When the law of dissipation of glory arrives at the camp. The two hundred Zhonggong Min led by Zhao Kuangyin died instantaneously and occupied the peak of Gaoping Mountain.

Chai Rongwang sat firmly in the temporary imperial tent, and before he had time to drink a sip of water, Li Chongjin, the commander of the front army in front of the imperial camp, strode in angrily and asked Chai Rong to dispose of Zhao Kuangyin, the deputy capital of the army in front of the palace. Chai Rong was stunned. When he raised his eyes, he saw that Zhang Yongde, the commander of the Chinese army in the camp in front of the palace, smiled helplessly, and Fan Aineng, the commander of the right army and the commander of the guard Ma Jun, was expressionless and did not squint. Chai Rong suddenly had doubts in his heart.

Originally, he was in a good mood today, Li Chongjin was the commander of the former army, led the forward 5,000 people to force Gaoping, and fought fiercely with the Northern Han general Zhang Yuanhui's department, and finally repelled Zhang's department, occupying the favorable terrain of the provincial valley, which was the first victory of the imperial court since the Han soldiers invaded the south. Chai Rong was quite relieved, although Li Chongjin had a dislike for himself, he still knew the general situation after all.

Unexpectedly, he had just arrived at the camp, and before he could open his mouth to commend him, Li Chongjin went straight in to sue the emperor.

Li Chongjin spoke for a long time before Chai Rong understood. It turned out that when Zhao Kuangyin arrived with two hundred personal guards, the front army and Zhang Yuanhui's troops were in the middle of a fierce battle, and Li Chongjin had already sent his own personal soldiers. There are no more reserves in hand that can be committed. Therefore, it was naturally ecstatic to see Zhao Kuangyin's new force coming, even if he ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead his troops to participate in the battle, Zhao Kuangyin categorically refused Li Chongjin's order after observing the battlefield situation, Li Chongjin was furious and wanted to kill Zhao Kuangyin, but unexpectedly, Zhao Kuangyin, who was loyal and humble in Bianliang, changed his face, and even drew a knife to face Li Chongjin, claiming that he belonged to the front of the palace, and did not accept orders from anyone other than the emperor and Cao Ying, the deputy commander of the palace, and Zhang Yongde, the deputy commander of the palace.

Although Li Chongjin was angry, he had no choice but to have no soldiers; Zhao Kuangyin was powerless, so he had to endure it for the time being. Waiting for the arrival of Chai Rong and Zhang Yongde.

After figuring out the cause and effect, Chai Rong was not angry, he turned his head and asked Zhang Yongde lightly: "Where is Zhao Kuangyin?" ”

Zhang Yongde bowed and said: "Yuen Long is on the mountain!" ”

Chai Rong nodded, turned his head to look at Li Chongjin, and said angrily and funny: "Zhao Yuanlang gave you a great credit, but you didn't appreciate it, but you wanted to kill him, for the sake of the general, you can't be so unkind!" ”

Seeing Li Chongjin staring at himself, he didn't know what to do. Chai Rong said slowly: "Zhang Yuanhui was originally a general. When they met in battle, their courage was not inferior to that of our army, and they could not win in fierce battles because their fighting spirit had not disappeared. The front army is similar to the enemy's strength, whose reinforcements arrive first. Whoever has the upper hand. The old man of the Liu family deceived my monarch and ministers when they were young, and only sent Zhang Yuanhui's lone army to take the provincial grievances and cut off the way for our army to march, but he did not send reinforcements. Zhang Yuanhui fought fiercely with you in order to be able to occupy the valley mouth before the arrival of our reinforcements. Although Zhao Yuanlang did not go into battle to help you, his generals occupied Gaoping Mountain and condescended to form a deterrent to Zhang Bu. Zhang Yuanhui was worried that Zhao Yuanlang's troops would take advantage of the mountain situation to hurt people with bows and arrows. Second, they thought that our army had arrived, so Yuen Long led his troops up the mountain to cover the valley mouth, and the opportunity had passed. Therefore, the fighting spirit was eliminated, and then the army retreated; Zhao's move did not damage a single soldier, but it helped you win the first battle of the army. ”

Chai Rong's words made Li Chongjin's face red, and when he was in embarrassment, the camp supervisor strode into the imperial tent and saluted Chai Rong.

