I rebelled in the Song Dynasty

In Shanyang County, Liu Sheng met Liang Shouyi who came to greet him. Wu Ze was not with him. After careful questioning, he found out that Wu Ze had gone to suppress the bandits.

Liu Sheng was so shocked that he couldn't speak. After not seeing him for a few days, Wu Ze had the ability to lead the army alone?

Seeing Liu Sheng's worry, Liang Shou said, "General, please be at ease. They are just petty thieves who can't even get the most basic weapons together. They are just villagers who want to take advantage of the chaos to grab some food."

Then he began to introduce the situation in Shuozhou to Liu Sheng. Shuozhou has more than 100 small towns in four counties and six passes.

Because there are so many large families in the Zhiguangchang (an ancient peaceful trading area between the two countries), they occupy almost all the businesses in Shuozhou.

Liu Sheng knocked on the table and kept thinking. The situation in Shuozhou was much better than what he knew on the map.

There is also a forum for discussion, which Liu Sheng did not expect. This shows the importance of Shuozhou to the Khitan.

It is not good if the local power is too large. Too many voices can easily affect unity.

Liu Sheng thought for a moment and then asked Liang Shou: "Can we directly defeat the local forces?"

Liu Sheng has soldiers in his hands, so he doesn't need to talk about martial arts. If he wants to raise the butcher's knife, not a single big family in the area can escape.

Liang Shou shook his head and said: "General, this is inappropriate. The local big families are all in the same branch and are quite xenophobic. It is not advisable for us to take over Shuozhou and blindly kill."

Under Liang Shouyi's explanation, Liu Sheng understood that Khitan also wanted to save face. Shuozhou was a border city, with Song Dynasty to the south and Xia to the southwest. For this reason, the oppression of the local people was not excessive, and it was better than some people in the mainland. It's better, so it doesn't have a popular base.

The so-called better life is only because there is a market where livestock and minerals can be traded with Song Dynasty.

However, Song has betrayed his alliance and there will naturally be no more deals in the future.

Naturally, those big families will no longer buy things from the common people.

It only takes one winter for the interest chains of these big families to collapse.

But what Liu Sheng needs most is time. Not to mention a winter, it is estimated that he will not even have half a month before the Khitans are coming.

Liu Sheng kept thinking about countermeasures in his mind, and suddenly Liu Sheng slapped his head. The immediate priority was to prevent the Khitans from attacking.

If you win, you have everything. If you lose, why do you still think so much?

Liu Sheng was relieved about this, and the next thing to do was to organize the army, train troops, and prevent the Khitan attack.

Seeing Liu Sheng, who was uncertain and suddenly smiling, Liang Shouyi felt very strange and said without hesitation: "General, before you arrived, the talkers from various big families had already come to Mayi and wanted to see him. Do you want to make arrangements?"

"No, tell them that our army has just arrived and is quite short of food. Let each family contribute [-] dan of food."

Liang Shouyi was so surprised that he couldn't speak, "What... what if they don't come out?"

"Not coming out? Tell them that the knife is rusty and needs to be sharpened with human heads." Liu Sheng said coldly.

You may not even be able to live for more than half a month, so why do you still care about them?

Liu Sheng's mentality had undergone some changes unconsciously, and even he himself was not aware of it.

Liu Sheng divided the previous thirteen battalions into four battalions and stationed them in the four counties to ensure that the big families would not unite to occupy the counties. The rest could not be taken care of so much. He began to train his troops with all his strength to deal with the next Khitan people. attack.

There was nothing Liu Sheng could do about this. The difference in strength was too big and the Khitan was too strong. All he had to do was hook his little finger and Liu Sheng would be ashes.

We can only pray that the Khitan will not discover them and give him a winter to develop.

For this reason, the cavalry battalion was sent out to clean up the traces left by their march and monitor the movements of the Khitans.

Shuozhou is easy to defend, but unfortunately a large gap is created by the Sanggan River in the east.

It is both a danger and an opportunity. Liu Sheng plans to fight a defensive battle with the Khitans here.

The strongest thing the Khitans have is cavalry charging into battle. The best way is to defend the city. However, Liu Sheng just issued an order and he himself did not dare to stay in the city, let alone if there were Khitans attacking the city outside, would it be possible? Got tied up for no reason.

Liu Sheng didn't just want to have a head-on confrontation with the Khitan cavalry in the open field.

He is a time traveler, and the greatest advantage of a time traveler is the knowledge in his mind.

Black powder is not uncommon in this era, and it has been recorded on the battlefield for a long time. However, its biggest effect on the battlefield is to emit a burst of bright light and scare the war horses, which is no better than a big flower.

The real use of gunpowder on the battlefield would have to be the return artillery of the Mongol Empire decades later.

If Liu Sheng were to come up with it at this time, he would definitely be a killer weapon across the ages.

He buried tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder on the path that Khitan war horses must pass, and even their souls were blown away by him.

Gunpowder also gave Liu Sheng the confidence to come to Shuozhou.

If he is unlucky enough to be discovered by the Khitan people, he can still stand up.

Liu Sheng recruited the governor of Shuozhou.

It is also interesting to talk about the governor of Shuozhou. When he saw Liang Shouyi's cavalry, he surrendered and ordered that no resistance be allowed in the whole state. This is why Liang Shouyi and more than 1000 people were able to quickly capture Shuozhou.

The governor of Shuozhou is a slightly fat man with small eyes. He is obviously a Liao man.

I was very embarrassed to be summoned by Liu Sheng. As soon as I saw Liu Sheng's knees weakened, I had to kowtow to Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he hurriedly pulled him up, comforted him, and told him that he would have the final say in Shuozhou's government affairs from now on.

This surprised Qi Guanhan, who was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground again, even saying that he did not dare.

Liu Sheng was very satisfied with Qi Guanhan's attitude. Regardless of whether he was pretending or had ulterior motives, as long as he cooperated with him, he would be fine.

Making gunpowder requires manpower, and dealing with the Khitan cavalry requires a lot of gunpowder. Liu Sheng's defensive battle also requires a lot of civil engineering. It is not enough to count on his 1 people to scrape their hands, so it is necessary to recruit civilian men.

Upon hearing Liu Sheng's request, Qi Guanhan immediately agreed without asking how many people he wanted.

Pulling Qi Guanhan to exit, Liu Sheng said: "This recruitment of civilians is different from the past."

In this era, civilians who were drafted had to bring their own food, clothing, and supplies. It was common for them to get sick and die on the way to the draft.

Liu Sheng said slowly: "This time the civilians are recruited, the government will export grain, and each person will receive a subsidy of five kilograms of grain per day."

Liu Sheng can also build a chain of interests, and it is stronger than those big families.

It is now late autumn. At this time in previous years, those big families would have started to buy furs and prepare to barter with the Song people, but this year the Song Dynasty broke the alliance.

No one buys furs or minerals, and those big families are naturally unwilling to engage in loss-making transactions.

When the first snow comes, Liu Sheng, who is willing to feed them and distribute food, is definitely a good person in their eyes, and those big families can only be defeated by their fingers.

Qi Guanhan was a little confused: "Sir, this food..."