After sending away the governor of Cangzhou, Yang Peng came to the official hall, Yang Peng also felt that this arrangement was a failure, almost making Tianjing New City unrecoverable, and he didn't expect Xiao Tianzuo to attack his nest, Yang Peng said to his master Lin Qing'er and She Lao Taijun, "Master, Lao Taijun made a mistake in my arrangement this time, and almost put Tianjing New City in danger, I think we must have a set of corresponding treatment plans, and when it comes to danger, we must have the young people of the whole city to come out to protect our city, Also, I decided to hold a monthly meeting with employees from various factories to defend the new city. ”

She Lao Taijun said, "Yes, this time we were also shocked, thinking that Tianjing New City was not guaranteed, and we did not do a good job this time, and we also notified the direction of Dagou to send reinforcements, in Dagou and the port, Yanshan County We almost have 20,000 troops, this time I forgot about this stubble in a panic, and the next time you go on the expedition, you and Zhang Xiang must leave one, so that everyone has the backbone." This time everyone is at fault. ”

Yang Peng said, "This time we have to go on an expedition, and all the people who Xiao Tianzuo robbed near Cangzhou should be intercepted, and the Khitan people should be dealt a hard blow, so that the Empress Dowager Xiao will remember this lesson and leave us room for development. "This time the credit of the seventh sister-in-law, I thought of a poem for the seventh sister-in-law. I don't know if the seventh sister-in-law likes it.

Yang Peng picked up a pen and paper and wrote in thin gold font, going on the expedition; Feeling the battlefield style of Huyan Chijin, I felt that "the mountains are high, the roads are far away, and the pits are deep, and the army is galloping vertically and horizontally." Who dares to slash right away? Only I call the general! "Seventh sister-in-law, this is given to you, thank you for your help to my little brother, thank you seventh sister-in-law.

She Lao Taijun said, "Seventh daughter-in-law, look at your uncle is partial to you, and he has written two poems for you in just a few days, Yang Peng, this word is really beautiful, beautiful, I will keep this poem for Huyan Chijin, haha." Huyan Chijin didn't expect that Yang Pengyou had written a poem for himself, his heart was pounding, and he couldn't balance it at all.

Yang Peng arranged the expedition, Zhang Xiang stayed in Tianjing New Town, and there was also to help the people resume production as soon as possible, and the seven departments of Tianjing New City also had to go to the countryside to help the people resume production. Yang Peng led his soldiers and horses north to Qingshankou.

Qingshankou is located in the north of Dingzhou County fifty miles, is in Xiao Tianzuo back to Yingzhou, Mozhou also has an important official card that will be Youzhou, on the basis of the rebuilt in the 14th year of Taizong, and then rebuilt again. The Great Wall of Qingshankou is built in the mountains, the terrain is dangerous, and there are many enemy buildings. There is a garrison in the southern part of the pass. Of course, now these enemy buildings and garrisons have fallen into the hands of the Khitan.

Yang Peng led his troops to advance quickly, and it took ten days to reach the Qingshankou Pass. After ten days of fast-paced walking, the soldiers felt very hard, especially the temporary conscripted baggage soldiers. Fortunately, you can rest for two days after arriving at Aoyamaguchi. Yang Peng camped ten miles south of Qingshankou, and after sending troops to reconnoiter the vicinity for two days, he decided to build a fortress in a canyon known locally as Maligou.

This canyon is the only way to enter the Qingshankou Pass from the south, it is more than ten miles long from north to south, three miles wide from east to west, and there are mountains that cannot be walked on both sides. There is a small river running through the middle of the valley, which is not deep and can be waded through on foot. If you build a camp in the middle of the canyon, the entire east and west of the canyon are within the range of the crossbow.

Under the threat of strong crossbows, the more than 100,000 animals of the Khitan army could not pass smoothly. The 2,000 Khitan troops in the Qingshankou Pass saw that Yang Peng was camping outside, and sent dozens of scouts out to reconnoitre. At first, these scouts were skillful and arrogant with their bows and horses, but as soon as they approached the Tiger Warriors, they were routed by a volley of guns from the soldiers of the Bandits, and fled back in a panic. From then on, the two thousand Khitan soldiers in the pass did not dare to come out to investigate.

