Behind the main position of the artillery, Ma Rui sighed, "It's a pity that the city walls are blocking it, and there is no result of the battle." His cavalry was used as a reserve team and there is no war for the time being. Seeing the gunners set off firecrackers, I couldn't help feeling itchy. Zhao Xingde stared at the black arcs and whispered: "How many people in the world can resist being beaten but not fighting back? Cavalry must be prepared. If the Koreans are afraid of the power of cannons, they may deviate from our side and rear.

The shelling of the Eighth Battalion lasted until dusk. After dark, Li Sihai sent people to the shore to get in touch with the Eighth Battalion. After learning that Zhao Xingde and the Han army had agreed to siege the city for 20 days, Li Sihai immediately sent another messenger to the ashore. He also believed that the Goryeo people might not be able to withstand the pressure of shelling and would take the initiative to go out of the city to challenge. Therefore, Li Sihai suggested that Zhao Xingde keep shelling and attacking the city, but not to attack the city easily. On the one hand, waiting for the Han army to come, on the other hand, continuous shelling can put pressure on the defenders more than rashly siege. The Goryeo will wait nervously all day long. The soldiers of Chengying Camp and the Han army knew the final deadline, and their morale would accumulate until the end of the explosion.

Zhao Xingde was unwilling to attack the far city. He felt that there were too few crossbowmen in the army. It was difficult for mere 300 archers to exploit the defect of being too short on the west wall of the far city to the extreme. If there were one or two thousand archers, by building arc fortifications two or three times longer than this city wall, the protruding west wall could be surrounded. When siege, the archers on the city were shooting at each other. Two or three people under the city shot at one person on the city, and the city wall could be suppressed.

There is no one standing above. Fortunately, artillery can make up for the shortage of archers. When siege, concentrate artillery to bombard the narrowest section of the city wall in the west. The low walls allow the Han army to build earthen mountains under the city, and finally the elite soldiers attack the city through earthen mountains to achieve the least casualties. Once the mountain city, which is the commanding height, cannons can be pulled up, bombarded the other seven cities from a high point, and drove the Goryeo to the river to feed the fish.

The night was low, and Zhao Xingde finally inspected the camp. The Eighth Battalion of Chengying rushed for more than a hundred miles in two days. After arriving in Laiyuan County, he immediately started to build fortifications and worked hard for three consecutive days. Both energy and physical strength were needed to rest and recover. The enemy was facing the enemy, and the general next to him wanted to wait for his subordinates to wait for the battle and sleep with his eyes open. However, Zhao Xingde smiled and said, "If the enemy does not attack, everyone should have a good sleep." He also specifically reminded Liu Zhijian and Gao Su that if the enemy did not move abnormally, he would not fire before dawn. After explaining these, he himself returned to the camp, wrapped a blanket, and fell asleep on the cold and hard ground.

His relaxed attitude infected many people. Some of the sergeants who were in battle for the first time were a little nervous, but now they could lie down with their eyes open and comfort themselves, "The general is not wrong." Even the Han troops in the garrison battalion who had just trained for less than a month were sleeping sweetly one by one. "Brother Liu, the enemy will not attack the camp at night, right?" Ma Biaozi asked. In the garrison battalion, besides the soldiers, the one he was most impressed with was the tenth husband Liu Yandao.

He is a good man who has really killed the Khitans. Liu Jiandao slapped his head and cursed, "What are you doing? The enemy attacks at night, let's fight him to the death. If you don't come, sleeping peacefully will be a waste of money." Ma Biaozi grinned and said, "Brother is saying, "I heard that General Zhao has been taught by a god and is the best at fortune-telling. The enemy's movements cannot be hidden from him." Liu Jiandao closed his eyes and was too lazy to pay attention to this messenger. After a while, both of them snored loudly.

Only the whistleman opened his eyes vigilantly. The shrubs around the camp had been cleared, and lanterns were high in front of the wide trench. After nightfall, the position of the 8th Battalion of Chengying sank into a strange silence.

When you come to the front of the city, don’t recommend Park Sung-gyu, “Sir, should you arch your archer go down to the city? Shoot those lanterns first.”

"No need to avoid being alarmed by the snake." Cui Xianxi's face was gloomy. He just counted the casualties, including those on the sunken ship, and more than 170 people were killed or injured in the entire army. He was deeply ashamed of the fear of the day. After sunset, in order to prevent the Koryo Navy's sneak attack, the enemy's gunship retreated to the sea to moor. Jin Rongxian, the headmaster of the northeast camp stationed in Baozhou, had nowhere to vent his anger. After hearing that there were only more than a thousand enemy troops outside the far city, he sent someone to send a letter to scold Cui Xianxi for fear of the enemy and fearing the war. He ordered him to immediately take advantage of the time when the "Liao Kingdom" army had not arrived, and he would go out to the city to attack the enemy's vanguard, capture the sharp artillery and transport it back to the country.

Compared with the lost Laiyuan City, more than 100 people were nothing. However, as a general, it was powerless to lose troops and generals, which was a crime. "Plan to find me as a scapegoat." Cui Xianxi thought gritted his teeth. Usually the enemy would guard against night attacks, and the moment before dawn was the most sleepy and lazy time, so he planned to lead the army out of the city to attack in the Yin hour. The enemy's every move was clearly seen at the top of the city, without any ambush. The military strategy was to use the right combination and win with a strange victory. He planned to challenge the "Liao Army" head-on with 1,500 siegemen, and sent another cavalry general Huang Feng to lead 400 cavalry to flank the enemy formation. After making plans to go out of the city to attack the enemy, Cui Xianxi became more ashamed of his cowardice during the day, but it was just artillery.

