Wang Houchun had come to Xicheng from Nancheng, and at this time the Guiyi army had concentrated all its forces in Xicheng to prepare for a desperate gamble, and Wang Houchun also quickly mobilized all the manpower and weapons to Xicheng, and took over Yang Yi to personally command the battle to defend the city that would determine the future situation in Anxi.

With the neighing of artillery, countless explosive bags were thrown down the city tower, and the shock caused by the huge explosion even made the Tiance army in Xicheng unable to stand stable for a long time, but at this time, everyone did not take this into account, and what they saw in their eyes was the Guiyi army that was surging up like ants under the city. Countless siege weapons poured their firepower towards the west city of Shazhou at this moment, there were no gunpowder weapons on the side of the Guiyi army, but the power of the catapult could not be underestimated at all, under Cao Rengui's desperate order, although these catapults would inevitably be targeted and destroyed by various long-range weapons on the city tower as long as they appeared, but Cao Rengui's face did not change at all, and he still controlled the catapult to throw boulders regardless of it, And weapons such as battering rams were also quickly pushed up and slammed into the closed city gates, trying to open the city gates and guide the Guiyi army behind them to enter the city and fight street battles. Cao Rengui has his own self-confidence in the street battle, after all, more than half of the troops in his hands are locals of Shazhou, and the familiar situation in Shazhou City is not comparable to that of the Tiance Army, many people's homes are in Shazhou City, so once they break into the city, it is really impossible to say who is away and who is home.

In order to achieve this goal, Cao Rengui personally deployed 10,000 archers to shoot rockets regardless of the dense rain of bullets on the city tower, and suddenly the city tower was gradually ignited by these rockets, and the flames began to ignite on the city tower.

"Order the reserves to come forward and extinguish the fire." Yang Yi was taken aback by the sudden flames, and he didn't care about the soldiers who were screaming miserably when they were hit by the rockets, and commanded the reserve team to step forward and pour the boiling water that was originally going to be poured out on his own city wall to quickly extinguish the flames. It's all gunpowder weapons on your side, and if it is detonated by these flames, then the sandbar may really be self-defeating. This time the flame made Yang Yi pay attention to the weakness of his own weapons, and personally wrote to Li Xuanqing after the war, asking the General Staff to require all troops to do a good job of fire prevention, and to pay attention to the opponent's use of fire on the battlefield.

However, at this time, after Yang Yi commanded the reserve team to extinguish the fire, Wang Houchun immediately asked Li San'er to lead the Flying Eagle Brigade to come forward to concentrate fire and shoot these archers, and arranged for the bed crossbow to start shooting intensively to delay the follow-up of the living forces in the opponent's rear, so that almost all the long-range weapons, including the mechanical crossbow, were dispatched, and the melee was handed over to the explosives bags that were constantly thrown.

For this kind of weapon that exploded near the heel of the city wall after projection, although the Guiyi army gritted its teeth but there was no good way, the Tiance army who threw explosives packs to throw experience is now directly using a knife to cut off a section of the lead of the explosive package and then ignite it, so that the detonation time becomes extremely short, almost just after throwing out, these leads are burned out and then explode quickly, there are many explosive packs that explode directly in mid-air, and the prefabricated fragments inside the explosive bag scatter and fly, turned into hundreds of hidden arrows, so that the Guiyi army below was swept into a large area.

The asymmetry brought about by this weapon generation gap made the Guiyi army have a numerical advantage, but in the face of the Tiance army with the cover of the fortified city, although they tried their best, they were never able to break through. This kind of gunpowder weapon, which appeared nearly a thousand years in advance, and has been pulled out by Li Xuanqing to the point of breech gun, basically has not much chance of winning with a cold weapon. This can be verified in the later British war in the African colonies, the early Medilo people relied on the superiority of numbers to attack the British squad of less than 100 people, but after paying more than 3,000 casualties but did not touch a piece of the opponent's clothes, of course, at that time the British army was already equipped with infantry weapons - machine guns. However, compared with the current situation, although the Tiance Army does not have machine guns, it relies on the city wall to slow down the pace of the opponent's attack, coupled with the attached artillery and primitive rockets, and the battlefield firepower overflow is even higher than that of the British army at that time. Therefore, at this time, if Cao Rengui has enough time, he should not choose to fight hard, but should try his best to find the weakness of the Tiance Army to start, attack and disperse the Tiance Army's already limited forces from all sides, as long as the troops are scattered, then he will have the opportunity to disperse the opponent's firepower output and rely on the numerical advantage to gain the upper hand. Cold weapons are only possible to win gunpowder weapons in hand-to-hand combat. Moreover, the previous construction of the charge launch rocket was actually to deal with Xicheng, which was already chaotic due to the opponent's all-out attack at this time. In the battle report written by Wang Houchun after the war, it was directly pointed out that if Cao Rengui had replaced the momentum of the catapult with a fire bomb at that time, then it would never be so simple for him to win the war, and once the shell next to the artillery squatting position was detonated by the opponent's fire, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, similar to what Yang Yi thought, Wang Houchun asked the General Staff to reformulate the artillery firing guidelines in his report to the General Staff and Li Xuanqing after the war, and the shells on the gun emplacements were required to be strictly kept, and the shells were strictly exposed, thus causing unnecessary sacrifices.

