Southern Song Dynasty military god

Chapter 266 Chapter [-]
The summer north of the Yellow River is actually no hotter than the summer south of the Yellow River.

At least the guards around Jin Danzi, as long as they are with Jin Danzi, they won't feel hot.

Since the old prince Nianhan was assassinated by the little prince of the Great Jin Kingdom, he always exudes a chill from time to time, even in the dog days, it can make the people around him shudder.

"Over there in Xiangyang, did you reply?"

Sitting high on the golden marble on the dragon chair of the Great Qi Kingdom, his eyes swept over the group of "important ministers" kneeling in front of him, and he asked.

"Report to the emperor, Xiangyang City, there is no reply yet!" An old-fashioned civil servant cupped his hands and said.

Jin Danzi waved his hand impatiently, and said, "I've said it many times, don't call me the emperor, calling me a prince is a joke!"

"How can it be? No one in my great country of Qi knows that the emperor is wise and martial. He is used to fighting, and he will definitely rule the world in the future for generations to come."

This kind of flattery flowed out of the old minister's mouth, it was really admirable, even though Jin Danzi felt that this kind of flattery was particularly greasy, but in fact it was pleasant to hear.There is no one in this world who doesn't like to hear flattery, and those who don't like to hear it are not human.

But flattery does not solve the problem, especially when it comes to the golden marbles.

Last month, Jin Danzi sent a letter to Wang Chongyang in Xianyang City.The content of the letter is very simple, that is, to submit Xiangyang City to Daqi. Of course, the conditions given by Jin Danzi are also very generous.

The first is to give up the feud with Wang Chongyang who killed his father.It is said that the hatred of killing one's father cannot be taken against the sky, but Jin Danzi can voluntarily give up. This person's ambition is so high, it can be seen that in order to win the world, so what if he kills his father and enemies?There is no eternal contradiction, only eternal interests.

The second is to enshrine Qingxu Sanren as the national teacher. If Qingxu Sanren is unwilling, or after a hundred years, Wang Chongyang will be in charge, or Wang Chongyang will appoint a person. Jin Danzijue will not interfere. At the same time, Taoism Position the state religion!

This is something that is easier for Wang Chongyang or Qingxu Sanren to fall in love with than ignoring the revenge of killing his father.Taoism began to decline from the Tang Dynasty, and its sphere of influence in common affairs was gradually invaded by foreign Buddhism, so that it went from bad to worse.

Moreover, there are relatively many branches of Taoism. If the line of Qingxu Sanren can get the support of the whole country with the golden marbles, then the impact in the future will definitely be quite huge.

It should be said that Jin Danzi still grasped the key point, even if he just promised to give Wang Chongyang the title of "one-word side-by-side king", I am afraid it is not as tempting as this proposal.

In addition to these two most important conditions, there are various additional conditions. It should be said that if the two sides are not of different races, Wang Chongyang, as the leader of a rebel army, cannot refuse Jin Danzi's proposal.

More importantly, Xiangyang City is not far from the daimyo. As long as Jin Danzi is willing, he can raise troops to attack at any time.Since Jin Wushu personally met and negotiated with Jin Danzi, at least in a short period of time, there will be no battle between Jin Danzi and the Great Jin Kingdom, and attacking Xiangyang City is probably something that Jin Wushu would like to see happen.

This is really a big stick plus a carrot. I'm afraid Wang Chongyang in Xiangyang City is struggling right now.

Asking Ming that there was no movement in Xiangyang City, Jin Danzi waved his hand, and did not intend to investigate further, after all, persuading Wang Chongyang was not an easy task, nor could it be rushed.Relatively speaking, how to continue to enrich the strength of Daqi State and expand its territory and population is Jin Danzi's top priority right now.

From Jin Danzi's point of view, Wang Chongyang actually has no great ambitions. He guarded a city of Xiangyang. Go to provoke him, and he will stay there quietly.

Today, he has completely taken over the golden marbles of Daqi State, and has three extremely important generals under his command.

Kong Yanzhou, Li Cheng and Xu Wen.

Kong Yanzhou is actually not low in military strength. He practiced martial arts since he was a child, but his conduct was not good. When he got older, he became a local scoundrel.

But even such a person was able to sneak into the army of the Northern Song Dynasty, and with his impressive military strength, he was promoted step by step.However, as long as this person has poor conduct and lacks a sense of morality and social responsibility, it will be difficult to become a big climate after all.An official like Kong Yanzhou, who was under the jurisdiction of soldiers and horses, led his troops to flee south after the Jin army entered Shandong. He burned, killed and looted the places he passed along the way. Perhaps it was because of his shameless escape that he was able to escape smoothly and finally He was also promoted by the imperial court and served as a recruitment envoy along the river.

Later, they also suppressed the Dongting Lake Rebel Army in the Southern Song Dynasty, but after the Golden Bullet stole the Great Qi State last year, Kong Yanzhou surrendered.

But Li Cheng's experience is different from Kong Yanzhou's.