After finding a good location, Yang Peng began to build the fortifications of the camp. The first is to dig trenches to hold back the enemy. The trench designed by Yang Peng is a large ditch three meters wide and two meters deep. Such a large ditch is surrounded by four circles outside the camp, and a circle is dug every 40 meters from 200 meters from the edge of the camp to 80 meters from the edge of the camp. Eighty meters is the range of the Khitan army's bows and arrows, and if you don't cross these four big ditches, the archers of the Khitan soldiers will not be able to shoot at Yang Peng's riflemen.

There is also a low wall 50 centimeters high on the inner side of the ditch, which ensures that neither the Khitan soldiers nor the war horses can jump over the ditch. While digging trenches, the soldiers built earthen batteries for artillery.

Yang Peng's powerful crossbow was mounted on a ballista cart, and the muzzle of the gun was three feet above the ground. Soldiers piled up rammed earth to form a wall below this height to protect the crossbows. With the protection of the earthen fort, if the Khitan army's machine crossbow and Yang Peng's strong crossbow fire at each other, the chance of the long arrow in the earthen fort being hit is suddenly reduced by half.

Crossbow batteries were built in the middle of the riflemen's firing emplacements, scattered in the gaps in the infantry ranks. Then there was the construction of a defensive earthen wall for the riflemen. The rifle was fired against the shoulder, and the soldier's shoulder height was generally more than four feet, so Yang Peng built four four-foot-high earthen walls in front of the firing positions on all sides of the camp. The earthen walls are a foot thick. Shooting from behind an earthen wall reduces the chance of a soldier being hit by a Khitan bow.

On top of the earthen wall, a canopy was also built for the riflemen. The canopy was five feet four inches high and six feet wide, with a pointed roof covered with thatch. This canopy provides shelter for the riflemen from the rain. The flintlock pistol can also be fought in the drizzle, but when the rain is heavy, the probability of firing will plummet, or even be unable to fight. When it rains in the field, you can retreat when you encounter an enemy, and the rain will stop after an hour or two. But in the camp, they could not retreat, and they had to repair the facilities to shelter from the rainwater.

With this canopy, you can fight even in heavy rains. Of course, the archers of the Khitan army could not fight on a rainy day, and the Khitan army generally did not start a war on a rainy day. The canopy was not high, the roof of which was just a little above the soldiers' heads, and it could also shield the soldiers from throwing bows and arrows. If you shoot at the Qing army with bows and arrows behind such a protective facility, the casualty rate will drop by several percent.

Then there is the construction of wooden thorns. Wooden spikes are made from wood cut and sharpened heads. When using, bury the tail in the ground. The wooden spikes were half a foot high, and the heads of the wood on them were cut off and scattered on the ground. Wooden spikes are arranged within eighty meters in front of the canopy. The Khitan army could not pass through the place where the wooden thorns were placed, and they could only rush to the front of the Tiger Ben division by bypassing the wooden thorns.

It takes a lot of time to pull out the thorns, and it's almost impossible. If the Khitan army wants to charge into battle, it can only take a few zigzag passages without wooden thorns, which greatly slows down the speed of the Khitan army approaching the front of the Tiger Division. In the end, Yang Peng brought a large amount of thistle terrestris this time, and Yang Peng laid several layers of thistle terrestris behind the wooden thorns and in front of the canopy. If you want to pass through the area occupied by these thistles, the Khitan army will also have to pay a heavy price.

Half a month has passed since these were arranged. On 13 February, 70,000 Khitan troops escorted more than 100,000 people and animals, all kinds of goods and materials, and drove to Qingshankou. The forward scouts of the Khitan army arrived at Qingshankou, and they were immediately shocked by the camp built by Yang Peng. Those trenches, those earthen walls and canopies and other fortifications were like hedgehog spikes, making it impossible for the Khitan army to get close. The riflemen behind the fortifications set their rifles on the earthen wall and stared at the Khitan army outside.

The key is that if this hedgehog-like camp is not pulled out, the Khitan army will not be able to enter Qingshankou. The gorge of Maligou is only three miles wide, and Yang Peng's cannon swings in the middle, and the Qing army will be bombarded by artillery when they pass through the canyon, and they will not be able to pass. A group of scouts attempted to rush past the rim of the canyon, only to be fired into a volley of ten powerful crossbows, killing half of them and retreating in disarray.

