The lights in the big tent were bright, Dou Jiande was pacing back and forth in the women's camp with his hands behind his back, he was excitedly waiting for the news from the Youzhou army, until this time, he had to admire Kong Deshao's original strategy, he originally planned to get a little armor from Luo Yi, he sent three hundred personal soldiers to mix into the recruits of the Youzhou army, but he didn't expect that this small arrangement finally became the key to turning the tide of the war, as long as Luo Yi's reinforcements were defeated, he could face the Sui army independently.

At this time, Dou Jiande's heart began to be enthusiastic again, he originally planned to get rid of one and then retreat calmly, but now it seems that maybe he can still fight with the Sui army, the Sui army has 50,000 people, and he has 100,000 people, if you add Luo Yi's army, then there are at least 120,000 troops, he may not lose, if this battle can defeat the Sui army, then the entire Hebei land belongs to him.

This is also a weakness of Dou Jiande, he is more emotional and easily carried away by short-term victories, but at this time, he forgets the fiasco in Hanoi County.

At this moment, an urgent report from a soldier came from outside the big tent, "Lord Qiqi, the patrol has discovered the enemy's situation, and tens of thousands of enemy troops are approaching us!" ”

"Ahh Dou Jiande exclaimed in surprise and took a step back, the news was like a basin of cold water poured on his head, he only stood for a moment, and then immediately rushed out of the big tent.

Dou Jiande has realized a serious problem, the Sui army will not give him time to prepare at all, perhaps the Sui army has already been prepared, and at the same time as he did it to Luo Yi, the Sui army has already approached the city.

Dou Jiande ran out of the big tent and turned over his horse, drew his war knife and rushed to the north.

"Pass my order, quickly dispatch 10,000 crossbowmen to the north camp for defense!"

The battalion of 100,000 troops is too large, and only 10,000 crossbowmen cannot cope with the attack of the Sui army

Bands of soldiers ran through the camp, soldiers did not rest, fully armed and waiting for orders, they quickly deployed, waiting for the big battle to come.

In front of the barracks, there were soldiers with bows and crossbows, nervously watching the Sui army approaching in the distance, and tens of thousands of torches illuminated the camp as if it were day.

Dou Jiande immediately stood by the gate, looking at the Sui army getting closer and closer, this time it was completely different from the harassing attack a few days ago, the Sui army had been pressed on the whole line, Dou Jiande's palms were sweating, he felt the murderous aura of the Sui army in the dark night, which reminded him of what happened when he was in Hanoi County, it was also night, and the Sui army's amazing night combat ability made him remember it vividly.

Dou Jiande suddenly heard a kind of 'click! He turned his head strangely to look to the side, and he noticed that the legs of several crossbowmen around him were trembling, and this clicking sound was actually their teeth fighting.

He felt a kind of bad feeling in his heart, and looked back at the soldiers, behind him stood thousands of pikemen, standing in formation, ready to resist the rush of the Sui cavalry, in these pikemen, Dou Jiande could not see the tragedy of the decisive battle, nor could he see the excitement of the coming of the big war, let alone the murderous aura on their bodies, but only saw them trembling in cringe, and saw the unconcealable fear in their eyes.

Dou Jiande sighed secretly in his heart, his morale is so low, I am afraid that this battle will be more auspicious.

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Yang Yuanqing personally led an army of 40,000 troops to stop a mile away from Dou Jiande's northern camp, this camp he has carefully studied, a total of eight gates, and a deep trench was dug outside the camp fence, but what made Yang Yuanqing feel fortunate was that Dou Jiande only sparsely sprinkled a piece of tribulus terrestris outside the northern camp, and there was no tribulus terrestris on the other three sides, which shows that Dou Jiande did not want to sprinkle tribulus terrestris, and he no longer had it, and his tribulus terrestris was sprinkled around Zhuoxian County.

Yang Yuanqing stared at the camp for a long time, then turned back to Xie Yingdeng and smiled: "Where do you think the biggest weakness of Dou Jiande's army is?" ”

Xie Yingdeng thought for a while and said, "The lowest position thinks that the biggest weakness of his army is that it is large in quantity and inferior in quality. ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded and said with a smile: "Thinking about Dou Jiande's 400,000 troops, more than three times that of ours, it's quite scary to think about, but if you think about it carefully, you will find the problem, how can he have such a strong financial resources to equip 400,000 troops?" The military funds left behind in the attack on Goryeo are all in Youzhou, in Luo Yi's hands, so although his troops have 100,000, they are far inferior to us in terms of equipment, especially the bow and crossbow that is difficult to make, he can't have a strong bow and crossbowmen, General Xie, do you understand what I mean? ”

Xie Yingdeng thought for a while, and immediately understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, "The chief manager is saying that the opponent's camp is too big, and the other party cannot have so many crossbowmen to defend, and there will inevitably be defense loopholes." ”

"Or maybe they don't have that many powerful bows and crossbows."

Xie Yingdeng immediately became excited, "I am willing to lead six thousand cavalry to find the enemy's defense loopholes.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "It's not enough to rely on six thousand cavalry, I'll give another five thousand elite cavalry to break through the enemy's camp as soon as possible." ”

"Yes!"

Xie Yingdeng took the arrow and turned his horse's head away, and Yang Yuanqing immediately took out another arrow and said to the general Yang Jiachen: "You can lead five thousand elite cavalry to cooperate with General Xie to attack the camp and obey his command."

