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    The war on the northern front was getting increasingly intense, and coupled with Yelu Yanxi's extravagant spending in previous years, the national treasury was naturally tight.  In order to appease the soldiers in the north, the court could only allocate a small amount of money and food to the north.

    The army in the south had no food and grass, so naturally they could only follow the example of their ancestors and enter the Song Dynasty in batches to harvest grass and valleys.

    When Cai Jing was in power in the Song Dynasty, he was dedicated to whitewashing the peace. He received a border notification and saw that there was no large-scale invasion by the Liao Kingdom, so he suppressed the news and did not report it to the emperor.

    After Liang Shicheng and others came to power, they conspired to unite with Jin to destroy Liao. When they did not understand the situation of Liao and Jin, they did not want to conflict with Liao, so they still ignored it and only ordered the border states to guard the city and not provoke a riot.  war.  It just hurts the border villagers.

    Although Yelu Dashi was familiar with poetry and books, he did not know who was right and who was wrong. He just hated Zengtou City for intercepting and killing many of his Liao cavalry.  He had planned to attack Zengtou City for a long time, but the Liao State was also afraid of provoking a war with the Song State and would be surrounded by enemies on both sides, so it prohibited the Liao cavalry from invading the Song Dynasty on a large scale.

    However, the heavy snowfall during the winter solstice was much larger in the Liao Kingdom than in the Song Kingdom, and the severe cold weather in the north made it harder for the snow to melt.  The thick snow buried all the withered grass stalks. A large number of livestock from various tribes froze and starved to death. A large number of hungry people also appeared in various state capitals.

    The northern front line continued to press for money and food. Yelu Chun, who stayed behind in Nanjing's Xijin Prefecture, had to order the border states to increase the scale of looting into the Song Dynasty, and sent the states to pay the amount of money and food.

    Yelv Dashi was no longer bound by the imperial court, so he immediately led a large army across the border and set up an ambush, preparing to annihilate the main force of Zengtou City first, and then looting Zengtou City.

    Yelu Dashi watched as the Zengtou City soldiers and horses at the foot of the mountain were about to enter the encirclement under the influence of his small group of cavalry. In another two miles, the Zengtou City soldiers and horses would not be able to escape the fate of the entire army being destroyed.

    The soldiers who were preparing to set off the smoke had already lit torches.

    But the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City suddenly made a small circle, turned around and went back.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­ The soldiers on the side watched Zengtou City's soldiers and horses retreating, and couldn't help but said anxiously: "Maybe they have been discovered by these barbarians. Lin Ya should give the order to pursue them quickly. In less than ten miles, our Daliao cavalry can catch up with these barbarians."

    Yelu Dashi originally wanted to wipe out all the troops in Zengtou City, and then when he attacked Zengtou City, there was less resistance.  But now that the plan failed, Zengtou City's soldiers and horses fled back, and he did not want to let all Zengtou City's soldiers and horses retreat.

    "Light the smoke."

    Yelu Dashi shouted loudly, got on his horse and rushed down the mountain.

    When the Liao cavalry who were lying in ambush saw the smoke igniting, they no longer hid themselves and chased the soldiers and horses towards Zengtou City together.

    When the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City heard the sound of horse hooves that shook the mountains and the ground behind them, they couldn't help but panic. The soldiers and horses who were still in some formations suddenly became chaotic.

    After the heavy snowfall in the winter solstice, the Liao cavalry began to enter the country and plunder on a large scale. Several hundred Liao cavalry even arrived near Zengtou City and plundered several villages.

    In the past, the Liao soldiers only had more than a hundred cavalry, and after the five tigers of the Zeng family began to hunt the Liao cavalry, the Liao soldiers rarely came near Zengtou City.

    Zeng Tu only thought that there was another famine in the Liao country after the heavy snowfall, so the Liao soldiers came in large groups, and he did not suspect it was a scam.  He immediately led two thousand men from Zengtou City to set up an ambush, preparing to ambush this group of Liao cavalry.  Unexpectedly, they only killed a few dozen people before this group of Liao cavalry broke through the encirclement and killed them.

    Zeng Tu immediately led his troops to catch up, and when he was about to catch up, someone from Zengtou City sent a message that the Liangshan army was coming to attack, and asked them to lead their troops back quickly.

