A great man of the Northern Song Dynasty

In the dark night, Rao Chunlai stood on the steps below the city wall, with Qian Yi next to him.

"Will anyone come out tonight?"

Qian Yi hopes that there will be no one, but he knows that this is a luxury hope.

The city of Xiongzhou is not quiet, adults are noisy, children are crying and howling, chickens and dogs are jumping...

This is Xiongzhou City in peacetime. If it is wartime, no fussing is allowed as soon as it gets dark, and one must be quiet.

There was gradually more movement in the dark night, Rao Chunlai sneered and whispered: "Here he comes."

Qian Yi looked around, but found nothing.

"Well!"

A black figure suddenly jumped up on the right, and the black figure flew towards him. As soon as another black figure made a sound, he was knocked unconscious.

Someone suddenly shouted from another place: "Someone is running away, archer..."

The torch suddenly lit up, and the two sergeants stood up and began to bend their bows and nock arrows.

In the light, a black figure could be seen running towards the city.

"Fire the arrow!"

The arrow flew out, and the man was hit by an arrow in the back and fell down. Rao Chunlai cursed: "Fuck you! How many times have you said you have to live? How come you want to kill someone as soon as you engage the enemy!"

The two archers said awkwardly: "It's just that my hands slipped."

"Sliding Nima!"

Rao Chunlai hurried to the man's side, checked his breathing, looked at the location of the arrow, stretched out his hand to hold the arrow, and inserted it deeper.

Qian Yi asked curiously: "Don't you want to be kept alive?"

"It's inserted too deep. It won't survive. It will scream in a while and disturb people's sleep. It's better to kill them directly."

Rao Chunlai clapped his hands and stood up. The man who was hit by the arrow had already begun his final struggle, and then gradually subsided.

The captured man was brought over.

When Qian Yi saw this man, he cursed: "He's a Han man, so you can do whatever you want."

Xiongzhou had a place for negotiation, so it became a battlefield for secret spies from both Song and Liao. Various methods emerged in an endless stream, and those who bribed the other side were just trivial.

Rao Chunlai was used to this, so he was not angry at all. He advised: "Qian Zhizhou doesn't need to be angry, we also have internal support for the Liao people."

"Also?"

"certainly."

And there are several big businessmen who were lured by Shen An's fragrant dew monopoly.

Thinking of this matter, Rao Chunlai said: "Shen Daizhao is a great talent, capable of both civil and military affairs, and he is also very knowledgeable. He can make a fortune by making random things... Such a person should not come to Xiongzhou."

"Why?"

Qian Yi felt that something was wrong with Rao Chunlai tonight and was a bit sentimental.

"The Liao people hate him to the core. I now feel that the Liao people are thinking of how to kill him."

Qian Yi couldn't imagine what it felt like to be an enemy of the country. He frowned and said, "Then why didn't you stop me?"

"Hold up what?"

Rao Chunlai looked at the night sky and suddenly smiled and said: "If Yelu Hongji sneaks into Xiongzhou tonight...there are ten thousand elites around him, will he risk his death if he goes for an assassination at this time?"

"yes."

The night sky was very charming, and as the smell of blood faded away, the sound of insects could be heard all around.

Rao Chunlai said seriously: "I will go. Even if I die, I will die on the way to assassinate Yelu Hongji...even if I know there is no hope."

Qian Yi was shocked, "So Shen An..."

"Regardless of success or failure, even if the Liao people have gathered elites to wait for him outside, he must go out!"

Rao Chunlai looked at the night sky and said calmly: "Many times, this is what we say without hesitation, this... is life."

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The nights in early summer are not hot, at least not in the wilds of Xiongzhou.

The Mangshan Army marched silently.

An hour later, Huang Chun suddenly spoke: "Lang Jun..."

Shen An raised his hand, and the soldiers behind him reined in their horses.

Huang Chun closed his eyes and felt: "There seems to be one on the left and in front."

"This is a trap."

Shen An smiled and said: "The Liao people's purpose is to kill us."

Killing the Mangshan Army, and also Shen An, would not only avenge the humiliation, but also deal a heavy blow to the morale of the Song Dynasty.

This is the secret state of the two countries.

Peace is day, war is night.

Just opposite, a group of Liao cavalry was galloping.

The leading general turned his face sideways and used his ears to listen to the message sent by the wind from the front.

"I think there is someone!"

He turned his head, stretched his neck, and said coldly: "The Yunyi Army failed. If Shen An doesn't come out, his morale will fall to the bottom. The officials in Guchang will impeach him, and the officials in Xiongzhou will impeach him. He must come out."

Behind him were more than three hundred riders, all with one person and two horses.

These are the men and horses who have just been sent over from the other side.

The time has come for the decisive battle.

"Cavalry found!"

Suddenly there was a trumpet sound from the right, the sound was three long and one short.

This is a signal that the enemy has been spotted.

"It's from Song Dynasty, it's Shen An!"

The general pulled out his long sword: "A thousand swords for Shen'an alive! Five hundred swords for dead, attack!"

"Woooo..."

The horns were blasting, and messages were being passed on from both sides.

The torches were lit, allowing the two Liao armies to see each other's positions.

Both sides kept urging the horses to run wildly, and some horses stumbled and flew out immediately.

Falling off a horse during this kind of high-speed galloping is almost certain to lead to death, so no one looked at their comrades, but continued to accelerate.

Traveling in the dark is risky, and that's one of the prices you have to pay.

With the help of starlight, the Liao people discovered the Mangshan Army in front.

