Zhao Xingde's heart was shocked, and he said in a low voice: "Marshal Han is serious. ”

Han Ningshuang looked at the endless Great Black Mountain in the north, and said in a low voice: "Diagonally go south to detour through the Han Realm, the Jin Army is bound to invite our army to attack Liaoyang together," she said with some hesitation, "How to deal with it at that time, I still need Captain Zhao's guidance." "She grew up in the Jurchen tribe since she was a child, and when she called the generals of the Jin Kingdom, she always called him by his first name, rather than by the surname Wanyan.

Zhao Xingde frowned and said in a low voice: "If this is a fire." ”

Han Ningshuang hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "If you can capture Liaoyang first, you can slowly take the Bohai Sea and become a country of your own." She paused, "Although Mr. Zhao said that Taibai Mountain and Yalu River are good, they are located in a corner and the place is bitterly cold, and they are not the habitual places where Han people live. ”

The Han army "became a country of its own", and it was tacit, but Han Ningshuang was blunt. Zhao Xingde was stunned for a moment and sighed: "Liaoyang is the land of the four wars, the Liao country is in the west, and the Jin country is in the north. The Han army wants to grab food from the tiger's mouth in Liaojin, but I am afraid that it will be very difficult. Even if it is captured, it must be able to hold it with strong troops. ”

Han Ningshuang looked at the hot training ground in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Strong soldiers are not something that can be obtained by being trapped in a corner and hiding to avoid battle. If it weren't for the experience of a hundred battles, how could the Liao army be afraid like a tiger. Although his voice was low, it carried an awe-inspiring meaning, and he added, "Since I was a child, I have seen wild wolves round up horses. If it is a herd of horses that are used to being domesticated by the shepherds, they only know how to run blindly, and the more they run, the more chaotic they become, and finally they are bitten to death by the wolves one by one. If it is a herd of wild horses, the leading horse gathers all the horses, and hundreds of horses rush towards the wolves together, kicking and stepping, biting and kicking, often causing the wolves to suffer a big loss. Mustang fights wolves every day, that's why they're so powerful. ”

Wang Ji and the other guards glanced at each other, and their hearts were full of enthusiasm. Zhao Xingde was also stunned and sighed: "Natural selection, survival of the fittest." ”

Han Ningshuang smiled slightly, and said in a deep voice: "That's right. "Flip the saddle and get on the horse, lightly clamp the horse's belly, and the war horse has to trot.

The dark clouds in the sky flowed, and suddenly a gap appeared, and the strong sunlight shone down unobstructed, like a huge sword from the sky to the earth. The north wind hunts, the grass decays, and this giant sword is extremely powerful, as if it wants to split this vast land in half. In this brilliant and somewhat psychedelic sunshine, more than 30 horses from the Han Army's Marshal's Mansion rode on the grassland, and soon joined the cavalry. More than 2,000 horsemen cheered and thundered again. The cavalry changed various arrays and galloped across the vast expanse.

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In the past two months, the Xia Guoying on the banks of the Yalu River in Taibai Mountain has not been idle, and before the Yalu River freezes, it has gone to sea the wood and charcoal that had been hoarded on the banks of the river, and bought a batch of grain and grass from Goryeo, Japan, and the Song Kingdom and hoarded them. Kim Chang-tae selected 500 garrison soldiers to form the Fifth Garrison Battalion, all equipped with muskets, and trained in accordance with the "Torch Battalion Drill Code" left by Zhao Xingde.

Li Sihai sent a boat to the north along the coast, and successively found the estuaries of the Gongmen River and the Mingtong River, and marked them. The Jurchen tribes of the East China Sea were almost isolated from the rest of the world, fishing in summer and wearing fish skins, and in autumn and winter when hunting, wearing animal skins, both men and women had long hair, but women's clothes and belts were often decorated with East China Sea pearls. The sea ships of the fourth battalion of Chengying exchanged a small amount of grain, cloth, porcelain, tea and other goods for a lot of mink and pearls. Therefore, after Li Sihai prepared for the beginning of spring, he carried the people over by boat, set up camps at the estuaries of these sparsely populated northern rivers, and slowly expanded to the interior.

Because Shenzhou and Liaoyang were the key to the future situation in Liaodong, both the Han army marshal's mansion and the Xia Guoying sent scouts to spy on the movements of the Liao army. Although the Liao State had a national policy of taking the Han people as slaves, it was far less thoroughly implemented in remote places such as Liaodong and where various ethnic groups were mixed. Xia Guoying also recruited Han people in the vicinity of these two places by recruiting Han people's connections, and the Volunteer Brotherhood recruited Han people into the association, not only to prepare for future troubles, but also to serve as a detailed work for the Han army. However, in the past month or two, the Khitan cavalry in eastern Liaodong went out in all directions, searching for Han people everywhere, burning down villages, and killing or arresting the people, so that a large number of Han people had to abandon their homes, either hiding in the mountains, or moving to the territory controlled by the Han army with their families under the guidance of the members of the brotherhood. The Han army got less and less accurate information about Shenzhou from the people, so they had to send more scouts to spy on the news.

Du Biao of the Tongzhou battalion of the Han army set off from Suzhou with a few men, sneaked north to the vicinity of Shenzhou, and there were fewer and fewer Han villages along the way, and it was a situation of ten rooms and nine empty, and it was easy to meet a Han family hiding in the mountains on this day, Du Biao pointed them out the road to Suzhou and Kaizhou, and got a message. Less than three miles away from Shenzhou City, there is a place called Roe Deer Ditch, and a large group of Khitan cavalry came last night. Du Biao was suspicious, so he took his subordinates over to check. Along the way, I avoided several Khitan sentinels, and finally climbed to a cliff on the east side of the roe deer ditch, many leaves have almost fallen in winter, looking down from here, the ravine can be seen clearly, but this look down, but people are surprised.

