Chapter 700: Military and Road Construction

In 5 months, for the Dinghai Navy, which is equipped with a large number of horses and carriages, the area that can be carried out is quite huge, and there are two options in front of him, one is to attack the hinterland of the Liao State to the south, and even take Tokyo and Zhongjing, and completely destroy the Liao State

Don't look at the navy in the northeast, there are only 500,000 troops, but these 500,000 troops are absolutely elite forces, equipped with nearly 5,000 artillery pieces, and a large number of muskets, but they are cold weapons, which are a few, but these troops equipped with cold weapons are all the best of the best.

The northern nomads, recorded in the history of China, have always been relatively powerful individuals, although ignorant, but once they master the iron, or a slightly more advanced weapon, they can immediately become the henchmen of the central dynasty.

At this point, Zhao Xin, who studies history, has a very right to speak, and there is a dividing line in the middle, that is, the Tang Dynasty.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the northern nomads were skin ringworm, at most for the chaotic side, unless the Central Plains fell into a split, or under the premise of being extremely unfavorable, otherwise, the nomads did not become a climate.

However, during the Tang Dynasty, it was claimed that all countries came to the dynasty, and the policy on the nomads was relaxed to the extreme, and even made peace several times, and put out the advantages of the Central Plains, teaching them to farm, smelt, and even strike iron, to a certain extent, the nomads on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, after a princess Wencheng married, the level of smelting and planting immediately rose, which directly threatened the Central Plains.

This directly caused a series of influences later, the five dynasties and ten kingdoms were the most tragic, after the Northern Song Dynasty, whether it was the Liao State, the Jin State, or the Mongolian State, the key to suppressing the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, the key was Youyun.

With the technical level and planting technology of this group of Han people, the nomads had the foundation to establish a country, and only then did they have the strength to continue fighting.

In the era of cold weapons, this kind of military that can be compared with tanks appears in small groups or officers, but in the East, it appears in clusters.

Whether it is the Jingsai Army, the Tielin Army, or the Iron Harrier, these heavy cavalry are all based on 10,000 people, or even 100,000 people, when on the battlefield, a heavy cavalry with more than 10,000 people, or even more, appears on the battlefield, this is a force that can determine the balance of the battlefield.

Dingjun, under the development of science and technology, the easiest thing to improve is cold weapons, of course, the first time, to the extreme, whether it is lightweight armor, or stamping finished structure, or high hardness, extremely sharp ice blades, these can have the upper hand.

The most important thing is people, after the popularization of thermal weapons, the entire army, about 5% of the cold weapon soldiers, these mostly exist in the form of heavy cavalry and heavy infantry, not to mention weapons and equipment, just talk about the quality of individuals, that is also amazing.

3 years is the 3 years of rapid development of the Dinghai Navy, if we say, the first group of people on the island, they have gone through three years of training, especially the terrible material supply of the Dinghai Navy, the intake of meat with quality and quantity, the guarantee of protein and various nutrients, so that the overall physical fitness of the Dinghai Navy has risen, and even a series of fat people have appeared.

In later generations, fat man is a derogatory term, which is a bad image or personal condition, but in feudal society, fat man is a positive word, and only if the conditions are good enough can fat people be raised.

The abundant supply of food, coupled with the fact that in the Dinghai Navy, these cold-armed soldiers are the best of the best.

On the premise that there are no machine guns and muskets, the quality of the musket has not yet reached the limit, and the necessary guarantee troops must have, and this unit must be able to withstand five times or even ten times the impact of the enemy, and the physical fitness requirements are very high.

On the premise that the overall quality meets the standard, under the selection range of the entire 35 million people, all the elites who come out in the end are all elites, they are tall, powerful, and even skilled in all kinds of bow horses, and they are the protectors of the entire Dinghai Navy at critical moments.

With these, even if the logistics are not very sufficient, the battle line is held with infantry and cavalry, and the muskets are quickly harvested, and the same number, or even two or three times the number of enemies, can be easily killed, plus artillery and explosives, there is no problem at all in breaking through the Liao State.

