Chapter 779: The Fall of Zhongjing
There are a lot of requests for help, if you go to the north, maybe, you can still pass, but in the north, even the nearest nomads, have been cleaned up thousands of kilometers by the Dinghai Navy, from the Jurchens in the Black Water part of the White Sea, to the large tribes of Mongolia, and even some tribes ignored by the Khitan.
Almost all of these people concentrated their efforts and went to the vicinity of Suihua to build a city, and in this area, except for the city built by the Dinghai, there was no place for nomads.
It seems a bit wasteful, the huge grassland, should have become a pasture, just like the northwest, if the navy is used comprehensively, the area of the grassland is all utilized, this grassland, the effect that can be formed is very outstanding.
It's a pity that now, the Dinghai Navy has a population of less than 10 million in the entire north, which sounds like a lot, but after concentrating seven or eight million people on the front line of Vladivostok and Suihua, there is really no energy to focus on the grasslands.
In the future, after facing the industrialization of Shenyang as the core, when enough people have migrated and a series of industrial systems have been established, these grasslands will definitely have to be developed.
Obviously, it is valuable and possible to develop, let it go in vain, it has never been the style of the navy, in the same way, the people of the navy, healthy development, must have enough dietary structure, and the ecology on the grassland is to do this, plus some supplements of the navy, of course, there will be a higher production capacity.
It's just that now is not an opportunity, the Dinghai Navy has undergone this direct expansion, and suddenly got a larger land than the Northern Song Dynasty, until now, there is still the hometown of Western Xia has not been taken, where the power of the Liao State is weak, as long as tens of thousands of people are sent, you can take it, but unfortunately, it is too far, and there is no such opportunity.
This has formed a huge problem, if Yuan Hao knows that after the fall of the Liao State, he will definitely move to this side, even when Liao Xingzong was at the peak, Yuan Hao was not afraid, although in the battle of Liaoxia, Yuan Hao suffered a big loss, but later revenge was still possible, and plundered enough population from the Liao State.
As long as it takes a little time to repair, it will definitely take back the original land, and knowing the demise of the Liao Kingdom, it will definitely do the same.
It is not easy to defend the original land with the current strength of the navy, let alone take more territory and develop the grasslands, which is destined to be a matter of a few years, and it is not possible now.
The messenger sent by Liao Xingzong to the north will definitely not find anyone who can ask for help.
As for Liao Xingzong's request for help from the Northern Song Dynasty, it was beyond Zhao Xin's expectations, but the south has always been relatively well defended.
The main defense of the navy is the leakage of information, and the defense is those secret agents of the Northern Song Dynasty, who have been active in the intelligence department for a long time, if they really want to cross over, then they are a little unguardable.
did not wait for the spies of the Northern Song Dynasty, because the movements of the entire Dinghai Navy were too fast, and many spies did not even react, and the city was controlled.
In front of the army, their strength is small, and before they understand the trend, they dare not act rashly, or still think about continuing to spy on some useful information, in this case, it is these messengers of the Liao State who crash in.
The 300,000 army, except for occupying some strategic points, is stationed at key points, plus the appearance of telescopes, unless it lurks at night and passes the critical distance of more than 40 kilometers, otherwise, it will not work at all.
The Liao State did not think so much at all, it seemed stable, there were no roads for defenders, and there were ambushes everywhere.
In front of elite shooters, more than 300 meters, or even more than 400 meters, will not be safe at all.
Of the more than 20 messengers sent by the Liao State, except for 12 who directly collided with the patrol of the Dinghai Navy and were caught, the others were all killed by cold shots.
These messengers with high hopes from Liao Xingzong did not find any call for help, and he was like a trapped rat, panicking all day.
On the eighth day of the attack, that is, on the sixth day of Suihua's troops, a vanguard of Suihua joined the 40,000-strong army in the south and came to the city of Tokyo.
This largest city, except for Zhongjing, at this time, it seemed that there was no damage at all, but 90,000 people arrived, surrounded it and flooded it, among them, the defenders also began to struggle, and sent a cavalry of 70,000 people to rush it.
