At three o'clock, the soldiers and horses of the Hebei camp drove to the west of the city. The Daimyo's Mansion is an important town in Hebei, the circumference of the city is more than 40 miles, and the city gate is overlapping and protecting each other. There are three city gates in the west, the outer city gate Baocheng Gate, the second city gate Lihe Gate, and the sub-city gate Yize Gate. More than 70,000 Qin Wang army is divided into three parts: front, middle and rear, the Ningbian army commanded Bai Anmin to lead the front army of 20,000 foot soldiers, and the Hebei camp deployed Wang Yanzi to bring 40,000 soldiers and horses to the middle army, Qin Hui, Li Ruoxu and other civil ministers are also included, and the commander of the Jingsai army makes Zhang Yi lead more than 10,000 iron cavalry as the rear army and protect the two wings of the army.

It was difficult for the army to go out of the city without alarming the Liao cavalry, but Wang Yan still strictly forbade the soldiers to carry lanterns and raise fires. Fortunately, it was a full moon night, and the north wind in the sky was roaring furiously, dispelling the dark clouds. One after another, men and horses wrapped in military flags gathered near the three gates of Xicheng, especially where Wang Yanzhong's army was located. In the weather where the dripping water turned into ice, Li Ruoxu was wearing a fox fur robe, still shivering from the cold, the cold of the chain mail penetrated through the inner layer of the cotton jacket, his legs were cold, and the soles of his feet were stinging, so he could only keep stomping his feet. He looked at the Tooth Battalion soldiers with some admiration, their clothes were much thinner than he was, but they were all right in such bitter cold weather. In the feudal towns, the Tooth Army was the foundation of the general's control over the army. The tooth barracks completely ignored the Hebei Economic Strategy envoy Qin Hui is the commander, and surrounded Wang Yan's scarlet handsome flag, some looked calm, some had grim faces, and the faint moonlight shone on the faces of some people, such as "swear to guard the river" and "serve with a naked heart", which was terrifying. Hebei Zhuyuan came and went, asked Wang Yan for military strategy, and when he passed by Qin Hui's side, he hurriedly surrendered his hand.

Qin Hui's face was as usual, not because he had an extraordinary bearing, but because he was in the midst of the elite soldiers, and his uneasy mood was a little calm. It is easy to talk and laugh in the DPRK and China to break the enemy, but the soldiers and civilians on both sides of the river are frightened, the Liao army swept Hebei, and the talk is all changed. Therefore, Wang Yan strongly advocated that the army should not go out of the city to help, and Qin Hui was not strong, knowing that the holy decree fell on his head, he had to decide to send the army. I don't know if it's freezing or being scared, Meng Yuan's face is as white as a dead man, his body is fat, and he finally found a leather armor that can be put in, and it is also tightly wrapped, making people breathless, more like being choked by a pair of cold hands. Feeling that someone was gently patted on the shoulder, Meng Yuan turned his head, but it was Li Ruoxu's concerned gaze, he barely squeezed out a smile on his face, and said secretly: "Brother Yuan, this brother-in-law, is a bold man." ”

Just as he was about to speak, the army in front suddenly moved, and Meng Yuan had to cheer up and slowly move forward with the Ya Barracks. Li Ruoxu also urged the horse to follow. The cavalry of the Jingsai army all moved slowly according to the bridle, moving slowly in the city, and only speeding up after leaving the city, and gradually distributed within a few miles to the left and right of the army, but Zhang Yi was still behind the palace with nearly 5,000 cavalry.

After walking for nearly half an hour, a touch of fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky, the majestic city of the Daimyo's Mansion had slowly disappeared below the horizon, and there was no trace of the Liao army, Li Ruoxu's heart gradually calmed down, Meng Yuan's expression also returned to normal, and he said in a low voice: "Gather tens of thousands of horses without raising fire, go out of the city, the march is silent, Wang Jiedu still has some ability." Didn't alarm the Liao people, Sakyamuni blessed, we passed Liyangjin safely. Li Ruoxu nodded and smiled slightly. At this time, the army suddenly stopped, and the two of them were puzzled, and suddenly from the Chinese army rushed out of dozens of horsemen and command flags, urging the horses to rush out of the marching columns in front and behind, and one of them happened to gallop towards this side, and said in a loud voice: "Enemy attack - march in formation!" ”

"Enemy Attack - March!"

