The first heavy snowfall since the beginning of winter arrived as scheduled, covering the previously endless dry yellow grassland with a layer of snow a foot deep. The cold air was icy under the agitation of the north wind, and the hot air exhaled by the centaurs formed huge vapor mist in the air, which made people unable to open their eyes.

It is said that this is the winter season of grassland people and cats, but there are more than 300 people riding on the grassland and trekking hard.

I saw that these three hundred cavalry were different from those ordinary Khitan cavalry in light fur or leather armor, and they were all wearing black lacquer armor unique to the Khitans, which was a kind of iron armor that covered the whole body. The iron armor of the Khitan people is very similar to the iron armor of the Central Plains. The upper structure of the armor is exactly the same as that of the Central Plains iron armor, only the leg skirt is obviously shorter than that of the Central Plains, the front and rear two square falcon tail armor covers the leg skirt, and the armor belly guard is hung in front of the abdomen with a belt, and then fixed with a belt, which is the same as the leather armor of the Central Plains, and the large round guard in the middle of the chest is unique to the Khitan people.

These 300 people are the most elite Khitan Great Horde army of the Khitans. These people were all carefully selected from the millions of Khitan cavalry, and they were brave and brave since they were young, plus five or six years of rigorous training, before they could be qualified to join the Khitan Great Horde Army. They usually only listen to the call of the Khitan royal family, which is equivalent to the imperial forest army of the Central Plains countries. There are a total of 30,000 people, which has always been the biggest reliance of the Khitan royal family, and it is also the reason why the Khitan north and south courts have always been afraid of the Khitan royal family.

They had big shoulders and round waists, black war horses under their crotches, spears about five feet in their hands, scimitars hanging from their waists, and a longbow one size larger than ordinary riding bows behind their backs, two cowhide quivers on their waists, each pot full of thirty black eagle feather arrows.

This kind of feather arrow is very precious, the carved feather is harder than ordinary feathers, and the feather arrow made of it flies more stable, and with heavy arrows, it is unbreakable. In the Khitan, only marksmen can use it, which further illustrates the extraordinaryness of these three hundred people.

In front of the three hundred cavalry, a sun and moon flag was held high. The Sun and Moon Banner is the flag of the Khitan Emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty. The Khitan people believe in the primitive religion of shamanism, which believes that the sun is the god of the sky, the moon is the god of reason, and the worship of the sun and the moon is the worship of heaven and earth. The god of the sun and the moon is the "immortal god" in shamanism, that is, Meng and Tengri, who are the supreme gods, while the god of the sun and moon in Khitan refers to the emperor and empress. Such a banner represents the Khitan State, and these people are the envoys to the Yan State.

The Khitan envoy is actually a thin Han man with a mustache, this person is called Bai Jingtang, it turned out to be a down-and-out talent, and he failed to pass the imperial examination many times, and his heart slowly rose resentment against the Dayan court. In the end, he ran to the Khitan alone and became a traitor.

In the end

A scholar, in the Khitan, where most people are illiterate, is actually like a fish in water. Now he is a very important advisor under the king of the Khitan Northern Courtyard. This time, the king of the Khitan North Court made trouble for Qin Wangfu through the Khitan court, and specially sent him, a Han man who could speak well, to come forward.

"Damn, it's cold." Obviously, this group of people has not quickly adapted to the cold of winter, and a Khitan general behind Bai Jingtang scolded. This person is the deputy envoy of the Yan State this time, a general under the king of the Northern Courtyard, Yelu Wuyan, he has another identity, he is the distant brother of the Khitan royal family.

Hearing Yelu Wuyan's rude words, Bai Jingtang, who had always boasted of being elegant, frowned and ignored him.

"Lord Bai, do you think the king is idle? Is it necessary to be so polite to the Han Chinese? In the eyes of our Khitan warriors, they are just a group of two-legged sheep, and no matter how much they are slaughtered by our Khitans. If you want me to say, there is no need to make such a trouble, let's just send troops to Chicheng and destroy that Qin Wang. They dared to take care of it and destroyed him, don't you say? ”

Bai Jingtang really didn't want to pay attention to this rough billet, but Yelu Wuyan opened his mouth to ask, and he couldn't keep silent anymore. After staying in the Khitan for a long time, he understands very well how a traitor can survive with the Khitans, and a good popularity is very important. As a hardcore traitor, he was not at all dissatisfied with Yelu Wuyan's insult to the Han people.

