On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first month of the ninth year of Baoda (951 AD), Lin Feng and his team rushed to the city of Nanjing, Liao State.

In 938 A.D., Liao Taizong renamed the national capital "Imperial Capital" as "Shangjing Linhuang Mansion", and designated Youzhou as "Nanjing Xijin Mansion", also known as Yanjing, which was one of the accompanying capitals of Liao.

Since the Yandu Jicheng in the Warring States Period, although it has lasted for thousands of years, the location of the site of Beijing City has always been at the ancient ferry port where the Yongding River crosses the West Mountain and flows into the Beijing Plain. Its location as a hub connecting the North China Plain with Mongolia and Northeast China is the main reason for the longevity of this historic city.

The city wall of Nanjing is three zhang high, one zhang and five feet wide, and the width is 27 li, which is the largest city in the five capitals. In the scattered snowflakes that were still falling, the city walls looked unusually majestic, and there were groups of troops patrolling the city head and outside the city walls.

Under the guidance of Xiao Du, the group all dismounted, entered the city smoothly from the Xuanwu Gate in the northeast corner, and went straight to the inner city and the imperial city of Nanjing in the southwest corner along the road into the city.

As soon as he walked to the wide part of the avenue, Xiao Du turned over and got on his horse, and Lin Feng and his brothers also immediately turned over and got on their horses.

Xiao Du heard the voice behind him, turned his head, stopped talking, turned his head and beat the horse forward.

Lin Feng followed slowly for a long time, curiously observing the situation of Beijing City in his previous life. The architectural pattern in front of you is similar to that of Jinling in the Southern Tang Dynasty, all of which are imitations of the former Tang Dynasty buildings, and the city buildings, the square market, and the temple are arranged intersecting.

Perhaps because of the heavy snowfall, coupled with the cavalry whistling by from time to time, there are only a few shops on both sides of the street, and only a few shops occasionally hang one or two brand new red lanterns.

What is strange to the special soldiers is that from time to time there are cavalry passing by this small team, always in a state of encirclement on both sides, passing by on both sides of the team, full of hostility. From time to time, there were Khitan soldiers waving their weapons and shouting at Lin Feng and them, and some cavalry circled around the team, turning around and running back to the place they came from.

After two days of walking with Xiao Du, Lin Feng also had a rough understanding of the Khitan saying of "get on the horse, get off the horse", and it sounded like he could only hear the saying of "get off the horse" clearly, Lin Feng was about to step forward to ask Xiao Du what was going on.

At this moment, the horse's hooves in front of him were thundering, and at least hundreds of Khitan cavalry in white clothes and black armor rushed straight over, stopping at a stone's throw away, and the cavalry above drew their bows and arrows, aiming at Lin Feng and them.

Xiao Du saw it, hurriedly stepped forward, and quickly said something with the Khitan generals who led the troops.

Lin Feng saw from a distance that the angry expression on the Khitan general's face had not retreated, and he immediately became vigilant, raised his right hand into the air, palmed first and then fist, and signaled everyone to stop advancing and prepare to attack. The special soldier immediately unsheathed his sword, put his arrow on his bow, and quickly adjusted to an arrow attack formation.

"Lord Lin, what are you doing? You don't want to die? The Han people can't ride horses in the city of Nanjing! Han Zheng, the translator who had been following the back of the team, ran over with his horse and shouted at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng glanced at Han Zheng, ignored it at all, drew his knife in his hand, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the Khitan cavalry in front of him. If they are easily frightened by such a rule full of contempt, they simply remove the name of the special soldier, cover their faces, and jump off the Great Wall!

When Han Zheng saw this scene, he ran to the side of the road and hid on the steps of a shop.

When the Khitan general saw the change here, his anger became heavier, he whipped Xiao Du fiercely, turned around and shouted a few words, and the Khitan soldiers immediately put away their bows and arrows, all drew their swords in their hands, frantically beat their horses, slightly adjusted their formation, and rushed towards this side.

"When two armies meet, the brave wins! Show no mercy, kill! Lin Feng raised his sword and roared, taking the lead in rushing forward.

Between a few breaths, the distance of more than a hundred paces between the two teams of cavalry disappeared, and Lin Feng slashed on the horse's buttocks fiercely, and slammed into the Khitan man in front of him frantically. From the very beginning, Lin Feng was not prepared to beg the Khitans with his knees, and was ready to use his fists and steel knives to fight the dignity he deserved. Besides, the horse under him is not his own war horse anyway, so he doesn't need to be distressed and cherished!

With Lin Feng's example, the special soldiers immediately turned red-eyed, chopped the horse stocks, beat the horse's eyes, pulled the horse's mane, and the war horses roared in pain, crashing into the Khitan cavalry team one after another.

One is an arrow cluster attack formation, and the other is an approximate skirmisher line; One is to impact at all costs, and the other is determined to scare the other party. As soon as the two armies met, the Khitan cavalry immediately suffered losses, and many soldiers and horses were knocked to the ground, and the formation became even more chaotic.

The horse under Lin Feng collided with three horses in a row, and was also injured, his speed slowed down, and his left front leg was lame, and Lin Feng immediately stabbed it. The horse jumped two steps frantically and collided with a Khitan cavalryman again, and both horses and one person fell to the ground with a bang.

