When Li Yanqing returned to the big tent of the Intelligence Division, it was already dark, although his body was very tired, he was still in good spirits, he prepared a powerful black powder, and he was waiting for mass production, he expected that this black powder with great explosive power could change the entire battle situation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, gunpowder with explosive power had been created, but the formula was slightly defective, so that the explosive power was far from being exerted, until fifty years later, the Southern Song Dynasty continued to modulate the gunpowder formula, and finally invented the powerful earth-shaking thunder and the sudden musket, which played a huge role in the battle of Song and Jin and the later battle of Song and Mongolia.

Li Yanqing just let this powerful gunpowder appear fifty years ahead of schedule, which alone was enough to change the course of the war.

As soon as Li Yanqing returned to his big tent, Yang Liang, the personal guard, hurriedly said: "Wu Senjun has come to look for him a few times this afternoon, saying that he has something urgent. ”

Li Yanqing was so sleepy that he wanted to sleep, but he still bothered and said, "Go and invite him!" ”

Yang Liang turned around and left, Li Yanqing sat down and just took a sip of hot tea, Wu Xianliang hurriedly walked in and said, "Chief, there is urgent and important information, it was sent by Wei Ying from Xingqing Mansion!" ”

Wei Ying was one of the two fine works sent by Li Yanqing to Western Xia, following the Qiao family's firm, he didn't expect anything from the two of them, but he didn't expect to have important information so soon, of course, this must be the information obtained by the Qiao family.

In order to receive the news in a timely manner, the Intelligence Department also set up an eagle station in Yan'an Prefecture to receive eagle letters or pigeon letters from Taiyuan, and this letter must have been sent from Yan'an Prefecture.

Li Yanqing opened the eagle letter and looked at it carefully, and there was only one sentence on it, 'Zhang Jiu's intelligence, there is no Xia army garrison on the border of Linzhou. ’

Of course, Li Yanqing knew that Zhang Jiu was the leader of the camel and mule team that transported oil to Baoyantang, and he introduced him to Tong Guan, but Li Yanqing paid more attention to the last sentence, there was no Xia army garrison on the border of Linzhou, which was not right! The information they sorted out before should have 30,000 Western Xia troops stationed on the front line of Linzhou.

He stood up and said, "Let's go to the intelligence account!" ”

Li Yanqing and Wu Xianliang came to the big tent where the intelligence information was stored, and there were dozens of large boxes in it, and all kinds of information were placed in different categories, mainly the original information sent by the spies, but what Li Yanqing was looking for was an important piece of information that had been sorted out, and several soldiers engaged in rummaging through a few boxes, and finally found the information that Li Yanqing wanted.

It is a summary of the intelligence of spies two hundred miles deep on the border of Linzhou, which lasted from the beginning of the year to ten days ago, Li Yanqing sat in the tent and looked through it carefully, and he also found clues, it is true that they did not study it carefully, and there were already many hints in the intelligence.

"Wu Senjun, come and see!"

Li Yanqing pointed to a thick stack of reports: "All the spy intelligence has not found any grain transportation, nor has there been any increase or transfer of troops, and it has maintained a garrison of 30,000 for most of the year, which is strange!" ”

Wu Xianliang looked at it and said with a smile: "The intelligence said that the three large battalions of the Western Xia Army are all built on high places, and there are no high mountains around, there is a problem here, how do our spies know that there are 30,000 troops in the three large battalions?" ”

"Here's the answer!"

Li Yanqing took out a piece of information, looked at the date and said: "It was the information from the beginning of November last year, saying that the Song army spies caught a medicine picker at the beginning of the month, according to the medicine picker, the Western Xia army increased three large battalions three times, each of which was about 10,000 people, so it was inferred that there were at least 30,000 people in the Xixia camp in Linzhou, and this is the source of the 30,000 garrison, which is very unreliable!" ”

"This spy is really unqualified!"

Wu Xianliang sighed slightly: "Such important information is actually hearsay, and we send real reports without confirming it, and we are inexperienced enough to see such a big loophole." ”

Li Yanqing immediately got up and said, "The situation is urgent, this information needs to be reported to the marshal immediately!" ”

He walked out of the tent and walked briskly towards the tent.

At this time, the seed master Dao was sitting in front of the map and pondering, in just three days, he lost a lot of weight, he was a little underestimated the enemy, underestimated Li Liangfu, and as a result, he was ambushed, with nearly 7,000 casualties, which was a fiasco that he had never had in the army for decades.

But the Seed Master Dao was not knocked down by defeat, and he had been thinking about a strategy to break the city for three days, but in addition to the strong attack, he really couldn't think of any reliable good strategies, all kinds of strategies had no effect on Li Liangfu, but would be self-defeating, making the Song army's losses even heavier.

Seed Master Dao couldn't help sighing, Tong Guan asked the Eastern Route Army to cross Hengshan before the end of August and enter the territory of Western Xia, which seemed to be difficult to achieve.

At this time, a personal soldier said outside the tent: "Marshal, Li of the Intelligence Department urgently asks to see you!" ”

"Let him in!"

