Chapter Seventy-Three: The Battle of Yunzhou (Part II)

Under the city of Yunzhou, the sound of killing shook the sky.

As soon as the Qi army left the city, it was fiercely attacked by the Khitan cavalry.

However, in order to lure the Qi army out of the city in large numbers, Yelu Xidi was to attack the cavalry a little far away, and when they slowly drove and charged, the cold light of the Mo knife array was already in full swing, and in the heavy armor Mo knife array, it was ten thousand arrows at once, and the first batch to go out of the city was the heavy armor foot and heavy armor bow of the first army.

They have never climbed to the head of the city to fight, because the Khitans do not have enough understanding of the armor of the heavy armor of the people, and even a Khitan general directly led his personal guards to launch a fierce charge, and immediately fell into the formation, "the men and horses are broken".

From the very beginning, the war did not advance in the direction that Jerod had hoped.

The Khitans quickly changed their strategy and harassed the heavy infantry with archers and cavalry, and the onslaught of the cavalry was placed on the phalanx of the Qi infantry who were leaving the city one after another.

The foot soldiers of the second army, shield, one gun, three bows and four crossbows are basically the standard configuration of the forbidden army, and, in addition to the Red Tiger Army, Shenwu Army and other independent legions, the other major battalions of the forbidden army will be mixed at the battalion level, each battalion, the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen are mixed with two, and two are archers, one is crossbowmen, not like the Red Tiger Army, except for the giant sword battalion, the other mixed to the squad level, a class, is a small combat unit with a mixed shield, gun and bow.

The largest battalion forbidden army is a formation considered from the campaign level, the smallest combat unit, but also the battalion level, and now on the battlefield, it is a phalanx for each battalion, and several battalions form a large array, so that the crossbowmen can also get the most basic protection without dispersing the bow power.

In the midst of the arrows in the sky, the Khitan cavalry also dismounted and shot arrows, and on the entire battlefield, arrows rained down.

From time to time, there are soldiers on both sides who are shot and arrows are planted, although the Qi army is in formation, the Khitan is loose, so, in the arrow shooting, it is natural that the Qi army suffers, but the Qi army's foot soldiers are better than the Khitans, and as the Qi sabers and shields move forward, the Khitan soldiers need to get on their horses from time to time, retreat a distance, and then shoot at the Qi army.

The gate of the eastern city was opened at this time, and thousands of volunteers recruited in the city, each carrying bundles of quivers, were ready to go out of the city at any time to replenish the arrows for the bows and crossbows of the Qi army.

Yunzhou arsenal, hoarded crossbow arrows, there are millions.

Outside the southern city, the sudden sound of killing started again, and the Qi cavalry that drove out of the southern city soon fought together with the Khitan cavalry who had been prepared for a long time.

There was also a fierce Khitan, seeing that there were few bows and arrows with them, they mounted their horses one after another and charged at the Qi army's foot soldiers.

In front of Yunzhou City, there were more and more killing voices everywhere, and there were more and more infantry formations strangled together with the Khitan.

After the Khitan people established the country, in the past few decades, they have not tasted a defeat in the Central Plains, and now there are more than 20,000 knights, and more than 10,000 servants of the southern army, so as to fight more and fight less, where will the Qi army trapped in Yunzhou be seen? Although he encountered a small setback, he did not expect the general Qi army to be defeated by a shock, but at this time, he was even more ferocious, or immediately or step down, braving the rain of arrows to attack the Qi people.

Most of the outer fronts of the Qi army have become a situation of hand-to-hand combat.

The scene became tragic and bloody.

Suddenly, there was a trumpet sound, from the direction of the Chinese army in Yelu Xidi, that is, on the shore of Wenying Lake where its newly moved camp was moved.

The Khitans left the battlefield one after another and retreated.

Only outside the south gate, the cavalry strangled with the Qi army was not so easy to retreat. Number Five

The Qi army formation did not chase and kill, but regrouped one after another, slowly moving in the direction of the Khitan camp.

During this time, the volunteers ran out of the city to replenish the arrows for the crossbowmen and carry back the wounded soldiers who had lost their combat effectiveness.

Looking at the battlefield situation from a distance, the corners of Yelu Xidi's eyes twitched slightly, the tenacity and combat effectiveness of the Qi army were completely different from the southerners in his inherent impression.

Moreover, it is this small battlefield, after its small victory, it does not pursue, but assembles into a formation and marches step by step, that is only afraid that the whole army is pretending to retreat, and it will not pursue, so that he can kill a horse pistol and break the enemy by surprise.

Speaking of which, just a few days ago, Yelu Bo Guzhe also proposed to bypass Yunzhou, take advantage of the heavy army of Qi to hoard in Shanxi and Hebei, simply go south to attack Bianjing, and loot the flower world along the way.

At that time, he was also slightly tempted, but now, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back, if he really followed Yelu Boguzhe's proposal, he was afraid that the horses he led would all be lost in Qidi.

Yelu Boguzhe was beside him, and Yelu Xidi couldn't help but turn his head to look at him.

Yelu Bo Guzhe led 3,000 Huangpi Chambers Army, all of whom were warriors of the Huangtou Murwei clan, brave and good at fighting, and stayed in the Chinese army as one of the mobile forces.

looked at the battlefield again, the Qi army formation that was slowly moving towards his own Chinese army.

Yelu Xidi gritted his teeth, it seems that it is impossible for him to be tired of running for his life, but he is even more unwilling to lead the army to retreat like this.

"Da Shen is stable, this Qi army is also brave, but this is interesting!"

Yelu Boguzhe beside him licked his lips and spoke, but there was a fire in his eyes, and the fierce battle on the battlefield was full of blood, as if it had aroused his ferocity like a beast.

At this time, in the south of the city, the Khitan cavalry finally broke away from the entanglement with the heavy cavalry of the Qi State and slowly retreated.

Yelu Xidi's eyes gradually narrowed, clenched the spear in his hand, pointed at the heavy armor in the forefront of the Qi army, and snorted coldly: "Bo Guzhe, you may tear the iron armor of these southern dogs?!" Pull out their canine teeth, and the rest of the dogs will scatter and flee! ”

Yelu Boguzhe didn't say anything, and patted his chest hard.

Jerod was overjoyed, "Good! Good! Today, let the southern dogs see how sharp the sabers of the warriors of our clan are, so that they will know what fear is in the future! ”

Yelu Xidi, gritting his teeth, the Qi people were unexpectedly tenacious, obviously the elite of the Qi army, so, after re-evaluating the acceptance of battle damage, Yelu Xidi decided to annihilate this Qi army at any cost.

Thousands of steps away, the front army of the Qi army slowly pressed the position, stopped, the phalanx of the middle army and the rear army pressed up, and gradually lined up into a horizontal long dragon, and the cavalry team also slowly moved to the two wings, and on the shore of Wenying Lake, a black pressure long dragon was opened.

"Arrogance!" Yelu Boguzhe was a little annoyed, but even more contemptuous, the formation of the Qi army, wide open and closed, is usually used on the dominant side, and does not maintain enough depth to block the impact of the other side, that is, the dominant side, does not think that the other side can penetrate its own first row of phalanx, and is ready to close the long formation at any time to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

Yelu Xidi frowned slightly, he always felt that something was wrong, from the Qi army out of the city, to the confrontation between the two sides, to now his own army and horses have retreated three or four miles away, and the Qi army has advanced to a thousand steps away, speaking of which, it can be regarded as a fierce battle for nearly half a day, he does not think that the commander of the Qi army is arrogant and careless.

But at this time, Yelu Boguzhe had already danced the iron mallet, and the yellow-headed athletes under his command all screamed.