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On the 17th day of the fifth lunar month of the seventh year of Jianlong (the twentieth year of the corresponding calendar), a convoy composed of more than 500 carts, nearly 6,000 servants and escort soldiers marched forward on the field between Wuzhou and Fengzhou under the scorching sun. Perhaps it was due to the fatigue of the long journey, or the heat of the weather, or the silent resistance to the shouting captains who were running around in front of the procession, shouting and screaming to drive everyone away, but the whole convoy was moving very slowly, not slower than a snail, but probably not much faster than a tortoise.

At the same time, on the top of a low hill about three or four miles away from this convoy, Yelu, who was ordered to lead the army to reinforce Fengzhou, but changed his mind halfway through, and decided to harass and even cut off the Zhou army's grain route through guò, so as to force it to divide his troops to maintain the grain route, and then delay the speed of the Zhou army's march, was prostrate on the ground, holding a pair of monoculars, carefully observing the Zhou army's logistics convoy as its target, to confirm that this auxiliary army was indeed as tired and scattered as it looked, and not deliberately.

Although Yelu Xianzhen always believed that the battle between the two armies relied on the strategy of the commander, the arrangement of the generals, and the brave rush of the soldiers, the so-called "clairvoyance" from the Zhou State in his hand, which can be called the "artifact" of the battle, made him realize that the equipment and even the strange and ingenious things that were not worth mentioning in his eyes in the past can also affect the comparison of strength between the enemy and us. If it was placed in the past, three or four miles away, even the person with the best eyesight would not be able to see the specific behavior of the other party. But with this "clairvoyant" in his hand, he can shorten the distance of several miles to several zhang. Through it, not only can you clearly see the footsteps of the servants and soldiers of the Zhou army's transport team marching hard against the scorching sun, the horsewhips waving back and forth in the hands of the escort captains, but also the tired, resentful, or vicious expressions on their faces. As for the type of goods carried on those carts, they could not escape their eyes, so that they could determine early that the direction of their key assault should be the more than 200 carts in the middle of the convoy loaded with large wooden boxes, which were probably the weapons and ammunition necessary for the Zhou army's operations, and automatically ignored the parts in front and behind that were obviously loaded with regular baggage such as grain, grass, clothing, and tents.

It's a pity that in the entire Great Liao Kingdom, in addition to the "clairvoyance" in his hand, only Lord Yelu Wuzhen, who accompanies the king, still has one in his hands. In other words, the Great Liao Kingdom, which spans thousands of miles and rules over all countries, only has two "clairvoyances". And these two bodies were purchased from a Zhou merchant by Lord Yelu Wu for a large amount of money - it is said that this merchant had previously served as an entourage to the senior generals of the Zhou State Forbidden Army, and after Zhao Kuangyin's "yellow robe and body" failed, he took advantage of the opportunity of the generals to commit suicide and the chaos of the situation to steal two "clairvoyants" to escape from the camp, and since then he has changed his career incognito to do business between Zhou and Liao, and has revealed the relevant situation to his business partners in Liao, which made Lord Yelu Wu get the news after tossing and turning. There was an opportunity to use a large sum of money to buy these two militaristic heavy weapons that were impossible for the former to enter the Liao State.

According to the news that he secretly sent with the secret stake sent to Fengzhou with the 2,000 reinforcements, although the Zhou army won the battle of Fengzhou, the loss of men and horses and the consumption of weapons were quite large, so they had to temporarily garrison Fengzhou City to rest and wait for replenishment, and then they could continue to invade the north. Today's observation of the "clairvoyant" of Guò, as well as the situation that several groups of probes have probed from the periphery, prove that the news of the hidden pile is indeed correct. The supply convoy of the Zhou army in front of him was a necessary condition for the Zhou army to carry out the next military operation, and it was also the key to holding back the pace of the Zhou army's northern attack and buying more time for His Majesty and the imperial court to "patrol" Liaoyang Mansion. Defeating this supply convoy will not only drag the Zhou army in Fengzhou, but if it is properly commanded and successfully raids the other party, it is also very likely to capture a large number of firearms that the Zhou army can sweep the world. If it is used well, maybe the Great Liao can also use this to form an army that uses firearms, so that it will have the strength to compete with the Zhou army in the future.

