Tearing open the veil of the assassin, Li Hui found that although these people looked like Han people, the tattoo on their chest revealed their identities.

The most outrageous thing is that one of them actually retains the Khitan hairstyle and lurks so blatantly that Guo Hao was both shocked and angry.

"What a Liao Kingdom, so many people have penetrated in. If I hadn't personally used as bait this time, I wouldn't have attracted so many people!"

Li Hui nodded with a serious expression when he heard this, and looked back at the maid. The body had become coke. She planned to use explosives to deal with them, but unfortunately she could not configure explosives at all.

"After this time, those fine works should be hidden deeper. Even if he hides deeper, I will find him out.

Secretly summoned musketeers to escort me north, and at the same time notified the cabinet, planning to pass the imperial edict and conduct the first national census!"

As long as the census was too complicated, Guo Hao had never made up his mind. After this assassin incident, Guo Hao felt it was necessary to start an investigation.

The census plan has long been formulated, organized by local governments, carried out from door to door, and then registered and issued a unified "identity card".

In order to achieve economic development in the Song Dynasty, population circulation is necessary, but population circulation represents chaos, so real-name authentication is imperative.

However, real-name authentication is also difficult today, because there is no photography technology and painting is a waste of time. Other identification methods are not feasible. The only thing that can be feasible is fingerprints.

Therefore, Guo Hao stipulated that each identity certificate must have a fingerprint, and it can only be a thumb. Other fingers can be used for injury and disability. The government will register fingerprints during the census and then sort them according to the pinyin of the surname to search.

As for the use of pinyin, Guo Hao did not popularize it. He planned to temporarily use him as a secret language to convey war reports and news.

So in order for someone to forge their identities, Guo Hao kept the pinyin search confidential. Outsiders didn't know how to prove it in the yamen. The fingerprint was unique, so naturally there was a certain feasibility.

It is not easy to have a census of 30 million people. In addition to ordinary people, there are also many slave classes in feudal society, and these people also need to be registered.

This may cause some turmoil. Guo Hao plans to start from Bianliang and gradually radiate to external sources, cooperate with the public security system, and believes that it can be implemented slowly.

...

A thousand musketeers set out from Bianliang, and they looked no different from ordinary troops, but their boxes were full of paper rolls, with quantitative gunpowder inside.

Guo Hao did not follow the team northward, and the cannons and musketeers were enough for Zhao Kuangyin to deal with the Liao army in the northwest.

At this time, the war in the northwest was not going well, as Guo Hao expected.

Shizhou, Song army camp.

"General, although we have collapsed the city wall, as long as our army enters the city, we will receive tenacious resistance!

The last general wanted to lead his troops around, but the Liao army's cavalry was like a gangrene attached to the bones, and they would not let us go at all. This is true for both the Scholars and Funing!"

The vast Loess Plateau is the home ground for cavalry. Although the terrain is not flat, infantry still cannot resist cavalry.

"Your Majesty already knows the situation here. He has sent a thousand musketeers here. As long as the musketeers arrive, we will not be afraid of the Khitan cavalry."

"Military soldiers? There are only one thousand people, so they are probably insignificant, right?"

Yang Guangyi had never seen the power of a firearm and did not understand the power of a firearm. However, Zhao Kuangyin smiled slightly. He was very confident about the firearm.

"Brother Yang, don't worry, you will know when the musketeers come. Your Majesty is really a celestial being. He can actually make such a powerful weapon!"

Seven days later, the musket soldiers finally arrived. Zhao Kuangyin looked at a musket and felt a little excited.

"Brother Yang, look, this is the musket developed by the Geju Academy. Don't look like a fire stick, but its power cannot be underestimated."

As he said that, Zhao Kuangyin picked up a musket, skillfully loaded the medicine, filled the bullets, then raised his gun to aim at the target in front of him, and decisively pulled the trigger.

Bang!

After a gunshot, a hole the size of a litchi appeared in the middle of the target. Yang Guangyi took a breath and found that this was a musket. If this was hit by the body...

"General, the power of this musket is indeed extraordinary, but this range is probably not as good as a bow and arrow?"

"Brother Yang is right. The range of muskets is indeed not as good as that of bows and arrows, so they need to use them to cooperate with infantry formations to protect these musket soldiers.

Once the enemy cavalry rushed over on the battlefield, we could first set a bow and arrow, and then set a musket. These musket soldiers were trained to shoot continuously.

