There are indeed 10,000 people in Mada, and most of them are Khitans. Nvzhi and Bohai soldiers only account for a very small part, and their combat effectiveness is very guaranteed.
Ordinarily, under the suppression of his 10,000 elite troops, the 3,000 Heyang troops and the 50,000 to 60,000 Luoyang people could not make any trouble at all.
But the reality is that Ma Da's ten thousand people are simply not enough to suppress the entire Luoyang City.
Because they not only had to protect Luoyang City, but also Heyang, which would later become Mengzhou City in Henan Province.
This city is about a hundred miles away from Luoyang City, on the bank of the Yellow River north of Luoyang.
The important reason to keep it is because the Heyang Bridge, the largest in Luoyang and one of the three largest pontoon bridges on the Yellow River, is located here.
Heyang Bridge is extremely important to the Khitan people in Luoyang and even the entire Central Plains.
Because even if Yelu Deguang became the emperor of the Central Plains, most of the Khitan people still did not feel that they could occupy the Central Plains for a long time.
In other words, even if they can occupy the Central Plains for a long time, they just want to return to their hometown as soon as possible and leave this place to the management of the Han people.
Compared with the cool and comfortable areas in western Liaoning and Bashang Grassland, Kaifeng and Luoyang in the Central Plains are undoubtedly extremely hot in summer.
And who robbed the gold, silver, and beautiful women didn’t want to take it home to enjoy and show off?
Hamsters also like to pack up their favorite delicacies and take them home. Khitan people generally have the same mentality.
So they paid special attention to how to get back to the north bank from the south bank of the Yellow River.
At this time, they had only two choices, namely Heyang Bridge in the north of Luoyang and Baima Crossing in Huazhou in the northeast of Kaifeng.
And they robbed so much property, many of which were heavy items that needed a convenient and trouble-free transportation method.
From Kaifeng, take the Bianhe River to Luoyang, then cross the Heyang Bridge, or go directly down the Yellow River and then find a place to dock without passing the Heyang Bridge. It is undoubtedly much easier than taking the land route to Huazhou and then crossing the river.
Moreover, the Heyang Bridge was not built directly on both sides of the Yellow River. It made full use of the large sandbar in the Yellow River waterway in Luoyang, which was later known as Guojiatan in the Yellow River.
The bridge first goes from the Heyang shelf on the north bank of the Yellow River to the sandbar, and then from the sandbar shelf to the south bank of the Yellow River. This greatly reduces the difficulty of crossing the pontoon bridge and improves the load capacity and safety of the pontoon bridge.
Moreover, on this sandbank, Zhongli City, a military fortress built during the Eastern Wei Dynasty, can still play a role. It can control the pontoon bridges on both sides and block ships coming upstream.
If Ma Da does not guard Heyang Bridge and Zhongli City, Zhang Zhao can go straight down the river, ignore Luoyang at all, and go directly to Huazhou to destroy the pontoon bridge of Baimajin and cut off the Yellow River from the north to the south.
By then, the Liao army in Henan will be finished.
Therefore, Ma Da divided the Luoyang Liao army to station 1,500 men each in Zhongli City and Heyang City, and assigned 500 Heyang troops each to assist in guarding.
However, since Zhongli City and Heyang City did not have much oil and water, Ma Da could not allow any troops to be stationed in Zhongli City and Heyang City for a long time, and could only garrison them in turns.
Today is the day when the Khitans change their defenses. According to regulations, the soldiers and horses in the city need to arrive at Zhongli and Heyang cities before the soldiers and horses stationed in these two cities can set off back to Luoyang.
This is mainly done to prevent both sides from setting off at the same time, which would leave the two cities unguarded.
But in this way, when the defense is changed, the Liao army in Luoyang City is at its weakest.
Six thousand soldiers and horses left the city, leaving only four thousand people in the city, so it was the best time to start an uprising.
It is about a hundred miles from Heyang to Luoyang, and it will take at least an hour and a half to complete the defense change.
Zhao Hui, Zhao Yanjin, and Zhao Kuangyin discussed it, and all Luoyang people took advantage of the Khitan people's change of defense to suddenly revolt.