Of course, as an excellent young general, Yelu is also very cautious. Therefore, although the great temptation was in front of him, he did not act rashly, but waited patiently, waiting for the opponent to be the most physically and mentally exhausted and the least vigilant, waiting for the return of the scout horse who went out ten miles to reconnoiter whether there was an ambush by the Zhou army around him, and waiting for the best opportunity to give the Zhou army in front of him a blow. Therefore, he let go of the first half of the Zhou army, which was only loaded with ordinary baggage such as grain and grass, armor and other ordinary baggage, and also composed of nearly 500 carts, and successfully avoided the Zhou army scouts who were searching everywhere - one of them was only a few dozen feet away from the tree behind this low mountain where Yelu Xian and his guards were hiding, until the scorching sun was in the sky and it was nearly noon, and the Zhou military captain in charge of escorting had no strength to show off his might in front of the servants and auxiliaries, and he was drowsy on his horses one by one. Only then did he let his own soldiers send an order to the Chinese army 200 steps away, ordering him to immediately erect a big banner and command his 18,000 Khitan warriors to rush out of the lurking places in all directions and kill the convoy of the Zhou army - although only more than 100 of the Zhou army's escort soldiers were equipped with firearms, but considering the sharp firearms of the Zhou army, his own generals were likely to become its primary target, so Yelu Xianzhen not only did not take the lead and lead the army to rush and kill, but stayed in place and observed and mastered the battlefield shape through the "clairvoyance" in his hand. Remote command of troops. Moreover, even the command tools such as the Chinese army's flags, drums, trumpets, and command flags were not set up by his side, but placed them 200 steps away from the low mountain where he and his own soldiers were hiding, so as to prevent himself from becoming a victim of the Zhou army's firearms -- Yelu was not afraid of death, he was afraid that his death would be worthless.

Running a distance of three or four miles, for a galloping war horse, it can't even take half a pillar of incense. Holding the binoculars to observe, Yelu had already begun to conceive in his mind the shots he would see in the "clairvoyance"—the scattered flight of the Zhou army's servants and auxiliaries, the panic of the Zhou army's escort soldiers, and the desperate expression of the Zhou army's escort captain. However, the reality that appeared before his eyes was very different from his own imagination.

In the face of the sudden attack of the Liao army, no one in the Zhou army, from the captain to the servant, panicked, feared, and fled. Nearly 10,000 men and horses moved quickly under the command of their respective commanders, and before the Liao army could rush to the effective attack range, they used hundreds of carts to form a huge and solid chariot formation, completely invalidating the impact force that the latter had accumulated to the apex. At the same time, the exhaustion, powerlessness, frustration, and slackness on the faces of the Zhou soldiers disappeared, and were replaced by expressions of perseverance, decisiveness, fearlessness, disdain and contempt. And the swords, spears, whips, and sticks in their hands have changed to muskets, cannons, bows, and crossbows taken from the large wooden boxes that they regard as their primary targets.

Hit the trick! This was Yelu's first reaction after seeing the Zhou army's transport convoy change formation. However, before he could order the whole army to retreat, the Zhou army in the chariot formation had already begun to fire guns and arrows, and the Khitan army, which was still hesitating whether to continue to attack or turn around and retreat, was swept off the horse because they had not received the general's order.

Seeing the soldiers under his command being knocked down in pieces like wheat harvesting, Yelu couldn't help but feel like a knife in his heart, and was annoyed that he had failed to see through the tricks of the Zhou army. However, there is no "regret medicine" to buy in this world, and with 18,000 Liao troops against the 6,000 Zhou army, which includes at least half of the "Flying Dragon Army" and has been prepared, Yelu Xianzhen knows that his side has no chance of winning at all. For the sake of today, the only way to do this is to rely on the superiority of your own mobility to quickly withdraw from the battlefield, save your strength as much as possible, and take revenge for today's revenge when you have the opportunity in the future. So, while putting away the "clairvoyance" in his hand, he hatefully ordered his soldiers to give a retreat order to the position where the Chinese army's general flag was located.

Just as the soldiers flew on their horses and were about to give orders, a strange "hiss, hiss" sound suddenly appeared overhead. Before everyone could find the source of the sound, twelve 100mm** rounds had already exploded in the body of Yelu and a hundred and ten pro-soldiers, and they were instantly annihilated in the smoke of gunpowder. Then, in just over a dozen seconds, the second and third rounds of 24 rounds of 100mm** followed one after another, covering the area behind the low mountain with an area of only a few hundred square meters like a plough, ensuring that no one could survive. At about the same time, the location of the Chinese general's flag, which was 200 paces away from Yelu's hideout, was also fired upon by one or two 82mm mortars and six 100mm mortars, and it was also caught in a sea of gunsmoke and fire in a short period of time.

As the positions of Yelu and the Chinese general's banner were destroyed by the Zhou army's artillery fire one after another, the Khitan army of 18,000 men completely lost its command and could only fight on its own. So, there were those brave people who continued to charge at the Zhou army's chariots, there were those who were timid and afraid of death who turned their horses' heads and fled in all directions, and those who couldn't make up their minds for a while went around in circles. As a result, the formation that was already chaotic because of the sudden fire attack by the Zhou army was also completely eroded, colliding with each other, pushing and scrambling, and even swords and guns against their own robes, and there were no less than 1,000 Khitan generals who were knocked down or squeezed off their mounts and died under the hooves of horses.

