Chapter 0512 The success of the first battle, the world is shocked!
"And the Imperial Army?"
"Returning elite soldiers and generals?"
"A bunch of people who are worse than civilian husbands!"
"..."
Li Zhaoliang did not hide his voice at all, he roared angrily.
Among the soldiers behind him, some lowered their heads in shame, while others gritted their teeth and stared angrily.
When Li Zhaoliang saw someone staring, he snorted coldly, "The imperial court has disbanded the Xiang Army because it is useless. If you want the imperial court to disband you as well, you are free to do so."
When the soldiers of the Forbidden Army heard this, they were shocked and did not dare to feel any dissatisfaction in their hearts.
They are all professional soldiers who know nothing but fighting.
If the imperial court dismisses them, they will not know what they will do to support their families after returning to their hometowns.
Li Zhaoliang no longer paid attention to the officers and soldiers of the imperial army, but ordered the clerk around him, "Go and report to the court, and tell me that I, Li Zhaoliang, have arrived at Deshengchuan and saw that after the bandits led their troops to defeat Huangtou Huihe's 140,000 troops in Deshengchuan,
The amazing scenes left behind.
I, Li Zhaoliang, would like to ask for merit for the bandits.
I, Li Zhaoliang, would like to commend all the soldiers and civilians who participated in this war.
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Li Zhaoliang's voice was very loud, and it got louder the more he spoke.
In the end, he even opened his mouth and roared.
…
Six days later.
The news spread to Qingtang.
After receiving the news reported by his subordinates, Qingtang Zanpujiao's servant almost fell to the ground in shock.
"Thousands of elite soldiers defeated 140,000 yellow-headed Huihe elite soldiers..."
Jiao Siluo held the report in his hand and muttered with trembling lips.
Huangtou Uihe is adjacent to Qingtang, and Jiao Siluo is very familiar with the combat effectiveness of Huangtou Uihe's soldiers and horses.
The elite soldiers around Naye, the yellow-headed Huihe Khan, were not weaker than the royal guards around him and the Jishi Army on which he relied heavily.
It is simply unimaginable that such powerful elite soldiers, totaling 140,000, were overthrown by thousands of Song soldiers.
"It must be the credit of the heavy armored cavalry and muskets, it must be..."
"Quickly pass on my order to summon all the blacksmiths in Qingtang and rush to Zongge City. Collect all the iron materials in Qingtang and transport them to Zonge City. Tell the merchants coming from the Song Dynasty that if they can help me, Qingtang
If they can get enough iron materials in Qingtang, their goods can flow unimpeded in our Qingtang without any taxes..."
"Send an envoy to the Song Dynasty with generous gifts to express my respect to His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty..."
"An Ziluo and Kou Ji were on good terms. Hearing that Kou Ji's wife was about to give birth, he asked An Ziluo to prepare a generous congratulatory gift and send it as well..."
"..."
Jiao Siluo's orders were spread out of Zongge City one by one.
The entire Qingtang was completely mobilized in order to build heavy armored cavalry, to curry favor with the Song Dynasty, and to curry favor with Kou Ji.
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Seven days later.
The news reached Li Yuanhao's military tent outside Shazhou City.
The young Li Yuanhao was furious with the report in his hand.
"Why was such important news only delivered to me today? Why did I only know such important news today? With thousands of elite soldiers, we defeated 140,000 Uighur troops. Do you know what this means?"
"who?!"
"Who is responsible for inquiring about the Song people?"
"..."
Li Yuanhao roared angrily.
In front of him, the civil and military personnel accompanying the army knelt on the ground.
One of the civil servants said tremblingly: "Back to the prince, I am responsible..."
"Poof!"
Before the civil servant finished speaking, Li Yuanhao suddenly drew his sword, jumped over the desk in front of him, chopped down the civil servant with one sword, and then swung his long sword at the civil servant angrily, slashing the civil servant until he was beyond recognition, and then lifted the
The long sword dripping with blood stood upright.
"I knew that the Song people were unreliable. From now on, there will never be any Song officials in my military tent!"
"Go and find out for me how the Song people used thousands of elite troops to defeat 140,000 Uighur soldiers and horses in the Huangtou Uighur territory. I want all the news, don't miss a single detail.
If you miss even one detail, I will kill you all."
"Send me a military order to have all the soldiers in the army prepare for battle and capture Shazhou City for me within three days..."
"..."
…
Fifteen days later.
A group of fast horses entered Bianjing City.
With his waist badge and the letter flag behind him, he broke into the palace unimpeded.
On the Chui Gong Hall.
Zhao Zhen rubbed his eyebrows and sighed in his heart as he listened to the quarrel among the ministers below.
After Li Di was dismissed as prime minister, Lu Yijian was promoted to Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Ping Zhangshi.
Wang Zeng joined the inner court and became a counselor in political affairs.
Although Li Di's people left, the decree that Li Di left behind to amend the law was not eliminated.
