Chapter 31: Stopping the Clouds and Listening to the Song (11)

Hanhai is difficult to cross, and Lingzhou River Road is also extremely difficult to travel. In order to intercept the support of the Song army, many Liao cavalry wandered in the desert. Delayed reinforcements, destroyed grain routes, cleared messengers, and tried to prevent more Song troops from entering Xingling.

The transfer of the seed from Lingzhou City to the outside of Xingqing Mansion and the rendezvous with the party members was precisely to avoid the dilemma. At the same time, he was also evading Lu Huiqing's military orders, but no matter how much he delayed, the order from the Xuanfu envoy would not be more than ten days when it was sent to the planters, and there was not much time left for the planters. He believes that Lu Huiqing will desperately recover himself, and in terms of time, he has three or five days to work at most.

After some rest, when the rhythm of the war drums became agitated again, Chong Jianzhong once again led the army into battle. Two quarters of an hour later, when he was replaced, he had a new wound on his leg.

The battle on both flanks was no different than before. The armored cavalry of the Renjia family and the Ye family did not fight again, and the impact of the heavy cavalry was only two or three times a day, and it could only be used at the most critical time.

Although the battle situation of the Chinese army is still in a stalemate, there is no longer the previous chaos, a cavalry dismounted and changed to a crossbowman, supplemented by light cavalry to protect the left and right, and the fight was impressive. It has only been once and for a while, and the casualties are much smaller.

Chong Jianzhong, who had an extra bandage on his leg, returned to Chong Ge's side, his face was pale with blood loss, but his eyes were more profound.

He looked at the situation that the center of the battlefield gradually gained the upper hand, and couldn't help but sigh, the most elite cavalry in the Western Army couldn't even win the Liao people's head and army in the cavalry battle, and after all, they could only use foot soldiers to fight the Liao army, which can be said to be a kind of sadness.

However, in the battle with infantry as the core, the combat power of Chong Ge and the army under his command was finally fully exerted. There is no need to give orders one by one, and every hundred people below know what they should do and what they can do. Most of the first-class junior officers who followed Chong Ge to the north were all old subordinates who had followed him for more than ten years or decades, and even many of them were old men who had been in the army since the Qingjian City era and followed the old Linggong of Chong Shiheng. Thousands of soldiers can be driven by changing the rhythm of flags and drums.

Rushing forward, retreating, shooting, more than a dozen military formations were like a giant beast, the actions of individual parts were different, but the whole was moving slowly but firmly towards the front step by step. The rain of arrows continued to snipe the Liao army in front of the formation, and every change in the military formation released the lethality of the Divine Arm Bow to the maximum.

However, there is a serious disconnect between the Chinese army and the left and right armies, so that the seed has to keep a hand, just in case, and there is no way to use all his strength. Chong Jianzhong secretly rejoiced that the Liao people on the opposite side were also an army composed of different tribes. The cooperation between each other is also unfamiliar, otherwise it will be ugly in the morning.

A group of obviously elite cavalry spotted the gap between the firing of the Divine Arm Bow, and finally rushed to the front of the military formation, and was immediately shot back by the Divine Arm Archers lined up in the rear.

The fluctuating pace of shooting and echoing back and forth are skills that must be mastered when the arrow array is facing the enemy, otherwise it is easy for the enemy to take advantage of it. Seeing the wonderful performance of the archers, Chong Jianzhong couldn't help but shout hello.

It is a very ironic reality that cavalry is far more effective in infantry than in cavalry combat. In addition to being happy, the people who watched the battle couldn't help but feel emotional. However, it was only a matter of the past two years that the horse army could be fully equipped with war horses, and before any horse army commander in the Western Army, there were basically no more than half of the cavalry who could have mounts. I always train according to the infantry army every day.

In fact, if there is such an army of 10,000 in hand, the construction of the kind does not need the cooperation of the party members, and there is full confidence to completely defeat the Liao army on the opposite side. Lingzhou had already been directly captured before. But Jianzhong also knew that even if it was the most elite palace army of the 30,000 Liao Kingdom, it would not fight against the 10,000 officers and troops who had already completed the array. They will simply go around and scatter to plunder the towns. And how long can the officers and soldiers hold out? Sooner or later, they will be dragged to death by enemies who come and go like the wind.

The vast wilderness of Hebei is a paradise for the cavalry. If the battlefield shifted to Hebei, Chong Jianzhong did not have the confidence to force the Liao people to stop the decisive battle. He was also not yet confident, commanding tens of thousands of troops in battle. The Hebei army is accustomed to large-scale wars, and a Pingrong Wanquan array must be composed of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it is by no means from the Shaanxi side, and it is accustomed to the battle of thousands of people. Even the 300,000 troops of the Battle of Xia were divided into pieces to the terrain on the edge of Shaanxi.

It's just that the battle is limited to Shaanxi, limited to the present, but there is a full grasp in the construction.

After resting for a while, Chong Jianzhong had already recovered his breath at this time, and the wound was no longer numb, and finally felt a little pain.

Chong Jianzhong clenched his hands into fists, and he had already regained his strength. When he pulled out the saber behind the saddle again, it was bloody, but it was cut to the edge. He ordered the man to replace it with a long lance, and he drove the war horse forward two steps, a little closer to the plant.

