Bailiyan (Wei Xian) led more than 200 cavalry people did not turn back from the original way, it stands to reason, since the rebels can expect that they will not turn back the same way, then Bailiyan should also know that there are not many rebels on the original road, at this time, it should not be appropriate to kill a horse pistol and kill it from behind?

In fact, the rebels are not stupid, they don't take the main road at all, they all move through the streets and alleys, the cavalry can still rush and kill on the main road, and when they enter the alleys, then they will die without a place to be buried, and it is easy to lose room for maneuver and fall into a naval battle.

Secondly, the infantry nowadays has many means of dealing with cavalry, the infantry is based on centurions, and a number of triphorses are allocated for every hundred people, and in addition, the thousand-man team has different arms, and it is rash to turn back the same way, waiting for endless tripwires and hooked scythes, not to mention crossbowmen.

Bai Liyan quickly pulled the horse to Doumi Street in the south of the city, and turned from Doumi Street to the street when he came from the east of the city.

In the early years, Doumi Street was the military depot of the camp in the south of the city, and after the expansion of the camp in the south of the city, the loading capacity of Doumi Street could not meet the grain and grass reserves of the army in the city, and then moved to the southwest of the city, and Doumi Street developed into a more prosperous commercial street in the south of the city.

When I arrived, I found that on the left and right sides of the street, there were wounded soldiers from both sides of the camp in the south of the city last night, at least two or three thousand, filling almost the entire street.

"Calling ......" The wounded soldiers blocked the way, Bai Liyan urgently reined in the reins of the horse, and looked around vigilantly at the scattered rebels who were treating the wounded soldiers.

At this time, Liang Guodu on the side said carefully with a dark face:

"General Wei, the whole street is full of rebels!"

"The morale of the army has been dispersed, there is no threat to us, go, slow down and continue to advance."

"But in case the rebels besiege us, our army will be besieged."

"Look at them, their faces are as dead as they have no fighting spirit, and where is there any determination to continue fighting. Listen to me, and the brigade moves on. ”

The whole street was full of wounded rebel soldiers, only sporadic Lang Zhong and the rebels with white scarves around their arms were treating the wounded soldiers during their travels, when they saw Bai Liyan and others, their faces showed only numbness and dazedness, not to mention the wounded soldiers lying on the ground without the strength of the chicken, as long as they did not touch their bottom line, they could live, in this delicate situation, no one was willing to continue to lose their lives for a hopeless battle.

More than 200 people carefully lined up in two columns and slowly shuttled through Doumi Street, in addition to the moans and wails of pain, the air was filled with blood and rancidity, at least at this time yesterday, these people and those people, still eating and talking together, in the blink of an eye, became enemies in the fight for life and death.

The root cause of this is the incompetence of those in power and the abuse of power by powerful ministers, which has directly led to the turmoil in the political situation and the disorder of the military's morale. Without Gongsun Yue, the Xianguo would have lost at least one million people in the past sixteen years.

And at this moment, the so-called ideals and ambitions are not "great achievements" built on the sea of corpses and blood.

Through Doumi Street, everyone's hanging hearts just fell, and Bai Liyan immediately hurried to the east of the city.

At this time, the forbidden army led by Yanping and the ambushed rebels encountered head-on halfway, and the rebels detoured from the alleys on the east and west sides to cut off Yanping's retreat.

However, Yan Ping scattered his manpower all the way, killing the rebels and thieves who committed adultery and plunder, and half of the troops were scattered in all directions, occupying a large number of civilian houses, and the rebel crossbowmen were useless, which led to the first encounter between the crossbowmen and the scattered forbidden army.

Nowadays, all countries classify crossbowmen as light infantry, and their armor is extremely inferior, especially in the Xian country. Due to technological and productivity constraints, the army's equipment has priority over elite troops, followed by secondary armies.

Crossbowmen are not the main hand-to-hand troops, so even if they are engaged in hand-to-hand combat, they are always at the last in line, and by the time the crossbowmen are pulled into hand-to-hand combat, the battle is basically over.

The cost of equipment for crossbowmen is actually not cheaper than other infantry troops, especially strong crossbows and strong bows, the cost of which is on top of bronze weapons, and they are also regular consumables, which dooms the crossbowmen to have inferior performance in addition to bows and crossbows.

Crossbowmen were usually not equipped with armor, and even in the Jin Kingdom, which had sufficient financial resources, only light leather armor was issued to crossbowmen, and crossbowmen in the Xian Kingdom were uniformly clothed and equipped with short blades. The so-called short blade is a blade that is longer than a dagger and slightly shorter than a short sword, less than a foot long, and can only be used for self-defense.

The original plan of the rebels was to make a detour from east to west, with a hard south face, a road behind them, and finally a siege, which required archers to accompany the infantry to detour to the upper room at the same time, and release arrows from a high place.

The rebel infantry drove the forbidden army of the Legation to the middle of the street, and then used bows and crossbows to shoot from top to bottom, otherwise in the midst of the chaos, they would shoot arrows from the same level and altitude, and one or two thousand crossbowmen would shoot arrows together, killing the enemy and killing their own people.

As a result, he did not expect that the distribution area of the forbidden army in the Minister's Mansion exceeded the roundabout range of the rebels, and they encountered halfway, and the crossbowmen were forced to turn into hand-to-hand combat, forming a form of you have me and I have you, and the rebels failed to completely and completely surround Yanping's department, which was equivalent to smashing the iron plate with eggs first, and the crossbowmen were quickly defeated.

