On the fourth day, we were almost in the Meridian Valley.

Yang Hao's mood became nervous, he didn't know if Luo Kedi could rush here with that huge team of refugees, gallop out of the wasteland quickly, rush to Guangyuan City, and then return on the same day, and quickly walked back, it took seven days, during this time, it stands to reason that Luo Kedi's team should also be able to go to the Meridian Valley, if they can survive it.

When he left, the army still controlled some drinking water and food, saving a little every day, so that most people could continue to rush with their lives, of course, in the process, some of the weak, old and sick people were afraid that they could not hold on because of lack of water and food. When Yang Hao drove out of the wasteland, he had already seen some sporadic water sources in the area near the edge of the desert, with water, even if Luo Kedi's men and horses ran out of food, they slaughtered the remaining dozen war horses and made meat soup for everyone to drink, they should be able to barely hold on to the place.

But this was just his thoughts, the closer he got to the Meridian Valley, the more nervous he became, he was afraid that he would not see anyone, he was afraid that he would see only a few people out of the desert. Yang Hao couldn't hold back any longer, so he called Bisu, Fan Laosi and Liu Shixuan, and the four rode fast horses to the Meridian Valley first.

As soon as the four of them left, Dong Sixteen's thief's eyes turned wildly, and he began to have the idea of escaping. He is a murder fugitive wanted by the Song Dynasty, God knows what happened, will this Qin mission cross the river and tear down the bridge, throw him into the prison, now with dry food in his arms, drinking water in his bag, and a fast horse under his crotch, where to go.

The northbound road of Yang Hao and the four of them was along a large river. This large river flows out of the Zihang Valley, a valley facing east and west, between two mountains, and the river in the valley turns south when it leaves the mouth of the valley and flows to Gwangwon Castle. The river is extremely wide, because it was washed out during the flood, and now the river occupies only one-third of the width of the river, and the rest of the river is densely covered with weeds. The wild meadows make the ground tough enough to carry the weight of carts and horses.

When you arrive at the Meridian Valley, you will go north to the grassland for more than 20 miles, but the grassland will go further to the continuous mountains, and there is no feasible road. Otherwise, when the people were relocated, Zhao Da would not have chosen the route to the west or east, and he did not have the choice to go south directly to Guangyuan.

But now if the refugees arrive at the Meridian Valley, they have bypassed the mountains blocking the road in the north, and then there is an alternative route to go directly south to Guangyuan, and Yang Hao will have to study it with the generals and consider the next course of action. Whether to go west directly through the Meridian Valley and rush to the places around Fuzhou and Linzhou that are enough to accommodate these many people, or to go south to the military town of Guangyuan.

Gwangwon City can't absorb so many households, and the surrounding land is too barren to open up a farming famine, but you can rest there for a while, and then decide where to take the people. Yang Hao was interested in sending the refugees to the Central Plains after arriving in Guangyuan City, and he more or less guessed the thoughts of the official family.

Worried about the safety of the refugees all the way, thinking about the next step after they arrived, Yang Hao galloped quickly and arrived in front of the Meridian Valley. The horse stepped on a green grass slope, and when he saw the scene in front of him, Yang Hao's tears flowed down at once. Who said that men don't flick when they have tears? Where there is love, there are tears!

In front of him, there was an endless stream of fleeing troops, and they were nowhere to be seen, and they had already disappeared into the valley. After the end is gone, it is coming continuously. This team is not like soldiers, and the people are not like people, all of them are like flowers, helping the old and the young, and staggering to the valley. One way or another, they are alive and alive. Even soldiers like Fan Laosi and Liu Shixuan, who kill people without blinking, saw everything in front of them, and their eyes were red.

"Let's go, let's go over, let everyone rest here for a while, and tell the big guys that the food will be there soon." Yang Hao raised his hand and whipped it, and ran downhill first. Fan Laosi, Liu Shixuan, and Bisu, who was dressed in a robe, immediately followed.

"I'm Yang Hao, where is General Luo?"

Yang Hao rushed closer, stopped at Lerma, stopped a man who looked like a sergeant vaguely and asked, he still had a gun in his hand, and at this time he was on the ground with the barrel of the gun, looking shaky.

When the man heard this, he was overjoyed: "Lord Chincha, Lord Chincha, you are coming back." General Luo was in the back. ”

Yang Hao saw his tired appearance, so he said, "You can rest on the spot, and the grain and grass will arrive soon." ”

The man said: "I can't rest, the Khitan people and horses not only came out of nowhere, the army gathered, General Luo ordered me to take people into the valley to hide as soon as possible, he led the troops to break off, if it was too late, the Khitan cavalry outflanked us, and we no longer had the strength to fight." ”

"What?" Yang Hao's heart sank to the bottom all of a sudden, here and now, in such a situation, the Khitan army gathered? At this time, what kind of army is used, only a team of 1,000 people can calmly kill these tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians like slaughtering pigs and dogs. Don't...... Could it be that in the end, it will fall short, and God will kill me?