The officials thought that after Lu Yijian, who had opposed Li Di in the past, came to power, he would abolish all the decrees proposed by Li Di to amend the law.
However.
They were disappointed.
After Lu Yijian came to power, he did not abolish all the decrees proposed by Li Di to amend the law, but fell ill immediately.
Then Wang Zeng took the power and began to implement Li Di's decree.
For a while.
Wang Zeng became the target of impeachment by the Manchu civil and military officials.
His notoriety has reached the level of Li Di.
The only difference is that no one used those unspeakable methods against Wang Zeng.
But even so, Wang Zeng was in danger of being impeached by hundreds of officials.
At this time, Lu Yijian recovered from his illness.
Wang Zeng fell ill.
After Lv Yijian appeared in the court, he went against the norm and implemented the decree proposed by Li Di to amend the law.
The officials instantly realized that they had been tricked.
It exploded in an instant.
Wang Zeng's memorial on the impeachment slips of Lu Yixiang floated into the palace like snowflakes.
There are countless people protesting and remonstrating.
Today in the court, they are saying that they will stop the court.
"Bang..."
Just when the officials were putting their words at the most serious point, a soldier in armor broke into the Chui Gong Hall, fell from the outside into the hall with a thud, and never got up again.
The Chui Gong Hall became silent for an instant.
Zhao Zhen stared at the door of the palace for a long time in astonishment, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, quick, wake up!"
The young eunuchs guarding the entrance of the palace hurriedly came forward and called for a long time, but received no response.
He probed the soldier's nose and mouth, and a flash of shock flashed in his eyes.
He immediately took small steps and ran to the imperial steps, saying in a deep voice: "The official family... people... are gone..."
Zhao Zhen was startled, stood up suddenly, and exclaimed: "What kind of news is it that makes my beloved sacrifice her life?"
"Is this news about Kou Aiqing?"
"Bring me the news quickly."
"Send my beloved down, give her a generous gift, and give her a son."
"..."
Chen Lin heard Zhao Zhen's words, walked down the imperial steps like flying, took the mailbox on the soldier's back into her hand, and sent it to Zhao Zhen's desk with her hands on it.
The officials glanced at the soldier.
Zhao Zhen's words of "love you" infinitely enhanced the status of that soldier.
Although the soldier had died of exhaustion, the imperial court would definitely give him a rich burial as an official and appoint one of his sons as an official.
The specific official position that will be rewarded will depend on the subsequent deliberations in the inner court.
After glancing at the soldier, all the officials turned their attention to Zhao Zhen.
To be precise, it's the mailbox on Zhao Zhen's desk.
After Zhao Zhen sat down, he quickly took the mailbox and opened it twice. He couldn't open it, so he anxiously handed it to Chen Lin.
"Open it for me!"
The eight hundred mile express mailbox is very special and requires certain skills to open, as well as an auxiliary tool.
Chen Lin had martial arts skills. Seeing how urgent Zhao Zhen was, she abruptly folded the mailbox in half, took out the letter inside, and sent it to Zhao Zhen.
When Chen Lin opened the mailbox, Zhao Zhen realized that he was a little embarrassed, so he pretended to be serious and pondered for a while before picking up the letter and reading it.
After reading just one line of words, Zhao Zhen's eyes widened in shock and he stood up again.
"Bang!"
A dull sound came from inside the Long Case.
Immediately afterwards, I saw the glazed pen holder on the dragon table falling to the ground and breaking into pieces.
Chen Lin and all the officials were shocked.
"Official?!"
"Official?!"
Everyone looked at Zhao Zhen in horror and exclaimed, and Chen Lin even took a few steps closer to Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen was completely unaware of it, staring straight at the urgent report in his hand.
The officials stared at Zhao Zhen nervously for a long time. Seeing that Zhao Zhen did not move or cry out in pain, they relaxed a little, and then their eyes subconsciously fell on the emergency report in Zhao Zhen's hand.
What kind of urgent report was it that the officials were so shocked after just taking a glance at it?
Zhao Zhen held the emergency report in his hand and read it word for word three times, three times. Then he slapped the emergency report in his hand on the Long Case and laughed loudly.
"Hahaha……"
Zhao Zhen's smile was unprecedentedly bright, unprecedentedly free, and unprecedentedly exciting.
Seeing this, all the officials scratched their heads and scratched their heads anxiously. They wanted to rush to the Long Case to see what kind of news could make a supreme leader who holds the world in his hands so excited.
Even Chen Lin, who usually never dared to go beyond half an inch, couldn't help but glance up at the urgent report on the Long Case.
Zhao Zhen seemed to be laughing endlessly.
The officials couldn't bear it, and they all stared anxiously.
"Guan Jia, what makes you so happy?"
Du Yan, the upright censor Zhongcheng, couldn't help but ask questions.
Zhao Zhen slowly came back to his senses under Du Yan's reminder. He stopped laughing, but the smile on his face was not concealed at all.
