According to the current military configuration of the Tang Army, there must be infantry and cavalry in an army, and the situation that an army is full of infantry and a single branch of the horse army is almost non-existent. On this basis, the Hundred Battles Army raised the number of cavalry to a higher level, and deployed it in each army with the command as a unit. Among the six commanding 3,000 soldiers in the first battalion of the headquarters of the Hundred Battles Army, there must be one or two horse troops under the command, even if it is Meng Ping's department, which is advertised as a full-foot soldier, it is not without war horses.

No matter how powerful a single arm is, it is easy to be contested, and it is not enough to deal with all the situations on the battlefield. Therefore, even if it is a small military town with only a hundred people, it will be equipped with a certain number of horse troops.

The common configuration of the horse army of the Hundred Battles Army is a long lance, a horizontal knife, a crossbow, two quivers, wearing willow leaf armor, wearing a face pocket, and a round shield. The elite of each part of the horse army, and according to the actual situation, the war horse is wrapped in armor, and the proportion is one out of ten, which is similar to the reason why Meng Ping's department is equipped with a rampage, which is used as a sharp knife for each department, and whenever it rushes into battle, this part of the horse army must charge at the forefront.

There is no shortage of well-equipped Khitan troops outside Zhengzhou, but no matter how the Khitan Kingdom has been in full swing over the years, it is still on the rise, and many inherent bottlenecks have not been broken, and the lack of iron is one of the most important. Yelu Abaoji insisted on attacking the Bohai Kingdom, and originally had the intention of taking a fancy to the iron ore of the Bohai Kingdom. The Khitan army in front of him, there is still no one wearing armor, although there is a reason for the difference in arms - archers rarely wear armor or only cloth armor, and most of the soldiers in armor are leather armor, and only three or four out of ten people wear iron armor - these are the real elites of the Khitan army. And there are even fewer iron armors that can be compared to willow leaf armor.

In the years when Li Congjing led the army to fight against the Khitan, he did a lot of research on the Khitan armament, and he also asked himself, such armament is quite different from the Central Plains army in the world, how can they destroy the Later Tang Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty and poison the Central Plains in the future? The reason for this should be that after 20 years, the Khitan has had enough iron after a long period of hard work, and its armament has been greatly improved, on the other hand, the Central Plains has been fighting for many years, the resources are consumed too quickly, the output is insufficient, there is no time to recuperate, and its own armament level has declined.

These are all later words, and there is no need to say more, but for now, the Khitan armament is quite different from the equipment of the Central Plains army, and Li Congjing will not give the Khitan another chance to accumulate national strength and invade the Central Plains after eliminating the other's strength.

And Li Congjing's hard work in Lulong made the armament of the Youzhou army more sophisticated than that of the ordinary town army, thanks to the battle of destroying Liang and the capture of several major battles after going north, which made the Youzhou army rush into battle, and everyone was iron-clad and sharp. And the core forces among them, such as the Junzi Du and individual elite horse troops, are all extra with short spears and strong bows.

After the hundred battle troops rushed out in the night, after showing their figures, they could see that their momentum was like a flash flood, but their queue was like an arrow off the string, strong and powerful. Hundreds of battles elite riding a horse in the lead, the wind swept the dust, its part into several strands, from different directions, corresponding to different gates, suddenly to the Khitan military camp, the sound of horses' hooves like rolling thunder. After the three thousand elite horsemen, ten thousand soldiers jumped out of the night, the formation was tight, the ants gathered into waves, and the tide shook the mountains.

The Khitan military camp police trumpets suddenly rose in all directions, and the figures of countless soldiers in the camp poured out of the camp tents one after another and chaotically, looking at each other in a panic, and the following teams were ordered by their respective ten-division commanders and centurions, and everyone was at a loss. The sound of "enemy attack" came and went, hoarse and frightened, the sergeants on the corner tower kept giving signals, and the sporadic cavalry rushed past the camp, and the sound of horses' hooves was chaotic.

The warrior inquired of the Centurion, the Centurion of the Centurion, the Centurion of the Centurion, and everywhere the sergeant ran anxiously. The neighing of horses in the camp was like the crowing of frogs, and the sergeants in the camp tents near the gate and the camp gate hurried to the gate and the camp wall to set up defenses. The chaos of the entire barracks, starting from the Yuanmen, like the wind passing through the wheat fields, spread to the Chinese army camp in waves, and half of the camp boiled in a short time.

