Li Liangzuo and Li Yi followed the caravan of Longtai Commercial Company, from Ningyuan Town into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the nearest administrative unit of the Great Song Dynasty to Ningyuan Town was the Lan Army, which was an important military town of the Great Song Dynasty in the northern frontier, and was an important barrier for the Great Song Dynasty to defend the northern Khitan iron cavalry to protect Taiyuan Mansion and Bianliang in the east.
After Li Liangzuo entered the jurisdiction of the Lan army with the caravan, he went directly to the garrison of the Lan army, and saw a dragon composed of the city wall more than 30 miles north of the city, in the memory of Li Liangzuo's previous life, the Great Song Dynasty did not build the Great Wall, but today Li Liangzuo saw it with his own eyes, but the Great Wall built by the Great Song Dynasty is not particularly long, about two hundred miles from east to west.
Walking to a hillside not far from the north of the Great Wall, Li Liangzuo looked at the Great Wall, which was similar to the Great Wall built in the past dynasties, the Great Wall of the Great Song Dynasty was divided into city walls, enemy towers, gates, dungeons, camps, guards, towns, beacon towers, etc., and the Great Wall was a complete three-dimensional defense project.
The Great Wall of the Great Song Dynasty is roughly the same as the Great Wall of the past dynasties, all of which are based on the city wall as the main line of defense, the important defense points of the enemy tower, the gate city and the dungeon, the beacon as the early warning signal, and the camp city, the guard post and the town as the fulcrum, forming a deep and three-dimensional fortification, and the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty will inspect the Great Wall every day in peacetime.
Different from the Great Wall of the previous dynasties, the Great Wall of the Great Song Dynasty is shorter, about 200 miles long from east to west; But short also has the advantage of short, the Great Song Dynasty took a powerful defensive weapon almost deployed here in batches, because the Great Wall of Lan belongs to the military strategic place of the Great Song Dynasty, so no one except the Song army is allowed to approach, the Great Wall of Lan at that time belonged to the top military secret of the Great Song Dynasty.
Li Liangzuo stood on the hillside in the distance, looking at the Great Wall from afar, he could vaguely see some arrangements on the city wall, because the Liao State in the north is now in a state of civil war, so the northern border army of the Great Song Dynasty has been in a state of combat readiness for the past two years, ready to meet the Khitan iron cavalry from the north to the south.
Although Li Liangzuo stood far away, he could vaguely see the catapults, large bed crossbows and other defensive weapons placed on the city wall, although Li Liangzuo didn't know how big the catapults and bed crossbows were, but it was certain that this must be the strongest defensive weapon in the Great Song Dynasty.
After the strict inspection of the Great Wall, Li Liangzuo followed the caravan across the Great Wall of Qilan and marched towards Qigu City, and Li Liangzuo made a rough deduction and assumption in his mind on the way to Qigu City; Li Liangzuo hypothesized that the Xia army attacked the city from Shuozhou to the south, and the first thing to be breached was the Great Wall of Qilan in the north of the city.
Before attacking the Great Wall, the Xia army first had to pull out the beacons established in various places north of the Great Wall, cut off the early warning system relying on the Great Wall to defend the Song army, and then send a large army to attack the pass of the Great Wall composed of passes, and the most suitable pass was the Caocheng River that Li Liangzuo had just passed.
Although Li Liangzuo did not know the defensive strength of the Song army at the Caochengchuan Pass, Li Liangzuo replaced the Song army with the Xia army; Li Liangzuo deduced the battle of Caochengchuan in this way, the Song army's defensive strength in the early stage was 1,000 people, equipped with 10 pairs of catapults and large bed crossbows, followed by 500 strong crossbows, and the Xia army had 100,000 troops to attack, but due to the restrictions of the terrain, the Xia army invested about 2,000 troops each time, which became the so-called refueling tactic.
It takes at least one day to attack the Xia army to capture the Caocheng River, but the reinforcements of the Song army can arrive in three hours at most, and the Song army in Taiyuan Mansion can arrive after five days at most, and it is almost impossible for the Xia army to break through the Caocheng River at that time, and the Song army can rely on the Great Wall of Qilan for long-term defense, and if it wants to attack at any cost, it will lose at least 50,000 elites to break through the Great Wall.
When Li Liangzuo finished calculating, the caravan had entered the valley city, which had not yet entered the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Liangzuo had been frightened by the military defense of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Liangzuo felt more and more that he had come to the right place this time, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, winning a hundred battles, if Li Liangzuo had not been here, and chose to attack the valley city in the future war with the Song army, the Xia army would definitely suffer huge losses.
Entering the valley city, Li Liangzuo was directly pulled to the branch of the Longtai Commercial Bank in the valley city, the carriage stopped at the door of the commercial bank, Li Yi knocked on the door and said to Li Liangzuo: "Childe, we have arrived at the place." ” Li Liangzuo walked out of the carriage, the shopkeeper of the trading house was already waiting, and when he saw Li Liangzuo, the shopkeeper immediately stepped forward and saluted: "Son, sir, your room is small, let's rest first."
Li Liangzuo looked around, there are several commercial banks around Longtai Commercial Bank, and the role of ordinary commercial banks is mainly two, the first is to serve as a transit station for goods, and the second is to retail goods; When Li Liangzuo got out of the car, the guys in the trading house were carrying goods to the trading house, most of these guys were hired locals, and the sacks for the goods were generally about one hundred and fifty catties.
Although this is just a simple manual work, Li Liangzuo also saw some ways from it, Li Liangzuo asked the shopkeeper next to him: "Shopkeeper, are these guys hired locals, are such guys easy to hire?"
The shopkeeper said to Li Liangzuo: "Back to Gongzi, these guys are all locals, and they are all hired all over the street as long as the price is right." ” Li Liangzuo nodded at the shopkeeper, and then said to Li Yi: "Li Yi, it's still early this day, how about walking with me?"
"Childe, please."
Li Yi invited Li Liangzuo to come.
Li Liangzuo and Li Yi walked on the bustling streets of Qigu City, Li Liangzuo looked around and said to Li Yi: "Li Yi, look at the bustling street markets around here, this is just the frontier city of the Great Song Dynasty is so lively and prosperous, if it is the Central Plains, how rich do you say?"
"Won't the son know when he arrives in the Central Plains, isn't it all ours sooner or later," Li Yi said to Li Liangzuo with a smile.
Li Liangzuo smiled and said, "I love to hear what you say." ” Then Li Liangzuo said to Li Yi: "Li Yi, have you noticed that these border people in the Great Song Dynasty, especially the adult strong men, are very many, tell me how the physical fitness of these people is?"
Li Yi replied to Li Liangzuo: "My subordinates observed it just now, and these people are in good physical condition. ” "What is that suitable soldier for?"
asked Li Yi again.
Li Yi immediately said: "If you let the last generals train, they will soon be able to temper them into elite divisions." ” Li Liangzuo nodded and said: "The problem is here, you look around here, this place is just a drop in the ocean for the vast territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the population of the Great Song Dynasty is nearly 10,000 people, if you fight to the death, you can get more than one million soldiers, and even tens of millions, everyone can drown us with a mouthful of foam." ” "Childe, my subordinates think that the Song army is not to worry about at all, although the Great Song Dynasty has a large population and an inexhaustible supply of soldiers, but the Great Song Dynasty court emphasizes literature and light on military force, and it has always been civilian officials who lead the army to fight, and they don't say anything different from idiots."
Li Yi said to Li Liangzuo
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