At this time, Zhang Xiang, Yang Bamei and Zheng Duan Zhixian stood behind Yang Peng, and Yang Peng asked Yang Bamei to bring the Khitan captives. In a short time, seven Tartar captives and fifty-six Tartar heads were carried to the Chinese tent. The fifty-six Khitan heads were all made of lime and piled high together, with a thin braid dragged behind each head. Five of the seven Tartars were hit in the hands and feet by flintlock bullets, and two were wounded by horses, both of which were wounded at this time, kneeling in the tent of the Chinese army, shouting from time to time.

Zhang Xiang looked at the Khitan soldiers with braids and nodded approvingly. As soon as the other generals saw these elite Tartar soldiers on the ground, they immediately believed Yang Peng's words, and their eyes at Yang Peng immediately changed. This Yang Peng really captured more than 60 Tartars, and his soldiers and horses were really brave. With such a strong soldier to accompany him, this victory is a few more points.

This time, the Great Song Dynasty officials sent Kou Zhun to take the Huaihua general Shi Pingzhang (Shi Shouxin's grandson) to Tianjing New City to watch Yang Peng's army. Kou Zhun asked: "Khitan soldiers, Doctor Jin Ziguanglu Ask you, this time you entered Kou Gyeonggi, in addition to the commander Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou, what other generals are there?" ”

One of Kou Zhun's staff members stood up and translated Kou Zhun's words into Khitan. The Khitan soldiers on the ground snorted a few times, but they were unwilling to answer. The soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment who were guarding behind the Khitan soldiers raised their whips and slapped them on a Khitan soldier with a snap. The Khitan soldier immediately had a bloody mark on his back, and he was afraid that Yang Peng's soldiers would whip him again, so he crawled on the ground and said a word.

Kou Zhun's staff listened, and the translator said: "This time, Xiao Tianzuo of the Khitan is the general who was ordered, and Xiao Tianyou and Zhang Hua are deputy generals; Hu Yuan Youzhou regiment training envoy, Han Derang as deputy general. When the generals heard this, they suddenly understood. It was only at this time that they knew what other Khitan leaders there were on the other side besides Xiao Tianyou.

Xiao Tianzuo, the eldest brother of the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Chengtian Empress Dowager of the Northern Liao Kingdom, the eldest brother of Xiao Tianyou, and Xiao Tianyou are both the right-hand man of the Empress Dowager Xiao. Xiao Tianzuo and the father and son of the Yang family have been enemies for three generations, and they are the old opponents of the Yang family. Born with a rough face, very vicious, dismounted from the horse, a hardware folding iron knife in the palm, and had the courage of ten thousand people. Legend has it that he was reincarnated as a god dragon and was invulnerable, but in fact, Xiao Tianzuo had a hard kung fu, plus he had armor to protect himself, so ordinary weapons could not hurt him.

The Battle of Youzhou besieged Song Taizong in Youzhou. Yang Qilang (Yang Yansi) tried his best to kill the four gates, and fought Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou alone, killing them so that they couldn't resist, and Youzhou withdrew from the siege. In the subsequent Battle of Golden Beach and the Battle of Two Wolf Mountain, Xiao Tianzuo participated, especially in the Battle of Two Wolf Mountain, and it was Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou who set up the fifth encirclement to encircle and kill Yang Qilang. Xiao Tianyou was defeated by Yang Qilang, Xiao Tianzuo saw that he was going to capture the exhausted Yang Qilang, but Du Jin'e killed, defeated Xiao Tianzuo, and saved Yang Qilang. Later, in the battle with the Yang generals, Xiao Tianzuo lost more than he won, but he always insisted on fighting with the Yang family, Xiao Tianzuo became the backbone of the Empress Dowager Xiao's group, and entangled the Yang generals in important battles such as the Battle of Loess City and the Siege of Suizhou.

Han Derang, Han name Yelu Longyun, Khitan name Xingning Yaoge. Minister of the Liao Dynasty, politician, ancestral home of Yutian, Hebei. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Han Derang's grandfather Han Zhigu was captured by the Khitans and sent to Liao as a slave, but when Han Derang's father Han Kuang was heir, he became a rare general of Liao because of his ability to fight and habitual warfare. Han Derang was influenced by his father's conquest in the Liao State since he was a child, he was brave and strategic, and made military exploits for the Liao State, and the Empress Dowager Xiao appreciated him even more, and later became the "regent" of the Liao State, supporting the important task of the development of the Liao State.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, his grandfather Han Zhigu was plundered to Liao as a slave, and later became an official in Zhongshuling. His father, Han Kuangsi, stayed in Nanjing (Youzhou) and was crowned the king of Yan, and later because of the failure of the battle with the Song army, he was awarded the envoy of the Jinchang Festival and was demoted to the king of Qin. Han Derang has been influenced by his family and his parents since he was a child, and he is wise and wise, and he understands the principles of governing the country. The first servant Liao Jingzong was cautious, and the head of the east was an official, and the general secretary of the Privy Council was supplemented, and he was transferred to the imperial city of Beijing, and he was awarded the envoy of the Zhangde Army.

