Chapter 62 Offering Accounts Far Away-4
The cavalry of the Han army rushed into the camp of the Liao army, and the Liao cavalry met them without flinching, and the two sides fought together. Near the gate of the Chinese army's camp, in a small place, four or five thousand cavalry gathered to fight for their lives. Man to man, horse to horse. In the battlefield, there is no room for maneuver at all, and the only way to survive is to preemptively defeat the enemies around you. The cavalry shouted and brandished their swords, and the horses kicked and bit each other. In the splatters of blood, many fell under the horses and were trampled into pulp.
Yelu Yanshan personally stationed at the horse to supervise the battle, and he was less than two hundred steps away from the place where the battle was fierce. Seeing that the battle situation was becoming more and more intense, the Jurchen cavalry all sacrificed their lives to rush forward to kill, and the generals around them showed fear, and some people said: "The golden thief uses poisonous arrows to hurt people, Lord Dutong should not be so close to them, it is better to retreat slightly!" β
Yelu Yanshan was watching the battle intently, and when he heard this, his brows furrowed, and he scolded: "The warriors are still fighting bloodily, how can the generals be afraid of death and retreat!" Lifting the spear and slamming it on the ground behind him, the spearhead was more than half a foot deep into the ground, and Yelu Yanshan said in a deep voice: "Those who dare to retreat from this spear will be regarded as rebellious and will be beheaded immediately!" The surrounding pro-soldiers and subordinates all looked over, his right arm shook, raised the scimitar in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Changshengtian bless the Khitans!" Today's battle, there is no advance or retreat! β
The subordinate soldiers were excited, and each drew his blade and shouted in unison: "There is no advance or retreat!" "There is no advance or retreat!" "There is no advance or retreat!" The war horse hissed long, mixed with the resonance of armor and armor, and the momentum was extremely strong.
This is not only because the military order is like a mountain, but also because Yelu Yanshan is deeply influenced by Yelu Dashi, and believes that the Liao State is the great Liao of the Khitan people, and usually treats the Khitan subordinates like brothers, so the subordinates are also very attentive to him, and would rather live and die with the lord. Lord Dutong was determined to fight to the death, and the Liao army in the fierce battle was bold, and the spear shaft of Zhang Xu trembled non-stop, and the Liao army behind the spear shaft urged the horse forward.
The Han army and the Jurchen cavalry charged the battle three times, but three times they could not break through the Liao army's defensive line. After a hard battle, there were more and more cavalry in Liao, and the situation became more and more critical. After finishing his speech, he and Gao Bolong personally put on the battle, and hundreds of iron horsemen formed a fist, killing a depression from the middle of the Liao army's cavalry formation. Despite the numerous Khitan cavalry dropped, the Liao army still resisted desperately. The Liao cavalry on both wings were still desperately squeezing over, but instead the hundreds of elite iron cavalry were almost trapped in the formation.
"If you don't retreat, you will be surrounded by Liao dogs!" The general brandished his sword to resist the Liao soldiers, and shouted hoarsely.
I haven't fought hard in person for a long time, and my armor and robes are splashed with blood, and my whole body is soaked with sweat. He held the long knife in his hand tightly and stared viciously at Yeluyan Mountain not far away, like a trapped beast in a cage. Yelu Yanshan seemed to be looking at him as well, and even saw the mockery in the other party's eyes. Compared with the Liao State, the Jurchen is very strong and weak, and it cannot afford to lose.
"Fight and retreat!" He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Release the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! β
Meng'an Mouke secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the cavalry in the back row took out their riding bows, bent their bows and shot arrows at the Liao army. Because the cavalry is inconvenient to exert force on the horse, this cavalry bow is only seven or eight fighting power, and the arrows used by the Jurchen cavalry are very heavy, so the range is only fifty paces, and it can only shoot the Liao cavalry in the middle and near. There were also Jurchen cavalry who fired arrows at the Liao army's marshal banner, and the arrows flew more than 80 paces away and fell softly. The Liao army in the rear has set up arrows to fight back, the Liao army was originally good at riding and shooting, for a while, only heard the sound of swishing through the air, and the arrows fell like raindrops.
However, in order to be light, the cavalry of the Liao army wore more soft armor and suffered some losses in the arrow battle. The Han army wore heavy armor, and the Jurchen cavalry wore thick felt shirts in addition to the iron armor, and the helmets with iron masks only showed two eyes, which were extremely difficult to penetrate if the Liao army's arrows did not happen to hit the gap. Many of the Jurchen cavalry were shot like hedgehogs, but they were still able to fight and retreat.
Yelu Yanshan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that it is not bad, although the Han army has united with the gold thief, but the strength is still insufficient, the sneak attack is acceptable, but he does not dare to fight, as long as it can be delayed for a while, it can be surrounded and annihilated, so that it steals chickens and rice. Thinking of this, Yelu Yanshan's eyes were slightly cold, and he said in a deep voice: "These rats want to escape, the whole army presses up, don't let them go!" "Urging the horse with both legs, regardless of the front battle or the arrows flying, he personally led the generals and soldiers forward.
Just more than a hundred steps away, Gao Bolong saw that Yelu Yanshan not only did not retreat, but forced forward, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Take the goose crossbow and aim at the main general of Liaogou!" Listen to my ordersβ" Dozens of soldiers around him untied their knapsacks and took out their crossbows and arrows that had already been opened. Gao Bolong himself took the crossbow arrow handed by his own soldiers. He crushed the wax seal on the blade, the poisonous hole was exposed, put the poisonous arrow into the crossbow warehouse, and aimed it at the Liao general under the banner of Shuai.
