There is no way forward, no way back, facing spears and broadswords, strong bows and crossbows, thinking about the firearms in the car formation that can take people's lives hundreds of steps away, and then looking at most of the subordinates around him who have completely lost their fighting spirit, Goldman Sachs knew that he was following the other party's path this time, and secretly regretted that he did not listen to the persuasion of his uncle Ah Ra just now, and insisted on personally bringing people to rush the opponent's team. As a result, the formation did not rush, but he threw himself into the net and became the turtle in the other party's urn. It's a pity that the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to regret it. Moreover, with Goldman Sachs' temperament and experience, he would never sacrifice his life and kill himself at this time. Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, Goldman Sachs finally sighed, threw the horse lance in his hand to the ground, rolled the saddle and dismounted, just waiting for the other party to tie himself up. Since the main general had dismounted and surrendered, his subordinates naturally had no reason to insist anymore, and they all abandoned their weapons and asked for surrender. Even if a few of them originally planned to fight to the death, they had no intention of making a senseless resistance in the face of such a situation, and became prisoners of this group of so-called "Youzhou rebels" who were not taken to heart by them half an hour ago, just like everyone else.

Seeing that the main general of the opposing party and his subordinates dismounted and surrendered, the battalion commander of the "Security Army" who led the team did not let these men brought out to tie people up, but waved towards the car formation. Immediately, nearly 200 soldiers with ropes in their hands poured out of the car formation, tied Goldman Sachs and his subordinates one by one, and escorted them into the car formation. As one of Zuihou's soldiers returned to the formation, the siding of the trunk that had just been put down was erected again, and the entire formation returned to an impregnable state.

From Goldman Sachs leading his troops to charge into battle, unhindered along the way, and killing as if he had entered a no-man's land, to the fact that he and his subordinates were surrounded and finally captured, this series of experiences was clearly seen by Ah Ra behind. Seeing that the only son of the righteous brother was surrounded by enemy troops, Ah Ra was so anxious that he wanted to fly to the opponent's car formation immediately to rescue his nephew. However, in the face of the invisible, intangible, but indestructible, and infinitely powerful ring of death, even if he was in a hurry, he was helpless and helpless, so he could only watch Goldman Sachs dismount and surrender, and be tied up by the other party's rope and escorted into the car formation.

However, the capture of Goldman Sachs also made Ah Ra let go of Zuihou's baggage. In the charge of half an hour earlier, the Khitan army had already lost two or three thousand men and horses, and judging from the current situation, in the face of the "Youzhou rebels", which was like an iron wall, even if two or three thousand men and horses were buried, it would be useless, except for sacrificing the lives of soldiers in vain, it would not play any role. The reason why Ah Ra has never given the order to stop the attack is mainly because he had a glimmer of hope of rescuing Goldman Sachs, so he couldn't give up on his own initiative. Now that Goldman Sachs has surrendered, the hope of Zuihou and the bond of Zuihou no longer exist. Therefore, at the same time that Goldman Sachs was escorted into the car formation, Arashi immediately made a decision and ordered the whole army to retreat and return to the mountain valley road where the ambush had been laid at the same time.

After hearing the order, the Khitan soldiers, who had already been beaten by the enemy's sharp firearms, were unstable and lacking in fighting spirit, so they naturally responded positively, turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the entrance of the valley not far away, hoping to escape from the death ring. The knights rushed into the mountain valley road, and everyone thought that they should hurry across the valley road and embark on the main road that connected to the exit on the other side of the valley road and led directly to the Great Wall. Originally, the mountain valley road was not too narrow, if you calculate the distance between the mountains on both sides, it looks like about 70 or 80 steps, and if you take the relatively flat mountain road in the middle, it is also 30 or 40 steps wide. Although the Khitan army had seven or eight thousand people, if they entered in an orderly manner, they would all pass in less than half an hour. But now the Khitan army is in chaos, and there is no formation at all, not only the middle mountain road is crowded, but even the part of the mountain road on both sides of the mountain road up to the mountain is also crowded with men and horses. Thousands of Khitan soldiers compete with each other, and there are inevitably some knights who fall off their horses because of the collision, or even fall to the ground with men and horses, which makes the people and horses behind them trip a lot. As the number of people who fell to the ground gradually increased, most of the roads that were originally smooth were immediately blocked. The knights behind continued to hug forward, and in the blink of an eye, the mountain road near the entrance of the valley was blocked. …,

It doesn't matter if it's just crowded, as long as after the initial chaos, under the pressure and maintenance of the commanders at all levels, there will always be a time for the team to restore order - after all, the enemy army is infantry, and it is okay for them to rely on the chariot formation to resist the Khitan cavalry, if they are allowed to go out to chase and kill each other, then no matter how sharp the firearms in their hands are, it will not be easy for the infantry who have lost the barrier to confront the cavalry. But the problem is that the enemy troops in the car formation are all infantry, and the light weapons in their hands cannot effectively kill the Khitan cavalry who have fled beyond Lixu because of the range, but the Khitan cavalry has seven or eight thousand people, and its forward is on the mountain valley road, but the rear tail is still near the left side of the car formation, and the Khitan knights who are left behind still have to bear the attack of small arms, which makes them very eager to get out of the danger zone, so they keep squeezing forward, trying to hide in the crowd. so as not to become a target for the enemy in the car formation. Second, in addition to light weapons, the enemy forces in the vehicle formation also possessed a weapon that could be reached far away that other armies of this era did not have—mortars.

