As long as the cavalry exceeds 1,000, it seems that the number is very large, and as far as the eye can see, the wilderness is full of endless Khitan cavalry, which has surrounded Beishan Fort.

"There are about fifteen hundred horsemen, and the main target of the captives seems to be the new castle." When Qin Ming said this, he was obviously a little relaxed. Thousands of cavalry galloped outside the fort walls, and only those who were there could really feel how terrible this pressure was.

Fortunately, it is sheltered by the fort wall.

If it was in the field, these more than 200 soldiers would have scattered and fled long ago.

Now there is no way, most of the wives and children are in the fortress, if the fortress wall is breached, these women and children will either be slaughtered or the tragic fate of slaves...... You can only muster up the courage to fight to the death!

Beishan Fort is adjacent to the Shiya River in the east, and the walled gate is in the south. The Khitan cavalry did not gather to the south, but lined up on the north side of the tunpu, preparing for the attack.

Qin Ming glanced at the banner of the Chinese army, and then said: "It turned out to be Yelu Lihu!" This Khitan Emperor's younger brother is here, it looks like it will be a big war! ”

Liang Xing said a little strangely: "Look at the dress, it shouldn't be the main force of the Khitan, how can it be Li Hu?" ”

Qin Ming said: "Our side is a partial division, looking at the clothing and ornaments, it should be the Wugu Department or the Enemy Martyr Department that was just conquered by the Khitan last year, it seems that there are a lot of soldiers and horses from the Khitan this time, there are more than 15,000 partial divisions, and the whole army should exceed 100,000!" ”

As the two were talking, they saw several horsemen walking out of the formation with a small white flag, and one of the horsemen raised his hand and suddenly approached the dock wall.

Qin Ming said: "This is to persuade you to surrender, and the Khitans have also let those traitors teach them badly...... He turned his head sideways and said to Liang Xing: "Give me the crossbow!" ”

Liang Xing said: "If you shoot someone's messenger to death, you can anger the enemy even more!" ”

Qin Ming took the divine crossbow from him, and smiled: "I don't shoot people, it's always okay to shoot horses, anyway, I want him to go back in embarrassment!" He adjusted the ruler to a hundred paces, took up his crossbow, and aimed at his opponent through the lookout on the crossbow.

When the envoy sent by the Khitan people came to a hundred paces, he finally stopped his mount, and then shouted loudly in Chinese with a Youzhou accent: "The great Khitan emperor's eldest brother, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, Li Hu...... Yes! ”

Qin Ming suddenly pulled the crossbow machine at this time, only to hear a "whoosh", a crossbow arrow with a black light shot out of the gap behind the breastwork, and directly drilled into the neck of the war horse, and actually submerged nearly half.

The mount was in pain, and ran around like crazy, and the persuasion sent by the Khitan people was in a hurry, but fortunately, the riding skills were exquisite, although they failed to fall off the horse as Qin Ming expected, but they were also embarrassed, and the crazy mount rushed to the military formation behind for a sudden chaos.

"Aha, little ones, if you want to fight, you will fight, how can you fight a battle and grind like a girl!" Qin Ming stood behind the chest wall and let out a burst of laughter.

Enraged, the Khitan army roared forward, shooting a rain of arrows at the place where Qin Ming was, but after suffering a blow from a wave of strong crossbows, although they continued to roar and shout, they also carefully kept out of the range of the defenders' crossbow arrows. Although he pretended to be attacking, he turned his horse's head back every time.

"Be careful, the enemy intends to consume our arrows, no orders, no more shooting!" Qin Ming shouted.

The advantage of Beishan Fort is that a circle of moats was dug outside the fort wall, and the water of the Shiya River was poured into it, and these poorly equipped tribesmen obviously did not have any experience in attacking the city before, and they did not expect that the river had risen sharply recently, and the river was half full in the moat more than three zhang wide, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Seeing this situation, Qin Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "It should be someone from the Wugu Tribe, as long as it is not the main force of the Khitan or Xi Tribe, it is much better." ”

Several chief-looking guys outside the dock fort gathered together and discussed for a while, only to see a part of the soldiers and horses from behind, and went to the river to cut grass and cut trees.

"They wouldn't want to make siege engines, would they?" Liang Xing saw from a distance that in the river valley to the east, the Khitan soldiers began to cut down trees, and couldn't help but ask with some concern.

"They just want to fill in the moat and force it onto the wall." Qin Ming laughed disdainfully.

"That's good, so they won't be able to break through the fort walls anytime soon." Liang Xing was also a little relieved. These cavalry obviously did not attack the city, and in fact the most effective way was to use logs to knock down the outermost single-story fort wall so that the defenders could not gain a foothold on the earthen platform behind the breastwork, and then send armoured soldiers to break through directly from the gap.

The Khitan cavalry outside here is seven or eight times larger than the defenders, and it is easy to break through the fort by force in this way.

About 300 cavalry dismounted, these cavalry were not the elite of the Khitan or Xi people, many of them were not wearing armor, and this cavalry army of more than 1,500 people only pieced together more than 300 cowhide shields.

Seeing that the enemy began to prepare to storm the wall, Qin Ming said to the people around him: "Spread the word on both sides, this kind of leather shield can't resist the piercing shot of the armor-piercing cone, wait for them to enter within fifty steps before starting to fire crossbow arrows!" ”

As the general of this Beishan Fort, he is very familiar with the combat methods of the Khitans, and he is not frightened at this time, if it is the elite of the Khitan or Xi tribe, he may feel difficult. And now, these cavalry, composed of tribal shepherds, seemed to be somewhat helpless against the impenetrable walls, and his confidence was greatly increased.

Xi lived in Bei'an Prefecture (Chengde) for a long time, and was better than the Khitan in smelting iron and making weapons, armor, and equipment.

Especially after obtaining Lulong, Pingzhou, Yingzhou (Chaoyang) and Dongpingfu (Liaoyang), which originally belonged to the jurisdiction of Youzhou, most of these places were cultivated Han people, which allowed the Khitan people to transition from nomadic tribes to a semi-pastoral and semi-agricultural society, and the national strength was greatly enhanced.

These tribal cavalry on the grassland have not seen the siege, and now they are helpless to dismount and attack the fortress, and the leader of the Wugu tribe, Mu Chen, has a team of Khitan supervisors around him, although he knows that the casualties of storming the fortress will make him unbearable, he can only order his subordinates to forcibly attack the fortress.

Dozens of tree trunks were dragged back, and each dismounted soldier was finally ready with a leather shield in his hand and a bale of straw behind him.

With the sound of a low horn, the Khitan army was shouting, carrying a simple wooden ladder to the wall, and at the same time, the Khitan cavalry also began to gallop on horseback, bending bows and arrows, and throwing arrows from a rain of arrows to the wall to suppress the defenders' counterattack......