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Volume 7: Joking and Drinking the Blood of the Huns Chapter 45: Confrontation

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    When the army arrived at the Yangou crossing, the horsemen came to report that the Song army, under the banner of Anxi, formed a formation to block the way forward.

    Brother Yelvxiu boarded the carriage and looked around. He saw a banner flying in front of him, with the word Anxi written in large Chinese characters. The soldiers under the banner were dressed in military robes of various colors and lined up neatly, unlike a mob.  "Sir, in front of me, more than 10,000 infantry soldiers of the Song Army formed a large formation to block the Yangou main road. There were also cavalry troops lurking in the dense forests on both sides of the road. They were quite powerful. The horses wanted to enter the forest to drive them away, but they failed.  We suffered a bit of a loss, but the reality is unclear. The Song army on the opposite side also used the banner of Daibei Yang Jiye."

    Brother Yeluxiu looked at the appearance of the Anxi army, which did not look like a mob, and said slowly: "The news before the war was that the Anxi army of the Song Dynasty was at odds with the imperial court. All the troops were stationed in Longyou and Hexi. The Anxi Jiedu envoy Chen De only led a few hundred  The guards were on the march, why did an Anxi army of tens of thousands suddenly come out? The Han people are cunning, and there must be something fishy in them." He endured the pain of his injury, his face turned pale, and then he said a few words to gather his strength, and there was already a sign on his forehead.  Fine beads of sweat.  The guard next to him just picked up the sweat towel to wipe it, but he raised his hand to stop him, pointed at the Song army opposite, and said in a deep voice: "Perhaps Anxi Jiedu envoys Chen De and Yang Jiye cleaned up the defeated army, trying to turn the tide and kill them.  The servants in Caogu raise the dust, and Wubuli leads five thousand cavalry to attack to find out the strength of the Anxi army in front of us!"

    Looking at the smoke and dust billowing up from behind the Khitan army on the opposite side, it seemed that thousands of troops were rolling in from behind. The faces of the soldiers on the left and right could not help but change color. Director Zhu, the centurion of the Ya army who was leading the vanguard, spat and sighed.  He shouted: "I fought many fierce battles with the Liao people in Guannan. The ones raising the dust must be some servants on horseback. They can't even shoot arrows accurately. The horses drag two big brooms behind their tails and run back and forth. It's really  If we want to see a battle, I will chase and kill a group of cowards by myself." The military robe on his right arm has been taken off, and the armor is draped close to his body, vaguely revealing a red bird tattooed on his back shoulder. Many of them are in the Heshuo area.  This is where the name Zhuque'er under the Guannan inspection tent, which is known to all the Imperial Army, comes from.

    Following his words, several captains and sergeants of Yajun camp behind him all nodded in unison. Sergeant Qin Jiong also cursed: "This Khitan cavalry is so timid. They ride in a group of several hundred and fire several rounds of arrows. Look at our army."  If you don't move, you turn around and run away. You don't have the spirit of the Uighurs to rush into the formation with overwhelming force as soon as they come up. It's a waste of good horses." Most of the soldiers in the vanguard formation were originally from the Konghe and Hujie armies. They only followed because the army collapsed.  Those who escaped and stayed to intercept the Liao army after seeing the flag of the Jiedu envoy in Anxi did not have much fear of the Khitan soldiers. On the contrary, many of them were tough and brave people who dared to die, and they started to curse when they heard the words.

    Although the Liao army's cavalry and archery were powerful, there were 3,000 powerful crossbows among the 5,000 infantry in the vanguard. Although there were not many arrows, they still forced the enemy's cavalry not to dare to get too close and to shoot from a distance, and it was difficult for arrows to penetrate the Forbidden Army.  Thick armor.  Chen De held Mo Dao in his hand and looked out in front of the Chinese army. He smiled at Zhang Zhongyao beside him and said: "It doesn't matter if the Liao people gallop like this until dark. As long as the people and the people have passed Zhuozhou and there is a strong city to hold on to, the Liao soldiers will also  Don't dare to go deep into it wantonly." Chen De himself also gave up his mount, put on a thick infantry armor, and guarded the central army formation to show his intention to fight to the end with his soldiers.  Zhang Zhongyao said with a worried look on his face: "The chasing enemy cavalry, under the banner of Brother Yelvxiu, the king of the Beiyuan, fought out from the Xishan Trail yesterday and rushed to the imperial camp, forcing Zhao Jiong to abandon the army. I am afraid that the current attack is this person.  He is just testing our army, he will definitely not stop here."

    Chen De nodded, looked at the wolf flag of the King of the North Campus of the Liao Army, thought for a moment and said: "If he wants to test it, let him see the quality of my Anxi elite. Send my order to the general formation and the vanguard formation to move forward three hundred meters at the same time."  Step forward, wait for military orders, and shoot the enemy's cavalry with powerful crossbows. If the enemy's cavalry dares to get close to our army, Yu Furengui will lead the white feather army to rush in from the flank to disrupt the Khitan front army."

    Following Chen De's general order, the military formation began to move forward slowly, and the Forbidden Army performed the most important exercises. There are certain rules for such simple forward and retreat. Even under the command and coordination of the sergeant of the Ya Army Camp, the entire military formation  Still appears orderly.  As the huge military formation approached, Brother Yelu Xiu's face became increasingly gloomy. "This Anxi Army is actually so arrogant. If they don't teach you a lesson, they will probably counterattack Youzhou." He turned to look at the people around him who were quite eager to try.  The palace divided the cavalry and ordered in a deep voice: "The armies take turns clashing with the enemy's formation. The horses are flying in all directions and raising dust, confusing their ears and eyes. This will definitely make the enemy's army tired and scattered, and then they can be defeated."