He glanced at his nephew, then looked back at the battle formation, and only one sentence came from the wind: "Be careful." ”

The words spoken by the cold-hearted and cold-faced seed are also cold, but they are also mixed with strong concern.

"The last will understand."

Chong Jianzhong saluted the planter, left the plantation and went to the front of the formation, raising the lance to gather a group of cavalry to his side. The infantry must be protected on both sides of the battle formation. If necessary, pursue and delay the retreating enemy. Looking back at the flag, he waited for his uncle's command.

However, before he could wait for the order of the planter, he saw a cavalryman from the rear heading straight to the bottom of the army.

"Handsome! A message came from the Qingtong Gorge. One of the soldiers trotted over to the planter and handed over a wax pill he had received from the scout. He looked back at the scout who had delivered the letter, and Yun Li pinched open the wax pill and spread the silk silk two inches wide and five inches long inside.

Unfolded the silk book and read it in a hurry, and the face of the seed became extremely strange. Doubt, anger, reassurance, and contemplation flashed across the face of the planter.

Chong Jianzhong was surprised, and he couldn't guess what he saw in the letter and wanted to say. But the next moment, he raised the short note in his hand and shouted with all his strength: "Reinforcements are coming." Zhao Long of Mingsha City is about to rush over with 8,000 soldiers and horses!! ”

As soon as the words fell, the cheers burst out around the planter, and then like a boulder falling into the water, the waves stirred up spread out in circles, spreading throughout the entire battlefield in an instant.

Zhao Long of Mingsha City is now also a famous general in Kansai, and he is not as good as him in Jianzhong. No worse than Wang Sunchen. Everyone in the Yinxia army knows that Mingsha City at the southern end of Qingtongxia is the first line to resist the Liao army and the party people, and the soldiers and horses are all elite, and every commander is carefully selected from Jingyuan and Qinfeng.

And the officers with a higher status know better that there are six horse troops in Mingsha City who command more than 2,000 people, and the dragoons - that is, the horse foot people - also have two commands of 800 people, these are real numbers, and after leaving the infantry without war horses, the speed of the army will not be slow. The seed said that it was 8,000 reinforcements, and as usual, it was a four-fold discount, and the 3,000 horse army was just right. When they arrive, the outcome of this battle will be decided!

At this time, the morale of the coalition army was high, and the Liao army heard the cheers and the offensive fell sharply. Although I don't know the news of Zhao Long's arrival, the Liao people will not fail to see that there must be some good things outside the battlefield on the side of the Great Song Dynasty.

The battle situation, which was already barely maintaining balance, gradually shifted to one side, and the cheers of the Song army began to suppress the morale of the Liao. The Liao army, which originally relied on the courage in its heart to fight to the end, became tied.

'Zhao Long is coming? How could he come?! But his heart was full of doubts. It looked out of place among the cheering and screaming people around it.

Zhao Long is not a person who can get dizzy with blood, and without the general order from the Jinglu Division, he will not move at all, and he cannot move.

The fifth uncle of his own family only took himself to the north, but he left the seventeenth and twenty-third to guard Pule City, and even the Yaode City between the nearby ones did not let them garrison, just because the planting Pu and the division were not the generals under the jurisdiction of the Yinxia Road Soldiers and Horses, but he was the uncle of Yi.

Who gave Zhao Long's order? Is it the Jingyuan Road to appease Kumamoto, or is it ......

As far as he could see, he was so shocked that he looked south.

Lu Huiqing!!

The rest of the generals also thought of the problems that came to mind in the construction of the plant. Some people even feel that this matter itself is wrong, if there are really reinforcements coming, is it necessary to say it? The sudden appearance of three thousand troops on the battlefield is not as simple as victory, but annihilation, thousands of beheadings. Since the fifth lieutenant has openly proclaimed, he is either slow and urgent, or he may not tire of deceit.

But then the actions of the plant made those thoughtful generals have no time to think about the west.

He didn't pay any attention to anyone, he had already ridden his horse close to Daxu.

When will Zhao Long come? Whether it can really come is a question. It's just that there is no intention of delaying and waiting at all. He pulled up the big flag with one hand, and the huge flagpole was raised in the air.

Chong Ge shouted: "Let the soldiers of Mingsha City clean up the remnants of the enemy, we just need to overthrow the Liao army on the opposite side!" ”

The arrogance of the fifth lieutenant was echoed, and Chong Jianzhong also left behind his senseless doubts, and stood up and shouted.

The seed man held the big silk and drove the war horse to start advancing. Thousands of troops in front of and behind him followed him, and both wings responded at the same time. Renduo and the Ye family's armored cavalry once again rushed out of the array and led the attack on the enemy.

This was the most violent blow since the start of the war, and it had a huge effect at this moment, and even if there was a sea of people in front of him, no one could stop the pace of the seed's advance.

With the impact of the seeds, the Liao army on the front was defeated at the moment of engagement. After a day of hard fighting, when the first team from a small tribe of the Xi tribe broke away from the front, the Liao army completely collapsed.

The previous fierce battle seemed like a dream, but the enemy who was scattered and fleeing now was a real fact in front of him.

Chong Jianzhong has already rushed to the front of the battle, he takes the lead, no matter how it is Ganlin or thunderstorm from the imperial court afterwards, he is only pursuing a victory now!