It stands to reason that the moment when he was able to sit face-to-face in front of an opponent who could not look up on the battlefield as an envoy, Xiao Changge should be said to be lucky.

If he's unlucky, he'll probably be a prisoner.

Fortunately, the number of cavalry under Li Kui's command was not large at that time, and he could not pursue the tens of thousands of fleeing leather room troops.

But even so, Brother Xiao Chang also had palpitations, in the face of this killing god, even if he knew that there was no danger at the negotiation table, his heart was always hairy, and there was a kind of palpitation that he was about to collapse.

However, it didn't take long for Brother Xiao Chang to regret it.

The reason for regret was nothing else, but that he thought it was his own mouth and asked Li Kui about the deployment of that battle.

Li Kui, this guy, has a much cheaper mouth than Brother Xiao Chang, the key is that this guy is annoying:

"The combat effectiveness of the Liao army is not strong, by the way, your Tielin Army's combat effectiveness is not bad. However, the number is a little less, if there are 20,000, it is difficult to say who will win and who will lose on the battlefield at that time. ”

But the problem is that the Liao State has exhausted its national strength, and it can only build 10,000 Tielin Army.

This was the only hoplite cavalry controlled by the Liao royal family.

"Speaking of which, your tactic of letting the cavalry dismount and push the cart almost frightened Ben Shuai. If you don't have good skills and your legs and feet are too bad, maybe you can turn defeat into victory at that time. This has to be practiced, and the next time I encounter it on the battlefield, I can use it directly. There is a way that Yiduo does not pressure the body, and this kind of technology is not cumbersome. ”

- Brother Xiao Chang doesn't believe it, he resolutely doesn't believe it, and he firmly believes that Li Kui is digging a pit for him.

"By the way, Xiao Envoy, I'm curious. Why did you suddenly rout when Qingheyuan was evenly matched, if you died another 20,000 people, my Great Song Army army would not be able to stand. ”

Brother Xiao Chang was so angry that he didn't want to speak, Li Kui said that he couldn't stand it anymore, and Brother Xiao Chang couldn't stand it anymore. The army involved in the offensive has already suffered more than half of the casualties. If it were other battlefields, it would have collapsed a long time ago. , the main thing is that firearms kill too quickly, and the soldiers pay a huge price for casualties before they can react. This kind of mental collapse is simply irreversible. If it was a war that Xiao Changge was familiar with, the army that suffered three percent casualties and did not retreat would already be the elite of the elite.

Even if it is an army that has not been put into the battlefield, it is frightened.

There were only 70,000 horses in total, and almost 30,000 or 40,000 people had died, and another 20,000 people died, and the whole army would be wiped out.

What other nonsense about cavalry dismounting and carting, how smart is he, as if he will be deceived?

The main reason is that the Song army's methods of dealing with the Tielin Army made Xiao Changge completely frightened, and continued to fill it with cavalry, knowing that it was a death, did he continue to charge?

Faced with such a Li Kui, Xiao Changge was very helpless.

The little eyes kept signaling to Zhangdun, as if to say: "You don't care if you are old?" ”

It's a pity that Zhang Dian didn't see it at all, and the old man's head was drooping, as if he was asleep.

Li Kui was very optimistic about Brother Xiao Chang, and encouraged: "Next time, you can try to insist more, I am optimistic about you." ”

Brother Xiao Chang tilted his head awkwardly, not wanting to speak, but suddenly his heart moved, and Li Kui said-Next time?

Is there really a next time?

At first, Brother Xiao Chang was still a little gloating, and he didn't know that the unlucky guy would meet Li Kui, he and Li Kui were beaten down with this stick, and he was almost unconfident whether he was a man or not!

But he shook his wit again, and found that it was very likely that this big battle against the Song army might be commanded by himself. Not for anything else, because Brother Xiao Chang is the best performing general among all the Liao generals who fought against Li Kui. The Song army suffered at least 6,000 casualties at his hands. As for the other Liao generals, there were only a few hundred, or even less, and they were simply faceless.

Thinking that next time he would face Li Kui by himself, Xiao Changge's face turned pale and he lamented:

"It's over."

The first time he beat Li Kui, half of the elite of the Liao Kingdom pounced, but they didn't win. Could it be that if he is given another chance, he will be able to defeat Li Kui?

