"I heard that Liu Yanqing's military discipline is lax and his training is lax. Is this possible?"

Zhong Shidao replied: "Wei Chen has also heard about it! However, because Liu Yanqing's department is far away from my department, Wei Chen and Liu Yanqing have never worked together, and Wei Chen has never seen his department with his own eyes. Here Wei Chen

I don’t dare to say how good the military discipline and training of Liu Yanqing’s troops are!”

Zhao Ji listened to Zhong Shidao's words, and he felt that this might be what Zhong Shidao said because he didn't want to offend his colleagues. However, what Lao Zhong said was reasonable. He didn't have the right to speak without new eyes.

Zhao Ji is just asking now. During this trip to the northwest, he will have to visit all the departments of the Northwest Army mentioned above.

"Haha!" Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said:

"I love you dearly, so I must promote virtuous people and never avoid relatives!"

Why did you forget to introduce Qinzhou Zhizhou Seed Master to me?"

Master Zhongdao blushed and said embarrassedly:

"Weichen did not introduce his brother Shizhong to the officials. In fact, Weichen felt that his brother Shizhong had served as the prefecture or magistrate in the northwest for decades, commanding the Xiang army and guarding the northwest frontier of the Song Dynasty for a long time. He did a decent job.

There is no great fault even if you have made great achievements!

Now, it has been four years since my brother Shizhong took office as the magistrate of Qinzhou."

Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said: "Qinzhou, as early as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was an important town in the west leading to Chang'an. It was known as the "gathering place of Qianqiu", so it became famous for a while.

Nowadays, Qinzhou in our Song Dynasty connects Xizhou and Hezhou, and borders Qingtang and Qiang land. It is a land that has produced fine horses since ancient times.

During the Song Dynasty, tea was exchanged for horses in Qinzhou, and the Tea Horse Division was established in Qinzhou. All the war horses of the Song Dynasty were obtained from this road."

Master Zhong nodded: "What the officials said is absolutely true!"

Zhao Ji continued: "I know that the seed master knows about Qinzhou. He has been in Qinzhou for more than four years to protect the territory and the people. Only then can the tribes of Fan and Qiang be willing to come to Qinzhou to exchange horses for tea and silk from the Song Dynasty."

ah!

Although Zhong's achievements in the division are not as great as Zhong Lao Aiqing's battle outside Xiwei City against the Xixia Army, the enemy chieftain was defeated and the Song Army captured tens of thousands of camels, cattle and horses, it was an immediate success;

It is not as good as when Zhong Lao Aiqing commanded the Shaanxi and Hedong Seventh Route Army troops to attack Zangdi City in Xixia. The court stipulated that it must be conquered in ten days, but Zhong Lao Aiqing killed a tired and lazy Lieutenant Commander in the army.

After showing the public at the military gate, he ordered that all those who did not attack the city bravely be killed. Their morale was greatly boosted, and it took only eight days to conquer Zangdi City.

However, in my opinion, Lao Zhong and Xiao Zhong are all people who made indispensable contributions to the Song Dynasty!"

Hearing this, Zhong Shidao knelt down gratefully and said:

"Weak ministers kowtow to thank the officials for their praise..."

Zhao Ji personally supported the veteran Zhongshi Dao. He knew that both Zhongshi Dao and his brother Zhongshi were loyal ministers who sacrificed their lives for righteousness.

In history, the Jin soldiers invaded the Song Dynasty and Kaifeng City in Tokyo was besieged. Zhong Shidao and Zhong Shizhong each led their troops into King Jingqin.

Zhong Shizhong was ordered to lead his troops to rescue Taiyuan. Because the friendly forces failed to arrive as promised and fell into a tight siege, Zhong Shizhong died fighting hard...

That night, Zhao Ji and his entourage stayed in the military camp of the Zhongshi Taoist Department...

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The city gates of Zhejianghui, a hundred miles away, were closed tightly, and temporary strict military control was implemented in the entire city.

The chief general of the Song Army, Guo Cheng, was in the big tent, discussing the next military action with his generals, as well as Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Yang Zaixing and others...

The result of the discussion among the generals was that they should strike while the iron is hot and carry out blitz attacks on several Xixia cities not far from Zhenhui in order to expand the results of the war, shock the Xixia court, and make the Xixia leader Li Qianshun panic and fear, so as to achieve Zhao Guan's strategic purpose...

