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While Liu Ce accepted Pei Ji's surrender, a great war was in full swing outside Zhuozhou and Shanglingbian County...

On that day, the Shangling defenders, led by Pei Qing, abandoned the defense and attacked the enemy, and left the cover of the strong walls and thick walls, and rushed towards the Far East Army camp.

As soon as Pei Qing led his troops to contact the Far East Army, the two sides started a fierce battle. The intense shouts of killing were deafening, and they penetrated the sky. The metal collision of swords and weapons broke through the bloody liquid brought out by the soldier, all telling the cruelty and ruthlessness of this battle...

"See the trick!"

"Puchi~"

Pei Qing took the lead, with 20,000 vanguards wearing sackclothed clothes and filial piety clothes, like a sharp sword breaking through the defense line of the Far East Army. Pei Qing himself waved his heavy winged gold bob, and threw the two Far East troops in front of him into the air with one move. Finally, he landed heavily on the ground and was flooded by the crowded waves...

"Bang~~"

With a loud bang, Pei Qing rode the horse and rushed into a team of swords, shields and hand formations with thunder. With the advantage of a good horse, he broke the stand-up formation in one fell swoop, opening a way for the charging team behind him to break through...

"Drink~~"

After entering the battle formation for a moment, dozens of Far East soldiers around him rushed up with spears in their hands.

However, Pei Qing just sneered and shouted loudly. The winged gold boring gun weighing more than 40 kilograms in his hand turned into a rotating hurricane and cut across, rolling up a bloody storm, forming an extremely cruel blood-colored arc.

I saw that all the Far East soldiers swept by Pei Qing's gun were chopped into several blocks by the sharp and heavy gun. The iron hooves passed by were all broken limbs and broken arms, and corpses were everywhere...

"Pei Qing is really brave, even better than Xiang Xian..."

Lu Su, who was responsible for resisting Pei Qing's army's attack head-on, watched the Shangling Army's actions closely with a mirror from the back formation. When he saw Pei Qing so brave, he couldn't help but exclaim.

However, he said this with an extremely disdainful attitude, putting Pei Qing and Xiang Xian together, obviously not taking him seriously, and was very confident in the attack of defeating Pei Qing.

Deputy General Wang Rui put down his glass, but said anxiously: "General Lu, Pei Qing's vanguard is too fast and has continuously broken through the three lines of defense arranged by our army. If we don't find a way to stop them,

I am afraid it will affect the plan of siege on all sides, so my subordinates suggest that they immediately put the troops in the headquarters to suppress Pei Qing's agility..."

Lu Su put down the mirror and shook his head: "No hurry, Pei Qing's troops are now in a strong morale. If you press the elite troops on this team at this moment, you will only gain and not lose.

He ordered the vanguard to block the troops, remove all the baggage, and immediately withdraw to the rear formation..."

Wang Rui was stunned when he heard this: "Don't abandon all the supplies, food and grass?"

"That's right..." Lu Su said coldly, "The enemy is all hungry soldiers. Leaving the baggage and food will definitely make them fight for it, delaying the speed of the march, and leaving enough preparation time for the other battalions of the encirclement of the Ling Army..."

Wang Rui suddenly realized and bowed and said, "I will order the entire army to drop the baggage and retreat..."

Lu Su nodded: "Go, let our troops retreat twenty miles together, so that Pei Qing thought our army was defeated. After all 400,000 troops left the border county and entered the preset ambush land, the battle was over..."

Wang Rui didn't say much, and immediately informed the battalions according to Lu Su's deployment, while Lu Su continued to calmly raise the mirror and pay attention to everything on the battlefield...

"Kill~~"

"Aoao~~"

Pei Qing's bravery made the morale of the Shangling soldiers who were following him greatly boosted. Hundreds of thousands of people shook the sky with their long howls and looked frenzied. Following Pei Qing's mount, it was like a huge wave rolling up, slamming towards the defense line of the Far Eastern Army.

"Start~~"

"Well~~"

In front of a rogue, Pei Qing shouted in a deep voice, pulled the reins hard, clamped his legs to the horse's belly, and the good horse under his crotch made a sharp roar, and the whole horse jumped up and flew over the rogue.

"Bang~"

The moment the war horse landed, the heavy horse hooves kicked the chest of a sword and shield. But the armor leaves on the chest of the sword and shield were completely concave into the body. After spitting a mouthful of blood, the whole body flew backwards and lifted backwards. Finally, it fell heavily to the ground, and the seven holes bleed to death.

No matter how exquisite the armor is, it cannot resist such violent blunt attacks...

“Hey~”

"Boom~~"

The moment the war horse landed on the ground, Pei Qing waved the gold-winged gun in his hand, hooked the Jijiao, which was blocking the left side of the army, and lifted it hard, but saw the Jijiao weighing more than 200 pounds rising up, spinning and crashing into the front to prepare for two spearmen to rush up. The sharp spike ruthlessly pierced into the vital points of the two spearmen, and overwhelmed them heavily on the dry and hard land.

"Run~~"

"Kill~~"

Under Pei Qing's leadership, the fourth line of defense laid out by the Far East Army was soon broken by the Shangling Army. The roaring sounded again and the morale of the army reached a new peak.

“Woo~~”

When the soldiers behind the fourth line of defense retreated to the fifth trench dug in advance, the horn of the retreating Far East Army rang dullly.

"Retreat, retreat quickly~~"

The Far East Army soldiers who heard the sound of the horns retreated like a tide under the command of their respective commanders and moved in an orderly manner towards Lu Su's headquarters.

"The Far East Army is just like this!" Pei Qing was overjoyed when he saw this scene and pointed the gun in his hand forward, "The whole army obeys the order and continues to pursue, without leaving any one!"

