In Guiyi County, Liu Rengong and others all believed that the victory was imminent, so although the three generals secretly guarded against each other, they also set up a banquet that night to celebrate in advance. The wine was drunk until midnight, and the more than 20,000 soldiers and more than 30,000 auxiliary soldiers in the city, Zhang Xingze, as the landlord, did not dare to slack off, and let the logistics battalion kill pigs and sheep, carry wine and pulp, and reward the three armies heavily. The soldiers of the three families were also happy when they received these wine and meat rewards, and everyone ate and drank happily, and there was no provocation in life.

Liu Rengong also drank a lot of wine, and Zhang Xingze sent people to a mansion in the east of the city that originally belonged to the rich to rest. In the confusion, there were maids and other people who helped undress and help them get to bed, and they slept until midnight.

In the middle of the night, Liu Rengong was thirsty, and when he opened his eyes, he was about to ask someone to pour water.

But suddenly I heard a vibration under me, and then there was a burst of exclamations outside.

Liu Rengong's face changed abruptly, he quickly sat up from the bed, called in his own soldiers to help with armor piercing, and then left the house.

Walking out of the house, Guiyi County was already a panicked scene, and people everywhere exclaimed. Liu Rengong rushed up to the Beicheng City Tower quickly, and at the fourth watch, the sky would be bright and dark.

At the head of the city, Zhang Xingze and Li Congwei had already arrived one step earlier with several generals, and the two of them looked out of the city with panicked faces. Seeing that Liu Rengong had arrived, he hurriedly pointed outside the city. Liu Rengong followed their fingers and looked out, opened his mouth slightly, and did not close for a long time.

To the north of Guiyi City, the night was full of fires, and it was one torch after another, densely packed, completely covering the north of the city.

"It's Liao Bing!" Zhang Xingze said bitterly.

Li Congwei also lost the prestige of the golden-headed king at this time, and his face was pale. The fire outside was very bright. At least tens of thousands of horses. It is said that Li Jing should be under the city of Cangzhou at this time. How could it be that he suddenly ran to the north of Guiyi City?

I can't figure it out, but that's what it is.

"Cavalry, all cavalry, at least more than 10,000 cavalry outside the city!"

Liu Rengong's face was completely black at this time, and he was really worried about something.

"Don't worry, this must be Li Jing's partial division, what is there to fear from more than 10,000 cavalry, there are 60,000 soldiers and horses in our three families in the city."

Liu Rengong's twenty-five-year-old eldest son, Liu Shouwen, hurried over with his brother Liu Shouguang. Horror was still written on his face.

"Father, the Northeast Army was found outside the east of the city, with more than 10,000 cavalry!"

As soon as they heard the news, everyone in the city was stunned. Just now they thought that there were only Liao soldiers in the north of the city, but no one thought that in addition to the 10,000 cavalry in the north of the city, the east of the city also found out.

"Send someone to the south and west to investigate." Liu Rengong calmly ordered.

Soon, the people sent back again, and under the expectant gaze of Liu Rengong and others, they said words that made their faces look like ashes.

"Guiyi City is surrounded, and at least 40,000 cavalry have been found outside the city!"

"It can't be!" Lee Converse's eyes were full of shock. More than 40,000 cavalry, how is this possible. Li Jing had many cavalry troops. But all of Li Jing's cavalry was only 60,000. This time he went south with 50,000 people, but Li Jing was heading for Cangzhou, and had already captured Lucheng and Jingcheng, and Wang Jingchong's news said that Li Jing's main force had approached Cangzhou. Now why is it that more than 40,000 cavalry have suddenly come here?

"Could it be mounted infantry? I heard that Li Jing's soldiers and horses, even if they are infantry, are equipped with horses. ”

Although both mounted infantry and cavalry had horses, they were completely different in nature. Infantry with horses, generally ordinary horses, only walking, can not be ridden for battle. Moreover, cavalry is not called cavalry when riding on horses, and there must be professional cavalry if there is a war horse. The infantry on horseback borrows the speed of the horse in one step, but still dismounts to fight when fighting.

Liu Rengong shook his head a little bitterly, after the shock, he had almost figured out some of the current situation.

More than 40,000 soldiers and horses that should have been in Cangzhou suddenly appeared in Guiyi City between Zhuozhou and Mozhou, which only illustrates a problem, whether it is mounted infantry or cavalry, here is Li Jing's main force, and Cangzhou should be a strange army. Since this is the main force, then in his opinion, the outside should be real cavalry, and Li Jing's infantry is probably coming.

It's really in the middle of the game, and I can't see the whole picture clearly.

I'm grass mud Malegobi!

