Datang New Order

Li Chengzhong looked at the more than 20 war horses brought back by Zhong Silang, his eyes almost popped out.

"You mean, these horses were all snatched from the Khitan people?" Even with the facts right in front of him, he still couldn't believe it. Ten people snatched more than 20 war horses from hundreds of thousands of Khitan people, and The personnel came back neatly and unscathed, which is really illogical.Oh, they were not unscathed either. Two of them suffered knife wounds on their arms, but the wounds were very shallow. A shallow scar had formed in such a short period of time, which did not affect the continuation of the battle at all.

After Zhong Silang finished telling the whole story, he finally accepted the facts before him, and asked Zhong Silang to lead his brothers to eat something quickly, and then kept the most elite guy in his hand by his side.With these ten people as the reserve team, Li Cheng's center will be much more at ease.

Turning his head and looking at the fat man, Li Chengzhong asked with great interest, "What's your name, brother?"

The fat man smiled, piled his fat face into a ball, and bowed to salute: "Lao is worried about his heart. His surname is Wang, and his first name is complete. He is the second child in his family. He can be called a certain Wang Erlang, and some acquaintances call him a certain one." Wang Xiaolang's, because there are only two brothers in a certain family..."

Wang Erlang...Wang Xiaolang...Li Chengzhong suddenly remembered the story of the cowherd, and looked at the fat man in front of him strangely for a while, until he felt uncomfortable looking at the fat man, coughing in embarrassment.

"Wang Erxiao..." Li Chengzhong chatted with the fat man in a wicked way: "Where is the family? What do you do for a living?"

"A certain is from Luojiatun at the foot of the mountain, and he does a business of selling goods... Dutou, isn't this called Wang Erxiao..." The fat man was obviously a little puzzled by this title.

"Well, Luojiatun, why isn't your surname Luo?" The more Li Chengzhong looked at the fat man, the more festive he felt, and he couldn't help continuing to joke.

"I'm just kidding, more than half of the people in Luojiatun are not named Luo..."

The joke was over, Li Chengzhong naturally wanted to give praise and encouragement to the fat man who bought him plenty of time, listening to Li Chengzhong's words full of praise and praise, the fat man was as happy as a blossoming heart, but his face was serious After a lot, he said awe-inspiringly: "Before the righteousness, how dare you spare your life, these are all deserved, and you should not praise them all!"

Hearing Fatty Wang Quan's introduction of the strength of the Khitan people entering Bailang Mountain this time, Li Chengzhong felt a little relieved. If there are more than 400 people, there are only more than 100 people more than himself, and his confidence in defending the army has slightly increased.

"By the way, do you speak Khitan dialect? Come on, come up on the stage, come to me, um..."

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When Wuli and Kedan realized that they were played by the fat man, they were almost mad, especially when they led the army to the outside of the military camp and found that the road leading to the military camp was really easy to identify. The anger rose to an uncontrollable height.Originally, it would be easy to reach the military village by simply walking along the main road, but because they believed in that fat man, everyone took countless wrongful detours, and even the horses were taken away. It was too embarrassing, it was like slapping Wu Li and Ke Dan hard on the face, making them extremely ashamed and angry!

Especially Ke Dan, he led the army for half his life, and fought countless battles. How did he ever suffer such a disadvantage?Ke Dan gritted his teeth with ruthlessness in his heart, "Don't let me catch you..." In an instant, countless cruel ways of punishment flashed through his mind.

Ke Dan saw two people standing on the high platform inside the stone wall at first glance, a sturdy officer, and a fat man smiling cautiously beside the officer.Ke Dan recognized that officer, and it was this officer who led a group of broken soldiers under Yuguan and came out to form a formation, which made Ke Dan delay attacking the city for several days and missed the best time to attack the city. city ​​timing.As for that fat man, even if he turns into ashes, Dan will never forget it! …,

These two liars—the Han people have no good things, they are all liars!

Ke Dan suppressed his anger and began to observe the military stronghold in front of him. He saw a low stone wall and couldn't help sneering in his heart. Just because of this, he wanted to block the Khitan warriors?Isn't that a joke!Then he saw the gap on the side of the stone wall... But Dan remembered the open door of Yuguan, he stared at the gap, and the anger in his heart ignited again: "I want to play again!" This kind of trick? Do you really think I am so easy to deceive?"

If Ke Dan was still sober at this time, the next sentence he heard made him completely lose his mind. This sentence came from a fat man standing on a high platform inside the stone wall. In one place, he shouted in a strange tone: "Everyone in my family said, thank the nobles of Khitan for donating the war horses, and when we fight, we will definitely be merciful!"

But Dan's brain buzzed, as if something was rushing up his chest, he forgot to continue to observe the situation of the entire battlefield, including the stone houses on the mountain walls on both sides, and even more forgot about his subordinates. The Khitan warriors have been running around in the mountains for several hours!If it weren't for Wu Li who was pulling him desperately, Ke Dan would have rushed to the first row of the attacking queue.

The first batch of 50 Khitan soldiers who attacked the gap were divided into two teams. The front team was 30 people, all armed with scimitars and leather shields. The leather shields are the round shields used by cavalry. Important parts such as chest or face door.A group of 20 people behind, all archers, approached the gap in the stone wall under the cover of a group of Khitan soldiers in front.

