The infantry of the (forbidden jìn) army dismounted during the battle, but after the establishment of the Great Sage Dynasty, after several expansions of war horses, this time the number of dispatched (forbidden jìn) troops was not large, and in order to maneuver (性xìng), a large number of them were mounted infantry.

Even if the infantry was given horses, horse warfare was not very good, and the first Northern Expedition after Lu Fei took power was verified. However, it is still okay to do such a thing as chasing the rebels, and if the defeated army organizes resistance, it will dismount and fight. Anyway, if you run on foot, you can't outrun a horse rider in a short time.

After Zhangjiang in the north received the order from the Chinese army, the main force stopped the pursuit, and sent a small group of men and horses to follow the defeated Liao army horse team, and on the other hand, sent people back to the barracks, first took some tents, grain, and extra horses, and then followed away.

After some delay, Zhang Jiangbu followed unhurriedly, changed horses and rode every once in a while, and followed until the evening, but the distance from the defeated army was getting farther and farther away.

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In the morning, the defeated soldiers and horses of the coalition army arrived at the city of Suizhou. They were sleepy and short of horses, and they could not be replenished with war horses in such a mountainous city, but they went out of the city at noon to meet the cavalry of the Great Sage Army...... They had no choice, otherwise if they stayed for half a day, the large force of the Great Sage Army's cavalry infantry would also reach Suizhou! At this time, the troops were exhausted, and the situation of riding away from Suizhou and continuing to flee was even more worrying.

Zhang Jiang was not at all surprised by the reaction of the enemy soldiers, and he asked his generals: "Can a man outrun a leopard?" ”

The generals were stunned and shook their heads one after another.

Zhang Jiang said with certainty: "I have heard that in the wilderness, experienced hunters can find the whereabouts of the leopard, and they will definitely outrun the leopard!" It won't be able to catch up for a while and a half, but if you take water and dry food and chase it for ten days in a row, can the leopard still run? ”

Everyone listened and bowed, and some people took the opportunity to call Zhang Jiang "General Fei".

The cavalry of the Zhangjiang Division was less than 10,000. The coalition forces were at least twice as large as his, but Zhang Jiang, after estimating the odds of victory, decided to face them head-on!

The two armies met again in the northern suburbs of Suizhou City. This may be the last battle of the Battle of Pingxia!

The sun is dazzling, the smoke of gunpowder has gone away, and the yellow dust raised by thousands of horses has made everything even more desolate. Zhang Jiang looked at it from a distance, the enemy soldiers and horses were relatively chaotic, and the flags were incomplete, but the men and horses were still magnificent.

Zhang Jiang raised his knife and shouted: "Han family son, loyalty, bravery, Fang is a child!" The Iron Cavalry of the Great Sage Dynasty is invincible! Long live our emperor! ”

"Hooray! Long live ......" shouted as if shaking the old Suizhou and Wuding rivers. A large herd of horses roared forward, and the front gradually accelerated, and the undulating riverbank land seemed to have a storm, and the sand and rocks flew for a while.

The front of the Great Saint Army was the first to approach at a galloping speed, and the opposite side was full of dust and mist, and a large number of cavalry were also coming. The knight in front of him, who could no longer see how many people there were on both sides at this time, rumbled in his ears, and the strong wind came towards him with flying sand.

In the dust and mist, the cavalry rushing in front was very sparse, and the cavalry on both sides was not dense. However, the depth is very large, and the line of sight is not clear, and the vision is not too far, so people can only puff up a breath and move forward bravely, unable to stop, and dare not stop!

The sound of "pop pop pop ......" strings seemed to sound from all directions. Black arrows flew from the dust, and the horsemen behind the Great Saint Army were also throwing shè indiscriminately.

The cavalry charge could rush out a dozen paces away with a flick of the fingers, and in a flash of the wind, a horse took the lead in rushing to the enemy formation, and the enemy cavalry raised his spear in the face. The Great Saint Army knight also picked up the cherry blossom spear.

