AWB Chapter 132 Zhao Kuangyin Candlelight Axe Shadow Hurry and Get Out
Chapter 132 Zhao Kuangyin Candlelight Axe Shadow Hurry and Get Out
The civil servants are also being put on the spot. If you don't cut your hair when the emperor cuts it, you are going against the emperor. Now that the atmosphere is set to this point, let's do it!
Zhao Kuangyin single-handedly fought against tradition, and the ministers all saw that the emperor was targeting the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!
There are no stupid people who can be officials. However, in this matter, the emperor and his ministers are really of one mind. The ministers of the Song Dynasty are still confident that they have not been kicked out! Without the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, I can't sleep well. If the Liao Dynasty says it has violated the border, it will really kill us!
The civil and military officials thought that Zhao Kuangyin only wanted to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun! Who would have thought that this emperor had changed his mind and wanted to restore the prosperous autumn-leaf begonia!
Zhao Kuangyin, you guys have such a small vision. I am thinking about the whole world!
The Imperial Guards began extreme special forces training, and the barracks looked brand new. All the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guards were stunned. Is this still the original barracks?
The barracks were spotlessly clean. The soldiers were neat from head to toe, their hair washed clean, and their toiletries were the latest soap from the Queen's workshop.
Oh my God, the fireman’s job every day is to cook and boil water. He washes me from head to toe and then rubs me with a loofah. It feels so good to have two pounds of mud fall off my body!
The burly men shaved off their troublesome beards and stopped making food spills on their food.
Zhao Kuangyin was not stingy either. He directly replaced all the imperial guards with new clothes and beddings. This almost cost Zhao Kuangyin his life. This item cost 300,000 strings of cash. This army was a money-burning monster!
The food and drink for three hundred thousand elite soldiers alone would be an astronomical sum. This is only possible because the Queen and the Fourth Prince are capable. They have been selling liquor to the grassland recently. They didn't ask for the gold and silver from the nobles, but just got a lot of cattle and sheep in return!
One small jar of liquor for a sheep, and thirty kilograms of liquor for a cow!
This year, all the sweet potatoes grown by Huangzhuang and the surrounding farmers were turned into liquor and sold! Mutton can be sold for money, but beef is a sin to think about!
These are all treasures of the Song Dynasty. Farmers give their sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn to the court to pay taxes, and they can also exchange them for cattle!
The agriculture of the entire Song Dynasty finally breathed a sigh of relief and had a chance to catch its breath!
The Imperial Guards now spend their days lining up, sorting out their internal affairs, running and climbing obstacles. Only then do they believe that there is no free lunch in the world!
No wonder we only have meat for dinner every day. This day’s weight training through mountains and rivers must be so tiring!
Every day when I sleep, my whole body is shaking, and I am so tired that I can’t even pick up food with my chopsticks!
The entire country of the Song Dynasty was frantically making money. Ships at the Quanzhougang Wharf were loaded with tea and silk in batches, and money flowed into the pockets of the Song Dynasty like water.
The Queen's Brewery is like a rake that collects money, and it can always exchange it for various scarce raw materials!
During these three years, the Song Dynasty was like a machine wound up with a spring, and under the devilish spur of Zhao Kuangyin, it began to roll forward!
Zhao Kuangyin began to do his best to breed horses. Although the war horses of the Song Dynasty were rather mediocre, Zhao Kuangyin did not expect these people to compete with the nomadic peoples in equestrian skills!
The crazy arsenal in the mountains is the highlight! The Song Dynasty never had enough copper coins. All the copper mines found in Guizhou were requisitioned by Zhao Kuangyin. It was a joke that no matter how much copper was used to make bullets and shells, there was not enough!
The people of the Song Dynasty gradually began to use silver to settle accounts when purchasing expensive goods, and copper coins were replaced by exquisitely made iron coins. The hydraulically stamped iron coins also looked good.
Zhao Kuangyin was afraid that his neighbors would use the iron coins to make weapons, so he unethically mixed a small amount of tin into the iron coins.
Now, almost every member of the Imperial Guard has one of the firearms produced by the arsenal! They skipped the flint-fired firearms and directly used the percussion cap technology.
Not to mention the good quality, there is almost no burst rate. After using a lot of bullets, the shooting level of the Imperial Guards has increased sharply.
The Imperial Guards were now armed to the teeth! Each battalion had ten mortars, and each soldier was equipped with five hand grenades. This didn't include the explosive mines they were equipped with. They also carried a machete on their backs.
Zhao Kuangyin can now sleep a little better. With elite troops, he has a trump card!
This money still needs to be saved. The size of the imperial guards needs to be expanded, and the wing troops, local militia, and vassal troops need to be banned!
Keeping these people who have no fighting ability here is just eating rice and food, and their lives are only slightly better than beggars!
For a full eight years, Zhao Kuangyin turned the tide and managed the leaky Song Dynasty like an iron barrel!
Six hundred thousand high-quality imperial guards replaced those miscellaneous troops. Those miscellaneous troops should not be wasted, they should all be used to open up wasteland and farm.
For eight years, the emperor has worked day and night and devoted all his efforts. Now there is only one voice in the court, and that is the emperor's voice!
Whether it is a mule or a horse, it must be taken out for a walk. Over the years, Zhao Kuangyin almost emptied the tax revenue to support such a steel monster of the imperial army.
Zhao Defang, who was already married and had children, was named the crown prince, and none of the ministers dared to say a word!
The emperor leads the army in person, and the prince governs the country!
The Song Dynasty must now win a great victory to recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!
Drums beat, war horses neighed! Zhao Kuangyin set off with the belongings he had accumulated for eight years!
With 50,000 imperial guards as the vanguard, Zhao Kuangyin appointed Cao Bin as the General of Cavalry and Pan Mei as the General of the Left, each leading 50,000 elite troops as the vanguard and heading straight to Yizhou and Tunzhou!
This is the gateway to Yanyun. If we take this place, the Song Dynasty will have a place to stay and can go straight to Youzhou!
Zhao Kuangyin brought an army of 100,000 to follow behind to support the battle!
In Tuanzhou, Cao Bin met Yelu Xiande. The city wall of Tuanzhou was the result of decades of construction by the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom treated these Song Dynasty troops like jumping clowns.
What the hell is this? Their hair is even shorter than the Liao people's. They all wear short clothes, and their bodies are covered with iron knots. They carry an iron fire stick on their backs!
The Liao people almost laughed themselves silly. Where did this beggar army come from? There wasn't even a siege ladder in sight, so how could they expect to chop down the city walls with swords?
But Cao Bin didn't have time to listen to their nonsense! Speed is of the essence in war, and it's just right that you look down on me! Today, I'll let you witness the power of the Exploding Shells!
The Liao people looked at the Song people as if they were fools. They just saw this group of people pushing out pieces of iron buckets. What could these iron buckets be used for?
At Cao Bin's command, artillery shells flew towards the city walls of Tunzhou as if they were free!
Suddenly, the Liao people felt as if the sky had fallen, and the strong city walls that they were so proud of collapsed!
Before they could react, they were buried in the city wall with bricks! The Song army seemed to have entered an uninhabited area, and they rushed forward with a roar!
The whole city was in chaos, with fleeing people everywhere. When the Song army rushed into the city and saw the Liao army, they didn't waste any time and raised their guns to attack.
The entire Tuenzhou was completely penetrated by the Song army, and the Song army spent the entire afternoon capturing prisoners all over the mountains!
Where did Yelu Xiande go? This guy didn't last a single round. Cao Bin searched through the pile of bricks for a long time before he found the battered Yelu Xiande!