Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 407
At night, small snowflakes began to fall in the sky again. Sun Yue, Li Jilong, and Han Chongxun huddled in the fortress, boiling ginger water and roasting on the fire. It was already very late at night, but apparently they were not sleepy.

Sun Yue said first, "I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of cavalry gathered outside the city. Is there any way, keep going? Tell me what you think."

Han Chongxun said: "These are not so much cavalry, but rather ordinary herdsmen, who have not been trained at all. They are definitely not the direct descendants of the Yelu family. It is okay to fight with the wind and then rob. Tough battles will break at the first touch, and they are much weaker than the ones outside Waqiao Pass before, I would rather fight them for a few more days, so that my imperial guards can get more kills."

Sun Yue said solemnly: "Don't underestimate the enemy. You also said that they can fight with the wind. The infantry mainly relies on the formation of the cavalry. Now that our bows are not enough, the power of the army formation will be directly reduced by half. Once we Encountering a strong army and defeating the formation, these tens of thousands of herdsmen are our reminders, and even one of these infantrymen will not be able to escape."

Li Jilong also said: "Brother Yeluxiu is playing tricks this time. These herdsmen are clearly trying to delay our march. If you want to be safe, of course you should move forward cautiously, or even stop in this fortress to sit and watch." The situation, the Khitan people fight for the purpose of looting, so many herdsmen gather here and they can't see the oil and water, and they will definitely disperse in half a month. However, the rescue of Taihang Mountain will be ruined in this way. You can turn around and attack us first, which is equivalent to transferring us from Waqiaoguan to fight against him, using his strengths to attack my weaknesses, and you can mobilize no less than [-] cavalry in a few days, just like you said , Once the army formation is broken, our army's infantry will be lambs waiting to be slaughtered."

"Sun Yue smiled and said: "But this also shows that Brother Yeluxiu is indeed here, and a big stone in my heart has been put down. Let's talk about the countermeasures. The Heishui City we are in now has enough food and grass for us. It was more than half a month, and it was only more than a hundred miles away from the cities of Taihang Mountain. It took half a day for Qingqi to drive there, and it took only three or four days for infantry to slow down. The real battle of life and death was about to start. "

Li Jilong said: "It is definitely not enough to be exhausted in the city. If we are facing the enemy and do not advance, why should we abandon Waqiao Xiongguan and come here? It is just that the march needs to be slow, and we must not let them catch the loopholes. Now the Khitan main force is still there. Appearing, it is tantamount to a situation where the enemy is in the dark and we are in the dark, and what is going on on the Taihang Mountain is not yet known, and it is indeed tricky."

Sun Yue thought for a while and said: "It's not too late, Han Chongxun, haven't you been eager to make meritorious service, I will give you a chance, you will take two thousand elite riders out of the city early tomorrow morning and go to Taihang Mountain first, no matter you In any way, you must get in touch with Yang Yanzhao and the others, and at the same time find out for me exactly how Khitan is arranged in this area, how many main forces there are, and whether there are any elite Voloduo. Don't be obsessed with chasing and chasing, if you meet the main force of the Liao army, don't fight them, just turn around and run, if the enemy pursues you, run back and let me take care of you."

Han Chongxun was overjoyed when he heard the words, and he was not afraid at all, so he accepted Sun Yue's order very excitedly.

Silent all night.

The next day, Han Chongxun raised his troops and left, leaving Sun Yue and Li Jilong to recharge their batteries in the city. Unfortunately, although there was still enough food for half a month, there was not much firewood, so we had to Save some money, after all, the original location of this Heishui City is just a small fortress with more than 800 people stationed, and there are not so many. Fortunately, there is a bit of open-air coal in this place, and the defenders will occasionally pick up some, otherwise they will really have to fight hard. Frozen.

For the morale of the army, Sun Yue had to eat and live with the soldiers. He, a young master from a rich family, had a runny nose within two days.