In July of the first year of Qianheng (979), Han De asked his father to guard Nanjing. In September, the Song army attacked Nanjing, Han Derang was not afraid of danger, and commanded the defenders to resist for 15 days and nights, waiting for reinforcements to arrive, and attacked inside and outside, defeating the Song soldiers at the Gaoliang River (about the area around the outer city of Beijing today), known as the "Battle of the Gaoliang River" in history. Han Derang was awarded the Liaoxing Army Festival envoy for his merits. In the fourth year of Qianheng, he was promoted to the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, given the name "Dechang", and became the most powerful person in the Hanchen.

In the autumn of that year, Liao Jingzong was critically ill, and Derang and Yelu were both taken care of. He had a secret discussion with Empress Xiao Xuan of Chengtian, improvised to the situation, deprived the princes who coveted the throne of the military power, and set up the 12-year-old Liang Wang Longxu as the emperor, for the Liao Shengzong, and respected the Shengzong's biological mother Xiao Xuan as the empress dowager and regent. Han Derang supported the meritorious prime minister Su Weishi and participated in the decision.

In order to envelop Han Derang and make him her right-hand man, Empress Dowager Xiao said to Han Derang in private: "I often promise to marry a son, and I wish to harmonize the old good, then the young master will be the country, and you will also be the son." Since then, Han Derang has been in the position of a prisoner. In the first year of unification (983), Empress Dowager Xiao implemented Han law with the support of Han Derang, and added the title of Han Derang to Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, and concurrently served as a political order. In the fourth year of unification, the Song Dynasty attacked Liao, and Han Derang rejected the Song Dynasty from the Empress Dowager Xiao, defeated the Song Dynasty, and sealed the Duke of Chu. The division was also returned, and Han Derang, with the support of the Empress Dowager Xiao, united the Khitan nobles and the Han people who had the ability to govern the country, and implemented the selection of officials and the appointment of talents, regardless of the Han Dynasty, and assessed the officials; the establishment of the imperial examination system; clean up the prison since Liao Shizong; Reform measures such as reducing the enslavement of those who suffered from wars and natural disasters led to prosperity in the middle of the Liao Dynasty.

In September of the 22nd year of unification, Han Derang went south from Empress Dowager Xiao to attack the Song Dynasty and participated in the signing of the "Lanyuan Alliance", and the Song and Liao sides entered a period of relative stability. Han De made the official to the prime minister, and always knew the affairs of the privy envoys of the North and South Courts, and integrated military and political power. Empress Dowager Xiao took advantage of her regent status to give Han De the name Dechang first, and then the royal family surname, canceled the status of a slave, and became a Khitan nobleman. Later Liao Shengzong gave the name Yelu Longyun, and gave him a few rods of iron coupons for his "father's affairs", did not worship in the court, did not tend to go to the temple, and said from Yang Peng's captives, and recognized Yang Peng's attitude a little more. From the mouths of these low-level soldiers, it seems that there is no classified information, but it is enough to get the general layout of the enemy and the distribution of troops. What's more, the battle situation is unpredictable, and the slightest miss will make a difference of thousands of miles. Sometimes, seemingly useless information can improve a general's decision-making and make a difference in the outcome of a battle.

After Kou Zhun interrogated these Tartars, Kou Zhun was still unsatisfied, and said, "How does the city lord plan to use these Khitan captives?" As soon as Yang Peng heard this, he knew what Kou Zhun meant. He arched his hand and said, "If Lord Kou wants to interrogate these captives in detail, the last general will send the captives to Lord Kou's army at night. ”

Kou Zhun was overjoyed and said, "Okay! Dr. Ben wants to get more information out of these captives! After being delighted, Kou Zhun raised his water cup and raised it towards Yang Peng, and said: "The city lord has a big difference in governing the army, this time he has made an intelligence contribution, and this doctor will toast the city lord with water instead of wine!" After a pause, Kou Zhun said: "Wait for the army and the Khitan army to fight in five days, and then Doctor Ben will work together for the city lord!" ”

Seeing Kou Zhun respecting Yang Peng's wine, the other generals were very envious. But who let his soldiers and horses not have the ability to catch a few Khitan soldiers? The generals were also convinced that Yang Peng was courteous. Yang Peng picked up the rice wine on the table and drank it all.

