The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

The night wind was like a knife, whistling across the wasteland, swirling up residual blood and flying all over the sky.

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Liao army secretly began to pull out their camps and withdraw their troops. The [-] palace guards first escorted Yelu Zongzhen and a group of ministers to retreat quietly. Although the road was difficult and the wind was biting, the retreat went smoothly. The most important point is As soon as Xia Jun on the opposite side noticed it, he didn't seem to be aware of the Liao army's movements at all.

Yelu Chongyuan's [-] vanguard army turned into a rear army with no rear, but Yelu Chongyuan retreated with the first group, and the command was handed over to the deputy commander. Yelu Chongyuan is not stupid, he knows who will stay behind It's dangerous, if the Xia army doesn't know it, let it be. Once they know it, ten of them will come to cover up and kill them. In order to cover the main force of the Chinese army and the emperor to safely evacuate to the east of Helan Mountain, the [-] soldiers who have broken the rear are afraid that they will not be allowed to retreat even a step.

An hour later, the Chinese army also began to retreat slowly. Xiao Hui commanded 19 Chinese troops to retreat alternately according to the order of numbers. Due to the large number of people, the originally orderly retreat quickly turned into a chaotic one. Running around, the soldiers suffering from hunger and cold were eager to leave this ghost place. Although they were restrained by the generals, beaten and scolded with leather whips, the chaotic situation still could not be changed.

Xiao Huinai was so desperate that he could only strengthen the guard of the [-] soldiers after the death, and at the same time carefully ordered people to observe the reaction of Xia Jun's camp, hoping that the chaotic noise would not be known to Xia Jun who was several miles away. [

Thanks to God's blessing, there was no movement in the Xia Army's camp. When it was close to dawn, all the battalions of the Chinese Army had already embarked on the retreat. The soldiers pulled their horses and walked on foot in the knee-deep snow. Because once you ride a horse, you can’t walk around at all, and the horse’s hooves will be deep in the snow, making it difficult to move an inch. There are lazy soldiers who refuse to dismount, and a few horses are injured when they fall along the way; Xiao Hui ordered everyone to dismount and walk. Only then did the military law calm down the chaotic situation, and the team was able to retreat slowly and orderly.

The [-] Liao soldiers who stayed behind did not dare to be negligent, and stared nervously at the direction of Xia Jun's camp behind the fortifications. As long as Xia Jun did not notice the movement of withdrawing troops, even in the daytime the next day, they were still unlikely to notice the Liao Army. The main force has already evacuated, because in order to "confuse" Xia Jun, none of the tents of the army were dismantled, and it was still densely packed with a complete camp at dawn, but most of the tents had already been emptied; and tomorrow night Then, the [-] troops after the breakup could follow the same pattern and quietly leave in the direction of the army's retreat, leaving Xia's army with tens of thousands of empty tents.

In the darkness before dawn, the sound of the army evacuating behind them has gradually faded away, almost inaudible. The last group of evacuated troops should have been five miles away. It seems that Xia Jun didn't know all this at all, and was in charge of commanding Xiao Shanxi, the deputy commander of the [-] tribal soldiers after the end, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stretched his waist, and yawned a lot. This night he was nervous, hungry and cold. Once he relaxed, he would suddenly feel tired.

Xiao Shanxi was about to order his subordinates to keep guard and take turns to rest, when suddenly, a gorgeous firework rose from the darkness on the left flank of the camp, and the sky on the left was illuminated brilliantly; extinguished, and the world returned to darkness.

All the soldiers of the Liao Dynasty were in astonishment, and three fireworks shot up into the sky from the direction of the Xia Army's camp in front as if in response. After the fireworks exploded and extinguished, dense flames suddenly lit up on the dark horizon in front of them, followed by the sound of shouts. Then, the dense flames quickly moved towards the front of our camp, getting closer and faster.

"What's going on? Go and have a look." Xiao Shanxi shouted.

A lieutenant commanding from the front ran quickly, panting heavily, and said out of breath, "Report to Deputy Commander Xiao, it seems that the enemy army is attacking."

Xiao Shanxi's scalp tingled for a while. The enemy army was aware of it. The enemy army was so cunning that they launched an attack when the main force completely left the camp. It seemed to be planned. Now the enemy army was several times larger. , I'm afraid it's hard to resist.

But the mission is in hand, even if it is difficult to resist, one has to desperately resist the enemy. The mission of the broken rear army is to delay and stop the enemy army when they attack, and cover the main army and the emperor to reach the Helan Pass. Xiao Shan would not choose.