For a while, Yang Hao's hands and feet were cold, and he only heard the soldier say again: "The army of the official family has also arrived, and it is confronting the Khitan iron cavalry, we must enter the valley as soon as possible and avoid the soldiers for the time being." ”

As soon as Yang Hao heard this, his already dead heart regained a trace of vitality: "The official army has also arrived?" ”

"In the back, all in the back." The soldier pointed to the back of the team, Yang Hao didn't say anything more, and immediately rode his horse to meet the team. Fan Laosi and Liu Shixuan followed him and shouted all the way: "Let's go faster, the food will arrive soon, and there will be food when you enter the valley, everyone go faster." ”

When the people who were vain under their feet heard the news, they were greatly excited, and with the last of their strength, they marched a little faster. Yang Hao ran to the end of the team, and at this time, there were not many people who dropped out, and the crowd was sparse. Yang Hao looked at it and saw that Luo Kedi was standing on a high slope, waving his hand and urging the few people who had dropped out of the team to hurry up.

Yang Hao quickly whipped up, rushed up the hillside, and shouted: "General Luo! ”

Luo Kedi turned around when he heard this, and when he saw that it was him, he said in ecstasy: "My lord, the grain and grass have arrived?" ”

Yang Hao stood on the hillside, staring blankly at everything in front of him, unable to answer at all.

In front of him, there was a large open plain, and on the plain, two huge military formations were slowly moving. Yang Hao had seen Luo Ke's enemy set up a formation, but compared with the small array of thousands of people and horses hurriedly placed in front of him, it was simply a world of difference, and the large array in front of him made people dizzy at a glance. In the past, watching movies and television, listening to book reviews, and talking about the formation was mysterious, but those Xuanxuan arrays were just children's games in front of the two big formations in front of them, which were ridiculous to the extreme.

In the final analysis, the formation is actually the rational distribution of various arms and the rational arrangement of the military camps that undertake different tasks. The soldiers are just a necessary means to maintain their formation on offense and defense. Otherwise, once tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people are engaged in battle at the same time, it will immediately turn into an disorderly melee, and there will be no way to dispatch and command and exert its power.

Whether there is a formation or no formation is an important criterion for whether or not we can bring into play the maximum combat effectiveness under the command conditions, the quality of the troops, and the limitations of weapons at that time. In the past, the Qin army defeated the strong with the weak and won many battles, but in the end, in the battle of Weishui, millions of Qin troops were defeated. Wang Meng defeated hundreds of thousands of Qianyan iron cavalry with 100,000 foot soldiers, all of whom had the merit of battle formation.

Yang Hao immediately climbed the slope, and the direction in front of him on the plain where the refugees fled was empty, this was an open field. To the north of it was a huge Song army array. Pioneer formation, strategy vanguard formation, large formation, front formation, east and west abduction horse formation, no land to divide the horse, reject the rear formation, and plan the palace rear formation...... At a glance, the small military formations with different functions are like countless chisels, axes, saws, files, cones, and pliers, forming a sophisticated killing machine, although there are spacious intervals between each small military formation, but no one dares to rush into it rashly, otherwise the team of hundreds or thousands of people is enough to be crushed in an instant.

The south side of the open field, that is, the side they came from, was actually the camp of the Khitans, and I really don't know how their army actually went around to the front of the Song army and intercepted their way. The Khitans also had foot soldiers, but similar to the Song army, which had more than seventy percent crossbowmen, the cavalry in their army also exceeded seventy percent.

The front army of the Khitan cavalry is arranging a cavalry suspension formation, which is a cavalry assault tactic studied by the Han hussar general Huo Qubing in the past, a cavalry cone formation is arranged in an orderly manner, front and back, left and right, the use of different weapons, the interval between the horses is also different, leaving enough space between the war horses, so that when they launch a charge, the enemy foot soldiers can dodge and make way.

But...... The cavalry ranks are also dozens or even hundreds of rows, and each row of cavalry is staggered, once they are allowed to exert their outstanding power, they can sweep everything in front of them like a weeder. They did not have a special archer, and it took a long time for the Song army to train a qualified archer, but all the knights on the steppe were good archers.

"Lord Yang, Lord Yang?"

