Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." Suddenly, the city was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky. Starting from the gate of the city, many places exploded on the avenue, and flames and thick smoke rushed up!

Gravel and clods of soil splashed in all directions, injuring a few Khitan cavalry nearby. A heat wave quickly spread to both sides, and the hot wind mixed with thick smoke blew away. All of a sudden, people and horses were frightened, and the horse ran away in fright. The gunpowder was buried too shallow in a hurry, and the explosive power was very limited, but the gunpowder smoke was unbearable. With the heat wave, it poured fiercely into all the gaps in the streets and alleys.

The entire avenue near the city gate seemed to be suddenly fogged, and the clouds in the sky fell down. It makes people and horses in the gunpowder unable to distinguish things.

At this moment, the sound of drums on both sides suddenly sounded, followed by the sound of heavy and orderly footsteps. It seemed that countless infantry teams rushed up. There were also loud killing sounds all around, the bowstring "cracked", arrows flew randomly in the thick smoke, and there were screams.

After the explosion sounded, there was an instant chaos in the city!

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Just entering the south gate of Zhuozhou, brother Xi, a Liao general who was close to the city gate, heard footsteps and saw that there was thick smoke everywhere again;

Suddenly, someone shouted loudly in Khitan language: "It's not good, we've been ambushed, the king told us to run quickly! It's not good..."

People everywhere gave orders like this, and the smoke was so thick that it was hard to see who was shouting. The group of people shouted while riding horses, and the shouts roared past. The Liao soldiers and horses walking around were in a dilemma, and were shrouded in gunpowder smoke. After a while, they were in a mess.

"Kill! Kill..." Shouts of killing sounded from all around, the sound of clanging, clanging, clanging metal and people's screams of pain mixed together, and the rioting soldiers all around started fighting.

Brother Xi wandered around the city for less than two sticks of incense, most of his subordinates had already dispersed, and they didn't know where they rushed. At this time, the gunpowder smoke was blown slightly by the wind, and he led the army to turn around and head towards the gate of the city.

As soon as he approached the south gate, he suddenly saw a large black and vertical square formation of Zhou army infantry standing there, motionless.

Brother Xi wants to order the heavy cavalry to rush out of the city, but where are the heavy cavalry in groups at this time? The cavalry and soldiers from all the ministries were mixed together, and the soldiers would not be able to find their own leader, so they had to follow Xi Ge's large group of troops.

"Kill!" Brother Xi shouted.

Regardless of the formation, the Liao cavalry in front rode their horses up one after another, and the ones in front drew their bows and set up arrows, ready to shoot when they rushed in.

A Zhou army general pulled out his sword with a "shua", raised it, and shouted: "Let the arrows!" The light soldiers of the Zhou army in the front row raised their bows and arrows in unison with the movement of raising their swords, "Papa..." A burst of arrows shot flat at a distance of about twenty steps, and heavy arrows shot flat at close range.

"Fire the arrow!" The general of the Zhou army pointed his sword forward again. The front row squatted down, and the back row fired again.

After two rounds, the Liao army turned their horses around and stopped charging forward. At this time, the bowstrings in the Zhou army camp sounded more intensively, and there was a "crackling" sound. Countless black spots were thrown into the air, gliding in mid-air, and suddenly accelerated and fell obliquely to the ground, like a torrential rain. Some arrows missed and fell on the tiled roof of the house, "clinking" through the roof, like hail.

Liao soldiers and horses swung their swords and danced wildly above their heads, as if they were trying to drive away flies and insects, and from time to time people fell off their horses with painful screams. Amidst the spread of gunpowder smoke, arrows are like locusts, this is really the most unbearable place.

Suddenly, there was a "bang" gong at the gate of the city, "Boom, boom, boom..." The snare drum started beating hurriedly. Immediately, a tiger square flag in front of the army fell forward and lay flat on the flanks. "Kill, kill!" the army shouted, and the infantry took up their knives and guns and marched forward slowly.

Seeing this, Brother Xi hurriedly turned his horse's head and headed north again. The other cavalry have lost their orders to go up and down, and just follow wherever there are more cavalry.

This group of Liao troops has been stationed in Youzhou area all year round, and they also know the city where Han'er lived, so they rushed eastward to look for other city gates. They don't take the alleys on horseback, but only take the streets to facilitate mobility; the streets on the east and south sides of the city are full of Liao cavalry.

Brother Xi and other large groups of people rushed to a street to the east, only to see rioting soldiers.

A Khitan general in the front rushed forward without saying a word, and the followers behind followed suit. Seeing this, the messy and out-of-line Zhou army infantry turned around and ran away.

"Ya Wei..." The Khitan general in front gave a strange cry, he caught up with a pawn with an iron bone in his hand, and smashed it deftly. With a loud "bang", it hit the helmet of the Zhou army pawn, and the pawn jumped forward.

The general killed one man, but his mount was slower; the Liao cavalry next to him had already passed by, and charged at the back of a running Zhou soldier with a spear. The pawn looked back as he ran, but seeing Liao Qi getting closer, he raised his head and screamed, using all his strength to gallop. But after a while, Liao Qi had already caught up, raised his spear and stabbed it sideways, deep into the soldier's back.

There were still a few soldiers of the Zhou army around, and they wanted to surround Liao and dismount from his horse when they saw this, but immediately heard the sound of "cracking", and the cavalry of the Liao army who followed rode up and shot, drew their knives and rushed up, condescending and slashing wildly.

