Xiao Qigu jumped off the thatched hut and just got on the horse.

Suddenly, he saw a black shadow thrown from afar, and the bones fell to the ground, it was a huge black ball, rolling into the cavalry formation that was slowly turning the horse's head and preparing to withdraw with him, but it was a big black iron ball, something like a rope, and it was blazing, Xiao Qigu was slightly stunned, and instinctively felt that something was wrong.

"Boom" with a loud bang.

Xiao was dazzled by the shocking ancient tinnitus, and almost fell off the horse.

The horses neighed, and the horses ridden by Tielin were immediately frightened, running and jumping, and some of the horses fell down with a wail, as if their legs or stomachs had been bombarded by the explosion of the iron ball.

There were also knights who were hit by the fragments of the iron ball's explosion and fell from their horses.

Although these knights quickly got up from the ground in disgrace, it was obvious that the fragments could not break through the heavy armor, and the wounded horses were also because of the knees and abdomen, and there was no iron armor to protect them.

But there was already chaos in the field, and there were knights who fell from their horses, trampled by their frightened horses, and screamed in pain.

Xiao Qigu has not woken up from the tinnitus, there was a sound of killing, but he saw more than 100 horsemen rushing from the west entrance of the village, as the leader of the general, wearing a golden mask, but the spear in his hand was not used to sprint, picking and poking, it was like a short weapon was waved extremely flexible, Xiao Qigu suddenly came back to his senses, rode his horse to escape, and his back hurt sharply, but he was hit by the spear that danced in the golden mask, and immediately fell off the horse......

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Empress Xiao and Hu Dugu were extremely surprised when they saw the sluggish Xiao Qiugu.

It was Hu Dugu, who felt that under Qi Tianzi's night attack, he might not be able to defeat Xiao Qiugu, but he never thought that this big Liao horse would be captured.

Empress Xiao was even more shocked and speechless, thinking that the emperor of the southerners was stubborn and self-serving, and the southerners were weak, and they were repeatedly defeated with more blows and fewer blows, not to mention that they were too many with less, but they didn't want to, and the clansmen and commanders were all captured.

Xiao Qigu was depressed, and when he saw Queen Xiao's master and servant, he was still depressed, and his mind was not here.

Lu Ning ordered a fire to cook again, and roasted those Liao Cavalry who were seriously injured and killed.

At the same time, there were hundreds of meat horses and meat sheep carried by Xiao Zhenggu, all of which were driven together, as well as more than 1,000 captured Liao war horses, and it took more than two hours to clean up the battlefield.

Xiao Qiugu fled three or four thousand horsemen, and the rest were either killed on the spot or, like Xiao Qiugu, became prisoners.

Lu Ning ordered the captives to be killed, except for Xiao Qiugu, regardless of whether they were seriously injured or uninjured.

Of course, what happened in these villages, Hu Dugu and Empress Xiao naturally did not see it.

Although he wants to come to Yelu Xidi to get information, he will be extremely cautious, after all, Xiao is going to ask for the ancient department, but nearly 10,000 cavalry, the power that can defeat it, Yelu Xidi wants to take revenge, I am afraid of dividing half of the troops, not to mention, who knows, whether people have set traps waiting for you.

But Lu Ning still ordered to turn around, and the team returned to the valley before burying the pot and cooking to rest.

Having eaten and drunk, he sent scouts to replace the remaining sentinels on the south bank of the Sangan River.

Lu Ning also ordered all the archers to send the tightly bound Xiao Qigu and dozens of wounded soldiers who had temporarily lost their combat effectiveness to Jinning Town.

At dusk, near the village opposite the stone bridge, a Khitan scout finally came, wandered around the village for a while, and turned around.

The Khitan scouts naturally also saw the Qi light cavalry on the other side of the river and did not hide their whereabouts very much.

When Lu Ning heard about it, he ordered the two battalions of tiger ben and Yu Linwei, who was not good at riding and shooting, to leave all the dry food, drive the horses and sheep and all the auxiliary horses, and turn back to Jinning overnight.

Yelu Xidi was a little too cautious, and it was impossible to break his military horse to take revenge, so his plan was also revised, and he was originally prepared to give full play to the strength of mobility, attract the enemy to divide his troops and come again, take advantage of his familiarity with the terrain, lead them around this area, and eat it in one bite, and now, it is time to revise the plan.

