Zheng Lang didn't care about the feelings of others, and said: "Marching and fighting, the generals don't know, it's a big drawback. ”

This is also a major drawback of the Song Dynasty's military, but it is widely implicated, Zheng Lang did not say much, and continued: "At this time, Wang Xinchen had a little contact with the three important generals outside the city of Beizhou, and Wang Kai and Hao Zhichen did not know much. Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty for permission to transfer Zhang Kang to Beizhou, and Rong Chen was transferred cheaply to exterminate the traitor as soon as possible. ”

The crowd looked at each other again.

The reason why Zhang Kang was demoted to Shouzhou was all because of Xia Zhu's advice.

Once as Zheng Lang said, Beizhou City can be captured within ten days, Zheng Lang will reuse Zhang Kang, and Zhang Kang can be promoted because of his merits. Zheng Lang recommended Xia Zhu, gave Xia Zhu a chance, and gave Zhang Kang a chance, is it an exchange?

Zhao Zhen was happy.

Zhang Kang was in Shouzhou, and the contradictions with some local tyrants intensified, resulting in many disputes. Zhao Zhen knew very well in his heart that Shouzhou Haoqiang may not be so bold, and there are many reasons in the middle. It's just that I'm afraid that Zheng Lang is in Xifu, and although the contradictions have intensified, there has not been a serious conflict. Even if Zheng Lang didn't say it, Zhao Zhen also wanted to transfer Zhang Kang to other places. After finishing the music, he said, "Accurate." Zhao Zhenglang is the envoy of Hebei Xuanfu Jing. ”

There is the word "Jinglu", not only the right to ask for the king's rules, but also the right to deal with the aftermath.

Zhao Zhi said: "A small military academy can also be recorded in history when the country uses the prime minister and privy envoy. ”

Definitely not a kind word, but an irritation.

Subsequently, with Xia Zhu as the privy envoy, the dispute between the Eastern Mansion that lasted for more than half a year finally ended, and then dispersed. There is nothing else to worry about, Zheng Lang can't be exterminated anymore, and this king will really become Maitreya Buddha. and left Zheng Lang and Xia Zhu to discuss matters.

Looking at Zheng Lang, Zhao Zhen said, "Zheng Qing, you don't have to learn from Xiao He. ”

Zheng Lang couldn't help but laugh and said, "Your Majesty, as a courtier. You should have some scruples, this is the duty of a courtier. But the minister admires His Majesty very much, and will never learn how Xiao is selfish and self-defiled. In the hands of His Majesty, all the ministers must be like this, how can there be a king of magnanimity and virtue in this world? However, the minister's selfishness is not for Zhang Kang. Also for the country. Wang Kai, Wang Xin and other generals are old and sick, and the first battle in the northwest used the blood of more than 100,000 military horses to pile up a few famous generals who are all green and yellow. The minister's recommendation of Zhang Kang also enabled the country to transfer this kind of green and yellow to the past. And if the country wants to be safe and sound in the future, it must be in the northwest except for Han Qi. There are also famous generals. Western Xia was afraid, so he didn't dare to move. This is a superior strategy for soldiers who surrender without a fight. However, Zhang Kang was wrong, beyond reproach, did not make meritorious contributions, and the ministers who were promoted were not satisfied, so the ministers recommended Zhang Kang. ”

Zhao Zhen asked: "What else do you need to go to Beizhou?" ”

"Others don't need to, if needed. The minister asked Shi Heng to prepare some small gifts, which had been successfully tested, and he would give Wang Ze a surprise when the time came. ”

Shi Wen Yanbo went to beg for thieves. With the pickaxe as his deputy, Xia Zhu is evil with the pickaxe, afraid of its success, where the pickaxe is played, it is frustrated. Wen Yanbo was also afraid, and before leaving, he said that he would respond to the enemy in battle, and it would be ever-changing, and if he reported to the court and then asked the court to discuss it, he was afraid that it would be too late and he would be allowed to act cheaply. But Wen Yanbo is not Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Zheng Lang. I did it very carefully, and asked the three people, including Bo Ju Zhenqing, the head of the prison, to take charge of the text and make a witness. Ming Ho also played the four people in the palace, including King Cheng, and still listened to the army, so as to play the role of a supervisor and save the ministers' tongues. For Zheng Lang, it is not necessary. Just gave Xia Zhu a big favor, at least in the past few months, is he embarrassed to do anything?

