"King, the opportunity was rare just now, why didn't you just rush over and arrest that Fan Zhongyan?"

Li Yuanhao suddenly went back, and the surrounding soldiers hurriedly followed.

One of the pro-soldiers was Li Muwei, the son of Li Yuanhao's other cousin, who was a little puzzled by Li Yuanhao's actions, so he asked questions.

Li Yuanhao said in a deep voice: "It is impossible for Song Jun to come to talk to me unprepared, there must be deception in this. Didn't you notice that they seemed to have something hidden around their waists? ”

"This"

Li Muwei thought that Song Jun did have abnormal behavior, so he said: "Even if there is fraud, can't we rush to kill them?" ”

"I'm not worried about bows and crossbows, but the firearms of the Song army."

Li Yuanhao's face sank like water: "I found in the Song army's internal inspection that the Song army gathered a group of strong soldiers, threw stones at the school field every day, and sometimes went to the uninhabited mountains, and often heard a huge thunderclap, I suspect that the Song army has hidden means." ”

After all, he has been operating on the border for many years, and some spies have been installed in the Song army. Although Fan Zhongyan's bombardiers are all carefully selected, the elite sons brought over from Bianliang have an innocent background, and it is absolutely impossible to be a traitor.

However, in addition to the forbidden army transferred from the mainland, the Northwest Army actually recruited local Han people in the northwest, and in addition to the local Han people, there were even Dangxiang people, Qiang people, and Tubo people, who were collectively known as the Guiming people or Fan soldiers, and belonged to the Hu army in the northwest border army system.

For example, Li Shibin captured a large number of border Hu people in the battle with the border Hu tribe and organized them into an army. After Li Yuanhao found out about this, he deliberately sent the Dangxiang tribe to surrender, and then on the eve of the Battle of Sanchuankou, he used Neiying to break Jinmingzhai.

So although those bombardiers did not have the internal response of the Tanguts, they did have them among the ordinary soldiers. These scious soldiers could often see the bombardiers training in bombing, and they could also hear the explosion of grenades as they went to the mountains far away for live-fire training.

The news had already been sent to Li Yuanhao.

Therefore, Li Yuanhao suspected that Song Jun had hidden a secret weapon, and at the critical moment just now, he forcibly resisted the urge to raid Fan Zhongyan, which can be regarded as saving his own life because of his suspiciousness and prudence.

Back in the army, Li Yuanhao did not turn the horses, but turned his head, turned his back to the Song army, and looked deeply in the direction of Anlongzhai.

After a few seconds, he did not hesitate any longer and ordered the entire army to retreat.

The Western Xia army came and went quickly, galloping away like the wind, like a dust storm.

As a masterpiece of the world, he is also one of the protagonists of history. Li Yuanhao, at least in his time, created a myth.

The Great Song Dynasty was defeated in the south, the Great Liao was defeated in the east, the Tibetans were attacked in the west, and the Uighurs were in the north.

With an area of only one-sixth of the Liao State and a quarter of the Song State. One-fifth of the population of the Liao State and one-fortieth of the population of the Song State established a three-legged empire.

Therefore, the sharpness of his intuition and the sharpness of his sense of war can be said to be at the top of this era.

Li Yuanhao understood that the Song State had already taken precautions, and it would definitely be impossible to catch that traitor again, and the matter of his intention to become emperor would definitely be transmitted to the Song State through the traitor, and the Song State would definitely step up the defense of the northwest forces at that time.

Under such circumstances, it is irrational to forcibly attack Anlong Village. It's better to go back and adjust the tactical play first, in order to plan for the future.

After all, there is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days.

The Song-Xia border is so vast and there are countless roads, it is not difficult to lead troops to infiltrate and take one by surprise. There is no need to fight each other hard outside of other people's walled cities.

And Fan Zhongyan's side, when Li Yuanhao ran away, they also chased to the small hillside, looking at the vast Western Xia army three hundred zhang away in the north as endless as the ocean.

