Seeing that it was difficult to break through the "Shenji Army" car formation in a short period of time, and as time went by, the front army and the Chinese army of the Zhou army, which were only a few miles away, found that the possibility of the rear army being attacked and coming to help in a big way was increasing, although Xiao Jixian was unwilling, he still decided that this battle would end here, and he would find a chance to compete with the "Shenji Army" in the future. He nodded to one of the Liao commanders who had been following him, who immediately raised the scimitar in his hand and shouted to the Liao cavalry behind him: "Brothers, light the torches, prepare the things that ignite the fire, and go with the commander Ben to burn the grain and grass of the Zhou army." ”

At the shout of the commander, the five hundred cavalry of the Liao army behind him immediately took action, took out the torches that had been prepared and soaked in fire oil from their skins, lit them, and then followed behind his commander, shouting and rushing to the abandoned Zhou army's grain and grass carts.

The 500-strong arson squad rushed to the battlefield, and immediately divided into several squads, splashed the fire oil, sulfur and other fire-igniting things they carried on the Zhou army's baggage truck, and then lit it with the torch in their hands, thus solving the problem that the rain-soaked vehicles were not easy to burn. As the arson team of the Liao army galloped back and forth in the battlefield, flames and smoke rose into the air, and the entire battlefield became a sea of fire in the blink of an eye.

Now that the arson team has begun to set fires everywhere, for those Liao troops who participated in the raid, this also means that the raid is over, and it is time to regroup and prepare for the withdrawal. Therefore, without anyone's command, all the Liao troops consciously moved closer to the place where their superiors were located after solving the enemy at hand, and the originally scattered Liao troops gradually gathered together according to their respective formations, reorganized into eight thousand teams, and waited for the Liao army that set fire to complete the task, and everyone returned to Xiao Jixian's banner together.

The Liao army began to prepare to collect troops and return to the camp, the pressure of the Zhou army in the car formation suddenly decreased, and Liu Guangyi, who breathed a sigh of relief, saw that the grain and grass of the army were burned by the Liao army, and he was really anxious in his eyes and in his heart. However, in the current situation, he could do nothing about it -- it was okay to let the "Shenji Army" and some infantry troops rely on the vehicle formation surrounded by vehicles to confront the Liao army, and if they were allowed to rush out of the car formation to fight the Liao army face to face, it would be basically the same as sending them to death. Therefore, at this time, in addition to ordering the flintlock pikemen to kill as many Liao troops within the firing range as possible, the only thing Liu Guangyi could do was to curse loudly that the Liao arsonists would not die well.

Just when Liu Guangyi had nothing to do about the situation in front of him, a huge explosion suddenly came from the southeast direction of the car formation where he was, followed by a blazing air flow carrying smoke and dust rushing from the same direction, hitting the human face painfully, and even shaking and shifting the vehicles used to line up in that direction. The sound of the explosion was so loud that the gunners of the "Divine Machine Army" who had been with the artillery for many years and had to conduct shooting training almost every day were shocked and trembled. The gunners of the "Divine Machine Army" were still like this, and the others present were even more shocked, and a few soldiers with poor psychological quality were even so frightened that they almost had a heart attack, covering their chests with their hands and squatting on the ground, showing painful expressions. Moreover, almost all of them were so shocked by the loud explosion that their ears rang and could not hear any more sound for a while.

In fact, for a moment, there was really no sound on the battlefield. The battlefield, which was originally noisy and noisy, became extremely silent in the moment after the explosion, leaving only the sound of wind and rain and the crackling of flames. However, the silence lasted for a short time, even a fleeting moment, but in the blink of an eye it was replaced by the neighing of the frightened horses, the shouts of the knights on the horses as they tried to control them, and the wails of the wounded soldiers. Liu Guangyi, who was startled by the huge explosion just now, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyes to look in the direction where the explosion came from while rubbing his ears that were still chirping. Only then did I find out that I didn't know which arsonist or arsonists of the Liao army should be unlucky, and actually set fire to a gunpowder transport truck of the Zhou army. Although it was raining, the black powder in the transportation state was packed very tightly, and there was no damage to the moisture phenomenon when the transport vehicle was not damaged, so after the Liao arsonist who did not know what was in the car poured fire oil on the car and lit it with the torch in his hand, a huge explosion naturally occurred. …,

Although the power of black powder is far worse than the various explosives developed by the crossing team later, the destructive power of a whole thousand catties of black powder on the transport truck was detonated, and its destructive power is also quite amazing. The one who lit the gunpowder cart, or maybe the arsonists of the Liao army, were naturally blown up to powder on the spot, and there was not even a slag left. None of the men and horses within a radius of more than 100 paces around the powder cart were spared, either dying on the spot, or being severely injured by the shock wave, and dying slowly and irretrievably in pain. Fortunately, Liu Guangyi and his subordinates were located in a place more than 200 paces (150 meters) away from the explosive powder cart, and the surrounding car array weakened the power of the shock wave to a certain extent, so that although they were frightened by the explosion, there were no casualties.

