Riding his horse back to the fort, Zhao Xingde shook his horse, and his own soldiers rushed over to support him, but Zhao Xingde raised his horsewhip so that he didn't have to come up. The fort was built on a low hill, and the entire battlefield was in full view, and countless eyes were focused here. Zhao Xingde lifted the curtain and took off his helmet. The surrounding soldiers saw the majestic faces clearly, and the cheers and cheers became louder.

"General Zhao!" Ma Rui saw that his face was slightly pale, and he couldn't help but be a little worried.

"Nothing." Zhao Xingde's voice was a little low, his right hand raised his arm, and shouted: "Swear to kill the Liao thief!" ”

Only then did the soldiers see that this was actually a head with a gold ring in his ear, presumably a Liao army general who was beheaded. For a while, the morale boiled to the extreme, forgetting the fear just now, countless soldiers followed and shouted: "Swear to kill the Liao thief!" "Swear to kill the thief!" "Swear to kill the thief!" Many of the soldiers in the Baoyi Army were even more excited and burst into tears.

In the large array of the infantry army, the generals of the Baoyi Army praised one after another. Although Lu Mingyu, Luo Xianshi and the others did not dare to look left and right, the emotions revealed in the corners of their eyes were honored. Shi Jingkui said secretly: "He is worthy of being a fierce general from Anxi." ”

"Good man!" Yang Zaixing praised loudly.

The psychology on the battlefield is quite subtle, one will be desperate, a hundred people will not be a person, a hundred people will be killed, and ten thousand people will not be a person. The Song army originally occupied a favorable position, and after this encouragement, even if there was no cavalry to help, the Song army in the prefectures and counties on all sides was on a par with the cavalry of the Liao army attacking the hills.

Seeing that the situation had stabilized, Zhao Xingde ordered the soldiers to move chairs and sit on them, and disarmed Lang Zhong to dig out the arrows.

"Dang" ...... "Dangdang" ...... "Dangdang"

Several arrows fell on the iron plate one after another, Shi Langzhong sniffed with his nose, and licked the arrows with his tongue, before Bing said: "General, don't worry, there is no poison on this arrow." At this time, Ma Rui, Du Fujiao and other generals breathed a sigh of relief. Zhao Xingde saw that Lang Zhong did not avoid risks, and smiled and said, "There is Mr. Laoshi." There were still many wounded soldiers who needed to be taken care of by Lang Zhong, and Zhao Xingde was not polite, put on his armor again, stood up and supervised the battle everywhere, and everywhere he went, the soldiers cheered loudly at him. This scene did not look like a war, but like a military parade.

"Good!" Zhao Xingde endured the severe pain of the wound, and said with a relaxed face, "The big guy can use his usual skills for four or five points, and he can fight a tie with the Liao thief, if he can use his usual six or seven points of ability, he will be able to win the battle." Although his armor was thick, he grinded his wound from time to time when he moved, and the pain gradually became stiff and numb. He felt that his entire back seemed to be a little swollen, and his close-fitting shirt was soaked with sweat and blood.

Zhao Xingde was like a magnet, and everywhere he went, arrows shot at him one after another. Even if it was more than a hundred steps, dozens of steps away, the Liao army did not shoot at the target in the vicinity, and desperately fired arrows at Zhao Xingde. The iron shield "ping pong" erected on both sides rang non-stop, like rain hitting lotus leaves. The accompanying soldiers looked nervous, but Zhao Xingde acted as if nothing had happened, and he didn't look like he had been injured. Correspondingly, everywhere Zhao Xingde went, the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and the elite of the Baoyi Army guarding this artillery fortress plus the Song army in the state and county had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and experienced the tempering of fire and blood, and experienced the emotions of fear, cowardice, despair, excitement, and excitement. It didn't take long for the cavalry to stop their horses, and Ma Rui once again led his army to counterattack.

The artillery fort on the small hill relied on more than 10,000 county soldiers and more than 1,000 cavalry, and actually attacked and defended with more than 10,000 cavalry of the Liao army. Xiao Xiangsheng couldn't help but ask Brother Temu to add troops and horses to attack, however, the Song people's infantry army did not move, and if the Liao army was successively put into attacking, it would be completely passive. "What should I do?" Brother Tiemu's face was as gloomy as iron, and his heart was like numbness, "The Song people have been prepared for a long time, this is a trap, and only by saving the lives of warriors can we win the battle." His eyes were on the back of the Khitan cavalry who were still storming the hill fort one by one, if he abandoned Xiao Xiangsheng's men and horses and retreated alone, the consequences would be unbearable for him. Even if he didn't move now, he was under great pressure.

At this moment, the war drums of the Chinese army rumbled. Yang Zaixing, Lu Mingyu and other generals cheered up, the officers waved their right hands forward from top to bottom, and the front line began to advance one by one, according to the drill in advance, the soldiers walked forward fifty steps before stopping, during this time, the Liao cavalry was attracted by the battle on the fort, and did not rashly attack. After the front army advanced several times, more than 10,000 foot soldiers had begun to occupy the center of the battlefield, and the musketeers set up fire guns on all sides, and the officers gave orders one after another, and began to shoot at the surrounding Liao cavalry at the fastest speed.

"Aligned! Fire! ”

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

The large array of infantry soldiers was well-trained, like a non-stop machine, and each squad of soldiers loaded ammunition on the spot, and then walked out of the phalanx in order, and handed the loaded muskets to the hands of the chief and deputy chief. The two men kept raising their firearms, lit them at the order of the centurion, and fired them.

