Chapter 405: Light Riding and Fighting

Under the threat that Lin Chong threatened to drive away the prisoners of war, plunder the ants and attack the city, once the city was broken, no one would be left in the city.

Coupled with the persuasion of other Han families who lived here, such as the Liu family, the Geng family, the Yutian Han family, which also belonged to the four major Yan clans, and the persuasion of the Wang family, the Dongxian Shilang could only grit his teeth and agree to Lin Chong's conditions.

poured all the money from the Xingzhong Mansion Treasury, plus the private property of the Dongxian Shilang, and made up 1.5 million yuan; The remaining 1.5 million guan was led by Zhao Lanfang and other Han clans, and the wealthy households in the city apportioned it, and finally collected 3 million guan of gold and silver money.

And the menacing "Jurchen barbarians" under the fortified city also kept their promises after obtaining these gold, silver, money, and silk, and not only returned more than 4,000 wounded and 5,000 prisoners of war;

He also immediately mounted his war horse and escorted the selected 5,000 Khitan and Xi prisoner cavalry, took away all the war horses, and headed to the southwest again.

And before that, the Jurchen cavalry general who captured Aliqi alive had already led four hundred cavalry to open the way first, and he really killed Jianzhou non-stop.

Looking at the distant backs of Lin Chong and the others, everyone in the city couldn't help but be a little stunned.

After a long time, the centurion of the cave immortal squire's personal soldier couldn't help but say: "Xianggong, didn't the Jurchen barbarians say that the follow-up army will come?" Why hasn't it been seen yet? ”

The cave immortal squire was also full of doubts in his heart at this time, isn't it the so-called Jurchen army, only more than 2,000 horsemen who participated in the battle before?

"Xianggong, do you want to send someone to follow them from afar, or go to the direction of Sichuan to investigate?"

The centurion saw that the cave immortal squire did not speak, and asked tentatively.

However, the cave immortal waiter thought more thoroughly, since he had made a decision to buy the Jurchens with a lot of money not to attack the city, and he also promised to close the city and hold on, then it was best to do what he said.

You must know that if you send someone to follow them or go to the direction of Sichuan to investigate, once you are discovered by these Jurchen barbarians, it will be treacherous, in case the other party really has a steady stream of troops in the future?

I can't afford to gamble!

Besides, this Bodhisattva prince was not happy enough, not only ordered to rescue all the drowning soldiers in the moat, but also kept his promise to release 5,000 prisoners of war and more than 4,000 wounded.

Xingzhong Mansion only lost 3 million pieces of goods, but avoided the death of more than 10,000 prisoners of war and the death and injury of tens of thousands of people.

And the most important thing is that if you are not 100% sure, how can this second prince of Jurchen dare to continue to go deep into Jianzhou alone with such a small number of soldiers and horses!

There was no other way to go here, so he headed southwest, either to really kill Jianzhou, or to stop in front of him and kill the horse gun.

Don't be careful!

Thinking about this, at that moment, the cave immortal waiter didn't wait for Zhao Lanfang and the others to open their mouths to persuade him, so he waved his hand very decisively: "No need, don't you want to make any more extraneous branches, if the Jurchen barbarians leave an eyeliner outside the city, and go back and kill us for a while, wouldn't it trap us!"

Anyway, this group of Jurchen barbarians went to the direction of Jianzhou, everything depends on the fight in Jianzhou, if the Jurchen is defeated, it will not be too late for us to send troops to intercept it; If the Jurchens win, we will guard the city.

You wait and clean up the battlefield outside the city, and then send someone to notify the nearby villages and towns, telling them to form a village and defend themselves, and as soon as there is a policeman, they will immediately run to the mountain......"

When the centurion heard this, he wanted to say something, but then he thought in his heart: Well, since this group of Jurchen barbarians went deep into the direction of Jianzhou alone, then everything should be handed over to the soldiers and horses of Jianzhou.

If this group of Jurchen barbarians is really bluffing, with only such a little soldiers and horses, they dare to go deep into the hinterland of Jianzhou, facing 20,000 tribal troops and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Pi Shi army, I don't believe that these Jurchen barbarians can still retreat with their whole body!

Even if they can escape back in embarrassment, the soldiers and horses of Xingzhong Mansion will be able to cut off their back road at that time!

So Dongxian Shilang really did not send troops out of the city, but in the direction of Sichuanzhou, there were constantly a team of 100 people to sentry all the way to the city of Xingzhongfu.

In this way, although there was still no follow-up army of the Jurchens, the Liao army in Xingzhong Mansion became more and more honest.

