Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

"My lord's concern is that these two places should be guarded against, but there will be arrangements in the end." Li Jilong pointed to the map. "Although this is a wide road, there are often falling rocks on both sides, so the ground There are quite a few cavalrymen of the Liao army, and the cavalry of the Liao army can't exert their fighting power. The general only needs to send [-] archers and [-] spearmen to the front, and send another [-] soldiers to push rocks up the mountain, which is enough to deal with the thousands of cavalry of the Liao army here."

Defang and the others nodded, and Li Jilong pointed to another place and continued, "The pass on the side of the mountain is even more unfavorable for the cavalry of the Liao army to fight. Send 500 people here to intercept, so that our army will have more than [-] horsemen to resist the Liao cavalry head-on."

"En." Defang nodded, "General Li is really thoughtful." Then he looked at Kong Shouzheng, Fan Tingzhao, Li Jixuan and Pei Ji, "What do you think?"

Everyone clasped their hands and said, "The last general will follow the order of the prince and is willing to follow General Li's plan to protect food and defend against the enemy."

"Okay," Defang said, "General Li, just follow your deployment. Then who will the two generals plan to send to lead the army to defend against the enemy?"

"At the end of the day, we will send General Pei Ji to lead the troops to defend against the enemy."

Pei Ji cupped his hands to Defang and said, "My lord, the final general is willing to lead the troops to kill the enemy here!"

"Okay." Defang nodded, "General Fei fought bravely, and he will surely kill all the Liao people."

"Thank you, Lord!"

Li Jilong said, "There is a pass on the side of the mountain. At the end of the day, we are going to send the school lieutenants Ma Xinshan and Chen Songfu to lead the troops here."

"General Li," Defang said, "it's better for me to lead the troops here."

"My lord, this is a dangerous road, if you are a little careless, you may be..."

"Could it be that General Li is afraid that the king will fall down?"

"The last general...that's not what I meant..."

"That's how it is. This king and Jiajun lead a thousand imperial guards to intercept the Liao army here. General Shang and General Chang lead two thousand guards to accompany General Li to fight in Xuhe."

Shang Zhaoyi cupped his hands and said, "My lord, let the last general and general Chang follow you."

"General Shang, don't worry. I still have Jiajun and Chongming Shang'en here. The Thousand Imperial Guards are elite. It is not a problem to stop the enemy in the pass. What's more, we will pass through here after we set off. My lord I'll take note of the terrain and it'll be fine."

Shang Zhaoyi and Chang Yuanzong looked at each other, cupped their hands and said, "The last general will obey the order of the prince."

Defang nodded, "Generals, pass on the order that all the heavy armor of the army should be placed on the grain carts and horses, and the light armor and bows and knives should be hung on the inner shirts. They should set off in a column and set off in an hour's time."

"Yes!" Everyone bowed their hands and withdrew, Defang and the others also returned to the house to put on the light armor, and put the outer heavy armor on the horse's back. The whole army was ready, and Li Jilong led the cavalry forward.

More than [-] people from the imperial court's grain guard army set off from Dingzhou. Because the soldiers were all lightly armored and the number of soldiers was small, the speed of advance was very fast. According to the route planned by Li Jilong in advance, the army went all the way unimpeded. When passing through the mountain pass, Li Jilong introduced the surrounding terrain to Defang, and Jiajun on the side carefully remembered that after the army arrived in Baozhou, Kong Shouzheng led the Baozhou army to march north first. Baozhou and Beipingzhai sent troops two days ago, and the Liao army entered The cavalry moved a little northward for tens of miles, and Brother Yeluxiu at the border sent [-] cavalry to rescue them, but found that the Baozhou Army and the Song Army in Beipingzhai had withdrawn again, so they ordered the incoming cavalry to continue to stand by. Kong Shouzheng led five hundred archers from the Baozhou Army and marched lightly.