At about nine o'clock in the morning, the 3,000 cavalry of the Zhenwu West Route Army arrived at the city of Ningwu Pass.

Before the Khitan army came, the imperial court arranged for about 1,000 Yingzhou troops to defend the city. Of course, these 1,000 people are only the names written in the booklet, and they are the number of people who ask the court for food, but in fact, there are only more than 300 people on duty, and all of them are veterans or disabled soldiers.

The most important thing is that they are all part-time.

Hehe, part-time soldier, haven't heard of it? During the day, he herded sheep and did farm work, and at night he went to sleep and go to work on the city tower, and he had no combat effectiveness at all. If the Later Tang Dynasty does not die in the official history, it will really be unreasonable.

The Khitan army arrived, and the cavalry of more than 10,000 people under the city was surging, and the Tang generals who guarded Ningwu Pass had already been frightened, and Yingzhou also let the wind come over, saying that the Khitans could take over Ningwu Pass, so they raised their hands and surrendered without saying a word.

After Ningwuguan changed hands, in order to prevent Zhao Ping, the Khitan army left two thousand defenders here.

The regular Khitan cavalry all went to Taiyuan to fight, and the 2,000 Khitan troops who stayed to defend the city were basically veterans and disabled soldiers in the baggage camp, and their combat effectiveness was far worse than that of the regular Khitan cavalry. But he is loyal and reliable, his courage is commendable, he dares to defend the city, and he dares to fight to the last man!

After all, this is also an important material transit point for the Khitan army.

When the Zhenwu army arrived at the city, the city tower was densely covered with Khitan veterans defending the city, and the city gate was closed and waiting.

Although the city of Ningwuguan is not large, it was originally designed as a small city that can hold on for several years! The city wall is high and thick, and there is a five-meter-wide moat around it, which is compact and highly defensive, and cannot be taken without a strong attack.

He Daxian was not afraid of attacking the city, but a large number of Khitan troops in Yangwu Valley would rush out at any time, and it was not a good idea to rashly launch a siege without daring to guarantee the efficiency of the siege. So, he simply divided the forces in his hand into two, leaving a thousand light cavalry here to continue grinding with the Khitan soldiers on the city wall, and he took the remaining two thousand cavalry to Yangwu Valley.

Well, I know that many readers are very careful and have a good memory, and if this stalk is not unraveled, some people will jump out and scold.

Didn't the Khitan army have 50,000 people already in Yunzhou? Didn't the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang already inform them to send 10,000 cavalry to Ningwuguan to help evacuate? At this time, it must be almost there, right? As soon as this 10,000 Khitan iron rider came, blocking the intersection, wouldn't our protagonist He Daxian die?

The situation is like this, there was no telegraph and telephone in this era, and since Yelu Deguang was going to mobilize the Khitan army in Yunzhou, he naturally had to send a communication army to convey the order.

So since even I have thought of it, the wise Comrade He Daxian is of course well aware of the various dirty methods used by the mortal world in blocking information on the battlefield.

This place is full of mountains, and from Taiyuan to Yunzhou and Yingzhou, it is impossible to climb the mountains, it is too slow, and you can only send cavalry to run. If it is a cavalry to run, there are only twelve roads in total, and this is still counting the fact that Yanmen Pass allows the Khitan communication cavalry to pass through there are only twelve roads, otherwise there are only five roads.

Daizhou was occupied by Zhao Dejun, and Yanmen Pass was blocked, so during this time, the Khitan heralds actually only had five roads to go.

But among these five roads, if it is an emergency military situation, then two detours of 300 miles have to be removed, and the route of the Flying Fox Road from Ulju is actually only three.

Therefore, since He Daxian knew that the other 50,000 Khitan troops had arrived in Yunzhou, he naturally began to send people to block the communication line of Yelu Deguang's mobilization of this army. I didn't send many people, I sent fifty horsemen on each road, and I could block the road halfway, and if I saw what looked like a messenger, I shot it with an arrow, and then Pegasus sent the letters to Shuozhou or Shenchi Pass.

A little bit of knowledge is popularized here, there were not many cases of cryptographic communication in ancient times, especially the Khitan people with a low level of education. On the one hand, the wax pill is easy to hide on the body, and on the other hand, the wax pill can be imprinted, so that the recipient can distinguish whether the document is original and genuine.

So the question is, where do the signal soldiers usually hide these wax pills when they have to run long distances and evade the enemy halfway to intercept them?

Think about it, think casually, in the mouth, under the armpits, in the soles, ****, **** of the war horse, of the mare

Isn't it disgusting? So one day when you read other novels or TV series, and you see a certain general or emperor pretending to take the wax pill from the herald with a serious face, personally inspect the mark on the wax pill, crush the wax pill with your own hands, and take out a note to read the letter, don't spit it out

The correct thing to do is to order your subordinates: "Test! "Open!" "Read!"

Well, without further ado. This time, when Yelu Deguang sent three messengers to deliver the message along three different routes, all of them were intercepted by the Zhenwu army team. The military orders of the Khitan army are very strict, and the emperor's first order is to reach the border of Yunzhou, and there is no further order to let you go south, who dares to enter the customs casually! Therefore, without receiving further orders, the 50,000 Khitan troops had to rest in place.

