Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang... It seemed like there were strings on all sides, and the air was trembling.
Yelu Xiuge rode a horse near Caoqu, stretched his head forward, and looked murderous, which made people very scared when they saw it.
He didn't say a word, but his eyes were very sharp. He could see at a glance that there were a few boats on the river looking strange, and they stopped there and remained motionless...
Even if there is no wind, the boat should shake when floating on the water, but those boats are stable!
There are several shallows on the canal. I know that there is one nearby, right there!Yelu Xiuge pointed with a horse whip.
The generals took a closer look and agreed.
Yelu Xiu Ge was a little hesitant for a moment. The army could go east from this shallow or retreat northwest. When he came, Guizhou and other cities were in Youzhou, the garrisons inside were not only Han people, but also some Khitan, Xi, and Jurchens.
Yelu Xiu Ge is a decisive and cheerful person. He makes decisions based on his own judgment and is weighing how to make decisions right now...
Soon, a general of the Liao army came to report, holding a letter in both hands: The Han army guards in Tanzhou were reported urgently, and they found a large number of Zhou army cavalry and went west!
West?Yelu Xiu Ge frowned and thought.
Immediately, a tribal nobleman said with fear: The Zhou army wanted to seize the floating bridge on the Sanggan River and cut off my retreat!
Yelu Xiu Ge snorted, not saying anything.I can't believe the words of the Han generals in my heart.Moreover, with his long-standing intuition, the Zhou army's surround from the upper reaches of the Sanggan River was too detour and seemed too conservative.
But soon, the garrisons of Shun and Ru prefectures also sent people to report the whereabouts of the Zhou army's cavalry, and they all said they were going west... Yelu Xiuge was skeptical. Although it was the report of the Han general, it could not be negotiated.
Not long after, another general rushed over and said hurriedly: General, Xiao Siwen's people came to report the news, the main force of the Zhou army's elite cavalry went to kill Guizhou!
Yelu Xiuge said: How did Xiao Siwen know the military situation in Youzhou City?
The general said: It was Xiao Siwen's subordinate, a scout who was under Abudi, and a token, nothing wrong!
When Yelu Xiu Ge heard this, he believed it eight points. Xiao Siwen did have a confidant named Abudi.
A real man doesn’t have to worry about the details. Yelu Xiuge trusts his judgment: the Zhou cavalry went to Guizhou to follow and intercept it.
When Yelu Xiuge came today, he found that the Zhou army burned food and grass, and there were also a large number of soldiers on the grain ships on the river. The routes of their cavalry were even more strange, and all of them were strange.
Yelu Xiuge's left eyelid suddenly twitched!Nothing went well, and the messy situation made him very upset.
He stared at his fierce eyes, his head suddenly shook to the side, and his neck made a clicking sound. He looked coldly at the stranded sailboats on the river, and said: Send someone to attack!Kill all the people on the boat, keep no one!
Obey the order!
...In the south of Guizhou (northwest of Youzhou), there was a huge fire on the surface of the Sanggan River and smoke filled the sky.
I don’t know which side set the fire, the pontoon bridge and the boats were burning, and in the smoke, the black people shouted and ran around the river bank.
A group of messy Liao and Han soldiers fled on the south bank on horseback, and there were Zhou army cavalry chasing behind them, shouting and killing, and there was chaos.
Those Han people were wearing Liao army armor and could speak Khitan dialect with strange accents. The Han people spoke Khitan dialect, which was the voice.Someone shouted: Run!The people of Zhou are coming!
Guizhou wants to surrender...
The Khitan scout who was watching the scene with a bow and arrow were wandering while watching.
There were seven or eight Khitans nearby, and a general drank a Han man who ran over: It was useless, the only thing that Zhou army crossed the river was just a cyclist!
The Han man glared and said loudly: You'll cross the river in a while!
How many people?
The Han people said: I don’t know, there are all the elite riders all over the mountains!
The Khitan young man asked: What did you see with your own eyes?
The Han people nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: Too many, at least one million people!
idiot!After hearing this, the Khitan generals cursed, and the Zhou army's infantry and cavalry, together with the civilians, did not have a million!
At this time, I saw Zhou Jun cavalry gathering on the flat ground in the distance and heading straight towards this side.