Just when the two sides were fighting, Bailiyan and two hundred light horsemen arrived, and immediately found that the rebel crossbowmen were retreating, trying to re-establish the defensive line.

"General Yanping quickly pass westward, don't fall in love with war!"

Bailiyan shouted, and Yanping immediately decided:

"Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet!"

Yan Ping shouted, the trumpeter blew the horn, and the forbidden army in the fight heard the news and fought and retreated, and quickly assembled in the direction of the trumpet.

The rebels also reacted quickly, seeing that the forbidden army of the Minister's Mansion was not in love with war, and the siege in the west had been cut open, so they simply spread out and chased after them. After all, the forbidden army is heavy infantry, and the soldiers and horses of Sima Mansion are light infantry, and compared to speed, heavy infantry can't outrun light infantry no matter what.

Of course, Bai Liyan also knew this truth in his heart, so at the beginning of dispersing the rebel crossbowmen, Bai Liyan pulled the cavalry turtle and retreated into the street.

When Yanping's main force rushed out of the encirclement, the rebels' soldiers and horses followed closely behind, and once again led the cavalry to kill the rebels from the side to follow the main force, cutting off the rebels' way to chase Yanping from the main road, and when Yanping's main force ran out of two hundred steps, Bailiyan led the remnants of the cavalry to fight and retreat.

After all, the rebels have countless spears and sickles, and once they stabilize their positions from the initial panic, they will immediately organize a spear hook and sickle formation with their backhands to block the cavalry, and at this time, the cavalry of the Liang army just played a huge role in the broken rear.

Anyway, the loss was not the national defense force of Xianguo, Bailiyan did not hesitate to let the Liang army kill to death, and in the end, there were only twenty or thirty people left, so he stopped and continued to flee, and when he left, he was actually bitten by the rebel hook and sickle, and a huge cut was made on his thigh, which made Bailiyan grin.

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Touching the wound and enduring the severe pain, Baili Yan ran wildly with the reins of the horse, at this time the rebels were still thrown away more than 300 steps, seeing the forbidden army of the Minister's Mansion rushing west, the rebel general gritted his teeth and stomped on the ground.

"Damn, I'm running away again!"

"General, chase it!"

The hundred-captain proposed, which immediately provoked the wrath of the rebels:

"Fart, there are more than 2,000 enemy troops in the west of the city, and our army is chasing after them at this time, wouldn't it be for others to wait for them. Fortunately, the prime minister gave him a clever plan and ordered the brothers to go to the minister's palace immediately and capture An Taihou alive! ”

At this time, the rebels, not counting the wounded soldiers, still had more than 4,000 two or three hundred people, and it was more than enough to attack the minister's palace with empty troops. Of course, Bailiyan is also very aware of this fact.

So when the rebels arrived at the Minister's Palace, they were immediately dumbfounded and blinded. Within fifty paces of the south gate of the Minister's Palace, all the houses had inexplicably collapsed, leaving more than 4,000 people directly exposed to the wilderness.

At this time, the eastern, western, and northern sides of the Legation were surrounded by fire, and only the east side was significantly weaker after the fire last night.

The rebels could only come from the south, because the east, west, and north were still burning with fire, and they could not make a detour, but what was waiting for them was 600 crossbowmen, guarding the south gate of the Minister's Palace, waiting for them.

In the front was a row of sword and shield men, and behind them stood a line of crossbowmen, forming a half tortoiseshell formation, and the turtles cowered inside and outside the gate of the Legation's Palace.

When the rebels came, they thought that there must not be many defenders in the legation, so they all rushed over with a big grin. As soon as I arrived at the door, I found that there was a piece of rubble outside the minister's palace, and there was nowhere to hide, and the result was that I was slashed and covered with faces, and I was faced with a torrential rain of arrows, which made my heart flutter and my soul was scattered.

Not long after Bailiyan led his army to leave the Minister's Mansion, Ji Tong acted according to the plan and ordered Dian Kun to go and demolish all the houses within fifty steps of the Minister's Palace.

Nowadays, it is actually very easy to demolish the house, there are one or two load-bearing columns in the house, and only need to tie the bottom of the column to the rope, and then more than ten or twenty people pull hard, it can all collapse, and the collapse is extremely complete.

After all, the rebels were numerous, and they recovered from the storm of arrows and immediately organized crossbowmen to fight back, and at this time it was very clear that the difference between the forbidden army and the ordinary army was very clear.

With their backs to the south gate and walls on both sides, the rebels could not make a detour from the flank or from the south, so they could only counterattack with arrows from the front and overhead.

After the forbidden army put several arrays of arrows on the front, they immediately set up a wooden shield to parry the defense, it is said that the front cannot be penetrated, and the rebels throw them with bows and arrows, and the arrows go over the wall, and they can always fall on the top of their heads, right?

This has to say that there were 60 holes in the wall before, and 60 bamboos were worn in the holes.

This 60 moso bamboo was originally a group of three or four, used to throw wooden beams, destroy the tortoise shell array, now the moso bamboo strung rope to form a rope net, the civil defense demolished outside the south gate of the Legation's Mansion unloaded columns, door panels, at this time has a place to use.

The pillars propped up the bamboo rope net, and the wooden planks in the ruins were placed on the rope net, naturally forming a wooden shed, which just covered all the forbidden troops hiding underneath, and the rebels' arrows finally fell on the wooden shed.

The rebels fired several bursts of arrows in succession, thinking that they had a plan, but just a few steps after they had made a move, another storm of arrows shot out, killing the rebels completely. At this point, the rebels have begun to doubt how many soldiers and horses there are in the Minister's Palace, and even begin to doubt their lives.