Liu Rengong couldn't help roaring in his heart at this time, Li Jing's sword was not aimed at Cangzhou, he was looking at Mo Ying's second state. Nima, everyone was misled by the news that Li Jing only brought seven days of grain and grass to the south.

Li Jing only brought seven days of grain and grass, but Li Jing's soldiers and horses, it would not be difficult to take a city casually, but I am afraid that I will not be able to replenish it?

He should have thought to the Children's Palace a long time ago, how could Li Jing be so calculating. It turned out that people were using themselves as a bait, but the four towns immediately stupidly regarded Li Jing as a stupid bird, but in fact, they were the stupid birds who were played by Li Jing.

If everyone is cautious, after knowing the news that Li Jing is going south, he will immediately follow the Juma River and deploy defenses in Moyingcang, how can he give Li Jing a chance. As a result, they wanted to catch a big fish, so they divided the soldiers and horses into several parts, which gave Li Jing an opportunity to take advantage of now.

At first, I thought that there was just a surprise attack outside the city, but now it's good, and there is no chance to break through and retreat at this time.

"40,000 iron cavalry are besieging the city, and Li Jing's 30,000 infantry will definitely arrive soon. We were blocked, and it seemed that Li Jing was ready to swallow us in one gulp. Zhang Xingze, the assassin of Zhuozhou, had also seen the situation clearly and said in despair. Although there were 60,000 soldiers and horses in the city, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers. Guiyi is just a small city, facing the world-famous Li Jing, he has no hope at all, let alone the soldiers below.

The three soldiers and horses in the city and the people of Guiyi soon knew that the city of Guiyi was besieged. Surrounding them was the king of Andong County, the marshal of the northeastern soldiers and horses of Hebei. and the soldiers and horses, there are 40,000 iron horses.

Suddenly, the entire city fell into a huge panic, and under the orders of Liu Rengong and others, these soldiers climbed to the top of the city in fear and prepared to defend.

Liu Shouqian led the Long Xiang army on horseback and appeared under the city of Guiyi, where the sky was just dawning. The small landlords of the year fled the displaced people. After defecting to Li Jing. From the head of Li Jing's family. In just a few years, he has become the commander of the first army of the infantry army under the command of the king of the county.

Although the value of the infantry army master is lower than that of the cavalry army master, at this time, the 40,000 cavalry troops rushed to besiege Guiyi City, but they did not have to wait for him to lead the infantry army to come.

Liu Shouqian saw that the 40,000 cavalry had surrounded the small Guiyi City like an iron bucket, the gate of Guiyi City was closed, and the defenders in the city were completely silent. mobilized hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the four towns, and even let the soldiers and horses of the three states of Mo Yingzhuo take the initiative to run out of the nest and send them to their mouths. ”

The Sixth Army of the Infantry Army arrived one after another, and Li Jing immediately set up a tent in the camp of the Chinese army five miles outside the north of the city, and summoned the generals to the big tent for discussion.

When Liu Shouqian arrived at the big tent, Wang Yanzhang, Li Cunxiao and several others were in front of Li Jing to ask for a battle.

As a result, as soon as he came in, he happened to hear Li Jing scolding the two most courageous disciples.

"In battle, you must use your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, and attack the enemy's weaknesses with your strengths, damn it, you two have a kind. You actually want to use cavalry to attack a city guarded by tens of thousands of horses, you say. Should Lao Tzu praise your bravery, or should I scold you pig brains? Especially you, don't turn your head, it's you Li Cunxiao, Lao Tzu handed over the heavy cavalry built with a lot of money to you, you actually want to take them to attack the city, you are really fucking talented, creative, it is estimated that you are the only one in the past, there is no ancient, and there will be no one in the future. ”

Wang Yanzhang and Li Cunxiao were like Meng Sheng in front of a private school gentleman at this time, and they didn't dare to take a breath with their heads down.

Li Jing also knew that these two people were probably addicted, and they had fought with him for a few years, and it was impossible to be the same as when they fought in Daibei. But even so, Li Jing had to seize the opportunity to train them well, make an example of the chickens and monkeys, and make the other generals more vigilant.

After scolding for a long time, just when he was thirsty, he was just about to ask someone to pour tea, Liu Shouqian shouted a report at the door, and then came in and saluted seriously. After the ceremony, he poured a cup of tea for Li Jing with great vision and sent it to Li Jing.

Li Jing moistened his throat and smiled at Liu Shouqian with satisfaction, "Master Liu, you came just in time, the king of Guiyi City has surrounded him like a bucket and has not escaped. Next, it's up to you. How much time do you need to take him down? ”

Liu Shouqian straightened his chest and said loudly: "As long as the king of the county pulls out all the 30,000 infantry troops to the command, the post guarantees to take the city within three days."

