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    The originally high-spirited generals of the Liao Kingdom were all downcast at this time, and many of them felt that it was God's punishment that had come, and they were devastated.  />

    Only Wu Yanguang was unconvinced and said to Chao Yong: "The southerners can only use conspiracy and tricks. They are heroes and fight us alone."

    Black Whirlwind Li Kui rushed towards Wu Yanguang with an ax in his hand, and cursed: "You son of a bitch, you dare to be so stubborn, just take my grandfather's axe."

    Chao Yong signaled to the faceless Jiao Ting who was supervising him to pull Li Kui. He smiled and said to Yelu Dashi, an old acquaintance on the side: "So, do you think we are using a conspiracy?"

    Yelu Dashi thought for a while, and it seemed that Liang Guo's plan was to attack halfway. The explosion that followed could only be said to be the application of new weapons. No matter how shameless he was, he couldn't say that people's use of new weapons was just a conspiracy. Southerners are skilled craftsmen.  There are many, and new weapons are often invented. There were many firearms in the past, but their power is not the same as today's artillery.

    As for this half-crossing attack, it seems that the benefits to our side obviously outweigh the disadvantages at present.  If all the Liao army crossed the river, after the huge explosion, the fate of 50,000 people would probably not be any different from the current result.  The power of the earthquake was enough to destroy the fighting spirit of the Liao soldiers and make all the horses lose control. Even if more people crossed the river, it would only be a rout.

    Historically, when the Jin Dynasty attacked Nanjing, the Liao Kingdom, the Liao soldiers still held on for a while when they reached Juyong Pass. The Jin soldiers were helpless and just when they were about to retreat, a sudden earthquake caused the Liao soldiers to quickly lose their fighting spirit and abandon the pass and flee.  , the Jin soldiers were able to enter the Nanjing area and wipe out the last territory of the Liao Kingdom.

    Yelu Dashi, after being reminded by Chao Yong, couldn't help but become suspicious when he thought of this. Could it be that Liang Guo deliberately let more than 10,000 people cross the river, just to let Liao Guo see the power of Liang Guo's new weapons and make them retreat in spite of difficulties?

    The Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Liao Kingdom on the other side has already landed.  The originally high-spirited generals of the Liao Kingdom were all downcast at this time. Many of them had not yet reacted to the earth-shattering explosion and looked as if they were lost.

    He changed his clothes and armor in the camp where the soldiers were always ready, and led a group of civil servants and generals to the river, preparing to talk to Prince Daliang on the other side.

    At this time, Yelu Yanxi had completely given up the idea of ??going south to attack Liang Guo. The southerners' artillery was too powerful, and the huge craters blasted out could be seen on the other side of the river.  He was a little lucky at this time. If he had crossed the river, his life might have been lost.

    The crater created by the explosion was nearly a hundred feet long.  It's not that the explosion was that powerful, but it detonated five hundred kilograms of black powder in the tunnels and overturned many tunnels, so it looked like a hole of nearly a hundred feet was created.

    When Yelu Dashi saw the emperor Yelu Yanxi on the other side, he thought he had found the answer.  The Liang Kingdom must have been afraid of blowing up the Liao Emperor to death and triggering a war between the two countries.  Now that the Central Plains is in civil strife, Liang is unable to start a full-scale war with Liao.  Although the Liao State is also unable to start a full-scale war with the Liang State, if the emperor is killed by the Liang State, no matter who succeeds, they can only send troops to attack the Liang State to avenge the previous emperor.  Only in this way can we win people's hearts.

    It was obvious that Liang Guo did not want to see this situation, so he only allowed some of his troops to cross the river and gave them a thunderous blow.

    Yelu Dashi thought he had found the answer, and a smile appeared on his face.  He smiled and said: "The prince is joking, Liang Guo has such firearms, why use any strategy."

