There are unforeseen circumstances, and wars are also extremely unpredictable. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoWhen the people in the world were accustomed to calm, when all countries were also accustomed to the Song Empire's war machine stopped running, but the Song Empire, without anyone or the country noticing, took advantage of the opportunity of the melee of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, after the detailed plan of the Imperial General Staff, Chengdu Prefecture, Maozhou City, and Minzhou City sent a total of 60,000 troops, using sharp artillery and fast horses, and at the same time launched a lightning-like blitzkrieg against the Tubo tribes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In addition, the Song army has been in a state of combat readiness for a long time, the soldiers have a strong sense of combat, sufficient combat training, and the sophistication of weapons and equipment is even more sophisticated to the teeth. But to be honest, Tubo, because of the distant marriage of the two princesses Wencheng and Jincheng in the Tang Dynasty, the armies of the big tribes in the Tubo region also have relatively sharp weapons and solid armor, but these are too few evidences.

Some people may ask, why did the Song Empire suddenly attack Tibet this time, and why did it not directly attack the Angkor Dynasty in the southeast, the southeastern peninsula? Wasn't the army of the Song Empire always preparing for war against the Angkor Dynasty? The reason is very simple, the Song Empire took the lead in attacking the country is divided, the national strength is weak and tired of the Tubo region, the reason is to test weapons, yes, is to test weapons, musket battle array on the battlefield has unrivaled strong combat effectiveness, however, this new weapon also has difficult to overcome in the laboratory, the birth of any new weapon, need to be tested by blood and fire on the battlefield, in order to get better development, in order to change its own problems, so, in order to test the musket, the public loses nature, Ling Zhen, with the officers and craftsmen of the musket development team of the Ordnance Division, as well as the first musket team composed of 3,000 soldiers deployed by the Ministry of War, were also transferred to the front line.

Because it was a front-line operation, not a simple training, the standard equipment configuration of the musketeers was a fine steel ring chain mail inside, a light infantry half-body leather armor, a knee-high skirt armor, the standard configuration of the Song army Fan Yangli, a one-handed simple knife, a musket, and a hundred small iron pipes of gunpowder named bullets.

As the saying goes, "the soldiers are noble and the gods are fast", now it seems that Zhao Xu ordered the Ministry of Industry to build the country's cement avenue how wise, all the strategic materials and generals, only ten days to enter the designated offensive position, and the chiefs and generals of the Tibetan tribes although they fight every day on this plateau, but this does not mean that they are fools, when the artillery of the Song army poured cannonballs on their tribes, they already knew that their land was being invaded, if they did not unite, They will be swallowed up by the Song army from the west in a very short time, but people are selfish, from the beginning of their unity to resist the Song Empire army, the chiefs of various tribes began to fight each other, not convinced by each other, so that the entire plateau coalition army has no unified commander, can not order a door, so that the Song army on the plateau because of the chaos of their enemy commanders, can be said to take advantage, and the test of muskets is because of the conflict of these chiefs, so that the test is also very smooth, The musketeers carried out a series of test tasks such as reloading and firing in almost no dangerous conditions, while the soldiers of the Tibetan allied forces fell in pieces in the sound of muskets "ping pong" and bean-like shots

"According to the battle report on the Tibetan front, the end of the war is probably only a matter of ten days and half a month, and the test of the musket is also going well, and the only thing that is not clear now is whether the role of the musket in the southern rainforest and rainy environment will be improved." Lu Junyi took the battle report from Zhao Xu's hand, and while reading it, he said to Zhao Xu and his colleagues around him

"The study of the rain and moisture protection of muskets may not lead to any results in a short period of time, and since the musket test war on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is coming to an end, now let's discuss the follow-up issues after the war against Tibet, as well as the war against the Angkor Dynasty." Zhao Xu continued Lu Junyi's words and said

"Your Majesty wants to march south?" Chen Linghua, deputy chief of the General Staff, said excitedly to Zhao Xu

Hearing Chen Linghua's excited question, Zhao Xu quickly gave an affirmative answer, "It has been six years since the Angkor Dynasty conquered Cochin and Bagan, but they did not capture all their aborigines as slaves or kill them all like we conquered Goryeo, but wanted to keep them and control them, so the current Angkor Dynasty is mired in the war between Cochin and Portugal and Gansu and cannot extricate itself. No matter how strong a national strength is, it cannot withstand the drag of the quagmire of war. ”