But this is not the best choice, in the previous plan, it was mentioned that there is no need to make a detour to Vladivostok, land directly from the Liaodong Peninsula, and then attack the entire Liao State, within half a month, take Tokyo, and after more than a month, you can directly attack Zhongjing and destroy the Liao State.

This was a huge temptation, and for these people who wanted to make meritorious contributions, it was absolutely impossible to refuse, but in the end, after several rounds of discussion, they rejected the proposal.

Liao is very difficult now, but his existence still has his positive significance.

It was the object of threatening the Northern Song Dynasty before, and after the landing of the Dinghai Navy, it became a buffer between the two sides, although it was said that the Imperial City Division had infiltrated quite strongly in the Liao State, but the Liao State did not have much control over the nomads in the north, and the Imperial City Division was even more so, Zhao Xin did not think about it, and completely concealed it, but with a buffer zone, even if it was leaked, there was no direct confrontation, so that the room for maneuver was greater.

Relative to the power, time is the most critical thing, the development of the Dinghai Navy, has now gradually begun to get rid of the Northern Song Dynasty, but the homeland and people's hearts, is the most difficult to grasp, only time can smooth everything, and even in a sense, when 5 years, or 10 years later, with the growth of newborns and a new generation of teenagers in the Dinghai Navy, or even 15 years later, 20 years later, these people who were born in the Dinghai Navy, grew up with the Dinghai Navy, and when the time comes, the Dinghai Navy is the moment to completely break away from the Northern Song Dynasty.

Under such circumstances, rashly attacking the Liao State, destroying the Liao State, and bordering the Northern Song Dynasty will produce a series of problems, which will not be conducive to development.

The road to the south is actually blocked, so there is only north or west.

The north is a broader Siberia, with huge land and abundant natural resources, but it is too cold, if you say, in Vladivostok, in Harbin, almost 5 months of cold winter, it is unbearable, but in 60 degrees north latitude, 70 degrees, and even half a year, even to the polar regions, almost unanimously in a cold state, this is terrible.

In Zhao Xin's view, the north is rich in resources, but it is difficult to exploit, China's scientific and technological level is, even the level of machinery, before reaching a certain level, the possibility of developing the north is almost zero, at most the construction of some forest farms, these can not accommodate many people at all.

Compared to the more demanding north, westward is much more suitable.

From the northeast to the west, that is, the place where it entered the inner and outer Mongolia of later China, this is the territory of the current Mongols.

For Mongolia, Zhao Xin has always been very resistant, although Mongolia, later, was driven out of the Central Plains by Zhu Yuanzhang's musketeers of the Ming Dynasty, and hot weapons were the nemesis of the Mongolian cavalry, but the Mongolia of that era was Mongolia after it had been corrupted and degenerated.

Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, those small countries in Europe, those countries that were prostrate under the Golden Horde, didn't they also defeat them.

At its peak, it conquered almost the entire Asia, and expeditions to the banks of the Danube, such a nation, in the entire history of the world, there is only one Mongolia, although now, the Mongolian steppe has not yet been unified, and there is no birth of Genghis Khan, but the rising Mongolia, Zhao Xin has always been very vigilant.

Crippling the Jurchens is equivalent to saying, especially the hundreds of thousands of Jurchen tribes near Baishan and Heishui, that there is no hope for the rise of the Jin State, and now, it is time to deal with Mongolia.

The nomads, before mastering the advanced iron tools and some military tactics, their combat effectiveness was very limited, and the Jin State of later generations was inherited from the legacy of the Liao State and won the sixteen states of Youyun, which gradually became stronger, and finally destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.

As for Mongolia, they have more access to big food, and there are other things of the central dynasty, such as the Huihui cannon, if there is no Huihui cannon, no matter how powerful Mongolia is, there is not much way to take the Southern Song Dynasty.

In fact, going to Mongolia has another meaning, Inner and Outer Mongolia, although the geographical and climatic conditions are not very good, but these two places are two huge, the same, all aspects of the resources are very rich in places.

Inner Mongolia has a large amount of gold, coal mines, and iron ore, especially the iron ore of Baiyun Obo, which is not only of high taste, but also has many other mineral deposits, some precious non-ferrous metals, and other things, which can be found here.

