Chapter 309: Thoughts
The Liao army walked slowly, but the column Ma Wanqi had already galloped back and forth close to the Song army's large array, raising an overwhelming amount of dust, and he couldn't see the back clearly, and even the movement was not very big, only to feel that the shadows of the men and horses were sufficient, as if there were countless soldiers and horses in the dust. Occasionally, the horses suddenly rushed close to the vanguard of the Song army, as if they were provoking, and as if they wanted to test the arrow range of the Song army's front formation, and the continuous loud shouts and loud voices were actually louder than the sound of tens of thousands of cavalry behind them.
Zhao Jiong couldn't see the situation of the Liao army clearly in the back, so he ordered the cavalry of the front army to rush straight to the enemy formation, testing the truth and reality, but Shi Shouxin discussed with the generals for a while, and the eunuch replied, and all the generals of the front army judged that the Liao army was in a suspicious formation, the purpose was to provoke the front army of the imperial court to fight easily, and set a trap in the back to eat the elite cavalry of the front army, please consider it again. Listening to Shi Shouxin's answer to the eunuch who gave the order, Wu Yingying and Zhang Zhongyao glanced at each other, and saw a look of surprise in each other's eyes, but they didn't expect Shi Shouxin and the others to dare to play with Zhao Jiong to avoid the battle.
On a whim, Zhao Jiong fought in the vanguard formation to kill a group of noble ministers from Zhou to Song, consuming his strength. Originally, it had destroyed the tacit understanding between these generals and the Zhao family, and Shi Shouxin protested in this way, so as not to make him worse. Since they have seized the authority of the generals, then don't expect these veterans to work the battlefield, and the generals looked at the Liao soldiers in the distance, and their eyes were no longer as bloody as they were back then, but as indifferent as ice.
Since the Northern Expedition, although Zhao Jiong has led the imperial camp to the battle in person, he is also quite proud. But the first confrontation with the Khitan army, and can not see the situation ahead, inevitably a little weak-hearted, listening to Shi Shouxin and others report, it is inconvenient to force them to fight, and wait for more than an hour, the Liao people have already crossed the river to complete the formation, but did not take the initiative to attack the Song army, only with the column horses around the Song people's large array of constantly wandering, and even with the Song army's peripheral rangers had some small-scale battles. Zhao Jiong was so anxious that he couldn't hold it back, so he ordered the eunuch to pass the order again, so that Shi Shouxin would definitely send troops to attack the Khitan striker and extinguish his spirit. "Yesterday, the Khitan army was bluffing, and today I am afraid it will be the same, when it is broken in one fell swoop, so that it does not dare to approach Youzhou again. Zhao Jiong consciously looked at the Liao people's horse cavalry running back and forth on the opposite side quite coldly, whether it was the war horse under the crotch or the leather armor on the body, it was quite thin, and it was difficult to match it under the impact of the forbidden army's iron cavalry.
"General Dong, since Your Majesty has a will, you will lead 5,000 cavalry troops to rush forward to test the reality of the Liao army, and I and all the generals are here to defend Your Majesty's Chinese army. Your Majesty has high hopes that the cavalry should strive to break through the enemy army and repay the country's kindness. Shi Shouxin did not resist the decree this time, but beckoned Dong Zunzhi to come over, his face was expressionless, and he ordered word by word, next to Liu Yanrang looked like a joke, Dong Zunzhi had a grudge with the ten brothers of the Yishe since the Zhou room, and Zhao Kuangyin did not care about him for the sake of seeing that he still had the courage to take the throne, but Liu Yanrang had revenge. And when Dong Zunzhi was stationed in the northwest, he didn't give much face to Shi Shouxin, who was the Zhongshu Order and stayed behind in Xijing, and now the retribution has arrived.
Dong Zunzhi did not dare to slack off and went as ordered. Five thousand horsemen urged the horses, the iron armor was sonorous, the gold and iron resonated, and Du Yu Hou Linzhong and Murong Gang, Wu Tie and other henchmen and lieutenants surrounded Dong Zunzhi to form an offensive core group, and rushed straight towards the smoke and dust that the Liao people stepped out of the horses.