Outside the city, the Khitan people sometimes gather and sometimes disperse, and the number is always fluctuating. Every time Sun Yue sees that there are more of them, he will arrange for Li Jilong to lead the cavalry out of the city to fight around. , so the harvest is not great, but it is just to maintain a certain pressure from the outside world so that they will not exceed [-].

It was like this for three or four days in a row, but Han Chongxun never returned, which made Sun Yue feel a little panicked. After all, he only gave him 2000 people.

On the fifth day, the sun was shining brightly. In order to save some briquettes and firewood, Sun Yue asked people to stop the fire in the city. His hands were so cold that he had sores. Li Jilong was planning to lead people out of the city to kill a circle Exercise your muscles and bones to keep you warm.

Suddenly, a whole bunch of cavalry was pressing towards them. It seemed that there were more than ten thousand cavalry, but their momentum was far from comparable to the tens of thousands of scattered cavalry outside the city. The speed is almost exactly the same.

Sun Yue couldn't help whispering: "The main force of the Liao army is here. Brother Li, you have been at the border for a long time, do you recognize it? Is this an ordinary elite or Worodo?"

Li Jilong heard the words and said: "It's ashamed to say that in the past few years on the border, most of the people we dealt with were old, weak, sick and disabled. There were not many times when we actually fought against the elite. As for Volodor, I have never seen it before, so I can't deduce it." .”

The so-called Woluoduo refers to a special type of troops in the early Liao army, which was built by Yelu Abaoji, and it basically disappeared after the reform of Empress Xiao. Instead, all the brave and courageous people in Khitan were selected to protect the Liao emperor. The personal troops on the side, the nephews and nephews of the tribal leaders of various ethnic groups gathered around the Liao Emperor, as their grassroots leaders, were specially supported by the Baili Yancheng around Shangjing. When it was initially formed, there were only more than [-] people, and now it has exceeded [-].

This thing is completely a product of copying the military system of the Tang Dynasty. It is basically equivalent to the Guanzhong Suwei in the early Tang Dynasty, also known as the Flying Cavalry Army. The trust of the Liao emperor, in fact, [-]% of Yeluxian's ability to secure this position is due to brother Yeluxiu, so this time Yelvxiu went south directly with Wo Luoduo.

Seeing that these cavalry were about to reach the city, Sun Yue waved his hand to signal the bed crossbow and archers to get ready and kill them as soon as they got within range.

However, it was clear that the enemy commander had a bit of a brain, and when the general was still more than [-] steps away from the range of the bed crossbow, he stopped with orders.Then he shouted loudly: "The one in the city is Sun Yue, the white-robed war god of the Song Dynasty? Come out and answer!"

After all, the walls of Heishui City are low, so they can be heard quite clearly from a distance.

If you don't speak at this time, it will be too demoralizing, so Sun Yue also shouted at the top of his voice: "Grandpa is here, what's the matter with grandson?" Fearing that he couldn't hear clearly, more than a hundred guards shouted "Grandpa is here!" Now, what about grandson?"

The general laughed and said: "Sun Yue, you are indeed here. I am Yelu Gou'er, a young general of Daliao. Yelu Xiezhen, the king of the Southern Court who was murdered by you in the city of Jinyang three years ago is my father. You Come out, I'll give you a chance to fight me with my own team! (He really has that name, I didn't mean to spoof it.)"

Sun Yue didn't pay any attention to him. The newcomers of the Liao Army came at a time when they were in full swing, so they would have to wait a while to fight, so he used his famous stunt of One Finger Zen, stretched out his finger to point at him, and then He hooked up to himself and shouted: "Come here! Come here if you can. It's cold down there. I didn't bring firewood. You'll freeze to death!"

Although the guards thought the words were a bit boring, they yelled them over and over again.

Unexpectedly, this Yelu dog was not angry, but laughed. He stretched out his hand and picked up a human head, because he couldn't see clearly from too far away, and shouted at Sun Yue: "Sun Yue, do you still recognize your brother?" ? Han Chongxun is here, come and collect his body."

(End of this chapter)