Chapter Thirty-Nine: Han Kuangsi is here
When the Khitan cavalry in the wild ran saw the waterhole in front of them, they were so shocked that they hurriedly went to pull the reins. However, apparently the war horses did not think so, they felt that the large wolf pack that appeared behind them was far more terrifying than the waterhole in front of them, so they rushed to the waterhole even more desperately.
Except for a few heavy cavalrymen in the front row, because they were so frightened, they pulled the reins of the horses so that the horse's head was twisted one hundred and eighty degrees, so they fell to the ground one after another before they reached the edge of the pool, and were trampled into pulp by the horses behind. The other horses all maintained their highest sprint speed, and jumped into the deep pool one after another.
In the blink of an eye, the pond was covered with war horses and cavalry, and there was a steady stream of cavalry and war horses rushing over behind, and even because they ran too fast, they jumped directly on the back of the war horse that fell into the water in front, and rushed to the front after jumping again. The strange scene that has never been seen before stunned the spearmen of the Tang Army who were densely packed on the shore and were waiting for battle, and many people even forgot that the battle was still going on, and couldn't help but cheer for the Khitan cavalry who jumped beautifully and jumped far!
"Good! This is pretty! ”
"Hard! Alas, alas, it's just a little bit. ”
"Hey, this fat man is amazing, he can swim in the water, I bet he can swim to the shore."
"Where? Where? ”
"See? It's just that there is a green cloth on the shoulder, and it was pressed into the water by the guy in the back, and it's over."
This waterhole is roughly a rectangle, the size of half a football field, about 70 meters in length and more than 50 meters in width. The hussars were a little better, and even if they didn't know much about water, they could gouge a few times and row desperately to the shore. But the cavalry that rushed over and jumped into the water in the back knocked the horses and light cavalry who barely surfaced into the water one after another, and most of them were directly stunned or slapped into the water, and no one was seen again.
Only the small number of people who ran at the back could escape the fate of drowning on the spot and struggled to swim to the shore.
The lucky one who rowed to the shore was greeted with the long-awaited spear.
The Tang soldiers had been waiting impatiently for a long time, and finally someone swam over, and with a shout, more than a dozen spears scrambled to stab the unarmed Khitan soldiers into a blood blur, wailing. Immediately afterwards, there was a commotion on the other side, it turned out that someone swam over again, and a large number of Tang soldiers ran over to stab people, and several Tang soldiers who were running by the water were even squeezed into the water by the crowd, so frightened that they didn't want the spear in their hands, and they plopped and even grabbed and crawled back to the shore, and they were all covered in water and embarrassed.
In the scene at that time, the whole scene was full of frolic and laughter, as if the battlefield had become a playground, everyone had lost their intelligence, everyone was like a child celebrating the festival, rushing to the left for a while, rushing to the right for a while, screaming, laughing and scolding, swarming like ducks to chase down the Khitan soldiers who swam ashore exhausted.
The Tang soldiers, who had been on the edge of the waterhole, did not describe the situation to anyone else, and everyone remained silent collectively, as if they had forgotten the massacre.
Because it's so miserable.
More than 400 cavalry, more than 400 war horses, more than half of them turned into floating corpses, floating coldly on the waterhole, covering almost the entire surface of the water. Only about 70 or so people swam to the shore with all their might, but one by one they were stabbed into a bloody lump of flesh by the Tang soldiers guarding the shore, and the water on the shore around the waterhole was stained red with blood, and most of the Tang soldiers' shoes and trouser legs were red.
More than 30 war horses struggled to swim ashore and were captured by the Tang army. But these horses were no longer usable, their physical strength was overrun, their tendons were permanently damaged, their spirits were extremely unstable, and tears kept flowing from their eyes. In the end, the Tang soldiers could only sigh and let them go, leaving them to fend for themselves in the wild.
Only one person survived, and that was a Khitan hundred-man chief.