"It's a pity."

Zhi Jimin licked his dry lips, and the grenade on his waist was halfway touched, and the other party ran away.

If you can blow up Li Yuanhao, then I don't know how many levels you have to upgrade when you go back.

Fan Zhongyan said: "There's no pity, this fang is fierce and cunning, seeing that we dare to take risks alone, we must have doubts." I'm afraid he wants to capture me, but why don't I want to capture him? ”

There's no way, the grenade that Zhao Jun asked people to make can't be that small and exquisite, the size of an orange. Limited by the fuse device, he made the long-handled style.

There is a small flint built into the long handle, and it is not to explode when it is pulled apart, but it is necessary to rub the flint by pulling the rope and constantly rotating a small steel wheel inside, and the spark will burn the fuse, causing the grenade to explode.

This device is recorded in the "Wubei Zhi" and "Tiangong Kaiwu", which is the main detonation method of the Song Army's landmine shocking thunder, and is similar to the principle of the lighter used in modern daily life.

But even modern lighters sometimes may not be able to ignite, let alone ancient times, so in order to ensure the success rate of ignition, the volume of this grenade is still quite large, a little larger than the long-handled grenade in the anti-Japanese period in later generations, and it is not easy to hide.

Fan Zhongyan originally wanted to bully Li Yuanhao for not knowing the grenade, and wanted to take it by surprise. As a result, the other party was too cautious and did not launch an attack, which made them quite regretful.

But this is also a normal thing, if Li Yuanhao saw them with such a bulging waist and rushed over so recklessly, then he would not be the hero of a huge empire. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan was not discouraged, and turned the horse's head and left.

In July of the first year of Baoyuan, Li Yuanhao personally led his troops to break into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty for the first time, and the news quickly spread back to Bianliang.

More than ten days later, outside the Houyuan Guanjia Palace.

Zhao Zhen is taking the baby.

Empress Cao gave birth to a baby boy in July of the fourth year of Jingyou, and a few days later, Zhang Meiren also gave birth to the eldest princess.

Now, a year later, the baby boy may have inherited his mother's strong physique and grown up healthily. Except for a minor illness last winter, the eldest princess is fine.

This made Zhao Zhen very happy, glad that he finally had a queen.

Then Zhao Zongshi was sent out of the palace, Zhao Zhen is now a full-time dad every day, and he can't say that he is by his side with his two children twenty-four hours a day, but he also stays with them most of the day.

The main reason is that Zhao Jun has no queen, and he is afraid that people with a heart will hope that he will have no queen, which causes Zhao Zhen to attach great importance to the matter of the heir.

Not only is he willing to be temperate, but he does not dare to be too young with his mother, he only chooses a woman who is over 20 years old, and now he has finally given birth to two healthy babies.

It is the early autumn season, the weather is sunny, cloudless, Zhao Zhen holds the baby, and Queen Cao is playing in the back garden, although I don't like Queen Cao very much, but after having a child, it has changed a lot, which is also a mother and a child.

At this moment, Wang Shouzhong walked over quickly, whispered a few words to Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen's face changed slightly, and then said to Queen Cao: "Queen, there is a state affair again, you take Fang'er first, let him bask in the sun more, you must not leave an inch, don't let him get hurt." ”

"Yes."

Empress Cao answered, and hugged Zhao Fang, who was a toddler on the ground.

Zhao Fang is the eldest son of Zhao Zhen in history, and his mother is 16-year-old Concubine Yu De, probably because his mother was too young when he was born, and he died almost at birth.

However, the name Zhao Fang was given before it was born, and the custom at that time was to take two names, a boy's name and a girl's name, and then give the corresponding name when it was born to see the gender.

Obviously, Empress Cao gave birth to Zhao Fang, and Zhang Meiren is the name of Princess Fukang born to Miao Guifei in history, called Zhao Qinghan.