If you think that the first favorite minister of the current dynasty may be the first capable minister, the prime minister of Xifu will go to Beizhou, do you need to avoid suspicion? That's not to avoid suspicion, but to fake, as Zhao Zhen said, learn from Xiao He's own dirt. So nothing was said.

Zhao Zhen's words were not asked by Zheng Lang, but deliberately said to Xia Zhu.

Zheng Lang said that the ten-day period is very short, and if Xia Zhu is hindered in Xifu, it will cause some difficulties.

…,

was afraid that Xia Zhu would misunderstand his meaning, so he deliberately left Xia Zhu and Zheng Lang behind and released a signal to Xia Zhu. You are allowed to fight, but you can't fight for the country.

……

The arrival of spring, the green wheat in the wild of Beizhou, heralds the arrival of a good year.

But the constant fighting, shouting, and drums and horns have diluted the joy of this spring.

Zheng Lang came to the city of Beizhou, the two sides were fighting, with the arrival of Zheng Lang, the three armies puffed up, with the help of the advantages of the earth and mountains, launched attacks on the city again and again. And when more rebels in the city took the breath and the balloon fell, they shouted that Zheng Desheng was victorious, Zheng Lang really arrived, and he still had a high prestige in the hearts of the people of Beizhou City, and they were all scared.

A small number of recalcitrant believers continue to rebel valiantly, and the majority of believers have little faith.

Zheng Lang, under the leadership of Wang Xin and Ming Hao, came to the front of Tushan, and saw Zheng Lang personally coming to supervise the battle, and the attack was even more fierce. Zheng Lang said: "Ordered to stop the attack. ”

The guards blew the horn of retreat.

Hao Zhen wiped the blood on his face, retreated from the city, retreated to the front of the formation, saluted first, and then asked breathlessly: "Zheng Xianggong, why did you stop attacking?" ”

A little unconvinced, just now, with a bang, he almost took Beizhou.

"General Hao, it is not difficult to forcibly enter Beizhou City, but if you attack the city, you can't avoid street fighting. It is difficult to distinguish between the people in the city and the followers of the demon cult. Even believers, most of them have good intentions, but they don't know the real Buddhism, and if they are kings, they are bewitched, and these people don't actually deserve to die. Even if according to the law, they should be punished, how many soldiers would have to be sacrificed? ”

"Jia Xianggong persuaded me, but they didn't listen."

At the end of last year, seeing that the attack could not be captured, Jia Changchao discussed with Gao Jilong to come up with a way to use high-ranking officials to surrender. Wang Xin and Wang Kai's opposition is this.

It is possible that there are some believers outside the city, but they did not rebel and were killed, and the believers in the city openly rebelled and worshiped the generals, but they were treated improperly with high-ranking officials. Even Zhang Hai was forced to surrender for Zheng Lang at that time, but Zhang Hai did not pay homage to the prime minister and establish the national name, even after surrendering, he was just an ordinary soldier, and later gradually moved to an official school because of his merits, and he was only a small capital. Sent to the Khitan and made great contributions, but now he is only a command. It was wrong for Jia Changchao and Gao Jilong to do this.

Zheng Lang didn't say much at the time.

Therefore, the Jia Chang Dynasty sent Ma Sui to enter the city with the list to surrender.

The king let him drink tea with a big grin, and the horse was not afraid, and drank tea, and after drinking the tea, he asked for good and evil, but the king did not answer, and met him in full clothes. Ma Sui knew that he refused to surrender, and it happened that Zhang Deyi, the original Zhizhou, was sitting on his side. When Beizhou was lost, he resisted according to the military camp and was captured. And Zhang Deyi is Zhang Qi's son. The whole family is deeply favored by the emperor. I also saw the king sitting opposite, with no soldiers on the left and right, and wanted to punish the king and establish miraculous feats. I was afraid that I was thin, so I squeezed my eyes and signaled.

