He Ping returned to the camp.

"Ahsan, call a few cavalrymen and drag some dead horses over."

"Yes, my lord."

"Ah Chai, prepare to set up a fire and make horse broth."

Ah Chai is the head of the fire in Ding Chen's camp, and he is a mixed race of Tuyuhun and Han Chinese. Since the Ding Chen battalion is considered an independent military unit, it naturally needs someone to cook and support logistics. In this era, everything is simplified, and the logistics arms are actually infantry, fighting in wartime, and when the troops move in peacetime, they are responsible for pushing several carts with some pots and pans and simple stoves on them, and when they stop at the station, they will open the fire and cook food.

The firehead army was only equipped with cutlery and stoves, and as for food and fuel, it was generally provided locally. When the large army was dispatched, there were also granaries, and the small troops generally grabbed wherever they went, and at most they only had two or three days of grain reserves.

Therefore, in ancient times, in war, offense was always much more comfortable than defense, which was called eating the enemy, snatching and eating all in the enemy's home, and there was no need to feel distressed at all.

The ancients did not have the concept of three meals a day, and eating two steamed buns every morning was a day's food. Having meat to eat or something to eat in the afternoon and evening is considered extra. Now the horse corpses in the muddy pond are all meat, and taking advantage of the temporary truce, everyone can seize the time to fill their stomachs.

The sergeants were happily preparing to open another feast of horse meat, and He Ping had already turned over and dismounted, and returned to the tent.

The Khitans were not stupid, and after discovering the traps on the road, they stopped just to prepare to fill the road. It is estimated that it will not take an hour to attack again, and by that time, the traps on the wading section will basically not work.

Seeing He Daxian come in, the cicada, who was hiding from the sun in the tent, hurriedly came over with a glass of cold boiled water.

Don't look at this battle, it seems to be quite easy to win, in fact, after killing Naigua Sa Thorn and several other Khitan heavy cavalry, He Daxian was already so tired that he almost couldn't lift it with a sore hand.

Just now it is called gathering qi, that is, a short period of high concentration and physical strength. It is easy to gather qi, and it will take a long time to return qi, after all, Zhao Ergou's physical quality is there, otherwise why do you think that the great immortal pretends to be Mao and doesn't pretend to be the end at one time? Wouldn't it be cooler to kill all the way into the Khitan light cavalry, chop vegetables and cut melons and kill three in and three out?

It's not easy for people to stop there and pretend to observe the battlefield with such a chic and upright attitude, and secretly pant for breath without letting people see it.

After drinking the boiled water in one sip, He Daxian did not untie his armor, sat cross-legged on the ground and began to meditate.

More than half an hour later, Liu Qi came to report that the Khitans had started to move again.

He Daxian finished meditating, full of energy, and stood up in a cheerful mood, turned around and got out of the tent.

"My lord, do you want to drink broth?"

"Drink."

He Ping took a bowl of piping hot horse broth handed by Liu Qi, smelled the fragrance and drank it slowly, before turning over and going to inspect the battlefield.

The Khitans were much more cautious in this attack, first riding in groups of forty or fifty horses, and throwing bags of mud, sand and gravel wrapped in cloth from a distance, and throwing them into the muddy pond on the wading sand road. After throwing more than a dozen sets of sandbags, he sent a light cavalry of 100 meters with a big shield to come over, dismounted from afar, walked cautiously all the way, and slowly flattened the dirt bags thrown by the cavalry just now with the fork in his hand, and the original mud pond was slowly filled up, turning into a dry passage about ten meters wide.

These dismounted Khitan cavalry moved very carefully, and the big shield in their hands was always guarding the Tang army's position more than a hundred meters away.

From beginning to end, for most of the whole half an hour, the Tang army always cowered in his own position, some drank soup, some dozed off, some farted and chatted, and some stupidly lay on the sampan and looked at these Khitans who were diligently filling the road, as if they had nothing to do with them.

A hundred meters behind the Khitan engineers, there was also a group of light cavalry, who were always ready to prevent the Tang army from rushing out to interfere with the road construction.

At this time, General Xiao Luying, the leader of this Khitan army, was also among these light cavalry.

