Yu Yunwen smiled slightly and said to Zhao Huan: "Actually, Your Majesty doesn't talk about it, and the minister has to take the initiative." The forbidden army has no horses, and after all, it can only focus on defense and is unable to attack. During the time of Taizu Taizong, with the prestige of the founding emperor, hundreds of thousands of heroes went north, not to mention anything else, no war horse is the biggest drawback. ”

He paused for a moment, and said: "During the Xuanhe period, the Emperor Taishang has been using troops against the Western Xia, the Song and Xia countries, since Li Yuanhao's time, it is Xia strong and Song weak, Xia attacking Song and defending, since His Majesty Renzong used Fan Zhong to flood the west of the town and clean up the situation, although the Western Xia is still on the offensive, but it has been much tired, after decades of war between the two countries, the Xia State has been unable to fight again, although my Great Song Dynasty is also trapped because of the Western Xia, the soldiers from more than 300,000 to 1.1 million, the imperial court is overwhelmed, but after all, it is much stronger than the small country of Western Xia. To the year of Xuanhe, led by Tong Guan, has been attacking the Xixia fort on the border, the Xia army has no way, when the Jin Kingdom first started, the forbidden army has taken the Xia people's best soldiers to gather the Hengshan area, if it is not for the death of Jin Xing, interrupting our offensive, it is not impossible to destroy the Western Xia. Now it seems that the Song and Jin countries have been at a standoff, and the Xia and Jin countries have seized the northern Song land because the Jin State is afraid of the Xia people, and sent troops to recapture it. The Xia people deployed large troops in the Weifu Military Division of Montenegro, and only a small number of troops on the Xia and Song borders, as evidenced by this. ”

Zhao Huan shook his head and smiled, and said to him: "This is the first, and secondly, the Xia people look down on us, the Great Song Dynasty is almost on the verge of dying, where is there still the strength to deal with Western Xia!" ”

He ordered Yu Yunwen to drink tea, and after the other party picked up the white glaze engraved lotus pattern porcelain cup from the Dingyao kiln, and put it on his lips to take a very reserved sip, Zhao Huan said again: "Whether it is the horse protection method or the imperial horse supervisor, it can't really solve the problem." At the height of the Tang Dynasty, there were six or seven hundred thousand horses, but what about the Great Song Dynasty? There are only one or two thousand war horses produced in a year, and the horse protection law can only bring disaster to the country and the people. Counting on the exchange of markets with those Tubo, the war horses in exchange are all bad horses. There are many that are not at all battlefield. Therefore, I thought hard day and night, if I want to completely solve the Jin country, there are two ways. First, it is to gather the strength of ten or even twenty years, with more than one million infantry, with a small number of cavalry, and constantly use national strength to fight against the Jinren, and use this method to drag. Consume. Until the enemy is exhausted, with the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, until the enemy is dragged across. ”

Yu Yunwen frowned and said: "In this case, it is also the way to win, but the world will be difficult for a long time." ”

Zhao Huan nodded and said: "That's right, the beginning of the Jin Kingdom is not comparable to the Western Xia, Hebei Mountain, Tokyo West and other places, all of which are plains, which are the places where the enemy's iron cavalry is used. If you want to drag down and defeat the enemy. I have to have the blood of my Great Song Dynasty forbidden army to fill the battlefield with human lives. And you have to refine the forbidden army, heavy armor and strong crossbows, and so on, before you can fight the enemy. ”

He had some words. I can't tell the minister in front of me who has just been reused. Qin Xuan had already gone to Fujian Road and Liangguang to inspect officials, observe local government affairs, and prepare for further reforms of the entire government affairs and financial endowment system in the lower places.

Not to mention anything else, just in the Guanshan Heluo area, the mountains are bare, and the water conservancy is not repaired. In the midst of frequent wars, the people had to work on the land and endure heavy taxes from the state. On the one hand, they also have to serve in the army, and those who are strong and brave become forbidden troops. The next point is the box army, and the second point is the village soldiers, archers, strong men, and so on, and the burden is extremely heavy. And many of Zhao Huan's reforms, tax reductions and exemptions, and the construction of water conservancy city defenses, all require a lot of manpower, if the war is connected, the Jin State is certainly not strong, and the Song Dynasty has to drag out the internal injuries. In this way, it will take a lot of effort to even maintain normalcy, let alone drastic reforms. And the world is seizing the day, Zhao Huan doesn't care if his life is illusory or not, as a Chinese son, no matter what his personal character is, since there are some good opportunities, how can he let them go lightly?

