Seeing that the Gong branch soldiers who were dismounted and fought in a stint were once again defeated by the Song army, who could only fight to the death, retreated aside under the cover of the archers of the imperial tent, and rested. The Qingwen, a Gong branch soldier behind Yelu Yanxi, couldn't help but whisper: "Your Majesty, are you going to let the Gong Weirang rest? You have been attacking for a day. Although there are many enemies, you have suffered a lot of damage to yourself. This is the Gong branch! It's too late now, so why not attack again tomorrow."

Yelu Yanxi looked back and looked at him coldly: "Can't the man who is a member of the palace fight at night?"

The performance of the Liao army this time still disappointed Yelu Yanxi. The overwhelming numerical advantage was to hit the opponent with both sides and back. I thought I could easily win it. But who knew that it was not an effective breakthrough after fighting throughout the day.

Of course, this has the role of the Song army's hard village. A fence wall, a trench, and an eight-foot-high earth wall must be filled with corpses.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Liao army still disappointed Yelu Yanxi! He attacked ten thousand weak brigades of the Song army with 80,000 people, but he still couldn't fight hard! In Wuqing County, the strong soldiers of the Song army defeated the elite Gongdian several times. If they continue to fight like this, will the Liao Kingdom still have a future?

Moreover, Yelu Yanxi was still worried about Xiao Baoxian. Xiao Baoxian had only 8,000 soldiers in his hands, but he was the elite of the Song army in front of him, even in terms of the number and quality of the cavalry, he was better than Xiao Baoxian.

How many days can Xiao Bao last with his bluffing trick? If he is defeated in Wuqing County, the Song army on the eastern front will approach Xijinfu City!

Although Xijin Prefecture City is a strong city, there are many defenders in the city, and they should not be lost for a while.

But what if there is a possibility? The commander of the Song army on Hebei East Road is the last of the four famous generals. He is the best at buying and winning over Wu Haogu! God knows what kind of sky-high price he will offer to Xijin Prefecture City?

Thinking of this, Yelu Yanxi's face was as iron as iron, and her voice was gloomy: "This battle is directly related to the century-old hegemony of our Great Liao Dynasty. If we can turn the Song people's Eastern Route Army into Yanjing, and even close the Yellow River with a brigade. Then we will get a new alliance of Chanyuan from the Song people. This time, I will ask the Southern Dynasty for 3 million annual annual monies!"

He raised his hand and pointed to the northeast: "More than 300 miles away, the Song people's eastern army is forcing Yanjing. If they get the first shot, then our Daliao world will be in turmoil!"

When talking about the elite Song army approaching Xijinfu City in the east, the generals around Yelu Yanxi felt a little nervous.

This elite Song army team used cavalry to crush the cavalry of the Gong branch army! The one who Da Liao was proud of was the cavalry, but he could not defeat the Song Dynasty cavalry in Cangzhou...

Fortunately, the Song army placed many soldiers on the West Road of Hebei were so weak, and their command was very stupid, so they easily got into the trap.

However, the Song army, which was famous for its good defense, has gradually built hard camps. The layers of defensive fortifications have to be filled with people's lives. Although the Song army encountered in Anyangkoupu was not strong in combat, it still repelled more than ten waves of offensives by the Liao army. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Liao army is not very strong!

Yelu Yanxi felt heavy in his heart. After a while, he glanced at his general and spoke firmly: "The Song army in front of him is a weak brigade! And he has already lost his courage. As long as you put in all your strength and attack day and night, what's the difficulty of breaking it?

If the Song army broke through Anyangkoupu, the entire Dingzhou Road was the item in my Great Liao Dynasty!”

He waved his hand suddenly: "Tell me the order, raise the fire! I will fight tonight with the Song people to the death! Let my personal army in the imperial tent wear heavy armor, hold sharp blades, and serve as the selection of the striker! After taking the Dingzhou Road, I will lead you and others to march towards Kaifeng Prefecture!"

After the order to march to Kaifeng Prefecture was conveyed, the three armies immediately cheered!

Now the soldiers following Yelu Yanxi are all Liao soldiers with their own dry food, and the harvest is all about fighting grass valleys! The peace of the Song and Liao dynasties has made these "self-employed Liao" have no place to hunt grass valleys, and their lives will naturally not be nourished. Now it is rare. If you can really go to Kaifeng Prefecture to grab one, it will be enough for several lifetimes...

Amid the cheers, the brigade of Yelu Yanxi's imperial tent was covered with strong and held the sharps and came out bravely. Tonight, they were going to smash Zhong Fu's army and open the passage for the Daliao Heavenly Soldiers to march towards Kaifeng Prefecture!

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Under the city of Yanjing, on the bank of the Sanggan River, opposite the bridgehead of the floating bridge, a sandbag fortification was built at this time. Three rows of soldiers wearing full-equipped warrior armor and holding expensive Jiehe Cavalry Crossbows (Jiehe Cavalry Crossbows are all made of private workshops run by Liangjiang. They are exquisite in materials and powerful, and are not comparable to mass-produced Jiehe Crossbows). They have already listed the formation.

