"Captain, let's break through and retreat." Seeing that Pan Mei had lost his fighting spirit, Yang Ye made the last suggestion.

"Under such a siege, how can we break through?" Pan Mei didn't take Yang Ye's advice seriously at all, and he had nothing but despair in his eyes now.

"We still have one last resort, before we set out on the expedition, the Duke of Anding sent someone to deliver a box of things and a letter. The letter says that in case we are besieged, we can break through with the contents of this box. ”

"Is there anything else that can help us now? A box of wings? ”

Yang Ye brought the box just in case, but when he opened the box, he saw that it was a box of bombs and another letter.

Yang Ye opened the letter and looked at it, and it was written like this:

"General Yang

When you open this box, it is estimated that your army has been besieged, this thing is called a grenade, use fire to ignite the fuse on each grenade and throw it out to produce an explosion, the explosion is not strong and may not help you to siege the city. But in the unlikely event that your army is besieged, you can use this to open a way out. But I sincerely hope that this is just my unfounded fear, and that you don't need this box of things. ”

Yang Ye then took a grenade and took out a fire fold and lit it, and after lighting the grenade, Yang Ye threw it towards the Khitan army.

I saw that the grenade exploded at the moment of contact with the Khitan army, although it did not directly kill the Khitan soldiers, but injured their horses, and these Khitan soldiers who were affected by the bomb also temporarily lost their combat ability.

"It worked, Captain." After seeing the effect, Yang Ye said to Pan Mei with some joy.

Pan Mei naturally also saw the effect of the grenade, and a glimmer of hope ignited in his eyes.

So Pan Mei immediately ordered the army that could be gathered immediately and found a place to break through.

There were about fifty more grenades in the box, and Yang Ye found fifty cavalrymen to distribute the grenades to everyone, and then handed over the methods they used.

These fifty people became the vanguard, and the remaining less than 10,000 people who could be gathered began to break through.

With countless loud noises, the encirclement of the Liao army was blown open, and the Song army, which was less than 10,000, began to break through. Soon Pan Mei and Yang Ye were out of the encirclement.

But the Liao army was not vegetarian, and when they saw that nearly 10,000 people including Pan Mei and Yang Ye had broken through, they immediately dispatched troops to prepare for pursuit.

Seeing this situation, the fourth, fifth, and sixth elders of the Yang family decisively chose to stay, and they transferred less than 1,000 volunteers from the 10,000 to stay.

Yang Ye knew that his three sons would inevitably die if they stayed, but he had no choice, and protecting Pan Mei's retreat was the top priority at this time.

After bidding farewell to his third son with tears, Yang Ye and his eldest son and second son together with the remaining more than 8,000 people protected Pan Mei and began to retreat south.

Three days later they withdrew to the city of Yingzhou.

Yingzhou City was already dilapidated at this time due to the heavy damage it had suffered before, and the population in the city had been moved back to Guannei by Yang Yanzhao, so there were only 5,000 defenders left in the city when the army left.

After the army left, the 5,000 defenders repaired the smashed walls a little, but they were of little use to block them.

Just after Pan Mei, Yang Ye, and his more than 8,000 people entered the city, less than half a day later, the Khitan pursuers also arrived.

Relying on the remaining city defense equipment and more than 13,000 people, the Song army began to deal with the Khitan soldiers.

At first, the Khitan cavalry also wanted to use the gap in the original city to attack the city of Yingzhou, but after the gap was repaired by the Song army, it was basically impossible to directly use cavalry to rush into the city.

Abandoned horses and infantry can enter the gap, but the Song army is heavily guarded at the gap, and it will be directly encircled and suppressed if it has entered the gap.

Even if they successfully rushed through the encirclement and suppression, the street fighting in the city would trap the Khitan soldiers and then kill them.

At this moment, there are no more people in Yingzhou City, so the Khitan soldiers have only one purpose after entering the city now, and that is to kill or capture all the remaining Song soldiers.

However, due to the obstruction, the Khitan army's tendency to attack the city began to slowly weaken.

"We are not good at attacking the city, but at this time, the Song army is defending the city with the mentality of pulling the two of them to the back, what should we do?" Yelu Xian, who arrived at the city of Yingzhou, said to Yelu Mo with some worry.

As Yelu Xianzhen said, since there are no more people in the city, the Song army naturally has no worries, knowing that they can't escape anyway, they are ready to kill as many Khitan soldiers as they want, how many they kill, and when they are ready to die, they will earn enough money to support their backs.

Yelu Mo, who rubbed his temples, finally came up with the only way to besiege the city, besiege but not fight, the big deal will be consumed with you, your Song army's military rations will definitely not be much, it's a big deal to spend more time and you will be over.

In this way, the Khitan army besieged Yingzhou City for three days, although some people were occasionally sent to disturb it during these three days, but basically it was consumed by the Song army.

……

"It was all my fault, at that time we should have retreated to Yunzhou instead of continuing the offensive."

Yang Ye couldn't say anything to comfort Pan Mei at this time, because he also knew that they basically had no choice but to wait for death.

