Chapter 550: The soldiers are coming

Since ancient times, the five elements have overcome each other, fire overcomes gold, gold overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, and water overcomes fire.

In the middle of the year, the northern land turns golden.

Although the Liao State has a vast territory, it does not plough the fields, and it has no way to govern the people, and it also feeds on cattle, horses and sheep on weekdays.

If you want to eat whole grains, you can only ask the Han people for it.

The Han people were naturally unwilling to give it for nothing, and the Khitan people formed a unique method of raising troops - fighting grass valleys.

said that it was a grass valley, but in fact, it was a barren army to loot the Han people.

Although since the reform of Liao Taizong and the beginning of the issuance of military salaries to the army, it was forbidden for soldiers to rob the Han people within the border of Liao.

But this grass valley was handed down by the Khitan ancestors, so how can it be changed if it is changed.

On the surface, it has been banned, but in private, looting is still commonplace.

Especially on the border line, the Khitans went south to the Great Song Dynasty and were repeatedly banned.

Now in the land of Youyan, there are Li Jixuan and Yang Yanzhao stationed in Xiongzhou and Baozhou respectively, and the Khitans went south again, losing their men and horses many times, and then they died down and returned dying.

In previous years, there was only one Yang Yanzhao in the land of Youyan, who could guard a hundred miles near Baozhou, and the Khitans could detour to the easternmost south hundreds of miles away.

Now that there is one more Li Jixuan, this work of fighting grass valley will not be done.

The Khitan people became irritable, and Xiao Tianzuo, the king of the Southern Courtyard, was a little difficult to govern.

On this day, there were Khitan soldiers looting the property of the Han people in the city.

It's just that these Khitan soldiers didn't expect that the Han people were the domestic slaves of Xiao Tianzuo's younger brother Xiao Tianyou.

In other words, these Khitans accidentally robbed their own king's things, and the soldiers were panicked for a while.

Xiao Tianyou's face was gloomy, and when he came to the mansion of the king of the Southern Courtyard, he was about to speak, when he was sat down by his eldest brother Xiao Tianzuo on the shoulder.

"Second brother, it's just some cloth, and it's just a punishment, why are you so angry," Xiao Tianzuo had already listened to the report of the generals below, this was a misunderstanding, he was going to be a peacemaker.

"Big brother, it's just some cloth, why should I be angry," Xiao Tianyou saw that the eldest brother had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained: "I saw that there was nothing to do in the army, and it just so happened that we had the guidance of the Holy Master not long ago, so it was better to find something to do for them, so as not to have nothing to do all day long." ”

"Oh?" When Xiao Tianzuo heard this, not only did the second brother not come for the robbery, but also wanted to solve the troubles in the army for himself, he hurriedly rejoiced: "Ji will come out?" ”

"I also heard that Yang Yanzhao, the invincible son of Yang, has a son, called Yang Zongbao, who married Mu Guiying, the new owner of Mu Ke Zhai, not long ago," Xiao Tianyou smiled and said: "This Mu Ke Zhai is in our Zhuozhou ......"

"What should I do......" Xiao Tianzuo's interest that had just risen, and he couldn't help but say in a low voice: "I have also heard of Mu Kezhai, there are more than 1,000 people in it, if you are so bored that you take a thousand soldiers and horses and kill him, how can you kill chickens with a knife and use the Tianmen Array, isn't it overkill?" ”

"Big brother doesn't know," Xiao Tianyou said unhurriedly: "I inquired, this Yang Zongbao is very powerful, in order to break our Tianmen Array, he trained a sixty-five mandarin duck array, and in recent months, he has been challenging the nearby cottages everywhere, and has made an appointment with other cottage people to start together in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the name of moon appreciation." ”

"Oh? Are you going to wait for these people to arrive at Mukezhai before they start together? ”

Xiao Tianzuo was overjoyed when he heard this: "This strategy is second, in this way, we can dispatch elite soldiers to surround that Muke Village, as long as they are in the Mid-Autumn Festival, as soon as the moon viewing conference opens, we will surround Mu Kezhai!" ”

They all say, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder.

Yang Zongbao began to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival in March, and until the Mid-Autumn Festival, a full five months in between, how could Yang Zongbao not be prepared against the Khitans.

In order to prevent the news from leaking and being besieged by the Khitan army, Mu Kezhai had already made all preparations, not to mention that Yang Zongbao also specially prepared a great gift for the Khitans.

Yang Zongbao rushed back to Mukezhai with the already formed mandarin duck array, and was suddenly shocked.

It turned out that the gate of Mukezhai had been demolished at some point, and the square, which could accommodate more than 1,000 people, was expanded at some point.

Now, even if an army of 10,000 people is training at the same time, this area is more than enough.

During the time when Yang Zongbao left, Mu Guiying changed into a golden armor and red robe again, and her bearing was even more cautious.

The number of hunters she is training has also greatly exceeded the number of people in Mukezhai.

"Husband," Mu Guiying was about to greet her, her face turned red suddenly, and she ran towards the small courtyard behind.

She didn't expect Yang Zongbao to come back without saying a word, she was dressed in military clothes, and she didn't have any femininity at all, so in order not to let Yang Zongbao dislike herself, she hurriedly went back to change her clothes.

"I've seen my uncle," Mu Guiying's deputy, called Xinggu, is also a woman, about twenty years old, the main general is not there, and her deputy can only come forward.

Yang Zongbao pointed to the five or six thousand soldiers and horses who were practicing in the field, and asked in surprise: "Xinggu, why are there so many people in the village?" ”

"Uncle Hui, these are all the things that have come to you in the past few months!"

Speaking of this, Xinggu was elated: "At the beginning, it was just one or two people, who came to take refuge alone, and in the end, it was often dozens of people who came, and at most, nearly two hundred strong men came in one day!" ”

"Oh? How many are there now? ”

"As of yesterday, there are already 8,355 people, including more than 3,000 women, children and children, all of whom have been placed in the back mountain, and here and our Orion Hunters in Muke Village, a total of 5,768 people."

Yang Zongbao was taken aback.

I didn't expect that when I went out to challenge various cottages, I would attract so many soldiers.

"Five thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight people, even if the ratio of eight to one is to draw troops, that is more than seven hundred, plus sixty-five people behind him, it is already possible to establish a reinforced battalion......"

"No, according to the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, a battalion is 2,500 people."

Yang Zongbao was also a little happy in his heart, and was about to go on stage to say hello to everyone, when suddenly his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at the sky above the training square, and a stream of green qi originally rushed straight into the sky, but it was shaken by a black qi mixed with it.

Green with black.

There's a spy in there!

Yang Zongbao knew that Mu Kezhai was now famous and would definitely attract the attention of the Khitans, but he didn't expect them to dare to send someone to be a spy.

Thinking of this, Yang Zongbao couldn't help but swallow back if he was going to greet everyone.

There are still more than ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and these spies are not in a hurry to clean up.

The most important thing now is to see how much he has prepared to let Mu Guiying make a generous gift to the Khitans.

Xiao Tianzuo used one hundred orders and eight formations to form the Tianmen Array, and it took ten years to train this Tianmen Array alone.

Yang Zongbao only relied on the Mandarin Duck Formation, which had only been trained for a few months, to break the Tianmen Formation, which was somewhat whimsical.

But it is difficult to break the formation, and it is easy to kill.

The Mandarin Duck Formation is not used to break the formation, but to chase and kill the enemy.

There is another strange thing that really breaks the formation.