Now the strategic focus of the Song Dynasty is not Liao, but Western Xia, and it is inevitable for the Song Dynasty to use troops against Western Xia, but Wu Ji did not expect that Wang Shao would tell him so bluntly that he would participate in the war of Western Xia.

"Brother Wang told me such a confidential matter, and I am very grateful. However, I was really not prepared at all for the fight against Western Xia. Wu Ji stroked his chin and groaned.

Fighting a war is not a house, it is a death. Although Wu Ji fought well in the battles of Guixin and Xiongzhou, after all, his time in the army was too short, not to mention that he was not familiar with Western Xia at all.

"I've carefully studied your situation with the soldiers, and it's very good." Wang Shao smiled and encouraged: "You are rigorous in governing the army, training hard, and not deducting military salaries, although this is rare, but you cannot become a good general." A true good general has a lot of talents, and you have that talent. Converting to the two wars, you defeated the Liao army with your own strength. Although the thunderbolt is powerful and gives you an advantage, it is impossible to win without this talent. ”

He patted Wu Ji on the shoulder a few times and said, "Although you are not familiar with Western Xia, there is still some time, you can learn more and get ready." In this battle of Western Xia, you can't run away no matter what, not only what I mean, but also what the officials mean. What do you think, what you are doing in the Conversion is something that no one has done in the hundred years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, what a pity if you are not allowed to go to the battlefield? ”

Looking left and right, seeing that there was no one, he lowered his voice and said, "Brother, do you know the fierce ambition of the official family?" I told you, don't tell anyone, not even your parents, your wife and your children. Officials often say that although the name of the Great Song Dynasty unified China, it did not actually unify China, and the world is still divided today. You are a talent, when you know the history of China, when you were in the previous dynasty, how vast was the territory of China? In addition to today's Great Song Dynasty, there are also Liao, Western Xia, Western Regions, Nanzhao, and Vietnam. ”

With a fist in his right hand, he said hatefully: "The Khitan is rampant, and at the time of the Five Dynasties, Huaxia's strength was damaged and could not be punished, although it made people angry, it could also be accepted." The most unacceptable thing is that Nanzhao and Vietnam, where the fart is bigger, dare not obey the orders of the Great Song Dynasty. If it weren't for the Liao Kingdom in the north and the Western Xia in the west, these two places would definitely be destroyed. ”

As Song Shenzong said, the Song Dynasty did not unify China, and China at that time was actually fragmented. Even Nanzhao, which is equivalent to the current Yunnan, dares to engage in reading, which is really infuriating.

Wu Ji never expected that Song Shenzong was so sober that he was shocked.

As soon as Wang Shao's angry words were finished, he immediately said in high spirits: "The ambition of the official family is to unify China, destroy the Liao State, break the Western Xia, recover the Western Regions, and take over the two troublesome places of Nanzhao and Vietnam." To complete the ambition of the official family, a large number of talents are needed, and the implementation of the new law has Jiefu, speaking of this war, at the moment I am a brother, too little. Wouldn't it be better if Brother Wu could stand alone? ”

The voice was lowered: "Brother Wu was too short when he joined the army, and he needed to be sharpened, and you couldn't escape this Western Xia battle no matter what." When the Rong and Wu brothers grew up, it was difficult to stand alone, and our two brothers wiped out the Liao State and Western Xia and unified the world. ”

Speaking of later, Wang Shao was very excited, high-spirited, and his face was full of red light, as if he was commanding thousands of troops to rush and kill.

Wu Ji never thought that he had such an important position in the hearts of Song Shenzong, if he really wanted this, he would be the future star of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, in the past war, Wu Ji has risen as a dazzling new star.

If you really complete Song Shenzong's fierce ambition, it will definitely be exciting, Wu Ji is also enthusiastic, stood up, and said with great certainty: "In this case, I will definitely work." ”

In another time and space, the history learned from textbooks is that the Song Dynasty was weak, and successively suppressed and defeated the Khitan, Western Xia, Jurchen, and Mongols, and even perished. In the Song Dynasty, after listening to Wang Shao's words, I realized that there was a misunderstanding, that is, the Khitan, Western Xia, Jurchen, and Mongols were regarded as foreign people, and their territories were regarded as foreign lands.

In fact, these nomads were all subordinated to the Tang Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, and their places were all Tang Dynasty. Although the Song Dynasty did not unify China, the places where these ethnic minorities were located were not outside the country, but still the land of China, but the Song Dynasty did not complete the mission of unifying China.

"It's ridiculous that those scholars regard Liao and Western Xia as overseas places, pitiful! Alas! Even more pathetic! Wang Shao couldn't help shaking his head, and he was angry again.

"Brother Wu, these 10,000 elites will be at your disposal for the time being. The most important task at their moment was to rebuild the conversion first, and then they must complete the reconstruction before the Liao State attacked again. Wang Shao finally said to Wu Ji: "After the conversion is completed, you will keep 1,000 elites, and let them return to Xiongzhou for the remaining 9,000." Your own soldiers and horses can start recruiting. ”

After explaining the matter, Wang Shao did not stay longer, but rushed back to Xiongzhou.

xxxxxxxxx Youzhou, the Marshal's Mansion, Xiao Lu and the ministers, with an anxious look on their faces, you look at me, I look at you, and they all see the anxiety in each other's eyes.

There is only one minister, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, sitting on a chair to recuperate, as if he has nothing to do with himself.

