The defenders of the city were 500 infantry armor and more than 4,000 auxiliaries followed. Now half of the 500 infantry armor has been killed, more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers have also been killed, and more than 700 have been killed, and three of the four city walls have fallen into the hands of the Ming army. The elite of the Xi army was like ashes, and secretly said that the fort they were holding on to was about to be unable to hold it.

That Xiao Tianma suddenly remembered a legend the year before last, it is said that when the hundred tricks were used to fight the envoys in Cangzhou's Dagou City the year before last, they encountered a troop full of firearms. The army was defeated by the siege of Ye Yu Hongguang, and in the end, Ye Yu Hongguang gave all the warriors of the hundred tricks to the Song army in the first battle to do their military exploits, and only 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers fled back. Could it be that what I encountered was this Song army? Thinking about it, this Xiao Tianmajing became scared.

How could the flesh and blood of the Khitan soldiers withstand the intensive fire of muskets? After the Khitan soldiers left more than 500 corpses, they did not dare to counterattack the southern city wall. They hid near the northern city walls, and in a state of panic they tried to make a last stand. Waiting for them were 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division with rifles in their hands. One by one, the soldiers of the Tiger Division rushed to the top of the city, and pressed the Khitan soldiers on the northern city wall with rifles in hand.

There were no pheasant moats on the inner side of the city wall, and the Khitan soldiers densely gathered on the north city wall became the best target for the soldiers of the Tiger Division. The soldiers in the front row of the Selector Regiment were the first to enter the firing range and raised their guns to shoot from a distance of 200 meters. Just one salvo of more than 200 people in the front row killed more than 100 Khitan soldiers who tried to defend the northern city wall.

Seeing that the four walls of the city were to be occupied by the Song army. Xiao Tianma, the leader of the Khitan soldiers, saw the devastating offensive of the Song army, and no longer had the confidence to fight the trapped beasts. He shouted, "Retreat!" And he jumped off the northern wall. Rolling around on the ground, he got up and fled north.

Seeing the leader fleeing, the fighting spirit of the Khitan soldiers collapsed. In just one morning, more than 1,000 Khitan soldiers have died at the hands of the Ming army, how can this battle be fought? As soon as the leader Xiao Tianma fled, the Khitan auxiliaries and miscellaneous servants no longer had the fighting spirit. Although these auxiliaries and miscellaneous servants had a sense of superiority in the face of the Song army, their morale was also extremely limited in the face of the heavy blow of facts. The defeat was like a mountain. More than 1,000 Khitan soldiers on the northern city wall lost their flags, snare drums and horns, and jumped down with Xiao Tianma. Seeing that Xiao Tianma had fled, the more than 2,000 Khitan soldiers in the fort no longer resisted, and rushed to the north city wall, jumped off the city wall, and fled outside the city.

The Khitan army jumped down the five-meter-high city wall like a flock of penguins jumping into the sea, rolled a few laps on the ground, and got up to chase Xiao Tianma. The outside of the tunpu is soft muddy ground, which is not comparable to the cement floor of later generations, and the Khitan soldiers will not fall to their deaths if they jump from a height of five meters. However, there were still a few unlucky Khitan soldiers who broke their legs and fell to the ground screaming.

The soldiers of the Elective Regiment kept pressing forward, firing at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. At first, only a few hundred soldiers of the Selective Frontier Regiment came into range of fire, but soon the soldiers behind ran up. They rushed to the north of the eastern and western walls and fired at the fleeing Khitan army.

In the process of fleeing, the Khitan army was hit by the Xuanfeng regiment on the city wall, and it was even more panicked. The fleeing Khitan army was like a swarm of surging ants, and people kept being shot and falling. The people behind were still rushing towards the city wall, hoping to escape from the north wall. However, the width of the stone steps on the city wall is limited, and only three people can pass at a time, and the Khitan soldiers are crowded under the stone steps, which has become the best target for the soldiers of the selection regiment.

More than 1,000 Khitan troops who were originally standing on the city wall jumped directly off the wall and all escaped. Most of the more than 2,000 Khitan troops who fled quickly also climbed the city wall and jumped down. And the 1,000 Khitan soldiers who were still shooting at the Xuanfeng Regiment and were south of Tunpu were not so lucky. The stone steps leading to the city wall were of limited width, and they could not squeeze under the stone steps, and were knocked down by the soldiers of the Selective Regiment.