"Ahh With a loud shout, the blink of an eye was already in front of him, and neither side dodged, and the cavalry of the Great Saint Army felt a heavy armor on his chest, and his right hand rotated, and the cherry spear with the speed of the war horse sprint rotated, easily piercing the armor of the Khitan people on the opposite side, and the screams whistled in the wind. The speed was too fast, the power was so great that the tip of the opponent's spear pierced the armor of the cavalry of the Great Holy Army, and the sound of metal grinding was terrifying...... Smack, the spear actually broke!

The Great Sage's eyes widened, and he felt a sharp pain in his mouth, but it didn't seem to be deeply hurt. He didn't bother to look at the wound, and the enemy cavalry caught up again. The speed of the charge was too fast, and the Sakura spear could not be pulled out after stabbing into the body of the enemy soldier (body shēn), and the knight hurriedly drew the sword from his back, "Bell! "In the dust and mist, sparks shine.

The sound of killing on the battle array shook the sky, people turned over on their backs, and the dust and mist rolled.

The cavalry movement was very rapid, and the situation in the battle formation changed faster than usual. The party cavalry on both flanks of the coalition army was the first to collapse, and the Great Sage Army immediately attacked the Khitan cavalry on three fronts, and the defeat of the coalition army came very quickly, and the scene on the battle array was chaotic......

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A few days later, Lu Fei's army of chariots appeared outside Suizhou City, and the city gate was opened. The officials set up by Tuoba Deming opened the gates of the city and gave up resistance altogether.

During the beating of the golden gong of "Bang ......", the musician on the horse played the "Qin King Breaking Array Music". The military flag of the Great Sage Army at the gate of the city was like a cloud, like a dragon's ironclad man Ma Hao ((swing dàng) dàng) drove into the city.

Lu Fei was in the troika, and he asked Zhang Jiang and other generals who came to greet him, but he did not find Tuoba Deming and other chiefs.

Lu Fei looked out from the curtain again, and those party officials knelt down on the side of the road with the defenders who had put down their weapons, trembling and frightened. Lu Fei observed it and felt that they had indeed lost their courage, I am afraid that there are very few people in the Pingxia region who still have the confidence to resist the Great Holy Army.

The unexpectedly victorious battle of Wudinghe was indeed once and for all in the entire Pingxia War. You don't have to fight the rest of the city.

At this time, Lu Fei saw that in the crowd beside the kneeling road, there were some people who were dressed completely different from the party members, and they were not Khitans, which reminded Lu Fei of the Tubo and Uighurs he saw in Lingzhou during his western tour last year.

He lowered the curtain and pondered for a moment, and he could probably guess what the mentality of the various departments on the west side of the river was, they did not directly participate in the war this time, but they were definitely inclined to the party.

Most of the first, second, and third armies of the Dingxi Army camped in Suizhou, and Cao Bin's troops also came to Suizhou. In this quaint and simple city, more than 70,000 people of the Great Saint Army gathered together for a while.

Soon, the Qianying Military Government posted a list of Anmin, and Brother Zhehei and a team of party members also took the notice to beat gongs and drums, and shouted to tell the party residents of Suizhou in party words.

The imperial court declared that the party members were heroes in the Tang Dynasty, and they were in harmony with the Central Plains. However, a small number of tribal leaders were ambitious and reckless, colluding with the enemy country to betray the monarch's father, not only threatening the imperial court, but also bringing the party and the people into war and poverty. Now that the king has quelled the rebellion, the Son of Heaven has treated the people with kindness, and the soldiers have not committed any crimes, and they have killed women and children......

The high-sounding words from the military staff are better spoken than sung...... But this list is not without its effect. It showed the attitude of the imperial court to rule the Pingxia region at the fastest speed. At least it wasn't a massacre, otherwise the words on the table wouldn't have said so.

On the contrary, the Tibetan Uighurs who came to the Pingxia area to watch, and those who stayed in Suizhou before they had time to run, soon fell ill. Cao Si, a privy councillor who accompanied the army, first figured out where they lived, and soon the hotel was smashed open by the soldiers. A group of soldiers couldn't help but say that they arrested these people into the Chinese army.

