Qiwu Mountain is a mountain range, seventy miles northwest of Xiazhou City, northeast to southwest trend, stretching for eighty or ninety miles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The Wushui River originates from the Qiwu Mountain, flows to the southeast and conjoins the Wuding River, and joins the Yinzhou and Suizhou Luyan Water on the way, and finally joins the Yellow River.

The camp of the Zhou army is fifteen miles west of Xiazhou City, thirty-five miles away from the camp of Yelu Xiuge on the north bank of Wushui, and only more than twenty miles away from the southern foot of Qiwu Mountain. On the evening of the 10th day of the first month, the Zhou army scouted and dispersed the rangers of the Xia and Liao armies, and then Hao Tianying and Yan Chengwang led 13,000 horsemen out of the camp, and quietly entered the east of Qiwu Mountain along the hidden place of the mountain road and went north.

On the night of the beginning of mid-spring, a half-moon hangs high in the sky, the faint moonlight is like mercury pouring on the ground, and the whistling night wind has a hint of warmth of spring. The hilly area on the eastern side of Qiwu Mountain is also vertical and horizontal, but the small hillside with gentle undulation curves in the dark of the night gradually rises to the west.

Hao Tianying led his troops to march at night, and rode on horseback when he encountered flat ground, and he could only lead the horse on the uphill road, because he brought a large number of weapons, and he had to fight when he arrived at the ground, and he had to maintain his horsepower, and there was still plenty of time.

Overnight from the east side of the mountain range to the north march sixty miles, at midnight the moon in the middle of the sky, to the source of Wushui, a piece of streams converge, the terrain here is not high, there are mud and sand swamps in some places, more than 10,000 horsemen to successfully bypass this dangerous place is to take some time, the three horse regiments of the Changyi Army Yao Keding, Ma Tan, Hao Jingwu passed through the front first, and then looked for flat land in the front three miles, so that the rear army came over to line up.

The soldiers did not have torches, but in the light of the moonlight, they led their horses and small groups across the river and sand, and then in the second half of the night the temperature dropped and there was a biting cold. After Hao Tianying and Yan Chengwang crossed the river, they asked their soldiers to set up a small military tent and summoned some regimental-level officers for temporary military discussions.

The military tent was very small, and more than 20 officers sat cross-legged on the spot, fanning around the low table in front of Hao Tianying, and the orange flames of the oil lamps on the small table jumped, illuminating the faces of the generals flickering brightly and darkly, and most of the night was when people were most tired, and everyone was a little unable to lift their spirits, and some people yawned for a long time.

Hao Tianying coughed dryly, cleared his throat and said: "You must know the importance of this battle, drive away or even annihilate Yelu Xiuge's department, then whether Yelu Tart Lie still wants to go south has to be weighed, and we can successfully recover the four states of Xia Sui and complete the important part of this battle." ”

"According to the distance, the Liao army camp is about 30 miles southeast, and there will be a night sentry warning of the Liao army when it advances 20 miles, and our army must first pull out the camp fence when it arrives, according to the scout reconnaissance two days ago, the Liao army's stables are in the northeast corner of the camp, as long as they control their war horses first, the Liao army will be defeated." Yan Chengwang said thoughtfully.

"Then let the three regiments of the Changyi Army go first, and the last seven regiments will remain five miles, if the soldiers are all over, then rest for half an hour and then set off!" Hao Tianying thought about it and felt that there was no problem, so he walked out first, and the officers followed out and returned to their respective teams, and the small tent was removed by the soldiers and tied to the back of the horse.

After the whole army crossed the river, Hao Tianying led his troops to rest for a while, ordered the soldiers to put on armor, check weapons and equipment, feed the war horses, and then eat some dry food with clean water. The gravel land on the bank of the river was relatively flat, and it was more than twenty miles to the south, and the forward Yao Keding really reported back, and the Liao army's secret post was alarmed.

Hao Tianying had no scruples when he received the report, and ordered the whole army to speed up, and the rumbling sound of hooves broke the silence of the night sky in the early morning, and after a few miles of progress, he saw that the fire was bright in the dark night in the distance, and there was a noisy shout of killing and the sound of horns. When the horse team rushed up a gentle slope, Hao Tianying raised his eyes while controlling the horse galloping, and saw a piece of torches lit up on the camp of the Liao army, forming a huge box, and a fire snake composed of countless torches surged out of the box and gradually gathered into one.

What's going on? Such a fast reaction speed is that the most elite soldiers of the Zhenyuan Army can't do it, let alone the Liao army, and when they were in shock, several soldiers rode over with torches and reported: "General Hao, the Liao army seems to be prepared, our forward is just about to bypass the big camp, the Liao army is leading the horse out to assemble, and there are thousands of horsemen who are out of the camp first, and they have already fought with the forward." ”

"How is this possible, could it be that Brother Jeruxiu has the same thoughts?" Hao Tianying was surprised when he heard this, and immediately ordered Yan Chengwang of the front team to lead the three thousand cavalry of the Zhenyuan army to bypass the forward battlefield, detour back to the north of the Liao army camp, and continue to attack the stables, while the main force of seven thousand cavalry stopped after advancing for a few miles, and it was only three miles away from the forward battlefield.

When the Liao army came out of the camp, they fired torches, but as soon as they met the enemy, they threw them away, so as not to become a live target.

The battlefield was chaotic, a large black pressure horse team was circling back and forth in place, and the horse team of the Liao army who came out of the camp later also watched in front of the camp, not daring to increase troops easily, for fear of being completely trapped. In this case, it is useless to have more people, trampling on each other will only lead to heavier losses, and Hao Tianying naturally cannot increase his troops.

Yan Chengwang led the Zhenyuan army of 3,000 horsemen to the north to detour, passing by the northwest corner of the Liao camp, the defenders at the top of the camp fence wall immediately discovered, and then blew the horn to warn, the north gate of the camp gate was opened, and a team of Liao cavalry galloped out of the camp, and the old man opened his bow and arrows to threaten.

Unable to fight back with a crossbow at night, Yan Chengwang instead beat his horse to accelerate, led his troops to rush over, withstood two rounds of arrow rain and returned a burst of armor cone, the Liao army fell off the horse two or three hundred horses, and the second round injured the enemy more, taking advantage of the turmoil of the Liao army, Yan Chengwang attacked on horseback, and took advantage of the horse speed advantage to rush through the scattered formation of the Liao army, and continued to run to the destination.

The Liao army that was left behind was not reconciled, and then chased and killed, Yan Chengwang had to leave a regiment to break off, two thousand cavalry rushed straight to the northeast corner of the Liao camp, the soldiers on the horse bows shot several rounds of rockets, and then threw out the flying fox catch, but as a result, the Liao army camp fence was very stable, and it did not fall down after several rounds of pulling.

Yan Cheng saw that this method would not work, and there were more and more Liao cavalry chasing after the camp, so he ordered his own soldiers to blow the trumpet, signaling the broken horse team to follow, and continued to circle to the east of the camp.

Yan Chengwang was helpless, and led the horse team to circle around the enemy, and kept releasing rockets along the way, but it didn't have any effect, the camp fence may be live wood, and it can't be burned at all without dry firewood, and there are guards on it to extinguish the fire.

Turning back to the west of the Liao camp, Hao Tianying's main force sounded the horn, the Zhou army horse team was retreating, and the Liao army did not pursue, and the two sides were separated by two or three miles.