And just when the attacking and defensive sides on the sandbar went all out to take out all the troops and output, the figure of the Modao battalion finally appeared on the horizon, and the crowd of people in Wuyang brought a strong shock to both sides as soon as they appeared on the horizon. At this time, the two sides were like red-eyed hedgehogs who were about to rely on the thorns on their bodies to give each other a full blow, but one of the allies suddenly appeared outside the field, and this battlefield instantly turned into a showdown because of the appearance of the Modao Battalion.

Shi Jian almost did not hide his traces, and immediately put into the attack after the appearance of the army, the 50,000-strong Modao battalion became the winner or loser of the battle of Shazhou at this time, and the five battalions marched together to form a five-column column, completely tearing apart the right flank of the Guiyi Army, and the fastest attacking Eastern Front column even made contact with the city at the first time, and immediately converged the 2,000 Flying Eagle Brigade soldiers of Li San'er, who rushed out of the city from the city to participate in the flanking attack, and then quickly rushed towards Cao Rengui's Chinese army. With the cooperation of the Chinese rifle and grenade, the Modao battalion marched very fast, and almost before Cao Rengui reacted, it had successfully disrupted the opponent's formation, and began to directly turn the battle into the stage of counterattack and decisive victory.

"Marshal, we can't stay here anymore, let's lead the army to break through." Shi Jianjiao saw that Cao Rengui was ready to send out the last 10,000 escort cavalry in his hands, and immediately became anxious, after Shi Jianjiao's own Shatuo cavalry was scattered by Li San'er's design, only Cao Rengui's escort team was an organized cavalry unit on the battlefield, so Cao Rengui's use of this cavalry meant that he had lost his eyes and was ready to use his last strength. But Shi Jianjiao can see clearly at this time, even if the cavalry is invested, there is no chance of recovery for the battle situation, at this time, as the commander, what he needs to consider is to use the advantages of this 10,000 cavalry to withdraw as many troops as possible, and the long-distance attack of the Modao battalion has absolutely no strength to pursue again, so the use of cavalry to cut off the Guiyi Army can have the opportunity to withdraw more opportunities.

However, what Shi Jianjiao may not know is that at this time, Su Xiaohu, who was already less than thirty zhang away from him, had already issued a kill order, and the nameless sniper quietly raised the musket in his hand to aim under the cover of his respective partners. Obviously, Su Xiaohu originally meant to kill Cao Rengui, because the Modao battalion had already come, and Shi Jian put out a five-way column to attack at the same time, so although the troops were scattered, for the Guiyi army at this time, it almost cut off their vast number of retreats, and almost all of the troops in the southeast and north were the troops of the Tiance Army, and at this time Cao Rengui had reached the point where he had to kill.

It's just that sometimes people can't catch up with the sky, although Su Xiaohu arranged for five snipers to aim at the same time, but just when Su Xiaohu decisively ordered to shoot, Shi Jianjiao pulled Cao Rengui at the same moment, and stood in Cao Rengui's position and roared angrily, trying to make Cao Rengui wake up from the state of losing red eyes just now. From Shi Jianjiao's point of view, although his cavalry was basically lost, as long as Cao Rengui's living force could be preserved to the greatest extent, then there would always be a force in the south that was holding back the footsteps of the Tiance army, so that it did not dare to go all out to deal with the Uighurs in the north and his own tribe, the Shatuo. Since the essence of the two Uighurs was actually in the northwest of the sandbar, the entire anti-Tang alliance needed a reliable force to the south to disperse the energy and strength of the Tiance army.

But what he didn't know was that at this time, he followed in and left himself under Shazhou City forever, and the same Su Xiaohu was also stunned to look at the inexplicable accident in front of him, the sniper's musket fired his own fatal shot for the first time, but the target was changed to another person in this short moment. And the most terrible thing is that Su Xiaohu has no chance to shoot again at this time. Shi Jianjiao's figure fell and the sudden gunfire made Cao Rengui quickly sober up, and he didn't even pay attention to where these killers were, so he directly opened his mouth and roared to arrange a retreat, at the same time, the personal guards around him began to quickly come forward to surround Cao Rengui and help Shi Jianjiao who fell to the ground up.

"Forget it, evacuate immediately." Su Xiaohu glanced regretfully at Cao Rengui, who was surrounded in the middle, and began to evacuate quickly, at this time, the Guiyi Army near him had already reacted, after all, before the silencer was invented, the gunshots could not be hidden at all, not to mention that although Su Xiaohu had tried his best to find a place with relatively few people, he was still discovered.

