"Fox tail on the chest, pheasant feather on the back of the head. According to the atlas, how can you dress like this, you have to be a thousand households...... ......."

The observers under the Great Wall were not too sure what level of general the guy who had just been put down by the snipers was, and added a 'bar' at the end to express their opinions.

This can't be blamed entirely on the inexperience of observers, before the appearance of the Type 22 rifle, Da Song did not set up snipers. Moreover, the Mongolian side did not particularly unify the style of military uniforms. Without waiting for a discussion, another observer shouted, "Hey! There was another one at the head of the city, and it didn't look too bad to be dressed. ”

Everyone stopped talking nonsense, and six binoculars looked at the city at the same time. Sure enough, under the banner of the Mongolian army, there was a guy who looked at his status and stood on the ground where the guy had fallen to the ground. In the binoculars, the guy seems to be a little anxious.

The snipers, all sharpshooters in the army, immediately lowered their binoculars and began to reload the Type 22 rifle as soon as they saw this. The three men loaded their bullets and began to take aim, when the Mongolian general leaned out from between the battlements and looked out. No more orders, the three pulled the trigger almost simultaneously. The general's body was shocked, and his body leaned out of the battlement and fell directly down and hung on the city wall. The richly decorated hat fell off his head and fell towards the city. A moment later, a blood flower suddenly bloomed on the general's back, and two flowers of masonry and stone debris bloomed on the wall beside him because of the bullet.

Observers couldn't help but be speechless. This should be the action of other sniper teams, and it seems that everyone is not far behind in grabbing credit. The fact that the body of the Mongolian colonel was dragged back to the walls of the Great Wall through the telescope at least proves that he was also an important person.

Before the snipers could comment, one of them was still using a telescope to look at "Hey! I saw that someone had been beaten again, and it looked like it was just a small soldier. Didn't you say that you shouldn't attack the minions! ”

The sniper squad raised their binoculars and saw that the muskets of the Mongol army on the top of the city began to spray white smoke. Everyone didn't care to look at it anymore, and hurriedly hid behind stones or trees. The caliber of the Great Song musket was about 10 mm, and the caliber of the Mongolian musket was about 25 mm. If you are hit by a Mongolian musket, you will be seriously injured even if you are hit in a non-lethal position.

The Mongolian muskets were quickly finished, and the sniper squad was on fire. A sniper said angrily: "Straight lady thief, you don't need to look for those Mongolian officials again, let me kill a few Mongolian soldiers first to vent my anger." ”

With more than one idea, snipers threw themselves into the shooting operation. The Chinese army a few hundred meters behind the front-line snipers could not see what the snipers were doing, but they could see that the Mongol army was gradually shrinking behind the city, and did not dare to show their heads. After a stalemate, the Mongols began to retreat by hiding behind the battlements. It didn't take long for the enemy to be lost on the Great Wall in front of it.

The Song army cautiously climbed the Great Wall to make sure that the Mongol army had withdrawn. Admiral Li Yun had already learned that the 10 sniper squads sent had continuously killed and wounded the Mongol troops, especially two high-ranking Mongolian generals and colonels one after another. Li Yun wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed slightly and ordered: "Give everyone credit." Let's keep walking. ”

Waiting for everyone else to get busy, the chief of staff hurriedly came to Li Yun's side, "Commander, why don't the officials want to give us the Type 22 rifle first." If it had been given to us, it would have been easier to fight. ”

Li Yun replied indifferently: "The Mongols originally didn't know how to use firearms at all, but after so many years, they were able to make their own muskets. ”

The chief of staff was stunned for a moment, Zhao Guanjia did not say such a reason, and the chief of staff himself did not take this aspect into account. Combining the possibility of the loss of technology with the battle of the talents, the chief of staff couldn't help but shudder. If the Mongol army at the head of the Great Wall was armed with Type 22 rifles, the Song army under the city was afraid that it would suffer a lot of losses.

Li Yun's face was calm, and he was also quite uneasy in his heart. Compared to the Type 22 rifle, the previous musket was no different from the waste. And the bows and arrows of the Mongols are not much different from the muskets used by the Song army now. According to the history of the war, the one-pound cannon of the Song army appeared on the battlefield of Ezhou more than 20 years ago, and the Mongols imitated it in a short period of time.

Thinking of this, Li Yun said in a cold tone: "If you don't want the Mongols to imitate our muskets, in addition to killing all the Song traitors and traitors, kill all the Mongols as soon as possible." ”

"Hmm." The Chief of Staff felt that this was also the way, perhaps the best way to do it right now. Nodding emphatically, the chief of staff responded: "Since the Mongols have known the power of the Song Army's Type 22 rifle, this time they will directly besiege the city on all sides, and they will not let go of any of them." ”

If the Mongols learned that the chief of staff of the Great Song Yanyun Military Region had given such an order, they would probably say with contempt that even if the Mongols did not know about the existence of the new muskets of the Song army, would the Song army let the Mongols go?

In the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Mongols, when the Mongols were strong and the Song army was weak, the Song army did not kill many prisoners of war. Instead, the Mongols slaughtered everywhere they went. As Zhao Jiaren led the Song army to become stronger and stronger, the Song army's methods of dealing with people other than the Han Chinese became more and more in line with the universal values of this era. From the point of view of the Great Song Dynasty, this is just an exchange of courtesies. Facing the changes of the Great Song Dynasty, the Mongols have a very deep feeling about this. And the Mongols did not complain about anything either.

