"Hahaha...... The Liao army is not afraid of it, when they meet us, this is not a lost dog running away with their tails between their legs...... Brethren! Kill me! Ming Jinpeng, the general of the horse army, laughed wildly, waved his horse chopping knife in his hand, and took the lead in urging the war horse to gallop wildly and kill the Liao army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The commander of the Zhou army in the middle was Xue Wenqian, of course, he didn't have the ability to anticipate the enemy's plane, but when the Liao army in the city wanted to withdraw, he packed up and fed the war horses was noticed by Yan Bin and Ji Wan.

However, the letter shot by Yan Bin and Ji Wan did not say clearly when the Liao army would withdraw and which route it would take, but Xue Wenqian could get it based on these speculations, for the sake of prudence, after dark, Yao Keding was sent to lead a horse regiment north to attack the ferry of Junzi Town, and Ming Jinpeng led two thousand horsemen to ambush outside the north gate.

The range of the torch light in the dark night is not large, but it is very conspicuous, the plain is separated by five or six miles, but it can be seen at a glance, the Zhou army does not sneak attack but deliberately lights up the torch is obviously a bluff to cheer, after all, the horse war is still too dangerous in the dark night.

Although it was expected that this situation might be the case, Shulu Anla spread the horses widely, and after the formation left the city, he slowly advanced in battle formation, accompanied by a small team of cavalry on the periphery, but he didn't find anything abnormal, but now he didn't have time to think about it, the Zhou army horse team had been activated, and Shulu Anra had no choice but to passively face the battle.

If you want to leave off the pack horses and grass and escape, you will be limited by the terrain, and if Mozhou is lost, you can only go to Gaoyang, so you must cross the Fuhu River, whether it is Junzi Town thirty miles to the north or Suning Town twenty miles to the west, this distance is easy for the Zhou army to bite into, and it is impossible to create time for crossing the river.

On the contrary, there is a certain chance to fight with Zhou Jun, the Fuhu River is so long, it is relatively easy to cross the river at two ferries, and you can try it anywhere in an emergency, not to mention that winter is a dry period, but this is easy to do until dawn, and it is just right to play for a while.

Dense patches of horses' hooves trampled on the frost, running faster and faster in the face of the howling cold wind, gradually accelerating to form a war horse warm-up, in order to maximize horsepower and speed. The Zhou and Liao armies were in battle formation at this time, but Ming Jinpeng adopted conventional tactics, that is, the two Hebei outflanked and broke through in the middle, and the Liao army was defeated. If this tactic fails to break through and cut, it is easy to mix with the enemy cavalry and fight for a while before they can be separated, and then they will gather together and fight again, which will drag on for a long time, which is naturally what he wants to see.

Shu Lu Anra did not have this confidence when he was evacuating, he concentrated 4,000 horsemen to charge in front of the arrow, as for the pack horse team behind, and the 1,000 horsemen of Yaridun after the chaos in the city, he was unable to take care of it.

The distance between the two armies is five or six miles, and it is only three miles for each side, and it is almost impossible to form a pre-war warm-up of men and horses, but no one can take care of it at this time, and the two sides quickly approached one hundred and fifty paces, and the Zhou army released a round of horned bows and crossbow arrows, which is only an approximation, and the sky is dark and unclear, and it usually needs to be estimated by the officers who rush to the front.

The Liao army also wears medium-sized iron armor, that is, the upper body shoulder pads with front and rear heart guards, and the lower body has knee-length armor skirts.

Woohoo...... The sound of arrows breaking through the air is endless, and in the chaotic sound of clanging, hundreds of horses in the Liao army fall off their horses, and the arrows in the war horses directly overturn, forming an obstacle and bringing a batch of overturns, this distance The crossbow killing is limited, but the Liao army can not fight back.

Soon to a hundred paces, this rain of arrows can be much stronger, you must know that the range of the angle bow crossbow in the Tang Dynasty is two hundred steps, the corner bow crossbow improved by the Guangxiang Military Industry City in Huizhou is a universal version of the infantry ride, reducing the range but strengthening the accuracy of the crossbow machine itself and the quality of the arrows, so that the winding is much easier, faster and more labor-saving.

But the sky is not yet bright, and it is a horse crossbow, don't think about the accuracy, as long as you can quickly end the crossbow machine and aim at the enemy rider in front of you and then shoot it, it will be considered a success, but this range is in, and the enemy rider who overturned with the arrow is obviously twice as much as the previous round.