In the face of the double blow of artillery and muskets, 70,000 people only supported a cup of tea for a while, and then collapsed, with a loss of more than 4 percent, and they scattered back to the city, never daring to go out of the city again, the city wall seemed to have become their last straw, but they didn't know that the city wall could not give them much protection at all.
90,000 troops, a total of more than 80 siege artillery, large and small artillery, also more than 400, these even at the end of the 19th century, can be called terrible firepower, in this era, that is absolutely unconventional black technology.
The defenders watched the Dinghai Navy, and in front of the city wall, a large number of artillery pieces were placed, and then in half an hour, the powerful siege artillery directly sieveed the city wall.
This time, the Dinghai Navy did not choose to attack quickly, and they didn't need to rush to Tokyo and Zhongjing left, as long as they took it, so that they could reduce casualties.
For this attack by the Dinghai Navy, the casualty rate is very small, it may be one or two hundred at most, and it is possible to have a dozen or so if it is less.
Unless it is Kaesong surrendered, otherwise, after attacking the city, there will always be a street fight, and if the other side is strictly defended, the street battle will definitely kill people.
Even during the Gulf War, there would be casualties under the premise that the generation difference was probably several generations higher, not to mention that the musket was only slightly ahead of this era.
In the street fighting, there are thousands of changes, and sometimes, sudden changes, the attacking army is greedy for merit and rashness, and there will definitely be twists and turns, and dozens of casualties are possible.
A small city is still like this, not to mention a huge city like Tokyo, after a series of weakenings in the Liao State, Tokyo shrank part of its forces and supported Zhongjing, but Tokyo still has more than 150,000 troops so far, and this army is a huge threat.
It's also a very good way to use unrivaled strength and powerful attacks to deter the defenders, but it takes a little longer.
In fact, the battle lasted for 12 days, 400 guns, not for the purpose of killing, but only to destroy the city walls, and the walls of Tokyo were cleaned by artillery, not all destroyed, but most of them were destroyed.
The powerful offensive, coupled with the field combat capabilities of the previous navy, made the Liao army in the city panic all day long, especially under the threat of artillery.
Although the navy is controlled as much as possible, how can there be no dead in a war, let alone powerful artillery, occasionally deviate, or there are defenders in the range of artillery attacks, and death is a high probability of time.
In 12 days, the Liao army lost only more than 4,000 people, but the death of these people was quite miserable, and it was still irresistible.
The long-term oppression, coupled with the fact that the city wall had been broken, finally made the defenders of Tokyo completely lose the courage to resist, and finally, under the leadership of the remaining guards, all surrendered.
The fall of Tokyo was only one step earlier than Zhongjing, and before the fall of Tokyo, the three-way army had already been encircled together, in addition to the 100,000 troops besieging Tokyo, guarding in the south, and cutting off the news of 200,000, the remaining 600,000 troops, almost 7 percent or so, gathered under the city of Zhongjing, one by one, and the last Zhongjing City was left.
However, when there was only one Zhongjing left, there was no continued attack, and this time not attacking, not to put pressure on Zhongjing, but to wait for someone.
The person they were waiting for was none other than Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin was the head of Ding's navy, and because it was too cold in the north before, it was not too important, so he just went to Vladivostok to go around and boost morale.
But now, the entire land of the Liao State has been taken down, and even the central Kyoto of the Liao State has to be taken down, which is an important node.
Liao, once the strongest force in the whole of China, is also the first power on the mainland, Zhongjing may not be as prosperous as Bianliang, but the importance is still too much, such a key point, Zhao Xin must come over.
Zhao Xin rarely went to sea before, the reason is very simple, in this era, the ship is not very safe.
But after such a long time, especially after eating the Western-style sailing ship thoroughly, adding the watertight cabin of the Chinese-style sailing ship, the safety performance of the ship has been greatly improved, not to mention, from the Dinghai Navy, taking the sea route, all the way is at the border, after entering the Bohai Sea, it is even safer, this way is safer than going to Vladivostok.
Zhao Xin landed from Liaodong 4 days ago, and then arrived here quickly, and the entire Liao country, which was able to resist, was cleared, leaving only one Zhongjing like a ripe fruit, left there.