When the Song army arrived at Wucheng, they found that there were not many people left in this strategically important city. All non-Han people who knew the universal values of this era ran away. Li Yun led the troops into Wucheng, looked at the empty streets, and couldn't help but smile: "I didn't expect that I would be able to see what it is like to flee from the wind in my life." ”

"Commander, what's next?" The chief of staff asked, "Do you want to pursue?" ”

"No kidding." Li Yun expressed his attitude.

The chief of staff said the same thing, and he did not think that the pursuit should continue. Henan, Hebei and Shandong, such a vast area combined with only 3 million people. In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, before the Jin invasion, the total population of these three places combined exceeded 30 million. If such a large number of people were used as a foundation, the Yanyun Theater could organize more than 100,000 troops to fight on the edge of the grassland.

Then the chief of staff listened to Li Yun and said: "Prepare to set up barracks along the way, since you have arrived in Wucheng, if you don't go to the north of Yinshan to see, wouldn't it be in vain." ”

Wucheng was so important that the news of the recovery of Wucheng was sent to Hangzhou as soon as possible. Not only did the Ministry of War attach great importance to this, but even Zhao Jiaren was shocked. After recovering so many famous cities over the years, one martial city is not enough to make everyone in the military department smile. The chief of the General Staff only said that "the logistics have been extended for another four or five hundred miles" and was silent.

Now that someone has already told this biggest contradiction, everyone in the military department no longer talks nonsense. Four or five hundred miles of mountain roads are a cruel test for any logistical transportation line. Zhao Jiaren did not want to deny this. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the first trunk railway built by China was called the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which started from Youzhou and ended at Wucheng. The railway proved the importance of this passage, and Zhao Jiaren was very skeptical that he would ever see the completion of the 'Youwu Railway' from Youzhou to Wucheng in his lifetime.

Obviously a battle was won and an important city was recovered, but the atmosphere inside the military headquarters did not look happy. The chief of the general staff, who had said a frustrating word first, also felt that it was inappropriate, and he broke the silence, "Official, if you can immigrate millions in Hebei, you can make the situation much better." ”

"Huh." Zhao Jiaren laughed dryly. Not to mention the millions of immigrants in distant Hebei, he has already ordered the recruitment of people who went to Henan to resume agricultural production, and the current population has not exceeded 300,000. Recruiting millions of people to immigrate to Hebei can probably be realized in a dream.

Although in the 21st century there are many people who say that as long as there is land, Chinese farmers will go there. But that is talking about the Manchu Dynasty, when the population was said to be 600 million at its peak, and because of the large number of people and the lack of land, the peasants had to leave their homes. Now the population of the Great Song Dynasty is 80 million, and except for Fujian, the contradiction of more people and less land is not particularly prominent.

"I'll think about it." Zhao Jiaren could only leave such a sentence.

"Official, what Li Yun said in the telegram is also correct. We can't let Mongolia roam the steppe, and we need to send troops to the steppe every year to conquer it. The chief of the General Staff put the problem to Zhao Jiaren.

Faced with such a problem, Zhao Jiaren replied: "Tell Li Yun that I will increase the supply of Type 22 rifles for him." ”

Without waiting for everyone to respond, Zhao Jiaren continued: "Ask the Liaodong Military Region what they are going to do. ”

The Liaodong Military Region was not idle, and they had already discussed it before Zhao Guandian's telegram arrived in Liaodong. After the telegram arrived, the military region immediately held a meeting, and Deputy Commander Zhu Hongwu spoke confidently, "There are millions of women in Liaodong, but they live like scattered sand. As I have said before, our army should accumulate grain, build more turrets, and trade directly with women from all over the country. With the habit of female straightness, it is inevitable to come to loot the caravan, and whenever there is a female straight attack, it will inform the surrounding female straight and gather troops to completely exterminate the female straight in the place. In fact, it will not take a few years to exterminate such a place and place by place. ”

"I'm afraid a few years won't be enough." The commander felt that Zhu Hongwu was a little too optimistic.

"We have 40,000 people in four divisions, and one million women in Liaodong. One person can kill twenty-five women. Zhu Hongwu argued, "The most important thing at the moment is that if we pursue the female straight, they are familiar with the geographical advantages, and there is also the harmony between the female straight." All we have is the time of day. The construction of the turret is to oppose the guest in terms of geographical advantages. Trade with women, only fight those who rob the caravan of women's tribes, that is, break up the women and people. With such a two-pronged approach, when the time and place are favorable, all in our army, it is not a matter of raising hands to exterminate women. ”

The so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and no one can refute Zhu Hongwu's suggestion. In addition, Zhao Guanjia was anxious to ask for war planning in the Liaodong Military Region, and Zhu Hongwu's suggestion was sent to Hangzhou. After reading the plan, Zhao Jiaren commented: "The courtesy is still exchanged, and the woman who owes us must repay it." When carrying out, it is necessary to guard against arrogance and rashness, and it is also necessary to let the comrades of the troops know the danger and be prepared. ”