…

The next day, the third day of August in the third year of Xuanhe, it was early in the morning.

General Guo Cheng ordered that 5,000 Song troops be left to garrison Zhejianghui, and 5,000 soldiers followed the army to escort grain and grass. Guo Cheng personally led 50,000 Western troops, escorting hundreds of Xixia soldiers and prisoners with tattoos on their faces, and marched towards Xixia

Moe enters...

At dusk that night, Guo Cheng's troops arrived at Mengjing.

The 10,000 Xixia troops at the Mengjing Defense Line did not know that Zhejianghui had been lost.

They saw twenty Xixia soldiers with tattoos on their faces who had been released first by the Song army, and ran desperately to the front of the Mengjing formation.

General Mengjing saw that they were his own people, and they had no weapons in their hands. Now the Song soldiers were still two miles away, so they released these Xixia soldiers prisoners who had been released by Guo Cheng into the city...

In Mengjing City, the few Xixia military primary schools that were literate saw those Xixia soldiers who had been released by the Song army. Each of them had a few lines of small characters written in Chinese and party scripts that had been branded or directly tattooed on their faces.

:

[The Xia army betrayed the alliance and robbed the Song merchants; the Song army attacked them and released the prisoners in a righteous manner!]

…

After further questioning, they found out that the prisoners released by the Song army brought back some very bad news.

"Xi Feng Man Niu, the leader of the Zhejiang Society, robbed the gold and silver belongings of Song merchants because of his greed for money..."

"I didn't know that it was most likely a treacherous plot by the Song Army..."

"Then, the Song Army's 'Yin Tian Lei' smashed the Jianghui City Gate, broke through the city wall, and entered the city..."

"Xifeng Manniu, one of the four great warriors of the Xixia Kingdom, was defeated and died tragically under the spear of a young general of the Song Army..."

"The Zhejiang Society has been lost!"

"The Song Army's tens of thousands of troops are already not far outside Mengjing City!"

"The Song Army is about to attack Mengjing City!"

"The evil magic that Song Jun learned from somewhere will cause the 'sky thunder' to hit the city. Run away!"

"…………"

These prisoners who were released by Guo Cheng made Mengjing soldiers shocked that Zhejianghui had been lost so quickly. At the same time, they also doubted the authenticity of the words of these returned Xixia soldiers.

How could the Song army attract thunder from the sky?

Just when the Xixia defenders in Mengjing were skeptical,

They saw the dark army of the Song Dynasty marching neatly to a mile outside the city. They lined up there and were not in a hurry to attack the city.

Guo Cheng commanded the formation of the Chinese army,

Wu Jie, Wu Lin, and Yang Zaixing organized the artillerymen and pushed ten artillery carts to the front of the formation...

………………

At this time, all the gates of Mengjing City had been closed and the suspension bridge was hoisted. At the head of the city and on the battlements, thousands of Xixia defenders stretched out their heads and looked down. They had already bent their bows and set arrows, waiting for the Song army.

After reaching their shooting range, shoot arrows to kill...

However, they saw that the Song army was not as eager to attack the city as it was during the Song-Xia war three years ago.

On the contrary, the Song Army at this time was adjusting giant objects that looked like long iron tubes...

General Mengjing also didn't understand why the Song army was not in a hurry to attack the city.

He ordered that several prisoners who had been released by the Song army be brought to the battlements. He asked them to look down and reported the reasons why the Song army did so.

"No, no, it's not good."

"Quick, quick, run!"

"Hmph!" Lord Mengjing roared angrily:

"You, the captured people, have brought disgrace to our party! Anyone who dares to disturb the morale of our army will be killed without mercy!"

"General, merge, merge, it's not us who are disturbing our military morale!"

"Yes, General. When I was waiting on Zhejianghui City, I also saw the soldiers of the Song Dynasty using such thick and long iron tubes to attract 'sky thunder' and blast open the strong city of Zhejianghui!

"

"Humph!" Lord Mengjing was furious and shouted:

"You still dare to attack the morale of our army? Come here, push them down the city and kill them all!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Song Army had already fired!

"boom!"

"boom!"
Chapter completed!