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In fact, Zunren's heart knew very well that if the Song Dynasty really wanted to put Dongying to death, he would not be able to stop the attack of the Great Song Dynasty at all now. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info what he wanted now was to defeat the Song army once, and then force the Song army to sit down and negotiate with him, so as to buy Dongying a little time.

This is not impossible, after all, the Song Dynasty is too far away from here, and if he can find a step for the Song Dynasty to come down after a victory, the war may be temporarily stopped.

Zunren concentrated 60,000 troops for this war, a number that seems a little pitiful, but it is already all the strength in his hands. What was even more pitiful was the equipment in the hands of those soldiers, who still had katanas, or at least spears, in the face of the Song army's attacks in the post-Suzaku era.

But now, many of the 60,000 people around him can only find a piece of wood or bamboo, sharpen it and use it as their own weapon. There is also military quality, these 60,000 people are far from meeting the requirements of the previous kind of samurai.

Musashi was the most unqualified samurai, and when the Song army first landed in Dongying, he was not even qualified to hold a sword. But this time he was also a small leader, commanding more than 500 so-called soldiers.

This is not to say that he grew up in the war. On the contrary, Musashi surrendered to the Song army after the defeat of the Toei people and became a Shunmin of Tsushima. A while ago, Sonhito fought again, and Musashi didn't run away, so he picked up his weapon again and helped Sonhito fight.

He didn't want to fight, he just wanted to live, even if he was ridiculed like before. Will you be able to survive this time? Musashi didn't know, looking at the momentum of the Song troops on the opposite side, he felt that there was nothing to fight in this battle, compared to the team around him, those Song troops were armed to the teeth.

His hands began to tremble, trembling slightly.

Some people are born to be on the battlefield, and some are not born to be on the battlefield. Musashi probably belonged to the latter group, it wasn't the first time he had experienced such a scene, but every time he was scared.

Musashi did not receive the order to attack, and the Song troops on the opposite side did not move, they were arranging formations, and Musashi could see with the naked eye that there was a Song man who actually set up a table at the back of the battlefield, and sat on the edge of the table eating and drinking.

There are also two women from Dongying waiting for him next to him, that person talks to a person opposite from time to time, and sometimes uses his hand to go to the woman next to him, the two women laugh, and when they laugh, their bodies are always attached to that person's body, which makes Musashi look very envious, and he also wants to live like that.

There were also some light cavalry of the Song army galloping around the battlefield, and their number was not much, about forty people. However, it was very bold, and some people even rushed to the front of the Dongying people and shot an arrow, and before the Dongying people could react, they left quickly.

Musashi knew that this was a provocation by the enemy. Whenever someone around them was shot by those cavalrymen, the Song people on the opposite side would let out a burst of cheers, but the Dongying people could not do anything about it.

In Musashi's eyes, the person sitting on a chair drinking sake, hugging a woman, and eating fried beans specially brought from the Song Dynasty was Chen Yuan. Sitting opposite Chen Yuan was Zeng Gongliang.

The last time their base was attacked by the Liao, Zeng Gongliang's data was lost in many of his researches, and some projects had to be started all over again.

This made him very unhappy, in Zeng Gongliang's opinion, if the defenders held on, with the defense of the island, there should still be hope to hold out until the reinforcements arrived. But where did those guards dare to take such a risk in the first place?

They only put up a simple resistance, and after ensuring the safety of Zeng Gongliang and these researchers, they burned some necessary things, and even some of them fell into the hands of the Liao people before they had time to deal with them.

This made Zeng Gongliang very dissatisfied.

What made him even more dissatisfied was that Chen Yuan actually commended the general who was responsible for the defense, and did not hold him accountable for not resolutely resisting.

So standing in front of Chen Yuan this time, Zeng Gongliang's face was very ugly.

Chen Yuan looked like a hippie smile, hugged a Dongying woman, and pushed another to Zeng Gongliang's side: "Lord Zeng, the matter has passed, I know you are very dissatisfied, but for me, for Da Song, you people can be safe and sound, it is our best ending." The data is gone, can we study it again? ”

The Dongying woman saw that Chen Yuan pushed her to Zeng Gongliang, and rubbed it against Zeng Gongliang's body, but Zeng Gongliang didn't have that interest at all now, waved her hand to let her leave, and stared at Chen Yuan: "It's easy to say, Master Ma, after those data are lost, a lot of work has to be done from scratch." Let's just take this musket team this time, we already have a way to make the muskets shoot faster. Like you said last time, filling from the back also has a little eyebrows, and it's all over at once. ”

Chen Yuan picked up the teacup on the table: "Okay, I was wrong, okay?" Here I can't compensate Lord Zeng, you don't care about my villain, let's put this matter down first. This time, I brought you here to let you see with your own eyes the situation of this musket on the battlefield, and also to facilitate your further improvements. ”

Zeng Gongliang also knew in his heart that Chen Yuan was for his good, but these people attached great importance to their research results, just as a scholar valued honor and a soldier valued victory. Compared with the lost and damaged data, his public surname is nothing.