When the time comes, no matter how stubborn you are, you have to kneel.

I was holding on to the confidence on my face, but I was in a cold sweat in my heart.

"Li Kui, since the Song army is so strong, why do you want to retreat? You also returned to Kaifeng from the front, is it for some other reason? You must know that An Dan is greedy for life and afraid of death, Wang Jin is even more incompetent, not long after you left Yanzhou, one of you fled with hidden whereabouts, and the other ran away without a fight. lost the face of Song Guo. ”

What Xiao Changge wanted to hear most was that Li Kui was squeezed out by the Song court, worried that he would not lose his tail and be deliberately suppressed. The Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty have been neighbors for more than a hundred years, and they know the Song State very well about the Song Dynasty, a dynasty that is afraid of rebellion by martial artists. A military general like Li Kui, who has the strength to destroy the country at every turn, will definitely be feared by the Great Song Dynasty.

There is a way that the bird hides the rabbit and the dead dog cooks, and the Great Song Dynasty can't wait for the bird to do this step, so he will attack the hero.

But he still miscalculated the situation.

Li Kui pouted and said, "I'm a straight scholar of Tianzhang Pavilion, I don't want to lead troops to fight, and I don't want to fight against you Liao." It's just that there is no suitable person at the moment, so I reluctantly went to Hedong Road temporarily. But it doesn't matter, there may not be many opportunities like this in the future. My main job is to supervise the production of weapons, for example, the artillery and muskets you see on the battlefield are all my inventions, so they are easy to use, right? ”

Brother Xiao Chang rolled his eyes and said, "It turned out to be your immoral thing!" But when I thought of Li Kui's identity, a civil official, my heart suddenly cooled down.

The civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty fought the military generals, and there was no need to fan the flames at all, and the civil officials themselves went.

However, civil officials fighting civil officials will not listen to outsiders at all. Li Kui is valued now, and he will have to be reused in the future.

Muskets and artillery have never been seen by the Liao people before, and even the Song people have never seen them.

It turned out to be invented by Li Kui.

Li Kuixing rushed and said: "This time I went north to fight, and I used your Liao army to test the performance of weapons. On the whole, I am still relatively satisfied, and I am ready to increase production capacity to build another batch and set up an additional 40,000 horses. ”

Li Kui's 20,000 firearms troops dared to fight with the elite of 70,000 or 80,000 Liao troops, if this cargo had 40,000 horses in his hands, what would he have to bully Da Liao into?

Brother Xiao Chang said vigilantly: "Isn't this the Great Song Dynasty able to pull out an army of 60,000 firearms at once?" ”

"You have to train, and it takes half a year to go to war. When the time comes, pull it out for you to see. By the way, when the time comes, the cities of Zhuozhou and Yanzhou will be firmly repaired, don't break them with a single stab, and lose the meaning of my military training. ”

Li Kui opened his mouth and reminded Brother Xiao Chang that he was afraid that the Liao army would not help fighting, and when the time came, the Great Song army would not achieve the effect of actual combat.

Brother Xiao Chang is about to cry, Li Kui is too bad, tell you a day, this is not a good day, it is the day when the time comes to cut you with a knife. I have to tell you, you can't die too fast, die too fast, he didn't have fun. Don't take such a bully.

Could it be that the dignified Liao is already about to fall to this part?

The more Xiao Changge thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, staring at Li Kui as if an enemy was meeting, and his eyes were red and could drip blood.

But Li Kui was still unrelenting: "Sample, don't look at the official with this kind of grievance and anger, you go and inquire, does the official eat this set?" ”

"After the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, when did you win a war?"

"Give the sixteen states of Youyun to the official to guard, and when the time comes, the official will be able to be crowned king."

……

Li Kui was sneering at most at first, but as he spoke, his emotions came up, and he scolded Brother Xiao Chang unceremoniously, and didn't give face to his grandson: "Don't say that let Da Song pay to rent the states and counties that have been beaten down by my Da Song, but I haven't beaten them, if I want it, I will naturally take it myself, I don't need your fake kindness." ”

"Zhang Xiang, you see that what you said is almost done, can you go?"

Zhang Duan opened his eyes at this time, pretended not to know anything, and after looking around blankly, he said, "Is it time for dinner?" ”

Li Kui sighed secretly in his heart, this old man pulled him to be a red face and offend people. I didn't expect it to be this time, and I was still pretending to be confused.