When he saw the fire in the city, Murong Nobunaga immediately led his elite cavalry and galloped over.
One thousand of them entered the city to help the people of Luoyang, while the remaining two thousand went to ambush the three thousand Khitans who had returned from defense, and captured the city of Luoyang in one fell swoop.
In the early morning, under the secret gaze of countless pairs of eyes, the three thousand cavalrymen of the Khitans who had changed their defense began to leave the city noisily.
At the beginning of the hour, at seven o'clock in the morning, probably two quarters of an hour after the Khitan cavalry had left, a bell suddenly rang.
First, the White Horse Temple in the northeast of the city, then the Baiyun Temple, the sister temple of the White Horse Temple, then Dafuxian Temple, Guanghua Temple, Xuanzang Temple, Xiangshan Temple, Zangmei Temple, etc., and finally almost all Buddhist temples in Luoyang City rang the bell. The big bell in the temple.
For a time, the sound of the morning bell resounded throughout Luoyang City.
Ma Da, who lived directly in the Hou Tang Palace in Luoyang, had a bucket of wine when he got up early. At this moment, he was a little tipsy and looked at the sky in surprise.
Hasn't the time of the twelfth lunar month passed? If you didn't knock just now, why would you keep knocking now?
"Kill you thief!"
Suddenly, right next to Mada, a man shouted loudly, picked up the leg of lamb in his hand, and slammed it on Mada's head.
Ma Da was caught off guard and was hit by a hard lamb leg bone. With a crisp sound, Ma Da stumbled a few times, feeling dizzy.
this.... You can't eat a roasted leg of lamb without wearing a bag, so Ma Da was hit hard.
However, he can be considered a veteran, and the guards around him are not vegetarians. The cook wanted to knock a second time, but he was quickly restrained by the Khitan people around him, and he was punched and kicked until the cook vomited. blood.
Ma Da came to his senses, and he rushed forward extremely angry.
"A certain family treats you very well. They give you food and drink, but don't kill your parents! Why are you attacking?"
Ma Da is not a fool. Since he covets the chef's roasted leg of lamb, he will definitely give him some preferential treatment.
Although the cook has little chance of poisoning, he can't help but give you some 'secret sauce'?
Therefore, the cook's family was saved and given food and drink.
In Mada's view, this was a great mercy, so he was extremely angry, feeling that the cook was ignorant and even attacked him.
The cook grinned, blood dripping between his lips and teeth, and there was a bit of unwillingness in his eyes.
"I wish I could kill you, this thief! I will avenge Brother Zhou!"
"Want to kill X? I'll kill you first, you thief!" Mada, in a rage, held a long knife and stabbed it into the cook's heart.
However, the pain in the cook's eyes was mixed with a hint of pleasure. When his head woke up from his drowsiness, Ma Da's whole body became cold and he screamed wildly.
"No! The Han'ers are going to revolt!"
Ma Da is right. The people of Luoyang are about to revolt. These Khitans have made it impossible for everyone to survive, and they also want to treat their families as two-legged sheep. Who can bear this?
Who can watch his beloved wife and children become someone else's meal?
Amidst the echoing bells, men from various families poured out of houses, wine shops, and shops with sticks, wooden boards, broken knives, guns, and farm tools.
Everyone tied a cloth on their head as a rag to wipe their forehead. This was a sign to distinguish Han people from Huer people.
A Khitan cavalryman in the east of the city had just come out of a wine shop and seemed to have drank a lot.
Before he could stand still, an old man holding a big hammer rushed forward and knocked him down with a club. Then the people around him swarmed him and beat him to a pulp.
A group of ten Khitan cavalry in the west of the city had just patrolled a street when stones and sticks fell from the sky.
The Khitan cavalry was stunned by the smash. Before they could react, they were surrounded by people swarming in.
They did not avoid swords and guns, even if they were stabbed, they still howled and rushed forward.
The frightened Khitan cavalry wanted to urge the horse, but it was too late. Countless pairs of big hands pulled him off the horse, and then his body was completely gone.