The blood flowers were like fireworks that burst out on the crowded Khitan soldiers. This is no longer war, this is a massacre. As the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment fired, the corpses were piled up thicker and thicker under the northern city wall, and finally two or three layers of Qing army corpses were piled on each piece of ground. The blood pooled together, like a stream, flowing under the corners of the walls.

Four thousand Khitan soldiers left eight or nine more corpses under the northern city wall, and only 3,000 escaped from this small fort. In the end, all the Khitan soldiers who did not escape from the city wall were killed, and the battlefield was quiet. Yang Bamei climbed the city wall and looked at the battlefield, and shouted: "The selection regiment is on the horse to chase and kill the rout!" ”

Two thousand soldiers of the Election Regiment immediately went into action, returned to the southern wall, climbed up the ladder, and found their horses behind the artillery position. They rode their horses to the north and pursued the Khitan army. The Xuanfeng regiment galloped to the north and divided into ten groups to search for the Khitan rout. After chasing for two quarters of an hour, a group of cavalry encountered the Khitan army that had fled northeast with Xiao Tianma.

The soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment wanted to rush up and ride and slash, but the Khitan auxiliaries turned around and shot arrows, forcing the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment to retreat. The cavalrymen stopped their horses a hundred meters away, loaded their rifles, and fired at the Khitan soldiers. There was another scream among the fleeing Khitan soldiers, and more than 100 Khitan soldiers were shot and killed. The Khitan soldiers were panicked and no longer dared to flee as a formation, so they scattered one after another. The soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment laughed, jumped off their horses to cut off their heads, hung them on their saddles, and then rode their horses to chase the rout, shooting the fleeing Khitan soldiers one by one with their rifles.

Another massacre. In the end, when the more than 200 cavalry stopped chasing and riding their horses, and rode back to Tunpu with their heads, they had already chased and killed more than 800 Khitan soldiers. After the cavalry returned, the heads of the Khitan soldiers in the city had also been cut off. Yang Bamei counted the first level and found that in this battle, 2,441 Khitan soldiers were killed and 342 Tartar wounded were captured.

It was a big win.

On Yang Bamei's side, 37 people were slightly injured, 17 were seriously injured, and 14 were killed. These casualties were all caused by the archers of the Khitan soldiers. Yang Peng looked at the casualties, and also comforted Yang Bamei, secretly saying that after returning from this battle, he would ask the blacksmith to create stronger armor for the soldiers to reduce the casualties of shooting against the Khitan soldiers.

Yang Bamei handed over the wounded to Shen Yuji's medical team, and asked the military doctors to hurry up and treat the wounded. Shen Yuji's surgeons hurriedly mobilized to clean up the houses in the tunpu and set up a field hospital.

Yang Peng asked the soldiers to open the south gate and led the troops to ride into the Tunpu. The Great Song military households in the tunpu have probably been killed by the Khitan soldiers, or have been plundered, and the tunpu is empty at this time. Yang Peng found the granary, and sure enough, he found bags of grain. The grain was packed in burlap bags, apparently looted by the Khitan soldiers, and piled up in the granary like hills, at least 20,000 stones.

With this food, the 30,000 military horses under Kou Zhun will not go hungry. Yang Peng inspected in the tunpu and found another silver vault. Opening the silver vault, Yang Peng found boxes of various colors of silver piled up in the room. The silver included silver ingots and broken silver, all of which were trophies of the Khitan soldiers. Yang Peng asked the soldiers to count and found that there were 236,000 taels of silver in the warehouse.

Yang Peng secretly said that these silvers should not be cheap, and they should be accurate. He ordered that each soldier of the Tiger Division would be rewarded with ten taels of silver. The 2,000 cavalrymen of the Fengfeng Regiment charged by Yang Bamei were rewarded with 20 taels of silver each. The rest of the silver was put away by the baggage soldiers, and after returning to Tianjing New Town, they would also reward the wounded and disabled and the families of the dead in this battle.