However, this is not a big deal for the Flying Eagle Brigade, the Flying Eagle Brigade directly threw a bunch of grenades to blow up the Guiyi soldiers who tried to rush up, and then began to blend into the crowd and leave directly, without the slightest intention of dragging mud and water.

However, Su Xiaohu did not kill Cao Rengui and let the other party react immediately, decisively began to break his tail to survive, and directly led the cavalry to start a bloody road to cover his own Chinese army and rear army and began to retreat towards Shicheng. Moreover, in order not to be caught up by the Modao battalion, Cao Rengui didn't even take into account the remaining troops who broke out on their own and prepared to keep up with the large army, so he fled in a hurry.

Cao Rengui's move made Shi Jian suddenly furious, he galloped hundreds of miles, but the other party began to flee less than half an hour after participating in the battle, how could he swallow this breath, but before he could give an order, Wang Houchun gave an order on the tower of Shazhou City that made him very puzzled. Wang Houchun's order to Shi Jian was not to pursue, but to encircle and suppress the Guiyi army inside the encirclement on the spot, and to prepare to capture the prisoners.

"Execute the order, immediately start taking prisoners, and as long as the rebels are willing to lay down their arms, they will not be killed." However, although Shi Jian was puzzled, he had no way to disobey Wang Houchun's order, so he helplessly looked at the remnants of Cao Rengui who were starting to go away, shook his head, and gave the order to capture the prisoners.

While regretting Shi Jian's side, Cao Rengui hadn't had time to feel the feeling of escaping, and even in a hurry, he hadn't had time to check whether Shi Jianjiao, who was being carried by the guards around him, was alive or dead, in fact, the Tiance army had already arrived at the predetermined position in front of him.

"Order the two battalions of soldiers to begin preparations immediately." Xue Yang immediately began to arrange with Li Yang after hearing the reconnaissance team report from the front line that Cao Rengui's unit had appeared, and the soldiers of the two battalions at this time showed a scissor formation extending to both sides of the road, and the junction in the middle was where Xue Yang was personally stationed. However, Xue Yang didn't know what kind of blow Cao Rengui had suffered on the sandbank at this time, so his face was still solemn. He only has 20,000 people now, if the other party is not damaged in the sandbank, then this battle will be really difficult to fight, the Third Corps itself is not good at fighting field battles, from Wang Houchun to Xue Yang, under their influence, the Third Corps is almost the best at fighting skillful warfare in the Tiance Army, and the deceitful soldiers are the essence of the Third Corps.

Sure enough, after Cao Rengui escaped from the battlefield on the sandbank just now, he didn't have time to check how many people he had brought out, and he didn't have the opportunity to send troops to see if there was any arrangement of the other party in front of him, under the information blockade of the Flying Eagle Brigade, Cao Rengui didn't know that Khotan and his old nest Boxian Town had been taken by the other party, so after Xue Yang ordered to open fire, Cao Rengui was stunned, and he didn't think that he was about to approach his base, how could there be a musket from the Tiance Army? Moreover, at this time, the Guiyi army had been fighting for so many days, and after suffering the defeat just now, Cao Rengui had already been exhausted, and Cao Rengui was able to rely on authority to suppress it before, but at this time, he was ambushed again on the way to escape, and the army was disheartened and could no longer be cohesive, and the more than 30,000 Guiyi troops completely collapsed at once.

"Order all units to immediately assault the whole army to end the Guiyi army." Xue Yang saw that the other party had just opened fire and began to scatter the formation, and immediately began to give the order to assault on the whole line, and at the same time, he personally led the personal guards to attack Cao Rengui's position.

"Take it for me." Xue Yang personally raised his gun to shoot on the way, and two of the three shots hit the war horse under Cao Rengui's seat, which directly brought Cao Rengui to the ground. After Cao Rengui fell to the ground, he was not harmed, but the fall of the main general made all the surrounding Guiyi army lose the last trace of spirit quickly. Xue Yang didn't stop and directly ordered his personal guard captain to step forward and grab Cao Rengui, who was struggling to get up, and then shouted: "All the soldiers of the Guiyi Army, listen, Cao Rengui has been captured, wait for you to lay down your arms, I promise not to kill." ”

Xue Yang's voice seemed to come from the Nine Heavens, and the rolling thunder roared in the ears of many Guiyi Army soldiers, making these Guiyi Army soldiers stunned for an instant. "Bang Dang" didn't know who was the first to throw down the weapon in his hand, but he could hear that in the next moment, countless soldiers of the Guiyi Army put down the weapons in their hands, looked at their companions with blank eyes, and also looked at the Tiance Army who had stepped forward but stopped attacking, this scene made Xue Yang sigh and wave his hand.