In the northeast of Youzhou City and along the Wenyu River, the river water nourishes many trees, which has already withered this season; but the snow hanging on the branches makes the withered trees seem to bloom clusters of flowers, which is particularly beautiful.
The houses in the village were also covered with snow, as if they were hidden inside.
Dong Zunhui rode his horse through the silver-clad forest road, and held the horse and looked excitedly at the distance.
A moment later, Zhou Tong, Zhang Jiankui and other generals also rode their horses together, and the big men on the mount stared at the front with bright eyes.
Even the front hooves of the war horse were digging the snow, as if they couldn't wait.
On the road ahead, a long list of people were crawling slowly, with herds of sheep and cattle and horses inside.
Dong Zunhui turned his head and said in a deep voice: It seems that they haven’t noticed us yet.
Zhou Channel: I guess I think we are our own people!
Dong Zunhui smiled and said: This place is deep behind the Liao army, maybe they will really recognize the wrong person.
The large number of horse soldiers behind him also slowly came forward.Dong Zunhui immediately stopped his smile, raised his hand and shouted: Send the order, stop the ball, and get closer slowly!
Get order!
A large number of Zhou army soldiers came out of the forest road and slowly moved forward. The people coming out from behind spread out to the left and right wings, and the army gradually became huge, and it was obvious that it was impossible to hide its whereabouts in the middle.
Everyone didn't say anything, occasionally there was a cough and a sound from the horse's nose.
Dong Zunhui carefully pulled out an arrow from the quiver, keeping his slow speed and moving forward without leaving his prey for a moment.He was like a leopard, lying on the ground and slowly approaching.
Not long after, several riders wandered out in front of him and finally found something strange, and a yelling came from a distance.The crowd on the road suddenly became panic-chaos!
Dong Zunhui kicked the horse and shouted: Kill!
The cavalry in the front rushed out immediately, and the horses behind also accelerated.The silent army immediately shouted loudly, and the sound of horse hooves suddenly roared.
Seeing the Zhou army's surging momentum, the Liao army's cavalry was not willing to come up and fight, so they turned around and ran away.
Dong Zunhui shouted, and a general led his men to chase him up, and Yuzhe's brigade rushed towards the crowd on the road.
The Liao people's team was in chaos. Dong Zunhui pulled the bow and arrowed a man who had just crawled out of the carriage. The man rushed to the wooden wheel halfway.
The flock of sheep fled around, and the Liao people ran wildly.The Zhou army and horse soldiers chased and killed each other, and there was a lot of crying around, just like the Shura field on earth, which was no different from massacre.
Dong Zunhui led his men to sprint further along the road towards his team, without stopping, Dong Zunhui and Zhou Tong's arrows did not stop, and there was no need to pull the bow. Anyway, these Liao army and tribal herders were not wearing armor.
The war horses galloped all the way, the bowstrings crackled all the way, arrows flew in the air, and the chaotic crowds on the road kept falling down, and corpses were everywhere.
Some Liao people knelt on the ground, raised their hands and begged.
Zhou Jun rushed up the general, but he couldn't understand anyway, so he stabbed the spear at him.
The remaining people got up and ran desperately, rushed to the front of the Zhou cavalry, withdrew their bows and arrows, pulled out their saber from their backs, stared at one, and accelerated their rush.
Ah… The Liao people shouted desperately.But the war horses were approaching quickly, and the Zhou cavalry raised the shaking sabre high, waiting to approach. With one knife, the blood immediately splattered.
A group of cavalry detoured to the west, drove the flock of sheep running in panic and flew back, and arrows flew around along the way, slaughtering the flock on the spot!
There were also several shepherd dogs with their tails stomped there. Woof... They barked and arrows flew over, and the dogs were killed.
The panic and fearful screams around were heard making people feel scared.
The bean grain on the cart was also ignited, and smoke rolled along the winding road.
Dong Zunhui stood on the ground, wiped the sabre back and forth on the clothes of a dead body a few times, and looked back and forth. He saw that there were corpses everywhere on the ground, and there were snowflakes stained with snow in the snow, and blood was stained with mess.
