In fact, Chai Rong and they think it is complicated, this reason is very simple, for more than ten years, the national strength of the Ming Kingdom has been growing day by day, the soldiers eat meat every day, the food is enough, and they practice physical training every day when they have nothing to do, it is strange that this person is not strong.

What's more, this Fourth Army was originally a unit that started with Baili Wuji, and it has always been controlled by Baili Yi, and now Baili Yi is the son-in-law of the Liao people, and Baili Wuji handed over the Fourth Army to Ding Sijing.

Baili Wuji learned about Ding Sijin from several battles, Ding Sijin can never be regarded as a famous general, but he has a sensitivity to the battlefield that he does not have, just like when Chu attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty for the first time, Ding Sijin was able to go deep alone with a single force and march to Jiangzhou, this kind of thing is not something that a mediocre general can do, Baili Wuji took a fancy to this, so he handed over the Fourth Army to him.

In addition to muskets, the Fourth Army was not equipped, and other grenades and mines were well supplied, and even eight artillery pieces were brought from Yanyun, but due to the rush to reinforce the Zhou army, the artillery transportation was difficult, so it was not brought with him and stayed in Taiyuan.

At this time, Ding Sijin was not thinking about whether he could defeat the Liao army, but how to follow the wish of Baili Wuji and reduce the casualties of the Ming army.

Ding Siwei thought about several plans, and he thought that the most likely thing was for the Liao army to go out of the city and fight with himself, because the biggest advantage of the Liao cavalry was field warfare, and this defense of the city was obviously a weakness. Ding Sijin also hoped that the Liao cavalry would fight in the field, and his heart longed to compete with the Liao cavalry.

Therefore, Ding Sijin ordered his subordinates to prepare more materials to block horses, such as fences and thistles, and ordered that on the march tomorrow, the scouts must go ten miles away to reconnoitre, and twice as many scouts were arranged.

But the truth is. No matter how well-founded Ding Sijing's analysis is, in fact, the will of heaven is always not as people wish.

After dawn, Ding Sijin led the 20,000 cavalry who had changed their clothes to the north. Chai Rong led 30,000 infantry to follow.

The speed of the cavalry was fast, even if it was not running, it only took half a day for the 20,000 cavalry to reach thirty miles outside Yinzhou City.

However, the scouts reported that they did not find the Liao army, and only encountered a few scattered Liao army scouts from a distance.

Ding Sijin felt deeply strange that the Liao army scouts had already appeared, so the Liao army must have known that the "Zhou army" had gone north, but the Liao army had not left the city yet. Could it be that the Liao army really wants to fight an offensive and defensive battle with itself?

It's also incredible.

Ding Sijin ordered the scouts to continue scouting, while he led his army to slow down and move forward slowly.

Thirty miles away. It took a whole hour for Ding Si's troops to finally come to the outside of Yinzhou City, and it was obvious that the Liao army was really going to fight an offensive and defensive battle with him.

This group of Liao dogs. Will the Lord be an idiot? Ding Sijin cursed fiercely in his heart. It's so shameless that I can't try the results of my training if I want to.

Let the cavalry dismount and fight, or siege ....... Ding Sijin shook his head, since this is the case, then attack the city.

Fortunately, the predecessor of the Fourth Army was originally infantry, and it has always been infantry. Baili Wuji ordered the reorganization of the cavalry.

Nowadays, dismounting and fighting is also a soldier's specialty. The veteran of the Fourth Army was familiar with how to attack the city with firearms when he set up troops from Baili Wuji Padang to attack Gyeongju Sanju.

Ding Sijin gave the order, and had already gone to prepare the wet quilt and other things for the board car. Ding Sijin ordered 10,000 cavalry to stand on both sides to respond to the siege troops.

After an hour of preparation, Ding Sijin began his first tentative siege.

As a result, the veterans of the Ming army were stunned to turn this tentative siege into a solid siege.

Archery, stones, wood, oil, etc., the Central Plains soldiers will do the same tricks as the Liao army.

And although the Liao army dismounted, its archery skills were still better than those of the Central Plains soldiers.

There were not many bed crossbows in the city, only two on each wall.

The Ming soldiers began to attack, approaching the city gate twenty zhang, and the Ming army was within the effective range of the Liao army's bows and arrows.

The arrows of the Liao army greeted the Ming soldiers as if they had eyes.

If it weren't for the cover of the cart covered with a wet quilt, the losses of the Ming army would have been great.

But even so, the arrows of the Liao archers were still able to seize the moment and shoot at the Ming soldiers who were accidentally exposed on the sides of the cart from various angles.

While most are not fatal, there is considerable attrition.

The four carts that were trying to attack slowed down, and the attack showed signs of giving up halfway.

This blunt knife cutting of flesh spurred the veterans of the Fourth Army, most of whom were now adjutants above the rank of the team.

When you see blood, you will shake your nose like a wolf when you smell blood.

For a time, eight board trucks rushed out at the same time.

And the control board car is all veterans of the Ming army.

They are the backbone of the Ming army and the soul of the Ming army.

Eight carts fanned out and headed towards the south gate.

There are only two veterans per cart, and veterans don't need help from others.

Countless arrows pierced the front of the cart like flying locusts, but the Liao soldiers could no longer find any targets that exposed the sides of the cart.

The reason why the veteran is called a veteran is not only because he is brave and bold, but also because the veterans can always let themselves survive on the treacherous battlefield.

Ding Sijin found out about this situation, but he didn't stop it, he knew from the raid on Southern Tangjiang Prefecture that he had a way to stop the veterans in this situation.

Even if he was the commander of the capital, it was useless.

The army is a sentimental group, and it is not uncommon for the army to salute veterans like a superior.

Positions do not mean anything, and in wartime, only veterans can really control the troops.

And the real reason why Ding Sijin didn't stop it was because in his heart, he envied and admired those veterans, and he longed to integrate into them and become one of them.

Only those who master the veterans really master this army.

Eight carts approached five feet outside the south gate in an instant.

The Liao archers on the city tower began to panic slightly.

It was not that the Liao army was afraid of death, but the panic of the soldiers when they found that the invincible arrows could not cause damage to the Ming army.

Although Yeluwan's department had not fought with the Ming army before, nor had he seen how firearms broke the city, the Liao army general in the city was indeed a capable man, and after he found that there was no Ming army behind the eight carts of the Ming army, he ordered a hundred Liao cavalry behind the city gate to open the city gate in an instant and rushed out.

The moment the city gates were opened, the death of eight carts and sixteen veterans had already been announced.

No one can resist the attack of cavalry like this, not even a veteran of the Ming army.

Ding Sijin found that the city gate suddenly opened, and his heart was not good, so he immediately waved the flag and ordered the cavalry on both sides to attack and respond to the veterans.

But the cavalry closest to the city gate was also thirty zhang.

There was a process for the cavalry to go from the start to full speed, that is, even if the cavalry rushed to the city gate, the sixteen veterans were already sixteen corpses. (To be continued......)