Chapter 306: Defending Against the Enemy (4)
Xiao Tzu Rin, the king of the Liao Kingdom, rode on a black horse and pointed the Qinghong sword in his hand forward; 300 heavily armored horses shot forward like clusters of arrows.
It seems a bit inappropriate to describe a heavily armored horse as a cluster of arrows shooting forward; Because the horse is wrapped in thick armor, it can't run fast at all.
But Xiao Tzu Rin's 300 war horses are all Sini hippos, and it is reasonable to use fast progress.
The Sini hippopotamus is a good horse in the Tokyo Province of Liao, with a strong physique and a well-proportioned structure; The head is delicate, the eyes are large and the forehead is wide, the nostrils are large, the mouth is straight, the neck is straight, the armor is obvious, the chest is deep and broad, the back and waist are straight, the ribs are round, the jiri is slightly oblique, the muscles are plump, the limbs are dry, the joints are obvious, the tendons are developed, the forelimbs are straight, the hindlimbs are mostly extroverted, and the hoof is dense and solid.
The mane, mane, and tail hairs are medium in length, short and sparse in talism, and the coat color is mainly squirrel, chestnut, and black, with less miscellaneous hair.
Under the extensive conditions of relying entirely on nature, the Sini hippopotamus shows strong body strength, both strength and speed, suitable for riding and pulling, rich staying power, tolerance to rough feeding, and strong adaptability. Performance.
After Xiao Tart-rin got 300 Sinaean hippos from Tokyo Road, he equipped them with 300 heavily armored horses, known as the "Sini Iron Horse"; Become the most elite blade in the Liao Iron Forest Army.
The Sini Iron Cavalry was known as the mobile fortress of the Liao army, and the whole body of the war horse was wrapped in thick armor; The knights' mounts were also heavily armoured, and only the horse's calves were exposed. The eyes are also covered with blindfolds to prevent bows and arrows; Equipping a heavy cavalry with funds could arm a light infantry of forty or fifty people.
However, Xiao Tzu Rin, with the support of Xiao Xuan, the Empress Dowager of Liao Guocheng, insisted on equipping the Sini Iron Cavalry; Because he is Xiao Xuan's maiden nephew.
After the Sini Iron Cavalry was equipped, 300 tigers were added to the already strong Liao Army Tielin Army, and 300 Sini Iron Cavalry repelled the 100,000 forbidden troops of the Song Army.
In the battle of the Gaoliang River in the Liao and Song dynasties, the Sini iron cavalry slaughtered all the way, trampling the ten thousand arrays drawn up by Song Taizong in the palace.
Yang Ye, the general of the Yang family, was captured alive by Xiao Tzu Rin by Xiao Tzu Rin's Sini Iron Cavalry and hid in Che Chenjiayu under the threat of Xiao Tzu Rin's Sini Iron Cavalry.
In the Battle of Wangcheng in Song Liao, Xiao Tzu Rin led the Sini Iron Cavalry and captured Wang Jizhong, the general of the Song State.
The 300 cavalry of the Sini Iron Cavalry is divided into 20 teams, each with 15 cavalry; The first 10 of the 20 teams are the imperial party and the 10 are the rear party, which is also the relationship between Xiao Tzu Rin, who is both wise and brave, in order to reconcile the relationship between Xiao Xuan, the empress dowager of Chengtian, and Yelu Longxu of Liao Shengzong.
However, just two hours ago, the 300 Sini iron cavalry led by Xiao Tzu Rin were blocked by the grass people of the Song Dynasty on the north bank of the Wei River and could not move forward.
Under the edict of Empress Dowager Xiao, Xiao Tzu Rin formed a death squad to erect a pontoon bridge on the Wei River, but the people of the Song Dynasty actually used earth-shaking thunder, fire guns, and bows and crossbows to kill hundreds of Liao death squads deep into the river.
Where did Xiao Tzu Rin suffer such a big insult? Since its formation, the Sinic Iron Cavalry led by him has been invincible, and it is even more like a no-man's land on the Hebei front; However, Huazhou and Liyang, which were on the road to Bianjing, became the Waterloo of Sini Iron Cavalry.
300 cavalry mounted on the Sini Iron Cavalry watched the Liao warriors who paved the pontoon bridge being shot in the river by the people of the Song Dynasty in waves, but the heavily armored horses did not have a temper; Xiao Tzu Rin almost went crazy.
It seems that there are no victorious generals in the world, but Xiao Tzu Lin has hardly suffered a few defeats in his military career.
Xiao Tzu Rin is a famous general of the Jingzong and Shengzong dynasties of the Liao Kingdom, and is the brother of the Empress Dowager Xiao Xuan; Although he is related to the Empress Dowager Xiao, Xiao Tzu Rin's career is completely based on his own ability.