Looking at the shrinking backs of the five thousand cavalry, Shi Shouxin snorted lightly, playing with the reins of his horse, and glanced at Wu Yingying, the envoy of Anxi Jiedu. After learning that he was in command of the vanguard array, he was furious in his heart, and invited his old brother Liu Yanrang to discuss, preparing to put Dong Zunzhi's Xiao cavalry army and Wu Yingying's Anxi army in front of the Liao people. But Liu Yanrang stopped: "The third brother stayed in Xijing, and his relatives bought land and property in all the state capitals of Kansai, and they multiplied and prospered day by day. This Wu hero Anxi is close to Guanxi, if he folds in Youzhou, I am afraid that his subordinates will not take a break, and the number of roads in Guanxi will immediately rot. Shi Shouxin was puzzled: "There is such a thing? Then Wu Yingying has been away from Longyou for a long time, is it possible that he can still make waves, and what does the court keep him for?" Liu Yanrang smiled and said: "I am a minister in the same hall as this person in the court, and I can't see through his depth." If Emperor Sejong and his eldest brother were there, they were afraid that even if they beheaded him, it was ridiculous that the second master of the Zhao family still thought that he was playing with him. Why did the third brother damage his own family for the white-eyed wolf. His words revealed his deep dissatisfaction with Zhao Jiongdi. Shi Shouxin heard Liu Yanrang mention Kuang Yin, and his face was also gloomy.
After Zhao Kuangyin won the throne with his brothers, although he had a glass of wine to release the military power, he was also extremely tolerant to them, even if he was a wooden person, he had no ability, and he had no merit to support the second brother Yang Guangyi, who was also an envoy to Baojing Festival. Zhao Jiong killed his brother and seized the throne, and Shi Shouxin and Liu Yanrang, who were transferred from Bianliang early, although they were powerless, they had a grudge in their hearts. And Zhao Jiong is also very vigilant against these brothers with different surnames of Zhao Kuangyin, and this time he put Shi Shouxin and Liu Yanrang in the vanguard array, and he did not have the intention of letting this veteran horse leather shroud.
Zhang Zhongyao saw the five thousand Xiao cavalry resolutely rushing towards the tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry, his heart couldn't help but be full of blood, looking back at Wu Yingying, only to see him thoughtful, nodded to himself, pointed to the back of the Xiao cavalry, and whispered: "If the temple and the princess acts, there are these border county good families without hesitation, the world has long been peaceful, why use it for thirty years?" I saw that the Xiao cavalry actually broke through the perimeter of the fence horse to intercept, shouting and killing and fighting with the Khitan front army.
The Khitans crisscrossed the northern country, but there was a little chronic disease in the battle, and the ranks were chaotic. Lin Zhong Military Academy surrounded the commander Dong Zunzhi, and the 5,000 cavalry troops stabbed through the blockade of the horses and plunged into the Khitan cavalry in front of the battle. The elite of the palace did not form a formation to block, but took five or six hundred cavalry as a team, like a wolf pack, around the five thousand Xiao cavalry army and continued to gallop, every time and the team of the Xiao cavalry staggered, they divided the dozens of Song cavalry who were slightly separated from the brigade, and stabbed down the horse with the crowd.
Although the Xiaowu Army is not as respectable as the Fourth Army, all the Xiaoqi are the children of good families in the border counties, and they dare to fight and die in a place where they do not lose to others. After rushing into the Khitan army formation, the cavalry inside galloped while bending bows and arrows to shoot the enemy, and the outer cavalry slashed and stabbed with knives and spears. Du Yu Hou Lin Zhong rushed to kill very happily, drank again and again, and the ability to endure between the two of them, only to see him stabbing left and right with a big gun, and the white tassel under the blade of the gun has been dyed scarlet.