Before the large number of siege soldiers and horses gathered under the city could fully react, the flames rising from the feet were already raging. The soldiers who saw the opportunity realized that the sneak attack was not successful, and they began to flee backwards as soon as possible. Most of the blinders stood stupidly and swarmed up the ladder. Some soldiers even tried to use their feet to extinguish the flames rising from the ground. However, they had guessed on these wet grease firewood and grass before, and their pants were already covered with grease, and this step became a veritable 'fire burning'. The clothes of hundreds of siege soldiers burned in an instant.

And these stunned young people were still screaming and lying on the ground and rolling over to extinguish the fire, but they didn't know that this action ignited more fires, igniting all the firewood and grass around them. In an instant, the fire was everywhere, and the fire borrowed the wind to burn inextricably.

Once the firewood and grass that has absorbed enough fat catches fire, the fire is unstoppable, and the fire becomes more and more fierce with the help of the strong blowing of the north wind. The entire area beneath the city walls became a sea of fire in a short time.

Countless soldiers were ignited by the fire, screaming and crying and struggling and running in the firelight, but everywhere there was fire, and there was no place to escape. Occasionally, someone rushed out of the fire and threw themselves into the moat, but unfortunately the moat had long since dried up, and it was impossible for them to extinguish the flames on their bodies. They could only roll on the mud floor, the fire was extinguished, and they were burned all over their bodies and were dying.

A large number of soldiers on fire scurried around like headless flies, and the smell of burnt flesh and hair was pungent. The soldiers were running around in flames, some crashed headlong into the city wall and fell to the ground, and some escaped from the fire but fell to the ground with black smoke billowing from the ground.

The soldiers in the sea of fire on the ground were miserable, and the soldiers on the ladder were even worse. In mid-air, with fire all over the ground below, and enemy troops on the city wall above, it can be said that it cannot reach the world or the ground. The smoke rose and the flames scorched, and these soldiers were like roasted meat on a ladder, and the crispy skin and meat were rotten, and one by one they fell into the flames. Occasionally, those who are conscious know that there is only one way to climb the city wall. But when they climbed to the top of the ladder, they were mercilessly slashed by the defenders, and they didn't even have a chance to shout surrender.

While tens of thousands of soldiers were wailing and struggling in the fire, the soldiers in the rear began to flee for their lives. They were glad they hadn't rushed to the sea of hellfire under the walls, and it would be foolish not to run at this time.

However, the dense rain of arrows at the head of the city still poured down the city, and tens of thousands of feathered arrows were intertwined into a large net of life, pouring down their heads and faces, so that the dense siege soldiers within the range of an arrow were all shrouded in this sky net.

Batches of soldiers were shot by arrows and fell to the ground. It was fortunate that they died immediately, but they were afraid that the soldiers who did not hit the vital point, with arrows stuck in their legs, feet and shoulders, could not run and run, and had nowhere to hide, so they could only crawl back screaming. But the arrows that kept falling left them with no hope of living, which was the worst.

Arrows were fired in rounds, and the soldiers on the ground were emptied piece by piece. The soldiers who fled only hated not having ribs and wings, and only hated that their parents did not give them a few more legs. What kind of blade and shield, it is only right to lose it at this moment, and anything that is cumbersome and hindering the way must be discarded. Tens of thousands of besieging soldiers threw off their armor and fled cleanly in just a quarter of an hour. The ground beneath the city was full of corpses and weapons, and there were clumps of arrows stuck to the ground, like dense weeds that had suddenly grown.

The same scene happened on the battlefield south of Tongzhou City, and the 25,000 siege soldiers sent by Dong Yuanshu were also burned by the fire, but because the focus was in the direction of Dongcheng, the grease was limited, and the ground in the south city was covered with hay and dry firewood. And the south city was leeward, and the fire did not spread quickly. Therefore, the siege soldiers and horses of the southern city were given the opportunity to escape. Rao was like this, under the double blow of bows and arrows and fire, they were as close to collapse as the siege soldiers and horses of Dongcheng, and suffered heavy casualties.

