After Li Zhiwan obtained the military power, she immediately led her men to the west of the city to observe, and convened the generals to discuss.

Li Zhiwan said to several generals of the Zhao army: "The Turks are coming with momentum, and they will definitely cross the Wuding River to attack the city in the west of the city, so I decided to set up here on the preset battlefield, what do you think?" ”

Chen Ke and Zhao Quanting objected at the moment: "Guifei Niangniang, we feel that the Turks are more likely to attack from the north, if we gather troops and horses in the west of the city to meet the enemy, in case the Turks attack from the north, we will be in danger." ”

Li Zhiwan said confidently: "Impossible, the Turks are very arrogant in their light troops, yesterday in front of the north gate, hundreds of their cavalry dared to rush the city, and the west of the city is not easy for the Turks to attack, but from the point of view of the marching route, it is more convenient." As long as there are more flags in the north of the city, as a suspicious soldier, we will break the enemy in the west of the city. ”

Hearing Li Zhiwan say this, Chen Ke and Zhao Quanting obviously didn't believe it.

Li Zhiwan didn't want to explain anything, so she said with a straight face: "Since I am entrusted by the queen and lead the three armies, I will take on the responsibility." You must now act according to our orders, or you will be punished for disobedience. ”

Zhao Quanting whispered to Chen Ke: "Let's listen to the concubine Niangniang, if it is not allowed at that time, we will question the Niangniang again, and don't fight her now." ”

At the moment, Zhao Quanting and Chen Ke both obeyed orders on the surface, and arranged them in the west of the city according to what Li Zhiwan said.

October 16, the second year of innovation.

On the bank of the Wuding River in the west of Youjing City, the banners of the Turkic army fluttered for dozens of miles, and the Turkic cavalry lineup stretched to the horizon.

Countless war horses kept snorting and spitting long breath, and Jieli Khan slowly rode his horse and whipped to the Youjing City, looking at the Youjing City in the distance. Said to the left and right: "I came to Youjing City with the former Khan, and now I am here again. This time, though, Ben Khan won't go home empty-handed. ”

All the generals on the side bowed their heads and said, "I am willing to follow the Khan." ”

Jie Li said: "I'm not too greedy, if Zhao Guo is empty, the money in the treasury." Leave it all to us Turks, and Ben Khan will let go of Youjing, what do you think? ”

When the generals heard Jieli say this, they were all happy, they had harvested in Huaihuang and Yuyi Town before, and now they are under the Youjing City, and the appetite of these Turkic people is suddenly greater.

The Turkic general Ashdewu didn't sip and said to Jieli: "You can get countless gold and silver treasures without fighting." That's the best, this time follow the Khan, but it's all rich. ”

The Turkic generals all laughed, and Jieli also smiled and raised his horsewhip to Zhao Deyan on the side and asked, "How is it in Youjing City?" ”

Zhao Deyan replied: "Back to the Khan, I have sent thirty fine workers before, disguised as Han people into Youjing City, these people are Han people, and they are not afraid of being discovered, according to the news they have spread. There were not many soldiers and horses in the city. Zhao Jun even put down his weapons and prepared to go into battle to meet the enemy. ”

The Turkic generals laughed again, and some people said: "The Han people are even ready to use the old people and children to fight, it seems that there is really no one in the country." ”

But Jieli listened to Zhao Deyan's words. Instead, he frowned and said: "It seems that the Zhao people's resistance is still very resolute, are they really not afraid of me, the 200,000 iron horsemen outside the city?" ”

While he was talking, the rear horse arrived. A Turkic cavalryman bowed to Jieli: "Feng Kedun, Zhang Changxun." Yuan Junzhang's order to inform the Khan. The 20,000 Tuo Brown Han troops in the rear were lost in the mountains, and I am afraid they will not be able to arrive so quickly. ”

Jieli's eyebrows jumped, this Princess Yicheng, as well as Zhang Changxun and Yuan Junzhang, obviously did not support Jieli's attack on Youjing, so they used the excuse of delaying the march to express confrontation.

Jieli said in his heart, these attached Han people, except for Zhao Deyan, I am afraid that no one is willing for me to fight against Zhao Turks, hmph, they think that this can stop me Jieli, even if there are only 20,000 horses, I will capture Youjing.

