Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Zhao Ji, Ge Bing, Liu Shikai, Wang Xuan and others finally stabilized their minds. Zhao Xun, who was next to him, had a curious expression on his face at the moment, and couldn't wait to go over and have a look! This Zhao Xun was only four years old. He grew up in the Five Kingdoms City. The Five Kingdoms City was said to be a "city", but it was actually just a small town. More than two thousand Jurchen soldiers. Since he was a child, Zhao Xun had never heard such a cry of killing, so he was very interested in it.

"Come on, let's go and have a look." Zhao Ji said.

Ge Bing, Liu Shikai, Wang Xuan and others beside them nodded their heads one after another, and they headed south under the leadership of the soldiers in front.

The snow was still falling, and they creaked and creaked as they walked on the road. They kept moving forward, and after walking for two miles, they came to the southernmost part of Shanhaiguan.

This Shanhaiguan is said to be a "pass", but it is actually a simple city. In ancient times, there were also yamen here, and the area was not small.

Once here, they came to the southern wall.

To the south of Shanhaiguan, here is a plain!

The plain is also covered with snow, and thousands of soldiers are training here at the moment!

All the soldiers shouted together and stabbed the spears in their hands fiercely towards the front! All the soldiers are trying their best to assassinate forward, and every time they assassinate forward, there will be a "kill"! There is a square team for every thousand people, and there is an army of 100,000 people in front of you, and there are countless square formations!

kill kill kill!

One after another, the soldiers were shouting desperately and training desperately. Such a scene made Zhao Ji and others stay there!

Zhao Ji has never seen such a scene! When he was in Kaifeng, there were 800,000 forbidden troops stationed around Kaifeng. He also went to the barracks of the forbidden army to investigate, but how did those soldiers of the forbidden army look like the following soldiers? Even though those Forbidden Army soldiers were standing there and lined up, he thought it was good at the time, but compared to the soldiers below, the former Imperial Army soldiers in Kaifeng Mansion were not worthy to carry their shoes!

One hundred thousand people performed morning exercises together, and the momentum was so loud that everyone was dumbfounded.

"There is such a strong army in the world?" After a while, Zhao Ji asked dryly.

"No wonder these warriors are so domineering! This is a division of tigers and wolves!" Liu Shikai, who used to be the Minister of the Ministry of War, said.

"I'm afraid that the former Western Army was not so elite?" Zhao Ji said, swallowing his saliva.

"Don't say it's the Western Army, I'm afraid the Jurchens are not so elite." Ge Bing felt trembling all over and said.

"I didn't expect that Liu Qi would be a famous general of a generation, and he could train such a strong soldier. No wonder he is arrogant and domineering!" said the former magistrate Wang Xuan.

"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Ge Bing said abruptly.

"Such a strong army, that is the scene of a feudal town in the late Tang Dynasty! There is no one in the world!" Zhao Ji said, feeling a little weak in his body.

The scene below was so shocking that Zhao Ji didn't even dare to look down.

"The only thing we can do is take a step forward! The Jurchens let us back, but they didn't tell me that there are such brave generals as Liu Kai in the world." Liu Shikai said.

Standing here, several people felt chills all over. Only Zhao Xun was hugged, and he was dancing excitedly at this moment. He, a four-year-old child, was extremely shocked and happy when he saw such a scene.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be writing over there?" At this moment, Ge Bing said suddenly.

Zhao Ji, Liu Shikai, Wang Xuan and others looked along Ge Bing's fingers, and saw four big characters "All people are soldiers" written on the wall over there.

Soon Zhao Ji and others discovered that there were also different large characters or slogans written on the rest of the walls. Some places read "Infinite Love, Infinite Worship, Infinite Belief, Infinite Loyalty", and in some places "I would rather go forward and die, Do not take a half-step back to live", some say "hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of millions of soldiers, ten thousand miles of battalion", and some say "We must learn from His Majesty's great thoughts every day, and we must resolutely implement His Majesty's great strategic instructions." ".

Slogans were written on many of the walls in front, and Zhao Ji and the others froze there.

Zhao Ji thought for a while, and he led a group of former ministers down from the city wall. The southern city gate was wide open, and they walked out through the city gate, and no one stopped them.