The food and grass in the city were almost exhausted, and the soldiers were exhausted, and the soldiers, who were plagued by injuries and fear every day, were basically ineffective at this time.

Originally, they had the mentality of dying together, but they didn't expect that the Liao army would stop attacking, and wanted to consume them directly.

"Now there is only one way, try to bring the Liao army into the city, and then set fire to the city, and the jade will be burned." Yang Ye, who was already desperate, proposed this solution.

Pan Mei, who also had no extravagant hopes, nodded and agreed with Yang Ye's approach.

So the Song army in the city began the final preparations, they collected all the things that were easy to ignite in the city and piled them in the city, and then collected all the sulfur saltpeter and charcoal to make explosives, ready to be used to detonate and ignite everything.

Then the Song army opened the surrounding city gates, and then Yang Ye walked up to the city.

On top of the city, Yang Ye took Pan Mei's head and surrendered to the Liao army, asking them to enter the city to receive them.

After deciding on the plan to burn the jade, Pan Mei drew her sword and committed suicide, preparing to use her own head so that Yang Ye could pretend to mutiny and surrender to introduce the Liao army into the city.

Yelu Xian, who was under the city, was naturally very happy to see Pan Mei's head, and he was about to lead his troops into the city when he was stopped by Yelumo.

"General, I'm afraid that there is fraud, it's better to let the front army enter the city first, and it's not too late to enter the city when everything is fine.

So the Khitan army only sent 20,000 men from the front army into the city.

Just when the Khitan army entered the city, they naturally saw the flammable materials piled up in the city, and when the generals of the former army were about to retreat when they felt bad, the explosives in the city exploded, and then the city gate was suddenly closed, and the whole city was on fire.

Although only 20,000 Khitan troops entered, Yang Ye also knew that if he didn't work again, he would never have a chance again, so when the Khitan coach Yelu Xianzhen was still outside the city, Yang Ye gave the order to do it.

In this way, the few remaining Song troops and the 20,000 Khitans were burned.

After hearing the huge explosion in the city and seeing the sky-high fire, Yelu Xianzhen outside the city naturally reacted to Song Jun's plan.

While thanking Yelu Mo for stopping him in time, he also hated this group of Song people. He then ordered the immediate recapture of Yunzhou and Shuozhou.

Within five days, the Khitan army had recaptured Yunzhou and Shuozhou, as there were not many Song defenders in these two states.

However, after recapturing these two states, the Liao State found that these two states were actually empty cities, except for a small number of defenders, there was no one.

Seeing such a situation, Yelu Xianzhen's anger burned to the peak, and in order to vent his anger, he chose to slaughter all the surrendered Song troops.

After venting his anger, only Yelu Xian also remained, and a small number of defenders retreated.

On the fifth day after the end of the battle of the Western Route Army, Zhao Weiji finally led the reinforcements to the city of Yingzhou, but they were greeted with nothing but a charred ruin.

Seeing the tragic situation in front of him, Zhao Weiji quickly deduced the reason for all this.

When he knew that Yang Ye, Pan Mei and even the other Yang family brothers might have been burned to death in this city, Zhao Weiji knelt directly on the ruins and cried bitterly.

"Ah!!!!!!!!h

After hearing the boss's heart-rending roar and seeing the scorched earth in front of them, the rest of the people probably understood, so the entire Song army couldn't help but burst into tears.

At this time, Zhao Weiji's heart had a strong emotion that he had never felt before: "I want to change all this, I want to become the emperor and fundamentally change all this." The cause of all this is a mistake in the system, and the system is the root of all evil. ”

It turned out that the reason why Zhao Weiji's rescue was late was that the war-weariness of the entire Middle Route Army had reached its peak, and Zhao Weiji, who was preparing to come to the rescue, was faced with the fact that most of the Middle Route Army was no longer willing to fight.

At this time, the Middle Route Army had only one thought, to go home and see his family. They didn't care if there was their own robe over there still fighting.

Due to the system, the status of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty was very low, and once they were recruited as soldiers, they had to tattoo words on their faces to prevent escape.

As a result, all the soldiers felt that they were insulted, and they looked down on themselves, and even more so on other soldiers. Coupled with the fact that he has not been able to meet his family for a long time, the entire grassroots of the Song Army has a vague psychological illness.

They aspire to make a mark to get rid of this lowly status, but they fear war when it is frustrated. They are selfish, as long as they can have military merits, they don't care about the rest of the whole war situation.

These sick hearts even affected the coach, Cao Bin's repeated defeats and battles, and Pan Mei's greed for merit, the root cause is the lack of attention to the military in the system, so that they want to earn as much military merit as possible.

Zhao Weiji spent a lot of effort in this sick army to gather these rescue troops, but when they finally crossed the Taihang Mountain and arrived in Yingzhou, it was like this.

"I must become the emperor, and I will never keep up with changing all this, and even I will limit the imperial power after becoming the emperor. I want to end the era of the supremacy of imperial power ahead of schedule, and I will do what I say. After wiping away his tears, Zhao Weiji secretly swore in his heart.

As someone who has traveled back in time from modern times, he certainly knows what kind of tragedy the supremacy of imperial power will cause, and he vows to change all that.

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