    Zeng Tu was afraid of losing money in Zengtou City, so he had no choice but to leave Liao Qi and come to Zengtou City.

    Su Ding turned around and looked at the dust swirling up behind him, and said in shock: "It turns out that the Liao soldiers and horses were setting up an ambush here. Fortunately, the people sent by the Grand Duke were a step ahead. Otherwise, if it were later, we might have been surrounded by the Liao cavalry.  "

    When Zeng Tu heard the thunderous sound of hooves behind him, his expression changed drastically. He hit his horse hard and shouted, "Quickly, don't worry about the infantry."

    Zeng Suo was surprised and said: "There are 1,500 infantry troops."

    Zeng Tu glared at Zeng Suo and said, "The Liao dogs are here well prepared. If the cavalry army can escape, we will be in danger. How can we take care of the infantry."

    Zeng Suo turned around and took a look. Liao Qi had already appeared in the endless distance. He didn't dare to say anything anymore and ran after Zeng Tulang with his horse under his belly.

    The infantry behind them were quickly overwhelmed by the charge of the Liao cavalry, and did not stop the Liao cavalry.

    The Liao cavalry just drove their horses to knock down and trample the young men from Zengtou City, or cut down the young men next to them with their scimitars like cutting wheat. If they were lucky enough to slip through the net, the cavalry behind them would naturally deal with them.

    Ding Zhuang of Zengtou City, who had no one under his command, caused almost no damage to the Liao cavalry before the entire army was destroyed.

    Many of the war horses of Zengtou City¡¯s horse army are nothing more thanAlthough the cavalry was initially several miles ahead of the Liao cavalry, after running for more than ten miles, the lagging cavalry army was overtaken by the Liao cavalry.

    Zeng Tu heard the screams of the horse army behind him and did not dare to look back.

    Yelu Dashi only held the horse's belly between his legs, sitting motionless on the saddle, bow and arrow, staring at a Zengtou City horse army in front of him who was just trying to escape.  With one arrow shot, the horse army fell off their horses.

    When Yelu Dashi reached out to touch the arrow pot again, he found nothing. Only then did he realize that all the arrows in the pot were empty.

    Looking at the less than 200 horse troops left in front, Yelu Dashi reached out and asked for another pot of arrows from the soldiers on the side.

    I saw a flying horse coming from a distance in the south and shouted: "Report, there is a large group of soldiers and horses coming from the south towards Zengtou City."

    Yelu Dashi shot another Zengtou City cavalry soldier off his horse and asked, "Is it the Song Kingdom's border army?"

    "Unlike the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty, those soldiers and horses were all wearing black armor. We met a few probing horses riding black armor before, so we went to the south to scout out. There were always thousands of black-clad and black-armored soldiers and horses heading towards us from the south.  Come."

    ???????????? These far-reaching soldiers under Yelu Dashi are the few remaining elite cavalry of the Khitan. When the two armies are fighting, they will stay far outside the battlefield to spy on information to prevent an ambush.

    Yelu Dashi couldn't figure out the whereabouts of these soldiers and horses for a while. To be cautious, he still reined in his soldiers and horses, and then sent a distant blocker to find out where the troops from the south were coming.

    Zeng Tu and others had previously pursued the Liao soldiers for a while, and were pursued for dozens of miles by the Liao cavalry who were waiting for work. Their horse power had already declined. Just when they thought they were doomed, they saw the Liao soldiers suddenly stop.

    After fleeing into Zengtou City, Zeng Tu dared to turn around and count his troops.

    When I heard that less than 200 cavalry troops had returned, I felt like crying without tears. I originally thought that hundreds of Liao cavalrymen could be surrounded and killed in this battle. Unexpectedly, in the end, they were almost surrounded by Liao soldiers. Even the 2,000 cavalry troops who escaped back were  Less than two hundred.

    In addition, there were more than a thousand casualties in the last battle with Liangshan, and now there are only two thousand soldiers and horses left in Zengtou City to fight. Moreover, these many people were lost, and the Zeng family had to spend a lot of gold and silver to appease them.  There are people in town.

    The garrison of Zengtou City was panicked when they saw Zeng Tu leading an army of less than 200 horses back in embarrassment.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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