Mandarin Duck Luoluo is not far from the Yanshan Mountains, surrounded by rich and fertile Monan grassland, which is considered to be at the junction of nomadic and agricultural areas. Therefore, it has always been a gathering place for the Khitan to use troops or exert pressure to the south.

At the beginning of the year, the Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Great Liao State came directly from the winter bowl camp to the Mandarin Duck Luo, and sent envoys with goldfish charms to Xi Wangfu, Tokyo Bohai Terracotta Division, and Yanjing Unified Army Soldiers and Horses to collect military horses and weapons. At the same time, the imperial uncle, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, Yelu and Lu Wei, were deployed as the commanders of the battalion, and the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, Yelu Terra, was deployed as the capital, and Xiao Fengxian, the official of the Northern Privy Council, was appointed as the deputy commander of the battalion. It can be regarded as setting up a command team for the southern expedition.

Now Yelu and Lu Wei, Xiao Fengxian, Yelu Te Ra, as well as the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, Yelu Yan, the same as the Southern Privy Council, Xiao Baoxian, who stayed in Nanjing, and Xiao Heda, who came to Mandarin Duck as an envoy of Western Xia, were all urgently recruited to Yelu Yanxi's imperial tent to discuss matters.

As soon as several important ministers of the Liao State and Xiao Heda walked into the imperial tent, they saw two Khitan officials with braided hair and leather robes kneeling in front of Yelu Yanxi.

One of these two people, everyone recognizes, is Xiao Deris, the envoy of the Heqing Army. Another appeared to be raw, wounded, with one arm wrapped in a bandage around his neck.

What's going on?

Several important ministers of the Liao State were stunned, but a trace of shock slipped across Xiao Heda's face - he had seen Xiao Delisi and Xiao Gan in Qu Yechuan before coming to Mandarin Duck, and knew that they were preparing to lead their troops to Mingtangchuan to confront the Song army.

Now so embarrassed to come to the mandarin ducks? It won't be a provocation to defeat Gao Yu, right? If this is the case, it will be bad, now is the critical moment of the confrontation between Song and Liao, whoever submits first will suffer!

If Xiao Delisi and Xiao Gan are defeated in Mingtangchuan, it will be a disadvantage for Da Liao not to go to war......

After a few people finished saluting, Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth and spoke, "Zhuqing, more than 10,000 people of the Heqing Army and the Nanpi Room Army, including a thousand armored cavalry, were raided by the Song Army east of the Mingtang River, and more than half of the armored cavalry of the Nanpi Room Army was damaged!" The Heqing army fled in the wilderness, losing countless cattle, sheep and horses! ”

What the!?

At this time, Yelu and Lu Wei, Xiao Fengxian, Yelu Yutera, Xiao Baoxian, Yelu Yan and the horse people were all dumbfounded.

"This, how is this possible!?" The privy envoy of the Southern Court, Yeluot, who had defeated and captured Mogus alive, said in a lost voice, "Could it be that the 1,000 armored cavalry of the Nanpi House army have been attacked by surprise in a completely unprepared situation?" ”

It is difficult for anyone who has not fought in medieval warfare to understand the decisive power of armored cavalry. To paraphrase the name of later generations, armored cavalry can be said to be the core competitiveness of the country in this era! A real decisive force on the battlefield!

The legend of the use of light cavalry and arrows against armored cavalry did not exist in the Eastern world.

Because the armored cavalry in the east also has the ability of nomadic light cavalry, and the Song, Liaoxia, and Xia kingdoms all have a considerable number of light cavalry that can support armored cavalry. Even the Great Song Dynasty, which was known as lacking horses, did not have much trouble gathering tens of thousands of light horsemen on the northwest frontier.

Therefore, armored cavalry is the real lack of armament in the Great Song Dynasty in the past few decades and hundreds of years.

