Not only that, in order to reduce the casualties of the Khitan army, Yang Peng equipped all the soldiers with helmets when he left Tianjing New City this time. Yang Peng has captured more than 20,000 helmets over the years, enough for each soldier to wear.

The only way the Khitan army could shoot the Song army was to shoot the Song army in the face fifty paces away. This is too demanding for archery.

A hundred steps through the poplar is just a legend. Shooting with a bow and arrow at fifty paces is a gust of wind, and the arrows fired will also deviate a lot from the target. Even if an archer practices all his life, he will not be able to accurately hit such a small target at such a distance.

A one-in-a-million basketball star has been practicing for more than ten years, and he can't accurately shoot from the midfield of the basketball court 14 meters away, let alone an ordinary soldier shooting arrows more than 70 meters away with a pull force of dozens of pounds?

But now apart from archery, the Khitan has no second way to harm the Song army in the fortress. The 3,000 Khitan soldiers gritted their teeth and stood between the trenches and the wooden thorns, bending their bows and shooting arrows at the tiger division under the canopy.

The bows and arrows thrown in the back row were all blocked by the canopy, and only more than a thousand direct bows and arrows in the front row could threaten the tiger division, but it was really difficult for a strong man to shoot Song Jun's face from more than seventy meters away. More than a thousand arrows were fired, and only a few dozen bows and arrows hit the target.

The auxiliary soldiers and followers in the Khitan were not capable of threatening the Tiger Ben division fifty paces away, and the Khitan soldiers who stood in the front row to shoot arrows were all infantry soldiers and horse armor soldiers. These Khitan archers can shoot an arrow in about five seconds, and the soldiers of the Tiger Division under the canopy can also shoot a volley from five seconds.

Compared with the strength of the Khitan shooters, the shooting power of the Tiger Ben division is much more lethal. The soldiers of the Tiger Division shot the Khitan archers at a distance of more than 70 meters, as if shooting at a stationary target, and the hit rate was amazing. Six hundred rifles fired a volley of platoon after platoon, and a single volley killed nearly 500 Khitan soldiers.

The Khitans indiscriminately shot three rounds of arrows at the Tiger Division, killing and wounding only two hundred Tiger Division soldiers, but they were bombarded three times with rifles by the Tiger Division soldiers. After three rounds of volleys, the Khitans had more than 1,000 foot armor and vests fall in front of the wooden thorn formation. These are the elite of the Khitan army.

Blood continued to flow from the wounds caused by the bullets, making the saltpeter-smelling battlefield permeate a pungent smell of blood.

An elite of the Creek rushed to the front to inspire the archers, only to be shot in the nose by a rifleman aimed at him. The spinning bullet shattered the officer's nose and burrowed into his skull to wreak havoc, killing him instantly. The elite of the Creek Army fell silently into the thorns like a lifeless stake.

The death of the senior officer caused chaos, and some of the archers, overwhelmed by the carnage-like battle, could not stand it anymore and broke back with a whoa-wow.

But the guards did not let the archers retreat, and shot back the fleeing soldiers with their bows and arrows. The Khitan soldiers who were shot back had no fighting spirit in advance and retreat, and shot indiscriminately at the canopy of the Song army with their eyes closed.

The casualties were too great, and the front of the Khitan was already like a chaotic Shura hell.

The corpses of the Khitan soldiers were spread in front of the formation more than 700 meters wide and died on the ground in various postures. If the Khitan soldiers in the back row want to shoot arrows, they must step on the corpses of the dead Khitan soldiers in front of them to get closer to the Tiger Ben Division. The Khitan soldiers, who were seriously wounded and half dead, fell to the ground, no one paid attention, and they were even trampled on by the archers in the back row. The faint screams of the trampled were heard, but no one could hear them on the battlefield where the guns crackled incessantly.

Some of the corpses had stopped bleeding from their wounds, but when they were stepped on by the archers behind them, blood burst out of their wounds. There was blood everywhere on the ground, and the smell of blood was getting stronger and sicker.

