Chu Prefecture was changed to the Huai'an Army two years ago, and it was regarded as Li Quan's feudal state and left to its autonomy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Li Quan was very deep in the exploitation of the people of Chuzhou, he would not do anything to kill chickens and eggs, and also paid attention to the development of industry and agriculture, especially commerce, Shandong connected the north and the south, Li Quan attached great importance to commercial development, and especially protected the past merchants, in order to extract commercial taxes from them to maintain his rule.

This is also the reason why Li Quan can hold out for more than ten years in Shandong under the cracks of the tripartite forces, and the prefectures and counties under his rule are inferior to those under the rule of the Song Dynasty, but they are half a pound and eight taels with the Jin Dynasty. And Chuzhou Xiancheng, there was no war, the city was not as depressed as Zhao Zheng imagined, although there were few pedestrians on the street, but the shops were all open, and the law and order were still maintained to a certain extent.

Zhao Zheng thought to himself that this Li Quan was not exactly a straw bag, and he could ride the wall for more than ten years, which could be regarded as some insight and ability.

The people of Chuzhou have no sorrow or joy for the arrival of the Song army, in their eyes, it is nothing more than a change of food object, which forces you are fighting for and grabbing territory, and who really cares about their life and death.

Zhao Zheng sat in the carriage, he was still in a state of "retreat", he couldn't show his face, but he was idle and bored, so he sat in the carriage to take a look at the situation in Chuzhou City. Zhao Zheng looked at the numb faces of the people of Chuzhou, and for the first time felt the sadness of the suffering of the people of Xing and the suffering of the people.

Today is the first day that Song Jun entered the city, there are few pedestrians on the street, and they are hiding at home and dare not come out, but the shops on the road are all open, a steamed bun shop on the street, according to Zhao Zheng's observation, no one patronized during this time of incense, but there is no disappointed expression on the face of the shopkeeper, and there is no enthusiasm for selling, as if the store is just to complete an errand, Zhao Zheng is a little strange, let Chengdao get off the car to buy him a bun to come in, and inquire about the situation by the way.

"Shopkeeper, how do you sell this steamed cake?" Chengdao asked with a smile on his face.

In the Song Dynasty, all noodles were called cakes, steamed buns, steamed buns, and noodles were called noodles.

The shopkeeper came to the spirit, and when he saw Chengdao dressed up in a robe, he thought that he had come to Chuzhou to do things for the dead, and he listened to the accent like a southerner: "Little brother is a southerner, right?" What are you doing in Chuzhou? Is it not easy to trade in the dead here? ”

Chengdao was influenced by Zhao Zheng and smiled unconsciously: "Life is hard to get, and I am not good at spells, so I have to cross the boundary to get food." I said, shopkeeper, I'm your first customer today? Today's business is obviously difficult to do, why do everyone open their stores? ”

The shopkeeper sighed and said: "We don't have a good life as you Nanren, we have enjoyed a peaceful life for a few years, we have to be cautious in order to survive, and today's business is not good, but if we don't open the door, those soldiers say that they are not angry with the new dynasty, and they will strike the market to protest, then it is really bitter and unspeakable." So no matter how bad the business is today, we have to keep going. ”

Zhao Zheng heard the shopkeeper's complaint in the carriage, and sighed that the distrust between the soldiers and the people was unexpected.

However, in the afternoon, with the posting of several notices of Anmin, the panic of the people in Chuzhou City gradually calmed down, Zhao Shanxiang still has a lot of experience in civil affairs, if he can hold Chuzhou, within three years, Chuzhou will become the state capital under the rule of the Song State in a real sense.

After Zhao Shanxiang settled everything in Chuzhou City, he asked to see Zhao Zheng for the sake of Haizhou.

Li Quan's nominal territory covered most of Shandong, but the Shandong rebels were everywhere, most of them were only nominally attached to Li Quan, in fact, many prefectures and counties were in a state of autonomy, or attached to the Song State, or surrendered to the Jin State, or surrendered to Mongolia, in short, the Tao inside is very deep.

