At this time, Zhang Xiang, Yang Bamei and Zheng Duanzhixian stood behind Yang Peng. Yang Peng asked Yang Bamei to bring the Khitan prisoners. After a while, seven Tatar prisoners and fifty-six Tatar heads were carried to the Chinese Army headquarters.
In the tent, the fifty-six Khitan heads were prepared with lime salt, beaten together and piled high, with a thin braid trailing behind each head. Five of the seven Tatars alive were burned.
The bullets hit their hands and feet, and both of them were injured by falling from the horse. At this time, their bodies were all injured, and they knelt in the Chinese army's tent and shouted from time to time.
Zhang Xiang looked at the Khitan soldiers with pigtails and nodded approvingly. As soon as the other generals saw these capable Tatar soldiers on the ground, they immediately believed Yang Peng's words and looked at Yang Peng immediately.
Everything was different. This Yang Peng really captured and killed more than sixty Tatars, and his soldiers and horses were really brave. With such strong soldiers accompanying him, the chances of winning this victory were a little better.
This time the officials of the Song Dynasty sent Kou Zhun to take Huaihua general Shi Pingzhang (grandson of Shi Shouxin) to Tianjing New City to watch Yang Peng's army. Kou Zhun asked: "Khitan soldiers, Dr. Ziguanglu? I ask you, what are you doing this time?
When entering the capital, besides the coaches Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou, what other generals are there?"
An aide behind Kou Zhun stood up and translated Kou Zhun's words into Khitan. The Khitan soldiers on the ground snorted a few times, but were unwilling to answer. The soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment who were behind the Khitan soldiers raised their whips and cracked them.
On the body of a Khitan soldier. Immediately there was a thick blood mark on the back of the Khitan soldier. He was afraid that Yang Peng's soldiers would beat him again, so he knelt on the ground and babbled.
Kou Zhun's staff listened and the translator said: "This time the Khitan Xiao Tianzuo is the ordered general, Xiao Tianyou, and Zhang Hua are the deputy generals; Hu Yuan is the training envoy of the Youzhou regiment, and Han Derang is the deputy general." When the generals heard this, they suddenly realized. Until now.
Only then did they know who other Khitan leaders were on the other side besides Xiao Tianyou.
Xiao Tianzuo, the eldest brother of Empress Dowager Xiao, the Empress Dowager Chengtian of the Northern Liao Kingdom, and the eldest brother of Xiao Tianyou. Together with Xiao Tianyou, he is the right-hand man of Empress Dowager Xiao. Xiao Tianzuo has been enemies of the Yang family for three generations, and is an old rival of the Yang family generals. He has a rough appearance.
, very ferocious, with his horse on his crotch and a metal folding iron knife in his hand, he has bravery that cannot be matched by ten thousand men. Legend has it that he is the reincarnation of a divine dragon from the sky and is invulnerable. In fact, Xiao Tianzuo has strong kung fu and is protected by precious armor, so ordinary weapons cannot
Hurt him.
In the Battle of Youzhou, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty was surrounded in Youzhou. Yang Qilang (Yang Yansi) killed four gates with his own strength, and fought Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou with one manpower, killing them until they could no longer resist, and Youzhou withdrew the siege. Then the Battle of Jinshatan Beach
Xiao Tianzuo participated in both the Battle of Lianglangshan and the Battle of Lianglangshan. Especially in the Battle of Lianglangshan, it was Xiao Tianzuo and brother Xiao Tianyou who set up the fifth encirclement to kill Yang Qilang. Xiao Tianyou was defeated by Yang Qilang, and Xiao Tianzuo was about to
After capturing the exhausted Yang Qilang, Du Jin'e rushed out, defeated Xiao Tianzuo, and rescued Yang Qilang. Later, in the battle with the Yang family generals, Xiao Tianzuo lost more than he won, but he persisted in fighting the Yang family, and Xiao Tianzuo became the Queen Mother Xiao's group
The backbone of the army entangled the Yang family generals in important battles such as the Battle of Loess City and the Siege of Suizhou.