The area that Yang Peng left for the Khitan on more than 70 meters that could barely shoot at each other was not so much to give the Khitan a chance, but rather a trap to lure the Khitan into expanding the casualties of the Khitan soldiers.

The exchange ratio of hundreds to tens is too cruel, not to mention that the dead are all soldiers who are good at shooting, and they are all warriors in the Khitan army. The Khitan army became more and more weak, and it looked like it was about to collapse.

At the last moment, Yang Peng's one hundred and forty strong crossbows and stone throwers opened fire again.

The earthen fort where the Tiger Crossbow Division was located was also protected by layers: the lower part of the crossbow was protected by a mound of earth, and a canopy was built on it, leaving only a gap to accommodate the arrows, and the Khitan bows and arrows could not shoot into it. The crossbowmen calmly loaded the crossbow with long arrows under the canopy, and then pushed the crossbow to the muzzle of the fort and shot at the Khitan who was standing densely more than 70 meters away.

The catapult roared loudly, spitting out tongues of fire from the treult. More than a thousand participants rushed to the Khitan soldiers who were bent bows and arrows with stones in their arms, tearing apart all the armor and blood-piercing Khitan soldiers they encountered, and then tearing open the second flesh and blood body and armor in the back, taking away all the lives that were blocked in front.

More than a thousand Khitan archers who were standing in front of the formation to shoot arrows were beaten into a sieve in an instant, and their flesh and blood flew sideways, and they fell down without saying a word. Even if he was not hit in the torso, he was shot in the hands and legs, and the bones were immediately broken by the iron projectile. Even the entire hand and foot were broken, and they flew out as severed limbs.

The soldiers who were still standing were all covered in blood, and they didn't know if it was their own or someone else's.

The Khitan army collapsed.

This is not war, this is a massacre.

First of all, more than 100 archers on the west side of the front were routed, and they were hit the hardest by stones, and those routed soldiers were crushed by stones, and they fled to the back regardless of it, desperately passing through the gaps between the Khitan soldiers in the rear row. The flight of this hundred defeated soldiers soon led the entire front, and the critical point of the Khitan collapse had already been broken by a salvo of long arrows, and as soon as the Khitan fled, they all fled together. More than 1,000 people in the front row have been killed by long arrows, and more than 1,000 Khitan soldiers holding bows and arrows in the back did not dare to shoot again, and all of them turned into routs and fled to the back of the formation.

The rout of these vest soldiers and infantry soldiers drove the auxiliary soldiers and followers behind, and the Khitan soldiers were already frightened, and no one dared to stand up in front of the fierce firepower of the Tiger Ben Division. The front row collapsed, the back row collapsed, and more than 10,000 people fled back and forth.

The thousands of guards in the battle could no longer deter the fleeing Khitan, and the stigma of being a deserter could not stop these mentally broken soldiers, and they only had one thought left in their minds to survive. The guards in the battle sword stopped the fleeing crowd, and the rout soldiers simply attacked the guards together. Dozens of guards in front were hacked to death by the rebels, senselessly in the crowd.

The guards in the back row did not dare to stop these routs anymore, so they could only flee to the back with the routs. On the position of the Tiger Division, Yang Peng's soldiers were still shooting, and they were still pouring bullets at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. The fleeing Khitan soldiers had to leave behind hundreds of corpses for every few tens of meters they fled. The fleeing Khitans kept falling in the back row, and the people in front were even more panicked, pushing and pulling, for fear of being squeezed into the back row by other Khitan soldiers to send them to death. More than 10,000 Khitan soldiers are like goats that have encountered natural enemies, like elk that have encountered mountain fires, panicking, and wolves rushing to the pigs. They crowded and shoved on the wooden bridge, and people kept falling into the trenches. The Khitan soldiers in the trench cried out in panic and desperately ran up, trying to climb out of the trench two meters deep.