Xiao Tzu Rin started as a guard officer, and worked steadily step by step, and gradually climbed to the position of general.
During the reign of Liao Jingzong, there were constant wars between the Liao and Song dynasties; As a well-tested general, Xiao Tzu Rin has participated in many wars against the Song Dynasty, and has made a lot of contributions because of his good command and brave combat.
One of the most proud battles in Xiao Tzu Rin's life took place in the Battle of Yanyun in the fourth year of Tonghe (986 AD).
At that time, Xiao Tzu Rin, as the deputy commander of the army, followed the privy envoy Yelu to attack the Song army on the Western Road led by Pan Mei and Yang Ye, and captured the outnumbered Yang Ye in Chenjiagu (in the fourth year of unification, Song Yang Jiye led his troops from Daizhou to invade and capture the city. Tart Rin defeated Yelu from the privy envoy with the deputy deployment of the army, and captured Jiye in Shuozhou. See "History of Liao, Volume 85, Biography of Xiao Tzu Rin").
Yang Ye is a famous general in the Central Plains, known for his bravery; As early as during his service in the Northern Han Dynasty, he won the title of "invincible"; Whether in the Song Dynasty or the Liao State, it is a character that is admired and admired by opponents.
Xiao Tzu Rin captured "Yang Invincible" alive in the first battle, although it belonged to bullying the widow with the public; But it also shocked the world.
With Xiao Tzu Rin's performance in the battle of Yanyun, his career promotion began to accelerate; Two years later, he was reappointed as the capital supervisor of the Southern Yuan, and soon he was added to the general of the right prison guard and the inspector of the school, and he was awarded the envoy of the Zhangde Army.
In the eleventh year of the reign of the Liao Shengzong (993 AD), Xiao Tzu Rin served as the commander of the eastward expedition to Goryeo and forced the other party to pay tribute.
The following year, Western Xia invaded the border, and Xiao Tzu Rin followed the princess of Qi, Xiao Hehan (Xiao Xuan's sister), on his expedition to the west; Although he is only nominally a recruit envoy on the Northwest Road, he is the actual commander (Fan Jun Zhong Order, Taifei and Rin. )
After the end of the Western Expedition, Xiao Tart-rin was crowned the king of Lanling County with his merits.
From the nineteenth year of Tonghe (1001 AD), Xiao Tzu Rin moved to the Liao-Song border; Fought against the Song Dynasty as the commander of the army in Nanjing.
In June of the first year of Jingde of Song Zhenzong (1004 AD), in retaliation for the repeated intrusions of the Song Dynasty in the past; The Empress Dowager Xiao Xuan and her son Shengzong waved 200,000 troops south to invade the Song Dynasty; And the main striker is Xiao Tzu Rin.
The Liao side said that it was to retaliate against the invasion of the Song army, but in fact this was an excuse for Empress Dowager Xiao; This time, Empress Dowager Xiao asked the new national teacher A Mo to lead 30,000 horses to besiege Suicheng to confuse the Song army on the Hebei front, while she bypassed the Great Wall of Water cast by the Song army from Baozhou to Jizhou; From the Zhending line straight into Huazhou, he tried to cross the Liyangjin-Baimajin pontoon bridge on the Yellow River, attacked Bianliang, captured Song Zhenzong, destroyed the Song Dynasty, and sat in the Central Plains.
The Liao army was like a bamboo, but when it reached Liyang County and Huazhou, it was blocked by the Grand Canal.
The stone thrower made by the sergeant Mu Lin reversed the defeat of the Liao army on the Wei River, and the stone thrower of the Song Dynasty was smashed to pieces by the stone thrower of the Liao State; The people could no longer stop the shots of the Liao army's crossbowmen, and fled in confusion.
A pontoon bridge over the Wei River was finally successfully laid, and 300 Sinian iron horsemen crossed the Wei River; Xiao Tzu Rin gave a death order: to pursue and flee the people of the Song Dynasty to kill one by one to avenge the dead bridge-building warriors.
300 horsemen rode the Sini iron cavalry forward rapidly, and no matter how slow it was, it was faster than the two legs of the people of the Song Dynasty.
Soon, a group of thousands of people were chased by Xiao Tzulin's 300 Sini iron horsemen.
Xiao Tzu Rin took a look and saw that more than 1,000 people of the Song Dynasty were all within the range of the Sini Iron Cavalry, so he issued an order to shoot arrows and kill.
300 Horsemen of Sinia were about to shoot arrows with their bows, when they saw two horses rushing towards them; The two horses rushed into the position of the Sinic Iron Cavalry, brandishing a long-handled machete and slashing wildly, and the formation of the Sini Iron Cavalry was suddenly disrupted......