Although Zhengde didn't understand such a heavy question that Song Nan suddenly asked, he also understood that this was not something he could decide lightly. Zhengde's brain is still smart enough, since the Hetao area is so important, his father Hongzhi can be said to have worked hard when he was alive, but in the eighteen years of his reign, why didn't he solve the problem of repetition?

Zhengde understands that compared with his father, his talent and vision are much different, and his father can't do it or is not sure to do it, and it is impossible for him to succeed. However, in view of the fact that this was a solemn proposal by Song Nan, Zhengde promised to put the matter on the agenda and let the ministers of the court and the central government discuss it.

Song Nan also understood the difficulty of this matter, the resumption of the set is a beautiful plan, but it is quite difficult to implement, the Hetao area is already a key defense area of the Tatars, and if you want to recapture the Hetao, the cost of food and money is not small. Not to mention whether the Hetao can be captured, that is, if this area is taken, the money and silver spent on building cities and forts in the future will also be astronomical, and whether the imperial court will spend a lot of money to manage the lost and recovered place is the key, otherwise it will be lost sooner or later, and it will be useless to take it.

"Your Majesty, the proposal of the resumption of the set can be decided by the court, and the minister is advocating the recovery of the Hetao and the management of the border to prevent future troubles, but now the priority is the war in the northwest, if the emperor and the adults discuss this matter, the minister is willing to serve as the general of the resumption of the battle."

"I know, except for you, I won't rest assured that anyone else will go, put this matter aside for the time being, do you have any other conditions?"

"The third condition of the minister is that the minister needs to transfer troops from the Beijing camp for this expedition, and the minister must bring the Shenshu battalion and the regimental battalion, and the second foreign army must also go with the minister. The northwest army is slightly weak, and the minister does not want to blindly transfer troops and reinforcements from other places, and now all parts of Datong Xuanfu must be strictly guarded, and if the troops and horses are sent to reinforce the area of Ningxia Town, there may be hidden worries. ”

Zhengde nodded and said: "I agree to your request, the Shenshu Battalion and the Second Outer Army are your soldiers and horses, and I only temporarily took your position, but in fact, I have always wanted to return it to your hands, and this time it is justified." From now on, you will be reinstated as the Admiral of the Shenshu Battalion and the Second Foreign Army, and as for the soldiers and horses of the regimental battalion, you need to go up to the British public tomorrow as soon as possible, after all, he also needs to arrange the mobilization of the regimental battalion soldiers and horses. ”

Song Nan hurriedly thanked the emperor, and finally at the time of the national disaster, the Shenshu Battalion and the Second Foreign Army still returned to their hands, Zhengde said that he had always wanted to reinstate himself, but in fact, they were all beautiful words, if there was no crisis, he was afraid that he would never have thought of it. Returning these two armies to himself is just to reassure himself before the war and put honey on his mouth.

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Early the next morning, above the early dynasty, Zhengde officially issued an order, bowed to Song Nanzhen as the general of the country, and led the second army outside the Shenshu camp, and the two battalions of the regimental camp Jiang Bin and Xu Tai rushed to the northwest to meet the Tartar soldiers. The hearts of the courtiers settled down at once.

For some reason, although I don't want to see Song Nan return to everyone's field of vision, and I don't want to see Song Nan become the center of focus again, once Song Nan agrees to take over the mess in the northwest, everyone sees hope in the decadence. Although this person looks hateful and disgusting, he seems to have a momentum to turn the tide, and he has a better chance of winning than anyone else.

When I heard that this proposal was proposed by Song Nan, many people bluntly said that Song Nan was grandstanding, if the Hetao was so easy to recapture, how could it be delayed for so many years? Moreover, the immediate priority is the war in the northwest, not these unrealistic ideas, whether the Tartars can be driven out of the northwest has no chance of victory, but to consider these unrealistic things later.

Song Nan is reluctant to argue at this time, he has to actively prepare for the expedition, and when he doesn't take over, he can lie in the back garden and watch the stars, but once he takes over, this is his duty. So when everyone was still arguing, Song Nan put these things behind him as soon as he turned around, and began to deploy army materials non-stop and prepare for the expedition.

Although Zhengde fulfilled his promise and allocated funds to purchase 200 rocket launchers to equip the army, the arsenal has been in a state of semi-operation, and Song Nan did not dare to manufacture these things in large quantities, after all, if the imperial court did not purchase them, these things would become broken copper and iron; Now there are less than fifty finished products in the arsenal. If these fifty doors are to be carried with them, the arsenal will naturally have to resume production at once, and it will have to work overtime, so that the thousands of people it has can finally come in handy, and with the existing manpower and scale, the required number will be replenished in a few months.

Song Nan discussed with the little grandfather, and this time he borrowed all the Zhankou general artillery of the Shenji Battalion as a supplement to make up for the lack of initial firepower. Zhang Lun is not a fuel-efficient lamp, after he saw Song Nan's new rocket artillery, he immediately understood that his Zhankou general was a waste at all, so he readily agreed, and the old one did not go to the new one.