Handerang, whose Han name was Yelu Longyun and Khitan name Xingning Yaoge. Minister and politician of the Liao Dynasty, his ancestral home was Yutian, Hebei Province. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Han Derang's grandfather Han Zhigu was captured by the Khitans and sent to the Liao Kingdom as a slave, but when Handerang's father
During the reign of Han Kuangsi, he became a rare general in the Liao Kingdom due to his ability to conquer battles. Han Derang was influenced by his father's battles in the Liao Kingdom since he was a child. He was brave and resourceful and made military exploits for the Liao Kingdom. Empress Dowager Xiao even appreciated it.
He later became the "Regent" of the Liao Kingdom and supported the development of the Liao Kingdom.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, his grandfather Han Zhigu was plundered to the Liao Dynasty and became a slave. He later became an official in Zhongshu Ling. His father Han Kuangsi stayed in Nanjing (Youzhou) as an official and was granted the title of King of Yan. Later, due to his failure in fighting the Song army, he was granted the title of Jinchangjie from afar.
Du envoy was demoted to the King of Qin. Influenced by his family and nurtured by his father's generation since childhood, Han Derang was extremely intelligent and understood the principles of governing the country. He first served Jingzong of Liao Dynasty as an official, and then became an official in Dongtou, supplemented the Privy Council, and was transferred to the imperial court
The city envoy was given the title of military governor of Zhangde Army from afar.
In July of the first year of Qianheng (979), Han Derang defended Nanjing on behalf of his father. In September, the Song army attacked Nanjing. Han Derang was not afraid of danger and went to the city to command the defenders to resist for 15 days and nights. When reinforcements arrived, he attacked from both inside and outside and defeated the Song soldiers at the Gaoliang River.
(about the area around the outer city of today's Beijing), known in history as the "Battle of Gaoliang River". Han Derang was awarded the title of Military Envoy of Liao Xingjun for his meritorious service. In the fourth year of Qianheng's reign, he was promoted to the Privy Envoy of Nanyuan and was named "Dechang", becoming
The most powerful among the Han officials.
In the autumn of that year, Jingzong of the Liao Dynasty was critically ill, and both Derang and Yelu Xiezhen were ordered to do so. He secretly discussed with Empress Xiao Chuo of Chengtian, adapted to the situation, deprived the military power of various princes who coveted the throne, and established the 12-year-old Liang Wang Longxu as the emperor.
As the Shengzong of the Liao Dynasty, she respected Xiao Chuo, the biological mother of the Shengzong, as the empress dowager and regent of the country. Han Derang supported the meritorious prime minister and served as a minister of health and participated in major political decisions.
In order to win over Han Derang and make him her right-hand man, Empress Dowager Xiao said to Han Derang in private: "I always promise to marry a son, and I hope to harmonize the old relationship, and then the young ruler will rule the country, and you will also be your son." From then on, Han Derang was in the position of supervising the country.
In the first year of Tonghe (983), Empress Dowager Xiao implemented Han law with the support of Han Derang, and granted Han Derang the title of Kaifu Yitong Third Division, as well as political orders. In the fourth year of Tonghe, the Song Dynasty attacked the Liao Dynasty, and Han Derang refused the Song Dynasty from the Empress Dowager Xiao, defeating the Song Dynasty.
After being granted the title Duke of Chu and returning his master, Han Derang, with the support of Empress Dowager Xiao, united the Khitan aristocrats and those of the Han nationality who had the ability to govern the country, implemented the selection of officials and appointed virtuous people, regardless of Han divisions, and assessed officials; established the imperial examination system; and cleaned up the rule since Shizong of the Liao Dynasty.
Reform measures such as detention in prison and reduction of taxes and servitude for victims of wars and natural disasters led to a prosperous situation in the mid-Liao Dynasty.
