What Li Fengyun said, Xiao Yuanqi, the Khitan general, didn't believe it at all, what was followed by thousands of elite horsemen, if so, how could the Khitan spies not know? Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But he couldn't figure it out, why were these more than 100 horse thieves so stupid, in order to save those mud legs on the mountain, willing to moths to the fire, eggs to stones?

Xiao Yuanqi shook his head, there were some things in the heads of the Central Plains people, he still couldn't understand that in the eyes of the Khitans, only the most ferocious and strongest wolf in the wolf pack could become the wolf king, not the most benevolent wolf. It is a matter of course that the weak obey the strong. The strong can have everything that the weak have, but there is no obligation to protect the weak, and even if it does, it is because the weak is the property of the strong.

Looking at the group of horse thieves who suddenly attacked, but did not rush towards them, Xiao Yuanqi was a little puzzled, what were they going to do, to attack from the side? Joke, too underestimate the combat power of the Khitan elite cavalry! How could the Khitan elite cavalry be impulsed by this little trick?

Just as he was about to give an order, he suddenly saw the group of war horses, Xiao Yuanqi's pupils suddenly shrank, and he understood that those horse thieves were going to take those war horses, and what to save the people on the mountain was all a lie. A horse thief is a horse thief, and they are simply coming for the herd of horses.

However, it is too late to regret it at this time, the route of the group of horse thieves is very appropriate, and it is stuck between the Khitan elite cavalry and the horses, and they are closer to the horses, even if the Khitan elite cavalry rushes over at this time, it will not be able to catch up with this group of horse thieves, but may be exploited by this group of horse thieves because of the scattered formation.

What's more, if the cavalry attacks, who will protect the foot soldiers who dismount to fight behind them, if this group of horse thieves still has a group of men and horses in ambush behind the hill, it doesn't need more, as long as there are thirty or forty horsemen, they can kill these Khitan men who dismount and fight on their backs. Xiao Yuanqi is a Khitan, so he naturally knows how powerful the cavalry is.

"Cunning and treacherous Central Plains people!" Xiao Yuanqi clenched his fists, and thought about what this group of Central Plains horse thieves were doing when they robbed this group of war horses? Train cavalry? Less to laugh, can a qualified elite cavalry be trained in one or two days? The Khitan can have so many elite horsemen because the Khitan men all grew up on horseback, and they are born to be the best cavalrymen in the world, and the Central Plains people only know how to dig in the ground, so how can they succeed? Besides, can horse thieves afford to raise so many horses? Two thousand war horses are enough to eat them poor.

Do you want to sell it to the court of the Jin Kingdom? It's even a joke, two thousand war horses, you can hear the movement ten miles away when you run, who can take two thousand war horses from the land of Hebei where the Khitan heavy troops gathered?

After thinking about it, Xiao Yuanqi thought that this group of horse thieves had only one purpose, that is, they wanted to use this group of horses to exchange those people on the mountain, and they might also blackmail a large number of gold, silver and jewelry.

"If they want me to release those people on the mountain, shall I release them or not?" Xiao Yuanqi thought.

Killing those people on the hill was just for a breath of anger in his heart, and also to kill chickens to show the monkeys, and to warn those who were about to move in the Central Plains, for this reason, he had killed many people around that nameless village, and hung their heads high on wooden poles. Some of them may have been wronged, so what does it matter, there are many people in the Central Plains, and the lives of the people in the Central Plains may not be as good as a dog.

The people on this hill are almost dead, and it doesn't matter if they are released, at most it will have some impact on the prestige of the Great Khan, and some are sorry for the Great Khan, but he doesn't say it, his subordinates don't say it, who knows? As long as he grits his teeth and says that all the bandits have been killed, no one can do anything about him. How could his heroic men not kill more than 300 of his brave men in battle, and how could they not kill all the hundreds of bandits, no one would believe it.

And the loss of two thousand war horses, this matter cannot be hidden, and if you don't get it, the head around your neck will be placed on the golden plate of the marshal, as a tool to guard Liwei. Even if there are generals who intercede and save their heads, the future will definitely be gone, and if they can't say it, they will be thrown into the beggar army, and they will be cut off by someone at some point.

The people of the Central Plains have a saying that the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils, so let's cheapen this group of horse thieves!

Xiao Yuanqi finally made up his mind, and looked at the group of horse thieves again, who had already controlled the huge group of horses and were driving the group of horses slowly towards him.

"Sure enough!" Xiao Yuanqi's heart settled, beckoned the cavalry from Youzhou just now, pointed in the direction of the horse thief, and said: "Go, tell them that Ben will agree to their conditions, release those people on the mountain, and tell them to release the horses." ”

The messenger made a promise, rode his horse and ran towards the horse thief, only halfway through, when suddenly he felt that something was wrong, the speed of the other party seemed to be getting faster and faster, and more than two thousand war horses ran at full speed, and the whole ground was trembling.

The messenger suddenly understood what the group of horse thieves wanted to do, his face suddenly turned pale, it was too late to turn the horse's head, the two thousand war horses rolled up the dust and covered him, and at the moment when he was knocked to the ground and his head was crushed by iron hooves, a strange thought suddenly came to his mind: "What if I don't take refuge in the Khitans?"

Xiao Yuanqi also understood the horse thief's intentions, his expression suddenly changed greatly, turned the horse's head, and shouted loudly: "Hurry, run!" At this moment, he already understood that the three hundred foot soldiers who dismounted and fought behind them were finished, and the sixty or seventy wounded soldiers were also finished, no one could run past the galloping iron hooves, and the only thing he could do was to rescue the remaining two hundred Khitan elite horses.

"We have won! We have won!" The hustle and bustle fell, the people on the mountain and down the mountain cheered, the corpses of the Khitan elite horsemen were all over the mountain, the Khitan elite horsemen who fled were less than 200 people, those who were knocked off the horse by the horses and trampled to death, and the Khitan elite riders who were chased by everyone and cut off the horses were also dozens of people.

Xiao Yuanqi also fled, this guy was more slippery than a loach, and before the horses arrived, he fled again in advance.

In this battle, Li Fengyun and others eliminated a full 800 Khitan elite cavalry, captured nearly 2,000 war horses, countless armor blades, and even the banner of General Xiao Yuanqi Xiao was also captured, which can be said to be a rare victory since the Khitan army invaded the Central Plains.

However, in this battle, the people led by Li Fengyun also suffered heavy casualties, and the nearly 500 people originally brought with him are now connected with the surviving old and weak women and children, and only 92 people remain, of which only 33 are young and strong who can fight, and Wang Dashan is lucky to survive. Of the eight people brought by Dian Kui, only four people remained: Zhang Jun, Zhang Song, Yuan Ba and Xiao Jingyun.

Together with the seventeenth and nineteenth people, more than 200 people, they drove 2,000 war horses to Zhenzhou City.

It's just that it is not easy to enter Zhenzhou, because Yang Guangyuan's 30,000 troops and 20,000 troops have surrounded Zhenzhou and blocked the city gates everywhere.

If there were only a few people, with the help of the defenders, they might be able to sneak into the city from the city walls. With more than 200 people and 2,000 horses, it is impossible to enter the city without going through the city gates.

Note 1: In ancient cavalry warfare, each soldier would not only bring one horse, but would often bring two or even three horses for transfer or camel stuff. The Khitan cavalry here is about a little more than a thousand, and it is not surprising that they brought about 2,4500 war horses.