A high-ranking official in Jiezhou City quickly rushed to the North City Gate Tower and found that the lower part of the city had been occupied by the Khitan cavalry!

Three hundred Khitan cavalry galloped back and forth on the avenue and open space under the city, playing with kicks and hiding from time to time, and immediately doing handstands, while the other two hundred cavalry were driving the people under the city to the salt pond beach in the east of the city.

解 (hài) Prefecture was known as Xie Liang in ancient times, at least since the Warring States Wei period, has been established as a city, is the hometown of the famous general Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms.

At present, Jiezhou is close to Zhongtiao Mountain in the south and Yanchi in the east, and the location has a lot to do with Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. In the twelfth year of Tang Zhenguan (638 AD), Taizong Li Shimin led a large group of men and horses to cross the Yellow River, crossed Zhongtiao Mountain, came here, watched the salt pond, sighed that this place is really the land of Longxing, and made the poem of "Heaven and Heaven in the world, who will return to the poor wish". The new site of Xie Zhou naturally fell in the place handpicked by Comrade Lao Li.

The salt made Li Wenyu take the lead in shouting: "Beiban is going to grab salt!" ”

A group of high-ranking officials slowly turned their heads to look at the extremely fat Li Wenyu with a look of disdain. This Li Wenyu is really not good, but it can't stop people from having a good female marriage: Wei Renpu. Wei Renpu, who is currently the privy secretary of the Great Zhou Dynasty, is deeply loved by Guo Wei, and sooner or later he will be the No. 1 member of the imperial court. It is precisely because of this that Li Wenyu is also a tyrant in Jiezhou, and he is not likable.

Li Wenyu saw everyone's gaze, and immediately stomped his feet and shouted: "There is still a batch of imperial refined salt sent to Jingshi in the eastern salt field of the city, and I am afraid that the saint will blame me if I lose it!" ”

Salt has been a necessity of human life since ancient times and plays an extremely important role in the process of human civilization.

The salt pond near Jiezhou is a naturally generated salt pond with the help of the evaporation of the wind and the sun, and it is also one of the famous and oldest salt-producing areas in Chinese history, with a production history of three to four thousand years. According to legend, as early as the ancient Yellow Emperor era, the Chinese had begun to mine pool salt here; The battle between Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor was also to fight for the salt pond of the Jiezhou territory. According to historical records, by the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was already an exact record of mining salt in the southern part of Shanxi in the "Zuo Biography".

At this time, a woman in the crowd who was escorted to Yantian while crying rushed out and rushed towards the city wall, shouting "Xiaocui, Xiaocui" in her mouth, it was the mother who had just begged the head of the Jiezhou army to enter the city, and there was no figure of the little girl in the crowd, she must have entered the city.

A Khitan cavalryman immediately rushed out with a diagonal stab, and the man stood upright on his horse and raised his steel sword above the top early. Suddenly, two feathered arrows shot out of the Khitan cavalry at the same time, almost simultaneously hitting the woman's neck and hips, the woman roared in pain, fell to the ground, the sword-wielding cavalry just at this time with all his strength, but the knife did not touch the woman, almost was dodged off the horse, immediately screamed in anger, turned around and shouted angrily. The cavalry all laughed loudly, and dozens of people raised their bows at the same time, all indicating that they had shot arrows, which made all the Khitan cavalry laugh even more.

Seeing this scene in front of him, Wang Zhengzhong, the assassin of Jiezhou, couldn't help but cover his face with his hands, and the northwest of the Great Zhou Dynasty lined up to make Yao Yuanfu a pair of tiger claws grabbed the pheasant fiercely, and the green tendons in his temples burst out.

At this time, dozens of Khitan cavalry rushed over from the direction of Yantian, and drove more than 30 salt guards to the north gate with horse whips and steel knives, the military uniforms on those people were torn, and many of them were still bleeding, and several Khitan cavalry drove their horses back and forth from the captive soldiers, and from time to time sprinkled handfuls of white powder from the bags in their hands, and sprinkled them on the wounds of those wounded soldiers, and from time to time provoked the wounded soldiers whose hands were tied to jump their feet continuously, trying to shake off the deadly salt.

"Wang Envoy, General Yao......" Li Wenyu was so anxious that his head was sweating, and he pointed to the wounded soldiers and shouted urgently, extremely anxious. Li Wenyu naturally has a firm grip on everything related to the salt industry in Jiezhou, and most of these soldiers guarding the salt fields are relatives and friends with him, so he naturally reacts the most violently.

"Needless to say! Dispatch troops! Yao Yuanfu glanced at Wang Zhengzhong, who was already 67 years old, and his white beard rose in anger and roared.

......The north gate of Jiezhou City was wide open, and the dense shield array walked out of the doorway, crossed the moat, and walked straight towards the Khitan cavalry.

