Under the gloomy sky, the wind was howling, the banners were hunting, and the two armies were about three miles apart in a large array, occupying a radius of more than ten miles, while the two armies on the periphery of the battlefield were running around to reconnoiter each other, and small-scale battles were continuous. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The combined forces of Xia and Liao were divided into separate formations, of which cavalry was the majority, infantry was very few, and they were not mixed. The headquarters of Li Yiyin of the Chinese army is the elite of the Li family's pressure box, with 10,000 mixed infantry cavalry and 20,000 young and strong miscellaneous soldiers, but due to insufficient training, extremely poor equipment and relatively weak combat effectiveness. Don't look at the party soldiers wearing fur hats and gray leather robes, most of them are riding horses, carrying swords and bows and arrows, but some horseback riders are not qualified cavalry.

As the heralds sent by Li Yiyin and Yelu Xiuge rushed to the left and right respectively, the 30,000 cavalry of the Liao army in the north were temporarily led by Yelu Xian, and the order was immediately sent to the front Yunnei Prefecture to take charge of Xiao Yila.

The military and political system of the Liao State at this time is not yet mature, both imitating the Central Plains Dynasty to set up the South and North Privy Councils, referred to as the South and North Courts, and some are set up under the suggestion of Han Yanhui, a Hanchen who was left in the era of Abaoji, including the setting up of this military state. The real stability of the political system of the Liao State was completed when Empress Dowager Xiao took power.

The sound of the whimpering bull's horn resounded throughout the field, and the Liao coalition army located on the northeast side of the slope began a series of movements, and the five thousand horsemen slowly moved to the front of the large formation and formed a front formation.

And the left army in the south Li Guangrui has 15,000 cavalry in the town, plus 10,000 young and strong miscellaneous soldiers, after receiving the order, seeing that the Liao army is moving quickly, he did not delay, beckoned to Li Guangxin, who was standing behind him, and said with a stern face: "The iron harrier is in the Chinese army, and it can't be moved lightly, now I will give you another chance to fight with you, let Zhe Gezhi go to battle with you, if you can win, it will greatly improve the morale of our army, do you understand?" ”

"Willing to fight to the death! If you don't break the Zhou army, you will not look back! Li Guangxin was a little weak-hearted, and when he saw his brother's fierce gaze, he immediately bowed his waist and saluted his chest, with a look of determination.

Li Guangxin called the Zhe Ge Branch, pulled the horse's head to the south side to transfer out 5,000 horsemen, and after a little bit of the whole team, he beat the horse to the position in the front of the array, and when he turned around, he saw the Zhe Ge Zhi following up, and couldn't help but ask with a straight face: "I will do my best in this battle, but I don't need it, I can go to the rear formation." ”

"Brother Li, why did he say this, a certain person has a deep hatred of the sea, and he has already put life and death out of the way, and he can only kill a few more Zhou soldiers in front of him to relieve the anger in my heart!" With a cold look on his face, he pursed his thin, narrow, and chapped white lips after speaking, and clenched the five-bucket horn bow in his hand.

Li Guangxin nodded, suddenly pulled out the scimitar at his waist and waved it forward, hissing and shouting with all his might: "Listen, the Great White High Warriors, Tengger will bless us, the Sun God will bless us, and the Great White High Warriors will win!" ”

At this time, the four states of Xia Sui had not yet introduced monks to establish temples to preach, so the party people still believed in the primitive shamanism derived from the Altai system, mainly worshipping fire, wind and clouds, thunder and lightning, etc., in short, they did not understand and could not explain the things they believed, and took this as a god, doing wild and brutal things and giving peace to their hearts.

"Victory! Win! Win! The party soldiers shouted at the peace, and under Li Guangxin's order, they beat their horses forward.

Li Guangxin looked at the Zhou army's horse team under the slope, and the 12,000 horsemen were lined up behind the side of the infantry formation, about two and a half miles away from the outer edge of the infantry formation, that is, about seven or eight hundred steps. The distance is due to the terrain, which was originally a wasteland abandoned after the alkalizing of the sand, and there is an arid ditch three or four zhang wide in the middle, which can be easily passed by the horses if they run slowly, and will overturn if they run fast, which is not conducive to the maneuver of the horse army back and forth.

Under the banner of the tall "Shi" character general of the Zhou army's right Ji horse team, Shi Yanchao saw that the enemy army only came out with 5,000 horsemen, not only did he despise it, but he thought that most of the soldiers of the two armies in Hexi that Zhang Yue allocated to him were actually wearing the same sophisticated iron armor as the Hehuang Town Army, and the configuration was also the same equipment, which made the soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Army in front of the palace envious to death when they came all the way. And he has always been hostile to foreign clans such as Fanqiang, Zahu, etc., and at that moment, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he ordered: "Order the Baiting Army to fight with 3,500 horsemen!" ”

"Order!" The Iron Cavalry herald colonel had a small red flag with a triangular order on his back, and galloped to the rear.

Soon, the sound of horses' hooves rattled behind, Su Lun Ah Bo and Shen Banruo led three thousand five hundred trotting out, and even the whole team's effort was saved, and the horse team ran out of a small bend in a group behind the big formation, naturally following the front sequence, forming a seamless triangular sharp arrow formation while running, and when the rear queue arrived, it began to accelerate, without dragging the mud and water, and the familiarity of equestrian skills made Shi Yanchao and other horse army generals admire.

As Xia Suijun rushed down from the slope, the speed of the war horse was very fast, and a large area of black pressure came quickly, and the perspective of looking up below looked amazing. The Baiting Army is the largest number of people among the armies in Hexi, except for two or three hundred officers who made up for it from Huizhou last year, and the soldiers are basically from the tribe of Su Nonabo. The Tibetan people have been familiar with cavalry and archery since childhood, and the horse army is no worse than the Liao army.

The sound of dense hooves was deafening, and the place was full of loess, and although the ground was a little damp, the horses galloped wildly, and the wind grew stronger in the afternoon, bringing up a burst of yellow dust. The horse team ran away and the vision was a little blurred, Shi Yanchao ordered his own soldiers to move a few large boxes and put them up, jumped off the horse and climbed up with his hands and feet, and stood on a high place to lookout.

Seeing that Xia Sui's army was in a position of wind and thunder, it was almost two hundred steps away when he rushed downhill, but the Bai Ting army suddenly changed its formation and divided it into two, almost sticking to the Xia Suijun horse team on both sides of the inverted figure eight and galloping, seeing that it was approaching, he opened his bow and released his arrows, and then threw out a piercing armor cone.

Hexi Jiezhen except for the Changsong army equipped with Huizhou strong crossbows, the rest of the armies are only armor weapons from Huizhou, although there are one or two rounds of strong crossbow strikes, but the Baiting army is good at equestrianism, and even listed a sharp arrow array as a disguise, from both sides of the close range of the wrong formation at the same time, only a round of arrow rain was shot, but once each soldier six armor through the cone were thrown out.

The two sides of the horse team array are also the most vulnerable, this series of blows caught Xia Suijun's horse team off guard, and suddenly the soldiers on the side screamed and fell off their horses, and then were trampled to death by their companions behind, and when the two armies staggered, the triangular array suddenly became a narrow line, and the tail that opened behind the side was hit the hardest, and it was basically lost.

"Damn it......" Li Guangxin was shocked and angry, and when he turned around, he saw that the Bai Tingjun rushed over and closed again, but the array echelon was not as tight as before. Li Guangxin shouted loudly and gave the order, wanting to divide his troops to attack, but at this time, the officer who was beating more than ten paces ahead couldn't hear it at all, and subconsciously led his troops to turn around and go around in a big circle to kill back again.

I didn't want the horse team after the Bai Ting army was still galloping, and rushed directly to the gentle slope in the distance, leaving Xia Suijun far behind for hundreds of steps, and galloped all the way to the middle of the gentle slope.

"Good! This equestrian is really fucking amazing, seizing the geographical advantage of Xia Suijun in one fell swoop, what is the name of the Baiting Army, it is really cunning! Shi Yanchao saw it from a distance in the rear, and couldn't help but praise it loudly, and suddenly felt that the Fan people didn't seem to be so annoying. (To be continued.) )