It is said that Yang Peng made too much noise this time, and he was not very familiar with the enemy situation and environment here. Therefore, without letting the brothers rest more, Yang Peng sent everyone away according to the direction of his memory.
After leaving, Cheng Shijie led Zhan Jinguo to Huolianzhai Town in the north of Yingzhou. There was a relatively large market there where food and other daily necessities should be purchased.
Liu Zhiliang took Zhou Dayong and Yin Mingde to Gaotaizi Town. In addition to shopping, they mainly wanted to see the environment along the road and see if there were any Khitan guards from the Liao Kingdom. The third group was led by Zhang Xiang to Liuhezi Town in the northwest.
In addition to shopping, he also wanted to see if the Khitan soldiers were chasing him. After everyone went out, Yang Peng carefully recalled the basic situation of Yingzhou. In his impression, Yingzhou was directly connected to Youzhou and was the gateway to Liaoning Province.
One of the most important areas of the land controlled by the emperor of the country. Goryeo is now one of the important allies of the Liao State. A large amount of materials needed by the Liao State need to be plundered from the Goryeo royal family and then sold to the Liao State.
And some of the high-quality iron ore that the Khitan collected in Youzhou would be sent to Goryeo and the Liao Kingdom's iron factories in Tanzhou. If the Jin Kingdom later invaded the Liao Kingdom in the northeast and then moved southward in an all-round way, it would be the largest advance base.
That’s Goryeo! Goryeo was not only the wartime industrial base of the Jin Kingdom, but also a very important military source base. In fact, everyone used to misunderstand why the Jin Kingdom was able to defeat the Liao and Song Dynasties with tens of thousands of people. The main reason was that Goryeo
sources of troops.
After going through the sleeping memories in his mind, Yang Peng finally remembered that about 90 miles south of Yingzhou, there was a large market town called Lianshanguan Market Town. This was a hub transfer station before heading to Youzhou and entering the Liao Kingdom.
The Khitan has a garrison here, which means there is a Pi Ding Army stationed here. Gaotaizi Town in the northeast should also be guarded by the Pi Ding Army of the Liao State. There should be a small team of 100 Khitans guarding it. There should be
A lot of supplies.
After thinking clearly about the nearby geographical environment, Yang Peng turned around and counted the loot. After this sneak attack in the dense forest, 14 Khitan bows and arrows were seized, each with a quiver of thirty arrows. In addition, 14 Khitan bows and arrows were seized.
He bought 28 hand crossbows and 14 military leather kettles. Now Yang Peng has a total of 21 Khitan longbows from the Liao Kingdom. Considering that there may be a battle with the Khitan in the future, he decided to replace all his team members with the Khitan.
Longbow. Because for now, the Khitan longbow has more quivers, and it will be more convenient to supply in battles in the future.
In the evening, the three grain purchasing groups returned one after another. The news they received was similar to Yang Peng's estimate. There was a Khitan army team stationed in Gaotaizi and Huolianzhai, both in the market town. As for the Khitan people in the north, there seemed to be nothing
There may be some movement, or perhaps a bigger action is being planned. Now that he has weapons, Yang Peng is not in a hurry to deal with the Khitan soldiers. As the saying goes, a sharpened sword never wastes time chopping firewood. In the last training, he was defeated by the Khitan cavalry's mountain search team.
It stopped. Therefore, he decided to continue training for a month and then make a decision based on the training situation.
In addition to the ten-kilometer mountain run in the morning, you have to do 500 squats and push-ups, and then start making breakfast. There is no cooking class now, so everyone takes turns. The next step is to do combat training with a bayonet for two hours.
Yang Peng taught everyone all the military fighting skills taught by his teacher. On the one hand, it was for close combat, and on the other hand, it was for future reconnaissance and capture of prisoners. Then there was bayonet fighting training, although Yang Peng also had a long gun at this time for bayonet fighting.