The fight had not stopped yet. A wounded man stared at the snow with his eyes wide open and tried his best to crawl in the snow. The soldiers of Zhou chased him and stepped on his back, lifted his sabre, and stabbed him down a few times. The blood splattered his face, and the person lying on the ground screamed like a ghost howling.
Dong Zunhui put the knife into the scabbard, called five generals, pointed to a long list of messy scenes and smoke on the snow, and said: This road is from Lulong (Pingzhou, Liaoxi Corridor Portal).We can meet a group of people who deliver food, and there may be some later.You each brought a thousand cavalry to the north along the road.
Several generals responded with fists.
Dong Zunhui assigned the order again and ordered them to kill all living things, and fight quickly and never stay.He explained: After returning, meet in the direction of Xishan to find the Central Army.
Look!
Dong Zunhui turned his head to look at Zhou Tong, ordered two thousand cavalrymen, and ordered Zhou Tong to lead his troops to the north entrance first.
Something big has happened on the road here. You have to rush to another grain road as soon as possible to prevent you from running away if you have supplies to the north entrance!
The remaining three thousand cavalry and Dong Zunhui did not clean the battlefield, throwing people's bodies and debris into the snow, burning all the food and grass, and then taking one or two dead sheep away.
The cavalry continued to move northwest, and when they met a village on the way, a group of people and horses rushed through the middle of the village.
Horse hooves roar in the village, where are there people?
The doors and windows are closed all over the place, but there must be someone, because many roofs are smoked, and it is not time to be extinguished.
The army passed by the village and threw the dead sheep into the yard inside. The family threw a few of them and left after they threw them away.
After the Houjun entered the village, the villagers seemed to have discovered the dead sheep given to them, and they knew that it was Zhou's army who came.
The door was opened one after another, and a young wife had sharp eyes. She saw Dong Zunhui, a young man with a jewel and jewelry, coming up with a hot noodle soup.
But she failed, and immediately a general stepped forward, took the noodle soup and drank it in one bite, and thanked it with a smile.
Dong Zunhui shouted: The king's army is patrolling the hunting, sending some prey to the villagers as New Year's goods, a little gift, the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty wishes the people of Youzhou a good New Year!
A civil servant who followed the army shouted loudly: The king's army will fight the north, recover the homeland, the country will be prosperous and the people will be safe, and the world will be peaceful!
The soldiers and the people were excited and shouted this sentence. If no one took the lead, everyone would not know what words to vent their emotions.
Dong Zunhui instructed the civil servant: Look where the village elder is, ask him to divide the sheep evenly, remind the villagers not to spread it, and then find someone to cover up the horse's hoof and footprints left when we came, and beware of the Liao army's revenge.
The civil servant first replied, and then said in a deep voice: We send sheep, the Liao army kills indiscriminately, and the people's support is obvious. General Dong does not need to worry too much about other things.
Everyone sent sheep everywhere.Not long after, Dong Zunhui received a report and found the grain team again on the way from Beikou to Youzhou!
Dong Zunhui showed crazy enthusiasm on his young face and shouted: I have found prey again. Let’s go to the north entrance first and hunt with Zhoutong’s troops from north to south!
The troops screamed strangely, and the horse team seemed to be boiling.Everyone rode their horses, and the war horses galloped indulgently on the vast field.
……
Bang!Yelu Jing smashed the wine bowl on the ground to pieces, his face turned ashen.
His anger immediately shocked the nobles in the tent. Everyone kept silent to avoid the anger of the sweat, and no one was willing to hit the head...
However, the nobles of the tribes were also very upset at this time!
The sheep and food were all transferred from their own territory. Even Liaodong was the territory of the Khitan nobles. What they lost was their own things. Who would be happy?
Yelu Jing and others knew that the tribes were reluctant to do so... In the past, when fighting wars, they were going to steal things, and there would always be rewards after bleeding; wars like defending Youzhou, not only could they not be able to make anything, but they also had to rely on their capital!
Now the main force of the army is spent here, and the confrontation has been confrontation for a day and a night. The Liao army set up camp behind the formation and took turns to rest; the Zhou army still did this.
It was impossible to attack the Zhou army's camping on both sides, because the Zhou army's cavalry was supported by heavy troops on both sides.
How long will this take?Yelu Jing turned to look at Yelu Xiuge.In the midst of anger, the Great Sweat had no good words.