The firing range of more than a dozen 82mm and 100mm mortars equipped by the "Flying Dragon Army" in the vehicle formation reached or exceeded 500 meters (one mile), so the shells that fell into their ranks did not stop from the time the Khitan cavalry began to retreat. On the one hand, there is a mountain valley road that can escape by rushing over, and on the other hand, there is an artillery bombardment that may kill you at any time, such a simple comparison makes almost all the Khitan knights desperately drill into the valley, no one cares what their commander is saying or ordering, not to mention that even if they want to hear it, they can't hear it clearly, the sound of guns shooting, the explosion of shells, the neighing of war horses, the roars of knights, and the sound of insults, all kinds of sounds are intertwined, making the entire battlefield extremely noisy, Even if you are face-to-face, you may not be able to hear what others are saying.

However, people are flexible after all. When the mouth of the valley was crowded, the Khitan knights who were directly under artillery fire and were at the back and outside of the ranks began to think of a workaround. Soon, they discovered a problem, that is, everyone was now bent on rushing into the valley in order to follow the route they had taken to retreat beyond the Great Wall, and then make a detour back to Datong City. But in fact, to return to Datong City, there is not only a detour outside the Great Wall, compared with along the official road between states and counties, it seems faster and smoother to return to Datong from within the Great Wall - after all, there is no need to hide your own figure in retreat, and you don't have to go far beyond the Great Wall in order not to be discovered by the "Youzhou rebels" as you did when you came, and then turn back inside the Great Wall. So, when the Khitan knights in front were still fighting for the passage that was not too wide, the Khitan knights in the back began to pull their horses' heads one after another, and moved along the roots of the mountain to the west side of the valley. As soon as these knights were on the official road, they quickly whipped their horses and ran desperately to the west and in the direction of Datong City.

The soldiers in the chariot formation must have paid all their attention to the Khitan cavalry near the valley mouth, and did not seem to pay enough attention to this part of the Khitan cavalry of about 2,000 people, who were turning their heads and running westward, only a small number of small arms and mortars intercepted this Khitan team, so that more than 2,000 cavalry successfully got out of the range of small arms after throwing down nearly 100 corpses, and rushed in the direction of Datong.

Being able to escape from the realm of mortality, the Khitan knights who turned to it couldn't help but be ecstatic, and secretly congratulated themselves that they didn't just think about fighting for the "single-plank bridge" like most others, but chose to set foot on the Yangguan Avenue in front of them. However, these Khitan knights who chose other escape routes did not have much time to be happy, and they rode their horses and galloped wildly, and then they encountered a group of about 6 or 700 "Youzhou rebel" cavalry. When they first discovered this group of cavalry, these Khitan knights didn't pay much attention to it, after all, there were more than 2,000 horsemen on their side, and it was not difficult to deal with the six or seven hundred horsemen in front of them. However, when the cavalry on the opposite side was still two or three hundred steps away from him and began to shoot fiercely with firearms, the determination of these Khitan knights to fight the other side was immediately thrown out of the clouds, and they immediately became chaotic. Some of the more than 2,000 horsemen turned around and ran, some dodged on both sides, and some simply abandoned their weapons and surrendered. However, the cavalry on the opposite side was not in a hurry, and after a burst of shooting scattered the Khitan cavalry, they opened the queue and formed an arc-shaped encirclement as large as possible, and went around towards the Khitan cavalry who were scattering and fleeing, intending to wipe out the more than 2,000 people in front of them and not teach them to flee from the battlefield. …,

At the same time, on the east side of the car formation, a group of cavalry of similar numbers lined up in a similar arc line pressed over, blocking the route of the Khitan cavalry fleeing eastward. These two groups of cavalry are like two huge arms, encircling the Khitan cavalry who are unwilling to fight for the now crowded "single-plank bridge" and trying to escape from other directions, making them turtles in the urn with no way to escape.

The two cavalry teams that suddenly appeared and the infantry who were still holding the chariot formation stuck the escape passage from other directions, and the only choice for the surviving Khitan cavalry to survive was the mountain valley road. So, in the face of the two groups of enemy cavalry approaching step by step, as well as the continuous artillery attacks, some Khitan knights began to go to extremes, and in order to open a way for themselves to escape, they began to slash and kill their comrades-in-arms with swords and guns. And those Khitan knights who became their targets naturally did not sit idly by, and raised their swords to resist. As a result, the entrance to the valley road, which was already crowded, became even more chaotic and uncontrollable.

