Chapter 877: Second Expedition

With the soul of future generations, Lotte naturally knows what the result of the Northern Song Dynasty's war on Liao is, and naturally has his own opinions on the matter of war Liao.

From the rise of Fang La to the defeat of Fang La, in the process of quelling the chaos, Lotte knew that the combat power of the forbidden army of the Beijing division was extremely low, so all the strategies used in the battle were clever tactics to defeat the rigid with softness; On the other hand, the Western Army fought fiercely from entering Liangzhejiang to eliminating the remnants of the bandits, and even after capturing Fang La in the Battle of Bangyuan, Tong Guan fought for more combat merits with the Western soldiers under his command for his own face, and arranged the Beijing Division Forbidden Army to be used in the second line, and the front and the remnants of Fang La were all the elites of the Western Army who were fighting hard.

There is no winner in the civil war, and the most direct result of destroying Fangla is that both sides are defeated, consuming the few elites of the Western Army in the Great Song Dynasty, and then mixing the tired division of the Western Army with a group of "rotten soldiers" of the Hebei Forbidden Army, I don't know how much combat effectiveness is left.

The small is hidden in the wilderness, hidden in the court, and the big hidden in the world.

At present, Lotte has a hidden image, running through the courtyard, the Empire State Building and the mansion every day.

Making flowering cannonballs wasn't too difficult to solve, and after several failures, it was finally created. It's just that when the test firing was carried out, there were a few thunderbolts on a sunny day outside the city of Biandu, since the success of the artillery last year, there was no longer this kind of vision of a thunderbolt on a sunny day near Biandu, but I didn't expect the vision to reappear a year later, which made Zhao Ji a little uneasy, and a Taoist priest who was busy raising him asked for good luck.

October is already the beginning of winter, but the weather has not yet reached the time of freezing, at this time the foundation of the Empire State Building has been half-built, Lotte ordered people to speed up the construction of the foundation, and then when the foundation is frozen in the future, there is a risk of freezing, although salt can prevent the cement from freezing, but it is not suitable when the weather is colder.

This year was colder than before, just entering November, there was a light snow, and when the snow stopped, it suddenly became cold, and even the Bianhe River formed a thin layer of ice, which had never been done before. In desperation, Lotte had no choice but to suspend the construction of the foundation of the Empire State Building, so as not to cause potential safety hazards due to quality problems in the foundation.

When Lotte was anxious about the construction of the Empire State Building, good news came from the annex that the three-cylinder steam engine had finally been developed. Then Lotte was stumped by another metering technology, how to calculate the power of this three-expansion three-cylinder steam engine.

Fortunately, Lotte still remembers the power calculation unit horsepower in his previous life, and also remembers the rules for defining horsepower, which is defined as the work of lifting a weight of 1,000 pounds to 33 feet in one minute, which is imperial horsepower.

In this regard, Lotte still uses horsepower to define the power of the steam engine. After all, the word horsepower is still very easy to be recognized by the people in the feudal society based on the use of animal power and manpower, but Lotte has made a slight change, in order to facilitate the recognition of the people of the Song Dynasty, Lotte will take one-fifteenth of the time in a moment as a unit, and name it as a minute, and within a minute, the weight of 1,000 catties of the Song system will be raised to the height of 33.3 Song feet, which is the horsepower of the Song system.

The British system of 1,000 pounds is 920 catties, the 1,000 catties of the Song Dynasty is more than 1,200 catties of later generations, and the Song ruler is 30 meters; Therefore, Rakuten's definition of horsepower is to lift a weight of 1,200 catties to a height of ten meters in one minute, which is Song's horsepower.

After defining the horsepower, Lotte began to measure the power of the three-expansion steam engine, and at this time, news came from the north that Liu Yanqing and Guo Yaoshi led hundreds of thousands of troops across Baigou and began to attack the Liao.

"Master Hou, there's news from the north." Tu Si came in to report.

"Say!" Rakuten puts down his hand and is calculating the power function.

