There are indeed 10,000 people in Mada, and most of them are Khitans. Nuzhi 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 would not be able to make any trouble at all.
But the reality is that Ma Da's ten thousand people are simply not enough to suppress the entire city of Luoyang.
Because they not only had to protect Luoyang City, but also Heyang, which later became 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 Han people to govern.
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 and silver? The beautiful woman 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, and the Khitan people probably 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 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 frame on the north bank of the Yellow River to the sandbar, and then from the sandbar frame 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, 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 completely defeated.
So Ma Da divided the Luoyang Liao army, 1,500 men each, to station 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 Khitan people change their defenses. According to regulations, the soldiers and horses in the city need to arrive at the two cities of Zhongli and Heyang 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.
After leaving the city with 6,000 soldiers and horses, there were only 4,000 people left 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 defensive change.
Zhao Hui, Zhao Yanjin, and Zhao Kuangyin discussed it, and all the Luoyang people took advantage of the Khitan's change of defense to suddenly start an uprising.
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 surveillance 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 first quarter 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 came 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 cup of wine when he got up early. At this moment, he was a little tipsy and looked at the sky in surprise.
Isn’t it already past the time of Chen? 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 suddenly hit Mada on the head.
Ma Da was caught off guard and was hit by a hard lamb leg bone. With a crisp thud, Ma Da stumbled a few times, feeling dizzy.
Well... if you eat a roasted leg of lamb, you won't be wearing a bag, so I 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 beside him, and he was punched and kicked until the cook vomited.
Blood.
Ma Da came to his senses and rushed forward in great anger.
"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 so-and-so? So-and-so will kill you first!" Mada, in a rage, held a long knife and plunged it into the cook's heart.
However, the pain in the cook's eyes was mixed with a hint of joy. When his head woke up from his drowsiness, Ma Da felt a chill all over his body and he screamed wildly.
"No! The Han'ers are going to cause trouble!"
Ma Da is right. The people of Luoyang are about to revolt. These Khitan people have made it impossible for everyone to live, 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 from houses, wine shops, and shops with sticks, wooden boards, broken knives, guns, and farm tools.
Everyone tied a cloth on their head 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 blow. Then the people around him swarmed him and beat him to a pulp.
A group of ten Khitan cavalrymen in the west of the city had just patrolled a street when stones and sticks fell from the sky.
The Khitan cavalry was so stunned that they were stunned. Before they could react, they were surrounded by people swarming in.
They did not shy away from 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 gone.
A wealthy businessman in the south of the city had his mansion occupied by the Khitans, and his wife and daughter were also occupied. He would have been worse off lying on the street waiting to die.
But now it was as if he suddenly came back to life. 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 revolted 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.
Amidst the howls of "Kill the thieves! Kill the thieves!", 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 city-wide riots, amidst the never-ending ringing of 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 guys clearly used the sound of Buddhist temple bells as a signal for their rebellion. 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 whole army to go west and kill the Zhang thief, but it's a pity that the emperor didn't listen."
The face of the young general beside him lost all color, 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 Zhang thief is the vanguard, 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 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 Zhao Yanjin and Zhao Kuangyin were by his side, so 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, 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 already 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 sharply.
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 men in Luoyang City, and among them can be regarded as tooth soldiers, a total of only 600 to 700 men.
Facing the mass 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 on their bodies and were more likely to be killed in the face of arrows.
In fact, even the Heyang Army did not have much armor, because most of it was taken away by the elite soldiers who went out, and the rest was stored in the arsenal. After the Khitan people entered the city, most of them were confiscated.
The armors they have now are inherited from each military academy, and few soldiers have armor.
Amidst the rain of arrows, the Xiren infantry quickly cut off the Heyang Army and the 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 lightly, 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 such a 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 his saber more arrogantly. As long as he took twenty more steps, the Han'er in front of him would be dead and disfigured.
The crossbowmen of the Heyang Army fired arrows with all their might, 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 Khitan people 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 seemed to be timid suddenly burst out.
