"Hahaha, I'll be unemployed."

In the palace of Genyuetai, Kaifeng Prefecture, there was a crazy laughter from a man who had just been unemployed.

This man just lost a job with an annual salary of up to 6 million yuan, and what's worse is that no one in the world will hire him, although he is not yet 35 years old. What's even more heartbreaking is that he has a very large family to support and he doesn't have much savings.

This man is Zhao Kai, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!

Oh, what he lost was the job given to his crown brother by the Emperor Zhao Huan next door. As for the job of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, this was a career he started by himself. He would generally not lose it until the country was destroyed or his own death.

However, this career does not bring much income to Zhao Kai at present, because four of the seven roads under the Luoyang imperial court are not "making money" in the road. Of course, if you don't make money, you can't lay off these four roads, because they are the core competitiveness of Zhao Kai's career!

Two of the remaining three roads are the "money-making" transportation routes, and they can "make" more than 10 million a year. It seems a lot, but this more than 10 million to support such a large empire, raise so many officials, pay "overtime pay" and "equipment subsidies" to so many soldiers, fill holes in the Hexi Jiedu Road, a road that is "burning money", and squeeze out money to use it for the magnificent cause of unifying the entire China and colonizing the world.

So after Zhao Kai, the official family obtained a part-time job with an annual salary of 6 million yuan, the Song Dynasty court, which was living a tight life, stopped sending offerings to the emperor. Anyway, Zhao Kai could not spend all the 6 million yuan, and he could save more than 5.5 million yuan a year. If it weren't for this deposit, it would not be so easy for Zhao Kai to launch this Northern Expedition. Before attacking the Jin thieves, he might have to send someone to Sichuan to plunder it!

Now Zhao Huan suddenly fired Zhao Kai's squid, and he didn't give a penny of compensation, which immediately made Zhao Kai and the entire Luoyang court seriously underpaid. Although relying on the more than 10 million he saved in the previous years, Zhao Kai and the Luoyang court could still maintain a wartime state of about ten months, but is ten months enough?

It seems a bit lingering!

Moreover, according to the original plan, Zhao Kai's army had to train for a few more months, and it was not until summer that the Jurchens were sent to the cold and afraid of heat. It was beneficial to the Song Dynasty to send troops in the summer!

Then choose a hot day, and the two armies are fighting in the sun, and the Jurchens' combat effectiveness will be reduced by at least 30%!

If you have a longer period of time, you may get heatstroke. According to the information that Zhao Kai has mastered, the average age of Jurchen soldiers is much older than that of Zhao Kai's Song army soldiers, and the uncle is full of camp!

As for Meng'an, the average age of the two-level officers of Mouke is even over 40 years old! At this age, the condition is a little worse. Can it be better if you are shining in the sun for one or two hours?

So Zhao Kai wanted to place the battle time on a hot day.

But now it can't work, there's not enough money!

In addition, before the war began, Zhao Kai's army underwent a comprehensive upgrade. The troops' tactics, equipment and organization were different from before.

Moreover, Zhao Kai himself is not a military strategist. He is just a senior high school student. His knowledge about gunpowder war comes from "full war". Of course, these knowledge derived from "full war" is very useful!

This knowledge allowed Zhao Kai to know the development direction of black gunpowder weapons and what the ultimate form of gunpowder weapons looked like, saving the process of exploring hard in the darkness.

In addition, relying on the knowledge obtained from "full war" and some related information, Zhao Kai also knew what the organization and tactics of the Black Powder Age were about.

But if you only know the approximate and do not know the details, you can't really organize the troops. Moreover, Zhao Kai's artillery factory has only created practical cannons and grenades, and has not yet taken out muskets that can be used for actual combat. Muskets such as three-eyed guns are already available, and they are all made of copper. However, the effect after trial is not ideal, so the troops are not equipped.

Therefore, the new army of the Northern Song Dynasty now has the situation of mixing bows, grenades and cannons. How to use bows, grenades and cannons together needs to be explored in training, exercises and actual combat.

Zhao Kai summoned 240,000 soldiers to Kaifeng Prefecture ten months in advance, and personally took charge of Kaifeng Prefecture. In addition to strengthening training, he also wanted to find a set of more feasible tactics and tactics through exercises again and again.

However, the troops' actual combat exercises are only carried out at the first level, and the two levels of the division and army have not been carried out at all. They have only done some war chess deductions, and it seems that they can only go on the battlefield in a hurry!

In the end, in order to save military expenditure, Zhao Kai divided the more than 400,000 troops under his command into the first and second lines.

Among them, the 240,000 people gathered in Kaifeng Prefecture were all front-line troops, which were the main force of this Northern Expedition. Priority was given to equip new firearms, and long-term training was required.

Among the remaining more than 200,000 soldiers in the palace, except for tens of thousands of people who were serving the previous military service to perform garrison tasks, the rest were resting in the village.