He frowned, and then said after what he had just said: "There is another way, that is, with the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, equip the elite cavalry, and coordinate with cavalry, just like the Tang Dynasty, with heavy infantry to advance the front, the cavalry to roam on both wings, and the crossbowmen to the rear, so that you can defeat a large number of enemy soldiers with the same number of people, or even weaker and fewer troops?" Why? Because my weapons in the Great Song Dynasty are sharper, the armor is more sophisticated, the crossbow arrows shoot farther than the enemy's best marksman, and the manpower and material resources are far greater than those of the Jin people, not twenty years, within five years, I will be able to see the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army attack Hebei and directly force Yanyun! ”

Although Yu Yunwen knew the importance of building cavalry, he did not have the ambition of Zhao Huan, nor was he as optimistic as Zhao Huan, and to establish cavalry, it was necessary to have a large number of horse breeding land to establish horse supervisors and raise war horses, whether it was the former or the latter, it cost a lot. With the current financial income of the Song Dynasty, he had to resist the next attack of the Jin soldiers, and then bear such a huge military expenditure and horse government expenses, whether he could afford it, he couldn't help but put a few question marks in his heart.

It's just that when he said this, he was already a poor dagger, and the emperor's meaning was obviously the same as himself, and he couldn't allow him to be sloppy, so he said cautiously at the moment: "The minister and His Majesty have the same meaning, the Great Song Dynasty needs to build cavalry, and to build cavalry, it is necessary to get the Hetao area, and there is no good way to do it." In this way, it will not be a war with Western Xia again. Although the Xia State is weak, there are still hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State are at war, and whether they have the spare strength to fight with the Xia people again, the ministers are still not sure. ”

"Qingyan is also reasonable, at this time, it is just that the two of us are discussing the general trend of the world, and it is not necessary to do it suddenly, and it is okay to do it slowly.

Zhao Huan is familiar with history, and knows that the Western Xia at this time is far less than that year, the armament is wasted, and the army has no combat power, if it is not for the lord of this generation of Xia who knows the art of left and right sources, and the Jin and Song Dynasty are very unsmooth, to leave a check and balance, I am afraid that 100,000 Jin soldiers elite will enter the Xia realm, and the time for the destruction of the Xia Kingdom will have to be advanced by several decades.

It's just that at this moment, everything has not yet been started, and he doesn't want to give his subordinates too much of an impression, so he casually agrees perfunctorily, to show that although he wants to plot against Western Xia, he will not be eager to do it.

"Your Majesty."

Yu Yunwen bowed and was about to say more, but saw a chamberlain hurriedly come in and whispered something in Zhao Huan's ear, he knew that it must be a secret, so he turned his head and pretended to appreciate the landscape calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls of this pavilion.

"Good! Yao Duan and Zhang Xian lived up to my expectations. ”

When Zhao Huan heard a few words, he was already high-fived and admired, and then asked the waiter a few words, and waved him to retreat.

Seeing that Yu Yunwen seemed to understand, Zhao Huan couldn't help laughing and said, "Someone from the Fifth Army in front of the Imperial Court came to report." The deputy head of his department and the former army commander Yao Duan, plus the staff officer Zhang Xian, commanded more than 10,000 troops, first broke the Jin general Wang Bolong's headquarters in Yichuan, and then quickly returned to Chang'an, knowing that the Jin soldiers had been defeated, they turned halfway and went to invite the remnants of the enemy, more than 10,000 people. Ambush the enemy at Dragon's Mouth. In a battle, the enemy was broken, more than 10,000 beheaded, and countless corpses were ambushed, although the enemy cavalry escaped the river first, but they also suffered the loss of their boss. ”

Although Yu Yunwen is not as happy as Zhao Huan, he is also extremely excited. He stood up at the moment and congratulated the emperor: "Your Majesty, since the second year of Jingkang, our army has never had such a great victory!" ”