A wealthy businessman in the south of the city was occupied by the Khitan people. His mansion was occupied, and his wife and daughter were also occupied. He would have been worse off lying on the street waiting to die.
But now he suddenly seemed to be alive again. He took the people who originally scolded him for being rich and unkind, and got into the secret waterway of his mansion.
Amid the roar of the crowd, the wealthy businessman held a long dagger and chopped into pieces the Khitan general who had taken over his wife and daughter.
The north of the city was close to the Khitan military camp and was the most oppressed. The common people followed the soldiers of the Heyang Army and the monks from various temples who suddenly rebelled, and stormed the Khitan military camp.
Countless people held the door panels, howled, and rushed forward with their flesh and blood bodies to clear the way for the Heyang army.
The shouts of killing were loud, and no one flinched.
'Kill the thieves! Kill the thieves! Amidst the howls, one after another the Liao army's checkpoints were captured. The Khitan people who were caught off guard were killed and their blood flowed like rivers.
Finally, the riots in the city, amidst the never-ending ringing of the bells, advanced to the area around the palace. At least three thousand of the four thousand Khitans left in Luoyang City were here.
Ma Da was gritting his back molars, looking at the dense crowd outside the imperial city, and was about to open the palace gate and rush to kill them.
The young general (official position) around him quickly dissuaded him, "There are many Han people outside the city and they are powerful. I have a small and capable army, so we should defend the city first!"
Ma Da shook his head slowly, "These men's rebellion was clearly based on the sound of Buddhist temple bells as a signal. If someone hadn't planned it, the veterans of the Heyang Army would never have been able to contact the major Buddhist temples. This must be someone sent by Thief Zhang."
As he spoke, Ma Da stomped his feet bitterly, "Back then, I tried to persuade the emperor that if he wanted Datong City, it would be right for the entire army to go west and kill Zhang Thief, but it's a pity that the emperor didn't listen."
The little general next to him lost all color on his face, and he suddenly shouted as if he remembered something.
"The purpose is to quickly kill the Han'er outside. The people in Zhongli City and Heyang City don't know that changes have taken place in the city.
If a certain person is the vanguard of Zhang Thief, he will definitely attack and kill the three thousand cavalry who have returned from the defense first, so that they can trap us in the city and slaughter them at will. "
"Immediately lead your fifty cavalry, take me to lead the army to clear the way, and then rush out of the city to report the news!"
When Ma Da saw that the young general beside him understood what he meant, he immediately gave the order.
"Carry earth and rocks, collect big trees and tie them with hemp ropes to resist the horses. Put on all the armor for the brave men. If the Beibei cavalry is coming to charge, those who can shoot arrows will occupy the high places."
Zhao Hui still had a lot of battle experience, and with the two talented generals Zhao Yanjin and Zhao Kuangzan nearby, they did not blindly rush to attack the palace.
Although there are at least tens of thousands of people behind them, and the number is still increasing, the only ones who can be called professional soldiers are the hundreds of people from the Heyang Army in the city. They are far from being the opponents of the Khitans, at least to attack the palace, they are definitely A dead end.
So they gathered outside the palace, blocked the Khitan people's way out of the imperial city, and waited for the arrival of Murong Nobunaga's three thousand elite cavalry. This was the right choice.
"Sir, go and organize the people to move a hundred steps apart and move out all the household items to block the road. If the child cannot be guarded, it will be up to you."
Zhao Hongyin looked at Zhao Kuangyin's concerned eyes and shook his head firmly.
"There will be others taking command from behind. Since you and I, father and son, have risked their lives, we will die together. If everyone retreats, how can we stop the Khitan cavalry?"
Zhao Kuangyin was stunned for a moment, as if he was meeting his father for the first time, and nodded fiercely.
The remaining imperial city gate of Luoyang Palace of the Later Tang Dynasty slowly opened, and the Khitan cavalry led by Ma Da also slowly drove out.
Although in later generations, the Liao army was ridiculed for being unable to attack fortresses, retreating shamelessly, and having a dignified cavalry outside the Great Wall, and could only fight back and forth with the thieves of the Song Dynasty.
But at this moment, the Liao army's cavalry in the Yelu Deguang period still had some abilities.