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A few days later, Lu Ning led nearly a thousand horsemen and appeared in the Black Stone Mountain, a hundred miles away in the north.

In the area of Heishi Mountain, the hills and mountains are vertical and horizontal, and the height is uneven, which belongs to the eastern extension of the Yinshan Mountain Range.

The so-called Humadu Yinshan refers to the Outer Great Wall on the Yinshan Mountain System in the north, which is not far from here, separating the inner and outer grasslands.

All the way from Yangyuan to Heishi Mountain, he once encountered a small group of Khitan cavalry, scouts, etc., all of which were completely killed, just like when Lu Ning led the Yulin guards to hunt, it was a single scout, and Lu Ning would also catch up and shoot them.

Now around Lu Ning, there are more than 40 Yu Linwei, nearly 900 bead rides, except for Lu Ning and one person and three horses, the rest are all light horses, that is, they have become all light horses.

Then, Lu Ning led them to wander around this area while keeping the war horses well-rested.

Except for Lu Ning, the rest of the archers went out day and night.

This vast area, originally because of the Khitans' westward expedition, the people fled and almost became a no-man's land.

In some villages, not a single living person can be seen, but in many villages, the Khitan military horses did not pass by, so it is easy to supplement food.

That night, Lu Ning and the others entered a silent village in the night, and scouts had already been sent around, and the rest of the archers and horsemen wandered around the thatched huts, extremely skilled in finding the food that the fleeing villagers had not taken away.

The autumn harvest has just begun, and there is a lot of surplus grain.

In fact, the Lianzhu cavalry brought a lot of rations, and when the two battalions of tiger ben left, they left behind those dry rations that could supplement a lot of nutrition and did not take up space.

Even if they don't scavenge food, each of them still has dry food left that can eat for more than ten days, but it is naturally better not to use the dry food of the army in front of the palace, which is extremely hungry.

It has been more than ten days since I came to the Black Mountain area, and many Liao people have been intercepted and killed, among which the messenger, Lu Ning killed two.

They were all military intelligence reports sent to Xinzhou from the Yelu Xidi military camp under the city of Yunzhou.

The letter said that the Qi army of Jinning may have marched westward to support Yunzhou, and he would take strict precautions to make Yelu Yihu not be frightened by the bluff of the Qi army, and turn the feint attack into a real attack to conquer Jinning.

A few days ago, a team of hundreds of southern army foot soldiers in Xinzhou drove a large number of meat sheep, which should be to replenish the military supplies at the bottom of Yeluxi, and were shot clean by Lu Ning's archers, but unfortunately, because the most important thing now is mobility, those sheep, except for slaughtering more than a dozen to relieve hunger, the rest were all released, and in the future, if those refugees return to the nest, they will benefit.

Yesterday, there was also a group of Khitan scouts from the direction of Yunzhou, with dozens of light horsemen, who were also killed cleanly.

This scout team, naturally Yelu Xidi, faintly felt that there was a problem with the connection between himself and the direction of Xinzhou.

Come to think of it, Yelu Xidi must be a little confused by the second monk now.

In his opinion, there are reinforcements from the Qi army from Jinning in the southeast, and now in the northeast, there may be a large group of Qi troops, or, it may be the Jinning Qi army advancing north, cutting off his way back.

This is also the illusion that Lu Ning wants to give him, making him think that maybe his way back, the Qi army has already set up an ambush.

Moreover, counting the time, in the past two days, after the Tiger Horse returned and rested for a while, Lu Qing should have led the second army of the palace and Shenwu to attack the Yelu Yi Division.

If nothing else, it won't be difficult to defeat Yelu Yiyi.

After all, in addition to the two battalions of archers and cavalry led by themselves, the whole army is in Jinning, and some of the Wuding army of Yelu Yihu stayed to defend the city and feint to attack Jinning, there should be more than 10,000 people, and most of them are Han soldiers, equipment morale and recognition of the Liao people, etc., which are not the same as the Han army in Youzhou.

The army in front of the palace plus the Shenwu army just depends on the size of the results.