At that time, the lethality of the musket and the deterrence of gunfire against war horses will become large, and we will not be afraid of no matter how many cavalry there are!"

Zhao Kuangyin was very confident, but Yang Guangyi still couldn't imagine the scene, but the subsequent battle gave him a new understanding of firearms.

In order to prevent it, Zhao Kuangyin sent three thousand troops and joined forces to attack the southern part of Rulin, but was intercepted by the Liao army.

Knowing that there were not many people on the other side, Yelu Xian only sent two thousand cavalry to fight against the 4,000 infantry of the Song army. Yelu Xian was not worried about losing.

However, as soon as the two armies contacted, the Liao army directly launched a charge, and the rain of arrows was greeted by the sky. However, the Liao army was very brave and good at fighting, and after losing a hundred people, they had approached the Song army.

At this moment, all the Song soldiers in the front row suddenly squatted down, revealing the first row of musketeers. The banging sound of gunfire sounded, and then the first row squatted down and the second row stood up, and there was another crackling sound.

The third round of shooting was completed, and the soldiers in the first row had already loaded. After two rounds of shooting, the Liao army's cavalry was stunned.

In a blink of an eye, thousands of cavalry fell down, and less than a thousand cavalry remained finally reacted, with a look of haunting expression and wanted to turn around and escape, but their war horses were a little out of control.

"Kill!"

At this time, the rejection of both sides was very close. Some cavalry had already rushed into the Song army, but the rain of arrows and shooting caused them to lose most of the time. The rest of the people were not the opponents of the Song army.

The Liao army, who had no time to escape, fought to the death and was strangled. Yelu Xian ordered the withdrawal of troops when he saw that the situation was not good, but only a few hundred people were left in the two thousand cavalry.

If Guo Hao was here, he would definitely sigh that when the Qing army faced foreigners, it should be similar to that now. The firearms ruthlessly crushed them, leaving the cold weapons powerless to fight back.

In this battle, the Song army severely damaged the Liao army with slight casualties. Although the musketeers were very powerful, the cavalry rushed in still killed hundreds of people.

However, such a result was already considered a great victory. Yelu Xian was shocked and frightened and directly ordered a retreat. Zhao Kuangyin took the opportunity to occupy Rulin. With the advantage of firearms, he quickly occupied Funing and Yinzhou was defeated!

...

"What? The Song army brought a lot of sticks that could spit fire, and our cavalry could not get close to it at all?"

In Xiazhou, the Jiedushi Mansion, Li Jijun stood in front of Li Guangrui in shame, and Yelu Xian next to him was better than him.

Li Guangrui looked at Yelu Xian in disbelief. Yelu Xian nodded silently. Li Guangrui collapsed on the chair, feeling panicked.

"I have sent someone to inquire about the kind of stick that can spit fire. I have never heard of it before. It was the first time that the Song army used it. The principle is similar to that of a cannon, and it fired lead bullets."

As he said that, Yelu Xian took out a lead bullet, which he dug out from a soldier's body. The reason why he used a lead bullet was not only that it was not easy to break, but also that lead was poisonous.

Some Liao troops who were not killed by the shooting will die of lead poisoning if they are not treated in time.

Guo Hao also knew that doing this would hurt the world, but if he didn't, then the one who died would be his soldiers from the Song Dynasty.

"Is God going to destroy my Li family?"

After the cannon, the Song Dynasty sacrificed the second killing weapon. Just like when the cannon appeared, the deterrence is far greater than the lethality.

Yelu Xian will never forget the scene of the thousand cavalry falling down in an instant, so that he still had lingering fears when fighting against Song in the future.

"We have to re-plan the plan now. The Song army has a way to fight against the cavalry, and Xiazhou is afraid that it will not be able to defend it.

King Xia, you have two roads now. The first is to evacuate westward, go back to gather the Dangxiang tribe, and fight the Song army to death.

Although their fire spits are powerful, they still have gunpowder. As long as it is gunpowder, it will be used up sooner or later.

The second is to go back to Liao Kingdom with me, and wait for me to think of ways to restrain the Song army and take back the three places of Xiazhou when I come back. How to choose, King Xia, you decide for yourself!"

After Yelu Xian said that, Li Guangrui was a little hesitant. No matter which of these two paths means that he has to give up his ancestral property. Li Guangrui was in a dilemma for a moment...
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