"Bang bang ......" seems to be the sound of strings on all sides, and the air is trembling.

Yelu Hugo rode close to Caoqu, his head stretched forward, and his face was murderous, which made people very frightened. He didn't say a word, but his eyes were very sharp, and at a glance he could see that there were several boats on the river that looked very strange, and they stopped there motionless......

Even if there is no wind, the boats should be shaking when they float on the water, but those boats are steady!

"There are a few shoals on the Cao Canal, and Ben Shuai knows that there is one near here, right over there!" Jeruhukgo pointed with a horsewhip.

The generals took a closer look and agreed.

Yelu Hugo was a little hesitant for a while, the army can go east from this shoal, or retreat to the northwest, when it came, the cities of Yuzhou and other cities were in the belly of Youzhou, and the garrisons inside were not only Han people, but also some Khitan, Xi, and Jurchen.

Jerecius is a decisive and cheerful man, he relies on his own judgment to make decisions, and he is weighing how to decide......

Not long after, a general of the Liao army came to report, holding a letter in both hands: "The garrison of the Han army in Danzhou reported urgently, found a large group of Zhou army horses, and went to the west!" ”

"Westside?" Jeruxiugo frowned in thought.

Immediately, some tribal nobles said with fear on their faces: "The Zhou army wants to seize the pontoon bridge on the Sanggan River and cut off my back road!" ”

Brother Jeruxiu snorted, noncommittal. You can't believe all the words of the Han general. And with his battle-hardened intuition, the Zhou army outflanked from the upper reaches of the Sanggan River and appeared too conservative.

But soon, the guards of Shun and Ruzhou also sent people to report the whereabouts of the cavalry of the Zhou army, and they all said that they were going west...... Brother Yelu Hugh will be suspicious, although it is a report from the Han general, it can not be negotiated.

Not long after, another general came in a hurry, and said hurriedly: "Boss, Xiao Siwen's people have come to report that the main force of the Zhou army has gone to kill Yanzhou!" ”

Brother Yelu Xiu said: "How does Xiao Siwen know the military situation in Youzhou City? ”

The general said: "It's Xiao Siwen's people, the scouts of Abudiguan, and the tokens, there's nothing wrong!" ”

When Yelu Hugh heard it, he believed it for eight points, and Xiao Siwen did have a henchman named Abudi. The eldest husband doesn't have to worry about the details, Yelu Hugo trusts his own judgment: the cavalry of the Zhou army is trailing and intercepting from the side of Yanzhou.

As soon as he came to Yelu Hugo today, he found that the Zhou army burned grain and grass by itself, and there were a large number of soldiers on the grain boats on the river, and the route of its cavalry was even more strange, all of which were strange.

Jeruxiugo's left eyelid suddenly jumped! Nothing went well, and the messy situation made him feel irritable.

He stared at the fierce eyes, his head shook to the side, his neck made a "click" sound, and he looked coldly at the stranded sailboats on the river, and said, "Send someone to attack!" Kill all the people on the ship, and leave no chickens and dogs behind! ”

"Yes!"

…… In the south of Yanzhou (northwest of Youzhou), the Sanggan River is on fire and smoke. I don't know who set the fire on the other side, the pontoon bridge and the boats were burning, and in the smoke, the blackened men and horses shouted and ran on the riverbank.

A group of chaotic Liao soldiers and Han soldiers fled on horseback on the south bank, followed by Zhou army rangers chasing after them, shouting and shouting and killing in chaos.

Those Han people wore Liao army clothes and armor, and they could also speak Khitan dialect with a strange accent, and the Han spoke Khitan dialect, which was the voice. Someone shouted, "Run!" The Zhou people are here! ”

"Yanzhou wants to surrender ......"

The Khitan scouts, who watched the scene with bows and arrows, walked away and watched with their necks drawn.

There were seven or eight Khitan people nearby, and a military general drank a man who ran over: "It's useless, the Zhou army is just a ranger who crosses the river!" ”

The man glared and said loudly: "I will cross the river in a while!" ”

"How many?"

Han'er said: "I don't know, the mountains and fields are full of fine riders!" ”

The Khitan general asked, "What did you see with your own eyes?" ”

Han'er nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "It's too much, at least a million people!" ”

"Stupid pig!" The Khitan general scolded when he heard this, "The Zhou army's infantry and the people don't have a million!" ”

At this time, I saw the Zhou army rangers on the flat ground in the distance gathered together and rushed straight to this side. The Khitan generals patted their horses and left, and several cavalrymen also followed the horses and turned around and ran. The Khitan military general said: "Go back to one person, report to Shangfeng, the main force of the cavalry of the Zhou army is in Yanzhou, and our people have burned the pontoon bridge!" ”

……

On the Cao Canal in the north of Jinzhou, the dense cavalry of the Liao army waded to the center of the river, and the water surface reached the horse's chest, and too many horses were in the river, stirring up the silt below, and the river water was as muddy as the water of the Yellow River.

From time to time, corpses appeared in the murky waters, shouting up and down the side of the ship, and arrows flew wildly.

"Bell!" The sharp sword slashed on the side of the ship, and with a scream that cracked the lungs, the Khitan soldiers who were grabbing the side of the boat and wanted to climb up immediately let go, screaming from the side of the boat and falling into the river. A moment later, the soldier of Zhou who was holding the sword also lost his sword, his hands covered his face, the tail feathers of an arrow were still trembling slightly, and blood soaked out from between the soldiers' fingers.

The ship was surrounded by people and horses, as if floating in the crowd.