"Humble duty understands."

Yang Jiachen took the order and turned around, and the two cavalry of more than 10,000 people continued to gallop south in the dark night, Yang Yuanqing looked at them and walked away, and resolutely ordered: "Beat the drums, heavy crossbowmen attack the camp!" ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The fierce drums beat in the dark night, and the three thousand heavy crossbow infantry quickly lined up in a phalanx one hundred and eighty paces away, a distance that not only avoided the thistles on the ground, but also the range that the opponent's bows and crossbows could not reach.

Although the seven-stone rhubarb crossbow was invented in the Han Dynasty, but from the day of the invention, it was destined to be scarce, its production cost is extremely high, it needs to be built by excellent craftsmen, the process and technical requirements are quite high, the Sui army invested a lot of manpower and material resources, it took a year to produce 1,500 seven-stone rhubarb crossbows, which were used by three thousand tall crossbowmen for positioning and shooting, which had great lethality, and Dou Jiande was unable to make such a killing weapon.

Three thousand heavy crossbowmen were arranged in two rows, two people and one crossbow, they stepped on the crossbow with their feet, and their four arms pulled the string at the same time, and the bowstring was buckled, and the archer took place and carried the heavy crossbow on his shoulder, and the archer put a two-foot-four-inch long iron arrow into the arrow trough, and fifteen hundred bows and crossbows were aimed at the camp fence illuminated by torches in the distance.

At this time, the enemy camp had discovered the Sui army's attempt, and immediately fired ten thousand arrows, the sky became darker, and the overwhelming arrows were fired at the Sui army, but whether it was a bow and arrow with a distance of 100 paces or a crossbow arrow with a distance of 150 paces, it could not hurt the heavy crossbow Sui army.

With the sound of a bang, a click of a crossbow machine, 1,500 iron arrows shot at the enemy camp like a storm, many iron arrows were shot on the camp fence, but there were still hundreds of iron arrows through the gap in the fence, shot through the chest or head behind the camp fence, the blood light bloomed, and continued to shoot at the pikemen behind, and a scream sounded in the enemy camp.

Dou Jiande was standing behind the camp fence, an iron arrow shot through his leg, hit his war horse, the war horse neighed to the ground, and threw him to the ground.

The Sui army's powerful heavy crossbow arrows terrified the defenders and retreated like a tidal wave, leaving behind only five thousand sword and shield soldiers with huge shields in their hands.

At this time, the heavy crossbowmen began the second round of winding, and another fifteen hundred iron arrows roared towards the enemy camp, and it took great physical strength to open the crossbow and wind it, and two heavy Cantonese soldiers could shoot fifteen arrows, although the number was not much, but the time it delayed was enough.

Yang Yuanqing has been watching the performance of Dou Jiande's soldiers in the camp, he will find out the morale of Dou Jiande's army in some details, after the first round of iron arrows is fired, the powerful lethality of this crossbow arrow will inevitably cause a commotion among the soldiers, this is normal, even if the Sui army will have a short commotion, the key is the performance after the commotion, the Sui army will slowly retreat, and will never panic.

But what Yang Yuanqing saw at this time was a panicked run of soldiers, this is a typical lack of training, seeing this detail, Yang Yuanqing found that he still looked up to Dou Jiande, and it is estimated that Dou Jiande himself also knows, so he will have 400,000 troops and win by quantity, but unfortunately he did not bring 400,000 today, but only brought 100,000, but these 100,000 are not all in the barracks, blocking the gate of Zhuoxian County cost 10,000, and attacking Luo Yi's camp cost 10,000, and the barracks only 80,000, How can these 80,000 troops compete with the elite 40,000 Sui troops?

Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing was already a little impatient, and looked back in the direction of Nandaying.

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Xie Yingdeng was not in the South Camp at this time, but in the East Camp, he finally found that the East Camp was the worst equipped, many soldiers did not even have leather armor, wore cloth clothes, and held inferior knives and guns, they also had bows and arrows, but the bows and arrows could only shoot thirty or forty steps at most, or even only twenty or so steps, all of which were self-made soil leads, perhaps Dou Jiande bet on the North Camp and concentrated all the elite soldiers in the north closest to the Sui army.

Six thousand cavalry galloped outside the barracks, arrows rained down, intensively shooting at the enemy troops in the barracks, the powerful rain of arrows completely suppressed the enemy's resistance, and within fifty paces there was not a single shadow of the enemy soldiers, only piles of corpses all over the ground.

More than a dozen Sui soldiers put the rope on the wooden fence, hundreds of cavalry rushed up, pulled the rope together, in a shout, a zhang high camp gate collapsed, and then the camp fence next to it collapsed, pulling out a mouth more than 20 zhang wide, 5,000 elite Sui cavalry under the leadership of Yang Jiachen into the camp of Dou Jiande's army, 6,000 cavalry also followed.

The camp shouted to kill the heavens, 11,000 Sui cavalry like an extremely sharp horizontal knife, in the enemy camp unscrupulous surprise gallop, Dou Jiande's soldiers scattered and fled, the door of the southern camp has been opened, the frightened soldiers fled in swarms, the large groups fled into the darkness, the Sui army was invincible, a big tent was ignited, and the fire spread rapidly.

At this time, the camp gate of the North Camp was opened, and Yang Yuanqing led 30,000 troops to rush into the Dou Jiande camp.

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