Yuanyanglu is not far from the Yanshan Mountains, and is surrounded by rich and fertile desert grasslands, which is considered to be the junction of nomadic areas and farming areas. Therefore, it has always been a gathering place for the Khitan to use troops to the south or exert pressure.

At the beginning of the year, Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi of the Great Liao Kingdom directly came from Dongnabo camp, and sent envoys to the Xi Palace, the Bohai Army and the Marshal of the Tokyo Bohai Army and the Marshal of the Yanjing Army and the Marshal of the Army and the Marshal of the World. At the same time, the Marshal of the World, Yelu and the Marshal of the Luwucheng, were deployed by Yelu Otla, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Court, and the Deputy Chief of the Northern Court, Xiao Fengxian of the General Office of the Northern Court. He set up a command team for the Southern Battle.

Now Yelu and Luwu, Xiao Fengxian, Yelu Otla, and Yelu Yan, the Privy Councilor of the Southern Privy Council, Ma Renwang, the deputy governor of the Southern Privy Council, Xiao Baoxian, the remaining guard in Nanjing, and Xiao Heda, who came to Yuanyangli as an envoy of the Western Xia, were all urgently recruited to discuss matters in Yelu Yanxi's imperial tent.

As soon as several important officials of the Liao Kingdom and Xiao Heda walked into the imperial tent, they saw two Khitan officials wearing leather robes kneeling in front of Yelu Yanxi.

Everyone recognizes one of these two people as Xiao Delis, the governor of Heqing Army. Another one looks very angry and is injured, with one arm wrapped in a bandage and hanging around his neck.

What's going on?

Several important officials of the Liao Kingdom were stunned, but a trace of shock slipped across Xiao Heda's face. He had met Xiao Delis and Xiao Gan in Quyechuan before coming to Yuanyanglu, and knew that they were preparing to lead troops to Mingtangchuan to confront the Song army.

Now, Yuanyangluo is coming in such a mess? Could it be that he was defeated by Gao Qiu without any attempt to attack the border, right? It would be awful if he really did this. Now is the critical moment of the confrontation between Song and Liao, whoever surrenders first will suffer!

If Xiao Delis and Xiao Gan were defeated in Mingtangchuan, then the Liao Dynasty would be in a disadvantageous situation that it would be a surrender if it did not start a war...

After the few people finished their salute, Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth and spoke, "You are the more than 10,000 people from the Heqing Army and the Nanpishi Army, including a thousand armored cavalry, were raided by the Song army east of Mingtangchuan. More than half of the armored cavalry of the Nanpishi Army were damaged! The Heqing Army fled in panic and lost countless cattle, sheep and horses!"

What!?

Now Yelu and Luwu, Xiao Fengxian, Yeluwutla, Xiao Baoxian, Yeluyan and Ma Renwang were all dumbfounded.

"How is this possible?" Yelu Otla, the Privy Councilor of the South Court, who once defeated Mogus and captured him alive, said in a speechless voice, "Can a thousand armored cavalry of the Nanpishi Army be attacked without any preparation?"

It is difficult for people who have never fought medieval wars to understand the decisive power of armored riders. To use the names of later generations, armored riders can be said to be the core competitiveness of the country in this era! It is the real decisive force on the battlefield!

The legend of using light cavalry to fight armored cavalry and horse-returning arrows does not exist in the Eastern world.

Because the armored cavalry in the east also has the ability of nomadic light cavalry, and the Song, Liao and Xia countries all have a considerable number of light cavalry that can support armored cavalry. Even the Song Dynasty, which is known as lacking horses, would not be much trouble to summon tens of thousands of light cavalry at the frontier of the northwest.

Therefore, armored cavalry is the real lack of military equipment in the Song Dynasty in the past few decades and hundreds of years.

The real core force of the Khitan semi-nomadic empire was not the number of nomadic cavalry that was so large that he could not even understand it, but about 30,000 armored cavalry. Among them, the imperial tent private army had 3,000 units, the palace guards had a total of 18,000 units, the north and south royal palaces and the Xi palaces had 3,000 units, the Zhenzhou Jian'an army had 3,000 units, and the Han guards had 3,000 units in the Nanjing Road and Xijing Road.

In addition, many nobles and tribes of the Liao Kingdom also had armored cavalry in their hands, but they were not loyal to the military and could not count them.

However, the number of 30,000 units is still enough. In terms of quantity alone, the armored cavalry of the Liao army can definitely crush the Western Xia and the Song dynasties.

However, the armored cavalry of the Liao Kingdom was not of great quality, had heavy nomadic habits and lax discipline. Moreover, the Liao army lacked excellent infantry and had weak offensive capabilities, and could not form a strong infantry battle formation on the battlefield. They had no choice but to do anything about the infantry formation of the Song army. The armored cavalry did not dare to attack the infantry formation of the Song army, and the light cavalry could not fight against the crossbows of the Song army. The proportion of crossbows in the Song army's infantry was too high, more than 70%. The reason why the fighting force was too small was that their main opponents lacked the ability to form infantry battles and did not have the determination to assault the infantry formation with armored cavalry.

According to the records of the Song Dynasty "Bingwei Zhi", the Liao army had the disadvantages of being "light but not tidy" and "convenient for bows and arrows, and clumsy than swords and halberds". In other words, in the view of the Northern Song army (mainly the Song army before the Chanyuan Alliance), the Liao army was also an army that could not fight tough battles.

However, no matter how hard the Khitan army and horses could not fight, nor could they be repaired by the Song army's armored cavalry!

This is a fatal trouble!

