Although the artillery is powerful, it has many shortcomings, one of the most headaches is that it is too cumbersome, a small artillery also costs hundreds of pounds, some heavy artillery is thousands of pounds, even if it is pulled by people, it is very difficult to move, but when the artillery is installed on the ship, it is a great progress, this combination makes the power and mobility of the artillery greatly improved.

The warships of the Great Song Dynasty were originally tall and strong, far from being comparable to the small ships of the Li Dynasty, and now they have the blessing of artillery, so this naval battle was a one-sided war from the beginning, and the fleet of the Li Dynasty was directly blown away by the artillery, and then the king commanded the warships to press the whole army, and rampage in the warships of the Li Dynasty.

Li Foma, who was in the back of the battle, was also stunned by the Great Song Navy, and finally it was Guo Shengyi's reminder that made him wake up, and then let people break off, and then he and other ministers fled backwards with the flagship, and the Wang commander behind originally wanted to chase it, but their warships were affected after entering the Red River, and they couldn't catch up with the boats of the Li Dynasty at all, and finally they could only watch Li Foma escape back to Dingnan City.

However, the war had just begun, Li Foma and the others had just fled back to Dingnan City, and the warships of the Great Song Navy also began to dock, and then Di Qing commanded the army to start landing, and then rushed to Dingnan City as fast as possible.

Although Di Qing's subordinates are all officers and soldiers of the navy, but under his command, they still exert a lot of combat effectiveness, not to mention that they also have artillery to help, Wang commanded them to drive the sea ship to the side of Dingnan City, and then turned the artillery to the city gate, and soon collapsed the city gate, and Di Qing also commanded people to kill into the city.

The natives of the Li Dynasty had long been frightened by firearms, and at this time they saw that even the strong city gate had been blown down, causing many people to lose the will to resist and simply surrendered, and Li Foma saw that the situation was not good, and immediately led people to escape from the city gate on the other side, and directly threw Dingnan City to the Song army.

The first battle was successful, but they did not catch Li Foma, which made Di Qing and they were not reconciled, and they did not stop in Dingnan City, but immediately drove a boat north along the Red River, intending to break through Thang Long City in one fell swoop, Thang Long is the capital of the Li Dynasty, if it occupies here, even if Li Foma is not caught, the Li Dynasty has almost no possibility of turning over.

It was also when Di Qing and they raided the Li Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty was preparing another war, that is, the war with the Liao State to jointly deal with the party, and the two countries were very vigilant about the rise of the party, especially the Liao country, because the party occupied their territory, which was equivalent to sucking the blood of the Liao country, plus the Liao army was defeated by the party before, which made Yelu Zongzhen even more unacceptable, so he ignored Yelu Renxian's persuasion to form an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty.

"The army on the border is already gathering, but the strength of the Liao State is weak, I am afraid that we can only contain the party from the east, and the real main force is still our army!" In the side hall of the vertical arch hall, Zhao Zhen pointed to Song Liao, and the sand table at the junction of the three forces of the party and the three forces and said.

"Your Majesty is right, in fact, even if the Liao State has strength, you can't count on them, Li Yuanhao's strength is growing too fast, even if he can't completely destroy him this time, he must not have a chance to turn over!" Li Zhang was also studying the sand table road at this time.

He thought that after driving Li Yuanhao to the territory of Liao, the other party would be destroyed by Liao sooner or later, but he didn't expect Li Yuanhao to take advantage of the opportunity of the Song-Liao war to rise again, but there was no way at that time, after all, compared to Li Yuanhao, Liao was the number one enemy of the Great Song Dynasty.

"When will Di Qing come back, although he is not the main general of this expedition to the party, I am very optimistic about this young man, it would be a pity if he missed this battle." Zhao Zhen suddenly thought of Di Qing again, and asked again at the moment.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about Di Qing, it's not worth his effort to spend too much effort on Li Chao, it is estimated that there will be news soon, and although the army is now assembled at the border, if you want to use troops against the party, you will have to wait until next year, and Di Qing will definitely be able to rush back by then." Li Zhang said with a smile.

Hearing Li Zhang's words, Zhao Zhen also nodded, and then smiled again: "There is no conclusion in the court for the time being on the candidates for the main generals who will attack the party, but I plan to use some young generals this time, after all, Liu Ping and Zhao Zhen are both old, and the ministers are not worried that they will lead the troops again, so it is time to train a group of young generals." ”

"Your Majesty's words are also reasonable, but there are also risks in appointing young generals, and I am afraid that the ministers will oppose it." Li Zhang thought for a moment before replying.

"I also know that for the selection of the main general, I want to appoint Cao Mata, after he is a famous general, he has repeatedly made military exploits, and the only drawback is that he has no experience in leading troops alone." Zhao Zhen said his thoughts at the moment.

Cao Ma is a friend of Li Zhang, but also the son of Cao Wei, these years Cao Yu led the musket army to fight in the east and west, for the Great Song Dynasty has made a lot of contributions, and now has become one of the famous generals in the army, it is very suitable for him to serve as the main general this time, of course, just like Zhao Zhen said, Cao Ma lacks experience, which will definitely cause opposition from the ministers, after all, such an important matter as attacking the party, they still prefer to use an experienced veteran.

"Cao Mata is quite a general, and I have no opinion on him as the main general, but in order to stop the ministers, Your Majesty had better choose a veteran to assist Cao Mata!" Li Zhang thought for a moment and replied again.

"I think so too, in addition, not only Cao Yu, Huyan Shouxin, Di Qing, Cao Tong and other young generals also need this opportunity to train them, and the party is their best whetstone, and when they are sharpened, they can better slash against Liao!" Zhao Zhen also showed strong confidence in the end, his goal was the Liao Kingdom from the beginning, and this has never changed.

Li Zhang nodded approvingly when he heard this, but then he thought of one more thing, so he asked: "I heard that Gaoli has been a little dishonest recently, don't we let them temporarily stop harassing the Liao State, so that the Liao State can focus on the party's items?" ”

At the mention of Goryeo, Zhao Zhen also showed a somewhat unhappy expression on his face: "The Goryeo people don't know what to do at all, this time they actually made an excessive request to us, and I also want to discuss the matter of Goryeo with you, cousin!" ”