Then Zhang Dian smiled and said, "Okay, you go back first." The old man and the envoy Xiao continued to discuss the major matters of diplomatic relations between the two countries. ”

With Li Kui's threat, Xiao Changge is unusually honest. From time to time, when I asked a few words about the secrets of the formation of a firearms army in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Dian also played haha and fooled the past.

It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he doesn't have money. If he had money, Zhang Dian would not be afraid to tell Xiao Changge that the Great Song Dynasty would have to subdue the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun sooner or later.

Yizhou, the first overseas fiefdom of the Great Song Dynasty, really scared many people when Cai Jing was about to participate in the auction.

The auction with Cai Jing participating in is definitely not good.

Yizhou sold a cabbage price in Zhang Dian's hands, and Cai Jing privately negotiated it with several interested families, but he didn't add money. At the same time, coercion and inducement were used to exclude other wealthy businessmen who were interested in competition.

In the end, Cai Jing also won the bid.

And the imperial court made a maximum of five million yuan in this transaction.

This is far worse than the previous expectations of 20 million guan, especially since the royal family of the original Ryuqiu Kingdom also needs to be settled. After all, this is an active investment, not a turf that has been beaten down.

After going back and forth, the Doshido did not gain much benefit from this business, barely enough to plug the hole of the Western Army.

To say that the war of the Western Army, from smooth to stalemate, Zhang Dian was very dissatisfied. But what can I do if I am not satisfied?

Zhang Qi didn't listen to him again.

Zhang Qi is now in a stalemate with Western Xia, not because he wants to support his own troops, but because he will wear down the strength of the party members until the final blow.

He is such a person, if he really does not have enough strength in his hands, his approach will be very radical. Because there was no way out, he took a step back, and behind him was the city of the Great Song Dynasty and the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

But when Zhang Kai has chips in his hand, he will play steadily and slowly, grinding the other party to death little by little.

It cannot be said that this method is bad, on the contrary, this strategy is right and correct. Because the destruction of the country must come like this, the capital of the Western Xia will be defeated at once, and if the Song army retreats, the Western Xia will immediately rebel. This is because without experiencing the harshest pressure, the party members will not give in at all.

But when Zhang Kai did this, he was in a hurry.

Zhang Dan's heart is not only a Western Xia, he also has Tubo, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and Dali Kingdom in his heart...... Wait a minute. How could such a person who has countless big things to do in his heart watch his clan brother 'lazy' in the northwest? And his age is not young, if Xixia grinds here for a few years, the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty will be exhausted, and the most fatal problem is that he was in his seventies at that time. If it takes a few more years to fight Tibet, he will not be able to satisfy the dream in his heart at all.

Therefore, Zhang Qi gives people a look that seems to be eager for quick success. The main thing is that time does not wait for him.

Zhang Dian was anxious and anxious, and even sent his cronies to the northwest to bring a handwritten letter, asking Zhang Kai to find a way to solve the rebellion of Western Xia as soon as possible. Zhang Qi said lightly, either let him have full command, and the court is only responsible for money and food, regardless of the past; Either let him go back to the capital to be an official, and he can not command this battle of annihilation that is related to the fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Zhang Kai also said that if the fight ends halfway, their brothers will break up.

Only then did Zhang Dian realize that his brother was also a good trickster, and he couldn't get up as soon as he made a move.

It's easy to make the decision to replace, but who to replace?

Zhang Qi's handsome position, Li Kui is not easy to go up.

There are more than 30 battalion generals in the Western Army, and everyone is in charge. How many people can take Li Kui?

Besides, Li Kui was also reluctant to go to Western Xia.

The Western Xia and Song armies had already fought to the edge of the Yellow River, which was a wrestling and a process of mutual consumption. The Yellow River is not a good place for a decisive battle, but it is definitely an excellent place to consume the opponent.

When the party members look up, they can see the Song army on the other side, can they not be nervous?

After sending Brother Xiao Chang away, Zhang Dian found Li Kui and said nervously: "Renjie, who told you that you want to form 40,000 Praetorian Guards?" ”

"Nope!"