And the real core force of the Khitan semi-nomadic empire is not the nomadic cavalry that is so numerous that he can't figure it out, but about 30,000 armored cavalry. Among them, the imperial tent army has 3,000 suits, the palace guards have a total of 18,000 suits, the north and south palaces and Xi Wangfu each have 3,000 suits, the Zhenzhou Jian'an army has 3,000 suits, and the Han guards in Nanjing Road and Xijing Road also have 3,000 suits.

In addition, many nobles and tribes of the Liao State also had armored horses in their hands, but they were not armed forces, and there was no way to count them.

However, 30,000 pieces is still enough. In terms of quantity alone, the armored cavalry of the Liao army can definitely crush the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty.

However, the quality of the armored cavalry of the Liao State was not very good, the nomadic habits were very heavy, and the discipline was lax. Moreover, the Liao army lacked excellent infantry, had weak offensive capabilities, and could not form a strong infantry battle formation on the battlefield. For the Song army's infantry formation, they had nothing to do. The armored cavalry did not dare to attack the Song army's infantry formation, and the light cavalry could not resist the Song army's bows and crossbows - the proportion of bows and crossbows in the Song army's infantry was too high, more than seventy percent, and the reason for the small number of combat troops was also that their main opponents lacked the ability to form infantry battles, nor did they have the determination to assault the infantry formation with armored cavalry.

According to the records of the Song Dynasty "Bingwei Zhi", the Liao army had the shortcomings of "light but not neat", "convenient for bows and arrows, and clumsy for swords and halberds". In other words, in the eyes of the Northern Song army (mainly the Song army before the alliance of the Yuanyuan), the Liao army was also an army that could not fight a tough battle.

However, the Khitan military horses can no longer fight tough battles, and they can't let the armored cavalry of the Song army be repaired!

This is a big problem that can kill you!

Because the Song army, which was mainly infantry, could not have caused fatal damage to the Liao army on horseback without the cooperation of strong armored cavalry and a certain number of light cavalry.

Even if they win, they can only watch the Liao army scatter and reunite, and because the Song army does not have the ability to sweep away the cavalry of the Liao army, it lacks the ability to cover and search in the plain battle, so it can only be passive, and it is difficult to take the initiative to attack.

But now the situation seems to have changed radically, and the Song army already has an armored cavalry that can destroy the Iron Harrier - this is the news that Xiao Heda brought from Western Xia. Yelu Yanxi and the others didn't believe it at first, but now the armored cavalry of the Nanpi Room Army has also been defeated by the armored cavalry of the Song Army!

"And, it's not completely ......unprepared," Xiao Gan, who was kneeling, replied in an extremely low voice, "When the Song army brigade set out, it was discovered by our army's distant blockers. Therefore, Xia Guan led 1,000 armored cavalry queens of the South Leather Room. ”

Yeluate took a breath and looked at Xiao Gan, "Why did you let the Song army's armored cavalry defeat you?" How many of them are there? ”

"Yes, there are 20,000 ......"

"Say armor!" Jerumutra interrupted, "What's the use of the infantry army? It's not a battle in formation, you scattered so quickly, I'm afraid you didn't fight the infantry of the Song army at all, right? ”

Definitely didn't fight! Xiao Hedaxin, who was listening, said: If you want to fight with the infantry of the Song Army, it will not be a matter of five hundred or six hundred!

"No, there was no fight." Xiao Gan didn't dare to deceive, and he couldn't deceive - seeing the Song army put out the infantry formation and go to battle, wasn't that brain-dead? Da Liao doesn't need brain-dead generals.

"How many armored cavalry are there in the Song army?" Jerumut asked.

"Yes, there is ......" Xiao Gan hesitated.

"Up to 2,000," Xiao Heda replied for Xiao Gan, "half of them belong to the Imperial Horse in front of the palace, and they are the elite of the elite." In the Battle of Tongwan, he once defeated 3,000 iron harriers with 1,000 horsemen, and killed and wounded nearly 300. ”

In the battle of Tongwan, Gao Yu commanded the battle of the imperial horse to break the iron harrier, and Xiao Heda had already reported it to Yelu Yanxi and others. At that time, everyone thought that the iron harrier had been pampered for too long and was unusable.

