The originally arrogant generals of the Liao State were all depressed at this time, and many people still felt that the punishment of heaven had come and they had lost their souls.

Only Wu Yanguang was unconvinced, and Chong Chaoyong said: "The southerners will only use intrigues and tricks, and they are heroes who fight with us alone." ”

Black Whirlwind Li Kui rushed forward with a board axe and scolded Wu Yanguang, "You son of a bitch, you dare to have a hard mouth, eat grandpa's axe." ”

Chao Yong motioned to Jiao Ting, who was faceless and supervised on the side, to grab Li Kui, and said to Yelu Dashi, an old acquaintance on the side, with a smile: "How is it, do you also think we are using conspiracy and trickery?" ”

Yelu Dashi thought about it, Liang Guo's strategy seems to be half-crossing, and the explosion after that can only be said to be the application of new weapons, no matter how thick the skin is, it can't be said that the new weapons used by people are conspiracy and tricks, the southerners have a lot of skilled craftsmen, and often invent new weapons, and there are a lot of firearms before, but the power is not the same as today's artillery.

As for this half-way attack, it seems that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for the side. If all the Liao troops cross the river, after the huge explosion, I am afraid that the fate of 50,000 people will not be any different from the current result. The power of the earth shaking the mountains is enough to destroy the fighting spirit of the Liao soldiers, so that all the war horses are out of control, even if more people cross the river, it can only be a rout.

In history, when the Jin State attacked the Liao State Nanjing, when it reached the Juyong Pass, the Liao soldiers also held on for a period of time, the Jin soldiers were helpless, and when they were about to retreat, a sudden earthquake made the Liao soldiers quickly lose their fighting spirit, abandon the pass and flee, and the Jin soldiers were able to enter the Nanjing area and sweep away the last territory of the Liao State.

Yelu Dashi thought of this under Chao Yong's prompting, and couldn't help but be suspicious, could it be that Liang Guo deliberately let more than 10,000 people cross the river, just to let Liao Guo see the power of Liang Guo's new weapons, so that they would retreat in the face of difficulties?

Yelu Yanxi, the Liao Emperor on the other side, had already gone ashore, and the Liao generals who were originally arrogant were all depressed at this time, and many people had not yet reacted from the earth-shattering explosion. A look of lost soul.

changed his clothes and armor in the camp tent prepared by his own soldiers at any time, and brought a group of civil and military generals to the river, preparing to talk to the prince of Daliang on the other bank.

Yelu Yanxi had completely lost the idea of going south to attack Liang at this time, and the artillery of the southerners was too powerful, and the huge crater that was blown out on the opposite side could be seen on the other side of the river. He was also a little glad at this time, if he crossed the river, maybe his life would be lost.

The crater of the explosion was nearly 100 zhang long, not that the power of the explosion was so great, but it detonated 500 catties of black powder in the tunnel, overturning many tunnels. Therefore, it seems that a pit of nearly 100 feet has been blown up.

Yelu Dashi saw the emperor Yelu Yanxi on the other side, and he also thought that he had found the answer, Liang must be afraid of blowing up the emperor of Liao and triggering a war between the two countries. Now that the Central Plains is in civil strife, the Liang State is unable to wage an all-out war with the Liao State. Although the Liao State was also unable to start a full-scale war with the Liang State, if the emperor was killed by the Liang State, no matter who succeeded to the throne, he could only send troops to attack the Liang State and avenge the previous emperor. In this way, we can win people's hearts.

Obviously, Liang Guo did not want to see this situation, so he only let some of his soldiers and horses cross the river and gave them a thunderous blow.

Yelu Dashi thought he had found the answer, and a smile appeared on his face. said with a smile: "The prince said that he was joking, Liang Guo has such a firearm, why use any strategy." ”

After Yelu Dashi saw the strength of Liang Guo, he also changed his name. When he saw Chao Yong before, he always called him by his name or called Xiaobawang, because he felt that Liang Guo was actually still the grass gang in Liangshan, and the founding of the country was only because there was no one in the Southern Dynasty. He doesn't have any strength at all, and he doesn't think Chao Yong has really become a prince. However, today's battle made him know that Liang Guo no longer seemed to be something that their Liao State could easily take, and under the persecution of Jin State, Liang State could even force them to sit down and talk.

Chao Yong does not deny the power of firearms, after all, the smell of gunpowder smoke on the battlefield is enough to explain everything, gunpowder is no secret in this era, and there is no need for him to deceive himself.

Chao Yong smiled: "Yes, you have also seen the power of my girder gunpowder, if it is used to attack the city, it will be even more unbreakable, and the fortified city and dangerous passes will be meaningless." Originally, you and I had an alliance, and it was not good for me to go north to attack you and recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun of my Han people. Unexpectedly, you tore up the covenant first and went south to invade our dynasty. That's exactly what I wanted, hahaha. ”

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Liao people advocated Han culture, and the Southern Yuan system was modeled after the Tang and Song Dynasty court systems, which can be said to be very sinicized. Most generals can understand Chinese, of course, there are few who are proficient in poetry like Yelu Dashi, after all, there are only a few Han people who can be proficient in poetry.

Hearing that Prince Liang admitted that it was the power of firearms, these Liao generals couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, after all, although firearms are powerful, they can always come up with a way to deal with it, if it is really punished by heaven, then they can only sit and wait for death.

Yelu Dashi said with a smile: "If the prince really wants to recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun, why don't you let my army all cross the river and defeat my Liao army." Now there are more than 30,000 troops of our Daliao on the other side, and if you cross the river and fight in the field, I am afraid that firearms will not be used. ”

Chao Yong turned his head to look at the huge pit not far away, and secretly screamed that it was a pity. He didn't expect that after the gunpowder was put in the tunnel, it would be so powerful, and he had never seen the power of five hundred catties of black powder explosion.

