At night, small snowflakes began to float in the sky again, Sun Yue, Li Jilong, and Han Chongxun huddled in the fortress and boiled ginger water to roast the fire, the night was already very deep, but obviously they were not sleepy.

Sun Yue spoke first: "I'm afraid that tens of thousands of cavalry have gathered outside the city now, is there any way to continue walking?" Tell me what you think. ”

Han Chongxun said: "These are not so much cavalry, but ordinary herdsmen, or the kind that has not been trained at all, they are definitely not the descendants of the Yelu family, it is okay to fight a good battle and rob a robbery or something, if you really fight a tough battle, it will collapse at the touch of a button, and it is much weaker than the one outside the Waqiao Pass before, I would rather fight with them for a few more days, so that my forbidden army will have more heads." ”

Sun Yue said solemnly: "Don't take the enemy lightly, you also said that they can fight a good fight, the infantry mainly relies on the cavalry is the formation, now our bow is not satisfied, the power of the military formation is directly reduced by half, once we meet a strong army, defeat the formation, these tens of thousands of herdsmen are our talisman, this infantry is afraid that one can not escape." ”

Li Jilong also said: "Brother Yelu Xiu is playing a plan this time, these herdsmen are clearly to delay the time for us to march, if you want to be stable, of course you should move forward cautiously, and even simply stop in this fortress to sit and watch the situation, the Khitan people are fighting for plunder, so many herdsmen gather here and can't see the oil and water, and they will inevitably disperse in a hurry within half a month, but in this way, the matter of rescuing Taihang Mountain will be in vain, if it is rushed, he can turn around and fight us first, which is equivalent to transferring us from Waqiao Pass to fight with him in the field, If you attack me with his strengths, you can bring in no less than 100,000 cavalry in a few days, and as you said, once the army formation is broken, our army's foot soldiers are all lambs to be slaughtered. ”

Sun Yue smiled and said: "But this also shows that Brother Yelu Xiu is indeed here, and a big stone in his heart is put down, let's talk about the coping strategy, now we are in this Heishui City, the grain and grass are enough for us to eat for more than half a month, and it is only more than 100 miles away from the cities of Taihang Mountain. ”

Li Jilong said: "It is definitely not possible to consume in the city, if the enemy is not moving forward, why should we give up Waqiao Xiongguan and run here?" It's just that the march needs to be slow, and they can't be allowed to catch the flaws, and now the main Khitan force has not yet appeared, which is equivalent to a situation where the enemy is dark and I am clear, and I don't know what the situation is on Taihang Mountain for the time being, it is indeed more tricky. ”

Sun Yue thought for a while and said: "It's not a day or two, Han Chongxun, haven't you always been eager to make meritorious contributions, I'll give you a chance, early tomorrow morning, you will take two thousand elite horsemen out of the city and go to Taihang Mountain first, no matter what method you use, you must get in touch with Yang Yanzhao and them, and at the same time find out to me what kind of Khitan arrangement is in this area, how many main forces there are, whether there are any elite Wo Luo Duo, when you meet this kind of herdsman, you will rush to kill, but you are not allowed to chase in love, and when you encounter the main force of the Liao army, don't fight with them, just turn around and run, If the enemy pursues you, run back, and I will meet you. ”

Han Chongxun was overjoyed when he heard this, he was not afraid at all, and he was very excited to accept Sun Yue's order.

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, Han Chongxun raised his troops and left, leaving Sun Yue and Li Jilong to simply recuperate in the city, but unfortunately although the food was enough to eat for half a month, the firewood was not much, so they had to save a little, after all, the original positioning of this Blackwater City was just a small fortress of more than 800 people, and there were not so many stores, but fortunately, there was a bit of open-pit coal in this place, and the defenders would occasionally pick up some, otherwise they would really have to freeze.

For the sake of morale and military morale, Sun Yue also had to eat and live with the soldiers, and he was a rich young master Miao Zi who had a little runny nose after two days.