The Khitan generals beat the horse and left, and several cavalrymen also turned around and ran along.
The Khitan general said: Go back alone and report to the top of the peak. The main force of the Zhou cavalry is in Guizhou. Our people burned the floating bridge!
……
On the canal north of Jinzhou, dense Liao cavalry waded to the middle of the river, and the water surface reached the chest of the horses. Too many horses were in the river, stirring up the mud below, and the river water was as turbid as the water of the Yellow River.
From time to time, corpses emerged in the muddy water, shouting up and down the side of the ship, and arrows flew around.
clang!The sharp sword slashed on the side of the ship, and a scream of his lungs. The Khitan soldiers who were holding on the side of the ship wanted to climb up immediately let go, screaming from the side of the ship and falling into the river.
A moment later, the Zhou army soldier holding the sword also lost the sword, covered his hands on his face, the feathers of the arrow's tail were still trembling slightly, and blood soaked out from the soldiers' fingers.
The ship was surrounded by people, as if floating among the crowd.
Some Liao troops trekked from the water between the ships to the other side, surrounded by arrows on both sides. The sails of Zhou's army were full of holes, and arrow feathers were nailed to the wooden boards of the hull, as if Zhuge Kongming borrowed arrows from the straw boat.
The Zhou army fought to the death, but could not stop such a strong attack, and all the casualties were killed or injured.
The Khitan soldiers attacked the ship very fiercely. After a cavalry climbed on foot, they moved very sharply. The iron sword in their hand swept and accurately cut the opponent's throat. The sound of the sharp blade touching the flesh and blood. The first sound was short and powerful, and the blood immediately splashed out. A Zhou army in front of them fell on the deck with an iron armor.
The corpses in the water were still bleeding, and the blood on the side of the ship dripped down the wooden board.The turbid river water exuded a stinking smell of mud and a fishy smell, and the brown mud was dark red.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the other side.
All the Khitan nobles watching the battle on the west bank of Caoku were stunned and watched, and Yelu Xiuge's attention also turned to the horse team coming from afar.
Damn, just as I was about to control the ferry, reinforcements came!
Many people were surprised and worried, but Yelu Xiu Ge was still stable.
On both sides of the canal, a flat horse is flat; the sky is bright and bright, the sky and the earth are clear and bright, and the vision is extremely wide.
Yelu Xiuge found that there were not many horse teams coming.
The general worried: Could it be that the Zhou army's vanguard, the large number of horse soldiers are still behind?
It may be the Zhou army's horse-riding infantry.Yelu Xiuge said coldly.
Above the battle formation, especially this fast and maneuverable short-term battle, it depends on decisive and accurate judgment, and the key is one or two effective attacks!There is not so much time to look back.
Yelu Xiuge was not going well today and was in a irritable mood, but his mind was still very clear: the Zhou cavalry was near Guizhou, intending to cut off the retreat route; the front wanted to use the rivers and cavalry infantry to drag the Liao Iron Cavalry to implement the strategy of encirclement.
But can these horse-riding infantry stop the Daliao Iron Cavalry?
Yelu Xiuge said decisively: Order the front army to cross the canal and attack Zhou army reinforcements at any cost, and stand firm on the other side!
As expected, the Zhou army's cavalry approached the river bank and immediately dismounted.Seeing this, Yelu Xiu Ge snorted.
At this moment, the generals from the scout camp came to report: The main cavalry brigade of the Zhou army attacked the buoy bridge in Guizhou, and our people burned the buoy bridge!
Very good!Yelu Xiuge was even more convinced that the Zhou cavalry had gathered on the northwest of Youzhou and the Liao cavalry retreated westward.
If Yelu Xiu Ge's Guo Shao, he would build a bridge and cross the river between Youzhou and Xuanren City, and quickly approach the Liao army; if so, Yelu Xiu Ge would have to go and fight in a field, which would not be easy... But this is not the case. In front of him, Yelu Xiu Ge was too lazy to care about Guo's strange head.
Yelu Xiu Ge observed the Zhou army on the other side. With his experience, he determined that he could defeat it and could not pay any more; but this price could be ignored for the size of the army of tens of thousands of cavalry.
The Zhou army's cavalry was still far away in Guizhou, and it would take time to come. Yelu Xiuge judged that the Liao army could completely cross the canal calmly and flee from the east to the north.
