The prince of heaven only wants salted fish

While Wenren En was still thinking about the wonderful name of the assembly line, Ji Cheng had already jumped on his horse and galloped back to the capital with his men. He had just returned to the palace and had not even sat down to warm his butt when he was faced with a pile of government affairs that needed to be dealt with urgently.

Ji Cheng could only review the memorials while sighing: "I miss my uncle when he is away."

Jiang Li, who was called into the palace by Ji Cheng to work overtime together: "Cough cough cough."

He was choked by saliva and it took him a long time to recover. Before he could continue to deal with the affairs, he felt a gaze wandering around him.

Jiang Li hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, what do you want to tell this old minister?"

Ji Cheng said: "Prime Minister, I see that you are a little old. It takes so long to recover from choking."

As an old minister who has been in the court for a long time, Jiang Li's radar was instantly activated - why did you mention his old age? Is your majesty hinting at something? Generally, officials should retire when they get old. If they retire, the power under their control will be replaced and divided by other newcomers - so the young emperor is ready to get rid of him because he knows too much? !

Jiang Li immediately became alert: should he accept the young emperor's hint or resist for power? Oh, right, the war is not over yet, is this a bargaining chip that can be used?

Ji Cheng continued to sigh: "If this goes on, how can you still work for me?"

Jiang Li: "..."

Ji Cheng touched his chin and was still thinking: "It seems that it is time to form a professional overtime team, otherwise I am afraid that you can't handle this workload alone..."

Jiang Li: "I can handle it!"

He patted his chest loudly: "How can I not handle it? With this workload, I can still work for another 500 years!!"

Ji Cheng nodded with satisfaction: "In this case, I will give these memorials in my hand to you!"

Jiang Li: "?"

And Ji Cheng had already pushed all the memorials in his hand to Jiang Li, patting his shoulder encouragingly: "I believe you will handle it very well!"

Then he really left.

Leaving behind Prime Minister Jiang, who was stunned by the sudden doubling of memorials on the desk: Wait, how did things suddenly turn out like this?

Didn't he just want to ask His Majesty what he had been doing these two days when he first entered the palace?

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In September, Beixia launched a second attack. Apparently, they had learned from the previous lesson and did not plan to come up with any surprises. Instead, they deployed their troops according to the normal offensive method.

After all, it was well known that Daning could not compare with Beixia in terms of military strength.

The officials of Daning also knew this, so they were particularly nervous before the battle report was sent back. They were able to win the battle in August probably because the military deployment map that Li Heng took away was wrong. Now that a month has passed, the other side must have discovered the error and reorganized the army, and would not give them such an opportunity again.

So even if Jicheng sent another general who could really fight after Li Heng defected, it would be difficult for everyone to be too optimistic.

However, when the battle report was sent back, everyone was shocked again.

——They won again.

Beixia launched three or four waves of offensives against Daning in September. At first, Daning was still trying to avoid fighting and was defending the city. No matter how the Beixia army challenged them, they would not come out. Later, Beixia began to lose patience: it was already autumn and winter was approaching. The winter in the northern border was very cold, so they could not launch a large-scale offensive, so this was their last chance to plunder.

So the Beixia army, with its confidence re-inflated, decided to launch a large-scale attack, and a large number of troops and siege equipment were taken out, ready to directly capture the city of Daning.

Then these Beixia soldiers were shot through by the crossbows that Daning had set up on the city wall.

This crossbow-arrow is not exactly the large crossbow used in previous wars - that thing is large in size and small in number, and the lethality of a single one is very strong, but as long as the soldiers rush forward, the casualties will not be so terrible.

The crossbows that Daning brought in this time were much smaller than the previous ones, but there were so many of them that they could easily cover the entire city wall, and their penetration was not weak, so the light armor of the Beixia soldiers could not defend against them.

Moreover, the soldiers of Daning were more sinister than the others - they didn't shoot people, but horses.

The fighting style of the Beixia soldiers was barbaric, and in general sieges, they sent cavalry to rush forward directly, which the enemy soldiers could not stop, and the arrows on the city could not keep up. But this time, Daning's crossbows fired at a very fast speed and a long range. A row of soldiers stood under the city and fired at the Beixia cavalry's horses without aiming at them.

So the cavalry and horses in the front row rolled to the ground together, and the cavalry in the back row could not stop their horses, either rolling back or flying forward. Before they rushed to the city of Daning, they directly used their flesh to build a line of defense for them - the infantry behind saw the chaos in front and did not dare to go over at all.

So the first wave of Beixia's massive attack was repelled.

To be more precise, their second wave of attack was also repelled in this way.

Daning didn't even take out anything else, but caught the previously invincible Beixia off guard.

When it came to the third attack, Beixia finally realized that it couldn't go on like this, so this time the lead was replaced by heavy cavalry, the kind with armor protecting even the horses, and the infantry following behind also held shields, and equipped with large siege ladders. They didn't ask for perfect defense, but at least they had to rush to the opposite city, right?