It's very cool, but it's still necessary as a tactical skill.
In the afternoon, there was archery training. It was too hasty some time ago and I didn't practice it well at all. This time, I added stealth and long-distance sniper training, which is to train myself as a sharp archer. Sharp archers are a joke. This kind of training, Cheng Shijie put his best into it.
Function. He is from the Orion family and has special expertise in shooting at moving targets!
In the evening, there are post setting, lurking, reconnaissance, capture and counter-reconnaissance training, and finally there is a tactical theory course before going to bed, which of course includes an introduction to various Khitan weapons that may appear in the future, what details need to be paid attention to in enemy reconnaissance, etc. This
It is Yang Peng's patent, and currently no one can share his worries.
It is worth mentioning that although Shi Liancheng is young, he has made rapid progress. Because he trains in long-distance running, plum blossom stakes, fighting and archery every day, his hand crossbow has improved by leaps and bounds. If his strength was not too small, he would have been able to hold both hands at the same time.
, firing the bow left and right! Now his right-hand crossbow can hit a target fifty meters away!
Half a month later, Yang Peng asked both classes to go out for reconnaissance training to see which group gained more! As for himself, he took the little correspondents to train in plum blossom darts and sword skills. While there was still time, he
I want to teach everything I know as soon as possible. Once a war breaks out in the future, there will be no chance.
Shi Liancheng was too young to be suitable for close combat, so Bai Shujie gave him 8 of his plum blossom darts for self-defense. For this reason, Bai Shujie specially trained him in the dart skills of sealing the throat with a sword, and supervised him the most.
Severe! Seven days later, the six teams that went out came back one after another. Among them, Liu Zhiliang's team, which went to the northeast for reconnaissance, brought back a piece of news that attracted everyone's attention. It turned out that Liu Zhiliang and the other three arrived in the Baiqingzhai area and heard that many people were there.
It is said that the inspection team will be inspecting nearby Zhangjiagou recently. Anyone familiar with the matter understands that this is going to be to arrest the laborers!
The other teams mainly stared at the surrounding area. This was the world controlled by Pi Dingjun of the Liao Kingdom. So far, no special changes had been discovered. The only clue gained was the Cheng Shijie team who was investigating to the west. They found that there was a relatively large village in the market town ahead.
There is a camp area, and there are many carriages and other means of transport behind it.
Yang Peng was very dissatisfied with the intelligence brought back by each team. It can be said that it was all gossip and there was no verification of the intelligence at all. This cannot be blamed on the investigation team, but on Yang Peng's misconception that Youzhou
There should be Khitan soldiers everywhere here. In fact, the number of Khitan troops in this period was only 300,000, the total number of Liao Kingdom was less than 10 million, and the number of Khitan troops in Yingzhou was less than 20,000, which was mainly shrinking.
In the military camps and strongholds along Youzhou, the only people wandering around are Han Derang's Han people and the local gangsters who rely on the Khitans. Those who are doing evil everywhere are either bandits or various foremen "employed" by the Khitans.
The so-called foreman is what is now called "foreman". However, the foreman at that time had the power of life and death over his workers. Just like the Jinzhai Iron Mine, the four notorious foremen in history were more powerful than the Khitan people during this period.
Even more vicious!
In order not to intensify conflicts, the Khitans paid all their wages to the leader. As for how the leaders were distributed, the Khitans did not care. The Khitans could not blatantly deal with the people of the Song Dynasty yet. Empress Dowager Xiao and Shengzong of Liao had a marriage in 1004
He led his army deep into the Song Dynasty. Song Zhenzong was afraid of the enemy and wanted to move the capital to the south. However, Prime Minister Kou Zhun insisted and went to Chanzhou (today's Puyang) to supervise the battle. The morale of the Song army was greatly boosted and they defeated the Liao army's vanguard. Liao general Xiao Talin died in the battle.