And this Haizhou is Fang Zhenliu's territory, is Fang Guosan's son, Fang Guosan is the leader of the rebel army with Yang An'er's generation, and Li Quan is a two-way people, after the failure of the uprising, the rest and the territory returned to Li Quan, this Haizhou is Fang Guosan's territory, and now it has naturally become Fang Zhenliu's, on weekdays, Fang Zhenqi listens to Li Quan's dispatch on the surface, and is controlled by him, but in fact, Fang Zhenqi has surrendered to the Jin State, and Li Quan's forces can't be mixed in at all, plus after the Mongol attack on Qingzhou Li Quan was captured four years ago, although he cut off one of his fingers, swore that he would rebel against the Song State when he returned to the south, and the Mongols let him go back to Chuzhou, but after being captured for nearly half a year, Li Quan's forces supported their own troops and surrendered to the dark master, which caused the current chaotic situation in Shandong.

Although the Song army pursued the victory, it was not strong enough to attack Haizhou, but it was afraid that it would pay a great price, but the imperial court was slow to send a large army to support Zhao Shanxiang to recover Shandong, so the situation became a bit deadlocked. So I had to ask Zhao Zheng to see if he had any magic methods to break the city.

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"National teacher, Haizhou Chengxiong, if there are ten cannons, the city can be broken." The Song army now has less than 20,000 soldiers, and if you want to attack Haizhou, you have to divide your troops to garrison Chuzhou, so Sizhou is very tight, so you have to hope that the artillery will be on it, but Zhao Shanxiang has written several times, and the glass workshop has only rushed out of three cannons, and it will take more than ten days to transport it to Chuzhou, but it will change over time, and it is the time to attack Haizhou while the Jin State and Mongolia have not yet reacted.

Due to the alliance, the Jin State and Mongolia will definitely not directly send troops to stop it, but Mongolia and the Jin State do some small actions in private, such as providing weapons, grain and grass to the Shandong rebels, which is enough for the Song army to have a headache for a while, so now they can only turn to Zhao Zheng to see if they can gather craftsmen to cast artillery in the local area.

Zhao Zheng sat behind the curtain, because he was still in retreat, although the three Zhao who came to ask for advice knew that Zhao Zheng's retreat was just an excuse, but in order to hide people's eyes, he still did this and asked for advice through the curtain.

Zhao Zheng can only communicate through Chengdao to pass the note, and now Shandong is the most chaotic time, according to the letters left by Yan Tianwu in Chuzhou, Xinzhou in the north of Haizhou has actually been controlled by the Jin State, and Mizhou and other places in the northeast of Haizhou are occupied by Li Quan's adopted son Li Pu.

In the ten years after Li Quan's death in history, Li Pu led his troops to quickly sweep Shandong, and the various forces basically occupied Shandong, and the momentum was greater than that of Li Quan's heyday, and it was nonsense to say how strong Li Pu's army was, and the reason why it was able to sweep Shandong in a short period of time was because of the support behind Mongolia, and the situation in the Middle East was very turbulent after Mongolia destroyed the Jin State, so the main force of Mongolia basically went to the Middle East to quell the rebellion during that period, and the main force of the Song Dynasty was not the main force of Mongolia, and the battle line was mainly concentrated in the area of Xiangyang. In Shandong and Henan, due to the lack of troops, Mongolia recruited Li Pu to conquer on his behalf, pacify the localities, and maintain Mongolian rule. At that time, most of the remnants of the righteous army were hovering in Shandong, and the combat power was not strong, so Li Pu could quickly pacify it, so Shandong in this period was the best period for expansion.

"If you can dig tunnels, gunpowder can break cities. However, there are 20,000 defenders in Haizhou City, 5,000 elites, is it an enemy? After a while, Zhao Zheng handed over the note. The 20,000 defenders were known by Yan Qianwu through Yang Miaozhen's mouth, and Zhao Zheng also gasped in the face of this number, the small Haizhou was so strong, no wonder the Song army did not expand northward after pacifying Li Quan in history, and it seems that there are certain scruples.

"If you take the musketeers of the national division as the vanguard, you will win the street battle after breaking the city!" Zhao Kui has a lot of hope for the Heavenly Dao Army in Zhao Zheng's hands, although the number of Heavenly Dao Army is small, but all of them are elite, and they are well-equipped, with plate armor on their bodies, if there is an immortal body in the street battle, they will still be afraid of Fang Zhenqi's army.

