Chapter 400 General Xiaoshi's encounter

Zhao Xing took the wine glass from Shi Cheng and asked calmly: "How does the Supervisor respond?"

The officer who reported the message replied: "The commander and supervisor were at a loss and had to stop the troops and open the capital, waiting for further instructions from the Lord."

Li Chun looked at Zhao Xing in disbelief, and seemed to have not reacted yet, and he casually repeated: "How dare it surrender?!"

Shi Cheng jumped up: "It cannot be reduced. For this war, we did not hesitate to expose the emergency forces; in order to prepare for the cost of the war, we set up a war bond company; in order to fight this war, we emptied the gunpowder stock, the soldiers had already set out, but it had actually reduced, how dare it subvert? The Korean man, the crying Lord Park In-gwang, let him give us an explanation!"

Zhao Xing pecked a sip of wine and replied calmly: "No need to explain to us by Park In-Kwang-you go back and tell the Supervisor that the war machine has been started and no one can make the decision. The one who has the power to speak is the cannon. Do you understand what I mean?"

The officer immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He thrust his chest and replied: "No!"

Li Chun was too old and couldn't help but feel more attentive. He reached out to stop the officer who reported the message and asked Zhao Xing carefully: "Taiwei, why are we fighting in this way? Did the King of Goryeo ask us to withdraw our troops?"

The officer who reported the message replied: "The King of Goryeo did not make this request, but the Jurchens made it, and they asked us to withdraw our troops immediately."

Zhao Xing interrupted: "Now, the way to deal with this change is nothing more than looking for the Prince of Goryeo. Without the Prince of Goryeo, we will create a Prince of Goryeo, and we say that the Prince of Goryeo in our hands is the real Prince, and the prince in the capital is the substitute.

Then we supported the prince. A king who claimed that Goryeo did not need to surrender, and Goryeo did not surrender...

You tell the Supervisor this way, let him operate the rest of the matter by himself, and tell him that even if Kaijing is ruined, I will ask him to step into that land. The war machine has already started to operate, and we demand rewards. Before we get enough benefits, the Song army will never stop."

Li Chun asked worriedly: "Military Observation Group..."

The "Military Observation Group" has two real and fake teams in this battle. The Beiyang Affairs Bureau's main combat power was formed on the basis of the Mizhou Lihua Army. Only two soldiers were dispatched to participate in the battle, with about 100 soldiers acting like this. The war mainly relied on the "Military Observation Group" sent by the Nanyang Affairs Bureau. Then, the local army was formed by officers from all over the country, which was the real military observation group. There were more than 300 people in this team. And at present, officers from all over the country were still rushing to this, hoping to visit the battlefield and watch the battle.

Zhao Xing cut off Li Chun's words and asked the officer who reported the message: "Is there sufficient spare weapons on the commander-in-chief's ship?"

"Add!" Zhao Xing ordered: "Send guns to the military observation group. Teach them how to use muskets - people spend a thousand guan to watch the battle, they have to give them some souvenirs, and each of them will give them a musket, and they will choose the length of the time."

Li Chun smiled and interrupted easily, "In this way, even I want to watch the battle... The Nanyang muskets in Zhao Taiwei's army are now worth no market, and the court prohibits private sale. The Taiwei will give each of them a musket, which is worth a thousand guan."

The Dengzhou officers nodded together: "That's right, Guangdong muskets are well-made, and they are self-defense weapons. They are controlled by the imperial muskets. They can't buy them even if they have money. If you can get a musket back, it's worth the money."

The officer who reported the news glanced at the Dengzhou officer who was talking a lot. He wanted to speak but stopped. Zhao Xing waved: "Go down, the military situation is urgent, I won't keep you anymore. Go back and report the news."

Shi Cheng grabbed the officer who reported the news and handed over a glass of wine. He smiled and said, "There is no rush to drink this glass of wine before leaving, and tell the Supervisor. I will organize another commander to go over and observe with the war!"

Shi Cheng understood what the officer who reported the news just now wanted to say. Zhao Xing's army was a customary supply of supplies by people accompanying the army caravan. The weapon you hold is the door key. If you wear a sword in your hand, you can buy swords and guns from merchants to arm yourself and your servants. With muskets in your hand, the merchant will open the supply of firearms to you. Otherwise, you can only sigh at the muskets.

