Xiao Ding arranged the strategic deployment and led the troops to fight against Song Yinpan. After winning two battles in a row, he ordered the whole army to charge.

In an instant, 10,000 forbidden troops, pushing a crossbow cart and carrying a medium-sized beaded crossbow, rushed towards Song Yinpan's team.

Song Yinpan's three generals were all wounded, and seeing that the opponent's army rushed forward, he had no choice but to order to charge forward.

However, Xiao Ding did not intend for his soldiers to fight Song Yinpan's soldiers hand-to-hand, but after reaching the range, he directly fired crossbow arrows.

Song Yinbei had suffered a lot from this crossbow arrow before, but now it was Song Yinpan's turn, and he was dumbfounded for a while. The other party has such a powerful crossbow arrow, which is too powerful. At such a distance, his own side's bow and crossbow could not shoot at all, but the opponent's bow and crossbow shot a large piece.

He hurriedly gave the order and ordered the shield-bearer to go to the front. Who would have thought that when an ordinary shield player reaches the front, he will be directly shot through by the opponent's long spear and crossbow arrows, which will not help at all.

It didn't take long for his side to be shot dead and wounded thousands. Song Yinpan was in a hurry and hurriedly ordered to retreat back to the camp. With the camp blocked, it may be able to withstand these powerful crossbow arrows.

In the process of retreating, thousands of people were shot by crossbow arrows and fell to the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.

Anyway, Song Yinpan withdrew to the camp with the army, and then he commanded the camp.

When Xiao Ding saw Song Yinpan withdraw to the camp, he issued an order to continue to attack the camp directly.

With the blockage of the camp and the shield hand hiding behind the wall, the power of the crossbow arrows on Xiao Ding's side has indeed weakened a lot.

When Xiao Ding saw it, he hurriedly stopped, since the effect was not great, there was no need to continue to waste crossbow arrows.

After a moment's hesitation, he ordered: Tie torches to the crossbow arrows, pour tung oil, and then fire them.

As soon as the order came out, the soldiers quickly went to prepare. Fortunately, it's not far from his camp.

The bolts fired by the repeater were originally made of a wooden spear with an iron tip.

Now by tying torches to these spears and drizzling them with tung oil, the shafts of these spears can easily ignite. Simply launch these spears into the opponent's camp and it will soon set their camp on fire.

When the generals saw Xiao Ding's method, they all admired Xiao Ding's wisdom.

In such a short period of time, he can think of a better way to break the enemy, which is not something that ordinary generals can do.

After the soldiers were ready, Xiao Ding organized the soldiers to attack the camp again.

This time, even the ballista fired a fire spear that had already been ignited. After shooting at Song Yinpan's camp, the lines of fire directly ignited the camp, and many soldiers' clothes accidentally touched the flames, and they also burned.

At the beginning, there were few fire spears that came over, and Song Yinpan could also organize soldiers to extinguish the fire.

But then, more and more fire spears were fired. Song Yinpan wanted people to put out the fire, but he couldn't save it.

For a while, there were no people standing near the wall, and the gate of the camp was already burning.

The marching barracks of the barracks are usually built of improvised cut wood, so they are very susceptible to ignition.

At this time, Xiao Ding asked the soldiers to move forward some more distance, so that they could shoot the fire spear through the already burning wall and into the interior of the camp.

As long as one tent catches fire, there is a risk that other tents will be ignited.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for many tents in Song Yinpan's camp to be ignited.

Song Yinpan's army was immediately chaotic. They went to the Tingshui River at the rear of the camp to get water and came back to put out the fire, but once this fire burned, where was it so easy to extinguish!

Although a small part of the fire was extinguished by the efforts of many soldiers, many more tents were burned elsewhere.

Moreover, after the camp gate and the wall were not approachable, Xiao Ding's troops began to move forward again. They just kept it, lighting the fire spear and firing it. It doesn't matter where the spear ends up, it just goes into the opponent's camp.

It didn't take long for Song Yinpan's camp to become a sea of fire.

Song Yinpan completely lost his mind. Only today did he truly understand the feeling of his eldest brother Song Yinbei when he lost the battle. It was an indescribable feeling, a feeling of confusion and helplessness, a feeling of discouragement that no matter how hard you tried, it would be difficult to escape the final result of failure.

At this time, Du Ziteng, Wu Gui, and Yi Chunzhu's wounds had been bandaged, and they saw that Song Yinpan was dumbfounded at this time, so they hurriedly came to the front and said: "Your Royal Highness, we can't watch the soldiers all burned to death in this sea of fire, let's run away quickly." ”

"Where are you going?" Song Yinpan asked dumbfoundedly.

When several generals saw Song Yinpan's appearance, they said in their hearts, Is this second son stupid? He hurriedly reminded: "We can run along the river, just avoid the enemy's frontal charge." ”

"Okay, then run away." Song Yinpan still said stupidly.

As soon as several generals saw that Song Yinpan was no longer able to lead the troops, they all organized their own soldiers and escorted Song Yinpan to flee in the direction of the upper reaches of the Tingshui River.

Less than five miles after escaping, a cannon shot was heard, and an ambush was set up in front of him, followed by a rain of arrows. It was Luo Sikou and the five thousand soldiers who had already been ambushed here.

