An army is traveling between the peaks and valleys on the western foot of Yanshan Mountain.

The mountain road was steep and narrow, with only 20,000 or 30,000 troops pulling out a team that could not see the beginning and end, and it was in a mighty way. The front army had already arrived in front of Zijing Pass, while the back army was still deep in Yanshan Mountain.

Xiao Gan, the commander of the Xi Palace in the Great Liao Dynasty, was in this team at this time. He rode a Khitan horse with a good mountain road, wearing a narrow-sleeved leather robe, a Khitan snow hat, and no armor. He looked around with his sharp eyes. Looking at the recruits in the Xi Palace whom he polished it, his face was filled with excitement that could not be concealed.

In the Great Liao Kingdom today, Xiao Gan is one of the few generals who really put his mind on military affairs. As early as a few years ago, after he let the cavalry sent by Wu Haogu fight on the Hetao grassland, he had already deeply realized the rise of the Song Dynasty.

After that, he spent a lot of effort to study the new military of the Song State, and even spared no expense to make people get a complete set of textbooks from the Song Knights Academy. Although there were many contents in it that Xiao Gan could not understand, he still understood that the most important content was that all battles were about the intensive attack of long spears or armored cavalry!

After understanding it, Xiao Gan immediately realized that the Liao Kingdom was about to face a disaster!

In fact, this set of textbooks is not a confidential material. Many Khitan powerful families have it. There are even many khitan nobles living in Tianjin (Jiehe Shang City) who simply attended the Khief Academy. However, from this set of textbooks, it was only Xiao Gan who really saw that the Liao Kingdom was going to face a major disaster.

The disaster was not because this new tactic is invincible. In fact, this tactic is not very "new" and is not invincible. As early as the early Tang Dynasty, the Tang army had played a game that mainly consists of armored cavalry and dense infantry impact. The tactics of the Knight Academy are at best an upgraded version of the tactics of the early Tang army. Although the army of the early Tang Dynasty was powerful, it was not invincible.

Moreover, this powerful tactic is neither confidential nor difficult to master. The Liao army can also imitate and learn!

However, Xiao Gan, who has been through the battle formation for a long time, knew very well that the real terrible thing about this tactic is that it will cause major casualties to the opponent!

The dense spear and the impact of the armored cavalry is a terrible killing!

The lethality of a long spear and horse can't be compared with a bow and arrow! Moreover, the spearmen among them are very easy to train, but they just hold a long spear to attack, then stab and slap. There is no need to train since childhood.

If the Liao army also learned this tactic and went to the battlefield, they would still suffer significant losses when they encountered the Song army that used the same tactics. How many heroes can go to the battlefield among the Khitans now? It is only hundreds of thousands. What about the Song people? Ten million or twenty million?

If the future war becomes a consumption among spearmen, the Khitans still have a way out? The one who exchanges one's life for another will be completely eliminated by the Song people.

However, even though he knew that the Liao army could not fight with the Song army, Xiao Gan repeatedly requested to imitate the tactics of the Song New Army. Because he knew that if the Liao army learned the tactics of the Song New Army, it would be a life-threatening life. If he didn't learn it, it would be a life-threatening life.

It is better to have a way of life than to have no way of life!

However, Yelu Yanxi never listened to Xiao Gan's dangerous words. It was not until last year that he learned about Wu Haogu's power in Yan's land that Xiao Gan was appointed as the Tongzhi Wang Wang's Mansion and was responsible for training the new army of the King of Xi's Mansion.

Before Xiao Gan took office, he had already used his power to quietly train a small new army, and he had some experience and improvement.

Instead of copying the textbooks, he trained his Xi soldiers into armored cavalry or armored infantry. Instead, he took a route between infantry and cavalry and trained horse-riding infantry.

Because the Xi people were farming people, their horsemanship was not superb and they did not have a good source of war horses, so they could only act as infantrymen.

However, because the Xi people lived in the areas where there were many horses, the ability to ride horses and serve horses was very popular among the Xi people. Therefore, the Xi soldiers could march and dismount and fight.

The Xi Bing who dismounted the horse was positioned as a heavy infantry by Xiao Gan! They were also required to "prepare two battles", that is, master two combat methods at the same time. One was a bow and arrow, and the other was a sword and shield or a spear.

In other words, all the soldiers of the new Xi army were equipped with horses and could maneuver quickly. They all had heavy armor, could fight in formation, could shoot arrows, kill enemies from a distance, and also had the ability to fight in close combat. They could barely compare with the slave soldiers of the Song army earlier.

Because there are many strong men who can shoot archery and hunt, and they often participate in military training, it is not difficult to train a horse-riding infantry similar to the new army of the Song State.

In less than half a year, Xiao Gan pulled out a new Xi army that was still worth fighting. His official position was also promoted, from the matter of Tongzhi Wangwang's Mansion to the matter of Zhixi Wangwang's Mansion.

However, when he thought of his own Xi people, he would soon exchange his life with the new army of the Song people. Xiao Gan couldn't feel happy at all.

"Monk slave, how far is it from Zijing Pass?" Xiao Gan suddenly asked.

"There are twenty miles left to go back to the Grand Master."