The Liao army was afraid of being attacked from both sides and proposed a peace treaty. Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, who advocated peace, signed a peace treaty with the Liao Dynasty at the beginning of the next year. It was agreed that the Song Dynasty would pay an annual tribute of 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 pieces of silk to the Liao. Each side would maintain its borders and not harass each other. This became
This was the alliance of brothers, and the two dynasties were reconciled for 120 years. After that, the Shengzong of the Liao Dynasty formed a good relationship with the Xixia, and the Xixia also swayed between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty.
The Three Kingdoms of Xixia were in a state of coexistence. Therefore, those top leaders more or less received weapons funding from the Khitan and formed the so-called guardian servants.
After this period of investigation, Bai Shujie finally slowly came out of his own mind and integrated into the current era. The various information he had learned in his previous life also began to be classified and organized in his mind. But he quickly
I discovered a very strange problem, that is, in the previous life, the information about the unreasonable and unreasonable things the Khitans did when they invaded Youzhou was very incomplete. Especially the content that was published for the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty to understand.
It’s really pitiful!
On the contrary, there are many people who beautify the Khitan. Some counties have a good image of the Liao people, and even erect monuments for the dead ghosts of the Khitan dogs! Many people suspect that some officials are probably the bastards left by the Khitan and have now sneaked in.
Among the officials of the Song Dynasty! After some deliberation, Yang Peng determined his future course of action. The first was to combat the arrogance of various leaders and weaken the employment potential of the Khitan people. The second was to seize the opportunity and attack the Khitan in Yingzhou.
The human-skinned army launches a surprise attack!
In order to make the investigation training purposeful, Yang Peng had the team members divided into three-person teams to go out for investigation. As a result, the news brought back by Liu Zhiliang seemed to be more urgent. After discussion, everyone agreed that it would be more effective to break the foremen's attempt to arrest the workers.
Meaning. Yang Peng also feels that according to the current training level, his team members are not suitable for a head-on confrontation with the Khitan army. It is also possible to fight against the ragtag iron mine foremen's squad, which should be okay.
In order to be aware of the situation, Yang Peng endured the pain and conducted a second archery training. All team members shot 20 arrows, divided into 50-meter fixed targets and 80-meter fixed targets, and fired ten rounds each. 80 rounds were counted as passing. Then according to the training
Achievements and unified distribution of combat tasks.
Unexpectedly, everyone passed the 50-meter fixed target! In the 100-meter fixed target, Cheng Shijie ranked first! Zhang Xiang, Liu Zhiliang, Zhan Jinguo, Duan Zhixian 90 rings, Zhou Dayong, Shi Liancheng, Zhan Daming, Qiu
Mingkang and Xiang Danian are 80 rings! The remaining eight are all below 70 rings, and they are no match for Khitan! However, with the newly discovered four good talents Shi Liancheng, Zhan Daming, Qiu Mingkang, and Xiang Danian, Bai Shujie is still
very happy!
With the plan in mind, Bai Shujie asked everyone to bring bows and arrows, including himself, who also carried a longbow that a Khitan master stole from a Khitan officer's house and two hand crossbows. Shi Liancheng also had a Khitan longbow, and
A hand crossbow. Zhang Xiang and Cheng Shijie naturally carried Khitan bows and arrows in addition to the hand crossbows. Each of them had 30 arrows.
During the day of the next day, everyone made pancakes as dry food and set off at seven o'clock in the evening. Yang Peng asked Liu Zhiliang to lead the way, and they advanced covertly at midnight and arrived in the dense forest on the hillside three miles southeast of Baiqing Village. Zhang Xiang and Chen Shijie arranged sentries.
Everyone was lying down with their clothes on in the dense forest. Fortunately, it was summer and we could still deal with it. After dawn, Yang Peng sent people out to investigate, but the foreman team was not found all day long. In the early morning of the next day, he continued to send people to inquire about news.