In September of the 22nd year of Tonghe, Han Derang went south to attack the Song Dynasty from the Empress Dowager Xiao, and participated in the establishment of the "Chanyuan Alliance". The Song and Liao parties entered a period of relative stability. Han Derang became the Prime Minister, and was in charge of the affairs of the Privy Council of the Northern and Southern Courts.
Gathering military and political power into one body. Empress Dowager Xiao took advantage of her regent position and first gave Han Derang the name Dechang, then gave him a royal surname, canceled his slave status, and became a Khitan noble. Later, Shengzong of the Liao Dynasty gave him the name Yelu Longyun and regarded him as "the most fatherly person".
"He gave some iron coupons and a few sticks, and did not worship when entering the court, nor went to the palace. He elicited words from Yang Peng's prisoners, and gained more recognition for Yang Peng's attitude. It seemed that he could not get it out of the mouths of these low-level soldiers.
It can produce confidential information, but it is enough to obtain the enemy's general layout and troop distribution. What's more, the battle situation is unpredictable, and the slightest mistake can lead to huge differences. Sometimes some seemingly useless information can often improve the general's decision-making and influence the battle situation.
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After Kou Zhun interrogated these Tatars, Kou Zhun still wanted to say, "How does the city lord plan to use these Khitan prisoners?" As soon as Yang Peng heard this, he knew what Kou Zhun meant. He raised his hand and said, "Master Kou, if you want to know more about it,
After interrogating these prisoners carefully, the general will send them to Master Kou's Biao army at night."
Kou Zhun was overjoyed and said: "Okay! This doctor wants to get more information from these prisoners!" Overjoyed, Kou Zhun raised his water cup towards Yang Peng and said: "The city lord is very different in running the army. This time
For your contribution to intelligence, I would like to toast the city lord with water instead of wine!" After a pause, Kou Zhun said: "When the Khitan army and the Khitan army fight in five days' time, I, the doctor, will recite my merits for the city lord together!"
Seeing Kou Zhun toasting Yang Peng's wine, the other generals were very envious. But who made his own troops unable to capture a few Khitan soldiers? The generals were also convinced that Yang Peng was treated with courtesy. Yang Peng picked up the rice wine on the case.
, drink it all in one gulp.
Then the banquet began, and all the military generals began to toast each other. Of course, the one who received the most respect was Yang Peng. At this time, the war was raging, and the battlefield rules of civilized and military were gradually disintegrated. The Song Dynasty had already tended to become a warlord, and the military
The most important thing in each town is strength. If you make friends with powerful military attaches, you can speak louder in the court. When you make a mistake and are impeached by the officials or punished by the governor or governor, if you have a friend to save you, you can save the day.
When the generals heard that Yang Peng's troops were strong and saw with their own eyes the Tatar prisoners Yang Peng captured, they all secretly thought that Yang Peng was unusual and wanted to make friends with him. Although when they first met, they were a little a little surprised that Yang Peng was so young.
They were resentful, but after seeing the prisoners captured by Yang Peng, everyone secretly thought that Yang Peng could do what they couldn't, so they accepted the fact that Yang Peng was a young hero.
For a while, Yang Peng was drinking wine in front of the case, and the generals and lieutenants came over one after another. Yang Peng drank more than a dozen glasses of rice wine in one breath. He drank too fast, and Yang Peng felt that his face turned red. After the generals and lieutenants finished drinking, a group of participants came.
The general came over again, and Yang Peng drank more than a dozen drinks. He really couldn't eat anymore. When the captains came to pay tribute again, Yang Peng asked Duan Zhixian and others behind him to drink for him.
After a round of toasts, the generals began to enjoy the meat and wine. Most of the generals were rough men, and Yang Peng only saw a scene of gobbling up food. Huaihua General Shi Pingzhang stuffed the meat into his mouth with chopsticks, tilting his head.