After a while, another situation was reported!
The Zhou army's large horse team crossed the floating bridge from ten miles southeast of Youzhou and rushed straight toward.The left-wing cavalry of the Liao army went to test the harassment, and the Zhou army hurriedly got off the horse and lined up!
Yelu Xiuge almost laughed when he heard this: Zhou army lacked real horse warriors, and used infantry to pretend to be cavalry.I was beaten to the point of defeat last year. Now I finally dare not be a cavalry. I have gained some knowledge!
The generals were very nervous: The Zhou army surrounded us on three sides, and the infantry approached us first. There were rivers around us, and the situation was a bit bad.
Yelu Xiu Ge thought carefully and sneered: You are even less courageous than the southerners!?Let's just open this place, no need to hurry.The southerners are busy working everywhere and scaring people. I want to see what they can do!
Yelu Xiuge ordered: The left-wing tribal army came and advanced to the Zhou army formation.When they lined up the square array, our horse soldiers lined up without fighting and rode on horseback to watch; when the formation moved, they set off on their horses and rushed to the road, and then seized the fighter plane to attack!
Obey the order!
On the other side of the river, some cavalrymen who had wade across the river rushed towards the Zhou army's square formation that was advancing, and were immediately shot into a hornet's nest. The people and horses on the ground were all filled with arrow feathers, and the bodies were placed all over the ground.
In the middle of the river, countless Liao troops stood in muddy water, shouting and pushing the boat to approach the other side of the river. The shouts shook the sky and the earth, and even the boat was pushed toward the shallow river bank.
Liao soldiers gathered on the deck of the ship, and the iron cavalry of the palace tents held round shield spears and gathered in the shallow water behind the ship to form a formation.Other Liao cavalry followed one after another, rushed over and shot.
After several captured ships were pushed to the shore, there were more people on the river, as if a large group of people were struggling in the mud.A Liao general rode his horse to the west bank and shouted and urged the front army.
AhAh!The Liao army cavalry rushed to the ashore again with a strange cry, and rushed up in a mess, and horse soldiers continued to go into the water in the river behind.
Yelu Xiuge rode a horse near Caoqu, stretched his head forward, and looked murderous, which made people very scared when they saw it.
He didn't say a word, but his eyes were very sharp. He could see at a glance that there were a few boats on the river looking strange, and they stopped there and remained motionless...
Even if there is no wind, the boat should shake when floating on the water, but those boats are stable!
There are several shallows on the canal. I know that there is one nearby, right there!Yelu Xiuge pointed with a horse whip.
The generals took a closer look and agreed.
Yelu Xiu Ge was a little hesitant for a moment. The army could go east from this shallow or retreat northwest. When he came, Guizhou and other cities were in Youzhou, the garrisons inside were not only Han people, but also some Khitan, Xi, and Jurchens.
Yelu Xiu Ge is a decisive and cheerful person. He makes decisions based on his own judgment and is weighing how to make decisions right now...
Soon, a general of the Liao army came to report, holding a letter in both hands: The Han army guards in Tanzhou were reported urgently, and they found a large number of Zhou army cavalry and went west!
West?Yelu Xiu Ge frowned and thought.
Immediately, a tribal nobleman said with fear: The Zhou army wanted to seize the floating bridge on the Sanggan River and cut off my retreat!
Yelu Xiu Ge snorted, not saying anything.I can't believe the words of the Han generals in my heart.Moreover, with his long-standing intuition, the Zhou army's surround from the upper reaches of the Sanggan River was too detour and seemed too conservative.
But soon, the garrisons of Shun and Ru prefectures also sent people to report the whereabouts of the Zhou army's cavalry, and they all said they were going west... Yelu Xiuge was skeptical. Although it was the report of the Han general, it could not be negotiated.
Not long after, another general rushed over and said hurriedly: General, Xiao Siwen's people came to report the news, the main force of the Zhou army's elite cavalry went to kill Guizhou!
Yelu Xiuge said: How did Xiao Siwen know the military situation in Youzhou City?
The general said: It was Xiao Siwen's subordinate, a scout who was under Abudi, and a token, nothing wrong!
