The sun is three poles, the cool breeze is blowing on the Baihuagang, and the rising sun radiates a circle of golden needle-like light under the blue sky and white clouds to hit the Liao army's main formation, stabbing the Liao soldiers wearing wolf tail and rolling eaves leather helmets one after another, complaining in their hearts, this array is too unfavorable to meet the enemy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Compared with this disadvantaged position, a natural mountain beam covers the back, and can be from a high position to watch the enemy, the cavalry is on the high ground is more conducive to the speed of the war horse to seize the opportunity and grasp the initiative on the battlefield, which can be completely offset. As the commander of the army, Yelu Tartlie did not fail to expect this, no terrain can be perfect, and it must be weighed.

Under the hill, the Chinese army is in a large array, the flag of the windward hunting is twisting with strange words, the black background and the white wolf's head are temporarily set up with a big wooden platform, the sea holly and green ox pattern screen embossed with the Khitan worship totem are embossed, Yelu Tart Lie wears an iron helmet with colorful pheasant feathers and a fiery ruby inlaid on his forehead, and sits behind the handsome case wearing iron armor, and there are sixteen big drums for heralds under the honor guard door on both sides, as well as eight huge horns carried by two people, plus some soldiers holding military instruments, The lineup of the Chinese army looks luxurious and spoiled.

As a Donghu tribe originating from the Yuwen clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Khitans hid under Li Tang's Yuji and rebelled and surrendered, not only learned all kinds of agricultural cultivation, armor building, and battle formations, but also paid more attention to absorbing Han culture for their own use, but never really surrendered to Li Tang. In the face of the rise of Abaoji, more than 50 years after the founding of the country, it has gradually accumulated and developed its own civilization, and designed the Khitan script according to the imitation of Chinese characters, trying to wash away the essence of ignorance and plunder, but unfortunately, even the Khitan nobles are rarely proficient.

The Liao court system was written by the imperial court, and local official documents still need to be written in Chinese to make people understand, so some important ministers and generals go out on the expedition, and there are always a few Han people from the north or Bohai people who accompany them as staff and subordinates, and Tart Lie is no exception.

"Brother Ning! When do you think the Zhou army will attack? Yelu Tarlie turned his head to look at the young general who was accompanying him and asked.

"Da Lang Jun! In the eyes of the last general, when it is right! "This young general is tall, and his face looks elegant and handsome, not at all like a pure Khitan, who always has freckles on his face, or has dark red and rough skin. His Han name is Han Deyuan, his name is Yanning, and his Khitan name is Suderihe, and he was only transferred to Xijing Road at the beginning of the year to transfer the envoy and Fengshengzhou Jiedu envoy.

Han Deyuan's father, Han Kuang, was the official of Taizu Temple, that is, the general who guarded Abaoji Taimiao, but his family was the largest family outside the Liao royal family and descendants, and he was more trusted than Han Yanhui's family. Because his grandfather Han Zhigu was six years old, the Liao army captured Youzhou, Han Zhigu was adopted by Shu Luping, the brother of Empress Abaoji, Shu Lu Wanwen, and after raising him from a young age, he always knew Han Er's affairs and contributed a lot to the founding of the Liao State.

"So much for the best! Our army is suitable for both advance and retreat, and it is already invincible, so let the Han of the Southern Dynasty see the bravery of our Daliao Palace guards! Yelu Tzulie sneered confidently.

"Exactly! Our former army has to live in Yongguan, and the victory or defeat here is a trivial matter, if calculated according to time, the house quality Dalang Jun should lead the leather room out of Beijing. Han Deyuan said with a smile.

On the battlefield, the Liao army was not in a hurry to take the initiative to attack, and the Zhou army was naturally not in a hurry, in the large array of the Chinese army, Yuan Yan finally waited for his second son Yuan Tong to come back to report, and Murong Yanzhao did not express any objections to cooperate with the headquarters, but he was unwilling to let him attack in the first round.

The proportion of horse armies on both sides of Zhou and Liao is very high, so naturally the horse army will fight first, Yuan Yan saw that Murong Yanzhao was unwilling to fight first, so he had to order Li Chuyun to fight on time. Seeing the height of the sun, it was estimated that the hour was almost up, and Li Chuyun, who was on standby in the north, ordered Yu to wait for Shi Guangjun and Zhou Mingyuan to lead 3,000 cavalry to launch a tentative attack on the side of the Liao army's infantry formation.

