The lights in the big tent were bright, and Dou Jiande was pacing back and forth in the women's camp with his hands behind his back. He was excitedly waiting for the news from the Youzhou Army. Only then did he have to admire Kong Desao's original plan.

From Luo Yina

In order to get some soldiers, he sent 300 soldiers to infiltrate the new recruits of the Youzhou Army. However, he did not expect that this small arrangement would eventually become the key to reversing the situation of the war. As long as Luo Yi's reinforcements were defeated, he could be independent.

Facing the Sui army.

At this time, Dou Jiande's heart became eager again. He originally planned to get rid of one of them before retreating calmly, but now it seems that he might still be able to fight the Sui army. The Sui army has 50,000 people, and he has 50,000 soldiers.

100,000 people. If you add Luo Yi's surrendered army, there will be at least 120,000 troops. He may not lose. If he can defeat the Sui army in this battle, then the entire land of Hebei will belong to him.

This is also a weakness of Dou Jiande. He is relatively emotional and is easily dazzled by short-term victories. At this time, he forgot the disastrous defeat in Hanoi County.

At this moment, an urgent report came from the soldiers outside the tent, "Reporting to the prince, the patrol has discovered the enemy's situation. Tens of thousands of enemy troops are approaching us!"

"Ah!" Dou Jiande exclaimed and took a step back. The news was like a bucket of cold water poured on him. He only stood there for a moment and then immediately rushed out of the tent.

Dou Jiande had realized a serious problem. The Sui army would not give him time to prepare at all. Perhaps the Sui army had already been prepared. Just when he attacked Luo Yi, the Sui army had already arrived at the city.

Dou Jiande ran out of the tent, got on his horse, drew his sword and rushed north.

"Pass my order to quickly mobilize 10,000 crossbowmen to defend the northern camp!"

The camp of 100,000 troops was too large. Only 10,000 crossbowmen could not cope with the Sui army's attack. Dou Jiande issued two orders in succession, and mobilized 30,000 infantrymen to participate in the defense. All vehicles were mobilized to the northern camp to seal it.

Block the camp fence to form a second line of defense against spots

Groups of soldiers were running around the camp. The soldiers did not rest. They were fully armed and waiting for orders. They deployed quickly, waiting for the war to come.

Soldiers holding bows and crossbows were standing in front of the camp fence, nervously watching the Sui army approaching in the distance, tens of thousands of torches illuminating the camp like daylight.

Dou Jiande immediately stood next to the camp gate and watched the Sui army getting closer and closer. This time it was completely different from the harassing attacks of the past few days. The Sui army had already pressed forward across the board. Dou Jiande's palms were filled with sweat. He felt it.

The murderous aura emitted by the Sui army in the dark night reminded him of what he had experienced in Hanoi County. It was also night, and the Sui army's amazing night fighting ability was still fresh in his memory.

Dou Jiande suddenly heard a "click!" sound. He turned his head and looked to the side strangely. He found that the legs of the crossbowmen around him were trembling. This click sound was actually the sound of their teeth.

Fight.

He felt something bad in his heart, and turned back to look at the soldiers. Behind him stood thousands of spearmen, standing in formation, preparing to fight against the Sui army's cavalry. Dou Jiande could not see the kind of decisive battle among these spearmen.

They were so tragic and heroic, and could not see the excitement of the coming war, nor could they see the murderous aura in them, but only saw their cowering and trembling, and the unconcealable fear in their eyes.

Dou Jiande sighed secretly in his heart. With morale so low, this war would probably be a disaster.

…

Yang Yuanqing personally led an army of 40,000 people and stopped one mile away from Dou Jiande's North Camp. He had studied the camp carefully. There were eight gates in total, and a deep trench was dug outside the camp fence. But Yang Yuanqing felt lucky.

Yes,

Dou Jiande only scattered a piece of caltrops sparsely outside Beida Camp, but there were no caltrops on the other three sides. This shows that Dou Jiande did not want to scatter caltrops, but he no longer had any. His caltrops were scattered around Zhuoxian City.

Yang Yuanqing stared at the camp for a long time, turned around and smiled at Xie Yingden: "What do you think is the biggest weakness of Dou Jiande's army?"

Xie Yingdeng thought for a while and said: "Biji believes that the biggest weakness of his army is that it is large in quantity but poor in quality."

Yang Yuanqing nodded and smiled: "It's scary to think that Dou Jiande has an army of 400,000, which is more than three times ours. But if you think about it carefully, you will find the problem. How can he have such strong financial resources?

To equip an army of 400,000? Attack

The military resources left over from the battle against Goryeo are all in Youzhou and in the hands of Luo Yi, so although he has a hundred thousand troops, his equipment is far inferior to ours, especially the crossbows that are difficult to make. He cannot be powerful.

Crossbowmen, General Xie, do you understand what I mean?"

Xie Yingden thought for a moment and immediately understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, "The manager is saying that the opponent's camp is too big and it is impossible for the opponent to have so many crossbowmen for defense. There will definitely be loopholes in the defense."

"Or maybe they don't have that many powerful crossbows."

Xie Yingdeng immediately became excited, "I am willing to lead six thousand cavalry to find loopholes in the enemy's defense.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "Six thousand lead cavalry alone is not enough. I will give five thousand fine cavalry to break through the enemy's camp as soon as possible."

"As you command!"

Xie Yingdeng took the command arrow and turned the horse's head away. Yang Yuanqing then took out another command arrow and said to the sub-general Yang Jiachen: "You can lead five thousand fine cavalry to cooperate with General Xie in attacking the camp and obey his command.