Outside the city, the Khitans gather and scatter from time to time, and the number of people is always floating, every time Sun Yue sees that there are more of them, he will arrange for Li Jilong to lead the cavalry out of the city to fight a circle, and they don't touch hard, most of the time they turn around and run, so the harvest is not big, but they always maintain a certain pressure on the outside so that they will not exceed 50,000.

For three or four days in a row, it was like this, but Han Chongxun never returned, which made Sun Yue feel a little panicked, after all, he only gave him 2,000 people.

On the fifth day, the sun was fine, in order to save some briquettes and firewood, Sun Yue simply asked people to stop the fire in the city, and he himself had sores on his hands.

But suddenly the whole lump of cavalry pressed towards them, it seemed that there were more than 10,000 people, but the momentum was far from being comparable to the tens of thousands of scattered cavalry outside the city, it was obviously in a simple formation, and the speed of each horse was almost identical.

Sun Yue couldn't help but whisper: "The main force of the Liao army is here, Brother Li, you have been at the border for a long time, can you recognize it?" Is this an ordinary elite or a Voroduo? ”

Li Jilong said: "It's a shame to say, in the past few years on the border, most of the people I have dealt with are old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are not many times when I really fight with the elite, as for Voroduo, I have never seen it before, so I can't infer it." ”

The so-called Volodor refers to a unique type of military in the early Liao army, built by Yelu Abaoji, after the reform of Xiao, it is basically gone, it is to select the brave and resolute people within the Khitan, guarding the personal troops on the side of the Liao Emperor, the sons and nephews of the leaders of the tribes of various ethnic groups gathered around the Liao Emperor, as their grassroots leaders, the Baili Yancheng around Shangjing was specially fed, and there were only more than 3,000 people when it was initially formed, and now it has exceeded 10,000.

This thing is completely the product of copying the military system of the Tang Dynasty, basically equivalent to the Guanzhong Suwei in the early Tang Dynasty, also known as the Flying Cavalry Army, and when Li Shimin commanded it, it was also called the Xuanjia Cavalry, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, Yelu Xiuge won the trust of Emperor Liao, in fact, Yelu Xian was able to sit in this position seventy percent of the credit of Yelu Xiuge, so this campaign Yelu Xiuge directly carried Vorok Duo south.

Seeing that these cavalry were about to reach the city, Sun Yue waved his hand and signaled the bed crossbows and archers to prepare, killing them as soon as they entered the range.

However, it was obvious that the enemy commander had a bit of a brain, and when he was still more than twenty paces away from the range of the bed crossbow, he ordered the line to stop. Then he shouted loudly: "In the city, is Sun Yue, the white-robed god of war of the Great Song Dynasty?" Come out and answer! ”

After all, the walls of Blackwater City are low, and you can hear it quite clearly from a distance.

If you don't speak at this time, it will be too demoralizing, so Sun Yue also shouted at the top of his voice: "Grandpa is here, what is the matter with grandson?" Afraid that he wouldn't be able to hear clearly, more than 100 guards were angry and dantian shouted in unison, "Grandpa is here, what's the matter with grandson?" ”

The general laughed and said: "Sun Yue, you are really here, I am the little general of Daliao Yelu Gou, the king of the Southern Courtyard who was killed by your conspiracy under Jinyang City three years ago is my father, you come out, I will give you a chance to fight with me only with my own people!" (That's his real name, not a prank on purpose.) ）”

Sun Yue ignored him, the new arrival of the Liao army was like a rainbow, and he had to drag it out if he wanted to fight, so he used his famous stunt One Finger Zen, stretched out his finger and pointed at him, and then hooked himself and shouted: "Come here!" If you have the ability, come here, it's cold down there, don't bring firewood, freeze you to death! ”

Although the guards found this a bit boring, they shouted it out as it was.

But this Yelu dog was not angry, but laughed, stretched out his hand and took out a human head, because it was too far away to see clearly, and yelled at Sun Yue: "Sun Yue, do you still recognize your brother?" Han Chongxun is here, you come over to collect his body. ”