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Chapter nine hundred and thirteenth sea ambush

"The Liao army in the city began to gather to the south of the city?" Wu Qimai had just dealt with the internal conflicts, but he got the news that surprised him a little. This was obviously a sign that the Liao army was about to break through. However, if this was put a few days ago, it would be very normal. However, the Liao army broke through repeatedly in the past few days and was beaten back by himself. In the past few days, the Liao army no longer dared to break through again, so the Liao army's movements today seemed a bit abnormal in his opinion.

"Wu Qimai, what are you waiting for? The Liao army is about to come out from the south of the city. Let's send troops quickly!" At this time, the Wugutu shouted loudly. Although he did not agree with the alliance with Wanyan's army before, since he sent troops and besieged the prince of Liao Kingdom in the city, they had no way back. Moreover, in his eyes, Yelu Yanxi was a warehouse of active materials. As long as he could catch him, he could exchange countless materials from Liao Kingdom.

"No, the port in the south of the city has been destroyed by us, and the ships have been burned to ashes. They killed them and re-occupied the port, and they could not evacuate from there. The Liao army's several breakthroughs before were either from the north or from the west, but they never broke through from the south!" At this time, Wu Qimai said with some doubts again. Although there was no evidence, he felt that the Liao army's breakthrough seemed a bit abnormal.

However, just as Wu Qimai finished speaking, another spy riding horse rushed over. When he saw Wu Qimai, he immediately threw his saddle off his horse and shouted: "General, the defenders of Kaizhou City have opened the southern city gate and started fighting with our brothers who were staying in the port. In addition, there were also many ships on the sea in the south of the city. It seemed that they were preparing to take the Liao army away!"

"So that's it. It seems that the Liao army in the city has received the news that they are about to escape from the sea. We must not let them leave!" Wu Gutu shouted loudly again at this time. His words were also approved by most of the Jurchens, and they shouted that they would capture Yelu Yanxi alive.

When Wu Qimai heard that there was a ship on the sea to pick up the Liao army, he immediately understood why the Liao army broke through from the south of the city, but he still had a little doubt in his heart. He always felt something was wrong with this matter, but now the military situation is urgent. He only left a five hundred troops in the south of the city to guard the port, and he had already fought with the Liao army several times more than that. If he didn't go, he would have to watch the five hundred people being wiped out by the Liao army, and then calmly boarded the boat and fled.

"Send troops!" Thinking of the above, Wu Qimai finally issued an order. With his order, the soldiers in the camp immediately prepared. Their main force had 2,000 troops, all stationed in the west of the city. There were 500 people in the south and north of the city. The 500 people in the north of the city must not be moved. In addition, there must be 500 people left to prevent the people in the city from coming out, so Wu Qimai ordered 1,500 people to kill the south of the city.

When Wu Qimai led his troops to the south of the city, he saw the city gate open wide, and teams of Liao troops rushed out of the city gate. Although the five hundred Jurchens stationed on the wharf were insufficient, they were not showing any weakness. With their amazing riding skills, they galloped across the battlefield. Although the Liao army's cavalry wanted to entangle them several times, they were often thrown away by the Jurchens. For a moment, the Liao army had no choice but to do anything to them, but were led by the Jurchens.

However, as more and more Liao troops emerged from the city, the space for Jurchen cavalry to move was getting smaller and smaller. If there were no reinforcements, the 500 Jurchen cavalry in the end would only fall into a heavy siege. Although it might cause considerable casualties to the Liao army in the end, it would be difficult for them to escape the fate of destruction.

Seeing this situation, Wu Qimai immediately roared and rushed out of the Liao army with one horse. The 1,500 Jurchen cavalry behind him were also closely followed, killing towards the Liao army like an extremely sharp sword.

Although the Jurchens were behind in equipment, most of them did not even have leather armor and their weapons were not unified, their equestrian skills were extremely brave, and their archery skills were extremely exquisite. These were all their skills that were tempered by the mountains and had even become their survival instinct. Therefore, they were almost born warriors, and they could exert amazing strength on the battlefield.

In contrast, although the Liao army was also a nomadic people, after so many years of assimilation, they had long lost the blood and ability left to them by their ancestors. In addition, the Liao army's domestic politics in recent years was greatly affected, especially after Yelu Ren died first, the Liao army's military was relaxed and its combat effectiveness dropped rapidly. Therefore, when they faced the fierce Jurchen people, they almost revealed their true colors as soon as they came into contact. In the blink of an eye, Wu Qimai's cavalry broke out a bloody path and successfully joined forces with the left-behind Jurchen cavalry.