After receiving the reward by the holy decree, Brigadier General Kou distributed the silver from the official family to the whole army, and he only left five taels of silver to make a wine glass as a sauvenir. Although the 30,000 soldiers didn't get much silver, they were all very excited when they learned that Lord Kou was like this. Now that the army has sufficient food and salary, in the evening, I watched the celebration banquet set up in the Hanjiazhuang Ethics Office.

When Yang Peng walked into the tent, the generals from all walks of life were already sitting in the hall. Yang Peng saw that there was an empty seat next to Shi Pingzhang under the heads of the Huaihua generals, and he was about to sit in, but he saw Chen An, the general of Kou who was sitting at the top of the generals, stand up and said loudly: "City Lord, sit in my position!" ”

Yang Peng was stunned, and arched his hand and said: "The last general is just a city lord, let's sit at the bottom!" The other generals laughed, and Shi Pinghu said: "It's all up to the city lord, we have food and grass to eat, what else is there to be humble?" The other generals also said: "In the past few days, the city lord has won many victories, and we have not made any achievements!" If the lord of the castle doesn't sit in the first place, we won't be able to eat food and drinks! ”

Shi Pingzhang also scolded loudly: "What else is the general's? Yang Peng's soldiers and horses are much stronger than our general soldiers! Yang Peng looked at Kou Zhun, and Kou Zhun also nodded and said, "The city lord has made outstanding achievements, and he can be ranked first!" Yang Peng walked to Chen An's side, bowed to Chen An, and sat in the first position.

Sitting in the first place, he had a feeling of being valued, and Yang Peng felt that the eyes of the generals looked at him with a little more respect. Shi Pinghu saw Yang Peng sitting beside him, slapped the table and said, "That day, the city lord said that he would fight Hanjiazhuang, and I didn't believe that he could capture it in four days. If I had known that the city lord's subordinates were so good at fighting, I would definitely follow and hunt down dozens of Khitan soldiers! Get some merit! ”

Shi Pingzhang said with a smile: "I didn't believe that the city lord could defeat Hanjiazhuang, who knew that it would only take two days to break the city!" With such a brave military horse as the city lord in the army, I am really not afraid of the Khitan! Shi Pinghu said loudly: "I heard about the city lord's military exploits, and the sergeants under my account were greatly encouraged, and they only felt that it was easy to kill the Khitan, and they were eager to fight, and their morale was already very different!" ”

The generals were sighing there, and the captain Zhang Yan said coldly: "The city lord has formed an army with firearms, dare to ask the key to it?" I want to learn from the city lord's system, how to start? Hearing Zhang Yan's words, all the generals stopped sighing and looked at Yang Peng one by one. Yang Peng's soldiers and horses are so strong, all the generals are willing to learn.

Kou Zhun was also very interested in this topic, and turned his head to look at Yang Peng. Yang Peng secretly said goodbye to being asked the secret of his rifled gun by these Great Song Dynasty generals, thought about it and said: "The key to firearms lies in fineness!" The key parts of my firecracker are all made of stainless steel, flintlock ignition, the firing rate is more than ninety, and a firecracker costs fifteen taels! Moreover, my soldiers practice firearms every day in order to have eight or ninety percent of the hits on the battlefield. With this kind of practice intensity, you have to break a torch every three months! ”

Hearing Yang Peng's words, the generals were speechless, according to Yang Peng, the maintenance cost of each moonlight training firearm costs five taels of silver per person, this is not a firecracker, this is silver! Other Great Song Dynasty generals, sometimes one or two silver a month can't be paid a soldier's monthly salary, where is there so much silver to maintain such a firearms army?

Yang Peng is so rich that he can play like this by raising soldiers with private property. Yang Peng raised 10,000 soldiers and horses, which was enough for other military attaches to raise 30,000 soldiers and horses. If other Song generals learned Yang Peng's method to raise the army, how would the imperial court explain when they came to select soldiers and horses? Say I'm raising elite soldiers? Who believes? Doesn't the official want to join you for an empty salary? After listening to Yang Peng's words, everyone had no idea of learning Yang Peng's firearms army, and they all raised their wine glasses and said, "Drink!" ”

On November 3, Kou Zhun and Yang Peng's military horses slaughtered to Jinghai Town and encountered a Khitan army all the way. The Khitan army on that road was about 15,000 people, and the Chinese army was holding a golden dragon rope high, and was besieging Jinghai City. The trap potholes outside Jinghai City have all been filled by the chariots of the Khitan army, and the defenders in Jinghai City are struggling to support it, and the city will be broken in only one or two days. Kou Zhun's reinforcements arrived just in time, and a few days later, he would have to collect the corpses of the defenders in the city.

