Chao Yong did not go to see the scene of the execution of the officials who surrendered to Liao, nor did he go to the city gate to listen to the words of gratitude and thanks from the people, but took Dong Ping and Hua Rong to the Baigou River early in the morning.

Xiongzhou is only twenty miles away from the Baigou River, because the Liao soldiers often cross the border to fight grass valleys, there are no villages at all in these twenty miles, but it is not an endless wasteland. Instead, there are ponds from time to time, that is, the "Great Wall of Water" built by Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong.

Since the border between the Liao State and the Song State was a plain, and the two countries were at war, the Liao State Iron Cavalry often drove straight in, so the Song State needed to find ways to restrict the Liao State Iron Cavalry. So someone came up with the idea of using the mountains and swamps of Hebei to create Fangtian and restrict the long-distance drive of Liao cavalry. This square field is actually a large pond, and only a small road can be passed in the middle.

If the Liao cavalry went south from here, they could only pass through in a long snake formation, and this gave the Song soldiers a chance to snipe. After all, the charge of thousands of horses is difficult to resist, but the impact power is limited if it is only a few horses.

The fly in the ointment is that the Great Wall of Water cannot cover the border of the Liang State because the water in the river is limited.

Walking through the path in the middle of the pond gives the illusion that a stallion has become a boat.

Just after the "Great Wall of Water", I saw five "distant barricades" roaring towards me, all of them with one person and two horses.

Chao Yong picked up the overlord bow hanging on the saddle and smiled at Hua Rong: "Let Liao Gou see the power of our Han archers." ”

Hua Rong knew Chao Yong's archery skills, and said with a smile: "The prince will leave me two." ”

The galloping Yuanzi couldn't help but laugh when he saw Chao Yong and the others take out their bows and arrows.

However, they saw that the armor of the three people was bright, and the war horse and the divine horse under their crotch, they knew that they were the generals of the Liang State, but they had the idea of capturing the three of them alive, and they didn't use bows and arrows to shoot at each other, just staring at Chao Yong and Hua Rong, ready to dodge.

The far barricades are all Khitan elite warriors. Each has a good martial arts, let alone riding and shooting, but they don't think that Chao Yong and the others can shoot them.

But soon the five knew they were wrong, but they had no chance to correct their mistakes.

Two black lights flashed, and before the two could react, they were shot off their horses by Chao Yong's arrows.

Seeing this, the third person hurriedly waved the scimitar in his hand, saw a black light coming towards him, and hurriedly slashed it, but it was empty. Then I felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen.

Looking down, a bloody hole the size of a child's fist appeared between the horse's neck, and an iron arrow shot through the horse's neck, and then through the hardwood protected in front of the saddle, and finally into his lower abdomen, leaving only an iron arrow feather more than two inches long.

"It's so strong."

The third person exclaimed, and the war horse under his crotch fell down, and his eyes were black and he fainted.

Hua Rong also uses a strong bow. With an arrow in his hand, he shot a man off his horse.

The last person saw that the situation was not good, and knew that he had encountered a rare marksman in the Liao Kingdom, and he also knew that he could turn around and escape. will only die faster. Hurriedly grabbed the bow and arrow, wanted to shoot at Hua Rong, hid in a stirrup, and hung crookedly on the saddle. Zhang Gong took an arrow and shot at Hua Rong.

Although Hua Rong's serial arrows were not as fast as Chao Yong's, the second arrow also arrived in the blink of an eye, and one arrow hit the throat of the last person.

"Ugh"

The last man stared at the arrow he fired. was flicked by Hua Rong with a bow sheath and fell under the horse, and he was unwilling to swallow his last breath and fell off the horse with a plop.

Chao Yong's three arrows and Hua Rong's two arrows were completed almost at the same time, Dong Ping saw that the two of them were in the blink of an eye, and then shot the five horsemen far away, and couldn't help but praise: "The prince and General Hua shoot like a god, Dong Ping admires." ”

He fought with many Liao soldiers in Hebei back then, and the most difficult thing was the remote blocker, but the people who crossed the border to fight the grass valley on weekdays were generally ordinary Liao soldiers. Yuanlanzi is the elite of the Liao Kingdom, so naturally there is no need to worry about food and grass. However, occasionally there are far blockers who cross the border to fight the grass valley, and the far blockers will not appear on a large scale, but just a few horses also make the border army suffer, and the archery skills are not as good as the far blocks, and the riding skills are not as good as others, not to mention the war horses.

It is even more difficult to achieve the far barricade if you want to encircle it, and the far-barricade is a two-horse sentry on weekdays, coming and going like the wind.

Speaking of which, these five distant barricades are also wronged, and when they encounter one hundred and eighty Song troops on weekdays, they dare to come forward to fight. When the Song army formed a formation, they wandered outside and shot until the Song army collapsed and then rushed to kill. But this time, he ran into two rare marksmen in the world, and before he could get close to each other, he was shot.

