The summer season in Yandi is the best season in this land.

The climate of this era was not as hot as in later generations, and the land of swallows belonged to the northern country, and the temperature at the end of summer was equivalent to the early autumn of later generations. The cool breeze is slow, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the whole world seems to be very transparent.

In the Yizhou area, where the Yanshan Mountains and the Taihang Mountains and the Hebei Plain meet, this era was full of dense forests. In the forests and mountains, there are many wild beasts, and it is a good place for hunting. And this is not like Yanshan, there is no Khitan nation that can't be provoked from the north and south of the mountain, so the Han people in Yandi are the soil emperors here. Therefore, the children of the Yandi families mostly build forts in Yizhou, and every summer and autumn, they come here to hunt and play.

Hunting all day long, if in the Southern Dynasty, it is almost a typical example of not doing a good job and not seeking progress, which is almost enough to be a sin. However, in the Liao Dynasty in the north, riding horses and hunting was a means for the children of the family to learn military affairs. The Liao Dynasty in the north was heavy on military force and light on literature, and serving in the military was the right way for the children of the family. If you can't even master the ability of archery and horse archery, how can you get the opportunity to be promoted from the military?

The matter of safari is the same as that of scholars in Yandi!

Therefore, Jinshi was born and has always been a civil official, and the ability of the left-behind horse people in Nanjing to look at on horseback is no worse than Xiao Fengxian, the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan.

Both of them wore light silk official uniforms and rode tall and strong boundary hippos, talking and laughing. Before and after, on the left and right, they were the personal soldiers of the two and the armor soldiers of the palace army, but they were not wearing armor, they were all wearing summer clothes, and the queue was not strict, and a large area was scattered all over the mountains, each with the guards and the grass valley soldiers, and marched slowly.

Following these scattered palace division army armor soldiers, there are rows of eight battalions of guards and pro-army, the numbers are the south and north two yabing, two feather forest soldiers, crane control soldiers, Shenwu soldiers, Xiongjie soldiers, and Xiaowu soldiers, all of which are adapted from the original Youzhou town army Han army. It is also the foundation for Yan Yunhaoqiang to be able to settle down in Liaoguo!

By the way, after the historical Youzhou Town was ceded to the Khitan, it still existed in the form of a feudal town for a period of time. It was not until the death of Zhao Yanshou of the Zhenzhou Zhao family, the largest surrender faction of the Five Dynasties (one of the four Yan families in the Liao State and one of the founding generals in the Song Dynasty), that he was fully integrated into the Great Liao State. However, because of the flickering of Zhao Yanshou, the power of the Han army in Liao was also cultivated.

In addition to the eight battalions of the guards and pro-army developed from the army of Youzhou Town. In Xijing Road, there are also Sijie, Guisheng and Yun, Ying, Wei, Shuo, Fengsheng and other five section battalion soldiers, all of which are the basis for Zhao Yanshou to persuade Yelu Deguang to place tens of thousands of post-Jin troops in Shuozhou and Yunzhou.

In addition, there are two armies of naturalization and Hue in Shangjing Province and Zhongjing Province, which are also the basis for the surrender of Han generals and troops who were detained in Liao. Among them, the Hue Army of Zhongjing Province is the mountain of the Ma family of Yiwu Lu Mountain, and Ma Zhi is now the Hue Army Xiangwen (Metropolitan Supervisor).

To a certain extent, these Han armies of the Liao State also inherited the characteristics of the five dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, and all of them had tooth soldiers, called "hall straight", which were filled by the sons of the sons of each family and the children of the core retainers, and were the core of each army.

When the armed forces of the Khitan nation were weakening day by day, these tens of thousands of Han troops became more and more important to the Liao State.

And this time, the eight-battalion guard army under the command of Ma Renwang, who was left behind in Nanjing Province, dispatched a total of more than 18,000 soldiers, and also mobilized a considerable number of Nanjing Daoxiang soldiers as auxiliaries. Coupled with the 9,000 Khitan cavalry (including 3,000 regular soldiers, 3,000 guard shop soldiers and 3,000 grass valley soldiers) who followed the Northern Yuan privy envoy Xiao Fengxian to act, a total of 45,000 marching troops, walking on the official road of Yizhou, can be regarded as a huge momentum.

However, these 45,000 people are not all the soldiers and horses commanded by Xiao Fengxian and Ma Renwang. There are also 21,000 Khitan cavalry (including regular soldiers, Shoupu soldiers and grass valley soldiers), forming the front army, which has probably broken into the Dingzhou Road and Gaoyangguan Road of the Song Kingdom!

And these 21,000 Khitan light horses will be divided into three parts, and they will take turns to dispatch far stop horses. That is, a reconnaissance detachment consisting of dozens or hundreds of cavalry opened a huge network of shelter and reconnaissance in front of and on the left and right sides of the army. On the one hand, it firmly covers its own tens of thousands of troops and does not allow the enemy's scouts to approach; On the one hand, it can also ensure that when the enemy's army approaches the main force of the enemy to a distance of dozens of miles, it will be detected in advance!

It is precisely because there are more than 21,000 riders in front and the left and right wings to cover the 45,000 troops led by Xiao Fengxian and the horsemen can march easily and comfortably.

Da Liao's "invincible bow horse" can be said to be an advantage at this time!

Even Wu Haogu, who has 6,000 iron horses, is reluctant to use the heavy horses he has worked so hard to save and dismantle them as a remote barrier to fight with the Khitan light horses. They are nomads, and the level of light cavalry is always guaranteed.

