At the second watch, the sky became darker and darker.

The three gates of Tongzhou City, southeast and north, were opened in the darkness. Countless cavalry rushed out from the three city gates, and went straight to the east city wall to gather, and in just half an hour, a cavalry team of 6,000 people was assembled.

Although the assembly of 6,000 cavalry was rapid, their traces had already been discovered by dozens of scouts sent by Li Guangbi's army to wander the city. In fact, when the three gates were opened and the cavalry began to leave the city, the scouts quickly reported the news back to the camp. When the cavalry of the Shence Army was halfway assembled, Li Guangbi, who had just fallen asleep, received the news.

"What a Wang Yuan, he really had the idea of attacking the camp. This time you will have no return. Li Guangbi sneered and immediately issued an order: "Pass on our military order, all the archers on the north and south flanks are assembled in the fortifications of the front camp, and if the enemy dares to attack the camp, they will be shot and killed." ”

Nearly 10,000 archers on the northern and southern flanks received orders, and they quickly assembled in the forward camp from both flanks. There were already 6,000 archers in the front camp. Before the attack, the number of archers in the front camp was already as high as 16,000. Under the defense of 16,000 archers, if the Shence army really dared to attack the camp, it would be self-defeating. A few thousand cavalry were afraid that if they rushed to the front of the battalion, they would lose most of them. And next, there is the crazy cover of more than 50,000 infantry in the front battalion, which will definitely be an overwhelming cover-up.

In order to prevent Wang Yuan from playing the trick of suppressing the Shenwei cannon first, Li Guangbi ordered a search of the land before the battle. And send scouts to keep an eye on the opponent's soldiers and horses, and pay close attention to whether there are any divine cannons in their soldiers and horses. Once it was discovered that the opponent had an intention to use the Shenwei cannon, Li Guangbi would not hesitate to order the soldiers and horses to take the initiative to attack, force the opponent's soldiers and horses back, and destroy the Shenwei cannon.

The scout's report and the results of the search relieved Lee. In addition to the build-up of cavalry, the opponent has no other troops to assist. Li Guangbi understood that Wang Yuan wanted to launch a surprise attack on the camp with the mobility of cavalry. After rushing into the front camp, he immediately retreated, just to cause death, injury and panic among the soldiers of his front battalion. This tactic is something that Li Guangbi is familiar with. At that time, he was stationed in the north and fought with the Turks countless times, and this kind of cavalry trampling and raiding tactics were used by himself and the Turks. Its purpose is to disrupt and demoralize the enemy, as well as boost your own morale. Show the enemy an attitude that if I want to kill, I will kill, and if I don't want to kill, I will leave, and you have nothing you can do with us.

Li Guangbi sneered in his heart, this kind of carving insect skill also dared to use it in front of him. He believed that after tonight, Wang Yuan would no longer dare to despise himself, because after tonight, Wang Yuan would lose thousands of cavalry, which was also a big lesson for him.

The news of the scouts kept coming, and after the opposing cavalry was assembled, they slowly advanced forward in three formations. It seems that it is to keep it from being noticed. Li Guangbi ordered to cooperate with the other party's performance of pretending to be deaf and dumb, on the one hand, the archers in the front camp hid their figures, and the rest of the soldiers and horses all stayed in the tent and did not show up. In addition, let the scout soldiers and horses quietly retreat, so that the other party cannot find their figures, so as not to let them know that the operation has been exposed.

The cavalry of the Shence Army stopped as they advanced beyond Rich, which was the starting point for the cavalry to charge. Li Guangbi knew that they were going to attack. So the archers were immediately ordered to prepare. Suddenly, behind the fortifications of the former camp, 16,000 archers bent their bows and arrows, and waited for the other side to charge in their nets.

On the city wall of Tongzhou, Wang Yuan's tall figure stood at the battlement of the city tower, and his eyes looked at the huge camp of the other party with bright lights in the distance under the city. A series of news was reported, and the slightest changes in the other side's front camp were captured and reported. Although there was calm in the other party's front camp at the moment, it seemed that he was unconscious. But there are all kinds of signs that the other side is ready to fight.

