The Song soldiers outside the city were starving, and originally thought that they could drive dozens of miles to enter the city, and they no longer had to be afraid. Now a city gate has turned them out, and the soldiers will come at any time! The disappointed Song soldiers couldn't help but curse one after another.

Listening to the more the soldiers who were originally comrades in the city scolded more and more, although the defenders of the city wanted to let them in, they couldn't help it, and they could only act according to the order. Standing on the high city wall, he looked helpless, just looking into the distance. Suddenly, they all opened their eyes wide, and some of them were talking to each other.

The soldiers outside the city looked at it a little strangely, and before they could figure out what was going on, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves drifting with the sound of the wind. Outside the city, the Song army subconsciously looked back, the wind was blowing and he couldn't open his eyes, and the strong wind that flew sand and stones was about to blow up all the sand and stones on the ground and hit people in the face. But some people still vaguely saw that in the dim sky, it was the treacherous and cruel Fan Army cavalry! These Song soldiers, who originally thought they had escaped, immediately fell into panic and panic.

Just as the Song army marched effortlessly towards Xiongzhou, the cavalry of the Liao army, boosted by the north wind, was even more like a dragon, and it was extremely fast, but it took a detour, and these Song army routs only arrived on the front and back feet.

The Liao army lined up in a line took advantage of the wind to stir up the yellow sand in the sky, rolling like an angry tide, and pounced on the Song army marching all the way. Because the defenders on the tall city wall stood tall, they saw the Liao army pursuing behind them from a distance, and the soldiers who had discovered the situation just now hurriedly reported to the defenders.

Patrolling the city today was Liu Tao, a staff officer of the Xuanfu Department under Tong Guan's account, and the matter was so important that Liu Tao did not dare to make his own opinion, so he sent someone to report to Tong Xuanshuai immediately. General Tong Guan's order was soon returned: the master led the army to meet the enemy outside the city, the city gate was closed, and the city defense was strictly guarded.

Liu Tao was also helpless, the military order could not be violated, so he had to act according to the order. On the one hand, he sent people to order the soldiers defending the city to be on strict alert, and on the other hand, he ordered people to wave their flags. It's just that the wind is too strong for the flag to wave at all. Liu Tao had no choice but to order people to beat drums and blow trumpets, so that the Song army outside the city could prepare to defend against the enemy.

In fact, there is no need for Liu Tao to pass the order, the city gates are locked, the drawbridge has been removed, and the Liao people are chasing the soldiers behind, and anyone knows what to do now.

Seed Master Dao ordered Xin Xingzong: "Xin Du led the infantry army to set up a formation in front of the left to defend against the enemy. Do not allow the enemy to rush into the formation. ”

Then he turned to the middle of the planting division and said, "Your infantry army is in front of the right to defend against the enemy, and you must not let the enemy rush into the formation." ”

He also said to Yang Weizhong, the commander of the left army: "Yang commanded your cavalry to line up on the right side of the large array to defend against the enemy." ”

Then he said to the rest of the generals: "The headquarters of the generals are lined up in the rear and ready to meet the enemy." ”

The order has been completed, and all the generals have obeyed the order.

The seed master sighed secretly in his heart, the Song army was already sparse in cavalry, and the elite of the cavalry army were all in the Western Route Army, but they fought viciously and lost half of them, so they could only rely on the infantry army.

When the order was laid, the soldiers stared at the wind, and with great difficulty, they all lined up, with the shield men in front, the pikemen in the back, the swordsmen behind, and finally the crossbowmen who were three times the number in front. This is an effective formation for the Song army to form a formation against the Liao cavalry.

But today is different from the past, and the array alone has kept the Song army busy for a while. Now that the formation is in line, when the Song army faces the enemy in the north, the oncoming howling wind suddenly makes people anxious to hide their faces and dodge. The shield soldiers in front are better, because there are tall shields erected in front, and there are diagonal brackets behind the shields to support the ground, so that the shields are firmly on the ground and can resist the wind and sand; Spearmen and swordsmen are close behind their shields and can also borrow some cover. Only the crossbowmen, who are the main force, are the most difficult, and the range of the shield in front is small in the back, and it has little effect. But the crossbowman is the one who needs the most eyesight, not to mention eyesight at this time, it takes a lot of effort to even open his eyes. In a blur, I only saw that the cavalry in front of the Liao army had entered the range of arrows, and one of the archers tried to shoot an arrow according to the routine, but saw that the arrow was several times slower than usual, and floated out slowly, not even half of the range on weekdays, and fell to the ground.

Seeing this situation, the Liao cavalry cheered happily as if they were watching an archery performance, as if the arrows on the opposite side were not aimed at them, but were specially performing for them.

Song Jun on the opposite side suddenly became cold here, and they were all stupid. On weekdays, the Liao cavalry rushed to the Song army's infantry formation, and the Song army still had the opportunity to shoot three arrows.

Seed Master Dao stood in the array, he lined up all the infantry into two infantry formations closely connected to the front and back, left and right, there were 40,000 crossbowmen, densely gathered together, if the Liao army rushed in, the Song army was tied to the situation of killing. But today's weather is like this, if you don't step into a formation, it will be the end of each Liao people's defeat, if you form such a dense formation, you can't say that you can also use dense arrows to kill the Liao army.

As the Liao cavalry got closer and closer, they finally rushed to the position where the arrow fell, the first pro-army order flag was waved, and the longbowmen of the first infantry army sent out arrows, and tens of thousands of arrows flew towards the Liao army.

The Liao army that rushed to the front fell off their horses one after another, just like peeling off a layer of skin, and the Liao army behind rushed to the front without fear, and the second pro-army's order flag followed suitably, and the longbowmen in the second infantry array fired arrows together, and tens of thousands of arrows shot at the Liao army, and the Liao army fell off their horses one after another; Compared to a crossbow, even a longbowman in the second lane will shoot farther than a crossbowman in the first lane.

The momentum of the Liao army was finally blocked, and at this time, the crossbow archers in the first infantry defense line raised their crossbows flatly, and the crossbow archers in the second infantry defense line raised their crossbows slightly upward, and a murderous aura suddenly cut through the oncoming wind and rushed towards the Liao army with invisible pressure.

The Liao army has never formulated a strategy first, and then acted according to the plan. It's all the leading generals who let go of their hands and feet, and let the people below attack at will according to the purpose, anyway, the big goal does not deviate, and it is enough to achieve their own goals. The Liao army's cavalry-based combat mode also determined that the Liao army could only adopt a laissez-faire command style. The cavalry is too fast, and before you can arrange the arrangement, the situation on the battlefield has already changed.

Therefore, when Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi saw the sky, the location was beneficial to them, so they just watched the battle in the middle of the army, and the matter of attacking the Song army was decided by the generals and soldiers of each department. These generals saw that the north wind was strong at this time, and naturally they wanted to take advantage of the time to kill it.

If you have dates and no dates, you will be full, and if you don't have dates, you will run.

(End of chapter)