Qi Boyuan then said with a smile: "No matter what, there are still many merits in this, one of which is that the division of labor among the various arms on the city wall is clear, and the deployment is strict in terms of cohesion and cooperation. ”

"Second, it's advisable to concentrate the firepower of the bolts on the planks at all times."

Third, the role of the short crossbow in short-range attacks is relatively good. I have already asked the secretary of the army to record all this, and you must also keep it in mind. ”

Several people stood up and said in unison, "I wrote it down." ”

Qi Boyuan said again: "Today happens to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, a day for family reunion, but it is difficult for those of us who are on the front line to reunite with their families. ”

"In addition, the Khitan people finally erected the plank bridge, and will definitely work hard to strengthen the protection of the plank bridge, at this time the weather is gloomy, which increases the difficulty of defending the city, and the Khitans are likely to harass at night, and even fight at night, and transfer the Shenwu Army Mao Battalion and the Jincheng Army Chou Battalion to the northern and southern sections of the west city wall respectively as reserve troops, in order to strengthen the defense of the west city wall tonight, the north and south city walls did not receive the enemy today, and the remaining battalions were divided into two divisions to take turns on duty and rest."

All the people stood up again and said, "Yes!" ”

After Qi Boyuan and his entourage left, Liu Fan immediately readjusted the defense of the southern end of the west city wall, because the Chou Battalion as a reserve has been resting in the barracks today, Liu Fan and the Ugly Battalion Captain discussed and divided the Chou Battalion into two parts, leaving one to be led by the Ugly Battalion Captain Zhang Ting to be responsible for tonight's city defense duty, and the other and the two battalions of the A Brigade and Yinmao immediately returned to the camp to rest.

After all the deployment was completed, he said to Captain Zhang Ting: "Tonight the sky has eyes, the line of sight is not clear, although it increases the difficulty of defending the city, but it also increases the difficulty of the siege party, the time and geography are on our side, the Khitan army will not launch an attack in the dark night, Captain Zhang worked hard, led the five hundred sergeants to be on duty overnight, and all returned to the camp to rest as soon as the morning dawned." ”

"Please also pay attention to Captain Zhang, if the weather turns cloudy, you must be vigilant, and if the enemy forces turn harassment into actual attack, please send someone to notify me immediately. In addition, please prepare more torches and light torches every few steps on the city wall to facilitate defense. ”

At this time, the hour had passed, and the Khitan army lit five raging fires in more than 100 steps in front of the moat, and deployed two cavalry teams on the north and south flanks to prevent the Daqi army from destroying the plank bridge at night.

Because he didn't sleep well last night, and there was no stop today, Liu Fan immediately said goodbye and went back to his room to rest after eating with everyone in the barracks, feeling that he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.

I slept well all night, and it was already about two minutes when Dong Zi woke him up, and it was already early in the morning when he quickly sorted out his armor and finished breakfast and went to the city.

As soon as Zhang Ting, the captain of the ugly battalion, saw Liu Fan, he immediately ran over and saluted, "Liu Lu, what you said is so right, although the cavalry on both flanks of the Khitan harassed them in a circle last night, they only put a few arrows at the head of the city and then retreated, and the infantry didn't even move. ”

Liu Fan laughed and said, "Attacking in the dark, the line of sight is blocked, and the enemy situation is difficult to understand." It's God's help, this kind of weather is beneficial to the defenders of the city, Nu Erge Fan is a fierce general in the world, and he will not take the lives of soldiers as child's play in this situation. ”

After that, he quickly urged Zhang Ting to lead the five hundred sergeants back to the camp to rest.

At this time, Uncle Su and Qu Yongping had completed the handover with the soldiers on duty last night, and were cooperating with some soldiers to assist the baggage soldiers to carry the equipment to defend the city, Liu Fan asked Qu Yongping and Uncle Su to supplement the other 500 sergeants in the Chou battalion with 400 people to each branch of the army, and let the remaining 100 soldiers follow Dong Zi with straight knives as a mobile force, and let the guards pass the word and immediately call the busy baggage sentry commander under the city to come over.

The sentry chief of the baggage guard was a black-faced man in his thirties, and he was also a Zhuangzi with Liu Fan, and at this time, he ran up from the city and patted Liu Fan on the shoulder and said, "Fanzi, you call me?" ”

Liu Fan said: "Brother Zhu, I want to ask, how much is left of the rolling wood and vegetable oil used to defend the city, and can you last today?" ”

"Fanzi, it's no problem to roll wood and stones, you can hold on for two or three days, but most of the vegetable oil was taken away by the Ganzhou Army yesterday, saying that it was an order from the headquarters, and now there is not much left."

"Then I wish the eldest brother a little bit, and prepare more rolling logs and stones in the city, at least twice as much as yesterday. Prepare the vegetable oil first, don't be busy and heat it, and then you can prepare to send it to the city after the guards pass the word. ”

Liu Fan asked again: "Also, Brother Zhu, is there a javelin in the armory?" ”

Liu Fan saw that the chief of the sentry was confused, and explained, "It's the short spear that the soldier threw with his hands." ”

Only then did the chief of the whistle react and said: "You are talking about throwing guns, there seem to be some in the warehouse, but no one uses that thing." ”

Liu Fan continued: "It's just right that no one uses it, you go and get two thousand five hundred, and equip each of the five hundred soldiers of the resting ugly battalion with five." ”

Liu Fan thought about it again, and immediately called Dong Zidao: "You go to the Shenwu Army Wang Brigade Marshal now and bring these words to him." ”

After that, he whispered in Dong Zi's ear. After the advice was finished, I asked Dong Zi uneasily, and remembered clearly, there can be no mistake in this.

Dong Zi said: "Brother, what's so difficult about this, there are not a few words in total, and there will be no mistakes." ”

By the time everything was ready, it was already three minutes before the enemy attack began. Today's Khitan soldiers' attacks seem to be more frantic than yesterday's, round after round of attacks are as continuous as the rising tide of the sea, and the Khitan soldiers on the simple cloud ladder are even more dense like locusts climbing up, the pressure of the defenders is increasing, the rolling logs and stones piled up at the head of the city disappear quickly, and the baggage soldiers have been carrying to the city head since the morning, so that they can barely be enough.

And that's it, from about the hour of the morning to the beginning of the day, a number of battlements at the head of the city were once broken by the enemy, fortunately Liu Fan prepared a mobile team, as soon as the battlements were breached, Liu Fan and Dong Zi led the mobile troops to rush up immediately, fill it with their lives, and quickly exterminated the Khitan soldiers who boarded the city, so as to ensure the safety of the city.

It wasn't until about three o'clock before the beginning of the first month that a personal soldier from the command came over and whispered Qi Boyuan's password to Liu Fan: "Retreat on time at the beginning of Shen." ”

Liu Fan calculated the time, and immediately asked the guards to send a message to the captain of the baggage soldiers, prepare hot oil, and send all of them to the city before two minutes, and when they were ready, the baggage soldiers and all the wounded immediately withdrew from the east gate.

He also ordered Captain Zhang Ting of the Chouying Battalion to lead the 500 soldiers who were resting to stand by under the city.

When all the hot oil is sent to the city, there is not much time left, Liu Fan gave an order, let the soldiers replace the rolling wood and stones with hot oil, and splashed all the hot oil barrels and barrels from the city head according to the ladder, the Khitan soldiers who were climbing the ladder were poured with hot oil, and rolled down from the ladder with a scream like yesterday, only to hear the sound of the Khitan soldiers falling to the ground and their wails one after another, Liu Fan saw that since the battle started in the morning, the corpses of the Khitan soldiers accumulated under the city wall have been more than half a person high, and another order was given, The soldiers who had been preparing for a long time immediately threw the lit torches down the city wall, and a raging fire instantly ignited under the city wall that was even more fierce than yesterday, immediately separating Ganzhou City from the enemy army besieging the city.

Seeing that the raging fire had been ignited, separating a fire barrier between the enemy and me, Liu Fan did not hesitate at this time, and shouted: "All of them, abandon the city and retreat!" All of them, abandon the city and retreat! All of them, abandon the city and retreat! ”

After shouting three times in a row, most of the soldiers defending the city reacted, but at this time, time was as precious as gold, and Liu Fan kept shouting: "The command command, all retreat!" ”

After all the soldiers retreated to the city, there were already sporadic Khitan soldiers who climbed to the top of the city despite the sea of fire, Liu Fan ordered Qu Yongping, Su Shu and others to immediately lead the soldiers defending the city to retreat to the east city gate, and he and Dong Zi and his party withdrew from the city with Zhang Ting and 500 soldiers who were on standby under the city as a rear cover brigade.

Although the Khitan soldiers who attacked the city chased after them like madmen, first, there were only a few enemy troops who entered the city due to the barrier of the fire, and second, as soon as the enemy army approached, under Liu Fan's order, 500 throwing guns flew overwhelmingly towards the Khitan army, and the Khitan soldiers chasing behind were swept away in an instant.

After throwing guns several times, the rear team safely withdrew from the east gate under the leadership of Liu Fan, Zhang Ting and others, and almost achieved zero casualties.