The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 402
Fallen leaves churned, bowstrings resounded in the forest, and the horse’s hooves stepped on the soft soil. The moment the horse passed through the tree gap, the knight on the horse turned his bow sideways, and shot an arrow at the chasing Khitan scout behind him. The arrow deflects and sinks into the trunk of the tree.

The two scouts, one in front and one behind, chased and ran wildly. The Khitan scout who avoided the arrows also drew his bow and set up an arrow, and rushed into the shade of the tree. His vision became cloudy. Go in the direction of the road that turns to the mountainside.

The horn of war has sounded in the wilderness, and the scouts before the war have spread. Compared with the brutal fighting on the battlefield, the battle here is not too eye-catching.

Only the scouts who are wounded and bring back the information are valuable. The fleeing scout rushed through the trees with the spying information, looked back at the chasing enemy from time to time, stretched out his hand suddenly, and hung up the whole person. big tree.

Tread!

The Khitan knight who was chasing him also turned a corner, and what caught his eye was the ownerless horse slowing down. Before he could react, an upside-down figure suddenly descended, and the blade in his hand instantly cut a line across his neck. Bloody mouth.

The corpses and bodies fell to the ground almost at the same time. Liang Jun scouts spit, got up and caught up with the horses, whistled into the distance, and galloped the horses.

The hillsides, forests, and creeks in front quickly receded behind him like a gallery. Soon, they heard the sound of horns sounding in the distance, and the scouts accelerated their speed, broke through the branches hanging in front, and galloped towards the foot of the mountain. Unfolding, the two big flags of "Liang" and "Jin" fluttered and fluttered, accompanied by flags with the surnames of generals around them, fluttering in the wind.

And below the banner, the mighty army array is advancing slowly at a slow pace. Among the smoke and dust, the Longyou Iron Cavalry and Shatuo Qingqi Cavalry on both wings are in an orderly formation. .

In the farther direction on the opposite side, like the end of the world, the Khitan soldiers and horses are like a wave, sweeping in a black line. The 11 Khitan army is advancing, and it begins to change its formation. Guarded up, scattered scouts can be seen running to and fro in the surrounding open fields from time to time, carrying a large amount of information to the central army, and then handing it down to the generals at various levels.

During the formation change, the Khitan's [-] tribal troops pushed to the front, extending a distance of more than ten miles to the left and right, equipped with a large number of tribal light cavalry to guard the flanks, or scattered around the formation to prevent possible circuitous attacks.

Extending to the back, twelve flags of various colors were divided into sun and moon, and twelve drums were pulled by carts. The bare-armed Khitan men beat the drums vigorously to stabilize the speed of the army.

Under Lin Li's banner, Yelu Abaoji was dressed in military uniform, holding the rein in his hand, riding slowly on his mount. He was surrounded by the most elite Khitan army—the Pishi Army, with a total of [-] riders, accompanying the emperor's day. The moon flag stretches left and right.

"After a whole day's rest, the Han army can still fight, which is beyond my imagination."

After Yelu Abaoji read the information in his hand, he was somewhat impressed by this Han army, and finally let him return to the aggressive feeling he had when he was fighting for the tribe.

At this time, there was nothing to say. As the emperor who came out with a knife on his horseback, Yelu Abaoji had nothing to say, so he issued an order directly.

"Break them out!"

The sound of war drums stopped, and the sound of 'woo' horns resounded throughout the huge army formation. The countless footsteps that slowly moved forward were the 'boom' stops. The pressure was placed on the shield pawn's shoulders to the outside.

The horn of desolation was heard.

The army array at the other end gradually entered the battle range. Geng Qing was at the back of the center array, looking at the Khitan army without the slightest hesitation, he closed his eyes, and then followed suit.

"Don't lose your momentum, let's go to war!"

The word "war" fell, and the same horn sounded, and the cavalry waved a small flag and galloped past the formations. The young soldier wore an iron helmet bigger than his head, stepped on his feet and looked back. Liu Zhiyuan held his head and turned back.

"The battle is on, follow me!"

In the low voice, the voice of He Gui, the infantry commander, also resounded at the same time: "Everyone is ready to go to war! Come out to the front line!"

He Gui galloped across the front of the formation on horseback, drew out the saber at his waist, and collided with the protruding spear heads, then stopped his horse and stopped facing the Khitan army formation, and slashed down with the blade.