Before they could figure out the situation, they were locked up in a low house and beaten severely. Not long after, a civil official came, and said in a fierce voice: "Someone has already confessed, is it true that you have come to the party as an envoy to fund the party Khitan war horses, iron tools, grain and grass for your master?" ”

A group of people cried out. Then they were separated and detained, and they were threatened by them at night((forced bī)bī)利 (tempted yòu). Soon someone recruited, they were not envoys, they just came to see the situation, but they knew that there were indeed Hexi nobles who funded the party army.

More than 100,000 people of the Dangxiang Khitan coalition army were defeated by the 40,000 battles of the Great Sage Dynasty and were completely lost!

The news was quickly transmitted from Suizhou, because there were too many people who cared, and this kind of news was transmitted through a fast horse that traveled hundreds of miles, which was completely different from the general information diffusion.

The northwest was shaken, and the whole north was affected.

The Tibetan tribes in Hexi and the south were very uneasy, and they soon sent people to Lingzhou to inquire about the attitude of the court of the Great Sage Dynasty and whether they would continue their westward expedition...... Lingzhou has a post house, which was originally a place for trading in the mutual market, and now it is also a stronghold for convenient exchanges between things and things.

At this time, the Northern Expedition grassland, from a distance, there was already a faint greenery, (spring chūn) day has come. A fast horse wearing a felt hat galloped on the grassland, "da-da, da-da......" horses' hooves repeated the fast rhythm, the grassland stretched out, and the old city walls of Shangjing had appeared on the horizon.

Not long after, the messenger entered the palace of the Great Liao Emperor, and he held a wooden tube in his hand, kneeling on the temple diàn, and holding it in both hands. An attendant approached and received the urgent report under the watchful eyes of the ministers on both sides of the column. There were people wearing fur warm hats, and there were also people wearing robes and hats, they were not Han Chinese, they were still Khitan officials, but many rituals had the shadow of Han officials.

The attendant opened the wooden tube, pulled out a roll of paper from it, and turned (shēn) to look at the upper position, and the Empress Dowager Xiao nodded. The attendant scraped off the vermilion lacquer, unfolded the paper and handed it to the Empress Dowager Xiao.

After seeing it, Empress Dowager Xiao immediately handed it to Xiao Daling, who was standing on the side, and said: "Zhai Shigui and Tuoba Deming were defeated, more than 100,000 people were pursued, killed and wounded, and there were corpses within a hundred miles. ”

There was an uproar on the big (hall diàn)!

Someone immediately scolded: "Zhai Shigui is a stupid pig!" "Last time, it wasn't a report, the elite of the Great Sage Army was only forty or fifty thousand, and he wouldn't be like this even if he rode only with 20,000 steps! There is also a 100,000 army of the party ......""Yes, the envoys sent to Pingxia are not all returned, the party is quite powerful, and the infantry and cavalry are not inferior to the tribal army......"

At this moment, Xiao Daling opened his mouth and said coldly: "Zhai Shigui is a general, if he can fight like this, you must be much better with the troops." Yelu Hugo used to pat (chest xiōng) and said how powerful, what about in Youzhou? ”

Yelu Xian, who was holding a heavy army, immediately echoed: "Xiao Gong is reasonable. ”

The ministers felt something, and the insults immediately became much quieter.

When the emperor Empress Dowager Xiao spoke again, the ministers stopped speaking casually, and the Empress Dowager Xiao said: "Wait for Zhai Shigui to come back and ask him what is going on." ”

Empress Dowager Xiao asked again: "What is Emperor Lu Xiao going to do after he sits on the throne of the Central Plains?" Ben Khan heard that before the Battle of Pingxia, the Central Plains court colluded with Goryeo to take the land of the Bohai Sea in the northeast of me? ”

Some nobles bowed and said: "Emperor Lu Xiao is just bluffing?" ”

Not even his own tone.

Xiao Daling said: "Emperor Lu Xiao is plotting to seize the throne of the Tang Kingdom, it has only been a few years, how much territory has he occupied by force......"

The people on the main hall (hall diàn) gradually felt great external pressure. Not only because of the news of the defeat in the Battle of Pingxia, but also many times on the battlefield not so long ago.