Some Liao troops trekked up to the opposite shore from the water between the ships, and the two sides of the bank surrounded the archery, and the sailboats of the Zhou army were full of holes in the sails, and the planks of the hull were all nailed with arrow feathers, as if Zhuge Kongming's grass boat borrowed arrows.

The Zhou army fought desperately, but it couldn't stop such a strong attack, and they were killed and wounded. After the Khitan soldiers attacked the ship, they were very fierce, after a cavalry climbed onto the boat on foot, their movements were very sharp, the iron sword in their hands swept away, and accurately cut the throat of the other party, and the sound of the blade touching the flesh and blood "clicked" The first sound was short and powerful, and the blood splattered out immediately, and a Zhou army covered in iron armor in front of him fell on the deck.

The bodies in the water were still bleeding, and the blood from the side of the boat was dripping down the planks. The murky water of the river smelled of silt and fish, and the brown mud was dark red.

At this moment, suddenly there was a faint sound of horses' hooves on the opposite bank.

The Khitan nobles and generals who watched the battle on the west bank of Caoqu were all dumbfounded, and Yelu Huge's attention was also cast on the horse team coming from afar.

Damn, just as I was about to control the ferry, reinforcements came!

Many people were surprised and worried, but Jeruxiugo was still holding on. On both sides of the Cao Canal, a horse flat river; When the sky is bright and high, the sky and the earth are clear and bright, and the line of sight is extremely open. Jerecius found that there were not many horses coming.

The general worried: "Isn't it the forward of the Zhou army, and a large number of horsemen are still behind?" ”

"It may be the cavalry infantry of the Zhou army." Yelu Hugo said coldly.

On the battle array, especially this kind of rapid and mobile short-term operation, it depends on decisive and accurate judgment, and the key is an effective attack or two! There's not that much time to look ahead.

Yelu Hugo was not going well today, and he was in an irritable mood, but his mind was still very clear: the cavalry of the Zhou army was near Fuzhou, intending to cut off the retreat and advance; The front wanted to use the river and cavalry infantry to drag the Daliao iron cavalry, so as to implement the strategy of encirclement.

But can these mounted infantry stop the Da Liao Iron Cavalry?

Yelu Hugo said categorically: "Order the front army to cross the Cao Canal, attack the reinforcements of the Zhou army at any cost, and stand firm on the opposite bank!" ”

As expected, the Zhou army's horse team approached the river bank and immediately dismounted and lined up. Seeing this, Jeruxiugo snorted.

At this moment, the military general of the scout battalion came to report: "The main cavalry brigade of the Zhou army attacked the pontoon bridge in Yanzhou, and our people burned the pontoon bridge!" ”

"Very good!" Yelu Hugo was even more convinced that the Zhou cavalry had gathered in the northwest of Youzhou and the Liao cavalry retreated westward.

If Guo Shao of Yelu Hugo, he would cross the river by building a bridge on the river between Youzhou and Xuanren City, and quickly approached the Liao army; If that's the case, it won't be easy for Jeruxiugo to have to fight in the field if he wants to leave...... But this is not the case, the facts are in front of him, and Yelu Hugo doesn't bother to care about the strange head of the blacksmith.

Yelu Hugo observed the Zhou army on the other side, and with experience, he was sure that he could defeat it, and he could not pay a little more; But this price can be ignored on the size of the army of tens of thousands of horsemen.

The cavalry of the Zhou army was still far away in Yanzhou, and it would take time to come, so Yelu Xiuge judged that the Liao army could calmly cross the Cao Canal and detour to the north from the east.

After a while, another situation was reported!

The large horse team of the Zhou army crossed the pontoon bridge from ten miles southeast of Youzhou and went straight to it. The left wing of the Liao army went to test the attack, and the Zhou army hurriedly dismounted and lined up!

Yelu Hugo almost laughed when he heard this: "The Zhou army lacks real horse warriors, and uses infantry with horses to pretend to be cavalry. Last year, I was beaten and crushed, and now I finally dare not use it as a cavalry, I have seen it for a long time! ”

The generals were very nervous: "The Zhou army was surrounded on three sides, and the infantry approached us first, surrounded by rivers, and the situation was a little bad." ”

Yelu Hugo thought about it again cautiously and sneered: "You guys are less daring than the southerners!? Let's just open this place, don't rush. The southerners are busy working everywhere and scaring people, but Ben Shuai wants to see what they can do! ”

Yelu Hugo ordered: "The left-wing tribal army has been sent to advance into the Zhou army. and our horsemen lined up without a fight and rode to watch; As soon as its formation moved, it got on the horse and hurried away, and then seized the fighter plane to attack! ”

"Yes!"

On the other side of the river, some cavalry of the Liao army wading across the river rushed to the Zhou army's phalanx advancing in formation, and were immediately shot into a hornet's nest, and the people and horses on the ground were full of arrow feathers, and the corpses were placed on the ground.

In the middle of the river, countless Liao soldiers stood in the muddy water, shouting and pushing the boat towards the opposite bank, and the shouting shook the heavens and the earth, and even the boat was pushed to the shallow riverbank.

The Liao soldiers and horses gathered on the deck of the ship, and the iron riders of the palace tent army with round shields and spears gathered in the shallow water behind the ships. The other Liao horsemen went forward one after another, riding their horses and rushing over to ride and shoot.

After several captured boats were pushed to the shore, there were more people on the river, as if a large group of people were struggling in the mud. A Liao general rode his horse to the west bank, shouting and urging the front army.

"Ahh The cavalry of the Liao army rushed ashore again with a strange scream, and the chaotic killing generals went up, and there were constantly horsemen entering the water in the river behind.