The Liangcheng Money Bank was under intensive preparation, but the Privy Council in the Imperial City was one step ahead and had already been established and started to operate.
On this day, Zhou Jun came to the newly built Privy Council.
As the first eunuch of the Privy Council, Feng Changqing was also known as the Central Protector Privy Envoy. He was responsible for presiding over the first meeting to discuss the direction of the next war in the Northern Tang Dynasty.
Sitting in the upper seat of the meeting hall, Zhou Jun was playing with a spring that was only as long as his index finger.
This spring is the latest musket trigger spring developed by Anxi Arsenal. Both hardness and return force have fully reached military standards. It can replace the original crossbow for firing flint.
Speaking of this spring, Zhou Jun began to feel emotional.
Regarding the development and progress of science and technology, the greatest use of time travelers is definitely not to cook meals and feed them to the ancients one bite at a time.
Sometimes, you only need to tell them the respective positions of tea, rice, oil and salt, and then tell them how to make a fire. As for the subsequent frying and frying, someone will naturally figure it out slowly.
For example, the spring in front of him was extremely small. Zhou Jun originally thought that without lathes and rolling machines, it would be impossible to manufacture qualified gun springs in this era.
However, there was a craftsman in the Anxi Arsenal, and he was a helper who was less than eighteen years old. He actually got inspiration from small things in his daily life.
When ordinary people wash bed sheets, they need to be wrung out to remove water before drying them.
Generally speaking, two people each hold one end of the wet sheet and rotate it in two directions, clockwise and counterclockwise, with their arms to rotate the sheet and drain out the moisture.
When Anxi Arsenal originally processed springs, they used an old-fashioned rotation method in which one end was fixed and the other end rotated. If this rotation method was only done by hand, when the force was transmitted along the steel wire, along with the distance, the end of the transmission would
It will also produce increasing force resistance, which will eventually cause uneven force distribution and affect the accuracy of the spring.
The young helper gave up the old-fashioned one-way rotation method, and instead relied on the principle of twisting the bed sheet and used the method of counter-rotating both ends to increase the power and precision of the steel wire rotation and winding.
In addition, while cold rolling, the helper gave up quenching and rolling, and instead used the tempering and rolling process to eliminate the internal stress in the formed spring, and finally obtained a flint-fired gun spring.
At this point, the firing speed of the flintlock gun has more than doubled, and compared with the crossbow, its service life has also been greatly improved, making the flintlock gun can be used as a main weapon.
Feng Changqing and a group of Privy Council officials entered the hall and looked at Zhou Jun who was sitting in the seat.
Putting the spring in his hand on the table in front of him, Zhou Jun looked at Feng Changqing: "Let's talk about the battle on the front line first."
Feng Changqing: "At the beginning of this year, the army was divided into the West and East Routes and advanced southward respectively. Among them, the West Route Army led by Li Siye and Duan Xiushi defeated Ashina Chengqing and entered Liangzhou. At this point, the territory of the Tang Dynasty,
Finally connected to the Shannan West Road. More than ten prefectures and counties, including Lizhou, Bazhou, Tongzhou, and Zizhou, sent memorials one after another expressing their support for the imperial court."
Zhou Jun nodded and raised the banner of the Tang Dynasty, which was equivalent to having the world's orthodoxy. When it came to recovering the land, there was often much less resistance.
Even if some generals in prefectures and counties had second thoughts, they could only surrender due to the general situation.
Feng Changqing: "After recapturing Luoyang, the Middle Route Army led by Guo Ziyi sent Zhang Yongji, the left soldier and horse envoy, and Hun Shizhi, the right Wufeng envoy, to lead the army to attack Heyang (now Jiaozuo, Henan) and the inland area of Henan (now Xinxiang, Henan).
.The rebel general Yin Ziqi wanted to hold on, but was killed by his subordinates. His head was sent to Luoyang, and the rest of the rebel army also surrendered."
Zhou Jun: "After An Qingxu's death, the pseudo-Yan Dynasty has become a mess. People such as Yin Ziqi, Tian Chengsi, Cai Xide and others are unwilling to seek refuge with Shi Siming on the one hand, and are unwilling to submit to the Tang Dynasty on the other. They just want to continue to fight against the Yan State.
The flag of the country, the land is the king, cannot become the climate."
Feng Changqing nodded in agreement, and then said: "The biggest trouble at the moment, apart from the puppet Tang Dynasty guarding the south of the Yangtze River, is Shi Siming. Shi Siming has thirteen counties under his jurisdiction, 80,000 elite soldiers, and Zhou Zhi under his command.
Gao Xiuyan, Wu Chengen and other generals..."
Speaking of this, Feng Changqing glanced at Zhou Jun, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Originally, in order to prevent Li Guangbi's troops from going south, most of Shi Siming's elite troops were gathered in the Junzhou area south of the Yellow River. The Eastern Route Army was originally named after Li Guangbi.
