The morning mist in winter slowly ripples above the Qi River channel, shrouding this critical land north of the Yellow River in a hazy area.

The noisy and chaotic sound came from the upper reaches of the Qi River, completely covering the sound of the river flowing.

Yue He rode a big dark horse with a little bit of Tianjin horse blood that he raised since childhood, and looked around with a grass stick in his mouth for a long time.

This Tangyin boy who happened to meet Wu Haogu when he was selling horses in Daming Mansion is now twenty-four years old, and has two sons and a daughter. He has become a big and small rich man because of his good horse raising. He was able to raise horses and get rich because of his ability to raise horses, but in fact he was benefiting from Wu Haogu's glory. Because of his generation of horse raising, Yuehe's family had several tall mares specially used to foals. It was not worth much, but after the rise of the industry of hippos (Tianjin horses), many knights placed in Cangzhou wanted to buy tall mares to breed Jiehe stallions. Although Yuehe's domestic mares later arrived in Cangzhou, the dragon-seeded mares, Xiji mares, Hequ mares, and Persian mares that arrived in Cangzhou were not comparable. However, in Hebei at that time, it was still a very good mare, so it was very popular.

The transaction with several knights not only made a big profit, but also gave the remaining mares of his family the opportunity to hold their hooves by the stallion (not the stallion in the Jiehe farm). The stallion produced by one of the mares later grew to four feet and eight inches without castration, and was very strong, and they were all enough to be a royal horse, and now they have become the money cow of the Yue family.

However, Yue He had no life to enjoy his life. As soon as his family had a cow, he was recruited by the Han family in Xiangzhou and became the chief of the first team of the Xiangzhou regiment training camp.

The cavalry of the Xiangzhou regiment training army is also quite distinctive. It is neither armored cavalry nor skilled in archery and horse-proficient routes, but a kind of light cavalry. It is also equipped with carbine rifles (not long-handled horse snares) and Tianjin crossbows, equipped with war armor helmets and cavalry that cover the heart. The combat method is similar to that of light cavalry, which mainly undertakes reconnaissance, pursuit, cover and other tasks. It is not used in formation combat. It can be seen that it depends on their positioning and equipment. There are also experts in the Xiangzhou regiment training army!

It turns out that several children of the Han family in Xiangzhou have studied at the Biyong Academy in Kaifeng Prefecture. They are not the Biyong Academy, which has now been transferred to an official training class, but the Biyong Academy, which was presided over by Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian earlier. Therefore, they have learned a lot of fighting skills. With their help, Han Xiaozhou and Zong Ze can organize tens of thousands of regiments to train.

Otherwise, a mob of tens of thousands of people would not even stand at the wall, and it would not have been possible to cause such great losses to the Khitans. In the late Song Dynasty, in history, when the disaster was about to come, the rebel army that organized to serve the king was organized. It was because it did not have the support of high-quality officers and no high-quality weapons to use, so it was difficult to become the mainstay.

Xiangzhou regiment training has a good starting point, not only the weapons and equipment provided by Ji Yi and Wu Haogu (Zhao Ji paid the bill), but also the officers who were taught by the Biyong Academy in his early years and later surrendered to idle for various reasons. In addition, because of the rise of the horse breeding industry in Cangzhou (now Tianjin Prefecture + Cangzhou) and the overflow of excellent horse breeds, even the cavalry were organized.

When the main force of the 40,000 army led by Han Xiaozhou and Gao Qiu set up camps on the west bank of the Qi River, the officers and soldiers of the Xiangzhou regiment training camp, which had just formed a short time ago, were all scattered to the east bank of the Qi River to form a warning curtain.

Yue He stretched his neck and looked around for a while. Because the fog was too strong, he couldn't see anything clearly. He just patiently continued to perform his duties with a straw stick in his mouth, but his subordinates were a little impatient and spoke in a low voice.

"You can see the fog clearly! It's still a biting cold wind, it's really a brutal injury!"

"We are a regiment training army, but we can't compare to the Lingzhou cavalry of Taiwei Gao. They are all knights. Do you know what knights are? They have 1,500 acres of land, and they can still get the money for vocational service when they serve in the military. There are twelve knots a month! Can such a master come out in a cold weather and be punished by this bird?"

"Don't we also have three copper coins per month? And we can also exempt two taxes and exemption from service, which is great! We are jealous of Lingzhou knights, and we can also go to Tianjin to recruit the effect. We can get it less than knights, but we must have real skills and be skilled in bows and horses! Who has this ability except Brother Yue?"

Yue He just sat on the horse's back and whispered to the people below, pretending that he hadn't heard it.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the front. The regiment training that was still talking about complaining in a low voice just now stopped and looked forward nervously. At this time, I heard Yue He’s fierce scolding: “What are you doing! The Liao people’s far-distance horses are about to step on! Zhang Bi, get an arrow!”

Yue He's cavalry were all rich children from Xiangzhou. Because they couldn't read, they learned the martial arts of protecting the bandits (the Song Dynasty was not as good as the Ming and Qing dynasties, and only when they passed the Jinshi were successful, scholars and juren were of no use, so there was still some market for martial arts practice, at least they could be a bully in the village). They were trained for a long time, and they were quite neat.