Ma Da led with five hundred Xi people's archers, and the cavalry galloped out from both wings. They did not forcefully hit the obstacles Zhao Hui had put up with earth, rocks and wooden stakes, but shot with bows and arrows first.
The Heyang Army only has 2,000 people in Luoyang City, and among them, there are only six to seven hundred people who can be regarded as tooth soldiers.
Facing the concentrated shooting of five hundred Xiren archers and hundreds of Khitan archers, they could only rely on obstacles to hide and fight back, which was much less efficient.
The rest of the people were placed further back. They did not have any armor and stomachs on their bodies and were easier to be killed in the face of arrows.
In fact, even the Heyang Army did not have much armor and stomach, because most of them were taken away by the elite soldiers on the expedition, and the rest were stored in the arsenal. After the Khitan people entered the city, they were basically confiscated.
The armors they have now are inherited from various military academies, and few soldiers have armors.
Amidst the rain of arrows, the Xi Ren infantry quickly cut off the Heyang Army and Luoyang people. Hundreds of Heyang Army were at the front, followed by Luoyang people holding various weapons and even farm tools.
Ma Da sneered and waved his hand gently, and the Khitan cavalry, which had been moving back and forth on both sides of the Xiren infantry, immediately dispatched.
They came diagonally from the left and right, preparing to completely surround the Heyang Army.
As long as these few hundred Heyang soldiers are killed, no matter how many tens of thousands of people there are, they are just pigs and sheep to be slaughtered.
The ground trembled, and 1,600 cavalry galloped over. The people of Luoyang, who had rarely seen this formation, immediately became panicked. After their blood energy subsided, some timid ones even started to turn around and run away.
Seeing this scene, a Khitan cavalryman couldn't help laughing cruelly, and waved the saber in his hand even more arrogantly. As long as he took another twenty steps, the Han'er in front of him would be dead and dismembered.
The crossbowmen of the Heyang Army tried their best to shoot the arrows in their hands, and kept knocking the Khitan cavalry off their horses.
But they have too few crossbowmen. The Khitan cavalry has a total of 1,600, and the following cavalry and Xiren infantry are still approaching. This small amount of damage cannot have much effect.
Soon, more than 600 Heyang troops were completely surrounded. They only had to wait for the Khitans to eat these few hundred people before they could turn around and massacre the Luoyang people behind them.
"Kill the captives!" At this moment, Zhao Kuangyin shouted loudly, and in an instant, the people of Luoyang who originally seemed to be timid suddenly burst out.
They drew their spears and long horizontal knives, and to the surprise of the Khitans, they rushed towards the Khitan cavalry surrounding the Heyang army at extremely fast speeds.
The spear pierced the knight and the sword stabbed the horse's belly. Zhao Kuangyin took the lead. The spear in his hand stabbed out like a poisonous dragon, and a Khitan cavalry arrived in response.
He didn't care about the life or death of the Khitan cavalry. He held the gun in both hands and continued to rush into the enemy formation.
On his left and right sides, Zhao Yanjin and his father Zhao Hongyin were close to him. The three of them stabbed and blocked, and the coordination was extremely perfect. They stabbed directly into the Khitan cavalry that had slowed down. A bloody road.
The people of Luoyang behind roared and rushed forward together.
It turns out that these are not ordinary people at all, but warrior monks from various temples and the best among the city's foxes and rats. They are all very courageous people who practice martial arts all year round.
There were more than 1,500 people in this charge. After Zhao Kuangyin and the others fought their way out and cut off the Liao cavalry, they immediately gathered together with spears in hand.
In the gap, more than two hundred fat monks held large iron-wrapped iron poles and attacked from everywhere.
What these great monks are best at is playing with sticks. The big stick is made of the hardest wood wrapped with iron sheets. After years of practice by the monks, it is no less powerful than a wrought copper stick.
Often the blow would break either the horse's leg or the knight's calf, causing the knight to scream in pain and the horse to moan.
What the cavalry wanted was speed. As soon as their speed slowed down, the people of Luoyang who seemed to be fleeing in all directions at first summoned up the courage to rush over after being greeted by the village chief.