As the banner issued the order, the ranks of the Song army, which had just been a little loose, suddenly became nervous, the rear army accelerated, the front army slowed down, and the marching column quickly became dense. The foot soldiers walked on the outside of the queue with large and small wooden chariots such as the side van cart, the King Kong chariot, the decisive chariot, and the strong crossbow chariot. Hu Lu rode more, and the Southern Dynasty had fewer horses, so the famous generals of the Central Plains, such as Wei Qing, Li Ling, Liu Yu, and Ma Long, all won by car. Since the founding of this dynasty, the famous ministers Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan have all advocated the Daxing chariot, and the chariot is erected with wide and thick wooden shields, heavily armored spearmen and hook sickle gunners, and long-handled axe hands walking on the side of the chariot, and fighting and marching, so as to prevent the Liao cavalry from rushing into the marching array. The crossbowmen, protected by the chariot formation, took turns firing arrows at the enemy.

After discovering the traces of the Liao cavalry, the cavalry scouts of the Song army on the periphery shrank back one after another, and the speed of the army was much slower. "Don't trespass!" "Be careful!" The officers scolded loudly, and the soldiers below nervously held their weapons and looked out of the car formation, but the Liao army had not yet appeared.

Li Ruoxu only felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat. In order to suppress the tension in his heart, he said words like a mantra. “...... If you don't meet a big enemy, you don't take a war horse, and if you get close to our division, you will race to ride it, so the new war hooves have spare strength. And use the art of the army, form a column without fighting, retreat and take advantage of it, ambush the soldiers to cut off the grain road, raise fire at night, drag firewood in the local wind, feed themselves, retreat shamelessly, disperse and reunite, cold and strong, this is also its director...... "It is the situation of the Liao army described by Song Hui'an of this dynasty a hundred years ago. Song Qi was born in Youyan and knew the Liao army very well, while Li Ruoxu was also very attentive to related writings in order to devote his pen to Rong in the future.

From the time the cavalry discovered the enemy attack to the appearance of the Liao cavalry in the field of vision, it seemed to be as long as several hours. There were more and more cavalry of the Liao army, although they only circled around the Song army, except for the temptation of a few horsemen and a dozen horsemen, they did not attack, but the number of enemy troops continued to increase, but the pressure slowly increased in the hearts of the Song army officers and soldiers. The sky in the distance was full of sand and dust, and the ground seemed to tremble slightly.

A sun and moon flag gradually appeared on the hills in the north, and the cavalry of the Liao army cheered in unison. Shamanism worships the sun, moon and earth, the sun and moon flag is the symbol of Liao, but also the symbol of the emperor of Liao, Yelu Dashi after the throne cast copper coins on one side is the year name, the other side is the sun and moon graphics. In the cheers of the Liao army, a huge white umbrella lid stood up, and Yelu Dashi was dressed in white armor, and immediately stood on the top of the mountain, looking down on the entire battlefield. The cheers of the Liao army became even more violent.

"Those who lie about the military situation should be punished, and Yelu Dashi did not cross the river." Qin Hui immediately realized that the person under the white umbrella must be the emperor of Liao, and then thought, "He is here waiting for the defenders of the Daimyo's Mansion to go south." Suddenly, cold sweat trickled down his back. Before he left Bianliang, some soldiers and horses in Henan reported that they had met the Huangluo umbrella cover of the Khitan Emperor, which was a matter of course lying about the military situation. In fact, before Yelu Dashi usurped the throne, the Liao royal family admired the Central Plains culture, wore yellow robes, and used yellow Luo umbrellas, but after Yelu Dashi succeeded to the throne, he thought that yellow was used by the emperor of the Central Plains, and the Khitan people were still white, and deliberately changed all the royal utensils to white. And the dragon is the symbol of the emperor of the Central Plains, the utensils with dragon patterns in the palace are not used, and the Khitan sun and moon patterns are changed, even if there is a dragon shape, it is mostly the pattern of the Khitan warriors Fu Long, shooting the dragon, and descending the dragon.