There was no news again. Many people began to waver and suspected that Liu Zhiliang's news was wrong. But Yang Peng didn't think so. As the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire. This kind of thing cannot come out of nowhere.
Just like this, around three o'clock in the afternoon on the fourth day, there were a few faint sounds of arrows coming from the due north. Yang Peng climbed up a tree and listened, and there seemed to be the sound of hand crossbows used by the Khitans! No!
Okay, someone is fighting Khitan dogs! It is said that Yang Peng originally led his brothers out to harass the foremen, but he didn't expect to see the shadow of the enemy yet. The sound of arrows came first, and it seemed to be the sound of a crossbow.
"Brothers, the news is accurate. Someone is fighting not far ahead! From the sound of arrows, it can be inferred that the culprit is the Khitan army. Please be vigilant!" Yang Peng came down from the big tree and ordered loudly: "The sound of arrows
It’s an order, everyone is ready for battle, maintain battle formation, and run forward with me!”
Yang Peng pulled out his hand crossbow and took the lead in running northward along the ridge. This time he ran and marched quickly for more than three miles, and the ridge came to the end. Yang Peng looked out through the woods and found more than a dozen people in black clothes.
The people and about twenty Khitans are attacking a small hill. The ones supporting the infantry charge are indeed powerful crossbows used by the Song Dynasty! Their current location is about 600 meters away from the hill. The Khitan army is about 600 meters away.
It's about 400 meters. There are no big trees in the middle, only thatch more than one meter high. Although this kind of environment is convenient for concealment, it has higher requirements for shooting. Because if you lie down on the ground, your line of sight is greatly restricted.
Bai Shujie observed for a while and found that most of the men in black were hand crossbows, that is, hand crossbow teams. This was also specially distributed by the Khitan people to those Song people who served the Liao Kingdom. The Khitan people all made high-quality longbows.
There were three people in the strong crossbow team. There were about twenty Khitan people, who were the main force of the attack. The men in black were lying in the grass and shouting the loudest, but there was no specific movement. It seemed that they were just beating the drums to boost their popularity.
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"Cheng Shijie, you move over slowly, specifically responsible for knocking out the Khitan's powerful crossbows. Zhang Xiang led Zhou Dayong, Shi Liancheng, Zhan Zhongguo, Qiu Mingkang, and Xiang Danian to go around to the left, specifically to deal with the men in black!"
Qiannu is also known as Zhuge Liang who created the repeating crossbow machine and improved it. According to the "Three Kingdoms·Shu·Zhuge Liang Biography" annotated by "Wei Shi Chun Qiu", he could fire multiple crossbow arrows at one time in previous generations.
Based on the continuous crossbow, a "Yuanrong" crossbow was designed and produced, which can fire ten eight-inch iron crossbow arrows at one time, improving the killing efficiency of the strong crossbow.
Although it is still not possible to determine the true appearance of Zhuge Liannu, it is certain that Zhuge Liang made a great contribution to the reform of crossbow-making technology. It was on the basis of these reforms that more powerful crossbows were made during the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Crossbows have been given names such as "Godly Crossbow" and "Wanjun Godly Crossbow"; in the "Book of Jin", "Book of Song", "Book of Southern Qi" and other historical books, there are constant references to the use of "Crossbow" in war to "destroy everything".
There are records of the crossbow of "Zhen". It was mostly used in battles to capture cities. It was called "Wanjun" and given the name of "god". It is an exaggeration, but it also shows that the power of this kind of crossbow is very great.
of.
Yang Peng glanced at everyone, and then whispered: "I took Liu Zhiliang, Zhan Jinguo, and Duan Zhixian to the right to deal with the Khitans. The other people were commanded by Yin Mingde and covered behind us.
Fight the fleeing enemies! Remember: save yourself and destroy the enemies. Once you understand, act quickly!"
By the way, Bai Shujie, Liu Zhiliang, Zhan Jinguo and Duan Zhixian walked quickly through the weeds, walked in a big circle, and finally arrived 40 meters behind the Khitan. At this time, the Khitan opened the skirmisher line.