Are you kidding? If you don't fight hard, your beloved wife and son will be eaten by the Khitan people. Who can bear this?
Moreover, King Yong promised that as long as this battle is won, the nine counties in Luoyang will not be conquered for three years. I heard that the King of Heaven is the only benevolent lord in the world who is willing to take in the victims, and then there will be peace and prosperity.
The anger of revenge and the desire for a better life in the future have brought the fighting power of the people of Luoyang to its highest peak.
The father, who was shot to the ground by a bow and arrow, loudly reprimanded his son and told him to leave him alone and go up and kill the prisoner.
The elder brother, who could hardly vomit blood, also shouted loudly for his younger brother to avenge his blood.
The 1,600 Liao cavalry fell into a sea of tens of thousands of people in an instant. The entire Luoyang people, army and people were united, and no one backed down. The Khitans soon could not resist.
Zhao Kuangyin even picked up a large pole and rushed directly into the formation of the Xi people's archers, killing these Xi people who were only equipped with short knives and fleeing in embarrassment.
Watching the knights fall off their horses one by one, Ma Da's cheeks twitched, but immediately, a cruel light radiated from his eyes.
Because he still had five hundred and a half armored cavalry in his hand, and now the enemy was fighting a chaotic battle, and they couldn't withstand the charge of five hundred and a half armored cavalry.
"Dongdong! Dong! Dong!"
Ma Da looked up in surprise, because his five and a half costumes had not been deployed yet, where could such a uniform sound of horse hooves come from?
In front of everyone's attention, Wang Shenqi appeared on the battlefield wearing white cloth-covered armor, a white battle robe, a silver hood, and a white war horse under his crotch. He was like a dragon, and behind him there were others dressed similarly to him. More than ten riders.
As soon as he arrived at the battlefield, Wang Shenqi fired his bow left and right on horseback. The Khitan cavalry closest to him fell to the ground with the sound of bow strings.
A Tang Sanchen flag was flying high, and in the distance there were cavalry and soldiers arriving as far as the eye could see.
The people of Luoyang got out of the way one after another, and they cheered thunderously.
"The army of King Yong has arrived! The army of King Yong has arrived!"
Mada shook twice, waved his hand in despair, turned around and ran towards the imperial city. The Yongguo cavalry came too fast, and he didn't know if he could still hold on.
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Murong Nobunaga did not enter the city. He personally led two thousand cavalry and went straight to Jinyong City in the northeast of Luoyang City.
Although Jinyong City was gradually abandoned after the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, it was still the main road from Heyang Bridge to Luoyang City. Murong Nobunaga was preparing to intercept the Khitan cavalry returning from the defense change here.
As if God likes to make coincidences, Murong Nobunaga led two thousand cavalry to less than five miles away from Jinyong City. When the city was already in sight, cavalrymen with dragon and phoenix flags also appeared on the horizon.
It turned out that the elite iron cavalry of the Dragon Army and Feng Army of the Liao Kingdom's Pishi Army led by Gao Song also arrived.
Murong Nobunaga had considered that the Liao Kingdom might send cavalry to support him, so he was mentally prepared.
Although Takamatsu was taken aback, he was mentally prepared and did not panic.
"Zhang Xibao, take a hundred horses and ride over there to see who is coming?"
"Changzi Gao, go and see if Zhang Thief's Yongliang cavalry has arrived?"
The two reacted at the same time. After all, they were still several miles apart and needed to confirm who was on the other side.
Zhang Xibao and his fifty Tuyuhunjing cavalry dispersed towards the opposite side like stars in the sky.
The Khitan cavalry on the opposite side were similar. Three to five cavalry formed a fighting group and came over like a thousand troops.
The iconic river cloth face armor, the very recognizable double-layered Hexi helmet, Gao Changzi shouted.
"If the Yongliang cavalry has arrived, put up a red flag to notify the supervisor!"
A typical Liao leather robe, with dragons and phoenixes painted on the flag, all very fancy.
Zhang Xibao didn't hesitate. He reached out from his arms and took out a piece of poisonous tobacco powder from the pear blossom gun, and sprayed it towards the opposite side with a puff.