If the power of the explosion is not large, it will only disturb some of the Liao soldiers, and the remaining tens of thousands of Liao soldiers will also be a difficult bone to gnaw. Although the Liao State could not afford to be injured, Daliang was even more unable to bear the consequences of losing his troops.

Yesterday, he just received a gold medal urgently, the 400,000 troops of Western Xia invaded, and the west has lost several state capitals in a row, and the main force of the Western army has not yet returned.

The 50,000 soldiers and horses under the command of the Seed Master Dao plus the reinforcements of Daliang were only 100,000 people, and they were unable to hold all the cities at all, so they chose to guard the Yongxing Army and Qinfeng Road, which was the most inland area, which is now Shaanxi.

Da Liang has appointed the seed master Dao as a lieutenant, and the military affairs in the west are also fully entrusted to him. Chao Yong had previously told the seed master that he could optionally give up a part of the city, so as to maintain his strength to resist the Western Xia soldiers and horses, so as not to be too long and be broken by the Western Xia, and the entire northwest would fall.

At first, the cultivator was reluctant to give up a city, but when he found out that Western Xia armed all the men who could go to the battlefield from all the tribes in the territory, he wanted to plunder the rich Central Plains, and gathered more than 400,000 soldiers and horses.

When the cultivator heard this number, he immediately gave up the idea of dividing troops to guard the border. Painfully gave up the dozens of cities that relied on the Western Xia, and the resistance of these cities was completely the spontaneous resistance of the Han people who were unwilling to become slaves of the party members.

The total strength of Western Xia was around 500,000, but the last time hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were gathered was during the reign of Empress Dowager Liang. Since the Liao State poisoned the Empress Dowager Liang and Li Qianshun succeeded to the throne, although Tong Guan continued to use troops against the Western Xia, Li Qianshun did not gather hundreds of thousands of troops again, but only used a small number of soldiers and horses to resist the invading Western army, and from time to time to defend himself and counterattack.

Tong Guan initially thought that the various tribes of Western Xia were centrifuging, and they were no longer able to organize hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Song Dynasty. Therefore, he wanted to destroy the Western Xia and establish the meritorious service of the king. However, after more than ten years of military use in the northwest, the results of the Western Army were limited, and on the contrary, it lost its troops. In the first year of Xuanhe, the battle even lost Liu Fa, the envoy of the Xihe River, and 100,000 Western troops. Liu Fa is a veteran general of the Western Army, known as a prestige, and can be said to be a veteran with the same name as the seed master, but under the command of Tong Guan's greedy merit, the lone army went deep, and was finally defeated by the Western Xia Jin King Chage, losing 100,000 elite Western troops, and he also ended up in defeat and death, and his head was cut off by the Western Xia people and sent to the Song Dynasty to demonstrate. It can be said that it is a loss of teachers and humiliation of the country.

After Liu Fa's defeat, the Seed Master Dao sent more spies to Western Xia to inquire about the news. It's a pity that he just started to deploy, but because he opposed Lianjin to destroy Liao, he was dismissed by the imperial court. Although he can still control a lot of military power, in order to avoid suspicion, he can only live in seclusion.

However, the spies sent before still brought back a lot of caution, after Li Qianshun took charge of the government, rectified the rule of officials, reduced taxes, paid attention to agriculture, built water conservancy, and gradually transferred the military power of the Empress Dowager Liang's cronies to the imperial clan over the years. Previously, he did not dare to send a large army to confront the Western Army, because he was afraid that Empress Dowager Liang's cronies would use the military power to make trouble under the pretext of using it, and in recent years, the military power has been transferred to the hands of the imperial family, and Li Qianshun has no constraints. Coupled with the hard work of these years, it can be said that the national power of Western Xia was the strongest.

Li Qianshun married the princess Cheng'an of the Liao State again, and made good relations with the Liao State, leaving only the grassland tribes in the north to be unruly and unruly, and from time to time they sent troops to plunder. Li Qianshun could only send a large army to garrison the north to guard against attacks from the north.

It was also a great surprise to hear that Western Xia had gathered an army of 400,000 to invade. Western Xia needs to guard against the grassland tribes in the north, and the states in the territory also need a certain number of soldiers and horses to garrison, otherwise no tribe can rebel and copy his nest.

Unexpectedly, Li Qianshun directly armed the men of all the tribes in the territory, and used the rich Central Plains to tie everyone to his chariot, so that he did not have to worry about the rebellion of the tribes in the territory, and only needed to leave a small number of soldiers and horses to defend the city, and gathered an incredible army of 400,000.

The Northern Song Dynasty claimed to be 800,000 forbidden troops, plus the box army and native soldiers, with a total of more than one million soldiers and horses, but no matter how much the emperor wanted to sweep away the Western Xia and Liao, he could not send half of the soldiers and horses at one time, that is, 500,000 troops, let alone 800,000 troops.

However, with a total strength of 500,000 troops, the Western Xia sent 400,000 troops at a time, which shows the determination of the Western Xia to invade.

After the seed master Dao heard the news, he immediately ordered the soldiers and horses in the northwest to withdraw from their respective state capitals, retreat to Qinfeng Road, and gather soldiers and horses to resist Western Xia. But many people did not accept his orders, but chose to hold on to the city.

All the western armies are natives, and their families are behind them, and while they are brave in battle, they are also unwilling to abandon their homeland, and they do not hesitate to disobey the general's orders.

There is no choice but to let people step up their efforts to probe the news of the Western Army, and prepare to persuade other Western Army generals to stick to the Qinfeng Road, lest they be broken by the Western Xia soldiers and horses. (To be continued......)