Tu Sinian said: "In October, Liu Yanqing and Guo Yaoshi and others led the troops out of Xiongzhou. Wuxu, Fuzhou County, Qu Amnesty. Jihai, Yeluchun's wife Xiao Shi called the minister. Jia Chen, the division of Zhuozhou ......"

"This crepe is the performance of the palace!" Lotte interrupted.

"Yes!" Tu Si hurriedly replied. The Imperial City Division had already been infiltrated by Lotte, and it was not difficult for Tu Si to get some officials.

"To put it simply, don't be so crepe, it's uncomfortable to hear!" Lotte waved his hand.

"Yes!" Tu Si responded: "Liu Yanqing and his people led the Song army through Baigou, and there was not even a person on the other side of the Liao border, so Guo Yaoshi reminded Liu Yanqing to prevent the enemy from ambushing, and then the end could not correspond, and the whole army would inevitably collapse......"

"How can Liu Yanqing listen to the words of such a general as Pharmacist Guo!" I heard that Lotte was full of ridicule.

Tu Si said with a smile: "What the Hou Ye said is not bad, Guo Yaoshi's request was not allowed by Liu Yanqing, and Guo Yaoshi suggested dividing troops to attack Yanjing, so he also took the initiative to invite Ying to lead 6,000 troops to attack Yanjing, and Guo Yaoshi went to attack Yanjing with Yang Keshi and Gao Shixuan's thousands of Western troops, the only request was to let Liu Yanqing's son Liu Guangshi as a reinforcement to follow ......"

Lotte shook his head: "If Pharmacist Guo could understand Liu Yanqing's character, he would definitely not make such a suggestion, and it is a pity that I am a good man in the Western Army, and I can also defeat Yang Keshi's reputation as a 'ten thousand enemies'." ”

Hearing this, Tu Si's face was shocked, and then he hurriedly patted his horse and said: "Master Hou is talented, he can see the battle situation so clearly, like an unpredictable prophet!" ”

"Go on!" Lotte sighed.

Tu Si hurriedly continued: "Guo Yaoshi led 6,000 elite soldiers into Yanjing, has captured all strategic points in Yanjing, fought hard in Yanjing City and waited for Liu Guangshi's reinforcements, but after more than half of the casualties, he still did not arrive at Liu Guangshi and the reinforcements, but saw the Yan army reinforcements killed back, Guo Yaoshi was repeatedly defeated and had no choice but to take the remnants of Yang Keshi and Gao Shixuan with the remnants of the defeated generals, abandon the mount and go out of the city, this man suffered more than half of the casualties, and all the soldiers who did not quit Yanjing did the soul of the Liao people. ”

"Liu Guangshi didn't send troops as agreed, could it be that he lost the battle again?" Hearing this defeat, Lotte asked.

"Exactly!" Tu Si's answer was both sad and helpless, and he continued to reply: "The reason why Liu Guangshi did not send troops as agreed was because Liu Yanqing led the army to Liangxiang, and was attacked by the remnants of the Liao State led by Xiao Gan at night with less than 10,000 people.

After getting the news of Guo Yaoshi's sneak attack on Yanjing, Xiao Gan led 3,000 elite soldiers back to the division for reinforcements, and ordered the remaining Liao army to continue to pursue the official army the next morning, until the official army drove through Baigou, and finally Liu Yanqing and others could only retreat to the south of Lugou to avoid the battle. ”

Hearing this, Lotte was furious: "100,000 horses can't beat less than 10,000 people, he Liu Guangshi not only lost my Great Song people, but also lost the face of his ancestors for eight generations!" ”

knew that Gongshi Xuanhe and Hua Liao would be defeated, but Lotte didn't expect to lose so much, it became synonymous with shame, and Liu Yanqing would be so useless.

As soon as Lotte's words fell, Tu Si continued with a faceless face: "Master Hou, the next thing is even more bloody......

"Say!" Lotte is angry at this moment.

Tu Si continued to report: "This brother who is lurking in the Imperial City Division of the Palace is also full of grief and indignation after listening to the report of the political official. After returning to Yanjing, the general of the Liao State, Xiao Gan, divided his troops and copied Liu Yanqing's grain road and arrested two ordinary officers and soldiers. When these two people were imprisoned in the tent, the Liao people deliberately leaked information that the current Liao army was three times the size of the Song soldiers, and it was necessary to divide it into three ways to raid on the left and right.

