Chapter 647

Zhao Xu's sharp eagle eyes swept over the civil and military ministers who fell to the ground in front of him, saw the encouraging gaze of Gao Tao beside him, cleared his throat, and began to speak loudly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the tenth year of Yuan You, and it is also the first year of my pro-government, and now, my Great Song Huben is so brave and resolute, it is worthy of the cornerstone of my Great Song Dynasty to defend the frontier......"

“…… Since the end of the Tang Dynasty war, the princes seized the people as soldiers, in order to avoid the forced conscription of soldiers to flee, so the innocent people tattooed on their faces to prevent escape. And I, the Great Song Dynasty, am the lord of the world, and I have always ruled the country with benevolence and righteousness......"

With Zhao Xu's methodical explanation, the final sentence was that from the New Year's Day of the tenth year of Yuan You, the Great Song military will no longer continue to carry out the obviously humiliating procedure of tattooing characters and noodles when recruiting soldiers.

Hearing the news, the ministers present, especially those generals, loudly praised the wisdom and martial arts and benevolence of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

With the good news of Shaanxi Road and the arrival of the prisoner of war team, as well as the edict of the Son of Heaven to abolish the suffering of soldiers and soldiers. The New Year's Day court meeting in the tenth year of Yuan Yu plunged the entire Tokyo Bianliang into a state of carnival.

Raise your eyebrows, raise your eyebrows, for many years in the Great Song Dynasty, although the Great Song Dynasty is very rich and prosperous, but the military strength always seems to be not enough, and the Northern Expedition has ended in failure many times.

Even the little Western Xia could jump up and down in front of the Great Song Dynasty, making the northwest frontier of the Great Song Dynasty lose land one after another, and in the end, they could only give New Year's coins and spend money to buy peace.

Even so, there was still an endless provocation, and the Great Song Dynasty, whether it was facing the Northern Liao in the north, or the weak Western Xia, could only take a defensive position with grievances.

It took decades of grinding and grinding to regain some territory, but in general, little progress was made. What's more, the previous battle of Yongle City made the Great Song Dynasty almost extinguish the heart of the north.

Now, after the literary and elegant Bachelor Su became the pacification envoy of Shaanxi Road, the army of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly seemed to have changed people, which can be described as a success, think about it, and then encircled and suppressed the sixty or seventy thousand elite divisions of Western Xia.

The empress dowager who also captured the Western Xia and many important ministers, and now it is directly with lightning speed, and has captured Yanzhou, Youzhou, and Hongzhou at once, so that the Xiangguo of the Western Xia has to bend over and lead 100,000 Western Xia troops to surrender.

Such good news is really too much for the hearts of the people, and it can definitely make everyone eat at least one or two more bowls of a meal.

The important thing is that whether it is the battle of Hongdezhai or the persuasion of Liang Xiangguo in Western Xia, the light of Wushan, the king of Wenzhuangyuan in the ninth year of the Great Song Dynasty, cannot be concealed by anyone.

His talent was even called by Su Dongpo and Su Dawenhao, who could live on his right side, and his strategy was even more elusive, no less than Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty.

The names of Su Dongpo, Han Zhongyan, Wang Wushan, Zhang Qi, Seed Master Dao, Zhi Keshi, Zhi Kexing, Ma Shang and other meritorious ministers are even more familiar.

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The next day, the Son of Heaven personally sacrificed his captives to the temple to comfort the ancestors, so that these ancestors who are already under the nine springs and above the nine heavens can see, the descendants of your family are very competitive, and they breathe a sigh of relief for you, and even the queen mother of the Western Xia was captured by our Great Song Huben.

It's just that when this good news spread in Bianliang, Tokyo, the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty, the envoys of all the countries who stayed in Bianliang, Tokyo couldn't help but feel panicked in their hearts, even the envoys of Northern Liao, they couldn't help but be angry in their hearts at this moment.

Before, I thought it was just that the Western Xia was too careless and arrogant, so that the loss of troops was just a general, as for the Xiaoliang who was captured by the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the Western Xia can afford to pay a sufficient price, then our Northern Liao can fight with the Great Song Dynasty for them.

But I didn't expect that the Great Song Dynasty would win again, and this time it was not in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song army took the initiative to attack and take the three states of Western Xia.

The land of the southern frontier of Western Xia was almost divided into two, and even the troops of the Great Song Dynasty were less than five hundred miles away from Xingqing Mansion, the hinterland of Western Xia.

After confirming the authenticity of these news, the envoy of Northern Liao already knew that these matters were no longer for him to make decisions, and immediately sent a fast horse messenger to Northern Liao.

The successive victories of the Great Song Dynasty against the Western Xia also made many small states that were originally in the vicinity of the Western Xia control area begin to move.

After the New Year's Day meeting, there is a rest day that lasts for more than ten days, but not everyone has the time and opportunity to rest.

After tasting the fruits of victory, the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao discussed with Zhao Xu and decided to agree to Wang Yang's proposal to the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty to ensure the production of the Great Song Dynasty Yuan Youjia.

Another is that the scale of the armor-making workshops in various states of the Great Song Dynasty can be gradually reduced, and in the future, the armor-making workshops of the Great Song Dynasty will be gradually retained only in Bianliang, Tokyo.

In addition, the production of the Yuanyu crossbow must ensure a production rate of at least 10,000 per month, and no longer produce the Divine Arm Crossbow and various other long-range weapons that are inferior to the Yuanyu crossbow in range and power.

In this way, the versatility of the crossbow arm and crossbow body of the Great Song Dynasty is ensured, and there will be no damage to one crossbow arm and one crossbow body damage, but due to the difference in models, it cannot be replaced and combined into a weapon that continues to shoot.

Of course, bows will continue to be produced, after all, bows are more civilian than military, after all, the long-range weapons used in the Great Song army are more crossbows, and bows only account for less than one-third.

In addition, Wang Yang repeatedly mentioned in his separate recital that the Great Song Dynasty should keep the gunpowder weapons secret, so as to prevent this kind of weapon, which is far more advanced than the bow and crossbow, from being mastered by the Northern Liao and Western Xia.

The other is the danger of gunpowder weapons, which will eventually be rebuilt in a new location, and it will also need to be closely guarded by troops

Although the Empress Dowager Gao Tao was a little disapproving, but fortunately, Zhao Xu, the son of the Great Song Dynasty, had already regarded Wang Wushan as a celestial man, and he was very superstitious about his words and deeds.

For this reason, Zhao Xu specially ordered to re-establish a gunpowder weapon making workshop in a remote place in the east of Bianliang City, Tokyo. He also specially sent a thousand forbidden troops to guard it closely, and handed over the supervision of the gunpowder weapon manufacturing workshop to Zhao Ji, who is now in charge of the ordnance supervision bow and crossbow workshop from Wang Wushan.

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After Su Dongpo sent out the good news, Zhang Ji moved his command post forward and personally rushed to Yanzhou, a salt-producing center in the northwest that was finally recaptured. Han Zhongyan is in Hongzhou of the Jianing Military Division, and the Seed Master Dao is in Youzhou.

Zhe Kexing commanded 30,000 elite cavalry to roam around, and as for the ancient city of Wuyan, it continued to bombard once a quarter of an hour every day.

So far, five or six days have passed, and in the entire ancient city of Wuyan, the morale of the Western Xia soldiers has fallen to the point that it is impossible to extricate themselves.