Seeing the enemy out of the city, the Khitan cavalry immediately became excited, shouted wildly, slapped their horses, and rushed towards the shield array in a scattered formation, and the arrows began to shoot fiercely, but they were all blocked by the impermeable shield.

As soon as the moat was crossed, the rectangular shield immediately shrank into a circular shield array. At this time, the cavalry of the Great Zhou Dynasty rode in parallel and rushed out of the city gate.

These cavalry are the elite cavalry of the forbidden army, the horses under them are tall and handsome, all of them are majestic, the armor is shiny and bright, they are all silent, their bodies are hidden behind the shield, and they kill the Khitan cavalry.

After entering the country for more than ten days, the Khitan cavalry who finally caught the battle became crazy, the horns of the bull horns, whistling again and again, and the formation turned into a glaive in the wild running, outflanking these Great Zhou cavalry.

Those Great Zhou cavalry were not flustered, as soon as they rushed across the moat, they immediately divided into two teams, east and west, and slashed diagonally on both sides of the shield array in front, and when they ran to the north of the shield array, the horses were violently turned again, and the two teams were combined in one team, driving the horses wildly, and killing straight to the north, and colliding with the Khitan cavalry rushing to the north.

The two parallel teams of four columns of Great Zhou cavalry opened their swords left and right, and cut down the Khitan cavalry in the middle of the three passages through continuous collisions. The Khitan stragglers seemed to have been stabbed by a thick knife, and a blank space was vacated in the middle. At this time, the circular shield array also revealed gaps in shooting one by one, and began to sneak attack those scattered Khitan cavalry.

The most important of the Great Zhou cavalry was an old general with a white beard, who was Yao Yuanfu. He observed that the cavalry at the front had already rushed through the Khitan battle formation, and immediately roared: "Swirl left and right!" ”

Originally, the four columns of Great Zhou cavalry immediately separated from the middle again, slowed down and adjusted the formation, and drew an outer arc to outflank the Khitan cavalry.

An open-chested Khitan general roared wildly, pointed the mace in his hand at Yao Yuanfu, and shouted again and again, and the originally scattered Khitan cavalry immediately changed formations, forming a sharp knife formation in the west and east, rushing towards Yao Yuanfu.

Yao Yuanfu's eyes narrowed slightly, he snorted coldly, and with force under his feet, he stepped out of the column diagonally, and went up to the Khitan cavalry on the east side, and the steel spear in his hand was pointed out again and again, and the place where the gun fell was full of Khitan war horses, cavalry eyes and other vital points, and the battle formation that had not yet been fully formed was disrupted.

Yao Yuanfu used a steel gun to "name the name" while roaring wildly: "Rush up!" Accelerate Acceleration! ”

The roar as bright as thunder, coupled with the killing efficiency of the old general's one shot and one life, immediately ignited the atmosphere on the battlefield, and all the Zhou soldiers on the city shouted in unison: "General Medicine!" Medicine General! ”

The Khitan general turned his head to look at the Great Zhou cavalry who were still rushing out of the city gate hole, frowned, and raised his horn to blow wildly.

The desolate and long horn sounded throughout the battlefield, and those Khitan cavalry immediately turned their horses and rushed to the north. The cavalrymen who were originally guarding the people carrying salt bags and captives in the east also took out their swords, cut down the people and soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in front of them, and beat their horses away.

Yao Yuanfu smashed a Khitan cavalryman under his horse with the tail of his spear, and roared wildly: "Attack with a shield array!" ”

The circular shield array that had originally shrunk into a ball immediately swelled, and those Zhou soldiers roared and frantically advanced, pounced and collided, enveloping some Khitan cavalry who could not start in time. Those Great Zhou cavalry also took the initiative to separate, and began to combine three and two to besiege those backward Khitan cavalry, and soon killed the scattered cavalry, and began to pursue outward!

"Sound the gong! Stop the pursuit! Yao Yuanfu's big voice sounded again, and he stopped the trend of those Great Zhou cavalry running wild in time.

The remaining 250 or so Khitan cavalry slowly stopped after running out of range. After a mound, a few horses turned out, it was Xiao Yuju, the envoy of the Zhangguo Festival of the Liao State, Liu Chong, Liu Chengjun and his son in the Northern Han Dynasty, and Zhufeng.

"This old bastard is also clever, and he won't take advantage of the victory to chase after him in this case!" Xiao Yuju sighed, and looked back at the five hundred Khitan cavalry who were waiting not far away.

Zhu Feng sat on his horse, silently watching the war situation under the city, as well as the people who were still wailing in the salt pans in the northeast corner of the city, their faces turned iron-blue, their teeth were biting fiercely, and their cheeks were bulging.