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Zhao Bufan was lying on the roof, with an iron rod on his left hand and a Ling Qi on his right hand, with a calm face.

In the depths of the darkness around him, there were countless soldiers in ambush, each staring at the passage of the city gate.

This is not to ambush and kill Lu Man's girl, this is waiting for the Liao soldiers.

Xu Inspector was also beside Zhao Bufan at the moment, maybe he hadn't moved for too long, he asked with some worry: "Bufan, will the Liao soldiers really blow up this city gate?"

Zhao Bufan squinted his eyes, and his tone was not salty or light: "I can't be sure, but that girl sneaked into the barracks to kill Lu Man, the biggest possibility is to kill her, she is afraid that Lu Man will attract more people and things, so she wants to kill him, and Lu Man is colluding with the Liao army, so no matter where this girl comes from, his goal should be the same as Lu Man, that is, to help the Liao army." In the past two days, we have blocked all the passages of the city gates, leaving only the north gate, which is the biggest flaw, and as long as my guess is correct, then she will definitely take advantage of it. ”

"Then why don't you trap that girl first, we're all ready, but you suddenly change your deployment?" Xu asked again.

Zhao Bufan was silent, there were some things he couldn't decide, and of course he couldn't say it clearly.

The night before yesterday, he and Xu Xunjian agreed on a method to trap the girl, but it had not yet been implemented, and he overturned the plan at noon yesterday and turned to military deployment.

The biggest reason why he changed his plan was because the Liao soldiers outside the city did not attack for a long time, and this strange behavior made him more and more suspicious. What's more, he felt that trapping the girl was a useless effort, since the military and civilians in the whole city couldn't find suspicious outsiders, and the entire county searched and couldn't find it, then why didn't he believe this fact.

Logically speaking, after killing Lu Man, the girl must have known that she was going to be hunted down, so it was common sense for her to sneak out of the city overnight. The current Bazhou City has few major generals, the patrol fortification is not so tight, and the girl's martial arts are so high, it is not too difficult to sneak out of the city.

If this inference is correct, then the plan to trap the girl is useless at all, and we should be more worried about the movements of the Liao soldiers.

Zhao Bufan thought about it, and felt that it was a small matter to trap a girl, and it was a big matter to guard against the Liao army, no matter whether the inference was correct or not, then he should also give priority to guarding against the Liao army, so he took advantage of the weakness of Bazhou's city defense to set up this dark situation. If the guess is correct, then you can give the Liao soldiers a head-on blow, if it is not correct, it is nothing, idle is idle!

Fate is an indescribable and unclear thing, Zhao Bufan himself did not expect it, the speculation he made based on the clues was all in the middle!!

Outside the city of Bazhou, more than 1,000 Khitan elite horsemen led war horses, wrapped horses' hooves and horses' mouths with coarse cloth, and quickly approached the city wall under the cover of night. At the forefront, there were more than a dozen Khitan masters, their bodies were like ghosts, almost melting into the night, and they were still holding bags full of gunpowder.

Nowadays, there are few masters in Bazhou City, and there are no well-trained sentinels, so it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to find them.

Ulik'an stopped with the Khitan Elite Rider and waited quietly.

There was a young girl standing next to him, very beautiful, and the close-fitting outfit on her body highlighted her beautiful figure. She seems to love beauty very much, with a pair of jade pendants hanging from her ears, a jade necklace on her chest, and sterling silver chains on her wrists and ankles.

Ulikoan looked at the city in the distance for a long time, and looked at the girl with a smile on his face.

"Miss Xueling, it's fortunate that you came to report the news, otherwise we would still be counting on that idiot of Lu Man, I really didn't expect him to be so incompetent, he couldn't even fight a little recruit!"

Xue Ling's face was cold, she didn't look at him, and said coldly: "Remember, we are enemies, and now we are only temporarily united, don't thank me, I just acted on orders!"

Her voice is like a yellow warbler out of the valley, very beautiful.

