Fifteen miles southwest of Niuwangling, the 50,000 cavalry led by Han Zhang were quietly interspersed in the northwest direction under the starry sky. These 50,000 soldiers and horses made a detour from the southeast of the camp in a large circle, and the purpose was naturally to hide their whereabouts from the opponent.

Since you have to fight the Horde tonight, you must ensure victory and annihilate your opponent. In front, Han Desui and his son contain the enemy on the ridge, and Han Zhang's task is to detour to the side and rear position to block the opponent's retreat. If you can't attack it head-on for a long time, you can also attack the enemy on the ridge in front and back of its abdomen. As long as the opponent detours to the flank and rear position before escaping, this battle will be won, which Han Zhang is confident of.

In order to avoid their whereabouts being exposed, Han Zhang ordered his soldiers and horses to make a big detour and pull them fifteen miles away, away from the battlefield position. Although the grassland is open, as long as there are no torches and there is protection from the night, there is no danger of being discovered. When the snow melts, the soft, damp meadows full of young grass are perfect for masking horses' hooves. As long as it is not a wanton gallop, the tribal soldiers and horses in the middle of the battle will definitely not be aware of it.

Han Zhangze's horse trotted in front of the team, and the shouting and killing sound and firelight on Niuwang Ridge in the distance came, indicating that the battle was fierce there. Han Zhang was a little anxious in his heart, he knew that a frontal attack was not easy. The tribal cavalry must have some means, otherwise they would not dare to launch a provocative attack unscrupulously during the daylight yesterday, that is, they would provoke their own troops and horses to fight. At present, there are only 80,000 soldiers and horses of our own side engaged in a head-on battle, which is equivalent to the number of soldiers and horses of the other side, and I am afraid that this kind of battle will have to suffer for our own side. Therefore, Han Zhang needs to arrive at the position as soon as possible, go around to the position west of the mountain range, and complete the tactical arrangement.

"Pass the order, speed up. In less than ten miles, we will be behind the enemy. When the time comes, the front and back will be flanked and the enemy will be annihilated in one fell swoop. Han Zhang ordered in a deep voice.

After receiving the order, the speed of the team increased significantly. Now in this position, even if the other party is aware of it, it may be difficult for them to evacuate quickly. Therefore, Han Zhang simply ordered the soldiers and horses to speed up and rush, and there was no need to be cautious.

The army crossed a slope, and what appeared to be undulating terrain appeared in front of it. The flat grass was a heaved pile of dirt bales with long grass growing on them. At night, it doesn't look very real, but it looks like a mass grave on a grassland, and it looks like a series of raised hills. In short, on the flat grassland, it is really a bit surprising that such a large area of high and low earth-covered mountain beams suddenly appears in the flat grassland.

If Han Zhang had grown up on the grassland, he would naturally have understood that it was impossible for this kind of terrain to exist on the grassland. The herdsmen on the grasslands of Liao were buried randomly after they died. The rich and noble families buried their coffins in the deep ground, leaving few grave bags, because they didn't want anyone to dig up the grave and steal the burial money. Poor families practice wild burial, which is actually to leave the body in the field to be devoured by wild wolves, wild dogs, and vultures. It's also a way for them to get back to nature.

It's a pity that Han Zhang grew up in the prosperous south of Daliao, and he is also a Han himself, so he naturally doesn't know much about these things. Although he was surprised by the terrain, he didn't think much of it. The grave bags and mountain beams also seemed to have some regularity, leaving enough wide area in the middle to march, but there was no need to worry about them.

The soldiers and horses galloped away, and the cavalry was naturally willing to take a flat path, so they were unconsciously divided into three teams by the terrain of these tombs and mountain beams, and each team was only a few hundred steps away from each other, which was visible from a distance, and Han Zhang didn't care. But soon Han Zhang and the others felt that something was wrong. Because of this piece

The terrain of the grave pack is also too large, and there are too many graves. How many people would have to die to have such a large cemetery. The dense bags of dirt are endless, running out of the land of Lixu, and the front still seems endless.

"What's going on? Was there a big war here? How can there be so many graves? Han Zhang asked with a puzzled frown.

"There has been no major war in Linhuang Mansion in the past hundred years, and there are just skirmishes between some tribes, and three or five hundred people have died. Even if the people on the grassland died, it would be impossible to have such a large cemetery. This place is more than 40 miles away from Linhuang Mansion, and it is impossible to be the cemetery of the people in Linhuang Mansion. It's kind of weird. The generals around him were also a little surprised. With so many graves densely packed, people have some cold sweat on their bodies and their scalps are a little numb.

Han Zhang was silent and stared at the graves nearly a hundred steps away, and suddenly, Jean seemed to find that there was a grave that moved, Han Zhang thought he was dazzled, rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, this time he looked carefully, the tomb bag was slowly undulating, and seemed to twist. It's like something moving under the grass in the ground. Han Zhang broke out in a cold sweat, and his scalp was about to explode. When I turned my head to look at the graves around me, I suddenly felt that they didn't look like earth graves, because the shape and size of the bulges were too similar. There is no grave that is exactly the same.

"Lord Han, what's wrong?" The general beside him saw Han Zhang's strange appearance and asked in surprise.

Han Zhang didn't say a word, reached out and took the bow and arrow from the side of the saddle, and bent the bow and arrow towards the moving tomb bag before. The bowstring buzzed, the arrows shot like meteors, and at the moment when it sank into the dirt bag, a terrible neighing sounded, and a warhorse suddenly jumped up from the ground, with a feathered arrow stuck in the horse's hip.