Then the banquet began, and the generals began to toast each other. Of course, it is Yang Peng who is most respected. At this time, the beacon is in flames, and the rules of the territory of Wen Yuwu are gradually collapsing, and the Great Song Dynasty has a tendency to become warlords, and the towns in the army are the most powerful. If you make friends with powerful military attachés, you can speak louder in the court, and if you make a mistake and are impeached by the official or punished by the governor and governor, if you have a friend who saves you, you can also save the day.

When the general soldiers heard that Yang Peng's soldiers and horses were strong, and saw the Tartar captives captured by Yang Peng, they all secretly said that this Yang Peng was unusual, and they had the intention of befriending him. Although they were a little stupid when they first met, they were a little stupid about Yang Peng being so young, but after seeing the prisoner that Yang Peng caught, everyone secretly said that Yang Peng could not do it himself, and they accepted the fact that Yang Peng was a young hero.

For a while, Yang Peng's case was staggered, and the general and deputy generals came over one after another, and Yang Peng drank more than a dozen glasses of rice wine in one go. Drinking too fast at once, Yang Peng felt that his face was flushing. After the general's adjutant finished drinking, a group of generals came over again, and Yang Peng drank more than a dozen cups, which was really a little unbearable. Waiting for those lieutenants to come back to salute, Yang Peng asked Duan Zhixian and the others behind him to drink for him.

After a round of toasting, the generals began to enjoy the wine and meat. Most of those generals were rough people, and Yang Peng only saw a scene of gobbling up. Huaihua General Shi Pingzhang stuffed the meat into his mouth with chopsticks one chopstick, tilted his head and bit the meat fiercely, as if he was fighting with mutton. Those generals were even more rude, he thought that chopsticks were not easy to use, so he directly grabbed the meat with his hands and ate it, eating a mouthful of oil in his hand.

Among the eating photos of everyone, Shi Pingzhang is the best-looking. He chewed the mutton with chopsticks and ate it slowly, eating very decently. Occasionally, he takes a sip of wine from his glass, and his movements are also very chic. After all, Kou Zhun is a civil official, but he is more literate than these martial artists. However, he ate a huge amount of rice, and he actually ate three bowls of rice in one go, which made Yang Peng amazed. You must know that the rice bowl in the army is very large, and those three bowls of rice are worth four bowls of rice in a private family.

After eating wine and meat, Yang Peng said goodbye to Kou Zhun and returned to his military camp. Yang Peng first asked the soldiers to send the captives to Kou Zhun, and then he fell heavily on the altar and fell asleep at once.

At dawn the next day, Yang Peng got up and heard a scout report. "General, all the 100,000 Khitan troops have pulled up their camps and gone west!" Yang Peng was stunned, and secretly said why did this Khitan leave. It seems that after the Khitan tried for a while, they did not have the confidence to break through the Great Song Cangzhou in one go. The Khitan lived in the bitter cold land of eastern Liaodong, the population and materials were scarce, and all they longed for was to burn, kill, loot and loot on the periphery of Cangzhou City in the Song Dynasty, and do some profitable and unlost business. Yang Peng felt that he was still a little hungover, shook his head, and asked, "Have all the soldiers and horses been withdrawn?" ”

The commander of the scout platoon said loudly: "There are still a thousand soldiers left, half of them are vests, stationed fifty miles east of Yingzhou City, it seems that they are preparing to follow my Great Song army and collect information about our Great Song army!" "What an arrogant Khitan army, dare to leave spies down when the main force is gone!" Yang Peng snorted and asked again, "Half of those Tartars are vest soldiers?" ”

The scout platoon commander said, "It should be, I can't see clearly." These Khitan soldiers were very arrogant, and as soon as we got close to them, we rushed up collectively to chase and cut them. My cavalry platoon tried to get close several times and saw clearly, but failed. ”

The Khitan interrogated the living Tartars and knew that the Khitan had reformed the military system at this time. The Khitan no longer used the hundred-man team as the basic combat unit, but drew all the soldiers into the three major battalions, and the Empress Dowager Xiao appointed the officers of each battalion in a unified manner. These three battalions are the Kabush Xian Battalion, the Southern Recruiting Envoy and the Yeranha Chaoha Battalion.