But even if he is dissatisfied, things are already like this, Chen Yuan apologizes now, he can only turn the page, the relationship between the two sides is still good, for a little difference in concept, not to turn his face.

Zeng Gongliang cast his eyes on the battlefield and said softly: "Those cavalrymen seem to be riding Mongolian horses. ”

Chen Yuan smiled: "Yes, this is specially transported from Mongolia. Lord Zeng also took a look at these cavalry, the emperor is going to form a cavalry team, their weapons and equipment, as well as the equipment of war horses, you have to worry about it. ”

Zeng Gong nodded: "This is the duty, but I don't know where the emperor bought the horse this time?" How many cavalry are formed? ”

"The emperor wants to set up 500,000 cavalry this time, and it is not enough to buy them from anywhere, and the only way is to send people to contact the places where the horses are produced. At present, the emperor is more fond of the war horses of the Western Regions, those horses are tall and have good physical strength, which are very suitable for long-distance running. ”

Zeng Gongliang was really taken aback: "500,000 cavalry? Isn't that too big a number? ”

Many people in the Great Song Dynasty also reacted the same as Zeng Gongliang when they heard Renzong say this number, after all, the military expenditure of 500,000 cavalry was much more than that of 500,000 infantry, and the huge demand for war horses alone was enough to make the Great Song Dynasty spend a lot of money.

"Now that we have our own horse farm, I think it might be better to raise our own horses." Zeng Gongliang expressed his opinion.

Chen Yuan also knows that buying a horse is very expensive. The Song Dynasty now has its own horse farm, and raising horses will certainly save a lot of money. It's just that a foal can't go from birth to being able to go on the battlefield and become a real war horse for three or four years.

The Song Dynasty did not have time to wait, and the war with the Liao State has been fought until now, although the Song Dynasty has captured a large territory of the Liao State, it has never been able to give the Liao people a fatal blow. The main reason for this was that the Song Dynasty lacked mobile strength.

This winter, the border areas will definitely be plundered by the Liao. Because this is the only way that Yelune Gollum can make more Liao people survive this cold winter.

If the Song Dynasty could not have the ability to maneuver in long-range operations, then they could only watch the Liao people gallop on the grassland, and next year, or the year after, or many years to come, Song Liao Bianjing would still be harassed.

What's the difference between that and not having this one?

Moreover, the 400,000 troops in Yelu Gollum's hands have always been a problem for the Song army, and if he is really breathed, it is impossible to live in peace.

While the two were talking, they suddenly saw a group of Dongying people pushing old-fashioned catapults appear on a small hillside next to them, and a guy in armor was directing the soldiers to fix the trebuchet, thinking that he was planning to attack the Song army from a distance.

Dongyingren's action made Chen Yuan burst out laughing at the food in his mouth.

At the same time, the artillery of the Song army reacted quite quickly, flexibly turning its direction and aiming at the faintly moving figure on the hillside.

Although the formal battle has not yet begun, the posture of both sides has been set up, and the soldiers of the long-range strike unit have begun to be busy fighting each other.

The musketeers were a little excited, and at the same time a little nervous. Although their mouths were talking and laughing about some things that had nothing to do with the war, those two eyes looked around from time to time, constantly thinking about what they should do when the Dongying people on the other side rushed over.

The merits of these musketeers are also not calculated in the same way as other troops. The rest of the troops are counted by the number of enemies killed by the soldiers, and are generally counted on the heads of individuals. But the musketeers can't, and when the muskets are fired out in a row, you can't figure out that the person was killed by you.

So they take credit by formation. What position you stand, how many enemies you killed and wounded in front of your position, and when the war is over, there is a set of methods that will give you military merit.

The general who led the team saw that the trebuchet of the Dongying people had been put away, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Guys, give them a little bit of a powerful taste first, and smash all those old things for me!" ”

There are only more than 30 trebuchets in total, and it took a lot of effort for Zunren to get them. In terms of volume, this trebuchet was much larger than the artillery of the Song army.

However, when hundreds of artillery pieces of the Song army opened fire at the same time, but after only two rounds of firing, the position of the Dongying people was completely destroyed, leaving only those burning planks and the wailing soldiers lying in the flames.

This round of artillery fire opened the prelude to this war. To be honest, Zunren was shocked by the explosion from the Song army's artillery, but he had no other choice, he had to rush forward and fight for the last ray of hope.

(To be continued)