In the past, only they shot and played tricks on the Han people, but I didn't expect that today the five of them only shot one arrow and wiped out the whole army.

Chao Yong relied on the strength of the overlord's bow and the penetrating power of iron arrows to bombard three people, two of whom were shot directly through the chest, and the third one was killed with men and horses.

And the two people shot by Hua Rong were both shot in the throat, relying on accurate archery.

Chao Yong withdrew the iron arrow, and the three of them continued towards the Baigou River.

Along the way, he shot and killed a few more remote blockers, and was discovered by the distant ones.

The remote barricade found that the enemy was no match for the two of them, so he warned the surrounding remote barricades, and no one came to provoke the three of them again, but just monitored the three from a distance.

Chao Yong was not interested in chasing them, and eighty percent couldn't catch up, although the three of them were carefully selected war horses. But the war horses of the far block are also the first-class war horses of the Liao country, and the gap is really not big, and the far stoppers are all people who grew up on horseback, and their riding skills are definitely better than the three of them.

Baigou River is also called Juma River, it is the Song Dynasty, Liaojie River, called Laishui in ancient times, changed to Juma River in the Han Dynasty, because the river water has the tendency of giant horses galloping. Later, it was changed to Juma River, because Liu Kun once resisted the invasion of Shile's cavalry here during the Jin Dynasty.

Shi Le, also known as the emperor of the Qiang people in Central China, once besieged and killed more than 200,000 Han soldiers and civilians in the First Battle of Kuxian, and his soldiers ate the corpses of Han people.

When Shi Le was in power, the Hu people did not have to be punished for plundering the Han people, and the Hu people could arbitrarily ask for the things of ordinary Han people if they needed them. At the same time, it is taboo for the Han people to call the nomads Hu people, but to call them "national people". There is even a law that no matter speaking or writing, it is strictly forbidden to appear the word "Hu", and violators will be beheaded.

On one occasion, Shi Le summoned local officials to Shan Yuting, and when he saw Fan Tan, the county guard of Xiangguo, coming to see him wearing patched and tattered clothes, he was very dissatisfied.

He split his head and asked, "Fan Tan, why did you come to the court when you were not dressed properly?" ”

Fan Tan didn't think about it, and said: "It's all because the Hu people have no morality, and they looted all their clothes, so I had to come to the court in rags." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he had violated the ban, and hurriedly kowtowed to the sin; At that time, there were still relatively few Han literati who surrendered to Shile, and Shile did not behead him because of this.

However, there is still some mustard in his heart, I am afraid that Fan Tan has a deep prejudice against Hu Ren in his heart, and he will do things that are not conducive to his rule behind his back.

During the feast, Shi Le pointed to a plate of courgettes and asked Fan Tan: "Do you know what the name of this thing is?" ”

Fan Tan was also worried in his heart, Shi Le is a murderer who does not blink an eye, and when he saw Shi Le pointing to the gourd and asking him, he replied respectfully: "Purple case delicacies, silver cups of green tea, golden bottle nectar, jade plate cucumbers." ”

When Shile heard this, he smiled with satisfaction, and rewarded him with three million dollars for his carriage and horse clothes.

Fan Tan knew that the money was not really a reward for his robbery, but a reward for him with the name "cucumber". Courgette originated in the Western Regions, and after Zhang Qian brought it back, it has always been called courgette, because this melon comes from the land of the Hu people.

Shile forbade people to use the word "hu", but the name of the courgette has changed a lot, and people are still used to calling it courgette.

Schle felt that the name cucumber could be used as a substitute for courgette.

This is where the word "cucumber" comes from.

The county guard was still and was often plundered by the Hu people, so you can imagine the situation of the Han people at that time.

It is precisely because of Shile's tyranny of the Han people that Liu Kun's resistance to Shile was even more commendable, and the people renamed the Juma River as Juma River.

The source of the Baigou River is countless springs, the water is very large, the woodland can become a spring by digging a pit by hand, and the spring water is tumbling against the fine sand, so the Baigou River flows continuously in all seasons.

Three pontoon bridges have been laid on the river dozens of feet wide, each of which can accommodate three horses.

This is the result of Yelu Dashi these days, he can't send troops, but he is not willing to sit in the barracks, and builds these three pontoon bridges.

As soon as Yelu Yanxi arrived, the army could quickly cross the river and open up new territory.

Due to Xiongzhou's surrender to Liao, when Yelu Dashi built these three pontoon bridges, he did not pay any casualties, but a Han craftsman accidentally fell into the water and washed away.

This is negligible in Yelu Dashi's opinion, but let Yuanranzi search along the river for a while, appease the craftsman, and of course let Yuanlanzi find a Han craftsman, it must be empty-handed. (To be continued......)