Great time travel

Next, when Guo Jing took Wang Qiu, Nobita Nobita and Doraemon, he hurriedly visited several places of interest in Bianliang, Tokyo, sighed for a while, and then returned to the "Liujia Shenbing" When he was staying at Tianqing Temple, he found many carts parked at the gate of the temple, piled with bundles of long spears, simple knives, daggers, crossbows, shields, and even helmets and armors that were very expensive in ancient times.

Several low-level officials of the Military Weapons Supervision are holding booklets and distributing these military equipment to the "magic soldiers" who enlist in the army.

——As the "magic soldiers" of Immortal Guo, it is of course impossible for the Song court to let them go into battle with bare hands to fight the Jurchens.

In fact, at this critical juncture of life and death for the capital, the generosity of the Song court in the supply of armaments has exceeded ordinary people's imagination.

——Student Wang Qiu, who has read a few historical stories about ancient Greece before, still vaguely remembers that when the ancient city of Athens faced the threat of a large-scale invasion by the Persian army and was about to start the famous Marathon Battle, the citizens of the city bit the bullet and searched After cleaning up the property of the entire city of Athens, only [-] infantrymen were collected—it wasn’t that the Athenians at that time couldn’t conscript more strong men, but they really couldn’t find any more weapons and equipment!
However, in the city of Bianliang at this time, the imperial court who was in a hurry to seek medical treatment just made [-] sets of armor sticks for Immortal Guo to ruin!
"...a total of ten thousand sets of armor sticks were allocated so casually? The imperial court is really generous!"

Seeing these piles of brand-new equipment, Wang Qiu couldn't help feeling very surprised—not only the most basic swords, guns, swords and shields for individual soldiers, but also "trains" for arson, small portable trebuchets, and gate blockers. There is a knife cart (a large wooden board in the front full of blades), a "trench cart" for crossing the moat, and almost everything except horses: but this is just to provide for a "militia" that hastily formed an army. "That's all!

If it were placed in medieval Europe at the other end of the Eurasian continent at this time, I am afraid that the king's personal guards would not have so many good fortunes!

However, the military supervisor who escorted this batch of ordnance disdained Wang Qiu's words, "...my Song Dynasty is rich all over the world and has millions of armour. Although the horses are never enough, the weapons are never lacking. Since the war with the Jinren, from the central government to the local government, military factories in various places have been working day and night, and all kinds of ordnance have been piled up in the arsenal of the imperial court. What can a mere [-] sets of armor sticks be? Even [-] sets can be produced !"

Wang Qiu continued to inquire again, only to realize that in the current city of Kaifeng alone, there are more than 30 sets of armored staffs hoarded over the years. After moving out of the warehouse, they can pull up an army of 30 at any time!And the number of young and middle-aged males available for enlistment in the city at present is no less than this - based on Kaifeng's population of 150 million, if all the people are soldiers, it is not difficult to enlist 30 strong men.

Such a strong capital, if placed in the Western world, which is currently in the dark middle ages, may already be a force that can be used to conquer Europe, but here, they can't even defend their own hometown with strong walls!Who made the Northern Song Dynasty peaceful for a long time at this time, and the military affairs have been abolished to the point where "a child with a long hair, but learns singing and dancing; an old man in his seventies, who doesn't know how to fight"? !

In this tragic era, the Song Dynasty had the comprehensive national strength and cultural industry of the United States, and military expenditures accounted for [-]% of the fiscal revenue, comparable to German fascism, but the combat effectiveness of the army was at most the level of Italy, and the people lived like Afghans. Ordinary hard life.

——Looking at these temporarily recruited idlers, even though they are wearing solid armor, mighty helmets, and holding sharp knives and guns, they still look staggering and staggering.And those so-called gun and club instructors also have the posture of street performers. Although their fists and embroidered legs are very good-looking, they are probably useless in actual combat... Wang Qiu finally understood why Bianliang City could not be defended Living.

This great city, whose bones have been softened by the singing and dancing of the prosperous age, has never been short of food, ordnance, or strong men in this cruel war that determines the rise and fall of a civilization, but it lacks the minimum Courage and conscience!

——This is a city of cowards who make people sad and angry!
Just when Wang Qiu and Guo Jing were in despair towards these "Liu Jia Shenbing", there was a commotion from the street outside.Looking out from the gate of Tianqing Temple, Wang Qiu saw a soldier of the Forbidden Army in red, riding a low, low horse not much bigger than a donkey, galloping through the bustling streets, his mouth still screaming. Shouting: "...the imperial court has an order! Beijing is under martial law! Jin soldiers are attacking the city!"

In an instant, the whole city was in a panic, and even those "Liu Jia Shenbing" who had just got their swords and guns were pale in the same way...

