Xiao Hanlila understood the facts of the Song army, but he did not launch an attack rashly, but waited for the domestic order. He understood that Dashi Linya claimed to have inherited the legacy of the Liao Kingdom and continued the national veins of the Liao Kingdom. But everyone understood that their regime could not convince all the Khitans, because although Yelu Dashi was considered a royal family, he was already a branch of the side branch and had not been recognized by the clan.

The princess of Shu Kingdom, Yu Liyan, was the biological daughter of the last emperor Yelu Yanxi. She was directly in the royal family. After she was separated from the emperor, she established a regime in Xijing, and was the princess, and was supported by the two major tribes of Yelu and Xiao. She won many battles and won many battles and defended the last piece of land in the Liao Kingdom, but Yelu Dashi was still in the desert at that time. After that, with the destruction of the Nanjing regime and the capture of the emperor, Xijing became the only remaining regime in the Liao Kingdom at that time, and was regarded as orthodox by the Khitans.

After that, the princess of Shu recruited the King of Yan of Song to join forces with the Song Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and his reputation was even better. With his help, the entire Xijing area was recovered. The Jurchens did not dare to invade the border again and were intimidated in the northwest. What is regrettable is that the prince of the Song Dynasty did not forget his homeland and sent troops to aid the Song Dynasty to defeat the Jin army that went south and ascended the throne to become the emperor of the Song Dynasty. The princess of Shu State and his wife led their troops to return to Song, but they also won huge benefits for the Khitans and saved their tribe from war. Therefore, the princess of Shu State still enjoyed a lofty prestige among the Khitans.

Now the Song army has transferred the letter from the princess of Shu. Although Xiao Hanlila does not know the specific content, he can also guess that he must have advised the emperor to stop the war and unite with Song to resist the Jin Dynasty and not to wade into the muddy waters of Gaochang. I think with the status and prestige of the princess of Shu, the emperor would not ignore her opinions, so this conflict might be avoided. From the heart, Xiao Hanlila did not want to get into evil with Song. Therefore, he did not rashly move troops, but did not relax in preparing for war.

Wishes were beautiful. The result was disappointing. A few days later, the news from the country was returned, and the emperor rejected the suggestion of the princess of Shu. But he said that as long as the Song army gave up the attack on Gaochang, he could send the Song army out of the country with gifts and persuade Gaochang to reopen the trade routes. He could set up a special market in the Western Liao Dynasty to allow Song Dynasty merchants to operate in it, otherwise he would have to fight.

After seeing this, Xiao Hanlila sighed. The Song army spent a huge amount of money to mobilize a hundred thousand troops from all over the world. How could he give up the conquest of Gaochang with just one promise? The two armies could not help but fight. So he sent an envoy to inform the Song army and issued a mobilization order. After the Song army rejected the emperor's suggestion, he immediately went to fight...

The Western Liao army rolled in with an unstoppable momentum. When it was twenty miles away from the Song army camp, a cavalry suddenly came out. They roared and stirred up smoke and dust in the sky, and couldn't see how many people were. Xiao Hanlila hurriedly ordered the army to stop advancing and lined up to meet the enemy. But the visitor did not stop but rushed up faster. He hurriedly ordered the vanguard army to step forward to block the enemy's rushing forward.

The two armies approached quickly, and Xiao Hanlila saw the opponent's banner clearly. It was the Mengwu tribe who went to fight with the Song army. The number of people was about 5,000. The formation that could be seen was slightly backward than the two wings. Just when the vanguard of the Western Liao army was about to contact the enemy, the two wings of the Mengwu tribe had rushed within a hundred steps from them and began to shoot arrows. Since the number of people on both wings was much smaller than the vanguard, the gap between the queue was relatively large to avoid accidental injuries and could continue to shoot arrows.

The Western Liao army would not wait for the beating. They also shot arrows and fought back, but their equipment had a short range of bows and could not shoot in front of the enemy's horses. However, the people on their side were falling off in the dense rain of arrows. The Mongolian army was still firing arrows, and the front row immediately retreated to the back row after the first row was discharged. Three rounds were shot in a short period of time, and the Western Liao army suffered heavy casualties.

Just as the Western Liao army was shot in a hurry by the cavalry on both wings and mobilized their troops to fill the situation, the frontal assault of the Mongolian army had also begun. They also started with bow and arrow attacks. Due to the frontal impact and the speed of the horses sprinting forward, the deeper range and lethality. The Western Liao army was attacked by the sudden violent and rapid rain of arrows. The soldiers in the front row were shot and the vanguard formation was in chaos. Just as they hurriedly sorted out the formation and the soldiers who were prepared to replenish the soldiers in the front row, the Mongolian cavalry had already shot three-wheeled arrows, and they pulled their bows and drew their swords to kill them.

At this moment, the vanguard of the Western Liao army suffered heavy losses under the rain of arrows from the Mongolian army. The formation was in chaos and could not resist the enemy's impact. He collapsed instantly and was defeated by the crazy killing of the Mongolian army. However, the Mongolian army refused to give up, and slightly adjusted the formation while running and rushed towards the Liao army's formation. They used the same trick again, and still used the two-wing cavalry to attack long-rangely with bows and arrows first, and then rely on the frontal impact to break through the formation.

