Chapter 119: Position
"The Khitan warriors killed each other for the Han dogs, it's really not worth it!" the leader Kulie climbed onto the horse in embarrassment, and muttered to Yelu Shilie, the disposition of Shuozhou who had just arrived. The name of the warriors of the palace division army is really true, and after a while, he let go of more than a dozen of the most powerful young people in the clan.
"If such a traitor is allowed to become a powerful man again, the Han people under his rule will tremble, and we will not be driven to the Gobi in the north to gnaw stones. "Yelu Shilie has just led three thousand Shuozhou cavalry to arrive, and after witnessing the devastating battle of the palace army, a dark cloud rose in his heart. If Han Derang's life cannot be spared, not to mention his future revenge, it means that the magnates in Beijing who are in charge of this matter will also kill themselves. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder, stared viciously at the hill where the palace division army was stationed, and said, "These people are already traitors to my Great Liao Kingdom to help the Han people. ”
Seeing that Ku Lie's face was still dissatisfied, Yelu Shilie promised: "Just wait until you defeat these cowardly Han dogs and a few traitors, I don't want any Han people on the mountain, you will contribute more, and then you will share five hundred more slaves." ”
Ku Lie's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "The great nobleman is generous, and the slave is better to say, when the time comes, it will be good to give us more armor and healthy horses." Recently, the barbarians in the north have become more and more restless, and the tribe has to be more vigilant. At this time, although the Han people regarded the Khitans as savages outside the Saiwai, the Khitans had long regarded themselves as supreme countries, and they were also troubled by the harassment of the more barbarian tribes from the Mongolian Plateau.
Yelu Shilie frowned and agreed, thinking that although this Han Derang had not been stationed in Shuozhou for a long time, he acted decisively and had a sophisticated skill, and he had already won a lot of hearts in Shuozhou. If it was usual, with the respect of the royal family in Beijing, it was only a sentence or two to mobilize a few local big clans to do things, but now he has to promise some benefits out of thin air.
On the hillside, Han Derang looked at the more Khitan cavalry that came one after another, and the two small hills were surrounded by water, and secretly wondered, who had such energy, and actually transferred almost all the tribal cavalry that could be mobilized in the Shuozhou territory, and it must be the Shuozhou Khitan disposal of Yelu Shilie. Yelu Shilie was born in the royal family, and behind him was that force. Seeing Wu Yingying walking in the soldiers, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, today the dragon swims in the shallows, the temple is lofty, all the plans have to get out before they can be implemented, they are here to be distracted, but it is not as good as Wu Yingying's down-to-earth to stimulate the fighting spirit of every soldier.
At this time, the enemy army under the mountain saw the commotion again, and there were thousands of men and horses rushing up the mountain in four directions, Han Derang smiled contemptuously, such a person was bold and ambitious, and dared to attack the palace guards, but he was negligent in the battle formation, and actually attacked from all sides regardless of the key points, and lost the lives of the warriors in vain.
He didn't expect that Yelu Shilie was worried that if he couldn't quickly capture the mountain, the leaders of the tribes were worried about the loss of the warriors, so they withdrew their troops and went back, so he hung his 3,000 Shuozhou cavalry here, urging the chiefs of the tribes to attack with all their strength at the beginning, and also claimed that there were many Han slaves on the mountain, and the gold and silver in the Lanzhou army were taken by the tribes who broke through the camp first, which caused the chiefs of the tribes to be enthusiastic, and they all reined in their troops and horses to attack up.
Shi Yuanguang, the captain of the horizontal camp, hid behind the huge square shield, which was also made during his stay in Xizhou, two feet wide and five feet high, with a slightly pointed lower end that could be buried in the soil, and two wooden sticks behind him were inserted diagonally into the ground to support it, as long as he was slightly shorter, he could cover his entire body. Through the small hole in the shield, Shi Yuanguang observed the enemy horse team getting closer and closer from the bottom of the mountain, two hundred paces, the bow and arrow fired by the white feather army and the hussar army with a hard bow in the camp shot into the enemy cavalry group, and from time to time the enemy army fell off the horse. One hundred and fifteen paces, the soldiers under the command of the Commander of the Ten Commanders aimed at the enemy knights and fired arrows, according to the rules, a group of soldiers aimed at an enemy cavalry at the same time, and dozens of cavalrymen were shot off their horses. Fifty steps, "shoot!" Shi Yuanguang shouted violently, and five hundred crossbow arrows were shot out at the same time. The powerful bolts of the crossbow shot at the front of the enemy, and the bed crossbows in the camp were fired at the same time, and the thick iron arrows pierced the body of an enemy cavalryman.