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The bleak winter sun shone on the top of Bianliang City, and the bitter cold wind whizzed and rolled the dust and grass blades up to the top of the city.The gray sky was as gloomy as the mood of the defenders on the city, and there was still a hint of death in the air.Flocks of jackdaws were flying in the air, chirping.The rough and piercing sound rasps people's nerves like a file, and every time the wings flap, there is an unspeakable fear that can't be said.

These ominous black ghosts fell to the ground from time to time, picked up a few pieces of flesh and blood, and flew into the sky.Right where the Jackdaw landed, countless knives, spears, arrows and rocks were scattered on the ground, and hundreds of broken and incomplete corpses were lying on the city bricks. The stench and the scorched aroma of flesh and blood after being splashed with boiling oil are still mixed in the wind, spreading around continuously.

A short but tragic city offensive and defensive battle has just come to an end here at Dongshuimen.

Although relying on the magnificent city walls that have been continuously built in the imperial capital Bianliang for a hundred years, the defenders have an excellent location for a high city and solid fortifications, but under the bombardment of the Jin soldiers and the rain of arrows, the defending Song army still suffered heavy casualties. There are even more people than the Jin army who attacked the city wall!

One of the main generals in the battle of defending the city of Bianliang, just led [-] reinforcements into the capital, Zhang Shuye, the head of the South Road and signed a letter to the Privy Council, was wearing a light paper armor and led a group of entourage to patrol the city.

—— Zhang Shuye didn't pay much attention to the tragic situation inside and outside the city wall.Although he was born as a civil servant, he has always been leading troops.When he was the magistrate of Haizhou, Song Jiang rose from Heshuo and plundered more than ten states, defeating the officers and soldiers.Zhang Shuye recruited thousands of daredevils and set up an ambush to defeat Song Jiang.Later, he took a team of elite boats to attack Songjiang Daying camp, and set fire to the boats in the Songjiang water village. This made Song Jiang, who was on his way out in the evening, accept recruitment—this is also the prototype of the long historical novel "Water Margin".

However, the current battle situation facing Bianliang is much more critical than when he wiped out the Songjiang gang.

——The Jin army who has been attacking the city wall for several days, although it has just suffered another attack on the city and was repelled by the defenders with flying stone crossbows, it still looks arrogant and high-spirited; The thick city walls and various defensive equipment successfully repelled the Jin army's massive attack on the city, but instead, they were overwhelmed by the bloody and numerous casualties on the battlefield, and their morale was so low that it was unbearable!
Recalling the battle just now, Zhang Shuye, one of the few outstanding generals in the Song court during the Jingkang period, couldn't help a wry smile from the corner of his mouth.

——The Jin army just dispatched [-] sharp archers, and successfully protected hundreds of engineers and rushed to the bottom of the city to dig. Dare to use a strong crossbow, a strong bow and rocks to boil oil, and desperately throw down the city to stop it.However, the sharp archers of the Jin army also tried their best to protect them, shooting down hundreds of reckless defenders with bows and arrows under the wall, scaring many people from showing their heads

In the end, although the tentative attack of the Jin people was repelled, the engineers who were digging the soil were smashed.However, the defenders in the city still fully exposed their weakness—they hardly dared to shoot arrows from behind the battlements, so that although the powerful crossbows arranged at the head of Bianliang City were good, the accuracy of the shooters was extremely poor, and their power was not fully displayed. One point.However, the Jin army that attacked the city could be said to be brave and fearless, and rushed until they were all wiped out.

——For the Jurchens, there is nothing reluctant to lose some lives in the siege battle. Anyway, the Jurchen warriors of their own clan did not participate in the battle, and the dead are basically the Liao Kingdom, which was the latest to abandon the Song Dynasty and invest in gold in Yanyun When the Han people surrendered to the army, the Jurchens had no need to feel sorry for these unscrupulous slaves of the three surnames.As long as you go to Yanyun and the Han area in Hebei to search, you will have as much cannon fodder for the ants to attack the city.

In this way, in order to stop the Jin soldiers, the defenders had no choice but to throw stones and oil down the city without money, so that the stones were piled up at the base of the wall to a height of two feet, and the gurgling hot oil merged into a stream, wasting money wantonly. The limited supplies for defending the city failed to cause many casualties to the enemy.

However, for Song Jun, what can they do?The Forbidden Army of Song Dynasty is just such a bunch of cowardly, incompetent and useless wretches!

Although the Northern Song Dynasty had 80 off-duty professional imperial troops, the national defense force seemed unprecedentedly strong, but the problem was that the imperial army in the Northern Song Dynasty was not a real army, but a refugee shelter.Whenever there is a catastrophe such as flood and drought, in order to prevent the refugees from rebelling, the imperial court recruits all the middle-aged men in the disaster-stricken area into the imperial army so that they can serve as soldiers and eat their wages. eliminate****.

——As for those old, young, women and children, even if they have nothing to eat, they will not be able to rebel...