They drew their long spears and long horizontal knives, and to the surprise of the Khitan people, 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 I blocked, and you blocked and I stabbed. Their coordination was extremely perfect, and 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 turned out that these were not ordinary people at all, but warrior monks from various temples and the best of the city's fox community rats. They were all very courageous people who practiced martial arts all year round.
There were more than 1,500 people in this charge. After Zhao Kuangyin and the three men 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 were holding large gongs with iron sheets on both ends, 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 a blow from the stick would break either the horse's leg or the knight's calf, causing the knight to scream in pain and the war horse to moan.
What the cavalry wanted was speed. As soon as their speed slowed down, the Luoyang people 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 he wins this battle, 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 quickly 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 were instantly plunged into a sea of tens of thousands of people. The entire Luoyang people, army and people were united, and no one backed down. The Khitans soon became unable to 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.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Ma Da raised his head and 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 at his crotch. His men and horses looked like dragons, 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 approaching as far as the eye could see.
The people of Luoyang moved out of the way one after another, cheering loudly.
"The army of King Yong has arrived! The army of King Yong has arrived!"
Ma Da shook twice, waved his hand in despair, turned around and ran towards the imperial city. The Yong Kingdom's cavalry came too fast, and he didn't know if he could still hold on.
....
Murong Nobunaga did not enter the city. He personally led two thousand cavalry and headed straight for 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 and galloped 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 Gao Song 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 hundred Tuyuhunjing cavalry dispersed toward the opposite side like stars in the sky.
The Khitan cavalry on the opposite side were similar, with three to five cavalry forming a fighting group and coming over as if they were thousands of troops.
The iconic Hexi cloth face armor, the very recognizable double-layer 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 smoke powder from the pear blossom gun, and sprayed it towards the opposite side with a pop.
Of course, no one can be sprayed. This is 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, and they disperse their cavalry and shoot. The valiant cavalry is wearing armor and moving with the flag of a certain commander."
The Yong cavalry now calls half-armored cavalry valiant cavalry, and light cavalry wearing only a small amount of armor on their chests 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 an agricultural, semi-fishing and hunting people. They are not very familiar with the cavalry tactics commonly used by this grassland people.
Moreover, the grassland cavalry that Takamatsu destroyed before were completely incomparable to the two thousand cavalry under Murong Nobunaga's command.
Because the equipment of Murong Nobunaga's fifty cavalry is better than the equipment of one thousand prairie cavalry, and the 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 Hanshandu and the Yulin Guards on the left and right were equipped with horned crossbows.
In cavalry duels, their common tactics are 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 Takamatsu'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 target the enemy. Gray refers to the color. The robe does not refer to the robe, but refers 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 when shooting the horn bow crossbow, five riders will aim at one enemy rider to ensure accurate killing.
Amidst the sound of crossbows firing, 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 bow and arrow, Zhang Xibao and others had already put on their horses.
Bowed.
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.
Upon hearing the call, the light cavalry 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 and motionless bodies struggling all over the ground, it was as if no battle had broken out just now.
At this time, the cavalry with such obedience and discipline were the best among the best, 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 1.5 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 two horses' width.
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, on the other hand, brushed past the enemy formation like an iron brush. 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 and 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. Together with the arrows from the light cavalry on the left and right, the surroundings of the Yong cavalry were covered like dark clouds.
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, ran headlong into the Khitan cavalry formation.
The Khitan cavalry, whose formation was somewhat 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's attack was successful, the horned crossbows from the back row immediately shot towards 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's horses screamed 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, and the Yong cavalry, numbering a hundred people in a combat unit, shuttled back and forth among the Khitan cavalry formations.
Gao Song tried several times to regroup his troops, but was unable to do so. He could only raise the flag of his commander 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.
Had it not been for the Khitans having a thousand more cavalry than them this time, and the elites of the Pishi army coming, 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 him. 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 cavalry on the opposite side, as well as a large number of crossbows. If you are fighting against the city, you need to be both 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.