readx;? Chapter 7: Jincao (5)

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The blue wolf camp staggered forward in the wind and snow, and the flag embroidered with a huge wolf head was frozen on the flagpole, as hard as a wood carving. The Black Panther, the Brown Bear, and the White Horse Camp were flanked by the Blue Wolf Camp, thirty paces apart from each other, moving slowly at the same speed. The total number of Youzhou elites at the head of the four battalions and the total number of war auxiliaries has exceeded two thousand. But in the pure white ice and snow, it is like a group of black ants that are moving, small and pitiful.

Influenced by Khitan customs, the Youzhou army, which was composed entirely of Han Chinese, also embroidered beast patterns on the flags to mark the differences between them. At first, this feels a bit nondescript, but after a long time, you can find it convenient. After all, for a fighter who can't read big characters, identifying which is the blue wolf and which is the white horse is far easier than identifying the name of the main general and the number of his own team. When marching and fighting, you can just raise your head and glance at it, and you will know where you should go according to the pattern on the flag, instead of running around with the flow of people as in the past. (Note 1)

The blue wolf, the black panther, the brown bear, the white horse, plus a yellow dog that was taken away by others a few days ago, formed a ** combat unit, the army. The army has full-time scouts, drummers, heralds and supervisors, as well as civilian personnel such as Ming Fa, Sicang, and Gong Gong. If the commander-in-chief of an army has a strong family background and strength, he can even bring a number of personal private advisers. Anytime, anywhere, give advice to the main general, and anticipate the enemy first.

Normally, the dispatch of one army is enough to take a county town with complete defense facilities and sufficient grain and grass. But this time, just to pacify a group of villagers who formed a village to protect themselves, it was really a bit of a knife to kill chickens. However, everyone under the four-sided confession is solemn and on guard at this moment. No one dares to take the wind and grass around them lightly.

The Khitan warriors at the head of the Yellow Dog Battalion and another battalion had just been wiped out because of the carelessness of the enemy a few days ago. The bloody example is enough to prove that the opponent is not an ordinary group of villagers. And God is obviously pulling the shelf, from the moment the blue wolf army just set off, the wind and snow have not stopped for a moment. And from today onwards, the wool-like snow flakes have turned into sorghum-like snow particles, which make the heavy animals scream and hurt fiercely on people's faces and hands.

"Beat the drum to strengthen the morale of our army!" The commander of the Blue Wolf Army commanded Ma Yanxu to raise his hand to pat the ice slag on his helmet, and opened his throat and commanded loudly.

He is the most energetic of the four teams. Even if you go against the wind, most of the time, your waist is straight. On his face that was already frostbitten, there was not the slightest hint of cringe. On the contrary, a touch of bewitching ruddy is always hovering around the cheeks. It was as if two flames were burning, and the essence of the eyes shot out from time to time.

"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock!" The agitated and rhythmic sound of the drum sounded, which made the tired soldiers suddenly feel refreshed. His legs covered in ice and snow struggled to move, and white smoke billowed from his open mouth. The auxiliaries, who fell at the end of the four teams, pulled the reins of the pack horses with great force, urging the cattle to speed forward. The pack horse carrying bundles of swords, spears and feathered arrows on his back, blood from the corners of his mouth, trembling limbs, and large tears rolling out of his eyes fell to the ground in an instant.

"Madman, madman who paves the way for himself with other people's lives! Pure, as if fake!" "On the back of a pack horse that looked relatively sturdy, the Jeruchi dog, wrapped like a wool roll, muttered and cursed quietly.

"But isn't it, if you want to die, why do you have to pull someone else?" The chilblains on the ears were already black-gray and were oozing pus all the time.

This pair of difficult brothers and sisters is now the most embarrassing existence in the entire team. As a junior general and commander, he did not have a single soldier under him. The task he undertook was to show the way for the army, and throughout the march, Feng Yanxu did not take out the sheepskin map to show them to the two brothers. And also moved the position of the two from the front of the team to the end of the line, which is called protection. In fact, it was isolated from the team, so as not to affect the morale of the two of them.

Therefore, Yelu Chi Dog and Han Dexin, of course, will not say anything good about Feng Yanxu. As long as you have a little strength along the way, you have to mumble and slander. The soldiers in charge of the baggage and pack horses all knew that the backers behind these two masters were hard, so they didn't dare to stop it. I could only hide as far away as possible, and plug my ears with wool so as not to hear anything that I shouldn't hear.

And the two brothers, Yelu Chi Dog and Han Dexin, originally didn't care if there was an audience or not. Just vent the panic in your heart by slandering others, "Return his mother's military order, do you think Xiao Bala really doesn't dare to kill him?"

"Isn't it, the right time, place and people don't occupy everything, how can you win the battle!"

"I know that I am not sure of victory, so I don't want anything in order to get credit!"

"If you don't want to die, you don't want to pull us in! What do you say to give our brothers a chance to make up for their mistakes. Phew, Lao Tzu wants to make meritorious service, and he needs him to give alms!

The thick phlegm fell in the snow and was instantly frozen into an ice ball.

Yelu Chi Dog and Han Dexin gasped for breath, looked at each other, and saw the unconcealable panic in each other's eyes.

The reason why the two brothers were completely annihilated before was that there was indeed the problem of underestimating the enemy's carelessness. But that's definitely not the main reason. The township courage of Lijiazhai is no less than the Youzhou army that came from afar in terms of equipment, training, physical strength, morale, and combat experience. Even compared to some Khitan regular troops, they are only strong and not weak!

The only drawback is that they have a limited number of people, and the full number is about 700. But these 700 or so numbers are all serious soldiers, and there are no auxiliaries and miscellaneous soldiers. Among the four battalion leaders dispatched by their own family this time, even the most elite blue wolf battalion, auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers accounted for more than thirty percent. Of the 2,000 men, after removing forty percent of the auxiliaries and miscellaneous soldiers, there were only about 1,200 real soldiers left, which was not much more than the other side.

There is a cloud in the art of war: "Ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to fight it if it is doubled, the enemy can divide it, if it is less, it can escape, and if it is not, it can be avoided." "There are less than twice as many people as the other side, and they are far from tired. As long as Lijiazhai Township can't defend to the death, how can the Blue Wolf Army, as the attacking party, take any advantage?

"Two, let's have some morality! Feng Du commanded the envoy to treat you two brothers without any ill will. What's more, the reason why he is so eager to make meritorious service is also for the sake of all the Han people in the Liao Kingdom!" Suddenly, a voice came from behind the side, cutting off the two brothers' chaotic thoughts.

"Get out of the way, Lao Tzu is not rare......" Yelu Chi Dog and Han Dexin turned around and scolded together, and the insulting words were half said, but they were all "frozen" in their throats.

The other party is dressed in brocade and mink, and his face is like white jade. At a glance, you can see that the family background behind him is quite prominent. And what made the two Yelu Chi Dog brothers even more uneasy was the two black eyes of this person. It was as deep as a thousand-year-old well, and as soon as he made contact with his gaze, he immediately sucked out all the true thoughts in his heart, and he didn't have the strength to cover it up at all.

Note 1: Recognize the flag, "and make the team flag, a kind of ancient military flag." The explanation of Hu Sanxing in the Yuan Dynasty is, "Where the army is marching, the main general has a flag to recognize, which is now called 'recognizing the flag'." The relevant content on the "General Dictionary" is: It is difficult to distinguish the flag from a distance, that is, each battalion draws its own beasts as its own mark.

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