Chapter 1094: The Envoy of the Liao Kingdom, Coming to Xia Prefecture to Meet the Lord (First Update)
Chapter 1094
Listening to Gao Shize's calm analysis, Zhi Keshi opened his mouth, and finally could only close his mouth in despair, indeed, in the past few years, if it weren't for the court, a lot of resources have been invested here on North Shaanxi Road.
The border soldiers on the North Shaanxi Road, even if the overall combat strength is richer and more courageous than other border towns, but if it lacks a crossbow like the Yuan You crossbow, it will hardly be damaged, and even if it is damaged, you only need to update a crossbow arm to continue to use long-range weapons.
Or maybe it is the lack of a solid iron armor like Yuan Youjia, which does not exceed fifty-five catties in total weight and hardly affects the soldiers to make various agile movements.
Then under the repeated battles on the North Shaanxi Road, I am afraid that the attrition of soldiers will reach at least three to fifty percent. It was with the nearly 30,000 sets of Yuanyou armor rationed by the court, and 20,000 cavalry and nearly 60,000 Yuanyou crossbows were left on the North Shaanxi Road.
Even the terrifying weapon of the Yuanyou stone throwing machine was not yet equipped with the important fortresses of other border towns, and even the forts like the Sanchakou Fort on the North Shaanxi Road were already equipped with six.
You must know that from last year to this year, the total output of Yuanyou stone throwing machine is only 50 units, and the number of 20 units is only supplied to the North Shaanxi Road, and the remaining 30 units are sealed in the arsenal of the Great Song Dynasty to be used when the time comes.
And coupled with the Yuanyou stone thrower made by Wang Yang before, there are 36 Yuanyou stone throwers in the entire North Shaanxi Road.
And they are all distributed in the position closest to the Liao realm, Wanjingkou Fort four, Sanchakou Fort six, Yanzhou six, and Longzhou eight, Youzhou still has twelve.
These things, which one is not the result of the Son of Heaven's efforts to fight for the North Shaanxi Road, the 30,000 pieces of Yuan Youjia alone are enough to make many border town generals of the Great Song Dynasty jump one after another.
Nowadays, the Hedong Road of the Great Song Dynasty has obtained less than 8,000 Yuan Youjia, and many other border towns are more than thousands, and less than 1,000 people......
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"This battle has already made me the determination of the Great Song Dynasty, and it has also become a way for those Liao people to see the sharpness of my Great Song Huben, and they will accept it when they see it." Wang Yang nodded, quite helplessly.
It's not that he doesn't want to fight, but from the overall point of view, the strength between the Great Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao is similar, if it really causes a full-scale war, then it will inevitably be a lose-lose situation.
At that time, I am afraid that Northern Liao will probably not have the ability to continue to suppress the various ethnic groups on the grassland, as well as the female straights in the eastern part of Liaodong, and let them prosper, which is not a good thing for the Great Song Dynasty.
After all, the current Great Song Dynasty is not ready to compete with the Northern Liao, not to mention, although the Western Xia has been crippled by the Great Song Dynasty, nearly half of the land has been lost.
But the problem is that the Western Xia still survived tenaciously after all, and the Western Xia lord Li Qianshun is really a character. With the support of the Liao State, he began to carry out large-scale changes in the territory of the Western Xia State, with the full support of Renduo Zongbao and Wei Ming Ah Wu.
Following the example of the Song Dynasty, it successively disposed of a number of old-fashioned factions and clan diehards, which greatly weakened the authority of the leaders and patriarchs of various ethnic groups in the party. The army of Western Xia was firmly in his own hands.
And a large number of capable officials were promoted, and the successive expeditions to the west and the north not only took down many tribes and city-states that had not been subordinate before, but also plundered a large number of people, and also expanded a lot of territory to the west and north.
If the Great Song Dynasty started a full-scale war with the Northern Liao, at that time, the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty would inevitably become the main force of the Great Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao, and a large number of Western troops would be transferred elsewhere.
So, this ambitious Li Qianshun, who has been tempered for more than two years and has created a Western Xia elite tiger that has sonic boom in the land of the Western Regions, will he watch and do nothing?
Zong Ze, who also came with him, stroked his long beard and said thoughtfully. "Gao Daren is reasonable, although the North Shaanxi Road is getting stronger and stronger, but after all, this is just a place all the way, if it is placed in the overall situation, it is really ......"
A group of high-ranking officials and important generals from Zishan North Road gathered in the mansion to discuss and summarize the current situation, in a word.
The fault of the Liao State, the Great Song Dynasty must counteract, but this countermeasure naturally cannot be too cross-line, so as not to arouse the anger of the Liao State's unobtrusive and moody emperor Yelu Hongji.
If that guy is a Ming Jun, it doesn't matter, he will definitely think carefully about what to do, so that it will be beneficial to Da Liao and will not lose his strength.
But Yeluhonki is that kind of person, he is a megalomaniacal who thinks he is so good that he has detached himself from low-level tastes.
So, you won't understand at all, what he will do next, more importantly, this guy has been an emperor for many years, and in the Liao State, no one dares to be restrained, and no one can stop his irrational behavior.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, the Liao State battalion has sent an envoy, saying that he wants to meet the generals......" At this time, a guard general hurried to report quickly.
"Let him come, this official also wants to meet the envoy of the Liao State, and I don't know what kind of news he will bring, or rather, how the Great Liao Emperor will react in the face of the current situation." Seeing the gaze cast by the Seed Master, Wang Yang thought about it, stood up and said.
A quarter of an hour later, Han Shouzhuo, the envoy of the Liao State who had passed through the east gate of Xiazhou and came to the Yamen of the former governor of Xiazhou, looked at the Song soldiers standing at the gate of the Yamen of the Governor.
However, his gaze was more on the silver and shining Yuanyou armor on those Song army soldiers, especially the breastplate, which was completely composed of two complete pieces of armor in the front and back, and there was no gap at all.
You can also see some small dents on the surface of the cuirass, which are supposed to have been left during the war. Especially before, in the big camp, after personally asking the remnants of the defeated soldiers who escaped from Xiazhou City.
He finally understood a little bit why Da Liao would always be deflated in Shaanxi, not only the silver crossbow in the hands of those soldiers of the Song army, but also the kind of Yuan You armor they wore on their bodies.
But none of them had ever seen it before, and from the mouths of those people, it was learned that the Song Army's steel crossbow was not only not inferior in range and penetration to the Divine Arm Crossbow, but importantly, this kind of steel crossbow did not seem to be as easy to damage as the Divine Arm Crossbow.
Especially at the beginning, when attacking Youzhou, Da Liao continued to attack Na Youzhou for more than a month, and from the very beginning, until the withdrawal of Da Liao, the density of the Song army's crossbow arrows almost did not fluctuate.
You must know that in the past, the Song Army's divine arm crossbow, let alone a month, was afraid that if it continued to fight on the battlefield for more than ten days, it would begin to be damaged, and it would need to be repaired and replaced, and sometimes it would even need to be left for a period of time to wait for the crossbow arm to recover before use.