Li Jing shook his head, "There are no three days, this king can only give you one day." Although there are tens of thousands of people in the city, there are no more than 10,000 real elites. Our army of 70,000 is surrounded here, and we have good soldiers, food and equipment, and if we can't break the city in one day, it will be too disappointing for the king. ”

Liu Shouqian's face was red and white stimulated by these words, he gritted his teeth, and roared: "One day is one day, but firearms cannot be limited." ”

Li Jing smiled at this time, "As long as you can take Guiyi City in one day, not to mention the unlimited number of firearms, this king will immediately appoint you as the commander of the Third Legion of the southward army this time." ”

The so-called Third Army Corps is a temporary wartime establishment of 30,000 horses and horses of six infantry corps, and this time it went south, with 80,000 horses, divided into three corps, the first and second corps are cavalry corps, and each corps has five corps of 25,000 men.

The commander of the First Cavalry Corps was concurrently served by Li Jing, the commander of the Second Cavalry Corps was temporarily vacant, the deputy commander was served by Guo Shunli, and the commander of the Third Infantry Corps had not been appointed.

After setting up a military order to take Guiyi City within a day, Liu Shouqian turned around and went out to command the siege of the city.

Guiyi City is just a small county town, and the city wall is an adobe wall, which is only two feet high.

Liu Shouqian had already seen the defense of the city, except for the dense human heads at the head of the city, there were no fortifications, there were no arrow towers, there were not many archers, and there were not many boiling oil.

After only one turn, he already had seven or eight points of certainty in his heart.

Before returning to the north gate, all the heavy crossbows carried by the infantry of the Sixth Army and the cavalry of the Tenth Army had been laid out in a row, and many small catapults were also assembled and placed behind.

At this time, the ten cavalry troops had already dismounted according to Liu Shouqian's order and were arrayed under the city. The cavalry all had bows, and at this time they were lined up in a bow formation.

"Put!"

Liu Shouqian stood in the front of the city, cheered, the long sword in his hand pointed obliquely, and suddenly, the 10,000 cavalry distributed in the northern part of the city had a total of ten thousand people in the bow formation. Immediately, they all drew their bows and fired a salvo at the head of the city to suppress it.

"Put!"

Liu Shouqian shouted again. The flag-bearers and trumpeters behind him immediately waved their flags. Blow the horn. Watching the flag and hearing the horn, the general of the infantry artillery array who received the order immediately shouted: "Smoke grenades are loaded and fired!" ”

Ballistae and stone throwers are quickly loaded with smoke grenades and smoke packs. At the sound of an order, dozens or hundreds of explosive packs and gunpowder canisters were already whizzing towards the city.

Bang!

Explosives and gunpowder canisters fell one after another on the city's head, and clouds of yellow smoke quickly erupted on the city wall. The poisonous smoke immediately filled the air, and it was only a dim morning, and the city was immediately enveloped in smoke.

The smoke caught the sight of the defenders of the city, and the spicy gas stimulated the defenders to tears. The cough doesn't stop.

The artillery emplacements under the city did not stop firing, but divided into three sections and began to fire non-stop. Each wave of smoke bombs was followed by a wave of bursting bombs, followed by a wave of stone bombs, and so on, ploughing violently over the city.

Under the suppression of such heavy fire, 10,000 cavalry also acted as archers, carrying out non-stop salvo covering attacks.

Seeing that the effect of the attack was unexpectedly good, Liu Shouqian immediately waved his hand.

The Dragon Troop of the Third Legion, which had been waiting for a long time, was the first to charge. In the rush of the trumpet, in the rousing drums of war. Guo Xiong, who was dressed in half-body armor, was the first to open his legs, and waved forward with an eight-foot flag gun in his hand, and the whole person rushed out like a leopard, and behind him, a group of people also followed suit.

Guiyi City, which didn't even have a moat, made Guo Xiong and them quickly approach the city.

One after another, ladders were erected at the head of the city, and groups of infantry soldiers wearing half-body armor like iron cans held shields in one hand, biting knives, and quickly climbed upward.

On the other side, dozens of people held shields and carried a coffin dug up from a mass grave outside the city and quickly rushed to the city gate.

The defenders at the head of the city were busy when they saw a group of Liao soldiers rushing to the city gate carrying a coffin, and they were all stunned, and they didn't know what they were doing.

Could it be a form of witchcraft?

The group of soldiers quickly rushed to the city gate, and then these men raised the iron shield upward, and quickly joined into a large iron shield array, and built a steel dome.