The defeated Khitan soldiers continued to attack the 40,000 troops that were still in formation behind.

The Khitan soldiers who collapsed in front were too panicked, and the soldiers in the back row were constantly shot down by the rifles behind them, and everyone felt that they were going to be killed in the next second, and their faces were full of fear. Some of the routs rushed into the array of more than 40,000 troops preparing for battle, hoping to use the other Khitan soldiers in the army as shields to block bullets behind them.

Their fear and dispersion shook the morale of the 40,000-strong army behind them, and made the army of more than 40,000 people a little shaky. The most important thing is that the fortress in front is impeccable, and the formation of these people in the Song army's strong crossbow range seems to be sent to death. Seeing the tragic situation of the rout in front, the more than 40,000 people who did not participate in the battle in the back were also a little trembling. When the Khitan army escaped from the first trench and fled into the distance crying, the army of more than 40,000 people became the forefront of the Khitan army. Yang Peng's strong crossbow was loaded with long arrows again, and the stone thrower opened fire on the more than 40,000 people.

More than 1,000 long arrows pierced the sky and shot at more than 40,000 Khitan soldiers. The overwhelming stones smashed into the Khitan soldiers. Blood immediately burst out from the Khitan soldiers lined up in front of the trench, splattering into the air like cheap paint, spraying the surrounding soldiers all over their faces. Screams and howls immediately emanated from the crowd of Khitan soldiers who did not participate in the battle.

After only one round of strong crossbows, the more than 40,000 Tartars collapsed. The casualties of this battle were too heavy, and the Khitans were already afraid. Qiandongnan, who had collapsed in front, was constantly attacking their ranks, and their morale had dropped to a critical point. And this whistling stone is not something that flesh and blood can stop. No one wants to have the courage to stand within the range of a strong crossbow and be beaten stupidly, life is not child's play, and the biggest thought in life and death is to save life.

The guards were all in front of the formation, and at this time they had also been carried down by the rout, and this army of more than 40,000 people did not have a strong force to escort the formation. The roar of an officer alone was not enough to overcome the fear brought by the artillery. After a round of long arrows, the Khitan's more than 40,000 reserve army could no longer be called an army, and turned into a rout, rushing behind them in a panic.

These scattered Khitans fled to 300 meters in a hurry, and were bombarded with stones by Yang Peng's stone thrower. One hundred and forty stones, like one hundred and forty Grim Reapers, bounced on the ground, breaking through all the flesh and blood bodies he encountered, and carving out more than a hundred alleys of death in the dense rout. The Khitan soldiers who were crossed by the alley were all broken and broken, with broken hands and feet, either killed on the spot or were seriously injured and bleeding.

The fleeing Khitan army was even more frightened, howling and crying, and fled far away with all their strength, just hoping to be a little farther away from this death-like Song army fortress. More than 50,000 Khitan troops rushed to the Khitan army 500 meters away, and they were almost about to rush into the Chinese army. The elite of the Chinese army's Kabush Xian battalion slashed and killed dozens of routs who attacked the Chinese army, and only then did they scare off these panicked routs. The rout was like a flood of a reef, diverting from both sides of the Chinese army.

In the Khitan Chinese army, the generals of the Great Liao State were like ashes. This battle was lost too badly. In front of the wooden bridge with auxiliaries and followers, 7,000 people died. If these auxiliaries and followers can be gradually replenished, the soldiers who died in the later rush are the elite that are difficult to replenish. Seven thousand men died in the charge, and at least two thousand more died in the rout. Of these more than 9,000 people, there are at least 3,000 step armors and vests.

These infantry armor and vest are the backbone of the Great Liao State, but they were consumed in front of Yang Peng's fortress like a massacre. Xiao Tianzuo felt that his heart was dripping blood. Xiao Tianzuo has always felt that he is wise and heroic, he was on the battlefield at a young age, and he was invincible in battles everywhere, and all the princes and nobles looked up to Xiao Tianzuo very much. In the past few years, when the emperor and the queen mother have dealt with state affairs, they have always discussed with themselves. Xiao Tianzuo believed in himself, and felt that there was no difficult thing in the world that he couldn't handle. Xiao Tianzuo even felt that his ability was comparable to that of the emperor.

