What is the inland of Liao, maybe before, they didn't know, with the Northern Song Dynasty's intensified penetration of Liao, after investigating all aspects of Liao, this is a basic common sense.

The Liao State seems to be an emperor's political system, but the whole structure is completely different from the Northern Song Dynasty, and some of their political results are learned from the Northern Song Dynasty, for example, some civil official systems, for example, some political systems in the sixteen states of Yanyun, but more are unique to themselves.

The Northern Song Dynasty was the core of the Zhongshu Sect, and the power of the center was held by the people, and when it came to the locality, it was centered on the provincial government and the county.

The three- and fourth-level system ensures a pyramid-shaped structure, and the central officials only need to be aimed at the provinces and armies, and do not need to be aimed at the state capital and county at the bottom, which greatly saves administrative costs.

However, the Liao State is different, he is from the nomadic tribes, and finally developed a kind of country, the whole is very complicated, on the surface, it is the system of the North Court and the South Court, the North Court mainly controls the nomadic tribes, and the South Court controls the sixteen states of Yanyun and the liaison with the Northern Song Dynasty.

But in fact, the classification is very complicated, for example, the Jurchens and Mongolians in the far north, they seem to belong to the Liao State, but in fact, they are outside, and the Liao State only cares about a nominal jurisdiction over them.

In the grassland Forte, it is even more complicated, there are other non-Khitan ethnic groups such as the attached party, and there are also some small ethnic groups among the Khitan ethnic groups, among them, there are also attacks and killings of each other, the Liao State, just a nominal monarch, as long as it is not too much.

Such a whole can already be called commonplace, in normal times, the efficiency of operation is extremely backward, once a major event happens, it is difficult to respond quickly.

If what happened to Yuan Hao happened in the Northern Song Dynasty, even if Yuan Hao could quietly enter the hinterland of the Northern Song Dynasty, even if he did everything and blocked the news, but some fixed lines between governments, which were almost every day, the road was cut off for a day or two, and it was inconspicuous, but after a long time, someone would definitely find the problem, and investigate and report, then Yuan Hao would have nothing to hide, and he would not give Yuan Hao such a long time to develop so well.

It's too late to say anything now, with iron blood, finance, and crazy killing, Yuan Hao turned a group of nomadic warriors into iron-blooded warriors, more than 50,000 warriors, more than 200,000 horses, with powerful attack and destructive power, before it was still a large nomadic tribe, and now, some are developing towards small cities.

From the analysis of the art of war, such a move is very risky, once in the initial place, it is stifled, Yuan Hao may not even have the ability to react, but once it is not in the early stage, to curb his development, then this is the most terrible, but also the fastest way to snowball.

When 50,000 bloodthirsty warriors with butcher knives raised were slaughtering frantically in the hinterland of Liao, people were dying almost every moment.

To be honest, such a terrible massacre, the intelligence officers of the Northern Song Dynasty almost didn't frighten stupid when they went to investigate.

Being able to be sent to the Liao State to serve as an intelligence duty, none of them is simple, they are all specially cultivated by the Northern Song Dynasty, and they are very outstanding in terms of character and ability, but these people, seeing this result, will be like this, ordinary people can imagine.

A tribe of at least 8,000 people, the entire yurt did not move much, but the people died, the blood of thousands of people, converging into a river, almost dyed a place red, all the animals that could be taken away, and those that could not be taken away, in order to avoid being discovered, did not set fire to them, but directly slaughtered them, and threw them somewhere.

These days, the wild wolves, wild dogs and vultures on the grassland, but they have lived a lot of good days, and there is really no shortage of all kinds of food, and in the later stage of the investigation, these intelligence officers don't even need to approach those tribes, as long as they see the vultures hovering high in the distance.

Those who can sit here are either generals or Jia Chaochang's cronies, they looked at the calm words in the report, but what they sketched in their hearts was a sea of blood, to be honest, the Northern Song Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, even in Hebei and the northwest, when fighting against Liao and Western Xia, they never thought of such a result.

