Li Tiejiao laughed wildly.

There are many places where cavalry pursues and kills infantry, but it is rare to see foot soldiers chasing cavalry and slashing and killing.

The five hundred armor soldiers under Li Tiejiao's command weighed thirty or forty pounds of iron armor and Mo knives, and they could only walk quickly, not even run, but now they were chasing and slashing the iron harriers who turned around and fled.

There were too many Iron Harriers attacking in one go, and even though they were divided into batches, they also left enough space to turn on both sides. But on the hills on both sides stood the crossbowmen of the Song army. The front formation did not break through the Song army's defense line and was about to turn back to the empty position of the rear formation, but it was blocked by random arrows. And then there was a rapid surge, and it was immediately blocked near the mountain pass. And the crossbow archers of the Song army on the mountain, at this time, also cleverly shifted their targets one after another, shooting at the iron harriers dragging behind, blocking their retreat.

The party cavalry in a dilemma, like a fish on a chopping board, were chopped with knives, and blood splashed, making the valley dark red.

Just when the Mo knife men under the command of Li Tiejiao killed the iron harrier, the rear of the Song army also ushered in the impact of the party cavalry.

It is said that the party members have already suffered enough from the divine arm bow, and they will not be stupid enough to go straight to the Song army who is waiting for the battle. But the formation of the rear formation did not look neat at first glance, as if it was a queue formed in a hurry, and seeing this scene, this group of cavalry rushed straight forward without hesitation.

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, it had already entered the range of fire, but the commander guarding the rear still did not give the order to shoot. Instead, let the soldiers under his command hold the heavy crossbows in their hands and continue to wait for the opportunity. Wait until you reach a distance of only fifty paces, and you can kill in front of you in three or five breaths at most. The commander waved his hand to Lu.

The first platoon began to fire, and the arrows flew out of the air in unison, and immediately the men were flipped on their backs, leaving five or six of the front cavalrymen seriously wounded and fell to the ground. When the subsequent cavalry broke away from the obstacle in front and wanted to continue to advance, they immediately ushered in a rain of arrows from the second row. Then came the third row, the fourth row. The conductor of more than 400 men was divided into five rows, so that the crossbowmen would never stop before shooting their arrows. And in order to vacate the position for forward firing in the rear, this commanding formation does look a little untidy.

The front and rear of the palace plus the Chinese army that guards the folding, these three commanders are the elite of the Linfu army, and only the two commanders who ran up the mountain were slightly worse. However, being selected to be a member of the vanguard army is not an ordinary team.

Li Tiejiao was chasing and slashing the iron harriers lying in ambush in the branch valley, and the two crossbowmen commanding on the hillside were helping him to stop the enemy's escape; A group of cavalry who sneaked into the rear formation was so shot by the divine arm bow that they couldn't even lift their heads, so they could only choose to turn around and flee back.

At this time, Zhi Keshi was already looking ahead of the road. Just as the bowstrings sounded in the rear, the rangers sent to the front to explore the way returned. Only one person returned, and he still had a goose feather arrow stuck in his shoulder.

Just when the soldiers who were chasing the Iron Harrier with their swords were shouting for victory in the valley, another group of cavalry appeared in front, about five or six hundred horsemen. After the cheers rang out, the rapid sprint slowed down, and then slowly stopped moving forward.

It would have been a perfect three-sided attack, with only a moment between the three attacks. By the standards of any country, it can be said to be simultaneous. It's just that those two lanes were defeated too quickly, and if you calculate the time of the battle, that is, what it looks like in one round, they are defeated almost as soon as they take over, so that the three-sided attack transforms into each break.

But Zhi Keshi's mood did not relax, and when he saw the last cavalry, he tightened up at the same time.

Compared to the previous Iron Harriers, this group of cavalry that appeared at the end of the group gave a completely different feeling. Not only the costumes, battle equipment, and horses ridden, but even the formation of the advance and the rhythm of the horses' hooves, there is a distance between the party cavalry and the Fuzhou and Fengzhou.

The team that appeared in front of them, their news had already spread, and the Song army that had invaded Fengzhou was mentally prepared to meet and even fight, but it was still a little difficult to adapt to it all of a sudden.

"It's the Khitan ......" suddenly exclaimed in the array, but the sound was immediately cut off.

