Li Xin had only one line of defense in front of him, which was not very thick.

The oncoming arrows could hit him at any time, but Li Xin did not move, and was still on his horse under the escort of his own soldiers.

On the third day of his crossing of the Boundary River, he led two thousand men to set up camp along the river, and the only connection to his own territory behind him was a pontoon bridge connected by rafts and boats.

It has been three days since the Liao border was attacked again, and the main force has built the camp as solid as gold, and more than 300 cavalry have swept all the military shops near the left. At this time, the Liao people finally reacted and sent soldiers and horses to expel them.

But judging from the sluggish reaction of the Liao, the news that Yelu Yixin had quietly left Nanjing Province was not a false report.

However, it was Brother Wanyan Ying, a close general under Yelu Yixin's account.

Li Xin heard that the Jurchen Wanyan tribe had become the most important tribe under Yelu Yixin in addition to his own clan, and there was even news that Yelu Yixin's Huluduo under the Black Mountain had two percent of the members from the Wanyan tribe.

But the name of Wanyan was launched in the Great Song Army, and it still relied on the battle of Yizhou not long ago. From the siege of Yizhou to the blink of an eye, it was the charge of Wanyan's troops that broke through the outer defense line he had arranged to intercept the Liao reinforcements in a short period of time.

The horn of the flag of Daxu brushed Li Xin's gloomy face from time to time, how could the enemy not be blushing in front of him?

It's just that in the Jurchens in front of him, Li Xin felt two words - arrogance.

Different from the Khitan, different from the party, the arrogant Jurchens, when they encountered a well-laid arrow array, they dared to choose to dismount and fight on foot and attack the military formation head-on.

The Khitan soldiers who gave up their horses and dismounted to fight on foot were almost invisible on the battlefield. When he was still in the Western Army, Li Xin rarely saw it in the party. The buttocks of the Khitan cavalry have been glued to the back of the horse since childhood, and the tactics in the face of the dense Song army formation are not to fight, either bypass, or like wolves, besiege but not attack, and slowly look for flaws.

But the Jurchens dared to dismount.

Li Xin was not surprised by this, he had already learned the reason for their defeat from his defeated subordinates when he was in Yizhou before.

Compared with the bravery who dared to strike to the death, these Jurchens were better than the Khitan and the party.

Moreover, the Jurchens did not rely on a bloody courage to crash into the arrow array, and their actions were fully relied upon.

The sound of the strings is like the dense rain of spring, endless.

Trained Janissary infantry, even without an animal-powered winding machine, could shoot thirty arrows in a quarter of an hour with only the hook used for winding.

In the old days, there was a saying that 'no more than three arrows were at the enemy', and the crossbow was replaced by a crossbow, although it had a longer range, but only twice. Nowadays, however, it is possible to fire three or even four salvos from the effective range of 100 paces against the oncoming enemy troops.

The resulting rain of arrows can fall on the heads of approaching enemy troops without stopping.

Regardless of the north and the south, the south and the north, the three or five salvos of the divine arm bow formation can always make them lose their armor and dare not take half a step closer.

But today's opponent's equipment is not effective against the Divine Arm Bow, and the stronger armor-piercing crossbow seems to be useless.

The Jurchens who rushed straight at them, carrying heavy knives, screamed wildly, and hung a dozen crossbow arrows on the armor in front of their chests and abdomen, but at most they only shook when they were shot, and then still rushed forward like people who had nothing to do.

"Sure enough, it's wearing two layers of armor!" Li Xin muttered to himself, the green tendons on the back of his hand appeared, and he clenched the horsewhip tightly.

Like the Song people, this part of the Jurchen army has a pair of iron armor. However, with Li Xin's eyesight, he found that many of them wore an old-fashioned fish scale armor on the outside, and a pair of plate armor on the inside, otherwise they would not have so many round bodies like wine barrels, and the fish scale armor would not be so loose.

The armor on Li Xin's body can also be regarded as a double layer, the outside is the fine iron plate armor used by the generals, and there is a layer of chain mail inside, although it is double, but it fits incomparably, the weight and shape are light, and it will not affect the action too much, which is incomparable to the Jurchen army. It's just that when it comes to defense, the Jurchens' approach is not lost to Li Xin.

The two pieces of iron armor weigh fifty or sixty pounds, but they are not slow to run. Rushed until twenty or thirty paces away, turned over and dismounted, and then killed in the blink of an eye.

is so brave that even the Khitans are inferior.