And in that camp, there seemed to be more than a hundred strong crossbows. Perhaps 70,000 Khitan soldiers rushed over the fringes regardless of casualties, and the sacrifice of a few thousand people would probably be able to pass through. But that kind of price is too great, and the generals can't let the warriors of Da Liao sacrifice in vain! And if you rush over like that, what will happen to the people and animal materials escorted by the Khitan army. Especially those southerners, it is estimated that as soon as the crossbow shoots these southerners, they will all be chaotic, and when the time comes, they will disperse in a hurry, and the Khitan army does not know how many people they have to kill to chase them back.

Seeing the fortress built by Yang Peng, the Khitan army stopped in front of Maligou and did not advance. The Chinese army of the Khitan army, a group of Khitan army generals rode on horses and looked at Yang Peng's camp with different expressions. Han Derang whipped the whip in the air with a horsewhip and scolded loudly: "This Yang Peng! Do you want the lives of 70,000 of us? We have given up Dingzhou and rushed to Qingshankou at full speed just to get out! He actually came to Qingshankou to build a fortress to deal with us! ”

Zhang Hua bit his thumb and said: "This camp is stuck in the middle of the canyon, and the southerners and livestock we robbed can't rush through" Han Derang was defeated by Yang Peng in Tianjing New Town, knowing Yang Peng's combat strength, his face was already very panicked at this time, and he said loudly: "Commander-in-chief, let's abandon the robbed southerners and livestock and rush over, the further back we drag, the worse the situation!" ”

Xiao Tianzuo shook his head and said, "In the past few months since we entered the customs, we have lost 30,000 warriors, and we all rely on these southerners to replenish manpower. If we abandon people and animals this time, the warriors of our Daliao will no longer have the courage to enter the fortress and plunder in the future! "In that case, my Great Liao State's offensive against the Song State will be considered to be over."

Hearing Xiao Tianzuo's words, all the generals calmed down. No matter how hard Yang Peng's camp is, it can't change the national fortunes of the Great Khitan for the sake of a camp. If you don't dare to enter the fortress and plunder in the future, then Daliao will weaken rapidly. Han Derang shouted loudly: "Commander-in-chief, general, let's take down this camp!" After all, he only has 10,000 people, and we have 70,000! ”

Han Derang seemed to suddenly remember the machine crossbow in the army, and said loudly: "Shoot him with a machine crossbow, we have more than fifty machine crossbows, shoot at him, and knock out his strong crossbow." Zhang Hua gritted his teeth and said: "Yang Peng has more than 100 strong crossbows, and our machine crossbows are afraid that they can't beat him."

Han Derang said: "How do you know if you don't try?" Looking at the trenches in front of him, Han Derang said: "Those trenches also have a way, we cut down huge trees to make wooden bridges, and set up them on the trenches to rush over." When everyone heard Han Derang's words, their eyes lit up.

Han Derang said again: "As long as we build a wooden bridge and rush through the four trenches, our warriors will be able to shoot at the Song army in front of the formation!" When the time comes, we will be able to shoot arrows and rush forward, and our warriors will be able to fight the Song army hand-to-hand! We have 70,000 people! ”

From a mile away, the generals of the Khitan army could not see the wooden thorns and thistles in front of Yang Peng's formation, and thought that they could fight Yang Peng's soldiers and horses hand-to-hand by rushing through those trenches. Hearing Han Derang's words, all the generals of the Khitan army were a little moved, and they rode on their horses one by one and muttered, thinking about the feasibility of Yang Peng's tactics. Zhang Hua suddenly said: "We can drive the southerners to dig and fill the trenches, if the Song army doesn't shoot, we will fill it all the way!" If the Song army shoots, it will be the southerners who will die. ”

Xiao Tianma was defeated by Yang Peng in Tianjing New Town, and he was really scared. After listening to the words of the generals, his face was still panicked, he opened his mouth, and said with fear: "Commander-in-chief, that Song army Yang Peng is very cunning, I think his means are more than these trenches" Han Derang looked at Xiao Tianma with disdain, and said: "Xiao Tianma, you are afraid of being beaten by Yang Peng, then Yang Peng is powerful in the field, and defending the city is not necessarily powerful." ”

Xiao Tianma said in a panic: "We can give up Qingshan Pass and attack other passes!" Get out of the jam from the other gates! Hearing Xiao Tianma's words, all the generals were a little contemptuous, feeling that Xiao Tianma was really defeated by Yang Peng. How easy is it to attack other gates temporarily? The Great Song Dynasty has been in business for decades, and the major passes are full of high walls and deep trenches, and they are ready to fight. The Khitan army had to cooperate carefully with each other when entering the pass, carefully scouting in each pass, and knowing which pass was empty in defense before it could attack.

