Chapter 356: Yuan Hao and Suzhou
The issue of the ocean may need to be considered in the future, and what Zhao Xin needs to consider now is to let the Northern Song Dynasty open the era of the railway in advance, so that it will be more convenient and faster to run through the Northern Song Dynasty, and then the future development of the navy will be considered.
Just as Zhao Xin was preparing to go from Suqian to Bianliang, on the other side of the entire East Asian land, a lost dog was planning a huge plan, a bloody plan to set off a storm of slaughter on the grassland.
The dog who lost his family, what he said is not wrong at all, Yuan Hao, the founder of Western Xia, a genius and crazy military strategist.
He still hasn't figured out why there is a change in the undoubted move.
It turned out that under his careful preparation, he should have given the Liao State a head-on blow and defeated the Liao State in Helan Mountain, but in the end, he hit the Xingqing Mansion, even if he had a little idea of fighting, he might not be able to defeat the Liao State, but he would not fall to such a point.
Even, under Xingqing Mansion, he still didn't think that he would fail, the 100,000 army of the Liao State is very strong, that is under the premise of field warfare, once it is converted to the premise of siege, 100,000 is simply an ornament, and he is even confident that under the premise that the Liao army will not succeed in attacking the city, the final defeat will turn into victory.
But the appearance of the Song army made him dumbfounded, all along, like a quail, the Northern Song Dynasty, which would only be passively beaten and would not attack, unexpectedly appeared and took Lingzhou.
This was enough to make his heart ache, but then, things changed faster, I don't know how, the strong defense of Xingqing Mansion was suddenly damaged by the Northern Song Dynasty, and the entire city wall collapsed completely.
The protection of the city comes from the city wall, and when a city wall collapses, how to defend it, not to mention the combat effectiveness of the Liao army, which is above the Western Xia.
Even if the number of people is a little larger, but what if the morale is completely lost.
Yuan Hao is a very smart person with a strong sense of the overall situation, and before the city wall of Xingqing Mansion was captured, he left without hesitation, and brought 1,000 personal guards with him.
After finding the prepared horse farm, he quickly whipped up, did not stop in any state, and went directly to Suzhou, the westernmost state.
He knew very well that he was the focus of Liao's tracking, and if he hadn't run to Suzhou, which was thousands of miles away, Liaoguo would probably catch up.
But what he didn't expect was that when he arrived in Suzhou, he encountered a certain amount of resistance.
When Yuan Hao was the king and the highest emperor of Western Xia, the nomads were attached to him, but when he became a lost dog, there were a few people who showed loyalty to him.
However, Yuan Hao is a generation of emperors after all, he knows this very well, and he never thought about it, relying on his identity, getting everything, and forcibly plundering dozens of small and medium-sized tribes when the news of Liao's occupation of Xingqing Mansion did not come.
Itself, 1,000 personal guards, is the best selected in the Western Xia army, they deal with a group of small and medium-sized tribes whose total number may not exceed 3,000, and their soldiers in their prime are at most five or six hundred.
On the premise that the number of people, equipment, and even other things are completely backward, there must be only one result.
Death, in order to establish prestige, in order to obtain resources, and in order to pull up a lot of power in a short period of time, Yuan Hao chose the easiest and fastest method, killing.
Kill all the way to the past, all those who are willing to surrender must come up with the benefits of surrender, and those who are unwilling have only one word, kill, kill them all, regardless of men and women.
Killing is always the most deterrent, especially for nomadic tribes, with Yuan Hao's reputation, coupled with bloody means, Yuan Hao can be regarded as opening up the situation in Suzhou.
After gradually controlling more than a dozen tribes, Yuan Hao quickly took control of the situation and began to expand like a snowball.
But in his heart, Yuan Hao didn't have any joy at all, at the time of the decisive battle with the Liao State, there were at least 400,000 troops under the entire Xingqing Mansion, which was the elite of the entire Western Xia, and it was also the strength that Yuan Hao had accumulated for many years, but now, everything was over.
Even now, if you are fishing and pulling up a team from Suzhou, even if you develop this team to the extreme, it is only more than 10,000 people, what can these people do.
Yuan Hao hated the Song people, it was the Song people who helped the Liao people conquer Xingqing Mansion, if it weren't for this, he might be able to turn the tables, but the Song Kingdom was too far away, and there was a Liao Xingqing Mansion in the middle, besides, even if the Song Dynasty was regarded as the object of plunder, Yuan Hao never underestimated the Song Dynasty, even when the soldiers were the most terrifying, he did not enter the hinterland of the Northern Song Dynasty, let alone the hinterland, there are still hundreds of miles away from Longxi, not to mention, Xi'an, the throat of the northwest, did not do anything when he controlled hundreds of thousands of strings, just with more than 10,000 people, what can be done.
Naturally, Yuan Hao's goal was on the Liao State, which might be stronger than the Song State, but the internal organizational structure was definitely inferior to that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and in this case, it became the target of revenge.
Yuan Hao, who has lost everything, of course he never had, has a keen sense of the overall situation, he knows very well that if he does not show his strength at this time, even those who follow him will leave quickly, and his Western Xia Dynasty will completely fall apart.
As long as you are over 15 years old and less than 50 years old, you will be pulled on horseback by him, regardless of whether you have a weapon or not, just pull people out first.
Such a team can only be a rabble, and in the farming nation, it is cannon fodder, and any soldier or horse will disperse as soon as he rushes.
But the nomads are different, he has this advantage, that is, the people on horseback, their military horses, even do not need special training, skilled horse control skills, just a similar horse, it is fine, and it is good to charge together when the time comes.
Fast horses gallop, collision can also kill people, not to mention pick up some simple weapons, in the face of nature, in the grassland grazing, when encountering wolves, it is very normal, most of the bows and arrows they have, although only the simplest, single bow, but they are more numerous, there are also lethal.
Nothing is lacking, and the combat effectiveness is not high, but Yuan Hao finally has a force that can be controlled, perhaps, he can't rely on this force to fight with the Liao State, but with this force, Yuan Hao can maneuver flexibly.
After a simple adjustment, Yuan Hao led the army and came to the vicinity of Helan Mountain, which was the place of the first battle between Liaoxia and the beginning of the nightmare, Yuan Hao was a very vindictive person, he had to be here, to fight back.