This shooting goose crossbow is a strong crossbow of the Xia cavalry system, although the shape is not as large as the crossbow of the army, but the power is not much inferior, the use of special arrows, the range is more than two hundred steps. After Zhao De came to Liaodong, he referred to the Jurchen poisonous arrow to transform it, drilled a bee needle hole at the front end of the arrow, inhaled a special venom before the war, sealed it with wax, and removed the wax seal during the war. When the arrow hits the target, it stops abruptly, and the venom will suddenly flow out of the bee pinhole by inertia.
The arrows shot by the Liao army on the opposite side rained down, and the arrows fell on the iron helmet and crackled, Gao Bolong's face sank like iron, and he aimed the crossbow at the Liao State Shuai Banner, and shouted: "Release the arrow!" The crossbow machine was pulled, and the iron-ridged crossbow arrow shot out with a "whoosh". At the same time, dozens of crossbow arrows were also shot by the surrounding soldiers.
The Jurchen soldiers only had seventy or eighty arrows, which made most of the Liao troops relax their vigilance, and even in front of Yelu Yanshan, the pro-soldiers did not erect an iron shield for him to block the arrows. Seeing that the crossbow arrows were coming straight to Shuai Qi like a swarm of bees, many Liao generals lost their color, and some shouted, "Be careful!" "Some stood in front of Yeluyan Mountain. However, it was too late, it was fast, and in an instant, dozens of crossbow arrows had been shot, and with the crackling sound, more than a dozen Liao soldiers fell from their horses with arrows, and they were killed on the spot by poisoned arrows.
It was not easy to get on the crossbow immediately, and after firing a shot, the Han army put the crossbow machine back into their backpacks and shouted "Yelu Yanshan is dead!" "Yeluyan Mountain has been hit by an arrow!" While drawing his blade again, he fought and retreated with the Jurchen cavalry.
The Liao army looked back. However, the relatives and soldiers blocked Yelu Yanshan behind them, and they couldn't see whether they had been hit by an arrow or not.
"Has Lord Totong been hit by an arrow?" The Liao army in the front was even more panicked.
"Get out of the way!" Yelu Yanshan pushed aside the soldiers in front of him, and said with a blue face: "It will be fine!" Many of the people who were hit by the arrow were his own soldiers who were trained and relied on as his confidants, and they were shot dead by the Han army at one time, which made him feel more heartbroken than the hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded by the soldiers.
The generals and soldiers were all around him, and Yelu Yanshan was even more annoyed, and said in a deep voice: "Ben will be fine!" He pulled out an arrow stuck in the crack of his armor and shouted angrily, "Don't let the thieves escape!" "As the commander of the army, the armor he used when he was in battle was naturally the most sophisticated in the Liao army, not only light in weight, but also strong and dense in armor, and it was difficult for ordinary arrows to penetrate. Only then did the generals relax their hearts, and the Liao army in front also shouted loudly: "Lord Dutong is fine!" "The general has an order, don't let the thieves escape!" Urging the horse to chase in the direction of the retreat of the Han army.
However, taking advantage of the short moment of the Liao army's commotion, the Han army and the Jurchen cavalry retreated a lot, and the rearguard had already disengaged from the Liao State Daying Palace Tent Army. At this point in the battle, the sky was already dark, and Gao Bolong and his cavalry generals had deduced the retreat route countless times, and now they were not in love with war, but just fled along the weak place of the Liao army. Along the way, Gao Bolong kept urging the horse, "Quick! "Quick!" The four hooves of the war horse galloped wildly, and rushed out of the Liao army camp in one breath.
The Jin soldiers and the Han army were all ironclad heavy cavalry, and they rushed hard in close combat, and the Liao light cavalry on the periphery could not stop them, so they could only follow behind, chasing and killing the Han army and Jurchen cavalry who were left behind.
"It's hateful!" Yelu Yanshan slammed his fist on the saddle, his face changed, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Pass the generals to the Chinese army to discuss matters!" "The Han army is stubbornly defending Nanshan City, and now since the cavalry has been sent to attack the camp, and the infantry army has gone out of the city to line up, in a hurry, even if the infantry army retreats back, the garrison of Nanshan City will inevitably be relaxed, so it is an opportunity to take advantage of the situation to attack the city!
However, as soon as a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, he felt a wave of dizziness on his head, and after an instant, he felt that half of his body was almost numb, "Lord Dutong!" "General Yanshan!" "General......" The shouts of the pro-soldiers became more and more faint in his ears. I saw Yelu Yanshan shake his horse a few times, and his head drooped, and all the pro-army generals were in chaos. According to the military system of the Liao State, if Yelu Yanshan was killed on the battlefield, all of them would be beheaded and martyred. Seeing that the poisonous arrow was powerful, someone shouted: "Lord Totong has fainted!" "Lang Zhong!" "Call Lang Zhong!"
Everyone started to put Yelu Yanshan down from their horses and helped them back into the tent, Lang Zhong hurriedly came and took off the armor for Dutong, only to find that the arrow of the Han people just now passed through the gap in the armor and slightly scratched some skin. The Han people's venom is very powerful, Lang Zhong poured a lot of decoction down, Yelu Yanshan woke up, but can not speak, action is still weak, according to Lang Zhong, probably the arrow poison is mixed with strange, so that the body is a little paralyzed in a short period of time, and the poison must be slowly removed with acupuncture stones.
"What a vicious arrow!" The generals of the Liao army talked one after another. According to common sense, since the Lord of the Metropolitan is injured and cannot take care of things, he should be the deputy commander of the military order. However, Guo Baoyi, the deputy capital commander, made a difficulty, although he was Yelu Dashi's confidant and confidant, and he was a Han himself, with Guo Baoyi's understanding of His Majesty, using Han people as deputy generals was already the limit, and if he was in charge of an army of 100,000 independently, it was a big taboo.