Even so, it may not be able to be captured, and it is necessary to cooperate carefully and wait for the right opportunity to break through. For example, this entry into the customs is to get information from the detectives, and they only succeed when they suddenly attack. Sometimes the border wall near Cangzhou was tightly defended and invulnerable, and the Khitan army even had to make a detour of thousands of miles to Datong in order to break through a fortress with empty defenses. It can be seen that it is difficult to break through.

As long as the Great Wall pass is slightly tightly defended, it is not something that Xiao Tianzuo can break. The Khitan army's ability to attack fortifications is not strong, as long as the Song army is not too weak, the Khitan army is generally helpless against Jiancheng. There were only 1,000 weak soldiers on the city, and this time Xiao Tianzuo's tens of thousands of troops surrounded him for two months, but he couldn't take it.

At this time, Xiao Tianzuo was in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Liao State all over the Great Song Dynasty reported to the Empress Dowager Xiao, Xiao Tianzuo could not get information for a while, and he did not know the reality of the various passes of the Song army, and he could not break through the pass at all. Attacking the tightly defended pass was to give the lives of the Great Liao warriors to the Song army for war in vain. If you abandon Qingshan Pass to attack other high-walled and deep trenches because of the four trenches you are in, it will undoubtedly be easier said than done.

Han Derang ignored Xiao Tianma's words at all, but said to Zhang Hua: "Using giant trees to make a wooden bridge across the trench, you can give it a try, as long as you rush through these four trenches, our 70,000 people can defeat Yang Peng's 10,000 people!" Xiao Tianma nodded and said: "Commander-in-chief, general, we can give it a try, if 70,000 people give up Qingshankou because of the four trenches, where will our warriors dare to meet Yang Peng in the future?" So how can our warriors enter the customs and plunder? ”

Xiao Tianma is right, the battle in the era of cold weapons pays the most attention to morale. If the 70,000 army fled because of a few trenches, and met Yang Peng in the future, the Qing Khitan army could only flee as soon as they met. Xiao Tianzuo thought for a long time, then turned to look behind him. Behind Xiao Tianzuo, 70,000 Khitan soldiers were lined up behind the Chinese army, like a sea of iron armor in full swing. Seventy thousand people stood in the valley, covering every corner of the valley, looking boundless. The tassels on the helmets of the tens of thousands of warriors swayed in the wind, looking like flowers blooming in the valley in spring, which was dazzling. The flags on the backs of the warriors formed one cloud after another. 70,000 people are mighty, making people feel invincible.

How could such an army stop because of Yang Peng's small fortress? Xiao Tianzuo said loudly: "Just do what Xiao Tianma said, make a wooden bridge!" The generals sang loudly, and each of them led his men down to camp, made a fire and made food, and prepared to go to the nearby mountains to cut down trees and make wooden bridges.

Yang Peng personally climbed into the pole car and used a telescope to observe the enemy in front of him. The number of the Khitan army was too large, 70,000 people, and the mighty momentum was daunting. Coupled with the robbery of more than 100,000 people of the Great Song Dynasty, the ranks of the Khitan army were spread all the way to the outside of the valley more than ten miles away. Looking from the lookout cart, the Khitan army felt like an ant occupying the entire land, boundless.

Between heaven and earth, it seems to be full of the army of the Khitan army. Yang Peng took a breath and carefully observed the details of the mighty Khitan army with a telescope. Yang Peng looked at the past carefully, and only felt that the Khitan army had a good command and a reasonable arrangement. The soldiers of the various divisions camped in groups in the valley, and they chose the higher ground and easy access to water, and arranged it in an orderly manner. In front of the baggage cart next to the Khitan Army, the auxiliary soldiers pushing the cart were waiting for them, standing solemnly one by one, without the crowding and noise of the Song Army when distributing grain, it was obvious that the Khitan Army had strict military discipline. The 100,000 Great Song people were divided into twenty large groups and arranged in the belly of the Khitan army. Although there were more than 100,000 Song people and more than 100,000 livestock, there was no chaos in the Khitan army.