However, today, in this Qingshankou, he was played and tricked by this Yang Peng like a monkey. Yang Peng tricked himself little by little into throwing troops into sending him to death. A fortress was not captured in the end, and Xiao Tianzuo lost tens of thousands of Liao warriors. As the commander-in-chief, he and his younger brother Xiao Tianyou led an army of 90,000 into the pass, known as 100,000. Today, there are only more than 50,000 people left in the 90,000-strong army, and nearly half of them are killed and wounded. With such a big loss, how many years will it take for my Great Liao Kingdom to recover?

He led his troops into the customs, and as a result, he caused such losses to the Great Liao State, how would the generals think of themselves? What will the Queen Mother do with herself? Xiao Tianzuo held his chest and bent his waist down, as if he couldn't breathe. Han Derang trembled his hands and said, "Commander-in-chief, general, hurry up and retreat to collect the rout!" ”

Empress Dowager Xiao's eldest son, Ye Yu Longxu, was snow-white, and there was no blood on his face. He was the main force in this battle, and he came up with the strategy of filling the trench with a wooden bridge. As a result, 7,000 soldiers died in order to build a wooden bridge, but the wooden bridge built by 7,000 people was meaningless, and the Song army's fortress was impeccable. Xiao Tianma knew that he was finished, and his reckless suggestion caused such a big casualty, the generals would definitely look down on him, and the queen mother would definitely be extremely disappointed in herself. The queen mother has always wanted to pass on the throne to herself, and tried her best to let herself experience and give herself the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to serve the public, and she actually used such a result to repay the emperor Ama.

Xiao Tianma thought about it, shed two tears, and actually cried. Yi Bai of the Xi tribe also cried and said: "I led 1,600 soldiers of the Xi tribe into the customs with the army, and now I am afraid that there are only a few hundred people left" Yi Bai wiped away his tears and said loudly, "General, hurry down and collect the rout, don't let the other Song troops find out that we are defeated and come up and stab us." These Song troops didn't dare to fight against us on weekdays, and now we are defeated, it's hard to say! ”

Han Derang looked at the Song army fortress in the distance, gritted his teeth and said: "If this son is not removed, my Great Liao Kingdom does not want to say that it is difficult to enter the Song Kingdom, even if it is to protect itself!" Xiao Tianzuo laughed miserably, and said, "Except for him? What to take? 70,000 people surround him, and he can't take 10,000? How to get rid of him? After this war, this Yang Peng obviously has to be promoted, and the momentum will be even stronger in the future, and my soldiers of the Great Liao State can only go around when they see him! Zhang Hua's face was pale, and he muttered: "Losing in the hands of this Yang Peng in a row, I am afraid that in the future, my Great Liao Army will be discouraged and cowardly." ”

Hearing this, the generals looked at Yang Peng's fortress and were speechless for a while. On the position of the Tiger Division, the defeated Khitan Army was seen, and the soldiers of the Tiger Division thundered with joy. The soldiers shouted "Wan Victory!" He shouted for a few minutes before stopping. Huyan Chijin, the deputy head of the Xuanfeng Regiment, found Li Zhi and said excitedly: "Division commander, while the Khitan army is now in a big rout, our cavalry will rush up and kill for a while, we will definitely be able to win a lot!" ”

Yang Peng looked at the fleeing Khitan army in the distance and shook his head. "Can't chase!" Huyan Chijin sneered and said: "Division commander, the Khitan army has all collapsed into a large area!" Yang Peng said lightly: "The soldiers of the Liao army are brave, and now they are fleeing because they are afraid of our strong crossbows." But our numbers are too small, and if the cavalry rushes out and fights the Liao army in close quarters, and the Liao army fights back with a little morale, we will not be able to bear it. More than 40,000 people behind the Liao army did not participate in the battle, suffered less damage, and although they were defeated, they could regroup their morale at any time and turn around to engage us. ”