He bit the meat fiercely, as if he was fighting with the mutton. The generals were even more rude. He felt that chopsticks were not easy to use, so he just grabbed the meat with his hands and ate it, making his mouth full of grease.
Among everyone's eating photos, Shi Pingzhang was the best looking. He held the mutton with chopsticks and chewed slowly, eating very decently. Occasionally, he picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine, and his movements were very chic. Kou Zhun was a civil servant after all, so he was better than these
The martial artist was more polite. However, he had a huge appetite and actually ate three bowls of rice in one go, which made Yang Peng marvel. You must know that the rice bowl in the army is very big, and the three bowls of rice are worth the four bowls of rice in civilian households.
After eating the wine and meat, Yang Peng said goodbye to Kou Zhun and returned to his military camp. Yang Peng first asked the soldiers to deliver the prisoners to Kou Zhun, then he fell heavily on the jar and fell asleep immediately.
At dawn the next day, as soon as Yang Peng got up, he heard the scouts coming to report. "General, the Khitan's 100,000-strong army have all pulled up their camps and gone to the west!" Yang Peng was stunned and thought to himself, why did the Khitan leave?
It seems that after testing for a while, the Khitan did not have the confidence to conquer Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty. The Khitan lived in the bitter cold land of Liaodong and lacked population and materials. All they wanted was to burn, kill and loot outside the Song Dynasty's Cangzhou City.
Some business that is sure to make a profit without losing money. Yang Peng felt that he was still a little hungover, shook his head and asked: "Have all the troops been withdrawn?"
The scout platoon leader loudly said: "There are still a thousand soldiers, half of which are vests, stationed fifty miles east of Yingzhou City. They seem to be preparing to follow our Song army and collect information about our Song army!" What an arrogant Khitan!
Army, how dare you leave spies behind after the main force has left!" Yang Peng snorted and asked: "Half of those Tatars are horse-armored soldiers?"
The scout platoon leader said: "Probably, we can't see clearly. These Khitan soldiers are very arrogant with their horses. As soon as we got close to them, they rushed up to chase and kill them. My cavalry platoon tried to get close several times and failed to see clearly."
The Khitan interrogated those living Tatars and learned that the Khitan had reformed the military system at this time. The Khitan no longer used the Centurion as the basic combat unit, but divided the soldiers into three major battalions, and Empress Dowager Xiao appointed each battalion uniformly.
officers. These three camps are the Garbushxian Camp, the Nanzhao Envoy Camp and the Yeqianha Chaoha Camp.
The most elite is the Yeqian Shixian Camp, whose soldiers are composed of Khitan nobles. Each centurion selects two brave and powerful men to serve as the soldiers. The second is the Southern Recruitment Envoy, each centurion selects ten people, and they are all elite Xijun elites.
.Finally, there is the Alihachaoha camp. Forty people are selected for each hundred-man team, and they are all brave horse soldiers.
The other infantry and auxiliary troops fought behind the horse-armor soldiers of the Yeqianha Chaoha Battalion. Half of these thousand Khitan soldiers and horses were horse-armors, which seemed to be a combat unit under the Yeqianha Chaoha Battalion.
Yang Peng nodded and shouted to the messenger: "Let Huyan Chijin come out with a thousand riflemen and follow me out of the camp to eat these thousand vests!"
The messenger shouted the order and passed on Yang Peng's order. Not long after, Huyan Chijin ordered his troops and horses and got ready for the expedition. Yang Peng was wearing armor, riding on his maroon horse, holding a big flag.
, leading a thousand soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment to fight to the east.
After traveling for forty miles to the east, Yang Peng saw many Khitan sentries nearby. When these sentries spotted the Khitan soldiers and horses approaching, they all ran to the military camp more than ten miles away, seemingly returning to report the news. However,
Soon new sentries rode out from near the Khitan camp and circled around Yang Peng's horses. The Khitan soldiers still seemed very relaxed and did not believe that Yang Peng and the thousand Song troops dared to attack them.