Of course, no one could be sprayed. This was to inform Murong Nobunaga.
Fireworks are much more convenient than raising flags, so Murong Xin received the message faster than Gao Song.
Ask him to shout to the back, "The hussars are dispatched immediately, disperse their cavalry and shoot. The valiant cavalry are wearing armor and following the flag of a certain commander."
The Yong cavalry now calls the half-armored cavalry valiant cavalry, and the light cavalry with only a small amount of armor on the chest is called hussar.
Under Murong Nobunaga's order, 1,200 hussars flew in three directions towards the Khitan cavalry on the opposite side.
Gao Song is from the Bohai Sea. They are a farming, semi-fishing and hunting people. They are not very familiar with the cavalry tactics commonly used by this grassland people.
Moreover, the prairie cavalry that Takamatsu destroyed before were completely incomparable to the two thousand cavalry under Murong Nobunaga's command.
Because Murong Nobunaga's equipment for fifty cavalry is better than the equipment for one thousand prairie cavalry, and their combat effectiveness and willpower are not at the same level at all.
So after Gao Song released the light cavalry around him according to the method of attacking the prairie cavalry, he immediately suffered a big loss.
Because the hussars of Shandu and the Yulin Guards on the left and right are equipped with horned crossbows.
In cavalry duels, their common strategy is to rush to more than a hundred paces, then slow down their horses and use horn bows and crossbows to strike accurately, and then continue to gallop and use horse bows to fight the enemy cavalry.
Therefore, as soon as Gao Song's Qingqi was released, it was immediately attacked by a wave of fixed-point snipers.
"Gray robe!" Zhang Xibao shouted loudly.
"Gray robe!" Four soldiers immediately shouted after him.
This is to lock the enemy. Gray refers to the color. The robe does not refer to the robe, but to the color of the war horse. The match between the war horse and the horse is actually the robe.
In order to ensure accuracy, after all, the war horses are moving at high speed, so the horn-bow crossbow shooting will aim at one enemy horse with five horsemen to ensure accurate killing.
'Dah! Do! Amidst the sound of crossbows being fired, the light cavalry who had just come out of the Khitan cavalry formation were shot to the ground one after another. By the time they were about to reach the range of the bows and arrows, Zhang Xibao and others had already replaced their horse bows.
The Khitan cavalry suffered heavy losses and their morale dropped a bit, but they still persevered.
Now in the horse-bow duel stage, the cavalry on both sides are entangled with each other like mastiffs. However, the mastiffs usually open their mouths and bark at each other, while the cavalry shoot each other with bows and arrows.
The Khitan cavalry, which had just suffered a heavy loss, had reached the stage where they were good at it, and finally showed their due level. The cavalry on both sides were elite, and the fighting became extremely fierce for a while.
At this time, the armored cavalry on both sides had basically finished wearing their armor.
Murong Nobunaga and Takamatsu each led their armored cavalry and began to trot slowly. At the same time, the horns calling for their own light cavalry to come back to protect them also began to sound.
The light cavalry who heard the call broke away from the contact without hesitation and began to provide cover for the heavy cavalry who could only trot.
On the ground where there had been a fierce fight just now, apart from the wounded people struggling all over the ground and the bodies that were no longer moving, it was as if no battle had broken out just now.
At this time, the cavalry with such obedience and discipline were the elite among the elite, so the commanders on both sides paid 120% of their attention.
The fighting style used by the Yongliang cavalry is similar to charging on the wall. The front row is full of super-long carbines of one foot and five feet, and the back is holding horned crossbows and long horizontal knives.
The Khitan cavalry's tactics were the most popular at this time, that is, when trotting, they would first fire a hail of arrows, and when charging, they would be separated by the width of two horses.
The advantage of this tactic is that you can try to use a wave of arrows to disrupt the enemy's formation before actual contact.
The distance between the two horses is to leave room for the horse or carbine in the hand to be wielded.
To put it bluntly, the Yongliang cavalry, especially the armored heavy cavalry, first used the power of collective impact to break the enemy formation, and then relied on the cavalry behind them with horned crossbows, long horizontal knives and horse-mounted swords to deal damage.