However, God's favor is always limited, and when the Zhou soldiers in the same car formation as Liu Guangyi and in another car formation farther north than this car formation secretly congratulated themselves on their fate, on the south side of Liu Guangyi's car formation, the Zhou soldiers in the third car formation, which was only forty or fifty paces away from the explosive gunpowder car, were much more miserable. Due to the proximity to the explosion point, the huge shock wave not only blew the vehicles used for the formation in the direction of the explosion point, but also caused heavy losses to the Zhou soldiers in the array, and the number of casualties even exceeded the number of the fierce battle with the Liao army just now. However, fortunately, there were no gunpowder vehicles in the vehicles arrayed in this Xiangshang array, otherwise, the thousands of Zhou troops in the formation would be wiped out.

Of course, the damage caused by the explosion of thousands of pounds of black powder is indiscriminate. While the Zhou army suffered heavy losses due to this explosion, their enemy Liao army could not have survived it. The huge explosion not only blew up the Liao army that ignited it without a trace, and frightened almost all the Liao army horses present, but also caused many casualties and wounds to a thousand-strong Liao army team that was closest to the explosion site and was cheering for its own arson team, and more than 40 percent of the soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness. In addition, although these Khitan cavalrymen grew up on horseback since they were children and were very skilled in horsemanship, the huge explosion made these Khitans who had never seen such a scene tremble, and they could not concentrate on controlling the horses at all; Second, the huge stimulation made the Khitan war horses far more frightened than usual, and it was extremely difficult to control. Therefore, many Liao soldiers were thrown off their horses because they were frightened, or fell off their horses because of the collision of frightened war horses, and were immediately trampled to death. The casualties caused by the above two reasons combined also exceeded their losses in the previous battle with the Zhou army.

Perhaps the impact and shock of the explosion just now was too strong, or the heavy casualties made the soldiers and generals of both sides of Zhou and Liao feel uneasy, or the huge crater left by the explosion that was still emitting green smoke was too terrifying, in short, after the huge explosion, both sides of Zhou and Liao had no intention of fighting again - even if one of the Zhou army's car formations had been blown to pieces, even if the formation of the Liao army was still in chaos at this time because many frightened war horses had not yet quieted down.

Xiao Jixian was frightened for a long time, and after finally recovering from the incomparable shock, without saying a word, he immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, and took the lead in galloping south. Behind him, the various thousand-strong teams of the Liao army also ignored the robes that still failed to pacify and control their mounts, and beat their horses to keep up, and left in the dust.

Correspondingly, Liu Guangyi, who had already settled down, turned a blind eye to the Liao soldiers who were still stranded on the battlefield, and only ordered his soldiers to treat their wounded comrades, gather the scattered soldiers and servants, and rescue as many heavy vehicles as possible that had caught fire, and prepare to send someone to report to Chai Rong immediately. However, before he could explain to the messenger how to report to Chai Rong, a personal soldier came to report, and the hoofs in the north were bursting, people shouting and neighing, as if a large group of men and horses were approaching.

Liu Guangyi was shocked when he heard this, for fear that the Liao army would go and return and make a comeback -- at this time, most of the Zhou army was outside the vehicle array to rescue the wounded and supplies, and if the Liao cavalry raided, the consequences could be imagined. Therefore, Liu Guangyi urgently ordered his soldiers to be on guard, and on the other hand, he sent a scout horse to investigate.

Fortunately, the news soon came from Tanma, telling Liu Guangyi that the men and horses coming from the north were not the Liao army, but the 3,000 cavalry led by Zhao Kuangyin and Lord Zhao under the command of the former commander of the palace, and the 10,000 infantry army led by the guard pro-army Sima Bujun Du Yu Hou Han Lingkun Han. Hearing that Zhao and Han were leading their troops to come, Liu Guangyi naturally understood that this was when the son of today noticed the sneak attack of the Liao army and sent someone to rescue him. The enemy has gone, reinforcements are coming, the string that has been taut in Liu Guangyi's head has finally been loosened, and the heart that has been hanging in his throat has finally been put back into his stomach. And the complete relaxation also made him feel that the strength in his body was suddenly drained, and he couldn't even stand on his feet, if it weren't for the soldiers next to him to quickly support him, I was afraid that he would have to sit on the muddy ground.