The moment Han Qi saw the fortress, his heart sank, but he didn't say anything, but rode his horse over, when they bypassed the mountain pass, from here, the location of the exercise, that is, twenty or thirty miles, under the leadership of the elite cavalry and Han Qi, who was good at horseback riding, they took almost a stick of incense to approach the military formation.

At the forefront of the entire formation, he saw familiar faces. Zhao Xin, even if he hadn't seen him for a few years, he recognized it for the first time, because the silhouette of his childhood left more traces on Zhao Xin's body, plus the portrait of Jiawu before.

The portrait of Jiawu can't be said to have the form and spirit, it can be regarded as quite in place, combined with the previous impression, it is very clear.

Seeing Han Qi get out of the team, Zhao Xin also rode forward, there were only dozens of guards around him, and the guards around Han Qi were hot for a while.

One of the henchmen, taking advantage of the horse, approached Han Qi, and quietly made a gesture.

Han Qi knew what the guards meant, but he stopped the guards with his eyes, it wasn't that Han Qi pretended to be high, even the guards could see it, the huge deterrence of the Dinghai Navy, Han Qi couldn't see it, if he could kill Zhao Xin, understand such an accident, take advantage of the situation, and then take down the Liao State, how could Han Qi not do it.

Han Qi knew Zhao Xin's strength very well, as early as seven or eight years old, Han Qi knew that Zhao Xin's skills were very good, he was young at that time, and he was no less than the elite soldiers of the forbidden army, and this was even praised by Sun Ji.

Sun Ji is so strong, he is calm, at Zhao Xin's age, even at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he does not have Zhao Xin's strength.

Just like that a few years ago, Zhao Xin at that time was less than 4 feet tall, and now, Zhao Xin, who is more than 6 feet and close to 7 feet, has little difference in body shape from adults, what kind of strength does he have in just a few years.

Han Qi came out of the crowd, and there were more than 300 horsemen around him, so many, he could encircle and suppress an elite with outstanding skills and outstanding combat effectiveness.

Not to mention, Zhao Xin's identity, no matter what Zhao Xin says, he is also the son of Renzong, or the only son, and now he has destroyed the Liao State, no one knows better than Han Qi that Renzong's current complex mentality, happiness, worry, pride, hesitation, countless complex mentality, even if he made the most appropriate choice and intercepted Zhao Xin on the spot, what was the use.

Including Han Qi, such a team of 3,000 people can't go back at all, those soldiers who really want to be in the navy are all fools, they are all decorations, their mobility is stronger, enough to kill all of them on the spot, the most important thing, such a move, even if it is successful, will not be recognized by Renzong, maybe the whole family will be unlucky, not to mention, there is a possibility of failure.

There was also a large army behind him, and those neat and tidy soldiers who remained calm and still stood in battle, invisibly, gave him great pressure.

Zhao Xin didn't come out far, probably about 1 mile out of Yuezhong, almost in which position, and joined Han Qi.

Han Qi was in front of Zhao Xin, more than ten meters away, stopped the horse, and looked seriously at the person in front of him, this familiar, but slightly stranger.

It has only been a few years since the Baozhou Mutiny, Han Qi vaguely remembers the scene when he saw Zhao Xin in Miaojiazhuang, at that time, he was still a child, and in just a few years, he has become a young man.

After a few simple greetings, mostly polite words, Han Qi turned to look at the soldiers and asked how many people there were.

Zhao Xin's answer is also very simple, 100,000 people.

Under the huge fortress, the neat rows of queues seem so smooth.

The military system of the Dinghai Navy is somewhat similar to that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also a little different, but it is also based on the regiment, a phalanx of 1,000 people, neatly aligned, and here, at least 100 phalanxes, distributed on a huge land, which also proves the strength from the side

Zhao Xin took out an army of 100,000 at once, which made Han Qi a little surprised, although from those intelligence officers, he had already understood that the army used to destroy Liao was a lot, at least hundreds of thousands, but how many were elites, he didn't know

But looking at this momentum and military appearance, Han Qi knew that these armies were definitely not simple, whether it was a standing posture or that solemn and quiet state, these armies, as long as they were equipped with the same equipment as the Northern Song Dynasty, were no worse than the elite forbidden army.