There is another rule in Zhao Xing's army: In the event of a critical military situation, people holding weapons are allowed to organize themselves and protect their own safety. After equipping the accompanying military observers with muskets, these people also lost the qualification to stand by. Shuai Fan can recruit these armed personnel according to military orders to supplement their lack of troops.

Those accompanying military observers are professional killers no matter what, and they play a stronger role than soldiers. When they are armed, with their powerful new muskets, they can at least help Zhao Xing increase his combat effectiveness equivalent to a commander.

The officer's words were filled with a glass of wine. After drinking, he saluted Zhao Xing and turned to say goodbye. After he left, Zhao Xing thought for a moment and ordered: "Each ship is anchored, we will approach the capital and watch the battle nearby."

Li Chun quickly stood up and said with a compliment: "My Dengzhou Navy still has a hundred warships, Lord Taiwei, can my Dengzhou Navy work effectively in this battle?"

Zhao Xing glanced at Li Chun and asked, "How is the Dengzhou Navy working with the Liao Dynasty's Linhai Army in the past few years?"

Li Chun nodded: "Not bad, we have close contacts with each other. The Liao Dynasty's war horses are continuously imported into Dengzhou through them. Dengzhou is no longer short of horses. In addition, our annual transactions are also a big deal. Unfortunately, the rise of Tianjin now has caused the trade volume of Dengzhou to plummet. The soldiers and the Liao Dynasty are all full of complaints."

Zhao Xing continued to ask: "The Dengzhou navy is rich, have the warships been renewed?"

Li Chun smiled awkwardly without answering. Zhao Xing understood, and he immediately said: "Tengzhou will send out ten warships, which will be considered as sea patrol."

Li Chun waved to an officer and ordered diligently: "The Grand Marshal has given him the order, go back, mobilize the most elite soldiers, and command ten warships to follow us."

Zhao Xing just asked about the situation of Linhai military and wanted to know the current situation of Linhai Army. On this ocean, the only existence that could threaten Zhao Xing was Linhai Army. But if Linhai Army still maintained its original warship, then they were already out of date in front of Zhao Xing's gunboats. Zhao Xing could walk sideways on this sea, and only he would provoke people, and others would not dare to provoke him easily.

After a day of stopping and waiting for the Dengzhou Navy to summon all its troops, Zhao Xing's fleet started to anchor and slowly moved to the sea near Kaijing City.

Kaijing went deep into the inland for about 40 kilometers, and the situation of Kaijing could not be seen on the sea surface. Zhao Xing did not see the expected thick smoke and fire. He waved to Song Shanggangshou, who was left behind at the dock, and asked: "How is the battle?"

Song Shanggang shook his head and replied: "It's snowing here and it's extremely inconvenient to move. We were still in contact with the Supervisor three days ago. Three days ago, news that the Prince of Goryeo arrived in the army came. The Goryeo people were very impressed. The Goryeo officials came out again, and the Goryeo civilians also rushed to help us repair the dock in the snow. Two days ago, the cannons in the capital were strong for a day, and then there was no movement. We had already sent a contact team. But the heavy snowing was knee-breaking, and it would take two days for eighty (Song Dynasty) to go to the land of eighty (Song Dynasty) and it would take a long time to receive the news tomorrow."

Zhao Xing thought for a while, and turned to Shi Cheng: "I am not convenient to step onto the land of Goryeo. You go for me. There should be contact personnel left by Yuanyeping on the shore. You can select soldiers from both cities from the Dengzhou Army and conduct an armed search."

Shi Cheng agreed, and he understood what Zhao Xing meant. If Zhao Xing set foot on the land of Goryeo during this war, then the Song Dynasty sent his own Taiwei and Deputy Privy Councilor to fight directly. This would have a great impact, and he, a child, came forward to coordinate. It would be convenient.