The information is not long, in fact, after Yuan Hao entered the grassland in the hinterland of Liao, he didn't do much.

The first is to include the party clan in the banner, and then it is to grow up from small to big, and kill like crazy.

Jia Chaochang and they already know this information well, and they have been in it for a long time, and they also feel that there is an opportunity in the middle, but they don't know what the opportunity is.

Di Qing and the others, after listening to the information, did not say a word for a long time.

Di Qing asked himself, he knew Yuan Hao very well, but he didn't expect that Yuan Hao would do such a big thing when he was in the most desperate situation, and he intuitively arrived, this was an opportunity.

The population has such a great impact on the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is even said that it is the Liao State, which can be said unceremoniously, the Liao State has suffered a big loss this time.

You must know that before, under the premise that Zhao Xin told the fundamentals, the Northern Song Dynasty carried out a series of intelligence collection in a short period of time.

For a country like Liao, which is full of sieves, it is really not difficult for the Northern Song Dynasty to collect information about these.

You know, I used to think that there were so many people in Liao, but now it seems that aside from those basically, only nominally subordinate Baishan Heishui and Mongolian steppe, there are only such a small number of people in the core of Liao, and there are less than 10 million.

Now, Yuan Hao's hands are too ruthless, ordinary people kill tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, it is already very terrifying, Yuan Hao with his murderous army, almost crazy killing on the grassland.

If it's just the first rogue, it's nothing, the rogue's combat effectiveness is not strong, and his influence is not great, but Yuan Hao is not a rogue, he is a former emperor, but now he has become a rogue, this is something terrible to the extreme.

He not only kills people, but also avoids leaking rumors, winter, itself is on the grassland, it is more difficult to transmit news, a lot of news, often until the beginning of the spring can be spread, now, under the crazy killing, in the core of the entire grassland, almost has become a no-man's land, I don't know how many people, livestock, and even wealth have been cleared up.

This is just the death hole of the Liao State, part of which is still used by the Liao State for the future, trading the materials of the Northern Song Dynasty, has been promised, but in the winter, the large-scale transportation of livestock is not very convenient, so it stopped.

Now that everything is gone, even if the people and livestock are wiped out, even if the grassland is large enough, it is impossible to produce enough, which is a terrible thing.

Jia Chaochang is also worried about this, what happened between Western Xia and Liao has little to do with the Northern Song Dynasty, but Jia Chaochang's desire to do something to Liao has such a thing, what impact will this have on the next thing.

When this news was sent 5 days ago, Jia Chaochang was stunned all of a sudden, he didn't expect that it would be such a result, and he even wanted to contact Di Qing on the same day.

But Di Qing was in Baozhou at this time, and there were some things that he could say directly in private, but it was like through an urgent channel, it would be very difficult, in case the news was leaked.

You must know that at this moment, Han Qi is in full swing, and there will definitely be no fewer people holding his feet, in this case, as long as Jia Chaochang reveals a little rumor, maybe Han Qi will know about it.

Not afraid of 10,000, he was afraid of what happened, he could only wait bitterly, not daring to say a word, when Di Qing came back, he quickly found Di Qing and asked what happened.

Di Qing put it in silence and observed silently, especially Jia Chaochang's attitude, and knew it in his heart.

"Master Jia, what are you going to do?"

"What to do, are there many ways?"

"Of course!" Di Qing nodded and said, "This news is generally good news, but it's a little early!" ”

"Early?" Jia Chaochang couldn't understand and continued to ask.

Di Qing smiled, and began to systematically explain to Jia Chaochang, this time I went to Baozhou, and I have determined the benefits of the combination of the fortress and the longbow, one attack and one defense, it can be said that it is a perfect combination, at this juncture, there is such a thing, which is a little unprepared, but the overall impact is not too big.

If it is said that the Northern Song Dynasty has been thoroughly prepared, he will definitely not hesitate to inform Liao Xingzong of the news, and let Liao Xingzong go to chase and intercept Yuan Hao, Liao Xingzong must not know now that Yuan Hao has made such a huge movement in the hinterland of Liao.