"Huh? Yes...... Oh, it's here, it's here, General Luo, you're okay. ”

Luo Kedi was weakly shaky, but he smiled happily: "Lord Yang, the last general is fortunate not to be dishonored, the people...... I've brought them all back. ”

Fan Laosi rode over, grabbed his arm, and pulled him onto the war horse, Yang Hao said: "Fourth, send General Luo to the back, I will come to the back of the palace." ”

Fan Laosi answered, ignoring Luo Kedi's protests, and ran backwards with him. Yang Hao looked up at the Song army formation again, the big array was about to take shape, close to the valley on the right, the Song army cavalry was concentrated, it seemed that it was because this cavalry team was pressed there with great care, and the Khitan people on the opposite side were afraid that they would attack the flank when they raided the refugee team, so they let go of the Huazi team and maintained a confrontation with the Song army.

Seeing that the war was about to break out, Yang Hao had no time to look more, seized the opportunity to rush down the hillside, and shouted to the few remaining people: "Quick, enter the valley immediately, and when you reach the valley, you will have food!" There's going to be a war here, hurry up! Turning his head, he said to Liu Shixuan again: "You go quickly, urge the grain team to speed up the march, and also go into the valley to hide, once the two armies fight, I am afraid that they will sweep away the tail of the army." ”

Liu Shixuan knew that the matter was urgent, so he hurriedly responded.

At this time, I saw a woman turn around and rush out of the valley, an old man stopped them with a worried face, Yang Hao galloped over angrily, and shouted: "Don't enter the valley yet, what are you rubbing?" ”

The woman cried out, "My child, my child, she is left outside." ”

The old man said ashamedly: "Sister-in-law Ma, I'm really sorry." Old man...... The old man ......, alas, you can't go out Wow, otherwise there will be life anywhere. ”

Yang Hao exclaimed: "Sister-in-law Ma? Your child...... What happened to the dogs? ”

The woman looked back and saw that it was him, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted: "Lord Yang, the dog is sick, and the little woman really can't hold her anymore, and Uncle Bento Liu takes care of it." Who knows......"

The old man paused and said: "The old man has no strength, and he is forced to help, so a man helps, who knows...... Who knew that the soldiers of these two sides were about to fight, and the man was so timid that he left the child in front, alas, the old man can't help but give you a sister-in-law......

Saying that, the old man also burst into tears, Yang Hao looked up at the open land when he heard this, and saw that the war horses in the Khitan camp had been slightly commotion, and the opposite Song army camp, the phalanx with spearmen and archers behind was advancing forward "sonorously".

The three armies moved slightly, like the tilt of Mount Tai. With a heavy step, the sonorous sound is in the ears. Yang Hao couldn't help but be shocked.

In the era of cold weapons, even if you are brave enough to win the three armies, you can only die when you face one or twenty spears without the cover of your comrades. Once you trot or run like a single soldier in the age of hot weapons, the rapid charge will inevitably be in disarray, and at that time, isolated spearmen are only rationed to deliver food to the neat enemy army. He had been in the army for so many days, and he already knew that in a large group battle with thousands of troops, this kind of parade of formations moved forward was actually a sign of an imminent war.

Once the war starts, thousands of arrows fly together, thousands of troops and horses set foot on the battlefield, don't say that a sick child is in the staggered area of two charges, who can still have a way to live?

Yang Hao stood on a high place and hurriedly looked down. Suddenly, between the confrontation between the two armies, he vaguely saw a weak figure hesitating forward. Perhaps feeling the thick murderous aura emanating from the imminent confrontation between the two armies, the little thing was struggling to run forward, but because of his weak strength, he didn't run a few steps before he fell to the ground, maybe he broke his leg, but he still stubbornly crawled forward.

It's a dog! Yang Hao's heart tightened suddenly, it was this thin and weak child who had never seen the sun when he was so old, and who longed for the city that never sleeps in Kaifeng. "Uncle Yang Hao!" The crisp call seemed to echo in his ears, Yang Hao's heart was hot, and he said in a deep voice: "Hurry into the valley, I'll save people!" With that, he lifted the reins of his horse and rushed out of the valley.

He galloped past Bisu's side like a wind, stretched out his hand, and ripped off Bisu's robe, held it high in his hand, hunted in the wind, and rushed to the center of the battle formation of hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides.

The scorching sun was in the sky, and thousands of troops and horses on both sides of the open ground were killing and rushing for the night, and the sword halberd was cold, and the cold suppressed the scorching sun in the sky. When the two sides were about to fight a big battle, Yang Hao rode out of the valley alone.

Although there are tens of millions of people, I will go!

This trip has nothing to do with righteousness, just for that "Uncle Yang Hao".