The offensive of the Khitan soldiers and horses was very fierce, and the Khitan soldiers outside the city wall and the Jin soldiers defending the city were very fierce. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The Jin soldiers who were shot by the arrows, and the Khitan soldiers who were chopped off the city wall, fell off the city wall like dumplings, and a layer of corpses was laid under the city wall, and the outside of the city wall was covered with countless corpses.

The Khitan soldiers besieging the city rushed to the city wall like waves of the sea, and like waves slapping on the reef, they turned into countless debris and dissipated, leaving only a mutilated corpse that fell under the city.

A pot of hot oil poured down the siege ladder, and the Khitan soldiers who were clinging to the siege ladder like ants covered their faces and howled and fell down from the siege ladder.

A sharp arrow shot up the city, and the Jin soldiers, who had just finished pouring oil, were shot into hedgehogs before they could dodge, screaming and falling down the city wall.

The wolf's tooth slap and the yaksha were stained with blood, and from time to time they were pulled up and smashed down, and the Khitan soldiers who could not dodge were either slapped into flesh, or pierced all over their bodies, and fell among the thick corpses under the city

A soldier of the Jin Dynasty only showed half of his head before he was shot by a cluster of arrows that seemed to have eyes, and he fell limply to the edge of the battlement.

Rows of crossbow arrows shot down from the city walls, stirring up clusters of blood in the dense crowd of besieging the city, constantly nailing the besieging Khitan soldiers outside the city walls.

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War is like this, and any human life is small and insignificant in war, like ants. Those who died will disappear forever, and not many people will remember their sacrifices, and those who will be remembered will always be those who stand on the layers of corpses and have few successes.

There are hundreds of corpses piled up at the city gate, several broken siege vehicles are crooked to the side, and the gate made of pig iron has been lowered.

The tower on the east city of Xinzhou City has completely collapsed, and there are still remnants of fire burning on the city, and occasionally brave Khitan soldiers kill the city, and they are immediately beheaded, and the corpse is thrown down the city.

More than 200 zhang away from Dongcheng, there were about 30,000 Khitan cavalry forming a large formation, which seemed to be ready to enter the city at any time. After the big array, there were tens of thousands of Khitan soldiers and horses who were resting.

On the right side of the Khitan array, there were two groups of thousands of cavalry fighting, mixed and entangled, rushing and slashing each other. One group is the Jin soldiers, and the other group is the Khitan iron cavalry.

Depending on the situation, the Khitan iron cavalry is strong, with four or five thousand people. However, the Jin army only has two or three thousand elite cavalry, and the formation has been a little scattered, which seems to be a little bad, and has already revealed its defeated forces.

Fortunately, from time to time, huge crossbow arrows were shot from behind the elite cavalry of the Jin army, supporting them, and the Khitan cavalry was constantly shot off their horses by the coarse crossbow arrows, which barely guaranteed that the Jin cavalry was undefeated.

Farther away, there were nearly 30,000 Jin army foot soldiers relying on the camp to form a large array, more than 100 heavy crossbows were placed in front of the formation, and nearly 1,000 soldiers kept firing this crossbow arrow at the entangled Khitan cavalry, and the 30,000 soldiers faintly resisted the large array of 30,000 Khitan cavalry, and the two armies were about to break out.

There were still about 2,000 elite cavalry on the left side of the Jin army, firmly protecting the 30,000 foot soldiers.

It was the first time Li Fengyun had seen such a big scene, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes and open his mouth wide. The battle of defending Zhenzhou City cannot be compared.

The mad monk pointed to the battlefield in the distance and said, "This time the Tartars are ruthless, and they must take Xinzhou City." He pointed to the Great Jin cavalry that had been defeated, and said: "It must be Liu Zhiyuan's cavalry, estimated to have 3,000 cavalry, they want to attack the back of the Tartars who are besieging the city, but unfortunately Yelu Anduan (Note 1) has already prepared and sent 5,000 Khitan iron cavalry to stop them." Liu Zhiyuan tried his best, and there was no hope of rescuing Xinzhou!"

