An army is marching between the peaks and valleys at the western foot of Yanshan Mountain.

The mountain road is steep and narrow, but the soldiers and horses of 20,000 or 30,000 people have also pulled out a team that cannot be seen from the beginning to the end, and it is mighty. The front army has arrived in front of the Bauhinia Pass, and the rear army is still in the depths of Yan Mountain.

Da Liao knew that Xiao Gan was in the Xi Wangfu, and he was in this team at this time. Riding a Khitan horse that is good at walking mountain roads, wearing a leather robe with narrow sleeves, wearing a Khitan snow hat, and no armor, a pair of sharp eyes looked around, looking at the recruits of Xi Wangfu who he had polished with one hand, his face was full of excitement,

In today's Great Liao Kingdom, Xiao Gan can be regarded as one of the few generals who really put his mind into military affairs. As early as a few years ago, after letting the cavalry sent by Wu Haogu fall into the water on the Hetao grassland, he had already deeply realized the rise of the Song military.

After that, he spent a lot of effort to study the new military of the Song Kingdom, and even spared no expense to get a complete set of textbooks for the Great Song Knight Academy. Although there is a lot of content in it that Xiao Gan can't understand, he still understands the most crucial content - that is, all battles must revolve around the dense array of spears or armored cavalry!

And after understanding it, Xiao Gan immediately realized that the Liao State was about to be in trouble!

In fact, this set of textbooks is not a confidential material, and many Khitan magnates have it. There are even many children of Khitan nobles who live in Tianjin (Jiehe Shang City) who simply studied at the Knight Academy. But only Xiao Gan is the only one who really sees from this set of textbooks that the Liao State is about to face great difficulties.

The big difficulty is not because this new set of tactics is invincible, in fact, this tactic is not very "new", let alone invincible. As early as the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army played a style of fighting based on armored cavalry and dense infantry impact. The tactics of the Knight Academy now, at best, are an upgraded version of the tactics of the early Tang Dynasty army. And although the army of the early Tang Dynasty was powerful, it was not invincible.

And this powerful set of tactics is neither secret nor difficult to master. The Liao army can imitate and learn!

However, Xiao Gan, who has been in battle for a long time, knows very well that the real terrifying thing about this set of tactics is that it will cause heavy casualties to the opponent!

The onslaught of the dense spears and armored horses was a terrible killing!

The lethality of spears and horses is not comparable to that of bows and arrows! Moreover, the pikemen among them are also very easy to train, but they are holding spears and charging in formation, and then there are a few simple actions such as stabbing and slapping. You don't need to train from a young age at all.

If the Liao army also learned this tactic and went to the battlefield, it would still suffer heavy losses when it encountered the Song army using the same tactics. How many strong men can go to the battlefield among the Khitans now? It's just hundreds of thousands. What about the Song people? Ten million or twenty million?

If the future war turns into attrition between pikemen, will the Khitans still have a way to live? One life for one life was redeemed by the Song people.

However, knowing that the Liao army could not fight with the Song army, Xiao Gan repeatedly asked to imitate the tactics of the new army of the Song State. Because he knew that if the Liao army learned the tactics of the new army of the Song State, it would be nine deaths, and if it did not learn, it would be ten deaths.

It's better to have a way to survive than to have no way to survive!

However, Yelu Yanxi never listened to Xiao Gan's alarmism, and it was not until last year that he learned the power of Wu Haogu in Yandi, and let Xiao Gan serve as the official of the Xi Wangfu, responsible for training the new army of the Xi Wangfu.

Before Xiao Gan took office, he had already used his authority to quietly train a small new army, and he had a little experience and improvement.

He did not copy the textbooks, and trained his Xi soldiers into armored cavalry or ironclad infantry. Instead, a route between infantry and cavalry was taken, and mounted infantry was trained.

Because the Xi people are farming people, their equestrian skills are not exquisite, and they do not have a good source of war horses, so they can only act as infantry.

However, because there are many horses in the area where the Xi people live, the ability to ride and serve horses is extremely popular among the Xi people. Therefore, Xi soldiers can march on horseback and dismount to fight.

And the dismounted Xi soldiers were positioned as heavy infantry by Xiao Gan! Moreover, they are required to "be prepared for two battles," that is, to master two combat methods at the same time. One is a bow and arrow, and the other is a sword, shield or spear.

In other words, all the soldiers of the Xi New Army are equipped with walking horses and can maneuver quickly. All have heavy armor and can fight in formation. Both can shoot arrows, can kill enemies from a distance, and at the same time have the ability to fight in close combat. It can barely be compared with the house slave soldiers of the earlier Song army.

Because there were still many strong men who could shoot arrows and hunt among the Xi farmers, and they often participated in military training, it was not difficult to train a cavalry infantry similar to the new army of the Song Dynasty.

In less than half a year, Xiao Gan pulled out a new army of Xi people who were still worthy of a war. The official position has also been promoted, from knowing the affairs of the Xi Wangfu to knowing the affairs of the Xi Wangfu.

However, when he thought of his own Xi people, he would soon have to exchange his life with the new army of the Song people. Xiao Gan's mood couldn't be happier.

"Monk slave, how far is it from Bauhinia Pass?" Xiao Gan suddenly asked.

"Back to Taishi, there are still twenty miles."

