More than 300 Liao people pushed the tall chariot to cross the soft land in front of Gaoque City, under the cover of the trebuchet, braved the rain of arrows to advance to the city, although the trebuchet from time to time can take away one or two Liao troops standing on the chariot, but soon there was a replacement, those fierce Liao troops eagerly look forward to being able to climb to the head of the city and the Tang army hand-to-hand combat, for hand-to-hand combat, they are very confident.

Seeing that the rushing car has arrived at the head of the city, the gunpowder bomb still did not work, there is a cowhide outside, and the gunpowder bomb cannot be exploded, it will only affect the Liao soldiers in the rushing car, and now the best way is to use fierce fire oil.

However, the distance with the rocket is not enough, and under the urgency of the situation, Lou Zhong ordered the secret weapon to be carried out, which was just sent from Chang'an a few days ago, called the three-bow crossbow, the first two bows, and the last bow, also known as the 'Eight Bull Crossbow'.

This is the latest research results of the Mo family, after having the finished product, Li Jun sent this weapon to Gaoque without saying a word, three bow bed crossbows, arrows with hard wood as the arrow shaft, with iron pieces as the feather, known as "one gun and three sword arrows", the bed crossbow can also be fired "stepping arrows", when launched, it is magnificent, the arrows are like javelins, and the close-range firing can be directly nailed into the city wall, when the salvo is fired, rows of pedal arrows are firmly nailed into the city wall, and the siege soldiers can climb up by this.

Looking at the big guy in front of him, Lou Chong liked it completely, pulled the arrow, and the arrow was still loaded with two pours of fierce fire oil, and when it was ready, Lou Chong roared angrily: "Launch." The thick arrows went straight to the rushing cart, and three eight-oxen crossbows and nine arrows were all shot at the rushing cart, and the fire oil flowed all over the rushing cart.

Lou Chong laughed and said, "Ignition." ”

Rockets flew towards the car, and the car became a large torch.

Without the Northern Liao people who rushed to the car, the combat power suddenly dropped to a higher level, and Lou Chong's defense was much easier, and the two armies fell into a confrontation.

The scouts of the Liao people kept patrolling between Gaoque and Baishan Mountain, but they forgot the large area under their noses, and perhaps Yelu Zongkang thought that his 100,000 cavalry was enough to control this area.

In this area, there is a hungry wolf staring at Yelu Zongkang, this person is Yi Chuan who has returned to the battlefield, Yi Chuan has been in the Hetao for half a year, listening to the good news from Wei Chaodong and others who fought against Beijin, but the Hetao area is calm like a pool of stagnant water, and his heart has long been itching.

Half a year has passed, and the Northern Liao people still haven't come, Yi Chuan had to pack his burden and return to Beijing, but halfway through, Yi Chuan regained the news that Yelu Zongkang was coming, Yi Chuan first laughed twice, he waited for so long and finally had a fight, and then scolded Yelu Zongkang fiercely, grandma's, you can't be early, isn't this a trick, you have to run back halfway.

So this time Yi Chuan is ready to teach Yelu Zongkang a lesson, hiding in the mountains is the idea that Yi Chuan came up with, although it is dangerous, but once the bet is right, it will wipe out Yelu Zongkang's group.

Yi Chuan stood on a high slope and watched the battle in Gaoque City in the distance, he couldn't help pouting, the battle was always fierce, Yelu Zongkang's army was taking turns, as long as it went up, it would be blown back by gunpowder shells, and then send an army up to be bombed, the purpose of his training army was even clearer than the purpose of attacking the city.

Gaoque City finally rained, the big rain dots smashed on the loess and splashed white smoke, not much effort, the sky and the earth were vast rain curtains, and the Liao people's brigade stood quietly in the rain. The swords and guns were unsheathed, waiting for Yelu Zongkang to give an order and start attacking the city. After more than three days of attack, Yelu Zongkang found that the gunpowder bullet was very afraid of water, so he took this opportunity to prepare to break through Gaoque City in one fell swoop.

Yi Chuan, who was in the mountains and forests, also knew the plans of the Northern Liao people, so he hurriedly sent a message to Gao Que Cheng: "Today is the time of the decisive battle, and I hope that General Lou will cooperate in the next and outer areas to annihilate the Northern Liao people." ”

At noon, the rain became heavier, Yelu Zongkang left 3,000 people to guard the camp, and the rest rushed to Gaoque in desperation, in Yelu Zongkang's view, the whole Liangzhou is a delicious fruit, as long as you smash the shell of Gaoque City, you can eat the flesh inside.