"His grandmother's, it's a sinister." Du Biao grabbed a handful of dry grass with one hand, and his face was pale.

More than 3,000 Khitan cavalry guarded the two ends of the roe deer ditch, but there were 4,000 or 5,000 people concentrated in the middle, all of whom were yellow-skinned and ragged. The Khitans gathered most of the people together, surrounded by hundreds of cavalry guards. The Khitan cavalry took out more than 50 people from these people at a time, walked to the other end of the roe deer ditch, and then swords and spears were fired, and then trampled on the horses, and the poor people fell to the ground before they had time to resist and shout. The ravine was long and narrow, the north wind was bitter, and the distant voices could not be heard clearly. Du Biao and the others seemed to be watching a pantomime, watching one group after another of people being taken out and killed by the Khitan cavalry. The rest seemed to have guessed the ending, many people were trembling with fright, and some were paralyzed on the ground, but once they were named by the Khitan, they actually forced themselves out of the queue, like lambs on the slaughterhouse, and did not dare to resist at all.

"Bang!" With a bang, Wang Liuzi was taken aback. When I looked back, it was Second Brother Du who smashed his fist right on the gravel, and the fist was already bloody and fleshy. Du Biao's eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire, his teeth were clenched, he was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Sixth son, do you remember the way back?" "Remember, what's wrong, second brother?" Wang Liuzi felt a sense of foreboding in his heart.

"You go back and report to Brother Xiong. Let's just say that I, Du Biao, will take the first step, and I can't follow the marshal and Brother Xiong to kill the enemy. Du Biao gritted his teeth and said word by word, "The rest of the brothers, go down with me to kill the Khitans and stir up the situation. The other five Han army brothers were silent, and Wang Liuzi's face changed so much that he almost jumped up.

"Second brother, when we go up the mountain, we can say that we will die on the same day and month of the same year!"

"Presumptuous! Let's all be left here, how can the Shuai Mansion know about this blood debt and avenge us! The brothers are naked, and you still have your father and sister to take care of," Du Biao said with a calm face, while pulling out the iron knife, spitting and smearing some thin mud on the knife to avoid reflection. He glared at Wang Liuzi and scolded: "Don't get out of here, cry and lose your face, get out!" ”

Wang Liuzi didn't dare to disobey, so he only knocked his head on the ground five times with tears, and then walked down the mountain in the opposite direction with his knife. Seven or eight horses were tied to the trees at the bottom of the mountain, and he only took two of them, saving a fluke in case Brother Du and them survived.

Du Biao muttered: "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law." He estimated that after Wang Liuzi walked away, he first lit a few fires in the mountains and forests everywhere, and under the blazing fire, the Khitan cavalry and the Han people in the ravine were in a little commotion. Taking advantage of the fact that the Khitan generals who commanded the army were still hesitant to send people down the mountain to search for the thieves, Du Biao led his subordinates to quickly touch the nearest place, and with the cover of the tree trunk, an arrow went out, and a Khitan man holding a scimitar and shouting loudly suddenly covered his throat and planted his horse. Du Biao is one of the seven tigers under the command of Yue, the bears of Tongzhou Village, and the scouts of the Han army are all elite soldiers of each village, but in the smoke, under the shade of trees, the figures are constantly shaking, and one after another life-threatening arrows fly out, and there are constantly Khitan cavalry falling off their horses. On the hillside on the north side of the roe deer ditch, there seemed to be a large ambush army.

Many of the horsemen did not dare to mount their horses, so they jumped off their horses, and some of them, under the cover of their horses, fired arrows indiscriminately into the dense forest. Some shouted at the guarded Ding Zheng, telling them to squat on the ground and not resist. Some of Ding Zhuang trembled and immediately squatted on the ground, not daring to move, some hesitated, and some of them rolled their eyes wildly, taking advantage of the chaos to drill into the grass next to the ravine. After the Khitan cavalry shot a few Ding Zhuang, they sent two hundred horsemen from the north and south sides to run around the place where Ding Zhuang gathered, and anyone who left the crowd immediately slashed to the ground. After the 100 people who escaped were killed on the spot, the other Ding Zhuang no longer dared to escape, and they honestly squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands.

"Running is death, not running is death, run!" "Run for your life!"

Du Biao and the others did not hesitate to expose their position and shouted loudly, but no matter how they shouted, those Ding Zhuang seemed to have been under the obscenity of the Khitan people for a long time, and they were very timid, so they squatted motionless and honestly, occasionally looking up at those evil stars who were riding horses and wandering around with fear in their eyes.

In winter, the grass and trees withered, the mountains here were also gentle, the opportunity was fleeting, the Khitan cavalry who had relieved themselves began to kill along the path between the trees, and the rest also fired arrows at Du Biao and others, arrows flew in the forest, and between breaths, four or five brothers were poisoned. The Khitan cavalry galloped on all sides with thick fallen leaves, and Du Biao didn't bother to run away, only relying on a big tree trunk, relying on his keen eyesight and intuition to release arrows, at this time of life and death, the arrows did not miss.

"Uncle earns you enough!" Du Biao muttered, bent the bow and was about to release the arrow, when suddenly a wolf's tooth arrow from the side shot over, poofing on his left shoulder, he frowned, his strength slowed down slightly, the Khitan cavalry saw the flaw, and they all showed their figures, and the arrows around the tree fell like rain. "Fuck ....." Du Biao, who was full of arrows, turned black in front of his eyes and fell on the thick dead leaves.