Does the Dinghai Navy not have the equipment of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is almost no need to ask this question, it is only above the Northern Song Dynasty, not below the Northern Song Dynasty.

Starting from the Dinghai Navy, many things and excellent products are all from the Dinghai Navy, and the military is the most equipped in the middle.

From the very beginning, from the Dinghai to start with the cheaper iron, to the back, the Dinghai Navy also added refined iron to the sales channels, from the basic raw materials, to the finished products, and even now, the Northern Song Dynasty military, more than 80% of the military products, are produced by the Dinghai.

There is no way, even if you get raw materials from Dinghai, to produce finished products, the price is quite high, and the speed is not fast, but in Dinghai, time can be directly saved, and the price has not risen much.

A set of things, produced in the Ding Navy, is at least 30% less than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, this is not a set of two sets, this is 800,000 forbidden troops, more than a million sets of equipment, 30% of a set, integrated, this is a very terrible number.

The promotion of the Northern Song Dynasty can be seen, but the growth rate of the Dinghai Navy is not as fast, and in this case, some people even suspect that the Dinghai Navy is better.

Now everything will be made clear in front of him, if it is not very terrifying, then how can it be easy to destroy the Liao State, and in front of him, this elite army that was specially taken out by Zhao Xin, their equipment must be above the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army.

The Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, now equipped with a longbow or armor, has exceeded the past many times, more powerful protection capabilities, but has a lower weight, the two are superimposed, the combat effectiveness of the Northern Song Dynasty has not only doubled, if you add the promotion of the longbow, this combat effectiveness is stronger, which is also the root of the Northern Song Dynasty's ability to fight the Liao State and recover the clouds.

Now, the Dinghai Navy is also equipped with an army, and it is even better equipped, these 100,000 troops are equivalent to the combat effectiveness of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, not to mention, there are hundreds of thousands of troops mentioned by the secret agents.

100,000 elite soldiers have completely failed many ideas in the Northern Song Dynasty, this is not what Han Qi is most worried about, the appearance of the fortress is also the root cause of Han Qi's heart sinking before, he was thinking at the time, this exercise, will it be against the fortress, only in this way, can it deter the Northern Song Dynasty.

At present, in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the most powerful is the system built by the fortress, and the fortress is stronger than other city walls.

Could it be that this time the Navy will show a strategy for the fortress

This is a little too impossible, as the first contact with the fortress in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, Han Qi was also full of praise for the protection of the fortress, and he also considered how to deal with it when facing the fortress, but he tried many methods, but in the end they all failed, because the fortress was unbreakable.

It can be systematically summed up that there are only very few ways to conquer the bastion, on the one hand, it is to break through from the inside while not paying attention, which is very unlikely.

The gate of the simple fortress needs at least 50 people to be able to open, and a single person, or very few people, cannot be opened at all, which reduces the internal risk.

As a fully militarized device, the bastion generally does not open, and this is true in non-wartime, and even more so in wartime.

Even if the odds are small, it's not that there is no chance, this is an alternative, but it's not for the coaches to worry about, if the coach sets the plan one by one, the fortress is reversed one by one, and it is a key direction to be conquered internally, then there is no way to make a plan.

On the premise that it can only be used as an alternative internally, it can only maintain a strong attack to conquer the fortress, mainly with long-range methods, hard methods, for the fortress, that is in the middle of the chest, because the strong defense of the fortress can be fought more and less in many cases, and it is difficult to consume the fortress, if it is a fortress with about 800 people, it needs at least 10,000, or even more than 20,000 casualties, to be able to take the fortress under a long-term attack.

Such casualties are unbearable for any army, and if you are not careful, in the process of conquering the fortress, the army will also mutiny.