Chai Rong looked at the look on Xiang's face, frowned and asked, "How did Pu Shuai reply?" ”

"Pu Shuai" refers to Wang Rentu, who is now in charge of the daily work of the Privy Council, who is responsible for dispatching troops and supervising the transportation of grain and grass, and his Jiedu fief is located in Pu Garbage, so he is respectfully called Pu Shuai, Wang Renti is a veteran of the Guo Wei era, and Chai Rong also has to respect.

Xiang Hang raised his body and said, "Cao Guohua has arrived with the grain and grass, and he has brought a letter from Pu Shuai to the last general!" ”

Chai Rong stared at him with blazing eyes, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Pu Shuai wants to play Your Majesty at the end." I am afraid that it will take some time to recruit reinforcements, I hope that Your Majesty will not be impatient and rash, as long as there is a month to slow down, 50,000 reinforcements can be requisitioned! ”

Chai Rong looked at Xiang silently, and said for a while: "Xuan Caobin entered the account and replied"

As soon as he went out, Chai Rong's face became solemn, he turned his face to look at Li Chongjin and said, "At the moment, in Daliang, I don't know how many people are waiting to see our brother's jokes." At this time, it is necessary to love the soldiers and unite the hearts of the people. You are separated from Zhao Yuanlang. The big war is imminent. The DPRK and China are unstable, with strong enemies in front and constraints in the rear. If our brothers can't be single-minded. Who else can be counted on to lay down their lives for us? ”

Li Chongjin's face changed, he wanted to argue, but he didn't know how to argue, Chai Rong sighed: "You are frizzy, you have to learn from Hugyi." What kind of open-mindedness can you do for the generals! ”

Fan Aineng listened on the sidelines, and a hint of chill faintly appeared in his heart. This site has been changed to summer: foot Lianpeng wants to read round

At this time, Cao Bin entered the account and saluted Chai Rong. Chai Rong waved his hand: "Don't be formal, what kind of explanation does the Duke of Zheling have, you don't care about it!" ”

Cao Bin hesitated for a moment and looked at Fan Aineng on the side. Road; "The King of Qin ordered His Majesty to be humiliated: don't worry about the capital, don't worry about the Khitan, as long as you can defeat Liu Chong, the world is the world of the Lord, killing pigs has its own way to kill, and there is no Cao butcher. We also have the Li butcher; Whoever wants to see the joke of the Lord is the biggest joke himself! ”

When he said this, Zhang Yongde looked at Fan Aineng, whose face turned blue, with a complicated expression. I couldn't help but sigh softly!

Chai Rong nodded thoughtfully.

He waved his hand to Cao Bin to stand aside, and said, "Lu Shuai's side has been supporting alone for more than two months. Shangdang City is only afraid of looking forward to the rescue soldiers at this moment. It is not easy to recover Jinnan once the Shangdang falls into the hands of the enemy, but the Liu family can unite with the Khitan to go out of Hebei from the well and attack Hebei with Yelu Tart Lie in Youzhou. In this way, the north of the division will no longer be all the imperial court, and the first joint is determined not to wait for reinforcements, and will rest for a day tomorrow and send troops the day after tomorrow

Greed and love can be as earth-colored as the face. He naturally understood the true meaning of the answer between Chai Rong and Cao Bin, but he did not expect that in the face of the 60,000 allied forces of the Khitan and the Northern Han Dynasty, this young emperor who had just ascended to the throne would dare to make the decision to face the enemy head-on with more than 20,000 forbidden troops.

