"General, I've seen our army." Yang Zongbao's troops, who had been chased for five days in a row, were now somewhat unable to support it, and if they didn't return to the team, it would be difficult to guarantee that nothing would happen.

Yang Zongbao picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance, it was true that the army had already lined up there, but a standard-bearer suddenly appeared at the front of the army.

Just as Yang Zongbao saw this flag bearer, suddenly the flag bearer began to dance the flag in his hand. "Slow down...... ...... to both sides Make a detour...... Back....... ”

Through the interpretation of the flag language, Yang Zongbao saw the above words.

"What do you mean by slowing down and taking a detour to both sides?" Just when Yang Zongbao was wondering, suddenly his adjutant reminded him that there was something wrong on the ground in front of him.

After carefully looking at the place where the deputy general said, Yang Zongbao suddenly found that there seemed to be something faintly reflecting a faint light not far from the ground.

After carefully looking through the binoculars, Yang Zongbao saw that there was a thin steel wire floating in front of him less than a foot above the ground.

Due to the continuous rain all the time, the land is now muddy, and the sun is not very abundant, and there is no way to see this thin wire without being reminded.

This made Yang Zongbao suddenly break out in a cold sweat, if there was no double reminder from the flag and the adjutant, he would probably rush over with the troops, and then the war horse under the crotch would probably be directly overturned by this "tripping horse".

After wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Yang Zongbao shouted that Xiao Nizi was insidious, and this kind of thing could be said to be the most effective way to deal with the kind of cavalry that only had the horse's feet exposed. What's more, such a "tripping horse" is still very hidden.

After bypassing this stumbling rope according to the route specified in the banner, the team led by Yang Zongbao finally returned to the main army. After several days of deception, the team was very tired.

Under Yang Yanzhao's arrangement. The team was sent to the rear for rectification, but Yang Zongbao was retained.

"Did they really follow?" When she saw Yang Zongbao, Zhao Ling'er's first sentence was to care about whether the Khitan people were coming, if the Khitan people didn't come over, everything she did would be in vain.

Yang Zongbao, who was still panting, patted his chest: "Follow, follow to death, if it weren't for their heavy cavalry slowing down the march too much, our army might not be able to run back with all the mustaches and shadows." ”

Hearing Yang Zongbao say this, Zhao Ling'er was relieved.

But this time. Yang Zongbao had some questions to ask Zhao Ling'er. The arrangement of the wire tripwires is relatively easy to understand, but what are the strange weapons in the hands of those forward soldiers?

Just when Yang Zongbao and their team returned, he saw that the forward of the large army was not holding a rifle as before, but standing at the front of the team with a weapon that looked a little like Ge, not only holding a weapon that looked like Ge but was not Ge, and each of them also had a machete pinned to their waists, and they really didn't understand what kind of dress it was.

"Princess, what are those strange weapons?"

"That's it." Zhao Ling'er ordered someone to bring over a weapon that looked like Ge but was not Ge, and handed it to Yang Zongbao, "I'll name him the sickle gun." ”

Yang Zongbao took the sickle gun and looked at it carefully. It turned out that this sickle gun was just an ordinary sickle used by farmers for mowing grass and forcibly welded it onto an ordinary spear.

Judging from this rough workmanship, it is estimated that Zhao Linger also made this thing out temporarily.

Yang Zongbao guessed correctly. This thing was indeed made by Zhao Ling'er temporarily, she collected all the sickles used by farmers to cut grass in Wei County, and then gathered a large number of blacksmiths to weld the sickles onto the spears, and came up with such a thing.

"What is this thing for?"

"It's used to hook horses' legs." Saying that, Zhao Ling'er asked for the hook and sickle and made a move to hook the horse's legs. I saw the scythe draw an arc in the air.

Yang Zongbao could imagine that the horse legs of the Khitan heavy cavalry, the only one who had not been protected, should have suffered when it encountered such a weapon.

It was at this time that the scouts in front came back and reported that the Khitans were coming.

As soon as she heard the news, Zhao Ling'er decisively stopped the conversation with Yang Zongbao, and then found Yang Yanzhao to signal that the entire battle could begin.

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The Khitans who had been with the Song army for many days were actually the same as Yang Zongbao's team at the moment, and they were a little overconsumed, if it weren't for the support of a willpower that could completely defeat the Song army, this pursuit would have been unable to go on a long time ago.

When the entire Khitan army entered this valley, Coach Xiao Qi's heart suddenly cooled. Such a field is really unfavorable for the Khitans' current tactics of opening the way with heavy cavalry in the middle and then flying with light cavalry on both wings.

The width of the valley, once the heavy cavalry takes a stance, will basically occupy the main road in the middle of the valley, and will not leave much space for the light cavalry to advance.

In this way, what to do next if the heavy cavalry can't play is a big problem, after all, it is really difficult to change the formation in the way that the iron lock crosses the river.

However, Xiao Qi didn't say this to Yelu Hugu, because he knew that it was useless to say this to this veteran now, and he had been carried away by the desire to make meritorious contributions.

The battle turned out as Xiao Qi expected, because the light cavalry did not gallop out from both wings to outflank, Yelu Hugu decisively left the light cavalry behind, but hoped that the heavy cavalry could be directly crushed.

You must know that although the terrain here is not wide enough for the Khitans, in the eyes of the Khitans, such a width is also not sufficient for the Song army.

Even many Khitans were still laughing at the Song army for choosing a place where they could not escape for a decisive battle.

It's just that they didn't expect that the Song army didn't plan to run away at all, although they couldn't use cannons in this wet weather, but under Zhao Ling'er's careful planning, the Song army now has the confidence to be able to defeat the Khitans in one fell swoop again.

The Khitans, who had never thought of the defeat, began to rush at full speed towards the Song infantry who had already lined up their formations under the command of Yelu Hugu.

It's just that just when the first row of heavy cavalry rushed to a distance away from the Song army's main array, these knights suddenly felt that their mounts under their crotches were out of balance, and their horses fell head-on.

Since each row of cavalry was chained, when the first man was slaughtered, the others were taken down.

Fortunately, the Khitans were not completely stupid when they lined up this formation, and there was still a certain gap between each three rows, so after the first three rows fell, the cavalry behind stopped in time.

It's just that as their footsteps stopped, the impact of the entire force also collapsed. At this time, the infantry of the Song army began to pour over with hook and sickle guns.

They crossed the Khitans who fell to the ground in front, rushed to the cavalry behind and were blocked by their comrades who fell in front, and then took a hook and sickle gun to the horse's leg.

The sharp scythe snapped off the unprotected leg of the horse, and when a horse fell to the ground, the same domino effect was repeated.

The Khitans, who had no idea what was going on, could not have imagined that the weapon they were so proud of would be so vulnerable.

But when the fallen Khitan cavalry wanted to stand up and fight the Song army on the ground, they couldn't stand up.

There is no other reason, the heavy armor on the body is too heavy, and I don't usually feel like anything when I ride on a horse, but once I fall to the ground, it is too difficult to get up again.

In addition, the muddy ground made the armor covered with mud, and the underwear wet by the rain made every Khitan soldier feel like they were being overwhelmed by Mount Tai.

At this time, they finally understood why the Song army did not pay any attention to any Khitan who fell to the ground, because the Song soldiers who were using hook and sickle guns in front of them were given an order, that is, as long as the Khitans' horse legs were broken, it would be no problem, and those Khitans who fell to the ground would not have any combat effectiveness.

In this way, a strange scene appeared on this battlefield, a group of Khitan cavalry who could not advance was harvested by a group of Song infantry like mowing grass.

The Khitan knight sitting on the horse could only wait in despair for the horse under his crotch to be hooked down by a strange weapon from the approaching Song army.

Dressed in heavy armor, they had no way to draw their bows, and the spears in their hands were a little out of reach of those Song people who specialized in the lower three routes.

However, at this time, among the Khitans who had fallen to the ground, some smart people began to think of a way to fight back, although their horses had been crushed to death in the process of falling, but their people were not too seriously injured.

So the clever man crawled to his nearest comrade, hoping that the two of them could help each other and take off each other's armor, but just when he told his comrades what he thought, he heard bursts of gunfire and began to sound out.

It turned out that the Song army didn't really intend to ignore these fallen Khitans, but they had a clear division of labor, the striker went to hook the horse's legs, and the rest of the work of mending the knife would be done by others.

No, the soldiers who mended the knives had already come over with their guns and began to shoot at the front door of the Khitans. After all, no matter how strong the armor is, there will definitely be a gap in the front door.

In this way, the soldiers of the Song army directly blocked the door with the muzzle of their guns, and then pulled the trigger, basically one shot at a time.

At this moment, Yeluhugu had no choice at all, and the heavy cavalry was like a dam that completely blocked the way forward in this valley.

Even if he wants to send out light cavalry to rescue the field now, there is no room to break through, Yelu Hugu, who didn't know what to do at all, thought of Xiao Qi at this time, because he knew that the responsibility for this defeat was heavy, and he had to let Xiao Qi be the one who took the blame.

It's just that he didn't expect that Xiao Qi at this moment had the same idea as him. (To be continued......)