Compared with the Eastern Route Army, the vanguard favored Duo Yu's night march and was very lucky to capture Songting Pass, which made it difficult for Xiao Haili's army of more than 45,000 troops to cross Lei Chi. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info and the main force of the forbidden army and the Yuan Yan Department of the West Road, the situation facing at this time is not optimistic.

On the 18th day before, Yuan Yan and Li Chuyun captured Fanyang in Zhuozhou, and the forbidden army Liu Chongjin and Luo Yanhuan also led the vanguard to capture Yongqing, Gu'an, and Anci, and then built a pontoon bridge in Anyang Water and other main forces to keep up.

On the 19th, Yuan Yanbu continued to attack Liangxiang and Yuhe in the north, and crossed the Sangganshui, and camped in the southwest of Xiangshan in the northwest of the suburbs of Youzhou, but most of the forbidden army did not go north according to the predetermined plan that day, and it was late to arrive in the afternoon of the next day, Liu Chongjin and Luo Yanhuan led the forward into Yuhe County, and Han Tong led the main force to set up a large camp in Lusitai on the west bank of the Sanggan River.

In this way, there were 50,000 forbidden soldiers under the city, and Xiao Siwen, the king of the Southern Courtyard, defended the city and did not dare to fight easily. Xiao Siwen, the small character Yin Gu, was born in the Xi royal family, and his uncle Xiao Di Lu is now the prime minister of the Southern Mansion, and Xiao Haili of the Northern Mansion is in charge of the military and political affairs of the Liao State.

Although the current Xi people were annexed by the Liao State, the Xi Wangfu is still a permanent vassal, and the current Xi King is Xiao Lao Guning, who is a puppet like Bohai Wang Lie Wanhua. Xiao Siwen and Lao Guning are also closely related, and in order to keep the heirs of King Xi's mansion, marriage is an inevitable measure. Therefore, Xiao Siwen's eldest daughter Xiao Huran married the younger brother of the current emperor, the Taiping King Yelu Gong Sage, and the second daughter promised to Yelu Ruan, the third son of Shizong Yelu Ruan, this purpose is to bet in many ways, so as to maintain an enduring position in the Liao court.

Xiao Siwen is actually very depressed now, he has been in charge of the Southern Courtyard for many years, and the most powerful contender is Yelu Tart, originally last year Tart Lie aided Xia Suilao but to no avail, to the Zhou army attacked Ying, Mo Zhuzhou when the troops asked for support, do not want to go to Beijing for a long time without news, to this spring Zhou army launched a large northern expedition, he no longer asked for help, Xiao Siwen wrote several times, the department has not arrived, so that the Zhou army easily hit the city of Youzhou, and will inevitably be impeached by Tart Lie afterwards.

In fact, Yelu Tart Lie had already ordered Fengshengzhou to assemble troops, which had been completed by mid-February, and then led 15,000 cavalry from Datong Mansion to Guihua, and joined Fengshengzhou garrison with 20,000 cavalry, a total of 35,000 troops all the way east through Yongxing and Huailai, and stationed at Juyong Pass on the 21st, but on the afternoon of the day when the main force entered the city, the general guarding the pass came to report: More than 30,000 cavalry of the Zhou army had captured Changping, 36 miles to the southeast.

Changping is located on the east bank of the Wenyuan River, just an ordinary county governance, but as the northwest barrier of Youzhou City, the circumference of the city is six miles, the wall is three zhang high, there are four gates, there is a moat around the city, although it is the county seat, but also exists as a military fortress.

Occupying the county seat of Changping is naturally Yuan Yan's department, and at the end of the battle to attack the sky on this day, he also received a report from the sentinel who went to Juyong Pass to spy on the military situation: The reinforcements of Datong Mansion of Liao State have arrived!

It was just in time, Yuan Yan was secretly glad in his heart, and immediately found the officers of the town, and Li Chuyun, Zhang Congzhao, and others on Long Jie's right wing, and then assigned combat tasks overnight to urgently repair the city defense and strengthen the fortifications. And sent people south to the camp on the outskirts of Youzhou to inform Han Tong, please attack the city as soon as possible.