The Khitan soldiers watched cautiously outside the opening for a while, and seeing the long spears lined up on both sides inside, they did not dare to force their way in.

Because the Lulong Army spearmen stood sideways to the Khitan archers, and the soldiers in the first row were all wearing leather armor, so many arrows bounced off because of the angle, and some of them were also stuck in the leather armor. On the armor, the damage to the Lulong Army spearmen is not great.After two rounds of shooting, the leaders of the archers saw the way and yelled a few words in Khitan dialect, then the Khitan archers changed the direction of shooting and shot at the faces, legs and other places of the Lulong Army spearmen.All of a sudden, several Lu Longjun were shot to the ground.

Following the screams of several Lu Long soldiers who had been hit by arrows, the gun formation immediately showed signs of instability. Zhang Xing was anxious, rushed up and beat a few soldiers who were talking and moving around with the handle of their guns. The soldiers didn't dare to move anymore, and he ordered someone to drag the fallen soldiers aside, take off their leather armor, and replace them with the soldiers who took over. Those soldiers immediately took the vacated positions.

Li Chengzhong stood on the high platform, holding a small flag in his hand. The flag was the orange command flag used by Lu Longjun, which was in the shape of a triangle.He carefully watched the Khitan soldiers outside the stone wall gradually huddled together, then raised the command flag high, and waved it downward vigorously.Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao on the mountain walls on both sides had been waiting for Li Chengzhong's order for a long time. Seeing that the order flag was waved down, they ordered their archers to appear from behind the stone house, bowed their bows and set arrows, and pointed at the flag marked No. [-]. Coverage shooting was carried out in the open space in front of the gap in the area.

The archers commanded by Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao achieved great results. Because the Khitan soldiers stood very concentrated, more than a dozen arrows were knocked down in the first round, almost achieving the effect of the arrow hitting the target.The archer emerging from the stone house on the side of the mountain made Ke Dan realize that he had made a serious mistake. After he was stunned for a while, he quickly ordered to retreat, but during his daze for a while, Meng Xuxing and Each of the archers commanded by Jiao Chengqiao shot at least three arrows, and some of them were quick enough to shoot four arrows.Under such killings, only eleven of the first group of Khitans finally retreated safely, and 39 people lay on the ground in front of the stone wall. …,

The battlefield was solemn and quiet, only the cries of pain from the wounded Khitan soldiers lingered in the valley.

But Dan closed his eyes, heartbroken, 39 people were lost in the first round of attack, which made him a little unacceptable, not to mention there were five warriors trained by him himself!He understood that he was overwhelmed by anger just now, made a mistake of impatience, and rashly launched an attack without observing the situation of the entire battlefield. This kind of mistake was a bit low-level, so he began to force Calm yourself down.

After calming down, Ke Dan carefully recalled the scene just now, and made a general judgment on the situation in front of him.The biggest threat now is from the archers on both sides and above, but the archery skills of these archers are not accurate, they should have adopted some kind of covering shooting method.Regarding the heights of those archers, Ke Dan thought that there was no good way, that is to say, he could not shoot them if they could shoot him.The gun array at the gap in the stone wall doesn't look like a decoration, it is indeed a bit tricky, if you insist on going up, I am afraid that there will be more casualties.

After thinking about it, Ke Dan set his sights on the stone wall.The stone wall is not high, only about ten feet, and it doesn't look too thick. It can be passed by turning over. In this case, why do you have to force your way through the gun formation at the gap?Thinking of this, he re-deployed, preparing to invest 50 people at a time, forming a group of five people, and laying out a linear offensive with ten attack points along the stone wall. In this way, ten people can climb into the stone wall at a time. , In a blink of an eye, 30 people can break into the stone wall.He felt that no matter what he said, the thirty Khitan warriors guarding the jumping point in the stone wall would be able to persist for a while. As long as there was time and space, the Khitan warriors would continue to climb into the stone wall.Moreover, in this case, he didn't think that the opponent's archer could still achieve the same attack effect as before.

Fifty Khitans formed a group of five, and quickly rushed under the stone wall, and arranged ten attack points along the stone wall.Two of them half-bent down for support, and the attacker stepped on the shoulders of the two. The two supporters used all their strength to push the attacker against the top of the wall. The attacker turned over and jumped into the stone wall .

After the first attacker climbed into the stone wall, the No. 2 attacker stepped on the shoulders of the two people as support, turned over and entered the stone wall, and then the third...

The stone wall is one foot high, and the trench inside the stone wall is as deep as a person. The height and depth are superimposed, so a tragedy happened... The first wave of Khitan people who climbed into the stone wall were thrown to pieces. The reason why they didn't warn the latecomers in time was because they were all stunned by the fall, and some of them were even suffocated on the spot.The second wave was still the same, until the third wave jumped in, and the screams came from the bottom of the ditch. It was the spearmen of the Lulong army guarding the side of the ditch stabbing the Khitan soldiers who had fallen to the bottom of the ditch with their wooden spears.Li Chengzhong himself couldn't stand it anymore on the high platform. It felt like using a harpoon to spear fish in a fish pond that had been drained of water.