Chapter 1,793 The footsteps of the war

Summer, May, Sino-Japanese War, Yinghuo offender Taiwei Yuanzuo enforced the law.

"Book of Jin Tianwen Zhi": "In the east, it is called law enforcement on the left, which is the image of a court official; in the west, it is called law enforcement on the right, which is the image of a censor. It is law enforcement, so it is also the person who stabs the murderer."

Yinghuo criminals control the law, and astrology believes that this is because the court officials were ineffective in assassinating and committing crimes, and there were major omissions in controlling crime and rebellion, so the celestial phenomenon is a warning.

On that day, Yelu, the leader of Zuo Pishi's army, and Zhang Jianu, went out from Tu'er Mountain to march west.

An army of 20,000 marched westward along the Hun River. Three days later, they encountered a large Tatar army in Xielu Valley.

The slaves of the Zhang family in Yelu ordered five generals to be selected to ascend Xielu Ridge. Waiting Qi said that there were many Tatars at the foot of the mountain in front of them, and there were chariot formations connecting them. They were probably Li Kui's Jiehuo Army.

The Zhang family slaves sent the previously captured divination centurion Ading to Lingxialing to explain to Li Kui how powerful he was, saying that the Song and Liao countries were brotherly states. Now that Li Kui was thousands of miles away from the Song Dynasty, he personally led an army to fight against the Liao Kingdom.

It violated the friendly agreement between Song and Liao.

If Li Kui insists on blocking the road, he will go back and tell the Liao Emperor and send an envoy to report it to the Song court.

Li Kui seemed to be really frightened, so he untied his chariot formation, harnessed his horse's shaft, and prepared to leave the valley.

When the army was preparing to take action, there would inevitably be some chaos. However, Zhang Jianu suddenly turned his back and led his cavalry to charge towards the chaotic carriage camp at the foot of the mountain.

Immediately, there were screams in the Jiehuo Army, and the sergeants abandoned their vehicles and fled towards the valley.

Just when Zhang Jianu thought he had a trick and was about to rush into the disbanded car formation, the horse under him suddenly staggered and fell to the ground, letting out bursts of mournful hisses, but crawled anyway.

Can't get up.

Zhang Jianu fell to pieces, and when he got up, he found that countless of his cavalrymen were just like him, and all the fallen horses were rolling on the ground in pain, struggling and neighing.

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And those sergeants who were lucky enough to be able to rush into the gap between the vehicles were knocked down one by one by the crossbow arrows fired from the vehicles.

It turns out that there is a crossbowman hidden inside the seemingly chaotic van!

Zhang Jianu was so frightened that he didn't know what method Li Kui used to make his horse break its front hooves, but there was almost no trace of a trap on the ground.

However, as long as the horses broke into the front of the formation, they would almost never escape the fate of having their legs broken. Such encounters, which were almost witchcraft, made the already superstitious Liao army panic and panic.

After the seemingly scattered chariot formation, Li Kui quickly regrouped his troops. Holding the spears unique to the chariot army, he formed a spear formation and turned over to press against Zhang Jianu's forward who fell into extreme confusion.

"You've fallen into the trap and retreat! Hurry!" Yelu Zhang's slaves drew out their swords and frantically directed their cavalry to retreat.

However, the cavalry on the hillside continued to rush down, unable to stop the momentum at all.

It's fun to charge down the slope for a while, but it's difficult to escape back against the slope.

Li Kui's custom-made chariot spear from the Song Dynasty reached a length of one foot and six feet.

The spear head is a long three-edged blade, thin and pointed, up to two feet long. It is actually a replica of the magic gun and bayonet.

At the back are long handles made of jujube and ash trees that were widely planted along the Jingwei Yellow River.

There is also a hammer for counterweight behind the handle, so that the center of gravity of the spear is very far back, and there is no feeling of head drop when held, making it easier to stab.

Rulin's gun array passed by the vehicle array and then fell flat. Immediately afterwards, rhythmic metal whistles sounded in the formation, and the ranks gradually became denser and more orderly, heading towards the overturned Liao army in front.

Countless Liao troops who were suppressed by horses or who were running slower were unable to resist the spear array. They swung their swords in vain twice before being stabbed into their bodies by the long triangular spear blades. The Qingqi's leather armor

Unable to withstand the ferocious three-edged spear, the man's blood surged like a punctured water bag.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Liao troops on the mountain rushed down one after another to respond.

At this moment, three more cannon blasts sounded from Li Kui's car formation, and then three red clouds exploded in the mid-air.

The drums beat loudly in the valley behind, and two Tatar cavalry troops came out shouting to kill. They seemed to be very afraid of the car formation, so they stayed two semicircles away and rushed towards the fleeing Liao army.