The soldiers in the formation were shocked by it, and the strings that were originally as smooth as flowing water also stumbled.

In front of the enemy's slaughter, the hideous faces of the Jurchens were getting closer and closer, and Li Xin's expression remained unchanged, and he shouted with his breath. "Where's the selection?!"

More than 100 people came out of the formation when they heard the voice, and shouted in unison: "The selection is here!" ”

Li Xin guarded the border in the old days and used to train soldiers and horses hard. At the time of the defeat of Yizhou, after Li Xin's army was broken, the spear throwers he carefully trained were only in their early 100s, and several old men who had followed him since the Western Army period died in that battle. But the more than 100 people who have survived the rest of their lives are all one in a hundred from their hearts to training.

Without waiting for Li Xin to say more, the 100 Xuan Feng immediately stepped forward with spears.

A meal, a rage.

Smoke rises from the ground, and the breath rises.

Hundreds of iron spears flew out, and the scream of the breaking wind filled his ears, overpowering the tone of the changed strings.

In addition to taking out the offensive and defensive weapons of the city such as bed crossbows and thunderbolt cannons, the most effective way to deal with heavily armored enemies is to throw guns at close range.

Less than twenty paces apart, the dozen or so Jurchen warriors who rushed to the front couldn't dodge at all, and the double armor couldn't stop the heavy iron spear. Each person was hit by at least three or four, and the one who rushed to the front should be a warrior with a surname in the Wanyan Division, and he was even strung into a hedgehog by seven or eight iron spears.

With a single blow sweeping away the nearest enemy, the Selectors did not stop, and with one more step, an iron spear rose into the air.

One throw, three throws, and the enemy in front of him was swept away.

Most of the pickers, after exhausting all their strength, only have the power of three throws.

But when they stood on their heels with spears in front of the formation, the Jurchens, who were still thinking of moving on, suddenly stopped.

The sound of groans echoed on the battlefield, and the front of the Song army was full of Jurchens who were seriously injured and waiting to die, and more were sent to the Nine Shadows Yellow Spring at the first moment.

Li Xin only glanced at the battlefield, and then looked down at his hands. He was injured in the Battle of Yizhou, and he will never be able to reproduce the spear-throwing skills of the old Weizhen Jinghu in this life. However, as long as the people are still there, Li Xin asked himself that he could cultivate more elites who were good at flying spears.

After the defeat of Yizhou, Li Xin was not severely punished, but only withdrew the false title of Yaojun official and demoted him to five ranks. Guo Kui also asked him to go back to control the old department and continue to guard the northern boundary; The old boss Zhang Dian even sent a letter from Beijing to encourage him to make meritorious contributions. And the letter from his cousin Han Gang was also kind and comforting, and there was no reproach.

Such a result is very difficult to accept for Li Xin, who is taciturn but has a high spirit.

After he returned, he scattered all his family wealth, comforted the casualties, adopted orphans and widows, lived with the soldiers, led the army to patrol the border every day, and personally fought the Liao army who tried to sneak across the border several times.

Li Xin acted like this, but after a month, the morale of the army was revived. He was able to lead the army to re-enter the Liao realm this time, and he was not forced by military law.

Seeing Li Xin like this, the local scholars gradually restrained their sarcasm about the defeated general, and some even regarded it as Meng Ming.

The name of Qin Mugong in the Spring and Autumn Period is Baili Xi's son Baili Shi, and the word Meng Ming. The first time he led an army to attack Zheng Guo, he was first deceived by Zheng Guo's cattle dealer Xianggao and retreated, and then he was ambushed by the Jin army in Yushan Mountain, the whole army was annihilated, and he was also captured, and he was released only by the mother of Jin Xianggong, who was born in Qin.

This time he failed, and after going back, Meng Mingshi was not punished, but continued to be appointed as a general. After two years of rest, Meng Mingshi went to the Jin Kingdom for the second time to avenge the Battle of Kunshan, but unfortunately failed again. It's just that he is still reused after returning home. In the following year, Meng Ming looked at the salary and tried his courage, scattered his family business, and raised his soldiers until the soldiers were full of food, so he had a third expedition. This time, the Qin army won a great victory, the Jin army suffered a heavy defeat, and Qin Mugong was also appointed as Xibo by Zhou Tianzi.

