The north wind was cold, the cold clouds were rolling, Jia Yuanzhen breathed in the white steam, and hunched his waist in the battle shed to avoid the cold wind. Although he was on duty this night, the whole person was almost frozen into a popsicle. But in order to save oil, when the sky was just 'cloudy' and 'cloudy', he took the initiative to extinguish the "scare lamp".

The sky was full of thick, low-hanging clouds, and the north wind was like a sharp scimitar, slashing through the sturdy leather jacket one after another. Jia Yuanzhen is a southerner, and his face was frozen purple on the bank of the Yellow River this winter, and the cracked mouth on his hand was shocking. Judging by his appearance alone, he was no different from the soldiers recruited by the Northland. The defense area of his battalion is very important, commonly known as the place of "'Rooster' Singing Three Roads", facing the Liao army across the river in the north, and the boundary of Jingdong Road in the east, and also building a north-south earthen barrier by topography. After months of hard work, Jia Yuanzhen and the brothers in the camp are no longer separated from each other. More than ten days ago, more than 100 officers of the former army of the Department of Left-behind Division fled south, he thought twice, or stayed, he said to Ma Yuan, no matter what, this big river defense line always needs people to guard, only Ma Yuan brought a few letters to his family.

On the eastern horizon, a red sun 'revealed' a corner behind the thick clouds, and the sunlight gave the dark clouds in the sky as if they were gilded with gold, and the glow reflected thousands of changing colors. And what the night guard is most looking forward to is the short moment of dawn, and the empty and vast world is suffocating at this moment. "Li Baidou has a hundred poems about wine," Jia Yuanzhen shook his head, not daring to 'lick' his frozen lips, "It would be nice to have a pot of Zhuangyuan Hong." But he searched his intestines and scraped his stomach, but he couldn't make a poem.

In a little while, the changing of the guard will come. Jia Yuanzhen took a breath and began to move his body to climb the sentry tower, and his stiff joints made a "click" sound. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, his face was covered with a layer of 'gloom', and on the eastern horizon, countless figures faintly appeared. He raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, and was surprised to find that it was thousands of people dragging their children and 'women'.

"What's going on?" Jia Yuanzhen wondered in his heart, and then lit the wolf smoke.

A moment later, more than 100 cavalry galloped out from the direction of the camp, following the instructions of the sentry flag, and passed through the passage left in the middle of the low wall. Jia Yuanzhen looked from afar, only to see a few cavalry stopping the people in front of him and began to interrogate, not knowing what was going on. At this time, Guan Lu, the ten-captain who changed the guard, also came up.

"Jia Hujun? What's going on? ”

"Somehow," Jia Yuanzhen frowned, "a large number of people suddenly poured in from the east. "Could it be that Liao Kou drove him away? Jia Yuanzhen couldn't hold back and didn't say it, and it was taboo to talk nonsense in the army. However, at this moment, the cavalry interrogating the people suddenly released a "bang", "bang" and "bang" three-sounding horn cannon. Sure enough, the spirit that was too good to be bad really had a Liao army of more than 3,000 horsemen coming from the east. It seems that the Jingdong Road people in the east of Puzhou have been defeated, and the Liao army can rest assured that it will expand its results to the west.

"Damn Liao dog," Jia Yuanzhen scolded, "I'll go down and gather my brothers." He hurriedly handed over the sentry card to Guan Lu, and kept climbing down from the rickety sentry tower with his hands and feet, and almost fell down because he was in a hurry. Jia Yuanzhen stood under the sentry tower, put up a pergola with his hands, and looked in the direction of Nanle Village, where there was a commander of five hundred firefighters and another hundred cavalry scouts. Because of the front line of river defense here, there are only a few thousand people nearby. Seeing these three horns, it is estimated that the commanders are busy taking the people to the camp to hide. Before the commander Xia Biao led the reinforcements to arrive, under normal circumstances, whether to defend the camp or meet the battle, the battalion commander Xu Sheng took the opportunity to deal with the enemy situation.

