The Liao army in Daizhou finally arrived at the battlefield one after another an hour after the beacon fire was lit.

It's not just the defenders in the big and small kings who are looking forward to this. The high-level leaders of the Song Army, led by Han Gang, are also long-awaited.

Soon after the three successive waves of Liao army reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, the fourth wave of reinforcements—also the largest wave—raised Xiao Shisan's handsome banner on a slope behind Xiaowangzhuang, and the cheers from the village were two miles away and came in the ears of Han Gang and others who were watching the enemy formation from a distance on the nest car.

"The main force of the Liao thieves has arrived. It's Xiao Thirteen! ”

The report from the spaceship from a higher place made Zhang Qi and Huang Sheng breathe a sigh of relief, and after waiting for a long time, they finally waited for the big fish to come out.

Han Gang nodded: "Then withdraw a little, don't block Xiao Shumi's way." His tone was very brisk, and he couldn't hear the regret that he had fallen short because he had not been able to capture the big and small kings in time.

Han Gang's short sentences were quickly translated into concrete military orders through his staff group, and the string of flags hanging from the spaceship changed, and the heralds wearing small flags immediately got on their horses and galloped towards their respective goals—on the battlefield that stretched for miles, the sound of golden drums and trumpets was not enough to convey military orders to all corners, and it was necessary to ensure accurate transmission through the mutual corroboration of the ship's flags and heralds.

The cavalry guarding around the formation was dispatched first, and they were about to meet before they could intercept the friendly forces of Daizhou's reinforcements at the perimeter, and protect the infantry array that was in front of them to retreat safely.

The ground trembled at the feet of the galloping horses, and the dust raised interfered with the view from the top of the nest that was several feet high. The main force of the Liao army had just arrived with Xiao Shisan, and the physical strength of the men and horses had not yet recovered, and the cavalry that had recuperated was enough to stop them.

The drumming at the front gradually stopped, and the several teams besieging the Liao army camp stopped their attack and began to retreat from the front line.

Looking at the two villages in front of him, the banner of the Liao State can be seen in the clairvoyant mirror, and Liuguangyu, who has only escorted the grain and grass to Xinkou Village in the past two days, has no regrets: "If the Liao thief does not have a divine arm bow in his hand, the two Zhuangzi will not be able to fight it in an hour." ”

"If there weren't for the Divine Arm Bow, the Liao thieves wouldn't have stayed here at all." Han Gang said with a smile, "There are crossbows and horses, and they can fight and walk, but it is with the ordnance obtained in Daizhou that Xiao Shisan has the courage to put these thousands of people under our noses." ”

The Liao army in the big and small wangzhuang has too many divine arm bows in their hands, and it is difficult to conquer them in a short time when Han Gang does not plan to pay too many casualties. The Divine Arm Bow is very powerful, and it is a weapon used by the Great Song Dynasty officials and military to restrain the barbarians from all directions. But now in the hands of the Liao army, the difficulty of attacking the big and small wangzhuang has increased sharply. If there is enough time, it will still be able to peel off the cocoon, but it will be too difficult to capture the camp before the Daizhou Liao army arrives in large numbers. So from the beginning, Han Gang didn't plan to capture this camp.

"Being able to see Xiao Shumi is already considered to have completed the task."

In Han Gang's peaceful voice, several troops at the forefront broke away from the battle one after another, and even a series of siege vehicles blocking the gate of the Liao camp were pulled back. The cavalry that had intercepted the advance of the Daizhou reinforcements, including the diviners, also returned.

Losing the noise of the golden drum and the sound of the battle, for a while, the battlefield suddenly became quiet.

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"Song Gou has retreated!"

Xiao 13 breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Shisan, who had just arrived at the battlefield, was leading his headquarters to recover his strength at the edge of the battlefield. But his handsome banner not only doubled the confidence of the defenders in the big and small kings, but also seemed to make the Song army lose the courage to continue fighting.

After all, the Song army did not dare to fight on the battlefield. This reassured him a lot.

Maybe it's because there is still a strange army on the side of Wutai Mountain, so Han Gang is unwilling to pay too much price. It may also be helpless against the tens of thousands of divine arm bows in the camp.

Although Xiao Shisan was still extremely surprised that Song Jun suddenly had so many troops, no matter what the reason was, seeing that Song Jun had not been able to break his own arrangement, he felt a little conceited in his heart.

Stroking the mount that was wet with sweat and feeling the soreness in his legs, Xiao Shisan thought that he would have to rest first after entering Zhuangzi.

It's just that it wasn't until Xiao 13 that he led the army forward and led the army to enter the big and small Wangzhuang, and he still didn't find the slightest sign of retreat from the Song army's Chinese army.

The Song army was not retreating, it was shrinking. It did not withdraw into the camp, but only shrunk the formation closer around Han Gang's main formation.

'Does it work?' Xiao 13 sneered. When you don't retreat, that's what a mediocre general does.

The troops he led are not all the reinforcements, and more troops will arrive one after another, and at that time, the Song people, who have just suffered a setback, may block the Da Liao cavalry with equal strength and high morale?