As the main force, they attracted Shi Siming's attention, and then used Pugu Huai'en's troops to go around to Shi Siming's rear. Finally, the two sides, one from the south and one from the north, jointly surrounded and eaten Shi Siming's main force. However, because of the Jizhou rebellion,
Li Guangbi and Pugu Huai'en failed to arrive at the battlefield within the designated time, which made Shi Siming be on guard and retreated quickly, ultimately falling short."
Upon hearing this, other civil and military ministers in the Privy Council looked at the emperor.
The latter's expression remained as usual and he motioned for Feng Changqing to continue.
Feng Changqing: "Except for Shi Siming and the Puppet Tang Dynasty, the remaining battles on the front line are between the Uighurs and the Tubos. The Uighurs invaded the border several times, but they were all beaten back by Shuofang's army. As for the Tubos, they have been quite peaceful recently.
There has been no action.”
Seeing Feng Changqing finish introducing the situation of the war, Zhou Jun asked: "What do you think of the court's next use of troops?"
The civil and military ministers of the Privy Council expressed their views one after another.
Some people say that Li Siye and Duan Xiushi are marching southward with overwhelming force, and their troops should be ordered to enter Shannan East Road as soon as possible, start fighting against the puppet Tang army, and attack Jiangnan from the west.
Others say that since Chang'an and Luoyang have been recovered, Guo Ziyi's army can set off eastward along the tributaries of the Yellow River to block Shi Siming's retreat, and then cooperate with Li Guangbi to break this hardest bone.
After listening to these two suggestions, Zhou Jun began to think carefully.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The troops of Li Siye and Duan Xiushi have recovered the Shannan West Road and have begun direct contact with the Southern Tang troops who occupied the Shannan East Road.
According to legend, the general of the Southern Tang Dynasty was Lu Jiong. Like Zhang Xun, this man was good at defending the city and had great resilience.
At that time, Wu Lingxun, the general under An Lushan, led an army of 100,000 to attack Nanyang. Lu Jiong was short of soldiers and food, and held on to the city for several months, forcing Wu Lingxun to die on the battlefield.
After that, Tian Chengsi took Wu Lingxun's place and continued to play against Lu Jiong.
The latter held on for nearly a year, preventing the enemy from advancing even half a step.
However, Lu Jiong was not as good as Zhang Xun because although he was good at fighting, he was not good at managing troops. His soldiers often looted and killed good people, so he had a very bad reputation in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jun said to Feng Changqing: "The terrain of the East Road in Shannan is difficult, which is not conducive to attack, so we can only defeat it wisely. Especially Li Siye, tell him that even though he won the battle that defeated Ashina Chengqing,
But it is extremely dangerous. If something goes wrong, it will be a big defeat. We must be more cautious in the future."
After explaining Li Siye and Duan Xiushi, Zhou Jun began to think about Guo Ziyi of the Central Route Army.
To the south of Luoyang, where Guo Ziyi's troops were stationed, were the remnants of the puppet Yan army.
Although people such as Yin Ziqi, Tian Chengsi, Cai Xide, etc. are all capable of conquering and fighting, now that the Yan Kingdom has been destroyed, these people are just separatists.
With the troops in his hands, Guo Ziyi can easily take over these territories.
The key issue is that once Guo Ziyi defeats these remnants of the Yan Kingdom, he will face two enemies.
The first enemy was General Qi of the Southern Tang Dynasty who was stationed in Ezhou (today's Wuhan) on the west side of the Yangtze River; and the second enemy was Shi Siming who was stationed in Xuzhou and Bozhou on the Huainan Road.
These two enemies are both extremely difficult characters. Shi Siming is as cunning as a fox, but Lai Ai is solid and unbeatable.
To be honest, Zhou Jun said that if he really went to the battlefield, if he had to choose one of Shi Siming and Lai Ai as his opponent, Zhou Jun would rather choose Shi Siming than Lai Ai.
There is no other reason why Lai Yi was nicknamed "Lai Chewing Iron". In the history books, this person has fought hard battles almost all his life and has never lost a single defeat.
Defend Yingchuan and win with less; attack Luoyang and charge into battle; suppress the rebellion in Xiangzhou and defeat the enemy in half a day; attack Lushan in a surprise attack and defeat Shi Siming's troops and capture countless people; fight bloody battles in Ruzhou, where the enemy's army is several times larger than ours, but he is beaten and flees.
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However, according to historical records, such a good general was framed and slandered by eunuchs, and was eventually unjustly killed by the emperor.
Because of this, the records about Lai Qi are unclear and lack a lot of information.
Therefore, in terms of fame, he is naturally far inferior to Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jun said to Feng Changqing: "Send an order to Guo Ziyi's troops to regain the prefectures and counties near Luoyang, and then wait for Li Guangbi's troops to cross the Yellow River. Then they can watch each other and go south together. They must not advance rashly."