Shi Cheng knew that he was about to take over the Navy of Beiyang Affairs. Zhao Xing asked him to select elite troops from the Dengzhou army, but in fact he gave him an excuse to support his confidants. This was also the reason why the Dengzhou officers were close to him. He was grateful to Zhao Xing for creating opportunities for him and asked carefully: "It's cold outside, is it necessary to distribute clothes for the army to protect the cold... It's better to equip them with some muskets..."

Zhao Xing waved his hand: "You can do it."

Li Chun hurriedly stopped him: "It's snowing heavily, General Xiaoshi takes a hundred people away. It's really dangerous. Taiwei, should I wait for someone to send back on the shore?"

Shi Cheng said relaxedly: "It's okay, Yuan Yeping sent a secret spy from the army in this battle. With them accompanying him, there will be no danger."

Shi Cheng said it easily, but he did not leave in the end. After he got ashore, he had already rectified the soldiers who were accompanying him and had already seen a fog of snow appearing in the distance. Shi Cheng took out his telescope and was about to observe carefully. The Goryeo officials on the dock had already reported in panic: "General Xiaoshi, Jurchens, and Jurchens' cavalry are attacking this."

Shi Cheng let out a scream in surprise. He wanted to raise the telescope and confirm it himself. Turning back, he found that the elite Dengzhou he chose showed panic on his face and was rushing to fiddle with the musket in his hand.

Shi Cheng sighed, shook his head slightly, and waved his hand to order: "Get out of the city and line up!"

Shi Cheng, who had been with Zhao Xing for many years, looked down on a small group of enemies, so he asked to go out of the city to fight the enemy head-on. He was so arrogant and had capital. Who was he? The descendant of Shi Shuxin, the first general of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Xing had tens of thousands of servants. Although this servant had fewer servants than Zhao Xing, he knew that he would take charge of the Beiyang Navy next time, so he brought enough 200 servants to his teeth.

These servants followed him south and received several years of training from the new army. They were extremely skilled in operating muskets. Many of them even had more than one musket. They were family slaves who had been trained by Shishi's generals for many years. Standing outside the city, they inserted spare guns into the snow, fiddled with muskets calmly, and arranged them into a circular array, facing the direction of the snow fog.

At this time, the Jurchens were still a loose military alliance. Under the banner of the alliance, although the main force could still maintain the form of routine military orders, their habit of looting remained unchanged, and they often used small forces to attack in advance to create a panic among the people. In normal history, the Song Dynasty was also deeply suffering from such small plunders several years later. At that time, the large Jin army besieged Bianliang, but the small 100-man team of the Jin people could successfully cross the entire river east and west road, reach Banqiao Town, where the Mizhou Maritime War Department stationed, and burned Banqiao Town.

These hundred Jin cavalry encountered more than one million Han people and more than one hundred thousand soldiers along the way, but all of them fled and did not dare to resist head-on, so that they captured more than 30,000 Han slaves and returned with a full load.

Shi Cheng did not know the habit of the Jin people using troops. Now the Song people had a blind spot in the information about the Jin people. He did not know whether this Jin team was sent by the Jin people's corps, with strategic armed temptations, or private robbery. However, he was with Zhao Xing for many years, and students often praised Zhao Xing's record of bringing twelve guards to fight 30,000 Tubo infantry between the snow-capped mountains. He felt that as a disciple of Zhao Xing, he should show his advantage of the number one general of the Song Dynasty among the many disciples of the generals. Now that the enemy is coming, it is impossible to tell how many people there are, but as the legitimate son of the Song Dynasty, he should face this Jin team as bravely as Zhao Xing.

What's more, behind him was the teacher, the teacher's powerful gunboat. He knew that there were still 1,200 servants from the Danluo Island hidden on the teacher's ship. He believed that in times of crisis, the teacher would not let him, the legitimate son of the Song Dynasty, die easily.

Someone is brave enough to support him. Relying on Zhao Xing's support behind him, Shi Cheng was fearlessly lined up outside the dock area. While using a telescope to observe the snow fog, he carefully calculated the number of enemy soldiers, while being excited and repeatedly muttered: "Cao Sheng and the others went to Nanyang, and should sail on the sea now. Therefore, the first battle of the family of the Soldiers will be launched by me, Shi Cheng. Come on, this will be a battle to open a new era.