And almost at the same time, when Lin Chong led the army to the direction of Jianzhou, the messenger who had rushed to the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing for 800 miles also rode a fast horse to Jianzhou.

The general of the Jianzhou garrison, the deputy commander of the army, Qiong Demon Nayan, immediately took action, while ordering people to warn the surrounding towns and villages, and on the other hand, he sent a team of 1,000 people to act as a scout and remote blocker, sentry in the direction of Xingzhong Fu, and convey the front-line military information at any time.

So almost an hour later, that is, at about four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day (four o'clock in the afternoon), this thousand-man team collided head-on with the forward of Shi Wengong's 400 Liangshan Army.

The Liao commander-in-chief, Uli Ke'an, who led the army, changed his face in an instant, in his imagination, Xingzhong Mansion was attacked by the Jurchens for about two hours, and the Jurchen cavalry should still be under the city of Xingzhong Mansion at this time.

Originally, he planned to go to the city of Xingzhong Mansion from a distance to see how the battle between the two sides was, and how he encountered the Jurchen striker halfway!

Could it be that Xingzhong Mansion has been captured? Is there only such a small number of people in this group of Jurchen forwards, or is there a steady stream of troops behind them?

After a moment of shock and panic, seeing that the Jurchen barbarians in the distance had begun to change horses and prepare for battle, Ulikan quickly made a decision.

I heard him send someone to report back at all costs, and at the same time ordered loudly: "The Jurchen barbarians are powerful, remember not to confront them head-on."

All the hundred-man teams are scattered, not to be contacted, harassed with mounted shots, and entangled them to the death! When the enemy army is dispersed and the army's morale is shaken, we will wait for the opportunity to move! ”

Ulik'an means very clearly, since the Jurchen cavalry array charge is powerful, then we will not make direct contact with you, break it into pieces, disperse and harass and entangle you with cavalry and shooting.

You Jurchen cavalry can't chase our individual cavalry with an array of 100 or 50 people, right?

When you are annoyed by harassment, the spirit of the army is shaken, and you are angry and corrupted; In the end, we had to disband the array and disperse the pursuit, and that was our chance.

I don't believe that without the cavalry formation, the individual battle, these Jurchen barbarians who grew up in the deep mountains and old forests will be the opponents of our steppe wolf Khitan and Xi cavalry!

Sure enough, soon the Jurchens on the opposite side all changed their horses, and with a terrible horn sounded, the four hundred Jurchen cavalry immediately lined up in four neat and dense cavalry formations and charged towards the Liao army.

As soon as these Liao cavalry saw that the Jurchen cavalry was still the same, they were immediately happy, and they scattered all at once when they roared.

I saw that some of them began to turn around and run in the direction of Jianzhou; some spread out to the wings; Others, after spreading out to the two wings, kicked their horses in the belly and accelerated, and went around the rear of the Jurchen cavalry from the two wings of the Jurchen cavalry.

These people's eyes were very poisonous, and they found early in the morning that these Jurchens were all in front of them with one person and two horses, one for riding horses, and the other for combat horses; And except for a small number of water bags, material bags, dry food bags, there is almost no baggage.

They found that although these Jurchen cavalry were light cavalry in terms of footwork, they were all wearing iron armor, and even if they were all lightly armored riding bows, it was difficult to break the armor.

But the other horse they used for the march was not armored, not even leather armor, and it seemed to be the war horse that captured their own Liao army light cavalry.

At this time, these unarmored horses were being led by the stakes behind them, following behind the four columns of cavalry.

So, if you can't shoot your horses, shoot your horses!

At that time, you Jurchen barbarians will only have one war horse left, and when your horsepower is exhausted, we will have a way to concoct you;

Not to mention, we still have reinforcements coming in a hurry, and these Jurchen barbarians will be unable to fly when the time comes!

Also thanks to the terrain helping.

Originally, the road from Xingzhongfu to Jianzhou was surrounded by high mountains in the north and the Daling River in the south, and in some narrow places, the place where horses could run on the side of the road was only dozens of steps wide, and the Jurchen cavalry could fill the road with a cavalry queue of dozens of people.

However, the mountains here are gentle, and the two rivers meet and scour, so a gentle slope of flat land is formed about two or three miles wide.

Such terrain is enough for our Liao cavalry, and the wolf of the steppe gives full play to the mobility advantage of the cavalry!

I saw that these Liao cavalry let out a strange howl like a wolf in their mouths, and the wind swept over the two wings of Shi Wengong's cavalry, and many Liao cavalry still opened their bows and arrows at this time to shoot at these four rows of cavalry arrays.

This is harassment and provocation.

