Above Yushui, more than 20 Song warships lined up in formation.

Directly east of them is the Yuguan Castle.

To the southwest is Quang Ninh City.

In this way, the entire Song army's defense line was three, forming a three-character shape.

However, because the terrain of Yushui is lower, it is almost difficult for the artillery to hit the front, so the frontal pressure is almost all on Yuguan.

It's not that Di Qing doesn't want to go back, but there are three considerations.

First, if they retreat to Yushui, the enemy can take advantage of the situation to occupy Yuguan, condescendingly, and shoot at them on the water in the city, and the Song army will suffer a lot of losses.

Second, there will be one less line of defense in this way, and there will be much less pressure on the Liao army, and if they are not careful, they will have to be forced back to the sea.

Finally, and most importantly, he immediately intercepted the central place of Yuguan, and cut off the traffic artery between Liaoguo Xijin Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion in the middle, which is equivalent to cutting the two-headed snake from the middle.

Since it is a two-headed snake, the head and tail of the snake have fangs, so it will inevitably bite back at both ends. Then Di Qing will inevitably suffer from the two-sided attack of Xijin Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion, and will be in an unfavorable situation of being surrounded by the front and back.

At this time, if the defense line is too small, there is only one result waiting for Di Qing - that is, the Song army is surrounded on all sides and is in a hurry, and it is very likely that it will be annihilated by the enemy because of this.

Therefore, Di Qing had to allocate his forces reasonably, so that Yuguan could deal with the enemy in the east, Guangning would deal with the enemy in the west, and the Song army on Yushui would block the entire Yuguan passage and deal with the Liao army that would make a detour from a few kilometers north and south of Yuguan or rush to the aid of Yuguan and Guangning at any time.

At the head of Yuguan City, Di Qing was looking at the Liao army galloping in the distance with a telescope. Their soldiers were already in formation at the head of the city, and although they had no artillery, they did have muskets, and it should not be a big problem to stop this wave of enemies.

"They are not many in number, and we have mobilized another 2,000 soldiers to defend them. The biggest problem is that there must be the rest of the troops in their rear, and if they are surrounded by a large Liao army, it will be very difficult. ”

Di Qing commanded Ruo Ding, but ordered his men to line up at the head of the city, aiming their muskets below, and then said to Hu Yan Shouyong beside him: "Therefore, we must give them a head-on attack, and after repelling this group of enemies, we will immediately start to transport artillery to the head of the city to stop the enemy." ”

"Yes, Marshal."

Hu Yanshou had already understood Di Qing's good intentions, and nodded again and again to show that he understood.

Then Hu Yan Shouyong personally went over to direct the soldiers to fight.

Two thousand soldiers came over one after another on the ships outside the city, relying on the city wall to defend themselves, although the muskets were powerful in the field, but it was difficult to defend if the cavalry detoured on both sides, so having a city was naturally the best choice.

Soon in the dust and smoke, Shulu Si Liji was already close to Yuguan less than three miles, he suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "Stop! ”

"Stop!"

The rear heralds shouted loudly, in fact, this kind of shouting was useless, but they would wave their arms to give orders.

So the cavalry behind them all reined in their horses and stopped the momentum of the charge.

The deputy general Dieshuda also asked, "Detailed, what's wrong?" ”

Shulu Si Liji's official title is detailed and stable, which is equivalent to the commander of the first army of the Song State.

He looked around and saw from a distance that the Song army was already on guard on the city, and dense human heads came out, and his heart sank for a while, knowing that it was too late.

Of course, he knew what the result of the cavalry attacking the city was, not to mention that they were originally a marching team, and they didn't even have supplies on them, and when they passed through various cities, the local cities were responsible for supplying them.

This meant that they did not have much food with them, and they did not have any siege equipment, and it was difficult to complete the siege if they could not attack the enemy while they were not gaining a firm foothold.

Wait.

I remember that the man who fled before said that the enemy used artillery to collapse the west gate of Yuguan and enter the city, that is, the west gate of the city is broken?

Shulu Si Liji squinted his eyes and scanned the city, there were quite a few people on it, but the experienced veterans could see at a glance that there seemed to be only a few hundred people on it, and he could completely avoid attacking the east gate and detour to the west gate.

Thinking of this, he immediately said: "The enemy has occupied the city, and it is impossible for us to rush through it from the front, but do you remember? The man just now said that the Song army used artillery to collapse the West City Gate. ”

Die's eyes widened and said, "What does it mean that we bypass the east gate and rush to kill from the west gate?" ”

"Not bad!"