The teacher often said that this is a new era, a musket era, and swords, guns and sticks have fallen behind. This is an era when firearms are kings. My ancestors founded this Song Dynasty with the Grand Master, and I, Shi family, have been the guardian of the palace for many generations. Today, let me, the first general, start the first battle for firearms."

The "first battle of firearms" mentioned here by Shi Cheng ignores the firearms war that Zhao Xing fought in Nanyang, which is also the tradition of the Central Plains. Traditionally, the Central Plains regard overseas as another world. Although Zhao Xing fought in Nanyang hard, officials of the Song Dynasty still thought that those enemies of Zhao Xing were just a group of barbarians. Only the battle in Central Plains was authentic.

Of course, Shi Cheng also ignored the battle between Zhao Xing and the elite Liao Kingdom. Because this war was deliberately ignored by the Song Dynasty court and Liao Kingdom, the two countries handled the matter of opening a port in Tianjin in a low-key manner, as if the war was just a few thousand ducks shouting on the river bank.

The snow fog is getting closer and closer, and gradually, the shape of the Golden Cavalry can be seen clearly. These Golden Men are not wearing armor, but they are wearing sheepskin instead. The untanned sheepskin makes the Jurchens appear very large. Their war horses spray out white mist in the cold winter climate. The white mist and snow particles raised by the horse's hooves make the sky-soothing snow fog rise on their route, which is particularly eye-catching on the snow-covered earth.

On Shi Cheng's side, two hundred servants were wearing tight down jackets and down pants, and they were wearing cowhide boots made of dragon blood wood. This kind of boot was imitating the US Marine Corps' ground boots. The anti-slip teeth on the soles were extremely thick and the boot body was very high. It was tied tightly with shoelaces to prevent snow and water from entering.

At a rough look, Shi Cheng's group of servants dressed almost the same as Zhao Xing's family. They had many down jackets made of canvas, and each pocket was stuffed with bulging pockets. Moreover, these servants were like Zhao Xing's family, carrying shoulder bags on their shoulders. During the battle, they still had no sense of taking off their shoulder bags. Looking at the Jurchens running, they calmly took out a fixed paper tube gunpowder from their pockets. While looking at the Jurchens running coldly, they stroked the gun body.

The white breath exhaled by the Jurchens made frost on their faces, which made the Jurchens' face look like a moving old vine, covered with white frost. There were only two black holes on the whole face and eyes. Shi Cheng looked at the Jurchens running, guessing the thickness of the other party's sheepskin, calculating the other party's distance, and recalling Professor Zhao Xing's knowledge in his heart.

"This group of Jurchens are crazy and rushing on a long distance. How can they use galloping? Well, the opponent's horsepower is exhausted, but the gang of people is too thick to fight. They try to knock it down more than half at a time... The teacher often says that war is about calculation, force, and psychological deterrence. Our family will give Jurchens a warning at a time."

Shi Cheng was thinking this way, and the Jurchens had stopped at the opposite side of him. The Jurchens stayed not far from Shi Cheng's circular formation, which was about thirty meters away. This distance happened to be outside the effective range of the Chinese police revolver. At this distance, bows and arrows could not penetrate the other party's thick sheepskin, and even the muskets used by Shi Cheng's servants could not be used. It seems that this group of people knew the power of the musket, so they stayed outside the safe distance, swaggering and arrogant.

Shi Cheng grinned, and he whispered a few instructions to the generals. The generals took out a few things in the shape of jugs from their backpacks and handed them to the one hundred Dengzhou troops. When the Jurchens saw the actions of Shi Cheng's army, their faces changed. Unfortunately, after they ran for a long distance, their horsepower was exhausted and they were unable to launch a charge.

Before the Jurchens on the opposite side had time to retreat, the Dengzhou soldiers had already pulled the things on the gua. This was a grenade, which was thrown by manpower. Among them, those with strong arm strength threw the grenade for twenty or thirty meters. It should be no problem. The Jurchens muttered about the equipment of this army. When the first batch of grenades flew into the air, the attacking Jurchens had no choice but to charge.
Chapter completed!