The sun is rising, the wind is blowing and the grass is low, and the smoke and dust brought by the war have long since dissipated, but the devastation left by the war has not dissipated.

Liao Xingzong finally arrived at the battlefield, at this time, there were still abandoned camps that had not been completely demolished, the traces of the battlefield had not been erased, and even the traces of the Northern Song Dynasty had not been cleaned up.

After Han Qi killed the Western Xia army, he almost didn't hesitate, and fleeing was the only option.

At that time, it was also prepared that if the Liao State sent a large army at that time, perhaps nearly 300,000 sheep would also have to give up.

Now, these have been successfully sent back to Lingzhou, and this trip to Xixia has not only not been consumed on a large scale, but has made a lot of money.

Mutton is the food of the nobility, the price is higher, it is cheaper in the northwest, 500-700 Wen, but after it is sent to Bianliang, it can be increased by almost 10 times, it can be said that among all the materials, except for excellent war horses, it is difficult to compare with the increase in sheep.

For example, cattle, in the northwest, are also more expensive, because the Western Xia side deliberately controlled, in addition to sheep, other large livestock, rarely imported into the Northern Song Dynasty, plus farming people, cattle and horses such as large livestock, especially cattle, in the Central Plains people, is basically forbidden to be slaughtered.

Even if the cow died, if you can't say what the reason is, you will be questioned by the court, and the importance of the cow can be seen.

Since receiving the news yesterday, Liao Xingzong's mood is not very good, and letting the Western Xia army take action can be regarded as a method for Liao Xingzong to retaliate against the Northern Song Dynasty, and this method has some practice of protecting the Liao army.

From a few months ago, from the Liao State to the border line, the desert war, the entire Liao army has been fighting for several months, especially the battle of Xingqingfu, which is equivalent to the Liao State fighting for 40 days.

In the 40 days, continuous attempts, although the final loss was not much, but exhausting, at this time, the Western Xia offered to surrender, and naturally, Liao Xingzong made this request.

Let the Iron Harriers of Western Xia attack, not to say, think that they are not strong, they are substitutes for the dead ghosts, if so, the Liao army will definitely follow, instead of just sending a few liaisons.

For the combat effectiveness of the Western Xia Army, the Liao State still recognizes, 30,000 selected iron harriers, at least 30,000 Tielin Army to fight, in order to be able to win, in his opinion, maybe the Northern Song Dynasty in the siege of the city, very powerful, in dealing with these heavy cavalry with strong combat effectiveness, or in the field battle that is not good at, there should be no problem.

The reason why the cattle given to the Northern Song Dynasty were so generous was that after these things were sent, they had to be taken back, and more of them were taken back.

The armor of the Northern Song Dynasty has always been relatively sophisticated, and the infantry armor cannot be used on the cavalry, but it can be used on the heavy infantry, and at the same time, Liao Xingzong also wants to know why the archers of the Northern Song Dynasty are so powerful, and even don't be on a horse all their lives.

After killing this army of the Northern Song Dynasty, all doubts can be explained, which is also the reason why Liao Xingzong sat firmly in Diaoyutai.

In the first wave of reports, he even thought that this was a conspiracy of the Northern Song Dynasty, after catching a few Western Xia people, or after bribing him, he deceived him into going out and then sneak attacked.

But when a few people sent by the Liao State returned, he believed that because these people were noble Liao people, they were definitely well protected in the battle, and more than a dozen people, at least 10 people survived, and 7 of them returned to the Liao army camp a little later than the first batch of reports.

There is no problem of deception now, Liao Xingzong discharged, either a young official of the Liao State, or his personal guards, these are very familiar, and when there is no problem with loyalty, the matter has been clear.

There is one point, Liao Xingzong, as well as these generals at the top of the Liao State, are a little puzzled, why, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty has such a great combat effectiveness.

The army of 30,000 was killed in just half an hour, which is too terrifying, what do you rely on?

The heavy cavalry of Western Xia, in fact, is also the main force of the Liao State, if it is slightly better, that is, the scale of the Liao State is larger, and the combat effectiveness is a little stronger, if the Northern Song Dynasty masters the method of dealing with the Iron Harrier and applies it to the Liao State, it should not be too bad.

Liao has always been the dream demon of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has long been verified, once there is any change in the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Liao State launches something, it will cause the shock of the entire Northern Song Dynasty.

However, on the other hand, the Northern Song Dynasty is not the dream demon of the Liao State, it seems that the Liao State has a certain upper hand in the situation on the battlefield, but the Northern Song Dynasty is stubborn, and it is not at a disadvantage.