The voice is raised to the extreme:
"Prince Yong's order, let's start the war—"

Only [-] infantry at this moment, with a huge roar, clapped their shields together, or drew their swords, stuck out their guns, and passed in front of the advancing Khitan.

On the blue war horse, He Gui urged the horse to walk in the front, staring straight at the 'black line' that was getting closer, grinning, and his voice became high-pitched.

"Did you see the Khitan barbarians on the opposite side?! They ran to the south and plundered our land and women. A few days ago, many of our comrades died in their hands, but can we retreat?! The land under our feet , is our home, there is no reason to abandon it, but today is different. Khitan boasted that wolves roam the earth, but they forgot that human beings are the best hunters in the world, peeling off their wolf skins, Defend the glory of us Han people—”

"kill!"

There were more than 1 people, the sound waves swept across the sky, thousands of soldiers screamed, and the marching pace began to accelerate unknowingly, and the Khitan army formation on the opposite side became more and more clear. It's different, it's packed with vision anyway.

The attack horns had died down.

The armies of the two warring sides approached the point of an arrow, and arrows began to fly in the air. When the clanging metal collision sounded in the marching army formations on both sides, the shield soldiers on both sides at the front tightly pursed their lips and clenched their lips tightly. He gritted his teeth, and then, holding his shield, he started to run with a bang, one of them rushed out, and his colleagues on the left and right rushed up one after another.

The arrow flew down, Liu Zhiyuan cut it off with a single knife, and shouted: "Follow up!" The next moment, maintaining the speed of running, he rushed to the Khitan front line, and the moment it touched, the shield came from his hand and hit it. The long knife pierced through the gap, with bleeding lines.

In an instant, shields collided, and guns swarmed.

A lot of blood splashed on the front line.

Guo Wei's youthful face also screamed ferociously, followed behind Liu Zhiyuan, slashing non-stop with his long knife, someone fell down in front of him, he rushed up, caught the shield, took over the position of the dead comrade, and exhausted his whole body Pushing against the shield with all his strength, the soil under his feet was squeezed to the back of his feet. He put his head on the back of the shield, screaming frantically, trying to squeeze into the crowd together with his companions.
5 against [-] people, the fight was inseparable for a while, which Yelu Abaoji did not expect. The generals in front kept fine-tuning their formation, wanting to defeat them with one sentence, and as the congratulations of Liang Guoshuangjue, As he wished, he was more familiar with the way of the formation than anyone else, and issued orders one after another, immediately blocked the Khitan's attack, and faintly showed signs of counterattack.

The generals on both sides commanded the soldiers under their command, snatching the front line, attacking, counterattacking, and defending. They fought with great vigor, pushing their respective abilities almost to the limit.

The shouts of killing were boiling, and both sides took advantage of the saw-saw rush back and forth. However, He Gui used 5000 people to defeat the [-] Khitan tribal army. In a sense, he had already won this contest.

Not long after, the two sides had a tentative confrontation, and before the sun set, they each retreated back. In the early morning of the next day, the two sides had a tacit understanding and started fighting again!
On June [-]th, He Gui led [-] Shatuo and Han soldiers to continue advancing on the battlefield, entangled with less than [-] Khitan tribal troops, and even shot all kinds of ballistas in the general before the battle started. , and then cooperated with Shatuo Qingqi several times and almost gained the upper hand.

On the thirteenth day of the same month, Xie Yanzhang ordered the Central Plains Qingqi to ride for [-] miles, bypassing Youzhou in order to cut off the connection with the Khitan rear. On the way, he fought two battles with Xiao Dilu, so he had to give up his idea. Chen Bing was seven miles away from the battlefield. , while confronting Xiao Dilu, threatened Yelu Abaoji's left wing.

On the fifteenth day, Yan Bao led [-] infantry straight to the battlefield on He Gui's flank. With the most conservative posture, he pretended to attack the Khitan right flank and was harassed by the Khitan tribe's Qingqi. However, in the first battle, he beheaded the Khitan general Yelu Huagu.

On the same day, Shi Jingtang, Wang Yanzhang, Li Cunshen, and Fu Daozhao's various ministries fought with the Khitan with a small number of troops blooming everywhere.
In less than half a month, the fiercely burning war suddenly became extremely slow, as if the war was deliberately protracted, so that Yelu Abaoji couldn't sleep well for several days, thinking about countermeasures.

However, soon, a fire-breathing weapon began to make him irritable, and he had nightmares again and again.

(End of this chapter)