The most elite is the Yelu Shixian battalion, and the soldiers are filled by two brave and strong people selected by the Khitan nobles and each hundred-man team. The second is the southern recruitment envoy, who selects ten people for every 100 people, and the ones selected are all elite Xi Army. Finally, there is the Aliha Chaoha battalion, with forty people selected for every 100 people, and all of them are brave horse armor soldiers.

The rest of the infantry and auxiliaries fought behind the vests of the Yamaha Chaoha battalion. Half of these 1,000 Khitan soldiers and horses are vests, and it seems that they are a combat unit under the Yeyaha Chaoha Battalion. Yang Peng nodded, and shouted to the herald: "Let Huyan Chijin come out with a thousand riflemen, and follow me out of the camp to eat this thousand vests!" ”

The herald shouted the order and passed Yang Peng's order. It didn't take long for Huyan Chijin to order his soldiers and horses and prepare for the expedition. The armor Yang Peng was wearing, riding on his jujube red horse, waving a big banner, leading a thousand soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment to the east to kill.

After traveling forty miles to the east, Yang Peng saw that there were many Khitan sentinels nearby. These sentinel detectives came to the Khitan soldiers and horses to cover up, and they all ran to the military camp more than ten miles away, as if they were going back to report the news. But soon a new sentry rode out from near the Khitan camp and circled around Yang Peng's military horse. The Khitan soldiers still seemed to be very relaxed, not believing that Yang Peng, the thousand Song army, would dare to attack them.

Yang Peng led his troops all the way east, until he reached within five miles of the Khitan camp, and the Khitan soldiers became alert. The Khitan soldiers blew the horn and set up a battle queue outside the camp. Yang Peng looked at the camp of the Qing army with a telescope and found that the Khitan soldiers really had horses. Half of them were Khitan horsemen, probably vest soldiers. Yang Peng asked Huyan Chijin's soldiers to load and reload, and pressed towards this group of Khitan soldiers little by little.

The Khitan army lined up outside the camp and rushed towards Yang Peng. The horse's hooves rolled, and the Khitan army's horse army charged up puffs of smoke and dust, as if showing off their strength, and rushed towards Yang Peng and Huyan Chijin's 1,000 riflemen. Yang Peng had his soldiers line up in four columns of deep phalanxes - the phalanx had no flanks and would not be attacked by enemy cavalry from the flanks. The soldiers had trained countless times to organize the phalanx, and at this time they quickly adjusted, and it only took a minute to change the formation to a phalanx.

Yang Peng also asked Huyan Chijin to spread the iron thistle in front of the formation with his soldiers, turning the front 20 meters into an inaccessible forbidden area. Yang Peng's soldiers had just finished sprinkling the thistles, and the Khitan soldiers' horse army had already rushed a mile away. Huyan Chijin's soldiers began to load and prepare for battle.

At a distance of four hundred meters, three hundred meters, and two hundred meters, Huyan Chijin had already seen the face of the Tartar horse army clearly, and Huyan Chijin's musketeers opened fire. Seventy musketeers in the first row of fronts opened fire on the Tartars at the same time, only to hear a crackling gunshot, and a cloud of smoke rising from the front of the trapped. Seventy bullets shot at the Khitan soldiers two hundred meters away, and fiercely shot into the bodies of the Khitan soldiers.

A Khitan soldier was shot, and the bullet broke through the iron-inlaid cotton armor he wore on the outermost part of his body, and then broke through the chain mail he was wearing inside, and pierced his right abdomen. However, the distance was too far, and the bullet lost its kinetic energy after breaking through the two layers of armor, and only pierced his body by one centimeter before stopping, and he did not suffer heavy damage. He gritted his teeth and insisted on charging on his horse.

A Khitan infantry soldier who was shot was not so lucky, he wore only one layer of armor, and the bullet pierced his iron-encrusted cotton armor, burrowed into his flesh, and broke his lungs into a bloody paste. Immediately after being shot, the infantry spat blood from his mouth and fell under the horse with a scream. A Khitan soldier's horse in a vest was hit by a bullet, and the horse stood up in severe pain and threw the soldier in the vest on his back to the ground. The torrent of military horses rolling behind stepped over the vested soldier, immediately trampling him to death, trampling him into a bloody corpse.

In just one shot, thirty Khitan infantry armor were killed on their horses. The corpses of the fallen Khitan soldiers blocked the charge of the Ma army behind, causing a small chaos. The Khitan soldiers did not expect to be hit by firearms at such a long distance, as if they had been punched hard, and their morale was stagnant. However, the Khitan soldiers did not lose their hearts. The "elite of the Xi Army" who led the horse army of the 1,000 "Yeyaha Chaoha Battalion" hid behind the Khitan soldiers, shouting loudly, boosting the morale of the warriors.