Zhao Ji turned his head and saw three big characters "Shanhaiguan" engraved above the majestic Shanhaiguan city gate, but above the "Shanhaiguan" was a huge portrait! The portrait is a young man in his teens, with a serious face and his eyes looking forward, giving people the impression that he is full of heroism and cannot be ignored!

Looking at this portrait, Zhao Ji felt a little depressed in his heart, and he actually lowered his head involuntarily.

The rest of the ministers also looked up one after another. Seeing the huge portrait, they didn't dare to look at it too much.

In front is the 100,000 troops who are training, and there is a phalanx in front of it. At this moment, the spears in the hands of the 1,000 soldiers in the phalanx are stabbing towards the city gate together, and the word "kill" they roared is also passed on. Zhao Ji couldn't stand stably and almost fell, but fortunately the soldiers beside him supported him.

"Whose portrait is this?" Zhao Ji asked.

"Of course this is the portrait of my Great Song Emperor!" The soldier next to him immediately stood up straight, first gave a military salute to the portrait, and then said.

"It turned out to be Chen'er's portrait, why did you hang his portrait on the tower?" Zhao Ji said.

"Your Majesty is the most revered person in the hearts of all the soldiers in the Song Dynasty. Naturally, we have to hang his portrait here! Under His Majesty's gaze, every soldier dare not slack off! Every morning, we have to look at the portrait of His Majesty Ask for instructions, and report at night! In fact, in the Song Dynasty, there are many portraits of His Majesty, especially in Guanshan, Hanzhong, Sichuan and Sichuan. Tens of millions of people have to ask for instructions early on the portrait of His Majesty , Report later." The soldier said respectfully.

"This..." Zhao Ji froze there.

The ministers behind were also stunned.

And the surrounding soldiers looked at the portrait with fanatic expressions on their faces!

The sound of shouting and killing around is still coming in an endless stream!

*** ***

The cold wind was howling, and the weather was extremely cold, but Zhao Ji and the others were still standing there. They wanted to see how long the 100,000 troops in front of them could train.

After two full hours, until noon, the army training finally stopped.

At this moment, the army of one hundred thousand began to move towards the surrounding barracks in an orderly manner! The sounds of counting, walking in unison, etc. can be heard everywhere, and occasionally the slogan of one, two, three, four can be heard.

At this moment, a big man came from a distance. In the snowy weather, this big man was shirtless. His body was covered with sweat, and steam was coming from his head.

This big man was Liu Kai. When Liu Kai came to the bottom of the tower, a soldier handed over a towel. Liu Kai wiped off the sweat on his body, put on his own clothes, and then walked towards Zhao Ji and the others.

"Your Majesty, what about the soldiers and horses in the Liaodong Military Region?" Liu Kai smiled.

"You are really a master of tigers and wolves! I never thought that you, General Liu, are the best military trainer in the world, and you can train an army of one hundred thousand soldiers!" Before Zhao Ji could speak, Liu Shikai, who used to be the Minister of the Ministry of War, said sincerely.

"I dare not be the number one military trainer in the world! When I was in Guanshan, Yue Fei's soldiers were stronger than mine! Now, most of the people in my Liaodong Military Region are from the former Guanshan Forbidden Army." We still have 40,000 cavalry, and we have to train every day, but we train on the grasslands in the north of Shanhaiguan!" Liu Kai said.

"Who is Yue Fei?" Ge Bing asked with interest.

"Yue Fei is the person with the most military exploits under His Majesty, and he has repeatedly defeated Jurchen!" Liu Qi said.

"Beat the Jurchen repeatedly? How is this possible? The Jurchen is invincible, and everyone in the world knows about it!" Zhao Ji said coldly.

"The Supreme Emperor, the Jurchens are invincible, they are just bragging. In front of my Da Song man, the Jurchens can only perish!" Liu Kai said.

"Although your soldiers and horses are strong, you must not look down on the Jurchens! The Jurchens are ten times, a hundred times stronger than us Han people! This time, thanks to the Jurchens' magnanimity, they let us back! I have already promised the Jurchens, and I will fight with them." Establish a country of brothers, the Jurchens are brothers, and we are younger brothers!" Zhao Ji said.

After Zhao Ji finished speaking, Liu Kai froze there.

After a while, Liu Kai laughed out loud.

