The trapped regiment's weapons were sharp and their hit rate was extremely high. The Khitan troops in the front row fell one after another. The Khitan army wanted to rush into the formation and fight, but when they rushed to the formation, they found that there were iron caltrops in front of the formation and they were unable to break through. Dozens of war horses rushed recklessly into the obstacle area composed of caltrops, and the horses' hoofs were immediately pricked by the spikes of caltrops on the ground. The war horse neighed and fell to the ground, and was stabbed to death by more thorns.
Unable to charge forward, the Khitan army could only shoot arrows in front of the formation, but the hit rate of the trapped group was much higher than that of the Khitan army. The Khitan army was obviously going to die in this way. The morale of the Khitan army was on the verge of collapse. No matter how strong-willed the army is, it cannot persist in such a one-sided battle. The last belief supporting the Khitan army was to rush around the flank of the Song army, hoping to open a gap from the flank. The Khitan cavalry in the front row turned their horses sixty meters in front of the trapped formation, fired a round of arrows towards the front, and rushed towards the two wings of the trapped regiment, hoping to overwhelm this terrifyingly powerful Song army from its weak flanks. .
The Khitan army was like a river divided by huge rocks, moving around on both sides of the trap group. However, what was waiting for them on both sides was not the weak flanks that would collapse in one attack, but 500 rifles that had been waiting for a long time. Several platoon leaders shouted orders, and seventy rifles on each side fired diagonally at the charging cavalry. Before the one hundred cavalrymen who rushed to both sides could react, they were beaten to death on their horses by one hundred and forty rifles, causing blood to fly everywhere.
The trap group arranged in a square formation has no sides or rear, and no weak points. The Khitan army collapsed. No matter how the elites of the Xi army in the back row roared, no one in the Khitan army dared to charge at the trapping regiment's guns anymore. The cavalrymen in the front row fled to both sides in panic, hoping to escape with their lives. The cavalrymen behind were suddenly moved to the front row, and they immediately panicked and fled to both sides. The cavalry at the rear simply turned their horses and fled back.
A few seconds after the soldiers on the flanks fired a volley, the Khitan soldiers completely collapsed and no longer formed an army. Huyan Chijin did not let go of the fleeing Tatars and ordered the soldiers to continue shooting. He fired three more rounds at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. Another mass of people fell on their backs, and more than a hundred Khitan soldiers were shot dead on their horses. The Khitan soldiers who were still alive discarded their helmets and armor, threw away all their flags and honors, and just rode their horses with their heads down and ran wildly.
Half a minute later, the originally arrogant cavalry army of the "Yeqianha Chaoha Camp" no longer existed, and only the rout of the Khitan army was left on the plain. Before the formation, the flags of the Khitan Army were thrown all over the place, and the bodies of Khitan soldiers were everywhere. The Khitan army's war horses that lost their owners either stood uneasily on the battlefield, or fled away from the battlefield.
Three hundred soldiers from the Trap Regiment scattered in all directions, chasing the Khitan army horses that were running aimlessly, hoping to capture a few more. After capturing the war horses, the soldiers quickly took the injured soldiers of the trapping regiment back to the camp on their war horses so that military doctors could treat the wounded. Other soldiers searched the wounded Khitan troops alive on the battlefield, cut off the heads of the dead Khitan troops, and stripped off their armor.
After half an hour of work, the trapping group finally finished beheading them. They put their heads, armor, Khitan army flags and Khitan soldiers alive on the captured war horses, and returned triumphantly to the camp. In this battle, twenty-one members of the trapped group were hit by Khitan soldiers' bows and arrows. Among them, seven were slightly injured, ten were seriously injured, and four were killed. As for the Khitan army, 404 people were killed by the trapping regiment, and 41 people were wounded, fell off their horses, and were captured. Of course, some slightly injured Khitan soldiers escaped and were not captured by the trapping regiment.