With the addition of nearly two hundred generals, Song Nan's heart was a little more settled, and no matter how slag the firearms were, they were also firearms, which had a greater advantage than cold weapons. These cannons were all incorporated into the artillery battalion of the Shenshu battalion, and Zhang Ning, a thousand households in the artillery battalion, dreamed of this day, or during the rebellion of the king of peace, Song Nan promised him to form a general camp in Zhankou to let him command, and finally fulfilled his promise after more than two years.

Three days later, the tense and orderly preparations finally ended, and nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses from the four battalions of Shenshu Battalion, the Second Outer Military Battalion, Jiang Bin's Zhenwei Battalion, and Xu Tai's Martial Arts Training Battalion gathered at the Chengbei campus.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, all the soldiers and horses were paraded, and in addition, what attracted attention were rows of polished and shiny general cannons, and dozens of mysterious things covered with oilcloth and dragged by war horses. Everyone knew that it was the so-called rocket artillery made by Song Nan, but for the sake of secrecy, Song Nan would never let them show their true faces.

In addition, there is also a soldier and horse that is also eye-catching, that is the brocade guard cavalry with yellow helmets and red armor, not their armor is bright and eye-catching, but this team of nearly 1,000 cavalry in addition to the weapons in their hands, they all have the famous double-barreled firearms on their waists.

When the arsenal basically stopped, Song Nan spent nearly 500,000 taels of silver to make a large number of double-barreled firecrackers and secretly equip them to his own guards.

The civil and military officials are not good at talking at this time, and it is a big rebellion to equip a large number of firearms in private, before Song Nan still only had more than 100 firearms equipped in the pro-guard battalion, this amount is not a big thing as a big yamen of Jinyiwei, and it is not a big threat, but I didn't expect this guy to be bold and choose such a huge number of firearms to appear on this occasion for a few years, which is really eye-catching.

They also know that they can't come out to talk about this matter on this occasion today, and the worship of the general is to pay attention to the good fortune, the right time, the right place and the right people, if the person who comes out at this time is talkative, Zhengde will not hesitate to severely punish it. Song Nan chose to show his family background at this time, which was to calculate this point. And today, no one is pursuing it, and it will be a fait accompli in the future, and no one has any reason to bring up the old matter again.

The few officials who understood this section couldn't help but lament in their hearts: this Song Nan's scheming is simply unfathomable, and it seems that everything is in his design.

Zhengde wore auspicious clothes to worship heaven and earth, and personally awarded Song Nanzhen the seal of the general of the country, awarded a Huanglong military flag, and made an impassioned speech, encouraging all the soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy and be loyal to the country, and promised various reward conditions, which can be described as sparing no effort.

Song Nan sighed in his heart, as an emperor, Zhengde is actually not qualified, but he is an emperor, once his foundation is threatened, he will also do his due diligence and hard work, this set of rhetoric is obviously carefully prepared for him, this qiē to put it bluntly, is just to inspire others to die for his throne; Of course, as a member of the Ming Dynasty, Song Nan's heart, like that of other soldiers, was not all about being loyal to the person in front of him, but to resist foreign invasions and avoid becoming the object of trampling under the hooves of the Tartar horses.

After the ceremony, all the soldiers were given a bowl of wine, Zhengde led the civil and military ministers to stand on the high platform and raise the wine bowl, and the army raised a glass and drank Zhuangxing wine together; Under the wine, the blood was hot, and the slogan of "Loyal to the country" to drive out the Tartars was earth-shaking and quite spectacular.

At that moment, even if it was just a short moment, everyone's hearts abandoned a distracting thought, thinking only the same thing.

Song Nan's love was also a little excited, when the wine entered his stomach, he looked at the black soldiers and horses under the stage, and thought in his heart: Among such a good man, I don't know how many will spill blood in the northwest forever, and they will never come back. Life is sometimes like today, knowing that there are many dangers, but you have to face them generously, which is a kind of helplessness, but also a kind of fearlessness, and a spirit that truly belongs to people.

In the eyes of everyone, Song Nan was dressed in a red cloak, wearing exquisite silver armor, and the red tassels on his head were eye-catching, and he slowly walked down the stairs and came to the bluestone in front of the stage; Someone had already pulled the big black horse to his side, Song Nan got on the horse, hugged his fists on the horse and bowed to Zhengde and the ministers on the stage, and glanced at the place where the first family on the side of the viewing platform was, resolutely raised his chest and waved his hand, and shouted: "Go on the march." ”

In the sound of the horn, the army slowly marched out, the smoke and dust rolled, the footsteps were trampled, the war horses neighed, and the flags were like waves. An hour later, in the eyes of Zhengde and the ministers, in the tears of the families of the generals who went out, they gradually turned into a long dragon and rolled away.