If it were in the past, the Liao army would immediately retreat to the city after seeing the arrival of the Jurchen reinforcements, because although their own side had the advantage of military strength, they were not the opponent of the Jurchens at all. However, the Liao army's reaction this time was a bit abnormal. After seeing Wu Qimai's reinforcements, they not only did not retreat, but instead accelerated the speed of sending troops. There are now three or four thousand people outside the city. It seems that the Liao army wants to use all its forces on the battlefield in the south of the city.

While commanding his cavalry to strangle the Liao army, Wu Qimai turned his head to look at the sea. Sure enough, a fleet was slowly sailing on the blue sea. Now it was only one or two miles away from the port. Wu Qimai could see these tall ships very clearly. Although Wu Qimai did not know how to use sea ships, he could also tell that these ships were all civilian ships because he did not see weapons on the ship.

"It seems that these ships are just ships temporarily recruited by the Liao army, in order to rescue Yelu Yanxi." Wu Qimai said to himself as he looked at the civilian ships on the sea. He was a little suspicious at first, but seeing that the Liao army desperately wanted to capture the dock, the ship behind him was not abnormal, which made the little suspicion in his heart finally dispelled.

But what Wu Qimai didn't know was that just a few miles behind the civilian ships he was watching, a large Song fleet armed to his teeth was slowly coming. When they arrived, they had already calculated the location. The civilian ships in front could just block their warships, so that the Jurchens on the dock could not find them for the time being. Now they are waiting for the Liao army to finish the play on the dock.

As time went by, although more and more Liao troops were pouring out of the city, the situation on the battlefield was even more unfavorable to the Liao army. Especially under the command of Wu Qimai, the Jurchen cavalry was like tigers entering a flock of sheep, dividing the Liao army into several sections, and causing considerable casualties to the Liao army. In this case, it was almost impossible for the Liao army to regain the wharf.

In this unfavorable situation, the Liao army seemed to have finally realized the situation. With the sound of the buzzard of withdrawing troops, the Liao army outside the city finally began to slowly withdraw its troops. Taking this opportunity, Wu Qimai once again commanded the army to cover up from behind, and as a result, it caused considerable casualties to the Jurchens again, and the battlefield was full of dead bodies of the Liao army.

However, when Wu Qimai saw the Liao army lying everywhere on the battlefield, he couldn't help but sneer, but he did not take advantage of the opportunity to enter the city, because he still needed to use Yelu Yanxi to attract the Liao Dynasty to send reinforcements so that his brother could ambush the other party halfway, so now is not the time to break through Kaizhou City.

As the Liao army retreated to the city, Wu Qimai immediately turned his head and looked at the ships on the sea. He saw that the other party was getting closer again, only a few hundred steps away from them. It was estimated that the people on the ship also knew that the Jurchens had no ships, so they could not threaten them at all. He approached so boldly, but as the Liao army retreated to the city, the ships were also slowly retreating.

Seeing the ships that were slowly retreating, Wu Qimai's face once again showed a smug smile. Even if they had no ships, what would be the final decision on the victory or defeat was the war on land. As long as they did not allow Yelu Yanxi to break out of the city, these ships that were connected were of no use at all.

However, just as the smile on Wu Qimai's face had not disappeared, they suddenly saw the retreating ships suddenly accelerated and their courses changed. Some of the ships were to the left, while the other ships were to the right, which seemed to be struck by two big hands, and at the same time, they finally revealed the hideous battleships behind them.

"No, there is an ambush, retreat quickly!" Seeing the hideous warships on the sea, Wu Qimai immediately shook his whole body, and immediately roared and ordered the entire army to retreat, be sure to leave the dock.

Unfortunately, it was too late. The reason why the Liao army broke out from the south of the city was to lead them to the dock. Moreover, with the retreat of the Liao army, many corpses and weapons of the Liao army were left on the battlefield. These weapons and the armor on the corpses were rare trophy for the Jurchens, so the Jurchens in the western part of the sea, such as Wugutu, have begun to clean the battlefield, hoping to find some handy weapons for themselves.

It is precisely because of this that although Wu Qimai's order was conveyed, the Jurchens' actions were no longer as fast as before. However, the Song Dynasty warships on the sea had been prepared for a long time. They slowly approached the land while the Jurchens were fighting, and now the entire dock was within their range.

"Fire!" With the order of General Zhou on the flagship, the artillery and crossbows on the flagship were the first to fire, and then other warships also fired one after another. With the roar of "boom boom boom~", shells flew to the dock one after another. Some shells hit the ground and bounced out of a flesh-and-blood road among the Jurchens. This must be solid artillery shells. Some shells will explode when they fall to the ground, causing the surrounding Jurchens to fly across the flesh and blood. These are the flowering bullets of the crossbows. For a time, the entire dock was shrouded in terrifying smoke and fire. The screams and the neighing sound of the war horses were connected, just like a purgatory on earth. (To be continued.)
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