After a hundred steps, the Liao army was finally able to fight back, but they mostly used a riding horn bow, don't underestimate the horn bow, the bow arm is short but powerful, and the seventy steps of penetrating armor ordinary iron armor is not an exaggeration at all, but the Northwest Army is obviously not equipped with ordinary iron armor, but a medium-sized cold forging armor that imitates Qingtang and gradually innovates, which is a unique armor mixed with mountain armor and fine scale armor, and its defense is much stronger.

The number of Zhou troops who fell from the horse was less than 100 horses, but they followed by the last round of arrow rain, about fifty or sixty steps away from the flat shot, not the projectile, the lethality was absolutely super, the front row of the Liao army was shot into a hedgehog almost instantly, but it was not over, the speed of the two sides hedged and approached was super fast, and it was closer to more than twenty steps.

The Liao army has hung up the horn bow, pulled out the scimitar and prepared to meet the enemy, but the air suddenly burst into the wind, stripes of black shadows flew in, just stepped on the companions and continued to gallop forward Many Liao cavalry with people and horses were penetrated, and some were even thrown away from the war horses and flew backwards.

This burst of armor-piercing cone blows, at once in the front row of the Liao army to make countless gaps, the cavalry of the Zhou army then burst into the rush from the breach, the long-handled chopping knife to the Liao army generally use the short-handled scimitar of the light cavalry harvesting is simply to the cloth, under a round of charge, the Liao army was divided into two halves, and then the side Ji was outflanked by the Zhou army a diagonal impact, was cut into several pieces.

The battlefield looked chaotic for a while, but even for a few breaths, the horse team that was all galloping wildly still staggered, but the Zhou army generally maintained the formation, completing the whole team in the run, turning around and continuing to fight. The Liao army was the same, but the formation was divided into several piles, all of which were desperately moving towards the largest one.

Compared with Ming Jinpeng, who led his troops to turn around in a big circle to complete the turn, the Liao army, who was familiar with bow horses since childhood, turned around much more skillfully, and the circle of rotation was also small, and the kung fu at this moment actually completed the whole team, and the gap in equestrianism was incomparable to the Zhou army, but the appearance of the strong crossbow made up for this deficiency.

The distance between the two sides was closer during the second charge, and the war horses had also completed the warm-up, the Zhou army could no longer use the strong crossbow, but it could be short from the outbreak speed, and the Hequ horse of the Northwest Army was stronger than the Liaodong horse of the Liao army, and there were many advantages in speed, formation, and weapon armor, and the Liao army was cut again, and then, there was no then.

Because there were too many attritions and the formation was chaotic, it was no longer possible to concentrate on turning around to form combat effectiveness, and the divided pieces of each country chose their own direction to turn around and run around, and the defeat was irretrievable. At this time, the sky was already dark, and the line of sight could be seen sixty or seventy paces away, and Shu Lu'an resolutely chose to break through to the west and escape.

The whole battlefield was in chaos, the Zhou army was also divided into three teams at this time to rush back and forth, a small group of fleeing enemy troops did not look carefully, wait until a while The battle was initially over, Ming Jinpeng sent troops to continue the battle, since the pursuit of the troops, the morning to Gaoyang, the opportunity to seize the empty city, the troops in the city have fled to the direction of Qingyuan in the west of Mozhou.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the fifth year of Xiande, Yingzhou announced the recovery, Xue Wenqian led 5,000 infantry into the city in the early morning of the same day to quell the chaos, and the local Han generals Yan Bin and Ji Wanhe annihilated the Liao general Yalidun, and then received a good report from the battlefield in the north of the city, this battle beheaded more than 5,000 levels, of course, there will be no prisoners of war, and their own troops are not very sufficient, who will take care of them.

With a little arrangement, Xue Wenqian ordered Yan Bin to defend the city, Ji Wan and Wang Yanjun led the troops to transport grain, and the next day they led the troops to the north, and received a letter of surrender from the order of Shucheng County in the northeast halfway, and sent people to appease them, and arrived at Renqiu at dusk on the same day, and Pang Congduo, Dong Zunzhi, and Zhuang Shaobu more than 5,000 soldiers joined the division, looking for an opportunity to take Yijin Pass in the north.

Because Waqiao Pass had been captured by Dong Zunzhi at this time, the early strategy of the Northern Expedition to Youzhou was basically achieved, which could be regarded as smooth sailing, and only Yi, Ding and Yijin Pass were left to be taken.