The triumphant team was halfway through when they suddenly saw smoke and dust billowing in front of them, and a large number of Song troops were rushing towards them. Looking at the formation, at least 10,000 people came to cover them up. The Song army drove to the trap group and stopped in surprise when they saw the fully loaded trap group returning. After a while, the ranks of the Song army separated. Kou Zhun, wearing armor and riding his Wuming Ji, led Shi Pingzhang, Pan Hu and Shi Pinghu to come out.
Yang Peng hurried up to greet him. As soon as he saw Yang Peng, Kou Zhun scolded: "Why did the city lord come out to attack the Khitan soldiers on his own? It took a long time for my army to catch up!" Seeing Yang Peng, the two generals also frowned slightly, seeming to be worried. They blamed Yang Peng for making his own decisions and forced them to support him. Yang Peng smiled, raised his hands and said: "The small Khitan army, don't bother to fight! The general has already defeated it, captured forty-one people alive, and beheaded four hundred and four!"
Kou Zhun was stunned and didn't react for a while. After a long silence, he asked: "You came out with a thousand troops and defeated the Khitan army in a moment? Beheaded four hundred?" The two generals behind also looked at each other in disbelief. Yang Peng smiled and said: "If you bring too many troops out, the Khitan soldiers will flee. A thousand men will be just right to kill these Khitan soldiers!" Yang Peng pointed back and said loudly: "If Lord Kou doesn't believe it, go to the front and see me. The gains!"
Seeing that Yang Peng's words were true, Kou Zhun and several generals looked at each other a few times before going to test the truth of Yang Peng's words. Kou Zhun was not polite. He shouted "drive" and rushed to Yang Peng's formation on his horse to check Yang Peng's gains.
Kou Zhun was stunned when he saw the more than 400 Tatar heads, blood-stained armor, and injured Khitan soldiers who were shouting incessantly. Huaihua General Shi Pingzhang and others followed, and when they saw Yang Peng's results, they were all stunned. The Khitan soldiers were very powerful. If the Song army could capture a few heads on weekdays, the governor and general would write a report to Tianting. Yang Peng killed more than 60 Tatar scouts a few days ago, which surprised the generals. Now that we have captured more than 400 people in an easy battle, how can we not make people frightened?
Shi Pingzhang looked at the heads and then at Yang Peng, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Huaihua general Shi Pingzhang cracked his whip in the air and said loudly: "Lord Kou, what a great victory, what a great victory! When the official reports of this victory come up, there will be praise!" Kou Zhun looked at the Khitan heads and suddenly became obsessed with them. , and murmured: "The state has tiger ministers, the blessing of the country!" The veteran Shi Pingzhang finally came to his senses, walked towards Yang Peng in surprise, held his hand and kept asking questions, wondering how he killed so many people of the Khitan Army. Yang Peng was vague and answered them one by one.
Everyone was excited for a while, and then they led their army back with Yang Peng. Kou Zhun paid special courtesy to Yang Peng and rode alongside Yang Peng on his beloved horse. Kou Zhun said to Yang Peng, "Sir, how about a poem?" Yang Peng looked at Huyan Chijin and said to Kou Zhun, "I will write a poem for Yang Qilang's wife Huyan Chijin. Master Kou will not object, right?" ! And this battle was fought by Huyan Chijin. I don’t dare to take credit for this. Sister-in-law Qi, do you have any objection?" Huyan Chijin blushed and said to Yang Peng, "Little uncle, I have no objection. I will listen to you." Kou Zhun immediately got paper and pen to write.
Yang Peng looked at the scene on the battlefield and said loudly, "All the seven sons of the Yang family died, but Liu Lang was left alone in desolation. The Chijin girl of Huyan was a strong woman, and her husband and son were buried to dress up their uniforms. The flags were fluttering across the rainbow, and the swords were gathering brightly. Let's teach the prisoners to stop. Rampant, disturbing our people and invading our borders. The enemy has sent heroes for the time being, and when the victory comes, all the people will sing. Every generation of the Yang family is loyal and good, and their loyalty will last forever!" Kou Zhun shouted, "Good, good poem, worthy of Hu Yan, the female general of the Yang family. Red gold, good.”