It's just that when he received the notification from the spaceship that was also hanging high in the sky, his face suddenly turned blue and black.

"How is this possible......" I don't know how many times I started to moan the same words, the latest information from the direction of the Song army, which made Xiao Shisan unable to suppress the panic in his heart.

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Just as groups of Liao cavalry kept coming from Daizhou, the Song army was also increasing its troops.

Last night the strength of the front line was doubled, and today, the increase in the strength of the front line has not stopped.

Right in front of the enemy, the power of the track was manifested on the battlefield for the first time after many years of exertion in Fangcheng Mountain and various ports and mines in the world.

Commander after command arrived at the front, flag after flag joined the array in front of the barracks.

Every moment passed, the array on the front line became thicker.

Although many people were surprised by this, and even shouted in disbelief at first, Han Gang, who had seen the transportation capacity after a thousand years, did not think it was so remarkable.

From Xinkou Village to the front line, a total of 70 miles of simple tracks, because they do not need to be used for a long time, so they are only fixed on sleepers and laid on the ground that has been hastily repaired. But this is still many times stronger than the carriage driving on the official road.

A railroad wagon, drawn by twelve horses, dragged up and down the command of an infantry of 400 men, including their personal belongings and ordnance, in two hours. And on the entire track, there are twenty rail-drawn carriages in operation. As for the cavalry that was attached, it had long been gradually transferred to the forefront in the confrontation with the Liao people in these days.

Compared with the Liao cavalry stationed in Daizhou, which only needed an hour to support the front line, the Song army, which was mainly composed of foot soldiers in Xinkouzhai, needed at least two days to rush to the front line hundreds of miles away with their feet. Therefore, the big and small Wangzhuang will be very relieved, if the Song army really enters the front line on a large scale, it will definitely be able to detect it early, and then it will be able to move at the same time, whether it is to divide troops to harass, or to attack with all its might, it can make the Song army lose the confidence to continue to invest troops.

However, the Song army took advantage of the urgently built tracks, passing through villages along the way, day and night, and in just one night, the number of troops on the front line was more than doubled.

Even though he witnessed the whole process with his own eyes, Zhang Ji still felt incredible: "I can't imagine that the capacity of the track is so high, no wonder Xue Shizheng has been trying to build new tracks in Hebei, Jingdong and Huainan." ”

Liu Guangyu also looked back at a few military flags that were moving down from the official road: "In the past, I heard that the track was comparable to Bianshui, and I hesitated at the time, but when I saw it today, I believed it." ”

"This is all the work of Huang Huaixin and Yu Zheng presiding over the construction."

Presiding over the construction of this improvised track was not the staff that Han Gang had appointed when he was in Fangcheng Mountain, but a sorcerer who had been promoted from a craftsman in the prison and a general as a prisoner.

Huang Huaixin, the chamberlain in the palace who was famous for his mastery of mechanical tools, and Yu Zheng, the great-grandson of Yu Hao, a world-famous master at the beginning of the country. It's a pity that the two heroes are not here, and after the track was successfully built here, they rushed to the rear to supervise the track of Xinzhou and Taiyuan Mansion.

Both of them had dealt with Han Gang.

Han Gang served as the Kaifeng Prefecture Boundary Mention Point, and when he built the Yellow River Golden Embankment, he had obtained the city repair flying earth ladder and earth-moving vehicle built by Huang Huaixin. This machine was originally used to help build the Tokyo Castle Wall, and it was easy to transport the loess from under the castle wall to the top of the castle wall. Later, when the embankment was rebuilt, a pulley block was added, and the efficiency was doubled. The embankment of Kaifeng can be completed within half a year, and the flying earth ladder has played a great role.

And Yu Zheng also met when Han Gang was serving as the magistrate of Baima. When Han Gang was worried about the health and safety of drinking water in the homeless people, Yu Zheng, who has a family background, cooperated with deep water wells to create a high-performance water-lifting windmill and designed a clean and durable bamboo drinking water channel. It ensures the safety of drinking water in the camp of displaced people.

His great-grandfather Yu Hao's skills are famous all over the world, and he was once known as the reincarnation of Luban. The old wooden pagoda of Kaibao Temple is its masterpiece. When he was questioned, he replied that there are many northwest winds in Beijing, and now they are tilting, and they will be blown right in a hundred years. Later, as he said. When the people in the capital began to worry that the wooden tower of Kaibao Temple would be tilted by the wind next, the wooden tower was destroyed by thunder and fire, which added another layer of mystery to Yu Hao, who had already been ancient. In addition, his grandmother Yu is also very famous, as Yu Hao's daughter wrote the popular "Wood Classic", which is the benchmark for wooden buildings and furniture in the world, and then recruited a son-in-law to come to the door, so Yu Zhengcai's surname is Yu.

However, after that, Han Gang was quickly transferred to another place, and he didn't have much contact with the two of them. But the names of the two still come to their ears from time to time. The talents of the two in construction have allowed them to participate in the construction of major industrial mines and wharves since then, and they are not much less experienced than Shen Kuo and Li Jie.