Chapter 427: Formation

As soon as the lightning passed, followed by the earth-shattering thunder finally sounded, the heavy rain fell from the sky, in the face of the rare showers in this early spring, the long-dry ground could not store water, a stick of incense could not be done, the trickle of water around the ground converged into countless ditches vertically and horizontally, the cold rain poured down in the air, but more than 20,000 Lingzhou people in the car camp could not take care of dodging, while trembling and standing in the rain, while looking outward, the shouting and killing outside became more and more intense, and the hearts of all the people were raised to their throats, while worrying about the Khitan cavalry that suddenly poured into the brigade, while praying for the safety of their relatives who sacrificed their lives to fight outside the car array。

Hundreds of elite horsemen of the Northern Courtyard surrounded the privy envoy Yelu to supervise the battle, and after the shower fell, the vision was better than when the sand and rocks were flying just now. As soon as he saw that there were Khitan cavalry retreating, Yelu Xianzhen ordered his own cavalry to go up and reprimand, "Don't retreat!" "There are no cowards in the Khitan people who are afraid of death!" "Continue to attack the Han chariot formation!" It's just that the resistance of this Lingzhou regiment is too fierce, and Yelu Xianzhen can't help but secretly regret boasting about Haikou in front of Empress Xiao, the Han people's popularity is so strong, no wonder Emperor Yelu Deguang, who was powerful in Mobei, was also forced to withdraw from the Central Plains.

"Kill!" the commander of the Tayan army made Cai Ran's horse lance pick up a Khitan cavalry, and the Northern Courtyard Army was raided by the cavalry of the Xia Army's brigade, and they resisted in a hurry, and the sudden heavy rain made them even more chaotic. It was also difficult for the Tayan army to maintain a strict queue in the wind and rain, but they came prepared, and knew that there was a strong camp of their own infantry in front of them, so they were not as panicked as the Khitan cavalry. All the ten-person teams and hundred-person teams rushed to the north together, which was also an unstoppable torrent, and suddenly, there was a faint car formation in front, and the sergeant of the Tayan army immediately shouted: "Tens of thousands of cavalry troops in Daxia have come to help! Not a single Khitan dog is left!" There are both Chinese and Khitan languages, and the morale of the Lingzhou regiment is greatly boosted when they hear the sound, and the Khitan cavalry is devastated, and some cavalry simply ignore the constraints of the officers, and only care about seizing the road and fleeing in a panic.

Hearing the call of the cavalry of the Xia army and the cheers from the chariot array, the privy envoy of the Northern Court, Ye Xianzhen's face turned pale, the rain trickled down his helmet, and the surrounding generals looked at each other, everyone lost their minds, the cavalry fought each other, either winning or losing, there was no third possibility, and in such a situation, it was obviously defeated.

"My lord, the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom Brigade has come over, let the last general fight to the death for a while!" the vanguard officer Hu Limur shouted loudly. He had just led 5,000 elite troops to attack the Han people's car formation, and he was almost about to succeed, but he was stopped by the Xia cavalry and raided, and his subordinates fled to death, and there were only hundreds of horsemen around him.

Yelu Xian's face was pale, remembering the proposal to detain the officials of the Southern Court before the Western Expedition, Han Derang resented eyes, this battle involved the dispute between the Khitan generals of the Northern Court and the Han generals of the Southern Court, the Great Liao State lost, and the privy envoy of the Northern Court Yelu Xian could not lose, he drew his beard knife and shouted: "My Liao has generals who kill the enemy, and there are no generals who escape!" The generals under his command did not dare to look up, Yelu Xianzhen ordered the left and right to gather the rout troops to counterattack, personally led the elite of the Northern Courtyard, and rushed back in the direction of the Han cavalry attack in the south.

At this time, the Khitan people around the camp of the people of Lingzhou were scattered, and the commander of the Tiger Wing Army made Cai Lang also entangled the sergeants, and more than 1,000 horsemen just got on the horse, and saw one or two thousand Khitan cavalry troops against the defeated soldiers who fled against the rout, and they were trying to turn the tide.

"It came at the right time. Cai Lang took a deep breath, pointed his horse lance at the Khitan general under the banner, and said to the surrounding sergeants: "I will use the head of the enemy chief to pay tribute to our comrades who died in our army." As soon as the reins were lifted, the good horses in the river that had been held in the camp for several days struggled to run towards the Khitan cavalry, and more than a thousand heavy horses were like a torrent of steel, and the Khitan routs encountered along the way all dodged. Seeing that he was about to catch up with the Khitan cavalry, suddenly a group of cavalry overtook him, Shang Zhongxin rode on his horse and shouted: "General Cai's forgiveness!