Seeing more than 20,000 Song troops killed, the Khitan army besieging the city reluctantly abandoned Jinghai City and set up a formation under the city to meet the Song army. Over the years, the Khitan army has rarely missed against the Song army, and often a thousand Khitan troops can chase after two or three thousand Song troops. Although the Khitan army under the city was only half of the Song army, they obviously thought that the Great Song army was vulnerable and useless. They felt that they could defeat more than 20,000 Great Song troops.

Yang Peng grabbed a few Tartar prisoners, pointed to the Khitan army banner in the distance and asked them, "Which Khitan army is that?" The general translated Yang Peng's Chinese into Khitan, and the captives looked at the Khitan army banner in the distance for a while, and replied: "That is the banner of Hu Yuan, the training envoy of the Youzhou regiment!" ”

Li Zhi asked again: "How many vests does Hu Yuan have, and how many step armors does he have?" The prisoners said: "Now the Khitan soldiers are all included in the three major battalions, and in wartime, soldiers and horses are divided from the battalion to Commander Hu Yuan as needed, and the troops are all temporarily divided, we don't know how many vests and how many infantry armors are in the soldiers and horses along the way!" ”

Yang Peng asked his subordinates to give these Tartars a few whips, and whipped these Tartars alive until they were drenched in blood, and the pain was so painful. However, these Tartars shouted a whimper, but they still did not change their words.

Only then did Yang Peng let these Tartars live and let the soldiers take them down to take care of them. Yang Peng rode to Kou Zhun's Chinese army, and Kou Zhun was discussing with the three generals on the map to break the enemy's strategy. Seeing Yang Peng coming, Kou Zhun said happily: "The city lord has come just in time, we are dividing the flanks and discussing how to arrange to defeat this Khitan army!" ”

Kou Zhun thought for a moment and asked again: "The city lord has captured a large number of prisoners, can these prisoners know who the Khitan army general on the other side is?" Yang Peng arched his hand and said: "Confession, the Khitan leader on the opposite side is Hu Yuan's Youzhou regimental training envoy!" "It turned out to be Hu Yuan!" Shi Pinghu said loudly: "I heard that this Hu Yuan is considered brave and good at fighting in the Khitan clan, but because his mother is from a low background, he has only been crowned a regimental training envoy, not a nobleman. ”

Kou Zhun nodded and said: "The opposite side is led by Hu Yuan, but it can't be underestimated, it is a tough battle." Yang Peng arched his hand and said: "The last general is willing to attack the right side of the Khitan for the east wing!" ”

When several other generals saw that Yang Peng was invited, they also said: "I am willing to guard the right side of the army for the west wing." ”

Kou Zhun nodded and said, "Okay, then I will lead the standard army as the Chinese army!" Kou Zhun stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, let's go into battle to kill the enemy!" You are all high-ranking officials and noble people, and you are repaying the grace of the mighty emperor, at this time! Shi Pingzhang and the others shouted loudly: "Oh! ”

The crowd returned to the formation, and the soldiers put on their armor, grabbed their bows, and entered the battle mode. The 25,000 soldiers and horses of the Song army were like a huge machine, slowly moving and arranging a formation. Yang Peng rode on a horse to observe the Kou Zhunbiao military camp that was draped in battle, and felt that the four thousand soldiers were also quite strong, and at first glance they were veterans who had seen blood. Most of these soldiers wore cotton armor inlaid with iron plates, and each one held a large sword, fighting in formation, and they looked good at fighting.

These soldiers are all professional soldiers who eat military salaries, and when it comes to the ability to fight against each other, they are not under Yang Peng's Tiger Ben Division soldiers. Even against the Khitan army with the same number of people, these soldiers could hold out for a while. Of course, compared to the Tiger Warriors who killed the enemy with rifles and crossbows, their combat power was very bleak.

