After 5,000 Liao troops rushed out of their own camp, they galloped all the way north. The first two miles of the road seemed very calm, there was no loud noise that could harvest human lives in pieces, and there were no enemy cavalry or scout cavalry to stop or harass them, which made the Khitan general who led the team even began to secretly congratulate himself in his heart that he could be arranged by the commander to carry out this mission.

However, this Khitan general was obviously too happy, because since he led his army out of his own camp, he had been targeted by the observation post of the "Southern Route Army". As it got closer and closer to the main camp of the "Southern Route Army", the "Flying Dragon Army" in the large camp also began to adjust, preparing to deal it with a blow in the first hand. It's just that because the main artillery force of the army is now bombarding the Liao army battalion, the artillery fire used to block this Liao army is mainly from the 82mm and 60mm mortars belonging to the infantry battalions and companies. It was precisely because of the range of these two mortars that the 5,000 Liao troops were able to survive on the initial Erli Road. It was not until they came within a mile of the "Southern Route Army" camp and into the range of 82mm mortars that the situation began to change.

As a "sizzling" sound appeared above their heads, the loud and life-threatening sound returned to them. Although the sound this time was a little smaller than that in the big battalion, each explosion and roar could still tear off several or even a dozen Liao cavalrymen, either dead or wounded. Perhaps he learned from Cao Jiyun's letters, or perhaps it was a habit of fighting for the generals, or perhaps it was just an instinctive reaction, after being shelled again, the Khitan general immediately ordered the brigade to disperse, split five loose teams of 1,000 men and charge the enemy camp along different paths, until it was two or three hundred steps away from the trench, and then changed the formation and merged into one group, so as to cut through the enemy's defense line in one fell swoop.

The scattered formation did bring benefits to this Liao army, and the soldiers who could hit each shell of 82 and 60 forced with a limited killing range gradually decreased, and there were even cases where the shells did not hit any target. This situation made the Khitan general who led the team very happy, and once again congratulated himself on his good luck. It's a pity that his joy didn't last long, as the five thousand Liao troops got closer and closer to the enemy's camp, and saw the situation of the opponent's camp more and more clearly, the expression of the Khitan general, who was still secretly proud, became more and more serious, and he no longer had the pride and joy just now. For he found that on the path of his assault there was not only a trench two and a half feet wide, which stretched from the foot of the mountain to the river to the east, and was not made of trunks and bamboo branches, as had been assumed, but of thick stumps and long ropes that seemed not to be thick, but were probably made of iron wire. Moreover, judging by the fact that the wires shimmered in the sunlight, there were many spikes on them that might also be made of steel. Although such an iron fence is not high, it is far more dangerous than the bamboo fence that was originally suspected. Even if the bamboo fence cannot be jumped over, it will not affect the rider or the horse much. The barbed iron fence is completely different, and the consequences of not being able to jump over it are very serious - the man may be fine, but the horse will be pierced in a hole. Although the low earthen wall dozens of paces behind the iron fence was only two feet high, and the horses could step over it, they didn't have to pay attention to it. But other circumstances still showed that the attack was not as easy as he had thought.

However, although the expression of the Khitan general became very serious, it was not to the point of wanting to give up this attack. As an experienced general, he still made some preparations before setting off. Therefore, after seeing the trench and the iron fence (barbed wire) in front of the enemy's camp, he did not panic, but issued orders to his men again and again, ordering the 5,000-strong team to deal with the trench according to the usual tactics of attacking the enemy's camp in peacetime. As for the iron fence (barbed wire), he planned to use the rope to pull it down.