Because the Jurchen cavalry used only six or seven buckets of cavalry bows, the farthest range was only about fifty paces.

However, the cavalry bows used by the Liao light cavalry were generally more than eight buckets, and the firing range was generally more than sixty paces.

This is the advantage, I can shoot you (although I can't shoot to death), but you can't shoot me, so I ask you if you're angry?

Shi Wengong was naturally not angry, not only was he angry, but seeing these Liao cavalry quickly approaching and sweeping his two wings, Shi Wengong was almost excited to laugh.

I heard him suddenly roar angrily, shouting in Jurchen words: "Disperse and destroy the enemy!" Shoot them! ”

The four hundred cavalry, mainly the mature women of Zengtou City, also let out a roar like ecstasy at this time, and changed formations with a roar, and the four neat and dense cavalry arrays scattered into many small detachments of twelve people at once.

In the process, half of the cavalrymen in the front row took out a crossbow from the bow bag, and raised their hands to face these Liao cavalry that flew by their two wings is a burst of crossbow arrows.

"Woo Woo Blah ......"

The dense crossbow arrows shot like locusts at these Liao cavalry, who were only dressed in armor and light iron armor, as well as their completely unarmored war horses, and suddenly blood splattered, and the screams and neighing of war horses rang out one after another.

For this expedition and raid, Lin Chong prepared the best equipment for these 3,100 cavalry.

Not only did the best war horses of the whole army be gathered, but each cavalry's set of light armor was also the latest product of the Liangshan Armament Supervisor, which not only had super defensive capabilities, but also weighed more than half of the iron armor worn by the real Jurchen kidnappers horse cavalry.

In addition to this, the cavalry were armed to the teeth, with two swords, two spears, two bows (one for riding and one for dismounting), and a crossbow for each of them.

Although this one-stone, five-fight individual crossbow is not as powerful as the Divine Arm Bow that is close to three stones, it is more suitable for cavalry use than the Divine Arm Bow.

After all, few people can pull the ordinary Divine Arm Bow on a horse, and the Divine Arm Bow is a secret weapon unique to the Great Song Dynasty, so once it is used, it will be exposed.

After a period of training, the Liangshan cavalry could step on the iron ring in front of the crossbow machine with one foot on the horse and complete the winding on the horse.

In the end, the five hundred heavy cavalry of the Wei Army, and Lin Chong's two hundred personal soldiers were each equipped with four one-and-a-half-pound grenades, and there were still more than 3,000 stocks in Lin Chong's system warehouse that had not been taken out.

It can be said that this is a cavalry team armed to the teeth and well-equipped to the point of outrageousness, but these Liao soldiers only regard them as ordinary Jurchen light cavalry kidnappers.

The result was naturally tragic.

When the screams sounded, Ulik'an was stunned for a moment, and the other Liao cavalry who were not hit by arrows were also stunned.

, cheat, when did the equipment of the Jurchen light cavalry be so good? There are even crossbow arrows!

But the next moment, Ulikoan was ecstatic.

Haha, this group of Jurchen barbarians actually disbanded the array and rushed out at the beginning.

Haha, they actually gave up the advantage of the array charge at the beginning, and wanted to play mobility and cavalry fighting with us!

Then the whole army pressed their cavalry to chase and shoot, and fought with them!

Speaking of which, every nation has its own strengths and dignity.

For example, the Han infantry army array is unparalleled, and the special infantry arrow array, from the pre-Qin to the Great Song Dynasty, has never been afraid of any foreign race;

For example, the Jurchens who are rising now, their cavalry charging array is really powerful, and the Liao State just can't beat it.

Even at the beginning, the Liao cavalry used nearly ten times the strength to surround the elite heavy cavalry of the Jurchen God of War Wanyan Lou's room, and finally let this guy kill through the siege, killing the Liao cavalry outside to lose their armor and flee in embarrassment.

But now the opponent wants to give up the advantage of the array charge and play with us in the cavalry guerrilla that we are best at!

And the strength of his side is still two and a half times that of the other side.

If you don't dare to fight again, you will simply run away from the Jurchen cavalry in the future!

At that moment, Ulikan also roared angrily: "Press up, brothers, let this group of Jurchen barbarians see what a real cavalry guerrilla is!" ”

Like Uli Ke'an's thoughts, all the other Liao cavalry also became excited at this time, full of blood as if they could spurt out from the top of their heads, they turned their horses' heads one after another, outflanked the two wings of the Liangshan army, and at the same time pulled out their riding bows, constantly splashing arrows and arrows.

For a time, 400 Liangshan iron cavalry and 1,000 Liao light cavalry fought on this narrow battlefield, fighting, and the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth.