Yelu Zhangnu held all the important royal families in Tianxiong Temple. The eight-armed demon subduing Vajra in this side hall was enshrined. The dim light made Vajra look particularly hideous and terrifying. Just in front of the Vajra statue, Concubine Wen knelt on the ground and closed her eyes to pray. Her face was cold, her clothes were neat and not luxurious, not as anxious as other royal families. In the corner of the side hall, the queen Xiao Duoli Lan and the two concubines both failed in their faces, and the other golden branches and jade leaves were not much better. For ten days, Yelu Zhangnu only gave them a meal of porridge every day, and she was so hungry that she didn't even have the strength to stand up.

Suddenly, the heavy palace gate was pushed open with a creaking sound. The light was dazzling. The person who came could not see his appearance clearly and asked, "Who is Concubine Wen?"

All the royal family looked at Xiao Sesse, and the queen Xiao Duoli was even more lazy and showed even more resentful eyes. Xiao Sesse raised her head and stood up calmly.

Brother Yelu Tiege walked up to her and bowed and said, "Your Majesty Dashi is invited, and Concubine Wen will be here for the last future." He always knew that besides Yelu Zhangnu, Dashi had allies in Shangjing, but he didn't know which one he was. When he came to Tianxiong Temple today, Yelu Dashi was not seen, so he asked him to invite Concubine Wen, so he guessed the clue and was extremely polite.

Xiao Sesse didn't say anything, turned around and looked at her son. The eldest son Yelu Aoluwo looked pale, and Ying Feng was not so angry at all. She sighed secretly.

Yelu Dashi was waiting in the side hall next door. The guards outside the hall raised their bodies straight like iron spears. Yelu Dashi turned his back to the hall door, wearing a white cloak. He turned around, and the two looked at each other, only hearing the sound of repressed breathing. Yelu Tiege retreated out and closed the hall door.

After a long time of light, Yelu Dashi sighed and whispered: "Se." He took a step forward.

Xiao Sesse took a step back and said in a deep voice: "General, please respect yourself." She raised her head, her eyes as cold as water.

"The foolish monarch has been given the title," Yelu Dashi stretched his arms and hugged her shoulders and said in a deep voice, "No one can separate us anymore." His words were burning, unlike the general who was shaking the northern country, as if he had returned to the time of the vows of Hanlin Chengzhi and the Khitan talented woman under the moon. Just after that day, Yelu Yanxi visited Xiao Mansion and brought Xiao Sesse back to the palace. A few months later, he was named Concubine Wen.

Xiao Sesse struggled a few times, looked at Yelu Dashi, and said in a deep voice: "Is the general still ready to fulfill his promise and support Aoluo?"

Yelu Dashi's face suddenly became cold. He was silent for a moment, looked at the sun and moon figures embroidered on the cloak that symbolized the power of the Khitan, and smiled bitterly: "Se, the army's morale is the way to do it. If you succeed, the king will defeat the enemy, you cannot retreat." While saying that, he held Xiao Sesse's hand in his palm and said in a deep voice: "We Khitans do not care about the hypocritical etiquette of the Han people. If the foolish monarch is dead, I will make you a concubine. Ta Geli and Yu Jijiu monitor Yelu Zhangnu for me. Xiao Suxian has made great contributions, and I will use it more."

Xiao Sesse's heart suddenly sank into the bottom of the valley, and his strength seemed to be exhausted. After Yelu Dashi hugged him in his arms, two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks. I don't know if it was excitement or regret.

Yelu Aolu Jiao and Yelu Yukong were Xiao Sesse's brother-in-law and brother-in-law. Both of them held military power. Before Yelu Dashi arrived in Shangjing, they secretly restrained Yelu Zhangnu for Yelu Dashi. Xiao Suxian was Xiao Sesse's brother. This family was originally the Da clan of the Bohai royal family. After the Khitan destroyed Bohai, they moved Dashi to Shangjing to control Bohai. In the future, Yelu Dashi would use troops to Tokyo Road, so they had to rely on Xiao Suxian's power. He had promised Xiao Suxian to restore the old system of the Bohai Kingdom, while Xiao Suxian persuaded Xiao Sesse to secretly communicate with Dashi, so that the court officials who had originally attached to Concubine Wen and the eldest son of the emperor secretly helped Youzhou to raise an army.

Waiting outside the hall, Urgon Melbo looked at the hall with envy and said to Yelu Yanshan: "My father Khan often said that heroes should chase enemies like driving away sheep, plunder all their wealth, rob their horses, and witness their relatives crying and ravage their wives and daughters. His Majesty Dashi is a true hero."

Yelu Yanshan also smiled and said, "That's right." He pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife and looked at the side hall where Yelu Yanxi was watching other wives and children.

On that night, the capital fire broke out, and the queen of Yelu Yanxi, Xiao Duolilan, was killed by the rioters. At the same time, the victims were Concubine De Xiao Shigu, Concubine Yuan Xiao Guige, the six sons of Yelu Yanxi, as well as close relatives of the Xiao family in the capital, and dozens of nobles who tended to Yelu Yanxi in the capital. Yelu Dashi took the surviving Concubine Wen Xiao Sesse and named him the noble concubine. Yelu Yanxi's other daughters and unnamed concubines, Yelu Dashi all rewarded the generals as concubines, but strictly prohibited the right wife. Only Xiao Sesse's daughter Yelu Yuliyan was named Princess Bohai, and officially granted marriage to his confidant general Xiao Olila, rewarding him for his bravery and loyalty.