After everyone listened to Zhao Xu's words, they were silent for a while, and Chen Linghua took the lead in saying to Zhao Xu: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, but the jungle battle in the south, even if our whole army advances, I am afraid that it will not be able to quickly solve this war in a short time, after all, the entire southeast peninsula does not need to be compared to the vast plains, which can be used by our army's war horses to gallop, and there are many muddy rivers and dense forests and wetlands in the south, I am afraid that the cavalry tactics of our army in the north are basically useless in the south. Although His Majesty had already stationed more than 400,000 troops on Guangnan West Road and Zizhou Road ten years ago to prepare for the southeast, what worried the minister the most was that in the secret jungle in the south, he wanted to use and fight flexibly with such a big guy as artillery, which really made Weichen feel powerless. ”

"Lord Chen, in the dense forest, large artillery is not used, but many small artillery pieces such as artillery artillery, cavalry artillery, mountain infantry artillery, etc., in our army are still very useful, Lord Chen, why should you worry?" Zhou Tong, chief of the General Staff of the General Staff, said to Chen Linghua

After listening to Zhou Dong's words, Chen Linghua went on to say to Zhou Tong: "Chief of the General Staff, mortars, cavalry artillery, and mountain infantry artillery can certainly play a key role in mountain warfare on the southeast peninsula, but don't forget that the Angkor Dynasty is also a big country, and they also have many cities. I am afraid that its progress will be greatly affected, which will directly affect the implementation of our strategic plan. ”

"Hmph, listen to Lord Chen, isn't the Angkor Dynasty fighting?" Zhou Donghu said to Chen Linghua with this face. The general relationship between the first and second leaders of a department is also a manifestation of Zhao Xu's way of the emperor, which is called in a later saying, lest they pull the mountain, but this kind of small contradiction between colleagues cannot affect the work, otherwise Zhao Xu's anger as an emperor is not a joke with them

"Chief of the General Staff, the lower officer is not what you said, the battle must be fought, but we have to be like the best of both worlds, we can't take the previous way of fighting the northern countries, to fight the southern countries, geographical factors, environmental factors, human factors, and even some luck may become factors that hinder our troops, we have to consider them, how we can find a balance point in the use of artillery in the south, how to let our soldiers in the secret jungle of the south, Moving quickly on the muddy plains, fighting flexibly, and allowing our soldiers to calmly break through the city and reduce casualties when they encounter a fortified fortress, shouldn't these be considered by those of us as staff officers? ”

Zhao Xu saw that the two of them were arguing, so he stood up and said as a good old man: "Old Zhou, what you both said is very right, but this time it is true that you are a little inconsiderate, as a staff officer, you should indeed send all the directional problems that may be encountered on the battlefield to the front line of the army staff through the battle plan, but the fighter plane is fleeting, and these possible strategic problems can not be left until the day of the expedition." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, this matter is the negligence of the old minister." Zhou Tong saw that Zhao Xu, the emperor, had come out to play a round game, and it was not easy for him to continue to argue so persistently, so Zhao Xu's steps went down. Then he turned his head to Chen Linghua, who was sitting beside him, and said, "Lord Chen, the old man's attitude was a little worse just now, but this is all for the benefit of the empire, please bear with me." ”

"The chief of the general staff is polite, just now the subordinate officer spoke too impulsively, and I hope that the chief of the general staff will atone for his sins."

Seeing that the smell of gunpowder in the words of his master and his colleagues had just become a little smaller, Lu Junyi hurriedly stood up and changed the topic to Zhao Xu and said: "Your Majesty, regarding the battle plan for the Southeast Peninsula, the General Staff and our military department will report to you the detailed battle plan and the progress of the preparation as soon as possible, but as for the follow-up governance of the Tubo region, I am afraid that you will have to consult with the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Rites. ”

Lu Junyi's cautious eyes Zhao Xu, how could he not see through the emperor, he said that these people are not professional in the governance of people's livelihood, this is completely his prevarication, and he is unwilling to overlap rights with other ministries and departments, so as to avoid the possibility of their military department and other ministries and departments going around in circles. (To be continued.) )