"Crack!"
Zhao Zhen patted the dragon case and said loudly: "I tell you, just when you were quarreling in the court for your own selfish interests, my Minister of the Ministry of Personnel beat everyone in the world at De Shengchuan in Huangtou Huihe.
A rare battle!
With three thousand Japanese troops, nine thousand surrendered soldiers and horses, and hundreds of private servants, they defeated the 140,000 elite cavalry led by the yellow-headed Uighur Khan Naye.
The formation killed 40,000 people and captured 20,000 people.
Countless cattle, sheep and horses were captured.
Promote the prestige of our Song Dynasty among the barbarians."
Zhao Zhen's voice got louder and louder as he spoke, and finally he yelled with his neck stretched out, and his voice spread throughout the Chui Gong Hall.
When the officials heard this, they were stunned and stunned.
With three thousand Japanese troops, nine thousand soldiers and horses picked up on the way, and hundreds of troops, they defeated 140,000 elite cavalry?!
Except for the three thousand Japanese troops, can the others be considered soldiers?
With such a small force, they defeated dozens of times the number of enemies?
Did the enemy kneel on the ground for you to kill?
Even if there were 140,000 pigs running on the ground, it wouldn't be something that three thousand Japanese soldiers could handle, right?
What's more, there are countless cattle, horses and sheep.
You blew it, right?
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has not been such an exaggerated record, right?
In the past, Taizu sent people to attack Shu and forced one hundred thousand elite soldiers of Shu to surrender. He only forced the enemy to surrender by suppressing the border with heavy troops and beating the enemy out of courage.
"impossible!"
Zhang Shixun shouted loudly.
Then one official after another spoke up, bluntly saying it was impossible.
Du Yan even asked Zhao Zhen righteously, "Guan family, can the three thousand Japanese soldiers sent by our government to follow the bandits spread the beans and become an army?"
Zhao Zhen stared at the question.
However, Du Yan didn't wait for Zhao Zhen's answer at all, and asserted: "Since you can't spread the beans into an army, how can you defeat 140,000 elite cavalry with thousands of people?"
"Although I don't know who reported this matter, I sincerely request the officials to find out the matter and expedite the evil thief who abused the Eight Hundred Miles, lied about his military achievements, deceived the world, and deceived the officials!"
Du Yan shouted impassionedly.
Zhao Zhen sat on the seat with a golden sword and snorted coldly, "In your eyes, my army of the Song Dynasty cannot win the battle? Let alone win with less than many?"
Zhang Shixun cupped his hands and said: "It's not that I don't believe it, it's that this matter is too absurd."
Zhao Zhen glanced at Zhang Shixun, his eyes fell on Lu Yijian, and asked lightly: "Lu Aiqing, what do you think?"
Lu Yijian hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "May I ask the official who submitted this report?"
Zhao Zhen said calmly: "Kou Aiqing..."
Lu Yijian was stunned, then nodded slowly and said, "I know Kou Ji well. Kou Ji is not the kind of person who makes fun of state affairs, so this urgent report is probably true."
"Hey... I'm afraid it's not that Kou Ji ate turtles in the Western Regions and deliberately killed a few people in the Western Regions to pretend to be military merit. It's not uncommon in our court to kill good people and pretend to be meritorious."
Zhang Shixun said with a faint smile.
Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian both frowned, but they had not spoken yet.
Gao Chugong was the first to speak, "Some people don't believe it, but that's because some people are ignorant. On the battlefield, if the right time, place, people, and everyone take advantage of it, it is not impossible to win with less and achieve amazing feats.
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In fact, Gao Chugong didn't believe it in his heart.
But Zhang Shixun opened his mouth and mentioned the matter of killing good people and taking merit, and wanted to accuse the military officials, so Gao Chugong spoke.
Zhang Shixun glanced at Gao Guanggong and said calmly: "As far as I know, the Western Region is a bitter and cold land with many flat rivers and deserts. The cavalry can gallop freely in the Western Region, but the infantry cannot move forward in the Western Region.
How can thousands of infantry defeat dozens of times more elite cavalry on plains and deserts?"
Gao Gao Gong was about to speak.
Then Zhao Zhen said coldly: "So, you are ignorant."
Zhang Shixun's eyes widened in horror and he looked at Zhao Zhen in disbelief.
All civil and military officials in the court were also shocked.
Everyone in the civil and military circles of the entire dynasty knew what it meant when Zhao Zhen commented on the ignorance of an important minister.
Just as Zhang Shixun was about to ask Zhao Zhen to take back his orders, he heard Zhao Zhen's voice become even colder: "The imperial court has collected tens of thousands of files from the Western Regions, and the files from the Western Regions presented by Kou Aiqing are even more numerous.
I opened the library for you to borrow and asked you to learn more about the Western Regions.
Have you turned a deaf ear to my words?
But anyone who has read a volume on the style of the Western Regions will never say such ridiculous things."