Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 745 Hot Exchange

After Du Qianqiu and Liu Jinyuan split into two groups and successfully captured Kyushu Island, the number of Japanese troops under their command increased by more than 3000.According to the current Japanese military and political information, it is only a matter of time before Kyushu Island conquers Shikoku, China, Kansai, Chubu, East China Sea, Kanto, Tohoku, and Hokkaido.

At that time, according to Ye Chen's previous instructions, kill all the elite Japanese warriors and all the people who can read and write, and then set up a puppet court to turn the Wa people into mining slaves to mine silver and copper mines for Xiangfu Kingdom.

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Twenty-nine important ministers and senior officials of the Liao Kingdom were hijacked overnight. The government and the people of the Liao Kingdom were shocked, and the Empress Dowager Xiao Xiao Chuo was even more furious.Because the kidnapped person was her father, and everyone else was her most dependent and valued confidant.

Especially immediately after receiving the "kidnapping letter" arranged by Shangguan Bingyun in advance, Xiao Chuo cut off the heads of more than 30 responsible officials in the city defense, government and other departments of Shangjing City in one breath.

Of course, at the same time, the huge state machinery of the Liao Kingdom was also in operation, and even [-] troops were mobilized to search and arrest Shangguan Bingyun, Bai Canghai and others.

One day later, the Liao court did not find anyone, but they knew that Xiao Xiuming was a traitor.Xiao Xiuming was picked up by Xiao Chuo, and he was also from their Xiao family.This made Xiao Chuo even more annoyed, and ordered the killing of family members, servants in the mansion, and Xiao Xiuming's parents who were not low in status, a total of more than 300 people.

At the same time, the heads of the three hijacked Liao officials were also picked up by the army looking for people everywhere.

The three heads were sent to the Shangjing Palace, and Zhang Wumeng also appeared at the right time. After dissuading them, Xiao Chuo finally calmed down, and finally had to agree to replace them with the 'robber' sent by Ye Chen.It's just that Xiao Chuo was not reconciled, so he wanted to humiliate and torture Yu Daoxiang first. Unexpectedly, Shangguan Bingyun seemed to have guessed Xiao Chuo's thoughts long ago, and another "kidnapping letter" was picked up by the army of arresting people in Liao Kingdom , sent to the palace on a fast horse.

This 'kidnapping letter' is just one sentence: If Her Royal Highness, the Empress of Xiangfu Kingdom, suffers any insult or damage, the hijacked Liao officer will impose castration and blind her eyes.

At this time Zhang Wumeng spoke again, Xiao Chuo thought that he must not let more than 20 confidants and his father be castrated and blinded, and become a useless person.Therefore, she didn't dare to take this risk at all, and in the end, except for slapping Yu Daoxiang several times, Yu Daoxiang was not hurt at all.

The huge state machinery of the Liao Kingdom was in operation. Although Shangguan Bingyun, Bai Canghai and others hid themselves secretly, they were still discovered.But so what?With the hostages in hand, no matter how many people the Liao army dispatched, they would be afraid to attack.

The person in charge of this matter is Brother Yeluxiu, Xiao Chuo's number one confidant.Brother Yeluxiu was also the target of the hijacking, but because of his own strong martial arts, he failed in the end, and all [-] experts from the special function department in the group were killed.

After Yeluxiu found Shangguan Bingyun and the others, he once launched a probing attack. Unexpectedly, Shangguan Bingyun killed a Liao officer in his hand without saying a word.Brother Yeluxiu was shocked on the spot.

From then on, Brother Yeluxiu controlled an army of [-] and dared not step within [-] steps of Shangguan Bingyun and others.

The exchange location chosen by Shangguan Bingyun is at the junction of Xiangfu Kingdom and Liao Kingdom. Ye Chen and Yang Jiye have already led the army and waited there.

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On May [-]st, Brother Yeluxiu led an army of [-] to escort Yu Daoxiang, and 'escorted' Shangguan Bingyun and his party to Dongsheng Prefecture of Liao Kingdom, which was the last state of Liao Kingdom bordering Xiangfu Kingdom.

On the border between the two countries, Ye Chen and Yang Jiye personally led the Black Wolf, White Wolf, and Xuanwu armies with 1 troops each, and the Zhelan Army with 2 men, for a total of [-] troops, including [-] cavalry, including two Thousand Xuanwu heavy cavalry.On the opposite side, [-] paces away, Brother Yeluxiu led [-] cavalry.

The exchange went smoothly, and the people in the hands of both parties were important people who could not make any mistakes, so neither side played any tricks, and Ye Chen also prepared 100 million taels of silver as promised and sent them over.

However, after rescuing the man, Brother Yeluxiu let out a roar and personally led fifty thousand cavalry towards the army of Xiangfu Kingdom amidst the sound of war drums.And Ye Chen seemed to have expected Yeluxiu's reaction, smiled lightly, waved the horn to charge, [-] cavalry began to charge, [-] infantry began to set up a battle formation, and the last one was at the catapult that was blocked just now The explosives package on board began to take aim.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and ten trucks containing 100 million taels of silver sent to the Liao army exploded.

There was a loud bang, and flames rose from the battlefield.The explosion caused nearly a thousand casualties. The most important thing was that the sound was too loud. All the horses of the Khitan cavalry were frightened and ran around, while the soldiers on the horses were all buzzing in their ears, swaying here and there. Frightened, they were dumbfounded at this moment.

