Xiao Xi found that in just a few days, the attitude of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Kingdom was reversed.

Just the day before yesterday, when he went to the palace to meet the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, he talked loudly, argued with the ministers, and relied on the prestige of the Great Liao, only one step away from getting the young emperor to agree to give up Luowucheng and return to Fengzhou in the hands of the party members.

Today, I wanted to work harder, so that the errand I received had a happy result. However, he thought that after he went to the palace, he had not mentioned the matter of Luo Wu and Fengzhou, and the emperor of the Southern Dynasty directly refused, claiming that he would use force to recover Fengzhou. Not only did the emperor change his attitude, but even Wu Chong, the privy envoy who had remained silent the day before, claimed not to accept such an exchange.

In order to beat back the hand that the Song people stretched out to Western Xia, Xiao Xi had been in Tokyo City for a long time and put a lot of effort into it. In his opinion, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty is strong and capable, and he is afraid of the big Liao like a tiger, as long as he remains tough, he will have to give in sooner or later.

The previous time I fought for the land of Daibei, the original intention was to add 50,000 or 100,000 silver silk to the top of 500,000 silver silk. As for whether the border is on or below the watershed, I don't care at all. It's a pity that after the worst, it only gained a little face, but it didn't get any actual benefits.

If it was Li Yuanhao's at the beginning. After hearing about the entangled dispute between the Southern Dynasty and the Western Xia, when he was asked to mediate the matter, he was ready to rely on this matter to earn another New Year's coin for Da Liao, who would have thought that almost in one day, everything had changed.

"What the hell is going on?" Xiao Xi's deputy, Yelu Yinji, was just as puzzled.

"I've sent someone to investigate."

"Did the elders and important ministers of the Southern Dynasty say something in their letters? Didn't the emperor of the Southern Dynasty issue an edict asking for blunt words a few days ago? ”

"No way!" Xiao Xi snorted contemptuously: "Those goods will only bite Wang Anshi." ”

Han Qi, who is already dead, is a defeated commander, Fu Bi, who is still alive, is a minister who pays money, and Wen Yanbo is just a disciple who has occupied the state city, and it can't be called a rebellion in Daliao at all, so there are not a few cases in which year? These so-called famous ministers and elders, although some people in the country praise them, Xiao Xi can't look down on any of them.

Only Wang Anshi, when he became the prime minister, the combat power of the Song army was really improving. The reorganization of the forbidden armies in Hebei and Hedong in the Southern Dynasties has always been watched by people. The changes in it made the whole country vigilant, and even the Son of Heaven, who threw away the national government to the King of Wei, also inquired about it.

The soldiers are not expensive, and the forbidden army of the Southern Dynasties has dropped from 780,000 to 600,000 now, which is to subtract the fat on the body. The strict system allows unqualified soldiers to be demoted from the upper rank to the lower rank. Constantly weeding out unqualified soldiers, organizing commanders belonging to different military ranks in the same state into one general, clarifying their commands, and unifying orders, the system that made the Song State forbidden army shackled in the past was abolished little by little, and its combat power will only be higher than in the past. Therefore, in the past two years, there has been a dispute over the national border, and the monarchs and ministers of the Great Liao have the ambition to work together to suppress the aggressive momentum of the Southern Dynasty as soon as possible.

It was a success, but now it has failed. What's going on here? An hour later, the answer came back.

"Yongzhou victory?!" Xiao Xi was even more puzzled, "Didn't you already report a big victory a few days ago?" ”

"The front is still the Kunlun Pass victory, and then there is the Pennsylvania victory. The big victory came, the big victory went, but I didn't see the Jiaozhi people withdrawing the army, and I didn't see the rescue of Yongzhou, why did I come to a big victory? The fog in Yelu Yinji's mind also became heavier.

Since Zhang Dian and Han Gang, the two new party cadres, led the army south, Xiao Xi has been waiting for news from the south. This is a good material for him to negotiate, the more the Song people are troubled internally and externally, the more they can't insist on protecting Luo Wucheng.

However, after Zhang and Han arrived in Guangxi, the news of their victory was transmitted back to them one after another. Beheaded a thousand today, beheaded a thousand tomorrow, recaptured the pass the day after tomorrow, and said that the barbarian army was surrendered one day later, but after reaching the last day, there has never been a definite victory, how can there be such a great victory?

Neither Xiao Xi nor Yelu Yinji believed this answer.

The spies sent to Lu tried their best to distinguish that they were not lying: "It is true that I missed a step and failed to save Yongzhou, but the good news that came back said that Han Gang, the deputy envoy of transport, had beaten back 100,000 Jiaozhi troops and captured more than 10,000 people." ”

"More than 10,000 captives?" Xiao Xi calculated, and his surprise floated on his face, "In this way, the casualties of the Jiaozhi Army will be more than half!" ”

"Didn't the reinforcements you bring with you say that it's only one thousand and five? Can you defeat 100,000 Jiaozhi soldiers and capture more than 10,000 people?! Xiao Xi's deputy shook his head like a rattle, "It's 100,000 dogs, and it's not so easy to kill." ”

"The head is not good at cheating, and the Southern Dynasty will definitely send someone to count it."