This time Daning took out the catapult.

Lu Sanyijiu's small world is still in the era of complete cold weapons. The concept of war weapons exists, but the progress of research and development is very lagging behind. The trebuchet actually already exists, but even in Daning it is so rare that it is rare in a city. There may not be one, let alone Northern Xia, which mainly maintains the nomadic people's habit of advocating personal force.

Apart from anything else, there were no trebuchets in the city where they were currently fighting.

However, with Jicheng's prompting, Wen Ren'en and his apprentices succeeded in tinkering with this thing, and it was completed and sent to the border by the end of September.

So the third attack ended in Bei Xia's failure again.

However, the number and craftsmanship of trebuchets were limited, and Bei Xia was also aggressive this time, so Daning's soldiers also suffered a lot of casualties.

Especially at this time, Bei Xia has added tens of thousands of troops to its reinforcements. If this continues, this border town may still fall.

However, just when Bei Xia was planning to launch the fourth wave of attacks, several giant wooden kites burning with fire flew across the sky. Before the stunned Bei Xia soldiers could react, they were like kites with broken strings. , falling straight into the Northern Xia military camp.

In October, the weather in the north has turned cold. At this time in previous years, Northern Xia's army had already made a prosperous life by looting Daning City, but this year they did not.

Not only did they not, they were also burned down by the Daning people. Even because they had little experience in putting out fires, when they put out the fire and counted the losses, they discovered that half of their own food and grass had been burned.

The matter has come to this, why not give it a slap!

As the saying goes, the Northern Xia offensive was defeated again and again. Now most of their military camps were occupied. They had lost the spirit to fight this battle. The reinforcements had withdrawn, and the remaining troops were already occupied. The greatly reduced Northern Xia army defended the city.

Winter is coming, and they have no chance to send out troops this year.

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When it snowed for the first time in the capital, the general who was sent to the border by Jicheng returned to the court. The people lined the streets to welcome him. Even the officials in the court looked at him strangely: they originally thought that even if they won this battle, it would be a miserable victory. , I didn’t expect this kid to have all kinds of tricks, even the new type of crossbow and trebuchet, not to mention the mechanical kite that has been rumored among the people to be the birth of the fire phoenix——

This guy is extraordinary!

Then they saw the general kneeling respectfully in the Taining Hall: "Your Majesty is the one who deserves the most credit for winning this battle. Without your Majesty's guidance and the weapons you sent, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to defend Lin so easily. city."

All the officials, including Jiang Li, were stunned, while Jicheng smiled and said: "It is great to be able to win. Good weapons must be used in the right way. General Chen does not need to be humble."

General Chen didn't dare to say anything. At this time, Jiang Li couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, those weapons...were you researched?"

Jicheng held his chin and said, "I met a craftsman when I was wandering outside the palace. He and his apprentices studied it. In order to prevent the news from leaking, this matter has been kept secret."

He suddenly smiled again: "But I also contributed a little bit."

Ministers: "..."

Is it that simple? Just by casually leaving the palace, you can bump into an expert who is so good at modifying weapons?

They both live in the capital, why didn't they bump into each other? !

The war with Bei Xia was temporarily suspended. According to the current situation, Daning could still have peace for at least half a year. So while everyone was happily preparing to celebrate the New Year, Jicheng also recalled Wen Renen and others from Hezhou - for no other reason. , mainly because it’s really tiring to ride back and forth quickly.

Anyway, now that Li Heng's power in the capital has been almost eliminated, Jicheng directly handed over an property of the Prince Regent's Palace in the suburbs of Beijing to Wen Ren'en as an experimental base.

When Wen Ren'en brought his disciples into the palace to thank him, Jicheng was in the imperial study, and many ministers were also there - they had nothing to do, mainly because they heard that the master who developed weapons had entered the palace, so they found an excuse to come in A glimpse of the real person - Jicheng thought that the free overtime labor would not be in vain, so he put it all in.

So these ministers were also lucky enough to witness the magical scene where Wen Renen's disciples' eyes lit up when they saw Jicheng and they shouted "immortal" on the spot.

"Your Majesty the Immortal, you are really amazing! How did you think that the Liannu could be modified like that?"

"You can think of the substitute material of the large wooden kite as the real god, right?"

"God, sign it for me!"

"Your Majesty, this is the wooden kite that you broke. I have been keeping it for a long time. Can you show me how you dismantled it?"

Wen Renen: "..."

How did he accept such a group of lively and active disciples?

Ministers: "..."

Is this what His Majesty said with a little bit of effort?

Jicheng, who was caught off guard and suddenly had two severed wooden kites in his hand: "..."

He put down one piece with an expressionless expression, held the other piece with both hands, and then exerted slight pressure.

Click.

"It's broken down like this."