This is also the reason why He Daxian dared to rush into Ningwu Pass and Yangwu Valley with three thousand cavalry.

Let's not talk about how He Daxian led 2,000 cavalry to detour through Ningwu Pass and rushed into Yangwu Valley to grab meat, let's first talk about the 1,000 Zhenwu Army light cavalry who stayed to confront the 2,000 Khitan old and weak remnants of Ningwu Pass.

This light cavalry was led by Liao Xian, a cavalry captain.

Captain Liao Xian was sent by Han Kuangsi after the defeat of the Shuozhou Army and the Khitan Army at Yangfangkou at that time, and came to find Zhao Ping, who was still wandering on the Long March, and said that he hoped that General Zhao would go back to take over the little captain in Shuozhou.

Liao Xian is a smart young man, since joining the Zhenwu Army West Route Army, after day and night of non-stop brainwashing, not only changed the world view, but also has a deep understanding of the Zhenwu Army's army building thinking and operational ideas.

For example, this time General Zhao left him to confront Ning Wuguan, and he only asked General Zhao for one thing, the Lei Yin Mother Stone.

At that time, the propaganda offensive of Lei Yin Gongmu Stone made the Shuozhou army very angry, so this time Liao Xian prepared to use it to deal with the Khitans.

However, this time the target is the Khitans, and the intimidation and probation are ineffective. Everyone has different positions, where can they be moved to open the city gate to welcome you?

If you can't be moved, you will scold!

Kill before you scold!

Seeing that the city was densely packed with Khitan soldiers defending the city, Captain Liao waved his hand, and more than a dozen cavalry cavalry rushed out behind him, all with a basin-sized word sewn on their chests: "Fart".

Don't laugh, laugh at the Zhenwu soldiers and you are in a hurry.

If you can sew a "fart" on your clothes, it's an honor, and it means that you are a member of the "fart sniper team"! You can get an extra 10 yuan for your monthly salary!

Now the "fart sniper tactics" have risen to a high level of importance in the Zhenwu Army!

There is no way to do this, General Zhao said, now that the Zhenwu Army has expanded its establishment, it is necessary to dismantle all the bow battalions and divide them into each battalion. Now he has just been promoted to the right general, Wang Da Hammer, who was born in the former bow battalion, is in a hurry.

Anyone who has ever been a high-ranking military officer knows that no matter how prosperous you are in the future, it is very important to remember your roots.

For example, I am now transferred to the front army to be the chief of the general staff, and I originally came out of the second company of the third regiment, the fourth battalion, so when I see the soldiers of the second company, or the company commander of the fourth battalion, I have a natural sense of closeness, just like seeing the villagers from my hometown. The commander of the third regiment will also call you "old chief" and "old leader", and you also earnestly encourage the commander of the third regiment to continue to work hard with this heroic regiment, and you will also have more face!

But you have demolished my old bottom, where can I reason about this!

"Where did you come from?"

"Report to the marshal, my unit has been dismantled, gone!"

Not only is this emotionally unacceptable, but it is difficult to say what impact it will have on his personal future in the future.

However, Wang Dazhui still left a valuable property for Zhenwujun, the "fart sniper brigade".

After the officers of the Shuozhou Army joined, the quality of the officers was generally improved, and they were no longer the original buns that followed Zhao Ping's chicken dog to heaven. These Shuozhou military captains are all knowledgeable people, they didn't understand after listening to it once, and they started to rob people after listening to it for the second time!

Liao Xian also grabbed five fart snipers, and trained more than a dozen by himself, and today is the first time to pull them out and use them.

In addition to the great strength, the distance of shooting, and the accuracy of shooting, because of General Zhao's kind care and great attention, the weapon has also been improved and strengthened, the anti-angle bow is a must, and the materials of the bowstring and bow handle are also refined.

So if you see a Zhenwu cavalry with the word "fart" on your body in the future, don't be in a hurry to laugh, people can draw a bow and shoot you from 300 meters away, and it is very accurate, you were killed by an arrow by a fart soldier without closing your mouth!

The first round of humiliating blows of the Zhenwu army, especially against the Khitans, began!

More than a dozen cavalrymen with the word "fart" on their bodies quickly ran to a place three hundred meters away from the city wall and lined up, and they didn't talk nonsense, they all bent their bows and arrows, brushed the ground, and a row of more than a dozen long arrows shot up the city.

Nine Khitan soldiers were hit by arrows on the spot, and five of them fell to the city!

Empiricism kills people! These Khitan soldiers were already experienced veterans, and they were still surprised how they could shoot arrows from so far away? Still that accurate?

Before they could figure it out, a second round of arrows came at them, and eleven more people were hit by the arrows, eight were killed on the spot, and three fell to the ground and writhed in pain.

At this moment, everyone panicked, and hurriedly lowered their bodies and hid behind the arrow battlements of the city wall.

Then, they heard an unheard loud voice from the other side, and the whole city could hear it clearly, the standard Khitan language, arrogant and domineering, and a contemptuous and arrogant aristocratic accent in the capital of the Khitan capital:

"What's it to hide? You cowards! Turtle King Bastard! If it's a Khitan, just stand up straight, don't lie down! (To be continued.) )