When the police whistle sounded, the captives had a moment of confusion, and their first reaction was to assemble at the north and south gates to help defend or run to the stables to lead the horses to gather and charge the enemy.

Ning Zechen had a serious guess about the reaction of the captured soldiers before the war, so as to formulate targeted tactical arrangements.

The North Zhai Gate was closed in time, but the captives who gathered at the South Zhai Gate were scattered to a group of armored cavalry that broke straight into the Zhaimen, and a member of the Zuo Leader led the people to lead the people in the alleyway to meet the Jiangdong Left Army A cavalry in a hurry, and died by rushing to kill.

In addition to the captives who dispersed into the houses and guarded the north and south gates, there were three places in the village where the remaining captives had concentrated troops.

One is the more than 60 captives guarding the stables, the other is the dozens of elite guards who stayed behind in the Sun family's mansion to lead the side, and the other is the 100 soul guards who guarded the corpses of the beheaded clansmen in the first battle in Cangnan in the ancestral hall of the clan.

In the first battle of Cangnan, the heads of more than 1,000 people were cut off by the Jiangdong Left Army, but the headless corpses were abandoned in the wilderness for birds and crows to eat. Nahe Xiongqi naturally couldn't let the corpses of his clansmen be thrown in the wilderness, nor could he tie the corpses of his clansmen to horses and pursue the Jiangdong Left Army to the south together, and was forced to stay behind to guard Xiaobotou Village. Except for a part of the baggage, it is mainly to guard the corpse; The mortuary shrine also sent soldiers to guard the spirits according to the old rules.

In the ancestral hall compound are qualified veterans, all the soldiers are complete, when the village was attacked, nearly 100 spirit guards were the first to react, except for a part of the support of the North Zhai Gate, most of the people along the laneway to the aid of the South Zhai Gate, in the threshing floor and rushed into the Jiangdong Left Army cavalry encounter, hard fighting.

Seeing that the threshing floor could not be entered, and the narrow lanes restricted the activities of the cavalry, the captives rode on the wall and the house with bows and arrows to shoot, and the group of Jiangdong Left Army cavalry who broke into the village was forced to quickly withdraw to the Nanzhai Gate before closing the siege.

In the village, a group of captives with a whole organization and armor rushed to the Nanzhai Gate to participate in the battle, and the chaotic situation of the captives quickly stabilized. Staying behind the staff leader then led the team to arrive, climbed to the ridge of the house to command the battle, saw that the Jiangdong Left Army had replaced the well-armored soldiers in the Nanzhai Gate, and took the flying contradictory car and Gao Dun along the roadway to rush in, no matter how fierce their old pawns were, they could not stand on their roots, and the left and right staff leaders were afraid to order the left and right to dismantle the heavy mansion door as a shield to carry hard, and let the old soldier with good archery skills go to the room to look at the gap in the array of Jiangdong Left Army armor soldiers to shoot arrows......

The South Gate was seized, the way out of the North Gate was blocked, and the northwest corner of the Wall Wall was crumbling to the outside attackers, and a new opening was about to be formed, which was the grim situation faced by the captives in the Wall.

After staying, the leaders were not alarmed, and thought to themselves: Let the capital be expected, the Jiangdong Left Army is really hiding on the island and attacking at night. No one can stand on the wall, he made people climb the highest ridge to observe the enemy's situation, send troops to strengthen the defense of the area that was hit the wall, look at the open Nanzhai Gate, the key is to recapture the Nanzhai Gate, in order to take back the initiative.

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Ning Zechen sat on the horse-tethered pillar outside the Nanzhai Gate with a knife, staring at every move inside and outside the Zhaimen; Lin was bound farther away from the two arrows, watching and controlling the direction of the entire battle.

The sentry ran over and told Ning Zechen that it was difficult to rush into the alley, and many soldiers shot cold arrows at the captives who climbed into the room, and the conflict broke out, and they could not protect it tightly with their shields.

Ning Zechen frowned slightly, and said: "I know that the roadway is too narrow to fight, so I won't collect some back?" Tear down the gate of the wall, they want to take it, give it to them! "Make the armor of the Nanzhai Gate retract back, and attract a large number of captives to fight on the more spacious field in the Zhaimen.

When the Sun clan established a clan in Cangnan and built a small Botou village, it was a serious consideration of how to prevent bandits or rogues from attacking the village, the empty space reserved in the north and south gates was very small, and there was a carriage-wide laneway inside, and the largest open space in the village was the threshing floor in the center, which was also the threshing field.

In the narrow lanes, even if the captives have no armor and no shields, remove the door panel up and down, cover most of the lanes, and then let people go to the room to shoot arrows, and the advantage of the Jiangdong Left Army in ordnance will be severely restricted; Unless a very few fierce generals like Zhou Pu personally went into battle, they could split the door of the house made of thick wood with a knife.

Ning Zechen saw that the captives were going to recapture the Nanzhai Gate, so that the soldiers were retracted, and when they arrived at the more open field near the Zhaimen, the captives were too clumsy to protect themselves with the door panels, and the gaps exposed were also large. Under the cover of the sword and shield hand, even if they dared to directly penetrate through the gap between the door panels to kill the enemy, there was enough space for the spear to stab, and the crossbow archers in the back row shot the captives who held the bow in the upper room, and also sent people to ride on the wall with crossbows, so that the advantages of sharp swords, thick shield armor, and long shooting of bows and crossbows were fully brought into play.

At this time, Zhou Pu led the third battalion to collapse the wall in the northwest corner, break the opening and attack inside.

Hold the battle until dawn, and the generals who stay behind will see that the Nanzhai Gate can not be taken back, and they will not be able to rush out from the Nanzhai Gate or the collapsed opening, and the soldiers and armor in the open field will suffer too much loss and casualties, so they will recycle inside, and want to use the complex terrain in the village to fight with the Jiangdong Left Army in one house and one courtyard.

