On the other side, Yelu Chongyuan ambushed his main force of soldiers and horses, led by Yelu Mu, to a mountain col thirty miles outside the south gate, in order to prevent accidents, Yelu Chongyuan also arranged some soldiers and horses in the west and north, and Yelu Chongyuan also personally led a cavalry as a mobile force ready to support at any time.
For Yelu Chongyuan, everything is ready only to owe the east wind, just waiting for Li Liangzuo to lead the army out of the city, the situation is extremely unfavorable for Li Liangzuo, time has passed little by little, the sun is gradually setting from the west, at this time there are a few pigeons flying Datong City to the northwest, and then in a valley in the northwest, Liang Gewei led three thousand heavy armored knights to lurk here.
Reflecting the afterglow of the setting sun, Liang Gewei saw a few carrier pigeons wandering in the sky, in the Western Xia Army, important and urgent military information is generally transmitted by carrier pigeons, flying pigeons have advantages and disadvantages, unless it is an emergency military information, so under normal circumstances, it is still used to transmit, so when Liang Gewei saw the carrier pigeon, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.
In order to prevent the leakage of military secrets, the secret letters are generally written in ciphers, and the words of different colors represent different cipher levels, which are generally in the hands of a battalion commander; And the secret letter that Liang Gewei received this time was written in red, which means that the military intelligence is urgent, and it is the highest level of password.
Liang Gewei translated and read the secret letter, and immediately burned it, in fact, the content of the secret letter is also very simple, that is, a sentence to go to the West Gate tonight to meet Li Yi, although Liang Gewei does not understand why he let himself go to the West Gate to meet Liang Gewei, but since it is an urgent military situation, and it is a military order issued by Li Liangzuo himself, Liang Gewei can only strictly implement it.
After the sky darkened, Liang Gewei led three thousand heavily armored knights out of the valley to the west gate to meet Li Yi, at the same time, when night was approaching, Li Yi led the three thousand cavalry and hundreds of people from the west gate of Datong slowly drove out, in order to confuse Yelu Chongyuan The three thousand cavalry formed a long snake formation, and the marching team was very long, and everyone had a flag on their bodies, and they also planted flags on the cart, so it looked like there were tens of thousands of troops moving forward from a distance.
Not long after Li Yi led the army out of the city, he was targeted, in order to get first-hand information, Yelu Chongyuan set up many spies around Datong, lest Li Liangzuo run away from other directions, so Li Yi led the army out of the spies and reported this information to Yelu Chongyuan.
"Report, report, report Your Majesty, Ximen found that a large number of Xia troops appeared at Ximen."
The spy rode up to Yelu Chongyuan and said.
Yelu Chongyuan said: "I know, go down and receive the reward" After the spies left, Yelu Chongyuan immediately ordered: "Order Yelu Mu, the king of Yan, to immediately lead the army to the west of Datong to intercept the Xia army, and I personally lead the troops to support him." ” "Respectfully obey Your Majesty Shengyu."
One of the lieutenants immediately flew away after receiving the order.
After the lieutenant general left, Zheng Hun reported to Yelu Chongyuan: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that he can't deploy all his troops outside the West Gate, and he should stay behind to prevent the Xia army from escaping from other directions. ” Yelu Chongyuan agreed: "The prime minister is reasonable, and he ordered to pay close attention to the movements of the other gates of the main Datong. ” At this time, Li Liangzuo did not know that Li Yi had been targeted by Yelu Chongyuan, and after Li Yi left Datong, Li Liangzuo led the main force of the Xia army to leave Datong from the north gate, unlike Li Yi's swagger, Li Liangzuo was as low-key as he could, trying not to let others find out.
Yelu Renxian's face turned green on the spot, this hasn't been long away from Datong Li Liangzuo is going to let them be cannon fodder, it seems that Yelu Renxian has a stinky face, Li Liangzuo smiled and said: "Brother Yelu why do you have to hang a face, this is not still with you?"
"Xiao Wang doesn't dare, Xiao Wang just doesn't want His Majesty to treat Xiao Wang as cannon fodder."
Yeluren first reported to Li Liangzuo.
As soon as Yeluren finished speaking, a sentry galloped to Li Liangzuo and said, "Your Majesty, there is a shout of killing from the southwest, it seems that General Li Yi and the Southern Liao army are fighting. ” "I know, keep an eye on the movement in the southwest direction."
Li Liangzuo ordered.
At this time, as the sentry cavalry reported to Li Liangzuo, the army led by Li Yi and the Southern Liao army led by Yelu Mu were at war, and the matter had to start from the beginning, when Li Yi led the soldiers and horses of a town to the west of Datong fifty miles, Li Yi suddenly felt that the ground shook very strongly, as the commander of the army, Li Yi was very familiar with this kind of vibration, which was generated when the war horse was running, listening to the movement Li Yi felt that there were at least 50,000 cavalry.
As soon as he heard this movement, Li Yi immediately made arrangements, and arranged all the carts in the direction of the attack of the Southern Liao army, and the arrangement of this cart formation was also based on the way and method, all the carts were not lined up, but staggered, the purpose of this was to reduce the speed of the cavalry's sprint, and Li Yi led 3,000 cavalry to line up outside the chariot formation.
When Yelumu led the army to the front of the chariot array, the speed of the cavalry had to slow down due to the blocking of the chariot array, although Yelumu could not see clearly in the dark night, but through the movement of the neighing of the war horse, Li Yi could probably judge the distance and direction of the enemy.
After feeling that the cavalry of the Southern Liao Army had entered the car formation, Li Yi decisively ordered: "Release the rocket" With Li Yi's order, thousands of rockets shot towards the car array, in the dark night these rockets are like a broken fire dragon, when the rocket fell into the car array, hundreds of carts immediately ignited a skyrocketing fire, the Southern Liao soldiers next to the cart were immediately burned by the fire, this fire dragon effectively stopped the advance of the Southern Liao army's follow-up soldiers and horses.
Taking advantage of this gap, Li Yi decisively led his three thousand soldiers and horses to attack and kill the Southern Liao army that had crossed the car formation.
Li Yi also knows his own strength, with these soldiers and horses under his command is not the opponent of the Southern Liao Army at all, after all, the gap between the two sides is huge, so Li Yi pursues a policy of hitting and running, after attacking the Southern Liao Army that has not yet been rectified, he immediately led his soldiers and horses to run away, Li Yi's choice is wise, knowing that if he can't fight hard, it will not be in vain Li Yi ran this time, Yelu Mu, who suffered a loss, naturally would not let him go, so he immediately organized soldiers and horses to pursue, it is not an easy time to ride a horse in the dark night, if you accidentally fall into the pit, it is the death of the people and horses, once you fall off the war horse, it is equivalent to having a deep sleep, and the companions behind will directly trample the people who fall off the horse into a pulp, so in the era of cold weapons, cavalry is the most dangerous type of troops, not only will die in the hands of the enemy, but also may be buried under the hooves of their companions.
It's a little late to work overtime today
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