In the night, the dragon-like black-armored iron rider was crossing the river from the shallow water.

In addition to leaving a hundred soldiers to guard the auxiliary horses, two thousand heavily armored tigers and heavy-armored archers poured out.

Hu Dugu and Empress Xiao, of course, were also left in the valley, after all, it was a night attack, so as not to deliberately report the news.

Hu Yanzan, the deputy commander of the army in front of the palace and the commander of the first battalion of Huben, was also in the army.

Before leaving, he looked at the map sent by the Son of Heaven to the main generals in the army a few days ago, and at this time, in his heart, he had to bow to the Son of Heaven, as if the more he followed the Son of Heaven, the more he had to look up to the Son of Heaven.

On the map, it is clearly marked that this river is called Sanggan River.

The stone bridge mentioned by the Khitan military Han is more than ten miles northeast, and it is the only bridge on the Sanggan River in the vicinity, and the rest are some small ferries.

The Khitan cavalry, resting in the north of the stone bridge and guarding the choke point, was discovered by reinforcements from Jinning, but he was also in an invincible position, and he could find an opportunity to attack the enemy army south of the bridge at any time.

However, the Son of Heaven just marked the stone bridge on the map, more than ten miles upstream, and the water is shallow and crossable.

This river crossing place, should be found by the Holy Son of Heaven and Yu Linwei when they were surveying outside, this place is remote, the opposite side is full of valleys, a few miles downstream, is a few direct confluence places, I am afraid, and only the nearby mountain households, know this shortcut.

You don't have to think about it to know that the Son of Heaven found that the Sanggan River was only a stone bridge in the Yangyuan area, so he would naturally look up and down to see if there were any other routes to cross the river besides the ferry.

Even, the Holy Son of Heaven may have imagined a long time ago that if the Khitans attacked Yunzhou and the army in front of the palace came to help, this Yang Origin could become a battlefield, so he paid so much attention to the terrain here.

For the Son of Heaven, in addition to worship, he still worships wholeheartedly.

Hu Yanzan thought wildly, also clenched the spear in his hand, touched the saddle hanging iron whip, looked at the northeast direction, and his blood gradually boiled.

Hu Luer, so that the people of Shanxi talk about the tiger become extremely afraid, today, let Lao Tzu's royal iron whip open your head!

The long dragon is like an iron horse, and it took more than an hour to cross the river.

On the north bank of the river, into the wide farmland, slowly assembled, the tiger Ben hundred people in a group, Lianzhu gradually dispersed.

Then, after a whistle from Huyanzan, move forward slowly.

Lu Ning and Yu Linwei formed a formation and walked in the center of the team.

A nighthawk swept by in the air, curiously looking at the human heavy rider who was walking slowly under the black pressure, faintly, sensing the danger, it quickly flapped its wings and flew away, away from these terrible creatures.

……

Ahead, there was a sudden exclamation in Khitan language, it was a Khitan scout, shouting loudly, while turning the horse's head and galloping towards the northeast.

In any case, unless you encounter a mediocre general who is not born in the world, otherwise, it is almost impossible to rush into the enemy army silently.

Now, it's close enough.

Approximately, it was only three or four miles away, and under the moonlight, Lu Ning even faintly saw that in the distant villages, there was still black smoke rising, and in the daytime, the entire village had been slaughtered.

The present hour is probably the darkest time before dawn, but fortunately, the moon is full today.

Lu Ning had already faintly seen the Khitan scout, but he didn't have the urge to disrupt the formation and rush out to kill him.

It's just that, with the brigade, I feel like my crotch is getting off the horse and moving slowly.

The heart is very calm, the blood that has been boiling, the excitement of challenging the northern giants, now, is gone.

Holding the spear tightly in his hand, his eyes seemed to be gradually empty, just waiting for the head, throat, and chest of the Khitan people to enter his eyes.

Another whistle sounded, and the teams of heavily armored horses that were slowly moving through the fields galloped slowly.

The sound of horses' hooves gradually rumbled.

In the village ahead, at the sound of the trumpet, countless horses poured out as if the gates had been opened.

Immediately the grassland men, howling and screaming.

Obviously, the Khitans have always been war-ready and have vigils.

"Kill!"

A group of ironclad cavalry burst out with an earth-shattering shout, suddenly accelerated, and the conical formation, like a sharp arrow, driven by the arrows, fired ten thousand arrows in unison, towards the Khitan cavalry, shot away.

There was a violent impact, and the man flipped on his back, screaming and neighing.

The Khitan poured out of the village, all of them were light horses, but they accelerated fearlessly, and collided with the enemy's heavy armored cavalry.

Although, the rows of Khitan horsemen at the forefront fell like dominoes, but in the end, they still stopped the offensive of the enemy's heavy cavalry.

The light cavalry in the rear row was quickly strangled with the enemy's heavy cavalry.

Roaring, fighting, blood red everywhere, even the moon, all seemed to be frightened into the clouds.

