"It's okay!" Cai You shouted to his more than a hundred soldiers in the capital: "I dared to go to the mountains to hunt when I was ten years old. I went to the mine at the age of fifteen and couldn't see my five fingers. I never feared me from morning to night. When I saw Hu cavalry today, I was also afraid. The Donghu cavalry was fierce, brave, unparalleled in cavalry, cruel, and inhumane in killing. I have heard too much of these things! Your Highness, the King of Qin, has always sent people to preach, but Your Highness told us to be afraid of these human-shaped beasts?" Cai You raised his voice,

He said sternly: "Your Highness is asking us to remember that the land is not divided into north and south, and people are not divided into north and south. We are Chinese people, saying the same words and reading the same books, and the enemies we face are the same enemies. Those beasts in front of us, if you are afraid of them, they will kill us. Your Highness is asking us to lift up the sword in our hands and kill these bastards, so that they will never dare to offend the border again, or even kill them to their nests. Sooner or later, they will kill all these bastards one by one, without leaving any one!"

"No one left!"

"I just shrank my eggs, but I still said it's so relieved!"

"That's right, my blood is boiling all over my body now, I just want to kill you!"

On the front, under the orders of the two generals, military officers from all levels began to cheer up their subordinates. Not only military officers, but also those old soldiers who had been in the army for more than two years may not know how to read and do not want to study. Anyway, the old soldiers were transferred to sergeants and their salaries were not inferior to those of the officers, but the benefits were much weaker. These veterans had been with the army for many years and followed the Qin King to fight for many years. On such a battlefield, they remained calm and cooperated with the officers to constantly improve their morale.

When the enemy cavalry approached, the government army did not retreat timidly, and the shouts directly showed the courage and perseverance of the government soldiers.

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"All warships including Lingzhong No. 1, including the warships of Jieshuai, should be as far as possible to move forward."

Hearing the shouts and calls for war from the soldiers of the palace, although Xu Zixian's face was calm, the people who knew him knew that the prince was not calm, and could even be said to be extremely excited.

Wang Zhi had already issued an order, and at this time he was also urging him again.

For all warships, as long as they are equipped with crossbows, they will start to get as close to the seaside as possible.

More than a hundred warships and many crossbows will surely pose a serious threat to the cavalry.

But Xu Zixian knew that this threat was mostly psychological, not practical.

The effective range of single or double crossbows is no more than 500 steps, and the government troops on the shore are arranged in an array inside and outside, which means that the actual effect of these two types of bed crossbows is quite limited.

The Eight Niu Crossbow works, with a range of more than two miles, and is as thick as a man's arm, like a long arrow shot out. It is not difficult to penetrate the cavalry two or three miles away.

However, the Eight-Nuo Crossbow is quite rare. Wang Zhi's troops have no more than three. Xu Zixian's warships are from the court's classics and mechanisms. The original Nanyang Navy, the Eight-Nuo Crossbows are only more than ten.

This kind of crossbow takes dozens of people to control it, and it takes a quarter of an hour to fire it. The machine is complicated and difficult to control, which is already the limit.

When the Eight Niu Crossbow was fired, the movement was as loud as a mountain collapse and a tsunami. It was indeed a powerful threat to the enemy cavalry, but the firing time was too long and the interval was too long, so the effective killing was quite limited.

But no matter what, when more than a hundred warships opened their crossbows and pressed them to the sea, the soldiers of the government on the other side also had a strong support.

Xu Zi first stared at the shore, and the Donghu cavalry formation was getting closer and closer. The scattered Hu cavalry no longer chased and chopped the newly-run imperial guards, but consciously gathered at the place where the brigade of cavalry was.

At this time, at least tens of thousands of imperial guards remained in the forts and the long trenches. Just by clearing them, you have to hold the Donghu Brigade back for half a day... at most half a day.

The imperial guards have lost their combat power, regardless of their physical strength.