"Roar~~"

Hearing Pei Qingzhi's orders, the soldiers roared together and launched an offensive against the Far East Army again.

Since his departure from the border county, Pei Qingyi has led his troops to chase the Far East Army for more than 40 miles. With his encouragement, the morale of the 400,000 Shangling Legion reached an unprecedented peak.

This is also the most exciting battle since the confrontation between the Shangling Army and the Far East Army, and the performance of the Far East Army does not seem to be as invincible as the rumors.

"Report to the general, a large amount of baggage was found in front of him, with thousands of trucks of food and grass..."

Halfway through the pursuit of the Far East Army, a explorer found a large amount of food and grass ahead and immediately came to report to Pei Qing.

Upon hearing this, Pei Qing immediately stopped the army and continued to advance, shouting to the explorer: "Food and grass? Are you sure there are no ambushes around?"

The explorer shook his head and said, "Report to the general, the enemy retreated to Lingnan in a panic. His subordinates observed that there were no ambushes around him. I guess the Far East Army had discarded these food and grass in panic."

Pei Qing hesitated. Now hundreds of thousands of troops are all hanged with a breath of blood and courage. Once they are discharged, they are very likely to lose their spirits. Logically speaking, they should continue to attack.

However, food and wages are the weakness of the current army, not to mention that they pursued the Far East Army for more than 40 miles. No matter how high the morale of the army is, they are still flesh and blood. If they keep fighting and not getting supplies, even if they break through the encirclement and enter the Liyang territory, the soldiers will inevitably mutiny.

After weighing the two sides, Pei Qing immediately ordered: "The entire army stopped pursuing, immediately confiscated the enemy's baggage, rested here for a day, and continued to march towards Liyang tomorrow morning..."

As a result, the 400,000 army stopped chasing and began to confiscate the food and supplies left by the Far East Army to replenish their physical strength, and planned to fight again tomorrow.

...

"General Lu, Pei Qing's army stopped pursuing and was using the supplies we left to build a pot to make rice..."

"Have all the Shangling Army left the border counties?"

"Report to General Lu, the main forces of Shangling Army have all left the border counties, and the forts in the border counties are empty cities, with less than 5,000 soldiers in the defenders..."

At the height of the rear formation, Lu Su's eyes gradually became cold after learning that Pei Qing's army stopped as expected and the guards in the border counties were weak.

"Notify the commander of the military so that all departments can act as planned. The Shangling Army has been led to the ambush and can launch an encirclement and suppression at any time..."

After rumor, he immediately went to Yingshuai Camp in Wuzhen.

Lu Su came to the formation with three hundred catapults, gently stroked one of the catapults, and the haze on his face became deeper.

The catapult car is transformed on the basis of a giant catapult. It has a range of 150 to 200 steps and can project a stone with a heaviest weight of 40 kilograms.

Compared with the giant catapult that casts the heaviest 150 kilograms of rocks with a 400-step 400-step slam, the catapult car has very limited attack effect and is very likely to be exposed to the range of the octagonal crossbow in the city wall to suffer a blow.

However, catapults also have advantages that catapults do not have. First of all, they are easy to carry and will not move slowly like catapults. Secondly, the production process of catapults is not complicated and can be equipped on a large scale to infantry or guard battalions.

Of course, there is one advantage that trenchers do not have, that is, the effect in field combat is far greater than that of trenchers.

The giant catapult requires multiple people to operate at the same time. Although it was called a powerful weapon in the era of cold weapons (that is, the Hui artillery obtained by the Mongolian army from Central Asia), each launch round requires extremely long "cd" accumulation, and it is really touching before ballistics is popular.

However, the catapult cart has no restrictions. Because the stones are light in weight, they can quickly load new stones every time they launch, causing continuous blows to the enemy.

In addition, what is even more terrifying is that the projectiles used in the casting car in Liu Ce's army were not stones, but referenced to a projectile called "iron cannon" that resisted the attacks of the Mongolian and Jin Dynasties in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After proficient in the black gunpowder technology, the crazy craftsman department and the science and technology department developed the "flowering bullet" suitable for large-scale casualties, which is the current iron cannon.

The iron cannon weighs 25 kilograms and is soaked with tinder oil. There is a breathable hole on both sides evenly, containing gunpowder. It is ignited with fire before the casting cart. After the projection, it falls into the crowd to ignite the black gunpowder inside. It can explode instantly. The scattered iron sheets can cause huge damage to the enemy. The roaring explosion can also completely collapse the enemy's psychology...

It can be said that before the artillery technology matured, this iron cannon was simply a bug-like existence. It can not only be attacked with a catapult, but also hung on the crossbow spear used in the crossbow car, and the effect is also excellent...

Lu Su licked his dry lower lip, looked at the catapult car, his eyes were greedy, and his face was full of grim smile: "Tomorrow, it depends on your power..."

...

In the evening, Pei Qing's troops set up camps on the spot. Thick smoke from cooking fires ignited everywhere in the military camp, and there was a cheerful and active atmosphere everywhere...

"The food from the Far East Army is really good!"

In Pei Qing's main tent, Pei Qing was eating the cooked pieces of meat, chewing it all over the mouth.

What he ate was a pot of meat left by the Far East Army, and pork belly marinated with various seasonings, which made him enjoy the food.

“Huff…”

Just as Pei Qing was in high spirits, the curtain was suddenly pulled open.

Yang Guotai walked to Pei Qing with a frosty face. Before he could speak, Pei Qing smiled and said, "Mr. Yang is here, come and try this meat. This is the most delicious military food this general has ever eaten. You must try it..."

Yang Guotai frowned and said anxiously: "General, why don't you take advantage of the strong morale of the army and enter Lingnan in one go, but order the army to camp in such a wilderness?"
Chapter completed!