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Chapter 659: Our cavalry family in the Song Dynasty is too weak (second update)

Chapter 668

Seeing the emperor's appearance, Mrs. Meng thought for a while and had an idea. "Your Majesty, the concubine had someone stew a soup today, how about the concubine personally go to deliver some to the emperor's grandmother later?"

The Son of Heaven stretched out his big hand and grasped Meng's catkin. It is really good to have a good wife and helper in the family.

Gao Taotao no longer listened to the government behind the curtain, and finally relaxed, watering the flowers every day, reading and copying the book stickers, and occasionally wandering in the garden accompanied by Queen Meng.

Because he no longer worked hard for so many major national affairs, his tired and weak body seemed to be getting better.

It had only been three or four days since they hadn't seen each other, and Zhao Xu was surprised to find that the complexion on the Empress Dowager's face had improved a lot.

"I don't need to work so hard. Naturally, my mind will be much better. When I rest at night, I won't have those annoying dreams anymore." The empress dowager put down the writing brush in her hand with a smile, and beckoned the emperor and empress to arrive. Come and sit down.

"But you, the official, should pay attention to your body. Look at you, you look much haggard."

After meeting Gao Taotao, Empress Meng presented the stewed soup with her own hands. After Gao Taotao took it kindly, she drank more than half of the bowl before stopping. "The queen's soup is really cooked to a very high level. However, the official family, you didn't come here just to accompany the queen to visit Ai's family, did you?"

Zhao Xu rubbed his tense face, and smiled helplessly. "Actually, my grandson has received another good news from Shaanxi Road, and I'm quite worried, so I came here specially to ask the emperor's grandmother for advice."

"Another good news?" Gao Taotao also looked at Zhao Xu who was smiling helplessly with a look of astonishment.

"Could it be related to that boy Wang Wushan again this time?"

"It's still the emperor's grandma, you have a clever plan. It's true that it has something to do with Wang Wushan. You see... the [-] Xixia troops who evacuated Hongzhou and retreated to the ancient city of Wuyan on the bank of the Wuding River were captured by my Great Song Dynasty. Captured nearly [-] enemies, killed more than [-] enemies, and obtained more than [-] horses."

"..." The corner of Gao Taotao's mouth couldn't help twitching, he picked up the good news and examined it carefully.After watching it, the same expression as Zhao Xu appeared on his face, he seemed a little helpless, and a little dumbfounded.

"He is really unstoppable, and he won again. In the past, whenever I heard that my Song frontier army fought against Xixia, Ai's mood would be very happy, but why now, there is a kind of Get used to it?"

"It's like the great victory of this battle, the Ai family doesn't care much about how many prisoners he captured, but the large number of horses he got in this battle..."

"This Yuanyou stone trebuchet machine made of wood and iron can actually throw stones weighing more than a hundred catties nearly a hundred feet away. Well, no matter how many novel things he Wang Wushan can make, I'm sorry. The family doesn't think it's strange."

Perhaps it was after several days of leisure, and now finally had the opportunity, Gao Taotao uttered a few words, as if he felt better, especially when he saw the slightly haggard face of the emperor.

Gao Taotao was a little bit gleeful, so how about making you shout all day long to be in charge of the government?I'm tired.

But this idea just passed by, Gao Taotao began to calculate carefully. "Before, the deeds of the Battle of Hongdezhai were over, but the deeds of You, the battle of Hong Erzhou, and the battle of Yanzhou have not yet been completed, right?"

Seeing the emperor Zhao Xu nodded, Gao Taotao smacked his mouth. "Now, in the battle of Wuyan ancient city, more than [-] enemies were killed, [-] were captured, and more than [-] horses were obtained. I'm worrying about this..."

Zhao Xu didn't show courtesy to his grandmother, nodded, got up and paced in the room. "After all, these meritorious deeds are so great that the government and the public know. If the merits are not properly discussed, the government and the public will be dissatisfied. However..."

Zhao Xu glanced at the Empress Dowager whose eyes were full of encouragement, and after a little hesitation, decided to tell the truth. "In fact, my grandson is very worried. Some people in the court will not see Wang Wushan's continued achievements in Shanxi Road, and they will transfer him to other places with rewards for his achievements."

"Then what do you think, the official?" Gao Taotao narrowed his eyebrows slightly. At this moment, Empress Meng was obediently helping Gao Taotao clean up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table.From time to time, a pair of charming bright eyes raised slightly, sweeping across the emperor and the empress dowager.

"After the Battle of Hongdezhai, my grandson wished that Wang Wushan would return to the court as soon as possible, and be by his side to advise my grandson. I only think that this is the only way to play his greatest role."

"However, being left in the land of Huanqing by the officials in the court, my grandson thought at the time, that's fine, just let Wang Wushan have more experience in local governance first."

"It never occurred to me that he, the magistrate of Huanzhou, first proposed a strategy to surrender the Xiangguo of Xixia in less than two months, so that Liang Yibu led a hundred thousand people to return the two states of Yiyou and Hongzhou to our university. Song."

"Even with Zhe Keshi Qingqi Jiancong, he succeeded in attacking Yanzhou at night, which enabled me to expand the land of Song Dynasty and restore the old land lost more than a hundred years ago..."

"...Now under the ancient city of Wuyan, we developed the Yuanyou catapult, a sharp weapon that is not inferior to the bed crossbow. We defeated the last remaining enemy in Youzhou and Hongzhou, and captured more than [-] enemies. , get more than [-] war horses."

"Just talking about war horses, in the battle of Hongde Village, our Great Song Dynasty won more than [-] war horses. In the battle of Liang Yibu's dedication to the city and night attack on Yanzhou, our Great Song Dynasty not only won [-] soldiers, but also won more than [-] soldiers. Ten thousand war horses, plus the ancient city of Wuyan, just the acquisition of war horses, so that my Great Song Dynasty can equip a cavalry of more than [-]."

"In Song Dynasty, there was a lack of land for grazing horses, and war horses were even rarer. At the time of the first emperor, there were still nearly [-] horses. Now we have regular cavalry in the dynasty, and there are only [-] cavalry in the capital. In the border areas, there are as many as five or six thousand, and as few as It's two to three thousand. Putting it all together, it's less than fifty thousand..." Having said this, Zhao Xu's expression looked very emotional.

"Since Xixia seized the soil and became self-reliant, the Great Song Dynasty lost the land for raising horses in Hetao, which made our war horses extremely scarce. Every year, we need to spend a lot of money to purchase horses, and there are very few good horses..."

Gao Taotao nodded slightly while listening to Zhao Xuzhi's words, and was both surprised and relieved in his heart.Surprisingly, I never expected that what the young emperor said was not only pointing to the victory of the war, but also focused on the gains and losses of the war.

What's more, from this, he was directly connected to the military power of the Great Song Dynasty, and had a deep understanding of the important military power of the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise, he wouldn't have just opened his mouth.

It also shows that after these consecutive great victories, the strength between the Song Dynasty and Xixia was ebbing and flowing. Xixia had suffered successive defeats, not only losing a large number of elite soldiers, but also losing a large area of ​​land and national power. It has declined to an extremely dangerous level.

(End of this chapter)