Yelu Xiu Ge said: In the current situation, don’t worry, sweating, as the Zhou army may have loopholes after a long time...
He also said: The Zhou army's cavalry went deep into the north, but this group of people could not let them be arrogant.
Emperor Liao asked: Who will kill them!?
General Yelu Xizhen said: I am willing to go.I only need 20,000 cavalry to go east first, and then I intercepted and encircled the Zhou army in the north entrance.
Emperor Liao said: Will the Zhou army definitely go back from the east?
Yelu Xizhen said: The Liao army is in Zhuozhou to the west. I think the Zhou army is not that stupid, so I hit the big army at the edge of the knife.Starting a retreat from the east is familiar with the way of hunting.
So Yelu Xizhen was ordered to lead troops to encircle.
Unexpectedly, in the evening, it was reported that Zhou's army had crossed the upper reaches of the Sanggan River (northwest section of Youzhou City).
Since the Zhou army has moved to the west, Yelu Xizhen can still capture it?
The Liao army predicted that the Zhou army would return on the east route, and Yelu Xizhen's troops would go east, and now they would temporarily chase westward. It would be strange if they could catch up with them a hundred miles apart!
In the Liao army's tent, Yelu Xiuge couldn't help but scold Yelu Xizhen in public and said: The Zhou army is also seeking death when they go west!To the west of Youzhou and Zhuozhou is the western mountain, with snow all over the field. Can the Zhou cavalry still go over the mountains? Where should we go to the west?I ask an army to go north and block the Zhou army in the east of Xishan!
Yelu Jing frowned and asked: How many people do you want?
Yelu Xiu Ge said: Only ten thousand riders are needed!Don’t worry, Youzhou is the territory of the Great Liao Dynasty. If the Zhou army cannot hide from the whereabouts, they will definitely be caught by their ministers.
He was full of confidence, and the cavalry didn't run whatever they wanted. As long as he could grasp the opponent's movements in time, be good at predicting the direction, and estimate the opponent's horsepower, he would still not get out if he intercepted the opponent, unless he turned around and ran further north.
However, if the Zhou army's cavalry was determined to hide, it would be more troublesome and the tactics needed to be faster and more flexible.
The houses in the village were also covered with snow, as if they were hidden inside.
Dong Zunhui rode his horse through the silver-clad forest road, and held the horse and looked excitedly at the distance.
A moment later, Zhou Tong, Zhang Jiankui and other generals also rode their horses together, and the big men on the mount stared at the front with bright eyes.
Even the front hooves of the war horse were digging the snow, as if they couldn't wait.
On the road ahead, a long list of people were crawling slowly, with herds of sheep and cattle and horses inside.
Dong Zunhui turned his head and said in a deep voice: It seems that they haven’t noticed us yet.
Zhou Channel: I guess I think we are our own people!
Dong Zunhui smiled and said: This place is deep behind the Liao army, maybe they will really recognize the wrong person.
The large number of horse soldiers behind him also slowly came forward.Dong Zunhui immediately stopped his smile, raised his hand and shouted: Send the order, stop the ball, and get closer slowly!
Get order!
A large number of Zhou army soldiers came out of the forest road and slowly moved forward. The people coming out from behind spread out to the left and right wings, and the army gradually became huge, and it was obvious that it was impossible to hide its whereabouts in the middle.
Everyone didn't say anything, occasionally there was a cough and a sound from the horse's nose.
Dong Zunhui carefully pulled out an arrow from the quiver, keeping his slow speed and moving forward without leaving his prey for a moment.He was like a leopard, lying on the ground and slowly approaching.
Not long after, several riders wandered out in front of him and finally found something strange, and a yelling came from a distance.The crowd on the road suddenly became panic-chaos!
Dong Zunhui kicked the horse and shouted: Kill!
The cavalry in the front rushed out immediately, and the horses behind also accelerated.The silent army immediately shouted loudly, and the sound of horse hooves suddenly roared.
Seeing the Zhou army's surging momentum, the Liao army's cavalry was not willing to come up and fight, so they turned around and ran away.
Dong Zunhui shouted, and a general led his men to chase him up, and Yuzhe's brigade rushed towards the crowd on the road.