When Yelu Xiu Ge heard this, he believed it eight points. Xiao Siwen did have a confidant named Abudi.
A real man doesn’t have to worry about the details. Yelu Xiuge trusts his judgment: the Zhou cavalry went to Guizhou to follow and intercept it.
When Yelu Xiuge came today, he found that the Zhou army burned food and grass, and there were also a large number of soldiers on the grain ships on the river. The routes of their cavalry were even more strange, and all of them were strange.
Yelu Xiuge's left eyelid suddenly twitched!Nothing went well, and the messy situation made him very upset.
He stared at his fierce eyes, his head suddenly shook to the side, and his neck made a clicking sound. He looked coldly at the stranded sailboats on the river, and said: Send someone to attack!Kill all the people on the boat, keep no one!
Obey the order!
...In the south of Guizhou (northwest of Youzhou), there was a huge fire on the surface of the Sanggan River and smoke filled the sky.
I don’t know which side set the fire, the pontoon bridge and the boats were burning, and in the smoke, the black people shouted and ran around the river bank.
A group of messy Liao and Han soldiers fled on the south bank on horseback, and there were Zhou army cavalry chasing behind them, shouting and killing, and there was chaos.
Those Han people were wearing Liao army armor and could speak Khitan dialect with strange accents. The Han people spoke Khitan dialect, which was the voice.Someone shouted: Run!The people of Zhou are coming!
Guizhou wants to surrender...
The Khitan scout who was watching the scene with a bow and arrow were wandering while watching.
There were seven or eight Khitans nearby, and a general drank a Han man who ran over: It was useless, the only thing that Zhou army crossed the river was just a cyclist!
The Han man glared and said loudly: You'll cross the river in a while!
How many people?
The Han people said: I don’t know, there are all the elite riders all over the mountains!
The Khitan young man asked: What did you see with your own eyes?
The Han people nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: Too many, at least one million people!
idiot!After hearing this, the Khitan generals cursed, and the Zhou army's infantry and cavalry, together with the civilians, did not have a million!
At this time, I saw Zhou Jun cavalry gathering on the flat ground in the distance and heading straight towards this side.
The Khitan generals beat the horse and left, and several cavalrymen also turned around and ran along.
The Khitan general said: Go back alone and report to the top of the peak. The main force of the Zhou cavalry is in Guizhou. Our people burned the floating bridge!
……
On the canal north of Jinzhou, dense Liao cavalry waded to the middle of the river, and the water surface reached the chest of the horses. Too many horses were in the river, stirring up the mud below, and the river water was as turbid as the water of the Yellow River.
From time to time, corpses emerged in the muddy water, shouting up and down the side of the ship, and arrows flew around.
clang!The sharp sword slashed on the side of the ship, and a scream of his lungs. The Khitan soldiers who were holding on the side of the ship wanted to climb up immediately let go, screaming from the side of the ship and falling into the river.
A moment later, the Zhou army soldier holding the sword also lost the sword, covered his hands on his face, the feathers of the arrow's tail were still trembling slightly, and blood soaked out from the soldiers' fingers.
The ship was surrounded by people, as if floating among the crowd.
Some Liao troops trekked from the water between the ships to the other side, surrounded by arrows on both sides. The sails of Zhou's army were full of holes, and arrow feathers were nailed to the wooden boards of the hull, as if Zhuge Kongming borrowed arrows from the straw boat.
The Zhou army fought to the death, but could not stop such a strong attack, and all the casualties were killed or injured.
The Khitan soldiers attacked the ship very fiercely. After a cavalry climbed on foot, they moved very sharply. The iron sword in their hand swept and accurately cut the opponent's throat. The sound of the sharp blade touching the flesh and blood. The first sound was short and powerful, and the blood immediately splashed out. A Zhou army in front of them fell on the deck with an iron armor.
The corpses in the water were still bleeding, and the blood on the side of the ship dripped down the wooden board.The turbid river water exuded a stinking smell of mud and a fishy smell, and the brown mud was dark red.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the other side.
All the Khitan nobles watching the battle on the west bank of Caoku were stunned and watched, and Yelu Xiuge's attention also turned to the horse team coming from afar.
Damn, just as I was about to control the ferry, reinforcements came!
Many people were surprised and worried, but Yelu Xiu Ge was still stable.