According to the plan, they will start mobilizing within a month before the front-line troops launch an attack, and then form generals without artillery to act as reserves or guards.

But now Zhao Kai has no time to wait for these troops to complete mobilization and assembly, and he must start the war immediately.

The battle hastily started, and the military expenditure was only enough to last for ten months of war. Nearly half of the troops were not confident of completing the mobilization!

However, although Zhao Kai, who has been an official for eight years, is not as reckless as he was when he was young, he has learned to hide his anxiety.

After a burst of laughter, Zhao Kai, who was short of money, smiled and said to his ministers: "Since Zhao Huan wants to help the evildoer, I will send troops as soon as possible, first deal with the Jin thieves, then turn around and drink the Yangtze River to unify the world! Are you willing to go to the battlefield with me and gain wealth together?"

Han Shizhong was the first to raise his arms and shout: "I am willing to follow the officials to destroy the barbarians in the north and fight against the traitors in the south!"

Yue Fei then shouted: "Fei is willing to be the king, step on Yanshan Mountain, cross the Yangtze River, and pacify the world!"

very good!

Seeing that the two generals who were best at fighting under his command showed full confidence, the slightest uneasiness in Zhao Kai's heart also disappeared without a trace.

Zhao Kai also said: "According to the plan proposed by the Xingying Army Office, the 12 armies under the Xingying Army will be divided into two north and south armies. Yue Fei is the commander of the South Army, Huang Wuji is the deputy, Xu Qing is the deputy, and under the army, Li Shifu's second army, Niu Gao's fifth army, Wang De's sixth army, Wu Jie's seventh army, Wang Gui's ninth army, and Li Qiong's twelfth army!"

All the generals who were named were out of the line one by one, followed Yue Fei, and stood in a row.

Zhao Kai then said: "I personally led the Northern Army, and Han Shizhong was the commander-in-chief. He Ji was the deputy and Zhang Xian joined the army. He was under the jurisdiction of Dong Jingang's first army, Qu Duan's third army, Yang Zheng's fourth army, Wang Xun's tenth army, and Tian Shidu's eleventh army!"

The people who were named were also listed one by one, with Han Shizhong as the leader and a row also listed.

Zhao Kai finally said: "Xiang Ke will take over as the general manager of Kaifeng camp, Zong Lin will be the deputy, and Wu Lin will join the army!"

Xiang Ke, Zong Lin and Wu Lin were out of the list one by one.

Zhao Kai looked at the heroic and proud generals below and nodded with satisfaction: "Tomorrow, the Kaifeng grassland will swear an oath, and then advance in two groups to fight against the Jin thieves, and then I will lead a million tigers to the land of Youyan!"

On the seventh year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, on the first day of March, the 240,000 soldiers of the 12th Army of the Northern Expedition had formed more than 100 square formations based on generals, each square formation was neatly arranged, like a knife cutting and axe cutting.

The soldiers who formed these square arrays were all wearing brand new red battle jackets, wearing armor without helmets, and were covered with red scarves on their heads!

This is the 240,000 Red Turban Army! Standing in the field, boundless, like a red ocean, countless spears stretching out like forests. When the spring sun shines, it reflects dazzling light like a steel jungle.

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In front of these military formations, there are also bronze cannons, some are hot pot cannons, some are long bronze cannons, bronze cannon bodies and black holes, all of which look very fine, and are obviously carefully processed and manufactured products, which should have full power.

Seeing a cannon, all the Song army soldiers straightened their chests, and their morale was so high!

One army has 40 cannons! Twenty thousand people are equipped with 40 cannons. The European army in the Napoleon era is just like this, right?

The twelve armies here are equipped with a total of 480 cannons, including 384 cannons and 96 mortars. All of them are high-quality bronze cannons with such firepower. How could they lose?

While everyone was waiting quietly, they saw dozens of horses and horses coming like a dragon surrounded by more than a hundred cavalrymen wearing wart armor. There were also eight tall knights holding six black flags and two white banners, which were symbols of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and the soldiers present knew about it.

But what they didn't know was that the couplets on the two white banners had been replaced, and they had been replaced by: a million tigers, reaching the land of Youyan; a dragon flying nine five, reopening the sky of the Song Dynasty!

After Zhao Kai changed the banner couplet of the Red Turban Army by two words, it became his emperor flag. This can be regarded as a tribute to the heroes of the Red Turban Army in another time and space!

"Long live! Long live! Long live"

I don’t know who brought his head and cheered loudly. In just a blink of an eye, the shouting sounded over the sky and the earth. Every Song army soldier raised the weapons (mainly spears) in his hand, and shouted loudly at the top of his lungs: “Long live, long live, long live my emperor”

Zhao Kai held the war horse and looked at the endless sea of ​​people cheering in front of him, and a sense of heroism immediately rose from the bottom of his heart: The chosen one, I am the chosen one!
Chapter completed!