Immediately after the steel dome was erected, soldiers began to dig hard in front of the city gates with shovels, pickaxes, hoes, etc.

This time, Liu Rengong, who heard the news, also felt bad.

Liu Rengong's nickname is Liu Gutou, because he got his nickname when he dug tunnels and won the battle when he was fighting.

However, he didn't think that the Northeast Army was going to dig tunnels, because it was impossible to dig tunnels in front of the city gate, and there was no coffin to dig in the tunnels.

"It's not good, there must be flying fire in that coffin, they are going to dig a tunnel to blow up the city gate!" Zhang Xingze finally guessed Liao Bing's plan.

Since Li Jing fought with Duli Town and Da Xie Yan's Feng family, and repeatedly used Divine Fire and Flying Fire to break the enemy army, these two things have attracted countless people to covet. Unlike Li Jing's Divine Fire, which strictly controls the secret of the formula, the so-called Heavenly Fire is not the only one who knows the Tao.

Sky fire, also known as flying fire, is black powder. Originally, it was used by Duli Town first, which was originally a recipe sold by Taoist priests to Duli Town, but the formula that Li Jing later took out was more advanced. Although Duli Town later attached to Li Jing, this recipe was still mastered by many families. Up to now, basically all the major forces have more or less mastered the gunpowder technique, and the difference is only who is more advanced.

Speaking of which, there is no more advanced skill than Li Jing in this gunpowder technique. However, because black powder is expensive to refine and not very powerful, there are not many people who really study the use of this new weapon. But Zhang Xingze also knew that the plane was flying and the fire was very quiet, but the lethality was not strong. But if it is a flying fire loaded with a whole coffin, and then dig a hole directly under the city gate, stuff the coffin gunpowder inside, and then light the fire, if this sounds, the small gate of Guiyi City will probably not be able to withstand it.

"Quick, burn oil down there, splash water, and smash wood and stones!" Liu Rengong also reacted suddenly, Nima, such a small broken city, if this city gate is lost, it will still be guarded.

At this time, the defenders at the head of the city finally tied wet towels on their faces and held large shields in their hands, and only after paying huge casualties did they stabilize their positions, and they encountered such a major event. couldn't help but be a little flustered, although Liu Rengong drank the order again and again.

It's a pity that it's a little late at this time, there is a huge steel dome standing overhead, and the Northeast Army assault team below has quickly dug a big pit that can hold the coffin, and quickly put the coffin into the hole, and began to block the hole, and only a small opening was exposed at the back.

Under the top of the shield, Zhao Wenjie, the leader of the assault team, lit the lighter with a snap, and in the countless bangs overhead, the yellow flames approached the fuse, and the most snort ignited the fuse.

"Withdraw!"

With a shout, in a short period of time, there were only more than thirty people left in the assault squad of a hundred people. Hearing the order, everyone immediately held their shields and quickly retreated.

Liu Rengong and the others at the head of the city were originally happy to finally defeat this group of Liao soldiers, but when someone lowered their heads, they happened to see a puff of white smoke rising from the hole in the city gate.

"Nine"

"Eight"

"Seven"

"Three"

"Two"

"One"

Zhao Wenjie, who had already run to the front of the formation, was panting heavily, staring at the city gate hole with his eyes, and counted down in his mouth.

When he finished reading the word, but did not hear the explosion, Zhao Wenjie's eyes froze, and his heart was extremely lost.

But at this moment, a violent shaking came from under his feet, and then the sound of a landslide and the earth cracking sounded, like thunder above the nine heavens, and the sound was many times louder than the previous bomb sound.

"Bang!"

After a loud bang, I saw that the north city gate tower suddenly burst into the sky, and along with the firelight, there were also the two city gates at the north gate of Guiyi City, as well as the masonry of the city gate hole.

On the battlefield, both warring sides stopped fighting, and their eyes involuntarily turned their heads to look at the direction of the explosion.

When the smoke fell, the north gate of Guiyi City, which was already dilapidated, had been bombarded into the sky, and the gate tower with a doorway, plus the nearly 100 defenders on it, were all destroyed.

The smoke slowly dispersed, and a huge gap appeared in front of everyone!

The city defended by 50,000 or 60,000 people had already been blasted open in less than an hour after the battle began!

Liu Rengong and the others looked at the huge gap that was four or five feet long, and their faces were like ashes, like mourning.

Outside the city, after a brief silence, the battlefield erupted in a continuous burst of loud cheers.

Liu Shouqian also seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, pulled out the command knife with a bang, swung it forward, and roared loudly: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

Countless soldiers of the Northeast Army shouted and killed, and rushed to Guiyi City like a tide! (To be continued......)