Return to the Song Dynasty

Inexplicably, Zhao Man became a recorder and joined the army. Although he also deeply despised his behavior of being a nosy and meddling, he couldn't help but wonder, did he have a sense of belonging to Da Song?Sometimes his own long-term thinking and understanding of the policies of the times far exceeded his own imagination.

It's incredible to think about it. Some people don't even know how much they know, and why they work so hard.It was as if I had become an unsolvable puzzle. There were so few clues, but one or two popped up from time to time, making people keep looking for them.If it were someone else, they might have a splitting headache and all kinds of troubles.But Zhao Man has always had a big heart, how interesting this is, I feel that I am a great treasure, and I don’t even have to search hard for my life goals. Finding out who I am and what I am doing is my life at this stage target.Very good, very good!

But, right now, I still have to get a war horse quickly. Where can I get a horse?Zhao Man touched his smooth chin and stood on the observation deck in a silent trance.

"Master, master, woooo~~~~(>_<)~~~~, Ergou and Tiedan robbed me again, and took away all the bamboo dragonflies you made for me, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

Zhao Man looked down and saw that the one who was standing under the watchtower and crying loudly was indeed his unworthy little apprentice. He sighed and had no choice but to hurry down to give the little guy a head start.

"Okay, stop crying. Are they robbing you again?" Zhao Man stroked the child's furry head, seeing the little guy crying with snot and tears, feeling helpless and funny in his heart.It's also really interesting to play and fight among children.

"Woo~~~~(>_<)~~~~, master, hiccup, hiccup, you are still laughing! Woooo, you are a bad master."

Zhao Man snickered and was caught, and continued to comfort him embarrassedly: "It's okay, isn't it just a bamboo dragonfly, master will make another one for you. Oh, don't be sad, boys, it's not handsome to cry Lah. You will be handsome in the future, so that all the good-looking girls will fall in love with you, so that no two dogs or iron eggs can find a wife..."

The more Zhao Man said, the more he went astray, and the soldiers passing by either couldn't help laughing, or covered their mouths and laughed.It's the first time I've heard of such revenge.

"Wait, grab it? That's right, they can grab mine, why can't I grab theirs?" Zhao Man slapped his thigh excitedly, picked up the child and rushed all the way to Yao Xiong's meeting hall. "Little Xiong, Xiaoxiong, how about we go to Xixia to grab some war horses?" Zhao Man said as soon as he entered the door.

"Pfft..." Yao Xiong dedicated all of his hot tea to the earth. "Cough, cough, cough" Vice General Yang and Yao Gu coughed chokingly.The rest of the people also stood there dumbfounded. "What did you say?" All three looked at Zhao Man in disbelief.

"Then what, I said let's go to Xixia to grab some war horses, don't they always grab our things..." Zhao Manyue said in a softer voice, "Why? Can't it?"

"Um, well, it's not impossible, it's just that we've never thought about it..." Seeing everyone's unresponsive expressions, Vice General Yang bit the bullet and said.

"That's fine. Then let's discuss how to grab it. I'm not familiar with this aspect, but I think we must first select a team with excellent riding and martial arts skills, and then match them with the best horses in our hands, um, Do you need to bring a few more people? At this time, if the horse is snatched, someone will have to guard the horse. Ah, you have to choose a good route, especially the retreat route with the horse, and you have to send someone to support it. Make a lot of noise, send a group of people to feint and harass to attract attention..."

Zhao Man babbled and said, and looked up after speaking, and found that the people around him basically maintained their stupid looks. "Huh? Why don't you guys talk?" "Brother, are you sure this is your first time doing robbery?" After a while, Yao Gu choked out this sentence.Everyone has agreed with their eyes.

No matter how surprised everyone thinks Zhao Man is, his suggestions are really practical.However, it is indeed a bit troublesome to implement this matter, mainly because it is not easy to choose people.There are not many soldiers in the Song Dynasty who can get in touch with horses at ordinary times, and those who are good at riding horses are even rarer, let alone the difficult operation of driving other people's horses.Originally, he was going to rob the horse. If the horse didn't obey the command and couldn't bring it back, he would lose a lot of money.

Yao Gu and Lieutenant General Yang rowed desperately in the camp, but they couldn't pull out a few. They could count on one hand, and their technical level was not top-notch, but they were barely usable.In the end, Lieutenant General Yang had a flash of inspiration. They didn't have anyone who was good at riding horses, but there must be Zhe Keshi who grew up on horseback.

Vice General Yang hurriedly ran to Zhe Keshi and borrowed [-] brothers, and only then did he relieve his urgent need.However, the price paid was not small, and Zhe Keshi asked for half of the horses they snatched.When Zhao Man heard this, it was too bad, so he gave Yao Xiong a trick, and simply let Zhe Keshi fully join the action, everyone went together, and the only way to get half of the things was to grab something.

Zhe Keshi is also a straightforward person, he agreed immediately, and became even more emotional, ready to fight, looking more active than Yao Xiong and the others.However, since Zhao Man has always reminded everyone to keep a low profile, one is to avoid being discovered by the enemy, and the other is to avoid being known by the superiors. If the operation fails, they will be held accountable.Everyone did it quietly, and the two teams sparred a few more times, and added some cavalry training, but it didn't attract much attention.

Everything was ready, on a dark and windy night of one month, a group of Song soldiers dressed in Liao costumes (why did they wear Liao costumes? Zhao Man: You are stupid, it’s not good to be recognized by others when robbing) The whistle echoed (Why didn't you shout? Zhao Man: You are stupid, you can speak Liao dialect? No, you still shut up), and they started their first robbery trip.

