Night field warfare is a very dangerous thing, no number of troops are enough, because this will make all the commands ineffective, and it will be difficult for the soldiers to distinguish between friend and foe, and in the end it is more likely that they will all kill each other, trample on each other, and lose both, since the light attack cannot be achieved, they can only wait until dawn. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it was still the end of the ugly hour in the middle of the night, it was still early before dawn, Hao Tianying left his horse to monitor the Liao army camp, led his troops to retreat ten miles, ordered the soldiers to dismount and rest, and each led his own war horse to take care of it.

Let the two armies that had fought behind count the casualties, Yan Chengwang's troops were okay, and they only lost more than a hundred horses. The 3,000 cavalry of Yao Keding's forward were less than 600 people, and he lost more than one battalion in less than a moment of battle.

Deploying light and dark sentinels, Hao Tianying led his troops to camp in the open air, and found dry firewood, and set up bonfires in various open places, and the soldiers were unclothed, snuggled together with their war horses to keep warm, and waited in a daze to wait until dawn to assemble and prepare for another battle.

This night, the Liao army was also in a state of nervous collapse, because the vast area from the south bank of Wushui to the camp of the Zhou army in the west of Xiazhou City, scattered with a large number of rangers from Xia, Liao, and Zhou, went directly south to face a tough battle.

And just yesterday, the remaining troops in Jingde County sent people south to report that a Shuofang army of 7,000 cavalry had arrived under the city of Jingde County and was preparing to attack the city. Jingde County is an important transit place for the Liao army to return to the north, stationed a total of 5,000 soldiers of the Xia and Liao armies, and it will be fine for a while, but it cannot be dragged without rescue. Therefore, Yelu Hugo did have the idea of running in a roundabout way, and he didn't want to lead his troops out of the camp just yet, but the Zhou army actually arrived first, and then fought a bad battle, and lost more than 3,000 horsemen in a short battle at night.

The Zhou army was unwilling to fail, and began to assemble again at dawn, and Yelu Xiuge immediately received a report from the horse, so he summoned a group of generals to discuss. Yerusha was fearless, and shouted in a loud voice: "The Zhou army came from afar, and the cold wind blew all night in the wild camping, and the people were sleepy and the horses were tired, and the combat strength was inevitably weakened. ”

"There's no need for that! In a few days, Nerigon's army will arrive, and our army will be stationed in the camp to hold on, and the Zhou army will not dare to attack the camp easily. Jerod objected.

"The Zhou army is about to enter Yinzhou, Li Yiyin only has one lonely city left, we didn't get anything when we went south this time, is it worth helping Li Yiyin so much?" Xiao Buali asked.

Yelu Hugo was silent for a long time, and only after a while did he speak: "It's worth it!" At least we know the combat strength of the towns in the northwest, and if we drag it down, the Zhou army will attack the camp, our grain and grass are running out, and Jingde County is also in a critical state, since the Zhou army wants to fight, we will try. ”

Hao Tianying led his troops to line up five miles apart from the camp, and sent scouts to reconnoiter the structure of the Liao army camp fence again, and found that they were all large bowls of thick wood erected in whole branches, and they were built in two rows inside and outside, and there were not many soldiers stationed on the wall about two zhang high, and there were 50 soldiers stationed every 50 steps, which mainly played the role of sentry. But it is such a barracket that is difficult to break through without heavy equipment.

Hao Tianying lined up to invite the battle for more than an hour, until the sun was three poles, the Liao army did not react, and he was impatient to lead the troops to retreat, not wanting the army to retreat less than three miles after just turning around, and the Liao army sent Xiao Yila to lead 3,000 cavalry to pursue.

Hao Tianying was furious, and ordered Yan Chengwang to lead his troops to continue to retreat and reorganize, and led a horse regiment from his headquarters to meet the battle, not wanting him to move, the Liao army horse team turned around and wanted to leave, Hao Tianying was annoyed, and led the horse team to bite and chase wildly, seeing that he was chasing to the north of the Liao camp, and Yelusha 3,000 horsemen who had been waiting there rushed to outflank him.