For a while, thousands of cavalry galloped and rolled up a puff of smoke and dust across the battlefield, but the Liao army's front 5,000 cavalry immediately responded, and about 2,000 cavalry left the team to meet Shi Guangjun's department north, and the two armies quickly rushed back and forth to kill two miles outside the infantry formation.

Seeing that the Liao army was in the front to meet the battle, Yuan Yan was secretly surprised, raised his head and looked far to the south, Murong Yanzhao still had no intention of fighting, and couldn't help but feel annoyed in his heart. Sure enough, after a while, the cavalry of the Guard Division fell behind, and Li Chuyun had to press it vigorously, and finally hit the Liao cavalry by surprise, but just after recovering the disadvantage, the Liao army on the mountain beam Zuo Ji sent another 2,000 cavalry and rushed down, and he fought more with less, and worked together to contain Li Chuyun's 7,000 cavalry.

The battlefield in the north is difficult to see for the time being, but the Liao army's front three thousand cavalry suddenly started, obliquely pounced on the Zhou army's infantry formation, Yuan Yan immediately turned to the right Ji army to meet the battle, this time the right Hebei horse army was all involved, and the Liao army's infantry flank and the only remaining three thousand cavalry rushed down from the mountain beam, and the front three thousand cavalry formed a flanking attack on the headquarters, but the infantry formations of the two sides were also exposed at the same time.

The Ma army was at a disadvantage, and the infantry front did not dare to advance easily, and the Liao army's infantry did not move, Yuan Yan had to send another order to urge Murong Yanzhao to properly share the pressure of the northern battlefield, but Murong Yanzhao turned a deaf ear.

Seeing the dust on the battlefield of the Ma army in the north, Li Chuyun's troops fell into passivity, Yuan Yan gritted his teeth fiercely, and had to transfer the other horse army behind the south to the northern battlefield, so that Li Chuyun's troops had a slight advantage and could always support for a while, Murong Yanzhao should always make a move.

As a result, the only horse army in their hands was transferred, and the last 5,000 cavalry of the Liao army on Baihuagang also moved, after they rushed down the slope, more than half stayed at the foot of the mountain to move downstream, and a small half about 2,000 cavalry ran in a large circle to kill the side of the infantry army.

"Definitely!" The officers in the front row of the left side of the infantry formation shouted, and the rejecting horse formation set up by the gun and shield then made a collision sound, and the formation was stable, and there was another shout: "Ready!" ”

When the cavalry of the Liao army rushed closer to the large formation of more than 100 paces, they suddenly turned around, and began to fire arrows when they approached seventy or eighty paces, but the soldiers of the Zhou army also fought back at the same time, and the arrows were like flying locusts, and there were casualties under the arrows, and the neighing of people and horses continued to sound, and the various sounds made by the entire battlefield were noisy.

The Liao cavalry was on guard at the foot of the hillside, guarding against the support of Murong Yanzhao's troops, and kept harassing the infantry with a non-cavalry team, trying to defeat the infantry first. With such an obvious intention, Murong Yanzhao had to order the two armies of cavalry to march in unison on the left and right, and directly pounce on the Liao army that was wandering down the hillside, and at the same time, the remaining two armies adjusted their formation and changed to a large cone formation to be put into one input, followed closely behind.

Because Murong Yanzhao saw that when the Liao cavalry rushed down the hillside, the iron armor of the backward team was different from that of ordinary cavalry, and the war horses were much taller and more majestic, but they were still light horses and did not wear horse armor.

Instead of adding fuel and consumption, it is better to fight more and less to strike a strong horizontal blow, 10,000 cavalry divided into two parts in front and rear, and the wandering Liao cavalry had to take the initiative to meet the battle, because they could not give way to the vacant space in that area, otherwise the cavalry of the Zhou army would also rush straight into the infantry formation.

"Herald! The whole army is moving forward and preparing for a general attack! "Seeing that Murong Yanzhao actually attacked with all his might, and the cavalry of the Liao army was all pinned, it was difficult to win at least in a short period of time, so the infantry army launched a general attack, and in the end, it still had to look at the results of the battlefield of the Chinese army.

And Murong Yanzhao's entire army is dispatched, so it can't help but rely on the infantry formation of the Chinese army, and it may be difficult to lead the troops away. Although this is likely to turn into a big melee in the end, Yuan Yan was also forced to be helpless.