After receiving the order, I opened a crossbow on the horse's back and put it on the crossbow to train horses and soldiers for the Xiangzhou regiment. It is not a knight crossbow, but a standard Tianjin crossbow. It is a kind of crossbow that can be used to "hang" or "stepping". It is inconvenient to use on the horse's back, so I can only cooperate with both riders. One person pulls the iron ring in front of the crossbow machine, and the other person pulls the strings hard to raise the arrow.

So Yue and his cavalry are now in groups of two, cooperating with Zhang Bird to launch an arrow.

It is troublesome to launch a crossbow in Tianjin, but its lethality is still guaranteed! With the dozens of cavalry under Yue He, if he does not use Tianjin crossbows, he will compete with the Khitans' far-blocking horses to shoot, even ten can't beat one.

But if you use Tianjin crossbow to fight the enemy, it will not be difficult to shoot a Khitan cavalry on the back of a horse twenty or thirty steps. You can still get the tactic of the highest exchange ratio...

"Listen to me to blow the whistle and shoot again! The archer who has no orders to kill!"

Yue He gave another order. One of the two biggest lessons in the last Huanshui Battle was that the crossbow machine was too far away to fully develop its lethality (the other lesson was that it was not built fortresses based on the terrain). Therefore, Han Xiaozhou and Zong Ze later issued strict orders. In the battle of the whole team, the crossbow machine must have orders to shoot. No orders are the crime of beheading!

Dozens of murderous crossbows were aimed at the fog in front of them. Yue He's eyes widened, and a wooden whistle was already in his mouth. With a whistle, dozens of arrows would come out of the string.

The fog in front of him was disturbed, and dozens of cavalry rushed out, with a red flag in front of him. Yue He had nervous soldiers under him almost hooked the trigger and shot the arrow. Fortunately, he saw the red flag symbolizing the Song army and the Fan Yangli wearing the light cavalry. It turned out to be the knights under Gao Qiu's command. But among these knights, several people were wearing the costumes of the Liao people!

Yue He quickly spat off his whistle, then immediately rushed forward and shouted: "Correction!"

"Harmony is the most important!" the other party responded.

Yue He also answered: "Harmony brings wealth."

Password is matched!

Yue He breathed, "Everyone has put away the crossbow machine." After that, he sang a fat look at a Lingzhou knight opposite him, who was also wearing half-armored armor. "Dare you ask this brother, why do you have brothers in your team dressed as Khitans?"

The other party just replied angrily: "Is that what you should ask?" Then he took out a triangle flag with red edges and waved it, "Our Gao Xuanshun's personal soldiers were ordered to do business. When they encountered heavy fog, they were confused. Now they ordered you to send someone to lead the way and lead us to Xuanshun's camp."

It turned out that the one who was hit by Yue He was Gao Lian and his party who returned from the Liao camp. The traitoring activity, hosted by Gao Qiu and was responsible for Gao Lian, was very smooth.

In the Liyang camp of the Liao army, Gao Lian not only met Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Baoxian brothers, but also paid a visit to the Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Liao Dynasty. He also received Yelu Yanxi's personal promise that as long as the Song Dynasty was willing to increase the annual monies to one million a year, he would pay another five million in compensation. The Liao Dynasty was willing to withdraw its troops and re-establish the alliance with the Song Dynasty!

This was simply the condition that Gao Qiu had always dreamed of! Gao Lian agreed immediately, and he also brought the Liao envoy and Han Ruhui, the direct scholar of the Privy Council, to return to the Song camp together to discuss specific peace steps and treaties.

Because when Gao Lian and others set off, Gao Qiu had not yet set up a camp on the west bank of the Qi River, but had just mentioned a general position. So Gao Lian and others lost their direction in the fog, and just followed the sound from the construction camp to find it, and then they met Yue He.

Under the leadership of Yue He's excluded cavalry, Gao Lian quickly arrived at Gao Qiu's commander's tent and met Gao Qiu and Han Xiaozhou who were anxiously waiting for the news.

"What? Can the Lord of Liao respond?"

"It's OK, it's OK! The annual quota is increased to 1 million, and I will give you another 5 million..."

"Thank God!" Gao Qiu let out a breath of vigor.

"Taiwei, the conditions of the Liao people are quite harsh!" Han Xiaozhou, who was with Gao Qiu, frowned and said, "The official family is the hero. Can you agree to such conditions?"

"Why can't you agree?" Gao Qiu waved his hand and said, "The official family is unwilling to provoke. It's all because Wu Haogu cannot understand the holy intention. Shanzi broke off his friendship with the Liao people, which led to the situation where Liao people are facing the Yellow River today!"

Han Xiaozhou was still a little unwilling to give up. He said, "But Wu Chongdao's army has also surrounded Xijin Prefecture City. Maybe the city will be broken within ten days. Why not delay it for a while and give Wu Chongdao another chance?"

"I can't beat it!" Gao Qiu shook his head and said, "Isn't he just able to blast the hole? This move was very good at the beginning. Now everyone is on guard. It's not easy to poach the wall again. Without this trick, what else could he do? If it were really possible, Xijin Prefecture City would have been broken long ago. Now, he finally found a Liyang Alliance with a little reputation accumulated by a certain family in the northwest. Although it was a little harsh, it was worth it to save Kaifeng Prefecture from a war. But Wu Dalang, he must have to be responsible for the crime of tyranny of border provocation and misleading the country and the people!"

It seems to make sense...

Han Xiaozhou had no choice but to sigh, and could only watch Gao Qiu go further and further on the evil path of selling his country and seeking honor!

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