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Li Jing saw Liu Shouqian using a coffin with gunpowder, digging a hole under the city gate and blasting to successfully blow up the north gate of Guiyi City, and couldn't help but praise loudly.

Liu Shouqian was humble, claiming that this method was a secret technique mastered by the artillery battalion. However, it can be seen that his face is indeed red at this time, and he is a little proud in his heart. The king of the county gave him a day, and it took him less than an hour to break through the north gate, and this battle completely allowed him to sit firmly in the wartime temporary position of the commander of the three legions. In this way, it can be said that his ability and extraordinaryness are shown among the generals.

"The city defenses have been broken, and the enemy army will not hold out for long. In order to avoid losses, it is necessary to first let go of the siege to the west to prevent the enemy from dying and breaking the net. ”

Jing Xiang said on the side, the army has the advantage, and now that the city gate is broken, no matter how much the defenders hold on, they will definitely not be able to hold it. At this time, we have already begun to think about how to minimize losses.

At this moment, another series of explosions was heard.

At the opening of the North City Gate, Liu Rengong had personally led more than 1,000 elites to form a shield here, wanting to desperately block the charging Northeast Army.

However, although the shield array was strong, the soldiers of the Longxiang Army, who were surging in the rear, quickly approached the city gate under the cover of the group of archers in the rear. When he reached the distance of ten zhang, Guo Xiong, who was rushing to the front, shouted, and had already tied up five thunderbolts into a bunch, lit them and threw them hard.

Guo Xiong, who had excellent grades in the bomb throwing training at the military academy, although he threw a cluster thunderbolt at this time, he still threw it extremely accurately into the defenders' shield array behind the gap.

There was a loud bang, and five bundled thunderbolts exploded. It's much stronger than a single one. Moment. Five or six defenders had already been killed. A stump and severed arm flew into the sky.

One by one, the soldiers who rushed behind also began to put the thunderbolt fuses close to the lighted rope wrapped around their left wrist, set it on fire, and then threw it at the enemy.

One after another, the two-pound long-handled thunderbolts fell into the defenders' formation like meteorites, and one after another exploded violently.

The generals of Mozhou Dingba who stood in front of the gap are also veterans who have been in battle for a long time, from Liu Rengong to Xiaobing, they have never experienced such a style of play.

Far away, their arrows rained down. Only a small number of Liao soldiers were put down.

But under the cover of the rain of arrows in the back, after a burst of ghostly bombing, the 1,000 defenders in front of the gap, 7788 were already dead, and the rest also looked at their severed arms and stumps and howled in horror.

The rest of the people scattered in a hurry, and they had lost their souls and fled in all directions.

Liu Rengong avoided a whirling broken helmet, wiped the blood rain on his face, panted, and ran backwards with more than 100 people around him in shock. Although many generals already know the way. It is safest to lie on the ground when facing the fire.

But in the current situation, these Spitfires are not accidents. And it is actually in the hands of every soldier, and he throws it directly while rushing, and the power is unexpectedly not weaker than that kind of flying fire. In particular, a coffin can blow up the entire city gate, and such a power is unheard of.

Turning his head to look at the distance, Li Congwei, who was originally leading troops to reinforce him, saw this violent explosion, not only did not rush to plug the gap, but turned around and left. The Li Ziqi was so conspicuous in the smoke of gunpowder that many of the other soldiers threw away their armor and fled.

Everywhere there were hordes of soldiers who turned around and fled, and the miserable howls of casualties on the ground went unheeded.

Liu Rengong's heart was beating violently, even a fierce general like him was so panicked and embarrassed in the face of the fierce flying fire attack of the Liao soldiers, and the ordinary soldiers could be imagined. If he was guarding a state city, no matter how powerful Li Jing's flying fire was, it would definitely not be possible to achieve such results all at once. But damn it is now in the small city of Guiyi, and a coffin of flying fire blew up the city gate into the sky, and then the Liao soldiers had already taken advantage of the situation to rush in.

This momentum directly disintegrated the morale of most of the people, especially at this time there were still three troops in the city.

He looked around, shouting and shouting, for the defense to be back in front of the gap. As long as you can hold the gap, things can be done.

Only by this time, the soldiers in the city had already been frightened by the continuous explosions and fled in all directions. Especially when he saw that Li Congwei had led his troops to flee here with a banner, countless people rushed to flee for their lives.

Liu Shouwen said indignantly: "Li Congwei has fled to the West Gate, and I heard that Li Jing has transferred the besiegers outside the West Gate to the North Gate. ”

A flash of lightning flashed in Liu Rengong's heart, "Ximen, that is a dead end deliberately opened by Li Jing, we have tens of thousands of horses, if we defend the city, we can still hold on." If you go out of the city and flee in all directions, no matter how fast you run with two feet, you can still outpace Li Jing's 40,000 cavalry. ”

Liu Shouwen and the brothers also woke up at this time, Li Jing had enough troops, and he had already broken through the northern city, so why did he need to transfer the guards of the West Gate. There is only one reason for this, Li Jing deliberately let go of the West Gate, and the so-called siege of the city must be que, in order to break the fighting spirit in the city. At this time, he escaped from the city, and he could not escape the pursuit of a large group of cavalry.

