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Volume 7: Laughing and Talking about Drinking the Blood of the Huns Chapter 40: Teasing

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    Update time: 2010-05-19

    "Khitan dogs crawl even slower than turtles!" Zhu Dao, the centurion of the Anxi Army, murmured a curse and squinted his eyes to watch the Liao army slowly galloping from the north.  The sun was like fire, and sweat trickled down the gaps in the iron helmet, covering the corners of the eyes. Although there was only a silk protective coat inside, the iron armor was burned hot by the scorching sun. If I kept waiting like this, my skin and flesh would be burned.  Roasted.  His voice was not loud, but it happened to be heard by Chen De and Zhang Zhongyao who were reining in their horses. Chen De smiled bitterly in his heart. Zhao Jiong thought that the imperial camp was not strong enough and was instigated by Sun Chengyou. He remembered that all the important generals accompanying him were there.  There were different numbers of guards, so they ordered Shi Shouxin, who was left behind in Xijing, to lead the guards to accompany him and fight the Liao army together with the imperial camp.

    The weather was cool in the morning, so the Liao people made noise but stood still. It was almost noon before they crossed the Qingsha River.  More than 50,000 cavalry, accompanied by more than 10,000 infantry, and more than 30,000 servants and auxiliary soldiers behind, slowly approached Youzhou City.  Since Zhao Jiong's imperial camp arrived at Youzhou City, the Song and Liao sides have been confronting each other here for more than ten days. In addition to the Song army's siege of Youzhou, they also had two battles with the Liao army who came to help from the outside. Small battles continued. Although the Song army defeated the Liao army,  Driven away from a distance, but unable to defeat its main force.  However, in the past ten days or so, both Song and Liao had clearly figured out each other's troop positions and strengths.  Yelusha did not expect to surprise the Song army by sending out surprise troops, but carefully restrained the soldiers and horses of the north and south courtyards and the Xi army to maintain their formation, and slowly advanced after crossing the river.  The more than 25,000 palace troops handed over to Yelusha by Brother Yelvxiu were divided into elites, 15,000 were the vanguard of the army, and the other 10,000 cavalry were mixed with the ranks of servants behind the Khitan cavalry in the north courtyard, preparing for a sudden attack by the Song army.  hit.

    As soon as the Liao army moved, the Song army immediately formed a formation on the other side of the Qingsha River to wait for reinforcements from the Liao people. Zhao Jiong personally led Ban Zhi in front of the imperial court and the Konghe Army as the central army. Cui Han, the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace, assisted the officials in issuing orders.  Zhang Mei, Liu Yanrang and other accompanying generals formed a vanguard formation with the heroic cavalry army. Kong Shouzheng led the elite east and west cavalry troops of the Japanese cavalry to form the vanguard formation. Zhangxin Jiedu envoy Liu Yu led the Hujie army with twenty command to form the rear formation.  Fu Qian, commander of the East and West Squadron, and Wang Chao, deputy commander of Yulongzhi, led the Longjie Army cavalry to form left and right cavalry formations on both sides of the formation, preparing to attack the Liao army's flanks from both wings.  Chen De thought in his mind that Zhao Jiong had put a lot of thought into selecting generals when he went out to fight the Khitan army, and established a pattern of leading the old with the new. Shi Shouxin and other senior generals would be the vanguard to break the spirit of the Liao people, and would be most likely to make contributions.  However, the central army and the two wing cavalry formations were all made up of former members of the Jin Dynasty who were promoted during the Taiping Xingguo period. The rear formation covering Zhao Jiong's central army was commanded by Liu Yu, the commander of the Zhangxin Army, which was taken very seriously.  Pan Mei, Cao Han, Mi Xin and other generals who were in their prime and capable of taking charge of their own affairs continued to urge more than 100,000 forbidden troops to attack the city from all sides.

