The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

As the sun sets in the west, in Zhuxian Town, Zhao Tong rewards the three armies.

The outcome of the war went more smoothly than he expected. Although his Qingqi were actually not as strong as the Jurchens in terms of true strength, they were able to win a complete victory despite wearing leather armor and equipment that he had modified, and with Ruda and four other fierce generals taking the lead. .

The special armor weapons are on the one hand, and the Jurchens' underestimation of the enemy is on the other hand. The four vanguards' brave leadership played an even greater role.

The so-called fierce generals may not necessarily be the best in martial arts, but they are the most rare ones who are brave and mighty, lead troops to charge, and can mobilize the emotions of their men.

There were losses in this battle, but the opponent was an invincible Jurchen. In comparison, these losses were completely acceptable.

In fact, even if it is only a tie with the Jurchens, under the current situation, it can be regarded as a victory. If you don't lose, you will win.

Zhuxian Town is about fifty miles away from Wanyan Zongbi's main force. Hundreds of Tanmasa went out, and from time to time someone came back to report.

However, no enemy was found, but the Tiefu Tu will come tomorrow. If it hadn't been late today, I'm afraid the heavy armored cavalry would have arrived by now.

The Jurchens had never suffered such a defeat, and Wanyan Zongbi was a proud and arrogant person who would not tolerate this. The failure of this Qingqi confrontation was nothing less than a humiliation for him.

Zhao Tong had carefully asked the brothers of the Zhe family about everything about Tiefu Tu, and also called dozens of soldiers who had returned from Yan's defeat to confirm. He already had a general impression of the Jurchen armor in his mind.

It seems a little inferior to Iron Kites.

Judging from the description, if it is a mountain plain, Tiefu Tu is no match for Tie Yaozi. If it is a plain, the two should be swaying up and down. However, Tiefu Tu's armor is weaker than Tie Yaozi's armor, and it does not have the Hengshan Steps. Ba Zi cooperated later.

Also, it was set up hastily and immaturely.

After rewarding the soldiers and horses, Zhao Tong went back to the main tent and looked at the picture of Iron Buddha Tu again. This was based on the descriptions of the Zhe family brothers, and the soldiers' supplements, and the specific image of the iron armor drawn by Zhe Hanmei.

Under the armor of the iron pagoda, above the horse's hooves, there is a small space that is the same as the iron kite.

The armor does not completely cover the horse's hooves. In fact, it is not easy to hang it so low, because when the horse is running and jumping, the armor on the body will move forward and backward. If the armor of the four legs hangs so low, it is inevitable that one side will fall on it. The horse then stumbles upon the ground and falls forward, causing disaster.

Then the armor cannot be too low. There must always be a gap above the horse's hooves, so as to prevent the horse's legs from falling to the ground in one place or two while running.

Obviously, both the Iron Kites and the Iron Buddha are preserved designs of this kind. According to Zhao Tong's previous verification in Tokyo, the heavy armored cavalry Jingsai Army of the Song Dynasty, which had long since disappeared, also looked like this at the beginning.

In fact, it is not a big weakness. After all, when the armor gallops, the collision force is extremely powerful. The gap exposed can be ignored. The horse's eyes are also exposed, and the cavalry's shoes are leather boots, so what? Without looking at who could pass through these two weak points, he attacked accurately and defeated the heavy armored cavalry.

Therefore, there is no correction, and in fact, I can’t think of any way to correct it.

But this was without rattan armor and hooks and spears. No one had thought of how the horse's eyes and cavalry boots could break, not even Zhao Tong, but the horse's legs and feet had been figured out.

A single vine armor won't work, and a single hook and sickle gun won't work either. You have to combine them in pairs.

The rattan armor is normally a sword weapon, but this won't work because there is no chance of cutting off the horse's ankle with a single sword.

If there is only a hook and sickle gun, the soldiers will not be able to do it without special protection. Regardless of whether the hook is caught or not, they will be trampled to death in the end.

There is no complete walking armor at this time. Even if there is one, the practicality of walking armor is far inferior to that of rattan armor.

Wearing human armor and using a long knife and a blunt instrument to hit the legs of a heavily armored horse is also a way to break it, but it is not as effective as rattan armor paired with a hook and sickle, and the loss is less.

As for Zhao Tong's newly formed Iron Kites, they did not have this weakness. He thought of a way to correct the shortcoming of the equipment being difficult to cover the horse's ankles.

That is to make a four-inch and three-quarter-long anklet and put it on the horse's ankle so that the neutral position cannot be exposed, and everything will be solved.

This kind of cylindrical hollow metal anklet does not require any excessive technology. It only needs to be put on the horse's ankle first, and then the iron edges at the joints can be rolled up and buckled, or a few small holes can be left and iron rings can be fixed. .

The 11,000 iron kites that General Lu took away for the expedition to Huanglong Mansion and Huining all had this configuration, and probably had no other weaknesses.

Zhao Tong held the picture and looked at it for a while, then shook his head slightly and put it down. Everything complements each other and has both pros and cons. In fact, it is easy for heavy armor to defeat his rattan armor, hook and sickle soldiers, as long as they are equipped with... a lance that is more than two feet long. That's it.