"Saw them."

General Liao also saw it, and he said excitedly: "Faster, faster!"

Before he came out, he was told that one was to kill the Mangshan Army, and the other was to kill Shen An. If he chose one of the two, kill Shen An.

"Kill Shen An, five hundred swords!"

Loyalty is difficult for warriors. Their allegiance is to money, followed by the Emperor of Liao.

Five hundred dollars was a huge amount of money worth going crazy for these sergeants, so they went crazy.

"Kill Shen An!"

The two groups of Liao people merged, numbering more than 500.

They learned from the lessons of the defeated armies last time and did not give the Mangshan Army a chance to arrange the battlefield.

Kill him!

This is the voice of Nanjing Dao civil and military officials.

Killing Mang Shanjun and Shen An before Yelu Hongji learned the news was not only blameless but also meritorious.

The Liao people kept accelerating.

The night wind whistled past my ears, and my blood was gradually boiling.

"They turned!"

The Mangshan Army in front suddenly went to the right.

"They want to escape back to Xiongzhou City! Intercept!"

The Liao army crossed diagonally, started to be parallel to the Mangshan Army, and gradually moved closer to the Mangshan Army.

Once it's attached, it's a life and death fight.

The Mangshan Army suddenly turned to the left again, but this would be far away from Xiongzhou City.

"Pursuit!"

General Liao judged that the Mangshan Army was not sure of escaping their pursuit before returning to Xiongzhou City, so he acted cowardly.

"The people of Song Dynasty are afraid of what kind of demon king they are. Kill him, kill him!"

"Kill him!"

"Kill Shen An!"

The Liao people cheered on horseback, and their morale was like a rainbow.

"There's a river ahead!"

Some Liao soldiers who were familiar with the terrain cheered.

General Liao was overjoyed and said: "This is a panic. Shen An is panicking, hahahaha!"

The wild laughter was blown away by the night wind, and the two sides began to chase and escape.

"Fire the arrow!"

When the distance between the two sides closes, the Mangshan army will use crossbows to teach the pursuers a lesson.

In this way, both sides gradually approached the river.

"They're slowing down!"

Ahead is the river. The river is gurgling, and a moist wind blows, which refreshes people.

"Follow me!"

When General Liao saw that the Mangshan army was in dire straits, he couldn't help shouting with joy: "Kill them, kill them!"

The Mangshan Army in front suddenly lit up many small flames, and then the flames fell to the ground...

More than a hundred fire heads rolled down, and the galloping Liao army could not avoid them at all.

The Liao general remembered the fire attack that the defeated army mentioned last time, and shouted: "Don't stop, don't be afraid of the fire, just rush over and it will be fine! That's to scare the horse, hit the horse and rush over!"

War horses are afraid of fire. This is the nature of animals.

They had already figured out a way to do this before they came, and that was to urge the horses to move faster.

So the Liao troops beat the horses one after another, or kicked the horses' belly hard with their feet.

The war horse neighed and rushed over with all its strength.

"It's done, hahahaha!"

Once the war horses go crazy, they will not stop. They are not afraid of fire, let alone knives. Otherwise, where would the courage come from when facing the enemy's spear array?

Those small flames suddenly dimmed, and someone in the Liao army shouted: "Extinguish it, extinguish it!"

"This is God's will, hahahaha!"

The Liao people were rejoicing when the Mangshan army in front suddenly separated to the left and right.

"Boom boom boom!"

Countless explosions sounded densely, and General Liao felt his body shake, and he lay on his horse subconsciously.

His horseman stood up and screamed wildly.

Countless fires burst out, and the general clamped his legs on the horse's belly. Seeing his subordinates screaming in the fire, it was as if he had encountered a devil.

He saw a war horse jump up suddenly, and the Liao army on its back was thrown out like a rag doll. But when the war horse landed, it no longer had this crazy energy and fell directly on the grass. .

Blood was shooting from the bodies of the horses and men, and many people were screaming, but more people fell off the horses without even letting out a scream.

General Liao looked around in despair.

The Mangshan Army separated from the left and right not to escape, but to double-team.

Ahead is the river, a dead end.

On the left and right are the Mangshan Army.

There is a way to survive behind him, but he still has to turn the horse's head.

"What is this? What is this?"

General Liao's ears were ringing, and he shouted in despair: "What is this?"

This was the first time gunpowder was used on a large scale on the battlefield. After such a wave of explosions, of the more than 500 Liao troops, less than a hundred people were left on horseback.

These people were all stunned at the moment, their horses were jumping wildly, their ears were deafened by the explosion, and they were looking around blankly.

"Crossbow!"

A voice came, and the Liao general came to his senses. He looked ahead blankly and shouted: "Leave here, run back, and tell them that the Song people have..."

have what?

Little did he know that gunpowder was now used more for arson than for explosions.

The gunpowder prepared by the formula at this time was very difficult to explode. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net was mostly mixed with various poisons to make gas bombs, such as arsenic and croton.

Therefore, the Liao army, which was attacked by earth bombs for the first time, was stunned.

What the hell kind of weapon is this?

The people of Song Dynasty actually had such artifacts, why didn't they use them in the past?

Just as they were stunned by the explosion, a crossbow arrow flew over.

The Liao troops fell off their horses one after another, and then began to gather and escape.

They could not turn around because it would waste time and be easily intercepted by the Mangshan Army.

Then face your opponent head-on.

General Liao led the last of his troops to the left.

And Shen An is on the left, holding a fire certificate and grinning...

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