"At present, we are still too weak, and when we encounter the main force of the Khitan army, we can only defend but not attack. There is more than enough rules, but not enough offense. If you want to eat the main force of the routed Khitan army in one bite, you have to wait until we are stronger. Huyan Chijin smiled wryly and said, "Master Gaojian! ”

To the south of Maligou, the defeated Khitan army fled all the way to ten miles away, and saw that Yang Peng's soldiers and horses had never chased out, so they gradually stopped. There was only one direction in the valley from north to south, and the routs of the Khitan army did not run away. There were no other Song troops nearby who dared to attack the scattered Khitan army, and the Khitan army did not suffer any losses on the way out. Xiao Tianzuo and the nobles of the Xi clan rode horses to collect the stragglers, and gradually reorganized and collected the more than 50,000 remnants.

Xiao Tianzuo led more than 50,000 remnants of the army to re-encamp five miles away from Yang Peng's fortress, and confronted Yang Peng's soldiers and horses from afar. On February 18, the soldiers of the Khitan army had been repairing for two days. Seeing that Yang Peng had never attacked, the soldiers of the Khitan army gradually calmed down, and their morale recovered slightly. The soldiers are no longer the same as when they first closed a few days ago, and they have also restored military discipline when they are cooking in the camp.

In the Chinese army tent of the Khitan army, why the generals went and where they were arguing again. Just after experiencing a big defeat, the nobles of the Xi tribe were a little discouraged and couldn't speak in good spirits. But the army was blocked by Yang Peng outside the Qingshan Pass, and he couldn't get out, and the predicament he faced at this time made the nobles have to be anxious. They sat around Xiao Tianzuo on both sides of the big tent, arguing about the next course of action.

Yibai said: "The soldiers and horses of Shaanxi in the Song Kingdom are all in Cangzhou, and the defense in the west is empty. We might as well abandon Qingshankou and go west, find a pass in the Jinyang area to attack it, get out of the pass, and make a detour back to Nanjing. Han Derang shook his head and said: "This strategy is not appropriate, we are not clear about the deployment of the troops of the Song Kingdom, and it is too risky to travel thousands of miles." Not to mention that we don't know which pass can be captured with loose defense, and a random attack is a situation of losing troops and losing generals, let's just say that from here we have to pass through many places in the Song State, and it is a place where the Song State is strictly defended. In case Yang Peng and hundreds of thousands of Song troops chase after us from behind and surround us, we will be finished! ”

Xiao Tianma also said: "You can't withdraw the camp like this, if you let the Song army know that we were defeated by Yang Peng, and now there are only more than 50,000 people left, the Song army will definitely surround it." With Yang Peng taking the lead, Song Jun may dare to fight us in a decisive battle! ”

Yibai said: "Stay here and confront Yang Peng, what should we do if the Song army surrounds us and Yang Peng attacks us back and forth?" Xiao Tianma said: "We can't enter Qingshan Pass if we stay here, and Yang Peng's men and horses can't get out of this Mali ditch." The people of the Song army didn't get the news of Yang Peng, and they didn't know that we were defeated, so how could they dare to come up and challenge us? ”

Blocking the entrance to the valley can seal the news of the defeat, and when the nobles heard Xiao Tianma's words, they felt that it made some sense.

Han Derang gritted his teeth and said: "We can't attack Yang Peng's fortress, but Yang Peng doesn't dare to attack us out of the village." Yang Peng only brought a few months of food at most, and we blocked him in the valley and starved him to death! Hearing Han Derang's words, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up, and they thought carefully about the feasibility of this strategy.