, were shooting with the people on the mountain. Yang Peng took aim and ordered: "The Khitan dogs are about sixty meters in front of us. If we can show our performance in target training, we should be able to kill a group of enemies. Now there are four of us.
Spread out, ten meters apart, and start from the back of the Khitan people!"
Fortunately, the sound of arrows in front was like setting off firecrackers, and no one noticed that four people suddenly appeared behind the attacking team, and no one could hear the words of the people sixty meters away.
"Whoosh!" Yang Peng fired the first arrow, which was the order to fight! The Khitan on the far left was originally lying on the ground, and after shaking for a while, he became quiet, without alerting the other Khitans. The other three shot with perfect accuracy.
, the Khitan suddenly lost four men. Although the firepower of the four men was missing, the Khitan people in front did not notice anything wrong. They may have thought that the people behind were changing arrow boxes, but they did not look behind them anyway.
Yang Peng and the others seized the opportunity and fired another round. Eight Khitans were already lying down, but no one noticed anything was wrong. At this time, the sound of the crossbow stopped, and then a Khitan shouted
He yelled: "There are people behind!" The Khitans who were attacking in front didn't hear what they were shouting. In addition, the sound of arrows on the mountain was getting more and more urgent. Everyone was quickly pulling their bows and arrows to prepare for shooting, so no one got up and turned back.
look.
By the time Yang Peng and the four men passed the third round, the number of Khitan attackers had been reduced by half. The density of the attack suddenly dropped too much, and they could no longer suppress the arrows on the mountain. Only then did the Khitan captain look back.
, all his subordinates were lying on the ground very quietly, motionless! This situation is really abnormal! The Khitan captain, who had been in battle for a long time, immediately knew that something was wrong and quickly ordered: "Retreat! Retreat!"
Who knew that as soon as he stood up, Yang Peng and Liu Zhiliang were staring at him! The firing sounds of the two hand crossbows rang out at the same time, and the Khitan captain's head was immediately blown off! "This is nonsense! Another waste of one.
Arrow!" Yang Peng stared at Liu Zhiliang fiercely: "Work harder, don't let them escape!"
As soon as the Khitan captain died, the remaining Khitan people just waved their hands and fell to the ground before they could shout out! The remaining eight Khitan people either had to save their lives, or they forgot about the shame of the Liao Kingdom.
They went to Beijing, but now they just drag their bows and arrows and run away! When the Khitan escapes, Yang Peng and others are in trouble! There is thatch all around, and there is no way to aim!
"Everyone, please don't get too close to the Khitans, just follow them from a distance!" Yang Peng lay on the ground and ordered loudly: "Beware of the Khitans suddenly turning around and firing cold arrows!" As soon as the order was given, there was a sound of powerful crossbows in front of the Khitans.
On the spot, a Khitan man was beaten and flew into the air, showering with blood! The remaining Khitan people didn't care about this at all and still kept their heads down and ran westward desperately.
Let's talk about the ten people led by Yin Mingde. When they saw that nothing happened to them, they simply went to the place where the Khitans came from and waited. If the Khitans still had reinforcements, they would give them a head-on attack! As a result, after waiting for a long time, there was no trace of them.
There was no movement. Just when he felt impatient, a team member beside him shouted: "The Khitan is behind us!"
Yin Mingde turned around and saw, wasn't it? Several Khitans were running around 50 meters away! He quickly shouted: "Everyone, pay attention, aim and shoot for me!" By the time everyone had taken aim, the Khitans had arrived.
About 30 meters!
"Hit!" Yin Mingde took the lead and shot an arrow, knocking down one of them. Then there was a burst of arrows. Nine arrows killed six people, and all the remaining Khitans were wiped out! Yin Mingde hit the target crookedly, and he really made a contribution. Naturally,
He was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear. Speaking of which, Yang Peng saw that the Khitan people were unexpectedly ambushed by Yin Mingde. He was so happy that he shouted at Yin Mingde and extended his thumb. However, before he could finish being happy, someone rushed up the mountain.