If you know, where would you sit on Diaoyutai so firmly, spend the winter in Xixia, and you would have led the army in a hurry to encircle and suppress Yuan Hao.

However, they are not ready, and there are uncertainties about whether they will march at this time, or wait until they are ready.

The two have their own advantages and disadvantages, the former can rely on the Liaoxia fight, just like this Northwest War, when Liaoxia is inextricably beaten, they take the opportunity to do it again.

This move is definitely okay, Yuan Hao's men have 50,000 cavalry, or some bloodthirsty cavalry fed with a lot of battles and property, with 200,000 horses, and they are very mobile.

The Liao State can only deal with it with elite troops and the main force, and the rest, which is small in number, is to deliver food.

When the two sides hit the climax, they moved, and the Liao State would definitely be overwhelmed, they attacked on this side, although the two sides were not as far as the Western Xia and the Liao State, but there were at least more than 1,000 miles, which was absolutely insurmountable for the traffic situation of this era.

However, in this way, it is not without problems, they are not ready, this matter has just started spring, it is not suitable for sending troops, and the cold in the north has not finally dissipated, which is a difficult problem for them to solve.

The most important thing is that once the battle of Liaoxia ends quickly, the Liao State that has free up its hands will immediately come to attack with all the strength of the country, and on the premise of not completely completing the fortress defense line, the defense system of the Northern Song Dynasty has loopholes, and once this loophole is seized by the Liao State, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The latter is based on the stability of the Song Dynasty, when they have done a good job of sufficient defense, and then attack them, so that no matter whether they win or lose, the Northern Song Dynasty is invincible.

The only downside to this method is that it is slow.

The strategy of stability is actually a bit slow, in case the Liao State gets the news at this critical moment, and is lucky enough to send a large army to kill Yuan Hao, then it will be their Northern Song family, facing the elite forces of the Liao State.

When Jia Chaochang heard this, it turned out that there were so many doorways, although he said that he was so expectant about this matter, but he was never a radical, ordinary civil officials, they don't like any variables, if this variable affects everything, not only does it not take credit, but turns the credit into harm, which he does not want to see.

After simply listening to Jia Chaochang's thoughts, Di Qing knew how to choose, deep in his heart, for the first more radical, he didn't want to choose, it seems that Yuan Hao and Liao Xingzong are already incompatible, and the contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable, but who knows that it will be like this, in history, because of the situation, the two feuds are linked, and there are fewer enemies together?

Once the Liao State and the Western Xia joined forces, it was definitely not a good thing for the Northern Song Dynasty, and when the time came, the Liao army would be attacked and killed by the superior forces of the other party, and then attack the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Do not seek merit, but seek no fault, this is what anyone wants to see, after determining this plan, Jia Chaochang remembered Di Qing's work in Baozhou, and asked a few words.

Di Qing and the officers who went to Baozhou were very sure of the role of the fortress, and emphasized that as long as there were 200 fortresses in the border area and key locations, the defensive strength of the entire Hebei defense line could be expanded by more than three times, and at the same time, the number of garrisons would also be greatly reduced, perhaps only one-third of the original.

Jia Chaochang didn't expect that the strength of the fortress would be so great, as a privy envoy from a civilian background, he preferred defense rather than an offense without a score, maybe the offense determines the results, but the defense determines the lower limit, at present, under the premise that the entire center is not short of money, building the fortress is just a matter of time and money.

If it is safe, the fortress needs to be built, and the longbow needs to be rebuilt, and these conservative estimates will take two or three months, and after all these are ready, it is time to attack.

Jia Chaochang nodded, he agreed with Di Qing's opinion, and was about to end the meeting, but found that Di Qing's face showed a slight dissolution, and said to him: "Lord Jia, I don't want to add another mess to them!" ”

"Can you still add to the chaos?"

"Of course, but the opposite needs to be done!" Di Qing said mysteriously.