Chapter 82: The Khitan Consort Consort Iron Cavalry Arrives
Yelu Deguang, the leader of the Khitan Kingdom, was as fat as a pig and was naturally lethargic, so many people in the Central Plains who had been harmed by the Khitan army privately called him a "sleeping pig" in anger. However, this nickname has never been used by anyone.
He shouted it out in front of the Khitan people. Yelu Deguang himself didn't know.
Now that the Caoliang team suddenly shouted such insulting words to the Khitan leader, not only did no one in the Zhangde army expect it, but even the two thousand cavalrymen from the Khitan did not expect it.
Because the Central Plains court has been oppressed by the Khitan Kingdom over the years. Not only does it offer sacrifices every year, but also during festivals, the Jin Emperor has to kneel down and pay homage to the tablet of the Khitan leader in the palace.
The Zhangde army on the shore and the civilians on the pier in the distance laughed one after another. They felt that these people in the grain supply team really looked like faces to the Han people in the Central Plains, but the two thousand Khitan cavalry were all staring at them as if they were staring at the enemy who killed their father.
Everyone in the grain transport team kept shouting and cursing!
Zhangde's army set up a formation five hundred steps away from the waterfront dock in Sanhekou Town. In order to prevent the Khitan cavalry from attacking, Zhangde's army had dug a dozen deep tunnels in front of the formation.
This is also the reason why the Khitan light-armored cavalry guards did not rush over directly after arriving outside Sanhekou Town and occupy the waterfront dock of Sanhekou Town.
There are more than a dozen deep tunnels, each more than a foot wide, and each tunnel is eight feet apart. The tunnels are filled with caltrops and spiked stakes, making it impossible for the cavalry to break through.
The Khitan's light-armored cavalry guards were led by a thousand-man captain, who was the son-in-law of the Khitan leader Yelu Deguang, that is, the Khitan's consort Xiao Xian.
Although Xiao Xian is Yelv Deguang's son-in-law, he is already nearly forty this year. Xiao Xian is a typical northern man, nine feet tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted. The hair on his head is pulled into three big braids and he wears a tiger skin hat.
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Xiao Xian was a famous strongman in the Khitan Kingdom. He held a giant axe, one foot and two feet long, weighing one hundred and twenty kilograms. When his general came, he was an enemy of ten thousand people.
The other Khitan cavalry all rode Wumeng horses sold in the Northwest Ten Thousand Horses City. They had black and red hair and were tall and majestic. But Xiao Xian's mount was a black monster with two horns on its head and a height of two feet.
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Wearing a golden goose feather armor and a huge monster cow with black fur, the first impression given to people is like a demon king coming from hell to harvest lives, making people unable to think of any resistance.
Wang Shenxiang sat upright on his horse and was shocked when he saw Xiao Xian's appearance. If he hadn't seen the beast soldiers trained by his elder brother, he would have been embarrassed the first time he saw Xiao Xian.
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The two sides were 800 steps apart, with twelve deep tunnels in between, nearly a hundred steps apart. The Khitan cavalry formed a square formation about a hundred steps away from the deep tunnel, and blocked the way from Sanhekou Town to Yedu.
Go to Guandao and Pingyuan.
It seems that Xiao Xian, seeing that he could not successfully burn the grain and grass shipped this time, planned to block this official road and block the grain and grass here.
If the defenders of Sanhekou Town want to transport this batch of grain and grass to Yedu, they must go out of the city to fight with them and repel them, otherwise they will not be able to break through this line of defense.
They were not worried at all that the grain ships that had just arrived at Sanhekou Town would go eastward along the Zhang River and arrive at Yedu. Because three miles downstream from Yedu were the Khitan cavalry and more than 40,000 rebel troops who had surrendered.
Allied Forces Camp.
Du Chongwei had long heard that the imperial court had allocated grain and grass, so he came along the canal and down the Zhang River, so he formed a water fort on the Zhang River early and firmly controlled the Zhang River waterway.
If Wang Shenxiang chose to continue transporting this batch of grain and grass by ship, Xiao Xian would only clap his hands and laugh, and would never stop him. Of course, it was impossible for Wang Shenxiang to choose the waterway without receiving Wang Shenqi's secret message.
He must be thinking about how to repel this group of Khitan cavalry and transport this batch of grain and grass to Yedu through official roads.
Although Sanhekou Town is only more than thirty miles away from Yedu, the Khitan cavalry and the Yiwu Army allied forces guarded the main road along the way.
Neither Khitan nor Du Chongwei could assign a large number of people to intercept this batch of grain and grass, and they could not leave any gap for Yedu and Fu Yanqing's tribe to exploit.
Not to mention the combat effectiveness of the armored soldiers guarding Yedu City, Fu Yanqing's blue-armored infantry and green-armored cavalry alone were capable of taking advantage of the empty Khitan defense to attack the Khitan camp.
Xiao Xian had already divided his two thousand-man teams into two groups and took turns paying attention to the movements in Sanhekou Town.