After walking for more than ten miles, Kou Zhun looked at Yang Peng and said, "The city lord captured more than 400 heads this time and captured 41 Dong slaves alive. This is a great achievement. Can you share some of the profits with other generals in order to To encourage the generals to kill the Khitan soldiers?" Upon hearing this, Yang Peng secretly thought that Kou Zhun is here again. Yang Peng thought that it was useless for him to ask for military honors, so he said to Kou Zhun, "Keep the prisoners, it is useless for us to ask for the others."
Yang Peng and Kou Zhun returned with a great victory, and the entire reinforcement camp was shocked. It was heard that Yang Peng had killed more than 400 enemies, and Kou Zhun, who went to support him, also made some gains. The other officers were jealous for a while. They only blamed themselves for not being the imperial soldiers brought out by Kou Zhun personally, and for Doctor Jin Ziguanglu not calling them when he had something good to do.
The officers all went to the Chinese army's tent to see the Khitan heads piled up together, and were amazed. Shi Pingzhang raised his hand and asked: "Master Kou, how many days of food and grass are left in our army now?" Kou Zhun sighed and said: "Only five days of food and grass are left." Shi Pingzhang thought for a while, said nothing, and retreated.
Shi Pinghu snorted angrily and scolded: "Li Te has made things difficult for us, why are we still fighting? We're going back to Bianjing!" Shi Pingzhang shook his head and said, "If we escape, I'm afraid we will have to escape on our backs." "The crime!" Shi Pinghu said angrily: "What should we do? Are we, a group of living people, to be played to death by Li Te? Instead of starving to death, it is better to fight with the Khitan army!" Shi Pingzhang's face was uncertain, but there was no say.
How can one army fight with several generals to win the favor of the emperor and Li Te, who is in charge of the Ministry of War? The generals in the camp had no choice but to fall silent one by one. In the end, the entire tent was very quiet and no one spoke. Kou Zhun looked at the top of the big tent and sighed. It seems there is no other way out. Kou Zhun was despairing there when he heard a voice saying: "Master Kou, there will be a solution in the end!"
Kou Zhun quickly followed the sound and saw that the person speaking was Yang Peng. The generals' eyes lit up and they all looked at Yang Peng who was speaking, wanting to hear what he could do. Kou Zhun's face lit up with joy and he said: "If you have any plans, Lord City Lord, please tell me!"
Yang Peng looked at the dozen generals who were staring at him, raised his hands and said: "The general tortured those Khitan scouts and found out that the Khitan concentrated all the looted grain and grass in Yingzhou County. There is a fort with more than 20,000 grain and grass. Shi, there are only five thousand guards. How about our army kill them and rob the food and grass?" When everyone heard this, they all took a breath. It's probably not that easy to steal the food and fodder of the Khitan soldiers! The food and fodder of the Khitan army must be hidden in the fortress that was captured and protected by the city wall. Five thousand Khitan soldiers were defending at great risk, and the Song army could not defeat them even for a month. These days, the Song army did not even dare to fight with the Khitan army in the wild, so how could they defeat the Khitan soldiers defending the city?
If the Khitan army returns to support when the siege is exhausted, and the Khitan soldiers inside and outside the city attack from inside and outside, it will be a complete defeat. What's more, the army only has five days of food and grass left, and there is not enough time to attack the city. After hearing Yang Peng's suggestion, everyone was a little disappointed and secretly thought that this was not a good strategy.
"Lord City Lord, I'm afraid we won't be able to defeat the Khitan's strong city within half a month!" "I'm afraid that after a few days of attack, the Khitan soldiers will come back to reinforce us, and we will be surrounded under the city!" "Now my army only has five days of food and grass. How can we take down a fortified city guarded by five thousand Khitan troops?"
