Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 482 Chapter 480 The evil doctor takes charge
With the imperial court's order, the war machine of the Song Dynasty began to activate.

Today's Song Dynasty has gone through continuous reforms and is no longer as old as before. In addition, the Song Dynasty's treasury is sufficient. With an order, a large number of material personnel began to mobilize to the northwest.

At the same time, the Privy Council began to implement the battle plan!
"Notice to the officials! The Privy Council has already formulated a plan to attack Xia, but combined with the imperial court's intelligence on Xixia, I'm afraid this battle will be quite dangerous!"

In the Chui Gong Hall, Privy Councilor Zeng Bu frowned.

"Why?" Zhao Xu frowned.

He was immersed in the dream of destroying Xixia, regaining the sixteen states of Yanyun, and unifying the world, but Zeng Bu's words poured cold water on him.

The Song Dynasty was once troubled both internally and externally, and with the Liao Kingdom standing in the way, the Song Dynasty was unable to destroy Xixia. But now the Song Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, and it is still unable to destroy Xixia?

Zeng Bu Ning said: "To inform the officials, although the Song Dynasty is now greatly strengthened, Xixia is also brave and good at fighting, with hundreds of thousands of domestic troops. Our army is working hard for expeditions, while Xixia is waiting for work, and there are city walls to block it. We The army doesn’t have much advantage.”

"At the same time, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Li Qianshun, was also a British ruler. During his reign, he carried out reforms and unified all the forces in Xixia. In fact, all the forces in Xixia were actually all forces. Now that Xixia's national power has greatly increased, it is also different from what it used to be."

"Furthermore, Xixia has already created the Sky-shaking Thunder, plus Xixia has the Divine Arm Crossbow and Cold Forged Armor. Once the Song Dynasty attacks Xixia, Xixia will probably suffer heavy losses with the help of the Sky-shaking Thunder and the city wall! "

"However, the Xingqing Mansion in Xixia has high walls and strong walls! There is sufficient food and grass, and with the power of thunder, it is indeed very difficult for the Song Dynasty to break through it in a short time." Cai Jing also objected.

Many ministers felt their hearts sinking. Now that Xixia was monolithic, and with the power of thunder and city walls, the possibility of the Song Dynasty wanting to destroy Xia in a short time was really slim.

Fan Zheng couldn't help but sneer when he saw this. When he proposed a roundabout war, he wanted to start with Xixia first. However, what was the situation of the Song Dynasty at that time? It would be an exaggeration to say that it was precarious, not to mention that the Liao Kingdom was watching eagerly from the side.

Many officials' hearts sank.

Fan Zheng sneered and said: "Since everyone thinks that Xixia is getting stronger, is it possible that the Song Dynasty just sat back and ignored it and waited until the future to raise tigers to cause trouble?"

"This battle is indeed very risky!"

As Fan Zheng said, although Xixia has become stronger now, it is only a smaller version of the Song Dynasty. The overall strength of the Song Dynasty is still higher than that of Xixia, not to mention that the Song Dynasty will regain the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future. The war is inevitable and must be won.

Zhao Xu said with firm eyes: "This battle must be fought, and this battle must be won!"

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As soon as this statement came out, the whole court was in an uproar.

"Now the Song Dynasty adopts the great detour strategy. Although it has captured a large amount of land, it has given Xixia and Liao a chance to breathe."

In Fan Zheng's view, it was because Xixia became stronger that the Song Dynasty had to fight this war again. Otherwise, if Xixia becomes stronger in the future, it will definitely pounce on it again like a wolf. By then, the losses suffered by the Song Dynasty will be even greater.

But now Xixia has Zhentian Lei, and with the advantage of the city wall, coupled with the divine arm crossbow and cold forged armor, it is simply a smaller version of the Song Dynasty, as troublesome as a hedgehog.

Did these ministers have the courage to directly confront the Liao and Xia countries?

