The night sky in winter is rarely bright, but the bare treetops are all over the mountains, dancing and shouting in the cold wind. They are tall, standing under the trees and looking up, with the sky at the tip.

Li Shaocheng raised his head, but a strange feeling was born in his heart.

The branches tried to tear the sky apart, but only a few tiny holes were poked. However, it shines through the sky – people call it the moon and the stars. This is probably the origin of the stars and moons.

The land where the stars and the moon shine is their battlefield.

With a slight smile, Li Shaocheng went down the mountain and jumped on the horse to grab it. On horseback, he pointed forward, did not speak arrogantly, just snorted, and plunged into the scorching battlefield.

As Yelu Abaoji's royal army, the soldiers of the near division, although all the soldiers are equipped with horses, they are not simple cavalry, but half of the cavalry, but no matter who they are, they can immediately break the formation and get off the horse to conquer the city. Its elite degree is comparable to that of Li Cunmiao's pro-army. When attacking Fuzhou, during the stalemate of the war, it was the division that was ordered to attack the city, and with its own combat strength, the balance of victory and defeat was set. Daming'an's so-called Khitan army is strong, and the Bohai navy is inferior, is a helpless sigh after seeing the combat strength of the division.

In a word, since the Khitan conquest of the Bohai Sea, the meritorious role of the Si Jinbu is fully worthy of its status. However, the Bohai Sea War is far from over, and the accumulation of military exploits in the near division is far from stopping.

Today's rescue vanguard army and attack on the Bohai and Youzhou coalition forces are just an ordinary battle on the Bohai battlefield in the eyes of the soldiers of the near division. Going out, fighting, and then winning, winning military merits, this is the tone that will never change in the minds of the 20,000 soldiers of the Division, step by step.

For the Khitan warriors, that meant more wealth, more cattle and sheep, more women, and slaves—though there were fewer and fewer slaves on the Khitan side—and that was what they were all about, invading, and killing, just as they had plundered the Tang frontier before. There is no justification for such an act, and they are no different from robbers, even if they are robbers in the first place.

But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the knives in their hands are sharp enough, so for many years, they have been able to succeed.

The original intention and nature of the action do not affect its outcome, and the only thing that determines it is strength.

Stepping on a war horse is a warrior of bandits, and everyone knows this. And in the Khitan army, the Sijin Division, who has the supreme position, everyone thinks that they have this strength.

Until today. Tonight, to be exact.

The army in front of Yamaguchi naturally will not be the Bohai Navy, it has not been handed over, or even just approached, even if the vision is not clear at night, but the keen soldiers of the close division feel the strange. Facing tigers and wolves on the grassland is definitely a different feeling than facing cattle and sheep. And now the army in front of them gives them a greater sense of oppression than the former.

Under the dim and bright firelight, this army is in a strict formation, hundreds of steps in a radius, layered and layered, looking at it from a distance, you can't see the face of the soldiers, only see the spears like a forest, the iron armor like a wall, and you can vaguely see the strength of the strong bow in the meantime, ready to attack. The chariot before the battle weighed several times, like a crouching tiger, and the ravines in front of the chariot weighed several times, cutting the earth apart.

The enemy has not moved, but the momentum is as heavy as a mountain; The enemy did not speak, and the murderous spirit was awe-inspiring. The veterans who have risen from the pile of dead men on the battlefield all know what kind of killing and tempering an army should go through in order to form such a momentum. And they know better what it means to meet such an opponent on the battlefield. If given the choice, even the most elite warriors would not want to encounter such an enemy. No one wants to joke with their lives.

Since they were fighting, Si Jinbu naturally knew who their opponent was: the Tang Army, Lu Longjiedu's Fanzhen Army - it was only the Fanzhen Army, not the Sixth Tang Army and the guards and pro-army.

But this feudal army has a resounding name, although it is far away in the West Tower, it has never fought with it, but its past achievements have long been familiar to the soldiers of the near division.

