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At both ends of the Song-Liao border, in fact, there has not changed much, and it is still a plain scene of a flat river. The only difference is that there are more people and soldiers who come and go on the official road, but there are not many people, and most of them are Han people with their hair in their heads.

Although the land of Yanyun was occupied by the Northern Dynasty for a hundred years, it was still the vast majority of Han people.

The grassland culture of the Khitan people not only failed to change anything, but their own culture was gradually eroded by Sinology. In addition to the bald lady, only they know how much wolf nature is left on the head of the hairy kun with a handful of hair.

At this time, Tang Yi did not take a car, but rode with the team, blowing the cold wind of late autumn in the north, while looking curiously at the Liao people coming and going on the official road.

It's just that it didn't take long for the Liao Dynasty to welcome the accompanying mission.

Tang Yi still looked like an 'acquaintance', it was Yelu Dejung who had just returned a few months ago.

Good guy, the two nephews of Yelu Zongzhen are specially responsible for running errands between the two countries.....

In fact, this is a tacit understanding between Zhao Zhen and Yelu Zongzhen.

Although the two countries have not fought a war for decades, the contest in all aspects has never stopped.

For example, on the day of departure, Fan Zhongyan asked Tang Yi to step on the point, and Yelu Dexu used Liao to stimulate the Song people, which is not an uncommon thing, which time the mutual envoys did not compete so secretly.

In order to highlight the cultural heritage of a great country, in the past, the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty must have been the top literati and celebrities in the court; In order to maintain decency, the Liao people did not make jokes, and the companion envoy must also be a master of Sinology in the Northern Dynasties.

This time, Zhao Zhen let Tang Yi go alone, and he didn't even bring a veteran minister who pressed the formation, but he didn't want to have any friction with the Liao Dynasty during the extraordinary period, and let's not show off how cultured we are in front of the Northern Dynasty.

Yelu Zongzhen is also an understanding person, and he is accompanied by Yelu Derong, who is extremely familiar with the Southern Dynasty and is relatively 'sensible', and he also has the mentality of trying not to cause trouble. You don't disgust me with sour literati, and I don't have to use force to suppress you.

Everyone is in a mess.

When Yelu Derong saw Tang Yi, although he knew that it was him, he couldn't help but twitch his eyelids. Kaichun's bear child not only scared him half to death, but also pit him hundreds of dollars of silver to provide relief to the Southern Dynasty.

Grandma's!

can remember grudges and remember grudges, but Yelu Derong is a person who understands, and he can carry it better than his brother Yelu Dexu.

After a courtesy meeting with Tang Yi, he ordered the brigade to drive straight to the Xincheng Post House, which was only a few dozen miles away from the border.

Tang Yi is also a person who does not stretch out his hand and does not hit the smiling face, and he is naturally much more polite to the honest Yelu Derong than to Yelu Dexu, not only giving good wine, but also giving Yelu Derong some rare products specially brought from the south as gifts.

Now that he is already in other people's territory, he has to be more or less restrained.

It's just that Tang Yi has restrained a lot, but the five hundred sergeants accompanying him seem to have been beaten with chicken blood......

Seeing that since they entered Liaodi, these sergeants have all been neatly groomed, holding their heads high, and there is no slackening in the marching honor guard, which really reflects the demeanor of the soldiers of the Southern Dynasties to the fullest.

Tang Yi looked at these military men without squinting, for fear of falling into the military might of the Celestial Empire, and couldn't help but nod secretly.

The Great Song Dynasty claims to raise millions of soldiers, but what can really be used now is the tens of thousands of forbidden troops in front of the emperor and the western army guarding the northwest, right?

"Second Brother Yang, this divine power camp is majestic!"

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Yang Huaiyu was thinking about his thoughts, and only came back to his senses after listening to Tang Yi's words. He said: "The five hundred soldiers of the Shenwei Battalion may be a little worse than the soldiers of the Western Army who have experienced a hundred battles, but among the Kaifeng Forbidden Army, there is no one to match. ”

Tang Yi nodded yes.

"It's not a shame that the combat power is not as good as the Western Army, and this military appearance alone should not be comparable to the Western Army."

The Western Army is on the border of Song and Xia, and it is a hundred battles that have come out of the blood and fire three times, who dares to say that it can fight better than the Western Army?

"This big man is a layman, and the so-called military appearance is combat power. In other words, an army that is clean and clean must also be a strong army. Don't look at the rumors that the soldiers of the Western Army are arrogant, but as soon as they are arrayed on the battlefield, the appearance of the Western Army at that time is by no means comparable to others. ”

"Oh!?" Tang Yi raised his eyebrows, "This is the first time I've heard of it... Military appearance is combat power? ”

Yang Huaiyu looked around at the five hundred soldiers, "Da Lang is a scholar, and it is normal not to know about war." ”

Anyway, it's okay to be idle, Yang Huaiyu told Tang Yi about the way in the army.

After hearing this, Tang Yi realized that the ancient war did not want to be like in the middle.

In the past, Tang Yi always felt that the war in this era must be a sea of corpses and blood like a meat stirring machine crossing the border, with countless dead.

In fact, the number of casualties in the real head-to-head duel is actually only a small part, and tens of thousands of people are strangled in one place, competing for the endurance, execution, and morale of both sides.

At this time, the level of individual force can no longer play a decisive role. What determines success or failure is to remove external factors such as time and location, and only the appearance and morale of the army can affect the situation of the war.

"When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. This 'brave' is not bold, but not afraid of death, not counting death! ”

"If two sides kill each other, generally if they are killed or wounded by two percent of the troops, they will be defeated, and if they are more than three percent, they will be defeated! There is no difference between a soldier who has thrown away his sword and a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. ”

At this time, the military appearance is neat, which can also be called morale, and its role is also reflected. Wounded but not chaotic, dead but not routed, rout but not panicked, relying on the neat military array honor guard and morale. ”

"The strength of the Western Army, even if there are more than 30% of the casualties, it can still not show defeat, and the queue is strictly organized."

"Four out of ten can also retreat and continue, it is for the strong soldiers of the world!"

As soon as Yang Huaiyu said this, Tang Yi finally understood.

It turns out that when people are really dead, they are not on the frontal battlefield, but on the way to escape.

Therefore, those so-called battle reports of killing tens of thousands of enemies, corpses all over the field, and abandoning them like mountains are calculated by counting the kills and injuries of the pursuing and crushing the enemy and the number of enemies killed in a head-to-head duel.

However, think about it, the powerful armies of ancient times were all fierce and fearless of death, such as the "trapped camp" soldiers in the Three Kingdoms period, but they were all indestructible and invincible.

And the art of war is ruined, and the battle against the water is that the forced sergeant has no way to retreat, and fights to the last man.

However, Yang Huaiyu said that the so-called military appearance is morale, but Tang Yi wanted to laugh a little. Because he remembered the battalion of soldiers in Dengzhou.

"If, as Second Brother Yang said, the stricter the military appearance, the stronger the combat power.... That kid knows that there is a battalion of soldiers, and he can be the first army in the world! ”

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(To be continued.) )