Thinking of this, Jieli crossed his heart and ordered the five thousand cavalry in front to cross the Wuding River.

At this time, just after the autumn flood, the Wuding River was very deep, and the 5,000 Turkic cavalry set up several pontoon bridges in the river to cross the river, and approached the city wall, but after seeing the dense Turkic soldiers gathered from the river, they passed through the houses by the river and approached the city wall.

Turkic soldiers in gray fur jackets moved nimbly, armed with bows and arrows, and carried scimitars through the streets.

At this time, there was no movement on the city wall of Youjing, only a few flags, which were erected crookedly. The Turkic army could clearly see that the city wall was not guarded by a single Zhao soldier, and it was empty on all sides. I walked through the houses and searched inside, but I also found that they were empty.

Jieli Khan looked at it in surprise for a while and said: "Impossible, even if Youjing's troops are weak, there will not be even a single person, there must be something strange in this." ”

Jieli said this, and the Turkic general on the side said: "Khan, my Turkic army of 200,000 is pressing the border, and I am afraid that the people in the city will have already been frightened." The Turkic generals on the side all thought so. Jieli wanted to order to stop advancing, but seeing that the generals said this, he also let go of the idea of ordering the troops to retreat.

The soldiers of the Turkic army quickly approached under the city walls.

Suddenly, on the city wall, the war drums beat together, and for a while, countless Zhao Zijing flags danced on the city wall, and the Turkic soldiers saw this scene and quickly hid in the houses under the city wall.

The arrows on the head of the city were scattered, the arrows flew sideways, and the momentum was amazing at first glance, and the arrows of the Zhao army suppressed the Turks, and after several waves of arrow rain, they also saw the clues.

It turned out that most of the arrows shot by the Zhao soldiers at the head of the city were not accurate, and they were either shot crookedly or fell halfway down. The Turkic soldiers under the city clearly saw that a young man under the age of ten in the Zhao army at the head of the city was holding a bow and shooting arrows aimlessly at the city, but he was so nervous that he let the bowstring cut off his fingers, and then howled and screamed at the head of the city.

When the Turkic soldiers saw this scene, they all burst into laughter, and felt that it was just a false alarm, and many Turkic soldiers at the moment peeked out of the house and shot arrows at the city wall. The Turks used horned bows, and although they did not control the strings on horseback, they still shot arrows quickly and accurately, and immediately put down a piece of the Zhao soldiers on the city wall.

Jieli on the river bank laughed even more when he saw it, and said to the left and right: "It seems that Zhao Jun really took out the old man and the child as soldiers, such an ambush." Even if we come a hundred times again, we are not afraid at all. ”

The Turkic generals laughed along. showed the contemptuous look of Zhao Jun at the head of the city.

Jieli immediately ordered, and the five thousand Turkic soldiers were all deployed. Throwing themselves into the attack on the city wall, the Turks rushed to the city wall with a rope ladder and prepared to ascend the city. Jieli said confidently: "I will spend the night in Youjing City tonight." ”

But after a while, there was the sound of a trebuchet crashing. Most of the Turkic soldiers did not know why, but they still buried their heads and charged forward.

Only a few Turks raised their heads to look at the city, but saw countless fires falling from the sky.

The fire quickly smashed on the roofs of the nearby people, and quickly ignited a fire, and it turned out that Zhao Jun had already placed the burning things here on the houses. As soon as the Turkic soldiers entered, a ball of fire shot by a trebuchet. Immediately the roof was ignited, and a raging fire was ignited.

The Turkic army under the city was in chaos, and thousands of houses behind the city wall suddenly caught fire and turned into a sea of fire.

Seeing that the retreat behind him was cut off, the Turkic generals under the city also said ruthlessly: "There is only one way to die if you retreat, either you will be burned to death, or you will be killed by the khan as a deserter, and there is only one way to live." ”

The Turkic soldiers on the left and right listened. There was a lotus sound in his throat, and a cold glow in his eyes, in such a desperate situation, he forced out the blood of the Turks. The Turkic soldiers did not care about it. Charge the Zhao army on the city wall.

And the city wall has been replaced by the archers of the Zhao army's soldiers, not the militia of Fang Cai.

