Chapter 78: The Arrow of History 3
In fact, Ye Luchun is really discerning.
The two people who led the troops on the north bank of the Baigou River were both talented and strategic people in the Liao State. Yelu Dashi was born in Shangjing, he is the eighth grandson of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, sensitive and studious, good at riding and shooting, and fluent in Chinese and Khitan languages, he is also the only Khitan jinshi in the Liao State recorded in the "History of Liao". Later, seeing that the Liao State would be annexed by the Jin State, he fled to the Western Regions with 200 men and horses, and since then, the Liao State has been revived in his hands, and the iron cavalry of Yelu Dashi has almost traveled throughout Central Asia, whether it is the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty, or the Seljuk Turkish Empire, or the Khorezm Kingdom, all of which have been conquered by him one by one, and its prosperity has even exceeded any period of the Liao State, and its territory has exceeded that of Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, and it is more than twice that of the Western Xia.
Although Xiao Gan is not as good as Yelu Dashi, he is also a masterpiece. After the Jin soldiers entered Juyongguan and went straight to Yanjing, Xiao Puxian took the entourage of Yelu Dashi and other officials to take refuge in Emperor Tianzuo, Xiao Gan parted ways with them, and returned to the hometown of the Xi people with the Xi, Han and Bohai armies in the Jianli Mountain area, established the "Great Xi Empire", and appointed himself as the "Sacred Emperor of the Xi State". Unfortunately, he only reigned for eight months before he fell.
If Yeluchun could know that there were two lords guarding the south for him, I don't know how he would feel?
This time the Song army attacked Liao, and the 100,000 troops were stationed along the Baigou River, and Xiao Gan set up camp on the West Road with 20,000 horses to block the Song army.
The lazy atmosphere of the afternoon permeated the camp and beyond, the horses were grazing in the shade, and most of the people, except for the soldiers on duty, rested in their tents shirtless. It has been stationed by the Baigou River for more than ten days, there are many mosquitoes, the weather is hot, more than 100,000 people from the south have sent over, but they don't fight, the two families are staring at the river like this, they are really anxious to die.
But then again, it's not a bad thing to eat food for nothing and not be able to go into battle, it's better than a dead person, right?
Suddenly, a hurried sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, getting closer and closer, indicating that the man on the horse had something urgent.
A horse galloped from the southwest, and in an instant broke into the camp, a knight flew down from his horse, first to a camp tent on the outskirts of a large camp, and then a man who looked like an officer and the disheveled knight hurried towards the big tent of Xiao Gan, the king of the four armies.
Soon, the two men were passed into the big tent. When the two of them entered the tent, they saw Xiao Gan, the king of the Fourth Army, wearing iron armor and sitting awe-inspiringly, the officer first saluted Xiao Gan and said: "Wang, Xiao's team of expeditionary troops was shot and killed by the Nanren soldiers in Xilongmengou, Yizhou, and only two escaped. I have come to report to the king. "This officer is obviously a general of the Xi people, just because Xiao Gan is the king of the six tribes of the Xi clan, so this person is called so.
When Xiao Gan heard such an officer say this, he set his eyes on such a disheveled cavalryman, and said in a deep voice: "You can report the details." ”
The knight hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said: "The small one belongs to the vanguard army under the command of Lord Agu Zhe, today I waited for the west of Yizhou to patrol, and met thirty people from the southern army, and was shot by most of them, and the small one was afraid of the adult's military situation, so he hurriedly came back to report to the king, and another small partner was secretly on guard in the left near and far away, in case the southerners sneaked attacked. The knight spoke well-behaved, only saying that he was shot by the Song army, and did not say anything about not shooting him without hitting him.
When Xiao Gan heard that he had met a spy from the Song Army, he asked, "How do you know that it is the Southern Army?" ”
The cavalryman hurriedly pulled out an arrow from his arms, took a few steps forward, presented it with both hands, Xiao Gan's pro-army took it, and handed it to Xiao Gan. I saw that this arrow is about three feet long, the arrow is a ridged two-wing arrow, the two wings and the arrow are separated obliquely, the two ridges are prominent, the two wings and the two ridges are actually the four edges of the arrow, hold it in the hand and obviously feel the heavy part of the arrow, this is the two winged arrows used by the Southern Army, and there is also a line of small characters engraved on the arrow shaft: "The famous arrow is Zhang". This arrow is different from the solid conical arrow used by their Liao people, and the arrow used by the people for hunting is also different from this arrow. What's more, the words on the shaft of this arrow are undoubtedly the Southern Army.
The officer who came in with him said in a loud voice, "My lord, these southerners dare to kill here, and they must not go back." ”
After all, Xiao Gan was in a high position and thoughtful, so he still asked unhurriedly: "How many people are there in this southern army who crossed the river?" What do you do to cross the river? Where is it now? DID YOU KNOW?! If there were only 30 people, they would shoot and kill more than 20 warriors of our Daliao expeditionary army, and I have never heard of it. ”
The knight below interjected: "Your Majesty, this southerner is really a person with excellent archery skills, and once an arrow is shot, we will break most of it." After the southerners gathered up the horses we had left behind and rode away into the western mountains, my companions and I returned, and saw that the dead were all killed with one arrow. ”
Xiao Gan thought silently in his heart, there were more than thirty people, excellent archery, and the southern army's arrows were strong, and they left quickly after succeeding...... All this shows that the southerners have already started to act in secret. On the surface, they confronted him and Yelu Dashi across the river and did not move, but in fact, they sent troops across the river to carry out a surprise attack. Stirring up his army, the Song army on the south bank suddenly crossed the river, fished in troubled waters, and took advantage of the chaos to win.
Before the surprise army of the Southern Army was launched, it seemed that the Southern army would not act rashly. The most important thing now is to find this Song army as soon as possible and kill them in Baigou Hebei, leaving no one behind, so as to prevent future troubles.
Thinking of this, he ordered the officer standing on the side and said, "Agu Zhe, I order you to send five hundred troops to quickly go to the Song army spies." None of them will be put back. "The vanguard army named Aguzhe all took the rider with him.
In the confrontation with the 100,000-strong army, the loss of dozens of cavalry was just a small stone thrown into the Baigou River, and its impact dissipated in an instant, and only 500 Liao cavalry galloped into the distance with the expeditionary army.
Zhou Nan has been restless for the past two days, because of the matter of that arrow. Not only because this arrow is the standard arrow of the Song army, but also engraved with the logo of the arrow-making craftsman. Even if it is not the arrows of the Song army, but the vertebral arrows used by ordinary people in the Liao State, a sentry who shot and killed the Liao army in the face must have stabbed the hornet's nest of the Liao army.
Gao Yuan said that the official army may not necessarily plant this matter on their cottage, but with so many dead people, the Liao army will inevitably search nearby. If you want to come in and search, the war horse and the bow and arrow are the feet of the horse. If the Liao army is not allowed to come in to search, it will be even more self-defeating. At that time, the cottage that I worked so hard to build with people was afraid that it would be razed to the ground by the Liao army, and it would also affect these mountain people in the cottage. I was crossed here, just to keep the peace of this worry-free village in this troubled world, and keep the place where I crossed. Who would have thought that these actions of their own would end up like this.
The Song-Liao War is imminent, and it will not have anything to do with their small cottage.
Did his own arrow really stir up the wind and rain?
Suddenly, a soldier from Huweidu came to find him, saying that the owner of the second village had an urgent matter to discuss in the playground of the Zhaimen. When Zhou Nan heard this, he hurriedly rushed to the Zhaimen playground with such soldiers.