"Hehe, the king must have his purpose in arranging this. Dayan is not to be worried, but now that our Great Khitan Kingdom is fighting against the Uighurs, it is really not suitable for extraneous branches. If the Dayan Imperial Court can clean up the one named Qin Wang, it would be best if it couldn't send troops to attack again, this is called saluting first and then soldiers. Suppressing the disdain in his heart, Bai Jingtang explained with a smile.

"If you want me to say that it's all to blame Yelu Zhentian's waste, the entire army of 50,000 can't take Helin and the two small county towns, and he also lost his old life, he really deserves it." Yelu Wuyan spat on the ground, "And that Yelu Feng, the old man has always treated him as a person, and the king said that he is the most outstanding young man in our North Courtyard." Even if he was defeated by the Han people, he actually lied that he was attacked by more than 100,000 people, and what did the Han people dare to ride with footsteps? When did the Han people have such courage? It's just a joke. ”

"I heard that Yelu Feng was heavily punished this time, and the king of the North Courtyard beat him with eighty military sticks at that time?" Bai Jingtang automatically ignored Yelu Wuyan's nonsense and asked.

"Isn't it?" Yelu Wuyan laughed gloatingly, "Not five hundred of the entire fifty thousand army escaped, and of course the king was angry, so he beat him with eighty sticks at that time." I was there at the time, and the guy who was beaten was so miserable that he almost got beaten

He's dead. The king also deprived him of all his positions, he deserved it, and made him so arrogant usually, I still want to thank that Qin Wang, who cleaned up Yelu Peak for me, and had been evil for so many years. ”

Bai Jingtang knew that Yelu Feng had been suppressing Yelu Wuyan, and to say that these two people were the best of the younger generation in the North Courtyard. Yelu Wuyan was born with divine power, and he could be called a few warriors among the younger generation of the North Courtyard. But Yelu Feng is superior, in terms of force, it is not worse than Yelu Wuyan, the key is that Yelu Feng is good at making suggestions, and he is not known how many times stronger than Yelu Wuyan, so Yelu Feng is more important than Yelu Wuyan. This is also the reason why Yelu Wuyan has always been unhappy with Yelu Feng.

"When did Dayan come out with such a powerful character? actually wiped out the 50,000 army of our North Courtyard by himself, thinking about it, I really want to meet this Qin Wang. I heard that he was only sixteen years old, and he had such ability, which is really impressive. At the mention of Qin Wang, Bai Jingtang couldn't help but sigh.

"Forget it, it's just a stinky kid." Yelu Wuyan sneered, "If it weren't for the Lin Xiao family's father and son going all out to fight against Yelu Zhentian, how could they defeat the 50,000 people in our North Courtyard?" If you want me to say, that kid is just having fun, I don't believe that a sixteen-year-old kid has so much energy. ”

Bai Jingtang frowned slightly, he really didn't like this guy who didn't have a big ability, but liked to chew the root of his tongue everywhere, "No matter what, I want to see if this little guy has the ability to tide over the difficulties this time." ”

"What else can he do? He is dead, what is the virtue of the Han court? I will definitely kill that Qin Forget and vent my anger for our Khitan Kingdom. Yelu Wuyan said affirmatively.

For the first time, Bai Jingtang felt that he still had some truth in what he said, and he also knew a lot about the Han court, "By the way, I recently heard that many tribes in this vicinity have been completely killed, and General Yelu is still careful." ”

Hearing Bai Jingtang mention this, Yelu Wuyan's face became gloomy, "Yes, those people don't know where they came from, they slaughtered our Khitan tribe frantically, and by now thirteen tribes, large and small, have been completely killed." The means are very cruel, as long as they are alive, they will never let go, not to mention people, even cattle and sheep, war horses, and shepherd dogs have all been killed, and there are really no chickens and dogs. Don't let me find them, if I find them, I'll cut off their heads one by one with my own hands! Hearing Bai Jingtang say this, Yelu Wuyan said fiercely.

Bai Jingtang can understand his anger very well, the Khitan has been established for more than a hundred years, and there has never been such a thing. It has always been the people of the Khitan country who slaughtered the Quartet, and the Khitan people naturally developed a proud personality. Now that this incident has suddenly happened, all the Khitans are extremely angry, eager to devour that army alive.