Li Kui sat in the main seat of the official residence of Tianzhang Pavilion, Tianzhang Pavilion is generally not equipped with bachelors, Li Kui is the king of the mountain in this place.

Zhang Dun stomped his feet and said eagerly: "You didn't tell Your Majesty, did you?" ”

"No, I said Zhang Xiang, is there a difference between 20,000 and 40,000?" Li Kui felt that Zhang Dian had been a little suspicious recently, just like when Cai Jing was making a fortune, he saw that no one had bad intentions towards him.

Zhang Dian complained bitterly: "No money." Twenty thousand Janissaries can't get their equipment, let alone 40,000. I can tell you, within a year, I'm afraid that the possibility of a war between Song and Liao is very small, you can give me some attention. ”

Li Kui said with a smile: "Zhang Xiang, you are going to be dragged to death by the Western Army!" But there is no guarantee that the Liao State will not start a war, right? What would you do if there was a fight? ”

"Why don't you go to the Western Army to help?" Zhang Dian asked Li Kui tentatively, he felt that if Li Kui went, maybe Xixia would die quickly, he couldn't wait.

Li Kui waved his hand and refused: "It's not a question of who goes, destroy the country, unless you kill the party members, or you have to force him little by little." Let the Western Xia royal family despair, let the people of Western Xia despair. As long as the party members still have a breath in their hearts, it will definitely not be over. In this way, you can really control this land, otherwise, hatred will turn into seeds and grow into towering trees, and people like Li Yuanhao will come again. ”

"But then again, it's not Zhang Longtu's routine that I go, he is a little bit of pressure, the courage of the party is suppressed, and the spirit of the party is exhausted. But if I go, it will be killed, and with the rules of the grassland, I will kill all the men who are taller than the wheels, and Xixia will not be able to pounce. Zhang Xiang, you also know that Xia Guan is a rude person, and he can only fight and kill. Killing him is like a river of blood, floating corpses all over the field, I estimate that it can be done. But I don't bear the charge of this butcher, you have to lend me your son Zhang, and let him give him the order to kill. ”

"I heard that many people in Western Xia fled to my Great Song Dynasty, and they were all placed in Yongxing Military Road by Zhang Longtu. If it's for sale, I'm going to buy some. ”

"You-"

Zhang Dian pointed at Li Kui and didn't know what to say, he couldn't agree to Li Kui's conditions, and he didn't dare to agree to any of them.

The Great Song Dynasty established the country with Confucianism, and if it was really a brutal massacre of party civilians, I am afraid that everyone would not be able to sit still. Even if Li Kui had the protection of the emperor, he couldn't stand it in the end.

But if the Zhang family is really put in front, Zhang Dian will not be able to escape the blame.

Although he doesn't like his son to be an official, he doesn't want his son to return to the family with stigma.

Zhang Dian didn't want to continue arguing with Li Kui on this issue, so he immediately asked: "What do you want the party members to do, these people don't obey." ”

Li Kui sighed two sentences of admiration, and said slowly: "Didn't the lower officials ask Cai Jing to report Liaodong to the Metropolitan Hall last time, and use the Liaoguo Tokyo Road as the second overseas fief of the Great Song Dynasty. I was thinking of auctioning and getting some money for Xiangye to fill the treasury. But I once thought that there was no one customer, so I could only ask my family to buy Liaodong. ”

"You're not talking nonsense, Liaodong is the jurisdiction of Tokyo Province in Liaoguo, who dares to fight this thought. No matter how strong the merchant is, he doesn't dare to go head-to-head with the empire of Liao. Whoever will buy it is destined to lose ground as a pants industry. Zhang Duan snorted coldly.

I wondered why Li Kui insisted so much on developing Liaodong into an overseas fiefdom of the Great Song Dynasty, or deliberately to protect himself?

But then, he threw the idea out of the way, thinking it was impossible.

Before leaving, Zhang Dian said meaningfully: "Brother Xiao Chang has become extremely obedient since you left. The old man estimated that it was impossible to attack and lease the city, but in order to stabilize the Liao State, the city had to be opened, but the scale would be a little smaller than in previous years. ”

Li Kui pondered for a while, and when Zhang Dian had already left, he didn't react until he shouted at Ruan Xiaowu: "Xiao Wu, hurry up and go home to prepare for the carriage and horses, I want to go to Liangshanbo." ”