Although Yelu Xianzhen didn't know how many soldiers and horses Li Zhongyi had, the defenders of Yuguan were a real 5,000 fine cavalry.

There are clouds in the art of war: ten and surround it, and five attack it.

With the natural danger of Yuguan, the Zhou army at least exceeded 30,000 soldiers and horses, otherwise, it would be difficult to break through the city.

With 2,000 against more than 30,000 Zhou troops, is it still possible for Runzhou to hold on? The answer is self-explanatory.

Therefore, Yelu Xian gave Han Kuangsi a dangerous idea. Han Kuangsi summoned the men of the whole city to defend the city, and he led more than 1,000 well-trained cavalry troops to quietly ambush outside Runzhou City.

When the Zhou army attacked the city with all its strength and neglected behind him, Yelu took advantage of the cavalry to take advantage of the void and defeat the Zhou army in one fell swoop, which was also the only chance for Runzhou to win.

Of course, there is another way out, that is, to abandon the city and flee to Qianzhou.

It's just that although Han Kuangsi and Yelu Xianzhen knew it, they didn't mention this way out.

Han Kuangsi is the eldest son of the Han family in Youzhou and the current head of the family, if he abandons the city and flees, hehe, his future will definitely be ruined.

Therefore, even if he was scared to death in his heart, Han Kuangsi had to grit his teeth and stand firm.

What's more, there is also a Tianhuang nobleman living in the city. The current lord of the Khitan Kingdom, Yelujing's youngest sister, Princess Yeluhua, has been staying in Runzhou City all year round.

As soon as he received the news of the loss of Yuguan yesterday, Han Kuangsi immediately ran to meet Yelu and begged her to leave Runzhou quickly.

However, what replied to Han Kuangsi was a whip on his head and a piercing cold words, "If you dare to abandon the city, you don't care." Even if you flee to the edge of the sky, I will let the imperial brother cut off your dog's head. Destroy all your people, and reward the women of your house to the barbarians in the deep mountains and old forests. ”

Jerod is condescending. completely treated Han Kuangsi as a house slave, her disdainful eyes, frosty face, and hateful whip made Han Kuangsi shudder, and he never dared to mention the word evacuation again.

Yelu has always boasted of being a world-famous general, his thoughts are far less complex than Han Kuangsi's, and the pride of being a Khitan nobleman made him never think about abandoning the city and escaping.

Since you can't go. Then you can only fight with Zhou Jun!

According to the discussion between Yelu and Han Kuangsi, the two thousand iron horsemen under his command were divided into two.

Yelu took more than 1,200 horsemen, each with three horses, and took the initiative to go out of the city to fight an ambush. Han Kuangsi led more than 700 people, plus the people and adult men in the city, to defend the city together.

What Han Kuangsi has to do now is to delay the time when the city is breached as much as possible, and wait until the Zhou army is pressed with all its might. He lit wolf smoke above the city, and told Yelu to attack the back of the Zhou army.

With Li Zhongyi's order, the soldiers of the Zhou army in the brigade. Under the command of the officers, following the rhythm of the drums, the formation of the attack was quickly launched.

Looking at the Zhou army that came like a tide. Han Kuangsi clenched his fists tightly, and his heart thumped. I almost want to pop out of my mouth.

The strong men who were driven to the city have never seen such a solemn scene. Turmoil is inevitable.

Han Kuangsi heard the buzzing sound coming from behind him, turned his head to look, but saw that in the team of strong men, someone actually threw down the knife in his hand, turned around and ran back.

"Chop." Han Kuangsi was immediately angry, and before he officially engaged in the battle, deserters appeared in his camp, if he didn't curb the crooked wind, then he would be able to pay it back?

As the human head fell to the ground, the piercing blood temporarily shocked the strong men, and the panic on the city wall of Runzhou finally did not spread into a big rout.

To Han Kuangsi's surprise, the Zhou army lined up in a neat line and marched forward, but it stopped a stone's throw away from the Runzhou City Wall.

At this time, Han Kuangsi clearly heard that from the array of Zhou Jun, a strange sound that had never been heard before, one after another, sharp and piercing.

Immediately afterwards, Han Kuangsi, whose eyes widened, suddenly found that Zhou Jun in the front row took off the bow and crossbow on his shoulder, pulled the string and pointed the arrow, and the crossbow arrow shining with cold light pointed straight at the city.

It's not good, Han Kuangsi shivered violently, he never dreamed that Zhou Jun didn't plan to set up a ladder to climb the wall at all, but stopped at a place where the bow and arrow at the head of the city couldn't reach.

Could it be that they want to shoot from below the city and from above the city? Han Kuangsi thought it was incredible, fools knew that the range of arrows fired from the city was much farther.

However, just when Han Kuangsi didn't figure it out, he heard a crisp sound of bangzi in the array of the Zhou army under the city.

"Whoosh...... Sou...... Whoosh...... "Han Kuangsi's eyes suddenly darkened, and he subconsciously lowered his body.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the sky darkened violently, accompanied by the sound of crossbow strings in unison, mixed with crossbow arrows of wind and thunder, overwhelmingly swept over Han Kuangsi's head.

The thunderbolt-like mighty wave of qi, wrapped in an incomparable sharpness, rolled out Han Kuangsi's unstable official hat.

"Ah......h

"It hurts......"

"Save Me ......"

"Mother......"

Han Kuangsi subconsciously turned his head to look, but saw that the strong men who were forcibly recruited by him to the city were like wheat that had been cut down, and they fell in a pool of blood one after another.

A strong man whose abdomen was penetrated by a crossbow arrow happened to fall beside Han Kuangsi, only to see that he covered the shaft of the arrow that kept gushing blood, wailing and rolling on the ground, the terrible scream made Han Kuangsi's mouth bitter, and his legs trembled slightly.

Damn the Southern Barbarians!

Han Kuangsi cursed secretly, according to the countermeasures he had discussed with Yelu Xian, he wanted to let the Zhou army close to the city wall, and then condescendingly, using the bow and crossbow to maximize the damage to the Zhou army attacking the city.

Who would have thought that the Zhou army began to release arrows from a long distance, and before the two armies could fight, Han Kuangsi's captured strong men were shot down in a large area.

"Shoot the arrow, release the arrow, release the arrow quickly." Although Han Kuangsi had never been on the battlefield, he still had some courage, and after he woke up slightly, he immediately ordered a counterattack.

"Stay behind, the enemy is out of range of our bows and crossbows." Yelu left the cavalry guarding the city to be stable, but Yeluhong took a basin of cold water around his head and poured Han Kuangsi into his heart.

"What?" Due to the sound of killing outside the city and the screams in the city, Han Kuangsi didn't hear clearly what Ye Luhong said.

Ye Luhong had no choice but to lean into Han Kuangsi's ear, raise his big voice, and shout what he just said again.

After Han Kuangsi understood what Ye Luhong meant, his face turned pale as paper, without blood.

At this time, the Zhou army under the city, lined up in three columns, under the command of Liao Shanhe, stepped forward in turn, and launched the famous "three-stage attack" against the defenders in the city.

After shooting three rounds, Liao Shanhe never saw the Khitans in the city return fire with bows and arrows, he couldn't help but show a smug smile, and resolutely ordered: "Change the fire crossbow." ”

The overwhelming rockets, as if the fire demon descended to the earth, rushed to the city tower, Han Kuangsi was just about to order his subordinates to raise their shields, but he heard an extremely bad shout, "The oil pot is on fire, the oil pot is on fire......

Finished! Han Kuangsi shook violently, his backbone seemed to be broken, and his whole body immediately collapsed under the arrow battlement. (To be continued......)