Lin Feng landed easily, flipped the back of the knife, and knocked down the two horseless cavalrymen who surrounded him in a row, and shouted loudly: "Dismount the circular battle formation, turn left, knock down!" ”

Several other brothers who had fallen off their horses immediately surrounded them, turning left in unison to knock on the opponent in front of them. There were more and more brothers who fell off their horses, and the battle formation became larger and larger at the same time, and the speed of rotation became faster and faster, driving away all the nearby Khitan stragglers.

"Stop it all!" A stiff Chinese voice sounded, more and more Khitan warriors shouted in Khitan on the periphery, and the scuffling crowd slowly stopped.

Lin Feng hurriedly signaled all the brothers to come around, counted the number of soldiers, and found that only five soldiers were slightly injured, while Duan Rui's four children were surrounded in the middle of the rear from the beginning, and they had no chance to contact the enemy at all, so naturally they were not injured.

Lin Feng looked around, and another group of Khitan cavalry riding tall horses and wearing white clothes and gold armor appeared in the distance of the street, and the leader was obviously a Khitan nobleman, not very old, with a face like black charcoal, but with a burly body, with a black and oily horse under him, he did not look angry and arrogant.

Xiao Du and the Khitan general hurriedly ran over, saluted respectfully, and whispered a few words.

The Khitan nobleman listened quietly, jumped off his horse, walked over, first observed the soldiers on the ground, and then picked up a broken Khitan steel knife and looked at it, with a light "huh", he looked at this group of bold Han people with great curiosity: "Who is Lord Fenglin of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Lin Feng came out of the crowd, clasped his fists and saluted: "It's right down there." ”

Han Zheng ran over at this time, knelt down and saluted the other party, and hurriedly explained to Lin Feng: "This general should be the senior general of the Great Liao Palace Tent Army, and the one who is in white clothes and red armor is the Great Liao Tribal Army. ”

The army of the Liao Dynasty generally included the palace tent army, the tribal army of the great chieftain, the tribal army, the Wujing Xiangding and the subject army.

The palace tent army, which is equivalent to the forbidden army of the Han State, is composed of strong men who are directly under the emperor, and is the pro-army of the Khitan people, mainly used for guarding and conquest. Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji once "took the camp as the palace, selected thousands of people from all departments, and put them in the heart." This is the origin of the palace tent army, and since then it has also been called the Shan army and the leather room army.

However, because each palace tent army was personally selected by the current emperor, whenever the emperor died, the original palace guard was not disbanded, but only turned into an ordinary palace tent army, and guarded the mausoleum from the palace tent of the concubine. The new emperor reorganized his palace tent army (also known as the "Imperial Tent Army"). As a result, the number of palace tent troops continued to increase.

Each palace tent army has a Khitan Palace Deployment Division and a Han Palace Deployment Division, which is in charge of the Khitan and Han military in the palace. In the event of a war, the old and weak stayed on guard, and Ding Zhuang enlisted in the expedition and became the backbone of the Liao Dynasty army. However, belonging to the forbidden army of the Liao Dynasty was also the guard army composed of Han Chinese. They were under the jurisdiction of special institutions such as the Command Department of the Guards and the Guards and Soldiers and Horses of the Guards and Guards in Wujing, and were mainly responsible for guarding the strategic places in Wujing and guarding the Liao-Song border.

The Great Chieftain Tribal Army consisted mainly of the troops of a few princes and ministers. Its troops are more than 1,000 people, and the few are hundreds. The state has a government, borrows three or five thousand horsemen, and often leaves the remaining soldiers as the foundation of the tribe. "This part of the armed forces with strong private attributes was restricted in the middle and late Liao Dynasty.

The tribal army is an army composed of tribes of the Khitan, Xi and other nomadic peoples, and is responsible for the task of sanitizing the hinterland and defending the national capital. They divided the land into nomadic herders, gathered and went out on expeditions in wartime, basically maintaining the original tradition of the integration of the tribe and the people.

Wujing Xiangding is a local armed force of the Liao Dynasty with the nature of a township soldier, composed of people who are affiliated with Shangjing, Zhongjing, Tokyo, Xijing, and Nanjing, and there are Han and Han farmers. During the war, they were only engaged in auxiliary work, such as repairing roads and cutting down trees.

In addition, there were also some armies of the Liao Dynasty's overseas affiliated tribes, known as the vassal army, whose personnel were uncertain. In wartime, the Liao court sent envoys to recruit soldiers, or issued edicts to recruit soldiers.

"In Xiananjing, the deputy commander of the Ma Army made Yelu learn from the ancients, and Lin Daren's poetry and talent were vertical and horizontal, and he admired them." The young Khitan general clenched his fists and praised.

Yelu learned the ancient, the word Yi Xin Yin, since childhood, Yingwu studious, poetry, also learned the language of the Southern Dynasties, and can communicate freely with Lin Feng.

Lin Feng also immediately replied with a polite remark that he had admired for a long time, but to be honest, because he was in too much of a hurry before he set off, he didn't have time to know much about the affairs of the Liao Kingdom, so he hadn't heard of this person at all. is not like others, but he still knows the name of his Lin Feng's poetry.

"Lord Lin and his subordinates are so skilled, they can easily defeat the warriors of my clan army?" Yelu Xuegu stared at Lin Feng's group of people tightly, and said in disbelief.

"Attack it unprepared, fluke!" Lin Feng hurriedly said modestly.

"I just don't know, Lord Lin's subordinates are high and low compared to my palace tent army that dominates the world?" Yelu Xuegu immediately took two steps forward and asked.

Here's another good winner! Lin Feng smiled and said confidently: "Just try it!" ”