Early the next morning, Li Chuyun led the headquarters of the forbidden army of 12,000 horsemen out of the city for five miles, on a hillside called Huanglonggang to wait for the formation, to the beginning of the time, most of the Liao army out of the Yongguan Badaling Mountains, to explore the horse to report that there was a Zhou army blocking the road, Yelu Tart Lie sent the general Yelu Xiuge, Bohai general Cui Xun led 10,000 horsemen to meet the battle, since the main force of the march, riding behind fifteen miles slowly.

Although it is also called a hill, it is actually still on the periphery of the Youzhou Plain, the terrain is open, desolate, and occasionally a little gentle slope is not high, but Li Chuyun still seized this slightly favorable terrain one step first. In a short time, tens of thousands of cavalry of the Liao army came in a mighty way, and they had appeared three or four miles away.

"Generals and soldiers must know that our army goes to war to delay the enemy's advance, delay the enemy's attack on the city, and strive for more time for Yuan Yuanjun to arrange city defenses! Now that the Liao army has arrived, they are all back to prepare! Li Chuyun shouted.

"Order!" Before the battle began, the officers gathered in the Chinese army to discuss the details of the operation, and when they heard the rumors, they all beat their horses and left.

Woowoo...... A desolate and long horn sounded, and the cavalry of the forbidden army was in a commotion, which was the soldiers listening to the sound of the horn prompting them to form a team again and check their equipment. Then the sound of the horn paused for a moment, and when it sounded again, the voice became rapid and powerful, and the officers in the front squad rode their horses and shouted: Kill! Kill! Kill!

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves trampled the earth, emitting bursts of thunderous roars, and the fiery red robes and jet-black iron armor of the forbidden soldiers reflected the mid-spring sun, reflecting a little light.

The forbidden army cavalry formation adopts a conventional raid, that is, a breakthrough in the middle, outflanking the two sides, and the distance between the left, center, and right roads is not very far, and when the war horses gallop, the wave echelon array will gradually disperse, and this distance will eventually disappear.

In the face of more than 10,000 cavalry of the Zhou army, Yelu Huge, who was once arrogant, since he experienced the battle of Hongliuyuan in Yanzhou, no longer dared to despise the cavalry of the Zhou army. Therefore, he did not dare to be careless at all, and he also took a three-way attack-for-tat, but as soon as the front of the two armies approached him, he found that except for two or three rounds of arrow rain, the cavalry of the forbidden army did not have the kind of fatal armor-piercing cone of the Northwest Army.

However, the cavalry of the Zhou army was condescending and galloping, crossing a distance of more than a mile, the speed of the horse was almost raised, and the Liao army was at a disadvantage when it first received the enemy, and the front was quickly torn open a big gap, but it could not rush into the formation and tried to turn around.

The commanders of the two armies are in the middle and rear positions of the large formations, and in this kind of situation where the whole army is dispatched and strikes with all their might, it is difficult for the commanders to make any command and transfer, and they can only kill the enemy with the flow, and the two large formations will soon be in a state of stalemate and melee, and it is somewhat difficult to distinguish between the enemy and us. But the cavalry horses will always run forward, and the general direction is to hedge.

When the two armies staggered, the open space where the enemy was originally met was already a bloody corpse of men and horses, and no one paid attention to it at this time, and the two sides circled around at the same time and killed the enemy again. Taking advantage of the empty space when the second time was approaching, Li Chuyun glanced at the large formation from time to time, the formation was already very chaotic, and the array had become much thinner, and it seemed that the first round of rushing and killing did not take advantage of the generation.

"Herald! Kill the past and don't turn around! Li Chuyun shouted loudly, and the herald behind him blew the horn whining, which was the only command tool for the herald when the large-scale cavalry was fighting. Another is whether the flag is clear, and the soldiers and officers will also judge the Chinese army and the enemy according to the flag.

The Liao army sent out 10,000 cavalry, and Li Chuyun was of course confident that he would defeat it, but the main force of the Liao army was not far behind, and it would arrive soon for more than ten miles. When the second misalignment passed, the cavalry of the Zhou army galloped away, and the Liao army only had a few thousand horsemen in pursuit, and most of the vanguard got the opportunity to clean up the battlefield.