The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 585 Unstoppable

It only took less than an hour for Yizhou City to be breached, which really surprised Zhao Tao.

I really thought that the city in the Western Region was easy to attack. According to what Li Yanxian said, with elite soldiers and strong generals carefully deployed, they would definitely be able to capture it within a day. However, I never expected that it would only take an hour.

Zhao Tong couldn't help but be silent for a while, and then looked at Lianaza. Lianaza didn't say anything, but just looked away, feeling quite embarrassed.

Zhao Tao seems to know how Yelu Dashi swept across the Western Regions and Central Asia. Fifteen or six thousand soldiers can conquer such a large territory in Western Liao, which is really staggering. The actual reason is that the combat power of the Central and Western Asia armies is really strong at this moment. It’s hard to describe in one word.

No matter how powerful the 20,000 fine cavalry Yelv Dashi obtained from Kedun City were, their combat power could not be compared to the current Jurchens, but they defeated the west side without the ability to fight back. From this, it can be inferred that the current Jurchen army is, How powerful it is.

As for the countries in Central and Western Asia, they include the Western Uyghurs, the Eastern and Western Karakhanids, the Seljuk Empire, and dozens of vassal states after they were fragmented, including Byzantine Asia Minor, the Ghaznavid dynasty of Tianzhu, the Caucasus, and the Persian Empire. In the battle of Katwan, those countries in Central and Western Asia were all defeated. Everyone ran away, and everyone ran away. How could they be the opponent of Yelu Dashi?

They were all shocked, defeated and dispersed by Liao Qi!

Extrapolating from this, the Crusades are simply a joke. With such a combination of combat power in Central and Western Asia, the Crusades were not defeated even after 200 years of fighting. This relatively proves how powerful Europe is in this era. Weak chicken.

If we continue to calculate this, it is not too surprising that the Tatars later swept across the Eurasian continent. It is completely understandable. In the cold weapon era, the absolute king has always been in the east.

Of course, Zhao Tong did not jump to a conclusion hastily, but really thought deeply and considered it from the perspective of city attack and defense. The cities in the Western Regions were poorly built and difficult to defend and easy to attack. The same was true in Central and Western Asia. For the military, it simply does not come too easily.

The city is already weak, but if we encounter an army that is good at attacking cities, wouldn't it be like giving food to them?

The same goes for the castles in Europe. They look strong, but are actually unbearable, because castles have several weaknesses, such as fear of fireworks and long-term drowsiness, and these are all tactics used by city siege chiefs.

After Zhao Tong figured out these things, he asked Liyanaza to take over Yizhou City. After all, he didn't want to massacre the city and clean it up, so it was just right for Liyanaza to come forward.

Therefore, the Battle of Katwan can truly reflect the combat power situation between the East and the West in this era.

Referring to the Battle of Katwan, the armies in Central and Western Asia were not only unable to defend the city, but also fell far behind in terms of encounters and positional warfare. Based on this, inferring from this, in such a weak situation, the Crusades were not even able to defeat the European Crusade. The army is not strong either.

The Xiliao established by Yelu Dashi built a bridge that could compare the combat power of the East and the West, and could objectively reflect the combat power of all parties in this era. However, the Tatars in later generations could only crush them, and there was no valuable reference between the opponents. Compared.

The Battle of Katwan is a very representative and authentic battle, because this battle is not only recorded in the East, but also in the West, especially the records within the local pope. Perspective, objectivity is the bottom line, but he bluntly stated that this battle was a disastrous failure.

As for representativeness, the opponent is a multinational coalition with several times the strength of Yelu Dashi. It involves a variety of war modes, including encounters on the plains and siege of cities and land. However, Yelu Dashi defeated the opponent with less and more. It is the east and west A multi-faceted and complete collision between the Fang army.

As for how to take over, suppress and appease, Zhao Tong already had a method and directly taught it to Liya Naza.

Then the army did not leave directly, but stayed in Yizhou for three days, just to spread the news and let the whole Uighurs know about it. If they fight, they must conquer them all at once, beat them to fear, and beat them to the point of fear, so that the whole country will know.

Three days later, the troops crossed the river. Jiaohe was originally the capital of "Cheshiqian Kingdom", one of the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions.

"Book of Han·Biography of the Western Regions" states: In the former state of Cheshi, the king governed Jiaohe City, and the river flowed around the city, so it was named Jiaohe City.

Li Yanxian led his troops to attack the city, but he did not expect that Jiaohe was even worse than Yizhou. This time, he did not use up an hour, and took the city in just over half an hour.

In fact, Yizhou is close to Xixia and is considered an important border town of the Uighurs, so the defense needs to be tighter. Jiaohe is not as good as the rear.

Therefore, the army was stationed in Jiaohe for another three days. When the news was completely dissipated, the army continued to set off for Gaochang City.

Gaochang was already in chaos at this moment. To the west was the Eastern Karakhan who was threatening the territory, and to the east was a strong army attacking the city. It was far from being simply devastated. It felt like dark clouds were pressing down on them, and there was a panic like the country was about to be destroyed.

It took a lot of effort for Xizhou Uighur Khan Bilego to figure out the origin of this team, which turned out to be the Song Army.

This surprised him very much. After all, the Xizhou Uighurs had very little contact with the Song Dynasty. They were mostly close to and served the Liao Dynasty, and they knew little about the situation in the Song Dynasty.

However, he knew something about the current situation in the world. The Liao Dynasty was attacked by the Jurchens and the empire was about to overthrow. Xixia was captured by the Song army and was completely destroyed. So is this army coming to destroy the Uighurs? He couldn't help but panic.

In fact, the countries in the Western Region have never been rivals of the powerful countries in the east. They are just barren on the one hand, and have natural barriers such as hurricanes, dust storms, and vast sea deserts. Therefore, the big countries in the east rarely pay attention to them, and sometimes they suffer some losses due to natural reasons. , but if the tiger's face shows real expression, the countries in the Western Regions will simply struggle to resist.

And as the news came bit by bit, the Uighur court learned that this army was the Song army that destroyed Xixia, and was led by King Qin of the Song Dynasty. At this moment, the King of Qin actually called himself the King of Great Light and the Mingjiao. The first king.

But this is not the most shocking thing. The most shocking thing is that the third princess Lianaza is actually in this army. Both Yizhou and Jiaohe are taken over by Lianaza, which shows her power and majesty.

According to some defeated soldiers from the two cities who fled to Gaochang, the son of the third princess was actually the son of King Qin of the Song Dynasty, and the two were actually one family.

This news was as shocking as the loss of two cities in a row, and the civil and military officials of the entire court were even more shocked. Even if they didn't want to think about it, they knew that the other party came here with the intention of revenge. After all, they wanted to kill the three of them. The princess gave it to Dongkara Khan in order to stop the war.

Bi Lege immediately convened a meeting with the ministers to discuss countermeasures, but there was no good way. If the Liao soldiers came at this moment, they might just surrender. After all, the Song Dynasty was not a strong deterrent, and the ministers were worried about Liyana. When Zhahui entered the city to retaliate against what had happened before, he gave his advice and focused on defense.

After listening to the words of the ministers, Bileg ordered the gates on all sides of Gaochang to be closed tightly, and came out as if to defend the city.

(End of this chapter)