The army of 900,000 was divided into three directions, advancing separately, gradually approaching the important Liao cities, and all of a sudden, the Liao State, which had already shrunk a lot, shrank again, leaving only a few important cities.

No matter how late the Liao State is, it knows that it is facing an attack, but where does the attack come from?

This time, the Dinghai Navy really didn't hide it, instead of hiding it, it was better to show it, and the three armies all raised the banner of the Dingjun.

However, the Dinghai Navy was not a household name in the Northern Song Dynasty, not to mention that there were no imported Dinghai products in the Liao State, most of them were blocked, even if a small number of them were sent over, some of them would hide the Dinghai Navy, and the other part was simply daily necessities, only the brand, and there was no name of the Dinghai.

Even the Liao State would not have thought that the Dinghai belonged to the Northern Song Dynasty, because the Northern Song Dynasty did not choose to attack, and it would not make sense for a border military state to choose so.

The last few years of Liaoguo are really not ordinary sorrows. Prepare to teach the little brother of Xixia, a war, the fight is full of twists and turns, if according to history, the Liao State is defeated cleanly, but the defeat is fast, and it is also beneficial, under the premise that the Liao State has no way to be greatly weakened, Yuan Hao can choose, I am afraid that it is a gift to go out, at most to get a little bit of money benefits.

However, this battle should be far-reaching for the Western Xia and the Liao State, and the losses on both sides were greater than in history, especially the Western Xia, which was destroyed.

If it's just like this, the Liao State is also weakened, not to the extent of breaking the muscles and bones, the foundation of the Liao State is very strong, there is this foundation as long as you are careful, it will be restored in a year or two, not to mention, it also occupies the land of Western Xia, on the surface, the strength is strong.

Such a look of strength cannot hide the continuous decline of the Liao State, and the development of things proves this.

The huge territory could not stop the small-scale infiltration, and even because of the poor organizational structure, a team of more than several thousand people has been active in the territory for more than half a year and has not yet been discovered.

This is not a mistake that should be made in a stable country, the Liao State has appeared, and it was used by Yuan Hao, after the destruction of the country, Yuan Hao was too fierce, and it took half a year to shake the foundation of the entire Liao State, half of the population, and a large number of stable tribes, these are the foundation of the Liao State.

The loss of these is staggering for the lethality of the Liao State, and to put it bluntly, there is not enough population to support it, and the power of the entire Liao State has been halved.

At the same time, the Northern Song Dynasty has made great strides in the past few years, not only the strength of the army is stronger, but also there is money.

To be really, in this era, in terms of pure military strength, not to mention the improvement of the navy, among the three countries, it should be the strongest in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the infantry lacks mobility, and it is necessary to have a large amount of money to form a large army, and then spend a lot of money to push it over.

The inherent contradictions of the Northern Song Dynasty made this point somewhat insufficient, and demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall not only cost more, but also did not have the strength to attack outward.

The emergence of Zhao Xin and the Ding Navy changed this status quo, and the longbow and better steel directly improved the combat power of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, and the sales and changes of goods made the Northern Song Dynasty's financial situation good.

Under such a premise, attacking the Liao State and recovering the clouds is a high probability time, and the infiltration of the Imperial City Division has made most of the situation in the Liao State have no secret for the Northern Song Dynasty, which represents the direction of the grand strategy, and the subsequent tactics are just icing on the cake, making the record better and the consumption less.

It seems that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are only a very small piece of land in the Liao Kingdom, even if there is Nanjing, it is also in the territory of the Liao Kingdom, which is not too high, but in fact, the loss of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun is a little greater.

This is the agglomeration area of the Han nationality, because the Liao State is dominated by the Khitan people, and the Han people belong to the inferior ethnic group, whether it is Nanjing, or Youyun's status in the Liao State is not high, but in fact, they are very important.

At the beginning, the Liao State relied on cavalry to shock the surroundings and relied on the combat effectiveness of the Khitan tribe, but the reason why it was so strong later and suppressed the Quartet was because it got the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Without the sixteen states of Youyun, without the grain and smelting of the Han people, the strength of the Liao State was immediately greatly weakened.