However, Zeng Bu said again: "Even if the Jurchens have assistance from the Song Dynasty, it is not known whether they will be able to fight against the Liao Kingdom or how long they can persist. According to the Privy Council's deduction, the Jurchens can contain the Liao Kingdom for up to half a year, while the Song Dynasty will The hope of destroying Xixia in such a short period of time is slim."

"Shaking thunder!"

Many courtiers felt great regret, and even pointed the finger at Fan Zheng's roundabout strategy. It was Fan Zheng's proposal of a roundabout campaign southward that caused the Song Dynasty to miss the opportunity to regain Xixia.

"Now that Xixia's situation has become a success, the Song Dynasty will probably lose the opportunity to destroy Xixia!"

The greatest contribution to the Song Dynasty's consecutive victories was the Thunder Thunder, and the countries they attacked were countries without Thunder Thunder.

"I think the roundabout strategy was wrong. The Song Dynasty should have taken advantage of the two great victories in Pingxia City and used the power of gunpowder to completely destroy Xixia.!"

Fan Zheng stood up and said proudly: "Today is different from the past. Back then, the Song Dynasty faced the threat of Liao Xia, but now the Liao Kingdom has the Jurchens on the side and has no time to take care of Xixia. Even if Xixia reforms to become stronger, its overall strength is still weaker than that of the Song Dynasty. Now But if Xixia cannot be destroyed one-on-one, how can the Song Dynasty regain the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!"

Moreover, without destroying Xixia, the Song Dynasty would not be able to fully deal with the Liao Kingdom, or even the more powerful Jurchen in the future.

The three prime ministers nodded slightly. The reason why they supported Fan Zheng was that on the one hand, the official body was unstable and they needed to use their ambition to unify the world to wake up from their beauty. On the other hand, Xixia wanted to unify the world during the Song Dynasty. In the first battle of Xixia, it was so strenuous to defeat Xixia. How will the Liao Kingdom fight against the more powerful Liao Kingdom in the future.

"Looking at it from below, Xixia must be attacked. It is better to attack in all directions and rob Xixia's cattle and sheep population. In this way, in just a few battles, Xixia can be completely defeated, and even force Xixia to surrender to the Song Dynasty again!" Yang Wei offered a strategy! , immediately attracted a lot of support from the old party.

Fan Zheng frowned. This method was used by Mongolia to destroy Xia in the previous life. However, this method took a long time. In addition, the Liao Kingdom is not destroyed now. Once the Liao Kingdom continues to assist Xixia, Song and Xia will definitely fall into a war of attrition again. middle.

However, before Fan Zheng could speak, Zeng Bu had already objected: "This method is not possible. The Song Dynasty spends too much money every time it sends troops. If it fights Xixia for a long time, it will inevitably destroy the Song Dynasty's good situation."

I think back then, Xixia, with the support of the Liao Kingdom, continuously attacked the Song Dynasty, which caused the Song Dynasty to suffer heavy losses, gradually declined, and the three redundancies became more and more serious. The Song Dynasty finally got out of the quagmire, and naturally it could not repeat the same mistakes.

Suddenly, the entire Chui Gong Hall fell into silence.

Although everyone knows that this war must be fought, they are not optimistic at all about the various circumstances of the war.

At this moment, Fan Zheng suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "I am reporting to the official family, I would like to lead troops to destroy Xixia!"

"Fan Zheng is going to lead his troops to destroy Xixia!"

The ministers couldn't help but were stunned and looked at Fan Zheng with a frown.

Fan Zhengnai was a doctor, but he made great achievements in the military. Fan Zheng was responsible for the two major victories in the Pingxia City Battle. He also formulated a great detour strategy, not to mention participated in the battle to destroy Dali.

However, this time is different from usual. Xixia is the old enemy of the Song Dynasty. All the famous generals of the Song Dynasty are helpless against Xixia. How dare Fan Zheng dare to destroy Xixia at such a young age!
"No! Destroying Xixia is a major matter for the country, so how can we just talk nonsense and talk on paper!"

Unexpectedly, the first person to object was Fan Zheng’s father, Fan Chunli!

