The Liao army camp became a battlefield, and the closer it was to the imperial account, the more fierce the battle became. The Chinese shouted, "Capture Yelu Dashi alive!" And Khitan words: "Protect Your Majesty!" The sounds were intertwined, and the firelight flickered. After the Zhenguo army rushed into the camp, they rushed straight towards the royal tent, and the palace tent army resisted desperately, only then did they delay the offensive of the Song army. Outside the royal tent, the shouts of killing are getting closer and closer.

"The warriors are fighting desperately, what are you doing here?" Yelu Dashi was silent for a while, drew his scimitar, and shouted: "There are only emperors in the Great Khitan who died in battle, and there are no emperors who escaped!" The scimitar slashed twice in the air and shouted, "Go out and gather your subordinates and fight the enemy with me!" His voice was so fierce that he almost suppressed the shouts of killing outside the royal account. But the generals in the tent did not move. Xiao Lili looked at the others, glanced at Urgon and knelt down first: "Your Majesty, Xia Guo took advantage of our defenselessness and attacked behind the cavalry, now the camp is in chaos, the commander of ten thousand and the commander of the thousand can not find his subordinates, many warriors could have raised their whips and fled far away, but they are all willing to fight to the death for Your Majesty." Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, as long as the warriors are there, my Great Khitan will have a day of revenge. However, if Your Majesty insists on not leaving, the vitality of our Khitan people will be lost here! ”

"You dare to disturb the morale of the army!" Yelu Dashi held the scimitar in his hand, glared at him angrily, and scolded, "There are no such cowards in the Khitan!" ”

"The last general is not a coward!" Xiao Lira only knelt motionless on the ground, "Please Your Majesty go first, and you will fight to the death!" ”

Urgon also knelt down and said loudly: "Your Majesty, we are willing to fight to the end for the Great Khitan, but the warriors need you to command!" Several other generals also knelt down one after another, asking Yelu Dashi to lead the palace guards to retreat first. At this time, the sound of "boom-" and "boom-" suddenly sounded outside, and the cannon sound was extremely close.

"What's the matter," Yelu Dashi's face was happy, and he immediately turned suspicious and asked, "Where is the cannon firing?" ”

The generals looked at each other, and Ye Luyu, the prime minister of the North Courtyard, went out to see the situation, and soon staggered back, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, after the dog thieves of the Xia Kingdom captured the fort, they were turning the muzzle of the cannon and bombarding our palace tent army and the Xi army. Before Yelu Dashi could speak, Xiao Lili looked at the left and right guards, and said sharply: "What are you still doing in a daze, protect Your Majesty and retreat!" "Originally, the guards of the royal tent have always been the duty of Yelu Yanshan, the capital of the palace tent army, but Yelu Yanshan was seriously injured, so Xiao Hulira replaced him on duty, and the palace tent guards were also temporarily dispatched by him. The guards hesitated for a moment, and Jerushi and Urgon shouted, "Don't hurry up yet! As if he had lost his soul again, there was no objection, so these guards rushed up and ran out of the royal tent with Yelu Dashi in his arms. Xiao Lili had already mobilized more than 1,000 palace tent elite horsemen to wait. Although there are many Xia cavalry and Song troops in the camp of the Liao army, the Liao army is obviously more, and at the same time, the Liao army is much more chaotic. Many tents had been lifted, felt blankets had been soaked in muddy water, overturned marching pots and jars were everywhere, and freshly prepared food had become dirt all over the floor. Not far away, the gunners of the Xia State had already turned the barrel cannon to the muzzle and fired specifically at the dense area of the Liao army. The whole camp was in disarray, and I saw a group of cavalry rushing left and right. The Xia army opened the net on three sides, and the Khitan cavalry fled to the periphery, and some of them fled away with their horses and whips, and did not pursue immediately.

"Alas—" Yelu Dashi sighed as he looked up to the sky and stepped on the back of one of his attendants and mounted his warhorse.