Because if the Song army, which is mainly infantry, does not have powerful armored cavalry and a certain number of light cavalry cooperation, it will not be possible to cause fatal damage to the Liao army on the horse.

Even if they win, they can only watch the Liao army gather and reunite. Moreover, because the Song army does not have the ability to sweep away the Liao cavalry, they lack protection and search capabilities in plain combat, so they can only be passive and it is difficult to take the initiative to launch an attack.

But now the situation seems to have fundamentally changed. The Song army already has an armored cavalry that can destroy the Iron Harrier. This is the news that Xiao Heda brought from Xixia. Yelu Yanxi and others did not believe it very much, but now the armored cavalry of the Nanpishi Army has also been defeated by the Song army's armored cavalry!

"And, not completely unprepared..." Xiao Gan, who was kneeling, replied in a very low voice, "When the Song army brigade was dispatched, it was discovered by our army's far-distance junction. Therefore, the subordinate led the armored cavalry in the southern skin chamber of 1,000."

Yelu Otla took a breath and looked at Xiao Gan, "Why did the Song army's armored cavalry defeat? How many of them are there?"

"Yes, there are 20,000..."

"Talk the armored cavalry!" Yelu Otla interrupted, "What's the use of infantry? It's not a formation to fight. You disperse so quickly, I'm afraid you didn't fight with the infantry of the Song army at all, right?"

There must be no fight! Xiao Heda, who was listening, said in his heart: If he fights with the infantrymen of the Song army, it will not be a matter of death!

"No, there is no fight." Xiao Gan dared not deceive, and there was no way to deceive him. Seeing the Song army put out the insurgent formation and go to fight, isn't that crazy? The Liao Dynasty doesn't need a crazy general.

"How many armed cavalry are there in the Song army?" Yelu Orat asked.

"Yes, there" Xiao Gan hesitated.

"At most 2,000," Xiao Heda replied for Xiao Gan, "half of them belong to the imperial horses in front of the palace, and are the elite among the elites. In the Battle of Tongwan, one thousand cavalry had defeated three thousand iron kites and killed nearly three hundred."

During the Battle of Tongwan, Gao Qiu commanded the battle of the Iron Harrier to defeat the Iron Harrier. Xiao Heda had long reported to Yelu Yanxi and others. At that time, everyone thought that Iron Harrier was too pampered and had a long time to lose weight.

Who knew that the one who got beaten up in the blink of an eye was the equipment of the Nanpi Shi Army, and the casualties were even greater, with nearly 500 cavalry missing!

"Is it the Song army's imperial horse straight?" Yelu Yanxi asked.

"Yes, yes," Xiao Gan nodded quickly and said sadly, "It is the straight armored cavalry commanded by Gao Qiu... They are all wearing green Tang armor, probably seized from Iron Harrier. The war horses under their crotch are also green Tanglong stallions, extremely majestic and dressed in costumes. Moreover, their formation is extremely strict, with dozens of cavalry in a team, arranged like a city wall, and are not messy when running quickly. They will also launch wheel impacts, one after another, specializing in the weaknesses of our army.

Our sons can't resist it even if they fight hard!"

It’s always good to beat yourself if you win a battle and beat the enemy if you lose a battle!

Yelu Yanxi turned his head to look at Xiao Heda, and Xiao Heda replied: "What Xiao Gan said is not false! Although this horse is not large in number, it is an extremely elite. It is really a problem for me, the Liao Dynasty!"

The old minister Yelu Otla frowned, "How could Song State have such a strong cavalry?"

"It's Gao Qiu!" Xiao Baoxian, who was responsible for collecting information from the Song Dynasty (he had already gone to Tokyo, but because of the tension in the Liao and Song dynasties, returned to the Jinfu to take charge) immediately replied, "Yu Ma Nao is a cavalry founded by Gao Qiu! The infantry and Dragon Martyrs named Yu Ma Nao were also created by Gao Qiu."

Yelu Yanxi took a heavy photo of the next case and said in a deep voice: "This Gao Qiu is really my confidant enemy of the Liao Dynasty!

All the good ministers, now the Song people relied on the famous general Gao Qiu and had the cavalry of the imperial horses and cavalry to provoke the war. Insulting the Great Liao Dynasty is really tolerant, who is unbearable!"

It is tolerant, but what will happen after it is unbearable? Yelu Yanxi frowned, looked gloomy, and looked at the several confidant ministers below with a burning look.

Now Daliao has made people slap in the face, it hurts so much!

The venue must be retrieved, the question is where to find it?

Several ministers looked at each other, and were a little at a loss.

Because after the "Mingtangchuan Battle", the Song army did not take any further action. The borders of Hedong and Hebei were safe and sound. Even the Song army in Hetao did not cross the border to attack the panicked Heqing army.

This seems to mean that the State of Song does not want to break up with the Great Liao... So should the Great Liao escalate the war?

If you want to upgrade, can you win? It seems that you are not sure!

Now in the direction of Hebei, the Jiehe Waterway is completely controlled by Jiehe Commercial City! Moreover, Jiehe Commercial City has become a strong city without realizing it... It is very difficult to capture it.

If we don’t attack Jiehe, we can only march from Hebei West Road. However, the Song army may send troops from Jiehe to counterattack Xijin Prefecture!

At the same time, in the northwest Hetao, the Song army had already gained great advantages after the Mingtangchuan War. If the troops were not sent to occupy the northern part of the Yellow River in the Hetao grassland as soon as possible, the Song army would have the possibility of establishing contact with the Zubu tribe and transporting a large number of weapons to the Kelie tribe and other Zubu tribes that resisted the Great Liao Dynasty.
Chapter completed!