Then deliberately let down his vigilance and let a soldier escape and go back to report to Liu Yanqing, who immediately reported the news to Liu Yanqing after returning to the Song camp, and Liu Yanqing believed it.

On the evening of the 29th, the Liao army lit torches north of Baigou, and as soon as Liu Yanqing saw the fire, he thought that the elite of the Liao army who had reported it was coming, and took the lead in ordering the camp to be set on fire and escape. In an instant, more than 100,000 officers and troops collapsed before they could fight the enemy, and directly retreated to Xiongzhou, the place of departure, and all the Song soldiers along the road were trampled to death, while the Liao people took the opportunity to pursue them until Zhuoshui. ”

Speaking of this, Tu Si sighed again: "According to the brothers of the Imperial City Division, the Son of Heaven was furious when he heard the report, not to mention that the military materials stored since Xining's reform were all abandoned by Liu Yanqing."

Lotte shook his head again and again: "Liu Yanqing has no generals, but he relied on sycophancy to gain Tong Guan's appreciation, and then rose to this position of Jingluo pacification, there are too few Western troops that can fight, and the Hebei army will be arrogant and lazy, and there is no reason to be invincible, and then China will be in danger!" ”

Tu Si continued: "Master Hou, according to the news from the envoy Zhao Liangsi from the Jin people to Biandu, even the Emperor of the Jin State knew about the defeat of Liu Yanqing's army......

Lotte snorted: "Liu Yanqing is a pig teammate of the right Jinren, and the Jinren can look down on my Da Song!" ”

"What Master Hou said is extremely true!" Tu Siyan said: "Then the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom and Zhao Liangsi said: 'I heard that the general of the country alone will fight against Liu Yanqing's 150,000 people, once it collapses without a fight, what is the way of the country! I have entered Yanshan since I entered Yanshan, and now I have it, and the country is safe! ’”

Lotte sighed: "The Jin people fight the Liao people, the Liao people can't form an army, the Liao people fight the official army, the official army can't form an army, and the Great Song Dynasty is in danger!" ”

Looking at Lotte, Tu Si was very worried and said, "Master Hou, Song and Jin are allies, will they not betray the alliance then?" ”

Lotte still shook his head and sighed, "Song and Liao have formed an alliance for a hundred years, and my Great Song Dynasty prides itself on being the state of etiquette of the Celestial Empire, and tearing up the covenant is just a matter of one dynasty. ”

"The little one finally understands why Hou Ye has always disagreed with Lianjin and Liao!" Tu Si suddenly realized.

"If you make a mistake, it will be difficult for the court to change it!" Lotte smiled bitterly.

After thinking for a moment, Tu Siyan said: "I remember that the Liao State sent an envoy to the Son of Heaven to say that the relationship between the Great Liao and the Great Song Dynasty is a cold lip and a cold tooth; Now the Hou Ye also said that sooner or later the Jin people will go south, and the Great Song Dynasty will be difficult to protect, since this is the case, this Empire State Building will not be built.

Hou Ye still wants to find a way to go south, if the Jin people hit the south, Hou Ye will go overseas, and with Hou Ye's talent, I will lead the remnants of the Great Song Dynasty to go overseas, and it is not difficult to establish a country by himself! ”

Shakuchi, who had been waiting beside him, also nodded again and again, and said with a wry smile: "The Great Song Dynasty is homophonic and sends, I'm afraid that the Son of Heaven is going to give the country to the Jinren!" ”

"I have made the emperor a concubine, how can it be so easy to get out of Beijing!" Lotte shook his head and ordered: "But it's too early to make this conclusion, let's wait and see!" ”

After speaking, Lotte said to Tu Si: "The craftsman designed the drawings of the big ship with 3,000 to 5,000 materials according to the steamship model, and then sent the drawings of the big ship to Hangzhou, and after it was built, the steam engine was sent for installation, and then our fleet used this kind of steamship to carry goods to go to the sea."

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