The war on the northern front was getting tighter, and Yelu Yanxi's extravagance in previous years made the treasury naturally tight. In order to appease the soldiers in the north, the imperial court could only allocate a small amount of money and grain to the north.

The army in the south had no grain and grass, so they could only learn from their ancestors and enter the Song Realm in batches to fight grass valleys.

When Cai Jing of the Song Dynasty was in power, he was bent on whitewashing the peace, and when he received a border notification, he saw that there was no large-scale invasion of Liao, so he also suppressed the news and did not play the Son of Heaven.

Later, Liang Shicheng and others were in power, but they conspired to destroy Liao with Jin, and when they did not find out the situation of Liaojin, they did not want to conflict with Liao, so they still ignored it, and only ordered the border state capitals to hold the city tightly and not provoke a major war. It's just that the border villagers are suffering.

Although Yelu Dashi is familiar with poetry and books, he will not tell who is right and who is wrong on both sides, but he hates Zeng Tou City for intercepting and killing many of his Liao horses. I wanted to plan an attack on Zengtou City, but the Liao State was also afraid of provoking a war with the Song State, and was attacked on both sides, so the Liao cavalry was forbidden to invade the Song Territory on a large scale.

However, the heavy snow on the winter solstice was much larger in the Liao Kingdom than in the Song Kingdom, and the severe cold weather in the north made it more difficult for the snow to melt. The thick snow buried the yellow grass stalks, the livestock of the tribes froze and starved to death in large numbers, and the state capitals produced a large number of hungry people.

The northern front continued to urge money and grain, and Yeluchun, who stayed behind in Nanjing Xijin Prefecture, had to order the border states to increase the scale of plundering into the Song Dynasty, and sent the amount of money and grain to the states.

Yelu Dashi was not bound by the imperial court, so when he led the army across the border, he set up an ambush, preparing to annihilate the main force of Zengtou City first, and then go to ransack Zengtou City.

Yelu Dashi watched the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City under the mountain about to enter the encirclement under the lure of his small group of cavalry, and in two miles, this force of soldiers and horses of Zengtou City could not escape the fate of the annihilation of the whole army.

The soldiers who were about to release wolf smoke had already lit the torches.

But the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City suddenly made a small circle and turned back.

While watching the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City go backwards, they couldn't help but hurriedly say: "Could it be that these barbarians have been discovered, Lin Ya quickly ordered the pursuit, it won't take ten miles for my Daliao cavalry to catch up with these barbarians." ”

Yelu Dashi originally wanted to completely annihilate the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City, and then when he attacked Zengtou City, there was a lot less resistance. But now seeing that the plan failed, the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City fled back, and he did not want to let all the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City retract.

"Light the wolf smoke."

With a shout, Jerod threw himself on his horse and rushed down the mountain.

The Liao cavalry who were in ambush saw the wolf smoke burning, and they no longer hid it, and chased the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City together.

When the soldiers and horses of Zengtou City heard the sound of horses' hooves shaking the mountain behind them, they couldn't help but panic, and the soldiers and horses who originally had some formations suddenly became chaotic.

After the heavy snow on the winter solstice, the Liao cavalry began to enter and loot on a large scale, and several hundred Liao cavalry even went to the vicinity of Zengtou City to loot several villages.

In the past, it was said that there were only more than 100 Liao soldiers, and after the five tigers of the Zeng family began to hunt and kill Liao cavalry, Liao soldiers rarely came to the vicinity of Zengtou City.

Zeng Tu only thought that there was a famine in Liao after the heavy snowfall, and the Liao soldiers came in a large group, and he did not suspect fraud. Immediately took 2,000 Ding Zhuang from Zengtou City to set up an ambush, preparing to ambush this Liao cavalry. Unexpectedly, only a few dozen people were killed, and they were killed by this Liao cavalry breaking through the encirclement.

Zeng Tu immediately led his troops to catch up, and he was about to catch up, but Zeng Tou City sent someone to send news that the Liangshan army was coming to attack, and asked them to quickly lead the troops back.

