Under Su Jiacheng's guidance, the warship sailed into the predetermined waters, and Li Zhongyi stood on the bow of the ship with his hands in his hands, looking at the twilight sky in the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing that Li Zhongyi did not ask for further instructions, Zhao Laoqi, the commander-in-chief of the landing, gave the order to land in accordance with the original battle plan.

On the bank of Youzhou on the Sanggan River, there was originally a well-built wharf, which was more suitable for the army to land. However, Li Jiajun's sailors were carrying more than 50,000 people to go ashore, and the movement must have been much slower just by disembarking at the wharf.

Therefore, under the command of Zhao Laoqi, the big boats that had not had time to enter the port and dock, several in a group docked in the middle of the river, and the gangplank was set up on the small boat from the shore and extended all the way to the bottom of the big boat.

The soldiers on the boat quickly landed along the gangplank, and because they did not raise fire, the river bank in the dawn heard the sound of people falling into the water from time to time.

At this time, the sailors who had been prepared jumped into the water one after another to rescue their robe brothers.

According to the prior battle plan, the commander-in-chief of the landing was Zhao Laoqi, and the commander-in-chief of the operation on the shore was Ma Guangda.

Ma Guangda had already followed the first group of soldiers who landed on the shore, went ashore early, and had already begun to exercise the duties and powers of the commander-in-chief.

Under the command of Ma Guangda, the soldiers who had already landed on the shore lined up in a neat line, with their backs to the river bank to undertake the task of guarding.

As time went by, there were more and more people ashore, Ma Guangda looked at the defensive formation that had been basically formed, and he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, the most dangerous time had finally passed.

To put it bluntly, if tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry suddenly rushed out, the officers and soldiers who had already landed and the soldiers who had not yet landed would definitely suffer large casualties.

Just when the soldiers landed on the shore step by step, a dull cannon sound suddenly came from the direction of Youzhou, "Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......"

At this time, Li Zhongyi had already landed, and he immediately ordered those who had already gone ashore to quickly assemble and prepare to get on their horses and rush to the west gate of Youzhou.

Ma Guangda was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Li Zhongyi: "Didn't you say to go to reinforce the North Gate?" ”

Li Zhongyi said with a smile: "The north gate will be handed over to Yang Lie, let's go to the west gate, wouldn't it just help Yang Lie contain the enemy army?" ”

"Pass my orders and bring a dozen or so 6-pounder guns on the ship." Li Zhongyi felt a little sorry that the 12-pounder gun was too heavy, and even if it was moved ashore, the action would be too slow.

At this time, less than 20,000 people of 50,000 troops had landed, and Li Zhongyi couldn't care so much, so he took the lead in leading the assembled soldiers and horses, and rode to the west gate of Youzhou.

Outside the north gate of Youzhou, Yang Lie stood on the dirt slope, looking at the soldiers who rushed into the north gate, and his mood fluctuated somewhat.

In the past days, Yang Lie has always created a false appearance for the Khitan, that is, there are not many people he has brought with him, only more than 10,000 people, which are only suitable for fighting a dozen guerrilla tactics, and cannot really threaten the safety of Youzhou.

Yelu Xiuge did not ignore Yang Lie's harm, and the soldiers and horses sent were also 50,000 elite horsemen, but unfortunately, the Khitans not only had no ships, but also were not good at water warfare, so they could only watch Yang Lie lead the army to gallop across the Great Plain of the Thistle, plundering on a large scale.

After attracting the pursuers to the east, Yang Lie led his troops to suddenly board the boat and make a detour from Yanfangdian to the Gaoliang River.

After landing from the Gaoliang River, the march of more than 40 miles is the north gate of Youzhou.

Yang Lie's troops only have 30,000 troops, and with his little strength alone, even if he takes Youzhou City, it will be difficult to defend it, which requires Li Zhongyi's close cooperation.

According to the battle plan formulated by Yang Lie, he was responsible for attacking the north gate of Youzhou, and after Li Zhongyi bypassed the Khitan defense line from the Sanggan River, he directly attacked the west gate of Youzhou.

With the cooperation of the two constructions and the advantage of artillery street fighting, most of the Khitans could not hold Youzhou City.

As long as Youzhou falls into the palm of Li Zhongyi's hand, it is equivalent to completely cutting off the grain route of the Khitans, no matter how powerful Yelu Xiuge is, the army will always eat, right?

At that time, even if Yelu Huge was no longer happy, he had to lead hundreds of thousands of Khitans to retreat to Xijing Road or simply retreat to the outside of Yanshan Yehuling, north of Guihua Prefecture.

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up and march to the west gate of Youzhou!"

Under Li Zhongyi's strict orders, officers at all levels urged their subordinates to run towards the west gate of Youzhou.

From the bank of the Sanggan River to the west gate of Youzhou, there is a distance of about 20 miles.

At the critical moment, Li Zhongyi couldn't care about cherishing horsepower, and urged the army to speed up the march and rush to Youzhou against time.

The Khitan defenders in Youzhou had a total of 80,000 people, including 60,000 Khitans and 20,000 Han troops.

The chief of soldiers and horses sent by Yelu Hugo to guard Youzhou is his brother Yelu Zhenqi. Yelu Zhenqi has always obeyed Brother Hugh's command, in short, he will do whatever Brother Hugh asks him to do.

Tonight, Yelu Zhenqi didn't plan to drink, but the roasted leg of lamb from the new cook found by the people below really tasted great, and he didn't hold back, but drank a few glasses of mare's milk wine.

It was only four or five cups of mare's milk wine, and to Jeru's curiosity, it was only as if he had drunk it cold.

When there was a big movement from the north gate, Yelu Zhenqi had already woken up for the first time, and immediately ordered the soldiers and horses in the city to gather and prepare to reinforce the north gate.

However, in a hurry, after the Khitans had gathered an army of 30,000 and were preparing to reinforce the North Gate, Yelu Zhenqi learned that the West Gate had also been attacked.

There was no way, Yelu Zhenqi only scored 10,000 men to go to the north gate, and the other 20,000 people followed him to the west gate.

Halfway down the road, Yelu Zhenqi got another bad news, and a large number of Li Jiajun appeared outside the south gate.

Reinforcements were needed on three sides, and Yelu Zhenqi was very distrustful of the Han army, and until this moment, he had no intention of gathering the Han army in the city.

In desperation, Yelu Zhenqi had to divide his troops again with 10,000 troops to reinforce the south gate.

At this juncture, Li Zhongyi is outside the west gate, and the south gate is just a bluff.

Today's West Gate of Youzhou, the outer gate has been bombarded by the approaching 6-pounder cannon, and the officers and soldiers of the artillery corps are storming the inner gate of the urn city.

If it weren't for the urgency of time, the 12-pounder gun would not have been brought in time, and the 6-pounder gun would not have been used as the main force to bombard the city gates.

"Boom ......" accompanied by a loud bang, the inner gate of the urn city was officially lucky to be hit, and in the morning light, the west gate of Youzhou opened.

"Kill, ......" With Li Zhongyi's order, the soldiers of the Li family army poured into the west gate of Youzhou like a tide.

Li Zhongyi exhaled a long breath and secretly said that he was lucky, fortunately, he was lucky and blasted open the inner door of the urn city in time.

Otherwise, once the time drags on and the Khitan reinforcements arrive, it will be difficult to reverse the trend of success or failure!

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