These losses, at most, are to let the Liao State continue to lose blood, but it will not let the Liao State perish, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, as long as the Liao State is scavenged for a while, for example, from the nomadic tribes in the north to get replenishment, then in a certain period of time, the Liao State can still recover.

This is what the nomadic regime often does, and the nomads under his jurisdiction will become his blood tonics, and sometimes, when he finds some completely barbaric nomads, defeats them, captures them, and merges them into an army, their individual combat ability is still very large.

The appearance of Zhao Xin and Ding's navy did not give them this opportunity, not only cut off the road to the north, but also took the entire three eastern northern provinces and Mongolia, and the Liao State was left with only a tiny area, even if it did not attack, it would slowly decline for a few years.

Because of the changes in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Dinghai Navy, which was ready to start two years and three years later, chose to start in the ninth year of Qingli, and the Liao State was miserable.

The artillery of the Dinghai Navy is still in a relatively rudimentary state, especially the artillery used by the army, which needs to be transported in mind, and under the premise that there is no systematic railway and road, the weight must be taken into account, and the larger ones cannot be hunted at all.

These guns, not to mention compared with naval guns, even those with the defensive equipment of the navy, are far inferior, most of them are six-pounds, and the highest is only a nine-pound gun.

Nine-pound artillery siege city, even if the lethality is not strong, as long as there are about ten siege guns, attacking the city wall, the small city wall, simply can not last a few rounds, the larger one, a quarter of an hour is about the same, aimed at a place, continuous attacks, the damage caused by an attack, will gradually add up, until the limit.

The marching speed of the Ding navy, that is, the advance speed of the siege artillery, as long as the escort arrives and breaks through the city wall, and then, it is a war with a huge difference, for those Liao countries, not to mention the difference in hot weapons, even if it is cold weapons and armor, this is also a huge difference, in this case, it is almost overwhelming.

If it was on the Suihua side, which was far away and separated by a Liao State, the intelligence organs of the Northern Song Dynasty, no matter how powerful they were, it would not be possible to get accurate information in a short time, and they would not even be able to pay attention to it.

Intelligence collection, direction is very important, with the exact direction, to be able to investigate intelligence, a plan, completely unaware of the premise, how to investigate and find,

But to destroy the Liao State, no matter how much it is covered, it will also be investigated, what kind of force is it, even the Liao State can be destroyed, this is worth considering, rather than hiding it like this, it is better to show the identity, so that it will be more open.

The defense line of the Liao State was broken again and again, in all directions, as if they were all enemies, the speed of about 150 miles a day, which was almost the speed of the advance of the cavalry troops, at the beginning, because of the suddenness of the incident, the Liao army that was broken through the city did not react at all to report the news, and before they could think of it, they were surrounded and the city was broken.

That is, it was not until the next two or three days that there was news one after another, but it also took time for the horse to return to Zhongjing, at most three or four hundred miles a day, and after the news was transmitted, Liao Xingzong found that at least more than half of the territory had been breached.

Even if it was Yuan Hao's attack, even if it was the loss of the sixteen states of Youyun, it had never made the Liao State so panicked, in just a few days, in four directions, at least more than 20 cities sent distress letters, and there was no good news, which made it difficult for him to decide.

In Zhongjing, in Tokyo, among the two absolute big cities of the Liao State, there are at least 400,000 troops, especially Zhongjing, there are almost 250,000 of these troops to give him confidence, and he tentatively sent 40,000 people to rescue the northern cities.

40,000 people, probably 120 kilometers out of Zhongjing, collided with the advancing Dinghai Naval Force, which was actually not the main force, the main force was more than 30 kilometers behind the flank, and was rushing over.

This is only guarding 20 artillery units, a total of about 6,000 people.

In the sudden encounter, the Dinghai Navy saw their traces as early as more than 20 kilometers away because of the telescope, on the one hand, using flags and signal flares to report to the large troops, and on the other hand, with the help of such a little time, to build a position.

For thermal weapons, the position is the best means, one side builds the position in advance, and the other side belongs to the encounter, so unless it is the premise of a huge difference, otherwise, the victory must be the side that is prepared first.