If Kong Yanzhou is a rogue through and through, then Li Cheng is a character with both good and evil.His force value is not lower than that of Kong Yanzhou, especially when he is good at using bows and arrows!To what extent did Li Cheng's attainments in bow and arrow reach?
According to historical records, Yue Fei can hold a bow of three hundred catties.This is not the data in "Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan", but a true historical record.In the Song Dynasty, one catty was almost equivalent to 190 catties in later generations, and three hundred catties was equivalent to more than [-] kilograms in later generations. The power of the arrows shot by such a bow is quite astonishing.

What kind of concept is a bow with a pulling force of 190 kg?According to the standards of future Olympic Games, that is Superman!
In the Olympic archery competition, the standard bow used by men generally has a pulling force of no more than 40 kilograms and an effective range of 90 meters. Of course, it does not mean that those athletes cannot draw heavier bows, but they are bound to be heavier and more powerful. Strong bows will affect their normal performance!

Aside from the impact of technological progress and improvements on bows in later generations, such as the conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy of bows and arrows, accuracy, etc. The bows in the hands of those generals must not be as good as those of later generations?), then in theory, Yue Fei's three hundred catty iron tire bow can shoot at a distance of more than 300 meters!

The reason why I said so much, using Yue Fei as an example, is because Li Cheng can also open a bow of three hundred catties, and he can penetrate Yang with a hundred steps and other trivial matters!
This is not something that ordinary people can do. Even in the era when Song and Jin were at war and heroes were born in large numbers, there were very few people who could surpass Li Cheng in archery.

It is such a hero, when he first entered the army of the Song Dynasty, he was not entrusted with important tasks, but what did he do?Perhaps many people would never have imagined that such a talented general would be assigned to be a test archer, specially testing those strong bows and different bows.

Well, this is considered to be a manifestation of the Southern Song court's "making the best use of everything". If you are good at archery, then go to be a test archer and test whether the bow you make meets the standard and can be used on the battlefield.If it is said that court officials do not engage in corruption, then Li Cheng may be a trial archer for a lifetime, and eventually become a bowsmith and a master.

However, Li Cheng is a stubborn person. As long as the bows and crossbows in his hands are unqualified, they will either be marked by him and thrown into the waste pile, or they will be broken on the spot and become waste!
Let me ask, how many officials could accept Li Cheng's approach in that period when everyone was corrupt?What to do if you don’t accept it, punish him, who made him not conform to the trend, and not walk on the same path as everyone else?
The result was that Li Cheng was blackmailed and wronged, so he had no choice but to break out of the siege and become a bandit.

Li Cheng was not dead, and the officials who forced him away were a little panicked. They were afraid, afraid of Li Cheng's nonsense, afraid that their official career and even their lives would be threatened, so they rumored that Li Cheng was a murderous demon king, "money looting Jiangnan" ", as a result, the imperial court sent troops to attack Li Cheng. In the end, Li Chengcheng chose to submit to Da Qi and became the one with the highest force value in Da Qi's army.

Finally, let’s talk about Xu Wen.

Compared with Kong Yanzhou and Li Cheng, Xu Wen was the last one to surrender to Great Qi, but he brought the most soldiers and horses. How many soldiers and horses did he bring? "On a boat of sixty, the soldiers have nothing to count."

Xu Wen should be regarded as an innocent general of the Song army, but after Kong Yanzhou and Li Cheng joined Daqi, the Song people worried that Xu Wen would defect, so they restricted his movements and monitored his daily life. It was reversed.

First of all, Xu Wen is a capable person. He has been strong since he was a child. When he was young, he sold salt as a career. He traveled to several states near the sea. He has a strong personality and courage. He is the leader but dare not disobey him in the slightest.

Later, troubled times emerged, and warriors were recruited from all over the country. Xu Wen became a warrior from the recruiting, and became the left ten generals of Banqiao, Mizhou.Xu Wen, who formally put on the officer's uniform, also has his own serious and exclusive weapon, the giant knife.

Of course, ordinary knives cannot be called giant knives. The knife used by Xu Wen weighs fifty catties, which is 35 kilograms in later generations!

I believe it is more convincing to convert it into metric units. If you think 35 kg is not heavy, you can go to a sports equipment store to weigh the dumbbells sold there.Xu Wen was invincible on the battlefield by virtue of the 35-kilogram sword in his hand, and was known as "Xu Broadsword".

It was such a heroic general who was finally forced to turn against him by the pedantic system and bureaucratic style of the Southern Song Dynasty.

When Xu Wen rebelled, he was still able to lead a boat of sixty, and the soldiers had nothing to count. What did this show? It showed that he was a general who could lead his own troops. He was forced to rebel, and even the soldiers under his command couldn't see it, so he was determined to follow Xu Wen and rebel together!
Therefore, the decline of a dynasty is not as simple as "external humiliation", but internal causes are the root cause.

The four words "taking history as a mirror" have been said and repeated by rulers of all dynasties, but how many of them have really done it?In the thousands of years since the Southern Song Dynasty, whether the Han people ruled by themselves or were ruled by a foreign race, similar things were always repeated, repeated and repeated.

Ever since Qin Shihuang connected the Great Wall of the Six Kingdoms, there has been an idiom - self-destruction of the Great Wall. From Kong Yanzhou, Li Cheng and Xu Wen who rebelled against Daqi, we can clearly see how the city walls of the Song Dynasty were destroyed by themselves. destroyed.

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