"This is the track?"

Daleng recited the word that made him feel a little embarrassed, and the two iron bars in front of him that stretched far away, it was difficult to tell that this was a road with an astonishing capacity.

"That's the track." Standing beside the railroad tracks, Zhe Keda explained to the cronies of the patriarch of the tribe: "This is only a part of the two-hundred-mile-long Xindai Railway, and after the whole line is connected, the two-hundred-mile land from Xinzhou to Daizhou will only take one day to be full of people and goods." ”

This cronie, who claims to be the patriarch of the Hindu tribe, Mogus, has already received Han Gang's attention. Since Han Gang, who is also the deputy privy envoy and the envoy of Hedong Zhi, attaches great importance to this northern captive, he will not treat others with a shelf.

The Zhi family also has a reputation on the grassland, and the status of the heir of the head of the Zhi family will naturally not be low in Daleng's heart. This is the reason why Han Gang did not let the civil officials and let him, a martial artist, entertain Daleng in the future - this point, no one needs to say, and he understands it.

And I also know that this divination person is not simple. Han Gang asked him to bring twenty Liao heads to prove his identity, but Daleng didn't say a word, he found the patriarchs of several tribes, and they were all together within a few days.

It didn't take much effort to get twenty Liao army heads, which surprised Zhe Keda. A result is a reward, and the reward given by the Hedong Envoy to the head of the Liao army is a large amount that can be exchanged for all the belongings for the impoverished divination people. Daleng's ability to snatch food not only proves his identity and ability, but also reflects the status of the Mogus behind him in the obstruction tribes.

But now, looking at the means of transportation in front of him that can change everything, Daleng no longer has the slightest pride in his identity and backing.

Transporting troops tens of thousands to hundreds of miles away in a day. Even the Liao people on the grassland are difficult to have such speed. It is even more impossible to move large quantities of supplies at such a speed. And if that happens, the horses will definitely lose a lot. Horses are the life of herders. Roots, no tribe will drive their own lives. The root goes to do the business of life. But if the Song people want to do this, they only need to pay a few hundred inferior horses.

The speed of the railroad carriage pulled by a dozen or so inferior horses cannot catch up with the galloping horse, but it is also similar to that of camels and pack horses when carrying goods, but the cargo capacity is hundreds of times that of camels and pack horses. A single train can load all the belongings of a small tribe.

No wonder it is said that the Song people were rich, just to temporarily transport tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, they could nail tens of thousands of catties of good iron to the ground to build roads.

If it is said that the Southern Dynasty, where everyone is rumored to wear silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, is a fat sheep that makes the divination people on the grassland haunted and salivated. So the act of being able to put fine iron in the field without caring is enough to be intimidated and even worshiped in the divination department where the source of iron is blocked by the Khitans, and even bones can only be used as arrows in many cases.

Dalen knew Mogusi's ambition to control the steppe on an equal footing with the Khitan, and even had the idea of replacing it. As a close confidant of Mogus, Daleng is not only loyal, but also willing to live and die for the future depicted by Mogus. It was the only fate-changing path that Dalen knew.

But after witnessing the war between Song and Liao, the illusions he had fomented for Mogus vanished at once.

No matter Song Liao, he is not a giant that the Divination Department can fight. The Hedong battlefield where he is now is only one of the three major battlefields of Song and Liao, and it is the smallest one.

Whether it is Shaanxi or Hebei, on both sides are more than 100,000 armored soldiers fighting on a thousand-mile-long front, only Hedong is fighting in basins constrained by mountains. But tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides are still facing each other head-on, which is a scene that is unimaginable without seeing it with your own eyes.

Moreover, the Liao people have destroyed all the local villages and towns, plundered and slaughtered countless local people, and suffered such heavy losses, but the Song people can still mobilize more troops and more baggage to fight the Liao army. In the grasslands, no tribe can have such resilience and heritage. The strength of the Song people is like the North Sea where the nine rivers flow, no matter how much water is diverted, it will not dry up.

Can't win.

Daleng shook his head.

Regardless of which side has the advantage, the Divination Department will not be able to win.

The Liao army, which was freed up, could crush the rebellion of the Obstruction Department with one palm.

And if the Song people controlled the grassland, they would also not give Mogus a chance to turn over, compared to the military strength, they had enough wealth to buy off all the grassland tribes, so that Mogusi became a loner.

Da Leng quietly glanced at the children of the Zhe family who were still boasting.

Instead of struggling to survive in the gap between the Song and Liao families, and fantasizing about the possibility of one in a hundred, it is better to sell it at a good price as soon as possible, just like the young prime minister who has already wagged his tail at the Song people.

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Orbit.

Of course, Xiao 13 had heard of the track.

Although he hadn't seen it, at the top of the court, anyone's ears and eyes would not be too closed, but he didn't expect the Song people to be used here.

Han Gang's deeds have spread widely in Liao, some of them are true and some are false, but whether they are true or false, they are all exaggerated. It's just that most of these rumors focus on the medical field, as well as those military inventions.

As for the use of troops and the administration of government, only some people at the highest level will be concerned. Orbit is one of the lesser-known ones. After all, in Liao, it is difficult to have an intuitive understanding just by listening to rumors.

