Late Tang

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In the Chinese army, Li Jing saw Liu Shouqian used a coffin filled with gunpowder, dug a hole under the city gate and successfully blasted the north gate of Guiyi City to the sky, so he couldn't help but praise him loudly.

Liu Shouqian continued to be modest, claiming that this method was a secret technique mastered by Paoying.However, it could be seen that his face was indeed flushed at this time, and he was a little proud.The king of the county gave him a day, and it took him less than an hour to break through the north gate. This battle completely secured him his temporary position as the commander of the three armies during the war.In this way, it can be said that he has shown his ability and extraordinaryness among the generals.

"The city defenses have been broken, and the enemy can't last long. In order to avoid losses, we should let go of the siege to the west first, to prevent the enemy from being destroyed."

Jing Xiang said on the side, the army already had the upper hand, now that the city gate is breached, no matter how hard the defenders hold on, they will definitely be unable to hold on.At this time, I have begun to consider how to minimize the loss.

At this moment, another series of explosions sounded.

At the opening of the north city gate, Liu Rengong has personally led more than a thousand elites to form a shield here, trying to block the charging Northeast Army.

However, although the shield formation was strong, the soldiers of the Longxiang Army, who were rushing in, quickly approached the gate of the city under the cover of the group of archers behind.When they reached a distance of ten feet, Guo Xiong, who was at the front, yelled, and he had bundled five Human Torches into a bunch, lit them and threw them with all his might.

Guo Xiong, who had excellent grades in the bombing training at the military academy, even though he was throwing the cluster Thunderbolt at this time, he still threw it into the defensive shield formation behind the gap with great precision.

With a loud bang, five Human Torches bundled together exploded, much stronger than one alone.In an instant, the lives of five or six defenders had been taken away, and a piece of stumped limbs and arms flew into the sky.

The soldiers who rushed from behind also started to put the Thunderbolt fuse close to the ignited match wrapped around their left wrist one by one, ignited it, and then threw it at the enemy with all their strength.

One after another, the two-jin long-handled thunderbolt bombs fell into the defenders' formation like meteorites all over the sky, and exploded violently one after another.

The soldiers of Mozhou Dingba Capital standing in front of the gap are also veterans who have experienced many battles, but from Liu Rengong to Xiaobing, they have never experienced such a style of fighting.

Far away, their arrows shot out, only a small number of Liao soldiers were brought down.

However, under the cover of the arrow rain from behind, the Liao soldiers threw bombs in shock, and seven or eight of the thousand defenders in front of the gap were already dead, and the rest of them also looked at their broken arms and stumps and howled in horror. Call.

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

Liu Rengong avoided a spinning broken helmet, wiped the rain of blood from his face, panted heavily, and ran backward with more than a hundred people around him in shock.Although many generals already know that it is safest to lie on the ground when facing flying fire.

But in the current situation, these flying fires are not machine-fired, but every soldier has them in their hands. They can be thrown directly while charging, and their power is surprisingly not weaker than that of machine-fired flying fires.Especially when a coffin blows up the entire city gate, such power is unheard of.

Turning his head and looking into the distance, Li Kuangwei, who was leading his troops for reinforcements, saw the violent explosion, instead of rushing to plug the gap, he turned around and left.The Li Ziqi was so conspicuous in the gunpowder smoke that many of the other soldiers threw away their helmets and armor and fled.

Groups of soldiers turned around and fled everywhere, and the miserable howls of casualties on the ground were ignored.

Liu Rengong's heart was beating violently. Even a strong general like him was in such a panic when facing the fierce flying fire attack of the Liao soldiers. It is even more conceivable for ordinary soldiers.If he was guarding a state city, no matter how powerful Li Jing's flying fire was, it would certainly not be possible to achieve such results all at once.But the damn thing is now in the small city of Guiyi, the gate of the city was blown up as soon as the coffin flew into the sky, and the Liao soldiers rushed in immediately after taking advantage of the situation.

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

He looked around, yelled and shouted, and made people regroup in front of the gap.As long as the gap can be maintained, things can be done.

But at this time, the soldiers in the city were frightened by the continuous explosion and fled in all directions.Especially seeing that Li Kuangwei had already led his troops to flee here under the flag, it attracted countless people to flee for their lives.

Liu Shouwen said angrily: "Li Kuangwei has already fled to the west gate. I heard that Li Jing transferred the soldiers outside the west gate to the north gate."

A flash of lightning flashed in Liu Rengong's heart, "Ximen is a dead end deliberately opened by Li Jing. We have tens of thousands of horses. If we stick to the city, we can still stick to it. If we go out of the city and flee in all directions, no matter how fast we run, we can still go fast." It is impossible to pass Li Jing's [-] cavalry."

