The morning mist of winter slowly ripples over the course of the Qi River, shrouding this important place north of the Yellow River in a haze.

The noisy and chaotic sound came from the upper reaches of the Qi River, completely covering the sound of the river rushing and flowing.

Yue He rode on a big black horse that he had raised since he was a child and had a little Tianjin horse blood, and looked around for a long time with a straw stick in his mouth.

This Tangyin boy, who had met Wu Haogu by chance when he was selling horses in the Daimyo's Mansion, is now twenty-four years old, and has two sons and a daughter, and because he is good at raising horses, he has become a rich man who is not too small. He was able to raise horses and get rich, but in fact, he was also stained with the light of Wu Haogu. Because of the fact that horses have been raised for generations, Yue He's family has several tall mares that are specially used to get off foals. It was not worth much, but after the rise of the industry of the Boundary Hippo (Tianjin Horse), many knights who settled in Cangzhou wanted to buy tall mares to breed with the Boundary River stallion. Although Yue's domestic mare cannot be compared with the dragon mares, West Pole mares, Hequ mares, and Persian mares who later arrived in Cangzhou. But at that time, it was still a very good mare in Hebei, so it was very sought-after.

The deal with a few knights not only made Yue He a lot of money, but also gave his family's few remaining mares the opportunity to hold hooves with the stallions of the Jiehe breed (not the stallions in the Jiehe Racecourse), and one of the mares produced a stallion foal that later grew to four feet eight inches without castration, and was very strong, enough to be a royal horse, and now became the cash horse of the Yue family.

However, Yue He did not enjoy a blessed life, and as soon as the family had a cash horse, he was pulled by the Xiangzhou Han family and became the leader of the first team of the Xiangzhou regiment training army horse battalion.

The cavalry of the Xiangzhou regiment training army is also quite distinctive, neither armored cavalry, nor a skillful route of bows and horses, but a kind of light cavalry with guns and crossbows. That is, it was equipped with both a horse pistol (not a long-handled horse) and a Tianjin crossbow, a helmet equipped with a helmet of a squirrel, and a cavalry with a front cover. The combat method is similar to that of light cavalry, mainly responsible for reconnaissance, pursuit, cover and other tasks, and will not be used in battle - just look at their positioning and equipment, you can know that there are also masters in the Xiangzhou regiment training army!

It turned out that several children of the Han family in Xiangzhou had studied in the Biyong School Palace in Kaifeng Mansion, which was not the Biyong School Palace that has now been transformed into an official training class, but the Biyong School Palace presided over by Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian earlier. Therefore, they learned a lot of battle formation techniques, and with their help, Han Xiaoxuan and Zong Ze were able to organize tens of thousands of regiments to train the army.

Otherwise, the rabble of tens of thousands of people would not even be able to stand at the base of the wall, and it would not have been possible to inflict such a big loss on the Khitans. In the last years of the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in history, the rebel army of King Qin, which was organized when the catastrophe was approaching, was difficult to become the mainstay because there was no blessing of sufficiently high-quality officers and no high-quality weapons to use.

The Xiangzhou regiment has a good starting point for military training, not only the weapons and equipment provided by Ji Yi and Wu Haogu (Zhao Ji paid the bill), but also the officers who were taught by the Biyong Academy in the early years, and later fell idle for various reasons. And because of the rise of the horse breeding industry in Cangzhou (now Tianjin Prefecture + Cangzhou) and the spillover of excellent horse breeds, even the cavalry was organized.

When the main force of the 40,000-strong army led by Han Xiaoxuan and Gao Yu set up a camp on the west bank of the Qi River, the officers and soldiers of the Xiangzhou Regiment Training Horse Battalion, which had only just become an army, were all scattered to the east bank of the Qi River to form a cordon.

Yue He stretched his neck and looked around for a long time, because the fog was too big to see anything clearly, he just patiently continued to perform his duties with a straw stick in his mouth, but his subordinates were a little impatient and spoke in low voices.

"This kind of fog, you can see it clearly! It's also cold and biting, but it's really a bird sin! ”

"We are a regimental training army, but we can't compare to Captain Gao's Lingzhou cavalry, everyone is a knight, do you know what a knight is? There are 1,500 acres of vocational land, and you can still get service money when you serve, and you have 12 yuan a month! Can such a master come out on a cold day and suffer from this bird's sin? ”

"Don't we also have three copper coins a month? And it can be exempted from two taxes and exempt money, not bad! Lingzhou knights with hot eyes can also go to Tianjin Mansion to recruit utility. It is no less than a knight, but it is necessary to have real skills and be skilled in bows and horses! Except for Brother Yue, who has such ability? ”

Yue He just sat on horseback and whispered to the people below, as if he didn't hear it.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of horses' hooves ahead. The regimental training soldiers, who were still talking and complaining in a low voice just now, stopped talking and looked forward nervously. At this time, I heard Yue He's fierce scolding voice: "What are you selling!" The Liao people's distant horses are about to step on! Zhang crossbow, get on the arrow! ”

Yue and the cavalry under his command are the children of rich families in Xiangzhou, because they can't read the book, they learned the martial arts of protecting the family and the bandits (the Song Dynasty is not as good as the Ming and Qing dynasties, and only when you win the Jinshi can you be famous, and it is useless to show off your talents and raise people, so there are still some markets for practicing martial arts, at least you can be a bully who runs rampant in the township), and has been trained for a long time, and it is quite neat.

