Chapter 424: Penetration

At dawn the next day, the Khitans once again burned the yellow-black smoke, as if the tireless war horses stepped out of the wind and dust again, and hundreds of cavalry rushed out from time to time in the smoke and dust, riding and firing continuously. Liu Di held his spear tiredly, and the partner beside him had fallen thirty percent, and he was lucky to be alive. A large number of regimental training soldiers were sleep-deprived and somewhat puffy in their eyes, and there was more and more fear, even despair.

Shang Zhongxin swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and shouted almost hoarsely: "Wife, children, and parents are behind you, you have to hold on to me, the Lingzhou army will come to our rescue!" This kind of encouragement still had some effect yesterday, after a large number of casualties and continuous fighting, the morale of the regimental training soldiers has fallen to the extreme. When the privy envoy of the Northern Court, Yelu Xian, heard the return of the vanguard who had been interviewed and attacked, and a sinister smile appeared on his face.

Khitan 10,000 war horses galloped back and forth, and the sound of thunder spread for miles away. Cai Lang, the commander of the Tiger Wing Army, showed a solemn look on his face, he looked at the more than 3,000 soldiers under his command, all of them were shrouded in heavy armor, and most of the armored cavalry of the Tiger Wing Army were specially modified by the soldiers who were worth a lot of money, so they could easily distinguish their identities from the patterns on the armor and brocade robes.

After receiving the news that nearly 40,000 people were besieged by the Khitans in the north of Lingzhou, Cai Lang immediately made a decision that he must not abandon these Xia people. Whether it is to reclaim the frontier lands or to recover the steppe tribes, the Xia soldiers' commitment to the protection of the shade is by no means empty talk.

The commander of the hussar army made Xin Gu rush to Lingzhou with a thousand horsemen first, and Cai Lang entrusted the defense of Lingzhou to him and personally led the Tiger Wing Army to help. The Tiger Wing Army and the Lingzhou Regiment will hold on to the spot and wait for reinforcements. When the reinforcements of the follow-up cavalry arrived in Lingzhou, while the Khitan cavalry was exhausted from the siege of the chariot formation, General Xin could break it in one fell swoop.

Facing the soldiers under his command, Cai Lang took a deep breath of dry and cold air, quieted the sergeants who began to make noise, pointed to the north with a wave of his horse lance, and said in a deep voice: "The battlefield, just ahead," he raised his voice and said loudly, "Is it a glorious death in battle, or a lucky survival, half by ability, half by the fate of heaven, as a commander, I know that among you, there is no ornament, let alone a coward." His words caused a burst of laughter among the sergeants under his command, and the noble children who were not promoted through the sergeant assessment began to joke with each other, Cai Lang smiled and nodded, straightened up his horse, and shouted in a deep voice: "God bless Wuxia!" put down the mask on the helmet, turned the horse's head, adjusted his posture, and the hundred cavalry soldiers surrounded him, forming a sharp arrow formation to guide the whole army.

"God bless my summer!" all the sergeants shouted their trumpets together and lowered their iron masks. "For the sake of Kangju. Captain Kang Khotan said silently, and also clenched the scimitar in his hand, "For Khotan." "For Gao Chang. "For Shule!" More than 3,000 horsemen each had different intentions and formed a three-column sprint formation, "For Daxia!" Wu Yuanqing shouted loudly, holding the colorful tiger banner with ribs and wings in one hand, and instigating the war horse with the other, following closely behind Cai Lang.

Yelu suddenly heard a sound of hooves that was different from his own, and at the same time, the scout came to report that it was thousands of heavy cavalry from the direction of Lingzhou who went out of the city to rescue the people. "Get out of the way and let them in!" he ordered in a deep voice, the Liao State also has the Tielin Army, but this long-distance attack, he chose to ride lightly, in this flat place on all sides, the Pingxia Iron Harrier sprinted, and it was really difficult to be its front, but the weakness of the heavy cavalry Yelu also knew that since they were going to die, they might as well laugh at it.

The Tiger Wing Army is the tallest horse in the Xia Army, the most well-armored cavalry, more than 3,000 armored cavalry sprint, is an overwhelming torrent of iron cavalry, the Khitan rangers have avoided to both sides, some while dodging, while shooting arrows, however, most of the arrows shot at the Tiger Wing Army can not penetrate the armor, only the bullet to the ground.

Liu Di was almost stunned as he watched the iron cavalry rushing towards the car formation, and his heart almost rose to his throat, at this time, the sergeant behind him shouted ecstatically: "It's the Tiger Wing Army! Lingzhou rescuers are coming!" "Don't let go of the arrows!" "Everyone dodge!" He couldn't hear anything like that, only saw a line of black ironclad cavalry, like angry waves crashing on the shore, crashing towards the car formation, when he was about to arrive, suddenly there was a point on both sides, and a circle spread around the car formation, and the few Khitan rangers who were still lingering near the Han army's car array were either picked off by the horse lance, or they were knocked off the horse, and stepped into meat and mud, and when the speed of the iron cavalry under his command slowed down, clearing the surrounding Khitan rangers, Shang Zhongxin also opened the entrance of a camp for the Tiger Wing Army, Cai Lang only let out a low shout, and led the Tiger Wing Army sergeant who did not have much damage into the camp, when he lifted the mask, there was a burst of cheers around him!

"It's General Xiao Cai!" This sentence is a tone of surprise, the well-informed sergeant immediately conveyed the good news of the arrival of the Lingzhou reinforcements to the Yin households, although the people did not know Cai Lang, but in the storyteller "General Zhang sent an envoy to Dinghe, Captain Cai was merry and beautiful" and other words in the book already knew that this person was His Majesty's favorite general, both civil and military, courageous and knowledgeable, and he was a figure like Xue Dingshan. "It's the Tiger Wing Army!" This sentence is a disappointed tone, the Tiger Wing Army is not usually looked down upon by the army, its name and characteristics, in the extremely martial Lingzhou is also a topic of conversation for everyone, Lingzhou Yin Hu general view, in the Gobi, five hundred hussars can drag down five thousand Tiger Wing Army.

The Tiger Wing Army brought a thousand repeaters and crossbow arrows, Shang Zhongxin had a smile on his face, and while thanking him, he looked at those legendary young master soldiers suspiciously, at the critical moment, these people will not turn their horses and leave. But Cai Lang's next order dispelled his suspicions, and the sergeants of the Tiger Wing Army were all wearing heavy armor, armed with long knives and axes used in foot combat, etc., and distributed around the chariot formation in units of 100 people, and used them as heavy infantry.

"The enemy is outnumbered, and the immediate priority is to consolidate the defense line of the car formation. However, when the Khitans were in a hurry, our army still had to ride their horses and rush out to fight with the enemy cavalry. Cai Lang explained to Xin Gu with a solemn face that his official rank was higher than Shang Zhongxin, and he was appointed by Wu Yingying to stay in Lingzhou, so he naturally took over the command of the battlefield. Seeing that the heavy cavalry entered the barracks, Hu Limu, the vanguard commander of the North Courtyard, ordered loudly, and three thousand cavalry rushed straight to the place where the Shicai Han army camp was put into the cavalry of their own side, and the Liao people rode *** Zhan, and the men and horses did not arrive, and the accurate and energetic bushes and arrows arrived first, chasing people like mosquitoes and flies in summer, and the regimental training soldiers raised wooden shields, iron pots, pot lids, and sticky blankets coated with wet mud to resist, which caused the Khitan soldiers in the distance to laugh.