"Mr. Jia, there are at least three thousand Liao dogs!" Xu Sheng ran over and said loudly.

The word "sir" is the honorific title given to Jia Yuanzhen by the soldiers in the battalion. As the commander and protector of the army, Xu Sheng and Jia Yuanzhen cooperate very well. Xu Sheng was followed by dozens of cavalry, stationed behind the sentry tower. Many people still have vegetable sauce at the corners of their mouths, and half-bitten cakes are pinned to their belts, obviously because of the wolf smoke and bugle guns, these soldiers got on their horses and came out to meet the enemy in the middle of their meals.

"I'm afraid," Jia Yuanzhen frowned and said in a low voice, "If the people are caught up by Liao Dog, it will be troublesome." Do you want to defend the east wall? ”

"We have too few people, and guarding the east wall is simply sending us to death," Xu Sheng's horsewhip pointed in the direction of the wall, "We can only defend the camp." ”

The big river turns a corner at the junction of the three roads, and the east wall is a narrow and low earthen rampart that extends and builds at the bend of the river, which is enough for tens of thousands of firecrackers to defend, but for hundreds of firecrackers, guarding such a wide defense line is equivalent to leaking 'holes' everywhere. The strong men of Tuntian could only defend behind the higher angular wall, and if this low earthen wall was used against the cavalry, they were afraid that a cavalry would collapse if they were to attack.

As if to confirm Jia Yuanzhen's worries, as soon as the firecrackers stood on the wall, the Liao thief cavalry appeared on the eastern horizon. At first, there were only a few horses, and after a while, groups of Liao soldiers continued to pour out from behind the horizon, and the Liao army spread out a wide net in all directions as if hunting, trying to hold off the fleeing Song people in front of the Song army's defense line.

"The Liao people are here!" "Run for your life!"

The people suddenly panicked, some people were crying loudly, desperately running to the west, and on this plain of Ma Pingchuan, such a run would definitely not escape the encirclement and interception of the Liao cavalry. The Liao army shouted loudly as if they were hunting sheep, and overtook many of the slow Song people on their horses, and then came back, brandished their scimitars, and cut people to the ground, and were intimidated by them, while the people ran around among the cavalry like headless flies in order to avoid the Liao soldiers in front of them, and some people panicked and ran up the high embankment and then onto the frozen river.

In the middle of the hunting circle of the Liao army, more than a dozen carts are surrounded together, the driving horses are in the car, more than 100 strong men are holding bows and crossbows, spears and other weapons are still resisting, they rely on the cover of the carport, as soon as the cavalry approaches, a cluster of crossbow arrows in the distance, and the near place is pierced with spears. The cavalry of the Liao army couldn't get close for a while, and they were busy hunting other people, so they gave up this hard bone and didn't gnaw him.

"He's 'milk' 'milk', he's 'milk' 'milk'," Jian Tianliang scolded, "Lao Tzu didn't die in Mobei!" Instead, he will die in Kanto! ''! He raised his spear in both hands and poked it into the eye of a warhorse, which was frightened, neighed loudly, and twisted its direction desperately on all fours, almost throwing off the horseman.

"Brother Jiao, we are at war with Liao, right? If you die here, will the military government have any pensions? ”

"Whoever fucking conscripts you, who's fucking giving you a pension!"

Jiao Dengyun bent his bow and arrows and scolded: "Let's count this as 'people die for money, and birds die for food'." It's pretty much the same! His eyes were cold, and an arrow "swished" out, hitting a cavalryman in the back of the heart. "Good archery!" The guy next to him praised.