The Liao people's team was in chaos. Dong Zunhui pulled the bow and arrowed a man who had just crawled out of the carriage. The man rushed to the wooden wheel halfway.
The flock of sheep fled around, and the Liao people ran wildly.The Zhou army and horse soldiers chased and killed each other, and there was a lot of crying around, just like the Shura field on earth, which was no different from massacre.
Dong Zunhui led his men to sprint further along the road towards his team, without stopping, Dong Zunhui and Zhou Tong's arrows did not stop, and there was no need to pull the bow. Anyway, these Liao army and tribal herders were not wearing armor.
The war horses galloped all the way, the bowstrings crackled all the way, arrows flew in the air, and the chaotic crowds on the road kept falling down, and corpses were everywhere.
Some Liao people knelt on the ground, raised their hands and begged.
Zhou Jun rushed up the general, but he couldn't understand anyway, so he stabbed the spear at him.
The remaining people got up and ran desperately, rushed to the front of the Zhou cavalry, withdrew their bows and arrows, pulled out their saber from their backs, stared at one, and accelerated their rush.
Ah… The Liao people shouted desperately.But the war horses were approaching quickly, and the Zhou cavalry raised the shaking sabre high, waiting to approach. With one knife, the blood immediately splattered.
A group of cavalry detoured to the west, drove the flock of sheep running in panic and flew back, and arrows flew around along the way, slaughtering the flock on the spot!
There were also several shepherd dogs with their tails stomped there. Woof... They barked and arrows flew over, and the dogs were killed.
The panic and fearful screams around were heard making people feel scared.
The bean grain on the cart was also ignited, and smoke rolled along the winding road.
Dong Zunhui stood on the ground, wiped the sabre back and forth on the clothes of a dead body a few times, and looked back and forth. He saw that there were corpses everywhere on the ground, and there were snowflakes stained with snow in the snow, and blood was stained with mess.
The fight had not stopped yet. A wounded man stared at the snow with his eyes wide open and tried his best to crawl in the snow. The soldiers of Zhou chased him and stepped on his back, lifted his sabre, and stabbed him down a few times. The blood splattered his face, and the person lying on the ground screamed like a ghost howling.
Dong Zunhui put the knife into the scabbard, called five generals, pointed to a long list of messy scenes and smoke on the snow, and said: This road is from Lulong (Pingzhou, Liaoxi Corridor Portal).We can meet a group of people who deliver food, and there may be some later.You each brought a thousand cavalry to the north along the road.
Several generals responded with fists.
Dong Zunhui assigned the order again and ordered them to kill all living things, and fight quickly and never stay.He explained: After returning, meet in the direction of Xishan to find the Central Army.
Look!
Dong Zunhui turned his head to look at Zhou Tong, ordered two thousand cavalrymen, and ordered Zhou Tong to lead his troops to the north entrance first.
Something big has happened on the road here. You have to rush to another grain road as soon as possible to prevent you from running away if you have supplies to the north entrance!
The remaining three thousand cavalry and Dong Zunhui did not clean the battlefield, throwing people's bodies and debris into the snow, burning all the food and grass, and then taking one or two dead sheep away.
The cavalry continued to move northwest, and when they met a village on the way, a group of people and horses rushed through the middle of the village.
Horse hooves roar in the village, where are there people?
The doors and windows are closed all over the place, but there must be someone, because many roofs are smoked, and it is not time to be extinguished.
The army passed by the village and threw the dead sheep into the yard inside. The family threw a few of them and left after they threw them away.
After the Houjun entered the village, the villagers seemed to have discovered the dead sheep given to them, and they knew that it was Zhou's army who came.
The door was opened one after another, and a young wife had sharp eyes. She saw Dong Zunhui, a young man with a jewel and jewelry, coming up with a hot noodle soup.
But she failed, and immediately a general stepped forward, took the noodle soup and drank it in one bite, and thanked it with a smile.
Dong Zunhui shouted: The king's army is patrolling the hunting, sending some prey to the villagers as New Year's goods, a little gift, the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty wishes the people of Youzhou a good New Year!
A civil servant who followed the army shouted loudly: The king's army will fight the north, recover the homeland, the country will be prosperous and the people will be safe, and the world will be peaceful!