And after these troops are recruited and formed, in order to save money, they are often raised like pigs, do not practice at all, and have no combat effectiveness at all.As a result, the size of the Forbidden Army continued to expand, but its combat effectiveness continued to decline.By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of the forbidden army alone exceeded 80, and the number of the Xiang army was as many as 140 million...According to a person's military salary of 80 yuan a year, even if he does nothing, he can only support 4000 people The imperial army will spend [-] million per year.If it were placed in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, which was a financial tragedy, it is estimated that the court would have gone bankrupt several times!
Although the court of the Northern Song Dynasty was more wealthy than the Chongzhen Emperor in the late Ming Dynasty, it still kept so many soldiers who could not fight and only ate rice.It's also a bit overwhelming.The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty thought that these forbidden troops could not be fed in vain, and they must be allowed to create some economic benefits.So those forbidden soldiers were allowed to be craftsmen, footmen, and waiters in the shop... In short, let the army do business, do odd jobs, and be self-reliant as much as possible to reduce the financial burden on the court.

Things like this, only the Eighth Route Army has successfully done it in the anti-Japanese base areas in later generations.But the pampered scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were not the political commissars of the Eighth Route Army who took the lead in sacrifice and dedication. They did not have the appeal to organize everyone's voluntary labor, let alone the heaven-defying power to turn decay into magic.An army has been turned into a labor force by them in such a mess, and it does not have the level of ideological awareness of the Eighth Route Army of the Anti-Japanese War. How can it have any combat effectiveness?

In short, the "mass production movement" is not something that the feudal dynasty can play with. If it insists on doing this, either the army will lose its combat effectiveness, or it will lose its capital...or worse, Let the army lose both its combat effectiveness and its capital...

Especially in the Forbidden Army in Bianliang, father and son have succeeded each other for hundreds of years, and most of the officers are family heirlooms.There has been no war for a hundred years, and in this bustling city of Tokyo, the imperial court of the Song Dynasty pays as much as 500 guan to the imperial army a year.The average monthly material money is 6 Wen, the monthly grain is two stones and five buckets, the spring and winter clothes are 12 bolts of silk and silk, cotton is 3000 taels, and the clothing money is 15 Wen.If soldiers of the Imperial Army can live to be discharged, or are discharged due to injuries, there must be a settling money and return money after discharge.Although there are not many, the old ones are enough to spend the rest of your life, and the young ones are enough for you to find a wife and start a family.For the military, such comprehensive and generous economic treatment is unprecedented not only in China, but also in the whole world.

Think about these imperial guards, who have never fought wars for generations, but they are stationed in the most prosperous place in the world, where entertainment is extremely rich, and the military pay is generous.There is no iron-blooded evil spirit of the army!

It can be said that among the millions of troops in the Northern Song Dynasty, only the tens of thousands of Western Xia troops who fought against Xixia in northern Shaanxi all the year round were the ones who could really fight...

However, the only tens of thousands of elite Western troops have already been lost in a series of battles, leaving only a bunch of useless useless wretches.

Especially in the current city of Bianliang, even if there are only [-] imperial imperial guards who are as useless as they are, the rest of the guards are simply recruited temporarily from the market, and many of them are monks who were forcibly brought in from temples and Taoist temples Taoist priests, no matter how you look at them, they look like they are not doing enough and doing more than they are doing.Before, before Zhang Shuye led the reinforcements to attack Bianliang, it was clear that these Jin men had already transported stones and felled wood under the city to prepare to attack the city, but they actually stayed on the city wall and watched without any harassment at all.Just let the enemy build up the siege position and fill up the moat.

Not only that, but these guys also made a fuss about wages every day, anyway, in one word - if you don't pay, who will help Zhao Guan's family fight? !

It wasn't until the Jin people began to formally attack the city and the flames of war were on their own heads that this group of people saw that the situation was not going well, so they started to fight mentally... and then, as expected, they fought to the extreme - relying on such a group of people from the society It's just a dream come true for a mob put together by idlers to defeat the golden soldiers.

But Zhang Shuye is also a clever woman who can't cook without rice. Right now, there are only so many troops that can be mobilized in the capital. The [-] soldiers he raised from the southern states and counties are not much better than the imperial guards in terms of quality... However, Sifang Qinwang's army was dismissed without authorization by the ministers of the main peace faction, so that there is no hope for reinforcements. The most terrible thing is that the court has been hesitant about whether to fight or not. How should such a war be fought?

Fortunately, it is now a cold winter, and the water level of the Yellow River is low. The water attack strategy of the Qin people to attack the Wei State Liang in the past cannot be implemented.It would be even more unimaginable if the Jin people held a stalemate with the royal master of the imperial court on the outskirts of Bianjing until the water level rose and the spring flood broke out, and then they broke the Yellow River embankment and flooded Bianliang...

Is it true that Heaven is going to perish the Song Dynasty?Zhang Shuye couldn't help but lamented in despair.