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Next, when Guo Jing took Wang Qiu, Nobita and Doraemon, hastily visited several famous places in Bianliang, Tokyo, sighed for a great Song Dynasty monarch's tricks and death performances, and then returned to Tianqing Temple, where the "Rokko Divine Soldiers" were stationed, there were many carts parked at the gate of the temple, on which bundles of spears, knives, daggers, bows and crossbows, shields, and even helmets and armor were very expensive in ancient times.

Several low-ranking officials of the ordnance supervisor were holding booklets and distributing these ordnance and equipment to the "divine soldiers" who had been recruited into the army.

-- As the "divine soldiers" of Guo Daxian, the Great Song Dynasty certainly could not let them go into battle with their bare hands to fight the Jurchens.

In fact, at this critical juncture of life and death in Beijing, the generosity of the Great Song Dynasty in the supply of ordnance has been beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

-- Wang Qiu, who has read several ancient Greek historical stories before, still vaguely remembers that when the ancient city of Athens was facing the threat of a large-scale invasion by the Persian army and was about to start the famous Marathon Battle, the citizens of the city bravely searched the entire Athenian city and only scraped together 10,000 infantry -- it was not that the Athenians at that time could not recruit more strong men, but they really couldn't find more ordnance and equipment!

However, in Bianliang City at this time, the imperial court, which was in a hurry to go to the hospital, just hastily allocated it, and made 10,000 sets of armor sticks for Guo Daxian to spoil!

“…… A whole 10,000 sets of armor staffs, just dialed out so casually? The court is really generous! ”

Looking at these mountains of new equipment, Wang Qiu couldn't help but feel very surprised-not only the most basic swords, guns, swords, and shields equipped with individual soldiers, but also the "trains" for arson, the small light trebuchets, the knife carts that blocked the city gates (a large wooden board at the front of the car was full of blades), and the "trench carts" used to cross the moat, almost everything except war horses: but this was just a "militia" that was supposing for the army!

If you put it in medieval Europe at the other end of the Eurasian 6 at this time, I am afraid that the king's personal guard does not have so many good goods!

But the ordnance supervisor who escorted this batch of ordnance was very disdainful of Wang Qiu's words, "...... My Great Song Dynasty is rich all over the world and has millions of armor, although there has never been enough war horses, but weapons have never been lacking. Since the start of the war with the Jin people, from the central to the local, military factories in various places have been working day and night, and all kinds of ordnance have been piled up in the imperial arsenal, and only 10,000 sets of armor canes can be counted? Even 100,000 sets can be obtained! ”

Wang Qiu continued to inquire carefully, only to know that in Kaifeng City alone, there were more than 300,000 sets of ordnance and armor staff hoarded over the years, and after moving out of the warehouse, he could pull up 300,000 troops at any time! At present, there are no less than this number of young and middle-aged men in the city who can be recruited -- based on the population of 1.5 million in Kaifeng, it is not difficult to recruit 300,000 strong men if all the people are soldiers.

Such abundant capital, if it were placed in the Western world, which is currently in the dark Middle Ages, may already be a force that can be used to conquer Europe, but here, they can't even defend their own fortified hometown! Who let the Northern Song Dynasty at this time live for a long time, and the martial arts have been abolished to the point of "a drooping child, but he practices singing and dancing; Seventy-year-old man, I don't know how to fight"?!

In this tragic era, the Song Dynasty had the comprehensive national strength and cultural industry of the United States in later generations, and military expenditure also accounted for seventy percent of the fiscal revenue, comparable to the German fascists, but the combat effectiveness of the army was at most the level of Italy, and the common people lived a hard life like Afghans.

-- Look at these improvised recruits, who are still staggering and staggering, despite their sturdy armor, powerful helmets, and sharp knives and guns. And those so-called gun and stick leaders are also a street showman's posture, although the fist embroidered legs are very good-looking, but in actual combat, I am afraid that it is useless...... Wang Qiu finally understood why Bianliang City couldn't hold it.

In this great city, which has been soaked in the bones of the song and dance of the prosperous era, in this cruel war that determines the rise and fall of a civilization, in fact, there is never a shortage of food, nor is there a lack of weapons, let alone strong men, but it lacks the least courage and conscience!

-- This is a city of wretched cowards who lament their misfortunes and are angry!

Just when Wang Qiu and Guo Jing were unanimously despairing towards these "Liujia Divine Soldiers", there was a commotion on the street outside. Wang Qiu looked out from the gate of Tianqing Temple, and saw a soldier of the forbidden army dressed in red, riding a low and inferior horse not much bigger than a donkey, galloping through the bustling streets, and his mouth was still shouting: "...... There is an order from the imperial court! Martial law in Beijing! The Golden Soldiers are attacking the city! ”

Suddenly, the whole city was in a panic, and even those "Rokkashi Divine Soldiers" who had just gotten their swords and guns were all pale in the same way......

