Li Yuanhao immediately made arrangements, wrote a letter to Fan Zhongyan, and submitted a petition to Zhao Zhen. In the letter, he was tearful and said that he was blinded by greed and should not have rashly proclaimed himself emperor and should not have rashly attacked the Song Dynasty. He asked the Song Dynasty to forgive him and said that he was willing to surrender.
At the same time, he immediately sent envoys to the Liao Kingdom to explain the severity of the situation to the Liao King Yelu Zongzhen, and also brought the only dud bullet picked up by the Xixia soldiers in the chaos on the battlefield as evidence.
In fact, there are quite a few such duds. Even the most advanced torpedoes in later generations have duds, not to mention grenades. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, due to the poor quality of grenades made in the border areas, two or three out of ten were duds, which made the soldiers miserable.
This existed even in later generations, not to mention ancient times.
The 8,000 troops led by Zhang Kang each carried two or three grenades, but less than 10,000 of them actually exploded. This shows how high the probability of a dud is.
One of the bombs was thrown into the arms of a Xixia soldier in the chaos. During the exciting charge, the soldier had no time to throw away the dud. Immediately afterwards, his army was defeated and fled. As a result, one of the dud bombs was taken back by this person.
However, even with the duds, the Xixia people couldn't develop anything else, because this thing is not something that can be made just by knowing black powder and how to make gunpowder. It requires a complete formula, high-purity raw materials, proportions, and manufacturing methods.
Therefore, unless Zeng Gongliang became a traitor and leaked the complete formula, even if the Liao people got this dud, they would not be able to restore the formula and material ratio through the high-purity gunpowder in the dud.
But this dud still exploded; the pull ring simply didn't ignite the fuse. The Xixia people were not unfamiliar with gunpowder, so they wanted to use this dud as evidence to show the Liao people.
As long as the Liao people verified the power of the grenade, I think as long as Yelu Zongzhen is not stupid, he should understand that the best strategy is to unite with them, the Western Xia, and attack the Song Dynasty together.
So under this national policy, Li Yuanhao embarked on the strategy of allying with Liao to resist Song!
(End of this chapter)
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