"Report to the commander, the cavalry has arrived at the promised place in the enemy's front camp and entered the charging distance."

"Report to the marshal, no changes in the opponent's troops and horses have been found. The north and south flanks are safe. ”

"Report to the commander, there is no change in the rear of the enemy's army. The opposing archers were hiding behind the nine fortifications of the former camp. The directions are. North 3rd, 4th and 6th districts. Form 2, 5, 7. South 1, 2, 6. The area is confirmed. ”

A series of reports came, Wang Yuan nodded slightly, sighed and turned to Liu Dehai beside him: "Liu Dehai, it's up to you." The live target is in front. The orientation of the area is already clear. I've created the best chance for you to strike, and whether or not you can attack the camp tonight depends on the performance of your artillery battalion. ”

Liu Dehai arched his hand and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, the handsome will fry them all into meat sauce in the end." The fifty tiger squat guns of the artillery battalion have all been put in place, and the direction and distance of the shelling have been completed, just waiting for the commander's order. ”

"Okay, then let's do it right away." Wang Yuan shouted in a deep voice.

Liu Dehai promised loudly, rushed out of the city tower, and shouted loudly to the commanders: "Give orders." ”

"Bang bang bang." Colourful flares burst into the sky and burst into three meteor showers in the air. The next moment, the Tiger Squat gunners, who had already finished loading and were waiting for orders, lit the rifling fuse. In the loud roar, dozens of tiger squatting cannons let out a roar. The first round of fifty new explosions** drew a trail of white smoke in the night sky, spanning a distance of four miles, and headed straight for the opponent's front camp.

How did Li Guangbi know that Wang Yuan had a tiger squat cannon with a range of up to five miles in his hand. Although the Tiger Squat Cannon appeared in the battle with the Uighurs. After that war, Lee Kwang-pil also sent people to reconnoiter the course of the war. However, the scouts initially mistook the Tiger Squat cannon that appeared in the battle for the Shenwei cannon, and when they found the destroyed wreckage, they didn't pay enough attention to it.

And no wonder. The decisive hand ** in that battle covered the light of the Tiger Squat Cannon and attracted all the attention, which made the Tiger Squat Cannon mediocre and not worth mentioning. In fact, the role of the tiger squat cannon in that battle was really small, except for the power it showed when attacking the city wall of Toyoshu, it only caused a small amount of damage during the real battle, and it was even far less powerful than the Shenwei cannon. Therefore, the power of the tiger squat cannon was almost ignored by Li Guangbi, and there was no focus on finding out the power of this thing.

Although Li Guangbi responded, when he set up camp, he deliberately retreated the big camp, and the front camp was nearly four miles away from Tongzhou City, just to deal with Wang Yuan's trick against Shi Siming - smuggling out Shenwei artillery to bombard. But where did he think that the other party didn't need to push the tiger squat cannon out of the city at all, and set it up at the head of the city to attack his front camp. The range of the shells originally used with solid round iron balls was indeed unstable, and most of the time it was only three miles. But now, the improved landing burst shell has a streamlined body, and the firing range is basically stable at a distance of four miles, which can easily cover half of the opponent's front camp.

"Boom, boom, boom." Cannonballs fell from the sky and landed in the direction of the nine fortifications where the opposing archers had gathered. The fortifications at the front of the other side have long been numbered by the artillery battalion of the Shence Army. The three positions in the north, the center, and the south are marked every 300 steps, and this is exactly the new method of marking the position implemented by the artillery battalion in order to accurately aim and strike. The scouts on both sides were staggered, and when the scouts of the other side were wandering not far from the city, the scouts of the Shence Army were also wandering around the opponent's camp. The moment when the cavalry was transported out of the city. The dispatch and placement of archers on the opposing flanks was already in the eyes of the scouts.

Violent explosions rang out, and the flashing flames of the explosion rang out in the front camp of the opposing side. Dirt flew, gravel rose into the air, and scorching currents mixed with countless stones, dirt, and flesh and stumps bloomed with the salute of death. The archers of the opposing side were actually concentrated behind the nine fortifications in a state of assembly, and the crowd was extremely dense. In this way, the power of the explosion of the shell falling in the dense crowd can be imagined. Although the fifty tiger squat cannons could only fire fifty shells in one round, and each of the nine fortifications was bombarded with only five or six shells, even if these five or six shells fell into the dense crowd of archers, the lethality caused by falling into the dense crowd of archers was amazing. After one round, the number of dead and wounded was in the thousands.

