The 2,000 Khitan cavalry from the north came from the southwest of the Khitan Kingdom.

After all, this northern expedition is considered to be a trip abroad, considering that readers may not be familiar with the Khitan Kingdom, we will first give you a tour of the simple one.

The location of Zhi Congyuan's trip this time is called Xijing Road in the Khitan Kingdom, which is a region one level higher than the provincial-level administrative region, and we can probably understand this "Dao" as a "war zone".

How big is Saikyo Road? Anyway, to the west of the core area of the Khitan Kingdom is Xijing Road, which is larger than all the ten countries in the Central Plains at that time combined, with an area of several million square kilometers.

When I arrived in Liaoguo, most of Xijing Road was assigned to Shangjing Road, and these details have nothing to do with the plot, so we won't pay attention to it for the time being.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government of the Khitan State was integrated with the military and the government, and three armies were deployed in Xijing Road, including the Southwest Recruiting Division, the Collapsed Ridge Jiedu Envoy, and the Northwest Road Recruitment Division, which also managed local administrative affairs.

The area under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Recruitment Division is close to the Central Plains, and the Central Plains is bounded by the Yellow River after the Tang Dynasty, which is a densely populated area of Xijing Road, and it can also be regarded as a relatively developed area of Khitan economy.

The commander-in-chief of the Southwestern Recruitment Division is Yelu Bugu and Khitan Yuyue.

What is Yu Yue? It is a strange official name unique to the Khitan State.

After all, the Khitan Kingdom came out of the nomadic people, and they respected the old people in the tribe. But the emperor is very young, what should he do? Then seal you a "Yu Yue", see the emperor does not worship, the status is high, everyone is very respectful when they see you, you sit, everyone stands! If you want to drink water, send someone to fetch water, if you want to eat meat, quickly give the order to kill the sheep.

Awesome!

However, if you express your opinion on personnel and political affairs, then everyone will have to think that you are farting.

The country has national laws, and the emperor is the biggest in the country, so how can it be your turn to point fingers there?

Therefore, in the Khitan, "Yu Yue" is an official who is bigger than the emperor! But no one actually pays attention to you at all.

It's just that after a long time, "Yu Yue" slowly became an honorary title.

Yelu Lu Bugu is a Yu Yue, commanding the southwest recruitment division, the establishment of 80,000 cavalry, and later because of various wars to draw 30,000 people, not long ago Yelu Deguang south invasion and 20,000 people, now in fact, in the southwest on the ground of the recruitment division, there are only 30,000 soldiers.

Yelu Bugu is in his fifties, and he has two generals, Yelu Kuma and Zhao Siwen.

The leader who came over this time was Zhao Siwen, the general under the Southwest Recruitment Division.

Does that sound familiar?

This Zhao Siwen is the Han general who forced Yelu Abaoji's wife Shu Luping to cut off his right wrist in court!

Zhao Siwen, the word is beautiful, and he is from Youzhou. Less fruitful, strong and human.

When Zhao Siwen was young, he followed Liu Rengong, the king of Yan, in Youzhou, and was a colleague of Zhao Dejun, Li Cunqiao led the Tang army to attack Yan, and Zhao Siwen led a Yan army to fight against Zhou Dewei, the general under Li Cunqiao at that time, and was defeated and captured by Zhou Dewei. Because he was blinded in one eye by the Tang army during the war, he was resentful, and later took advantage of the Khitan invasion to take refuge in Yelu Abaoji.

Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager Shu Luping asked him, "Is it Emperor Ru Sixian?" Zhao Siwen counterattacked, forcing Shu Luping to cut off his right wrist.

Offended Shu Luping naturally had no good fruit to eat, Zhao Siwen had surrendered to the Khitan as a traitor for many years, and he didn't dare to return to the Central Plains, so he had to flee far away to the southwest to recruit Silai, and took refuge in his old superior, Yelu Bugu, and sought refuge.

Although Zhao Siwen is a lackey of the Khitan people, a big traitor, and has experienced ups and downs in his life, his skills are still good. Although he is old, his bravery has not diminished back then! A one hundred and eight pounds of Daguan knife makes it superb, no one can stop it, and the head of the general in the million army is like probing the bag! This sentence was praised by Li Zanhua when he was still in Khitan.

Zhao Siwen, ranked seventh among the top ten Khitan heroes, was forty-two years old.

Yongbyon Prefecture was burned by a fire from afar, and the sky was full of fireworks, and even Dongshengzhou, which was a hundred miles away, could be seen. Zhao Siwen, who was stationed in Dongshengzhou, sent people to see what was going on, and the scouts came back to report that two thousand Tang troops had crossed the border to fight the grass valley, and a fire set Ningbyon Prefecture on fire!

Lit? How can a city be set on fire?

Zhao Siwen felt a little incredible, so he took two thousand horsemen out of the city and rushed all the way to Yongbyon Prefecture to check it out with his own eyes.

Seeing Ningbian Prefecture, which was burned black, Zhao Siwen's nose was almost crooked. The 1,000 troops of Yongbyon Prefecture are also under the control of Zhao Siwen, and now they are all nested in the city and burned to death! It's too a slap in the face, where can I bear this breath!

Just seeing the tail of Zhenwu fleeing into the valley, Zhao Siwen hurriedly waved his army to chase after him.