Shulu Si Liji nodded, and then waved his hand: "You lead two thousand people to make a detour from the direction of the north gate, and I will take a detour from the direction of the south gate, do you know?" ”

"Yes."

Diejda should also be down.

Immediately, on the wilderness, the five thousand cavalry soldiers of the Liao State divided into two roads and rushed towards Yuguan in a surging and vast manner.

There was an exclamation from the head of Yuguan City, and someone shouted: "The enemy has made a detour." ”

"General, are we going to the West Gate?"

"Do you still need me to say it? Immediately go to the west gate and run for me. ”

Hu Yan Shou shouted with an almost roar.

A large number of Song soldiers panicked and put away the guns they were originally holding and aimed at the east city gate, and headed towards the west gate.

Only Di Qing still stood calmly in place, and Hu Yanshou hurriedly ran over and said, "Dashuai, as Dashuai said, they went to Ximen." ”

"Are you all hidden?"

"Well, they have already let them hide under the slope of the river, and once the Liao people come, we can rush out."

"Let the people on the boat fire a few cannons, the Liao people are not fools, they are not so easy to be fooled."

"Yes."

Hu Yan Shouyong hurried to the west gate again, he was really tired.

Just now he went to arrange the 2,000 volt soldiers, and came to the city to set up the array, and he had to run up and down the city.

It's also a shame that now the Song army has abandoned the heavy armor, and they are all lightly armed, at most a back-rod rifle, otherwise he will definitely be tired and paralyzed.

At this moment, the Liao army divided into two routes, went straight around the eastern city of Yuguan, and headed towards the west gate.

Just when they arrived near the corners of the two city walls in the southwest and northwest of Yuguan, they heard the sound of roaring artillery, and more than ten black shells fell from the sky.

However, these cannons were hardly very lethal, except for one unlucky egg, who was knocked off his horse by a cannonball and sputtered from a stone more than ten kilometers away, the rest did not even have a single casualty.

The reason for this is that the Liao people are scattered and run away, and the most important point is that the water level of Yushui is relatively low.

Under normal circumstances, unless the water rises greatly, the river cannot exceed the city, and there will be a slope of the embankment, not to mention that it is now in early winter, and the elm water has also entered the dry period, and it is already very good for the boat to sail in, let alone let the boat float high.

Therefore, in such a situation, except for the two Flying Tiger frigates, which were two stories high, and could barely fire with the guns on the second deck, the rest of the ships could not hit the Liao cavalry.

However, the river embankment is originally high and low, some places are slightly lower, some places are slightly higher, so except for some places, most of the regional boats can still be taken care of, so that the Shanhaiguan can be blocked, so that the Liao people can not cross the river.

They really didn't have time to take precautions, and now they only had to rush through and enter the city through the west gate of Yuguan, so that they could clear the enemy from the city, but unfortunately the bridge was destroyed by them. ’

Shu Lu Si Liji was relieved to see the Song army moving their positions in a panic at the head of the city, which means that the Song people are really defenseless.

The only bad news is that the bridge on the Yushui River was destroyed by the Song people, and there are still Song warships floating on the river, even if he recaptures Yuguan, the people can return to the boat, and then they can only look at the river and sigh.

"Forget it, let's take back Yuguan first, as long as we take Yuguan back, we can also mobilize artillery from the rear to drive away the ships on the surface of the water on Yuguan or on the river embankment." ’

Shulu Sirgi thought.

There were only a few hundred Song troops in Yuguan City, although the Song army's muskets should not be underestimated, and the terrain of the city gate was narrow, if the Song people used muskets to form them against them, it did make them feel tricky, but they were not without countermeasures.

Shulu Liji touched the grenade on his waist, and only muskets have not been developed in the Liao Kingdom at present, and simple firearms such as grenades, artillery, and thunderbolts have long been copied by them.

As long as they rushed to the city and threw grenades into the city, even if they couldn't kill many Song troops, they could disrupt their formation, and they only needed to rush into the city to win.

"Hahahahahaha

Over there, Dieshuda also saw that although the Song artillery looked fierce, it couldn't hurt them at all, and he didn't feel arrogant, shouted happily, and moved forward fiercely against the artillery fire.

Thousands of war horses galloped to the earth, stepping on the ground and making a roaring sound, as if the entire ground was shaking.

Dusty and smoky, they quickly bypassed the north and south gates of Yuguan, and it didn't take long for them to assemble near the west city gate, and the Song army who hurriedly ran over from the west city gate opened fire on the city.