After getting the order, he put the crossbow on the horseback and put the arrow on the crossbow - the crossbow assigned to the Xiangzhou regiment to train the horses was not a knight's crossbow, but a standard Tianjin crossbow, which was a kind of crossbow that could be used "waist zhang" or "stepping zhang". It is inconvenient to use on horseback, so it can only be used in pairs, one pulling the iron ring in front of the crossbow, and the other pulling the string and arrow.

Therefore, Yue He's cavalry is now in teams of two, cooperating with Zhang's crossbow to shoot arrows.

It is troublesome for this Tianjin crossbow to be loaded with arrows, but the lethality is still very guaranteed! With Yue He's dozens of horsemen, if he didn't use the Tianjin crossbow, but compared with the Khitan people's long-distance horses, ten would not be able to beat one.

But if you use the Tianjin crossbow against the enemy, it is not very difficult to shoot a Khitan cavalry on horseback from twenty or thirty paces away, and you can still get the tactics with the highest exchange ratio......

"Listen to me blow the whistle and shoot again! No order for the archers to be killed! ”

Yue He gave another order. One of the two biggest lessons from the last Battle of Huanshui was that the crossbow fired too far and therefore failed to fully exploit its lethality (another lesson was that the fort was not built according to the terrain). Therefore, Han Xiaoxuan and Zong Ze later issued a strict order, in the battle of the whole team, the crossbow machine must have an order to shoot, and shooting without an order is a sin that can be decapitated!

Dozens of murderous crossbow machines, all aimed at the fog in front of them. Yue He's eyes widened, a wooden whistle was already in his mouth, as long as a whistle sounded, dozens of arrows would come out of the string.

The fog was disturbed in front of me, and I saw dozens of horsemen pouring out, with a red flag in front of them. Yue He had a nervous soldier under him, and he almost pulled the trigger and shot the arrow. Fortunately, I saw the red flag symbolizing the Song army and the Fan Yangli worn by those light horses. It turned out to be a knight under Gao Yu. But among these knights, there were a few more people dressed in Liao costumes!

Yue He hurriedly spit out the whistle, and then stepped forward and shouted: "Password!" ”

"Harmony is precious!" The other party responded.

Yue He also replied: "Harmony makes money." ”

The password is right!

Yue He sighed, "My own people, put away the crossbow machine." After speaking, he sang a fat song to a Lingzhou knight who was also wearing half-body armor on the opposite side, "Dare to ask this old brother, how can there be brothers in your team dressed as Khitans?" ”

The other party just replied angrily: "Is that what you should ask?" Then he took out a pennant with red borders and waved, "Our personal soldiers of Gao Xuanshuai, who were ordered to do things, encountered heavy fog and lost their way, and now order you to send someone to lead the way and lead us to Xuanshuai's camp." ”

It turned out that it was Gao Lian and his party who returned from Liaoying who were bumped into by Yue He. The traitorous activity, which was presided over by Gao Yu and carried out by Gao Lian, went very smoothly.

In the Liyang camp of the Liao army, Gao Lian not only met Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Baoxian's brothers, but also met with Yelu Yanxi, the son of the Great Liao, and also received Yelu Yanxi's personal guarantee - as long as the Great Song Dynasty was willing to increase the annual coin to one million a year, he would pay a one-time compensation of five million. Da Liao is willing to withdraw and rebuild the alliance with the Great Song Dynasty!

This is simply the condition that Gao Yu dreamed of! Gao Lian immediately agreed, and returned to the Song camp with Han Ruxue, an envoy of the Liao State and a direct scholar of the Privy Council. Negotiate concrete peace steps and treaties.

Because when Gao Lian and the others set off, Gao Yu had not yet set up a large camp on the west bank of the Qi River, but only said an approximate location. So Gao Lian and the others lost their direction in the fog for a while, and just followed the sound from the camp under construction to find it, and then they met Yue He.

Under the leadership of Yue He's excluded cavalry, Gao Lian quickly arrived at Gao Yu's tent and met Gao Yu and Han Xiaoxuan, who were anxiously waiting for news.

"How? Can the Liao lord respond? ”

"Yes, yes! The annual coin is increased to 1 million, and a one-time ...... is given to 5 million."

"Thank goodness!" Gao Yu let out a breath of air.

"Taiwei, the conditions of the Liao people are quite harsh!" Han Xiaoxuan, who was with Gao Yu, frowned and said, "The official family is the male master, can he agree to such conditions?" ”

"Why can't you say yes?" Gao Yu waved his hand and said, "The official family is unwilling to provoke, all because Wu Haogu can't perceive the holy will, and he is good at breaking off friendship with the Liao people, so there is a situation where the Liao people are on the Yellow River today!" ”

Han Xiaoxuan was still a little unwilling, he said: "But Wu Chongdao's army has also surrounded the city of Xijin Mansion, maybe the city can be broken within ten days, why don't you delay for a while and give Wu Chongdao another chance?" ”

"I can't beat it!" Gao Yu shook his head and said, "Isn't he just able to blast holes?" This trick was very good at the beginning, but now that everyone is on guard, it is not easy to dig the root of the wall. Without this trick, what else can he do? If there really was, the city of Xijin would have been breached a long time ago. Now he finally managed to get a Liyang Alliance with a little prestige accumulated in the northwest, although it was a little harsh, but after all, it was worth it to save Kaifeng Mansion from a military disaster. It's just that he Wu Dalang has to bear the charge of provoking the country and the people without permission! ”

It seems to make sense......

Han Xiaoxuan had no choice, sighed, and could only watch Gao Yu go farther and farther on the criminal road of betraying the country and seeking glory!

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