"General Liu, what are you laughing at?" Zhao Ji frowned.

He felt Liu Qi's rudeness more and more! He is the Supreme Emperor, and his status far exceeds that of Liu Kai, but Liu Kai dared to laugh wildly in front of him. If it was ten years ago when he was the emperor, Liu Kai would be killed now!

"The Supreme Emperor has no idea of ​​the current situation in the world! The Jurchen first entered Guanshan, and we led the army to defeat the Jurchen! Then we entered Xixia and wiped out the country! In the sixth year of Xuanwu, we wiped out the 200,000 Jurchen army that invaded the Central Plains! The situation in the world is like this. Hundreds of millions of people in the world know that our soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty are better than those of the Jurchen soldiers. The soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty are as strong as those of the Han and Tang. Isn't it ridiculous?" Liu Kai said.

Although Liu Qi respected Zhao Ji and others on the surface, he was somewhat disdainful in his heart! In his opinion, the two emperors Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan were defeated by the Jurchens, so they always thought that the Jurchens were powerful! Now the national power and military strength of the Song Dynasty have already surpassed Jurchen, but because Yanyun and the Central Plains have just been recovered, the land area has increased, so money, food, logistics, governance and other reasons are constrained, so they didn't immediately go north to destroy the gold, and Zhao Ji thought that Jurchen is powerful, and they want to establish a "state of brothers" with Jurchen, and recognize their enemies as brothers. How can this not be ridiculous?

Liu Kai respected Zhao Chen, but he didn't have much affection for the rest of the Zhao Song royal family! Isn't it because of these people that the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the country and the city of Kaifeng was destroyed?

"This...General Liu, you are indeed powerful in bidding for troops, but you look down on Jurchen so much, maybe you are a little arrogant?" Liu Shikai said.

"I'm not arrogant! The soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty are stronger than the Jurchen. This is a fact proved by the six-year war. I'm not talking nonsense!" Liu Qi said.

"General Liu, is this your big fuck once a year?" Ge Bing said.

"Once a year? This is morning exercise once a day! After half an hour, it will be the afternoon march! At night, there will be a unified military study!" Liu Kai said.

"Once a day? Impossible! General Liu was joking! Back then, the Western Army's Zhongjia army was the strongest, but that was a training session every three days, a small training session and a big training session every five days, once a day. Could it be that these lowly soldiers are hardened?" Ge Bing smiled.

"First of all, I want to say that the soldiers will never be low! Without them, there would be no Da Song! Even His Majesty would never say that the soldiers are low. Lord Ge, I hope you will not say such things in the future! Your Majesty will enter the barracks and The soldiers ate and slept together, and treated the soldiers like brothers and sisters, how dare you look down on the soldiers?" Liu Kai had a mocking smile on his face, while Ge Bing's face was flushed with anger, Liu Kai ignored him and continued: " Every one of our soldiers in the Song Dynasty is an iron-clad hero! There are millions of soldiers in the Song Dynasty who don’t do morning exercises every day, and they train endlessly every day!”

"I'm going to stay here for a few days to see if that's the case! Except for Iron Man, no one in the world can train every day!" Ge Bing said coldly.

"Okay! You can stay as long as you want! You can even stay for a year, and see if my soldiers and horses in Song Dynasty are like this!" Liu Qi said lightly.

"General Liu, what is the unified military study at night?" Liu Shikai asked.

"Study the infantry drills, learn the latest instructions passed down by the ***, and learn all the great ideas of the ***." Liu Kai said.

"This..." Liu Shikai was stunned.

Zhao Ji felt a little confused, everything in front of him seemed to be different from what he imagined, his grandson, the current emperor of Song Dynasty, seemed not a puppet, but had a high prestige in the army! Many things he has never heard of, never seen!

"Your Majesty, it's already noon, and I have someone prepare meals, and I will dine with you! In the past, I always dined with soldiers!" Liu Kai said.

"Did you dine with soldiers in the past?" Zhao Ji asked in disbelief.

"That's right! When you were in Guanshan and Hanzhong, Your Majesty dined with the soldiers, let alone me?" Liu Kai said.

"You mean Chen'er also dined with these soldiers?" Zhao Ji said.

He heard "eating and sleeping together" just now, and now he finally couldn't help asking.