The most critical is Outer Mongolia, in the 21st century, one of the largest discoveries on land, more than 30 million tons of copper, 1,200 tons of gold, the world's third largest gold and copper mine, in Mongolia, just north of the border between China and Mongolia, less than 200 kilometers away, it can be said that it is close at hand.

In this era, whether it is the Northern Song Dynasty or the Dinghai Navy, whether they have the ability to dig this gold and copper mine, but as long as a part of this copper mine is mined, it will be a huge promotion for the future, the gradual development of thermal weapons, and the era of electricity.

Countless examples in later generations have proved that copper is the best bullet case material for bullets, and as for wires, copper wires are much better than aluminum wires in all aspects.

After determining the direction and actually occupying a large area of territory that originally belonged to Heilongjiang, the Dinghai Navy quickly moved westward and entered the grassland.

The sky is firm, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grassland to see the cattle and sheep, at a glance, very huge, some people who are not familiar with the terrain on the grassland, it is very easy, they will get lost on the grassland, and Huo Quai, who is a wolf, if it is not led by a guide, don't want to find the royal court of the Huns.

This point is also difficult for the Dinghai Navy, but the Dinghai Navy has some solutions, for example, in a considerable area, to build a high tower, as long as some iron parts are combined, to ensure that it is 100 meters high.

The unique arrangement, as well as the luminous light and many other effects, will allow it to guide the direction day and night, different rays of light or signs, proving his geographical location, the grassland at a glance, even ordinary people, with the naked eye can see far away, let alone equipped with a telescope Dinghai.

If you don't need to be particularly clear, you can see the towers from a distance of about 50 kilometers with the help of a telescope, which ensures that you don't get lost.

A tall tower covers an area of about 50 kilometers, that is, about 10,000 square kilometers.

The whole of Inner and Outer Mongolia, combined, is only 3 million square kilometers of land, that is, if evenly distributed, there are about 300.

In fact, the density is not so sparse, Dinghai later counted, a total of 550 were built, this is still in Mongolia most of the tribes have been killed, some poor, or sparsely populated places, these places, do not need to go, in fact, basically relative location, covering about 30 kilometers, which basically divides the entire grassland into blocks.

For these, the Dinghai Navy, which has mobility and attack power, is still dealing with those Mongolian tribes that have not become a climate, and the Mongolian tribes at this time are far less powerful than the Jurchens.

The Jurchens have already appeared with 4,000 large tribes with armor and a total number of more than 30,000, but in Mongolia, the largest number of tribes is only seven or eight thousand people with armor, and even less.

Military behavior, always subordinated to the purpose, the navy is not to come and shoot a shot and leave, he is to occupy this territory forever, from the northeast, Vladivostok to Heilongjiang, the first line of the Outer Khingan Mountains, almost 700,000 square kilometers of land, plus Inner and Outer Mongolia, it is more than 4 million, such a huge territory, compared to the current Northern Song Dynasty, there are a lot, although the land is vast and sparsely populated, the natural conditions are harsh, but he is land after all.

In order to completely occupy and occupy it steadily, what is needed is the layout of the whole line, and military occupation is only the first step, and then it is to arrange a large number of cities and link them with transportation.

Now, the climatic conditions in the Northeast are not suitable for the railway for the time being, the Central Plains can be used to pull a horse-drawn train, what is wrong with the Northeast, once it is winter, the climatic conditions are bad, and the horse capacity will also be greatly reduced, not only the transportation capacity is not high, and even easy to cause danger.

On this basis, the whole strategy in the Northeast is to build roads, at least under the precursors of the occupied territory, there must be a highway to link this place with the back, and the areas that have been occupied and consolidated have begun to build road networks like spider webs, striving to make it easier for each place to get to the other.

At the same time, these road-building troops of the Dinghai Navy also follow the footsteps of the army, and some of them are highly mobile, just building some simple lane changes to ensure the needs of logistical support, and the rest is to gradually improve and complete the construction of large highways and various branch roads, and the Dinghai Navy has quietly laid its own foundation in the northeast and has become more and more solid.

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