However, this kind of cannibalism also greatly reduced the number of men and horses at the entrance of the mountain valley road, and the road that was originally blocked by water was actually loosened, and those Khitan knights who won in the cannibalism saw that the road ahead was smooth, and they didn't care about wiping the blood of their comrades' robes on their weapons, and one by one they rushed into the valley and rushed towards the exit on the other side a few miles away. Behind them, in order to fight for a chance to escape, more Khitan knights joined the ranks of cannibalism. For a while, the entrance of the mountain valley road was full of swords and swords, shrouded in a bloody storm.

The price of being able to break out of the mountain valley road is high, and it is paved with the lives of his former comrades-in-arms. However, those Khitan knights who rushed into the valley soon found that it was not worth paying such a huge price, and the sacrifice of those comrades who died under their own swords and guns was completely meaningless. For not far from the exit on the other side of the valley, a troop of men and horses, a group of enemy troops, were waiting for them. Moreover, the enemy guarded the left side of the exit on the north side of the valley and brought a number of wagons, which they placed horizontally on the mountain valley road, sealing off the road, which was not very wide. Behind this carriage barrier, six or seven hundred soldiers held muskets in their hands, and watched the Khitan cavalry getting closer and closer.

Although faced with no way out, some Khitan knights were aroused with blood and courage, and launched an attack on the blocking force armed by the crossing group without fear of death, but the flesh and blood could not withstand the dense rain of bullets after all. As a result, such a desperate charge was only carried out for a short time before it stopped. Those knights who were not afraid of death were lost, and the remaining 5,000 Khitan cavalry did not have the courage to rush to the rain of bullets, nor did they have the courage to break themselves, and finally surrendered to the crossing team under the leadership of Ah Ra, who felt that he had no face to return to Datong City to meet his brother.

After receiving the news that the rest of the Khitan army had all laid down their arms and surrendered, and that none of the Khitan troops had escaped from their encirclement, Tang Chao ordered dozens of high-ranking generals from Ara's down to be escorted out of the valley, and on the other hand, he ordered all the prisoners to be driven into the valley, and fortifications were set up at the two exits of the valley, and each sent a company of the "Flying Dragon Army" infantry cavalry and a battalion of the "Security Army" to guard it -- Tang Chao's headquarters had to continue to move forward, and it was impossible to escort these many prisoners. Now, with the help of the steep cliffs on both sides of the valley and the fortifications at the exit of the valley on both sides, a natural prisoner of war camp is formed, and only a small number of troops can be arranged to guard it, and the five thousand Khitan prisoners in the valley can be effectively guarded. …,

When the captives had entered the valley and the fortifications at the mouth of the valley had been erected, all the captives received an order to take off their coats and leave them to the guards at the disposal of the guards. Although the captives in the valley couldn't understand what was going on with such a request, now that their lives were in the hands of others, there was no reason for them to disobey what they were asked to do. So, with Tang Chao's order, more than 5,000 Khitan captives began to hurriedly untie their wide clothes, and the scene was very "grand and spectacular". However, these ordinary Khitan soldiers did not understand that Weishenme wanted them to take off their clothes, but those high-ranking Khitan officers and generals who were escorted to Tang Chao quickly figured out the joints - these "Youzhou rebels" wanted to use these Khitan military uniforms to pretend to be Khitan soldiers to go to Datong to defraud the city.

It's just that they have figured it out, and now that they have become each other's prisoners, even if they think each other's strategies through no matter how thorough they are, it will be useless.

After the prisoners' clothes were collected, Tang Chao sent fast horses to report the news here to Zeng Zhilin, Yang Xin and others in the front army, and at the same time led his men and horses to advance at full speed to join Zeng and Yang. After the two roads joined forces, they immediately acted according to Jihua, and Yang Xin led 5,000 elite soldiers to put on the uniforms of the Khitan army and complete the horses, detour beyond the Great Wall, and go to Datong City, pretending to be the Khitan army returning victorious, to earn the Datong City Gate. In addition, Tang Chao led the cavalry regiment to follow, and after the troops in front seized the city gate, they rushed into the city at the fastest speed to expand the results. At the same time, Zeng Zhilin led the rest of the men and horses and the military servants to pretend to be the main force of the army and continue to march along the main road to confuse the scouts and scouts of the Datong defenders.

The perfect victory of the ambush operation in Taitung Liang, the location of the main battlefield for luring and annihilating the 10,000 elite cavalry of the Khitan, the careful arrangement of pretending to be the Khitan army to open the gate of Datong City, and the tacit cooperation between the various units of the armed forces advancing westward through the group, made the implementation of the battle plan to win Datong City very smoothly. On the night of the 20th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the ninth year of the calendar (the sixth year of Xiande), Yang Xin led 5,000 subordinates disguised as Khitan troops to successfully open the north gate of Datong City, and occupied the city gate and its nearby city walls and streets with lightning speed. Subsequently, without waiting for the defenders in the city to make an effective response, Tang Chao, who got the signal from the city, had already led the cavalry regiment into the north gate, and cooperated with Yang Xin's department to develop everywhere in the city. After a night of fighting, by dawn the crossing team had captured the city. Only a few remnants of the defending army fled with Gao Xun, and the rest surrendered.

On the afternoon of May 22 of the lunar calendar, Zeng Zhilin led the rear army into Datong City.