Xiao Lu really couldn't help it, took a step forward, came to the minister who cultivated his gods, hugged his fists, and said, "Lord Yelu, dare to ask where the emperor is?" ”

"What's wrong? You inquired about the whereabouts of the emperor and wanted to assassinate the emperor? As soon as this person's eyes opened, the essence shot out, like a sharp sword, and looked at Xiao Lu. He is the leader of the Leather Chamber Army, Yelu Zhao, is Yelu Hongji's most trusted confidant, in charge of the Leather Room Army, and is responsible for Yelu Hongji's security.

Since receiving the news of the defeat in Xiongzhou, Yelu Hongji has disappeared. At first, Xiao Lu and the others thought that Yelu Hongji was hiding in some corner and sulking, and they were very happy. The defeat of Xiongzhou was the biggest defeat of the Liao State in the 100-year Song-Liao War, Yelu Hongji must have earth-shattering anger, if he vented at them, it would be unbearable, Yelu Hongji hid to the side and sulked, they would not suffer.

However, after several days of not seeing Yeluhongki appear, they felt that something was wrong. By now, they hadn't seen Yelu Hongji's shadow for almost ten days, how dare Xiao Lu not be in a hurry.

Sending people to inquire around, but there is no whereabouts of Yelu Hongji, who can not be in a hurry? There was really no way, so I had to ask Yeluzhao about it. Where would you have thought that Yeluzhao would have such a big hat buttoned down, who could not be afraid?

"Lord Yelu, don't talk nonsense, how dare we have such thoughts. The emperor said for a few days......" Xiao Lu was busy explaining with a smiling face.

His words interrupted Yeluzhao: "Don't ask, the matter is done, and the emperor will come to meet him." I want to remind you that the emperor is carrying out a major event, which is related to the future of Daliao, and if anyone inquires about it, don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

His eyes widened wider than a bull's eyes, and he swept over the ministers, who felt like they were stabbing with a sharp sword, and they had to bow their heads.

In the northwest corner of Youzhou, there is a huge courtyard. On the surface, this courtyard is nothing special, just like an ordinary courtyard. In fact, this courtyard is heavily guarded, and there are many secret sentry posts, one post at three steps and one sentry at five steps, so even flies don't want to get in.

Yelu Hongji is in this courtyard, and Yelu Hongji at this time does not have the image of the Son of Heaven at all, his face is not slippery, it is all greasy and black gray, which is no different from singing flowers. Beside him, there sat a group of people of various ages, the oldest ones in their sixties and seventies, and the younger ones in their thirties and forties, all of them in good spirits, as if they had won a great victory.

"Your Majesty, what you said is true?" An old man of great age, with gray hair and a pair of eyes that were particularly attentive, looked at Yelu Hongji with a frenzy in his eyes.

"It's true! The Southern Dynasty is already ahead of us. Yelu Hongji patted his right hand on the old man's shoulder a few times, and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the battle of Xiongzhou, Da Liao would have suffered such a big defeat, and I wouldn't believe it." However, this is exactly what happened. Converting to the 3,000 miscellaneous army, men and women, with a kind of thunderbolt, they wiped out tens of thousands of our troops. ”

"Phew!" The crowd gasped.

"The warriors of Da Liao, that is the elite, even if the Song army wants to come to relieve the siege, it will not be possible without 350,000. With only 3,000 people, you can completely annihilate the warriors of Daliao, and the power of this thunderbolt is not small. Another young man had a look of fanaticism in his eyes, and asked loudly, "Your Majesty, can you get this thunderbolt?" If we can get a few and figure them out, maybe we can make them. ”

"Not yet, but it's only a matter of time." Yelu Hongji was extremely proud, laughed, and laughed very happily: "You know, Zhao Ji's good things, aren't all ours?" This weapon is so good, Zhao Ji didn't keep the secret, didn't this become ours? Zhao Ji researched the thunderbolt again, he must have wanted to give it to Zhou Wei for use, but there was no way to transport it in, so he handed it over to Wu Ji, who was a convert, to use, this Wu Ji was lucky, he actually made such a contribution. ”

Wu Ji created a thunderbolt, and Liao didn't know about it. From the perspective of the people at that time, this kind of sharp weapon could not be completed by one person alone, especially Yelu Hongji had a deep understanding of this. Although he stole this sharp weapon from the Song Dynasty Weapons Supervisor, he concentrated the best work of the Liao State, and spent so many years, until now he has not made decent progress and cannot be used in actual combat.

If he wants to believe that the thunderbolt was completed by Wu Ji, it is not an ordinary difficulty, it is very difficult. Yes, he thinks that this was done by the Song Dynasty Weapons Supervisor, but Wu Ji was lucky enough to be able to use it.

"In this battle of Xiongzhou, although I suffered a big loss and lost 50,000 elites, I am still very happy, and finally let you have a clear idea, this kind of sharp weapon can still be used like this." Yelu Hongji laughed, glanced at these good works, and was very pleased: "In the past, you wanted to use poison and smoke, but you didn't think that you could still use it like this, right?" ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" A good worker in his forties nodded: "In the past, we only thought of smoking and poisoning, but we didn't expect that it could be used in this way. ”

"On the battlefield, no matter how big the smoke is, no matter how much poison there is, as soon as it encounters the wind, it will be blown away, and it is not very easy to use." Yelu Hongji waved his hand and said, "If you have a new idea, you should hurry up and work on it." It's done, I'll make you kings, hereditary replacement! ”

(To be continued)