But he was very disappointed, and when he saw his eyes, he sat still. Ma Sui was helpless, suddenly got up, threw the teacup at Wang Ze's face, and hit his face bleeding. Then the big hand reached out. grabbed Wang Ze's throat, and when he saw Wang Ze's weapons confiscated, he had to strangle Wang Ze alive with his hands.

The left and right were in a mess, and they swarmed up, trying to pull the horse away, but they couldn't pull it, and they shouted together. However, this pull played some role, and the hand was loose for a while and tight for a while. As a result, Wang Ze was out of breath for a while, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and he didn't die.

Dragged on for a while. The rebel came and cut off Ma Sui's arm with a knife, which allowed Wang Ze to escape. Ma Sui still scolded: "Demon thief, I can't kill you ten thousand pieces." ”

In the case of Beizhou, Zheng Lang's most pity is the two people, the former Dong Yuanheng and the latter Ma Sui, who continue the blood of the Han nation in their bodies.

The rebels swarmed up, took it down, and dismembered it alive. Didn't you say that you will be cut into 10,000 pieces first, and the meat sauce will be displayed on the head of the city to intimidate the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty. But the king was suddenly attacked by his horse, and he was beaten and wounded, and it took several days for him to recover. This has an effect. It turned out that Maitreya Buddha would also be attacked, or was attacked in his base camp and seriously injured, and more people doubted the golden body of Wang Ze Maitreya Buddha.

…,

A very good living man entered the city, with an edict, with the magnanimity of the imperial court, and turned out to be a pile of meat sauce. Jia Changchao and Gao Jilong did not dare to report it, but since then, they have never dared to mention the surrender.

Zheng Lang sneered and said, "How can I learn from Jia Changchao and try to persuade him to surrender!" ”

Gao Jilong's old face blushed on the side.

Zheng Lang couldn't embarrass him, so he didn't say anything more, looked at everyone and said, "Brother Huaji, Brother Gongshou, Brother Gongliang, Brother Shengzhi, Brother Jingchun, Brother Jilong, follow me into the account." ”

Several people walked into the big tent.

Zheng Lang glanced at it, Hao Zhen was originally a close confidant of Jia Changchao, so he was very close to Gao Jilong. Wang Xin and Wang Kai had a tacit relationship, but when Zhang Kang had a conflict with Xu Huaide in Yanzhou, Wang Xin faintly stood on Xu Huaide's side and the generals did not tolerate it, causing Zhang Kang to go to Fuzhou alone. Therefore, Zhang Kang and Wang Xin were very cold, but when they were on Fulin Road, they cooperated with Wang Kai more happily and got very close.

Six people and five hearts.

coughed: "At the moment of the great enemy, you must put down the old things in your hearts and unite sincerely in order to win." ”

Several people's faces were red.

"It's not difficult to actually break the thief, but once you need to take it away, you need to reduce unnecessary casualties. The second is to break its city, Beizhou City is easy to break, and Lingzhou City is difficult to break. ”

"Lingzhou?" The five of them asked in surprise.

"Although Beizhou City is tall, Lingzhou City, as the most important southern gate of Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia, is taller and stronger than Beizhou City, so I defeated Yuan Hao twice, and almost came to Lingzhou City, and did not attack. General Wang Xin has also been to Lingzhou, so he should know it. ”

Wang Xin nodded.

"So take Beizhou City as a rehearsal."

"How do you break it?" Wang Xin asked curiously.

"Gunpowder."

The reason why Zheng Lang said this was that he had actually been thinking about how to crack Lingzhou. When I was in Khitan, I suddenly thought of one thing, Hong Xiuquan. Hong Xiuquan could not be beautified, he forcibly separated men and women in Nanjing, all husbands and wives lived separately for two years, soldiers and civilians were not allowed to own private property, and a prosperous city of Nanjing was turned into a grave. But he himself built a large number of refuge houses of prostitution. In fact, Hong Xiuquan's uprising was similar to Li Zicheng's, with a nice slogan, but the essence was to change the dynasty.