"Lao Tzu originally 'shot' his head," Jiao Dengyun shook his head dissatisfied, "If you want to 'shoot' anywhere, I would have been a ten-master long ago!" While mocking himself, he took out another arrow and put it on his bow. Today he feels very good, his eyes are in his hands, and the arrows are not missing. As soon as the Song army recovered Henan, they came to Kanto to do business through Hangu Pass, and traveled all the way here. Although Jian Tianliang and Jiao Dengyun are sergeants, they are unwilling to give up their wealth and goods, and they are not willing to give up their buddies.

"He's '' 'milk'!" Jiao Dengyun 'shot' an arrow, and then 'shot' a Liao soldier off his horse, "Old Jane, this head is for you." ”

"!" Jian Tianliang scolded, "You can give it to the Kanto Yankee." ”

The two of them were crawling in the army, and they were not afraid of the formation, coupled with the deliberate shouting, the morale of more than 100 guys in the caravan was also greatly boosted, and those who fired arrows and poked spears were so busy that they could block the Liao cavalry from the car formation. But outside there were horses galloping and smoke billowing out, and if there was no foreign help, all the members of this caravan would have been 'plugged' and would have died.

In the middle of the billowing smoke and dust, there were faintly lodging bodies everywhere, unable to distinguish between dead and alive, staggering and running away, howling and crying everywhere, and heart-rending screams everywhere. The cavalry of the Liao army shouted loudly, driving the Song people from the north and south to the middle, and then intercepting and driving them from the east to the west. Some cavalrymen threw out the rope loops of the horses, and the Song men and women they liked were overturned to the ground at once, and ran behind the horses regardless of whether they were dead or alive. More Liao troops abandoned their prey that had already been surrounded, and chased after more Song people who fled for their lives. This tragic scene all fell in the eyes of the Song army soldiers behind Dongyuan.

"Damn," Jia Yuanzhen gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "If there is retribution, we will slaughter the Khitan race!" ”

When the Baoyi Army formed an army in the southeast, it set up the military name of "protecting the territory and securing the people". Zhao Xingde set up tents to preach night after night, and made a calligraphy book for the priests to read. In the Baoyi Army, even the most rude officers and soldiers knew that in the face of foreign enemies, the 60 million Song people should be united in order to be self-reliant and self-reliant. If the Liao people kill the people, it will be like killing my father and son, if the Liao people plunder the 'daughter' son, they will rob my mother, wife and sisters, and if the Liao people loot and burn the village and burn the house, they will destroy my homeland. At this moment, the cavalry of the Liao army was wantonly slaughtering and plundering the people of Jingdong, and the soldiers watched this scene and scolded them bitterly.

"Let's intercept Liaogou!" Xu Sheng raised his spear, circled his horse, and shouted: "Cavalry, follow me!" ”

"Lord Xu!" Jia Yuanzhen lost his voice, the Liao cavalry in front of him was more than 3,000 cavalry, and Xu Sheng led this less than 100 cavalry to meet the enemy, which was almost certainly the end of ten deaths. He looked at Xu Sheng and wanted to give advice, but looking at the thousands of people behind him who were being chased by the Liao cavalry, his throat choked, and he couldn't say words of persuasion.

"It's a pity that I can't die for Lord Zhao anymore!" Xu Sheng shouted loudly, "Jia Hujun! The stockade and the people are 'handed' to you! ”

"All the cavalry," he raised his spear and shouted again, "all come with me to stop the Liao army!" ”

"Cavalry, come with me! Die for the Great Song Dynasty! ”

The war horse took a few steps back in place, and as soon as Xu Sheng lifted the reins, the four hooves of the mount suddenly exerted force, and jumped over the low wall in one leap. "Protect the land and the people! Die for the Great Song Dynasty! "Follow me!" "All follow Master Xu!" "Great Song Wansheng!!" The cavalry of the Song army urged their horses to follow behind Xu Sheng, and more than 100 cavalry formed a simple front arrow formation, their iron hooves flew over, and they stepped out of a billowing cloud of smoke and dust, and rushed towards the Liao cavalry in front without hesitation.

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