Khitan rangers and sentries were stationed within two miles of the camp, blocking anyone who tried to enter the camp. Although Yang Peng's troops were small, the Khitan army still dug two trenches outside the camp to resist the enemy. The Khitan, as a warring nation, had no loopholes in the war. At this time, the Daliao soldiers, compared to the whole world, were also an elite army of soldiers and horses. If Yang Peng hadn't mastered a weapon far beyond this era, how could he dare to go head-to-head with such an enemy.

Even though the front of the fortress was covered with various fortifications and the defense was tight, but at this time, seeing the mighty momentum of the Khitan army with his own eyes, Yang Peng was still a little nervous by the momentum. Yang Peng looked at the various strict arrangements in front of his fortress again, and felt a little more at ease.

This time, the Khitan army had Xiao Tianzuo as the commander-in-chief, and all the ethnic groups poured out of the nest and all participated in the war. After several months of fighting, the Song army had basically figured out the configuration of the Khitan army. Among these 70,000 people, there are about 25,000 soldiers from the Khitan of the Liao State, 20,000 soldiers from the nobles of the Xi tribe and foreign vassal tribes, and more than 20,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Yang Peng wanted to stop them with a fortress. Yang Peng carefully checked his front layout again, and repeatedly imagined where there were loopholes. Yang Peng doesn't expect Zhao Heng to help him now, it's good if the people of the Great Song Dynasty don't fall into the ground, fortunately, Kou Zhun returned to Bianjing unscathed, otherwise half of the court and the middle of the court are traitors, and those people are more than successful and more than defeated, so Yang Peng has not dared to call the king or anything like that until now, it is a city lord, such a name, the Song Dynasty does not know what the city lord is, it is probably a county order, and the Liao State does not know anything, and thinks it is a title of the Song State, so everyone is safe.

On the morning of 16 February, Yang Peng was immediately observing the Khitan army with a telescope, but saw the middle gate of the Khitan military camp wide open, and the Khitan soldiers walked out of the camp holding a huge wooden bridge. One by one, the wooden bridges were lifted up and lined up in front of the formation. Twenty or thirty Khitan soldiers stood under each wooden bridge.

Yang Peng observed with a telescope that the wooden bridges were now three meters wide and more than six meters long. Each wooden bridge is made of three giant logs more than six meters long as keel, and then the keel is covered with dense small logs to make the bridge deck, which is fixed with ropes. Not only that, but there is also a wooden barrier in front of the wooden bridge, similar to a wooden shield hanging in front of the wooden bridge, probably to protect against the fire of the Khitan rifles.

Yang Peng took a closer look at those wooden bridges, and the current Khitan army had made a thousand wooden bridges within three days. Xiao Tianzuo led a general and more than a dozen Xi nobles to stand in front of the formation, and a dozen gorgeous woven gold dragons stood behind them, indicating to the officers and soldiers of the whole army that in front of the Chinese army was a thousand sturdy wooden bridges. More than 20,000 auxiliary soldiers stood next to the wooden bridge, ready to raise the wooden bridge and charge at any time.

However, the brutal Khitan army, the first wave of attacks was not launched by the wooden bridge. The first wave of attacks was the people of the Great Song Dynasty plundered by the Khitan army. Yang Peng looked at the Khitan army with a telescope and saw that behind those wooden bridges, the Khitan army used whips and swords to drive tens of thousands of looted people to the front. Those ragged people of the Great Song Dynasty held iron shovels one by one, and the Khitan army actually wanted to use these unarmed people to fill the trenches.

One by one, the people were dressed in shabby cotton clothes, and some did not even have cotton clothes, shivering in the cold wind. The common people, men and women, young and old, did not dare to resist under the swords of the Khitan soldiers. But when they saw the cautious appearance of the Khitan army, they also knew that the Song army in front of them was not good at stubble, and the Khitan army drove them to fill the trenches this time. To go forward is to die, and to go back is also to die. Many people felt that a great calamity was coming, and they grabbed the tools and howled and cried in front of the battle. But the Khitan army showed no mercy, and took the whip to whip the weeping people.

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