"Are you sure it's the track?" Xiao 13 asked.

"I can't think of anything else!" Zhang Xiaojie shook his head, "That is Han Gang's invention, and the first track was also built under his personal command, which can easily transport 600,000 stones a month, how much should it be for a human?" People don't need to be time-consuming to move around! ”

Several mines producing coal and iron ore in Nanjing Province were personally supervised by Zhang Xiaojie, the prime minister of Nanfu, on the orders of Yelu Yixin.

According to the official system of the Liao State, the left and right prime ministers of the northern and southern provinces are the prime ministers of Khitan government affairs, who are the northern officials and are not in charge of the Han people; The affairs of Nanking Province are basically under the jurisdiction of the Nanmyeon Governor. However, Yelu Yixin still let Zhang Xiaojie, who had been given the surname Yelu and served as the official in the north at the same time, to manage it, which shows how much he values those iron mines and carboniferous mines.

Under Zhang Xiaojie's management, the tracks used by Song Guo in the pit were also learned. Xiao Shisan hadn't seen it with his own eyes, and he couldn't think of the Song people's tricks for a while, but Zhang Xiaojie did everything himself, so that the military production of the Liao State would not be too far away by the Song people.

If he hadn't broken through Hedong this time, he would have been here to regulate the various expeditions, manage the harvest from the looting, and accept the captured craftsmen, and he would now be in Nanjing Road to supervise the production and manufacture of weapons.

When he heard that the Song army had been in one night, there were 20,000 more soldiers and horses. At first, although he doubted whether Yelu Daoning and his men and horses were blind, they did not detect the Song people who sneaked in. But when the updated news came, saying that the Song army's soldiers and horses were still increasing, he immediately thought of the track.

Spaceships, plate armor, thunderbolt guns, since there are already so many weapons engraved with Han Gang's mark on this battlefield, what is there to be surprised about one more? That's a matter of course.

"It doesn't take much physical effort to ride in a rail-drawn carriage, and with this track, Han Gang can transport as many troops as he wants."

The speed of the Song army's dispatch frightened Yelu Daoning, Xiao 13, and all the Liao officers and soldiers under Xiao 13. But after getting a reasonable explanation, everyone can still relax, because there can't be more of that kind of means. As long as the gate of Daizhou is guarded here, the Song army can only look in the direction of the northeast and sigh.

But now, since the Song people can transport 10,000 people for a hundred miles in one night, how long will it take to rely on the track from Kaifeng to Xinzhou? How many days will it take to get from Chang'an to Xinzhou? In other words, there will be more and more Song troops in front of them, until they can't bear it.

Zhang Xiaojie was so sure that Xiao Shisan's heart was the most unfortunate and there was only a little bit of luck left, "Take a look again." After only one night's work, there should be no problem. ”

Zhang Xiaojie sighed secretly, but he didn't say much, he could still afford to wait for a night, and the reinforcements from Daizhou also needed a certain amount of time to rest.

The Song army did not hide their actions. For the rest of the night, they used rail-drawn wagons to transport the soldiers and food and grass from the rear to the front line, almost ostentatiously.

Xiao Shisan and Yelu Daoning, who were personally observing with a clairvoyant mirror on the spaceship, distinguished the glimmers of light from the night, and counted the rows of railcars that arrived at the front line, until their hearts sank like the sea.

When the sun rose again, in addition to the 3,000 soldiers who stayed in Xinkou Village, Han Gang's troops reached more than 38,000 people, including nearly 6,000 cavalry, stationed in the seven military villages on the front line. In the camp filled with soldiers and horses, the smoke was like a dense forest in the mountains, shaking the hearts of every Liao person on the opposite side.

The main force of this Song army. It is only forty or fifty miles away from Daizhou. Everyone knows that the commander of the Song army must be preparing to shorten this distance.

Correspondingly, after yesterday's large-scale increase in troops, the total strength of the Liao army actually reached 20,000. In terms of troops, it is still only half of the Song army, and it obviously has the upper hand.

But in the past, with 20,000 horses, any Liao army general had the confidence to deal with the Song army, which was several times his size. However, the current comparison of these two figures shows the gap between the two sides in terms of transportation capacity, and the support of cavalry is not as good as that of the Song army, which is dominated by infantry.

The news of the Song army's orbital transportation of troops made the morale of the Liao army fall at an accelerated rate - even though Xiao Shisan issued a ban on this, due to the internal organizational structure of the Liao army, these news quickly spread throughout the army.

The soldiers at the bottom didn't know what track the Dao was, but they knew that the Dao was like Han Gang, the incarnation of the gods and Buddhas. When the army is at the advantage, it doesn't matter, but once at a disadvantage, Han Gang's prestige becomes the last straw that breaks his back.

In addition to this, Xiao 13 also found an equally urgent problem.

Due to the Liao army, most of them are one person, two horses, and three horses. The 20,000-strong army had as many as 50,000 horses.

This brings a very real problem - the grain and grass in the big and small wangzhuang are not enough to eat.

Looking at the closed military camp opposite, Zhang Xiaojie seemed to be immersed in a sea of ice, Han Gang may win without a fight!