He was surrounded by the Khitan cavalry in the camp for several days, he had already held back the fire, and now he had the opportunity to retaliate, so he did not let go, a long lance and thorns, dozens of horsemen actually disturbed the Khitan cavalry's originally neat formation, and was picked up by the Tiger Wing Army led by Cai Lang, and cut the enemy army into two sections along the opening opened by Shang Zhongxin.

The showers in the northwest came and went faster, except for the mud on the ground, the sight was already completely clear, and the hussars who had been fighting in Mobei for a long time gathered next to the officers, forming a small arrow formation to pursue the resisting enemy troops,

"What a brave general!" Chu Xian, the marching secretary who followed closely behind Xin Gu, sighed, I don't know if he was in Yelu Xian, Shang Zhongxin or Cai Lang. Xin Gu's face was expressionless, and he was surrounded by more than 1,000 hussars from two battalions who had not dispersed to attack the enemy, and when the Northern Courtyard Army came to the front three hundred paces away, he shouted: "Drive!"

According to his calculations, the thief captured the king first, although his own army was defeated, but the Xia army was scattered, if the main general was lost, the army's heart was shaken, and the battle situation still had a chance to turn around. Seeing that the group of Xia cavalry only stood still, he also thought that the generals of the Xia Kingdom were the same as some of the generals of the Southern Dynasty, and they were unwilling to fight in person, and when they were secretly happy, the enemy cavalry suddenly started, and the speed of galloping far exceeded his estimate, and the rhythm of this attack and defense was suddenly chaotic.

In the short distance of 300 paces, there is no room for half-heartedness, only to drive the war horse, accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again! In the eyes of Chu Xian, who was not far away, the war horses on both sides roared past each other, and in just a few breaths, hundreds of cavalry fell into the mud.

The war horse gasped, the cavalry pulled the reins, and forced the mount to turn around in the shortest distance, the war horse's mouth and nose were painful, and the horse's hooves were irritable and the mud was splashed, Xin Gu shook the blood on the horse's lance, and saw that the Liao cavalry on the opposite side had not yet formed a team, and was about to seize the opportunity to rush again, but suddenly the enemy cavalry in front of him let out a few bursts of sorrow and noise, and then scattered and fled in a hurry!

Chu Xian, the secretary of the march, was the first to come over and shouted: "The Liao lord is dead in battle!" With a look of ecstasy on his face, he immediately shouted in Khitan language: "Yelu is dead!" For a while, the battlefield sounded everywhere with the shout of "Yelu is dead!", and the Liao soldiers' hearts finally completely collapsed, and they retreated to the north, while the Xia hussars chased closely behind.

Soon after, the cheers of "The Liao people have been defeated!", "We are saved!", "Long live Your Majesty!" resounded among the people in the chariot array, many of them knelt down despite the muddy water on the ground and thanked the sergeants who came to help for their lives, and many women staggered towards the outside of the chariot array with their children in their arms, wanting to confirm whether their man was still alive at the first time.

Except for a small number of regimental training soldiers who treated the wounded under the leadership of sergeants and mended the wounded enemy soldiers abandoned on the battlefield, in order to prevent the Khitan cavalry from going and returning, most of the regimental training soldiers were confined to the periphery of the vehicle formation to maintain a formation against the enemy. Liu Di leaned on the wheel and gasped for breath, he didn't know if he had killed someone, but the people and horses he had stabbed with a spear in the past few days were more than the chickens he had killed in his life, and he was splashed with mud and blood, and he wanted to gag.

"Husband, husband!" Looking back, I saw Liu Wang's holding the child, standing in the car formation, looking at himself with tears in his eyes, Liu Di couldn't help but stand up. "Bodhisattva bless!" Liu Wang couldn't stop crying. At this moment, the captain not far away received a military order, the Khitan cavalry had been completely defeated, "Disband and rest!" With the sergeant's order, Liu Di quickly ran to his wife and children, and the family hugged each other tightly. In this muddy land, some of the more than 10,000 border residents wept with joy, and some cried bitterly, and the only common feeling was exhaustion and the relief of the past disaster.