"There are twenty miles left..." Xiao Gan looked up at the sky, and it was noon. Before nightfall, the entire army should be able to pass through Zijing Pass. "I don't know what's going on in Yizhou City?"

The stubborn man named Monk Xiao said, "With King Xiao, you can rest assured."

The King Xiao he mentioned refers to Xiao Xiamai, the king of Xi Liudu. The King of Xi Liudu is the highest official of the Xi Wang Mansion, named "The King". In fact, it is not a king's title, but an official position. Xiao Gan's father also served as this official. If nothing unexpected happens, Xiao Gan will soon be promoted to the King of Xi Liudu.

Xiao Xiamai was defeated by Zhao Zhongge in last year's battle, and later fled to Bei'anzhou with the remnants of the Han family in Yutian.

However, he was not punished, but was promoted to King Xi Liudu and sent to Yizhou to lead troops. No, this is actually a punishment!

Because Yizhou is a place of death, staying here is waiting for death. He uses his own death to restrain Wu Haogu and buys time for Xiao Wuna's plan to succeed.

I gave the King of the Sixth Tribes just to make Xiao Xia buy gratitude and die wholeheartedly.

Of course, Xiao Gan's mission this time was not to die with Xiao Xiamai. Instead, he wanted to assist the prince-in-law, the Prime Minister of the Northern Palace, Xiao Temo, to carry out an almost crazy gamble!

If you win with a big bet on the battlefield, the Liao Dynasty can seize the land of Taiyuan and then return it to Yanjing with Taiyuan.

If the gamble fails, then the days when the Daliao falls apart will probably be in front of you!

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"Teacher, teacher, students really don't know how to fight!"

"Don't be afraid, you'll be able to fight more!"

"If I lose, wouldn't it be a big mistake for the teacher's plan and the iron cavalry that the teacher finally saved up?"

"That's right!"

In Tianjin, in the Wu family mansion, when the family banquet arrived at the host and the host had fun, it was ruined by Mi Youren, who had drunk a few more glasses of wine.

Mi Youren's courage seems to be no longer much greater than Zhao Ji. During the day, he was sent to lead troops to attack Liao, so he was so scared that he was dying. He was worried and did not dare to say it. At night, Wu Haogula went to his house to drink, drank a few more drinks, and finally couldn't help but speak the truth.

Wu Haogu was also happy today. He saw his good disciple, so he drank too much. After hearing what Mi Youren said, he smiled and said, "Then I won't send you a cavalry, let the Cao family in Yizhou, the Yu family in Wuzhou, and the Zuo family in Jizhou send troops together. None of the three families have any good territory. After the war, they happened to grant Yongxing to the Cao family, Khanzhou to the Yu family, and Ruzhou to the Zuo family."

ah?

Mi Youren was even more scared and hurriedly looked at Ximen Qing, who was with Wu Haogu, and Sister Ximen, help me!

Because Mi Youren protected Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing as a mediator, Ximen Qing had a good relationship with him, and immediately advised: "Master, why not let my elder brother lead his troops to Fengshengzhou. Brother Yin is a military supervisor in name, so how can he let the military supervisor lead the troops?"

"By the way, I almost forgot if you don't say it. He is a military supervisor. It seems that there is another Yang Erlang who is a military commander in Yanshan." Wu Haogu smiled, "Let him go with Brother Yin."

"Yang Erlang? Who is it?" asked Mi Youren.

"It's Yang Jian." Ximen Qing smiled bitterly, "Somehow, the king has been calling him Yang Erlang behind his back."

Isn’t Yang Jian the same name as Erlang Shen? So it’s Yang Erlang…

"He..." Mi Youren was so scared that she woke up from alcohol and looked at Ximen Qing with a pleading look.

Ximen Qing had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to persuade: "King, you are drunk."

"I'm not drunk, how could I get drunk when I drink some wine?" Wu Haogu glanced at Ximen Qing, "I will ask someone to assist Brother Yin, so let the brothers Wang Zonghan and Wang Zongbi assist Brother Yin."

"Who are Wang Zongbi and Wang Zonghan?"

Ximen Qing smiled bitterly and said, "It's all sent by Wanyan tribe. Wang Zongbi is the envoy of Wanyan tribe. Zongbi is the adopted son of the king. Now he is studying at the Knight Primary School with Yi Yong."

A diplomat, a primary school student...

Mi Youren even doubted whether his teacher had the life to become the emperor?

"Does the teacher want the students to lose to the Liao people?" Mi Youren asked with courage.

Wu Haogu Yixiao: "How is it possible? With Zong Han and Zong Bi here, how can you lose?"

"Wang" is the Han surname of Wanyan tribe. Wang Zonghan is Wanyan Zonghan! Of course, Wang Zongbi is Wanyan Zongbi! Moreover, Wang Zonghan did not come alone. He brought hundreds of "Ganda" to cross mountains and rivers to Chenzhou, and then arrived at Tianjin Prefecture on the Ma family's merchant ship.

Wu Haogu paused and said, "Brother Yin, you only care about field battles and attacks the city. For the army, you will be responsible for the responsibility of Luo Ke's enemy and keep the attack.
Chapter completed!