"That's natural! At the beginning, Zhe Keqiu rebelled and rebelled, and His Majesty endured it for a year before killing Zhe Keqiu. Afterwards, His Majesty joined the Zhe Family Army and ate and slept with the soldiers of the Zhe Family Army every day. Training, the Zhejia army was recovered by His Majesty!" Liu Kai said.

"I don't believe it! General Liu, why don't we accompany you to eat with those soldiers today? I want to see if you can eat it!" Ge Bing said disdainfully.

In the past, the food eaten by the soldiers in the Great Song Army was extremely poor, it was simply pig food, and ordinary people could not eat it at all, so Ge ​​Bing said this.

"Okay! Since you all want to have dinner with the soldiers, let's go!" Liu Qi said lightly.

"Go to that military camp!" Ge Bing pointed to the distance and said.

"Okay!" Liu Kai nodded.

They followed Liu Kai towards the barracks, which was about two miles away. If it was in Kaifeng, Zhao Ji and others would have never been able to walk forward like this, but after staying in Wuguocheng for a few years, they would have Walking on foot is considered a normal thing.

After arriving at the barracks, the soldiers were having their meals. When they saw them coming in, none of the soldiers stood up and saluted, and no one paid much attention to them.

Zhao Ji, Ge Bing and others looked into the soldiers' rice bowls, and were surprised to find that the soldiers were eating white steamed buns. The dishes were stewed vegetables, and pieces of meat could be seen inside. They were all stunned! They never had such a good meal when they were in the Five Kingdoms City! In Wuguocheng, they can't fill their stomachs all year round, and sometimes they even have to eat mice and leaves! They thought that the food eaten by the soldiers was extremely poor, but they didn't know it was so!

"Is there no deduction of military pay in this army? The soldiers eat too well, right? Logically speaking, the soldiers' meal money should have been embezzled long ago?" Zhao Ji said.

He didn't understand these truths at first, but when he was in the Five Kingdoms City, he reflected on what he did back then while chatting with the other ministers who were trapped in the cage, so he knew about the dark deeds in the army.

"Deducting military pay? Your Majesty, who in the Great Song Army has the courage to embezzle soldiers' food? Even embezzling a tael of silver is a crime that must be punished with death. Who would dare to do this when they are tired of life?" Liu Qi said coldly.

"General Liu is strict in running the army, I admire it!" Liu Shikai said.

"The million troops of the Great Song Dynasty are all like this! Millions of soldiers, everyone knows that the military law is like a mountain, and no general dares to deduct military pay or embezzle military rations. This is nothing." Liu Qi said lightly.

Liu Kai went to cook food for everyone himself, and the food was the same as that used by ordinary soldiers. Zhao Ji and others began to feast on it! Especially Zhao Xun, who hasn't had a full meal several times since he was born. Last night and today's noon were the sweetest times he ate!

In the afternoon, the soldiers really came out to train again, and there was still constant shouting and killing, and the soldiers were sweating profusely! Liu Kai led Zhao Ji and others to walk around in the barracks. They saw that in some battalions, the soldiers took off their jackets uniformly. They shouted and rushed towards the snowdrift ahead. They wiped the snow on their There was a wild laugh on his body, and someone kept beating his chest to express his excitement.

Zhao Ji felt that the soldiers in front of him were like beasts, and couldn't help but frowned, while Ge Bing said, "Why are they like barbarians? You must not train soldiers like this in the future!"

Liu Kai said: "Our million-strong army is precisely to make them brave and barbaric, just like the barbarians outside the Great Wall! However, we have a steel discipline that the barbarians outside the Great Wall do not have. We have weapons and tactics that are countless times more advanced than them, so we will Better than all barbarians!"

Zhao Ji, Ge Bing and the others still couldn't accept such a statement, they were all shaking their heads, for the soldiers in front of them, their eyes showed a look of disgust!

The heavy snow kept falling, and the soldiers trained non-stop. After years of training, it can be seen that the soldiers are extremely thick, far better than the previous Imperial Army and Western Army! Zhao Ji and the others looked a little boring, and finally decided to leave.

At this time, the sound of countless cavalry galloping came from a distance, and after a while, the thunderous sound of long live came from the army in front, and then the sound of long live resounded throughout Shanhaiguan!

Zhao Chen finally arrived!