"Quick!" Xiao Lili shouted loudly, the palace tent cavalry surrounded His Majesty, and rushed towards the north in one breath, and the cavalry of the Xia and Song States saw that this Liao army was fierce, and they didn't know that Yelu Dashi was among them, so they didn't block it too much, and let them break out.

As the emperor and generals left the battlefield, the Liao army left on the battlefield became more and more chaotic, in order to hide people's eyes, Xiao Lili ordered the palace tent army left behind to erect the imperial flag, defend the imperial camp, and finally failed to break through the more than 10,000 Liao troops are also concentrated here. Yelu Yanshan was unable to evacuate due to his injuries and was also under siege. The Song army surrounded this Liao army, and the Xia gunners opened fire from a height, and the powerful shells continued to fall in the narrow camp held by the Liao army. Further outer, the cavalry of the Xia and Song armies began to pursue the fleeing Liao army.

"Father, this is a big victory!" Cao Gu couldn't hide his joy, "This is a big victory that I haven't won in a hundred years!" ”

Cao Di glanced at him, did not speak, and immediately looked at the battlefield, with the demeanor of a general. His right hand twisted his beard, but his left hand, which was caged in the big cloud, trembled slightly. The Xijing battalion has all participated in the battle, while the Zhenguo army is busy besieging the imperial camp, the Xijing army infantry harvests the Liao army's head around the battlefield, and the cavalry is lined up on the side, while resting the horsepower, while preparing to deal with the unexpected.

"The young marshal is right," Wei Chengji also smiled happily, "This battle force defeated the northern captives, which can be described as the first merit of the Great Song Dynasty." He was Cao Di's confidant, and as soon as the words fell, the civil and military officials around him followed the trend of flattery, and everyone talked and laughed, calculating their future merits in their hearts. At this time, a messenger rushed to the camp of the Song army, and after the general of the camp interrogated, he took him to the back of the camp gate, pointed to the Liao army camp in the distance, and said loudly: "God bless, Cao Xianggong led the army to fight with the Liao thieves for several days, and finally made a contribution in one fell swoop today, defeated the Liao thieves, and Cao Xiangcheng took the generals to supervise the battle in front." ”

"Defeat the Liao army?" Xin Zan's face was surprised, he looked on tiptoe, remembering the letter in his arms, and his heart was gloomy.

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

After the Xia army broke through the imperial camp of the Liao State with iron barrel artillery, and after a night of chasing the north, at dawn the next day, the cavalry generals returned one after another, like Zhang Xian, Yue Yun, Ma Qianzhong and other generals have made great gains. The Liao army fled like birds and beasts, and the more the cavalry fled in a hurry, the more horsepower was consumed, and once the mount collapsed, waiting for the Liao soldiers was the fate of being captured. In the evening of this day, more than 40,000 cavalry under Zhao Xingde also arrived at the battlefield, they missed a big battle, and only intercepted some defeated soldiers halfway, and the generals were a little regretful.

"It's a bloody battle." Lu Mingyu looked at the thousands of wounded soldiers in the Xijing camp, and secretly rejoiced.

Coming to the front of the Chinese military tent, with several heads on the flagpole, Zhao Xingde frowned and asked, "Who is this?" \/"After Lu Mingyu ordered his own soldiers to ask, Bing said: "It is the head of the general above the commander of the Liao army," he pointed to the middle, "Those two, one is the palace tent army of the Liao Emperor Yelu Dashi, and the other is the infantry army of Xiao Hulila." The two heads had to be scattered, Xiao Li's eyes were open, but Yelu Yanshan's eyes were closed. Zhao Xingde shook his head, sighed, and didn't say anything.

"Lord Zhao is a Qingliu celebrity, but he wants to sigh compassionately?"