Everyone was stunned by the situation in front of them, Han Zhang finally understood everything, and let out a terrifying roar from his mouth: "There is an ambush, meet the enemy!" Meet the enemy! ”

The battle began in an instant, and the ambush soldiers whose tracks were exposed instantly appeared like zombies emerging from a graveyard. The so-called mound of graves are camouflaged, and under each grave there is an ambush of a man and a horse. They stood up, made a strange cry, turned on their horses, and rushed straight into the soldiers and horses like Han Zhang. The cavalry of the Liao army hurriedly responded to the battle, and in order to facilitate the march, the cavalry swords were sheathed and hung in the saddle in an unguarded situation, but at this moment they suddenly encountered a close-range attack, and the enemy who emerged from under the ground was frightened. Before fully recovering, the opponent has already rushed into formation and started hand-to-hand combat. By the time they reacted, hundreds of people had already been killed by the other side because they were caught off guard. The cavalry who reacted hurriedly shouted and drew their swords to meet the battle, and the battle quickly entered the white-hot stage in the tea time.

The soldiers and horses in ambush were none other than the Jurchen army of Wanyan Aguda. As early as when Han Desui and Han Zhang's army was mobilizing, Wanyan Agu stared at this soldier and horse closely. He did not adopt the plan proposed by his subordinates to attack Dading Mansion while they attacked Linhuang Mansion, not that he felt that he could not capture Dading Mansion, but that Wanyan Aguda felt that it was meaningless. The other party will definitely be prepared, once his soldiers and horses attack the Zhongjing Road, the news will be sent to the army going north, and the other party will turn back to rescue. Even if he spends his energy to capture Dading Mansion, he still has to abandon the city after the other party's army arrives. Although this move to encircle Wei and save Zhao could save Linhuang Mansion from attack, not only did he not reap the benefits, but he would expose the fact of the alliance with the tribes, soldiers and horses, and would be targeted by Han Desui and Han Zhang.

Although he

They may not be able to attack themselves, after all, once they attack Liaoyang Mansion, the soldiers and horses of the northern tribes will also help them contain them. But this can only form a three-way equilibrium. If Wanyan Aguda is a person who is content with the status quo, this may be the best outcome. The problem is that Wanyan Aguda is not such a person, what he wants is to destroy Han Desui and them, and plot a bigger goal. In order to achieve what he wanted, what he needed was a decisive battle, a decisive battle to completely destroy the main forces of the Southern Army.

Therefore, when the southern army went north, Wanyan Aguda immediately led a winter rest, and the 80,000 Jurchen cavalry, which had already been prepared, rushed west from Liaoyang to reinforcements. There were no obstacles on their way, so when the southern army was preparing to fight in Raozhou, the cavalry of Wanyan Aguda had actually reached the grassland southeast of Linhuang Province. Wanyan Aguda sent people to contact the tribal chiefs, and the two sides discussed and formulated a strategy to let the southern army enter the grassland, and then close the door and beat the dogs. Originally, the trestle bridge on the Huang River in Raozhou could be destroyed, but Wanyan Aguda asked the tribal chiefs to keep the trestle bridge and let them enter the grassland near the left side of Linhuang Province. They chose Niuwangling as the location of the battle, using the tribal cavalry as bait to attract the other party to fight, and then the Jurchen cavalry raided the opponent's flank and beat them down.

Wanyan Agu has great confidence in victory, because he is in the shadows, and his soldiers and horses have not been discovered by the other party. Although Han Desui and Han Zhang's army was scattered all over the scouts and reconnoitred within a radius of twenty miles, Wanyan Aguda's soldiers and horses were only patrolling dozens of miles away. Not only did the soldiers and horses of the southern army not know his location, but even the tribal soldiers and horses did not know their specific location, only that they were close to the left and would appear at any time.

After the battle between the tribal soldiers and horses and the southern army yesterday, Yan Agu Da had already sent someone to know the battle situation, and he was originally very worried that the southern army would not be fooled, afraid that they would ignore the tribal soldiers and horses on the Niuwang Ridge and directly march to Linhuang Mansion. Therefore, his soldiers and horses galloped twenty miles to the battlefield in the evening, hoping to carry out an open attack on the southern army tomorrow. If the strategy doesn't work, the number of Jurchen cavalry and tribal cavalry is 160,000, which has exceeded the cavalry strength of the southern army. The two sides are on equal footing, and the victory or defeat is a must. Although this is not the method of battle he wants, if the other party ignores it, there is only one way to fight hard.

But things took a turn for the better, when the 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Southern Army came out of the camp to fight, Wanyan Agu was overjoyed, and he was keenly aware that Han Desui and Han Zhang were likely to want a full-scale attack on this night. He could have led his army to copy his flank and join the warband. But Wanyan Agu has his own abacus, why can't he sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and wait for the tribal soldiers and horses and the southern army to be defeated before going out? All you have to do is to prevent the other party from flanking and outflanking, so that the tribe soldiers and horses will be defeated too quickly. So Wanyan Aguda immediately ordered the soldiers and horses to rush to the rear position on the southwest side of Niuwangling and prepare to lurk. If the other party doesn't come, they will definitely pass by. If the other party has no intention of going around, and they only choose to attack head-on, then the tribal soldiers and horses can resist it, so why bother wading into troubled waters, and let them fight to the death. But as a leading general's normal thinking, it would be too stupid for the Southern Army to think of outflanking the front and rear behind enemy lines at this time.

The 80,000 Jurchen army lurked in the night of the grassland and waited for the rabbits, just like the cavalry that dealt with Yelucai at the beginning. But unlike the last time, this time Wanyan Aguda didn't even know if the rabbit would come. It wasn't until the scout came to report not long ago that a soldier and horse were galloping over, and Wanyan Aguda finally showed a knowing smile. The rabbit is coming, and the Southern army is finished.