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The bleak winter sun shone on the head of Bianliang City, and the cold wind howled and rolled up the dust and blades of grass on the city. The gray sky was as gloomy as the mood of the defenders of the city, and there was a faint smell of death in the air. Flocks of jackdaws fluttered in the air, chirping and chirping. The rough and harsh sound was like a file that struck people's nerves, and every flap of their wings spread unspeakable fear.

From time to time, these ominous black ghosts fell to the ground, picked up a few strands of flesh, and fluttered into the sky. At the place where the jackdaw fell, countless knives, guns, arrows and stones were scattered on the ground, hundreds of mutilated corpses were lying on the city bricks, the blood that was once warm had solidified black, but the stench of corpses coming out of the wounds and the burnt smell of flesh and blood after being splashed with boiling oil were still mixed into the wind and constantly spread around.

A short but tragic battle to attack and defend the city has just ended here at the East Water Gate.

Although the defenders have an excellent geographical advantage of the high city fortifications by virtue of the magnificent city walls that have been continuously built in the imperial capital Bianliang for a hundred years, the Song army defending the city still suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of the stone throwers and the rain of arrows by the Jin soldiers, and the number of injured people was even more than that of the Jin army attacking the city wall!

One of the main generals of the Bianliang City Defense, Zhang Shuye, the governor of the South Province and the member of the Privy Council who had just led 30,000 reinforcements to break into the Beijing Division, was dressed in a light paper armor and inspected the city with a retinue, his face was extremely gloomy.

-- Zhang Shuye didn't pay much attention to the tragic situation inside and outside the city wall. Although he was born as a civil servant, he has always led troops. When he was the prefect of Haizhou, Song Jiang rose in Heshuo, plundered more than ten states, and defeated the officers and soldiers. Uncle Zhang recruited thousands of daredevils at night and set up an ambush to defeat Song Jiang. Later, he led a team of elites to attack the Songjiang camp by boat and burned down the boats of the Songjiang Water Village, which made the poor Song Jiang accept Zhao'an - this is also the prototype of the story of the long historical novel "Water Margin".

However, the current battle situation facing Bianliang is much more critical than when he exterminated the Song Jiang bandits.

-- The Jin army, which had been attacking the city wall for several days, although it had just been defeated again and was repelled by the defenders with flying stone crossbows, still seemed arrogant and high-spirited; And the Great Song Forbidden Army, which defended the city, although with the help of tall and thick city walls and various city defense equipment, successfully repelled the Jin army's large-scale attack on the city, but was frightened by the bloody and heavy casualties on the battlefield, and its morale was so low that it was impossible to see Cheng Dù!

Recalling the war in Fangcai, Zhang Shuye, a rare outstanding general in the Great Song Dynasty during the Jingkang period, couldn't help but have a wry smile on the corner of his mouth.

-- The Jin army just now only dispatched 300 archers, and successfully escorted hundreds of engineers to rush to the city to excavate, and the Great Song Forbidden Army at the head of the city did not dare to go out of the city to expel this small group of enemies, but only dared to use strong crossbows and strong bows and stones to roll oil, desperately leaving the city to block the attack. However, the archers of the Jin army were also trying their best to protect, and shot over hundreds of reckless defenders with bows and arrows under the wall, scaring many people into not daring to show their heads

In the end, despite repelling the tentative attack of the Jinren, he smashed the sappers who were digging in the earth. But the defenders of the city still fully exposed their weakness - they hardly dared to shoot arrows from behind the battlements, so that although the strong crossbows arranged at the head of Bianliang City were good, the accuracy of the archers was very poor, and they did not wield a single point of power. However, the Jin army that besieged the city was not afraid of death, and rushed until the light was captured.

- For the Jurchens, there is nothing to be reluctant to lose some lives in the siege war, anyway, the Jurchen warriors of their own clan did not participate in the war, and the deaths are basically the latest Han people of the Liao State who abandoned Song and surrendered to the Jin in Yanyun, and the Jurchens have no need to feel sorry for these undisciplined slaves with three surnames. As long as you go to Yanyun and the Han land in Hebei to search for it, there will be as many cannon fodder as there are for the ant siege.

In this way, in order to stop the Jin soldiers, the defenders could only throw stones and oil under the city as if they didn't need money, so that the stones were piled up two feet high at the base of the wall, and the gurgling hot oil merged into a stream, wasting the limited materials for defending the city, but did not cause many casualties to the enemy.

However, for Song Jun, what can they do? The forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty is such a group of gutsless, incompetent and useless wrecks!

Although the Northern Song Dynasty had 800,000 professional forbidden troops who were out of work, and the national defense force seemed to be unprecedentedly strong, the problem was that the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty was not a real army, but a refugee shelter. Whenever there is a major disaster such as a flood and drought in the local area, in order to prevent the displaced people from rebelling, the imperial court recruits all the middle-aged men in the affected areas into the forbidden army, so that they can be paid as soldiers, so as to eliminate ****.

-- As for the old and young women and children, even if they have nothing to eat, they will not be able to rebel......