    Chen De and the Anxi army stood in the vanguard formation led by Shi Shouxin. Looking across from the distance, the Liao army did not have the usual fighting style of coming and going like the wind. They seemed to be reluctant to move step by step towards the Song army who was suffering.  Youzhou City, which was attacked like a violent storm without any casualties, also marched slowly towards the formation of nearly 100,000 elite Forbidden Forces. In addition to the cavalry on guard at the periphery, the large group of cavalry behind them were even leading their horses forward.  "It seems that the Khitan people do not intend to fight quickly." Zhang Zhongyao said solemnly while looking at the smoke and dust raised by more than 70,000 Khitan cavalry.  Chen De smiled, noncommittal, and turned his head to take a closer look at the famous veterans beside him.

    Shi Shouxin, who was left behind in Xijing, looked serious and dignified like a general, but his body was already a little fat. Shi Shouxin seemed to notice that Chen De was sizing him up. He let out a heavy "hum" in his nose and looked at the generals on the left and right with cold eyes.  Beside Shi Shouxin, General Zhang Yongde of the Left Guard and General Zhang Mei of the Left Guard were unconscious, looking ahead, rather than observing the Liao people's formation, it was better to say they were in a daze as if nothing had happened.  Liu Yanrang, the general of the right guard, seemed to have noticed the gazes of Shi Shouxin and Chen De, and turned around to glare at Chen De, which seemed to be a warning.  Only Dong Zunyi, who was commanding the heroic cavalry, looked ahead with a worried look on his face. He fought a decisive battle with nearly 100,000 Liao cavalry. This was an extremely rare event since the Tang Dynasty. Dong Zunyi was originally a arrogant person.  After the defeat of the state, he became a little timid.

    The Liao army marched slowly, but thousands of horses and horses were approaching the Song army's formation and galloping back and forth, raising up overwhelming sand and dust. It was difficult to see behind them, and there was not even much movement. They could only feel the shadows of the people and horses, as if there were countless soldiers and horses.  Within the dust.  Occasionally, a stallion horse suddenly rushed towards the Song Army's vanguard formation, seeming to be provoking, and also seemed to want to test the Song Army's front formation's arrow range. The constant and loud shouts and whistles were actually louder than the tens of thousands of cavalry behind them.

    Zhao Jiong could not clearly see the situation of the Liao army from behind, so he ordered the cavalry of the front army to charge directly into the enemy's formation to test the situation. However, Shi Shouxin discussed with the generals for a while and reported back to the eunuch. All the generals in the front army concluded that the Liao army had set up a suspicious formation  , the purpose is to provoke the imperial court's front army to easily fight, and to set a trap behind and eat the elite cavalry of the front army. Please consider it again.  Listening to Shi Shouxin's reply to the eunuch who delivered the order, Chen De and Zhang Zhongyao looked at each other and saw a look of great surprise in each other's eyes. Unexpectedly, Shi Shouxin and others dared to fight in front of the battle.?Zhao Jiong was playing tricks to avoid fighting, could it be that Zhao really gave them a gold medal to avoid death?  Shi Shouxin and others looked at ease.

    On a whim, Zhao Jiong put a group of distinguished officials from the Zhou Dynasty to the Song Dynasty in the vanguard to fight, draining their strength.  The tacit understanding between these generals and the Zhao family was already broken, so Shi Shouxin used this method to protest to prevent him from getting worse.  Now that the power of the generals has been taken away, they should no longer expect these veterans to work hard on the battlefield. The senior generals looked at the Liao soldiers in the distance, their eyes no longer had the passion and fierceness of the past, but were as indifferent as ice.

    Since the Northern Expedition, Zhao Jiong has been quite proud of himself even though he has led the imperial camp and personally participated in the battle.  However, it was the first time to confront the Khitan army, and they could not clearly see the situation ahead, so they felt guilty. After listening to the reports from Shi Shouxin and others, it was inconvenient to force them to fight. After waiting for more than an hour, the Liao people had already crossed the river and formed their formation, but they did not  Taking the initiative to attack the Song army, they only used their horses to roam around the Song army's formation, and even had some small-scale battles with the Song army's peripheral cavalry.  Zhao Jiong was anxious after waiting and couldn't hold it any longer, so he ordered the eunuch to pass the order again, telling Shi Shouxin to send troops to directly attack the Khitan forward and destroy its vigor.  "The Khitan army was bluffing yesterday, and I'm afraid it will be the same today. We should break it in one fell swoop so that they don't dare to approach Youzhou again." Zhao Jiong felt that he was looking at the Liao cavalry running back and forth with a rather cold expression.  , whether it is the war horse under the crotch or the leather armor on the body, they are quite thin, and it is difficult to match under the impact of the Forbidden Army's cavalry.