"Now that Li Congwei has fled, the morale of the army has collapsed, Guiyi City is no longer defensible, Li Jing's 70,000 troops and 40,000 iron horsemen are here, what should we do?" Liu Shouguang's face was full of sadness, this was already a dead end.

To tell the truth, there are many soldiers in the city, there are 23,000 soldiers, and 33,000 auxiliaries, and there are still a few thousand people in the city. No matter how strong the Liao soldiers are, they can hold on for two or three days. But less than an hour after the start of the war, the whole army had already been taken away, and with Li Congwei taking the lead, the whole situation was completely impossible.

Li Jing watched the resistance of the defenders in Beicheng getting weaker and weaker, put down the clairvoyant mirror, turned his head and ordered the herald on the side, "Order to withdraw the siege of the east gate." ”

It has not been more than an hour since the start of the war, but the Northeast Army has already broken the determination and morale of the enemy army with the unlimited use of firearms. However, in this short period of time, the infantry army that attacked head-on also suffered heavy casualties, and it is estimated that at least a thousand people have fallen in the fierce battle.

Li Jing's heartache when he saw it, and every time he fell a soldier, he would be extremely heartbroken.

At this time, he was absolutely unwilling to force the defenders to fight in the streets.

He had 40,000 elite cavalry, so what Li Jing needed to do now was to let go of the seine net, let the defenders see a way out, and force them to flee. As long as they escape, with the morale of these three soldiers and horses in the city, the final result will inevitably be to break through and flee.

As long as it is dispersed, on this vast North China Plain, who can still stop the pursuit of 40,000 cavalry?

The herald cavalry galloped down with the order, and after the siege of the west of the city was withdrawn, the siege of the east of the city was also withdrawn.

But where there is a glimmer of life, no one wants to fight to the death.

Although most of the officers understood that this was Li Jing's strategy.

But I know this, but others have begun to flee, how can I choose?

While letting go of the siege on the east and west, the Northeast Army also began to strengthen the offensive in the northern city. One after another took turns to charge, and one thunderbolt after another was thrown over as if they didn't want money. Even if Liu Rengong and Zhang Zeshen have converged together and continued to gather soldiers and horses, they still can't resist and retreat.

More and more soldiers began to scatter and flee, gathering their forces much faster than they were fleeing.

Zhang Xingze immediately shouted at Liu Rengong: "It's not okay to go on like this, Liu Yuanjun, it's impossible to do anything, let's withdraw!" ”

Liu Rengong calmed down at this time, and he swept the Liao soldiers who were advancing in front of him. Turning his head to Zhang Xingze, he said: "General Zhang will withdraw first, and a certain department will be behind." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Xingze was grateful. immediately hugged his fists and thanked him, and hurriedly patted his horse and fled east with the remnants of his headquarters. Liu Shouwen watched Zhang Xingze flee with his troops, and hurriedly said to his father: "My lord, why don't you go together!" ”

Liu Rengong sneered, "There are many people and big goals, let's go to the west." ”

At this time, Liu Rengong still had five or six thousand horsemen by his side, basically all of them were Mozhou soldiers. Two thousand of them basically did not lose anything, and they were all gathered around at this time. However, he did not take all the soldiers to the west gate, but let a general in the Dingba capital lead thousands of infantry to the west gate. He himself pretended to be the queen of the palace, but as soon as the infantry left, he immediately said in a low voice: "Let's go to the south gate, go!" ”

Liu Rengong knew at this time how difficult it was to escape under the pursuit of 40,000 cavalry. Reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, at this time, he not only asked Li Congwei and Zhang Xingze to attract separate pursuers for him, but also sold thousands of infantry under his command who were obviously difficult to escape. With only 2,000 cavalry, he went straight to the south gate. With these two thousand cavalry, it is not without the slightest chance.

"King of the county, please let me wait for the cavalry to pursue!" Seeing the defenders in the city rushing out of the city one by one and fleeing in all directions, Wang Yanzhang couldn't help but step forward to ask for battle.

Li Jing nodded, gave several orders in a row, and sent Wang Yanzhang Gao Siji Yang Shihou three generals, each leading an army of cavalry to rush to the three passes of Mozhou Waqiao Pass in the south of Guiyi, and quickly captured the three passes to prevent the deserters from entering the two states of Moying. He also sent three generals, Li Si'an, Wang Tan, and Gao Jichang, to lead the cavalry of the first army of their headquarters to pursue the deserters in the east, west, and south. Then, he ordered the 30,000 infantry army to divide half of the soldiers and horses to re-surround the four city gates, and the remaining three armies went directly into the city to clear the remaining soldiers and horses.

Under the new military order, 15,000 infantry troops entered the city in a big way, while 40,000 cavalry, leaving only the two armies of Shengjie and Black Banner, the rest went in pursuit. At this time, Liu Rengong and others had already fled from the city, but there were still tens of thousands of soldiers in the city, as well as almost all the auxiliaries.

These people couldn't rob the parts when they fled, and now they are completely trapped in the city.

At this point in the battle, there was no suspense, although there were still nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses in the city, but the three leading forces and the main generals and elite soldiers had already fled, and how could the remaining people dare to fight. In less than half an hour, the remaining soldiers and horses in the city had abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

The cold wind howled, and within a radius of dozens of miles from Guiyi City, one cavalry after another galloped vertically and horizontally, drowning one after another defeated and routed soldiers like a red tide. (To be continued......)