The captives shrank into the stockade along the whole line, and the third and fifth battalions fought from the Nanzhai Gate and the opening in the northwest corner, and the terrain became complicated, and the fight was particularly difficult.

If you want to take down the entire village with one house and one courtyard, even if you are willing to bear such a large proportion of casualties, you don't have so much time.

Even if the southward channel was successfully blocked, it was very likely that the main force of the Nahexiong Qi Department would find a flaw and rush back to Bohai County, two hundred miles away.

The captives and cavalry traveled 400 miles in a hurry, and it only took two days and one night, considering that it had been a night since the departure of the Nahe Xiongqi Division, the captives in the village would be completely annihilated by this time tomorrow at the latest.

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Seeing Zhou Pu riding around from the west side, he probably felt that it was too difficult to fight from the northwest corner and wanted to readjust his tactics, so Ning Zechen asked his deputy to keep an eye on the Nanzhaimen battlefield for him, and walked to Lin Jian together.

"It's too hard to bite hard, and if you use fire, I'm afraid that those good horses in the village won't be able to keep it!" Ning Zechen said in a loud voice, he is used to living a poor life, and he is reluctant to waste good things, but he doesn't need fire, the casualties of the hard attack are too large, and he may not be able to catch up in time, he hesitated and proposed to let Lin Tie decide.

"For you front-line commanders, cherishing soldiers is the main principle," Lin Jian said with a serious expression, "Use fire." ”

The South Zhai Gate and the collapsed mouth in the northwest corner, the two sides have been fighting and defending until now, Lin Jian has not advised them to set fire, he is not afraid that the horses in the village will be damaged, mainly considering that the fire was rashly used at the beginning, and the generals with insufficient combat experience may not be able to block the captives who are forced to rush out and kill.

Of course, using fire before dawn will only allow Nahe Xiongqi to discover the abnormality in Xiaobotou Village in advance.

Now that the sky is bright, Nahexiong Qibu has also run far enough. On the one hand, the confidence of the captives in the conflict and encirclement from these two openings was weakened, and on the other hand, the soldiers of the third and fifth battalions stabilized their positions and became solid as a rock in the repeated rush and recuperation.

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The northwest wind was strong, and it was fitting to set fire to the hole that had broken in the northwest corner.

Since the decision to set fire to the village was made, Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen returned to adjust the deployment, and Zhou Pu personally led his soldiers to rush in from the broken opening in the northwest corner, compressing the captives into the house, so that they could set fire to more houses, so that the fire would go deeper at the beginning, so that the captives could not extinguish the fire at all.

Most of the houses in the north are earthen walls and thatched roofs, and only a few wealthy families and squires use bricks and tiles, but the beams and pillars are also made of wood. In addition, the villagers rarely use charcoal (coal) for cooking, and almost every household has haystacks in their yards. In the cold and sunny weather for several days, although some snow is difficult to melt, it is also dry snow that is blown dry by the cold wind.

These are all extremely favorable conditions for setting fire to the village.

Everywhere the captives rode through, the three prefectures of Yannan were almost completely barred, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and wounded, and tens of thousands of Ding Zhuang were snatched, and almost two million people were displaced, becoming refugees who fled south, and endured freezing and starvation in the central and southern parts of Shandong.

Naturally, there is nothing to talk about the inhumane captives, and arson to the village is nothing to bear for the generals of the Jiangdong Left Army, who have long been trained in the war. Lin Mengde was only heartbroken for those horses that could have been captured, and when he heard that Lin Jian had decided to use fire, he hurriedly came over to ask if he could take the village in another way.

The captives in the village were determined to resist, and they also knew that they could not be forgiven for surrendering after these evils were created in Yannan, and their arrogant mentality also made them unable to bear the surrender of themselves or their clansmen to the weak southern Korean soldiers.

After having an effective entry point, there is no more labor-saving and effective way to attack the village than using fire, Lin Liancai didn't care about Lin Mengde's heartache, he made Ao Canghai ready to attack, and if the third and fifth battalions couldn't block the opening, they would ask the first battalion to besiege and kill the escaped captives in the field.

Zhou Pu was wearing scale armor, and under the escort of the left and right armor guards, he looked coldly at the captives who were holding on to the inside of the lane, and in front, he used flying contradictory cars and door panels, high shields, and iron nail plates to build an obstacle in the narrow lane.

The captives on the inside wondered for a while why the Jiangdong Left Army had been fighting for a long time and suddenly gave up rushing in, until the clay pot filled with lamp oil was handed over from behind, and the soldiers with strong arms were thrown over, splashing all over the lamp oil, smelling the smell of the lamp oil wafting out in the cold air, and then they suddenly understood that the Jiangdong Left Army in front of them was so despicable that they wanted to set it on fire.

Before the captives broke through the barrier and rushed in, Zhou Pu made the soldiers in the front line set fire, threw torches into the captives, first burned the captives who were splashed with lamp oil, and then Zhou Pu slowly withdrew from the alley, and set fire to all the thatched houses on both sides of the alley. When Zhou Pu led the soldiers to completely withdraw from the broken wall, the fire in the northwest corner had been burned into pieces, blowing to the whirring northwest wind to the southeast, there were only three wells in the village, and there were so many flammable things that could not be saved.

Zhou Pu looked at the gap in the wall in the northwest corner that had been completely covered by flames, and thought that the eastern captives were really not good at guarding the walled city, leaving only one team of soldiers firm, he led the two teams to rush to the north gate of the wall, and the other teams scattered along the wall, ready to surround and kill the captives who escaped over the wall.

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