This Khitan hundred-man chief probably also had a nervous breakdown. Standing waist-deep in the water, facing dozens of spears on the shore, he raised his hands high, wailed, babbled in Khitan dialect that no one could understand, and begged the Tang soldiers to let him live. In the end, Du Bin, the captain who was in charge of the killing work at the scene, kindly walked over, let him go ashore, tied him up and escorted him to Zhao Ping and Captain Zhao to see if the chief needed to be questioned.
Who knew that Captain Zhao didn't even look at it, and there were only two words in his mouth: "Cut!" ”
Liu Qier, who was beside him, went down without saying a word, and the Khitan 100 captain who finally survived fell to the ground on the spot.
He Daxian rode on his horse from beginning to end, standing at the fortress, and did not even go to the waterhole to take a look.
He focused on the next move of the Khitan soldiers.
Now, all the cards in his hand have been played, and there is still a thousand-man team on the Khitan army that has not moved.
General Xiao Luying immediately stood in front of the queue at this time, and the second thousand-man team behind him had already finished the queue, waiting for his order.
But General Xiao hesitated.
He also saw that something was wrong, the three hundred light cavalry in front of him was slaughtered by the Tang Army's three hundred archers, which had already frightened him.
General Xiao is a Khitan general who knows the archers well, even if three hundred of the best Khitan archers can wipe out half of them at most in the face of the charge of three hundred light cavalry, how can they not rush through without a single horse? Even if you don't care about these three hundred light cavalry, the five hundred cavalry behind are a mixed charge of light and heavy cavalry, and they do rush in. It stands to reason that at this time, it should be these 500 horsemen who are killing in the Tang army's position, and the Tang army's chickens and dogs are jumping, and they are fleeing in all directions.
But why doesn't it seem to be moving?
The black-clad Tang general and the Tang archers were still calmly and stupidly in the two fortresses, as if nothing had happened to them.
General Xiao didn't dare to move, he could only hope that some of the Khitan cavalry would come out of the Tang army's position again and tell him what was going on inside.
As the minutes passed, the faint shouts of killing and the neighing of horses on the Tang army's position gradually quieted down.
That's it?
Didn't a single Khitan cavalry come back alive?
Looking at the Tang Army general in the distance, who was all black and silent, General Xiao suddenly felt an indescribable sense of fear rising from the soles of his feet.
The whole person gradually became cold from the heart to the body.
"General, let's rush and kill all the Tang dogs!"
This is another Khitan general, a thousand people with a thousand horsemen behind him.
"Shut up!"
Just when Xiao Luying was sincerely scared and didn't know what to do, there was a report from the Malay.
"Report to the general, Lord Han is here with Shuozhou soldiers."
The person who came was Han Kuangsi.
The Han family was the third largest family in the Great Liao Dynasty after the royal Yelu family and the descendant Xiao family.
The Han family originated from Han Kuangsi's father, Han Zhigu. Han Zhigu is a Han Chinese, and when he was six years old, he was steadily plundered by the Khitan nobleman Shu Lu and given to his sister Shu Lu Ping as a house slave. This Shu Luping later married Taizu Yelu Abaoji, the most famous first Empress Xiao and Empress Chunqin.
Han Zhigu was originally just a house slave in the descendant family, and gave birth to a son, Han Kuanghei. Who knew that this child was smart and clever since he was a child, and he was loved by Taizu Abaoji and Empress Chunqin, regarded him as his own, and mixed in the palace every day, so Abaoji saw Han Zhigu's ability and ability. Since then, Han Zhigu has developed, been an official all the way, and has achieved the Zhongshu Order. He died only six years ago, and he is one of the heroes left by Taizu Abaoji.
Han Kuangsi himself is also a famous figure in history, medical skills and eloquence are quite good, if he hadn't met He Daxian here, this person would have been mixed in the Khitan court, and finally was appointed by the Liao Emperor to stay in Nanjing, the king of Yan, the official is bigger than his father, and he is the only Han man in the Liao Dynasty who is crowned king.
Of course, that was all later.
At this time, Han Kuangsi had just turned eighteen years old, and he was the personal doctor of Changle Palace, that is, Empress Chunqin.
After Shuozhou surrendered, Xiao Han came to identify and receive some rare medicines that Shuozhou had given to Empress Chunqin.