Kou Zhun thought for a while and sighed. He also felt that he would not be able to get the food and grass for the Khitan army within five days. Seeing everyone's disappointment, Yang Peng raised his hands and said, "Yang Peng is willing to lead 10,000 troops to capture this food and grass within five days!" After hearing Yang Peng's words, everyone opened their eyes wide and looked at Yang Peng up and down.
Why is Yang Peng so confident? Doesn't he know how powerful the Khitan soldiers are? Kou Zhun looked at Yang Peng in surprise and said: "There are five thousand defenders there. According to this, there is another day's journey. Can the Lord of the City attack the Khitan Army's fortress in four days?"
Yang Peng said proudly: "Yang Peng is confident that he can break the Khitan army's fortress!" Kou Zhun thought of the powerful crossbows in Yang Peng's army, and his face lit up with joy, and he said: "If we can get more than 20,000 stones of food and grass, our army will not be able to fight for three months." There will be a shortage of food. Lord City Lord, go and I will make a strong trip for you!"
Yang Peng cupped his hands and said, "Don't bother Master Kou anymore. I will lead my troops there. If I succeed, Master Kou will come to Yingzhou to join me!" Yang Peng returned to Huben Division and led 10,000 troops. After seizing the army, we marched to Yingzhou, south of the capital. Gu'an Town has been captured by the Khitan army. The city was looted by the Khitan soldiers, and all the people and animals were taken away. The scene was very bleak. The Khitan sent 300 auxiliary soldiers to guard the town of Gu'an, but they had no intention of holding on to the city. However, Yang Peng did not attack Gu'an City, which had no food in stock. Instead, based on the prisoners' confessions, he found the fortress where the Khitan army stored food.
It was a fort with a circumference of two miles. The city wall was five or six meters high and there was only one gate on the south side. There are various traps and pits outside the city, and there are 5,000 Khitan troops guarding food inside the city. Seeing Yang Peng's soldiers and horses coming towards them, the Qing army guarding the food closed the city gate and stayed in the fort without coming out. Yang Peng rode a horse and ran around the city wall. He felt that there were fewer traps in the south of the city to resist horses, so he decided to attack the fort from here.
Yang Peng's siege method was flintlock style, something the Tatars of this era had never seen before! Yang Peng first wanted to knock down the battlements on the city wall. These battlements can protect the Khitan archers on the city wall. If they are not destroyed, Huyan Chijin's troops will be damaged. Yang Peng's one hundred and forty six-power crossbows lined up three hundred meters outside the city and fired at the battlements on the city wall.
As soon as the arrow rang out, the rumble was endless and resounded for several miles. The scene of more than a hundred powerful crossbows blasting the city wall stunned the Khitan army on the wall. How could these Khitan soldiers from the bitter cold land outside the Great Wall have seen so many powerful crossbows, starting to shoot arrows just eight hundred meters away? With the roar of the crossbows, the battlements on the city wall turned into nothing.
Those battlements were very thin and could not withstand the Khitan's bombardment, and they all fell apart when the arrows hit them. Yang Peng's powerful crossbow fired all morning, and the arrows struck like pulling teeth, leveling all the battlements on the south side of the city wall. When had the Qing troops guarding the city ever seen such firepower? They wanted to hide behind the battlements to avoid the long arrows, but they were often injured and killed by the debris ejected from the battlements.
There was no danger to defend the city wall, but the Khitan soldiers were reluctant to give up the city wall. How can we defend the city if we abandon the city wall? In the end, the Khitan threw more than two hundred corpses on the city wall and withdrew helplessly. The wall in the south of the city was finally deserted, leaving only rolling stones and wood. After destroying the battlements of the city wall, Yang Peng began to attack the city. Yang Peng's soldiers and horses were all riflemen, so of course they couldn't rely on ladders to attack by force. That would not reflect the advantages of the flintlock rifle at all. Yang Peng asked his soldiers to cut trees outside the city and build 500 six-meter-high manholes.
