Under the rampage of the White Feather Army, the Liao cavalry barely organized a decent resistance, and fled one after another. After the Xia cavalry repelled the Liao army, they gathered not far from the Song army's main array to rest. Most of the cavalry jumped off their horses and fed the horses with some 'fine' material and water bladders from the leather bags behind their saddles. A cavalryman in a cloak rode his horse and galloped for a moment outside the Song army's large array, and after identifying where Zhao Xingde's handsome banner was, he urged the horse to gallop closer, and the Song sergeant made a 'commotion', and the front row of soldiers consciously clenched their guns, and countless eyes looked at this uninvited guest.

"Good boy. The Zhenguo Army doesn't have this big pomp, and the Xijing Army doesn't have this courage," Luo Xianshi muttered, "Which part of the people is this?" ”

The officers and men of the Song army were surprised, and the officers loudly reminded the soldiers not to relax their vigilance and maintain their formation. "I don't know which part of the centaurs?" The soldiers around him were talking in a low voice, but Zhao Xingde's face was complicated and silent. The white feather army got its name from the feather ornament on the helmet, and the white 'colored' swan feather was produced in Xiaohai, Beizhou, which is a very obvious mark.

The cavalryman restrained his horse from the range of the gun, and said loudly: "General Wu Jie, greeting General Zhao!" ”

The generals showed suspicion and confusion on their faces, "It's Xia Jun!" The protector made Ouyang Shan react first, and at this time, Zhao Xingde replied: "Greetings to General Wu." Ouyang Shan nodded and shouted loudly: "The southeast camp of the Great Song Dynasty is deployed, the Jinggi Road pacification envoy, General Zhao Xingde is here, and I would like to extend my goodwill to General Wu of Great Xia!" "After the two sides greeted each other, the Xia flag officer turned his horse back." Great handsome," Ouyang Shan said in a low voice: "The people of the Xia Kingdom are menacing, I'm afraid it's easy to treat guests and difficult to send guests." Zhao Xingde frowned slightly, sighed, and said nothing.

Five hundred steps away from the Song army's array, Wu Jie's whole body was in military uniform, and after listening to the flag officer's reply, Wu Jie was slightly stunned, and repeated in a low voice: "The southeast camp of the Great Song Dynasty is deployed, and the Gyeonggi Road pacification envoy?" A playful smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. General," Shi Jingkui's face changed slightly, and he said in a low voice, "Maybe it's a misunderstanding, this is to cover people's eyes and ears....."

"Don't worry about that." Wu Jie shook his head and said, his gaze turned to Gao Gongmao, "The top priority is to pursue the Khitan rout and break the Liao Emperor's imperial account in one fell swoop!" As soon as he finished speaking, "crackle-crack-" There was a loud thunder in the distance, and the plain seemed to shake with it, and with this loud noise, it began to rain loudly, and the sky covered with dark clouds seemed to leak, and the ground soon became waterlogged, and in some places it soon became very muddy. Some of the cavalry struggled to pull their horses from the low-lying places to the higher places. However, the horses' hooves were stuck in the mud, making it difficult for people and horses to move. The cavalry iron armor alone weighed more than 50 catties, and the war horse equipment was even heavier.

"If the heavy rain goes down again, the whole ground will be soaked," Gao Gongmao shook his head, "It's hard to catch up with the Khitans." ”

"Without further ado, take off the iron armor immediately," Wu Jie ordered without hesitation, "Then, pursue south!" ”

Gao Gongmao was stunned for a moment, and then hugged his fists and said: "Obey!" He turned around and went to wear the order, and soon, the cavalry of each battalion began to take off their armor, leaving only the two crotches and iron helmets on the front and back of the chest, and after the armor was removed, they unloaded the armor of the war horses, and stacked the armor and equipment neatly on the ground, and then turned over the saddle and mounted the horses, and the whole team drove south. There were more than 15,000 pairs of armor left in place, each team was a pile, and each battalion was neatly arranged, like an array of large armies.

Xia Jun's abnormal behavior, I saw that the Song soldier next to him was a little dumbfounded, the price of a good iron armor is about 40 yuan, and the price of war horse equipment is even more expensive, and it is really incomprehensible to abandon it anywhere. "The iron armor in Guanzhong is the best, light and strong," Lu Mingyu 'licked' his lips and lips, and muttered, "Good thing!" "The generals all looked at the iron armor in that place, and they all wished that Xia Jun would disappear from view immediately, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, pick up the armor of this place first." "Kansai people seem to be honest, but they are actually very 'shrewd'," Luo Xianshi shook his head, "I'm afraid it's not such a cheap thing." ”

As if echoing his words, a white feather army rushed towards the Song army, and shouted loudly: "We will help the Er Dynasty, and go to pursue the Liao thieves first, and the armor will be stored for the time being, and I hope that your army will be well kept and not negligent!" "When he finished shouting, he didn't wait for an answer, and then turned his horse 'to catch up' with the group.

"He's 'milk' and 'milk'." Lu Mingyu couldn't help but scold, "When we are Xiang Jun? He turned his head and said, "Ouyang Shan, you scold him!" ”

Ouyang Shan smiled slightly, as the envoy of the capital protector, the official rank and Lu Mingyu can be separated, but he has a deep cultivation, Lu Mingyu occasionally shouts and drinks at him, Ouyang Shan does not think it is angry, not to mention that this is still the time to hate the enemy.

He immediately shouted: "If they are allies, why divide each other!" ”

Lu Mingyu understood, patted Ouyang Shan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Shameless, there is yours." Several officers laughed together.

