Zhou Quan got the news of the victory on the other side of the battle earlier than Ye Luchun, and when he passed the news to the soldiers, there was thunder of joy in the nameless fortress. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Everyone understands that the Liao army, which is threatened by the grain route and is unable to divide troops to eliminate the threat, cannot hold on to this battle.

Soon, the movement of the Liao camp also spread, and those Liao people, after collecting things, burying pots and cooking, seemed to be full of food, they would leave the camp.

But an hour later, when the Liao people began to approach the fortress, Zhou Quan was surprised on the wall.

"Didn't even return?" He said with some doubts: "I see that Yelu Chun's march and formation were very stable before, and now what the hell is he doing, didn't he also get the news of the defeat of Yelu Monk Nu?" ”

This is naturally impossible, the scout saw the defeated army retreat with his own eyes.

"Is this going to be desperate?" Li Bao muttered.

He is a simple person, he doesn't have too many twists and turns when he sees things, and when he sees the appearance of the Liao army, he instinctively makes such a judgment.

Zhou Quan suddenly realized: "Exactly, this is going to be desperate...... I didn't expect that Yeluchun was old, but he still had such courage and courage to fight with me...... Hehe, yes, when he got the news, he made a lonely bet, and it goes without saying that if he wins, if he loses, he will hand over the entire Nanjing Road to me! ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Quan's eyes flashed.

The other party's seventy or eighty thousand people, if he really fought desperately regardless of casualties, he might not be able to hold on with only these three thousand people.

"Send someone out, order Ye Chu to return to the army, and threaten the back of the Liao army!" He ordered.

At this time, the northern camp of the Khitan was broken, so the messenger he sent left from the north of the fortress, and after the Khitans found out, they did not send troops to chase after them.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Quan became more and more convinced that the Liao State was going to attack the village with all its might.

"Conscious...... Let them come. Zhou Quan gestured.

He defended the nameless fortress with 3,000 men, and of course prepared some special means, and last night's victory strengthened his methods.

Following his order, a moment later, more than two hundred people appeared on top of the fortress.

At this time, the Liao people had already entered the range of artillery, but their formation was relatively scattered, and there were not many vanguard troops sent, so it was clear that they saw the disadvantages of artillery and adopted targeted tactics.

It's just that these vanguard troops haven't started to officially attack the fort yet, and they heard someone shouting above the fort: "Yelu Bald, is it you, are you still working for Xiao Fengxian's family?" ”

"Zhang Hei'er, why did you come here, hurry up and leave, don't die in vain!"

"Jin Dafa, come down quickly, there is meat to eat, I finally had a full meal this morning, and I ate meat!"

These people turned out to be all Liao troops!

Among them, there are those who have been persuaded by Concubine Wen and Yu Liyan to take refuge for a long time, but more of them are those who lost their way in the chaos of the Beida camp last night and fled to the fortress on their own initiative or blindly.

And many of the attackers below know each other, either from the same township or acquaintances, and even from the same family.

This shout was raised, and the morale of those Liao soldiers who approached was suddenly greatly depressed.

"Run away, there is food and clothing here, and being a soldier for Concubine Wen is better than being a soldier for Xiao Fengxian!"

"There are also shiny silver dollars, one can be worth the same Song money!"

Zhou Quan heard the gossiping voice, and a faint mockery appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Mo said that he had artillery, a weapon that was still unsolvable, even if he only smashed it with gold, silver and copper coins, he could smash the ragtag army that the Liao people put together in front of him to stun.

Among these people, except for about 20,000 who are considered to be close associates of Yelu Chun's headquarters—oh, these 20,000 people have to minus 10,000 who have been wiped out along with Yelu and Shangnu, and the rest of the sergeants, whether they are Han or even Khitans, are not very loyal.

It can even be said that they have long been dissatisfied, and this kind of mentality, like dry firewood, is just waiting for Mars.

These Liao troops, who were originally forced to take the lead, were full of fear in their hearts, but because of strict military discipline, they had to obey. But before they arrived at the fortress, they heard these cries, and their minds were suddenly enlivened.

In addition to dying in battle or being court-martialed, they still have a way to live!

"I'll fall, I'll fall!"

One person shouted and ran to the fortress, Zhou Quan was also stunned when he saw it, he just wanted to disturb the other party's army, but he never expected that this trick would work so well.

"Stay where the arrow falls!"

After settling down, Zhou Quan snatched a crossbow and shot it with a crossbow, but he didn't practice much, and shot a little crookedly, and did not hit the target he imagined, but deviated by more than ten zhang.

The people around him suddenly shouted, and the Liao army sergeant actually ran to the crossbow arrow as he said.

With this one taking the lead, one after another, there were more Liao troops, and later, a small half of the Liao army that was driven to act as the vanguard actually ran over and sat quietly on the ground.

A small number of hot-headed people who wanted to make meritorious contributions, after entering the shooting range of the fortress, were immediately pierced by the crossbow bolts shot from the shooting holes in the wall, and died no longer able to die.

The rest of the Liao army dispersed in a hurry and retreated.