The Khitan soldiers and horses plucked up their courage and continued to rush forward. One hundred and sixty meters away, sixty riflemen in the second platoon opened fire on the Khitan soldiers. Sixty more bullets pierced the gap in front of the battlefield and entered the ranks of the Khitan soldiers. In front of the Khitan soldiers' charging formation, a group of people turned on their horses, and more than 20 infantry armors that had been shot fell off their horses like rice cut by a sickle.

Their corpses became obstacles in their path, tripped over two horses behind them, and wounded two horsemen. The morale of the Khitan cavalry was shaken. Where did this Song army come from, why is the firepower of this firearm salvo so fierce? In just thirty steps, more than fifty warriors had lost their lives. If you want to rush to the front of the Song army and shoot arrows, how many corpses do you need to leave behind?

And the distance is closer, will the vest soldiers wearing two layers of heavy armor also be killed by the sharp fire of this Song army? The Khitan cavalry threw a rat and cowered a little. The elite of the Khitan Creek Army secretly screamed badly, and he snatched the horn of the trumpeter next to him and blew it loudly.

Hearing the sound of the horn of the Chinese army, the Khitan cavalry was a little more stable. They suddenly howled together, and continued to ride their horses towards the Song army, which was a hundred paces away. One hundred and twenty meters away, another sixty bullets were fired. At this distance, the accuracy of rifle shooting is already very high. Although it is not up to 90% of the training, it also has an 8 or 90% hit rate. Moreover, at one hundred and twenty meters, even a soldier in two layers of heavy armor could not defend himself against a conical mini bullet, and the flintlock bullet could fully shatter the internal organs under the flesh of the person who was shot.

A Khitan soldier's vest was shot in the left chest, and blood splattered violently, spraying the face of a cavalryman on his left. The vest just shouted and fell under the horse. A Khitan soldier was hit in the stomach, and he didn't feel like he was being shot until he felt that his abdomen was so cold, and then he realized that his intestines had come out of the wound. When he saw such a large wound, he felt that he was going to die, and with a bow of his head, he fell off his horse with a pop. The military horse behind did not slow down, stepped on his chest, and he died on the battlefield without saying a word.

Sixty bullets burst through the air, and the front cavalry of the Khitan soldiers froze like waves hitting the embankment. At least fifty Khitan cavalrymen were killed. The corpses of these horsemen, who had been knocked off their horses, turned into obstacles. The front row of the charging cavalry was again in chaos. The Khitan soldiers were stunned by the firepower of the trapped regiment. Is this a war? This is nothing short of a massacre! In just a dozen breaths, the Khitan army has already left more than a hundred corpses on the battlefield. The cavalry no longer rushed forward with their heads down, and they looked at the Chinese army in a panic to see if the elite of their Creek Army had retreated.

But the elite of the Creek Army responded to them with a trumpet to continue the charge. The cavalrymen in the front row turned pale, but they did not dare to retreat, so they could only grit their teeth and continue to rush forward. Ninety meters away from the Ming army, rows of guns came again, and the front row of Khitan cavalry was like a soulless sandbag, plopping down to the ground.

The Khitan soldiers rushed forward one after another, regardless of the fact that they buried their heads in the front, and finally rushed to fifty paces away from the Song army. The first row of more than 60 Khitan cavalry raised their bows and arrows and shot at the trap group fifty paces away. A rain of arrows streaked across the sky, and the seven soldiers of the trapped regiment were hit by arrows and fell to the ground screaming.

However, in response to the Khitan soldiers, it was the fifth salvo of the frontal soldiers of the trapping regiment. Sixty meters away, seventy soldiers of the trapped regiment once again stood in the firing position and opened fire. Seventy bullets were like seventy Grim Reapers, slamming into the Khitan army sixty meters away. The Khitan cavalry in the front row seemed to be named, and one by one fell under their horses.

Compared to the Khitan archers who were mounted and shot, the musketeers had a much higher hit rate. When the musketeer wants to aim at a certain target, he only needs to overcome the weight of the musket by a few pounds, and the user only needs to aim and pull the trigger. And when you use a bow and arrow, you have to pull it back hard, keeping ten times the strength of the musketeer. What's more, when riding a horse to charge into battle, it was bumpy up and down, and it was impossible to aim carefully, so one of them probably shot out. The Khitan cavalry in the front row and the soldiers of the trap regiment in Huyan Chijin shot at each other, and the result was a crushing defeat.

After all, let's see how it will be broken down next time