They shot arrows at the Turkic army under the city walls, and the archers and generals of the county soldiers had an easy job. They don't want their subordinates to aim, just point down. Under the city walls were densely packed with Turkic heads. No matter how bad an archer is, he can shoot with his eyes closed. And the militia also lifted stones and wood. Struggling to smash it under the walls.

Wow!

The Turks were smashed and screamed, and their heads were bleeding.

However, they climbed to the city wall without fear of life and death, and several Turkic soldiers on the city wall broke through the Zhao army's arrows, rolling wood, and stone blocks, and after killing the city, they all brought a bloody storm and pulled seven or eight people on their backs, only to be killed by more than a dozen Zhao soldiers with knives and guns.

Li Zhiwan on the city tower looked at this scene, and couldn't help but move slightly, the Turks are really brave and good at fighting, no wonder they can become the overlord of the grassland. With only these hastily trained militias under his command and a mere 10,000 county soldiers, it is really difficult to stop the Turks.

Only 5,000 men and horses are already like this, not to mention that there are 200,000 troops outside the city.

However, Li Zhiwan's worried thoughts were just a flash, and she immediately shouted: "Use the barberry crossbow, and then order Zhao Quanting and Chen Ke to prepare!" ”

"No!"

After Li Zhiwan gave an order, the rain cloths opened by the soldiers and soldiers of Zhao on the city wall, and the barberry crossbows loaded with steel arrows showed their hideous faces. There are a total of 38 barberry crossbows on this city wall, and it is the first time that they have been used after being equipped to the head of Youjing City.

Now all 38 barberry crossbows have been launched, launching an overwhelming blow against the Turks under the city.

The Turks under the city walls were crowded together and were about to enter the city, but they were all unlucky under the blows of barberry crossbows. The Turks' leather shields, leather jackets, and flesh and blood were like papier-mâché in front of the barberry crossbow. A crossbow arrow was aimed at the Turkic rope ladder, and it actually pierced through the five Turkic soldiers on the rope ladder in one breath, and also pierced a Turkic soldier who was just about to go up the ladder to the ground.

The Turks are also flesh and blood, even if they are brave, they will be afraid of death, under the blow of such a steel storm, they finally lost the courage to fight, and retreated at the moment, rather than run back to the Wuding River at the cost of being burned by fire and being smoked to death, rather than die on the city wall.

This collapse was only in an instant, and at this time, Chen Ke and Zhao Quanting had already led three hundred elite Zhao troops to the edge of the moat along the sewers in the city.

They all held single swords and waited for the battle on the city wall, and now under the blows of the Zhao army's bows and crossbows, the Turks were already overwhelmed.

Chen Ke immediately made a decision, led the three hundred Zhao army warriors who were ambushed on the edge of the moat, drew their swords, and bravely rushed into the camp of the Turkic army.

The 5,000 Turkic troops had no idea where Chen Ke had come from, but when they saw that they were pursuing behind the Turkic army, they cut down and killed every person they met. The defeated Turkic army was immediately routed, and retreated to the bank of the Wuding River in a hurry, which stabilized its position.

Chen Ke chased all the way to the river, and only then did he withdraw his troops when he heard the sound of gold on the head of the city. It turned out that Li Zhiwan saw that the Turks had relieved themselves on the bank of the river and set up a strong formation, so she ordered Chen Ke to retreat, otherwise she would have lost dozens of people just now.

The generals all admired Li Zhiwan's ability to grasp the fighter.

On the side of the Wuding River, Jieli looked at the scene of defeat and retreat under the city with a pale face, but on the other hand, the wall of Youjing was full of cheers. Countless men with wooden clubs and broadswords cheered, and they couldn't believe that they could repel the Turkic attack so easily.

And at this moment, when Chen Ke and Zhao Quanting led their men back to the city, they were ashamed. Li Zhiwan used soldiers so skillfully, the two of them were really ashamed when they thought of their decision to question her before.

At this time, the current city gate was wide open, and it turned out that Li Zhiwan personally greeted the two in front of the city gate, and at that moment Chen Ke and Zhao Quanting jumped off the horse and bowed down in front of Li Zhiwan and said: "The last general is ashamed, and he actually questioned Niangniang's decision. (To be continued......)