The will and equipment were almost discarded. More than 10,000 fled to the imperial guards, and a large number of military officers were among them, so more than a thousand people were prepared for war. There were quite a few of them, such as daggers and knives. Even if there were tens of thousands of people between the forts, they had no ability to resist. They just used their lives to hold the pace of the Donghu army forward. This was also considered that these soldiers had done their last power for their comrades.

Everyone understands this. Many Donghu soldiers look at the sky. It is almost noon. If they delay for another two hours, they can't fight this battle.

The one who led the troops was Wanyan Zongshu.

The situation in front of him was quite strange and complicated, which made him enter the pass twice, traveling thousands of miles in the north, and conquered a prefecture, three prefectures, and more than ten counties. Donghu Nayan, who had also fallen into a dilemma.

Wanyan Zongshu originally led the Palace Army to guard the forts. When the main force of the Great Wei Imperial Army broke through the siege and wanted to open the Jinzhou road, the main force of the Palace Army also went to the Changtuo of Jinzhou to fight with the main force of the Wei army. If this were not the case, I would probably not be able to withstand the half-crazy Wei army at that time. After the war, part of the Palace Army stationed in front of the Changtuo and part of the back guard the forts.

The Wei army's subsequent breakthrough was expected by the Khan. All the Donghu cavalry took off their heavy iron armor, replaced them with light armor, or even did not wear armor, because the Wei army was already a poor beast who was eager to return, and as long as they prepared their bows, horses and knives, they would be fine.

The development of the matter was as expected by the Khan. The Wei army reached the extreme and reached more than 100,000 people rushed from all directions. The trench three or four miles long was completely filled with the Wei army with dead branches and human corpses. Although many Donghu soldiers were physically sufficient, after the most rigorous training and practical tests, their arms were sore and weak in such a battle to break the siege, and they could not pull the bowstring at all.

Many Donghu soldiers shot all their arrows empty. Their standard configuration is two bags of arrows. In fact, many people carried four bags of arrows, dozens of arrows in each bag. After a day and night, more than 90% of the arrows were shot out. How many people were shot to death in each Donghu soldier and how many of the entire army were shot to death. Now it should be a mess, and no one could calculate it.

At this time, no one was beheaded and waiting to claim the merits. This was a complete victory. The Wei army was almost wiped out. The generals, including Li Guorui, Zhang Bangwen, Mai Jitong, and Li Youde, were either dead or captured, or trapped in Jinzhou City. Only one Yue Zhi seemed to break out with the escaped remaining troops, which made the senior officials of the Donghu.

In the eyes of the senior officials of Donghu, civil servant Li Guorui and others are stinky and hard, and do not directly lead the troops, so they can only die and be fully qualified. No matter how high the status of those civil servants are, they are of lower value. However, if generals who can lead the troops can be captured alive and surrendered, their harvest will be huge.

Whether the Han army generals surrendered alone or led their troops to surrender, the meaning is much greater than that of civil servants.

In the future, if the Donghu people enter the pass, it will be impossible for them to occupy the entire Great Wei with the main force of less than 200,000 people. Even if they add 200,000 Northern Barbarians, they will definitely not be able to do it.

The 23rd route of the Great Wei army, each with 10,000 or 20,000 troops stationed, and only a few hundred people stationed in each military prefecture. Based on the military strength, it is impossible to complete such an occupation without the Han generals of the Wei army and obtain the financial, material and manpower of the Great Wei army.

Compared with Li Guorui, Yue Zhi was awarded the title of Taiwei in this way, and he had a high prestige in the army and was a general from a high-ranking general. This is the most wanted to gain from the top leaders of Donghu.

Even if you let 10,000 or 20,000 people run away, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, but letting Yue Zhi run away will make Dahan extremely dissatisfied.

Capturing Yue Zhi and making him surrender is far more important than chasing the defeated soldiers in front of him. This is the reason why Wanyan Zongshu worked tirelessly and led his light cavalry to chase him relentlessly.

As for the appearance of the more than 3,000 infantry in front of him, it was completely beyond Wanyan Zongshu's expectations, and it also caused the pursuers to fall into a very embarrassing situation for a while.