The excitement of the soldiers under the command of Zhe Keshi who had just defeated the Iron Harrier cooled down in a moment. Looking at each other with the enemy cavalry more than 100 paces away, there was a dead silence in the field, and the atmosphere was like a taut string, and it seemed that the next moment would usher in an earth-shattering outbreak.

Zhi Keshi raised his hand, and immediately, the crossbowmen guarding the front line raised the bow of the divine arm that had been stretched out, and the air seemed to freeze.

Fold can be as suitable as electric rotation. The soldiers in the valley have been informed and are making adjustments under his orders. Although the short but fierce battle before consumed a lot of physical strength of his soldiers, even if that team of Khitan cavalry attacked, as long as he was willing to pay the price, Zhe Keshi was confident that he could completely defeat this opponent.

But the cavalry on the opposite side did not follow the iron harrier and tried to directly attack the Song army's array, but observed the battle formation from a distance like cunning jackals.

With a whistling sound, a squad of only a dozen horsemen suddenly rushed forward, and the flying hooves of the horses seemed to be about to attack directly. When the index fingers of the Song crossbowmen were about to pull the trigger, the dozen or so cavalrymen accurately stepped outside the effective range of the Divine Arm Bow, stopped, and no longer approached, but circled back.

It's a temptation! Zhe Keshi's eyes are more solemn.

Only a moment later, another team rushed forward, still turning back halfway through, only this time the place where the turn was a few steps closer.

When the Khitan cavalry rushed for the third time, and turned around about ninety paces, the crossbowmen in the arrow array made a slight commotion.

Zhi Keshi gritted his teeth. With such an impact, as long as it comes a few more times, the soldiers below may not be able to help but tighten their fingers.

He looked at the middle of the valley, the iron harrier had fled far away, the Mo Dao formation had also retreated, and the formation was rearranged on the inner side of the valley mouth, and the two commanders on the hillside were adjusted at the same time. As for the soldiers in the rear, they didn't care at all about what was going on behind them, and single-mindedly suppressed the cavalry on the opposite side, shooting them farther and farther away.

Zhi Keshi lowered his head and ordered, so that the herald stepped forward immediately.

The Khitan cavalry repeated the trick twice, each time causing a bigger commotion. If the party cavalry came, no one would care. However, if it was the Khitans who did it, it could make the army's morale shake a little.

At this moment, a short wooden feather arrow shot from the Divine Arm Bow swooped through a distance of seventy paces, and was about to hit an enemy rider who was facing it. But the cavalryman only waved the iron shovel in his hand indifferently, and with a bang, the short arrow that flew over fell to the ground.

But after an arrow, the jackal-like enemy stopped coming forward. After a confrontation, I saw the battle flag wavering, and when I turned my head, I ran into another valley road and disappeared on the mountain road.

Zhe Keshi held back a painful breath in his chest, and then he was relieved for a long time, and his voice was so loud that he seemed to be shouting. No, it's not that he makes a loud noise, it's that the soldiers around him are all exhaling at the same time.

Sure enough, it's still different. It's not just one person who thinks so.

"It's the Khitan group that the scout said earlier, right?" Li Tiejiao came over, and his expression was no longer the smug and frivolous way of fleeing after the iron harrier that was about to attack was defeated.

The last group of enemy horsemen, the thunder was loud and the rain was small, and they ran away without moving. But no one thought that this group of cavalry had retreated out of cowardice, nor did they think that they would never appear again.

"Luckily, we won quickly." Zhi Keshi's face tightened, but he still didn't relax, "If this team of cavalry suddenly kills when we are entangled with the Iron Harrier......"

Hearing Zhi Keshi's words, Li Tiejiao shuddered after thinking about it in his mind, no wonder the Iron Harrier would rush straight to the military formation regardless of it, just to open the way for the Khitan cavalry. If you are a step slower, I really don't know what will happen to this battle.

"Looking at their momentum, it shouldn't be the palace division army of the Liao lord Luduo, right?" He asked softly.