Conquered Pingzhou, conquered Yingzhou, repeatedly defeated the Khitan army, Yelu Enemy Thorn, Yelu Bei, Yelu Deguang, these famous generals with great prestige in Khitan country, all defeated in front of it.

What came to the mind of Yelu, the commander of the Division's close department, was the name of this army - the Hundred Battles Army!

has never fought before, and it is in the dark of night, with only limited observation and perception, he can predict the identity of the opponent in front of him, and this ability alone will live up to his prestige as the Khitan Eight Tiger General.

However, at the previous moment, Yelu Enemy Lugu had already issued a military order to charge the formation to the Si Jin, and the corresponding formation and tactics had been determined, at this time, although he knew that the other party was a well-known hundred battle army, he did not have time to change the formation.

At this time, Yelu Enemy Lugu, who led the charge in the near division, just drew his saber and simply pointed forward.

This action shows that he also does not think that there is a need for the division to change formations. Even if there is a hundred battle army on the other side, it is rumored that the combat power is very strong. But he was still confident that even the simplest and most direct way of charging into battle would be enough to break the enemy.

"The Hundred Battles?" Yelu Lugu chuckled, a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, a little banter and curiosity, "Then let me see if you are as strong as rumored." ”

The competitive Yelu enemy Lugu has his unshakable pride and self-confidence as the Khitan Eight Tiger Admiral and the Chief General of the Division, and this smile appears on his face full of aristocratic temperament, which looks a little unruly.

Three hundred steps, a place that has always been a safe distance, staring at the Yelu enemy Lugu in the army formation of the Hundred Battles, saw that the command flag in the opponent's formation suddenly fell. He almost thought he was wrong, but the sound of war drums that followed, like a muffled thunder tearing through the sky, was a real night rain and breathtaking. This made Jeru's heart skip a beat, and he knew that things were not as he expected.

What he didn't expect was that at this distance, the power of the Hundred Battles Army's crossbow.

Behind him there was a roar of people and horses, and without looking back, Yelu Lugu could roughly judge the casualties of the soldiers behind him. It was an unexpected number, and it made Jeruku's brow a little colder.

The starry night is like the sea, and there is only a simple outline left in Montenegro. Two hundred steps, the army formation of the hundred battles in front of the mountain suddenly trembled, and the uniform movements of the soldiers made the military formation look like waves on the sea. It was only a very short tremor, and a dense rain of arrows appeared in mid-air.

Even the dull sound of arrow strings has only one syllable.

Yelu Rugu's eyes were awe-inspiring, and his face changed suddenly.

The darkness of the night made it extremely difficult to identify the shadows of arrows, but you didn't need to see clearly, just hearing the strange sound of whirring like the wind to know that the rain of arrows had fallen. It's just that at this time, you can only entrust your life to luck.

If it is said that the 300-step crossbow is just a sporadic falling mountain rock, and its lethality is limited, then the rain of arrows at this time is a mudslide, and it can no longer be regarded as normal. A large number of knights in the near division fell, and there were no warriors on the horses galloping forward with the current.

One hundred and fifty steps, strong bows and crossbows fired in unison; In a hundred steps, sharp arrows can not only penetrate the armor, but even penetrate the body of the warrior; Fifty paces - that is already in front of the ravine, and the sharp arrows of the Hundred Battle Army have been changed to flat shooting, and arrows can kill.

Yelu's eyes were as cold as iron, and his face was as heavy as ink.

Even so, the offensive of the division will not stop, it will only become more ferocious. Although Yelu knew that the casualties in tonight's battle would be higher than before, he still had to win this battle, and he could win it, but at a greater cost.

However, Yelu still underestimated the army of the hundred battles.

Within a hundred paces, the Hundred Battles began to throw spears!

Compared to arrows, crossbows, short spears, or short guns, the lethality is not the same. Correspondingly, short spears or short guns are not the same in cost, and the number of carryings is much smaller. Because of this, the cases of throwing short spears and short guns on the battlefield are very rare, and they are rare to see.