At this time, the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army has broken through to the outside of the Yuanmen, facing the thin fortifications inside and outside the Yuanmen, their speed has not decreased, the entire queue has slid through an arc and swept over, and more than 100 soldiers in the front took off the throwing guns behind their backs and threw them at the Khitan soldiers on the Yuanmen and the camp wall, and the wind and clouds rose.

The gun is like a ghost, lightning flies, enveloping the gate and the corner tower, the head of the gun is sharp, passing through the body of the Khitan soldiers, penetrating the fence, one by one the Khitan soldiers fell from the corner tower and the gate, fell to the ground with a bang, splashed a burst of dust, or no sound, or struggled in pain, or stiff and convulsed.

The elite cavalry of the hundred battle army followed one after another, raised their crossbows one after another, aimed at the enemy soldiers in front of them, pulled the trigger, and in an instant the arrows became a curtain, and the rain curtain generally wrapped the Khitan soldiers inside and outside the gate, corner towers, and camp walls without dead ends, and in the dull sound of poof, the screams were like birds with frightened bows.

The thin fortifications inside and outside the gate were crushed by a single blow, and the panicked Khitan warriors did not have time to make an effective response, so they were dumped by the "heavy rain" and fell in pieces.

The fine horses are like torrents, surging into the gate, they have black helmets and black armor, and long lances and horses.

All the bloody roads are forged under their feet.

Li Congjing, who took the lead, was tall and strong, he lifted the reins and stood upright, and the bright light armor was extinguished in the firelight, setting it off gracefully like a god. He rushed to kill, waving his lance, the blood mist sprayed in his calm eyes, and one after another Khitan warriors howled and died beside him. His footsteps were like a rock, and he led the guards behind him to open the mountain and split the road.

The elite rode to open the way, moving forward, walking behind, killing people and setting fires.

The Bohai Navy followed closely behind the Hundred Battles Army and fought with it.

The wave of iron armor outside the camp had safely slapped on the Khitan camp wall, and the gate that the cavalry could not break through was followed by the foot soldiers, filling the horse pits and trenches, and then all the soldiers poured into the camp and pushed towards the middle of the camp.

Breaking the formation and attacking the camp, the tactics of the hundred battle troops have long been familiar with the chest, and the fine cavalry is straight forward, striving to expand the captured area as much as possible before the enemy army forms an effective defense and resistance, while the infantry soldiers are going back and forth in the captured area, slashing and killing the stubborn enemies in this area one by one with a hob formation, leaving no one alive. When the enemy's camp is in chaos, it will drive the enemy to retreat, forming an inverted bead curtain, so that the enemy army will no longer have the strength to fight.

The layout of the military camp in the world has the same meaning as the layout of the military formation, all of which are small camps, small camps into large camps, interlocking, and there are gaps and defenses between camps and camps, so as to form a buffer zone to deal with enemy attacks. The Hundred Battles Army broke the camp with fine cavalry in the early stage, in order to attack the Khitan camp, and then broke several small camps of 1,000 people in a row.

When there were five or six broken camps, the panic of the Khitan army was slightly relieved, and an effective defense began to be formed. At this time, the large camp of the Khitan has fallen in a small half, and it seems that the Khitan army can no longer support it, and it will begin to rout, and there will be sudden changes in front. From time to time, there were Khitan cavalry with no end in sight, and black pressure poured over to meet the hundred battle armies of each battalion.

At present, the Hundred Battles Army is attacking the camp of the Chinese army where Yelu Abaoji is located, Li Congjing naturally knows that the other party cannot make himself succeed so easily, and it is also expected that there is a Khitan elite cavalry formation to meet the battle. Li Congjing was not afraid at all, calmly dispatched the Hundred Battles and Bohai Navy, and still led with the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army, and went to attack the Khitan cavalry.

In the large camp, the tents are connected, not wider than the open space, can be formed by the cavalry to gallop at will, although the camp passage is also wide, can accommodate several horses to gallop side by side, but more places, the passage is not so wide. Once there is a scene of cavalry fighting head-on, under the crowding, it will particularly test the quality of cavalry, the flexibility of tactics and the coordination of troops, and the battlefield play.