So Yelu Zongkang gave the order for a decisive battle, Lou Chong stood in the rain, looked at the dense Northern Liao people in the distance and roared: "Brothers, the last battle has come, behind us are our fathers, old folks, wives and children, if we retreat, they will kill all of us, and they will not let our families go, do you say retreat?" ”

"No retreat, no retreat, no retreat." The generals roared.

The Northern Liao people in the distance have already begun to charge, Lou Chong is walking on the city wall leisurely, and when he sees a soldier who has no clothes to wear, he will throw his cloak over, and when he sees a recruit, he will pat the shoulder of the recruit, and smile and comfort a few words, although this method is disgusting, but it is very effective, Wei Yan feels that Lou Chong at this moment is a big liar, he is deceiving those soldiers to die, but Wei Yan is very envious.

Gaoque City finally began to exchange fire, and the cavalry led by Yi Chuan leveled the Liao army camp guarded by 3,000 old and weak in the first time.

Yelu Zongkang's baggage officer is the son of the Wu tribe of the Northern Liao clan, called Wu Gu, Wu Gu has always been a greedy person who is afraid of death, the reason why he followed Yelu Zongkang this time is completely to be pitted by Yelu Zongkang, he is a good rich son, he should not appear on the battlefield, when Yelu Zongkang fled to the sandbank, he heard that Wu Gu was hunting nearby with his own soldiers, so he deceived Wu Gu.

At this time, the black bone was very scared, the Tang army was pressed from all directions, this time it was difficult to escape, and he couldn't find a place to hide, but he saw the disheartened Futu and planned to commit suicide.

How can this be done, if you die, Lao Tzu will be the leader, and when the time comes, he will become an irreplaceable scapegoat, so when he saw Futu put the knife on his neck, he immediately pounced on it and threw the knife far away, hugged Futu and cried: "Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, the general will endure the humiliation for a while, we will start all over again, why bother to kill ourselves?" ”

Suicide is such a thing, in fact, it is a moment of blood and courage, once the first time is not successful, it will be difficult to do it to yourself the second time, Fu Tu sighed, seeing that his army is being slaughtered, and the Tang army does not seem to have the intention of stopping, since his army has collapsed, surrender is not impossible.

So Futu, who led Yelu Zongkang's rear army, surrendered in this way, and Yelu Zongkang, who was fighting in front at this time, heard the news, spit out a mouthful of blood and fell off his horse.

The soldiers hurriedly hugged Yelu Zongkang, and a group of people galloped towards the east, and the Northern Liao people who had no commander, surrendered and were killed, and the mighty 100,000 Northern Liao cavalry disappeared like this.

After the convergence of the two armies of Yichuan and Lou Chong, they began the first celebration banquet, the loss of the Xiliu army in this battle was very small, but the loss of Lou Chong's Liangzhou army reached 15,000 people, which can be called the most lost war in the Tang Dynasty in the past ten years.

It can also be seen from here that the gap between the capital army and the border army, with more and more new equipment, this gap will gradually widen, because the four armies of the capital are the emperor's life, as for the border army and the local army, they still need to be slowly updated.

As a general, Futu accepted the first task to find the missing Yelu Zongkang, although Yelu Zongkang said that he couldn't make a big climate, but he, the main culprit, was on the run, and Lou Chong always felt uncomfortable in his heart.

Futu went out for two days, and only came back tired on the third day, and at the same time brought the news that Yelu Zongkang had died.

After Futu retreated, Lou Chong and Yi Chuan turned their eyes to Wei Yan who followed aside, Wei Yan poured a pot of tea before saying: "Two handsome, Futu is right, we searched for two days, and finally found the figure of Yelu Zongkang in a pine forest, Futu This guy is really ruthless, without saying a word, he didn't even persuade him to surrender, he directly led people to light the pine forest, the pine forest is not big in total, the water surrounded by the people of Futu is not clear, and all the people who came out were shot to death, and there was no trace of Yelu Zongkang, and then after the fire was extinguished, We went in and searched and found Yelu Zongkang's body in a squirrel hole, the hole was very small, I really don't know how Yelu Zongkang got in? ”

Wei Yan gestured while talking, Lou Zhong and Yi Chuan listened with relish, Yuan Xiaojie next to him really couldn't listen to it, and hurriedly retched: "Okay, don't say it, it's also the prince of Northern Liao, according to the general's opinion, the honor after death has to be given." ”

Lou Zhong shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not easy for us to make decisions about this matter, so let's write and ask Your Majesty." ”