The night wind was like a knife, whistling and sweeping across the wasteland, rolling up the remnants of blood and flying all over the sky.

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the 23rd of the lunar month, the Liao army secretly began to withdraw from the camp, and the 10,000 palace tent forbidden army first escorted Yelü Zongzhen and a cadre of ministers to retreat quietly, although the road was difficult and the cold wind was biting, but the retreat was still quite smooth, and the most important point was that the Xia army on the opposite side was unaware of it and seemed to be unaware of the movements of the Liao army.

Yelu Chongyuan's 70,000 forward army turned into a broken rear army, but Yelu Chongyuan followed the first batch of retreats, and the command was also handed over to the deputy commander, Yelu Chongyuan is not stupid, he knows the danger of staying behind, the Xia army doesn't know, once he knows, eight or nine out of ten will come to cover the kill, in order to cover the main force of the Chinese army and the emperor to the east of Helan Mountain safely, these 70,000 broken soldiers are afraid that they are not allowed to retreat one step.

An hour later, the Chinese army also began to retreat slowly, Xiao Hui commanded the 190,000 Chinese army to retreat alternately in the order of the number, because the number was too large, the originally orderly retreat soon turned into a chaotic run, the hungry and cold soldiers were originally anxious to leave this ghost place, although there were generals to restrain them, whips and scolding, still could not change the chaotic situation.

Xiao Hui was extremely helpless, so he could only order the 70,000 soldiers and horses after the break to strengthen their vigilance, and at the same time carefully ordered people to observe the reaction of the Xia army's camp, hoping that the noise would not be known to the Xia army who was miles away.

God blessed, there was no movement in the summer army camp, close to dawn, all the battalions of the Chinese army had embarked on the way back from retreat, the soldiers pulled horses, walked on foot in the knee-deep snow, because once the horse could not move at all, the horse's hooves would be deep in the snow, it was difficult to walk, there were lazy soldiers who refused to get off the horse, and fell down along the way and injured countless horses; Xiao Hui ordered all to dismount and walk, and if there was any disregard for the dead or alive horses, they were dealt with by military law on the spot, which calmed down the chaotic situation and allowed the team to retreat slowly and orderly.

As long as the Xia army did not notice the movement of the withdrawal of troops, it was still unlikely that they would find that the main force of the Liao army had been evacuated during the day of the next day, because in order to confuse the Xia army, the tents of the army were not dismantled, and at dawn they were still densely packed with a complete camp, but most of the tents had been emptied; And tomorrow night, the 70,000 troops after the break can be concocted in the same way, quietly leaving in the direction of the retreat of the army, leaving the Xia army with tens of thousands of empty tents.

In the darkness before dawn, the sound of the evacuation of the army behind him has gradually faded away, almost inaudible, the last group of evacuated troops should have been five miles away, it seems that the Xia army does not know all this, Xiao Shanxi, the deputy commander who is responsible for commanding the 70,000 tribal soldiers after the break, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stretched his waist, and yawned a lot, this night was nervous and hungry and cold, once the spirit was relaxed, fatigue struck.

Xiao Shanxii was about to order his subordinates to stay on guard and take turns to rest, when suddenly, a brilliant firework rose from the darkness on the left flank of the camp, illuminating the sky on the left; After the flash of the fireworks, they quickly went out, and the sky and earth were black again.

After the fireworks exploded and extinguished, on the dark horizon in front of them, a dense firelight suddenly lit up, and then the shouts came, and the dense firelight quickly moved towards the front of the camp, getting closer and closer, and the speed was fast.

"What's going on? Check it out. Xiao Shanxi shouted.

An adjutant general in front of the command ran quickly with a heavy breath, and said breathlessly: "Report to Deputy Commander Xiao, it seems that the enemy is attacking." ”

Xiao Shanxi's scalp was numb for a while, in the end it was discovered by the enemy, the enemy army was so cunning, and launched an attack when the main army completely left the camp, it seemed to be planned, and the enemy army was several times more than that, I am afraid it would be difficult to resist.

But the mission is in the body, even if it is difficult to resist, it is necessary to desperately resist the enemy, and the mission of the broken army is to delay and block them when the enemy attacks, and cover the main army and the emperor to reach the Helan Pass, Xiao Shanxi has no choice.

"The generals of the various departments led their headquarters into the fortifications, the snow was deep and difficult to walk, and the enemy's cavalry did not attack quickly, and used bows and arrows to kill and wound a large number of people, forcing the enemy to retreat." Xiao Shanxii ordered loudly.