"There are still twenty miles to ......" Xiao Gan looked up at the sky, and it was only noon. By nightfall, the whole army should be able to pass through the Bauhinia Pass. "I don't know what's going on in Yizhou City?"

A stout man named Xiao Monk Nu said: "With King Xiao presiding, the Taishi should rest assured." ”

The king Xiao he said refers to Xiao Yaomai, the king of Xi Liubu. King Xi Liubu is the highest official of King Xi's Mansion, named "King", in fact, he is not a prince, but an official position. Xiao Gan's father also served as this official. If nothing else, Xiao Gan will soon be promoted to the king of Xi Liubu.

Xiao Yaomai was defeated by Zhao Zhongge in last year's battle, and later fled to Bei'an Prefecture with the remnants and the embers of the Yutian Han family.

However, he was not punished, but was promoted to the king of Xi Liubu and sent to Yizhou to lead the troops. No, that's actually a punishment!

Because Yizhou is a place of death, staying here is waiting for death, using his own death to contain Wu Haogu and buy time for the success of Xiao Wuna's plan.

gave a king of Xi Liubu, just to let Xiao Yaomai be grateful to Dade and die with all his heart.

And Xiao Gan's mission this time, of course, was not to die with Xiao Yaomai. Instead, he had to assist the Lieutenant of the Horse, Xiao Temo, the prime minister of the Northern Mansion, to carry out an almost crazy gamble!

If the battlefield is won, Da Liao will be able to seize the land of Taiyuan, and then return Yanjing with Taiyuan.

If the gamble fails, then the day when Da Liao will fall apart is about to be around the corner!

……

"Teacher, teacher, students really don't know how to fight!"

"Don't be afraid, just fight more!"

"If it fails, wouldn't it ruin the teacher's plan, and also lose the iron horse that the teacher had saved up with great difficulty?"

"That's right!"

In Tianjin, in the samurai mansion, when a family banquet had just arrived at the guests, it was ruined by Mi Youren, who drank a few more glasses of wine.

This Mi Youren's courage seems to be not much greater than Zhao Ji, and he was sent to lead the troops to attack Liao during the day, and he was afraid to death. I have been scared, but I dare not say it. At night, Wu Haogula went to the house to drink, drank a few more glasses, and finally couldn't help but spit out the truth.

Wu Haogu was also happy today, and he saw a good apprentice, so he also drank too much. Hearing Mi Youren say this, he smiled and said: "Then I won't send you iron horses, let the Yizhou Cao family, the Wuzhou Yu family, and the Jizhou Zuo family send troops together, and the three of them don't have any good territory." After the battle, Yongxing was given to the Cao family, the Khan Prefecture was given to the Yu family, and the Confucian Prefecture was given to the Zuo family. ”

Yes?

Mi Youren was even more scared, and hurriedly glanced at Ximen Qing, who was accompanying Wu Haogu-Sister Ximen, help!

Because Mi Youren gave Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing a matchmaker, Ximen Qing had a good relationship with him, so he immediately persuaded: "King, it's better to let the eldest brother of the concubine lead the troops to fight Fengshengzhou." Brother Yin, he is nominally a prison army, how can there be a reason to let the prison army command the army? ”

"By the way, if you don't say that I almost forgot, he is a prisoner. There seems to be some kind of Yang Erlang who controls the Yanshan military. Wu Haogu smiled, "Just let him go with Brother Yin." ”

"Yang Erlang? Who is it? Mi Youren asked.

"It's Yang Jian." Ximen Qing smiled bitterly, "Somehow, the king has been calling him Yang Erlang behind his back. ”

Isn't Yang Jian the same name as Erlang God? So it's Yang Erlang......

"He's ......" Mi Youren was so frightened that he woke up, and looked at Ximen Qing with pleading eyes.

Ximen Qing had no choice but to continue to persuade: "King, you are drunk. ”

"If you're not drunk, how can you be drunk with some wine?" Wu Haogu glanced at Ximen Qing, "This king will let people assist Brother Yin, so let the two brothers Wang Zonghan and Wang Zongbi assist Brother Yin." ”

"Who are Wang Zongbi and Wang Zonghan?"

Ximen Qing smiled bitterly: "They are all people sent by the Wanyan Ministry, and Wang Zongbi is the envoy of the Wanyan Ministry." Zong Bi is the king's righteous son, and now he is studying at Knight Elementary School with Yi Yong. ”

A diplomat, a schoolboy......

Mi Youren doubted that his teacher had become the emperor's life?

"Does the teacher want the student to lose to the Liao?" Mi Youren asked boldly.

Wu Haogu smiled: "How is it possible?" With Zong Han and Zong Bi here, how could they lose? ”

"Wang" is the Han surname of Wanyanbu. Wang Zonghan is finished! Of course, Wang Zongbi is Wanyan Zongbi! And Wang Zonghan did not come alone, he took hundreds of "Gunda", crossed the mountains and mountains to Chenzhou, and then arrived in Tianjin on the merchant ship of the Ma family.

Wu Haogu paused and said: "Brother Yin, you only care about the field battle and the siege of the city, and you are responsible for the division to send Luo Ke to the enemy, and you will take everything for the attack."

By the way, eldest sister, our Yiyong is thirteen years old this year, and it's time to see the battlefield! It's better to ask him to go to Fengsheng Prefecture with Brother Yin and Zong Bi! ”