And after these armies are recruited, in order to save money, they are often raised like pigs, and they do not practice at all, and they have no combat effectiveness at all. As a result, the size of the forbidden army has been expanding, but its combat effectiveness has been declining. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of forbidden troops alone exceeded 800,000, and with the box army, there were as many as 1.4 million...... According to a person's annual salary of 50 guan, even if he does nothing, just feeding 800,000 forbidden troops will cost 40 million guan a year. If it were put in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, when the finances were miserable, it is estimated that the imperial court would have gone bankrupt several times!

Although the Northern Song Dynasty court was more generous than Emperor Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it raised so many soldiers who could not fight and only ate rice. It's also a bit unbearable. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty thought that these forbidden troops could not be fed in vain, and they had to create some economic benefits. So let those forbidden soldiers be craftsmen, foot strength, and shopkeepers...... In short, let the army do business, do odd jobs, be as self-reliant as possible, and reduce the financial burden on the imperial court.

In later generations, only the Eighth Route Army succeeded in the anti-Japanese base areas. But the pampered doctor of the Song Dynasty was not the political commissar of the Eighth Route Army who took the lead in sacrificing and dedicating, and he did not have the appeal to organize everyone's voluntary labor, let alone the great power to turn decay into magic. An army has been turned into a labor team by them like this, and there is no ideological consciousness level of the Eighth Route Army in the War of Resistance, where is there any combat effectiveness at all?

In short, the "large-scale production movement" is not something that the feudal dynasty can play with -- if it is to do so, either the army will lose its combat effectiveness, or it will lose its capital...... Or worse, so that the army has not only lost its combat effectiveness, but also lost its capital......

Especially the forbidden army in Bianliang, father and son have been successively for hundreds of years, and most of the officers are family heirlooms. There has been no war for a hundred years, and in this prosperous city of Tokyo, the Great Song Dynasty court paid as much as 50 yuan a year to the forbidden army. The average monthly material money is 5oo Wen, the monthly grain is two stones and five buckets, 6 horses of silk in spring and winter, 12 taels of cotton, 3ooo Wen with the clothing money, and the southern suburbs are rewarded once every three years, with an average of 15 per person. If a soldier of the forbidden army can live until he is discharged from the army, or if he is discharged from the army due to injury, he will have a more money to settle in and return to the army. Although it is not much, the old ones are enough to spend the rest of your life in peace, and the young ones are enough for you to find a wife and start a family. For the military, such a comprehensive and generous economic treatment is unprecedented not only in China, but even in the world.

Think about these forbidden troops in Beijing, they have never had to fight for generations, but they are stationed in the most prosperous place in the world, where they are extremely rich in entertainment and have generous salaries, and the result is naturally to raise a group of old soldiers like children of the Eight Banners! There is not a bit of iron-blooded anger of the army!

It can be said that among the millions of troops in the Northern Song Dynasty, the only ones who can really fight are the tens of thousands of Western troops in northern Shaanxi who have been fighting against Western Xia all year round......

However, the only tens of thousands of elites of the Western Army have already been lost in a series of battles, leaving only a pile of useless waste.

Especially in the current Bianliang City, even the Beijing Forbidden Army is only 30,000, and the rest of the defenders are simply temporarily recruited from the prodigal children of the market, among which there are many monks and Taoists forcibly brought from temples and Taoist temples. Before, when Zhang Shuye had not led reinforcements to attack Bianliang, it was clear that these Jin people had already transported stones and logs under the city to prepare for the siege, and they actually stayed on the city wall and watched, without any harassment at all. Just let the enemy build siege positions and fill in the moat.

Not only that, but these guys are also making a fuss about salaries for three days, anyway, in a word-if you don't give money, who will help your Zhao Guan's family fight? !

It wasn't until the Jin people began to officially attack the city and the flames of war burned on their heads that these people saw that the situation was not good, and they began to fight mentally...... Then, as expected, the fight went into the streets to the extreme--it was a fool's dream to rely on such a rabble of people who had been cobbled together by a group of idle people in society to repel the golden soldiers.

But Zhang Shuye is also a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, and there are only so many troops that can be mobilized in the Beijing Division at present, and the 30,000 soldiers and horses he has collected from the southern states and counties are not much stronger than the Beijing Forbidden Army...... However, the army of the Quartet Qinwang was dismissed by the lord and the ministers without authorization, so that there was no hope for reinforcements, and the most important thing was that the court was hesitant about whether to fight or not, how to fight such a war?

Unfortunately, it was a cold winter, the water level of the Yellow River was low, and the Qin people's water attack strategy to destroy the Great Liang of the Wei State in the past could not be implemented. If the Jin people held on to each other with the imperial court in the suburbs of Bianjing until the water level rose and the spring flood exploded, then the Yellow River embankment flooded Bianliang...... That's even more unthinkable

Could it really be that the Great Song Dynasty is going to die? Uncle Zhang couldn't help but lament in despair.