The herald quickly sounded the horn and conveyed the order, and the soldiers of the Liao army entered the fortifications that were more than one person high and piled up with gravel, mud and snow, and bent their bows and arrows to aim at the direction of the enemy's attack.

The speed of the other party's advance was beyond Xiao Shanxi's imagination, five or six miles away, and in less than a cup of tea, you could see the front team of the black pressing the enemy, it was a row of empty war horses on horseback, and behind them were dragging open carts, each of which had seven or eight soldiers standing on it, and a few burning torches were inserted in the side of the car.

"What the hell? How can the cavalry change to a chariot if they don't ride a horse. Shoot them with a bow. Xiao Shanxian scolded angrily.

"Shoot the arrows!" The drums of war were pounding, thousands of arrows were fired in the fortifications, and a dark cloud-like shadow crossed the air, falling in the formation of the charging Xia army, and suddenly thousands of horses pulling carts were shot, hundreds of carts began to stall and roll, and the huge inertia stirred up thick snow powder to fly all over the sky; After the chariot overturned, the soldiers above began to fly, and before some of them landed, they were shot into hedgehogs by feathered arrows in the air, and fell straight into the snow, like rows of human trees planted in the snow.

But all this did not stop the enemy's attack, on the battlefield five or six miles wide, unless the density of archery can be maintained for a long time, otherwise the enemy army in a scattered formation can not be contained, the Liao army can still concentrate the arrows in accordance with the prior arrangement, causing a huge killing surface within 100 steps, but the Xia army in other places is approaching, and it can no longer keep shooting under the loss of one or the other, and can only shoot where the enemy army rushes closer, and the lethality is suddenly greatly reduced.

After shooting five rounds, the Xia army finally rushed to the front of the fortifications, Xiao Shanxii gave an order, the bow and arrow were discarded to the ground, and the 70,000 Liao troops were in groups of two, and together they raised the giant spear as thick as a child's arm up to two feet and eight feet to aim at the direction of the Xia army's charge, more than 30,000 big guns formed a forest of spears, and the charging Xia Junye had no room for maneuver at all.

The sound of the neighing of the war horse, the sound of the body falling apart, the whirling human body, the tumbling snow waves, the splashing of steaming flesh and blood, the front of the entire fortification seems to suddenly rise a huge wave, the huge wave falls, the huge ripples spread to both sides, the Xia army and the Liao soldiers inside and outside the fortifications are affected, the Xia army chariots and horses collide with each other outside, the soldiers fly into the sky and fall into the opponent's formation, like a white fish rising in the waves, and the Liao army within the fortifications is hit by the huge impact force and thrown backwards, and many soldiers are broken spears blunt backstabbing into the body, The spear is like a bamboo stick for barbecue, one end is wearing the soldiers or horses of the Xia army, and the other end is the body of the Liao army.

In just one shot, more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded on both sides, and the seemingly frozen muddy and snow piles of fortifications exposed their fragile weaknesses, and dozens of fortification walls were wiped out in ashes.

"Rush, rush in." Ren Jingde stood on a big cart with a big knife, his eyes blood-red from the firelight.

"Block, block, plug the gap." Also with blood-red eyes is Xiao Shanxi, who knows that once there is no fortification to cover, the consequences of hand-to-hand combat will be defeated, because his number is not less than 120,000, but several times less.

At dozens of gaps, the horse-drawn sleighs of the Xia army swarmed in, like a torrent bursting the embankment, which could not be blocked at all, and the Xia soldiers on the car held large shields to block the front and flanks, and the three archers and two pikemen began to attack the surrounding Liao soldiers; The Liao soldiers relied on the initial numerical advantage, blocked a barrier at the gap, and the spears and machetes in their hands greeted the Xia army on the car, and the number of dead and wounded on both sides soared, and several gaps were actually blocked by corpses, and the dead corpses quickly cooled down, frozen into hard sticks, trampled around by horses' hooves and human feet, and were not human-shaped.

Death is no longer the most terrifying thing, for death is everywhere and commonplace in this wilderness, and soldiers mechanically swing their blades and slash at another's body; You just cut down an enemy soldier, and the next moment you will find that the tip of a knife with blood will also leak through your chest, or you have just cut down everyone around you, only to suddenly find that it is your brother who has fallen next to you.

As hand-to-hand combat escalated, the soldiers had lost their minds and even made no distinction between friend and foe.