The well railing is six meters wide and four meters long, with wheels at the bottom, so that it can be gradually pushed to the edge of the city wall. More than thirty soldiers can stand on each well railing, and riflemen standing on the well railing can shoot down the Khitan soldiers on the city wall. After destroying the battlements on the city wall, Yang Peng let the well railing lean on it. The soldiers pushed the wheels of the manhole railing and pushed the manhole railing a hundred meters away from the city wall.
The Khitan soldiers guarding the city saw the manhole fence approaching and knew that the city wall would be occupied by the Huben Division if they did not counterattack, so they rushed forward. More than two hundred unwilling Khitan auxiliary soldiers rushed to the city wall and tried to shoot arrows. But the distance of one hundred meters is too far, and the Tatar arrows cannot reach it. And those who rushed to the city wall to shoot arrows were undoubtedly the best targets for the riflemen a hundred meters away. The Khitan soldiers originally came up to shoot arrows at the manhole fence to scare away Huben Division, but they did not expect that Huben Division's fire cannons had such a long range. They failed to stop them, but they lost their lives.
Only a crackling sound of gunfire was heard. The riflemen on the well fence aimed at the Tatar archers and fired. Hundreds of riflemen took turns shooting, and hundreds of bullets shot rapidly toward the city wall and into the bodies of the Khitan soldiers. Most of these Khitan soldiers defending the city were auxiliary soldiers and did not wear armor, so they could not defend themselves against the bullets of the Tiger Infantry Division. The skin of the Khitan soldiers was torn apart by bullets, and their fragile body organs were turned into a ball of blood. One after another, two hundred Khitan soldiers fell on the unobstructed city wall, turning into corpses bleeding profusely. corpse.
There were only more than thirty Khitan soldiers with strong health, and they were not hit by the riflemen who fired in turns. They jumped off the city wall in a panic and saved their lives. The Khitan soldiers no longer dared to walk up the southern city wall. The city wall south of Tunbao has been completely suppressed by Huben Division. The soldiers of Huben Division gradually filled up the trap holes outside the city, and the manhole railings were moved closer to the city wall little by little. The well railing is eight meters high, which is higher than the city wall which is more than five meters high. After the well railing is close to the city wall, the riflemen on the well railing can shoot at the Khitan soldiers behind the city wall. As the well railing moved up little by little, the soldiers on the well railing kept shooting at the Khitan auxiliary soldiers hiding behind the city wall.
Now that the well fence is shooting from a high position, even behind the city wall is no longer safe. The Tatars could only hide behind the buildings in the fort, and rush out from time to time to shoot an arrow or two. But compared with rifles, which have a hit rate of 80% to 90% within 70 meters, their bow shooting accuracy is much worse. Moreover, there are wooden guardrails above and below the shooting port on the manhole railing. Unless the Tatar bows and arrows are accurately fired into the shooting port, they will not be able to hurt the soldiers on the manhole railing. After several minutes of shooting, only a few soldiers on the well fence were shot by Tatar bows and arrows, but more than a hundred Khitan auxiliary soldiers who resisted were killed.
But there are still more than two hundred Khitan infantry standing close to the base of the city wall, unwilling to leave and insisting on guarding the south wall. The morale of these Khitan infantry is very tenacious. At this time, they are blocked by the city wall and are in the blind spot of the well fence. The riflemen on the well fence can't do anything to them. To deal with these Khitan infantry who were determined to retreat, they could only rely on hand-to-hand combat. Under the leadership of Yang Bamei, two thousand cavalrymen of the Selected Front Regiment holding muskets jumped off their horses, loaded their muskets, and walked towards the city wall carrying ladders. They calmly placed the ladder on the wall, stabilized it, and then waited for the trumpet of the central army.
