Rapid battles, like storms, come and go as fast as they come.

Before sunrise, the Song slaves who were escorted were awakened by the dense sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing, and it didn't take long for everything to be quiet, and the slaves who were encircled together like lambs to be slaughtered found that in addition to the sparse corpses on the ground, the Khitan cavalry was all gone, and on the side of the Khitan camp, I saw a group of "masters" squatting on the ground, and the slaves experienced the long-term suppression of the Khitans, and they were stunned for a while, and many people did not understand what was going on, and for a while, they heard the irrepressible crying.

"Officers and soldiers!" "It's the rebels!"

"The rebels are coming!"

"Grandpa Rebel, help!" "Help!"

These Song people wept and shouted and ran towards the rebels. The Khitans treated the slaves as similar to the two-legged victory, and when they retreated, they escorted the Song slaves to the north, and organized them like nomadic herds for wintering, in order to reduce the losses on the way, they also tried to give food and drink along the way, so that they would not die of exhaustion and starvation. Despite their miserable circumstances, these Song slaves maintained their physical strength at a level that could walk on foot. The rebels divided a part of the people to take care of these people, and the leaders of each squad selected the strong ones and shouted, "Did you go up the mountain and join the gang?" "As for those who don't look down on them, they threw down their clothes and food from the carts of the Khitans and let them flee for their lives. Many slaves ran away after taking the grain, and others sat on the ground weakly with a shake in their hearts, crying so loudly that they could not even say a word. Some simply followed the horses of the rebels and ran aimlessly.

"Be fast! Those who can't be taken away, let them run away! ”

Yang Zaixing stood in front of a collapsed tent, the wooden poles fell to the ground horizontally, and the rebels dragged the fallen Khitans in front of him, and made them kneel in a line in front of everyone's sight, and then stepped forward with knives and axes, cut off rows of heads, and then pushed and shoved to bring the next group of people. The Liao cavalry that could escape fled, and the remaining captives were either weak and cowardly, old and weak, women and children, or wounded, and they had no power to resist after being captured.

"Come here, get on your knees! Be honest! ”

The righteous sword and axe men shouted at the captives, and almost every Song slave learned these Khitan words.

Not far away, hundreds of Khitans watched all this in despair.

Some were as pale as death, some were muttering sutras, others had panic in their eyes and struggled desperately as they were pulled out. However, their resistance aroused the ferocity of the rebels, many of whom were fugitives from the Khitan Grange, and they had long had the idea of returning blood for blood. Not far away stood a volunteer officer, holding an account book in his hand, and every ten Khitans killed added a straight word to the account book.

"How many?" Yang Zaixing asked the officer who counted.

"Four hundred." The officer replied.

"Hurry up." Yang Zaixing frowned. As soon as he met the begging gaze of the Khitans, he turned his head away on the spot.

When he looked back again, there seemed to be some cruel coldness in his eyes.

The rebels may encounter the attack and encirclement of the Liao cavalry at any time, and it is impossible for these Khitans to take away, let alone let them go, letting them go can only expose the reality of the rebels, and killing is the only choice. Not only the Khitans, but also more than 10,000 Song slaves, most of them could not move with the rebels, and it was impossible for the cavalry-based Baimazhai rebels to take these people with them, so they could only leave as soon as possible. They can only resign themselves to fate, and if they are unlucky, they can only die when they encounter the brutal Liao soldiers.

Several rebels walked in front of Yang Zaixing carrying corpses, these people were robes who had died in battle, and the corpses were to be burned before leaving.

Yang Zaixing took off his iron helmet and looked at this scene with a gloomy face. Where there is fighting, there is sacrifice.

"The people of Qingfeng Village are really crazy." Jia Shan Cat spit out the grass roots in his mouth, and looked at the Qingfeng Village Xiangma who was aggressively recruiting strong homeless people in the distance, "Even if they can get away, where will they get so much grain and grass to feed these people." Could it be that Guo Dabiao really thought that if tens of thousands of rabbles were gathered, the court would be able to reward him as a big official? ”

"It's not necessarily necessary to be an official." Liu Yun shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the surname Guo wants to make these people work." ”

He pouted, the Khitans built a grange in the enclosure of Hebei to start a workshop, and used a large number of slaves to farm and work, although they were brutal and unkind, but the wealth they amassed was a lot of money, and the slaves moaned under the whip, and every bit of blood and sweat became grain, silk, and porcelain.

There were also some leaders in the Hebei Righteous Army who envied this method of making a fortune, and gathered a large number of displaced people in the name of Kang Liao, but in fact they worked to make money. Some of the rebels were hoping that the imperial court would divide the land into small pieces and distribute them to the displaced people for cultivation, as Zhao Xingde did in Henan. The people of Baimazhai believe that the latter is more likely. And some people rumor that after the Khitans were driven away in the future, the imperial court would discuss merit and business, and the leaders of these rebels would have to divide the grange and the workshop, and now the Khitans have felt that there is a shortage of labor, so it is always good to take precautions and hoard a little more people. Guo Dabiao has this kind of thought, and if he can't support it in the future, he will simply abandon it. If it weren't for Yang Zaixing presiding over the scene, he would not have fought for the opinions of these slaves at all, but would have driven them back to the stockade directly.