On both sides of the canal, a flat horse is flat; the sky is bright and bright, the sky and the earth are clear and bright, and the vision is extremely wide.
Yelu Xiuge found that there were not many horse teams coming.
The general worried: Could it be that the Zhou army's vanguard, the large number of horse soldiers are still behind?
It may be the Zhou army's horse-riding infantry.Yelu Xiuge said coldly.
Above the battle formation, especially this fast and maneuverable short-term battle, it depends on decisive and accurate judgment, and the key is one or two effective attacks!There is not so much time to look back.
Yelu Xiuge was not going well today and was in a irritable mood, but his mind was still very clear: the Zhou cavalry was near Guizhou, intending to cut off the retreat route; the front wanted to use the rivers and cavalry infantry to drag the Liao Iron Cavalry to implement the strategy of encirclement.
But can these horse-riding infantry stop the Daliao Iron Cavalry?
Yelu Xiuge said decisively: Order the front army to cross the canal and attack Zhou army reinforcements at any cost, and stand firm on the other side!
As expected, the Zhou army's cavalry approached the river bank and immediately dismounted.Seeing this, Yelu Xiu Ge snorted.
At this moment, the generals from the scout camp came to report: The main cavalry brigade of the Zhou army attacked the buoy bridge in Guizhou, and our people burned the buoy bridge!
Very good!Yelu Xiuge was even more convinced that the Zhou cavalry had gathered on the northwest of Youzhou and the Liao cavalry retreated westward.
If Yelu Xiu Ge's Guo Shao, he would build a bridge and cross the river between Youzhou and Xuanren City, and quickly approach the Liao army; if so, Yelu Xiu Ge would have to go and fight in a field, which would not be easy... But this is not the case. In front of him, Yelu Xiu Ge was too lazy to care about Guo's strange head.
Yelu Xiu Ge observed the Zhou army on the other side. With his experience, he determined that he could defeat it and could not pay any more; but this price could be ignored for the size of the army of tens of thousands of cavalry.
The Zhou army's cavalry was still far away in Guizhou, and it would take time to come. Yelu Xiuge judged that the Liao army could completely cross the canal calmly and flee from the east to the north.
After a while, another situation was reported!
The Zhou army's large horse team crossed the floating bridge from ten miles southeast of Youzhou and rushed straight toward.The left-wing cavalry of the Liao army went to test the harassment, and the Zhou army hurriedly got off the horse and lined up!
Yelu Xiuge almost laughed when he heard this: Zhou army lacked real horse warriors, and used infantry to pretend to be cavalry.I was beaten to the point of defeat last year. Now I finally dare not be a cavalry. I have gained some knowledge!
The generals were very nervous: The Zhou army surrounded us on three sides, and the infantry approached us first. There were rivers around us, and the situation was a bit bad.
Yelu Xiu Ge thought carefully and sneered: You are even less courageous than the southerners!?Let's just open this place, no need to hurry.The southerners are busy working everywhere and scaring people. I want to see what they can do!
Yelu Xiuge ordered: The left-wing tribal army came and advanced to the Zhou army formation.When they lined up the square array, our horse soldiers lined up without fighting and rode on horseback to watch; when the formation moved, they set off on their horses and rushed to the road, and then seized the fighter plane to attack!
Obey the order!
On the other side of the river, some cavalrymen who had wade across the river rushed towards the Zhou army's square formation that was advancing, and were immediately shot into a hornet's nest. The people and horses on the ground were all filled with arrow feathers, and the bodies were placed all over the ground.
In the middle of the river, countless Liao troops stood in muddy water, shouting and pushing the boat to approach the other side of the river. The shouts shook the sky and the earth, and even the boat was pushed toward the shallow river bank.
Liao soldiers gathered on the deck of the ship, and the iron cavalry of the palace tents held round shield spears and gathered in the shallow water behind the ship to form a formation.Other Liao cavalry followed one after another, rushed over and shot.
After several captured ships were pushed to the shore, there were more people on the river, as if a large group of people were struggling in the mud.A Liao general rode his horse to the west bank and shouted and urged the front army.
AhAh!The Liao army cavalry rushed to the ashore again with a strange cry, and rushed up in a mess, and horse soldiers continued to go into the water in the river behind.