Ten days later, Yelu Dashi officially usurped the throne and changed the lunar name to Yanqing. The news reached Bianliang, and everyone scolded the traitor, as if he was not the throne of the Liao Kingdom, but the Song Dynasty. In recent years, Emperor Zhao You has been addicted to taking pills and exhausted his energy. He realized that he had not had much time. He planned to replace the eldest prince Zhao Ke with the third prince Zhao Qi to the Eastern Palace. His energy gradually turned to internal affairs, and his spirit of expanding territory was also reduced a lot. After the court officials quarreled, they still sent the Censor Qin Hui to send the letter of congratulations to the Liao Dynasty.

Yelu Dashi also reciprocates his favor and sent the ancestral temple uttered by Taizu Yelu Abaoji from Bianliang, a four-legged bronze tripod weighing more than 2,000 kilograms and four-legged Zhou Dynasty as a national gift, and requested marriage from Song Dynasty. This was an unprecedented event since the founding of the Song Dynasty. The court and all four prefectures and counties submitted congratulations to the court, believing that the return of the national tripod was the emperor's distant people with kindness and virtue. Even the purgatory scholars wrote poems to record it. Zhao You was extremely proud. Although he politely rejected the request of the Emperor of Liao on the grounds that the dynasty had no marriage, he returned and gave countless gold, silver and silk again. The Liao and Song Dynasty were as reconciled as before, as if they were a real brother country.

During this period, the artillery battalion that the Xia Kingdom had been preparing for for a long time was officially established. Zhao Xingde was surprised to be appointed as the centurion of the gunner battalion. He was also the only one among the five gunners who were not from the city artillery battalion. The new military camp was like a piece of white paper. The initial military regulations were all referenced to the previous artillery battalion camp. The marching commander ordered each centurion to compile regulations suitable for the camp while training troops. The military government will compile formal artillery battalion training and combat regulations based on the training effect. According to the plan of the General's Mansion, after the artillery battalion is mature, after the actual combat test, it will be expanded ten times and an artillery army with 300 artillery pieces will be established. These secrets are unknown to the Centurion Zhao De.

Zhao Xingde was worried that he left the infantry and cavalry soldiers he was familiar with. The gunners all came from the city artillery battalion and did not take him, the foreign centurion, at all. Except for one or two who could vaguely detect anything, the other centurion was also waiting to see him laugh. Only the cavalry centurion Wang Tongdeng, who was also from Chengying, supported him with full support and even told him privately that he could use troops to help him suppress his dissatisfied subordinates. Zhao Xingde smiled bitterly and refused.

Zhao Xingde had his own way. He took advantage of the opportunity of the centurion compiling the rules by himself during the training period, trying to regulate the gunners' words and deeds and actions by the actions of the gunners, including saluting when they see the officers. He numbered all ten gunners in each gun group, and the Tsun commander was responsible for aiming and proofreading, and conveying the command to the entire group. Five gunners loaded ammunition under the command of the Tsun commander and fired artillery, and the other four ammunition players were responsible for transporting cast iron round ammunition and gunpowder packs from the ammunition truck to the next to the cannon and handed them to the gunners in turn.

The first to compile was the "Combat Doctrine". The space between field artillery towers must exceed two meters to avoid interference between adjacent artillery groups in busy battles. Once the gun mount is removed from the carriage, the gunners who prepare the ammunition must immediately lead the horse to a safe area behind the ammunition truck. The four ammunition trucks returned to the ammunition truck, five gunners stood behind the artillery, and the Duke stood on the side of the artillery on the wind position.

When Zhao Xingde's military order was obtained, the commander of the Twelves should order: "Prepare!" Two gunners stepped forward from behind the artillery respectively. One gunner held a brush and a wooden stick that pushed the shells, and the other gunner was preparing to take over the shells and the medicine bags sent by the ammunition hand. He was responsible for loading the ammunition into the chamber. The third gunner was next to the barrel. He had to keep the fire door clean and dry, especially not wet by the brush of the gunner No. 1. The fourth gunner stood behind the gunner, and he would punch holes in the medicine bags through the fire door and insert a microwave tube filled with gunpowder for ignition.

After all preparations were completed, Zhao Xingde ordered "fire!" and the fifth gunner immediately ignited the cannon with a fire slit after hearing the order of Chief Tsun’s “fire”. The artillery fire was accompanied by huge recoil. In addition to Chief Tsun, the five gunners had to push the cannon back to the cannon base immediately and start cleaning the cannon chamber to make preparations for the relaunch. Chief Tsun observed the landing point of the shell, and then decided based on experience whether it was necessary to adjust the aim of the cannon.

This "combat policy" is dozens of pages. It not only refers to the artillery control habits of the existing city fire-proof gunners, but also incorporates Zhao Xingde's imagination and fabrication. He imagined that a vague combat operation of an artillery group would be transformed into a cooperation with very clear regulations to be based on.

"In the real battlefield, if you don't tell him how to do it, many people don't know what to do. It's so complicated to operate artillery, even if the doctrine I wrote is not good, it's better than the one without detailed doctrines." Zhao Xingde comforted himself.
Chapter completed!