Li Fengyunqi said: "Liu Zhiyuan doesn't have 40,000 soldiers and horses, and there are more than 30,000 foot soldiers here, how can there be no hope?"

The mad monk said: "How can it be so simple? You see, the Khitans arranged 30,000 cavalry, these 30,000 cavalry are not for the siege of the city, the real main force of the siege is those soldiers and horses who rest after the battle. The 30,000 cavalry were specially there to monitor Liu Zhiyuan's foot soldiers. It seems that Yelu Duan'an's plan is to capture Xinzhou City first, and then deal with Liu Zhiyuan.

Liu Zhiyuan didn't move, once he moved, the 30,000 soldiers and horses sent by Yelu Anduan to monitor him would definitely attack him, and the 30,000 cavalry would fight 30,000 foot soldiers...... Alas, in the end, there were too few cavalry in the Central Plains. The mad monk sighed, "Fengyun, I'm afraid that our trip is in vain, Liu Zhiyuan only cares about Shang and is not timely, how can he have the troops to relieve the siege of Zhenzhou City." ”

Li Fengyun still didn't give up, and said: "There are only 35,000 soldiers and horses here, doesn't Liu Zhiyuan still have 5,000 soldiers and horses?"

The mad monk smiled bitterly and said, "Doesn't Liu Zhiyuan's camp need to be guarded? 5,000 people to guard the camp of 40,000 people is already very reluctant, if Yelu Anduan attacks the camp and takes away or destroys the grain and grass, Liu Zhiyuan doesn't know who to cry to." ”

Li Fengyun was speechless for a while, he didn't know much about the things on the battlefield, Dian Kui told him something, Wang Chongyin told him something, Zhang Jun also told him something, along the way, the crazy monk and others also mentioned a lot, plus what they have learned on the battlefield these days, although some clever tricks will occasionally pop up, but when it comes to basic common sense, it is very insufficient.

The mad monk is not simple, how can the person who can lead the Hou Tang Qianniuwei be simple, Li Fengyun faintly felt that the vision and insight of the mad monk were much higher than Zhi Diankui, Wang Chongyin and others.

Thinking of Dian Kui, Li Fengyun was gloomy, he didn't know what the life and death of this iron-beaten man was now, I hope he also escaped smoothly!

According to the mad monk's explanation, isn't it that Liu Zhiyuan's situation is very bad, and there are many defeats and few victories? Once Liu Zhiyuan's army is defeated, Zhenzhou City will have no more reinforcements to ask for, and how long can he support it?

Thinking of this, Li Fengyun was secretly anxious in his heart.

He would never withdraw to Zhenzhou like this, but what was the use of staying here?

The soldiers and horses on the Khitan West Road were not the 50,000 iron cavalry they had estimated before, looking at this formation, plus the soldiers of the Khitan people guarding the camp, I am afraid that there are only 70,000 or 80,000 people.

Looking at the Jin army's side, Liu Zhiyuan only has 40,000 elite soldiers, of which except for 5,000 elite cavalry, the rest are foot soldiers. It is said that there are more than 10,000 elite soldiers in the city, but looking at the current situation, many of the people who fought at the foot of the city were people, which shows that the troops in the city are already stretched and the casualties are very large. Even if there are still 10,000 elite soldiers, plus Liu Zhiyuan's 40,000 elite soldiers, it is only 50,000, compared to the number of people, the Jin army has already lost.

In this case, even if there is no current crisis and the two armies are facing each other, the Jin army is already at a disadvantage, and it is difficult to draw reinforcements to support Du Chongwei in Zhenzhou.

"Didn't you say that there were only 50,000 soldiers and horses on the Khitan West Road, how could there be so many?" Li Fengyun muttered in a low voice.

"Fifty thousand soldiers and horses probably refer to the Khitan elite cavalry. The mad monk explained, "Not counting the servants and horses of those tribes, or those servants and horses are coming one after another, you must know that the Khitan territory is vast, and it will take time for the servants and horses to arrive on the battlefield." However, the Jin State is also in a hurry, and it is really stupid not to count these servant armies. ”

I see, Li Fengyun understood, and asked casually: "Are these servant troops as powerful as the Khitan Iron Cavalry?"