The Khitan cavalry brushed through the enemy formation like iron brushes, and every time they washed away, they could take away a piece of flesh and blood.
The former can better reflect the decisive effect of heavy cavalry, but is extremely difficult to train, while the latter is more economical and affordable.
As the distance got closer, the cavalry began to speed up from a trot to a sprint.
At this moment, a rain of arrows shot out from the direction of the Khitan cavalry. In addition, the arrows shot by the light cavalry on the left and right were missed, and dark clouds surrounded the Yong cavalry.
Screams and falling sounds were heard one after another. Even if the cavalry was half-equipped, there would still be flaws, and even more unlucky ones.
In addition, the formation of the valiant cavalry was too dense, so the killing effect of the Khitan's arrow rain was particularly good.
However, the Yongliang cavalry did not flinch, nor did they panic due to casualties. Even the hussars guarding the two wings did not shoot arrows blindly.
Forty steps!
Thirty steps!
The sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder, and the Yongliang Xiaoqi, who charged on the wall, crashed into the Khitan cavalry formation.
The Khitan cavalry, whose formation was a bit scattered and had no determination to directly fight, immediately retreated from both sides, and a blood groove was directly cut out.
After the front row successfully attacked, the horn crossbows from the back row immediately shot at the Khitan cavalry like locusts.
This is a crossbow, not a bow, so even if the cavalry encounters a horned crossbow, the casualty rate will be terrible!
The Khitan heavy cavalrymen were unable to attack the enemy with their chariots, and those who were shot were thrown off their backs. By the time they came back, the Yongliang cavalrymen had already run away.
Takamatsu was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood. He hurriedly gathered his team, but before the formation could be set up, the heavy cavalry on the opposite side turned around again and rushed over again like riding on a wall.
The power this time was far greater than the last time, because the Khitan cavalry's formation was not adjusted properly, and also because they were even more panicked after being hit by the thunder last time.
Those who fell immediately were all Khitan cavalry, and the Yong cavalry did not suffer much damage at all.
At this time, Yong's hussars finally unleashed their trump card.
Fireworks lit up the sky, and more than 600 pear blossom guns sprayed out a large amount of poisonous smoke and iron filings, making a huge noise.
Frightened by this, the Khitan cavalry horses roared wildly, and the morale of the knights dropped to the lowest level.
Murong Nobunaga took the opportunity to issue an order for a dispersed assault. The Yong cavalry was divided into a combat unit of one hundred people, and they weaved back and forth in the formation of the Khitan cavalry.
Gao Song tried several times to regroup his troops, but was unable to do anything. He could only raise the banner of the commander-in-chief and command his cavalry to circle Jinyong City, fight and retreat to the Yellow River.
Murong Nobunaga and Qiongre Duojin clung closely to Takamatsu, constantly chasing and colliding, tearing the flesh and blood of the Khitan cavalry.
This time, if the Khitans had not outnumbered them by a thousand cavalry and the elites of the Pishi army came, Takamatsu would have collapsed.
The two sides chased for about two quarters of an hour. The Yongguo Youyi Hussars team in charge of the vigilance came over from a distance. They all raised red pennants to signal that the enemy was approaching.
It turned out that the Khitan cavalry who had switched defenses between Zhongli City and Heyang City finally came over.
At this moment, the enemy's cavalry increased to six thousand, and the Yongliang cavalry was already a little tired after traveling for dozens of miles and fighting for an hour.
Murong Nobunaga then took the initiative to break away from the contact and led his army back to seize the important place of Jinyong City.
Gao Song was wondering why the Yong cavalry stopped chasing? Then he thought that the cavalry from Zhongli and Heyang might have arrived.
Before he could give the order, Murong Nobunaga quickly returned to Jinyong City.
This..., there are powerful iron cavalry on the opposite side, as well as a large number of crossbows. If you fight against the city, you need to be lethal and maneuverable.
After a long confrontation, Gao Song could not make up his mind to continue the attack. While sending people to report to Yelu Deguang, he could only retreat to the Yellow River to defend the pontoon bridge.