In addition to worrying about Fan Zheng's safety, Fan Chunli was also worried that Fan Zheng would mess up the destruction of Xixia. After all, the opportunity before him was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "The most powerful weapon in Xixia today is the thunder, and thunder was created by Xiaguan. I am the one who knows the best about firearms in the world! I will definitely be able to restrain Xixia's gunpowder weapons when I go to war!"

Hearing Fan Zheng use the word "lower official" again, veins popped out on Fan Chunli's forehead. "How can you lead an army at such a young age?" Fan Chunli snorted coldly.

Fan Zheng retorted: "So what if you're young? Huo Qubing was able to defeat the Huns at the age of eighteen. Besides, it's not like he has never commanded troops before!"

"It's just 10,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 side soldiers!" Fan Chunli said scornfully.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "No! Yes, two hundred thousand soldiers and horses!"

All the officials in the court were speechless. When Fan Zheng went to Dali, there were indeed 10,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 side soldiers at the beginning. However, when the army arrived at Dali City, Fan Zheng's troops had reached 200,000, sweeping across The entire Dali Kingdom.

However, everyone knows what is going on with Fan Zheng's 200,000 troops. They are just a mob, sweeping across the entire Dali like locusts, without any military law at all!

But no one can deny that Fan Zheng did have the legendary experience of having 200,000 troops!

Fan Chunli sneered and said: "Who doesn't know what happened to your two hundred thousand soldiers and horses? They are not even as good as the civilians responsible for escorting grain and grass in the Song Dynasty! Impeach and command the battle!"

Fan Zheng was not ashamed but proud and said: "Even if there are 200,000 pigs, that's still 200,000. Besides, when Xiaguan goes to Liangzhe Road this time, he can hire six masters. Even at a young age, he still handles government affairs." It is handled in an orderly manner, and Fan believes that since government affairs are like this, military affairs are also like this.”

"Fan, who leads the army, can imitate the master system and recruit some military advisors who are proficient in military affairs to form a military advisor group. The three stooges are better than Zhuge Liang. In this way, not only can they easily handle military affairs, but they can also check for deficiencies and avoid the recurrence of Yuanfeng's last time. Lessons from the disastrous failure of the Five-Road Expedition to Xia!"

"Yuanfeng's five-pronged expedition to Xia failed miserably!"

As soon as Fan Zheng said this, all the ministers in the court were ashamed.

The people in the court were all elders of several dynasties, and they naturally knew the lessons of the disastrous defeat in the last expedition to Xixia, which was during the Yuanfeng reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Xixia was in power, the harem was involved in politics, and the ruler of the country was under suspicion. Song Shenzong decided to destroy Xixia once and for all. The five armies of the Song Dynasty set out. It was smooth sailing along the way. However, the Song army lured the enemy deep into the country. However, the supply of military supplies was insufficient. Then, there was heavy snow again, and a large number of soldiers were damaged.

The main army had already surrounded the Xixia royal family, but the generals were conflicted, and Xixia released water from the Yellow River canals, flooding the Song army, causing the Song army to suffer heavy losses, and finally returned in defeat.

If the Song Dynasty really had a group of military advisors who were proficient in military matters as Fan Zheng said, they would have been able to detect the Xia army's flooding plan in advance, and maybe they could have destroyed Xia at that time.

Fan Chunli couldn't help but look embarrassed. He originally wanted to object to Fan Zheng's expedition, but after mercilessly arguing with Fan Zheng, he found that Fan Zheng had eliminated all obstacles to his expedition!

Fan Zheng is the inventor of Zhentian Lei and the person who knows the best about gunpowder. The Pingxia City he designed brought down Xixia twice, and he has the experience of commanding an army of 200,000. With the help of the military division, a The perfect candidate to lead the attack on Xia has already been born, not to mention that Fan Zheng has already won two consecutive victories against Xixia.

The other ministers also looked at Fan Chunli suspiciously. The father and son sang together as if they were performing a double act.

