Set it on fire! Zhang Bin listened to the Liao people screaming miserably, and then looked at the Liao people who began to panic in the canyon, and there was no unbearable feeling in his heart, this is the case on the battlefield, do everything, not to mention that the Liao people have never been merciful to the soldiers and people of the Song State for so many years.

As the snake slave sent an arrow into the sky, on the cliffs on both sides of the canyon, Zhang Bin brought a hundred soldiers in advance and more than 200 spies from the pacification department, and set fire to the specially treated hay bales one by one and pushed them down.

These bundled balls of hay had no fire, only thick yellow smoke and black smoke, which soon filled the entire canyon, and only the terrible screams and desperate screams of the people in the canyon could be heard, and nothing could be seen.

That's right, Zhang Bin knew that they had limited manpower, and in a place like Taihang Mountain, it was difficult to find so much firewood that could burn all the Liao people to death in a short time, so he was ready to smoke and choke these Liao people to death.

Because Zhang Bin knows very well that the smoke is not the slightest slower than the fire, not to mention that some of the dead grass he found is more or less toxic, and what is burned out is poisonous smoke.

At this time, Orimuqiu left three hundred people with all the war horses and left to the other side of the canyon, and the other two thousand four hundred people had already split into two and climbed up the steep slopes on both sides.

After the Song army climbed to the slopes on both sides, they immediately shot arrows into the canyon, or directly returned stones, especially to shoot the Liao troops who desperately climbed out of the smoke area and wanted to climb up the slopes on both sides.

Soon, there was no sound in the canyon except screams and screams of despair.

Contrary to Zhang Bin's expectations, the smoke in the canyon was not so thick, but the fire was much bigger than expected.

This is mainly due to the dry weather in the winter of Taihang Mountain, the wind and wind continue all year round, the fire borrows the wind, and the fire burns rapidly, although the grass that Zhang Bin and they have handled is not completely burned for a while, but all the hay in the canyon is ignited, and after the raging flames are rolled up by the wind, some sparse mountain forests on the slopes on both sides of the canyon are all burned quickly, and soon the entire canyon is also engulfed in flames in the thick smoke.

In the canyon, five thousand Khitan elite horsemen cried and shouted for their mothers, and the war horses made a terrible neighing sound, and in the raging fire, they trampled on each other, neighed and screamed, and rushed to flee for their lives in places where the fire was small and the smoke was sparse.

The route of the Liao soldiers to escape for their lives has four directions, steep slopes on both sides and places blocked by stone piles on both sides, but they all need to climb up, and it is not easy to climb, and it will be very slow to climb.

Moreover, the width of some places where the fire is small is limited, and in order to be able to escape first, the Liao soldiers fought for each other, and then fought each other.

"Han Sanlang, you take the spies of the Pacification Division to wait outside the entrance, there must be some Liao soldiers who will cross over, don't let one go." Han Saburo agreed, and took a hundred spies to run towards the entrance from the pre-explored route down the mountain.

On the steep slopes on both sides of the canyon, there were also Liao soldiers who finally rushed out of the smoke and fire area, knelt down and begged the Song army for mercy, but these days the Song army and the Liao soldiers have already played a boundless murderous aura, not to mention that the Liao people also killed thousands of Song people, and the grudge between the Song and Liao countries over the years is not small, and the accumulation is already a mortal enemy, and they are categorically not prepared to let go of the Liao people, and they don't even have the idea of taking prisoners.

Therefore, the Liao army, which managed to climb out of the safe area from the slopes on both sides, was all shot and killed by the Song army one by one, or directly surrounded and killed in close combat.

The piles of rubble that were blown down on both sides naturally crawled out and escaped, but when they escaped, they were all sparse and exhausted, and many of them were burned or choked to death, and many of them didn't even have time to bring weapons, so they were killed by the pacification spies brought by Han Saburo and the three hundred people left by Orimu Qiu on the other side to watch the horses, and none of them escaped.

After all, this is Taihang Mountain, not a southern forest, and there are not many things that can be burned on the mountain, and soon the grass balls prepared by Zhang Bin and the grass and trees on the mountain were burned out, and even burned to ashes.

I have to say that people's vitality is really tenacious, especially these Liao people are like Xiaoqiang, and there are still some people who have not been burned to death, nor have they been smoked to death and choked to death.

A person who looked like a Khitan general with a face blackened by smoke and fire, came out of it with an embarrassed face, and even crawled to the side and began to squat down and cough, tears flowed out, and he was followed by the same person as him, who did the same action after coming out.

Soon two or three hundred people rushed out of it, and Zhang Bin saw that the Khitan soldiers who rushed out first were about to recover, so he shouted: "Kill!" ”

A rain of arrows enveloped these defenseless, and less than one-tenth of the usual Liao elite soldiers, most of them were killed on the spot, and the remaining second round was also killed, and the screams frightened the very few Khitan soldiers who were still alive in the canyon did not dare to come out again, but this state did not wait long, and the remaining Turks finally ran out, because if they did not come out, they would be choked to death by the remaining smoke or roasted by the scorching firewood.

Half an hour later, all the 5,000 Khitan elite soldiers died, and because no Liao soldiers fled, whether it was the army led by Xiao Tianxiong of Zhending Mansion, or the Datong Mansion of Liao State and the imperial court would not know that the 5,000 elite soldiers they sent were killed by more than 2,000 Song people in just half a day.

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After Zhang Bin asked people to count the number of people, they found that today's calculation of these 5,000 Liao elite horsemen, from the time of Zhemuqiu's lure, a total of seven of them were killed in battle and four were injured.

Such a record can be regarded as perfect, to be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Orimuqiu had already taken the black Buqiu head that was being burned or smoked by the Liao people, and wanted to bring it back, no one would believe it when he said it.

Watching Zhemuqiu lead people to cut off the heads of the Liao people, Zhang Bin felt disgusted when he smelled the smell of barbecue, so he hid away from the limelight and asked casually: "Snake slave, what do you say if the Emperor of Liao and the King of the Southern Courtyard learn about this, what will be their reaction?" ”

"It's definitely going to be angry." The snake slave said calmly.

"No, it's not just that I'm angry, today's battle is likely to force the Liao Emperor and the imperial court to start a full-scale war with my Great Song Dynasty desperately." Zhang Bin was silent for a moment, and said with a somewhat solemn expression.

After listening to Zhang Bin's words, the snake slave thought for a while, nodded and said: "Gongzi is right, before the Liao State only used the men and horses of Xijing Dao, five thousand elite soldiers died tragically here, and the Liao army's grain road is still threatened by us, and the more than 20,000 Liao people in Zhending Mansion are already in danger of being wiped out, so the next step, I am afraid that it is not only the army of Xijing Dao, the emperor of Liao is likely to launch an army of at least 100,000 people to the south." ”

Zhang Bin thought for a moment and said: "We have run out of explosives, and if we run into the Liao army again, we can't deal with 100,000 horses, even 3,000 people." ”

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