A man came down. He came closer and saw, oh, old acquaintance!
The person who came was none other than Fei Yanzi! His face was covered with gunpowder smoke, and he had a big painted face in black and white. Fei Yanzi ran down the mountain and found that the one who came to his rescue was Yang Peng. He was very surprised: "Hey, pretty boy."
Son, why is it you again?" "Haha, as the saying goes, we are destined to meet you thousands of miles away!" Yang Peng said jokingly: "My brothers and I had nothing to do, so we just came out for a walk. When we heard the sound of arrows being fired here, we stopped by.
Come and see the excitement. Feiyan heroine, what are you doing?"
"It's not like that bunch of bastards. They have more than twenty coolies wandering around here. Unexpectedly, they actually set a trap for his aunt!" Feiyan Heroine stomped her feet fiercely: "These damn beasts, my aunt.
I can't spare them!" While the two were talking, Zhang Xiang and Cheng Shijie brought everyone over. They shouted from a distance: "Brother, none of those bastards have escaped, they have all been laid down! Oops,
Isn’t this the Feiyan heroine? So it turns out you are here fighting the Khitan dogs?”
"Fei Yanzi, are your sisters okay?" Yang Peng did not speak to Zhang Xiang, but said to Fei Yanzi: "You should hurry up and take care of the sisters. Let them clean up the battlefield.
It's just a matter of course for me to extend my hand. Hahaha, don't worry, I will never take it for myself!"
"Why are you still standing there? How do you usually teach me? The first thing after the battle is to clean the battlefield! The main thing is to see the casualties of your brothers and help them quickly!" Yang Peng shouted angrily: "The second thing is
Check to see if all the enemies have been killed. Will they give you an arrow?" "You pigheads are always so unimproved! Attention everyone, I will give you half an hour to clean up the battlefield. All the new team members will be in the old position.
The team members led me to clean the battlefield carefully so that not even an arrow could fall! Then I took off the enemy's clothes and shoes and packed them away!"
After being slapped with a lesson by Yang Peng, Zhang Xiang and Cheng Shijie realized that they had forgotten their duties as squad leader in their excitement! They had no choice but to turn around and leave in despair, leading their squad to carefully clean the battlefield. Of course, those new team members
Naturally, he went through another test. From the human world to hell, and then from hell to the human world again, a dozen guys were so tormented that they almost couldn't stand up.
From the beginning of this battle, Yang Peng's brothers developed a habit of taking off all the enemy's clothes and shoes when cleaning the battlefield, leaving a white corpse for the enemy. From this time on,
The Khitan hated Yang Peng with all his heart! This Song Dynasty man was not a warrior! He had no warrior spirit at all! After the battle, he still insulted the remains of the Liao warriors. He was simply the devil of the Song Dynasty, with a huge conscience.
If it's broken, die!
Yang Peng originally wanted to ambush the foreman team, but unexpectedly, he arrived in time and counter-ambushed the Khitans! What surprised him even more was that the person he rescued turned out to be an old acquaintance, "Fei Yanzi"
"! Zhang Xiang and Cheng Shijie led their squad members to clean the battlefield and strictly implemented Yang Peng's orders. They searched every inch of the entire battlefield three times to confirm that there was nothing missing in the thatch. Cheng Shijie then stepped forward.
to report.
"The battlefield has been cleaned! Three of our team members were slightly injured, and 25 Khitan people and 16 foremen were killed. 28 longbows, 1 strong crossbow, and 10 hand crossbows were seized. 2,473 longbow arrows and 600 hand arrows were seized.
The arrows of the strong crossbow seem to be the same, and there are two and a half boxes. There are 29 yuan of scattered silver, probably about 100 taels."
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.