"Because it was Yue Dashuai who presided over the Northern Expedition, he would fulfill the wishes of these miscellaneous people. Henan's way of dividing land is the best. Jia Shanmao looked at Guo Dabiao's proud face, spit, and said to Liu Yun beside him, "When this battle is over, we will divide a piece of land, the wife and children will have a hot kang head, dozens of acres of land and a cow, just have a peaceful birthday, and don't want this official body." ”

"It's beautiful to think about." Liu Yun frowned and said, "I don't like these miscellaneous things." ”

"There's no way," Guo Dabiao shook his head, "and now I still expect them to fight the Khitans together." ”

"Hmph." Liu Yun lifted the reins of his horse and yelled at the homeless people not far away, "Run for your life, the Khitans are coming!" ”

However, no matter how you say it, following people like Guo Dabiao is also a way to survive after all, so Yang Zaixing and everyone in Baimazhai did not stop them, but just urged others to act quickly, this place is only more than 100 miles away from Hejian City, and I don't know when the Liao army will come. Baimazhai itself is the strongest bandit in the Taihang Mountain area, first picked a few big cars, and found a few coachmen who can catch the car at random, and the other rebels and horses robbed the Khitan convoy was a little chaotic, if it wasn't for Yang Zaixing in the town, he was afraid that he would fight hard. As long as these people don't kill each other, Yang Zaixing doesn't bother to pay attention to them. However, under the threat of the Khitan cavalry, all the leaders of the rebel army did not dare to delay time, and soon they looted the Khitan carts, even stripped off the clothes of the dead, and then withdrew from all directions in the shortest possible time.

About an hour later, the Liao cavalry in Hejian arrived at a messy battlefield.

"These damn brutes!" A Liao officer rode around and came back, scolding and reporting, "The barbarians have all fled, look at the traces, in addition to the infantry army, there are many cavalry,...... Only the strongmen of Baima Village have so many cavalry. ”

Xiao Ta listened to the report with a blank face, and nodded absentmindedly.

As a colt and the general of the Hejian Mansion, he didn't have to come out in person. But in the past few days, he was depressed and wanted to go to the battlefield to fight, and when he heard that there were thieves, he personally brought a thousand horsemen, but he did not see a single thief, and he could not help but be disappointed. As for the hundreds of Khitan corpses here, Xiao Tachi actually didn't pay much attention to it. There are too many things for the steppe tribe to take revenge and kill the other people, and it is almost a natural thing for him. The Liao army officers who followed Xiao Tachi were not good people, and the reason why they looked so indignant was completely for the "above" to see, so as not to be accused of failing to protect the Khitan people by the people of the Northern Courtyard. In fact, for them, the affection between different tribes is very shallow, and there is not much difference between these dead Khitans and Song people. Only a part of the Khitan generals worked hard to shape the various tribes into a whole. Yelu Tiege, the privy envoy of the Northern Court, was faintly the leader of these Khitan generals, under one person and above ten thousand. He is also Xiao Tachi's biggest opponent.

In the past few years in Liaoguo, Xiao Tachi has long been no longer a young man who doesn't know anything, he knows who is his opponent and who is his friend. Yelu Tiege gave a lot of benefits to the Murbo tribe of Xijing Province, and transferred the 10,000 Murb cavalry of Xiao Tachi's department to the front line of Hejian City. Xiao Tachi did not fight against Yelu Tiege, but the old teacher acted according to the orders on the spot, and was praised by Yelu Dashi, so that he became the commander of the Hejian camp, and the 30,000 Hejian defenders composed of Xi and Song troops were also transferred to his command.

Xiao Tachi was originally a man without a city, and the reason why he was able to do this was entirely because of a strategist named Fan Tiancheng by his side. He told Xiao Tachi when he could be arrogant, when he could only endure it, accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity. This Fan Tiancheng was a counselor sent to him by his father, Boshenghuo Erbo. In the beginning, Xiao Tachi had a deep prejudice against Bo Shenghuo Erbo and Fan Tiancheng. However, Fan Tiancheng told Xiao Tachi one thing, although Boshenghuo Murbo was lustful, but in recent years, the children born to his wife and concubine, Boshengkuo Murbo only left his daughter to raise in the royal court, and gave all three children to the generals as adopted sons, and did not give any of Tachi's younger brothers the identity of Prince Murbu. He was not just a Khitan horse. After the death of Bersheng, there would be only one Great Khan of the Murb, the Great Khan of Tachi Murb. This was also the last wish of his grandfather, Haidu Khan.