Yang Peng waited for all the two hundred ladders of the vanguard selection team to be placed before letting the Chinese army blow the horn. Under the command of the trumpet sound, two thousand cavalrymen of the Selected Front Regiment launched an attack at the same time and took the lead in charging towards the city wall. As soon as they climbed up the city wall, they aimed their muskets at the stone steps up and down the city wall in the fort. Sure enough, I saw the soldiers of the Tiger Division here climbing up the city wall, and the Khitan infantry standing close to the foot of the wall howled and rushed up to the city wall.
Not only that, the Khitan auxiliary soldiers hiding on the east and west walls of Tunbao also made a noise, howling and rushing towards the south wall, trying to drive down the soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment who had attacked the wall. The Khitan archers hiding behind the building also jumped out and shot arrows at the city wall.
Although most of the Khitans who defended the city were auxiliary soldiers, they had followed the large army to defeat the Xu Song army for many years, and they had a condescending sense of superiority towards the Song army. At this time, although the south city wall was suppressed by the well railing, and although the Song Army's firepower was incredibly strong, they still did not believe that the Song Army could defeat them. They still had the morale to attack the Song Army who attacked the south city wall.
However, the cavalrymen of the Selected Front Regiment were not a vegetarian. They held muskets and opened fire at the Khitan soldiers who were charging up the stone steps. There are only four stone steps leading up to the 250-meter-long south city wall. The stone steps are only more than two meters wide, and only three people can pass at a time. The Khitan soldiers walking on these two stone steps became the best targets for their cannons. The soldiers of the Selection Regiment who climbed up the city wall opened fire on the stone steps. More than a thousand muskets were fired one after another, turning the Khitan infantry who rushed up the stone steps into a hornet's nest.
The Khitan infantry soldiers howled and rushed up the stone steps and were beaten to death. Then the ones from behind rushed up again and were beaten to death again. If you charge again, you will be beaten to death again. Frightened, he ran away and was beaten to death again. In the end, there were three or four layers of corpses piled up inside and outside the stone steps, and more than two hundred Khitan infantrymen hiding behind the blind corners of the city wall were all killed. As for the Khitan auxiliary troops rushing over from the east and west walls, the selection of the vanguard group was left to the riflemen on the well fence. The width of the city wall is very narrow, only more than three meters wide. When the Khitan rushes over from the city wall, there are only four or five people in front of it at most. More than 200 rifles on the eight manholes outside the city wall were aimed at the narrow three-meter-long area and poured ammunition, beating the Khitan auxiliary soldiers rushing in front into a sieve again and again.
The Khitan soldiers hiding behind the buildings under the city wall saw the vanguard group rushing up the city wall and tried to jump out and shoot arrows. But the riflemen on the manhole had been waiting for them to come out. Often when Khitan soldiers show up, they will be targeted and shot by several rifles. After several rounds of fighting, the Khitan soldiers' bows and arrows were greatly at a disadvantage. Moreover, the vanguard group was wearing chainmail, and the bows and arrows fired from under the city wall could not hurt them unless they hit their vital points.
The bows of the Khitan army auxiliaries are not strong bows, and their armor-breaking ability is very low. Soldiers of the Selective Regiment will not be seriously injured unless they are shot in the face or vital organs. After two or three rounds of shooting, the Khitan soldiers finally shot down more than 20 soldiers of the Selection Regiment, but were killed and injured more than a hundred archers. At this time, the soldiers of the Selection Regiment on the city wall also put away their guns, raised the rifles on their backs, and pointed them at the buildings below the city. The Khitan soldiers' archers were targeted by thousands of rifles, and they no longer dared to shoot arrows.
Although the morale of the Khitan soldiers was high, their counterattack was repulsed by the soldiers of the Huben Division. The Khitan soldiers were hit hard and felt incredible. Where did the Song Army come from? Why is its combat effectiveness so strong? The leader of the Khitan soldiers in the camp was an elite of the Xi army. He was standing on the north city wall and was shocked to see his soldiers die one by one under the handguns of the Song army. He was filled with disbelief. Why does this Song army have so many cannons? How could the Song Army have such strong combat effectiveness? Is this still the Song Army?
Let’s see what happens next time.
