Chapter 34: A Proposed Truce for Mu Shengping (18)

The sound of the enemy's approaching horn reverberated one after another between Dawangzhuang and Xiaowangzhuang.

The report of the enemy's attack alarmed many Liao officers and soldiers who were still asleep.

The least of them also slept in Daxiaowangzhuang for half a month, and basically all the soldiers knew that the Song people, who were not far from each other, would come to attack the camp sooner or later.

The garrison of the big and small kings was only 6,000. But through these 6,000 soldiers and horses, the Liao army firmly blocked the road to Daizhou. Any army that wants to attack Daizhou will not be able to cross smoothly without solving this group of cavalry, and it may be attacked by the defenders in the wall at any time.

The Liao army, with the big and small Wangzhuang as the center, scattered outward to attack the rangers, not only knocked the previously rampant Song cavalry back to its original form, but also further strengthened the ability of the defenders here to block the road.

That's a nail. Let the Song people want to attack Daizhou to have to pull out the nails.

The enemy troops who had been waiting for a long time did not surprise them any more, and even many of them had the time to yawn, and then unhurriedly put on their robes and armor. However, this kind of calmness was only before they saw the array of the Song army.

When Ulu was woken up, although he was a little worried, he could still remember his responsibility and not let the sons and daughters below see the wavering in his heart. But when he looked up from the tent, he saw a thick column of black smoke reaching up to the sky, and he chuckled in his heart, knowing that something was wrong. When he climbed the watchtower and looked to the north, he immediately threw his previous caution out of the clouds, and roared angrily: "What is less than 10,000." Are all those probe horses blind?! ”

The Song army waiting in the south was like a mountain and a sea, and the phalanxes were lying in front of the two camps that were side by side. At both ends of the formation, new troops continued to converge into the battlefield and gathered towards the big and small Wang Zhuang, and he could only vaguely see the head and tail from his position, which was far away from Lixu.

The camps of the Song army, like those of the Liao army, were basically renovated from destroyed villages. The most advanced camp is only seven miles away from the big and small kings, and the other camps are about the same distance from each other, all of which are generally rural intervals, more or less, not uniform. The drums and horns of each other smell each other, a drum falls, a drum rises, the sound of far and near, shaking the heavens and the earth.

There were also thousands of cavalry, some of them guarding the two flanks of the army formation, protecting the wings of the army, and some of the wolves scattered like Qicha, roaming freely in the vast battlefield to contain the Liao cavalry attacking from the big and small Wangzhuang.

The formation of the Song army that has completed the formation has a wide front, and the formation is extremely thick, no matter how you look at it, it will not be comparable to the garrison strength of the big and small Wangzhuang, it is more! And much more!

As far as the eye can see, there are more than 20,000 to say the least, and if there are enough defenders in a few battalions, it is 30,000.

Thirty thousand.

That's 30,000!

The 30,000 flies flying up are earth-shattering, could these 30,000 people come out of the ground?

"I'm blind!" Ulu shouted angrily in the direction of Dawangzhuang.

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Jerodonin hadn't heard the cry that had been swept away by the wind, but he had the same thoughts.

He spread out his palms, and his palms were dripping with sweat.

It was not that Yelu Daoning was afraid of the main force of the Song army that was already close in front of him, but that an army of this size appeared under his nose, and he didn't even realize it, such a strange situation made him feel frightened.

Don't say that even people and horses, even 20,000 rats and toads, they will not be so silent when they run over this way. He sent out his horses to scout the horses, and although most of them were intercepted, the small part that could infiltrate the Song line, regardless of their origin, their age, their experience or not, all confirmed with one voice that the Song army camp had only 10,000 troops at most—at least as long as they were exploring. How can one be suspicious in such a situation? Jerodonin was indeed convinced.

But the reality is right in front of you.

Whether it is the Song people secretly transferring troops in the past few days, they have concealed all the exploration horses sent by themselves; The fact that these soldiers were transferred to the front overnight proved that the combat potential of the Song army was by no means what it appeared to be, and the strength in many places was beyond imagination.

Under such circumstances, the Song army began to attack, so of course he had to prepare for the worst. Give up all means of communication that delay time, and don't even dare to stop and observe for a while, use the fastest beacon, and notify Daizhou as quickly as possible. Otherwise one is not good, there is

Maybe the whole army is here—no one can guarantee that the Song army will play any tricks again.

Jerodonin was devastated, and his mission was to intercept and clear the Song army's exploration horses, as well as to detect the Song army's movements. Now he has not been able to do it, making the army of the Song people seem to be coming out of the ground. No matter how wronged he is, he must bear the blame.

It's just that Yelu Daoning knows better that he must not mess up now, otherwise it will be too late for reinforcements to arrive.

