Modern people, even if you have been to those poor countries in Africa and seen what poverty and suffering are, you can't imagine how to call poor people in ancient times.

The so-called wealthy Great Song Dynasty, the people can be seen everywhere in heavy snow, with foot bags, rags, and straw sandals. It is not uncommon for teenage girls to have face age with their pants full of holes, and it is not uncommon for them to wear no pants at all.

There are welfare institutions such as pension orphanages in the Great Song Dynasty, but Song Taizu's original good intentions and good governance have not been well implemented.

The useful van army can't take care of it, and it doesn't care about the life or death of the lonely, widowed, old and weak.

Nobody cares. The emperor is only occasionally mentioned. You have the ability, you beg for food. If you can't bear it, you will wait for death, and it is better to commit suicide directly. Save the government from occasionally worrying.

Cangzhao's business is big, the money is extensive, and the expenses are huge.

There are 20,000 or 30,000 orphans adopted, and the number is still increasing.

If you have more mouths in a modern ordinary family, you may be exhausted. Even tired of your debts. Tens? Prefecture-level governments can't resist either. Cangzhao didn't have much ability to help more people.

Even if you have the ability, you can't do it.

People like Cangzhao, in a feudal society, compassion can really have a great crime.

You treat your tenant farmers well, and it is reasonable, Zhao Lian was arguing in the court at the beginning. If charity is extended to the outside world, it will be to invite people to buy people's hearts, and if they plot against them, they will surely cause misfortune.

Of course, if you have money and compassion, you can donate money and materials to the government, and the government will do good deeds on your behalf. It's just, it's just a meat bun beating a dog, so I can only be helpless.

Acts like Zhao Yue's actions were staged all over Cangzhou. The clothes of the Liao people killed were left behind, and they quietly and indirectly helped the people who were hiding in the city. Other booty, especially the horses, were returned to Salt Mountain.

The soldiers who were waiting to go out took their horses and joined the battle under the leadership of the leaders. With the increase of war horses. The generals began to disassemble, one person led a team, not too far apart, echoing each other from afar, and calling for help with fireworks in times of crisis. The net of hunting and killing is tighter, and the extermination proceeds faster.

Xiao Mohan is a member of the Da Liao Hou clan, in his thirties, but he is an old soldier, he has committed many raids in the past, and he is very experienced, this time he is the main general of one side, like other main generals who lead the team to loot, and he does not directly participate in the robbery, but takes the elite five hundred cavalry to contain and intimidate the Cangzhou army.

Usually, it was enough to threaten the garrison of the Great Song Prefecture with these manpower.

It is useless for many Song soldiers to do so, because there are no horses.

There are horses, which ones are also called war horses?

If you can't run fast, don't say it, you have to spit foam and even get tired if you rush ten or twenty miles. At that time, you can turn around and shoot and slaughter as much as you want. Not to mention Song Bujun, he only had to be beaten and shot.

Thinking that his subordinates were happily robbing and that he would also gain a lot, he couldn't help but smile.

The fine work and traitors lurking in Cangzhou City sent information.

After Xiao Mohan saw it, his eyebrows raised, and he couldn't help laughing.

"This Zhao Gonglian has literary talents, I can't imagine that he really has courage, and he is worthy of being a descendant of Cangzhao."

After the general next to him, Senno Shenko, also laughed out loud when he knew the inside story.

"Cangzhao and our Da Liao are mortal enemies. I don't know why they are so powerful that they can't take it away, so that Yanshan is almost forbidden now, and there has been no way to retaliate. I didn't expect that if we didn't go to him, the eldest son of his precious literati actually took the initiative to come out and send him to death. ”

Xiao Mohan touched his beautiful beard, carefully looked at the information again, and determined that Zhao Gonglian was bringing a scum army, although there were a hundred cavalry with him, but the others were infantry, even if he had more divine arms and crossbows, there was nothing to fear.

The 500 elite cavalry of the Great Liao were led by the general, and together with the fierce general Xianye, it was certain that they would defeat the 3,000 cowardly and timid Da Song infantry army by walking and galloping fast horses.

He didn't know that the men who had entered the interior were almost dead. The Cangliang Cavalry Brigade pretended to be the Liao army, and was killing in Yingzhou and Cangbei, deceiving and raiding other Liao Kou, and continuing to expand the results.

At this time, the border of Hebei East Road is clear and clear, the people hide in the mountains or in the city, and the officials and soldiers defend the city, giving the Cangliang army the best and most convenient opportunity to pretend to be Liao Kou to intercept and loot the Liao army.

"The order was sent to the little sage of the Great Song Dynasty. Ordered the distant blocker to probe carefully, and Zhao Jun's bottom was detailed. ”

The sentinel probe reported that the Song army was handsome and handsome, and the main general should be Zhao Lian. 100 cavalry guards. The 3,000 army was divided into main and auxiliary troops, and the supplies were transported by small carts, and there were no mules, horses, and ox carts.

After the report, the spy couldn't help but say again: "It looks like they are bringing knives and guns to farm." ”

When he approached Zhao Lianjun, Xiao Mohan's vigilant heart suddenly let go of most of it.

This group of Song soldiers set up an arc-shaped formation, blocking the hundreds of small carts loaded with supplies in three layers in front, and behind the cars were pikemen and sword and shield soldiers, and sure enough, they were equipped with divine arm crossbows, judging that there were hundreds.

Although it was two hundred meters away, the equipment of the Song army was still almost clear at a glance. There was not even a stake of antlers outside the formation, and there were no large-scale weapons of destruction against the cavalry, such as stone throwers, whirlwind cannons, etc.