Zhi Keshi rolled his eyes, "How could Lord Liao's royal tent army come out casually?" The Son of Heaven is not pro-conscript, when did Ban Zhi leave the capital? ”

"But ......" Li Tiejiao licked his lips, he was also bold, not afraid of the opponent, but intuitively felt that the cavalry was not easy to deal with, "No matter how you look at it, it's not an ordinary cavalry, or do the Khitan cavalry have such momentum?" ”

Zhi Keshi and Li Tiejiao are all used to going into battle, and I don't know how many battles they have had. Whether the opponent can fight or not, you can see a clue from the action, and those hundreds of cavalry are definitely far superior to the iron harriers who have just been dealt with. If a cavalry in the Khitan Kingdom could have such power, the Great Song Dynasty only paid 500,000 silver silk coins a year, and won decades of peace, which was really a lucrative deal.

"Of course not." Zhe Keshi would not believe that the ordinary soldiers and horses in the Khitan Kingdom could have the level of their own 3,000 soldiers.

"But since it's not the Liao Lord's Huluduo, it can't be the soldiers under the other Huluduo." Li Tiejiao said.

"Well," Zhi Keshi agreed, "it won't be the palace army guarding the mausoleum." ”

In the Great Song Dynasty, every emperor ascended the throne, he would build a pavilion to store his own imperial books, imperial collections, various classics, pictures, and Baorui's things, such as Taizong's Longtu Pavilion, Zhenzong's Tianzhang Pavilion, and Renzong's Baowen Pavilion.

The Liao State set up a Huluduo when an emperor was released, and the selected elite soldiers were used as his own palace guards. When the Liao Emperor died, a state city would be built near the imperial tomb, called 'Fenglingyi', which was specially placed in the emperor's lifetime to bury the tomb. In addition, there are several queens, and even the powerful ministers who are in power have their own chaludo. Of course, the palace guards who belong to Huluduo are all elite, but they will not leave the emperor they serve, and the old palace guards who guard the mausoleum cannot be easily mobilized except for the guards who are in shifts.

"That's just going to be the Leather Room Army." Li Tiejiao's voice became low.

Zhi Keshi nodded: "When it's the leather room army!" ”

The leather room army was also the imperial tent army of Liao Taizu Liao Taizong, and it made a great reputation in the southern and northern wars, and it was also thunderous in the army in the north of the Great Song Dynasty. However, over the years, it has become the core and main force of guarding the borderland, and the post of Su Guard has been handed over to the palace army.

In addition, there are many subordinate troops in the Khitan Kingdom. The tribal armies belonging to the Fifth Yuan, the Sixth Yuan, the B Chamber, and the Xi Division, as well as the armies composed of ethnic groups under the rule of the Han Army and the Bohai Navy, the head army under the names of many nobles, and the armies of the subject countries and subordinate departments. In the Liao State, which was established by force, there were many armies of various names, and they were the main force in the Khitan State.

But if you want to say that such miscellaneous soldiers can bring such a lot of pressure to the Song army that has just won, Zhe Keshi will never admit it, "In Shangjing Road and Xijing Road, the Khitan is always a little elite. Last year, in the land of the north, it seems that the leather room army was transferred to Xijing Road. ”

"Probably them!" Li Tiejiao shouted.

“…… It's just speculation. Zhi Keshi sneered twice, "But as long as there is a fight, it will be clear to catch two prisoners." ”

As he spoke, the soldiers sent by Zhe Keshi had already counted all the results of this battle. The total number of enemy heads captured was less than a little two, and the losses of their own family were not much, only more than thirty casualties. If it was ten years ago, it would have been a brilliant victory, and Lubu Feijie could have galloped all the way to Beijing, but ten years later, it is only a reasonable victory.

"What next?" Li Tiejiao and several commanders gathered around Zhi Keshi and asked what to do next.

"Toyosu City is in sight, what do you say?" Zhi Keshi asked rhetorically, "This team of Khitan cavalry, if they are stationed in Fengzhou City or the military wall, may be able to stay longer." But if they lie in ambush in the wilderness, they will have ghosts for more than five days. He spread his fingers and gestured out his right hand.

The generals nodded, and of course what Zhi Keshi said was not wrong. The amount of food of the war horses is almost ten times that of the riders, and when they go out to war, it is impossible to prepare all the food for their war horses, and they can only stay in the walled city, and the storage of Fengzhou Prefecture City and the surrounding walled forts can barely be supplied.

"Can't you go down with the Khitans?"

"No, if they really want to contribute to Western Xia, they will definitely come out again." Fold Ke Zhi waved his hand, "Just pass the word back, let's go to camp under the city of Fengzhou!" ”