Seeing this scene, several generals of Du Ziteng knew that there had already been an ambush here, and they had all suffered the losses of Xiaoding's ambush soldiers many times, so they did not dare to fight, so they hurriedly organized the soldiers to retreat and fled along the river bank towards the lower reaches of the river.

Fleeing downstream along the river, and before they were five miles out of the camp, they heard a cannon fire again, and the road ahead was blocked by the ambush army again, and thousands of feathered arrows were about to shoot at them, and their own team fell to the ground in an instant.

It seems that this path will not work either.

At this time, the three generals realized Song Yinpan's sorrow, surrounded by armies on three sides, and the camp was on fire, and they had nowhere to escape at this time.

Now the remnants of the army led by the three of them are less than 20,000, and the choice they face at this time is to either jump into the water to escape, or fight against the water. There is no other way. Because no matter which direction you run away, you will encounter ambushes.

Seeing that all the armies were pressing towards them, surrounded on three sides and backed by the river, there was no way to escape.

At this time, Du Ziteng was trying to order the soldiers to fight to the death and fight to the end, since they had been forced into a desperate situation, it was better to fight to the death.

Suddenly, a soldier shouted: "Look, there are boats, there are quite a few ships over there!" ”

Du Ziteng was stunned, he was injured twice in the abdomen, especially this new injury, he had just experienced a run, and now there were blood oozing out. If you want to say desperate, there is no way, and now that I hear that there is a boat, there is one more hope of crossing the river.

He looked in the direction the soldier was pointing, and sure enough, dozens of fishing boats were drifting downstream. Behind the fishing boats, there are also big boats, which seem to be the big ships of the caravan, and there are more than ten of them in total.

When Du Ziteng saw it, he was very happy, these fishing boats, plus these merchant ships, if they were squeezed, they should be able to transport his soldiers to the other side of the river, in that case, there was no need to fight to the death here.

He hurriedly asked his soldiers to shout and stop the fishing boats and merchant ships.

It didn't take long for all the fishing and merchant ships to dock.

There weren't many people on board. After Du Ziteng, the captain of the fishing boat, and the captain of the merchant ship explained their intentions, the two boat bosses seemed to be very frightened, and nodded their heads again and again.

So Du Ziteng, Wu Gui, and Yi Chunzhu organized soldiers to get on the ship, as long as the ship was out of danger before the enemy army came over, it was out of danger.

Since there were very few people on the original ship, the more than 10,000 soldiers were also crowded onto the more than a dozen large merchant ships and dozens of fishing boats.

With a shout from the boss of the boat, the ship went off the shore and headed for the other side of the river.

At this time, Xiao Ding's three-way army had already chased to the shore, and Xiao Ding looked at the ships that were gradually moving away, and a mysterious smile appeared on his face.

At this time, Yang Yueling came to Xiao Ding, looked at the river in the distance, and said, "Cockroach crawling deputy marshal, you miscalculated this time, I didn't expect them to escape by boat, right?" ”

Xiao Ding smiled and said, "Don't worry, let them be happy for a while, you watch first, and you will know the result in a while." ”

Yang Yueling heard that there was something in what Xiao Ding said, so she nodded thoughtfully, staring at the distant ship and saying no more.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the boats to reach the very center of the river.

Suddenly, all the boats caught fire in their cabins, and all the boaters jumped into the river as soon as possible

Then, from the upper reaches of the river, several more sailboats galloped in. The crew members who jumped into the river all swam to the sailboats that came upstream.

The dozen or so large merchant ships and dozens of fishing boats carrying Song Yinpan's troops suddenly caught fire, which was obviously deliberately set on fire. At this time, Du Ziteng, Wu Gui, and Yi Chunzhu smelled the smell of saltpeter and sulfur from the burning flames.

It seems that the boatman's deliberate arson was clearly premeditated.

Now the boat is unmanned in the middle of the river, and after the flames rise, they cannot be extinguished, and the soldiers are crying and crying for their mothers. Regardless of whether it is water or not, all of them will jump into the water without dying.

The sailing boats that flew over from the upstream, after rescuing the crew members in the water, drove the boat to the vicinity of those fireboats, and then, on the bow of the big ship in the middle, a young general stood out, it was Yue Yunfeng.

Yue Yunfeng was in high spirits, waved his hand, and said, "Release the arrow!" ”

So the thousands of soldiers on several sailing ships bent their bows and arrows and shot at the fireboats and the soldiers who had jumped into the water.

When Du Ziteng, Wu Gui and Yi Chunzhu saw the situation in front of them, they knew that they had fallen for Xiao Ding's trick again. The fire on the boat was so fierce that they couldn't, so they had to take off their armor, protect Song Yinpan, jump into the river, and swim towards the other side of the river.

More than 10,000 troops, after the burning on the boat, there were those who took the initiative to jump into the water and drowned, plus Yue Yunfeng drove the boat to shoot and kill. In the end, less than a thousand soldiers swam to the other side of the river.

Song Yinpan was immersed in the river, and he was already a little sober at this time, and when he saw that his army of nearly 30,000 people was less than 1,000 left, he almost didn't cry.

Under the protection of Du Ziteng, Wu Gui and Yi Chunzhu, they had just climbed ashore from the river with these hundreds of people. In the grass on the bank of the river, a cannon rang out, and then countless feathered arrows were fired towards their crowd.

Song Yinpan raised his head and sighed, it seems that it is difficult to escape this catastrophe today!