Heavy cavalry has always been the foundation of the Liao State, and it is also an important weapon to suppress the Northern Song Dynasty, the fall of 30,000 iron harriers, which means that the Northern Song Dynasty has mastered the method of attacking heavy cavalry, no matter whether it can catch up with the Song army or not, he must come.

The traces of the battlefield were not cleaned up at all, and apparently, the other party left in a very hurry.

This is also a normal thing, who has suffered from the attack of a large army at this time, even if they are victorious, at this time, how dare they stay here longer.

At the same time, Liao Xingzong's heart was slightly relaxed, if the Northern Song Dynasty really cleaned up and went step by step, he might not dare to attack, he didn't dare to attack, the soldiers and horses he carried were not much, only about 70,000 people, all of them were cavalry, of which the heavy cavalry was only about 40,000, which was stronger than the Iron Harrier, and it was also limited.

The other party's actions prove one point, either they suffered heavy losses in this operation, or this move requires a lot of cooperation, which can be obtained in the battlefield survey.

Liao Xingzong didn't take care of the survey, and let him take care of this matter, he, the emperor, was a little too cheap, and at the same time, he didn't understand, so naturally there were people below to investigate what was going on, and then let the people below investigate and report the final results to him.

In the battle of Xingqing Mansion, there were two things in the Northern Song Dynasty, which made Liao Xingzong remember deeply, one was that he didn't know what reason he used to get rid of the city wall, which was unlikely.

It's obviously a thing, burning or something else, this is reminiscent of the Northern Song Dynasty army coming before, and it hasn't entered the state of battle for a long time, obviously, this thing has limitations, at least, you can't just do it.

If you really do it, even a tall thing like a city wall can be broken, let alone cavalry and heavy cavalry?

Between the Liao and Song dynasties, there is no need to fight at all, so the other one that impresses me is the bow and arrow.

It can be said that the bows and arrows of the Northern Song Dynasty really made Liao Xingzong breathtaking, and just by virtue of the suppression of the bow and arrow, the Xingqing Mansion at that time was in danger of being breached.

Of course, it is impossible to break through Xingqing Mansion with a bow and arrow in just half a day, but there is just this danger.

Whether a city is breached, it takes a long time, but not to mention the city wall, if this longbow can be consumed every day, it is only a matter of time to break through, the length of the hand is the key, one side can attack without damage, even if the lethality is very insufficient, and the long-term consumption can also make the morale of the defenders completely lost.

The walls themselves have the advantage of being taller and more ranged for the defenders.

The general key to siege a city is to send a large number of archers to suppress the head of the city while the infantry is attacking the city.

This is equivalent to interchange, and even with the protection of the city wall, even with the help of siege equipment such as the well fence, it will play a role, at most, to reduce casualties.

However, the longbowmen of the Northern Song Dynasty were an exception, even if they stood on the ground, they had to exceed the range of the archers at the head of the city, and the rate of fire was so fast.

Putting aside the mysterious destruction of the city wall, if the Northern Song Dynasty relied on it, it was the archers.

Soon, the preliminary examination results have come out, which is the role of the bow and arrow.

In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty has taken away the long arrows as much as possible, too long, but the arrows, especially the arrows of the armor-piercing bow, must be taken away.

This point is quite familiar to the soldiers, even if the iron thing, because of the intervention of the daimyo blacksmith's workshop, the price of iron has been reduced a lot, from the original 80 wen per catty, to the extent of more than ten wen, so that an arrow is not very expensive.

The consumption of longbows for arrows is huge, 20,000 archers, of which about 110 longbowmen and 500,000 heavy longbowmen, this is 1.6 million arrows.

Refined iron arrowheads are also expensive, far above ordinary arrowheads, although in the daimyo blacksmith's workshop, it is not very difficult to make fine iron, but it is not easy to process arrowheads, and the labor cost is higher than the material cost.

This time, a total of 700,000 armor-piercing bows were carried, and in this battle, at least 350,000 were shot at once, and if these were not recovered, the next step would be to the point of no arrows.

The heavy longbow has already shown its usefulness in this battle, although there are cavalry and other longbowmen behind it, but it is undeniable that the heavy longbow has shown a very terrible effect

Without a heavy longbow, it would be impossible to concentrate on killing those iron harriers, and it would be impossible to open a breakthrough.

It's a pity that the situation on the battlefield is very complicated, no matter how to collect, manpower is limited, ordinary arrows are about 8 into 5, heavy arrows are recovered a little more, 9 into 7, but there are still a lot of left, and there are even remnants on the corpses, these things at a glance, for carpet search, the entire battlefield, all over the Liao country, is not a very difficult thing.