    "General Dong, since your majesty has a decree, you will lead five thousand knights to charge forward to test the strength of the Liao army. I and the other generals will defend your majesty's central army here. Your majesty has high hopes. The knights will work hard to break the enemy's army.  , serve the country's grace." Shi Shouxin did not resist the order this time, but called Dong Zunyue over, and ordered word by word with an expressionless face. Liu Yan next to him looked like he was watching a joke. Dong Zunyue stood up in the Zhou room.  He had a grudge with the ten brothers of Yishe. After Zhao Kuangyin seized the throne, he didn't care about him because he still had courage, but Liu Yanrang had to avenge him.  When Dong Zunjie was stationed in the northwest, he didn't give much face to Shi Shouxin, who was out of work as Zhongshu Ling and stayed in Xijing. Now the retribution has arrived.

    Dong Zunjie did not dare to neglect and left as ordered.  Five thousand brave cavalry drove the horses, the armor was clanging, the gold and iron jingled, Du Yuhou Linzhong, Murong Gang, Wu Tie and other confidants gathered around Dong Zunjie to form an attacking core group, and headed towards the Liao people's fence.  He rushed straight out of the smoke and dust in the sky.

    Looking at the shrinking back of the five thousand cavalry, Shi Shouxin snorted softly, played with the horse's reins, and glanced at Chen De, the military governor of Anxi.  After learning that he was commanding the vanguard formation, he became furious and summoned his old brother Liu Yanrang to discuss, preparing to put Dong Zunzui's Xiaoqi Army and Chen De'an's Western Army in front to engage the Liao people.  But Liu Yanrang stopped him and said: "The third brother left Xijing to stay, and his relatives bought land in all the capitals of Guanxi, and they became more and more prosperous. Chen De'an's land in the west is close to Guanxi. If he is lost in Youzhou, I'm afraid that his subordinates will  If he refuses to rest, several roads in Guanxi will soon be in ruins." Shi Shouxin said in confusion: "Is this happening? Then Chen De has been away from Longyou for a long time. Is it possible that he can still make trouble? Why does the court keep him?" Liu Yanrang  He said with a smile: "I am a minister in the same palace as this man, and I can't see through his depth. If Emperor Shizong and his eldest brother were here, I would probably kill him. It's ridiculous that the second master of the Zhao family thought he was playing tricks on him.  In the midst of applause. Why did third brother harm his family for that white-eyed wolf?" His words revealed his deep dissatisfaction with Zhao Jiong.  Shi Shouxin felt sad when he heard Liu Yanrang mention Kuang Yin.

    The ten brothers of Yishe and Zhao Kuangyin rose up in the army with their heads raised. It was a life-changing friendship. After Zhao Kuangyin won the big position with the help of his brothers, although he had a glass of wine to release his military power, he was extremely tolerant of them, even  The second brother Yang Guangyi, who was dull and incompetent and had no merit in supporting him, was promoted to Baojing Jiedushi.  Zhao Jiong killed his brother to seize the throne. Although Shi Shouxin and Liu Yanrang, who had been transferred away from Bianliang early, were powerless, they still harbored hatred in their hearts.  And Zhao Jiong was also very wary of these brothers with different surnames from Zhao Kuangyin. This time he placed Shi Shouxin and Liu Yanrang in the vanguard formation, so he had the intention of shrouding the veteran general Ma Ge.

    Zhang Zhongyao couldn't help but feel excited when he saw the five thousand warriors charging towards tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry. He looked back at Chen De and saw that he was thoughtful, nodding to himself, pointing at the back of the warriors, and whispered.  "If the princes in the temple are acting like noble men from the border counties, they will not look back. The world has been at peace for a long time, so what's the use of thirty years?" Zhang Mei'er, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, had a special voice, and his face condensed after hearing this.  Er sighed meaningfully, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.  I saw that the Xiaoqi army actually broke through the peripheral interception of the fence, shouting to kill, and engaged the Khitan front army.

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