde frowned, looking at the tone in the letter, Chen Shaoyang's determination was very great, and he concluded that if it were not so, there would be no restraint overseas, and the so-called township soldiers were actually no different from rebellion. However, the Song State was very estranged and estranged. Scholars do not practice fists, feet, swords, guns, and at most, they have read a few military books, and even if they are appointed officers, they have no prestige in the battalion.

"In this way," Zhao Xingde muttered, "this villager can only practice in the same way as the Fire Gun Garrison Battalion." He bowed his head and wrote a paragraph about the practice of the fire battalion, suggesting that in order to avoid the soldiers being overwhelmed, in addition to using the well-behaved science society scholars as officers, he would select a group of instructors with excellent skills, who were usually responsible for teaching skills, but did not care about leading the troops. Officers should teach soldiers the principles several times a day, morning and evening, so that they can understand their righteousness and be honest and shameful, and second, they should promote their strengths and avoid their weaknesses and enhance their prestige.

As for Chen Dong's idea of re-emphasizing the use of punishment and reward to govern the homeless, Zhao Xingde agreed very much, and only reminded him that the way of punishment and reward is the same, and he must not think that "the courtesy is not inferior to the common people, and the punishment is not to the doctor". Let the officials everywhere use their own selfishness, and let the scholars stand outside the punishment. Otherwise, there will be no discipline, and sooner or later these displaced people will rebel, and it will be too late to regret it then.

Because of his busy military affairs, Zhao Xingde didn't have time to consider every word, and sent the letter out immediately after replying. Then he stood up, put on his sword, bow and arrow, put on his iron helmet, and went out of the camp to make rounds. Now outside Liaoyang City, there is an atmosphere before the Great War. Jin Guo's iron barrel cannons and stone throwers were also transported one after another, and there were thousands of them, and whenever the stone bullets were fired, it was really as if it was raining stones. The artillery battalion of the Han army was not so important, but because the Jin-Liao War was imminent, the contradiction between Han and Jin was temporarily suppressed, and Wanyan Wuyaren even sent a batch of military rations to Han Ningshuang.

The Jin army continued to march from Shenzhou, occupying the terrain under the city of Liaoyang and setting up camps, as if they intended to wait for the Liao army to come to battle. Just outside the Xia State camp, the golden soldiers in iron armor constantly drove their horses to practice rushing up the low wall, crossing the trench, engaging and fighting, and so on. Everywhere there was a scene of people neighing, smoke and dust, and the sound of killing shaking the sky.

Not long after, the vanguard of Liao's reinforcements arrived on the periphery of Liaoyang. The commander of the Jin army sent the brave general Lou Room to lead the army to meet the attack, and the two sides fought fiercely, and the Liao cavalry was repulsed. This battle frustrated the morale of the Liao army. The 150,000 Liao army was actually stationed a hundred miles away from Liaoyang City, and they did not dare to advance. In desperation, Xiao Suxian, who was left behind in Tokyo, sent a messenger to Shangjing again to ask for help.

The Liao Emperor Yelu Dashi issued an edict to publicly reprimand Yelu Tiege, and Yelu Tiege wrote a letter to apologize, also saying that the Jin army had many soldiers and horses, and the field battle was fierce, and the reinforcements were meager, and the hasty army was only afraid of losing. Yelu Dashi had no choice but to personally lead a cavalry army of 100,000 and an infantry army of 50,000, known as an army of 400,000, to personally conquer Liaoyang.

After Yelu Dashi left Shangjing, some ill-intentioned people immediately became ready to move. After believing that Yelu Dashi had left, Yelu Zhangnu, the king of the Northern Courtyard, was proclaimed emperor, and the rebels gathered tens of thousands of troops to besiege the imperial city. Queen Xiao Ta Buyan and Concubine Xiao Sese summoned the palace tent guards to guard desperately, and the boy camp who got the queen's favor and entered the palace also went to the city to help. The rebels besieged it for a day and a night, but they couldn't get it. On the third day of the rebellion, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was supposed to be hundreds of miles away, suddenly returned, and some of the Shangjing rebels opened the city gate for Wang Shi.

At the beginning of the Yelu Dashi Uprising, he called for the restoration of the ancestral system, ruled the world with all the Khitan magnates, and promised to distribute all the Han'er slaves to the Khitan tribes. But when he ascended the throne, although he reopened the Khitan Eight Tribal Assembly, he replaced many Khitan tribal leaders with his cronies, and still firmly held on to his authority. Most of the slaves and wealth originally distributed to the tribes belonged to the chiefs, but as a result, Yelu Dashi assigned these directly to the names of the warriors, and the warriors in the military were directly under the command of the centurions, the commanders, and the privy envoys of the northern court, which was equivalent to taking away most of the rights of the chiefs of the tribes. In the past two years, although his prestige has grown, there are many people who secretly want to crush him.

Although Yelu Dashi is authoritarian and self-respecting, he can't kill all the Khitan nobles. With the opportunity of this rebellion, most of the nobles in Shangjing with bad intentions were finally lured out. A bloodbath began. More than 100 royal families alone were killed, and there were countless other families implicated. After everything was cleaned up, Yelu Dashi Fang left the imperial commander Xiao Huli to guard Shangjing, and personally led the army to Liaoyang.