Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Small Torch
However, raising a private soldier is not something that can be done with money.
Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, learning the lessons of the Tang Dynasty, in order to prevent the recurrence of the disadvantages of the military generals' arbitrariness and domineering, Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, "released the military power with a glass of wine", deprived the founding generals of the control of the army, and made the imperial power more stable.
At the same time, the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty deliberately weakened the authority of their generals.
The most commonly used means is to change the generals of the army, and change the guard regularly, so that the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not specialize in the army. In addition, the Privy Council was established to oversee the command of the army, so that civilian officials held the military and political power.
These measures were conducive to strengthening the control of the Northern Song Dynasty over the army.
However, this practice of emphasizing civility over military force has had a great impact.
The rotation of military generals weakened the combat effectiveness of the army, causing the Great Song Dynasty to lose repeatedly in the wars with Liao and Jin, and finally caused the "Jingkang Change".
What is even more aggrieved is that those civilian officials who have seized the military and political power are timid and afraid, and war can be avoided if it can be avoided.
In order to compromise with Liao and Jin, he threw a lot of money to the enemy every year, causing the situation of "poverty and weakness" in the entire Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Yingluo thought of a sentence that Yue Fei once said: Wenchen doesn't love money, Wuchen doesn't hesitate to die, and the world is peaceful! Now it seems that this sentence is too true.
It's a pity that Yue Fei was killed in history, in addition to the traitor Qin Hui fanning the flames in front of Zhao Gou, part of the reason was that Zhao Gou was jealous of his growing prestige in the army and threatened his throne.
In case Yue Fei followed Emperor Taizu's example and came to a "yellow robe", this matter would be a big deal.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yingluo vaguely felt that this matter should be cautious, if he really wanted to raise private soldiers, how could he not make Lin'an's imperial brother jealous?
For the sake of safety, she decided to take care of the anti-gold generals in the Central Plains first, and her first target was the famous Yue Fei in history!
Yue Fei has excellent combat power, excellent command skills, and most importantly, he is the main battle faction! He Zongze is a person on the road, and he is Zong Ze's subordinate.
Now Yue Fei is just a general at the level of a regiment commander or company commander, he is no more than thirty years old, and his blood is strong, and it is easier to take him for his own use.
With a goal, Zhao Yingluo took thousands of stones of grain to the eastern suburbs of Kaifeng City, where the army was stationed, in the name of transporting grain and grass.
The general of the station was Yue Fei, and when Yue Fei saw that it was the righteous daughter of his boss, he hurriedly went out to greet him.
When the news of the court's decision to run out of food reached him, he had less than ten days of food to eat, and seeing that the army would run out of food in a few days, he was so sad that he could not eat or sleep.
While counting the soldiers who were inconsiderate of the imperial court fighting for the country, they reported to Zong Ze and shipped food as soon as possible.
Although Zong Ze said that the food would arrive soon, it wasn't until he saw that the endless convoy was full of food that his heart finally fell to the ground.
"The last general has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and he never expected that the county lord would have such a supernatural ability."
Zhao Yingluo waved her hand and said, "A little thing, why bother?" ”
"I don't know if the county lord is here, what advice do you have?"
"I have heard for a long time that the general has rules and regulations for the army, so I came here this time to see the prosperity of the army!"
When Yue Fei heard this, he then ordered someone to go to the school to prepare, and then led her to the school field.
By the time they arrived at the school grounds, an army of 3,000 men had been assembled, divided into various arrays of cavalry, horse infantry, archers, and heavy armor.
With the waving of the flag, the army was divided into two, and they set up a formation for battlefield drills, shouting and killing shook the sky, and the morale was really good, if such an army expanded to 30,000 or even 300,000, how could the Jin people be opponents?
"The general has such a mighty army, why don't you cross the Yellow River north and recover the land of Hebei?"
Zhao Yingluo's words poked Yue Fei's sore spot, and he shook his head a little helplessly, "I have the intention to kill the thief, but the imperial court only ordered me to assist the old general in defending Tokyo, and besides, an army of only 3,000 people, even if one is ten, can face hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen of the Jin people, which is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car." ”
Zhao Yingluo smiled lightly, "If I can let the general command an army of 100,000, the general may recover the land of Hebei?" ”
Yue Fei's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Don't say 100,000, 50,000 troops can go north to recover the old land of Yanyun." ”
But then his eyes dimmed again, "The last general has a small position, just a small commander, how can he lead this tens of thousands of troops." ”
"Send the general two lines of poetry, 'Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars up to 90,000 miles!' In addition, give the general a fun gadget. ”
After saying this, Zhao Yingluo groped out a delicately crafted fire gun from the sleeve cage.
In her spare time, she worked on this firebolt with several craftsmen in the blacksmith's shop, using the crude principles mastered in her brain and the cooperation of skilled craftsmen, and after several months of production, she finally made a prototype of a pistol for later generations.
Of course, limited by the limitations of the technology of this era, the firearm she made can only be used to fire ordinary iron projectiles or iron nails, and due to the backwardness of the smelting process, in order to avoid frequent explosion and barrel wear, the effective killing distance of this firearm is limited to 30 zhang.
This kill range is only comparable to that of a normal bow and arrow, and even weaker than a bow and arrow, but it shoots fast! And the lethality is high.
In fact, Zhao Yingluo really wanted to build a rifle cannon in this era, so as to help the Great Song Dynasty defeat the Jin Kingdom as soon as possible, but after all, he was only a doctoral student majoring in agriculture, and those mechanical principles were too complicated for the concubine to do!
After Yue Fei got his hand, he waved it with some curiosity, "This is ......"
"You could call it a firebolt! With it, you can effectively kill and injure enemy troops, and ask the general to bring a living creature over. ”
Yue Fei immediately ordered someone to bring a pig over, perhaps frightened, the pig was let go and let go of its hooves and ran around.
Zhao Yingluo unhurriedly took out a fire fold, lit the fuse of the fire gun, and after two breaths, only to hear a bang, the pig was hit instantly, and after lying on the ground and struggling twice, there was no movement.
This loud noise startled Yue Fei and the soldiers around him, and by the time they came back to their senses and looked at the pig again, they were already too dead to die.
Seeing this result, everyone looked at the seemingly harmless little lady in front of them with some fear.
This...... Does this woman know witchcraft? Why did the pig die inexplicably after a sound?
Yue Fei was also shocked, and asked with a twinkle in his eyes, "County Lord...... Could it be a god in the sky? ”
Zhao Yingluo smiled a little playfully, "If I were an immortal, I could still let the Jin people bully the Great Song Dynasty like this, and the reason why the pig collapsed instantly was all because of ......"
She took the trouble to explain the principle of the firearm and how to use it.
After knowing that this small firearm could actually kill a pig, Yue Fei's eyes lit up, this is a treasure! If the army is equipped with such exquisite weapons, why worry that the golden people will not be broken?