[Third Update.] 】

Yelu Yixin knows his own weaknesses and how to make up for them.

Especially after Zhang Xiaojie brought back Han Gang's message, he knew better.

Having just ended a lost war, without waiting for a respite, he turned east and went to attack Goryeo, a powerful country in the eastern part of the country.

The iron cavalry of the Great Liao easily broke through the Great Wall of Qianli on the northern border of Goryeo, and quickly broke through the western Jingningfu, that is, Pyongyang, and then continued southward to besiege the capital of Goryeo.

The victory was easy, and the Liao army's attack was like a bamboo.

In the process of besieging Kaegyo, the vanguard of more than 10,000 iron cavalry experienced two field battles, one was a frontal encounter with the Goryeo army, and the other was a surprise attack before dawn. Relying on solid armor, sophisticated weapons, and excellent tactics, the Liao army defeated and annihilated the last offensive force of the Goryeo Kingdom at a small cost.

When the Goryeo people had to choose to shrink, the divine arm bows, armor-piercing crossbows, and thunderbolt cannons obtained from the Song people played a huge role.

Several battles with the Song people, especially the raid on Hedong, in the Hedong arsenal, the number of captured bows, crossbows, knives and guns was huge. Let Yelu Yixin be able to equip the main force with a large number of Divine Arm Bows. But the loss on the battlefield is also huge, and if you don't know how to maintain or use it, the service life of the Divine Arm Bow is greatly reduced in the hands of the Khitans. The amount of loss made Yelu Yixin tremble when he saw the return.

In the hands of the Great Liao Shangfu, there was no workshop capable of making the Divine Arm Bow on a large scale. And the manufacturing cost of small batch production is too high.

I don't know if the Song people can reduce the cost, or they don't care about the cost at all. In short, there is only one point, the Song people can afford it and use it, but the Great Liao can't afford it and can't afford it.

Fortunately, before all the crossbows were exhausted, the palace army had already pulled out all the strongholds around the capital of Goryeo and completely surrounded the city of Kaeongseong.

The king of Goryeo, Wang Hui, temporarily gave the throne to the prince Wang Xun, and sent an envoy to Yelu Yixin to ask for guilt, and at the same time presented more than a dozen letters of state sent by the Song people after making peace with the Song state. I hope that this can calm the anger of Da Liao Shang's father.

'Tribute is not prudent, and it is disrespectful to the ministers. fornication with another country, rebellion',

These sixteen-character comments are the excuses that Jereyisin has found. Wang Hui wanted to use his mouth to extinguish the desire of the Khitan iron cavalry to kill and plunder, which of course became the latest joke in the Liao army.

Completely ignoring the safety of the people in the city, the Liao army spent five days making thunderbolt cannons, and then spent half a day breaking the city wall and attacking the city.

The king of Goryeo fled to Ganghwa Island with more than 100 courtiers. Although the island was close to the shore, it was still separated by a sea water that was about several miles wide, and the Liao army, who were not good at boating, could only look at the ocean and sigh.

However, only the new king of Goryeo, Wang Xun, escaped, and tens of thousands of people from the royal emblem down, the children and subordinates of the clans, nobles, and courtiers, and all of them were captured. Now he is being escorted north—this is what Jereyisin had asked before the war.

From the beginning of the southward march to the breakthrough of Kaijing. The Liao army attacking Goryeo took just over twenty days, including five days of waiting under Kaeongseong. Such a speed of breaking the enemy made Zhang Xiaojie, who is known as a soldier, dumbfounded.

No matter how you say it, Goryeo was the object that the Great Liao failed to conquer several times in the previous hundred years.

For more than 100 years, Liaoli fought three times, and each time he attacked, the king of Goryeo was quickly submissive, and then persevered to steal land to the north. A little bit of nibbling, all the way to the mouth of the Yalu River near the mouth of the Yalu River.

This kind of country of dog thieves and rats has always been like mud that is not afraid of being stepped on, and it is obedient on the surface, but it is a thief in private. It's just that this thief is very tricky, and there is no shortage of strong soldiers in his hands, and all along, the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State have not been able to make up their minds to solve the problem of Goryeo.

To this day, Yelu Yixin wants to defuse the anger in the army and give all his supporters enough benefits, and in the case of an unsuccessful attack on the Southern Dynasty, or even a fiasco, he has to choose to take Goryeo to prove his strength and let the soldiers who go south get as many benefits as possible.

The war began, and then it ended.

Zhang Xiaojie didn't know how to evaluate Goryeo's strength, because the Tokyo Provincial Guards he had come into contact with were all saying that Goryeo was a thousand-mile country and could not be conquered so easily, but this was not the case at all.

"It's too weak." That's all he can say. The development of the war was completely out of his expectations.

"It's not too weak, it's that Da Liao has become stronger." Yelu Yixin said calmly.

Zhang Xiaojie understood, and he also knew what Lu Dao was for, Yelu Yixin still had a tense face when he said this.

Because the Song State was stronger.

The soldiers of the Great Liao and the Great Song Dynasty have always been unhappy, and there are even examples of losing their armor and humiliating the country, but the reason is that the Southern Dynasty has become stronger more.