If it weren't for his misdeeds, with the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would have replaced the Qing Dynasty long ago. On the one hand, there was a lot of pleasure, on the other hand, there was a dispute between the kings, on the other hand, the innocent people were killed indiscriminately, all Manchu officials, Manchu people, intellectuals, monks, nuns, Taoists, and businessmen, regardless of men, women, old and young, were all killed, many people were killed in humiliation, and their families committed suicide, and the whole city of Nanjing was bloody, and on the other hand, there was a tug-of-war with the Qing government, which led to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which was the most prosperous in the past, becoming a ruin, and the population of China was reduced by 40 percent, and more than 100 million people died directly or indirectly in this war.

He also didn't have a good impression of Hong Xiuquan and Zheng Lang, but the methods he used to attack Nanjing City could be used for him to learn from.

Give Shi Heng two tasks, this is one of them.

"Gunpowder?" Gao Jilong asked in surprise, these days the two sides also use trebuchets to bombard, and in the end, they have experience, seeing the arrival of the gunpowder pack, they lie down one by one, shrinking their heads into the armor, and the lethality is getting lower and lower.

How much gunpowder does it take to knock down the city of Beizhou?

Moreover, the enemy is not a fool, and it is impossible for the Song army to calmly pile up gunpowder under the city wall.

"Because you don't understand, the city of Beizhou will be broken, and before that, you will use hot air balloons to deter traitors. Now we are discussing how everyone will act after the city is broken. ”

After deliberating for a long time, a few people suddenly dispersed with suspicion.

Then he stopped attacking and started making balloons. The reason why Myeongho failed to use the hot air balloon was that Myeongho didn't understand. The load is large and the rise is not high, so it is shot by a bed crossbow. This is not an ordinary arrow crossbow, in order to break the balloon, Wang did not use a shovel-shaped crossbow, but a hammer crossbow (bed crossbow crossbow arrows are different from regular crossbows, the crossbow shaft is as thick as a gun shaft, and the crossbow head is divided into hammer and shovel shapes. During the Battle of Lanyuan, Xiao Tzu Rin only let the bed crossbow rub his helmet, resulting in serious injuries and death. If it is in the middle, the head will be cut in half by the bed crossbow, or the head will be shot directly).

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But even if it hit, the balloon was made of thinly skinned animal skin, not rubber, and immediately deflated and exploded. But because Ming Ho didn't understand, in order to attack the enemy, a large number of gunpowder bags were loaded in the hanging blue, the weight was too large, and the two huge black holes were added to the heat, and the rope had time to be retracted in the future, and the hanging blue quickly fell to the ground, and the soldiers inside were shocked to death.

This balloon came from Zheng Lang's hand, so the rebels shouted for Zheng to win.

So Zheng Lang still used balloons to seize his sharpness, so that these people could see the power of real science.

Bringing nearly 20,000 cowhides and sheepskins, a cart of animal skins was opened, and several lords were stunned together, and Ming Ho asked deliciously: "Xingzhi, how many balloons do you plan to make?" ”

"One."

"One?"

Zheng Lang nodded heavily, and at this time he thought of the air battle in "The Three Musketeers" in his mind. That's impossible, not to mention full control with the rudder, which is not possible on a balloon, especially when there is a headwind. Even if it can be realized, the wooden ship hanging below may weigh dozens of tons, and then look at the volume of the airboat above, even if it is light-weighted hydrogen, it will not be able to lift off with a large weight. But this idea can be borrowed.

Thousands of people were rushing to work, and it was quiet outside Beizhou for the past two days, and Wang Ze came to the city to inspect it very strangely, and saw that balloons were being made behind the barracks, laughed wildly, and said to his subordinates: "Prepare a bed crossbow." ”

"Whoa." The subordinate was just about to leave. Wang Ze said: "Then improve the crossbow head and change it to a rocket type, so that the balloon in it will ignite." ”

War can force people to progress, and Wang Ze is also a small progress.

By the third day, the balloon was taking shape.

Although preparations were made, when the balloon was raised, all the rebels in Beizhou City were silent when they saw it. (To be continued.)