"I understand the humble position."

Yang Jiachen took the order arrow and turned around and left. Two cavalry groups of more than 10,000 people continued to gallop south in the dark night. Yang Yuanqing watched them go away and resolutely ordered: "Beat the drums and heavy crossbowmen attack the camp!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" The passionate drum beat in the dark night. Three thousand heavy crossbow infantry quickly formed a square formation 180 steps away. This distance not only avoided the iron caltrops on the ground, but also

It is also a shooting range that the opponent's crossbow cannot reach.

Although the seven-stone yellow crossbow was invented in the Han Dynasty, it was destined to be scarce from the day it was invented. Its production cost was extremely high and it required excellent craftsmen to make it. The technology requirements were quite high. Sui Jun

invested a lot

It took a year of manpower and material resources to produce 1,500 seven-stone large yellow crossbows. They were used by 3,000 tall crossbowmen. They were used for positioning and shooting. They had great lethality, but Dou Jiande was unable to make them.

Such a lethal weapon.

Three thousand heavy crossbowmen were arranged in two rows, two for each crossbow. They stepped on the crossbow with their feet, pulled the string with all four arms at the same time, and the bowstring was buckled.

Four-inch-long iron arrows were put into the arrow trough, and fifteen hundred crossbows were aimed at the camp fence in the distance that was brightly illuminated by torches.

At this time, the enemy camp had discovered the Sui army's intention, and immediately fired thousands of arrows. The sky became darker, and overwhelming arrows were shot at the Sui army. However, whether it was a bow with a range of 100 steps or a bow with a range of 150 steps.

Even the crossbow arrows with a long range could not hurt the heavy crossbow Sui army.

With the sound of a clapper and the click of a crossbow machine, 1,500 iron arrows shot towards the enemy camp like a storm. Many iron arrows hit the camp fence, but there were still hundreds of iron arrows.

Passed through the gap in the fence, shot through the chest or head behind the camp fence, the blood burst out, and continued to shoot at the pikemen behind, and screams rang out in the enemy camp.

Dou Jiande was standing behind the camp fence. An iron arrow shot past his leg and hit his horse. The horse neighed and fell to the ground, slamming him to the ground. More than a dozen soldiers swarmed up and lifted him up.

Run towards the back.

The powerful heavy crossbow arrows of the Sui army frightened the defenders, and they retreated like a tide, leaving only five thousand swordsmen and shield soldiers holding huge shields.

At this time, the heavy crossbow soldiers began to cock the crossbow for the second time, and another 1,500 iron arrows roared towards the enemy camp. It takes a lot of physical strength to cock the crossbow. Two heavy Cantonese soldiers can shoot fifteen arrows.

, although the number is not large, the time it delays is enough.

Yang Yuanqing has been watching the performance of Dou Jiande's soldiers in the camp. He will discover the morale of Dou Jiande's army in some details. After the first round of iron arrows are fired, the powerful lethality of this crossbow arrow will inevitably cause a commotion among the soldiers. This is very

Normally, even the Sui army would have a brief commotion. The key is the behavior after the commotion. The Sui army would retreat slowly and never panic.

But what Yang Yuanqing saw at this time was a crowd of soldiers running in panic. This was a typical manifestation of lack of training. Seeing this detail, Yang Yuanqing found that he still looked up to Dou Jiande. Dou Jiande probably knew it himself, so he had

Four hundred thousand soldiers, victory by numbers,

It's a pity that he didn't bring 400,000 today, but only 100,000. But even these 100,000 are not all in the military camp. Blocking the gate of Zhuo County cost 10,000, and attacking Luo Yi Camp cost another 10,000.

There are only 80,000 soldiers in the military camp. How can these 80,000 troops compete with the 40,000 elite Sui troops?

Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing became impatient and turned back to look in the direction of Nan Daying.

…

Xie Yingden was not in the South Camp at this time, but in the East Camp. He eventually found that the equipment in the East Camp was the worst. Many soldiers did not even have leather armor, wore commoners, and carried inferior swords and guns. They also had bows and arrows, but they had the most bows and arrows.

It could only shoot 30 to 40 steps, or even only 20 steps, and it was all self-made. Perhaps Dou Jiande bet on the Beida camp and concentrated all the elite soldiers to the north closest to the Sui army.

Six thousand cavalrymen galloped outside the camp fence, shooting arrows like a rapid rain at the enemy troops inside the camp fence. The powerful rain of arrows completely suppressed the enemy's resistance. Not a single enemy soldier was seen within fifty steps.

The only shadows of the soldiers were corpses piled on the ground.

More than a dozen Sui soldiers put ropes on the wooden fence. Hundreds of cavalry rushed up and pulled the ropes together. Amid shouts, the ten-foot-high camp fence collapsed, followed immediately by the collapse of the nearby camp fence.

After opening a gap more than twenty feet wide, five thousand elite Sui army cavalry, led by Yang Jiachen, entered the camp of Dou Jiande's army, followed by six thousand cavalrymen.

In the camp, there were shouts of killing Zhentian. Eleven thousand Sui cavalry were like extremely sharp swords, killing and killing Mercedes-Benz without restraint in the enemy camp. Dou Jiande's soldiers fled in all directions. The gate of the south camp had been opened. The frightened soldiers

They fled in large numbers, and large groups fled into the darkness. The Sui army was invincible, and large tents were set alight, and the fire spread rapidly.
Chapter completed!