Zhao Huan couldn't help but be overjoyed, nodded and said: "There are small gains in defeating the enemy, but there has never been such a large number of beheadings at one time, and the battle of Fuping cannot be compared!" ”

He stood up and said happily, "That's it." Hedong will fall into my hands, and the enemy of Taiyuan cannot be guaranteed, the general trend of the world, finally decided, from now on, but only my forbidden army and the enemy in the field of battle, not exhausted. Everywhere the land is guarded. ”

Before Yu Yunwen could answer, Zhang Jun, who rushed to hear the news, and several prime ministers had already come to the door together, but Zhao Huan's words happened to be heard by them. When everyone was ordered to enter, they bowed down together and congratulated them. He only said: "Your Majesty Shenwu, there is such a great victory, and the edict should be issued to the world, so that the subjects of the world will know it, and the whole world will celebrate." ”

"But this is to be done in the name of the Lord's Council."

Zhang Jun bowed down and agreed, also with a smile on his face. Although this person is stubborn, quite ambitious and talented, but when it comes to loyalty and daring to do things, he is also the top-notch courtier next to Zhao Huan, he completed this transformation by King Kang's henchmen, and at this time he was sincerely happy with the achievements in Zhao Huan's hands, but Zhao Huan sighed.

It's just that after answering correctly, Zhang Jun suddenly remembered something and asked the emperor: "Shicaichen received a military report in the cardinal, but he only mentioned Yao Duan, and Zhang Jun's headquarters of more than 20,000 people, and did not go to Yichuan to fight with Wang Bolong, the battle of Longmen, and did not mention Zhang Jun and Yang Cunzhong, but I don't know where they went?" ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Jun's face was already very unhappy, no matter what, as a privy envoy, he assisted the emperor in managing the forbidden army in the world, Zhang Jun was the head of a military area, and if he sent someone to submit the military report, it was first sent to the emperor, and then to the privy palace, and the privy envoy actually had to hear the detailed military information from the emperor's mouth, in any case, this is a very bad act of borrowing and transgressing.

Zhao Huan heard him ask, but he sneered, and only said: "The military report of the right talent, it was Yao Duan and Zhang Xian who sent people to present it, and asked about Zhang Jun, but only said that the troops were divided that day, Yao Duan's department first broke Wang Bolong, and then followed Zhang Jun to aid Chang'an, and when the news reached the army, Zhang Jun decided to still come to Chang'an, Yao Duan asked for war, but Zhang Jun was silent and let them do it." If the forecast is good, Zhang Jun's report will come soon. “

At this point, everyone already knows it.

These days, Zhang Jun's department has not been able to communicate with the news, in fact, it is not that he has encountered a sinister enemy, but that the deputy chief has gone to invite the fleeing enemy, and the main general has waited for the news, if he wins, Pegasus will report the victory, and if he loses, he can shirk responsibility. Zhang Jun is the main general, he is so unbearable, and he even intends to take the credit of his subordinates.

Zhang Jun was very strong, and after hearing this, he immediately said to Zhao Huan: "In this case, why don't you appoint Yao Duan as the manager, remove Zhang Jun from his official position, and let him go home to deal with his crimes!" ”

Yu Yunwen was the new deputy envoy of the Privy Council, but he shook his head and smiled at the moment: "The minister thinks that it is inappropriate to change the general before the battle, and it is terrible if there is chaos." ”

Zhang Jun glanced at him and only said, "So what, I don't believe in Yang Cun, I'm willing to follow Zhang Jun to mess around." ”

He is a senior, and he pretends to teach his juniors, and Yu Yunwen is inconvenient to say any more, so he has to retreat with a smile and stop talking.

Zhao Huan also wanted to take the opportunity to take down Zhang Jun, an incompetent person, but at this time, he also changed his mind, and only smiled: "Zhang Jun is too utilitarian, and I don't want to take him this way." But this is a good thing, Yao Duan's great victory, famous all over the world, this person is Yao Duan's chief official, isn't he red-eyed? I'm afraid that a few pairs of boots will be broken, and let him go to Hedong, and together with Yao Duan, the camera will attack, I think, he will work hard. ”