Chapter 166: The whereabouts of 10,000 bandits

Xiao Guangzuo looked up in amazement, feeling the loss of life in his body, and his face was desperate and frightened.

He looked up and saw that many Song archers suddenly appeared in the bushes on the hillside in front of him, led by a young military general with a big beard and arms that were obviously longer than ordinary people, and judging from the young general's bow-closing action, the three arrows on his body were actually shot by the young Song general.

"There are still people with such superb archery skills among the Song people." This was the last thought that came to Xiao Guangzuo's mind before his consciousness disappeared, and then he fell off his horse and died completely.

This young military general is, of course, Wang Sunchen, his desire for military exploits is not weaker than Guo Kui, especially since he has been fighting the Dangxiang people in the northwest, this is the first time he has fought with the Liao, he is very eager to kill the Liao, kill a lot of Liao.

"Kill them all." Wang Sunchen showed a mouthful of yellowed teeth, his face was hideous, and with his order, the three thousand archers who had surrounded the more than 1,000 tired Liao cavalry were excited.

I only heard the sound of a bowstring and the sound of feather arrows breaking through the air, and a feather arrow attacked, although the Liao cavalry dodged with all their might, but a third of them fell and dismounted in the screams.

"There's an ambush here!" Those Liao cavalry who thought they had escaped by luck were like a group of trapped beasts, with a crazy face.

"Rush over, rush over!" A military attache of the Liao army temporarily took over the command, pulled out his waist knife and shouted.

But on the right is a mountain, on the left is a ditch, go back............ It was chasing them all the way, and it looked like they were about to catch up with the Song army.

They had nowhere to flee but to step forward and fight their way out.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! "The desperate Liao cavalry, under the leadership of the Liao military attaché, was like a pack of crazy wolves, howling, desperately pumping his horse strands and sprinting with all his might to the three thousand archers on the hillside, and Wang Sunsin himself disappeared at some point.

However, the 3,000 archers trained by Wang Sunchen were not only much more accurate than ordinary Song soldiers, but also very fast in archery.

I saw that the arrows were like rain, and the ears of the soldiers of the enemy and our armies were full of the swishing sound of feather arrows breaking through the air, and the arrows of the Liao army continued to fall from their horses.

The Liao cavalry who was still on the horse didn't have time to look at the screaming and fallen companions, and no one lifted the reins to bypass it, and the still living Liao cavalry only had the group of Song archers on the hillside.

For these Liao people, this group of Song archers is a group of death, only by rushing to their near can they have a way to live, as long as they can rush over to fight in close combat, they have hope.

It was closer, closer, and finally after paying nearly half of the casualties, the remaining more than 700 Liao cavalry were less than half an arrow away from the 3,000 archers on the hillside.

There are already Liao cavalry smiling and clenching their scimitars, their feet tightly on the stirrups, their buttocks slightly off the horse's back, ready to kill, as long as they get closer, those archers will become sheep to be slaughtered, with the fast horses under their crotches and the sharp blades in their hands, they can kill a bloody road again.

However, at this moment, a Song cavalry suddenly rushed out from the woods on the hillside on the right, and the leader was Wang Sunchen, who turned around and left after shooting Xiao Guangzuo himself.

With Wang Sunsin's loud reprimand, it was only two or three breaths of effort, and he led the two thousand cavalry to quickly form a wedge in the march, and in a short time used the downhill momentum of the hillside to speed up.

Wang Sunchen's face was full of monstrous killing intent, he pulled out his knife and slashed forward, and the two thousand cavalry under his command behind him shouted: "Kill!" ”

The 2,000-strong cavalry was like a huge cluster of arrows, "chiseling" into the Liao cavalry, which had only about 700 people left and had no formation that had been shot by a rain of arrows.

The two torrents collided together, and the formation of the Liao cavalry was immediately cut into two sections.

Wang Sunsin gave an order, and the wedge-shaped attack formation immediately split into two, extending to both sides and outflanking them respectively, and in a moment it turned into the shape of two butterfly wings, using the butterfly array to strangle the fire-fighting moths trapped in the middle.

Although the cavalry of the Liao army is powerful, it has been killed all night, and just now it was running all the way to death, whether it is the war horse or the cavalry itself, they are exhausted, and their combat strength is less than two-tenths or three.

And Wang Sunchen waited here for half the night.

Therefore, this was a one-sided massacre, and when the Song army sent by Guo Kui to pursue arrived with a piece of dust, the more than 1,000 Liao cavalry had been killed by Wang Shunchen and others, leaving corpses in one place. Wang Sunchen was assigning people and began to cut off the heads of the Liao people with an excited face.

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Great Song Dynasty, Xining three years, October 7.

It rained in the northern mountainous area of the Taihang Mountains.

The rain was not very heavy, and in the lower areas, there was only a thin puddle of water on the ground.

However, such weather has brought a lot of trouble to the 10,000 "bandits" who are hurrying in the secret road of Taihang Mountain.

This mountain road is a section of the Taihang Mountain Highway, which is known as the Taihang Heavenly Road in later generations.