I have to say that Zhao Zhen's level of naming is still good, such as Zhao Yi'an, the eldest princess of Lu Kingdom, and Zhao Youwu, the eldest princess of Tang Kingdom, whose names are very good.

Zhao Zhen hurriedly left the back garden and headed towards the Chongzheng Palace.

At this moment, everyone in the hall was already waiting, and today the urgent document in the northwest was delivered, and Lu Yijian and the others did not dare to slack off after reading it, and immediately came over to ask for a meeting with Zhao Zhen to discuss.

When Zhao Zhen came over, before Lu Yijian and the others could speak, they hurriedly said, "What's the situation?" How's it going now? ”

"It's been pushed back."

Lu Yijian got up and replied: "The general of the Xia Kingdom, Shan Yu Weiliang, fled into the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Yuanhao pursued with tens of thousands of troops, but was blocked by Fan Zhong outside Anlong Village. ”

"Didn't they fight?"

"Nope."

"Zhao Yuanhao will retreat so easily?"

Zhao Zhen took the slash on Fan Zhongyan handed over by Yan Shu next to him, and looked through it carefully.

"Ahem, cough, cough"

Wang Zeng coughed twice, his face was slightly pale and said: "Fan Zhongyan is strong and waiting, Anlong Village is as strong as a city, Zhao Yuanhao will not be so stupid as to attack forcibly." ”

Zhao Zhen raised his head and looked at Wang Zeng, during this time, because he was at home with cubs, government affairs were handed over to the prime ministers, and even the early dynasty had not been on for more than ten days, so he didn't expect Wang Zeng to seem to be sick.

He wondered, "Wang Xiang, what are you?" ”

"It's okay, it's common to get old and have some minor physical problems."

Wang Zengqiang said with a smile.

Historically, he died this year, but after being ousted as the governor of Yunzhou, he died of scabies.

Now he has not been dismissed, nor has he gone to Yunzhou, so naturally he has not been infected.

However, at this age, physical fitness has indeed declined sharply, and recently after autumn, it is the end of July, the day is very hot, but it becomes cold at night, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the body also has some small problems.

Zhao Zhen said with concern: "Wang Xiang still has to focus on his body, and the government affairs can be handed over to the following ministries as much as possible. ”

"Yes."

Wang Zeng responded, although after Zhao Jun's reform, he asked the Constitutional Yuan to only provide the general direction, unless there was a mistake in the implementation, otherwise it would be handed over to the following departments to do the implementation plan.

But King Lu Yijian was reluctant to delegate the power in their hands, and they didn't have as much power as they do now, so they often cared about everything, and the workload was even greater than before.

Seeing that Wang Zeng seemed a little perfunctory, Zhao Zhen thought about it, and finally said: "It's better like this, how about Wang Xiang recuperate at home for a while?" ”

Lu Yijian immediately hit the snake and said: "I think so, Xiaoxian is unwell, and the effect of handling government affairs is not good, so it is better to recuperate at home first." Han Long often said that the body is the capital of the revolution, and only when the body is well can we do a good job in national affairs. ”

Wang Zeng glanced at the other party, this Lao Deng really didn't let go of any opportunity to seize power, originally Lu Yijian's voice in the Constitutional Yuan was louder than him, except for Zhao Jun who could suppress him, no one else could compete with him.

Now if you rest by yourself, Lao Deng will not be able to go to heaven during this time?

However, his health was indeed not very good, and he finally said: "Yes, the minister should recuperate at home during this time." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Zhen nodded, at this time he had already finished reading Fan Zhongyan's slash, and said: "Fan Qing said that Zhao Yuanhao is ready to be the emperor, I'm afraid it will be next month." ”

As he spoke, he threw the sword in his hand on the desk, then walked to the seat and sat down, and said a little unhappily: "Although I knew that this thief would do this, I still feel uncomfortable when I hear it. If it weren't for Taizong's benevolence in his early years, his fathers Li Jiqian and Li Deming would have been gone. ”

What is said here is that Li Jiqian was forced to pay tribute every year because of his attachment to the Liao State, which led to the increasingly poor property in the territory, and he had to hurriedly ask to attach himself to the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Guangyi allowed the Song and Xia to open border cities, which restored the economy.