They were Cangzhou knights who dismounted the horse and were not Wu Haogu's fake sub-army. The knights dispersed into small teams and hid in the dark. The cavalry who arrived with Zhao Zhongge built simple fortifications between Yanjing City and Sanggan River. After dark, they all dismounted as infantry. They used the Bianhe Cavalry and Crossbows and Swords and Shields in their hands to fight against the Liao army. Only the versatile horsemanship was outstanding, but they still rode in a half-equipped horse-riding posture, waiting for the right opportunity to launch a counterattack against the Liao army that rushed from Yanjing City or the other side of the Sanggan River.

Countless torches were moving along the floating bridge in the night. These were the Caogu soldiers and guard soldiers of the Liao Dynasty Palace who were dismounted to fight, as well as a small number of regular soldiers.

Xiao Baoxian, who chose to engage in a night battle, also gave up the decisive style of cavalry fighting, instead let his cavalry dismount, walk across the floating bridge, and then launch an attack on the positions of the Song army.

The reason for not fighting horses is also very simple. The visibility at night is too poor, the difficulty of controlling horses is too high, and the "bridgehead area" across the Sanggan River is too narrow, so the horse team cannot rush up at all. So Xiao Bao simply lets Gong's army dismount and fight in the field.

However, he did not take into account the threat of the Song people's particularly capable cavalry, so before the dismounted cavalry launched an attack, he drew many carriages to the battlefield, and blocked the only way for the Song cavalry to charge on both sides. With the dense formation of the Song cavalry, if one accidentally bumped into it, it would have to fall down a large number of them!

Xiao Baoxian himself also went to the front line, standing behind a temporary fortification with a string of large trucks, squinted his eyes and watched the Khitan warriors holding torches rush towards the sandbag wall of the Song people like a tide.

In Xiao Baoxian's opinion, the cavalry of the Song people was powerful, but they were always avoiding hand-to-hand combat! This shows that the cavalry of the Song people was not good at hand-to-hand combat and would definitely not be able to defeat the warriors of the Gong branch army.

While the warriors rushed forward, there were people using the stubborn goat horn bow to produce feather arrows. However, in the night, although there was firelight, how could the long-distance shooting of feather arrows have a correct head? Who can see the landing point of the feather arrows? And at night there is no way to measure the distance by observing human faces and other reference objects. Therefore, these feather arrows really do not pose any threat to the fully armored Song army knights.

After walking in some more, some of the Liao soldiers rushing to the front line began to slap their bows and arrows, and while walking, they shot heavy armor-breaking arrows behind the Song army's sandbag formation.

On the Song army, the counterattack finally began. It was not the arrow shot by individual soldiers, but the crossbows on the platform built up by sandbags began to fire burst rockets. The sound of the fire of the Collapse Bang, and the lit rockets roared straight into the Liao army's crowd. Some rockets hit the Liao army. Whether it was heavy armored warriors or auxiliary soldiers without armor, it was a result! The body was easily broken like tofu, and they fell down screaming. After a while, the gunpowder exploded.

The ignition sounded one after another, overwhelming the dying screams. What was even more "morale" was that some explosive rockets pierced into the human body also exploded, shattering the dead (perhaps dead)! The human limbs were brought into the air by the shock waves generated by the explosion, and then fell heavily, and some even hit the body of the charging Liao army. Some timid Liao soldiers were so scared that they quickly chanted Amitabha... This generation of Song people is too cruel! Buddha, you, don't care?

However, the explosion rockets are not the only killer weapon for the Song army to fight positional warfare. The more brutal "Scale of Ten Thousand Crossbows" is about to begin.

More than 1,800 knights are now divided into three rows, forming a dense formation shoulder to shoulder, each with a crossbow, after the fortifications of sandbags. The first row kneels on one knee, erects the cavalry crossbow in his hand on the sandbags, the second row is flat-end cavalry crossbow, and the third row is erects the cavalry crossbow on the shoulders of the second row of knights. They do not shoot immediately, but wait quietly for the opponent to approach.

These are all knights! Their psychological qualities are not comparable to ordinary infantry. So the distance they fire is 15 steps!

After shooting, draw your sword and rush!

The soldiers of the Liao Palace who were rushing in front did not realize that the danger was coming at this time. Instead, they became excited because they were getting closer and closer to the enemy's position.

The Song people were not good at fighting in hand and hand! Their cavalry could only attack, not fight in hand and hand...

The Khitan warriors are the most capable of fighting hand-to-hand combat in the world (they have not been beaten by the Jurchen Ganda yet), are they still afraid of the weak Song people?

Suddenly, a sharp and harsh whistle sounded.

All the Khitans didn't know what was going on. The sound of crossbow strings and the sound of arrows breaking through the armor and stabbing into the human body came at the same time.

1,800 cavalry crossbows opened fire at the same time, and the Khitan warriors screamed and fell down!

"Draw the sword, raise the shield, and move forward..."

The teams of various knights and the escorts immediately issued the order "draw the sword, raise the shield, and move forward". Of course, they still fought in a formation, but turned the cavalry phalanx into the infantry sword and shield formation. Hundreds of warriors wearing full armor, shoulder to shoulder, shields and shields, raised their swords straight forward, and rushed forward in one step, and immediately loaded into the chaotic Khitan array!
Chapter completed!