Maybe one fortress, two fortresses, in a key position, the commander can command the army and storm it in one go, but it is a lot, and it is almost an unsolvable problem.

Then there is only one way to conquer the fortress, use long-range, bed crossbows, longbows, in short, use more high-intensity attacks, slowly grind, when the casualties of the fortress reach a certain level, to a certain extent, it is impossible to continue to resist the follow-up attack, and the fortress will be captured

But in the middle, neither method is fast-lived, which also makes the Northern Song Dynasty more concerned about the fortress, as long as the large-scale construction of the fortress, you can maintain the safety of the Northern Song Dynasty, what a cost-effective and cost-effective.

Compared with the construction of a large number of walled cities, the investment in the construction of the fortress is lower, the initial more than 2,000 runs, and later, under the gradual production and input, what things, the production of more, his cost, will be greatly reduced, and the fortress is no exception.

At present, the cost of building a small fortress in the Northern Song Dynasty is only 1,200 guan, which is about 18 meters, and the big one of 25 meters is only about 2,000 guan

In other words, one or two hundred fortresses are only three or four million yuan, and this money, even if it is placed in the Northern Song Dynasty four years before the Qingli calendar, is not very high, let alone now.

The important role of the fortress, in addition to the protection and strength, is that the maintenance cost is low, the general stockade, at least seven or eight hundred people, more than one or two thousand people

But these protection is very poor, at most, it is used to do the work of early warning, but the fortress is at most about 1200 people, the least, 500 people can, but one is a point, a solid protection site, this is a big problem, there are fewer people, the protection is strong, the maintenance cost is less, and it is not easy to be breached, of course, a large number of construction.

Such a building, as long as it is densely spread across the border of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, without internal problems and financial problems, the protection of the entire Northern Song Dynasty is of course impregnable, and there is no need to worry about being breached.

This one can also come out of the battle of Youyun, at that time, the adventure, in the hinterland of Liao, built a fortress, blocked the key intersection of the premise, even if the Liao State is several times, or even 10 times the strength of the army, there is no way to hold this fortress, this is the reality, the reality on the table, this, not to any situation for the transfer.

But what if the navy is intimidation? The fortress was invented by the Dinghai Navy, and the Dingnavy must be very familiar with some of the architectural features of the fortress, as long as it is slightly arranged, with a fortress of tofu scum, even to deceive him, to play a role in intimidation, this is not impossible.

Before, Zhao Xin belonged to the Northern Song Dynasty system, and to a certain extent, he was still Han Qi's son and nephew, so he was careful, but now, the two sides are on the premise of opposing each other, and in this case, he has to guard against it.

On the premise of thinking about the method of attack, Han Qi can only start from other aspects, of course, there is another possibility, that is, the Dinghai Navy really has the ability to conquer the fortress, which is the worst result for the Northern Song Dynasty, and even Han Qi does not want this result to really exist and appear.

Han Qi could only prepare early, so among the people he carried this time, he also brought some personnel who were professional in building fortresses, and there were relatively many of them, almost more than 100 people, most of whom did not know how to ride horses.

In order to bring these people over, it still caused some controversy, and it was under Han Qi's forcible that he brought it over, obviously, this is the right one.

In the beginning, the construction of the fortress was basically built by the construction team of the Dinghai Navy, and at that time, only the Dinghai Navy used reinforced concrete and cement.

However, there are many places in the Northern Song Dynasty that need to build fortresses, all over the Northern Song Dynasty, and the technical content of the fortresses is not high, as long as there are reinforced concrete, the construction is just a repetitive labor, except for the site selection and foundation slightly technical content, the others are much simpler.

In the past three years, most of the fortresses built by the Northern Song Dynasty were built by their own construction team.

Han Qi had already made up his mind, no matter what happened in the future, he would ask to go to the fortress, and take someone who knew more about the fortress and reinforced concrete construction to enter the interior of the fortress and carefully investigate the quality of the fortress to prevent being deceived.