Zhou Jun's infantry scattered in a rush, and fled towards the alley. Two men broke open a door and fled into the house. Liao army cavalry wrapped pine branches in oilcloth, lit them on a kindling, and threw several torches on the roof.

The riders rushed all the way and ran across two wide streets, but saw a canal in front of them, and the street extended past a stone arch bridge over the canal. It's a pity that there are at least a hundred people forming a phalanx in front of the stone arch bridge, and the cherry guns are densely packed together like a forest.

Liao cavalry rushed to them and shot arrows on their horses. The Zhou army also fought back with bows and crossbows. Brother Xi had already rode his horse to the front, looking back to the left and right, he shouted: "Kill|kill that group of people!"

The general asked for a battle, and soon led his own soldiers up, braving arrows and rushing to the front of the battle. The Zhou army's light soldiers who were shooting arrows in front fled to the two sides, and a group of men and horses behind immediately took up long spears more than ten feet long and formed a dense formation to stand in line.

The Liao cavalry in the front rushed forward, hastily reined in the horse, let out a hiss, raised its front hooves high, and fell heavily. Immediately, a few long spears came over and stuck in the horse's chest. The horse turned around in pain and galloped. The Liao cavalry was so good at riding that he followed the bumping force of the horse on the horse's back and did not fall off as if stuck. But the horse knelt down on its front hooves before running a few steps, and the Liao cavalrymen rolled and fell off the horse, and when they arrived in front of the Zhou army's formation, they immediately saw blood mist rising, screaming and hissing their lungs.

All the Liao riders dared not go up in front of the formation, and shot with bows and arrows. Arrows flew wildly.

At this moment, another group of Liao army cavalry rushed from the street next to it, rushing towards the flank of the Zhou army camp. There was a clanging sound, the Zhou army's formation of hundreds of people was torn apart, and the Liao cavalry in front immediately charged and attacked again. Shaoqing's Zhou army collapsed, and the strength immediately reversed. The infantry fled to the bridge one after another, and many people were squeezed into the ditch.

The rebel soldiers in the ditch were all filthy and walked towards the opposite side. The water is not deep, the deepest part is chest high, but it is very dirty. It seems to be a canal for flood discharge. A lot of dirt has been thrown into it, and it is only washed away from the city when it rains heavily.

The Liao army chased to the arch bridge, but saw more Zhou army infantry phalanxes on the other side waiting in formation, layer upon layer, and the depth was very deep. This battle simply makes people have no desire to attack at all.

Brother Xi went to the bridge with the army and took a look at the situation on the other side. Look at the canal in front of you again. The water in this canal is not deep, but the trench is very deep. It may be difficult for the cavalry to get up after going down... Fortunately, it is not wide.

Brother Xi immediately shouted: "Xilie! Get out of here and see where there is a bridge. Otherwise, demolish the house and find another place to build a bridge!"

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The Liao army on all sides fought independently, and it was almost impossible to tell who was whose. It seems that there are Liao cavalry everywhere, and it seems that Zhou Jun is everywhere, and there is no way to contact them at all.

The people sent out basically couldn't find the right place, and were ambushed along the way. There is also the Haner from Youzhou who can speak the Khitan dialect, taking advantage of the chaos to spread false news... Some generals of the Liao army wanted to follow Shangfeng's orders and ran in the direction of the order, but they would usually collide with their own people. The army was dizzy.

There are still a large number of Liao cavalry surging along the north-south main road; however, a large group of Zhou army infantry in the direction of the south gate is advancing along the way.

Liao Qi was attacked from the front and back, and a large group of people rushed northward, and they had already attacked outside the fence of Zhou Jun's camp. I saw that there were many banners and tents in the camp of the Chinese army, but there were not many people outside, and they had withdrawn a long time ago.

At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" sound of firecrackers and drums. Then the hooves of the horses in front sounded in pieces.

After Zhou's army and horse soldiers retreated to the north of the city, they gathered a part of them and came out to counterattack.

The leading young general was Dong Zunxun. He was wearing double-layer heavy armor, wrapped like iron rice dumplings, and he was sitting on a pure-blooded giant horse, leading the army to rush forward. Dong Zunxun was wearing heavy armor, but his movements were still very flexible. He opened his bow and shot, "pa...pa" sounded twice, and two Liao riders who were more than 20 steps away fell off their horses one after another.

The two armies were already approaching, but the Liao army was shot but did not fight back with bows and arrows, but immediately raised long and short weapons to pat the horse and speed up, seizing the opportunity to gain momentum.

Sure enough, after a while, Zhou Jun's cavalry had rushed to the front, and Dong Zunxun threw away the expensive carved bow in his hand and drew his sword from his back. Immediately, the long knife could only be easily pulled out from the back. With a "clang", sparks flew when the weapon hit.

The soldiers around him also rushed up, and the two sides passed by alternately like electric cars. A Zhou army knight directly stabbed the Khitan cavalry's abdomen with a cherry spear, and immediately gave up the cherry spear, but another iron bone roared towards him, and he had no time to dodge, and was hit in the face, and immediately screamed "ah". An iron lump like a large garlic head hit his nose, and blood splashed immediately.

The horsemen on the street slashed wildly for a moment, trampling the flesh and blood on the ground like mud with their iron hooves.