    After Yelu Dashi saw the strength of Liang Guo, he also changed his title.  When he saw Chao Yong before, he always called him by his first name or Little Overlord, because he felt that Liang Guo was actually still a gang of grass bandits in Liangshan.  Jianguo was only founded because there was no one in the Southern Dynasty and he had no strength at all. He didn't think Chao Yong really became the prince.  However, today's battle showed him that the Liang Kingdom seemed to be no longer something that the Liao Kingdom could easily win. Under the pressure of the Jin Kingdom, the Liang Kingdom could even force them to sit down and talk.

    Chao Yong does not deny the power of firearms. After all, the smell of gunpowder on the battlefield is enough to explain everything. Gunpowder is no longer a secret in this era, and there is no need for him to deceive himself.

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "Yes, you have also seen the power of my beam gunpowder. If it is used to attack a city, it will be able to destroy any city. Fortified cities and dangerous passes will be meaningless. Originally, you and I have an alliance, but I am not good  I went north to attack you and take back my Han Yanyun Sixteenth State. I didn¡¯t expect you to break the alliance first and go south to invade our country. Hahaha.¡±

    After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Liao people advocated Han culture. The Nanyuan system was modeled on the imperial system of the Tang and Song Dynasties. It can be said that the degree of Chineseization is very deep.  Most generals can understand Chinese, but of course there are not many who are as proficient in poetry as Yelu Dashi. After all, there are only a few Han people who are proficient in poetry.

    Hearing Prince Daliang admitting the power of firearms, these Liao generals couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After all, although firearms are powerful, they can always come up with countermeasures. If it is really a punishment from heaven, then they can only sit back and wait for death.  .

      Yelu Dashi smiled and said: "If the prince really wants to take back the sixteen states of Yanyun, why not let all my army cross the river and defeat our Liao army. Now there are more than 30,000 Liao troops on the other side. If you cross the river,  If it¡¯s a field battle, I¡¯m afraid firearms won¡¯t be used.¡±

    Chao Yong turned his head and looked at the huge pit not far away, and secretly cried out that it was a pity.  He did not expect that gunpowder would be so powerful after being placed in the tunnel, and he had never seen the power of an explosion of five hundred kilograms of black powder.

    If the explosion is not powerful, it will only disrupt a part of the Liao soldiers, and the remaining tens of thousands of Liao soldiers will be a tough nut to crack.  Although the Liao Kingdom could not afford to be injured, Daliang was even more unable to bear the consequences of losing troops and generals.

    Yesterday, he just received the gold medal emergency. The Xixia army of 400,000 invaded. Several state capitals have been lost in the west, and the main force of the Western army has not yet returned.

    The 50,000 soldiers and horses under Zhongshidao and reinforced by Daliang were only 100,000. They were unable to hold on to all the cities. They chose to guard the Yongxing Army and Qinfeng Road, which were the most inland, which is now Shaanxi.

    Daliang has appointed Zhong Shidao as Taiwei, and the military in the west has been entrusted to him with full authority.  Chao Yong had previously told Zhong Shidao that he could selectively abandon part of the city to maintain his strength to resist the Xixia soldiers and horses, so as to avoid the battle line being too long, being defeated by Xixia one by one, and the entire northwest falling.

    Zhong Shidao was reluctant to give up a city at first, but when he visited Xixia, he armed all the men from various tribes in the territory who could go to the battlefield, hoping to plunder the rich Central Plains, and assembled more than 400,000 soldiers and horses.

    When Zhong Shidao heard this number, he immediately gave up the idea of ??dividing his troops to guard the border.  It was painful to give up dozens of cities that relied on Xixia. The resistance of these cities was completely the spontaneous resistance of the Han people who were unwilling to become slaves of the party members.

    The total military strength of Xixia is about 500,000, but the last time hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were assembled was during the reign of the Empress Dowager Liang.  After the Liao Kingdom poisoned the Empress Dowager Liang and Li Qianshun succeeded to the throne, although Tong Guan continued to use troops against Xixia, Li Qianshun did not assemble hundreds of thousands of troops anymore. He only used a small number of troops to resist the invading Western troops, and launched self-defense counterattacks from time to time.