Ulikoan smiled slightly, but he looked at Xue Ling's eyes, obviously full of strong possessiveness, it was like a beast seeing its prey.

"Miss Xueling, no matter what, at least we are friends now, why are you so indifferent!"

Xue Ling took a step back in disgust: "Uli Ke'an, we Xixia Yipintang have never considered the Khitans to be friends. ”

Ulikoan didn't care about her attitude, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he was about to speak, when there was a sudden loud "bang" in the distance.

With the sound, the city gate shattered, revealing the deep passage of the city gate, and the Song soldiers on the city wall rioted in an instant, frantically ringing the golden gong.

Seeing this scene, how could Uli Ke'an still have the heart to care about the girl, raised the pure steel silver jujube lance in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Warriors, food, wealth and women are in front of you, kill into Bazhou, they will belong to you!!"

In an instant, the Khitan crowd was agitated and let out strange shouts. Wu Li Ke took the lead, with more than a thousand Khitan elite horsemen flocked to Bazhou like a tide, just a few dozen breaths of time, they poured into the city gate passage one after another, the excited shouts, shaking the heavens and the earth.

But as soon as they rushed out of the passage of the city gate, their shouting stopped abruptly.

Fifty Song soldiers formed a dense formation, armed with heavy iron shields and spears, blocking the road tightly.

One hundred crossbowmen lined up in three rows, the front row knelt on one knee, the middle row stood upright, and the back row rotated, and before the Khitan iron cavalry could react, a dense rain of arrows rushed out.

The Song crossbow is extremely powerful, such a distance, such a narrow terrain, it is the time when the lethality is the greatest, and it is a nightmare for the Khitans.

Most of those crossbow arrows could penetrate two or three people, and the armor did not play any role at all, and the Khitan elite cavalry fell in rows as if they were cutting wheat. Ulikon's own martial arts were very high, and he dodged and jumped away at the last moment, hiding under the stone mill on the side of the road, although his shoulder was pierced by a crossbow arrow, but he finally saved his life.

But before he could catch his breath, the surrounding flames were everywhere, and Zhao Bufan stood upright on the roof and waved the order flag.

Many archers sprang up on the top of the city and on the rooftops, and they didn't need to aim or shoot, but they could pull the bowstring and shoot into the crowd.

The Khitan elite riders who rushed into the city turned over on their backs, blocking the water and making it impassable, and the Khitan elite riders behind could not stop, trampling and squeezing each other, and suffered heavy casualties. This horse is not human, it does not mean that you can turn around, and when the horse rushes up, if there is not enough space, there is no way to stop.

Soon, the passage of the city gate and the city gate were all full of Liao soldiers, and these Khitan elite horsemen were in a mess, and I don't know how many of them were killed, trampled to death, and crushed to death by their own people!

Zhao Bufan saw that the timing was about the same, and waved the order flag again.

Zheng Ming on the city wall followed the order, and the gravel and huge trees and boiling oil and boiling water that had been prepared long ago were sprinkled from the city, giving the Liao soldiers a fatal blow.

Uli Ke'an was so frightened that he relied on his strong martial arts, grabbed two corpses of Liao soldiers as cover, crawled with him, squeezed out of the city through the cracks, and hurriedly rushed away with the more than 100 cavalry that were lucky to remain.

Zhao Bufan climbed to the top of the city, facing the cold wind, and looked indifferently at the beautiful girl in the distance.

Xue Ling didn't enter the city from beginning to end, and when she saw the Khitan fiasco, although she was a little surprised, her expression was still indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with her, until Zhao Bufan appeared in the city, her expression changed slightly.

The two stared at each other from a long distance, as if they wanted to remember each other's faces in the depths of their minds, but the eyes were just as cold and cold!

After a long time, Zhao Bufan turned around lightly and disappeared into the city, disappearing from Xue Ling's sight!

Xue Ling also turned around and walked into the depths of darkness.

"Zhao Bufan, I remember you!"