"What's the panic?" He yelled at the people under his command who were still in shock: "Didn't you already know that the Song people of the Dao Dao would come to attack the camp?" Just hold on for an hour, and after an hour, reinforcements will arrive! ”

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The panicked horn sounded one after another, and the large and small wangzhuang alarmed the entire Daizhou City.

The beacon fire lit forty miles away was relayed by three beacon towers, and it was transmitted to Daizhou within half an hour.

In the morning light, the west gate of Daizhou City creaked open. Only halfway through the push, a cavalryman leaped out of the door, followed by another horseman. One after another, one after another, one after another, the cavalry of as many as 500 people rushed out of Daizhou City like a fly, and went straight to the front line of the big and small Wangzhuang.

That team has one man and three horses, only 500 people, but it has the momentum of thousands of troops. It was Xiao Shisan's specially selected elite soldiers as the vanguard of the whole army.

Only a quarter of an hour later, a cavalry of nearly a thousand men rushed out of the open gate, followed in the footsteps of the previous team, and headed straight south.

In order to deal with the possible offensive of the Song army, even the order of rushing to the rescue had been arranged, but Xiao Shisan didn't expect it to be used so soon.

Xiao 13 was in the school field in the city, watching the departure of the third support army, and in front of him gathered even more, a total of 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the next thing was that he personally led the main force in front of him to set off.

Next, the soldiers and horses in Daizhou City will rush to the front line in batches, and within four hours, 20,000 cavalry can all arrive at the battlefield. It is possible to gather more troops in a short period of time on local battlefields, and the place where Daliao is proud of the Song people is not just the martial arts of individual soldiers.

It's just that Xiao 13 is also confused at this time.

According to reason, the strength of the Song army on the front line is not much different from its own, and if it wants to attack, it will be difficult to break through the big and small wangzhuang in a short time. Even after the Song army left their own camp, they had to be vigilant against the surprise attack of an elite cavalry with considerable strength, and it was difficult to let it go.

That's why there is the strange army of Wutai Mountain. The information sent back by Xizuo just proved that Han Gang had no choice but to find another way for the garrisons of Daxiaowangzhuang.

It stands to reason that Yelu Dornine should not have been so flustered, and could not even wait to send someone back to deliver the message—forty miles away, and it only took half an hour to gallop at all costs—and even the beacon fire, which represented the most critical situation, was released. What does this mean, Xiao Shisan has many conjectures, but he doesn't think it makes sense.

"Even if Han Gang wants to secretly cross Chen Cang, this plank road is probably too well cultivated. With only 10,000 soldiers and horses, the beacon fire was forced out? Zhang Xiaojie was also puzzled, and was still thinking about this question on the school field of the army Biji, "Could it be that the Song army suddenly increased its troops?" ”

Xiao Shisan shook his head: "Xinkou Village is a hundred miles away from Dawangzhuang." ”

Zhang Xiaojie fell silent.

Several military villages from Xinkou Village to the front line of the Song Army are almost a hundred miles, and this section of the journey takes two to three days for a normal march. Even if the cavalry can run down for one day, it is difficult for the horses to recover their strength and go into battle the next day. What's more, how could the large-scale increase in troops be concealed from Yelu Daoning on the front line? Song Jun is still building that dilapidated road!

Xiao Shisan couldn't figure it out, but he knew how to give up, and now he didn't have time to let him play guessing.

"It's useless to think so much, just go and see it."

The response to be done has already been agreed in advance, and it will be clear if you go directly to the front line. No matter how the Song army forced Yelu Daoning to set up a beacon fire, he was confident that he would defeat it.

Just an hour after the beacon fire was lit, Xiao 13 and the three thousand elite cavalry led by him rushed to the vicinity of Xiaowangzhuang after the two groups of reinforcements who set off first.

The swift gallop made Xiao 13 and the mounts of the cavalry under his command exhaust their strength, and even foamed at the mouth, and fell directly to the ground. But no one cared about it at this point.

Right in front of them, on the battlefield nearly ten miles wide, the flags were like a forest, and the array was like a sea. The war drums of the Song army thundered. Tens of thousands of Song soldiers filled the space in front of them, and dozens of bed crossbows and thunderbolts were pushed out of the camp, easily blocking the passage for the defenders of Zhuangzhong to attack.

The cavalry was blocked in the village and it was difficult to get out, and the previous two batches of reinforcements were stopped outside the village by the cavalry of the Song people. Half of them were not dressed like the Song people, but they were at the forefront, Xiao Shisan only used a clairvoyant mirror to look, and his face suddenly became gloomy.

"It's to block those!"

Blocking divination is just a trivial matter, what really surprised Xiao Shisan was the army that the Song army had conjured up almost overnight. When there were so many more Song troops on the front line, he hadn't heard any news before, nor had he received any reports, and he appeared in front of him without warning.

"It can't be!"