As for the horse army guarding the two rear wings and Zhao Gonglian, Xiao Mohan couldn't help but sneer.

Ordinary people can't tell the difference between a war horse and a war horse filled with a horse, and how can a famous general like him, who grew up raising horses and playing with horses, not be able to tell the difference.

Several Song generals and the twenty horsemen who guarded Zhao Lian were real war horses, and the remaining eighty horsemen were all horses, which means that the cavalry was not Zhao Lian's dependence.

Zhao Gonglian actually had a sword Taoist with immortal wind bones by his side.

Do you want to use the so-called fairy spells to resist the enemy?

With the virtue of the Great Song Dynasty and the Confucian scholar Zhao Gonglian, it may not be.

Want to stop or even defeat the Great Liao cavalry with immortal methods, small carts and hundreds of divine arm crossbows?

Don't say that Xiao Mohan is speechless. Even his cavalry laughed mockingly.

Civilian little saint, you don't understand military affairs, you want to go crazy if you want military exploits, you don't have to come out like this to die.

Xiao Mohan had heard of Zhao's name for a long time, and he didn't know the secret method of his repeated victories against Liao, so he didn't dare to despise it, and he didn't dare to believe that Zhao Gonglian, who was as smart as a saint, naively thought that he could defeat Liao Qi in this way.

There must be something quirky.

It's just that I've been observing it repeatedly for a long time, and I haven't found anything that can be used as a killer feature.

The subordinates were already waiting impatiently. Xiao Mohan was worried that his subordinates would laugh at his cowardice, and he decided to test it. The herald ordered the hundred horsemen to approach and shoot harassment.

Not surprisingly, the Song army fired a divine arm crossbow to return fire.

Hundreds of crossbow arrows were fired, and more than a dozen unlucky eggs were hit.

Try again and order the rest to approach further.

The rear trolley was another flurry of crossbow arrows.

Forced again.

Crossbow bolts burst out of the third row. Then some archers returned fire. The pikemen raised their guns and prepared for battle.

It turned out that three hundred divine arm crossbows were prepared.

This kind of strong crossbow has great lethality, but it is not easy to manufacture, the process is complex, the yield is very low, and the cost is huge. The Great Song Dynasty lacked horses, so it attached great importance to long-range weapons, but it could not equip the army on a large scale. Zhao Lian personally went out as the governor of Cangzhou, and almost all the sharpest weapons in Cangzhou City should have been brought out.

That's it.

Xiao Mohan was completely relieved, he didn't bother to turn the attack point, and ordered the whole team to seize the opportunity to attack.

The Divine Arm Crossbow has an Achilles' heel. The strongest soldier had to sit on the ground and pedal the crossbow with both feet, and pull the string with both hands, which was time-consuming and laborious, and he would be tired and tired in a few times.

There was enough space for cavalry to rush in. Besides, I didn't see any arrows in the crossbowmen.

The fierce general Senno Shenko took the lead, brandishing a wolf's tooth sledgehammer and roaring and charging.

Who knew that the three rows of crossbowmen, under the protection of the shield soldiers, actually shot in turn under the top of the cavalry, and continued in a continuous cycle, as if they had prepared an inexhaustible strong crossbow. But there was no trace of it at the scene.

When you run closer, you can see that after the crossbowman shoots, he skillfully clips the crossbow back into the wheel beam of the trolley, hangs a small hook on the crossbow string with his left hand, and pulls a long wooden handle with his right hand to drive the small mechanism, which is easy to pull the string, and the sword and shield soldier next to him help put the crossbow arrows, and the crossbowman picks it up and shoots, so how can it not be happy?

The ancients were fixed in knowledge and thinking, and the big problems that could not be solved, Zhao Yue easily solved.

After the initial panic, the crossbowmen showed the effect of their harsh training, and their shots were more accurate.

Old experience kills.

In order to strengthen the impact force, the Liao cavalry attacked a little in a dense arrow formation, and as a result, the killing effect of the crossbow arrows was increased, and they were caught off guard, and even the riding shield could not block the strong crossbow burst.

More than 100 people fell on the 200-meter charging road, and they were restrained by the archers of the Song army, so they couldn't reach the front of the cart, and they didn't want to send them to death, so they turned their horses' heads and retreated, and nearly 200 people fell.

Those who are still alive after falling off the horse, who get up and run for their lives, are shot one after another, and can only lie down**.

Five hundred elites are only one hundred and thirty or forty left in a moment. Xianye Shenke didn't know if it was because of his high skills, thick armor, or great fate, but he rushed to the front but was able to retreat intact.

Xiao Mohan, who was watching the battle and commanded, opened his eyes wide in horror, doubtful and regretful.

knew that Cangzhao was not easy to provoke, Zhao Gonglian was definitely not a fool, and he was still a fool.

What is the secret of the divine arm crossbow in Zhao Lian's hand? Why is it so easy to launch in succession?

Xiao Mohan was frightened and angry, although there were only these people left, but relying on the speed of horses and riding and archery skills, he was still not afraid of the attack of the three thousand Song army against him.

He wanted to find out this fatal secret, so that he could return to the imperial court to come up with a way to crack it, otherwise the Song army would be equipped with this secret, and it would suffer a big loss in the future, and the advantage of the Daliao cavalry would be greatly reduced, so he refused to retreat.

"Zhao Lian, can you, a contemporary model of the Great Song Dynasty, only shrink back and dare not go out to fight?"

Xianye Shenke was so shocked that a cold sweat was still dripping now, and he also shouted in anger and shame: "Nanban has no cowards, who dares to come out and fight with my general Xianye?" ”