Datang New Order

When hearing the warning signal from Guancheng, the atmosphere in Yuguan was suddenly frozen.Li Chengzhong greeted Jiadu to form a team, and walked quickly to the wall.When he looked outside, he saw a group of Khitan cavalry gradually approaching from a distance. These cavalry were dressed in leather robes of various colors and looked very messy, but everyone was holding swords and guns, especially the twenty or so people in front, who were still falling from their horses. Holding a bow and arrow, with a sturdy look on his face.

The Khitan people stopped a hundred paces away from Guanxia, ​​and slowly opened up a two-row cavalry.In the middle of the first row, a bearded man wearing a leather helmet and leather armor was pointing at Guan Cheng and talking to the left and right.

Li Chengzhong turned his head to look at Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao who were beside him. They both shook their heads, indicating that they were too far away to shoot.

The two sides looked at each other on the open and close, but didn't do anything.Li Chengzhong turned his head and looked at the civilian husbands standing on the wall. These civilian husbands were all holding wooden guns, their faces were pale, and many of them were trembling, obviously frightened to the extreme.

I can't go on like this anymore. If I continue to waste it, the people who can't hold on must be the people who are full of scenes. When the time comes when the people turn around and run away, it will definitely cause greater chaos, and maybe their armor will also collapse. .Li Chengzhong didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and quickly asked Feng Dao to preside over the pass, and he rushed down to the pass with Jiang Miao, Wang Dalang, Meng Xuxing, Jiao Chengqiao and other officers.

The Jiadu square team in the school grounds had already been cleaned up. After Li Chengzhong came down, he saw that everyone was a little nervous, so he forced a smile and said, "What are you afraid of? There are only more than 40 Khitans here, and only half of them can fight. There are nearly a hundred people! Finally, I would like to remind you, before you turn around and run away, think about it carefully, is it you who run faster, or a four-legged horse?" After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and headed to the outside of Guancheng first. .

Jiang Miao followed closely behind Li Chengzhong, and other officers joined the formation. With them, veterans from the Southern Expedition, at least they could guarantee that the armor would not collapse instantly.

Zhong Silang took a deep breath, and walked out stepping on the dots according to the method he had rehearsed countless times in the past two days.He was the first in the first row. As soon as he moved, the soldiers behind him habitually started to move.Not long after, all Jiadu drove out of Guancheng. Everyone stepped on the dots that had been stepped on countless times before, and quickly formed a very neat three-row array.

Jiadu's initiative to go out of the city to form an array surprised the Khitan people on the opposite side. The hoofs of many horses began to stamp on the spot uneasily, and under the control of their masters, they did not make any more restlessness.Over the past year, they have plundered Yuguan city many times, and they have never met decent resistance. Even the defenders in the pass city have never gone out to fight once, so they are suddenly at a loss. He didn't even pick up the swords, guns and arrows that were immediately equipped, but just watched Jiadu drive out of Guancheng stupidly, and then quickly assembled the queue.

At this moment, with a distance of fifty steps between the two sides, it was already possible to clearly see the appearance of the person opposite.Li Chengzhong stood at the front of the queue in Jiadu, staring at the bearded Khitan in the middle of the first row opposite.The bearded man also stared at Li Chengzhong with big copper bell-like eyes.

Li Chengzhong, who has experienced the tragic battles in Beizhou and Weizhou, is no longer the first brother when he crossed. He has seen too many killings, and he will no longer have those emotions of fear, fear, excitement, and excitement when the two armies are facing each other. This kind of situation does not mean that he is not nervous, but that he already has adaptability. This adaptability may be described in two words, that is "habit".

What makes Li Chengzhong nervous is that his subordinates are all a brand new team. Except for a few old officers, they are all young and strong refugees from Yishui. These young and strong refugees have never been baptized in war. The Khitan people still have great fear.Li Chengzhong was worried that the Khitan people on the opposite side would charge regardless. Once this happened, he estimated that there was a [-]% chance that Jia would collapse instantly. …,

Li Chengzhong didn't dare to continue doing this anymore, he smiled at the bearded Khitan opposite him, put his left hand on the waist knife he was wearing, raised his right fist high, and shouted: "Raise the gun!"

The entire armor followed the procedure that had been rehearsed countless times before. The first row immediately leveled the wooden spears, facing the Khitan people in front of them, and the second row put the wooden spears on the shoulders of the brothers in the first row.The two groups of sword and shield soldiers and the group of archers in the third row also responded respectively, getting their weapons ready.Everyone is very proficient in this process. I have practiced it many times in the past two days, so it looks very neat.

Jiadu made preparations, and the Khitan people on the opposite side immediately made a noise, hurriedly holding their swords and guns in their hands, and a few good archers took off their bows and arrows, buckled their arrows, and faced Zhu Jiadu shouted, squinting at the bearded man in the middle, waiting for the bearded man's order.

Li Chengzhong yelled again: "Kill!" A voice immediately erupted: "Kill!" Following the shout, all A's took a step forward in an orderly manner.Then came the second "kill!", and the Jiadu queue followed closely and moved forward.And then the third tone...

At the first call, Jiadu's voice was still a bit reserved, but at the third call, the brothers' voices were all released, and the Khitan's horses on the opposite side moved back "rarely" in shock.