Yang Peng led his troops all the way east until they were within five miles of the Khitan camp. The Khitan soldiers became alert. The Khitan soldiers blew their horns and formed a battle formation outside the camp. Yang Peng used a telescope to look at the Qing army.
In the camp, he found that everyone of the Khitan soldiers had horses. Half of them were riding tall war horses, probably horse-armored soldiers. Yang Peng asked Huyan Chijin's soldiers to load their guns and press towards this group of Khitan soldiers little by little.
The Khitan army lined up outside the camp and rushed towards Yang Peng on horseback. The horses' hooves were rolling, and the charge of the Khitan army's horse troops raised clouds of smoke, as if to show off their force, charging towards Yang Peng and Huyan Chijin's thousand soldiers.
The riflemen rushed over. Yang Peng asked the soldiers to line up in four deep phalanxes - the phalanx had no sides and would not be attacked by enemy cavalry from the flanks. The soldiers had trained countless times to organize phalanxes, and at this time they quickly
Adjustment, it only took a minute to change the formation into a square formation.
Yang Peng then asked Huyan Chijin and his soldiers to spread caltrops in front of the formation, turning the twenty meters in front of the formation into an inaccessible restricted area. As soon as Yang Peng's soldiers finished spreading the caltrops, the Khitan soldiers' cavalry troops had already rushed in.
One mile away, Huyan Chijin's soldiers began to load their guns and prepare for battle.
At a distance of four hundred meters, three hundred meters, and two hundred meters, Huyan Chijin had clearly seen the faces of the Tatar cavalry, and Huyan Chijin's musketeers opened fire. Seventy musketeers in the front row fired at the Tatars at the same time.
A crackling sound of gunfire was heard, and a cloud of smoke appeared in front of the formation. Seventy bullets were fired at the Khitan soldiers two hundred meters away, and they were shot hard into the bodies of the Khitan soldiers.
A Khitan soldier in horseback was shot. The bullet broke through the iron-plated cotton armor on the outermost part of his body, broke through the chainmail armor on the inside, and pierced his right abdomen. But the distance was too far.
, the bullet lost its kinetic energy after breaking through the two layers of armor, and only penetrated his body for one centimeter before stopping. He was not seriously injured. He gritted his teeth and insisted on riding on his horse and charging into the battle.
A Khitan infantry soldier who was shot was not so lucky. He only wore a layer of armor. The bullet pierced his iron-plated cotton armor, penetrated into his flesh and blood, and beat his lungs into pieces.
There was a bloody mess. The infantry immediately vomited blood after being shot, screamed and fell under the horse. A Khitan soldier's horse was hit by a bullet.
The soldier in the vest fell to the ground. The torrent of military horses behind him trampled over the soldier in the vest, trampling him to death immediately and turning him into a bloody corpse.
With just one shot, thirty Khitan infantry soldiers were killed on their horses. The bodies of the fallen Khitan soldiers blocked the charge of the cavalry behind them, causing a small chaos. The Khitan soldiers did not expect that they would be so far away.
They were hit by firearms at a distance, as if they had been punched hard, and their morale was stagnant. However, the Khitan soldiers did not lose heart. The "elites of the Xi Army" who led the thousand "Yeqiha Chaoha Camp" horse troops were hiding in
Behind the Khitan soldiers, they shouted loudly to boost the morale of the warriors.
The Khitan soldiers and horses gathered up their courage and continued to rush forward. From a distance of 160 meters, sixty riflemen in the second row opened fire on the Khitan soldiers. Another sixty rounds of bullets pierced the gap in front of the battlefield and fired into
In front of the Khitan soldiers' charge formation, people fell on their backs. More than twenty rifles that had been shot fell off their horses like rice cut by sickles.