In the history of history, any dynasty with heavy armored cavalry in the Central Plains, including the surrounding neighboring countries, has never been equipped with weapons more than two feet long, let alone lances.

The weapons of Tiefutu are heavy carbines and sabers. A team of fifty soldiers will be killed if one person retreats.

This kind of carbine is far less than two feet long. In ancient times, the longest spears around the Central Plains were only about four meters, and the only spears that could reach six meters in length were the Polish hussars in Europe with such an astonishing speed.

To break through the vine armor, the cavalry weapon must be longer than the hook and sickle, and preferably it is a spear. The hook and sickle is four meters and six meters long, and the heavy armor cavalry must be at least two feet long, which is six meters.

It's just that Wanyan Zongbi couldn't have thought of such a thing in advance. After all, he hadn't seen the vine-armored sickle soldiers, and even if he saw them, it would be too late. Tomorrow's battle would definitely wipe out the Iron Pagoda, and make this Jurchen heavy cavalry a flash in the pan. It may not even be passed down in history.

At this time, the soldiers outside reported that Xu Ning asked to see him.

Zhao Tong called him in. Xu Ning saluted and said, "Your Majesty, everything is ready."

Zhao Tong picked up the picture of the Iron Buddha and said, "Go back and copy some more and pass them on to the Tengjia Army, so that all the soldiers can see what this Iron Buddha looks like, and they will know more about their good intentions."

Xu Ning took it, saluted again and left. Tomorrow's game against Tiefutu will be under his full command. This time it will be even easier than against Tieyaozi before. Tieyaozi has the cooperation of Hengshan Bubazi, but Tiefutu does not, and last year Dali's side Ten thousand new sets of rattan armor were sent, all of which were sufficient.

A moment after he left, brothers Zhe Hanmei and Zhiwu Zhigang arrived, both asking about the strategy for fighting Tiefu Tu.

Zhao Tong smiled slightly and waved his hand: "Destroy the Iron Pagoda tomorrow, relieve the siege of Tokyo within three days, and defeat the Jin army!"

In Tokyo City, in the Zichen Hall of the Imperial Palace, Emperor Daojun sits high on the imperial steps.

His eye sockets were now sunken, his face was haggard, and his originally dark beard was a little grayer.

Emperor Daojun was looking at His Highness. Not only was he looking at him, but the civil and military officials on both sides were also looking at him. The man was thin, wearing shiny green silk clothes. He was in his forties, had a mustache, and looked quite energetic.

This man was none other than Jiang Si, who had previously sneaked into Tokyo City from the Bianhe River under the orders of Zhao Tao.

After entering the city, he first went to find Zhu Xiaoyi. Zhu Xiaoyi was easier to find because he was the talker of the dirty clothes gang in Dongcheng. After delivering Zhao Tong's message, Zhu Xiaoyi took him to find Luo Jinshui, and then he had to go to court to see Emperor Daojun. .

But they were all commoners and had no direct way to enter the court. If Zhu Xiaoyi went directly to Kaifeng Mansion to tell him that he was the messenger of King Qin, and he was afraid of another Luo chaos in the middle, he would have to find Zhao Yan in the end.

Although Zhao Yan was still white at this time, the attitude of Dao Lord and Emperor had already softened. He seemed to know that he had been too crazy before, but after being demoted, he was unable to live up to his reputation by sealing him back, so he kept dragging him down, but other things But they all allowed Zhao Chu, including returning to the palace to visit relatives, and even gave him a house to live in outside.

As soon as Zhao Chu heard that Jiang Si Qianhe had sent a message, he thought that something big must happen, so he hurriedly entered the palace to report to Emperor Daojun.

When Emperor Daojun heard that Zhao Tong had sent someone, he was so excited that his body trembled.

He had no choice but to kill five of the six thieves due to a petition from the Imperial Palace students. Only Tong Guan escaped death in Tokyo. He thought that was the end of the matter, but in the past two days, Li Gang took the lead and petitioned him to abdicate his position as the Crown Prince. Zhao Huan.

He was furious at first when he heard this, but then he hesitated. The Jin soldiers were besieging the city, Tokyo was in danger, and the Song Dynasty was already in a precarious situation. Giving the throne to the prince at this moment may not be a bad idea, and he could somewhat preserve his family's reputation and achievements.

As for the previous idea of ​​passing the throne to King Yun Zhao Kai, it has long been thrown out of the window.

Just when he was vacillating, Nizi sent someone to deliver the news, which immediately gave him a shot in the arm. Could it be that Nizi sent troops to help? Then why are you inferior? So Jiang Si was summoned urgently.

At this moment, Jiang Si had already sent the letter, finished reporting what Zhao Tong had said, and announced the arrival of the army, and was bragging about the two kings' western expedition. The civil and military officials on both sides were dumbfounded.

That was the real Western Expedition, comparable to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Emperor Daojun's eyes, which had been dull for a long time, burst into light. He suddenly interrupted Jiang Si: "Qing family, do you think that... the King of Qin calls himself the Great Bright King?"