The two Liu Shouwen brothers also came to their senses at this time, Li Jing has enough troops and has already broken through the North City, so there is no need to call in the Ximen guards.There is only one reason for this, Li Jing deliberately let go of Ximen, the so-called besieged city must be closed, in order to disintegrate the fighting spirit in the city.To escape at this time, how could he escape the pursuit of a large group of cavalry.

"Now that Li Kuangwei has escaped, the morale of the army has collapsed. Guiyi City is no longer defendable. Li Jing's [-] troops and [-] cavalry are here. What should we do?"

To be honest, there are quite a few soldiers in the city, there are [-] combat soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers, and there are thousands of 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 entire army had already been taken away, and with Li Kuangwei taking the lead, the whole situation was completely hopeless.

Li Jing saw that the resistance of the defenders in the northern city was getting weaker and weaker, so he put down the binoculars, turned his head and ordered to the orderly at the side, "Order to withdraw the encircling soldiers at the east gate."

It has been less than an hour since the start of the war, but the Northeast Army has already smashed the determination and morale of the enemy with the unlimited use of firearms.However, in this short period of time, the frontal attacking infantry also suffered heavy casualties. It is estimated that at least a thousand people have fallen in the fierce battle. .

Li Jing's heart ached when he saw it, and every time a soldier fell, he would feel extremely heartbroken.

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

He has a full [-] elite cavalry, so what Li Jing needs to do now is to let go of the siege, let the defenders see a way out, and force them to flee.As long as they escape, with the morale of the three groups of soldiers in the city, they will inevitably break through and flee in the end.

As long as they break up, on the vast North China Plain, who can stop the pursuit of [-] cavalry?

The cavalry was ordered to fly down with the order, and after the west of the city withdrew, the east of the city also withdrew.

As long as there is a chance of life, no one is willing to die.

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

But knowing this, but others have already started to flee, how can I choose?

While letting go of the siege on both sides of the east and west, the Northeast Army also began to strengthen the attack on Beicheng.One after another took turns to charge, and one piece after another of the Human Torch was thrown over as if they didn't want money.Even though Liu Rengong and Zhang Zeshen had joined together and kept gathering soldiers and horses, they still couldn't resist and retreated steadily.

More and more soldiers began to flee in all directions, and the speed of gathering troops was not as fast as rout.

Zhang Xingze yelled to Liu Rengong right away: "This is not going to work, Mr. Liu, it is impossible to do anything, let's withdraw!"

Liu Rengong calmed down at this moment, and he swept the Liao soldiers who were advancing in front of him.Turning to Zhang Xingze, he said: "General Zhang retreats first, and a certain army leads the rear."

Hearing this, Zhang Xingze was very grateful.Immediately, he clasped his fists and thanked him, and hurriedly patted his horse and fled eastward with the remnants of the 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 the goal is big, let's go to the west."

At this time, Liu Rengong was surrounded by five or six thousand cavalry, basically all Mozhou soldiers.The two thousand cavalrymen basically had no losses, and they all gathered around them at this time.However, he did not lead all the soldiers to the west gate, but let a general in Dingbadu lead thousands of infantry to the west gate.He himself assumed the rear, but when the infantry left, he immediately said in a low voice: "Let's go to the south gate, let's go!"

Liu Rengong knew very well at this time how difficult it was to escape from the pursuit of [-] cavalry.He couldn't bear to be a child and couldn't be a wolf. At this time, he not only asked Li Kuangwei 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 two thousand cavalry, he rushed straight to the south gate.With these two thousand cavalry, it is not without the slightest chance.

"Jun Wang, please let me lead 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 stepped forward to ask for a fight.

Li Jing nodded, and issued several orders. On the one hand, he dispatched three generals, Wang Yanzhang, Gao Siji and Yang Shihou, each leading an army of cavalry and flying cavalry to the three passes including Waqiao Pass, Mozhou, south of Guiyi, and quickly captured the three passes to prevent them from attacking. The deserters entered the two states of Moying.They also sent three generals, Li Si'an, Wang Tan, and Gao Jichang, to lead an army of cavalry each to pursue the deserters from the east, west, and south.Then, he ordered the [-] infantry to divide half of the soldiers and horses to re-encircle the four city gates, and the remaining three troops directly entered the city to eliminate the remaining soldiers and horses.

Under the new military order, [-] infantry marched into the city, while [-] cavalry left only the Shengjie Army and the Black Banner Army, and the rest went in pursuit.At this time, Liu Rengong and others had already escaped from the city, but there were still tens of thousands of soldiers in the city, and almost all the auxiliary soldiers.

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

At this point in the battle, there was no more suspense. Although there were still nearly [-] soldiers in the city, the three leaders, main generals and elite soldiers had all fled. 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, within a radius of tens of miles of Guiyi City, one after another cavalry galloped horizontally and horizontally, submerging one after another of the defeated soldiers like a red tide. (To be continued.)