The Wei army array in front of us is like a square array, with a cliff-staggered side and the one behind the left side

The remnants of the imperial guards are horns of each other, more than 300 steps apart. No matter which formation the light cavalry attacks, the other formation will attack the flanks or behind the Donghu soldiers within a few minutes, which will put the Donghu cavalry in a very embarrassing situation.

If the one who led the remaining soldiers was not Yue Zhi, Wanyan Zongshu could directly send 300 cavalry to break through the array of more than a thousand remaining soldiers, and even two hundred cavalry would be enough. The remaining cavalry would harass and rush on the two wings of the three thousand insurgent formation, looking for gaps and break the enemy with one blow.

However, the stair formation in front of you and the residual formation led by Yue Zhi at least looks like it has no gaps from the outside. Once you attack rashly, you will easily fall into front and back attacks, causing damage to the soldiers and generals.

With Wanyan Zongshu's status as a state of affairs, it was only a trivial matter to lose more than a thousand cavalry. Donghu killed at least 30,000 to 40,000 Hannu and his tribe, and at least 30,000 soldiers were killed in battle, and 20,000 to 30,000 were injured. Many people could not return to the battlefield.

The loss of more than a thousand people is only a little bit of a big fight. Small things are not worth mentioning at all.

But Wanyan Zongshu was considering his own face. So far, besides the Khan, the one who made the most contributions and won the most was Wanyan Zongshu. If he was defeated by the defeated soldiers at this moment, he would lose face and his prestige greatly. Just for Yue Zhi and the remaining soldiers in front of him, it would be really not worth the loss.

Besides, Wanyan Zongshu was also shocked by the situation at sea. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

"It was indeed the Southern Dynasty, and it was true that the Southern Han people were good at sailing boats." After standing up for a long time and watching the spectacular scenes on the sea, Wanyan Zongshu also exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

For the Donghu people living in dense forests, mountains and plains, they have not seen the sea. There are long coastlines in western Liaoning and southern Liaoning, and countless islands are connected to the coast. But now, there are not many people in Liaodong and western Liaoning, and there are only a few Han people. In addition, there are no Han people trading here in front of the front line, and there are no fishermen living here often.

In the eyes of the Donghu people, the sea is empty and deserted, especially in the long winter in Liaodong, the sea people see is even black, frozen, and a symbol of extreme cruelty. Even the brave Donghu soldiers will not like to sail into the sea. Their fear of the sea is in their bones. Not to mention going into the sea, it is difficult to even live on the seaside. The Donghu people have not developed it in the southern Liaoning Plain at all. Only a few people grazed and fished in southern Liaoning. Large areas of offshore areas are completely idle.

They only have fear and hatred for the sea, without any curiosity or love.

Even the scene in front of him only made Wanyan Zongshu draw a conclusion. He watched the small boats on the sea, and the big ships gradually approached, and a large number of bed crossbows aimed at the cavalry here. Some Donghu cavalry felt uneasy, and even the war horses felt a little. They sniffed and kept stepping on the ground with four hooves. Wanyan Zongshu said coldly: "If you have the Southern Dynasties in the future, you will move to the sea for fifty miles, and no one will be allowed to live near the sea, nor will you build a ship!"

A noble man smiled and said, "I heard that the Southern Dynasty had a profit of at least tens of millions of chunks of money a year, so we don't want it either?"

Wanyan Zongshu said: "The Khan had long considered this matter. He kept it for port trade, making raw silk, cloth, tea, porcelain, and other places, and sold it as usual. Foreigners came to buy taxes. This was easy to manage and profitable. These port cities could be made into big cities, which would facilitate us to collect taxes. Wouldn't it be better? In the Southern Dynasty, everyone could go out to sea, and they would do business, and the tax was not easy to collect, and they became a scattered sand. Some people even gathered at the sea, and they would not be able to lose their tails in the future, which would become a threat! It would be better to ban the sea and leave a few cities as port trade. Even trade, they could not do their own business. They had to be managed by the government, otherwise it would still be a scattered sand and could easily cause trouble."
Chapter completed!