Fan Chunli said angrily: "Even if everything goes well and you lead the army to reach Xingqing Mansion smoothly, Xingqing Mansion has already been impregnable after a hundred years of Xixia management. Back then, the Song army fought hard day and night for eighteen days but failed to capture Xingqing Mansion. , How can you be confident that you can capture Xingqing Mansion, and you are not afraid of the Song Dynasty repeating what happened to Pingxia City?"

The Pingxia City built by the Song Dynasty in a short period of time was able to defeat 300,000 Xia troops with the help of thunder. But today's Xingqing Mansion has no city walls, manpower, or even thunder. Far better than the original Pingxia City, how could the Song army defeat such a majestic city.

The hearts of the other officials also sank, which was why they were worried. With Zhentian Lei, the losses in attacking the city would be too great.

"Down with one fight!"

Suddenly, Fan Zheng’s voice echoed throughout the audience!

"what?"

The kings and ministers of the court were still thinking hard about countermeasures when they suddenly heard an incredible voice.

"What did Fan Taicheng just say?" Zhao Xu stared at Fan Zhengdao.

The other ministers also stared at Fan Zheng, thinking that they had just heard wrongly.

"Sir, don't talk nonsense!" Fan Chunli gritted his teeth.

However, Fan Zheng said word by word: "Wei Chen said that as long as our Song army reaches Xingqing Mansion, I have a side that can defeat Xingqing Mansion in one battle just like Dali City!"

"Evil recipe!"

The entire court was in an uproar. No one expected that Fan Zheng would pin his hopes of conquering Xingqing Mansion on his own evil plan!
"That's nonsense. Xingqing Mansion is not a Dali city backed by Cangshan Mountain. It is surrounded by plains. There is no trick at all. We can only attack by force!" Zeng Bu angrily yelled.

At the beginning, Fan Zheng used evil methods to rob him of the power of destroying the country, but now Fan Zheng actually used his old tricks again, claiming that he could use evil methods to defeat Xingqing Mansion in one battle!

"I am willing to issue a military order!" Fan Zheng solemnly said to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu suddenly became serious. At this moment, the ministers finally understood that Fan Zheng was not arrogant.

Although the ministers couldn't help but doubt that there was any evil method in this world that could easily defeat the capital of a country, there was a precedent of Fan Zheng climbing over Cangshan Mountain and conquering the capital of Dali in one battle, which made Fan Zheng's words more convincing!
"I wonder what the evil recipe is?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but said in his heart.

Other ministers also listened attentively, and they were naturally very interested in the evil party that conquered a country's capital in a battle.

However, Fan Zheng looked at all the ministers and shook his head and said: "The law is not passed down to the six ears. This law is related to the final success or failure of the Song Dynasty's war to destroy Xia. There cannot be any negligence. Please allow us to keep it secret for the time being!"

This is not because Fan Zheng is using evil methods to feel proud, but because there are many people in the court talking about things, and it would be unsightly if it were leaked. Besides, no one can guarantee that the shame of Jingkang in his previous life will not be repeated. He wants to accumulate more Credit, and firmly control the general trend.

And this time the destruction of Xixia will be his best opportunity to accumulate reputation.

The officials frowned. Although Fan Zheng's words were reasonable, they were quite dissatisfied. Besides, who could be sure whether Fan Zheng was just talking on paper and wanted to seize the opportunity to seize the military power to attack Xixia to gain credit for himself.

But Zhao Xu looked at Fan Zheng solemnly. Based on his understanding of Fan Zheng, he knew that Fan Zheng would definitely not lie about it. Besides, Fan Zheng had already accumulated enough credit, and there was no need to lie about it!
"It is decreed that Fan Zheng will be the commander-in-chief of this attack on Xixia!" Zhao Xu said with finality.

"what!"

All the officials in the court looked at Fan Zheng in shock. No one expected that the coach who finally defeated Xia would be such a young Fan Zheng.

However, after they thought about it carefully, it seemed that there was no more suitable candidate than Fan Zheng. After all, he had the experience of winning consecutive battles against Xixia and commanding an army of 200,000. Only Fan Zheng had the ability to destroy a country.

(End of this chapter)