    This time, Brother Yelvxiu brought a total of 30,000 cavalry to pursue the Song army. They were among the soldiers and horses that came to aid Youzhou and were still capable of fighting.  The more than 200,000 Song troops were killed under Youzhou City until they abandoned their camp and fled overnight. Brother Yelvxiu was indispensable, and his prestige in the army rose to the extreme.  The cavalry generals followed the order and began to attack. Although there were still groups of seven to eight hundred cavalry, taking turns to clash with the Song Army's cavalry formation, their power was much different than when the more than 5,000 cavalry had charged into the formation just now.  When cavalry and armies fight, the opportunity passes in a blink of an eye, and the speed of shooting arrows must be extremely fast. This is especially true for the Liao cavalry who are good at riding and archery.  When going into battle, Miyabaki's elite cavalrymen hung two pots of arrows on their waists, two pots on their saddles, and six pots on their horses behind the formation. They fired from the galloping horses without having to aim.Throwing in the direction of the Song Army's formation, I saw overwhelming cavalry arrows pouring towards the Song Army's vanguard formation. With the help of horse power, the arrows whizzed away continuously, like locusts all over the sky.  .

    Qin Jiong's iron helmet was banged by the flying arrows. If it weren't for the strong armor, he might have been shot into a hedgehog. The vanguard formation team he was in was a sword and shield bearer, and the crossbowmen behind him were shot.  Divided into three teams, while they were busy fighting back at the Khitan cavalry with powerful crossbows, the sword and shield bearers could only wait for the enemy.  Every time they fought, many soldiers fell down waiting for the enemy and never stood up to chop off the enemy's head.

    "Such a rain of arrows is more powerful than the Uighurs." Qin Jiong thought to himself, but he babbled as if chanting sutras: "Don't think that I am just a sergeant now. In Anxi Province, the status of a sergeant is extremely honorable.  , I have a military salary of 80 guan a year, and I manage more than 30 households. I have to pay 30% of the annual income to me every year. This is an unshakable income. With the grace of my lord, if we open up the territory in the future, each sergeant can manage 100 people.  A civilian household. The army follows the principle of recommendation. As long as you have the ability, everyone will obey you. You can be a captain and the military commander can do it. Even if you can't become a captain of the capital, if you have the ability to recommend him to the captain, you can still recommend him.  I want to treat you politely, and I wish I could treat my brothers to delicious food and drinks every day. Drinking the blood of soldiers is fucking asking for death. Calculate, if a sergeant is in charge of a hundred households, there will be 50,000 people under the captain.  Households, tens of thousands of households will be captured on the battlefield, and they will have a solid future. Serve as soldiers and eat food."

    The more than a hundred soldiers of the Konghe and Hujie armies under his command could no longer bear it. Since the formation, Qin Jiong had continued to carry out fatigue bombings. Although there were many who were tempted by the preferential treatment of the Anxi army at the beginning, Qin Jiong said over and over again  It goes on, and in just a few hours, it almost wears out calluses on people's ears.  But when he was in the Anxi army, he only knew that the troops were led by officers who were close to Chen De, the governor of Anxi.  Chen Deping always required his troops to behave like an officer. Although these troops were leading a centurion for the first time and giving orders, they looked the same in every gesture.

    Suddenly, out of the corner of Qin Jiong's eyes, he saw Centurion Director Zhu in front of him making an attacking gesture, and shouted loudly: "Grandma, kill me!" The Imperial Guards were tortured by his nagging like chanting sutras, and this time they heard that they were disbanded.  The formation attacked, and it was as if they had been granted amnesty. Except for those who were shot to death by the Khitan soldiers, they all drew out various weapons such as horizontal knives, iron maces, and bone knives, and shouted loudly as they charged into the chaotic Khitan cavalry in front of them.

    "You son of a turtle, I'm so annoying!" It was from the inner palace of Sichuan Ban. "I'll dig up your ancestral grave, Marquis of Wanhu!" It was from the Controlling Crane Army, and the Hujie Army shouted "I'll support your mother" and jumped in.  In the smoke and dust, he stabbed the Liao army's horse in the butt with a horizontal knife.  If Chen De had heard this with his own ears, he would have lamented that the imperial imperial army was indeed composed of the best from all over the world, and would also have praised Qin Jiong for training the defeated troops into a force of tigers and wolves who advanced in anger and attacked millions of people in just a few hours.  division.  As for why the originally arrogant Khitan cavalry suddenly appeared in chaos, the soldiers could not understand clearly amid the smoke and dust.

    Yu Furengui used two thousand white-feathered troops to flank the Khitan cavalry in the front formation. They only wandered back and forth among the Khitan cavalry in groups of seven to eight hundred cavalry, without engaging in combat. They charged and killed the ordinary Central Plains cavalry with their iron horses and spears.  The tactics were completely different, causing the Khitan cavalry in front to panic.  They had already rushed to the front of the Song army's formation, fired arrows and were about to retreat. Suddenly an enemy army appeared behind them. The cavalry fire was fast and accurate, and the range of the arrows was further than that of ordinary Khitan cavalry. The Khitan cavalry suffered a loss and just wanted to recover.  Cheap, but Bai Yujun is another

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