After shooting the crossbow arrow, it was too late to see if it was shot, Shi Yuanguang led the soldiers of the horizontal camp to retreat and wind up, and the soldiers of the Jinfan battalion raised their spears and quickly rushed to the front of the formation, just colliding with more than a dozen enemy horses who were approaching, and the spear of five meters long pierced deeply into the chest of the war horse, and the Khitan cavalry on the horse was thrown off the horse under the action of inertia, either breaking the neck, or being hacked to death by the swarming foot soldiers.
More Khitan cavalry controlled their horses and patrolled in front of the Lanzhou army's position to find a breakthrough that could leap through, but unfortunately the giant shield and antlers greatly limited the space for movement, but the nimble foot soldiers kept stabbing the slowed cavalry off their horses. It didn't take long for him to hear an order from behind, and the infantry of the Lanzhou army in front of the formation leaned down at the same time, and the horizontal camp with good crossbows aimed at the nearby enemy cavalry and fired another volley. At this moment, the distance was so close, and the Khitan tribe cavalry had almost no armor, and they were suddenly shot into a large area, and the rest saw this formation and turned their horses to flee down the mountain.
The battle situation on the side of the palace division army was even more intense, Yelu Shilie knew that Han De must not let one of the troops escape, so he personally came to besiege the Khitan army of Shuozhou, and saw that the palace division army on the mountain dismounted and relied on the camp built of earth, stone and tree branches to shoot the horses of the headquarters, Yelu Shilie ordered the soldiers to also dismount, and attacked upward with scimitars and shields. The two Khitan armies actually fought on the grassland. Seeing this scene, Han Derang couldn't help but exclaim: "Shema is gone, it's really stupid." Immediately ordered the rear team palace to divide the army on the horse, holding a spear and rushed down the mountain, the Shuozhou Khitan who had dismounted was completely unfamiliar with the method of infantry formation, and in a panic there was no time to form a formation to resist the cavalry who rushed down condescendingly, and the front team was stabbed and then abandoned their shields and fled down the mountain. Han Derang was unforgiving, and led the cavalry to chase closely, shooting arrows and spears and bayonets along the way, until Yelu Shilie's generals reorganized a large group of cavalry to come to intercept and then turned their horses back.
Yelu Shilie was carried back to the bottom of the mountain by a subordinate, and saw that this small hill was already covered with the corpses of the Khitan army in Shuozhou, he couldn't help but be ashamed and annoyed, and gritted his teeth and mobilized more than 3,000 people from the nearby tribal army, and ordered these people to dismount and hold shields as the front team to attack upward, while his headquarters rode a war horse to follow behind and press the formation to prevent Han Derang from repeating his old tricks.
Seeing this situation, the leaders of the various tribes also followed the cat's picture, the front team dismounted as foot soldiers to raise shields, and the rear team of horse troops monitored, forming a dense formation and advancing to the mountain, relying on the strength of the people, step by step approaching the Lanzhou military camp.
When the two sides were fighting, the tribal cavalry that had not been assigned to charge took turns to ride their horses and gallop to the vicinity of the Lanzhou army and the Gongfen military camp, and fired bows and arrows upwards.
Seeing that the Khitan soldiers were getting closer and closer, Wu Yingying called Bai Sheng and said: "The enemy is outnumbered, if you let them get close and fight for the soldiers, I'm afraid our army will be difficult to support, you take the Modao battalion to rush and beat them back." He also called Xingu and Yu Furen, and ordered them to lead the cavalry in close pursuit and drive the enemy away, so that the cavalry of these tribes would not dare to attack the mountain again today.