Under another round of attacks from the Mongolian Army, the front army in front of the formation was shaken. Xiao Hanlila hurriedly sent his army forward to fill the gap, blocking the enemy's impact and stabilizing the formation. He was simply madly angry. The enemy had only 3,000 troops far less than his own, and they rode a short war horse, which was not as powerful as the tall Turkic war horses in his army. In terms of individual combat capabilities, the Mongolians with short stature were no match for the Tuque soldiers in their army, but they were beaten to no avail.

The Mongolian cavalry who failed to rush forward saw that things were not to be bothered, turned their horses and retreated to re-form the formation. How could Xiao Hanlila, as a veteran on the battlefield, give the enemy a chance to fight again, and ordered the front army to pursue them without giving them a chance to turn back. Seeing that they were crowded, the Mongolians were tactful and retreated, but once the Liao army approached, they used the long range of bows and arrows in their hands to attack and prevent them from getting closer. If the front army was in chaos and slowed down, the Mongolian army immediately formed a formation and turned around to rush forward, and still used long-range strikes to kill the Liao army, taking advantage of the opportunity that they had to stop and sort out the formation and launch a frontal attack.

After several times, the Liao army not only failed to catch up with the Mongolian army, but was bitten by it twice, which damaged many soldiers and generals. Xiao Hanlila was furious and ordered the front army to disperse their formation and use their fast horse speed. The soldiers were good at connecting close forces to release their speed and chased them hard, preparing to use their number of people to break through the obstacles of their bows and arrows, fight with them in close combat, and not give them the chance to turn around and fight again. His tactics were very effective. The Mongolian people were chased and could only rely on frequent horse exchange to maintain their speed to barely avoid being caught.

The two armies chased on the grassland one by one, one by one, but unfortunately, the few Mongolians were flexible in their movements, gathered and dispersed, and were unstable. The Western Liao army was a group of people advancing in unison, making it difficult to maintain speed. The front army was afraid that the Mongolians would be plotted against again and dared not leave the brigade too far, so the two armies gradually opened the distance. Xiao Hanlila was also worried that if this continued, he would be exhausted by the Mongolians, so he ordered the pursuit to give up and re-form the formation. However, he also learned the lesson and allowed the reconnaissance to expand the search range so as not to be attacked again.

As expected by Xiao Hanlila, the Mongolians continued to appear around the marching brigade and kept looking for opportunities to harass them, but they failed to succeed again under the strict defense of the Western Liao army. But he was so frustrated that the bows in the hands of the Mongolians were obviously from the hands of the Central Plains craftsmen, which were much longer than the range of the archers of their general equipment. They only moved outside the range of the Liao army's bows and arrows, and used their good bows to snipe and chase to drive out the Liao army's cavalry, and would never fight with them in close combat when the number was at a disadvantage.

The changes in the combat methods of the Mongolians made the Western Liao army very uncomfortable. Most of their soldiers came from the Tuque people living in Central Asia. After the initial expansion of the Arab Empire, they passed the Arab scimitars and their usage methods to Central Asia through war and trade routes. Therefore, at this time, the grassland cavalry mostly used scimitars to kill. They used the impact force of the horses and the mechanics of the scimitars to easily cut off the enemy's body and even armor and weapons. The Turks played the combination of the mechanical principles of the scimitars and the impact force of the horses to the extreme. However, at this time, the enemy's tactics seemed to be specially formulated to restrain the Western Liao army, making it impossible for them to exert the advantage of fast horses and sharp swords!

Xiao Hanlila felt a crisis about the changes of the Mongolians. He understood that the emergence of a new tactic often changed the outcome of the battle. Today's battle may be just an impromptu work by the Mongolians after obtaining the Song Dynasty's Liang Gong. There were omissions in cooperation, especially in the process of being pursued. But the effect it produced is obvious to all. Once the tactics mature, the advantages of the Western Liao army will be greatly suppressed. Fortunately, they are still in the primary stage of exploration, and they can defeat them with their superiority in military strength...

The Western Liao army bravely moved forward under the attack of the Song army. The closer they approached the camps of the Song army, the more frequent the attacks were. Not only were there Mongolians, but also various cavalrymen such as Wang Guren. But Xiao Hanlila found that most of them attacked by their own tribes, and they had little cooperation. Their attacks did not use the Mongolian tactics. Obviously, the tribes and troops who went to the Song army to fight lacked unified command and had conflicts and no communication. Otherwise, the coordinated actions of their divisions would inevitably cause great trouble for themselves.

When he was ten miles away from the Song army camp, Xiao Hanlila ordered his wings to spread north and south, and he wanted to encircle the Song army and wipe them out in one fell swoop. After the tribes of the Song army who were carrying out the harassment mission found that the Liao army opened its wings, they immediately found that they were in danger of being wrapped in. They did not dare to go forward and quickly retreat. The Liao army, who had lost the obstacle, accelerated the marching speed and rushed towards the Song army camp. Unfortunately, they were still late, and the Song army had retreated first, and the opportunity for connecting war was not left to them.

Seeing that the remaining flames were still not over and the messy Song army camp, Xiao Hanlila shook his head with a wry smile. The old problems of the Song army in the past have not been changed! They came in a fierce manner before the war, but they often put their hopes on negotiations, hoping to avoid fighting. Once the strategy is damaged, they will run away immediately and will not fight to the end, just like the scene we see today... (To be continued...)
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