Zeng Tu was afraid that Zengtou City would be lost, so he had to give up the Liao Ride and come to Zengtou City.

Su Ding turned around and looked at a few dusts rolling up behind him, and exclaimed: "It turns out that the soldiers and horses of the Liao State have set up an ambush here, but fortunately, the people sent by the Taigong are one step faster, otherwise when it is a little later, I am afraid that we will fall into the encirclement of the Liao cavalry." ”

Zeng Tu listened to the thunderous sound of hooves behind him, and his complexion changed greatly, and he hit the horse fiercely and shouted: "Hurry up, don't worry about those infantry." ”

Zeng Suo exclaimed: "There are 1,500 infantry troops." ”

Zeng Tu glared at Zeng Suo and said, "Liaogou is prepared, if the Ma army can escape, it will be our fate, how can we take care of the infantry army." ”

Zeng Suo turned his head and glanced at the boundless Liao Cavalry who had appeared in the distance, and he didn't dare to say more, and followed Zeng Tu's wolf with a clip of the horse's belly.

The infantry behind was quickly drowned in the charge of the Liao cavalry, and the Liao cavalry did not stop the footsteps.

The cavalry of the Liao State just drove the war horse to knock down Ding Zhuang of Zengtou City one by one, trampled it over, or cut down Ding Zhuang next to him with a scimitar in his hand.

Ding Zhuang of Zengtou City, who was not under his command, did almost no casualties to the Liao cavalry, and the entire army was wiped out.

Many of the horses of the Zengtou City Horse Army were just some horses, although they were initially ahead of the Liao cavalry for several miles, but after running for more than ten miles, the horse army that fell behind was chased by the Liao cavalry.

Zeng Tu heard the screams of the Ma army behind him, and he didn't dare to look back.

Yelu Dashi only relied on his legs to hold the horse's belly, sat on the saddle without moving, stretched his bow and arrows, and stared at a Zengtou City horse army in front of him who only cared about escaping. As soon as the arrow was fired, the horse army fell from his horse.

When Yelu Dashi reached out to touch the arrows again, he touched the void, and found that all the arrows had been shot empty.

Looking at the horse army that was already less than 200 left in front of him, Yelu Dashi stretched out his hand and asked for another pot of arrows from the soldiers on the side.

I saw a distant stopper coming from the south and shouting: "Report, there is a large group of soldiers and horses in the south coming towards Zengtou City." ”

Yelu Dashi shot down the horse army of Zengtou City in front of him again, and asked, "Is it the border army of the Song Kingdom?" ”

"Unlike the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty, those soldiers and horses were all dressed in black armor. Earlier, we came across a few black-clad horses, so we went to the south sentry, and there were always thousands of black-clad and black-armored soldiers and horses coming from the south. ”

These distant guards under the command of Yelu Dashi are the few remaining elite cavalry of the Khitan, and when the two armies are fighting, they will be sprinkled far away on the periphery of the battlefield to spy on the news and prevent ambush.

Yelu Dashi couldn't figure out the way of these soldiers and horses for a while, so for the sake of prudence, he still restrained his soldiers and horses, and then sent a distant blocker to explore the way of the army from the south.

Zeng Tu and others had pursued the Liao soldiers for a while, and were pursued by the Liao cavalry who were waiting for work for dozens of miles, and the horsepower had declined.

has been fleeing into Zengtou City, Zeng Tu dared to turn his head to count his soldiers and horses.

Hearing that there were less than 200 horse troops coming back, I suddenly wanted to cry without tears, I originally thought that this battle could besiege and kill hundreds of Liao cavalry, but I didn't expect that in the end it almost fell into the Liao soldiers, and the 2,000 soldiers and horses fled back less than 200.

In addition, there were more than 1,000 casualties in the last battle with Liangshan, and now there are only 2,000 soldiers and horses left behind in Zengtou City, and the loss of these many people, the Zeng family has to spend a lot of gold and silver to appease the people in the town.

The guards of Zengtou City were also panicked when they saw Zeng Tu leading less than 200 horse troops back in embarrassment.

(To be continued)