Even if he can't treat Meng Mingshi like Qin Mugong, he will not change his kindness after three defeats, but with his past reputation and merits, he at least got the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Li Xin was already very satisfied with this, and as long as he repelled the Jurchens, the gains in this battle would be far more than everything lost before due to the defeat of Yizhou.

It's just that the reaction of the Jurchens surprised him a little. With only a slight adjustment, he attacked again at the sound of the trumpet.

He didn't even return. Li Xin looked at the enemy who were equal in number and was amazed in his heart. Even the Khitans, after the elite of the strikers were swept away, it was difficult to organize a new attack again in a short period of time.

The tenacity of the Jurchens is the character they have honed in the white mountains and black waters, not the Khitans who have been worn out by the soft red ten.

Sure enough, it's even better. ’

Li Xin thought. Such a strong army, it was not guarded against before, and it was unjustly lost.

However, he would not be afraid, regained his spirits, raised his horsewhip, and commanded the whole army to meet the crazy Jurchens.

……………………

"In the first war, they each collected their troops, and the officers and troops won a small victory, and now they are stationed in the village along the river."

Guo Kui received a battle report from the front line, and he attached great importance to this report, which did not seem to be anything special.

"Isn't this a defeat in the garrison?" Guo Zhongyi couldn't understand his father Guo Kui's arrangement: "Why do you want to use Li Xin?" The adults gave him so much support, he only knew that he had lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and if it was replaced by someone else, he would definitely be able to win. ”

"It's a partial teacher, so what's the matter?" Guo Kui didn't care, "It is said that Li Xin is like Meng Mingshi, and he thinks that his father sees it, but it is not easy to say anything else, and tenacity should not lose." ”

"Meng Mingshi lost three times before he won, does Li Xin have to lose one or two more times?"

"That's not what it means," Guo Kui was in a rare good mood, and did not hesitate to spend time explaining to his son: "The Jurchens are desperate for their future, and whether or not Yelu Yixin is in battle will not affect their fighting." Li Xin was able to make a draw. That's how rare it is! This is much more difficult than fighting the soldiers and horses of Xijing Province. ”

The news that Yelu Yixin went to Xijing Road was learned by Guo Kui from the Hanchen of the Liao State who secretly passed the song. As soon as Jeruyisin left, a letter was sent from there.

There is a Yelu Yixin Command Array in Hebei, but they can't break the Tangbo defense line in the northern boundary; On the east side of the river, even Xijing Datong Mansion began to be in a hurry; Not to mention Shaanxi, Xingling returned to the Great Song Dynasty two months earlier.

Now in Nanjing Road in Liao State, many Han families have sent people to contact, hoping to find their own location in advance, and some people even ran over with their whole families.

From this, it can be seen that the hearts of the people in the hometown of the Han family are back. It can be seen that there are many undercurrents in Liao, and over time, there is even a possibility of self-collapse.

There is nothing more reassuring than this incident, in the future, the scene of the Han people in Nanjing Province eating pot pulp to welcome the king is by no means a fantasy in a dream.

However, Nanking Dao is not just Han Chinese. It is still the Khitan people who hold the military and political power.

At the same time, not all of the hundreds of thousands of Han people in Nanjing Province can still remember the difference between Huayi, and many high-ranking officials and eunuchs are still loyal to the Khitans.

But in any case, the situation in Liao will become more and more chaotic, just like the Western Xia before the fall.

It's just that I can't see the walls of Youzhou. Guo Kui said to himself.

The King of the Clouds.

This rumor has long reached his ears.

It is undeniable that the reward of the king is that Guo Kui also feels hot, but he does not intend to become the target of the ministers

Without an edict, or even an edict, how could Guo Kui be so confused that he took the initiative to attack based on rumors. If you are crazy, you will be fascinated by the news of the king.

Think about it, after the war, the merit was calculated, and it was Wenchen who did it. And what kind of civil servant would look down on him, the martial artist who squeezed into the Western Mansion?

What's more, the power to command the whole army must be the prime minister to lead the army, and where can he get his turn as a warrior.

It's just an opportunity to save face

The failure of the attack on Yizhou, after Yelu Yixin left, finally had a chance for revenge.

It was just a face-saving victory, and it would not arouse the disgust of the Chinese courtiers in Beijing. And he can cooperate with Hedong, and give Li Xin another chance - it is not a bad thing to befriend Li Xin's cousin after all.