Zhang Yongde understood in his heart. Chai Rong has been hesitating, this heir trained by Guo Wei is not afraid of the Northern Han at all, even if his own troops are weak, he is not afraid at all; The only thing that worried him was the Khitan cavalry led by Yelu Dilu, which was large in number and powerful in battle, and represented the political attitude of the Great Liao, which should not be underestimated in any way. Chai Rong has never been able to make up his mind. It is the attitude of Cao Ying and Guo Chongchong and other old military leaders who are waiting for Bianliang, the attitude of these two military bigwigs directly affects the attitude of the military forces towards this war, as long as the military is mobilized with the same hatred of the enemy, with the military strength and war potential of the Great Zhou, Chai Rong is not afraid of confronting Yelu head-on. However, on the cardinal side, Wang Ren's performance undoubtedly shows that the attitude of the two old commanders of Cao Guo is not so optimistic, and this is the great enemy that makes the Zhou army lose ground in the current war and dilemma.

However, the recital of Zhe Congruan brought by Cao Bin relieved Chai Rong's concerns, and Zhe Congruan confirmed the ambiguous attitude of Cao Ying and others. At the same time, it also showed the political attitude of Li Wenge, as the first feudal lord in the northwest, and implied that the Khitan side had this Li butcher to contain, and Chai Rong could concentrate on dealing with Liu

Therefore, it is not surprising that Chai Rong made up his mind in an instant to fight a decisive battle with the Northern Han Dynasty alone!

"The front army of the re-entry department is organized into the left army, the main force of the front army of the palace, the main force of the guard pro-army, combined into the middle army, the guard horse army and the guard infantry army, organized as the right army, and the Guohua department is organized as the rear army and the grain road supervision." Chai Rong simply and clearly issued the order for the deployment of the battle.

Before Fan Ai could react, Chai Rong said again: "Zhang Yongde is the commander of the Chinese army, Li Chongjin is the commander of the left army, Fan Aineng is the commander of the army, Cao Bin is the commander of the rear army, Xiang Wei is the commander of the battle, and he is in charge of the military law before the battle!" ”

Fan Aineng raised his head, and finally mustered up the courage to speak: "Your Majesty, the enemy is outnumbered, and it is advantageous to fight quickly against the enemy, it is better to stick to the fortress to frustrate the enemy's morale, and when the enemy army is tired, it can be broken!" ”

Chai Rong stood up, slowly walked to the door of the big tent, lifted the felt curtain, and said, "Lian doesn't want to fight quickly, this is a last resort!" ”

He turned around and stared at Yu Aineng with blazing eyes: "There are many people in the world who are not convinced to do this today, Liu Chong in front of him is one, and the deceased Xiufeng Xiangguo is one." Cao Shuai, who has made great achievements in war, may also be a "But what Lian wants to tell the world is that no matter whether everyone is convinced or not, Liandu is already the Son of Heaven." Something before. Everyone does their duty as a courtier, and the great position is a major national event, and everyone holds their own opinions, regardless of whether it is right or wrong; However, the Northern Han Dynasty was the great enemy of the country, and this battle was a national war. Guarding the land and protecting Li Shu is a matter of today's responsibility. How do people in the world view Lian. Lian didn't care, and he didn't mind, whether the Manchu Dynasty was really convinced, and Lian didn't intend to delve into it. Defeat the enemy before the battle, if you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, if you have a union, you will be punished, and you will do it yourself! ”

The two thousand eight hundred palace guards were divided into two parts, one of which was more than 1,000 horsemen who opened the formation, and the long knives were unsheathed; Another unit of more than 1,800 men dismounted and lined up, taking the hard bow of the infantry on their backs in their hands.

The palace guards were equipped with two sets of bows, one was a light riding bow and the other was a walking bow with a long handle.

In a series of hurried orders, a phalanx of about 400 people of a battalion came out of the crowd and slowly pressed towards the flank of the Eighth Route Army with steady steps.

At this time, the sun had risen overhead, the temperature was gradually rising, and Zhou Quan's face was covered with sweat, but he didn't care about wiping it at all, but his eyes were firmly fixed on the palace guards who were slowly approaching the defense line, counting the enemy's steps, and on the other hand, he was looking at the position that had already been numbered on the defense map.

At the same time, on the position of the Fushi Infantry Regiment, Li Hu finally gave the order to crossbow soldiers.

Two hundred crossbowmen from both of them quickly carried their crossbows along the tunnels that had been dug below the ground and moved towards the rear of the position, and hundreds of soldiers who were responsible for logistical support on the battlefield followed behind and lined up to prepare.

