The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 396

Under the night sky, the camps stretching for several miles turned into a tragic battlefield, the flames illuminated the sky, and one after another silhouettes followed their horses to block the Khitans who attacked the camp, and the Khitan infantry and cavalry who charged suddenly became In the ferocious, screaming Khitan words, he crazily rushed towards the densely packed Han soldiers and Shatuo soldiers, and was then pushed back.

The front line is difficult to maintain.

Under the same night sky, the veteran Zhou Dewei, who was far away in the city, stood at the head of the city in armor and holding a spear. He and a group of soldiers looked at the burning night sky over there.

After watching for a while, he turned around and dropped the iron spear in his hand to the ground. In his field of vision, a group of soldiers guarding the city, yamen servants, young and strong peasants, and even green forests in the rivers and lakes were looking at them.

The old man's majestic and high-pitched voice was carried by the wind to everyone's ears.

"The Khitans are attacking my reinforcements. If the reinforcements die tonight, the soldiers and civilians of Youzhou will not be safe, and they will be reduced to Khitan dog slaves. You Yanerlang, who has the guts to go down to the city with this old man to fight against the Khitan barbarians!"

All around, in the light of the torches lined up, the soldiers and the people silently looked at the old man who raised the iron spear, looked at the red night sky dozens of miles away, and then bared their teeth and let out a hysterical roar
"war!"

"war!"

"Kill the Khitan dog thief!"

"I want to avenge my brother!" "I will risk my life!" "General Zhou dares, why don't we wait?!"

A sound wave resounded in the surrounding city, Zhou Dewei smiled with his lips tightly pressed, looked at his sons, confidants, and generals in the city, raised his long soldiers and strode up to the stone steps, shouting: "You Yan man, Come with me!"

Soon, the soldiers and horses in the city gathered and opened the city gate.

A cool wind blows through the night.

More than a hundred miles away from here, between the foothills in the northwest direction, the torches are in the form of a long dragon winding the road at the foot of the mountain, and the iron hooves churned, stepping on balls of mud and moving forward rapidly.

Amidst the sound of rumbling horseshoes, there were scouts riding back in the direction they were going.

Fu Daozhao let out a 'wow', reined in his horse and stopped, took a look at the message, his face changed slightly, he hurriedly turned his horse's head, and rushed to the team behind.

When asked about the location of the chief governor, he hurried forward: "The Khitan emperor is not in Youzhou!"

"what?!"

The figure who was discussing the route with Xia Luqi frowned and turned around. Fu Daozhao, who was walking quickly over there, continued: "The scouts just came to report that the number of Khitan soldiers besieging Youzhou has decreased by [-]%. The Pi Shijun is also gone. Please take a look, Commander-in-Chief, this is the consolidated news."

Xia Luqi also came over and stood aside, seeing the content of the note unfolded in Li Cunxiao's hand, his expression became solemn.

Over there, Li Cunxiao squeezed the note into a ball.

"Yelu Abaoji didn't see you in Youzhou. Either he found us and set up a trap for us to get through. Or, he went to the west to deal with my brother."

"Captain, shall we rescue Youzhou, or..."

"Of course my brother is important!"

Before Xia Luqi finished speaking, Li Cunxiao interrupted with a yell, he estimated the time, his brother came from Weizhou, it was about this time, how could Yelu Abaoji miss this opportunity?
As long as Geng Qing is defeated, Youzhou is no more than the meat in his mouth, he can eat as much as he wants.

"Regardless of whether there are soldiers and horses set up by the Khitan Emperor in front of us, I will rush over!" Li Cunxiao pulled up King Yu's lance and turned on his horse. When the snowflake horse neighed, he raised his lance, "Northwest iron cavalry to clear the way—"

Under the light of the burning torches, the cavalry in armor and iron helmets quickly changed to horses and regrouped. They gradually accelerated along the road at the foot of the mountain and rushed straight to the plain below.

The bright moonlight shrouded the stretches of the foothills.

On the plain, a mixed army of infantry and cavalry had long been stationed and waited. Yeluhelu watched the continuous flames winding down from the foot of the mountain, put on iron armor and mounted on horseback. He had [-] infantry and [-] leather troops under his command. Formed a battle.

That day, he got the oracle and left the camp quietly, in order to intercept a possible army.