The ears of the [-] soldiers and horses of the Xiangfu Kingdom on the opposite side were all stuffed. The explosion had little effect on them. rush away.At the same time, nearly a hundred gunpowder bags above the head were fired by the corpse throwing machine behind, and fell among the cavalry of the Liao Army, causing a second round of explosions.

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This battle lasted only half a stick of incense, and the [-] most elite cavalry of the Liao army were defeated, and it was a big defeat.The [-] cavalry of Xiangfu State chased them all the way to the city of Dongshengzhou in Liao State, and then led the troops back to Xiangfu State before the reinforcements left the city of Dongshengzhou.

In this battle, the Liao army killed more than 600 people and injured more than 500 people.Brother Yeluxiu was also seriously injured by the gunpowder blast.On the Xiangfu side, only 640 people were killed and more than 100 people were injured.

After the results of this battle came out, the whole world was shocked.There was an uproar in the ruling and opposition parties of the Liao Kingdom.After the news spread to Song State, although the kings and ministers of Song State were once again horrified by the strength of Xiangfu State's army, they also had a new understanding of the early defeat of the Song Army.While the imperial court looked better, Zhao Pu asked Song Weifu to send elite spies to investigate the whole story of the war between Liao Kingdom and Xiangfu Kingdom.At the same time, it also began to conspire with the Liao Kingdom to attack the Xiangfu Kingdom.

But Ye Chen, who returned to Xiazhou, had an ugly expression, because Yu Daoxiang, who had just returned to the imperial city for a night, left a letter and disappeared again.There was only one sentence in the letter: Xiao Chuo slapped the concubine twice in the face, and the concubine went to the Liao Kingdom to find her place again.Husband, rest assured, with the strength of the concubine, no one will be able to capture the concubine again.Husband, don't send someone to chase after the concubine, otherwise it will be easy to expose the whereabouts of the concubine.

After thinking gloomyly, Ye Chen smiled wryly, and muttered to himself: "My queen doesn't look like a queen at all."

Ye Chen finally sent Shangguan Bingyun out to find and protect Yu Daoxiang.

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Ye Chen asked the military branch to establish Xiangfu Military Academy, the first military academy in Xiangfu Kingdom.But the process was not smooth, the courtyard, house, training ground, funds and equipment and other rigid conditions, it is not a big deal with the full promotion of the military department, the key is that there are no teachers and teaching materials, the textbooks that the military department took out for the third time were taken by Ye Chen After denying it, Ye Chen thought for a while, and planned to start with the officer training team first, and after accumulating experience, compiling and improving teaching materials, and training a group of instructors, he will further establish a military academy.

But even the officer training team first needs a group of teachers who must have actual combat experience, be able to read and write, and be good at teaching. Yang Jiye couldn't find suitable people after much deliberation, so he simply selected some brigade commanders from the entire army. The above-mentioned high-ranking generals also served concurrently, and the teaching materials for infantry combat, light cavalry warfare, heavy cavalry warfare, infantry and cavalry coordinated warfare, engineer warfare, and wartime tasks of the supply battalion were also divided into the following seven legions for compilation.

Many generals in this era are old and rough, and some of them are literate, but there is still a big gap between writing books and teaching materials.Especially Li Guangshun, the head of the Black Wolf Army, and Tuoba Gelu, the White Wolf Army, couldn't even read.

Reluctantly, after the reform of the Xiangfu country's army, Ye Chen emphasized the obedience of orders and iron discipline in the general assembly, and the military commander issued an order, which was arranged as a combat mission, and the army commanders had to arrest their brigade commanders , Battalion Commander, and Company Commander tried to come up with an idea, and then recruited staff officers at the corps and brigade levels to polish it. A group of officers lit up the night to fight every night, wrote a part, and sent a fast horse to the Military Hub. Yang Jiye was all beaten after the first trial. Back to rewrite, the reason is that there are too many plagiarized combat regulations, which is not suitable for officer training.Ye Chen has repeatedly instructed Yang Jiye and Zeng Shangfei to sum up some command principles from actual combat and teach them to officers who will be promoted in the future.

While Tuoba Gelu, Li Guangshun, and Zhan Xiongwu were busy scratching their heads, Ye Chen did not let go of Hu Sanguang, Bai Canghai, and Lian Jicheng who had just returned from the Liao Kingdom. The Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of Special Functions, and the Department of Dark Guards of the Son of Heaven are three special agencies.Ye Chen also arranged for the three of them to write textbooks on topics corresponding to their tasks.And regarding the rescue of Yu Daoxiang in the Liao Kingdom, Ye Chen and Bai Canghai decided to carry out certain reforms and expand the special function department of Bai Canghai into a special brigade after discussing with Bai Canghai, with a staff of 2000 people.

Compared with the trouble of setting up an officer training institution, the teaching team for training soldiers conducted a competitive rotation training for the seven major armies of the army very smoothly.

Why is it said to be of a competitive nature, because for each three-month intensive training, 500 people from each brigade under the jurisdiction of the seven major armies were selected to form 2000 people and sent to the Xiazhou Teaching Brigade to gather together for training .

At this point, after the entire army was fully loaded, Xiangfu Kingdom's first large-scale military training started enthusiastically.

The teaching team is located in a big camp covering an area of ​​more than 500 mu in the east of Xiazhou City.The sounds of killing and crying on the field were loud every day, and under Hei Yue's tossing, there seemed to be a wave of resentment floating in the sky above the coaching team.

(End of this chapter)