Chapter 199: I want to bury them alive
Zhang Bin carefully looked at the information from the scouts sent by Han Sanlang, and said with mixed feelings: "Xiao Tianxiong sent 5,000 people over, and our strategy to surround Wei and save Zhao was successful, but these 5,000 people are not easy to deal with. ”
Zhemuqiu said confidently: "The prison army only needs to give me four explosives bags, and then hide in a safe place and watch the excitement with the snake slave girl, and I can defeat them in more than an hour, but I can't guarantee that all the five thousand Liao thieves will be killed." ”
"Don't get carried away, the explosives pack is by no means a guarantee of victory, the reason why we used the explosives pack to win easily before is just that the thieves we dealt with never knew that there were such terrifying weapons in this world."
Zhang Bin shook his head and said: "The dozens of Liao people who escaped during the last grain robbery must have told Xiao Tianxiong in detail about the attack process of the explosive bag, this person can become the king of the Southern Courtyard of the Liao people, and he has been in charge of the Xijing Road of the Liao State for many years, and he must not be a fool, so the five thousand people who came this time must have come prepared, and most of them have already thought about how to guard against our explosives bag on the battlefield." ”
Zhang Bin didn't finish his words, Zhemuqiu's face turned a little pale and said with guilt: "These days have been won repeatedly, and the humble position is indeed carried away, with the combat strength of our more than 2,700 people, we encountered 5,000 elite soldiers of the Liao State, if the explosives package failed to completely mess up the Liao people's charging formation, and the Liao thieves were blown up, we rushed up to send them to death." ”
"But I still want these five thousand thieves to disappear completely." Zhang Bin's face was murderous.
Orimu Qiu was taken aback and said, "How do the prison guards want them to disappear?" ”
Zhang Bin said inscrutablely: "I want to bury them alive." ”
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"General, I found traces of the Song army, in a hidden mountain col fifty miles northwest of me." A scout galloped in and galloped down, shouting back to Brother Xiao.
Brother Xiao glanced at the mountain range in the northwest from a distance, his face was monstrous and murderous, but after a little contemplation, he said: "Speed up, if the Song people get into the mountain, it will not be conducive to our battle." ”
Xiao Geduo has a lot of combat experience, and he is a famous general under Xiao Tianxiong, and he is also a famous general who can be ranked in the top ten even in Liao.
Brother Xiao, the main general of the Liao soldiers who was killed by Zhang Bin and them a few days ago, escorted grain and grass, was his brother.
When Xiao Tianxiong sent him north to kill Zhang Bin and his party of the Song army, he specially told him to prevent the Song people from having a weapon that would explode and make a loud noise and make all the war horses panic.
As Zhang Bin said, Brother Xiao has already thought of several countermeasures on the way to come.
After Xiao Geduo gave the order, he took the lead, flicked the whip, and accelerated the horse's speed.
Five thousand Khitan cavalry followed silently, although there was no enemy nearby, but they still held their swords and bows tightly, and even their bodies were pressed very low, with the bumps of the war horses and graceful ups and downs.
The distance between each cavalry remained almost constant while galloping rapidly, and if one could look from above, one would see that the five thousand Liao soldiers had always maintained a shuttle-shaped charging formation.
This stormtrooper formation can spread out in the shortest possible time and split into several groups of cavalry.
To tell the truth, Xiao Geduo was not very willing to come north to deal with this Song army this time, even if this Song army killed his younger brother Xiao Geda.
Because, before he set off, Xiao Tianxiong, the king of the Southern Courtyard, told him that as long as he destroyed the Song army on his side, no matter whether the remaining three Song Zhendingfu military villages were captured at that time, the king of the Southern Courtyard would lead most of the Liao army south to plunder the Song villages and towns.
At this time, Xiao Geduo only hoped that he could quickly kill this damn Song army, and then go south as soon as possible, catch up with the main force led by the king of the Southern Courtyard, and be able to grab some things.
Xiao Geduo's tribe is close to the Song Kingdom, and now they are no longer pure nomads, but half-herding and half-farming, planting a lot of fields, but their Khitan people seem to lack the talent to farm, and the harvest has been very poor.
The last time he led people to disguise themselves as horse thieves, he plundered hundreds of Song people and took them to the tribe as slaves, forcing these Song people to farm for them, and as a result, their harvest increased by two or three times that year.
Now that they have reclaimed more and more fields, there are not enough Song slaves to farm, so this time to attack the Song State, Brother Xiao thought that even if he couldn't grab too much money and grain, it would be good to be able to rob more Song people.
Xiao Geduo knew too well about the combat power of the Song army, and the only thing he had to be careful about was the kind of terrifying weapon that could explode and make a loud noise.
He believed that as long as his stormtrooping formation was not destroyed by the weapons of the Song people, he could easily kill this Song army.
Soon, the Liao army passed through the mouth of a valley, and suddenly opened up in front of them, and a very open valley appeared in front of them, and there were a few sparse woods on the mountains in the distance.
Seeing that the area of the valley was not small, it would not affect their cavalry charge too much, Xiao Geduo smiled cruelly: "This is the burial place of the Song army. ”
At this moment, shouts were heard from the col in the distance, and soon a cavalry of the Song army rushed out of the col in such a hurry.
"Song Jun has discovered us!" Some Liao army generals said with a smile.
"It's too late to find out." Xiao Geduo pulled out his long knife.
"Hey, this Song army is really bold, it must be that kind of terrifying weapon, so it is arrogant." Another Liao army general sneered.
Brother Xiao said in a deep voice: "Pass the order, let everyone not be careless, stuff things in the ears of the war horse, and as long as you hear my roar later, the center will bloom according to the drill on the road." ”
"Song Jun is sending him to death." Quickly conveying the order, Xiao Geduo pointed directly ahead with the long knife in his hand with a murderous face, and shouted: "Rush! ”
As soon as the words fell, he was the first to urge the war horse and rushed towards this group of bold Song people.
The cavalry on both sides charged each other, and both seemed confident in the strength of their own side.
Seeing that the two sides were advancing, there was only a hundred or so steps left, and a loud roar suddenly came from Song Jun's side, and something the size of an adult's head was suddenly thrown from Song Jun.
Xiao Geduo's pupils shrank suddenly, and he shouted violently: "Scatter!" ”
The Liao cavalry, which had been prepared for a long time, split in front of the battle in an instant, one to the left and the other to the right.
And almost at the moment of their separation, the explosives bag landed on the ground where they had just been.
"Boom!"
There was a loud bang, sand and gravel flew out, the fire shone brightly, and several screams were heard.
However, only the nearest eight Liao people fell from their horses, and the war horses of the Liao soldiers were not affected much, and the other Liao cavalry showed superb riding skills, and had already gone around the two sides of the Song army's charging battle array, in a vain attempt to stop the waist and charge the Song army.
The leader of this cavalry was Zhemuqiu, seeing that the invincible explosives package had gained so little this time, the Liao brigade easily dodged, and couldn't help but be glad that Zhang Bin had expected it.
"Rush over." Zhemuqiu roared, led the people to continue to rush forward, and rushed directly through the gap where the Liao people were divided into two and let go, so that the Liao army on both sides of the waist rushed to kill the air.
"The Song people want to escape, chase after them, and kill them all." Brother Xiao roared, and the two Liao soldiers who had just been divided into two instantly joined together again and chased after Song Jun's ass.
This battle went on to such an extent that the Song army exposed their backs under their arrows, and there was no suspense about the outcome of the battle, with the riding skills of their Khitan warriors, at most an hour, they could catch up with the Song army with inferior riding skills, and then easily kill all the Song people with wolf pack tactics.