It's just that in the eastern sky, the fish belly is gradually whitening.

At the north entrance of the village, a group of Khitan heavy cavalry suddenly galloped out, and then, the oblique spur suddenly rushed over.

Obviously, it was the auxiliaries of these noble children who used their lives to stop the heavy cavalry of the Qi army at the west entrance, and they used their own flesh and blood to win the opportunity for their masters to wear armor and attack the enemy from the flank.

Lu Ning's spear no longer knows how many Khitan pawns have been poked off the horse, these light horses, the auxiliaries of the nobles, are really the eagles on the grassland, but now, they have become cannon fodder, they are not afraid of death, which is admirable, of course, if they are afraid of war, and the lord dies before them, then not only themselves, but also their families, will also face extremely cruel punishment.

"Kill!"

The relics of the heavy armor horse, just about to charge, only to find that in the oblique stab, the Qi people heavy cavalry archers quickly gathered in the shouting of killing, and swished arrows in their direction.

Originally, the relics were heavily armoured, and they were not afraid of bows and arrows at all, and they could rush into the formation of these archers with a single charge, but they didn't want to, and the comrades who rushed to the front fell off their horses in the screams.

Immediately, the charging array was chaotic, and the front and back even collided together.

Those Qi heavy cavalry archers quickly hung the crossbow arrows in their hands on the saddle, pulled the war horses and drove out quickly, each quickly took off the longbow, pulled the bow and continued to shoot arrows.

Although the armor-piercing crossbow is strong enough, there is no problem in shooting through heavy armor at close range, but it is extremely cumbersome to make, and the tension spring is extremely laborious, and it can be a good crossbow arrow long ago, and one person shoots an arrow, and then changes the weapon.

There was another earth-shattering shout, and the people rode heavily, and soon fought with the relics who had lost the momentum of the charge.

"Poof!" A brave and fierce knight in the relics rode hard, and just used the extremely sharp ancestral skill saber to cut the shoulder armor of a heavy horseman, and was hit by an arrow in the forehead, which penetrated into the armor, and he fell off his horse with a scream.

And most of the fights were the maces of the Qi people's heavy rides, smashing the relics to pieces.

On a rooftop in the distance, Xiao Qigu was watching the entire battle situation, but his heart was getting colder and colder.

Next to the thatched hut, there are hundreds of horses and tall iron horses, extremely cold, from Shangjing Lu Duo right leather room iron forest horse, is also the king of Tianzan sent to Zhongjing to stay in the Yelu Xidi marshal of the personal guard.

Marshal Yelu attached great importance to blocking the Qi reinforcements at the Sanggan River, and deliberately handed over his personal guards to Xiao Qiugu.

Even, Marshal Yelu's original order was not to block the Qi reinforcements at all, but to annihilate the Qi reinforcements.

Xiao Qigu never thought that the Qi people would use heavy armored cavalry to quietly cross the river, and then, a battle broke out between cavalry and cavalry, especially the heavy armored cavalry against the heavy armored cavalry.

It is between the steppe tribes, heavy cavalry and heavy cavalry are extremely rare, after all, cavalry is used to charge, not to fight.

Not to mention, against the Southern Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty used cavalry to attack its own cavalry? Fighting together?

Xiao Qigu is also cautious, and he has countless ideas about how to fight with the Qi people, but he never thought that he would encounter this scene in front of him.

In close combat with heavy cavalry, spears and spears will be useless, but it is difficult for one's own saber to cut through the opponent's armor, and the opponent's hammer is undoubtedly a sharp weapon against heavy armor.

Originally, this Tielin Army, Xiao Qigu was preparing to charge at the Relic Army, and after the other party fell into a bitter battle, he went to impact the opponent's boss, but at this time, Xiao Qigu felt that it would not be able to turn the tide of the battle if he put it on the battlefield again.

"Blow the trumpet, retire!" Xiao Qigu shouted to the trumpeter next to him.

The opponent is all heavy cavalry, their own side is defeated, and it is difficult for the opponent to pursue when they exit the battlefield, and the horse has limited physical strength, so it is impossible to fight for a long time, let alone pursue.

It's just that I feel inexplicably aggrieved.

In particular, looking at the tragic situation of corpses strewn all over the ground at the west entrance of the village, almost all of them were their own soldiers.

The number of enemy troops is not very large, originally, I wanted to annihilate it with one blow, after all, I knew at a glance that this was the elite of the Qi army, all of them were heavily armored, and if they could be gathered and annihilated, it would be a big victory.

But I don't want to, it becomes a big defeat.

In pure cavalry combat, defeat is usually a small defeat, mobility is there, and it is not difficult to escape.

But today......

In his ears, the horn sounded, Xiao Qigu shook his head, he knew that it was better to withdraw his troops decisively when he found the enemy's traces.

However, just think about it, if you really did that at that time, those relics officials, a few of whom were arrogant and had extraordinary family backgrounds, were afraid that they would be able to cut themselves.