The appearance of Yelu Dashi on the battlefield seemed to be a signal for attack. The horns of the four fields sounded in unison, and the morale of the Liao army was greatly boosted, waving scimitars, bows and arrows, and all kinds of strange screams came out of their mouths, and they no longer spared their horsepower, but fought desperately on the horses, rushing towards the array of the Song army like mountains and seas. The mountains were full of enemies, the sound of horses' hooves shook the heavens and the earth, and the bloodthirsty shouts were tinged with the animalistic nature of jackals, and at this time, most of the Song army had a feeling of despair in their hearts.

"Whoever turns back is killed! The one who turns is slashed! The Chaos Slash! The armies fought and walked, marching slowly. ”

The flag officer once again passed down the military order, which made many commanders come back to their senses. The Hebei Army and the Khitan were mortal enemies, and they had been constantly fighting troops since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. Every time they fought, the Hebei infantry formed a formation to resist the cavalry of the Liao army, which almost became the instinct of survival. After a moment of panic, the military formation was once again tightly organized, and the panic in the eyes of the soldiers gradually turned into a desperate determination. "We still have Wang Jiedu." Many people have the heart to look back at the handsome banner and take a reassuring pill, and suddenly remembered the military order of "those who turn back to behead", so they couldn't bear it, but they twisted their necks so painfully that they could only look straight ahead.

Wang Yan's face was as cold as iron, a fierce color flashed in his eyes, and under the support of his own soldiers, he marched slowly. Behind him, several burly soldiers with a length of eight feet raised the handsome flag, and the strong north wind blew the scarlet handsome flag into a hunting sound. On the handsome flag, there is a line of big characters "The king of the camp of the Great Song River is deployed", which is the courage of the army. The spears and axes around are like a forest, and the three thousand tooth soldiers are densely packed with the commander in the middle, and then outward, the layers of crossbowmen are walking while winding, the outermost crossbowmen are superior, and the military salary is also the highest, after each crossbow, the empty crossbow in the hand is handed back to the array, and the crossbowmen in the queue are only responsible for putting in the arrows and winding, and handing the crossbow with good strings to the crossbowmen outside.

The Song army's chariot array moved forward slowly, the strings "Bangbang" and "Bangbang" resounded, and the crossbow arrows were endless. Tens of thousands of cavalry of the Liao army were like the angry tide of the sea, slapping wave after wave towards the Song army's vehicle formation. The cavalry bent their bows and arrows on their horses, and they also fired arrows at the dense Song army. Arrows rained down on the Song army. The Song army was well armoured, and there was the cover of chariots on the periphery, and there were fewer casualties than the Liao army. However, in the heat of battle, the Song army had slowed down on the march.

The Liao army relied on the speed of the horse and the sword, spread the cavalry on all sides, and constantly approached forward. Blocking on the front, rampage on the side, and sluggishness at the tail, the Liao army completely abandoned the rule of "forming a column without fighting", and tried to defeat the marching columns of the Song army again and again at the expense of casualties. With the passage of time, fierce battles broke out in the marching Song army columns, both front and back, left and right, and both the Liao army and the Song army burst out with the greatest courage and fought desperately. The Song army piled all the dead and wounded on the cart, and the corpses and wounded were stacked on top of each other, and all the way forward, blood and water continued to flow down from the chariot, like a red stream. Even so, the Liao army was unable to stop the Hebei army from advancing slowly, and the wilderness behind them was paved with corpses, and the roads were dyed in various shades of red.