After A shouted three times and took three steps, everyone stopped. They had finished all the training movements. For the rest, they should all give the command to "turn around", and then everyone continued to step on the dots. Return to Guancheng.But... the Khitan people are on the opposite side, and it seems impossible to return to Guancheng now, what should I do?Everyone was in a daze for a while, and there was still a trace of fear in the daze.

Li Chengzhong regretted it a little. If he had known earlier, he would have added two more rows on the third horizontal line, and A could continue to shout "kill" twice, and then take two steps forward.But now, he can only wait, waiting for the opponent's decision whether to attack or withdraw.

He saw that Khitan bearded man raised his right arm and slowly lifted it into the air, his heart tightened, thinking that he was done, as long as the opponent hits, Jia will be knocked back to its original shape in an instant!He waited helplessly for the attack gesture from the bearded man's right arm, and then prepared to accept the result of failure.Perhaps, I will be buried here as an unsuccessful time travel case.

The bearded man raised his right arm in the air, and then swung it backwards. Two rows of Khitan cavalrymen turned their horses around one after another, followed behind the bearded man, and left the city of Yuguan.

Li Chengzhong looked at the back of the Khitan people going away, took a long breath, called luck to himself, then turned around, smiled at Jia who was stunned in front of him, and said loudly: "Turn around!" Jia has rehearsed countless times. The second formation returned to the Guancheng under the command of Li Chengzhong. It was not until Li Chengzhong finished saying "disband" that there was a sudden burst of cheers.

The enthusiasm in Jiadu in Guancheng affected the peasants in Guancheng, and the peasants also began to cheer, and the whole Yuguan was filled with joy.In this battle, not a single arrow was fired, and no Khitan was injured, but the Khitan turned around and ran away in front of everyone!Those who have not experienced being robbed and killed by the Khitans all the way cannot understand the excitement and excitement in the hearts of these refugees. They have too much disbelief to cry out, and too many grievances to vent. Many people burst into tears on the spot.

Feng Dao came down from Guancheng and asked Li Chengzhong: "If the Khitan people really rushed over at that time, what would you do?"

Li Chengzhong shook his head and said with a smile: "If we really want to rush over, we have no choice but to fight recklessly, but the hope of success is not great, and I think Li will die here." Looking at the cheering Jiadu soldiers under Guancheng, His confidence suddenly increased: "However, after today, there is no 'if'. If the Khitan people miss this opportunity, they will never have a second chance like this!"…,

Feng Dao led half of the peasants to start logging and build the closed gate, while the other half of the peasants took turns to guard the gate. After experiencing this confrontation with the Khitan people, these peasants seemed to have suddenly gained a lot of courage. Several of them The bold ones even offered to join the army.They didn't dare to look for Li Chengzhong, so they went to look for Jiang Miao, and Jiang Miao asked Li Chengzhong if he could recruit soldiers from these civilian husbands.

Li Chengzhong thought about it, but still refused. Before he had the power to break the system, he had to accept the shackles of the system honestly.He is currently still a member of the Pingzhou Army, and an officer trusted by military envoy Zhou Zhiyu. Instead of recruiting soldiers with such arbitrariness, it is better to wait for Zhou Zhiyu to come and make a request openly. Presumably Zhou Zhiyu will not refuse to answer. allow.

In order not to disappoint these civilian husbands, he announced that after Zhou Zhiyu, the soldier and horse envoy, was stationed in Yuguan, he would make a request to recruit civilian husbands who were willing to join the army into his team, and hoped that everyone would wait patiently.

Feng Dao wrote down today's response in detail, and then sent them to the government office of the soldier and horse envoy and the government office of the governor respectively.The letter was sent out overnight, and it was expected to be delivered to the two Shangguans the next night.There was no boasting of achievements in the letter, it was just a matter of fact, but I believe that after reading it, the two superiors should be aware of Li Chengzhong's achievements, and at the same time they will step up to send more reinforcements.

In fact, Feng Dao didn't need to write a letter to urge him, the second reinforcements arrived.The reinforcements were two teams from Zuoying Yidu, and the team officers were Li Chengzhong's old acquaintances Zhang Xingzhong and Zhou Badao.According to Zhou Zhiyu's instructions, after the two teams arrived, they were restrained by Li Chengzhong, the chief inspector of the left battalion Jiadu.Accompanying Yidu came a convoy of fifty civilian husbands. These civilian husbands were dispatched by the governor's office and were all used by Feng Dao.These civilian husbands carried not only food, fodder and military equipment, but also tools such as axes and hammers. Among them were several skilled foremen who were good at building houses in Pingzhou City.According to the words of these foremen, Inspector Zhang specially sent them here to help build the Guanmen and the city towers. Even the original drawings of Yuguan Guancheng were retrieved from the Pingzhou treasury and brought them here.

With the help of these folks, the construction speed of the closed gate of Yuguan has doubled. In less than three days, the huge closed gate has been built, and the scaffolding in the city gate has also been erected. It only needs to be hung up and installed, and then painted with black paint. You can.In addition, the burnt towers on the wall have also been cleaned up, and the base point has been re-established according to the drawings. Once the door is closed and sealed, construction can start with all efforts.

Feng Dao was fully in charge of these matters, and Li Chengzhong didn't care too much. What he was thinking about now was how to train nearly two hundred recruits from these two cities to deal with the possible second attack of the Khitans.