Northern Song Dynasty: Counterattack and became emperor after the Jingkang Revolution

Chapter 28 A small fire gun
However, raising private soldiers is not something that can be done with money.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has learned from the lessons of the fall of the Tang Dynasty. In order to prevent the recurrence of the abuses of tyrannical generals, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin "released military power with a glass of wine", depriving the founding generals of their control over the army, making the imperial power more stable.

At the same time, the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty deliberately weakened the powers of generals.

The most commonly used method is to change army generals and change defenses regularly so that the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not specialize in troops.In addition, the Privy Council was also established to take charge of the command of the army, allowing civilian officials to control military and political power.

These measures were conducive to strengthening the Northern Song Dynasty court's control over the army.

However, this emphasis on literature over military affairs had great consequences.

The rotation of generals weakened the army's combat effectiveness, causing the Song Dynasty to suffer repeated defeats in the wars with Liao and Jin, which eventually led to the "Jingkang Incident".

What is even more frustrating is that the civil servants who have mastered military and political power are timid and afraid of war, and they will avoid war if they can.

In order to compromise with the Liao and Jin Dynasties, they spent a lot of money on the enemies every year, causing the entire Song Dynasty to be "poor and weak".

Zhao Yingluo thought of what Yue Fei once said: Civil servants do not love money, military ministers do not care about their lives, and the world will be peaceful!Now it seems that this sentence is really right.

It is a pity that Yue Fei was killed in history. In addition to the treacherous minister Qin Hui fanning the flames in front of Zhao Gou, part of the reason was that Zhao Gou was afraid that his growing prestige in the army would threaten his throne.

If Yue Fei imitates Emperor Taizu and wears a "yellow robe", the matter will become a big deal.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yingluo vaguely felt that she should be cautious about this matter. If she really wanted to raise private soldiers, how could she prevent Lin'an's imperial brother from being afraid?

For the sake of safety, she decided to collect the anti-golden generals in the Central Plains first. Her first target was the famous Yue Fei in history!

Yue Fei has superior combat power and excellent commanding skills. The most important thing is that he is the main combatant!He was on the same path as Zongze, and he was Zongze's subordinate.

Nowadays, Yue Fei is just a general at the level of regiment commander or company commander. He is not more than thirty years old and is full of vigor. It is easier to take him into his own hands.

With the goal in mind, Zhao Yingluo took thousands of stones of grain to the eastern suburbs of Kaifeng City, where the army was stationed, in the name of transporting grain and grass.

The general stationed at the station was none other than Yue Fei. When Yue Fei saw that the adopted daughter of his immediate superior had arrived, he hurriedly went out to greet her.

When the news of the imperial court's decision to run out of food reached him, the food he had accumulated here was less than ten days' worth. Seeing that the army would run out of food in a few days, he was so worried that he couldn't eat or sleep.

While scolding the imperial court for not being considerate of the soldiers fighting for the country, he reported to Zongze to deliver food as soon as possible.

Although Zongze said that the food would arrive soon, his heart finally fell to the ground when he saw the endless motorcade filled with food.

"The general is too blind to see Mount Tai. He never expected that the princess would have such a superb ability."

Zhao Yingluo waved her hand and said, "Why do you care about such trivial matters?"

"I wonder if the princess is here to give you any advice?"

"I've heard for a long time that the general has a plan for commanding the army, so I came here this time to see the grandeur of the army!" After hearing this, Yue Fei ordered people to go to the school grounds to prepare, and then led her to the school grounds.

By the time they arrived at the school grounds, the 3000-strong army had already been assembled, divided into various formations such as cavalry, horse infantry, archers, and heavy armor.

As the command flag was waved, the army was divided into two, and they set up their formations for battlefield drills. The shouts of killing were loud, and the morale was indeed good. If such an army expanded to 30 or even [-], how could the Jin people be opponent?
"The general has such a powerful army, why doesn't he cross the Yellow River north and regain the land in Hebei?"

Zhao Yingluo's words touched Yue Fei's sore spot, and he shook his head helplessly, "I want to kill the thief, but the court only ordered me to assist the old general in defending Tokyo. Furthermore, an army of only 3000 people, even if one is equal to ten, can't be faced." Facing hundreds of thousands of Jin people's cavalry is like using a mantis' arm as a chariot."

Zhao Yingluo smiled lightly, "If I can let the general command an army of [-] people, can the general regain the land of Hebei?"

Yue Fei's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Not to mention one hundred thousand, an army of fifty thousand can go north to regain Yanyun's old territory."

But then his eyes dimmed again, "The general officer has a small position and is just a small commander. How can he command such an army of tens of thousands."

"I will give you two poems for the general, 'The great roc rises with the wind in one day and soars ninety thousand miles away!' In addition, I will give the general a fun gadget."

After saying this, Zhao Yingluo fumbled out a finely crafted firecracker from her sleeve.

This fire blunderbuss was developed in her spare time with several craftsmen in the blacksmith shop. Using the simple principles mastered in her brain, and with the cooperation of skilled craftsmen, after several months of production, she finally made a descendant. The prototype of a pistol.

Of course, limited by the limitations of the technology of this era, the firegun she made could only be used to fire ordinary iron projectiles or iron nails. And due to the backward smelting process, in order to avoid frequent explosions and barrel wear, this firecracker was The effective killing distance of the fire gun is limited to thirty feet.

This kind of killing distance is only equivalent to that of ordinary bows and arrows, and is even weaker than bows and arrows, but its shooting speed is fast!And the killing intensity is high.

In fact, Zhao Yingluo really wanted to build rifles and cannons in this era, so as to help the Song Dynasty defeat the Jin Kingdom as soon as possible, but after all, she was only a doctoral student majoring in agriculture, and those mechanical principles were too complicated, and I couldn't do it!
After Yue Fei got it, he hesitated with some curiosity, "This is..."

"You can call it a fire gun! With it, you can effectively kill and injure the enemy. Please ask the general to bring a living creature over."

Yue Fei immediately ordered someone to bring a pig over. Perhaps because he was frightened, the pig was let go and ran around with its hooves open.

Zhao Yingluo calmly took out a firecracker and lit the fuse of the firegun. After two breaths, she heard a bang, and the pig was hit instantly. It lay on the ground and struggled for two times, then stopped. There was no movement.

This loud noise startled Yue Fei and the soldiers around him. When they came to their senses and looked at the pig again, they were already dead.

Seeing this result, everyone looked at the seemingly harmless little lady in front of them with some fear.

This... this woman, does she know magic?Why did the pig die inexplicably after a noise?

Yue Fei was also surprised and asked with twinkling eyes, "The princess...is she a god in the sky?"

Zhao Yingluo smiled jokingly, "If I were a god, I could still let the Jin people bully the Song Dynasty like this. The reason why that pig went bankrupt in an instant was all because..."

She took the trouble to explain the principles and methods of using fire guns.

After knowing that this small fire gun can actually kill a pig, Yue Fei's eyes lit up, this is a treasure!If the army is equipped with such exquisite weapons, why worry about the Jinren not being defeated?
(End of this chapter)