It was unfortunate that the division encountered a hundred battle troops armed with a large number of short spears.

Meng Ping's subordinate was always the middle army of the Hundred Battles, but whenever he fought head-on, he often assumed the primary responsibility for breaking the formation and defeating the enemy. If not, Li Shaocheng would not have handed over the heavy responsibility of guarding the crossing to him at this life-and-death juncture.

The indefensibility of the short spear made the soldiers in the vicinity of the division miserable, but if they were thrown by the short spear, it was impossible to sit on the back of the horse, and falling off the horse would mean death and no life at this time!

In order to be unprepared, and in the confrontation, Meng Ping's department has the upper hand. The Si Near Division, led by Yelu Enemy Lugu, rarely fell into a bitter fighting situation.

In several encounters, the division of the near division did not stop, although some were caught off guard, and the casualties were far greater than usual, but Yelu enemy Lugu did not intend to retreat. After all, the Si Jinbu is elite, and it will not be messed up because of this, and Yelu Enemy Lugu can even imagine what the situation is like in the mountain road. To break the formation, he must race against time.

Although the Hundred Battles Army is as strong as rumored, or even stronger than the rumors, there are only a few thousand people guarding the crossing, which is where Yelu's enemy Lugu is confident that he will be able to break the opponent without retreating and changing his formation.

The front formation is close to each other, and the rear is intersected by the rain of arrows, and the army formation of the Hundred Battles Army is like an iron wall, and it is not as easy to break through as Yelu Enemy Lugu imagined. The casualties made his eyelids jump violently, and his heart was wringing, but he gritted his teeth and insisted, and he hated it to the extreme.

When he breaks through the formation of the Hundred Battles Army, he will definitely kill none of these Tang troops!

Accidents and turns of events came without warning.

When the battle was fierce, a fine cavalry, descending from the sky, fought out on the flank, and rushed to the army formation near the division.

The combat power of this Tang army is as outrageous as their appearance, and the troops that Yelu and Lugu transferred to meet them can't resist in the case of cavalry vs. cavalry.

Similar to the question of why there is a Tang army elite cavalry here, it will not come out of the mouth of Yelu's enemy, it is meaningless. His face changed drastically, in the dark night, he didn't know how many people there were on the other side, but he knew what kind of chaos would be caused to his side if such a change occurred in a fierce battle, especially in a night battle.

Yelu Enemy Lugu couldn't see the faces of the opponent's soldiers clearly, let alone distinguish the opponent's leading generals, but he could see the ferocity of the opponent's rushing and killing, just like a pack of wolves led by the wolf king on the grassland.

And when he saw the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army, the morale suddenly soared, and there was no reason to launch a counterattack against them!

This even makes people suspect that the Tang army has already laid an ambush and is waiting for his company to enter the urn.

The changes in front of us all show that the situation has changed and the military report is poor.

"Damn it!" The enemy of Jelu Rugu, who was attacked in the abdomen and back, was extremely angry and punched hard in the thigh.

"Retreat!" He didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, and he didn't care about the corpses and wounded of the soldiers in the near part of the division, so he gave a categorical order

The one who led the gentlemen to arrive in time could only be Li Congjing.

After repelling the near division, it was logical for the army to annihilate the vanguard of the Khitan army that was besieged in the road.

In this battle, the intelligence of the military intelligence department undoubtedly played an extremely important role, but Li Congjing's keen sense of the battlefield situation and his timely move to break away from the rear army to reinforce the front army were the key to success or failure.

At the beginning of the war, Li Congjing and Li Shaocheng stepped across the land covered with corpses, blood and fire in the mountain road, and met the generals.

"Marshal!" Li Shaocheng hugged his fists and saluted, two simple words.

Li Congjing smiled warmly, "I'll take over the war, you can rest." ”