It stands to reason that the battlefield shielding of the Zhenwu Army is good, the Khitan Army thought that the Zhenwu Army only had 2,000 people, and rushed up stupidly, and the Zhenwu Army turned around and charged, and the chances of winning against 2,000 cavalry were actually quite large.

However, Zhi Congyuan is a famous general!

Where will a famous general wave his hand and shout to charge? Famous generals pretend to be forced, and there is no need to pretend to be forced like those turtles riding on horses.

Famous generals pretend to be forced, don't look at the process, only look at the result! Strategizing, making decisions thousands of miles away, and forcibly destroying the captives Well, this metaphor is not very accurate, anyway, before killing the enemy, you always have to disgust the enemy first, and then you will cast a net to prey.

If you don't toss and toss, how can you still have the face to say that you are a famous general?

Zhao Siwen led two thousand Khitan cavalry into the valley, turned a few corners, and on the ground in the narrow valley ahead, a large area of black coal dust appeared, sprinkled with black coal dust.

The last few Zhenwu cavalry who ran raised their torches, threw them back, and with a bang, a flash of fire rose, and the front had become a wall of fire, blocking the way of the Khitan army's advance.

The Khitan cavalry hurriedly reined in the horse's head, and at this time, Zhao Siwen suddenly woke up, this is a valley in the shape of a waist drum, and two thousand Khitan cavalry rushed in, like getting into a pocket!

A burst of excitement, a cold feeling, rose from Zhao Siwen's back.

Zhao Siwen, who has led the troops for many years, feels that he may have been tricked, no, hurry up and run back!

It's right to run back, there is a large wall of fire in front, and it will take at least half an hour to burn down, and the enemy's ambush will rush out at any time!

It's just that no enemy rushed out for the time being, and behind the fire, the thirty stone-throwing trucks of the Zhenwu Army had already been set up.

A large group of Khitan soldiers gathered in the valley, the front was blocked by a wall of fire, surrounded by high mountains on both sides, and when everyone was a little panicked, a strange whistling sound came from overhead, and thirty "fire bombs" flew in!

The "fire bomb" dispersed as soon as it landed, and the flames were everywhere, and they lit up when they encountered people.

The Khitan cavalry huddled together exploded at once, and they all pulled their horses and jumped around desperately to dodge, but the people and horses who were ignited by the fire ran around at a loss, and many people and horses were lit one by one, and then those "new fire people" also began to run around.

The fire spread quickly, lighting up more and more cavalry!

This is the situation when a large group of cavalry is attacked by fire, which is particularly tragic.

Originally, if a person is on fire, the best way to deal with it is to immediately fall to the ground, roll back and forth on the ground, and extinguish the fire on the body.

However, in such a chaotic scene, there are cavalry running around everywhere, who dares to dismount? Dismount and immediately be trampled into a pulp!

So what to do? Running blindly, anyway, it's the six gods without a master, panic!

It also says that people are on fire. It's another thing if the horse's body is on fire! And even if a person catches fire first, it will quickly burn to the horse.

If the horse's body is burned, then it will be completely insane! Who can control it! The war horse was in pain, and immediately ran wildly, and when it met people, it hit and drilled into the crowd of people and horses! Where the crowd is dense, drill wherever the crowd is dense!

No horse will stay where it is, waiting to be burned! Horses are animals, and animals have no experience or awareness to deal with their own fire, and the only thing they can do is to run blindly and hide in the herd of horses for help or comfort.

The terrain in the valley was narrow, the horses could not disperse, and the horses running around with fire on their bodies made the fire spread rapidly!

The chaos spread rapidly, and as the second wave of thirty fireballs flew to the ground, the entire Khitan cavalry group boiled!

Everyone scrambled to run back, and the people with the fire on their bodies squeezed desperately over, and immediately someone slashed to death those stupid forks who were on fire and wanted to harm others.

But those "fire men" and "fire horses" are not cut by you!

Why should we be so cruelly cut us when we are set on fire? We're going to resist!

The one who is not on fire and the one who is on fire are cut together, even if everyone is not on fire, I will cut you if you stand in my way!

Two thousand Khitan cavalry were in a mess! The shouts in the valley shook the sky, and no one could hear what the others were shouting, and everyone was terrified, shouting frantically at their own maximum volume, slashing with the saber in their hands on all sides, desperately urging the horse to rush forward.

Countless people were cut off their horses, knocked down and fell off their horses, countless people were trampled to death, and then countless more were set on fire!

The third round of fireballs flew over, and countless more people were set on fire!

Fourth round

Fifth round

To be honest, in fact, there is not much fire, it is still a crowd effect! Everybody's crazy! There are far more people who trample on each other and are hacked or trampled to death than those who are burned to death!

Among the 2,000 Khitan cavalry just now, the hundreds of Khitan cavalry at the back were the fastest to react, and as soon as they saw the fire bombs flying in the sky in front of them, they knew that it was going to be bad!

Under the call of the clever little general, these people ran back as soon as possible, and avoided the fire people chasing after them in time!

It's just that after turning around twice in the valley, Pei Baoman and Wang Caiyun, who were originally hiding in the forked small valley, were one person and one God of War chariot, followed by five hundred cavalry Zhenwu Army, and ran to the main road in a big way, stopping this group of Khitan cavalry who were fleeing frantically!

"The poor road is Joseph, the butcher of the world" (to be continued.) )