Who knew that in the blink of an eye, it was the equipment of the Nanpi Room Army that was beaten, and the casualties were even greater, and nearly 500 horsemen were gone!

"Is it the Song Army's Imperial Horse Straight?" Yelu Yanxi asked.

"Yes, yes," Xiao Gan nodded hurriedly, crying and mourning, "It's the royal horse straight armor under the command of Gao Yu...... They were all wearing Qingtang armor, probably taken from the Iron Harrier, and the war horses under their crotches were also Qingtang Dragon stallions, extremely majestic, and they were also dressed in armor. Moreover, their formation was extremely tight, dozens of horsemen were arranged in a team, like a city wall, and they did not mess up at all when they ran quickly. It will also launch a wheel impact, one after another, focusing on the weak points of our army.

Our sons and daughters are really desperate and can't resist it! ”

Blow it, blow yourself in a winning battle, blow the enemy in a defeated battle, it's always good!

Yelu Yanxi turned his head to look at Xiao Heda, and Xiao Heda played: "What Xiao Gan said is true! Although the number of this royal horse is not much, but the elite is abnormal, it is really a problem for my Daliao henchmen! ”

The old minister Yeluhute frowned, "How can the Song Kingdom have such a fierce cavalry?" ”

"It's Gao Yu!" Xiao Baoxian, a left-behind guard in Nanjing who was responsible for collecting intelligence about the Song Dynasty (he had already gone to Tokyo Province, but because of the tense relationship between Liao and Song, he returned to Xijin Mansion to sit down) immediately played, "Yuma Zhinai is a cavalry founded by Gao Yu!" And the famous infantry dragon warrior is also created by Gao Yu. ”

Yelu Yanxi slapped the case heavily, and said in a deep voice: "This Gao Yu is really my henchman's enemy!"

Zhuqing, now the Song people rely on the famous general Gao Yu and the royal horse straight cavalry, so they provoke a war and insult my Da Liao, which is really tolerable, which is unbearable! ”

Is it tolerable, but what is it after it's unbearable? Yelu Yanxi frowned, his expression was gloomy, and he looked at the few henchmen below with burning eyes.

Now Da Liao has made people slap in the face, and it hurts!

The field must be recovered, the question is where to find it?

Several ministers looked at each other, all a little overwhelmed.

Because after the "Battle of Mingtangchuan", the Song army did not take further action. The border of Hedong and Hebei is safe and sound. Even the Song army on the Hetao side did not cross the border to attack the panicked Heqing army.

This seems to mean that Song Guo does not want to tear his face with Da Liao...... So should Da Liao escalate the war?

If you want to level up, can you win? I don't think I'm sure!

Now in the direction of Hebei, the Jiehe waterway is completely controlled by the Jiehe Shang City! Moreover, the Jiehe Commercial Market has unconsciously become a fortified city...... It is very difficult to capture.

If you don't hit the boundary river, you can only march from the Hebei West Road. But it is possible that the Song army will send troops from Jiehe to counterattack Xijin Mansion!

At the same time, in the northwest Hetao, after the battle of Mingtangchuan, the Song army had already achieved a great advantage. If troops were not sent to occupy the part north of the Yellow River in the Hetao steppe as soon as possible, it was possible that the Song army would establish contact with the Zhubu tribes and send a large number of weapons to the Kereh tribe and other Zhubu tribes who rebelled against the Great Liao.

In addition, there has been incredible news from Korea recently. The tens of thousands of Goryeo troops who occupied Haoladian actually gave hundreds of them, and they didn't know if it was a thousand Shengjuzhen, and they were defeated and lost. The Shengjurchen also counterattacked and entered Goryeo Dingju and Xuandeguan Pass......