In the face of sudden changes, the reaction of the demon army of Melezhen and his subordinates was decisive and swift enough.

But because of the distance, at least in the current battle situation, he is still in a passive disadvantage.

What he and his leaders didn't know was that just as they were discussing and deciding on a change of strategy, the Vietnamese army, which had crossed the Yellow River and had established itself in Yanjindu, had already started its next move.

Sun Ningzhi's use of soldiers, just as he fought with the enemy, paid attention to a radical and daring to fight.

After the pontoon bridge over the Yellow River was erected, and the people and horses and materials were sent from the south bank in an endless stream, he no longer continued to guard this ferry, but decisively personally led a group of 30,000 elite soldiers to kill the nearest Jizhou City.

Because in the days when he was waiting for the pontoon bridge to be completed, Sun Ning had obtained a lot of reliable information from the scouts who were constantly dispatched.

For example, most of the army that was supposed to defend the cities in Hebei was urgently transferred to Xiangzhou to assemble, which made the defensive forces of other cities quickly weakened, and even reached the point that the defenders of one city were less than two or three thousand.

It is precisely because the soldiers and horses in Hebei cities are stretched thin that the Jizhou side will only send a heavy cavalry to attack after learning that the Vietnamese army has crossed the Yellow River, and then there will be no next arrangement.

It's not that the other party really doesn't take this matter to heart, but it's really beyond his strength.

And it is said that even the defeated heavy cavalry was not the original defender force of Jizhou, but crossed from Youzhou farther away, and happened to rest in Jizhou. Only from this, you can see how empty the garrison of Jizhou is at this time, and for the Vietnamese army, it is completely an empty city at your fingertips.

After confirming that this information was correct, Sun Ning immediately made a strategic decision to directly take Jizhou and use Dacheng in Hebei as the first foothold of the Vietnamese army in the area north of the Yellow River.

In order to convey the importance of this battle, Sun Ning personally led the army again this time, and selected an elite army dominated by the Liangzhou Army and the Huaibei Army.

These two lines of soldiers and horses, the former has had friction with the Ghost Rong people for many years, so when fighting with the Ghost Rong cavalry, he must have rich experience. The latter, because they were invaded by the ghosts before, are full of hatred for these foreign enemies until today, which naturally stimulates their fighting spirit and combat power.

As for Yanjindu, Sun Ning handed everything over to Chen Qingyun, who had not long crossed the river.

Although this famous general of the Vietnamese army is not as aggressive as Yanhu, he is stable enough, and he guarding the Yanjin camp is enough to ensure the safety of the rear road.

In this way, after another three days, Sun Ning went all the way north and rushed to the city of Jizhou.

Before that, they had also passed through four or five small county towns along the way, although there were fewer defenders there, and there were only a few hundred people in two cities, but Sun Ning had no intention of taking the opportunity to defeat them.

On the one hand, these cities are not too valuable, and they don't even have decent city defenses, so they can't be defended well even if they are captured; He believed that as long as he took Jizhou, these small cities would only fall with the wind, so why waste time and troops to fight them at this time?

Because of this, even if the Vietnamese army cut down wood along the way and made a lot of siege equipment, it did not delay their journey to the north, and it only took three days to arrive at the city of Jizhou.

And this big city, which should be regarded as an important town in southern Hebei, fell into everyone's eyes at this time, but it looked particularly dilapidated and depressed.

The city is still the same city, but the city walls look so mottled and broken, it looks like it hasn't been repaired for many years, and there are even gaps in many places.

There are a lot of flags planted in the city, but there are not many defenders, and there are only two or three thousand people at a glance, and they can't even fill the four cities of Jizhou.

Obviously, over the years, the Guirong people have not done a good job in Hebei. They are more accustomed to plundering than development and construction, as for city defense or something, for them who are good at attacking but not good at defending, is it necessary for these things to exist?

Adhering to this habit, even if the Vietnamese army pressed the border at this time, the defenders in the city had no intention of defending at all.

Soon after the whining horn sounded, the remaining 5,000 soldiers and horses in the city were quickly assembled, and soon after, the city gates, which should have been closed, were violently attacked in front of the Vietnamese army

Open.

One thousand black wolves rode in front, four thousand light cavalry were divided into left and right, and there were five thousand ghost cavalry, so they went out to battle directly, and after a slight pause three or five miles away from the Vietnamese army, they followed the order, shouted and shouted, and went straight to attack.

This tactic of the enemy really surprised all the officers and men of the Vietnamese army, and even many people were not prepared to face the battle at this time.

In the eyes of ordinary Vietnamese soldiers, coming to the city of Jizhou today, with their own soldiers and strong horses, it is bound to frighten the thousands of soldiers and horses in the city who dare not have any other thoughts, and there is only one way left to defend to the death.

Then, they can first set up camp to rest, wait until tomorrow they have enough spirits, and then calmly attack the city, use all kinds of siege equipment built along the way, and after paying a certain price, attack Jizhou.

But this time, the enemy did not follow common sense at all, and he was obviously at a disadvantage, so he actually launched an attack first.

Only Sun Ning still behaved calmly, no matter how the enemy responded, he had a way to counteract.

Isn't it just taking advantage of the exhaustion of his own army from afar, intending to break it in one fell swoop?

Then let them see what it means to give back to the other in the way of the other!

"Qudian, send our heavy riders over and compete with them!"

With Sun Ning's shout, the three generals Qu Dian, Feng Yonglong and Zu Xiong, who had been promoted to the commander of the first battalion, immediately excitedly and loudly received the order, and immediately ordered their cavalry to put on armor, and then under their leadership, the three thousand heavy cavalry also rumbled straight towards the enemy.

Yes, among the 30,000 troops that Sun Ning brought to attack Jizhou this time, there were 3,000 heavy cavalry!

Of these 3,000 heavy horses, the horses were naturally selected by the Vietnamese army themselves, and as for the heavy armor, more than half of them were ridden by the black wolf, and the rest were made up by their own army.

Originally, the three generals thought that they and their subordinates should have no chance of meritorious service when they went north to seize Jizhou this time. After all, in siege warfare, how can there be room for cavalry to play, at most, it is used to chase and kill the fleeing enemy after the city is broken.

Now it's good that the enemy takes the initiative to kill, and this is exactly hitting the muzzle of their guns.

The credit delivered to the hand, how can there be a reason not to take the opportunity to win?

Under the leadership of the three generals, the newly formed 3,000 heavy cavalry swung out like a sledgehammer and smashed heavily on the body of the 5,000 ghost cavalry.

Such a hedging contest between cavalry, at the moment the battle began, had already divided the victory and defeat, life and death. And Jizhou City, with the victory or defeat of this game, quickly changed its owner!