However, the nightmare of the Khitan army did not end there. Just as everyone was fighting for each other and killing each other to escape from danger, the roar of horses' hooves trampling the earth was heard from the north side of the chariot formation. The 5,000-Zhou army in charge of escorting the transport convoy that was deliberately put over by Yelu Xian, who was thought to be only loaded with grain, grass, armor and other useless things, had already rushed more than ten miles away, set up a perfect arc formation, and slaughtered violently. At this point, the Khitan army under the command of Yelu Xian completely collapsed.

At the end of the Shen period, as the last pursuer returned safely to the chariot formation, this counter-assault battle ended with the complete victory of the Zhou army. In this battle, the Zhou army annihilated nearly 16,000 enemies (killed and captured), while its own casualties were only more than 210 people. Only about 2,000 Khitan troops were able to escape from the battlefield, and less than 500 people finally returned to Changchun Prefecture alive.

As the direct commander of the battle, Muttel was still very satisfied with such an outcome. After the battle, accompanied by his personal guards and a group of generals, he came to the low mountain where Yelu was hiding, and wanted to see with his own eyes what this famous Khitan general who was said to have the most research and understanding of the Zhou army, especially the "Flying Dragon Army", and had caused a lot of trouble for his own capture of Fengzhou, looked like - even under the heavy bombardment of artillery fire, the other party was likely to be left with no bones and unrecognizable.

Maybe God didn't think this tall, handsome young man should be left dead, maybe it was the luck of this guy, or maybe it was just pure chance, in short, although Yelu was killed when the first shell fell, the body remained intact, and there was no damage to the rest of the body except for a small wound on the left chest.

After examining the young face, and closing the eyes that had never closed to death, Muttel commanded his men to scrub the body of Jerod, put on new clothes, and bury it in a coffin, so that he could be buried alive; With his body attached, he picked up the monoculars that had been damaged under the bombardment of artillery fire from the ground not far from Yelu's body, brushed off the dirt and blood stains on it with his hands, and rinsed it with the water in the kettle of the guard, so that he could clearly see the number of letters and numbers engraved on the tail of the inner cylinder and near the eyepiece, and thus determined that this monocular belonged to one of the dozens of monoculars that the Beiping Army presented to the Later Zhou Dynasty that year, and not the self-use product of the Beiping Army before. After Jianlong, the Zhou Forbidden Army ("Flying Dragon Army" and "Security Army") have all been equipped with more advanced and easy-to-use binoculars.

After confirming that Yelu's telescope was not a product of the Beiping military system, Muttel felt a little relieved. You must know that before the battle began, when he was secretly observing the enemy situation with his binoculars but accidentally found an obvious mirror reflection in the distance, and then saw that there was actually a Khitan general observing his own convoy with a monocular, he was so surprised that he almost cried out - however, it was this discovery that made him confirm the true position of the Khitan army's commander-in-chief, and did not continue to regard the location of the opponent's Chinese army's flag as the first target for the first firepower. If Yelu had knowledge and understood that it was the "clairvoyance" in his hand, which he regarded as an "artifact", that had revealed his position, I don't know how he would feel.

Speaking of which, it is no wonder that Muttel was shocked after discovering the opponent's telescope, because as a kind of telescope with the same level of secrecy as firearms, the telescope of the Zhou Forbidden Army ("Flying Dragon Army" and "Security Army") system was actually in the hands of the enemy army. At that time, not only will the people directly involved in this matter inevitably die, but also the ministers and ministers who have something to do with it will also be to blame, and even the relevant production bases of the Beiping military system and even the relevant functional departments of the crossing team will be implicated. Now that it has been confirmed that this telescope belongs to the gift of the Beiping Army to the Later Zhou court, Muttel is finally relieved. As for tracing how this thing flowed from the Later Zhou court to the Khitans, it was left to the Ministry of Intelligence to be responsible. The only thing that Muttel needs to care about now is to take into account the fact that the opponent may also have binoculars in the subsequent battles - no one can guarantee that the Khitans only have such a one, after all, the Beiping army originally presented more than 40 monoculars to the Later Zhou court, and its current whereabouts have not been carefully verified and counted......

After cleaning up the battlefield and sending some "security army" cavalry to escort the captured Khitan soldiers to Wuzhou, Mutel led the main force of his headquarters to escort 500 carts that were indeed loaded with grain and grass to return to Fengzhou, and joined Zeng Zhilin and Cheng Fei.

On the 20th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the seventh year of Jianlong (the 20th year of the corresponding calendar), the Middle Route Army of the Northern Expedition of the Great Zhou Dynasty left Fengzhou City and continued to go north, and on the 26th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the troops came to the city of Changchunzhou. (The novel "New Song Heroes" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )