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The archers are a sharp blade to deal with long-distance enemies, but their melee attack and defense are very poor, most of the archers of the Hebei army are wearing leather armor, and some even do not wear leather armor for the convenience of archery. Anyway, there are spears and shields in front of them, and it is not their turn to go to melee combat. But they never expected the enemy to emerge from the ground and be killed by surprise.

After the archers of the Hebei Army were close to them, they completely became the targets of slaughter by the infantry of the Liaodong Army. The ranks of archers of the Hebei Army were suddenly chaotic, and in order to avoid the attack of the infantry of the Liaodong Army, they squeezed towards the spear and shield soldiers in front and behind them, trying to seek the protection of these spear and shield soldiers.

However, the archers of the Hebei Army did not expect that they would run over in such a mess, and the spear and shield soldiers were originally arranged in a neat formation, and they were crowded in an instant.

Moreover, if the pikemen wanted to deal with the enemy from the rear, they had to turn around and draw back the spears that were originally supported on the shields, so that the originally airtight defensive formation of the Hebei Army's front line would naturally become a thousand holes.

"! It is really the most poisonous thing than a woman's heart, this woman with red sleeves actually hid so many infantry in the forest, I will say that she is so bold as a woman, only 10,000 people dare to come out and fight head-to-head with our 80,000 army. Ling Jing knew that he had been fooled at this time.

But now he knew that it was useless for him to be fooled, the situation could not be reversed, and without archers shooting, the cavalry of the Liaodong Army rushed to the front of the Hebei army without many casualties. Like a tide, it slammed into the forefront of the infantry phalanx of the Hebei Army, and this torrent of steel seemed to lap on the wooden plank, and suddenly it was like a devastating and decaying force, and it drove straight in.

With a dense collision sound, the powerful cavalry of the Liaodong Army rushed into the array of the infantry of the Hebei Army, which immediately caused a large number of casualties, and a large number of soldiers of the Hebei Army were trampled into meat by the war horses.

It should be said that what Dou Jiande brought this time are all brave and fearless elite soldiers, and they are his hardcore pro-army. It is far from being comparable to the cannon fodder troops sent to attack the Youzhou Army the day before yesterday.

The shield bearers at the front were knocked back again and again by the Liaodong Army in an instant, but these Hebei Army infantry immediately resisted the shield with their bodies and fought to the death.

Originally, at this time, the pikemen behind them should also press forward hard, try their best to use their spears to assassinate the cavalry of the Liaodong Army that rushed up, and the place that was rushed out of the gap should also be filled by substitute shield soldiers, so that they could resist the fierce impact of the cavalry of the Liaodong Army!

However, the pikemen in the rear were taking care of themselves at the moment, and they were struggling to resist the Liaodong Army infantry that killed them from behind.

Although pikemen are not completely incomprehensible to melee combat like archers, they are also suitable for impact assassination weapons at medium distances, and are not suitable for close combat, not to mention that their formations have long been rushed by their own archers, and they are even more inferior, so they can only struggle to support themselves.

Finally, the shield soldiers of the Hebei Army in front completely collapsed after resisting a pillar of incense kung fu. The cavalry of the Liaodong Army took advantage of the situation to kill the rear, using their spears and sabers to harvest the lives of the soldiers of the Hebei Army who were already in chaos.

Seeing this, Ling Jing was so anxious that his head was covered with sweat, although he still had 10,000 infantry behind him, he didn't dare to let them enter the battle immediately. Because at the moment, their own soldiers are in a mess, and they only get into a scuffle when they come in, which will not help and will not play a role in stabilizing the situation, but will cause greater casualties.

And he can increase his troops, and the red sleeves can also increase his troops. If this continues, it is still impossible to win.

"Withdraw!" Ling Jing saw that the defeat had been achieved, and if he didn't run, he would probably be a prisoner, so he immediately ordered a retreat. Anyway, Dou Jiande only asked him to make a tentative attack, to see the reality of the Liaodong Army, and to understand how strong the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong Army was. Now that he has come out of the tente, he can be regarded as having completed the task.

The soldiers of the Hebei Army, who were still barely resisting, saw that the main generals had withdrawn, and their morale immediately collapsed, and they all retreated, scrambling to spread their feet and run, just wanting to escape back to their camp.

Red sleeves knew that the poor should not chase this truth, and the Hebei army still had a large number of men and horses in the periphery, and if they really caught up with it, they were far away from their own camp, and I was afraid that they would not be able to bargain, but they would be copied by the enemy, so they also ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

After Ling Jing returned to the big tent, he was not blamed more by Dou Jiande, because he saw the whole battle process, although Ling Jing's command was not very good, but there was no big loophole, the main reason was that he was defeated because he did not expect the Liaodong army to ambush men and horses in the woods, and he was caught off guard.

"It seems that the woman with red sleeves does have a few pounds and two, and Yuming uses her to guard the camp, but it's not all nepotism." Dou Jiande thought to himself.

Of course, he didn't know that although the red sleeves were fighting and commanding in front on the surface, in fact, these arrangements and commands were all manipulated by Li Jing behind the scenes.

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The next day, the Hebei army launched another massive onslaught. The infantry and cavalry were exhausted, it seemed that it was yesterday's fiasco, and the earth stabbed Dou Jiande, making him strive to break the enemy in one fell swoop today.

Li Jing did not send troops to fight at this time, but ordered the troops to give up the open space at the front, retreat to the camp en masse, and defend with the fortifications and traps in front of the camp.

The Hebei army soon arrived at Yuzhang in front of the camp of the Liaodong Army, and Dou Jiande was obviously prepared this time, and sent the arrow blocking vehicles, siege vehicles, and catapults to fight as a siege battle. I saw dozens of siege vehicles slowly attacking the camp of the Liaodong Army, with the elite cavalry of the Hebei Army on both flanks, and all kinds of light and heavy infantry in the middle. At a glance, the total strength of the attack was at least 50,000 or more.

Under his order, the catapults of the Hebei Army began to bombard the camp of the Liaodong Army. Although the Liaodong Army was also fighting back, after all, the number of trebuchets was not as large as others, and it was at a disadvantage in the confrontation.

After thinking for a moment, Li Jing ordered: "Red Sleeves, you let the shield soldiers and archers shoot the enemy's trebuchet operators. At the same time, Yu Qing was asked to lead the cavalry to prepare. If the enemy's cavalry rushes up, she is responsible for intercepting it. ”

As soon as the red sleeves conveyed the order, they heard the sound of killing again, and a group of archers of more than 2,000 people from the Hebei army rushed up, all of whom mounted rockets and shot at the camp of the Liaodong Army. However, fortunately, Li Jing had thought of this before, so on the side of the camp facing the Hebei army, the fortifications built were mainly sand and stones, and the camp tents were all far away from the enemy's bow and arrows, so the rockets fired by the Hebei army did not play much role.

At this time, the camp gate of the Liaodong Army was wide open, and thousands of shield soldiers covered the archers and poured out, reflecting back to the group of archers of the Hebei Army who fired rockets. Forcing the enemy to have to retreat.

And those soldiers of the Hebei Army who operated catapults also became the focus of the archers of the Liaodong Army, and they suffered heavy casualties under the fire of sharp arrows. The operation of throwing rocks into the Liaodong military camp was forced to be suspended.

Seeing this, Liu Heimin frowned, waved the big flag in his hand, and only heard the war drums in the Hebei army, and about 10,000 cavalry on the left and right flanks rushed up and launched a surprise attack on the archers and shield soldiers of the Liaodong Army.

Li Jing was naturally not to be outdone, and sent all his cavalry, led by Yu Yuqing, to charge the enemy, contain the cavalry of the Hebei army, and prevent them from launching a surprise attack on their archers.

At this time, Dou Jiande was surprised to find that there were as many as 8,000 cavalry with red sleeves, where is this still like a heavy army of grain and grass? If the Liaodong Army's grain, grass, and heavy troops must be equipped with so many well-equipped cavalry, wouldn't the main force of the Liaodong Army be all ironclad cavalry?

The cavalry of the Liaodong Army far exceeded the cavalry of Hebei, and they were camped behind them, and they could be supported by their archers hiding behind the fence.

The two sides invested a total of more than 60,000 people this time, and launched a big battle in front of the camp of the Liaodong Army. Most of the dead were the Hebei Army, and although the Liaodong Army was also wounded, there were medical women who bandaged the wounds, and most of the wounded soldiers survived.

As it approached noon, the armies on both sides were exhausted. The commanders of the two armies unanimously withdrew their troops, and at the same time ordered to bury the pot and make rice.

The pikemen of the Liaodong army swarmed out to receive their cavalry and retreated to the camp, while the archers retreated as they fired.

The Hebei army breathed a sigh of relief at this time, so they also retreated one after another.

However, Li Jing knew that Dou Jiande would not give up, and the trap trenches on his front had all been destroyed, and many of the fences and walled gates had been destroyed by boulders thrown by trebuchets or burned by rockets. So it was decided to take advantage of the gap between battles to evacuate the wounded to the mountains and forests in the rear.

And how could this move be concealed from Dou Jiande, he was overjoyed when he saw this, thinking that the Liaodong Army would soon be unable to support it. He immediately ordered his army to press the attack with all their might after lunch.

Half an hour later, the Hebei Army resumed its offensive, and tens of thousands of heavy infantry in the center of the formation followed behind the arrow blocking vehicles and siege vehicles, and attacked the Liaodong military camp in different directions.

The offensive and defensive battles were carried out in such thrilling conditions and lasted until the afternoon.

The wounded soldiers of the Liaodong Army were constantly being transported out of the camp and to safety. The defense of the camp was also in shambles, but fortunately, the sky had already darkened.

Just when Dou Jiande thought that the two sides were going to collect their troops together like in the morning, the Liaodong Army suddenly moved. They opened all the gates of the camp, and from them poured out a large number of cavalry.

There were more than 10,000 of these cavalrymen, all of whom were wearing black helmets and black armor, and even the war horses were wearing black armor, reflecting bursts of cold light in the setting sun.

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