The privy envoy of the northern court, Yelu Xian, looked at the winter nest pasture that was burned into a black field with an ugly face, few nomadic tribes have done such a desperate thing, it is conceivable that without the grass for these livestock to overwinter, this winter, all the livestock of the tribe will die.

Since stepping into the Xia State's sphere of influence in Mobei, although the Liao army has a huge number of troops, and the harassment of dozens or hundreds of local Mongols has almost never stopped, the goal of the Liao army is to rush to Lingzhou, and it is impossible to stop and swatt these pesky flies to death.

A Mongol captive captured by a fenced horse was escorted to the Yelu diagonal horse, and the Mongol raised his head and stared unceremoniously at the nobleman surrounded by Liao soldiers, and if he had not been firmly shaved with his hands firmly cut back, he would have pounced on him and bitten his throat.

"Are there any unburned winter nest pastures nearby, and why are you attacking us?" asked Yelu Rang Huli.

The Mongol captive was stunned for a moment, then laughed, spat on the ground, and said nothing.

Hu Limur was furious, and immediately took off his dirty leather jacket, pressed him to the ground and whipped him, only beating his back to a bloody pulp, and then asked, "Is there any winter nest pasture near that has not been burned?"

The Mongol looked up, spat on bloody spit, and stared at Huli, still silent.

Yelu Xianzhen himself opened his mouth and asked in Mongolian, "I can give you double the benefits that the Xia Kingdom has given you, why did you attack us?"

The Mongol still didn't say a word, only looked at Yelu with contempt, Yelu stared at the eyes that seemed to be a scholar in the Song Kingdom, such a person, he had killed a lot in the south, waved his hand, and shouted: "Cut it!" Hu Limur couldn't hold it anymore, and when he heard this, he drew his waist knife and slashed it down on the Mongol's neck.

Yelu obliquely looked at the corpse in a different place, and a sense of foreboding surged in his heart, what made the lowly Mongols actually think that they could defeat the powerful Liao State. "There is nothing left on the grassland, the whole army is speeding up, and there are many Han farms in Helan Mountain, where you can fight grass valleys!" Yelu looked at the south, his eyes seemed to have crossed the mountains, at this time, the main force of the army of the Xia Kingdom should still be entangled with the Song people.

In the Hangu Valley Road, the forbidden army of Cao Han Dudu attacked day by day, and the Xia army changed the style of retreating one by one at the beginning and fighting cheap battles, and began to forcefully refuse to give up an inch of territory, and the battle between the two sides became more tragic.

Cao Han sent a successor Long Jie army along the east bank of the Yellow River to explore the possibility of crossing the river into Guanzhong, but was attacked head-on by the two armies of Bai Yu and Tongqiu led by Yu Fu Renliang, Cao Han sent someone to invite the Zhejia army to go south to Guanzhong to quell the chaos, but Zhe Yuqing refused to send troops on the grounds that he found a large group of Khitan cavalry in the area of Helan Mountain and Yinshan Mountain, and the Zhe family wanted to defend the Liao army from entering the Kou. In desperation, Cao Han could only urge the frontline armies to attack in turn, and at the same time sent a letter to Zhao Dezhao, requesting additional reinforcements from the forbidden army to storm Hangu Pass.

The forbidden army had already occupied two lines of defense, and during the short interval of the battle, Cheng Chang'an's face was covered with blood, and he pointed at a capital head in annoyance and scolded: "Let you go to the back to get crossbow arrows, how can you bring these trick-trick things!" Jia Liu defended quite modestly: "General Cao transferred all the equipment stored in the Luoyang arsenal, and the back was piled up, all of which were packed in wooden boxes, and the last general couldn't distinguish them, so he mistakenly moved these dozens of boxes of firearms. He paused for a moment and continued, "Why don't you bring someone to move them back?"

"Stupid!" Cheng Changan scolded again, and it would take another trip to waste his leg strength when he moved back, pointing to the camp of the Xia army on the other side of the trench, and shouted: "Shoot all to the Xia people on the other side." The batch of firearms in the Luoyang arsenal brought by Jia Liu had a variety of patterns, including rockets, fireballs, fireballs, firebugs, thistles, etc., and he was busy sending these messy things to the front line, straightened his face, and shouted to the forbidden army under his command: "General Cheng has an order to project all the firearms he just received." ”

This kind of firearm is not a new thing for either the Xia army or the Song army, seeing that the Song army suddenly released the firearms, Shi Yuanguang immediately ordered the front to check whether there was any fire oil pottery bullets left, if this thing was ignited on his own position, the trouble would be greater than those firearms of the Song people.

Some of the firearms of the Song army could not be ignited, and some simply flew halfway and burned out, but most of them continued to fall behind the Xia country's defense line with sparks, emitting thick yellow and black poisonous smoke, which choked the soldiers in front of them with tears, but the Xia soldiers tied the soaked cloth strips outside their mouths and noses, and they could stay on the position, and the firearms were just choking, which was better to deal with than the crossbow arrows that were bloody and deadly.

On the high platform of the Song army's rear formation, Xijing left behind Cao Han frowned, the valley road covered with the corpses of the Song army and the camp of the Xia army were gradually shrouded in smoke, this Hangu Pass was on both sides of the steep mountains, and the smoke was not easy to disperse, but as Jia Liu was full of hope to reimburse his mistakes on the position of the Xia State, the smoke emitted by the firearms became thicker and thicker, and Cao Han almost couldn't see the battle situation in front of him at all. "In the past two days, most of the casualties suffered by the Song army were caused by the bows and crossbows of the Xia Kingdom, and the archers of the Xia army were all selected and hard-trained and extremely experienced soldiers.

"His grandmother's, follow me!" Seeing that the firearm actually achieved an unexpected effect, the commander Cheng Changan was also extremely excited, took off the two pieces of armor on his shoulder, so as not to hinder the wielding of the knife, and rushed into the smoke with more than 500 elite Hujie troops, this narrow valley road has been fought by both sides many times, even if the Song army can find the Xia army's camp with his eyes closed, and the Xia army can't see where the Song army in the smoke has attacked. After a burst of crossbow arrows, the results of the battle could not be seen clearly in the thick smoke, until the Song army wielding swords and axes rushed to the front, "Draw the sword!" "Draw the sword!" The captain and centurion of the crossbow battalion in front of him ordered that the crossbowmen of the Xia Kingdom, who had just drawn out their protective blades, were killed together with the Hujie army. "Happy, happy!" If it weren't for Cheng Chang'an's quick dodge, he would have almost been cut into several pieces by the counterattack of Xia Junmo's knife formation, and his back was also hit by a hammer, and his own soldiers dragged him down from the Xia army's third line of defense, "It's much happier than being beaten." He turned his head to look at his own position where the firearms were no longer fired, and shouted angrily again: "Jia Liu, you gray grandson, why did you stop!"

"All the dozens of boxes of firearms just now have been used. Jia Dutou said aggrievedly. "Go and ask for it again," Cheng Changan said loudly, the current situation can beat Hangu, even if Luoyang is demolished, Cao Han will meet his requirements. If he couldn't defeat Hangu, even if he filled all the Hujie army into the trenches of the Xia army, Cao Han would not be soft-hearted.