"Sure enough, as Your Majesty expected." Yelu Helu was completely convinced by Yelu Abaoji. As the first minister of the emperor, Yelu Helu was well-versed in both literature and martial arts among Khitan. Khitan athletes won't fight on horseback?

'Looking at the posture, do you want to go straight to Youzhou, or His Majesty? '

'No matter where you are, you can't think about it today'

Thinking about it, Yeluhelu raised his hand and issued an order. The soldiers under his command will quickly line up according to the formation he taught. There is nothing wrong with his approach. Judging by the speed at which the opponent's firelight is advancing, they must be cavalry. Focus on the infantry, slow down the opponent's momentum, and then attack with the Pishi army, dividing it from the side and rear. It won't be long before this Han cavalry will be defeated.

However, the Han cavalry rushing down the mountain did not intend to slow down, which made him frown slightly.

"Put down the shields in the front line, and prepare for the spear line!"

When Yeluhelu sent the order to each formation, the Han cavalry from afar were rushing straight at them at the fastest speed.

"Stupid!" He made a simple evaluation of such use of troops.

In front of the formation, on the Khitan step formation, soldiers lined up and held shields. As the vibration of the ground became more and more clear, their breathing became heavy, and even the faint 'cuckoo' sound of blood vessels flowing could be heard.

Rumble!
The sound of hoofbeats spread across the ground, and the moment Yeluhelu let out a breath, under the mighty fire, there were groups of iron cavalry rushing forward with spears.

"Hold on!"

His voice came out, but was covered by the sound of thunderous hoofbeats. Countless dark cavalry rushed into this Khitan army formation like a roaring sea tide. Below him, more cavalry came one after another, and the horses and people all crashed into a ball at this moment.

The leading knight, Shanwen Lianjia, smashed through the shield with a heavy weapon in his hand, and threw it into the sky with his shield and man, and went straight into the spear formation behind.

The cavalry in the rear rushed in one by one according to the gap,
"Governor, leave this place to the last general, hurry up to reinforce King Yong—" Shaluqi turned around and screamed as he smashed through the spears.

"what?!"

Behind the Khitan army formation, Yelu Helu could understand Chinese, the Han general's voice was loud, so he naturally heard it, and looked with astonishment in the rushing tide, the general led thousands of cavalry to bypass this side.

Can't let him go!

Yeluhelu subconsciously thought, as the chief minister of Khitan, his bravery is naturally not inferior to other generals in the army, and he is even a head higher, so he immediately led five thousand leather troops to leave the center formation, trying to cut off the cavalry from advancing. the way.

"Stop them, stop them!"

He rode at the front and kept visually observing the opponent's roundabout path. After a while, he found the entry point, and Yeluhelu led the [-] leather troops to stop the Nahan general in front of him.

The horse on the opposite side still showed no signs of slowing down. He swung the spear in his hand and wanted to shout, but the answer was that the man opposite him would sweep a heavy soldier.

And the dreaded growl: "Go away—"

King Yu smashed it with a bang, and Yeluhelu raised his gun instinctively to block it, and with a bang, Mars jumped up, and he flew off the horse's back, flying upside down and hitting the knight behind him, The two rolled into a ball on the ground.

Before making contact, the cavalry of the Han army stuck to the front line of the Khitan's charge, deftly deflected the direction and went around, but the Pishi army stopped, and the commander of the army was rushing to help Yeluhelu on the ground.

His face was blue, and blood gushed out from his mouth and nose. The spear that belonged to him was falling not far away, and the handle was curved exaggeratedly.

Where is the strength of human beings?
The Khitan generals looked at each other.

In the distance, the array was still entangled with a Han cavalry, lost the command of the chief general, and the morale dropped drastically. After a cup of tea, it collapsed after being killed by the whole line.

The Han iron cavalry began to divide on this night, fighting with the five thousand Pishi army in the wilderness.

To the west of Dafangling.

In the burning barracks, the soldiers on fire screamed bitterly, ran around in the camp, and then were knocked to the ground by the soldiers who supervised the battle. Wang Yanzhang's face was silent, looking at the crumbling front line, he made second-hand preparations.

"Let the Khitans in."

Wang Yanzhang said softly.

(End of this chapter)