Although General Xiao was from an aristocratic background, he had received complete commander training in his family since he was a child, and commanding a large army to fight was not an unfamiliar thing for him. Coupled with his Xiao family's unique character and temperament, he is quite sophisticated. Therefore, as soon as he found out that the Tang army had arranged the sand trap in a planned way, he decisively gave up the more than 100 heavy cavalry trapped in the mud, directly ordered the troops to retreat, and then ordered his subordinates to prepare to throw soil and fill the road.

Originally, it was still prepared that in the process of filling the road, the Tang army might rush out to interfere, and some battles would inevitably occur. How do you know that the Tang Army simply ignored their actions.

That's weird, there's no trap ahead, right?

General Xiao couldn't help but pat his horse and rush forward, until he came to the group of soldiers who were trying to pave the road with their forks.

At a glance from the front, it is still an unobstructed sandy area, and the Tang army themselves were stepping on it just now, and there is no discipline at all, and it is unlikely that there will be traps. It's just that if there are no other means, does the Tang army want to rely on those small sampans across the sandbar to block thousands of Khitan cavalry?

The soldiers paving the road were all standing on the ground and working, and General Xiao and his six personal soldiers on horses stood out like chickens and were particularly conspicuous.

Just as General Xiao probed his brain and tried to peek into the situation of the Tang army's position, he saw a short Tang army general suddenly turn out from behind a small sampan.

Seeing a black shadow striking like lightning, Xiao Luying hurriedly raised the arm shield on his left arm, and with a bang, a long arrow had been firmly inserted in the middle of the arm shield, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still shaking under the strong vibration.

Hey, at a distance of almost one hundred and fifty meters, that little Tang will be riding on a horse, and he can still hit so accurately when running, and the strength is also very large, this archery is a bit of a doorway.

General Xiao Luying smiled, pulled out the arrow inserted in the arm shield with one hand, turned around and pulled out his seven-stone bow from the saddle, and then put the feather arrow shot by the opponent on the bow, the emerald green wrench on the thumb of his right hand firmly buckled the bowstring, his left arm was straightened, his right arm was rounded, he pulled out the longbow, and quickly aimed at the little Tang general who was turning around, and shot back with an arrow!

Everyone can guess that the little Tang general who ran out just now is Shan Wu.

Although Chief Zhao has repeatedly ordered everyone not to leave behind the sampan and not to engage any Khitan soldiers in front, for Shan Wu, the so-called marksman, the temptation of a Khitan official to run to the front of the formation to probe his brain is too great. Taking advantage of Chief Zhao's efforts to get off the horse to pee, he still couldn't help but pat the horse's ass and ran out, wanting to grab this credit with one arrow.

After all, this Shan Wu is still young and has a short experience.

After practicing a few weather skills, I feel that I am amazing, and I feel that I can come out and compete with the heroes of the world in archery.

This is the real reality version of the Too young, too simple Tucson broken.

As we all know, the first archery in the Later Tang Empire was originally stationed in Shuozhou, and now he has secretly surrendered to the Zhenwu patrol commander An Chongrong, who has been strong since childhood, good at riding and shooting, and holding a ten-stone bow. Shan Wu can only make a three-stone bow now, and even in the Later Tang Empire, he can't rank at all, let alone the Khitan archers who are known as a great horse archery country.

As for the number one shooter in the Khitan country, of course it is not Xiao Luying, General Xiao can only be ranked around the tenth in the Khitan country, and he is also one of the top ten masters.

Let's use this analogy, Shan Wu's ability is probably only equivalent to the champion of the city's middle school students, and he is not qualified to enter the city's professional sports team, there is a provincial team above the city team, and there is a national team above the provincial team, and General Xiao Luying is a non-famous athlete in the archery national team of the Khitan Kingdom. Although the general audience can't call his name, as long as he is not playing against his teammates in the national team, it is as easy as chopping vegetables and melons for General Xiao to defeat opponents of other levels.

At this time, Shan Wu didn't know that he had kicked the iron plate, and he was still feeling sorry in his heart that the arrow he had just shot was blocked by the Khitan officer, and he was about to hurry up and shoot another arrow in a circle.

It was too late, and the feather arrow in General Xiao's hand had already left the string, and with the full power of seven stones, it flew straight towards Shan Wu in the air!