Even if it is Wu Haogu's dummy pro-army, when it is used as a light cavalry, it is at a level comparable to that of the Khitan light cavalry. But Wu Haogu now only has more than a thousand dummy troops who can rush the light cavalry (a considerable number of dummy soldiers have become officers and instructors), how can they fight with the Khitan light cavalry that is often tens of thousands?

In history, only the raw female Zhen "Dare Da" who was trained in the old forests of Baishan and Black Water could rely on their super individual combat ability and field survival ability to restrain the Khitan light cavalry that had an absolute advantage in numbers.

Therefore, although the army of Wu Haogu can beat the palace division army of the Khitans on the "Thousand Steps Battlefield" outside Jiehe City, but when it reaches the vast land of Yanyun, it will also become blind and deaf like the unlucky Dingzhou army, so it is passive everywhere.

Of course, approaching Xijin Province along the Sanggan River-Gaoliang River is still possible for Wu Haogu. No matter how great the light cavalry advantage of the Khitans is, they can't reach the water.

It is a pity that in the western part of Yandi, the river channel is generally narrow, and the water flow is not abundant, so there is no room for the inland river army to play at all.

Therefore, the battlefield and the initiative here are in the hands of the Khitans!

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In front of and behind the horses that Xiao Fengxian and Ma Renwang looked at, they were all the henchmen of the two, either from the Xiao family's head Junzhou, or from the Ma family's medical witch Lu Mountain. All of them now had relaxed expressions on their faces, sitting on their horses in various postures, and slowly following the banners of the two commanders towards the south. Whether it is the Han or the Khitan, they are no longer very distinguishable from each other, they get together in twos and threes, talking and laughing loudly, some people say Chinese, some people say Khitan, and some people simply use bilingualism. It's really harmonious to the extreme.

The army was huge, and after marching for an unknown amount of time, there was a half-cut and blackened remnant of a fortress in front of me.

Seeing the scene in front of them, Xiao Fengxian and the soldiers around him cheered.

"Straight thief, we have finally invaded the land of the Southern Dynasty!"

"The flower world of the Southern Dynasty can be regarded as allowing us to wash and plunder, how can we all be plundered back this time!"

"It's a pity that we didn't go to the Jiehe Merchant Market, this Jiehe Merchant Market is really rich!"

"Jiehe Commercial City can only be looted by the Imperial Tent Army, how can we take our turn? However, it is not bad to be able to wash Dingzhou Road and Gaoyangguan Road. There are also many cities here, which one doesn't hide mountains of gold and silver? ”

The shouts and shouts of the soldiers came through, Xiao Fengxian stretched his waist on the horse, and scolded with a smile: "Entering the mother thief, these guys are thinking about good things, and before the battle is fought, they are planning to loot, really Emperor Genghis of the Southern Dynasty is a waste?" That Jiehe Commercial Market, Lao Tzu has been there, there are some strong cities in the world, and there are 6,000 iron cavalry guards, which is not easy to fight. ”

The centaur smiled and said, "Yes, in fact, we are eating meat all this way." Although Dingzhou Road is not as good as Jiehe Commercial Market, it is all the way of the Southern Dynasties, and the children of wealth and silk will not be under Nanjing Road. As long as you can take a tenth of them, this battle can be considered a complete victory. ”

Xiao Fengxian snorted: "The Genghis Emperor of the Southern Dynasty was also dizzy, and he actually dared to cut off the old coins given to us, did you think that we would not take it ourselves?" This year's 500,000 silver silks can be scraped if you break a state city at will. The Song-Liao border is so long, I don't know how many state cities can be broken for us!

No matter how powerful their Jiehe Iron Cavalry is, if we don't fight him, what can we do? ”

"Yes," the horse man nodded, "Unless they have as many light horses as us, this battlefield will always be ours, whether to fight or not, it is up to us, the Song people have indeed miscalculated this time!" ”

The battle outside Jiehe Shang City was actually fought by Yelu Yanxi on his own initiative. If he adopts the style of fighting to avoid battles, it will depend on whether Wu Haogu can break the city of Xijin Mansion in a very short time. If the city is fortified, then the outcome of the war may not be much better than the defeat of Song Taizong's first Northern Expedition to Yanyun.

After all, it is not the Xuanhe period, the main force of the Khitan cavalry is still there, and compared with the Hebei New Army, at least in terms of the number of cavalry, they have a tenfold and twenty-fold advantage.

Just when Xiao Fengxian was talking and laughing with the horsemen, several Khitan cavalry galloped from the front, and the first one dismounted in front of Xiao Fengxian's horse and saluted: "My Privy Minister, the front army has sent a military report, the Busan village shop of the Guangxin Army of the Southern Dynasty and the Changpokou of the Ansu Army have been broken by the soldiers of the former army!" The Song army guarding the shop is all vulnerable!

In addition, my Daliao warriors have never encountered the Song people's brigade of soldiers and horses! ”

"Hahaha," Xiao Fengxian laughed, "the Song people's brigade must have retreated in Suicheng and Ansu City...... The horse stayed behind, and the privy councillor went to besiege Suicheng and Ansu to attract reinforcements from the Song people. You and lead the troops to march in the middle of the road, from the edge of the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain to the north road of Dingzhou, after breaking the pass, you don't have to divide the troops to fight Beiping, Wangdu County, go straight to Dingzhou Prefecture Zhi'an Xi County! ”

"The next official has an order!"

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