"Your Majesty, that's exactly what it is. Your Majesty calls you the Great King of Light. He sweeps across the territory and there is no one who can defeat him." Jiang Si said hurriedly.

"Oh..." Emperor Daojun touched his beard, looked around and said, "What does this Great King of Light say?"

The ministers were also puzzled. After all, Jiang Si's words had no beginning and no end, except for this one word.

Emperor Daojun's eyes returned to Jiang Si: "My beloved, where did this King of Light come from?"

Jiang Si scratched his head when he heard this. He didn't know the specifics. He just heard that it was related to Manichaeism, so he thought about it: "Your Majesty, King Qin should be talking about the god of Manichaeism in Persia, right?"

"Persian Manichaeism?" Emperor Daojun was stunned: "Isn't that the Ming Cult?"

He has not forgotten what happened to Fang La. He remembers that the Central Plains Ming Cult is a branch of Manichaeism. How did this traitor get involved in the affairs of this sect?

Jiang Si hurriedly shook his head: "Your Majesty, this is different. The Mingjiao of the Central Plains back then was a false religion. The thief chief Fangla did not have much connection with the Manichaeism of Persia. In the neighboring countries, only the Uighurs could be regarded as orthodox Manichaeism."

"It turns out to be a false religion." Emperor Daojun nodded, feeling that in fact, big sects like Manichaeism were blooming everywhere, and there would naturally be no shortage of false religions. Just like Buddhism and Taoism, there were many false ones in history, and then Are you trying to get involved in the imperial power?

"Since it is a Manichaean god, does anyone know about this Great King of Light?" He asked again.

The ministers looked at each other. They knew a lot about Manichaeism. After all, it had been reported in the early Tang Dynasty, but it was only intermittently without any success. It was not until Fang La that it caused a big disturbance.

However, Manichaeism in the Central Plains rarely mentions other gods except the Great Ming God, also known as Ming Zun.

Manichaeism is a polytheistic religion with many gods, but even the ministers who have studied it have never heard of the name of this Great King of Light.

Seeing the ministers shaking their heads, Emperor Daojun wondered: "Could it be that the Great Bright King in Manichaeism is a rare god?"

He Li came out of the classroom at this time and said: "In the official family, during the Fang La incident, Wei Chen specially studied this Manichaeism. As far as I know, there does not seem to be any Great Light King in this Manichaeism. Naturally, it may be the king of light." The incomplete pantheon that the religion spread to the East still exists in Persia.”

Emperor Daojun nodded: "If it was not fully transmitted to the east, then King Qin would have no way of knowing. Could it be that he simulated it?"

Bai Shizhong came out of the classroom and said: "Your Majesty, the Supreme Being of Manichaeism is the Great God of Light. King Qin calls himself the King of Light. This seems to be the same lineage. I secretly think that His Highness the King of Qin calls himself the Son of God?"

"What does the Son of God call himself?" Emperor Daojun's expression changed when he heard this. He was surprised and shocked. After a moment, he suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "I understand!"

The ministers, including Jiang Si, looked at each other in confusion, and saw Emperor Daojun suddenly realizing: "It turns out that I am not only Daojun, the leader of Shenxiao Yuqing Sect, but I am also the Supreme God of Great Light!"

As soon as he said this, there was a sudden silence in the hall. All the ministers had surprised expressions on their faces, and some lowered their heads, not knowing what they were thinking.

The corners of Jiang Si's mouth twitched, and his head dropped deeply. He didn't say a word, but his shoulders shook slightly.

After a long while, I saw Bai Shizhong speak again, but this time he shouted: "Weak minister, see His Majesty the Great God of Light, long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bangyan, Qin Hui and many court officials all saluted. Jiang Si glanced around, then bent down and shouted.

Emperor Daojun was so happy that he couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. At this moment, it seemed as if all the long-lost energy and spirit had returned, and his face was rosy and glowing.

"My lords, please be safe." Emperor Daojun leaned forward slightly: "I know why King Qin's expedition to the west was always successful. It turned out that he was the reincarnation of the Son of God, and I turned out to be Mani, the Supreme God of Light. I woke up late this time, but It’s for the Son of God to wake up first.”

All the ministers below said yes, and Emperor Daojun looked at He Li with joy, who also congratulated him, but his expression was obviously strange: "He Aiqing, since you are familiar with Mani's religious affairs, you will go back after the court to write the divine genealogy and restore the divine genealogy. Cheng Lv, tell the world, and you will be responsible for the construction of the Guangming Temple in the future. "

He Li felt the veins in his temples twitching, and he bit the bullet and said: "Wei Chen obeys the order."

Emperor Daojun looked at Jiang Si again: "Jiang Aiqing risked his own life and sneaked into Tokyo to bring great joy to me, and even my awakening as the great god of light. It is really hard work and meritorious service. I will now make you a meritorious prince." , and then be rewarded with a mansion, and it will be hereditary!"

"Ah?" Jiang Si was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly threw himself at Xie En, but he was confused in his heart. Is he now a marquis?

(End of this chapter)