"The generals of all ministries led their headquarters into the fortifications. The snow was deep and it was difficult to move. The enemy cavalry's impact speed was not fast, and they used bows and arrows to kill a large number of enemies, forcing them to retreat." Xiao Shanxi ordered loudly.

The messenger quickly blew the horn to convey the order. The soldiers of the Liao army entered the fortifications piled up with gravel, mud and snow blocks as high as one person. It is a crude fortification, but the severe cold has made the outer wall of the Daying fortification completely frozen, as hard as iron, and the protective effect must not be too bad.

The speed of the opponent's advance exceeded Xiao Shanxi's imagination. From a distance of five or six miles, within less than a cup of tea, you could see the front team of the enemy army, which was overwhelmingly crowded. It was a row of horses with one man on their backs, and they were dragging behind them. It was an open cart, with seven or eight soldiers standing in each cart, and a few burning torches stuck beside the cart.

"What the hell is going on? Why don't the cavalry ride horses and ride chariots instead. Shoot them with bows and shoot them to death." Xiao Shanxi cursed angrily.

"Let the arrows!" The war drum thumped, thousands of arrows were fired from the fortifications, and a dark cloud-like shadow crossed the air, falling into the formation of the charging Xia army. Suddenly, thousands of horses pulling carts were shot. Hundreds of carts began to stall and roll, and the huge inertia caused thick snow powder to fly all over the sky; after the chariot capsized, the soldiers on it began to be thrown away, and some of them were shot into hedgehogs by the feathered arrows before they landed. It fell straight into the snow, like rows of human trees planted in the snow.

But all this did not stop the enemy from attacking. On a battlefield five or six miles wide, unless the density of arrows accumulated for a long time can be maintained, the enemy in skirmish formation can be contained at all. Arrangements in advance concentrated the arrows on one side, causing a huge damage area within a hundred steps, but the Xia army in other places charged close, and could no longer keep shooting at the expense of the other, so the enemy army could only charge closer and go Wherever she is, the lethality is also greatly reduced.

After shooting five rounds, Xia Jun finally rushed to the front of the fortifications. Xiao Shanxi gave an order, and the bows and arrows were discarded on the ground. The 3 Liao troops worked in pairs to lift up the two-foot-eight-foot-thick arm. The giant spears pointed at the direction where Xia Jun charged, and more than [-] big guns formed a forest of long spears. The charging Xia Jun had no room for maneuver, and even the man and the horse and the sturdy cart carriage slammed into it. On the tip of the gun, there was a muffled sound.

The sad hissing of war horses, the sound of car bodies falling apart, the whirling human body, the tumbling snow waves, and the splashing of steaming flesh and blood, the front of the entire fortification seemed to suddenly rise like a huge wave, and when the huge wave fell, huge ripples rushed towards The two sides spread out, and the Xia army and Liao soldiers inside and outside the fortification were affected. Outside the Xia army's chariots and horses collided with each other. The Liao army inside was thrown back by the huge impact, and many soldiers were pierced back by the blunt side of the broken spear. The spear was like a barbecue stick. A soldier or horse wearing Xia Jun, The other end is the body of Liao Jun.

In just this short face-to-face meeting, the casualties on both sides exceeded [-]. The fortifications that seemed to be piled up with frozen mud and snow exposed their fragile weaknesses, and dozens of fortification walls were wiped out.

"Rush, rush in." Ren Jingde stood on a cart holding a big knife, his eyeballs were blood red from the flames. [

"Block, block, block the gap." The one with the same bloodshot eyes was Xiao Shanxi. He knew that if there were no fortifications to cover, he would be defeated in hand-to-hand combat, because his number was not 1 to [-], but less. several times.

At dozens of gaps, Xia Jun's horse-drawn sleds swarmed in, like a torrent breaking a bank, and there was no way to block it. Two Xia Jun soldiers on the car held large shields to block the front and flanks, and three archers and two spearmen Then they began to attack the surrounding Liao army soldiers; relying on the initial number advantage, the Liao army soldiers blocked the gap to form a barrier, and greeted the Xia army in the car with spears and machetes desperately. The number of casualties on both sides soared. Several gaps were unexpectedly blocked by corpses, and the dead corpses cooled down quickly, freezing into naked human sticks, trampled back and forth by horseshoes and human feet into shapeless shapes.

Death is no longer the most terrifying thing, because in this wilderness, death is ubiquitous, and it has become commonplace. Soldiers mechanically waved their blades and slashed at another person's body; The enemy army, the next moment, you will find a bloody knife point protruding from your chest, or you just cut down everyone around you, but you will suddenly find that the person who fell next to you is actually your brother.

With the escalation of hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers have lost their minds, and they don't even distinguish between enemy and friend.

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