"Be alert to the evening to prevent the enemy from climbing the city at night." Choi Xianxi's face was full of solemn expression and reminded Park Sung-gyu to go down the city tower. Usually he lived in Laiyuan County. Today, the city tower was repeatedly attacked by artillery, and it was even more impossible to spend the night in the city tower. Back at the mansion, a maid brought him from Kaijing carefully took off his armor and changed into a silk robe of the home. After the maid brought the wine and food, she knelt beside her knees and poured wine and picked up food. Choi Xian-hee was a hereditary martial arts nobleman. She was frightened today. Under the gentle and meticulous service of the maid, her eyes slowly regained their charm and she took her into her arms.

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At the darkest time before dawn, the city occupied by Goryeo began to make a low noise in Laiyuan. "Don't make a sound, calm down." The officers carefully distributed grass stems and let the soldiers hold them in their mouths. The war horses were wrapped in iron hooves. As the people and horses moved, only the slight tinging of subway armor was heard. However, just as the city gate opened wide, the soldiers lurking nearby Chengying Camp discovered it. The tenth lord Pan Yuheng whispered: "The people of Goryeo are moving, Cao Bai goes back to report first, Da Lin and I will count the sheep here." Cao Bai responded in a low voice, and bent down and ran backwards. "There are many sheep." Pan Yuheng whispered, "Two hundred, three hundred..." When it reached about a thousand, he asked Sun Da Lin to report again. Finally, seeing the cavalry appear, Pan Yuheng evacuated the post with satisfaction.

"Enemy attack!" "Going into battle!" Not long after, the soldiers in the Xia State camp were woken up. The gunners immediately loaded the cannons with ammunition. After the order was issued, ten cannons roared almost at the same time. The flames penetrated the darkness, and the huge roar tore the silence that was deliberately maintained. The shells roared towards the city gate. With a hasty aim, most of the shells hit the city wall, and only two or three shots fell into the formation of the Goryeo army, but it brought a lot of chaos.

Almost everyone was panicked by the army formation of two thousand people. Cui Xianxi finally calmed down and felt confused again. He thought that the generals under his command had not restrained their subordinates. Under the enemy's artillery fire, the army was in chaos as soon as they left the city, which was unexpected by Cui Xianxi. In his mind, even if the enemy discovered a night attack, he would cunningly set up a deeper trap, similar to the situation where the generals of Wei attacked Zhuge Liang's camp in the Three Kingdoms script, suddenly roared cannons and ambushed soldiers from all sides. He was anxious and angry, secretly blaming the enemy's generals for the discooperation.

"Master Warriors, the enemy has discovered us. Should we retreat to the city?" Park Sung-gyu asked with a pale face. He had just seen a shell penetrate three people with his own eyes.

Choi Xianxi looked at him coldly, pulled out the sword from his waist, shouted loudly, "Don't panic, all units are in a whole team. Do as planned!" After shouting three times, he turned to the timid and fearful generals and explained to the timid generals, "He attracted the enemy head-on, and the cavalry detoured from the flank. Isn't this the case now?" He ignored the generals and continued to shout twice: "As long as the plan is done, don't be confused, don't be confused!"

Perhaps it was infected by the military envoys, perhaps this Goryeo army itself was elite. Under the continuous attack of ten artillery, 1,500 infantrymen still maintained their formation. Taking advantage of the darkness before dawn, more than 600 cavalry quietly left the infantry formation, made a big circle, and walked around the side and back of the enemy camp. The cavalry general Huang Fengzhi carefully slowed down the horse speed. In the war with the Liao Kingdom, Emperor Suzong felt that there were too few cavalry in this dynasty, so he conscripted all the people with horses in the country as divine cavalry, but the riding skills of these people were really worrying. At full speed, some people would fall behind, and some would fall off the horse. Huang Fengzhi was secretly glad that the artillery of Xia Kingdom was concentrated on bombarding the Goryeo infantry formation in front of him, and he had no time to pay attention to this cavalry.

However, they did not escape the scout's eyes. Ma Rui and Jian Cheng had already gathered their subordinates. Both of them frowned and stared at the slow cavalry in the morning mist. "This group of monkeys riding horses." Ma Rui spit out the grass stem from his mouth, "Give me the head skills." Without waiting for Jian Cheng to agree, he raised his big gun with one arm, and raised the tip of the gun diagonally upward. This was the military order of the front arrow formation. The war horse digged the soil under the hooves and ran gently. Ma Rui and his ten-person team formed the smallest arrow, followed closely by the other ninety cavalry.

Cavalry is the least needed cooperation and the most needed cooperation. The cavalry of Xia Kingdom, which has been tempered for thousands of times, is in the latter situation. The vanguard formation is the most compact, and the two cavalry adjacent to the left and right charge together. Everyone either holds long spears or horse lances, and the cavalry behind only follow the commands of the officers. Even if they are deeply involved in the melee of thousands of troops, there is a sea of ​​swords and fire in front of them, everyone only follows the secret codes of various military orders agreed in advance. When the speed gradually increases, the hundred cavalry move forward like an arrow. The soldiers remain silent, accompanied by heavy iron hooves, and only the armor of men and horses hanging on them clashing, telling people that this cavalry has the power of the hammer.
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