This attack, anticlimactic, made Yeluchun angry. He glared at Xiao Sixian and said, "Didn't you say that you want to be the vanguard again and lead the troops to attack the village, why are you still here?" ”

The reason why the Liao army is so easily shaken is that there are only soldiers and no generals in the army, and Xiao Sixian, who is the vanguard, is impassioned in his mouth, but when it comes to fighting, he refuses to take the lead and go to the front line to supervise the battle.

Xiao Si first heard the question, but his face did not change at all: "Xiao Daxun's rescue was unfavorable, resulting in the defeat of the monk slave, he should be given a chance to make meritorious service!" ”

"You!"

Yeluchun was simply angry by this guy's brazenness, he was furious, he didn't care about his own safety, and ordered: "Okay, good, good, if you don't go, then I'll go myself...... I'm risking the arrows, whether you go or not! ”

At this moment, Xiao Sixian finally felt scared: "Dashuai, why bother, you and I are valuable, how can we be compared to ordinary people, just send one or two generals." ”

Ye Luchun did this is also a helpless move, he knows that his army is discouraged and demoralized, if the general bravely steps forward to improve morale, only rely on the military law team to cut off the head in the back, no matter how many heads are chopped, it will not be able to cut down Zhou Quan's fort.

He ignored Xiao Sixian and really urged him to step forward.

As soon as he stepped forward, the banner of the Chinese army naturally stepped forward, and the entire Liao army began to unfold and press on the whole line, and it was no longer a tentative attack by Fang Cai. The two wings of the Liao army also began to extend to the north and west sides of the fortress, making a posture of encirclement.

But almost at the same time, the artillery in the fortress also rang out.

Ye Luchun already attached great importance to artillery and made targeted protection, but in the face of the roar of artillery, especially the roar of nearly twenty artillery pieces, the earth-shattering shock still shocked him.

"Dashuai, Dashuai, you can't get any closer, the range of the artillery is about two miles, your side, it's already the extreme, you can't get any closer!"

Yeluchun's Chinese army stopped at a distance of nearly three miles from the fortress, and he himself wanted to get closer, but his subordinates dissuaded him one after another, among which Xiao Sixian was the most effective in dissuading. He could only stop, then raise his eyes to the telescope to watch.

The telescope used to be a specialty of the guards, but with the promotion of reading glasses, others soon discovered the secret, so now the general of the Liao army is also equipped with a telescope. It's just that compared to the telescopes of the Guardians, their number is not only small, but also much worse quality.

What made Yeluchun feel a little relieved was that after last night's incident, the fear of artillery in the army had decreased, and the soldiers were still continuing to rush and kill, although the crossbow arrows shot from the fortress began to harvest frantically, but under the personal supervision of the generals of the various departments, there was no strange thing about surrendering to the enemy before the battle.

"That's fine...... Even if you fill it with people, you will pull out this fortress for me! Breathing a sigh of relief, Yelu Chun said sharply.

This kind of charge, their own casualties are very large, rushing in front of the soldiers, even close to the fortress is difficult, often before the fort ten zhang, is shot down by the crossbow. After dozens of breaths, Yeluchun saw that a Liao army had put a cloud ladder on the wall, and his heart tightened, but soon, the Liao army on the ladder was shot down by a crossbow arrow from another direction, and a guard took the risk of poking his head out and pushing the cloud ladder down, but the archer in the Liao army seized this fleeting opportunity and shot him off the wall with an arrow.

This was the only result they had ever seen, and then the place where the archer was was stirred up a cloud of dust, and the guns on the fort adjusted their muzzles and plowed the area.

The battle was stalemate for a while, and the Liao attacked at any cost, leaving behind piles of corpses under the heavy and terrible fire of the fort, and then they were forced to retreat. The Liao generals ordered the military army to kill a few of the first to flee and forced them to attack again.

"The Liao people can't last long, this kind of casualties ......"

At this time, Zhou Quan was no longer heartbroken by the casualties of one or two array teenagers, many years of fighting made his heart as hard as iron, looking at this scene, he sneered.

Ye Luchun also felt that the Song people would not last long, and the corpses accumulated on the ground were almost level with the waist wall of the fortress, and after a while, even if there was no long ladder, the Liao people could drive directly to the wall of the fortress.

"Sure enough, artillery should be attacked from a distance rather than close combat, as long as it rushes within its distance, the power of artillery will be greatly reduced!" Jerry thought to himself.

As Ye Luchun expected, after two more rounds of attacks, the Liao people finally stepped on the top of the fortress wall for the first time, but when they boarded, their faces were immediately terrified, and then they heard the sound of cannons, and the Liao troops on those walls flew up one after another, and many people were hit by the oncoming scattered bullets into a piece of rotten meat, and then fell down.

Immediately afterwards, a small cannon was pushed up to the city, these small cannons had a short range, and they fired scattered shells, within a distance of about 20 zhang, and a single cannon would sweep a large area.

This situation and this scene greatly depressed the morale of the Liao army who had just seen the dawn of victory, and even the military law team could not let them step forward again, and the entire Liao army was moving backwards, if they did not rest, they were afraid that it would be difficult to fight again.

At this moment, Zhou Quan saw an opportunity.

He looked around: "Ask the heavy artillery, if it is aiming." ”

"Ready, shooting data correction is complete!" Someone responded.

"Okay, then tell the Liao people that the caliber of the cannon is victory!" Zhou Quan said with a smile. (To be continued.) )