Hao Tianying held back his anger and was unwilling to retreat, beat the horse and galloped to kill it, two rounds of armor cone let the enemy fall off the horse hundreds of horses, and the head-on rush just met Xiao Yila, but the flag of the horse team was low and dragged during the battle, he didn't recognize it, it was a shot in his hand, Xiao Yila waved his mace to fight back, and a loud sound of "choking" shook Hao Tianying's wrist sore, which immediately attracted his attention.

"Damn it!" Hao Tianying scolded secretly, taking advantage of the fact that the two of them were about to pass by the wrong horse, he shook his hand and made a "return horse gun", not wanting the enemy general to react very quickly, and the mace turned upside down and actually set it up.

Xiao Yi's department had the intention of luring the enemy, and turned around again and again, but he didn't mention it at the speed of the horse, and Hao Tianying's department was running wildly with anger, and the war horse galloped down to break through Xiao Yi's department, and when he rushed over from a distance and then turned around, it was the Liao army of 6,000 horsemen who rushed more than 100 steps away, but Hao Tianying was not afraid and led his troops to continue to charge.

Seeing that the Liao general with the mace was roaring very arrogantly, he handed the gun to his left hand, took out an arrow and put it in his mouth, and when the two armies approached thirty paces, he quickly took off an armor-piercing cone from his back and threw it, but the Liao general surrounded his own soldiers blocked it for him, and the two were still the same. Soon the two armies approached, and Hao Tianying stabbed with a fierce shot, picking up the pro-soldiers who were blocking in front of him and flying out.

At this moment, there was wind in the back of his head, and Liao Jiang took advantage of his gun to collect his strength to sneak attack, Hao Tianying hovered with a gun, and at the same time leaned forward and lowered his head, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow, and the speed of the big iron gun in his hand did not decrease, and after accumulating his strength, he quickly stabbed Liao Jiang's thigh, and walked away, bringing out a puddle of blood when he pulled out the gun.

Xiao Yi's strange scream, the two horses happened to pass by a mistake, Hao Tianying picked up the bow and arched the arrow, immediately twisted his waist, turned around and opened his bow to aim at the loose string, the movement was as smooth as flowing water, "whoosh", with a barb, the armor-piercing wolf's tooth arrow flew away like a meteor, hitting the back of the neck.

The moment Hao Tianying turned around, he caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye, and the Liao general, who was holding his neck vigorously, fell off the horse, and was then trampled by a huge horse's hoof. Hao Tianying let out a bad breath, turned around after staggering with the Liao army's horse team, shook off the pursuers and planned to lead the team back, but at this time, the horn in the Liao camp whimpered, and the enemy horse team was driving out mightily. It turned out that the 3,000 cavalry of the Huaixin Army under the command of Shi Deyuan rushed to meet him, but he was stopped here, and the Liao army intended to encircle and annihilate it with superior forces.

"Herald! Let Yan Chengwang lead his troops back! Hao Tianying realized that the Liao army should be afraid of its own strong crossbows, unwilling to line up to hedge head-on, and did not find a suitable opportunity to fight, now as soon as the battle is triggered, there will be a steady stream of troops in the future.

If your own forces are mobilized in this way, they will lose the initiative, and the advantage of the strong crossbow will not be brought into full play, and the armor-piercing cone is only thrown from the front, and the strike range is limited. The sound of horses' hooves on the battlefield was like thunder, and the soldiers did not hear his roar, Hao Tianying kept waving his gun and pointing at the main force, and then someone finally reacted, and more than 100 horsemen left the team.

The Liao army soon found out that there were more than 100 cavalry leaving the team, and immediately divided thousands of cavalry to intercept in a roundabout way, Hao Tianying didn't know if they could complete the task, but he hoped that Yan Chengwang would be able to react. At this time, he was too busy to take care of himself, and the superior forces of the Liao army surrounded and intercepted, and Hao Tianying's troops soon fell into a heavy encirclement and could not meet with the three thousand cavalry of the Huaixin army.