So, with the order of the Khitan general, the cavalry of the Liao army, which was originally divided into five routes, changed its formation again. Four of them gradually converged and prepared to charge, despite the fact that more and more riders were knocked off their horses by the enemy's artillery. The other road turned to the left, and after making a beautiful arc, it swept in front of the "Southern Route Army" along the route parallel to the trench, and duly threw the cloth bags filled with earth or gravel that had been resting on the horse's buttocks into the trench, intending to bury a passage in this trench two and a half feet wide and nearly one and a half zhang deep that could allow the main force to charge into battle. …,

This tactic of cavalry assaulting the enemy's barracks proved to be effective in previous battles, and was basically the standard method of the Khitan cavalry - of course, this tactic would only be used in battles where there were no infantry or there was a serious shortage of infantry, because under normal circumstances, the task of filling trenches was more done by infantry or simply captured enemy civilians. In today's situation, it is very normal for the Khitan general who led the team to use this tactic. It's a pity that his opponent is completely different from the army of this era in terms of organization and training, from weapons to tactics, and this kind of tactics that are very effective against the army of this era, especially the army dominated by infantry, cannot play its due effect when encountering this completely different opponent.

As soon as the trench filling team of the Liao army broke away from the main brigade, it immediately attracted the attention of Qian Yuanshan and Wang Feng on the watchtower, and when the other party completed the turn and began to move along the trench, Qian and Wang had already roughly guessed the purpose of the other party. However, the two didn't care much about this, but after looking at each other and smiling, Wang Feng gave an order to the herald. As the flag in the herald's hand waved, the Khitan general and his 5,000 men were amazed by the fact that there was a sudden movement behind the two-foot-tall wall that they had not taken seriously, and thousands of enemy soldiers wearing colorful helmets appeared. While poking their heads out of the earthen wall, the soldiers also placed long iron pipe-like weapons on top of the earthen wall.

"These people also have muskets", was the first reaction of the Khitan general's brain after seeing these long iron pipe-like weapons. And his second reaction was: The "Shenji Army" of the Zhou army bypassed the Liao army camp and set up a formation in his rear, intending to surround and destroy the Youyun Liao army in this Baoxingzhuang.

Once he had such a judgment, the Khitan general's mind began to change, and the idea of "this is going to be dangerous and abnormal, I should immediately collect my troops and return to the camp" gradually took over, which led him to subconsciously begin to control the speed of his mount - he was engaged in an ideological struggle but did not notice this at all. But the problem is that he didn't realize that he was slowing down, but the thousands of Liao cavalry behind him noticed this, and also began to follow him to control the speed of the horses under his crotch, so as to avoid overtaking himself in front of the main general, which would be disrespectful to the main general. As a result, the Liao army, which was gradually accelerating and preparing to charge into battle, except for a thousand-man team running in front as a sharp knife and arrow, was still urging the mount and accelerating the charge, and the other three thousand-man teams following the Khitan general slowly turned into a uniform speed, completely losing its advantage in speed. However, this kind of situation was what the "Southern Route Army" hoped for the most -- the 3,000 Liao Army, which had converged in one place and advanced at a uniform speed, became the best target for the artillery of the battalion and company of the "Flying Dragon Army." As the shells accurately hit the Liao army's horse team, more and more Liao cavalry fell off their horses -- under the trampling of the horses behind, these Liao soldiers who fell off their horses, whether they were dead or alive at the time, were also trampled into flesh and bones.

When the Khitan general was still hesitating whether he should withdraw his troops immediately, the 1,000-strong trench filling team began to turn again after basically completing the trench filling operation, filling in a section about 100 steps wide in the middle of the trench, and knocking down the iron fence (barbed wire) of the same width with a flying grappling hook, preparing to go around behind his main brigade and charge with the brigade. Seeing that the trench in front of him had been filled in nearly a hundred paces wide, and that the Khitan general had also ended his ideological struggle, this guy finally decided to take a gamble and attack the opponent's camp - even if the subordinates who followed him at this time had already lost a lot under the blow of artillery fire. I saw him raise the scimitar in his hand, shout loudly to urge the mount, and began to accelerate again.

Almost at the same time that the Khitan general raised his scimitar, the herald on the watchtower of the "Southern Route Army" also waved down the red order flag that had been held in his hand for a long time. With the wave of the flag, more than 4,000 infantry of the "Flying Dragon Army" in the trenches opened fire almost simultaneously. Amid the roar of rifles and light and heavy machine guns, the cavalry of the Liao army, which had already rushed to a distance of less than 100 steps from the trench, seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall, and even the men and horses fell to the ground, and in an instant a "corpse wall" was built, a "corpse wall" that continued to extend to the rear and both sides.