In the rear, when the fire under the city was burning, Li Guangbi, who was riding his horse and standing on a high place to watch the battle, was shocked. Before we could know the specific situation, the besieging soldiers and horses in front of them had already begun to flee like a tide. Soon after, the news came that the other party had already prepared, and the fire under the city was fierce, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and it was impossible to stop it. Li Guangbi was stunned for a moment, and decisively gave the order to withdraw his troops.

If the other party is prepared, there is no point in sneak attack. Moreover, the immediate task of our own troops and horses is not to attack, but to quickly gather our forces and stabilize the morale of the army, so as to avoid something more difficult to control.

The fires under the city come and go as fast as they go. After all, it is a flammable but not long-lasting burning thing such as firewood and grass grease. After a violent fire, it could not continue to burn. But even in a short period of less than a stick of incense, the five or six thousand siege soldiers under the city were engulfed in the fire, and the ground was covered with charred black corpses, one with strange shapes twisted, emitting green smoke and emitting a foul smell.

The heat above the walls was also scorching. The soldiers of the Shence Army defending the city covered their noses one by one and did not dare to approach the outside of the city wall, they could not stand the scorching heat of the heat, let alone the smell of the corpses being burned. Many people fell on their stomachs and vomited.

Wang Yuan also covered his nose, and his heart was churning and nauseating. Wang Yuan didn't want to use this cruel way of killing the enemy. However he had to use. Even though most of the dead opponents were ordinary people who were drawn into the enemy's ranks, Wang Yuan knew that once Tongzhou was breached, these people would also become beasts. Wang Yuan has always adhered to the principle that once he goes to the battlefield and has a weapon in his hand, he no longer has the name of a common man. The opponents with weapons are all enemies, and Wang Yuan will never be soft.

At this moment, the war is not over. The enemy army was heavily damaged and retreated, but Wang Yuan would never give them a chance to rest. The morale of the enemy has collapsed, and it is time for another soldier to attack.

"Order, cavalry attack. Break through the enemy camp. Zhao Qing Tan Ping, the whole team of personal guards cavalry is ready to prepare horses for me. Wang Yuan issued a series of orders.

Zhao Qing and Tan Ping agreed in succession, and immediately ordered the horses to be prepared.

On the streets inside the three city gates in the southeast and north, Liu Jun's 30,000 cavalry have been waiting for orders here in full armor since mid-afternoon. The battle that began in the afternoon was in full swing, but the cavalry had not been able to participate in the battle, which made the generals and generals smoke in a hurry. Watching others fight, but his own army of 30,000 cavalry is idle in the city, this is simply torture.

The generals went to Liu Jun from time to time to ask, but they were scolded back by Liu Jun one by one. Liu Jun knew Wang Yuan's plan, and the 30,000 cavalry was the last new force, and the purpose of recuperating was to better kill the enemy. It's just that the time has not yet come.

The red signal flare on the top of the city rose up, and the cavalry soldiers were shocked when they saw it. This was the signal for the cavalry to move. The cavalry mounted their horses one after another and lined up in formation. Soon after, Liu Jun sent people to give the order to the cavalry in the north and south city gates to go out of the city, and the three city gates suddenly opened, and the cavalry of the Shence Army rushed out of the three city gates in three ways.

Liu Jun rode his horse and galloped out of the Dongcheng suspension bridge. As soon as I left the city, a scorching heat wave hit my face. The pungent smell almost suffocated Liu Jun. The air was scorching, the ground and the walls to the left and right were hot, and there were black, smoking corpses all over the ground under the walls on both sides of the gates. Liu Jun and the cavalry soldiers suddenly let out a sound of consternation. Fortunately, there was no fire on the left side of the city gate, which was to prevent the fire from burning the city gate and the drawbridge, but even so, the scorching heat on the ground and in the air made the war horse under the crotch jump uneasily.

Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi were also among the cavalry in Dongcheng. The two of them were temporarily appointed by Liu Jun as the leading generals of the third battalion. He gave the two of them command of three thousand cavalry. This is not a contempt for them, but the two of them have not participated in the cavalry battles of the Shence Army, and they must be experienced. In terms of fighting on horseback, these two were not even as sophisticated as an ordinary cavalryman of the Shence Army.

The moment Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi rode out of the East City Gate, their consternation was stronger than everyone else's. The countless charred corpses on both sides of the city wall and the corpses covered in arrows on the vast open ground made the scalps of the two men tingle. This is a siege, and this is an act of voluntary death. The methods used by Wang Dashuai are simply incredible. The opponent against Wang Yuan is probably the worst opponent in the world. And what a blessing it is to be in the Divine Army.

30,000 cavalry concentrated on the eastern part of the city as fast as possible. From a distance, the enemy camp on the opposite side was busy running and panicking.

"According to the proposed plan, three echelons, attack in turn. You must understand that this time it is not a sneak attack, but a breakthrough in the enemy camp and a complete crushing of the enemy army. The order of the marshal, the battle of Tongzhou must end tonight. The person who caught the fire and killed Li Guangbi was rewarded with 500,000 yuan, and the official was promoted to the third level. But I warn you that the goal of my cavalry is to completely crush the enemy, and whoever messes up his formation in order to capture Li Guangbi should wait for me to cut off his head. Liu Jun rode his horse and galloped in front of the formation, holding a silver spear and shouting loudly.

"Yes!" The cavalry shouted in unison.

Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi were even more shocked and almost fell off their horses: they had such a big appetite, and they were going to end the whole battle tonight. Even if 60,000 or 70,000 people were killed or wounded in today's two siege battles, there were still 170,000 or 80,000 troops after all.

Liu Jun's war horse stopped in front of Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi, as if he was worried that the two would not be adaptable, Liu Jun actually whispered to the two: "General Zeng, General Qian, you will attack in the third echelon, follow behind the other soldiers and horses, don't rush to the front." After all, this is your first time in the war. I don't blame you either. Then you will become proficient. ”

Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi felt a great insult, and Zeng Guozhong said in a deep voice: "General Qiyu Liu, you are not afraid of death. Humble positions do not follow others. We are required to charge in the first echelon. ”

Qian Gaozhi also said: "The humble position is the same as General Zeng's thoughts. ”

Liu Jun tilted his head and smiled: "Okay, in that case, you guys should follow my first echelon to charge." The two generals themselves are careful. ”

"Thank you, General." Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi thanked each other.

"Ready. First team, follow me. Liu Jun turned the horse's head, pointed the silver gun in his hand into the air, and clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the white horse jumped up its front hooves and neighed.

"Kill!" Ten thousand cavalry let out an earth-shattering cry, and after a moment the sound of hooves rumbled, and rushed towards the flickering fire of the enemy camp ahead.

Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi had goosebumps all over their bodies, and when they were on their horses and in the torrent, they finally felt the passion of the indomitable charge as a member of the cavalry of the Shence Army, which was exactly what they dreamed of.

"Kill!" Zeng Guozhong and Qian Gaozhi raised their Mo knives high, roared and rode their horses out.

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Li Guangbi received a report at the moment when the cavalry of the Shence Army went out of the city to assemble, and he realized that the other party was trying to kill him with a stick when he was defeated. Once the cavalry raid is successful, after a major rout, there will be a total rout that will affect the whole army. Li Guangbi, who has been in battle for a long time, has no doubt about this.

The soldiers and horses that had just withdrawn in front of them lost their armor and unarmoured, and they were like lost dogs, panicked. At this time, even if you have a numerical advantage, it is just a number. Several times the enemy's strength could not save the panic in the hearts of the soldiers. The only thing that will be difficult to save the defeat is to resist the opponent's attack.

In his decades of military career, Lee Kwang-pil is certainly not comparable to those straw bales. In fact, in terms of how to deal with the opponent's cavalry raid, Li Guangbi had already thought about it many times and came up with a lot of methods. It's just that the first few times I was broken into by the enemy cavalry were all for a reason. One was to be bombarded by the opponent's tiger squat artillery and broke through, and the other was to encounter a traitor and break through the horse rejection formation and the horse pit. That's why the other party got it.