The soldiers and the people were excited and shouted this sentence. If no one took the lead, everyone would not know what words to vent their emotions.
Dong Zunhui instructed the civil servant: Look where the village elder is, ask him to divide the sheep evenly, remind the villagers not to spread it, and then find someone to cover up the horse's hoof and footprints left when we came, and beware of the Liao army's revenge.
The civil servant first replied, and then said in a deep voice: We send sheep, the Liao army kills indiscriminately, and the people's support is obvious. General Dong does not need to worry too much about other things.
Everyone sent sheep everywhere.Not long after, Dong Zunhui received a report and found the grain team again on the way from Beikou to Youzhou!
Dong Zunhui showed crazy enthusiasm on his young face and shouted: I have found prey again. Let’s go to the north entrance first and hunt with Zhoutong’s troops from north to south!
The troops screamed strangely, and the horse team seemed to be boiling.Everyone rode their horses, and the war horses galloped indulgently on the vast field.
……
Bang!Yelu Jing smashed the wine bowl on the ground to pieces, his face turned ashen.
His anger immediately shocked the nobles in the tent. Everyone kept silent to avoid the anger of the sweat, and no one was willing to hit the head...
However, the nobles of the tribes were also very upset at this time!
The sheep and food were all transferred from their own territory. Even Liaodong was the territory of the Khitan nobles. What they lost was their own things. Who would be happy?
Yelu Jing and others knew that the tribes were reluctant to do so... In the past, when fighting wars, they were going to steal things, and there would always be rewards after bleeding; wars like defending Youzhou, not only could they not be able to make anything, but they also had to rely on their capital!
Now the main force of the army is spent here, and the confrontation has been confrontation for a day and a night. The Liao army set up camp behind the formation and took turns to rest; the Zhou army still did this.
It was impossible to attack the Zhou army's camping on both sides, because the Zhou army's cavalry was supported by heavy troops on both sides.
How long will this take?Yelu Jing turned to look at Yelu Xiuge.In the midst of anger, the Great Sweat had no good words.
Yelu Xiu Ge said: In the current situation, don’t worry, sweating, as the Zhou army may have loopholes after a long time...
He also said: The Zhou army's cavalry went deep into the north, but this group of people could not let them be arrogant.
Emperor Liao asked: Who will kill them!?
General Yelu Xizhen said: I am willing to go.I only need 20,000 cavalry to go east first, and then I intercepted and encircled the Zhou army in the north entrance.
Emperor Liao said: Will the Zhou army definitely go back from the east?
Yelu Xizhen said: The Liao army is in Zhuozhou to the west. I think the Zhou army is not that stupid, so I hit the big army at the edge of the knife.Starting a retreat from the east is familiar with the way of hunting.
So Yelu Xizhen was ordered to lead troops to encircle.
Unexpectedly, in the evening, it was reported that Zhou's army had crossed the upper reaches of the Sanggan River (northwest section of Youzhou City).
Since the Zhou army has moved to the west, Yelu Xizhen can still capture it?
The Liao army predicted that the Zhou army would return on the east route, and Yelu Xizhen's troops would go east, and now they would temporarily chase westward. It would be strange if they could catch up with them a hundred miles apart!
In the Liao army's tent, Yelu Xiuge couldn't help but scold Yelu Xizhen in public and said: The Zhou army is also seeking death when they go west!To the west of Youzhou and Zhuozhou is the western mountain, with snow all over the field. Can the Zhou cavalry still go over the mountains? Where should we go to the west?I ask an army to go north and block the Zhou army in the east of Xishan!
Yelu Jing frowned and asked: How many people do you want?
Yelu Xiu Ge said: Only ten thousand riders are needed!Don’t worry, Youzhou is the territory of the Great Liao Dynasty. If the Zhou army cannot hide from the whereabouts, they will definitely be caught by their ministers.
He was full of confidence, and the cavalry didn't run whatever they wanted. As long as he could grasp the opponent's movements in time, be good at predicting the direction, and estimate the opponent's horsepower, he would still not get out if he intercepted the opponent, unless he turned around and ran further north.
However, if the Zhou army's cavalry was determined to hide, it would be more troublesome and the tactics needed to be faster and more flexible.