Yang Renzheng led his troops as the guard, and he heard this question very clearly. Seeing that the herald cavalry was speechless for a while, Yang Ren smiled slightly, bowed his head and dictated a few words, his subordinates nodded slightly, and told each other, and after a while, a battalion of soldiers shouted in unison: "If the Chu people lose their bows, the Chu people can get it, and they can not distinguish each other!" After shouting this, more than 500 cavalry urged their horses to march south,

"Alas," Ouyang Shan came back to his senses and patted his forehead and said, "The heart of Xia Guo's 'desire' to annex my dynasty is obvious. Seeing that the generals were puzzled, he explained, "This Chu bow Chu Dezhi said, out of the 'Confucius family language', the king of Chu lost his bow in hunting, and the servants 'wanted' to find it, and the king of Chu stopped, and said, the Chu people lost their bows, and the Chu people got it." Since there is no loss in the Chu State, why should I look for it? ”

"Oh," the brave general Xia Biao still didn't understand, "so what? ”

"Hey! Tell you to read more. Lu Mingyu patted Xia Biao, and explained again with hatred.

"Oh, I see," Xia Biao patted the money on his helmet and tasted back, "The guy in Kansai has a very big tone." ”

When reporting military merits, Xia Maoer felt that his name was too ugly, so he asked people to help take a decent name, because the cat was a little tiger, so he changed his name to Xia Biao, but this "Biao" character has too many strokes, and he can't write it all now. Because he did not know the text and ink, although Xia Biao repeatedly made military exploits, but only a battalion commander, the soldiers under his command were similar to him, Xia Biao ordered them to cast the "Holy Song Tongbao" money obtained from the war exploits on the iron helmet, and the silver money was sewn on the collar of the robe, and it was announced to the outside, showing the great military exploits of the battalion, which was imitated by the battalions, and was also called "money soldiers" and "silver money soldiers".

The heavy rain poured down, and the Khitan cavalry and the Xia cavalry left one after another, and in a short time, it was impossible for the infantry to catch up with the cavalry. The Song army simply camped and rested, waiting for the rain to pass and advance again. The soldiers took out the felt blankets and used antlers to support the four corners of the blankets, and hundreds of felt blankets were connected to each other in a battalion, and the blanks were 'intertwined' and tied with leather cords, so that it became a large shelter from the rain, and around the garrison, there were soldiers digging trenches to prevent rainwater from flowing into the camping place. The rain outside is extremely strong, the water vapor is steaming, the felt carpet does not see a drop of rain, and the ground is not muddy.

The raindrops fell on Yang Ren's iron helmet, his military robe had been completely soaked, the rain flowed down the belly of the war horse to the ground, converging into a stream, the rain came very quickly, looking at it from a distance, I couldn't see more than ten steps away, within the field of vision, the vast plain seemed to have become a country, and clumps of weeds floated in the water.

In the heavy rain, the Xia cavalry maintained a formation and led the war horses to move forward. From time to time, they encountered small groups of Liao troops, in the heavy rain, the Liao army that had been 'chaotic' could not be concentrated again at all, except for escaping, it was captured, Wu Jie ordered, all the Liao troops who surrendered, all cut off the left and right thumbs, so that they could no longer be enemies with the Xia State. In order not to let the Liao soldiers slip through the net as much as possible, the formation of the cavalry army of the Xia State itself has also spread out a lot, the rampant army and the thief army are in front, almost pulled into a "one-word" formation like a big net, the white feather army is behind, the formation is kept slightly tighter, and each cavalry battalion corresponds to the position of the two cavalry battalions in front. Until now, the White Feather Army had hardly gone through many decent battles, and all the Xia Army did was to take away the abandoned horses and leave the people in the pouring rain. Every ten miles of travel would allow the horses to rest, and the sergeants would have some dry food.

"Forward!" Yang Ren ordered.

His knees ached, but he was the first to stand up. Marching on a rainy day requires more physical effort than normal. The sergeants rose again, urging their mounts through the mud and heading south. Such a arduous continuous march, even when exterminating the Mobei horse thieves, is rarely encountered, and the mud and heavy rain in the land of the Song Kingdom are indeed impressive.

............

The heavy rain was intermittent and almost a whole day, and the heavy rain was not conducive to both firearms and cavalry, so the Liao and Song armies died down and spent this relatively calm, 'tide' wet and 'gloomy' day. Yunkai rained, it was getting late, and the two armies had no interest in fighting at night, so they only sent additional scouts to prevent the other side from attacking the camp.

"Damn it, the rain of the Southern Dynasty, the muddy ground." Urgon cursed in a low voice.

He looked at Yeluyan Mountain with some concern. Among the generals, Yelu Yanshan and Urgon were the most compatible, but now they were lying in the wolfskin futon with a red face, muttering nonsense in their mouths. In one day, His Majesty visited him twice and ordered the best shaman to treat him, but to no avail, his injuries worsened. Urgon came to see him four times, and after he prayed for immortality for his friend, Jerodashi summoned the generals and told him to consult on the military situation. By the time Urgon arrived, the military conference had already begun. Before Urgon could speak, Jerodashi saw him, frowned, and waved him to sit down without accusing. The ground in the imperial tent was dry, the firewood was burning vigorously, and the faces of each of the generals were bright. But Urgon knew that many of the warriors' tents were still soaked in muddy water.

"It must be that the rain has slowed down the movement of the army," said Yeluzheng, "now that the rain has subsided, the reinforcements of Lord Beiyuan will soon arrive." He would copy Cao Di and Yue Fei from behind, just as King Song defeated Zhao Jiong's army of the Southern Dynasty in one fell swoop at the Gaoliang River. ”

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