It can only be said that in this battle, Yelu and Zhang Jianu performed the fraud strategy perfectly. Fortunately, the contact time between the two sides was relatively short. The Liao people only lost thousands of forwards who were unable to escape due to injured horses, and the rest all headed towards

He fled back the way he came.

Li Kui sent his scouts to hold them from a distance, while the main force began to clean up the battlefield.

Yu Yujue, the leader of the Wugu tribe, and Baligu, the leader of the enemy lie tribe, rode their horses to the spear formation, dismounted and bowed down: "The divine power of the military advisor has led us to another great victory!"

Li Kui shook his head: "This is just a small encounter, not a big victory. Kill those injured horses and don't let them suffer any more."

Yu Jue still didn't understand why the Liao people's horses broke their legs before running to the carriage camp. It wasn't until Li Kui led him to a wounded horse and pushed aside the grass on the ground that Yu Jue discovered that Kusama

There is a small pit as thick as a fist and as deep as a forearm.

After opening a few more grassy areas, it turned out that the entire side of the camp facing the mountain was full of small pits like this, numerous and densely packed.

Yu Jue couldn't help but shuddered. No wonder the Taiwei asked the cavalry to stay away from the chariot formation and crossbows during the attack. This is too vicious...

This kind of trap area is specially designed to deal with the death of cavalry. When the horse is running, once the hoof steps into such a small hole, the huge kinetic energy will instantly break the horse's foot.

Li Kui was able to create so many horse traps overnight, but he relied on a tool called an auger.

Because it requires repair and maintenance, each van in Da Song has a set of supporting tools.

When the convoy stops, the captain will also take out the auger from the tool box, drill a small hole in the ground, and then put up brackets to fix the van, connecting the van into an unbreakable car fortress.

Later, when setting up tent supports in the village, you will also need to use such tools, which is very fast and efficient.

These are all Shen Kuo's thoughts.

Li Kui was also a very flexible person. One day when he saw the sergeants drilling holes with augers, he took the idea and ordered them to station themselves every day and drill some holes outside the vehicle array to guard against the enemy's cavalry attack.

However, this rule has been in place for a long time, and it was just opened for the first time today, and some unlucky prey actually ran into the trap.

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Three days later, the Zhang family slaves who fled to Tu'er Mountain did not wait for Li Kui, but instead waited for the envoys of Yelu Yanxi.

It turned out that Li Kui did not fall into the trap as Zhang Jianu expected. After the Tatar chariot army passed through Lede Mountain, they did not enter the Tu'er Mountain in the north, but chose another corner, Yong'an Mountain in the south!

It’s not that Zhang Jianu’s performance is not up to the mark, but it’s the details that determine success or failure.

Although the scene of his defeat was very realistic, too much foreshadowing was ignored.

In the eyes of a careful person like Li Kui, everything seems unreasonable.

First of all, the Liao army's contact and disengagement from their own side were carried out too quickly, resulting in too little results from the trap formation.

The second was to chase from Xielu Valley to Lede Mountain, but there was no Liao reinforcements along the way.

Also, I didn’t see any signs of camping.

The absence of reinforcements means that the army is alone; the absence of a stronghold means that it has no baggage.

Who gave Zhang Jianu such courage?

It seems that he had already predicted all the subsequent actions of the Liao army he led?

Doesn't this become deliberate?

Li Kui never believed that Zhang Jianu had the ability to foretell the unforeseen. The so-called abnormality was a monster. The intention of this turtle's probing behavior was really suspicious, and the probability of doing it deliberately was even greater.

In fact, Li Kui had already decided on the strategy for this attack, which was to encircle the point and provide reinforcements that the grassland people were best at.

This is the same as Yelu Yanxi’s prediction.

But Li Kui didn't care which one of the two horns he chose to attack. It was a daily routine for military strategists to act according to the opportunity.

Because Zhang Jianu's performance made Li Kui have doubts about marching to Tu'er Mountain, so he did the opposite and went south to besiege Yong'an Mountain where Xiao Xiefu stayed to guard.

Not only did they encircle them but not fight, they also allowed Xiao Xiefuliu's messenger to escape from the siege and go to Ningzhou for help.

After Yelu Yanxi received the military report, he was both sad and happy.

Unfortunately, Li Kui was too cunning and did not fall into the trap he arranged in advance;

Fortunately, Li Kui's actions did not bring him much trouble.

Because Li Kui finally attacked, he still stopped his troops at the top of a hill, trying to break the Liao army's momentum first.

This is still in line with my prediction.

Now we need to simply adjust the deployment. The hammer is still ours, but the tasks of Yelu Zhangjianu and Xiao Xiefuliu have to be exchanged.

The anvil was handed over to Xiao Xiefuliu, and replaced by Yelu Zhang's slaves to plunder the Tatars' retreat.
Chapter completed!