From the position of Jelugarn, there was no crossbowmen moving along the tunnel, but the large array of enemy troops that were pressing calmly and immobile in the face of the four hundred skin chambers once again made this southwestern Liao recruit suspicious. From the experience of fighting against the Han people in the past, I have never seen such a calm and unhurried Han army in the battle, in the face of the detours and flanking attacks of its own superior cavalry, the opponent actually did not mess up and the formation was stable. Although there has been no contact yet. Jerew had already concluded that this was not a force to be messed with

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However, he did not order to stop the attack, if it was so simple to be scared back by the performance of the enemy, then he would become the biggest joke in the decades of the founding of the Great Liao, although the performance of the enemy army was good, after all, it was necessary to meet face-to-face to know the truth.

If given a choice, Yelu Jieen was not willing to choose to go head-to-head with this enemy army, and the advantage of the Khitan cavalry was that it was highly mobile. You can choose to line up without fighting, consume the physical strength and morale of the enemy army, and wait until the enemy army is short of food and grass and does not withdraw the army, and then cover up and kill, so as to achieve the greatest results.

However, now that is, Lu En has no choice, Shuozhou has been eroded, those tribes in the south have been broken and looted by Shen Xiao's family who has mastered the superior forces, and the military forces deployed by Daliao in the direction of Shuozhou have almost been swept away, due to the lack of military strength, the mountains are full of wheelbarrows and light two-wheeled carriages to transport materials back to the Eighth Route Army soldiers and requisitioned people, and the goods transported are everything from grain, leather, wood, iron and other strategic materials to cattle, sheep, horses, mules and other livestock, Chen Zhe's Xijing South Road Transfer Envoy Division set up on the south bank of the Greywater River was extremely busy, and thousands of people and vehicles were grouped and dispatched here every day. In the mountainous area of Shuozhou, in the rear of the army, there are police officers under the jurisdiction of Xiao Yali Shimin Embassy everywhere, and these paramilitaries carrying sticks are deployed to guard the big fork in the road, in order to indicate the direction to the rear of the large transportation team, and maintain the site of the site Yue Yan changed to: Lianqing Bangyu Lu Yuan read the key to slip the second Shuozhou direction of the Khitan tribe lost the command of the unification and the command of the Ten Forces of Tongyuan Gong "under the blow of the Ten Forces Force had to give up control of the territory and roads, Occasionally, some stragglers in the rear alliance were also wiped out under the search and attack of Kang Shi's cavalry, and Chen Zhe made up his mind to empty Shuozhou this time.

At the Liulin Ferry of the Great River, the Eighth Route Army and Navy commanded the envoy to assemble nearly 300 transport ships to transfer the goods unloaded by the transfer envoy on the Xijing South Road to the west bank of the Great River. On the other side of the river, Yin Shiying, the waterway transfer envoy of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Wenheng, the director of Yanzhou transfer, organized a team of people to reload the materials and carry them all the way south. Along the Qin Straight Road, the supplies were transported back to Yanqing. For the sake of this war. Nearly 80,000 people were mobilized in the seven prefectures of Yanqing, and nearly one-tenth of the manpower under Li Wenge was invested in this resource war.

Jeruson couldn't hide.

Yelu sent troops to Shangjing's order, and the board could not hit him, and when the time came, the Shangjing Imperial Tent and the sleepy insect Tianzi would be held responsible, and only he, the clan who undertook the duty of staying behind, could appease those tribal nobles who had suffered heavy losses.

The range of the infantry bow is one hundred and fifty paces, and to give full play to its power, it needs to be approached to a distance of one hundred paces, and what makes Yelu Quanen a little relieved is that until this moment, only wooden spearmen wearing infantry armor can still be seen behind the antlers of the enemy's large array, and the archers of the Eighth Route Army are still nowhere to be seen, and when the battle formation composed of four hundred leather chambers is approaching to one hundred paces, even if the enemy archers come up, it will not affect the overall situation.

The power of a salvo of four hundred infantry bows should not be underestimated by any army.