The robbery team originally wanted Yao Gu to take the lead, but Zhe Keshi insisted on taking the lead by himself, so Yao Gu had no choice but to run to lead the support team in an aggrieved manner.As for the one responsible for the harassment and troubles, of course it was the hard-working Vice-General Yang.

That night, at the northern foot of Roulang Mountain, a burst of shouts suddenly erupted in the calm mountain depression, followed by howling ghosts and wolves, and the sound of shouting, beating, and killing was loud. "Don't chase the poor! Don't chase! Be careful in ambush!" Officers from Xixia kept shouting loudly to prevent their own soldiers from going out of camp late at night to pursue them. "Keep guard! Keep guard! Don't run around!" The scene was chaotic, even though the officer shouted his throat, the soldiers were still in a mess, and were quickly dispersed by a small group of Liao soldiers who led the action with whistles.

This group of Liao soldiers did not love to fight, they ran away after fighting, fighting wherever they went, rushing to the camp indiscriminately.Since the camp was attacked in the middle of the night, the Xixia officers and soldiers were completely unprepared, their clothes were put on indiscriminately, and they grabbed their weapons and hurried out to meet the enemy, let alone mount their horses to fight.After finally beating off the nasty Liao soldiers, a group of people looked like gangs of beggars, all of them were dressed in rags, as pitiful as they could be.However, there is something even more pitiful, that is——"The horse! The horse is gone!~~~~~~" The desolate and sad cry spread far away...

As sad as the Xixia people are, Da Song is as embarrassing as they are.Yao Xiong, Zhe Keshi and a group of brothers who participated in the robbery are throwing a big feast, promoting cups and changing cups.

"Refreshing! It's so enjoyable!" the 'Bandit Chief' Zhe Kezhi had a few glasses of wine, screaming excitedly.It's not that he has never won a battle before, but this is the first time he has done this kind of thing of stealing people's things, which is really exciting.Thinking about the reaction of those Xixia people who knew the horse was lost, everyone present laughed out loud.It seemed as if he wanted to laugh out all the years of depression.

"Xiao Man, I've always been a little worried. Although we dress up as Liao people, Xixia and Liao have always been on good terms. I'm afraid we can't hide it from those Xixia people." Vice-General Yang is indeed the most capable warrior among these people who can only fight. The smart one, he approached Zhao Man and whispered.

Zhao Man originally wanted to pat Vice General Yang on the shoulder, but when he saw his shiny hands from gnawing chicken legs, he had to move his head towards him, let out a low smirk, and said, "I didn't think I could hide it from them." Hey. It’s just that they don’t hold any grounds. Even if they knew it, so what, but they didn’t catch it on the spot, so we won’t admit it. Besides, we’ve fought like this with those grandchildren of Xixia. Robbing him? It doesn't make sense."

Zhao Man lowered his head and took a bite of the chicken, and continued: "Well, it's delicious, the roast chicken is really good today. Besides, when these two countries are at war, who will go to reason, what we have to guard against is that they get angry and go crazy Counterattack. But for the time being, they don't have this chance, the horses are gone, how can they attack us? Rely on two-legged infantry to make a surprise attack?" Zhao Man said, imagining that a large group of Xixia soldiers had lost their horses, Carrying weapons and luggage, stumbling around from exhaustion, walking forward to make a surprise attack, "Puff" couldn't help laughing, "I can't beat him to death."

"Hey hey, no, it's quite funny." Vice-General Yang also thought of that scene, and laughed, and suddenly his face darkened, "It's broken! The Xixia barbarians near us are all out of horses, so it must be impossible Son, I’m afraid that barbarians from other places will sneak up and take revenge!” Deputy General Yang suddenly remembered this important point, and hurriedly got up to find Yao Xiong and Zhe Keshi, and wanted to communicate to his superiors.

"Brother, don't worry about drinking, our Xiaoman has already sent someone to report to Zhang Xianggong." Yao Xiongpu slapped Vice General Yang on the shoulder with a big slap, and directly slapped Vice General Yang back who had just got up. "No, there are also forty war horses as a gift. They are all good horses. We have worked so hard to get a total of more than 100 horses..." Zhe Keshi appeared from nowhere and muttered to the side.

Vice General Yang looked around, good guy, a bunch of drunks with blushing faces and thick necks, they all ran to him and Zhao Man at any time, quietly listening to the wall, and they didn't know they listened how long.Vice-General Yang was amazed, and the surrounding listeners were also amazed.

"Xiao Man is worthy of being a scholar, what he thinks is thoughtful."

"Don't look at his young age, this post of joining the army really deserves his name."

"That's a lot of mind, alas, if my son can be half as clever as him, I will burn incense."

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Everyone was talking about it, and as the subject of the discussion, Zhao Man was quite proud. He ate chicken and drank alcohol at the same time.He squinted those beautiful peach eyes, smiled slightly and remained silent, it could be seen that he was in a good mood.

Many years later, when Zhao Bi came to the throne, he didn't know if he had been short of horses for a long time, and he had fallen to the root of his illness. When he saw a good horse, he would grab it, and if he saw a place suitable for grazing and raising horses, he would even grab it.Horses should be raised if there are conditions, and horses should be raised if conditions are not created.As a result, the countries around the border basically dare not herd horses. The more horses the better, the more unlucky it is, because the Song emperor of this generation is too mad, not only robbing horses, but also occupying land.

It directly led to countless war horses in the Song Dynasty, and the light cavalry and heavy cavalry were even more brave and invincible, almost sweeping across the entire Eurasian continent.However, when it comes to its origin, everyone is hesitant to talk about it. It's really hard to bring up the matter of the official family being a robber...

Zhao Bi: I have never been a robber. The robber is Xiaoxiong. I am a military adviser. I am behind the scenes and do not strive for merit.

Yao Xiong: ... I will carry this blame on my back, I guess it will be famous in history (﹏)