The soldiers who came to meet the Hundred Battles and the Bohai Coalition Army were the three generals Yelubei, Yelu Deguang, and Yelu Xian Nichi, and the soldiers led by them were the most elite soldiers of the heart of the body at the moment, and the total strength was not inferior to the Hundred Battles and the Bohai Alliance.

Yelu Deguang and others led the army to battle in a hurry, and Li Congjing still led the army of a hundred battles to catch up with him.

In this battle, none of the brave cavalry generals of the Hundred Battles Army, which Li Congjing had always relied on, were not there - Guo Wei and Junzidu, who had fallen into the tiger's mouth for the army's breakthrough, did not know where they were, nor did they know whether they had broken through; Li Shaocheng and Meng Ping, who faced several times the enemy for Li Congjing's attack on Zhengzhou, still led their troops to fight to the death in the Tongshui Valley, and their lives and deaths were uncertain; However, Meng San and other generals were either not good at cavalry warfare, or their wisdom and courage were not enough to be the first of 10,000 people, and this battle was a coordinated operation of the Hundred Battles and the Bohai Alliance, and the error tolerance rate was greatly reduced.

Earlier, Ma Huaiyuan used his body as bait to lure Yelu to hide, and most of the thousands of soldiers of the Jizhou Army were killed and injured; Peng Zushan fought a bloody battle outside the city, and is still in a coma, with little hope of survival; He Junlai defended the city of Bo Yan, and at the moment before the victory came, he died of exhaustion in Youzhou, where Wei Dao and Zhang Ziyun worked hard to ensure logistics for the army, and countless hot-blooded sons and daughters of Youzhou were rushing to the military camp to prepare for the war.

Li Congjing had no time to care about anything else, so he only wanted to win the battle.

The two armies fought in the camp in close quarters. For Yelu Deguang and others, behind them is the Khitan Emperor's tent, it is the emperor Yelu Abaoji, they can't retreat half a point, and they will naturally do their best to fight, both sides of the enemy and us are elite, and there are reasons to become benevolent if they don't succeed

The battle was in full swing, and the two armies won and lost in front of the battle.

The Khitan army is led by three generals, Yelu Deguang, Yelu Bei, and Yelu Xian Nechi, all three generals are one of the brave generals in ten thousand, and there are elite guards around them, and their combat power is even extraordinary. Fortunately, the Hundred Battles Army has its own set of tactics for fighting, and each department invokes each other, so that it will not retreat as soon as it falls. This situation was also learned by Li Congjing in time, and he groaned slightly, and it was not difficult to calculate that even if he led the guards to defeat a Khitan cavalry in front of him, he could not make up for the damage caused by the three generals of the other side to the Hundred Battles Army.

But it is impossible for Li Congjing to pinch out Yelu Deguang, Yelu Bei, and Yelu Xiannichi from the battle array one by one.

The battle has reached this point, the battlefield situation is very clear, the offensive of the Hundred Battles and the Bohai Coalition Army has been stopped, and it can no longer be as high as before, but it is not possible to say that the offensive has been frustrated, in the large camp that was captured by them, under the harvesting method dominated by the Hundred Battles Army, the Khitan soldiers had little power to fight back, and that camp was completely destroyed by the Hundred Battles and the Bohai Coalition Army in the case of Li Congjing's leading troops in front and Yelu Deguang, Yelu Bei, and Yelu Xianni Chi.

There are not many choices in front of Li Congjing in front of him, if the army cannot advance, he will be forced to retreat sooner or later, once the Khitan army stabilizes its position and gives Yelu Abaoji time to calmly dispatch, the good situation that has been won with great difficulty will be reversed. Thinking of this, Li Congjing knew that the top priority was to capture as many Khitan camps as possible and let the panic spread.

called Meng San, and Li Congjing gave him a face-to-face lecture.

After hearing Li Congjing's subordinates, Meng San changed color and said, "Marshal, how can this make you in a desperate situation?" ”

"Bullshit!" Li Congjing spat out blood, "The deer is dead, whose hands are still between the two, where do you come from all this nonsense, carry out military orders!" ”

Li Congjing's tough attitude made Meng San unable to say much, so he had to bury his head in the battle.

