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Chapter 1365 If you go, it will cause changes in Liaodong (first update)
Chapter 1374

"Your Majesty, I have a request, please grant your permission." Feeling the emperor's hesitation and worry, Wang Yang took a deep breath and prostrated to the ground.

"Wang Wushan, what are you doing?..." The emperor was stunned and quickly raised his hand to help Wang Yang up.

"I ask for your majesty's permission to go to Jiaodong..." Wang Yang hadn't finished his words yet.Su Dongpo and the emperor said in unison. "No!"

"Why not? Although Jiaodong is adjacent to the Liaodong Peninsula, it faces each other across the sea after all. Naturally, your safety is guaranteed. Moreover, Dengzhou in Jiaodong is across the sea to Suzhou City, an important town on the Liaodong Peninsula. It is only three hundred miles away. The sea-going ships of my Great Song Dynasty can arrive in the morning and in the evening.”

"No, you can't go." Emperor Zhao Xu shook his head resolutely and rejected Wang Yang's proposal. "I would rather gain Liaodong and lose it than let you go to Liaodong. You are too important to my Great Song Dynasty."

Hearing the Son of Heaven say such words in person, Daguan Wang was moved and felt a little weird. Fortunately, Daguan Wang knew about the Son of Heaven's sexual orientation. Although it was a bit embarrassing, he could still accept it.

"The old man also thinks that your thoughts are too reckless. If a gentleman does not stand under the wall, even if you are a dying person like this old man, I can't let you take risks." Zhang Wei patted Wang Yang's shoulder heavily. The words are sincere and sincere.

Su Dongpo stroked his long beard and smiled, but the smile always made Wang Daguan feel a little weird.Then what he said made Wang Daguan, the emperor and Lao Zhang dumbfounded.

"That's right, Wang Wushan, if you stay here, the talents you can display are far better than if you stayed in that corner of Dengzhou. Although we all know that you are talented in both civil and military affairs, but if you really go there , wouldn’t that be tantamount to slapping yourself in the mouth?”

"You have already told the reason why General Zhe cannot go to Liaodong. Now you have sent a famous northwest general Zhong Shidao there. If you appear in the Jiaodong Peninsula again, what do you think will happen to the Emperor Yelu Hongji of Northern Liao? idea?"

"I'm afraid that he will launch a large-scale army in the first place, go straight to the Liaodong Peninsula, and drive us Song people into the sea at all costs."

"Don't forget, in the eyes of Yelu Hongji, the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty, your king Wushan alone is worth a hundred thousand troops."

"... Su Qing really is sincerely looking for the country. Yes, if you go, it will make things difficult for Liaodong's career."

In the end, Wang Yang had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​​​going to the Jiaodong Peninsula to cause trouble.However, Wang Daguanren had more than that in mind.

"Thank you for your majesty and Su and Zhang's kindness. However, I feel that although I cannot go to Liaodong in person, I feel that it may be time to lift the cover of that important national weapon."

Hearing Wang Yang's words, whether it was the emperor Zhao Xu, or Su Dongpo and Zhang Wei, they couldn't help but twitch their eyebrows. They all thought of the name of the country's sharp weapon: Yuanyou Shenwei Cannon

"Your Majesty, if I have such a sharp weapon to hold on to the Liaodong Peninsula after the Great Song Dynasty, it will really be like a single man guarding the gate, and no one can open it."

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But in the end, after much hesitation, Emperor Zhao Xu did not agree to Wang Yang's suggestion. He just said to wait and see whether those straight women would keep their promise and attack the Liaodong Peninsula.

However, the emperor Zhao Xu decided to supervise the construction of weapons first, and transport the 24 Yuanyou catapults that had been hidden in the arsenal to Jiaodong for standby.

Regarding the emperor's cautious attitude, Wang Yang felt a little helpless, but Su Dongpo didn't think there was a problem.

In Su Dongpo's mansion, the father and father squatted together drinking a little wine, bragging and farting, and Su Dongpo talked about it. "Don't think about it carefully. We, the Song Dynasty, have been eager to regain the sixteen states of Yanyun for more than a hundred years since Emperor Taizu. However, we have not been able to make even half an inch of progress. On the contrary, we have continued to lose territory."

"Now, it seems that there is an opportunity, but this opportunity requires taking great risks. If those sharp weapons of the country fall into the hands of Beiliao, tell me how much this will do to our Song Dynasty. harm?"

"But these weapons can't just stay there forever. They can't be used just because they are not used. The weapons can only be effective if they are used. If they are not used, what is the difference between them and a pile of scrap iron?" Wang Yang muttered with some dissatisfaction.

That's what they said, but Wang Yang also understood their worries. Since they don't need it for the time being, then wait. However, since Da Song wants to gain a firm foothold in Liaodong, there are really a lot of war materials that need to be prepared. .

It is not a small problem for those 24 large Yuanyou catapults to be secretly transported to Jiaodong Peninsula. Each Yuanyou catapult requires about five to six four-wheeled carriages to be loaded. , if we go by land, then it will be a large convoy of more than a hundred vehicles, which is too eye-catching.

In the end, they took advantage of the night to load the ship directly at the Bianhe pier in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and then headed to the Jiaodong Peninsula via river transportation.

More than ten days later, Zhong Shidao and Zong Ze, who came from the Shaanxi North Road in light clothes, arrived at Miansheng in Bianliang, the capital.After staying here for a few days, he set off straight away and boarded a boat with the five thousand elite troops of the Western Army on the Yellow River Wharf in the north of Bianliang.

By the time they arrived in Dengzhou together with five thousand elite troops of the Western Army, one month and ten days had passed since the three-month period recognized by Di Gubao.

After arriving here, after only two days of rest, all the warriors of the Great Song and Western Army were thrown onto the ship and began hard training.

Although the turbulent sea and the huge waves of the sky made these soldiers of the Song and Western Army who had never seen the sea feel uneasy from top to bottom.

However, when they thought that they were about to become the first Song army to set foot on the land of Liaodong since the founding of the Song Dynasty, their strong sense of honor and pride made them grit their teeth and persist.

It took me five whole days to go to sea for the first time.As the commander-in-chief of the Song and Western Army, Zhong Shidao naturally had to lead by example, so he became the first batch of people to board the ship to test the waters.

On the first day, Zhong Shidao, who was not used to it at all, felt that his life was worse than death, and he almost vomited bile.

But he still had to pretend that nothing was wrong, walking from the bow to the stern, from inside the cabin to outside the cabin, to express condolences to his companions, most of whom seemed to be in a state of despair.

However, when there are more people, there are naturally some weirdos who are naturally adapted to the sea, and these people are selected to take care of those who are severely seasick.

Fortunately, these elites of the Song and Western Army are all top-notch, fierce and tough men.After surviving the most difficult first day on the ship, although I was a little dying on the second day, by the third day, I was able to walk up to the deck and blow in the salty smell. sea ​​breeze.

In fact, Zhong Shidao is among the people who suffer from the most severe seasickness, but now, he has dared to stand on the deck, holding on to the cable, facing the sea breeze, and admiring the stunning scenery of the sky and water.

(End of this chapter)