    Tong Guan initially thought that the various tribes in Xixia were alienated and could no longer organize hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Song Dynasty.  Therefore, he wanted to destroy Xixia and establish the merits of becoming a king.  However, after more than ten years of using troops in the northwest, the Western Army's achievements were very limited, and instead it lost troops and generals.  In the first battle of Xuanhe's first year, Xihe's economic envoy Liu Fa and one hundred thousand Western troops were lost.  Liu Fa is a veteran general of the Western Army, with a long history of prestige. He can be said to be a veteran as famous as Zhong Shidao. However, under Tong Guan's greedy and rash command, he went deep alone and was finally defeated by Cha Ge, the king of the Western Xia Jin Dynasty, with a loss of one hundred thousand.  The elite Western Army themselves were defeated and killed. Their heads were cut off by the Xixia people and sent to the Song Dynasty for demonstration.  It can be said that it is a loss of teachers and an insult to the country.

    Zhongshidao and Liu Fa also cherished each other as heroes. After Liu Fa's defeat, Zhongshidao sent more spies to Xixia to find out the news.  Unfortunately, just after the deployment started, he was dismissed by the court because he opposed the alliance with Jin to destroy Liao.  Although he still controls a lot of military power, in order to avoid suspicion, he can only live in seclusion.

    However, the spies sent earlier still brought back a lot of caution. After Li Qianshun took charge, he rectified the officialdom, reduced taxes, focused on farming and mulberry, and built water conservancy. In these years, he gradually transferred the military power of Empress Dowager Liang's cronies to the hands of the royal family.  Previously, he did not dare to send a large army to confront the Western Army because he was afraid that Empress Dowager Liang's cronies would use military power to cause chaos. However, in recent years, military power has been transferred to the hands of the royal family, and Li Qianshun no longer has any constraints.  Coupled with these years of hard work, it can be said that Xixia's country is at its strongest.

    Li Qianshun also married Princess Cheng'an of the Liao Kingdom and had good relations with the Liao Kingdom. Only the northern grassland tribes were left unruly and would send troops to plunder from time to time.  Li Qianshun could only send a large army to guard the north to guard against attacks from the north.

    Zhong Shidao was also greatly surprised when he heard that Xixia had assembled an army of 400,000 to invade.  Xixia needs to guard against the grassland tribes in the north, and the states within the territory also need a certain amount of soldiers and horses to garrison, otherwise it is impossible to prevent any tribe from rebelling and raid its nest.

    Unexpectedly, Li Qianshun directly armed all the men from various tribes within the territory, and used the fertile Central Plains to tie everyone to his chariot. In this way, he did not have to worry about rebellion from the tribes within the territory, and only had to leave a small number of troops to defend the city.  That's it, an incredible army of 400,000 people was assembled.

    The Northern Song Dynasty claimed to have 800,000 forbidden troops. Including the Xiang army and local soldiers, the total number of troops exceeded one million. However, no matter how much the emperor wanted to wipe out Xixia and Liao, he could not send half of the troops, that is, 500,000 troops at a time, let alone  Needless to say, there are 800,000 troops.

    However, Xixia dispatched 400,000 troops at a time with a total strength of 500,000, which shows Xixia's determination to invade.

    After Zhongshidao found out the news, he immediately ordered several troops from the northwest to withdraw from their respective state capitals, retreat to Qinfeng Road, and gather troops to resist Xixia.  However, many people did not accept his order and chose to stick to the city.

    The Western armies from all directions??The locals were born and raised, and their families were right behind them. While they fought bravely, they were also unwilling to give up their homeland, and they did not hesitate to disobey the general's orders for this reason.

    Zhong Shidao had no choice but to send people to step up sentries to detect the news of the Western Army, and prepare to persuade other Western Army generals to stick to the Qinfeng Road to prevent them from being defeated by Xixia soldiers and horses.
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