In this camp, the camp has become a sea of fire, the sky-high fire has intensified the panic of the Khitan battalion soldiers, if it were not for Yelu Abaoji's timely military orders to restrain the troops, I am afraid that the Khitan company camp besieging Zhengzhou City has been completely chaotic.

Nearly half a hundred battles and the Bohai navy, which completely defeated the enemy in the camp, withdrew from the fire-filled camp, but instead of gathering into the front army that was fighting with Yelu Deguang, Yelu Bei, and Yelu Xian Nirchi, to enrich their own strength, they divided into two parts and broke through to the Khitan military camps on both sides, fighting all the way, breaking the camp, and setting fires.

Yelu Deguang raised his head from the fighting, and after learning of Li Congjing's deployment, his face was ugly and said: "Li Congjing saw that we couldn't help him for a while, and he couldn't help us for a while, so he changed his tactics instead, no longer seeking to break our army's formation and take the Chinese army directly, but only to delay us and others, and let the rest continue to trap the camp, so that the chaos in our company camp will be aggravated!" ”

"How's that okay?" Someone around him was worried.

Yelude had a gloomy face, "Even if our army also divides its troops to deal with it, according to the current situation, it is impossible to completely stop its army, and the army is fighting everywhere, which will only aggravate the chaos. This guy is treacherous and cunning! ”

After thinking for a while, Yelu Deguang said again: "The core of the enemy's battle tonight is still on Li Congjing, if there is no Li Congjing's department as the foundation, the enemy army in the chaotic camp will no longer have anything to rely on." For today's plan, only by defeating Li Congjing's department can we reap the effect of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle! You can see it clearly, where is Li Congjing? ”

"Figured it out, over there!" Someone next to him gestured with his hand.

"Okay, go with Ben Shuai and behead Li Congjing!" Yerod summoned the elite of the guards, pulled out his horse and turned around.

A similar conversation also happened to Yelu Bei and Yelu Xian Nichi, and it didn't take long for the three of them to lead the elite guards to gallop towards Li Congjing's direction from all over the place.

The reason why Li Congjing's location will be exposed is really not something unimaginable, after all, where he is, the Khitan army has suffered the most serious blows. After being reminded by the general, Li Congjing heard about the changes in the Khitan army formation, and knew that it must be Yelu Deguang, Yelu Bei, and Yelu Xiannechi who would all come over to kill them, haha smiled, without the slightest idea of retreating, "It is to attract them to fight, so that I can kill them all!" ”

Hearing Li Congjing's words, the morale of all the generals was uplifted, but Tao Yaoyao, who was not far from him and led his troops to participate in the melee, scolded angrily, "It's really crazy, do you know whether you live or die?!" ”

Li Congjing's side of the box killed half of the camp of Yelu Abaoji's headquarters, and the firelight reflected the Zhengzhou city wall red, the situation is like this, how can Daming Xing not know that the victory or defeat is tonight? At the same time as he led his troops to storm the Khitan camp, he sent an order to the defenders of Zhengzhou and ordered them to go out of the city to meet the battle.

Many of the defenders of Jeongju, who had been fighting hard for more than ten days, had already been disheartened and prepared for defeat and retreat, and when they saw that the situation had turned around, they had the hope of victory, and when they saw that the lord was fighting outside, they had to be ordered to fight out of the city, and their morale was high. Although most of it was stopped by the Khitan army outside the camp that had switched from siege to defense, its brave fighting posture made the battle tonight even more chaotic.

The Khitan army had 70,000 or 80,000 troops, but they were confined everywhere and could not form a joint force, and the increasing chaos in the dark night made these soldiers, who had long thought that they were in control, began to fluctuate after experiencing a huge psychological gap. This kind of psychological change, because Yelu Abaoji is in the camp, is effectively reduced, but it will not be eliminated.

Among the three generals of Yelu Deguang, Yelu Bei, and Yelu Xian Nichi, Li Congjing first saw Yelu Deguang, which is not difficult to understand, if Li Congjing is Yelu Deguang, I am afraid that he will be so eager to come, and he can't wait to be ashamed.