At this moment, in the ranks of the Khitans, a group suddenly shouted loudly, "The whole team meets the enemy, the whole team meets the enemy, and they all move closer to General Ben......"

Li Zhongyi glanced at the source of the sound calmly, and the group of people who shouted were actually in Chinese, and it was conceivable that it must be the generals of the Han army in Youzhou who were gathering their subordinates and preparing to resist to the end. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The crossbow battalion is out." With Li Zhongyi's order, the officers and men of the Guards of the brigade stepped forward ten steps one after another and lined up in a strike formation.

"Five-stage strike...... Rapid-fire ......" Li Zhongyi raised his right hand high and waved it downward, and the herald next to him immediately blew the bronze whistle of the attack.

"Whoosh Whoosh......" stormy crossbow arrows smashed into the Khitan rout like splashing water, and for a while, the screams were endless, as if the god of death was recklessly harvesting human lives.

Under the reflection of the skyrocketing firelight, Li Cuixuan saw very clearly that under the ruthless blow of the bow and crossbow, the Khitans who originally wanted to resist stubbornly, crying for their father and mother, were no longer able to organize an effective counterattack.

"Guards, forward!" As soon as the sound of the bowstring stopped, Li Zhongyi's military order was conveyed again, and I saw that the soldiers of the Guards pursed their lips one by one, clenched the spears in their hands, and squeezed towards the gate of Yingzhou with firm and neat steps.

Li Zhongyi just wanted to pull out his war knife and command the army to rush over, but he saw Zhu Niang's fragrant right hand stopped in front of him, "Master, the slave family will never allow you to take risks." ”

"Whew!" Li Zhong glared at Zhu Niang angrily, he wanted to get angry but finally reluctantly withdrew his hand from the hilt, the battlefield was chaotic, and in the dark night, the cold arrows of the Khitan people were not long-sighted!

"Kill...... Kill...... Kill ......" The guards, under the command of the officers, shouted neat trumpets, raised sharp spears, and fiercely pounced into the Khitan rout.

Every time the spear is poked out, it means that a fresh life has been harvested, and the god of death laughs unbridled in mid-air.

The party cavalry under quite Chaoyong stood neatly behind Li Zhongyi, waiting for the commander's dispatch anytime and anywhere.

After taking Yingzhou, Li Zhongyi added a lot of equipment to the party cavalry. Each of them had at least three fine Khitan horses by his side, and each horse had a spear, a sword, two bows, and two arrows hanging from its saddle.

According to Li Zhongyi's prior deployment, it was the duty of the infantry brothers to defeat the defeated Khitan army. As for chasing and killing the Khitans with their backs to the rear, it was the heavy responsibility of the party cavalry.

Professional work must be done by professional people, which has always been Li Zhongyi's principle of employing soldiers.

Of course, in view of the fact that the Khitan Youzhou Army dispatched more than 100,000 people this time, Li Zhongyi selected 4,000 Han cavalry from various armies and added them to the team of quite brave people, thus forming a rapid strike cavalry force of more than 7,000 people.

Under the ferocious blows of the Guards, the Khitans at the West Gate had been completely defeated, but there was an inopportune shouting of killing from the East Gate.

Li Zhongyi turned his head and looked in the direction of the east gate, there was Yang Lie's battlefield, which was fine just now, but now there was a shout of killing, and there was obviously some kind of change.

Outside the east gate at this time, Yang Lie was sitting on horseback, staring at the Youzhou Han army that came out of the city with blazing eyes.

Uh-huh, the city gate has been set on fire, and it was actually pushed down from the inside, obviously there are capable people hidden in the Han army in Youzhou!

However, Yang Lie had prepared the trap early and waited for the Khitans to come and send him to death.

Since rushing to the city of Yingzhou in the dark, Yang Lie ordered everyone to quietly dig a deep ditch about half a zhang deep along the east gate of Yingzhou in accordance with the plan of the Senate, and the ditch was filled with hay and dry firewood collected in advance.

In addition, the improvised trebuchet carried by the army was also erected, and the iron pocket used for projection was filled with hay balls stained with fierce fire oil.

After the Han army in Youzhou came out of the city, although the formation was not so neat, it still had some rules, which made Yang Lie feel a little surprised.

According to reason, there was a flame in Yingzhou City that could not be extinguished, and the Han army of Youzhou under the fence should have lost their fighting spirit, but the reality is that the Han soldiers in Youzhou waved the weapons in their hands and fiercely pounced on Yang Lie.

When the brave wins on the narrow road, Yang Lie silently recited Li Zhongyi's famous sentence, raised his right hand and waved it down, "Ten stage hits, release rockets!" ”

In the blink of an eye, the officers and men of the First Army, who were waiting for the battle, under the command of the grassroots officers, shot wave after wave of arrows in an orderly manner.

The grenadiers behind the formation raised the sledgehammer in their hands one after another, and smashed the mechanism that controlled the catapult of the trebuchet, and suddenly, huge fireballs were thrown on the top of the Han army in Youzhou.

Li Zhongyi has never been a weaponist, Yang Lie is his most proud disciple, and the two are in the same vein, and they both agree that if weapons want to play a huge role, they must look at the timing and place.

For example, the previous steel-stringed bows or crossbows, compared with the daily military bows and crossbows, not only had a short range, but also had a very high breakage rate due to the poor steelmaking process, which was not cost-effective in terms of combat costs.

However, in the event of rain, the steel-stringed crossbow can avoid the water-resistant nature of traditional crossbows and crossbows, and exert an amazing striking effect.

In the same way, on today's battlefield, with the help of the fire in the city, coupled with the blocking effect of the trenches and the infantry formation, the trebuchet that threw hay combined with the power of the bow and crossbow obviously exerted the necessary power.

"Ah......" The soldiers of the Han army in Youzhou, who were speaking Chinese, kept falling in pools of blood, and let out a sad scream before dying.

The hay balls stained with fierce fire oil smashed into the ranks of the Youzhou Han army in the air, and where the fireballs rolled, countless Youzhou troops were frightened and retreated.

There is no moat outside Yingzhou City, and there are only dozens of wells in the city, and it is simply a fool's dream to extinguish the dizzying fireballs.

As the saying goes: fire and water are merciless!

No matter how strong a person's will to escape is, it can't withstand the serious consequences of burnt meat under the fire.

Slowly, the Youzhou Han army, which had already rushed out of the east of Yingzhou, was squeezed back to the city gate under the threat of fire attacks and guns from the soldiers of the First Army.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the Han army in Youzhou, Yang Lie further tightened the encirclement, and he ordered the auxiliaries to throw the dry firewood, hay and other fire-igniting things collected in advance into the opposite side of the trench and pour fierce fire oil.

After a short confrontation, Yang Lie knew very well that Yingzhou City only had two gates, east and west, but the Khitan and Youzhou Han troops stationed in the city were conservatively estimated to be at least more than 80,000 people.

With so many tens of thousands of people, if they want to completely escape through the two city gates in a short period of time, even a fool knows that this is absolutely impossible. (To be continued.) )