Looking from the outside of the large array, I saw a forest of spears, bursts of green smoke rose up, and the guns shot towards the Liao cavalry like a storm. Although the power of the projectiles fired by a single musketeer was limited, the power of thousands of muskets fired at the same time was not small, and the cavalrymen who were hit fell off their horses one after another. The cavalry of the Liao army also continued to gallop in front of the gunners of Rulin, and fired arrows with their bows at a distance of twenty or thirty paces, which also caused many arrows to be killed and wounded. However, although the cavalry fired a lot of arrows, they could not keep up with the power of the rows and rows of firing guns. Most of the infantry army arrays are the battle-hardened Zhenguo army and the Baoyi army, even under the invasion of hundreds of cavalry arrows like raindrops, the infantry army array is as stable as Mount Tai. Zhang Xian even commanded the large array of the front army to slowly approach the fort, and gradually formed an encirclement with the Song army on the fort. At this time, many Khitan cavalry could no longer care about attacking the fort upwards, and took advantage of the fact that the encirclement had not yet been formed, and retreated from the side.

"Damn it!" Xiao Xiangsheng scolded, he looked back at Brother Tiemu's subordinates, who were still motionless, presumably the battle in Shuzhou was also defeated because of this person's amusement. Countless Khitan warriors fell in the rain of bullets, and the war horses collapsed to the ground with a wail. "Retreat, retreat!" Xiao Xiangsheng shook his head and yelled, "I'll go and reason with that coward!" ”

Under the threat of the infantry array, the Liao cavalry finally gave up attacking the artillery barracks and fled like sparrows and flies. "The handsome man will win!"

"Lord Dutong, do you want to send troops to help Xiao control them?" Commander Subutai asked in a low voice.

Brother Temu was stunned, he was hesitating whether to retreat, Su Butai asked a few times, Brother Temu raised his head, and saw that the Khitan cavalry took the initiative to retreat, and Brother Temu's eyebrows actually had a hint of joy, and then disappeared again. The defeated Khitan cavalry poured thousands of miles, bypassing the cavalry led by Tiemuge and retreating towards the back of the hill.

At this time, the Song army's artillery fortress began to readjust its muzzle and bombarded the Liao cavalry not far away. The black cannonballs flew straight over with a screaming sound, and the hills where the Liao army was stationed in horses were in chaos, some people were loudly bombing their subordinates, and some people were running to Brother Temu in a panic, and said loudly: "Lord Dutong, the Khitans have run away, what should we do?" At this time, it was less than a quarter of an hour before the Liao army besieging the fort was defeated.

"Retreat!" Temuge's horsewhip pointed at the back of the hill, and the Khitan cavalry of the brigade was scattered and scattered, "Commander Wan, commander Qian, you must take care of your subordinates, and you are not allowed to retreat!" Taking advantage of the fact that the Song army's artillery had not yet fully exerted its power and the infantry army was slow to move, the Liao cavalry urged their horses one after another, scrambled to retreat, until they camped two miles away, and gave up this condescending hill to the Song army.

The brigade of men and horses finally got out of the range of the Song army's artillery fire, the cavalry took out the camp tents, antlers and other things from the horses, and set up the camp tents again, Brother Tiemu had not yet dismounted, a group of men and horses rushed straight from a distance, the war horses had not yet stopped, and Xiao Xiangsheng, the deputy commander, turned over the saddle and dismounted: "Brother Tiemu, you coward, we Khitans are bleeding desperately, you actually sit on the wall and watch!" Several Khitan generals who had suffered defeat followed behind Xiao Xiangsheng with black faces, staring at Brother Tiemu with angry faces. The Liao army fought in the south and the north, and it has always been the vanguard of foreign tribes, and the Khitans picked up cheap behind. Today, Xiao Xiangsheng had an impulse, the Khitan cavalry suffered heavy losses, and the cavalry of the grassland tribes led by Tie Muge was killed and wounded by cannonballs, and their strength was intact, which made these Khitans who were above the top angry.

Xiao Xiangsheng is a descendant, he lost his temper at this time, and regardless of his feelings, he asked loudly, "If you don't make it clear today, I will sue Your Majesty, and I will definitely want you to look good!" ”

"That's what Lord Xiao said!" "Make it clear!" "Tell me clearly!" The Liao army was not very strict, and the Khitan generals saw Xiao Xiang rising his head, and they all followed him and clamored loudly, and several people actually pressed their hands on the hilt of their swords, ready to draw their swords without saying a word.

The scene is deadlocked, and it seems that with the slightest spark, the situation will turn into an explosion. The generals looked at each other nervously, and Xiao Xiangsheng looked directly at Brother Temu's face in a rebellious manner. Brother Temuge's subordinates have been discriminated against by the Khitans for a long time, and they usually swallow their anger, at this time, where can they still hold it, they have pulled out their waist knives and confronted the Khitan generals, the generals pulled out their knives, and the soldiers also poured up, and in a moment, with Brother Temu and Xiao Xiangsheng as the center, there were hundreds of soldiers and horses drawing swords against each other, and more than a dozen horses ran to the periphery, it seemed that the rescue soldiers had gone.

Brother Temu pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife, rubbed it a few times, and slowly put it down, he took a deep breath, stared at Xiao Xiangsheng and said: "Your Majesty Dashi has always been fair, and the rewards and punishments are clear, even if you sue Your Majesty, I am not afraid!" Whether you are a Khitan or a royal prince, today you sent troops without my general's order, according to military law, you have committed a capital crime! From now on, even if your head is stored in your neck, wait for the big war to be dealt with! ”