No sooner had the first round of bombardment ended, and before the archers of the front battalion knew what had happened, a shrill whistling sound sounded overhead. As in the first round of bombardment, these shells emit this whistling sound before they fall. As soon as everyone heard this howling, they immediately understood that another round of death had come.

Boom Boom Boom!

At the end of the second round of bombardment, five or six thousand archers were killed and wounded. A third round of bombardment followed. The archers of the front battalion of Li Guangbi's army, who had come to their senses, began to flee in a big way, and rushed away from the fortifications with ghosts and wolves. They realized that instead of protecting their own safety, the fortifications were the site of the enemy's all-out bombing.

Seeing the explosions and fires in the enemy camp, the Shence army at the head of the city happily raised their blades and cheered loudly.

"Keep banging, blow up these turtle bastards." The soldiers shouted. The gunners of the artillery battalion are extraordinarily proud, and the artillery battalion rarely has such a cool opportunity to kill the enemy, especially when the opponent is all gathered in one place as a live target, as if stepping on a reptile all over the ground, it is a kind of crushing pleasure of mastering life and death, which makes people extremely excited.

"Boom!"

In the jubilation of the city, a fire suddenly rose one hundred and eighty steps north of the city tower, and a violent explosion sounded at the city head, dozens of soldiers were swallowed up, and seven or eight of them were directly shaken out of the city wall and fell off the high city wall.

"What's going on?" Wang Yuan in the city tower asked in surprise.

Liu Dehai rushed over with a disgraced face, and reported: "Report to the commander, the fight was too urgent, and it was blown up." Fuck. Fortunately, it didn't detonate the ** next to it. Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"How can it be blown up?" Wang Yuan frowned.

"The barrel is too hot and deformed, and it will explode directly." Liu Dehai said with a sad face.

"Isn't it necessary to cool down with cold water for every few shots?" Wang Yuan frowned

"The gunners of the dog days forgot, and the rise of the fight, forgot to cool the barrel...... I used to use that kind of iron ball shell, and once the five cannons cooled down, there would be no accidents. This new type of artillery shell did not work. The last general had told them to be careful, and they forgot about it when they were happy. If you do something wrong, you should be punished. Liu Dehai smacked his lips and said.

Wang Yuan frowned, and asked about the damage to the city wall, but fortunately, it only blew up the battlements and walls of the city wall outside a few feet, killing more than 20 soldiers, and the rest was nothing. But seeing that the shells of the tiger squat cannon became scarce, and the tiger squat cannon on the city wall was emitting a trace of heat, the soldiers poured water on the cannon barrel. I think it was because of the explosion incident, and all the tiger squat guns quickly began to cool down. Many of them didn't cool down after four or five shots, but they were lucky not to blow up, and now they are hurrying to make amends.

Seeing this, Wang Yuan said in a deep voice: "Liu Dehai, order to stop the shelling." ”

"Dashuai, you can still fight. Just wait a little longer for the barrel to cool down. Liu Dehai said busily.

Wang Yuan shouted: "If you want to make the next plan, you don't have to wait for you to show off. Go back and do a good review, in response to the bombing incident, it shows that you are not strict on weekdays, and I will punish you. ”

Liu Dehai agreed with a sad face, and immediately ordered to stop the shelling. At the same time, Wang Yuan also issued an order: "Pass the order to Liu Jun, and the cavalry will start attacking the camp." ”

Flares take off into the air. The time had come for the six thousand Shence cavalry, which had already been prepared in front of the enemy formation, to dispatch. Liu Jun was dressed in silver armor, a white war horse under his crotch, and his majestic and mighty body was extremely eye-catching in a group of cavalrymen with black helmets and black armor. The moment the signal flare was raised, Liu Jun pointed at the dark sky with a silver gun in his hand, and let out an earth-shattering roar.

"Kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! "The roar of the cavalry was earth-shattering. Thousands of cavalry began to kill the enemy's front camp from slow and fast, and in just a dozen breaths, the speed reached the limit, and it rushed towards the enemy camp like a black torrent.

The defensive methods of the archers carefully prepared by Li Guangbi were scattered at this moment, and more than 16,000 archers were killed and wounded by several rounds of bombardment by the Tiger Squat artillery. Although there were still more than 10,000 people left, they were all busy running away in panic, and there was no way to immediately form a blocking fire. After thousands of archers fired several rounds of arrows, the cavalry torrent of the Shence Army had already broken through the bombed scattered camps and rushed into the front camp.

Once an archer is approached, the consequences can be imagined. After being approached, they have little power to protect themselves, comparable to being unarmed. They were hard to resist when they were close to the infantry, let alone a group of ferocious cavalry. Mo's knives flashed, long knives rose and fell, and the fleeing archers were like fish on a chopping board, to be slaughtered.

The three cavalrymen rushed into the front camp, crossing and trampling, as if they were in a no-man's land. In just half a pillar of incense, the archers who fled in all directions were killed in large numbers, and their corpses were strewn all over the ground. The entire front camp was in a kind of apocalyptic panic.

On the top of the mountain, Li Guangbi watched all this dumbfounded, and his frustration can be imagined. How could he have expected that the other party would have such a powerful long-range killing weapon. He watched with his own eyes the fire that erupted from the walls of the city four or five miles apart, and then projected the projectile onto his own front camp. It's unbelievable that the other party has such a long-range and powerful killing weapon.

The first is the divine cannon, which has already taught people to be very unexpected. Then there are the elephant cavalry, ***, hand**, and even this unknown killing weapon in front of you. Wang Yuan actually had so many divine weapons at hand, which was overwhelming. At a certain moment, Li Guangbi felt a little suffocated and a little discouraged.

However, his super psychological quality allowed Li Guangbi to recover quickly. Although the opponent has a lot of magic weapons, he at least has one advantage, that is, the number of soldiers and horses. He led an army of 300,000 troops, three times more than his opponent, so how could he be discouraged. Although the front camp has suffered a big loss, it does not mean that it will be defeated, and it should not be so decadent.

"The order was given, and the soldiers of the front battalion were dispatched, entangled the cavalry, and covered the retreat of the archers. Come to the people, take the horses, and the marshal will go to battle in person. Li Guangbi shouted.

The sound of the horn sounded on the hillside, and in the chaotic front camp, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses of the six gods and masters received the order to attack the whole army. Hiding in tents, the fleeing soldiers were immediately ordered to turn around and meet them. The 100,000 infantry in the front battalion turned around and rushed to the battlefield under the leadership of their respective generals. Because they have been clearly told that the number of cavalry on the other side is only five or six thousand, which is less than one percent of theirs. What's more, Generalissimo Lee Kwang Pil had arrived in person, along with his 5,000 Overseer Guards, whose swords showed no mercy to deserters.

The whole army of the front battalion was dispatched, and 100,000 infantry rushed towards the cavalry of the Shence Army, which was raging and killing people in the front of the front battalion. Soon rushed back to the edge of the battlefield. The rise of hundreds of Shence army cavalry killings is too deep. Before he realized the danger coming, he was surrounded by countless infantry, and in an instant, these hundreds of Shence army cavalry were swallowed up by the black oppressive infantry, and they were divided into corpses one by one. More infantry rushed towards the cavalry in front.

"Bang bang bang." Three yellow flares were raised at the head of Tongzhou City. As the flare burst into a flower in the air, the cavalry of the Shence Army began to turn their horses and retreat towards the outside of the camp. The infantry shouted and rushed in pursuit, but how could they catch up. In just a short time of tea, the cavalry of the Shence Army disappeared into the darkness outside the camp.

When Li Guangbi arrived, the front camp was empty. Li Guangbi looked at the mess in the front camp with a gloomy face, and the corpses of archers all over the ground almost crushed the steel teeth. The other party actually launched this night attack so easily when he had already taken precautions. And after killing a large number of her own archers, she was able to evacuate safely, this Jane