Their corpses became obstacles on the way forward, tripping up the two horses behind them and injuring two cavalrymen on the horses. The morale of the Khitan cavalry was shaken. Where did the Song army come from? This fire
Why was the firepower of the volley so fierce? In just thirty steps, more than fifty warriors had already lost their lives. How many corpses would have to be thrown away if one wanted to rush to the Song army's formation and shoot arrows?
And the distance is so close, will the cavalry soldiers wearing two layers of heavy armor also be killed by the sharp fire guns of the Song army? The Khitan cavalry threw rat weapons and flinched. The elite Xi army of the Khitan secretly screamed, he
He grabbed the horn from the trumpeter beside him and blew it loudly.
Hearing the energetic trumpet sound of the Chinese army, the Khitan cavalry became more stable. They suddenly howled together and continued to rush towards the Song army a hundred steps away. From a distance of 120 meters, another
Sixty rounds of bullets were fired. At this distance, the accuracy of rifle shooting is already very high. Although it is not as high as the 99% during training, it still has a hit rate of 80% or 90%. And at a distance of 120 meters
, even a soldier with two layers of heavy armor cannot protect against cone-shaped Mini bullets. The flintlock bullets can fully shatter the internal organs under the skin of the person who is shot.
A Khitan soldier's vest was hit by a bullet in the left chest. Blood spattered suddenly and sprayed on the face of a cavalryman on his left. The vest just shouted and fell under the horse. A Khitan infantry soldier was hit.
He didn't feel that he had been shot until he felt his abdomen was so cold, and then he realized that his intestines had been exposed from the wound. When he saw such a big wound, he felt that he was going to die, and his head
He fell down with a thud. The horse behind him did not slow down and stepped on his chest. He died on the battlefield without saying a word.
Sixty rounds of bullets came through the air, and the front row of the Khitan cavalry was suddenly stagnated like a wave hitting the embankment. At least fifty Khitan cavalry were killed. The bodies of these dismounted cavalry became obstacles.
Things. The front row of the charging cavalry was in chaos again. The Khitan soldiers were stunned by the firepower of the trapped regiment. Is this a war? This is simply a massacre! In just a dozen seconds, the Khitan army has already dropped one on the battlefield.
There were more than a hundred corpses. The cavalrymen no longer rushed forward with their heads sullen. They looked at the central army in panic to see if their elite Xijun troops had paid their dues and retreated.
But the elite of the Xi Army responded to them with the sound of a horn to continue charging. The cavalrymen in the front row turned pale, but they did not dare to retreat without permission. They could only grit their teeth and continue to charge forward. Ninety meters away from the Ming army, another
Rows of guns were fired, and the Khitan's front row cavalry fell to the ground like soulless sandbags.
The Khitan soldiers rushed forward one after another, rushing forward regardless, and finally rushed to the Song army fifty steps away. The first row of more than sixty Khitan cavalry raised their bows and arrows and shot at the trapping group fifty steps away. A hail of arrows streaked across the
Crossing the sky, seven soldiers from the formation regiment were hit by arrows and fell to the ground screaming.
However, the response of the Khitan soldiers was the fifth salvo fired by the soldiers from the front of the Trapping Regiment. From a distance of sixty meters, seventy soldiers of the Tracing Regiment once again stood in the shooting position and opened fire. Seventy rounds of bullets were like seventy gods of death.
, suddenly shot into the ranks of Khitan soldiers sixty meters away. The Khitan cavalry in the front row fell to the ground one by one as if they were called by name.
Compared with the Khitan archers who ride on horseback, the hit rate of the musketeers is much higher. When the musketeers want to aim at a certain target, they only need to overcome the weight of a few kilograms of the musket, and the user only needs to aim and pull the trigger. And when
When you use a bow and arrow, you have to pull it back hard to maintain ten times the strength of a musketeer. What's more, when riding a horse into the battle, it's bumpy and you can't aim carefully at all, and you just shoot out at a rough shot. The one who shoots from the front row is riding a horse.
The result of the exchange of fire between the Khitan cavalry and Huyan Chijin's soldiers was a disastrous defeat.