The crazy monk laughed and said: "The Khitan Iron Cavalry is invincible in the world, this is not a lie, the Great Monk and the Khitan Iron Cavalry have also fought a few times back then, and the combat power is indeed fierce." But the servant army can't be so powerful, otherwise it wouldn't be a servant army. Jerod Light will not allow it. To maintain the rule of the Khitans, the strength of the servant tribes cannot be too great.

If there really was such a servant army, Yerod would have to think about how to weaken his tribe a long time ago.

You see, the soldiers and horses who besieged the city were all servant troops, although they were also fierce and not afraid of death, but they were worse than the Khitan iron cavalry, whether it was ordnance, or other combat forces such as tactics and military discipline.

Despite this, Yelu Anduan, the commander of the Western Route Army, still refused to send the Khitan elite to attack the city, why? In fact, he also had the intention of consuming these servant troops. Regardless of whether the servant army can capture the city gate or not, the Khitan will not suffer.

Alas, the Jin soldiers defending the city were almost unable to support it, and let the Khitans attack the city wall. If these servant troops had grasped the rhythm and level of the attack a little, they were afraid that Xinzhou City would have been captured long ago. ”

Suddenly, Li Fengyun's eyes lit up, and he asked: "Liu Zhiyuan's cavalry is powerless to help the Jin soldiers defending the city, but what if we stab him and poke his ass after the group of servants who are attacking the city?

The mad monk pondered for a while and said, "Judging from the previous situation of the Khitan servant army, although it was unstoppable when attacking, once it suffered a setback, it was easy to collapse. The strength of our group of people, stabbing them in the back, if we can kill their main general, it is estimated that the morale of this group of servant troops will definitely plummet, and they will no longer have the heart to attack the city.

As for going to attack the Khitan elite cavalry, don't have such a mind, the vigilance of the Khitan elite cavalry is not so bad, and those servant armies can't be compared. ”

After thinking about it, the mad monk shook his head again: "It is not advisable to attack the servant army besieging the city, in front of everyone, we have no chance to get close to them." ”

Li Fengyun laughed twice and said: "It's definitely not okay to go like this, the kid has a plan, secretly kill some servant army rangers around, it shouldn't be difficult with our skills! Change into their clothes and armor, the kid doesn't believe it, the city wall is so lively, those servant troops will also notice the surrounding situation." ”

When the mad monk heard this, he looked straight at Li Fengyun, and a fine light burst out in his eyes: "I can't see it, you kid, you are still a little anxious, if you were under the great monk back then, the great monk would be sure to train you into a generation of good generals...... " Speaking of this, the mad monk sighed and said, "It's a pity...... Forget it, what are you talking about? Yes, the guards around these servants are not tight, and this plan is feasible, but it is also very risky. ”

The mad monk turned around, looked around at everyone, and said word by word: "It's extremely risky to go here, do you dare to go?"

"Go, why don't you go?" Lu Changsheng, the shopkeeper of the Lu Family Tavern, gritted his teeth and said, "As long as I can kill the Tartar and avenge my mother-in-law and child, even if I die, I will admit it!"

The group of people in Qingping Town responded one after another, and Bai Futong agreed in every way, and the seventeenth only said one word: "Go!"

Nineteen hesitated in his heart, although he didn't want to achieve Li Fengyun, but at this time, he had to agree to participate.

Seeing that no one objected, Li Fengyun laughed and said, "Okay, just do it!"

The crowd summed up a little more, split up, and sneaked quietly, touching the rangers scattered around the servants.

Note 1: Yelu Anduan (?-952), the younger brother of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, the uncle of Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang, a famous general with great military achievements, rebelled twice, but Yelu Abaoji let him go. When Liao Taizong attacked the Later Jin Dynasty for the first time, he ordered Yelu'an, who was then the great king, to enter Yanmen, attack the Later Jin Dynasty, and was defeated by Liu Zhiyuan in Xinzhou. (There are also plots involving him later in this book, so I won't go into too much detail here.) ）