The army of 420,000 does not sound like much, but it is really placed on the periphery of a city, but it is as dense as a mountain, which is very scary.
The huge army, in fact, was very small in charge of fighting, and most of it was for the purpose of monitoring the personnel of the Liao State, striving for as many captures as possible, and there were currently 180,000 people in the north of the Liao State, almost evenly distributed in the cities of the Liao State that had been occupied.
Even after a series of losses, Liao now has more than 3 million personnel, which is not much, but Zhao Xin does not want to waste it, manpower is a very precious resource, and the reason why the Dinghai Navy has developed to this extent is inseparable from the huge manpower of the Northern Song Dynasty in this era.
If Zhao Xin did not travel to the Northern Song Dynasty, but to any island country in the Pacific Ocean, even if he had the ability to reach the sky, it would not have been possible to develop to this extent.
Without the huge manpower of the Northern Song Dynasty, there are only a few hundred uncivilized natives in the island country, I am afraid that in a few years, Zhao Xin is still solving the problem of daily necessities, even if there is a card system, there is no way to solve it, let alone now, the Liao State is about to be destroyed.
The demise of the Liao State is only a matter of time, after this war, the Ding Navy will not be able to hide its purpose, even the Liao State has been killed, Zhao Xin's purpose of ascending to the high position is clear at a glance, the most unfortunate, is also a Liao Emperor, in this case, the relationship with the Northern Song Dynasty, will become delicate, the original support of his market and raw materials, there may be problems, if not handled well, maybe, the Ding Navy will usher in a crisis.
In the past few years, the Northern Song Dynasty vigorously built various railways, and also imported a huge number of raw materials, which was enough to support the Dinghai Navy for a long time.
In the middle, the most important thing is grain, Dinghai vigorously promoted scientific planting in the Northern Song Dynasty, coupled with the dual role of farm fertilizer and chemical fertilizer, so that the Northern Song Dynasty's grain harvest, in addition to their own use, most of them were purchased by Dinghai at a fixed price.
This is a double win, the Dingjun stockpiled snacks, and the farmers of the Northern Song Dynasty also received income, so as not to hurt the peasants, but relatively speaking, the income of the Dinghai Navy will be greater.
Under the premise of the current grain reserves, it can be supplied to the navy for five years without harvesting, and in between, without adding the food produced by the navy due to breeding and fishing, with those, it may be possible to support it for seven or eight years, or even ten years
During this time, even if the Ding Navy was blockaded by the Northern Song Dynasty, it would have been able to reclaim the land of the Liao State and become self-sufficient. As long as the Liao State is thoroughly digested, and the raw materials of the Liao State and the north are used under the impetus of the huge population and productive forces, the Ding Navy can also develop and develop very well
After Zhao Xin arrived, the destruction of Liao was already close at hand, Zhongjing is the capital of Liao, and under the efforts of Liao and Hanmin, a huge city wall was built, these are in front of the siege artillery, it is really like paper paste, the last battle, the Ding Navy in order to show its strength, took out at least 800 siege guns, these artillery carried out a total of half an hour of attack, countless armor-piercing shells, was hit on the city wall, in the face of the terrible attack force, the entire city wall of Zhongjing collapsed, a large section collapsed, Zhongjing of the Liao State opened its door to the Ding Navy.
After that, the whole attack was fought over this gap, and the Liao State did not know how many people were filled into this gap, but it was all in vain, and after half an hour, another section of the wall collapsed, and then the third, the fourth, and the fifth.
The huge Zhongjing city wall is like a game of fixed explosion, and there will be a day when it will be cleaned up.
In the face of such a situation, originally, the Liao army, which was fighting to the end, all their wishes were disappointed, and after they lost at least 50,000 people after fierce defense, they chose to surrender, and Liao Xingzong was unwilling to surrender, and finally set himself on fire in the Liao Palace.
The entire Liao State was completely taken, and the land that originally belonged to the Liao State, including those nomads controlled by the north, was completely included in the jurisdiction of the Ding Navy, and the Liao State, which was once powerful and was the existence of the Northern Song Dynasty's henchmen, was finally included in the pile of old papers, and the Liao State was destroyed, and the Ding Navy replaced it.
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