Zhang Bin participated in and presided over the bidding and construction of this highway in later generations, and even followed the relevant personnel back and forth several times, and was very familiar with the terrain and environment of this mountain road, and he even knew that the northern half of this mountain road was almost rarely discovered and walked before the construction of the highway, and it was a veritable secret road nearly a thousand years ago today.

In addition, although the time is almost a thousand years earlier, the terrain around this trail has hardly changed.

Based on these two reasons, Zhang Bin dared to take 10,000 people to this secret road.

However, since it is a secret road, it is a place where no one has walked indeed, even if the terrain is flat, it can only be called a mountain road at most, but it cannot be called a mountain road, because in many places the grass grows knee-long, and even overgrown with shrubs.

Fortunately, it is late autumn, the grass and trees are yellow, and although the mountain wind is colder, it is much easier to walk.

This mountain road is about 200 miles long, close to the Song State side is the mountain valley road, and close to the Liao State side is a mountain road naturally formed by the dry river ditch.

Because of the limitation of the road, the team of 10,000 "bandits" led by Zhang Bin and Zhi Kerou stretched for a long time, and the distance between the head and the end of the row was three or four miles.

Zhe Kerou sent a team of 100 scouts, more than ten miles beyond the large army, cautiously searching and advancing, as soon as there was a disturbance, he would immediately stop, hide himself behind the trees and rocks beside the road, and grasp the longbow in his hand.

Occasionally, on this road, some hunting Liao woodcutters will appear, and these scouts disguised as bandits will shoot mercilessly.

Although it is almost impossible for these unlucky Liao hunters to be the meticulous work of the Liao army, they are just ordinary Liao people, but letting these Liao people leave will definitely reveal the whereabouts of the 10,000 "bandits" led by Zhang Bin, so that the Liao people in the north of Taihang Mountain are prepared in advance.

In addition, such terrain is very suitable for enemy ambushes, in case they leak their tracks, and the Liao army sets up an ambush on the hill on the side of the road in advance, the consequences are unimaginable.

It is too difficult to search the mountains on both sides, and it will inevitably seriously affect the speed of the march of the large army, so that the two-hundred-mile mountain road may not be completed in ten days and half a month.

Therefore, these 100 scouts were very careful, and they did not hesitate to shoot the Liao herdsmen.

Leading the 100 detectives was one of the thirteen sons of Zhe Kerou, named Zhe Muqiu, a young man of the same age as Zhang Bin, but extremely strong, Zhang Bin saw this son fight a tiger in the Taihang Mountains alone yesterday.

"General Zhe, in your opinion, at this speed, can you get out of Taihang Mountain in two days and rush to Shuitou City, Xijing Road, Liao Kingdom?"

Zhi Kerou looked up at the sky, there was a light rain in the sky, the sky was gloomy, and he couldn't see what time it was, so he thought about it seriously and judged it before he said: "If this rain can stop falling, it should be possible to drive out of Taihang Mountain in two days, but whether you can reach Shuitou City or not, you still have to see the scene behind the mountain." ”

Zhang Bin felt that the war horse under his crotch was walking hard in the mountain road after the rain, and secretly calculated the time when the Liao army robbed the grain, and the time when the news reached the ears of the king of the South Courtyard of Datong Mansion in the western capital of Liao, after the Liao army was ambushed by Guo Kui and Wang Shunchen, his brows frowned slightly, and he said: "No, no matter whether the rain will stop or not, we must get out of Taihang Mountain in two days at all costs." ”

Zhi Kerou secretly understood what Zhang Bin meant by "at all costs", so he hugged his fists on the horse and said: "Xiaguan understands." ”

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An hour later, a cavalryman slipped due to a war horse, he accidentally fell off his horse, and broke his leg, Zhi Kerou glanced at Zhang Bin, who frowned tightly, and gave a ruthless order, leaving enough dry food and bows and arrows for the cavalryman to ride back to Fuzhou by himself, or wait here for the army to come back without knowing when.

You must know that this is a real barren mountain and wilderness, and before Orimuqiu was able to encounter a tiger, there is no reason why this cavalryman can't touch other beasts.

In fact, there are many wild beasts in this mountain, especially wolves, and most of the wild beasts have avoided early after their army, but one man and one horse have become the target of the beasts, even if this cavalry is an elite soldier, whether he can get out of the mountain alive is a matter of two words.

Although Zhang Bin sympathized with the hapless cavalryman, he was very satisfied with Zhe Kerou's order, which understood his order "at all costs" with great precision.

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After the Flying Fox Trail was sent to Tokyo City by 800 miles on a fast horse, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Kingdom were shocked and surprised, and then they were placed on the stove and roasted.

For many years, even since Taizu founded the country, Taizong destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, did not listen to the dissuasion, immediately waved his army north to attack Liao and returned defeated, and died on the road, the Great Song Dynasty has not beheaded the Liao people so much at one time.

The shock brought by this great victory to the Song court far exceeded the great victory of Dashuncheng and Hengshan not long ago.

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