As long as the enemy infantry guarding behind the rejection horse is cleared, the front military formation of the own side will be able to calmly find out the reality of the settings in front of the formation, and clear the passage for cavalry and infantry to carry out assaults.

As long as the breakthrough is opened, half of the strategy of cutting off this enemy army will be realized, and then it will be the courage and morale of the soldiers on both sides to fight.

On the strength of troops, on combat strength. Jerexion still had some confidence in his army.

Two thousand eight hundred leather room warriors, three thousand tribal troops, this force should be enough for any Han army.

In the tense confrontation between the two sides, the phalanx of Khitan warriors had already crossed the maximum range distance of one hundred and fifty paces in an arc. The Khitan warriors took out the feather arrows from the quiver one after another and recognized them on the string. The arrows hung low, and no one drew their bows.

Feathered arrows fired at this distance are unlikely to cause much damage to the enemy, and in order to deal a blow to the enemy, it is necessary to enter the maximum power range of 100 paces.

The ordinary Han army had already begun to shoot indiscriminately at this time, but the soldiers of the army in front of them were just carefully guarding their bodies with shields behind the horses and observing their own movements, without the slightest intention of releasing arrows.

As the distance gradually shortened, the leather room officer shouted the password, and the Khitan soldiers stopped following the password, tightened their backs, and shot the first wave of arrows.

The infantry of the Eighth Route Army behind the antlers protected their bodies with shields. The first wave of arrow rain consisted of more than 100 arrows, which fell on the two sides of the Eighth Route Army's large array, and despite the protection of shields and armor, more than 20 soldiers were hit by arrows to the ground.

The officer of the leather room shouted the password, and the footsteps of the Khitan soldiers moved again, and began to approach again.

After more than 20 steps, the Khitan soldiers stood still again and shot a second wave of arrows.

This time, more than 400 soldiers in the entire phalanx released all their arrows, and the direction of the shooting was concentrated in the middle of the enemy line, and the infantry behind the antlers in front of them suddenly went down, and as many as 50 soldiers were shot in this covering shot, and their individual was killed on the spot.

One more shot, one more shot like this, and the morale of the enemy army can collapse,,

Jeruson clenched his fists.

The Eighth Route Army still did not fight back!

Probably they will never fight back, the nervous hearts of the Khitan soldiers in the forefront gradually calmed down, and these barbarians of the Southern Dynasty seemed to be frightened, so they were beaten so passively but none of them dared to fight back. This site has been changed to summer: Chat Lianpeng Chat embedded circle reading

The footsteps of the former army moved again. The entire formation gradually began to break into the four formations formed by the Eighth Route Army's large array, and the expressions of fear and resentment on the faces of the enemy troops on both flanks could gradually be seen clearly

At this moment, Zhou Quan, who was already wet with sweat, finally turned his head and ordered loudly: "All of them." Ready to shoot! ”

The tents around the trebuchet were lifted, revealing the grandeur.

Jeruzoen frowned, he was puzzled by the terrifying weapons that were higher than the array in the distance, as a Khitan nobleman with a military heirloom, he certainly understood the role of trebuchets. This was especially the case when he was bewildered.

There is no strong city in the Southwest Recruitment Division, so what is the use of Li Wenge dragging this thing here?

The trebuchet is used to siege cities, and its maximum range is no more than 150 paces. Due to its innate melee powerlessness. It must be lined up behind the line for infantry protection, and this weapon has no effect on fast-moving targets, and using this weapon to kill infantry in the field is tantamount to swatting mosquitoes with a door panel

With a brief visual inspection, Jerechen judged that the trebuchet's position was at least two hundred and fifty paces away from his own infantry assault group, and that at this distance the boulder would land on the enemy's own position.

At this moment, Zhou Quan shouted out his second order: "All of them, the target is seventy-five, and the projection force ruler is ten." One shot, two hundred pounds! ”

"Ready-to-go".

"Buzz" A resonance sound caused by the overlapping and smashing of iron pieces sounded over the positions of the two armies, and then, a group of swarthy shadows flew like dark clouds through the infantry position of the Eighth Route Army, and rushed towards the Khitan leather room warriors who were standing and pulling their longbows for the third time to draw arrows