"Can the inventory confirm it? Is there still less lying about military exploits? Yelu Yinji glanced at Xiao Xi and said meaningfully, "As long as you can hide it, don't you dare to lie?" ”

Xiao Xi just didn't hear anything, and ignored the too explicit statement of the deputy who was kicked to the Southern Dynasty by Yelu Yixin, the king of Wei, because he was too close to the crown prince. The matter between King Wei and the crown prince is not something he can mix, and he doesn't want to openly stand on either side at this time, "If it's someone else, then it's okay, it's Han Gang who leads the army!" ”

That's right, it's like a new star rising in the officialdom of the Southern Dynasties, Han Gang, who has a halo on his body, "With his past style of acting, it is impossible to deceive." Even if you want to lie about your military exploits, you don't need to make such a shocking record. "Anything can happen on the battlefield, although this battle is weird no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to say it in one bite, Xiao Xi will not be so strong." It was only after receiving this battle report that the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty became so tough. ”

Han Gang's deeds, Yelu Yinji and Xiao Xi have already understood it in depth, "If it's really dangerous." The Song army defeated the 100,000 Jiaozhi army with 1,500 troops, and it still used Jingnan soldiers, and did not use the most elite western army. ”

The name Han Gang had already reached Xiao Xi's ears a long time ago, and he carefully sent someone to investigate. After all, he is one of the best figures in the younger generation of the Song Kingdom, and he may have to deal with him for decades to come.

But the time Xiao Xi really became wary of this name was after the spaceship appeared. When he heard that the Song Kingdom had a divine artifact that could go straight to the nine heavens, Xiao Xi's heart was cold. However, after seeing the real thing with his own eyes, and then reading the principle expounded by the inventor, he found that the principle was so simple, but no one had thought of it for thousands of years—but Han Gang did.

Xiao Xi's vigilance is Han Gang's ability to think about what no one has thought of before, and he has never thought of before, such a person is too dangerous for the enemy country. As for the spaceship in the country that was vigorously inquired about, Xiao Xi didn't care very much.

Hung Ming lanterns, made on the same principle, are children's playthings. Similar to the shape of the spaceship, but the hot air balloon that cannot carry people, the restaurants in the city of the Southern Dynasties are floating in front of the door, and the city of Tokyo is everywhere, with banners dragging to make signboards below, and even the opening of a larger new store, that is, two hot air balloons fly up, and the banner below is a pair of familiar couplets - business is prosperous all over the world, and the wealth is prosperous up to Sanjiang.

And the manned spacecraft is just a special weapon, and it is not difficult to buy one. No matter how expensive things are, as long as they give money, the merchants of the Southern Dynasty dare to sell them. The Song people regarded the Divine Arm Bow as a treasure, but they had already built hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands, did they really think that Da Liao would not be able to get their hands on it? It's just that it's not easy to imitate, and there is no need to imitate.

Giving up the imitation of the god arm bow is not only because it can't bear the high cost, but also because the Khitans on horseback can never and need to gather together, line up in formation, and use bows and crossbows to resist the invasion of the enemy army. Da Liao has its own tactics and its own means of warfare, and in this way it becomes the overlord of the world, so that the Song people dare not raise their heads, and they do not need to learn Handan at all.

Therefore, the spaceship that the Song people regarded as a treasure, in Xiao Xi's eyes, was just an object that could fly into the sky - no, it should be said that it was just an object that could make people float into the air, and it was not surprising to see it. If there is no rope to tie it, it can only go with the flow in the sky, and it is of little use to Daliao, where the cavalry is the main force. can't move with the cavalry,

The ability of the spaceship to look far away and defend against the enemy can only cooperate with the Song army, which marches slowly and is as heavy as a mountain. As long as the cavalry of Da Liao exceeds 10,000, when marching, in order to obtain sufficient supplies, they will often scatter a front of more than 100 miles, and there are also distant probe blocking horses that spread farther on the periphery.

Only plate armor...... The plate armor invented by Han Gang is not only very famous—rumors have it that he also deliberately set traps to make a few Zaizhi who can't get along with him disgraced—but it can also cooperate with the cavalry of Da Liao. I've heard that it takes too much machinery to make it. In order to make plate armor, the Southern Dynasty even moved the workshop of the military weapon supervisor outside the city. This made Xiao Xi, who saw the temperament of several generations of emperors of the Song Kingdom like voles hiding all the good things in the nest, so he laughed endlessly.

From Han Gang, Xiao Xi saw the danger. The Southern Dynasty was indeed rich, a hundred times that of the Great Liao. But when it comes to war, it doesn't matter much whether you are rich or poor. If you are poor, you will work hard, and if you are rich, you will not, and this is what the son of a daughter says.

But the direction of the Song people's military change made Xiao Xi have a hidden worry in his heart. It's just a battle on the battlefield, Da Liao is not afraid of anyone, but if it becomes whoever spends more money wins, then Da Liao is too disadvantaged.

In fact, all the inventions in the ordnance prison are in line with the characteristics of the Song army:

The Divine Arm Bow made the Song people's arrow array sharper, as long as a commanding crossbowman formed an arrow array, if they wanted to break through the past, they had to consume all the arrows in their hands.

The sabre and plate armor could turn the Song army's infantry formation into an impregnable mobile fortress, and the 600,000 forbidden troops were all in iron armor and marched in array with swords in hand, which was a nightmare for the great Liao monarchs.

The spaceship is a sharp weapon for defending the city and the wall, several spaceships are floating in the sky, and a pair of vigilant eyes are looking down at the ground from above, and the tactics of dividing troops and attacking together and penetrating the enemy's back will come to naught.

There are also rails for transport, and forging hammers for making iron at high speeds...... A series of inventions made it possible for the Southern Dynasty to rely on financial resources far beyond any country to build the army into an invincible monster in the world.

"You have to think of a way......" Yelu Yinji's voice was heavy.

And the same thought was also spinning in Xiao Xi's mind, making him think of a way, "You can't let the Song people go on like this." ”