However, if the firearms did not form a firepower network, they would not have any power at all, and in the face of the thunderous Liao cavalry, the accuracy was extremely poor, and the 5,000 Liao cavalry were shot by bullets.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The Liao people let out a fierce roar that shook the sky, their mouths howled like wild wolves, and all kinds of Liao language roared constantly.

They soon reached the outside of the city, and the troops rushing to the front took grenades from their waists and threw them up the walls almost before they could get close to the gates.

In addition to Chang'an, Luoyang, Bianliang and other cities as the capital, the city walls can be more than seven or eight meters, and the height of the city walls of other ordinary counties is generally three or four meters high, at most only five or six meters, and ordinary people can easily throw it over.

After a while, there were various explosions in the city, and when they ran to the west gate, they saw a mess outside the west gate, full of bullet holes, and cannonballs embedded in the masonry wall.

However, whether it is a rammed earth wall or a masonry wall, it has a great resistance to artillery, and there are very few artillery bombardments of the city wall, so these shells only dent the city wall, but the entire section of the city wall has not been greatly damaged.

On the contrary, the city gate has been blown down, after all, compared to the thick city walls, even the iron city gate cannot withstand the baptism of cannonballs. At this moment, through the city gate, you can still see that many Song troops have lined up on the streets.

"Kill!"

The first to rush over, Dieja also roared.

Immediately, a large number of Liao troops began to rush in from the West City Gate, and then the Song muskets began to fire, some people took out grenades and threw them, and the sound of various explosions was endless.

Shulu Si Liji had also arrived, and it was only then that he noticed the terrain behind Yuguan City.

Yushui is less than a mile away from the city, and the terrain belongs to the continuous small steep slope terrain, and the slope of each layer is not very high, but many small reverse slopes are folded, so that people can not see the direction of Yushui.

Only the two tall warships floating on the river floated up and down, and it was vaguely seen that the muzzles of the black holes above were aimed in the direction of Yuguan, but no one fired.

The reason for this is that if you open fire, it is easy to accidentally injure friendly soldiers.

As I thought, when they reached the West Gate, they did not dare to continue firing artillery. ’

Shulu Si Riji's mind flashed like this, and then rushed in the direction of the city gate.

At this critical moment, he was already relatively cautious, he saw the panicked Song army in the city, and also saw the Song warships on the Yushui, if it was an ordinary opponent, I am afraid that the Song army would basically be defeated.

It's a pity that he met Di Qing.

Di Qing was still standing on the tower of the East Gate at the moment, and there were more than a hundred Song soldiers on the East Gate, which could be regarded as guarding against a possible attack by a small Liao army.

I saw scouts coming over and reporting: "Report, the Liao people have passed through the south gate." ”

"Report, the Liao people have passed through the north gate."

"Report, the Liao people have approached the West Gate."

"Report, the Liao people are storming the West Gate."

The scout constantly reported the battle report from the front to Di Qing, and when he heard that the Liao people began to attack the West Gate.

Di Qing raised his head and said in a deep voice, "Have they all gathered at the West Gate?" ”

"It's already gathered."

The scout replied.

"Blow the trumpet."

"Yes."

Immediately, the herald blew the horn.

The sound of the horn sounded at the east city gate, and a hundred meters away, another herald blew the horn, and then passed layer by layer, and the sound of the horn also came from the west gate.

The desolate trumpet seemed to spread all over the world, making the offensive of the Liao army stagnant, because the Liao army in the rear was quite surprised.

This rhythm is not the horn rhythm command of the Liao.

Shulu Si Liji glanced around in confusion, he knew that this was not their horn, it could only be the horn of the Song people, the horn sound of the Song people, what was the order?

Just as he was puzzled, he suddenly heard someone shouting heartbreakingly: "Song people, it's Song people!" ”

Before he could follow the sound, he heard gunfire from behind.

When he turned his head, he saw that in the direction of Yushui, under those continuous small gentle slopes, thousands of heads of Song soldiers were drilled out, and they pointed their guns at the Liao army that was attacking the city, constantly firing bullets.

"What?"

Shu Lu Liji's eyes were split, he never expected that the Song people would actually lie down under those small gentle slopes, quietly waiting for their arrival!

It's also to blame that he doesn't know much about the terrain near Yuguan, and he suffered such a big loss.

But now it's clearly too late.

I saw that as these ambushes continued to shoot, a large number of Liao soldiers fell, the rear was in chaos, and the front did not rush in for the time being, and the entire Liao army was already extremely chaotic.

They.

Caught in the pocket array deliberately prepared by Di Qing!

(End of chapter)