With a million.

In the past, when I heard it, I knew that the Tao was a braggart number. Now it's possible, but it takes a bit of work and time.

If the emperor of the southerners really wanted it, it was not impossible to get two million or three million sets of plate armor.

This is the absolute advantage in steel production, so that the raw materials of iron armor are no longer bound by the shortage of iron.

Yelu Yixin once heard that the Southern Dynasty no longer calculated steel production by catties, but used stone.

This replacement, in terms of numbers, is a hundredfold reduction. But the amount of steel in the Southern Dynasties was still easily above one million.

Refined iron million stones!

What a terrible number!

Even if a pair of armor is equipped with complete accessories, it weighs only thirty or fifty pounds at most, and one stone can be worth two pieces. The court of the Southern Dynasty only needed to spend half of its annual steel production to make plate armor, which was a million sets.

A million a year, two years, three years?

Even if this figure is not accurate, the annual output can reach at least 500,000 stones.

In any case, it could not be less. If you count any less, you are deceiving yourself, and Yelu Yixin is not so naïve and stupid.

Yelu Yixin heard that the envoys of the Southern Dynasty had come back to report that the town of Kaifeng was shrouded in black smoke, and the furnaces for calcining stone charcoal and smelting refined iron were one after another outside the city of Tokyo, like a forest.

And a steel forest of this scale is said to have another one in Xuzhou. In addition to Kaifeng and Xuzhou, other roads in the Southern Dynasties also have large and small iron fields. If we go all out, we may be able to pave all the roads with steel.

The more you know the details of your country, the less confident you are. With such national strength, Daliao can't catch up even if he has enough strength.

There was no other way than to start anew.

As long as you can master the sailors of Goryeo, as long as you can control them. The Eastern Sea of the Great Song Dynasty is where they haunt. Maybe the true ability of the Goryeo sailor is not good, at least let the Song people think so. Anyway, the sea sailors of the Song people still only exist in the port.

And the choice left to the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty, except to maintain the peace negotiation, there is no other way to think of it. The battlefield on the sea is not so easy to open, and it is not so easy to rectify the existing naval forces. Even if the Song people can succeed, it will be a few years later. When the time comes, if you can't win the battle, you can retreat directly. The future of Goryeo can be discussed again.

I don't know how the young Song Chen, who defeated the Great Liao in Hedong, would react after learning that Goryeo was destroyed and the sailor fell into the hands of the Great Liao.

With Han Gang's age, as long as nothing happens, he must be one of the future rulers of the Southern Dynasty. And the national policy of the Southern Dynasties to expand outward will inevitably be realized in his hands. At that time, how could Han Gang, who Yelu Yixin knew, watch China continue to maintain the situation of separation between the north and the south?

The empress trusted him very much, and the crown prince also relied on him, and since the emperor of the Southern Dynasty fell ill, Han Gang's position became more important.

The existence of such an important and talented enemy is a danger. If possible, it's best to stifle it in the first place. But it's too late.

Yelu Yixin once thought about gritting his teeth and simply sending people to spread some rumors in the territory of the Southern Dynasty in order to shake Han Gang's position. But I was never sure, and the last one was still Yelu Yixin who let it go.

Rumors are a good method, but it depends on the person and the timing.

For an important minister like Han Gang, rumors are useful and useless.

For rumors about his subordinates, the king does not believe it, but wants to believe it, and needs to believe it. There is a need to be convinced that the rumor is beneficial to him, so that he will believe the rumor.

Just like the Emperor Xuanzong Yelu Hongji who fell from the sky.

Because of the queen's adultery, Yelu Hongji had a dislike for the crown prince Yelu Xin, coupled with the rebellion of the emperor's uncle Yelu Chongyuan in the early years, Yelu Hongji was completely unable to trust his relatives. In such a situation, just a rumor lifted Yelushin from the position of the crown prince.

It wasn't that Yelu Hongji believed the rumors, but that he chose to believe them.

Back in the Southern Dynasty, no matter how much rumors about Han Gang were spread, as long as the crown prince of the Southern Dynasty was not yet an adult, the queen would not dare to doubt Han Gang, who had the power to protect her young son. And Han Gang's prestige among the people of the Southern Dynasties, no one will believe those untruths.

Before the crown prince came of age, Han Gang's position could be described as stable as Mount Tai, and no rumors could shake his position. If he learns the truth of the rumors, it will really outweigh the losses for Da Liao. If the small action is too ugly and angers Han Gang, the result can be imagined.

Yelu Yixin doesn't like useless wars, he just wants to see the best benefits, his goal, no matter Song Liao, there are many people who know it. Nor was he going to hide anything.

As long as he can achieve that goal and sit in that position, there is nothing that cannot be negotiated.

This is true of the peace talks, the same is true of the country, and of course, the same is true of the newly conquered kingdom of Goryeo.

Thinking of this, Yelu Yixin stood up, "Summoning the order to open Beijing, continue to the south, and chase the enemy to the ends of the earth." Goryeo ...... There is no need to exist any longer. ”