After a while, Li Yanqing walked into the big tent quickly, bowed and saluted: "Subordinates see the big handsome!" ”

"Li joins the army, you don't have to be polite, please take a seat!"

The planter invited Li Yanqing to sit down, and let the soldiers serve tea, without waiting for the marshal to ask, Li Yanqing took the initiative to present the information to the planter, "This is urgent information sent from Xingqing Mansion, please take a look!" ”

Seed Master Dao took the eagle letter and glanced at it, and couldn't help but 'Ah! Di exclaimed, his eyes widened, and he hesitated for a while and asked, "Isn't there 30,000 Western Xia troops stationed in Linzhou?" ”

Li Yanqing told the situation he had discovered, and finally said: "I'm really ashamed, I don't have enough experience in joining the army, and I didn't find any problems from these clues, and my subordinates judged that there should be a big camp in Linzhou, with a maximum of 35,000 people, and absolutely no 30,000 people." ”

The seed master Dao took a few steps, his brother led 20,000 troops to garrison Linzhou, if the Linzhou side is really empty, this can allow the Song army to directly enter the interior of Western Xia, but the premise is that their own army echoes out of Hengshan, which will form the momentum of a breakthrough on the eastern front, otherwise it is dangerous for a lone army to go deep, and there is no point in the second.

Thinking of this, the seed master Dao sighed slightly and said: "Although this information is important, it is not the time for Linzhou to send troops. ”

Li Yanqing understood Dashuai's anxiety and asked, "Doesn't Dashuai have a strategy to break the enemy at present?" ”

Seed Master Dao shook his head, "I can't think of a better strategy for the time being, except for a strong attack. ”

At this time, the seed master Dao remembered something and asked with a smile: "I remember that Li joined the army and said that breaking the city must be a surprise soldier, I wonder if Li joined the army has an eyebrow?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "I do have eyebrows, but I still need two more days, and the marshal will give me two more days, and I will take out the strange soldiers." ”

"Is that true?" Seed Master Dao looked at him suspiciously.

"The subordinates don't dare to deceive the marshal, they do have eyebrows, the subordinates are testing a siege weapon, and the initial results have been achieved, at most in two days, the subordinates will give the marshal an explanation."

Seed Master Daolin stared at Li Yanqing for a long time, and finally nodded, "Okay!" Then I'll wait for you for two more days. ”

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Before dawn on the third day, Li Yanqing had just gotten up, and Yang Liang reported in front of the tent: "Joining the army, two craftsmen came to you and said that the things you explained were completed!" ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Please come in!" ”

The curtain of the tent was opened, and Hao Da and Hao Er walked into the big tent with difficulty, each holding a big black pumpkin in their arms, "Put it here!" Li Yanqing hurriedly pointed to the table and said.

He knew that this was not a pumpkin, but a sky-shaking thunder designed by him, a shell cast with pig iron, filled with thirty catties of black powder that had been successfully tested, and the entire earth-shaking thunder weighed fifty catties, which was twice as large as the earth-shaking thunder used in the Song and Jin wars.

"You two have worked hard, drink saliva!"

Hao Da took a sip of water and said with a smile: "We didn't sleep all night last night, and we prepared a hundred catties of gunpowder using the formula for joining the army, and these two big pumpkins used sixty catties, and there are forty catties left." ”

"Seal up forty pounds of gunpowder, and ..... Who else knows this recipe other than the two masters? ”

Hao laughed and said: "Joining the army has repeatedly told us not to leak it, how dare we talk nonsense, except for our two brothers, no one else knows." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, went back to the inner tent and took out two ingots of gold, he put the gold on the table and pushed it to the two, "This is one hundred taels of gold, please accept it!" ”

The two were taken aback, "What does it mean to join the army?" ”

Li Yanqing said slowly: "Once the thunder is used, the Liaoxia and Xia countries will soon find out that you made the gunpowder, I believe that they will use various channels to coerce and even kidnap the two, once this formula is leaked to the Liao, the Great Song Dynasty may have the disaster of destroying the country, I hope you leave the barracks immediately and avoid Bashu, this one hundred taels of gold is enough to make the two of them worry-free in the second half of their lives." ”

With Li Yanqing's current ability, he can't protect these two people for the time being, so in order to prevent the formula from leaking, he will either kill these two people or let them stay away.

Hao Shi was dumbfounded, and after a while, Hao Dacai said: "We are all craftsmen, I'm afraid we can't leave at will." ”

Li Yanqing said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, I will be handsome and change the identity of the two of you, you will be a good person in the future, and you will no longer be a craftsman." ”

The two brothers thought about it, then nodded in agreement, "Then when are we leaving?" ”

"There's no hurry for the time being, you try to mix as much gunpowder as possible these days, and then the commander will let you go, and you can come to me in five years, and at that time, we will continue to prepare more powerful gunpowder."

Li Yanqing stuffed the gold into the two brothers, and the two went away grateful.

Li Yanqing watched the two leave, and then smiled at Yang Liang: "One of us, take me to the handsome tent!" ”