Yang Peng rode in the middle of the Tiger Division and called Huyan Chijin. "You led two thousand four hundred soldiers and horses to guard the westernmost flank of my Huben Division, bordering the Governor's standard army. You let the 1,000 and 200 people closest to Kou Zhunbiao's army let the Khitan soldiers shoot only a hundred paces away, and don't let Lord Kou find out that our rifles can shoot 140 paces! ”

"The remaining 1,200 people are a few hundred steps away from Lord Kou's soldiers and horses, Lord Kou can't see clearly, and they can open fire at one hundred and forty steps!" Huyan Chijin said suspiciously: "It takes a hundred steps to fire, what should I do if the firepower is insufficient?" Yang Peng said: "Don't be afraid, I will arrange fifty strong crossbows in your formation, and when the time comes, shoot the Khitan soldiers with strong crossbows, where can the Khitan soldiers withstand it?" ”

Huyan Chijin replied: "The subordinates obey the order!" Yang Peng nodded and let Huyan Chijin arrange it. The fifty strong crossbows of the Xuanfeng Regiment soon heard the order and were deployed in Huyan Chijin's army, scattered among the various companies. As soon as the team was arranged, Yang Peng saw Kou Zhun in the distance waving the military command flag, and Kou Zhun ordered all the armies to advance and force the Khitan army under the city.

Yang Peng also let the command flag be raised, and the whole army advanced. The Khitan army saw that the Ming army was pressed over on the left, center and right, and also met the left, center and right. Hu Yuan saw that there were many people on the two wings of the Song army, so he put 6,000 people on the west flank, 6,000 on the east flank, and only 3,000 people in the middle lane. Challenging Yang Peng's eastern flank of the Song army was the 6,000 soldiers of the eastern flank of the Khitan army.

Yang Peng raised his binoculars and looked over, and saw that those Khitans were all riding horses, about a quarter of the vests, a quarter of the infantry armor, and the remaining half were auxiliary soldiers. The Khitan soldiers jumped off their horses in front of the formation and stepped forward to fight. The Khitan are a fishing and hunting people, and although there are many horses, they are best at foot combat. Whether it is a Khitan spearman or an archer, the combat effectiveness under the horse is much stronger than when it is on the horse.

However, they didn't understand that Yang Peng's side was full of firearms, and the slow sprint speed of the infantry would turn the two hundred meters in front of the formation into a Shura hell. Yang Peng asked the whole army to form a horizontal formation in four rows of depth, ready to shoot in four rows.

Kou Zhun's Chinese army sounded the horn of attack, and the troops marched forward and killed Hu Yuan's army under the city. Not to be outdone, Hu Yuan's fifteen thousand Khitan troops also sounded the horn and pressed the Song army. At a distance of 600 meters, 500 meters, and 400 meters, the two armies approached quickly. Three hundred meters, two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, the Khitan rushing over from a distance was already very close, and Huyan Chijin could already see the hideous expression of the Tartar with his naked eyes. The Khitan soldiers seemed to despise the Song army led by a woman in front of them, and rushed up quickly with a howl, and many of them even had a cruel smile on their faces.

Yang Peng's one hundred and forty six-strong crossbows were fired. One hundred and forty powerful crossbows spewed out tongues of fire and shot more than a thousand long arrows at the ignorant Khitan soldiers. The damage caused by these long arrows is devastating. As soon as the strong crossbow sounded, a bloody storm was immediately set off in front of the Khitan army. More than a thousand long arrows swept everything in the front row, piercing the bodies of those Khitan soldiers with or without armor, hitting the bodies they thought were strong, and the armor they were proud of was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of the strong crossbow and long arrows. Passing through the body of the Khitan in the first row, the long arrow can even kill a Khitan soldier and then continue to pierce backwards, and then kill the second Khitan soldier in the back row.

The blood water is like a collective blooming flower in June, blooming violently in front of the Khitan soldiers, one by one, connected into a face, like a red picture of flowers, extremely gorgeous, but in an instant, it took the lives of a thousand Khitan soldiers. The thousands of Khitan soldiers in the front row fell at once, fell to the ground, screaming or not screaming, dead or shouting. Scraps of limbs were everywhere, and fragments of intestines and various organs were scattered on the ground. Blood poured out from the corpses, flowing out of the lowlands in front of the formation, merging into countless streams. The Khitan soldiers in the back were stunned at once.

After all, what happened next, and listen to the next breakdown.