The Dinghai Navy entered the battlefield in advance, and made a position around 20 siege guns, with a total of more than 40 large and small artillery, and a thick position composed of 6,000 people, under the multi-functional infantry shovel, 30 minutes is enough to make the position formed.

The Liao army, at the beginning, did not find the enemy at all, but still walked forward unhurriedly, and when it got closer, the enemy was found, and when there were not many of them, the entire army of 40,000 pounced on it.

The asymmetrical information, as well as the generation difference in weapons, the result was, of course, very tragic, the cavalry was put closer to fight, first a series of guns, beating the crying father and calling the mother, gritting his teeth and rushing to the front of the position, but encountered barbed wire.

The sturdy and flexible wire, a total of 12 layers of network, even if it is a non-stop forward rush, it is impossible to break through in a short time, and 6000 people are divided into 1500 people platoon guns, in such a period of time crazy attack, and the follow-up artillery also began to exert power, attacking the rear Liao army.

A series of attacks blinded this elite Liao cavalry, and finally reacted, and when they wanted to retreat, they lost at least half of it, and then, while dying, they retreated, and after withdrawing from the attack range of the entire Dinghai Navy, it was too late.

The whole battle lasted for half an hour, but for the well-trained Dinghai Navy, each soldier could fire an average of 120 rounds, which was more than 800,000 rounds, and the artillery also fired thousands of shells.

More than 40,000 elite cavalry lost 35,000 in just 30 minutes, and the remaining 5,000 fled in panic.

For those who escaped, there was no way to chase them, and there was no way to chase them, after all, this is not a complete version of the army, there are not enough cavalry troops, even if there are horses, they are also used for transportation, and the officers are weighing the three of us, taking into account the safety, they did not pursue, but just locked the results.

But even so, not all of the 5,000 people who ran away survived, and those who panicked and scattered, or fell from their horses, and their injuries worsened and died, and only less than 2,000 people finally fled back to Zhongjing.

The 40,000 elites who were pinned on by Liao Xingzong came back in more than a day and reported a nightmarish news, 40,000 against 6,000, the other party's strange weapons and tactics, and finally the result of the almost total annihilation of 40,000 people, which made Liao Xingzong unacceptable.

At the same time, this location is less than 200 miles away from Zhongjing, that is, almost all the cities 200 miles away in the north have been taken.

This is almost a death knell for the Liao State, Liao Xingzong not only did not send any more personnel, but shrank the defense line, no matter what, whether the other party is a human or a demon, first hold Zhongjing is saying.

The opponent's terrifying attack power and field combat ability make the Liao State not have the confidence to fight with the other party at all, such a huge Zhongjing, which has been operated by the Liao State for many years, should be able to hold it.

When people are desperate, they will grasp the last straw, even if it is the emperor of Liao, in the crazy mobilization of materials, strengthen the defense of Zhongjing, but also sent a large number of messengers, to ask for help, in the middle, in addition to sent to the surrounding cities, there are tribes, and even the Northern Song Dynasty, in the face of a desperate situation, Liao Xingzong also thought that the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao State are brothers, facing the opponent who came out of nowhere, should lend a hand.

After Liao Xingzong tried to mobilize the army of King Qin of the entire Liao State, he fought to besiege the city, with Zhongjing as the center, and inflicted heavy losses on the opponent, and then closed the siege.

The idea is very good, Liao Xingzong didn't know at this time, at present, it still belongs to the territory of Liao, that is, within the range of 200 miles around Zhongjing, around Tokyo, there is no more at all, because of the geographical location, Tokyo is a little further, whether it is the south, the army from the Liaodong Peninsula, or the north, from Suihua, has already arrived near Tokyo, after the completion of the siege, I am afraid that the powerful Tokyo will not be able to hold for long at all.

The Dinghai Navy has enough troops, not only to comprehensively push the level, but also to let go of any strategic point and large cities, especially those garrisoned, but also to take it at the first time, mainly to annihilate the living forces, in this case, a large amount of Liao's strength is consumed, and it is impossible to send the army of King Qin.