Chapter 81: Three forks
The Liao soldiers outside the gate of the village could not have imagined that the Khitan warriors who crisscrossed the north and south would attack outside this inconspicuous cottage for more than an hour. It's just that under such a confrontation, the Liao officers themselves know that they do not have an advantage.
The Liao officers and soldiers were also dry-mouthed, so the officer ordered to retreat fifty paces, dismount, eat some dry food, and drink some mare's milk wine. Lao Zheng Tou was also busy beckoning the people inside the wall to send food to the wall, taking advantage of the gap between the Liao people not attacking, and hurried to fill his stomach. Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan didn't care about eating and drinking, and checked the defensive equipment and wounded on the walled wall from east to west, fortunately, there were thick wooden shields on the wall, although they were clumsy, but they also reduced their great casualties, otherwise, just the two sides fired at each other, and they couldn't afford the number of casualties.
Suddenly, the soldiers on guard and observing the arrow tower knocked the gong to remind him, and Zhou Nan hurriedly looked down, only to see that the Liao cavalry under the command of the officer, there were more than 100 people, respectively, carrying more than a dozen wooden ladders of the arrow tower that had just been made of cut down trees, and rushed to the wall. The Liao soldiers, who did not carry the wooden ladder, fired arrows at the wall from behind, diverting the attention of the family protection society on the wall.
The Liao soldiers carrying the ladder held a small shield in one hand, protecting the head and chest and other vital parts, and carried the ladder in the other hand, rushed to the south bank of the river, and despite the arrows shot on the wall of the wall, they still threw the ladder into the river, and went up to the north bank with the river water and the ladder. The Liao soldiers in the back shot arrows at the walled wall more urgently, and the arrows shot out were like rain, almost without stopping.
The people above the walled wall ignored the hundred or so people who rushed towards them carrying ladders, and just returned fire at the Liao soldiers who were shooting arrows below without hurrying. It was as if I didn't see the Liao soldiers carrying the ladder.
The Liao officer was overjoyed in his heart, shouting something loudly in Khitan dialect, and when he heard the officer's order, the Liao soldiers who rushed to the bottom of the wall leaned the wooden ladder against the wall and began to scramble to climb up.
This walled wall was built from the beginning, it is not like the general stone wall, according to the original plan, the walled wall is built every other distance, and a section of the horse-faced wall is built, just like the "convex" character in general, protruding from the wall. When the Liao soldiers climbed the ladder, the soldiers of the Hujia Society began to shoot arrows at the Liao soldiers on the ladder from the side of the horse face wall. The Liao soldiers on the ladder were unsuspectingly shot by arrows shot from the side, and one by one they fell from the ladder screaming, wailing, and some of them were silent and could not move.
The soldiers of the Hujia Society did not rush to kill them all, and let these Liao soldiers who could still stand up retreat from under the walled wall to the south bank of the river, and retreated to the Liao team.
The Liao soldiers, who were pinned down by archery in the back, did not look up, and stopped archery, just waiting for the officer's order. Although he was still standing in line with a bow, he had long lost his fighting spirit. I hate the people in the cottage, but I can't do anything.
The Liao officer waved the horse whip in his hand, shouted and scolded angrily, and was about to give the order to attack again, when suddenly there was a commotion behind the Liao people, Zhou Nan couldn't understand the Khitan language, but he saw a cavalry coming up from the mountain, rushed to the officer's side, said something to the officer, and then took the officer's mouth and took the lead to rush down the mountain, the first row of soldiers of the Liao soldiers bowed to the side of the wall, and most of the Liao soldiers began to get on their horses down the mountain, and in a blink of an eye, the Liao soldiers on guard at the front also began to ride on their horses, turned their horses' heads and ran down the mountain, Even the hundred or so corpses that were thrown under the walled walls were ignored.
Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan and others saw clearly on the wall, but they were strange in their hearts, they didn't know what the intentions of these officers and soldiers were, and they had never heard that the officers and soldiers were so knowledgeable about current affairs.
First of all, the people of the Eagle Guards who were on guard on the lonely mountain came down and reported to Zhou Nan: "Lord of the village, the official army has gone down to the mountain and has not stopped. ”
Zhou Nan said, "Got it." The people on the lonely mountain could see that the officials and soldiers had gone down the mountain, but they didn't know what was going on under the mountain, so they let the officials and soldiers leave here in such a hurry.
While the two were thinking hard, the sentry of the Eagle Guard, who was monitoring the Liao soldiers in the mountains, came back and reported that a military horse had marched from south to north along the old crow ditch, and there were more than 1,000 people, dressed like the army of the Southern Dynasties, all of them were cavalry, all of them were wearing armor, and they were marching with their banners and drums. In Lao Yagou, they met with the official army outpost and fought, and after a while, the official army on the mountain rushed down to fight with the army and horses of the Southern Dynasty.
Only then did Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan probably know that there was a military horse that attacked the back road of the official army, and the official army was forced to abandon the cottage and fight with the enemy.
Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan were strange, where did this military horse come from? There is no foreign aid in Sanssouci Village, and there will be no officials and soldiers to help Sanssouci Village. Could it really be that a small army of the Southern Dynasty passed through here and was discovered by the outpost of the official army?
Anyway, this battle is over, Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, although there were a few dead and wounded, compared to the more than 100 people killed in the official army, it was almost impossible to count.
Zhou Nan smiled bitterly in his heart, what is this? He accidentally killed more than a dozen people from the Liao Yuantan Army, and was approached by others, but he was bumped into the Liao soldiers by the Song Army who acted in a sneak attack. It was originally a "one-arrow revenge", but who knew that it was a "three-way fork"? It's really a mistake, and the fake has come true. Now I just look forward to the Liao soldiers and the Song army after the dog bites the dog, I can't take care of here, the Song army's invasion of Liao is about to begin, after the battle of the army, who will remember this small cottage before the war?
Gao Yuan was also very happy, looking at the hundred and ten corpses of officers and soldiers outside the gate, he was very satisfied. More than 100 people died on the other side, and only a few people were killed or injured here. Although he also knew Zhou Nan's request that no one be killed or injured, and knew that this was Zhou Nan's kindness, he didn't think so, going up to the mountains to hunt would hurt people, let alone fighting with people.
Zhou Nan said to Gao Yuan: "Big brother, you can't relax yet, please send a few capable people to go down the mountain to monitor the victory and defeat of the official army and the Southern Dynasty army and horses from afar, and I will make plans later." ”
Gao Yuan nodded in agreement, called a few soldiers of the Tiger Guard, and asked them to go down the mountain quickly, and do what the lord of the village ordered.
Zhou Nan asked the people in the village to help clean up the things on the wall, so that the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Capital rested, although only two people were injured in the repeated defense just now, but after all, there were few people, and there were not as many people as the Liao people, plus this was the first time that the Tiger Guard Capital really entered the battle, and it was still a little nervous, and at this moment the Liao army withdrew, and the people of the Tiger Guard Capital also relaxed.
Zhou Nan arranged the things in the village, and was still worried about the movements of the Liao army that had withdrawn, so he called Gao Yuan, saying that he was going to the bottom of the mountain to check the whereabouts of the official army, Gao Yuan couldn't sit still, and agreed, so Zhou Nan took the people of the Eagle Guards, and a group of more than 20 people went down the mountain.