Zhao Zheng smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard this, his Heavenly Dao Army had already gone to Shandong with Yan Tianwu and didn't know that place was crazy, and the guards outside the National Teacher's Mansion in front of him were all recruits recruited by Yan Tianwu. Stealing beams and changing pillars, because the armor covers the whole body, so Zhao Shanxiang can't find the abnormality, and it will take a while for these recruits to form combat effectiveness. Now let these go to street fighting, I'm afraid it won't do much.

But Haizhou can't delay too long, otherwise not only will they face the stumbling blocks of the Jin State and the Mongol envoys, but the court will also drag them back, and they must be quickly resolved.

The court has now set up an arquebus bureau under the ordnance supervision alone, specializing in the production of arquebuses, which has produced five hundred arquebuses in the past two months, and has been ready to equip the forbidden army, but due to the tight war in Yangzhou, coupled with Zhao Zheng's secret words to Zhao Yun, so this arquebus was decided by Zhao Yun and transported to the front line, the Southern Song Dynasty attaches great importance to the innovation of weapons, and every year the ordnance supervisor will create some strange weapons, those firearms, all kinds of bows and crossbows are like this, otherwise the current combat strength of the Song army will not be able to stop the enemy army at all.

Therefore, the Song army did not have the slightest resistance to the arquebus, but had great hopes for him, and regarded him as a militaristic heavy weapon such as the divine arm bow, but because the Song State did not have anyone who specialized in arquebus warfare, and the replacement of the arquebus was too fast, and the technical improvement could be carried out almost every ten days or so, so the court was also waiting. He was not in a hurry to equip the border army, but was only preparing to try it out in the forbidden army, familiarized himself with the tactics, and then popularized the whole army.

However, due to Zhao Zheng's sideways intervention, now the arquebus has passed through the sea route, and Yancheng has entered Chuzhou with the Song army. Now I can't count on the Heavenly Dao Army, so I have to count on training an arquebus before the artillery is transported over, and exert great power in street battles. So Zhao Zheng handed Zhao Kui a note: "Practice arquebus!" Fifteen days can be done! ”

Zhao Kui was taken aback by the note. Train the soldiers on the 15th? Since ancient times, it has not been easy to train troops, and it can be as short as half a year or as long as two or three years.

Zhao Kui expressed his doubts, and Zhao Zheng couldn't help but say in the back room: "Stupid! I'm asking you to use the elite of the generals to practice, as long as you learn how to shoot, it will be more than 15 days. ”

"You wait, I'll find you a book, and you can practice it yourself." After speaking, Zhao Kui listened to the sound of rummaging through the cabinets in the back room, and after a while, Zhao Zheng handed over a copy through Chengdao.

Zhao Kui looked at it, and the words "Military Manual" were written on it.

This book was compiled by Zhao Zheng after reading the military books of later generations, but it is unknown whether it can be applied to this era, but at least it has been successful in the Heavenly Dao Army.

This book cannot help but include the classics of later generations, such as the theory of war, the theory of strategy and other theoretical works in the general direction, but also includes specific training content, and is accompanied by illustrations, and even logistics, field fortifications. Let Zhao Kui fall into it on the first page of the result book.

"Although the methods above are complete, after all, I am talking on paper, and you have to choose according to the actual situation." While Zhao Zheng was talking, he saw that there was no movement outside, so he walked behind the curtain curiously and peeked at what was happening.

Zhao Kui froze in place, the immortals taught him the art of war, and this legendary thing actually made him encounter it! Legend has it that Zhang Liang was taught the Huangshi Art of War, so that he became the ancient plot of the Han Dynasty.

And I actually encountered the same thing as Zhang Liang, does it mean that I can also be like Zhang Liang, strategizing in the strategic, winning thousands of miles away, expanding the territory, and rebuilding rivers and mountains! Zhao Kui's chest was already boiling with blood at this time.

Zhao Zheng knew what Zhao Kui was thinking, thinking that he had found something from the book that was not in line with this anachronism, so he came out to prepare to humbly ask for advice, but he didn't expect Zhao Kui to suddenly kneel down and make a big salute.

Zhao Zheng's eyes were full of disbelief, and he actually gave a big gift!