After all, Yang Peng's soldiers and horses are too strong, and he takes the initiative to fight, so he can be said to be the number one henchman of the Great Liao State today. If Yang Peng can be blocked in the valley and starved to death, it will not be a good ending for the Khitan army. In fact, the Khitan army entered the customs this time and robbed a large amount of grain and livestock, if the looted southerners were killed, the grain and grass would be enough to support more than 50,000 soldiers and horses to spend a year in Maligou.

As long as Yang Peng is dead, the soldiers and horses of the Khitan army will not enter the customs at will to plunder in the future, and many southerners can catch them. The nobles were silent for a while, thinking about the feasibility of Han Derang's plan. Xiao Tianzuo was conceited, but because of the defeat the day before yesterday, he was hit hard mentally, and he has been a little disheartened in the past few days, and he didn't say a few words for two days together. But when he heard Han Derang's words at this time, he still cheered up and said: "This plan doesn't work, the Song army has more and more soldiers and horses, and now there are more than 100,000, if you wait until June, I'm afraid there will be more than 200,000." ”

"The weather in Sene is hot, and in June and July, a large number of people in our army will suffer from heat stroke, and if other Song troops come to attack us with strong crossbows at that time, our situation will be even worse than now." Hearing Xiao Tianzuo's analysis, everyone was disappointed. Ibai took a breath and said, "I can't attack it, I can't defend it, so what should I do?" All the generals looked at Xiao Tianzuo in unison.

Xiao Tianzuo closed his eyes, shook his head and said, "Now I can't help it." When the generals heard this, they were disappointed and spread out on their chairs. Xiao Tianyou opened his eyes and said, "But when I was in Dingzhou, I asked the Queen Mother for help, and I think the Queen Mother is also leading the army towards Qingshankou." When the Queen Mother arrives at Qingshankou, we must have a way to get out. ”

When the nobles heard Xiao Tianyou's words, their eyes lit up. The Queen Mother is coming. The Queen Mother must have a way.

On 25 February, Yang Peng sat in the tent of the Chinese military camp, frowning and silent. Zhan Jinguo looked at Yang Peng and said, "City Lord, the Khitan is camping five miles away, and it has been blocking us for almost ten days, so it can't be that they want to besiege us for a few months, right?" ”

Yang Peng shook his head and said: "The Khitan soldiers can't get out of the fortress, and there will only be more and more soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty in Cangzhou, and the Khitan soldiers are also people, and they will also be afraid of the crowd tactics of the Great Song Dynasty, so they will definitely not be empty here with us." Zhan Jinguo asked, "Then why are the Khitan soldiers blocking us?" They don't go anywhere else to attack other passes? ”

Yang Bamei shook her head and said, "I think the Khitan soldiers seem to be waiting for something?" Huyan Chijin asked in surprise: "What are you waiting for, is it possible that the Khitan will still send reinforcements?" Yang Bamei said: "I don't know, I just have a feeling." Everyone was discussing there, but they saw a lookout running into the big tent in a panic and said loudly: "Lord of the city, the reinforcements of the Khitan soldiers have come out of the Qingshan Pass!" ”

Yang Peng was stunned, glanced at Yang Bamei, raised the binoculars and ran out, and climbed the watchtower in the middle of the fortress. Yang Peng raised his binoculars on the watchtower, and sure enough, he saw reinforcements from the Khitan army. In the valley to the north, a mighty team was slowly moving towards Yang Peng's side. Yang Peng took a closer look and felt that there were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. Some of this team wore dragon flags with red edges, and some wore dragon flags with blue backgrounds, probably the soldiers and horses of the emperor of Liao. There are also some soldiers and horses, waving the banner of the Han army.

In the middle of the horses, a strong man holds a huge golden umbrella cover, and a beautiful middle-aged woman rides under the umbrella cover. Yang Peng took a closer look with a telescope and saw the middle-aged woman, who was wearing gorgeous dragon armor. The armor has yellow lines on a black background, and the momentum is extraordinary.

Tattooed dragon armor? Empress Dowager Xiao of the Great Liao Kingdom? Empress Dowager Xiao is here?

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