In the face of the situation in front of him, Li Guangbi also had a plan. Although this plan is not a plan for the current situation. It was a plan for the time when the opponent was dying and struggling to send cavalry to fight back after the city was broken. But in any case, the plan can come in handy at this point.

Li Guangbi immediately ordered the entire army to shrink in formation, and the 170,000 soldiers and horses shrank into seven or eight circular defensive formations. On the periphery of the formation was a large layer of shieldmen, followed by several successive layers of pikemen and shieldmen, then several layers of archers, and then the rest of the troops, which were powerless against the cavalry. After such a contraction, hundreds of thousands of troops formed huge discs on the vast battlefield. The passage between the discs could indeed allow the opposing cavalry to drive straight in, but that was a trap for the cavalry. Once the opposing cavalry dares to rush into the passage between the discs, it will be quickly surrounded and annihilated.

I have to say that Li Guangbi is still a good hand in the military. This method of warfare was a tactic he had painstakingly pondered and pondered to deal with cavalry. After the contraction of the formation, each disc was like a big hedgehog covered in thorns, so that the cavalry had nowhere to put their mouths. This formation is more effective than a defensive one. Once the general defensive formation of the whole army breaks through the perimeter and is rushed into the formation by the opposing cavalry, it will come and go as if no one is in a no-man's land. And the formation in front of you, even if one or more formations are broken through, the rest of the formations will not be affected and can still be firmly held.

Of course, the premise that this formation can work is that the opponent does not have effective means of long-range intensive strikes. Prior to this, Li Guangbi had seen the power of the Shence Army's tiger squat cannon and grenades. After the ferocity of the bullet, my heart was cold. He realized that the formation he had designed to defend against cavalry was fatally flawed when the opponent had artillery and firearms. The gathering of formations instead gives the opponent the opportunity to concentrate on bombing, which will bring more lethal consequences.

Now the reason why Li Guangbi is in this formation is to gamble that the opponent's firearms will be exhausted. After the war began in the afternoon. Li Guangbi has been paying attention to the cannonballs fired from the other city. He found that the kind of ** that can burst and hurt people did launch a lot at the beginning, but then all of them became big iron balls. At that time, he realized that the other party's explosive ammunition should have been exhausted. And during the siege, the other party has not used his hand ** to retreat from the enemy, which fully shows that the opponent's killing weapon should also be exhausted. Because the opponent's means of defending the city are indeed fierce, the huge pendulum mace and tonight's fire plan are very effective, but this is exposing the opponent's grenades. The bullets have been depleted. Because if they have enough hands, why bother to arrange so many means to defend, the kind of grenades that can kill and injure a large area if they are thrown under the city. Bullets are the best means of defending the city. They could have thrown them down the city, and they could have slain a large number of their own men and horses. If they didn't, it meant they didn't have the weapons they had on hand.

In the clues of the battlefield, analyze and deduce the information behind it, which is the quality of an excellent general, and Lee Kwang-pil undoubtedly has this kind of specialty. His analysis is also completely correct. The new shells and hands of the Shence Army's Tiger Squat Cannon have been exhausted. To be exact, there are still hands, but the number is simply not enough to use. More than 200 hands** actually did not have much impact on the outcome of the war.

When defending the city, the reason why Wang Yuan didn't let the soldiers throw more than 200 hands to kill and injure the enemy was actually because Wang Yuan deliberately wanted to leave a suspense. The deterrent effect of not triggering is much better than the two hundred or so hands ** thrown down and killing two or three thousand people. Because once you use your hand, if you only use more than 200 shabby pieces, it will expose the lack of quantity. Wang Yuan actually just wanted to play a psychological war.

However, all this was seen through by Li Guangbi.

When the cavalry of the Shence Army began to charge, the military formation of Li Guangbi's disc defense was formed. Although there is still some confusion, there are still people who are dizzy