So since then, Li Jiqian and his son Li Deming have been pursuing the Song Dynasty attached to Liao, especially Li Deming, who has to worship the Great Song Dynasty every year.

Because of the tribute to the Liao State, the Liao State not only gave nothing, but also might send people over and occasionally loot Yinzhou.

But Song is different.

Not only will they not take the initiative to attack Western Xia, but after paying tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, they will receive a rich return gift.

For example, as soon as Li Deming took the throne, he immediately attached an oath to the Great Song Dynasty, and Song Zhenzong gave him 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 horses of silk, 20,000 pieces of money, and 20,000 catties of tea.

After that, Li Deming only needed to give 500 horses and 300 camels to the Great Song Dynasty every year, and the Great Song Dynasty would reward a large amount of gold, silver, tea, silk cloth, silk, Fengqi, clothes, gold belts, coins, and so on.

Obviously, compared with the Liao State, during the period of Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng, he really regarded Western Xia as his own son.

"The ambition of the Xia thief and wolf, during the period of Emperor Xian and Taizong, was to hope that he could help contain the forces of the Liao State. However, Li Jiqian followed the Liao State in his early years and repeatedly violated the border, but instead restrained the forces of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

Lu Yijian said: "Such a capricious person, the minister thought that he should be banned immediately, and issued an edict to reprimand him. ”

"What's the use of scolding, he wants to ascend the throne and become emperor anyway."

Sheng Du said: "The minister thinks that he should continue to increase troops in the northwest, Fan Zhongyan has been operating in the northwest for nearly two years, and he is as solid as a golden pool. This time I am called the emperor, and I will never admit it. When the time comes, if he comes to attack, he will not return. ”

"Reinforcement."

Zhao Zhen hesitated and hesitated: "If you increase the number of troops again, I'm afraid the treasury will not be able to support it, so let's take a look." ”

Although the treasury has indeed been full in the past two years, Zhao Zhen has also prepared for the northwest for two years early, and a large number of materials have been transported to the northwest.

"Ahem. Shan Yu Weiliang said that August was the time when Zhao Yuanhao ascended the throne, this time Shan Yu Weiliang came to defect, Zhao Yuanhao must be established after the country, he will attack the northwest non-stop, Fan Zhongyan is already inciting the tribes in the Xia country. ”

Wang Zeng coughed twice, and then said: "He said that if they can detect the direction of Zhao Yuanhao's attack, maybe they can also fight a counterattack, and when Zhao Yuanhao comes to attack, send a partial division to raid Western Xia." ”

"Do you go deep into the territory of the Xia Kingdom?"

Zhao Zhen asked.

"Yes, that's what Han Long wanted him to do at the beginning."

"Good!"

Zhao Zhen patted the case and said: "Send an edict to Fan Qing, and I will allow him to take the initiative." ”

Oh?

Has the official family changed sex?

The crowd was amazed.

When he first talked to Zhao Jun about the Song-Xia War, Zhao Zhen actually only hoped to be able to repel Zhao Yuanhao's attack.

Now he did not hesitate to agree to Fan Zhongyan to take the initiative to attack the territory of Western Xia.

Could it be that the image in the history of the official family is just an illusion made up by Zhao Jun.

In fact, he is an iron-blooded real man, a tough guy in King Kong?

The next second.

Seeing Zhao Zhen hesitate again, he asked tentatively: "You said that you can take the initiative to win?" ”

Everyone: "."

All right.

Don't look at it, the official family is still the same as before.

In Zhao Jun's words.

Indecisive two fools.

(End of chapter)