A voice sounded behind him, Zhao Xingde looked back, and saw a middle-aged general and a civilian official standing behind him, he had never met these two people, but the civil official looked straight at him, and the general did not hide his mockery. Zhao Xingde was slightly surprised, and arched his hand: "Under Zhao Xingde, dare to ask Your Excellency?" As soon as he finished speaking, the general's face showed a look of annoyance.

"This is the envoy of the Zhangxin Army, Lord Cao Gu," the civil official arched his hand, "The next official is Wei Chengji, the staff officer of the Xijing battalion." ”

"Oh," Zhao Xingde said with a smile, "Lord Cao, Lord Wei." ”

Cao Gu didn't know why, an evil fire rose in his heart, and he said coldly: "It's really time for Lord Zhao to come, our army has just gone through a bloody battle, and tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed and wounded. At that time, how will Lord Zhao feel? He snorted heavily, and said in an accentuated tone, "What's even more regrettable is that the soldiers are bloodied in front. Fighting, but someone stabbed in the back. Wei Chengji couldn't stop it, so he could only stand by awkwardly.

"A stab in the back?" Zhao Xingde was slightly surprised, somehow. Cao Gu snorted again, and crossed Zhao Xingde to enter the Chinese military tent first. Wei Chengji could only follow behind him, and when he passed Zhao Xingde, he arched his hand apologetically.

"It's too much to deceive people," Lu Mingyu said angrily, "All unified armies, even if Cao Di sees the handsome, he must salute three points!" ”

"It seems that the Xijing camp also suffered heavy casualties, and Cao Gu was a little angry, which is natural," Zhao Xingde said lightly, still with doubts in his eyes, lowered his voice, and instructed Lu Mingyu, "It's just that things seem to be different, you take the troops back first, and take precautions." Lu Mingyu's face was surprised, stunned for a moment, and replied: "That-how dare they?" The commander must not remain in danger. Zhao Xingde shook his head and said in a low voice: "It's okay, just be careful." Around the tent of the Chinese army, the soldiers and horses of the Zhenguo army and the soldiers of Xijing are intertwined......"

Lu Mingyu nodded, turned around and told An Chun, the commander of the accompanying battalion, a few words, and then went back with a team of soldiers first, and Zhao Xingde practiced first. When I looked up, I was stunned, and I saw that in the Chinese military tent, in addition to Cao Di, Yue Fei, Zhang Xian, Cao Gu and others, Wu Jie and Gao Gongmao were also kneeling behind a table. Wu Jie saw Zhao Xingde coming in, saluted him, turned his head, and said to Cao Di and Yue Fei: "I don't care if the two of you want to retire or not, now our army is helping Song to attack Liao and winning more than 20,000 heads, even if according to the reward offered by the Great Song Dynasty for northern volunteers, a Liao soldier is fifty times." Lord Cao and Lord Yue, who of the two represents the Great Song Dynasty, let's pay off this million yuan first. ”

Yue Fei's face changed slightly, and before he could speak, Cao Di spoke first: "Guanxi sent troops to help me, the Great Song Dynasty is sincere, as long as the traitor is gone, the old man will definitely go to the court and double the reward money." There was no smile on his face, and when he spoke, his eyes didn't look at Wu Jie, but Wu Jie smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "With Lord Cao's words, I will have to give an account to the Protector Mansion of this dynasty." A few first discussed the state affairs of the Great Song Dynasty. He interrupted first, but now he seemed to be extremely humble, stopped talking, and looked at Zhao Xingde with a pair of tiger eyes smiling.

"Lord Cao wants to retire?" Zhao Xingde exclaimed, "Why do you want to withdraw from the army? ”

Cao Di, Cao Gu and the others glanced at each other and just sneered. Zhao Xingde couldn't care about Wu Jie's taboo beside him, and said loudly: "It's easy to defeat Yelu Dashi's imperial account, and the Liao army will be difficult to cheer up in a few months. If the army is withdrawn at this time, it will be the middle of winter, and the Liao people will take a breath. Countless soldiers have shed their blood and died in vain! ”