"There is no need to fight with these cowardly southern pigs. The entire army is divided into two teams. One team is on alert and ready to fight at any time. The other team checks out and rests. We must get rid of all of them." Xiao Xian ordered.
He said, "Scout the guards, pay close attention to the movements in Sanhekou Town. If any southerners come out of the city, kill them immediately!"
Teams of high-spirited cavalry followed the order. The logistics support team that accompanied them arranged in an orderly manner to set up tents and cut down trees to form camps.
The thousand-man team on guard lined up quietly in front of the two armies, watching the movements on the opposite side coldly. The rest of the cavalry took off their armor, handed their horses to the grooms to take care of, and then began to go into the tent to rest.
Xiao Xian was worthy of being one of the few famous generals in the Khitan Kingdom. As soon as he took over the battle, he found that he could not complete the important task of burning the grain and grass, so he established his position and cut off the main roads from Sanhekou Town to Yedu to prevent them from delivering the message.
On the one hand, messenger troops have been sent back to the camp outside Yedu to request orders.
He is not an arrogant person. Now that he has no siege equipment and a tunnel has been dug outside the city, he cannot rush through it. So he can only hold back the Sanhekou garrison as much as possible so that they cannot successfully transport food and grass out as soon as possible.
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Wang Shenxiang, commander of the Zhangde Army on the opposite side, had already ordered people to dig tunnels before the Khitan cavalry arrived, and built a simple but strong camp along the waterfront dock of Sanhekou Town.
Three thousand Zhangde troops were stationed in the camp, which was more numerous than the Khitan light-armored cavalry.
On the edge of the tunnel, two hundred crossbowmen were deployed. These crossbowmen were elites drawn from Xiangzhou. The crossbows in their hands were also well-made iron-arm crossbows, with a range of up to 150 steps.
.If the Khitan light-armored cavalry guards dare to fill the tunnel with soil, or use wood to build a tunnel, hoping to use it to break through, then these two hundred crossbowmen will shoot them into hedgehogs before they come over.
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The sky is getting dark, but the waterfront dock in Sanhekou Town is busy.
After arranging the defense camp, the capital commander Wang Shenxiang led a group of officials from Sanhekou Town to stand at the dock and caught the grain transport team led by Kang Long.
Thousands of people, under the command of Bo, the mayor of Sanhekou Town, carried the grain and grass from the grain boats to the city in an orderly manner.
"Xiaguan Kanglong pays homage to General Wang." Kanglong took Hua Qian, Li Jixun and others to pay homage to Wang Shenxiang.
Wang Shenxiang laughed and said: "Captain Kang, I have been waiting for you for a long time. Your three hundred thousand shi of military rations are really timely. Now the tens of thousands of soldiers in Yedu can be saved, and even Yedu can be saved!"
Wang Shenxiang happily grabbed Kang Long's arm and led him towards the city. As he walked, he said: "I have arranged a resting place for everyone in the city. It is not necessary to be ordinary during the war. Everything is a bit simple. I hope you will
Brother, forgive me."
Hua Tian and Li Jixun both said they didn't dare, but after all there was still a bit of pride on their faces. Along the way, Kang Long had told everyone that when they arrived at Sanhekou Town, they must be modest and prudent, and must not look down on those on the front line.
Those suppressing troops.
The Guards and Military Division is under the direct control of the Jin Dynasty royal family. Their status is higher than that of the Forbidden Army, and their treatment is naturally better than that of the Forbidden Army. You can know this just by looking at their clothes.
These Zhangde troops in Sanhekou Town are under the control of the Zhangde Jiedu Envoy. Their clothes and armor are all uniformly distributed by the Zhangde Military Office in Xiangzhou. Ordinary soldiers all wear blue cloth robes, black iron armor, and green cloth wrappers.
Head. Those who can wear relatively finely made iron plate armor and wear iron helmets are all command-level generals. These generals have already obtained official status, so they can receive armor.
Those who have heads are not treated like this, but in order to distinguish them from ordinary soldiers, they wear uniform Fan Yangli soft leather hats on their heads, and there are also a few pieces of iron armor on their arms and legs.
It turned out that Kanglong saw the armor worn by the soldiers of the Changqian Battalion and lamented that as guards, their equipment was so poor. After comparing with the soldiers of the Zhangde Army, he found that they were indeed well-equipped.
Not only do all the armored soldiers of the Guards' Spear Battalion wear bright yellow cotton robes, but the plate armor on their bodies is also much more finely made. The whole body is protected by dozens of steel plates, and the steel plates are connected by animal skin silk ropes.
, the shining armor made both soldiers and officers of the German army drool.
Even Wang Shenxiang's face had a strange look. Kang Long felt that Wang Shenxiang was clearly lamenting that such good equipment was actually worn on the bodyguards and soldiers who looked useless.
No wonder the pro-army looked down on the imperial army, the imperial army looked down on the town army, and the town army looked down on the township army. The difference between them can be seen from their equipment.