"A man of humble rank takes orders."

After Xiao Daguan, Xue Xiong, Yu Decheng, Xu Wei and other fourteen people took the order, they quickly led 20,000 people and rushed towards Qingshi Valley.

The Song army hiding behind the pile of rocks heard rapid footsteps coming from the valley passage, and hurriedly said to Guan Sheng and Gao Zhan: "General Guan, General Gao, the Liao army has rushed in."

Gao Zhan immediately went up to the stone pile and said to the defending crossbowmen: "Everyone, be prepared. As soon as the Liao army shows up, shoot arrows for me immediately and don't let them get close."

"Yes." said the crossbowmen.

Soon the Liao army appeared in the sight of the Song soldiers. When Gao Zhan saw that the Liao army was only fifty meters away from them, he raised his hand and shouted: "Fire the arrow!"

In an instant, hundreds of crossbow arrows were fired at the Liao army. More than a hundred Liao soldiers at the front were hit by arrows and fell down, but the Liao army behind them continued to charge forward.

"Keep shooting, don't let them get close." Gao Zhan shouted.

One after another, the crossbow arrows were fired at the Liao army quickly. Since the defensive crossbowmen held iron crossbows in their hands, and the crossbow arrows they used also had iron arrows, as the Liao army got closer and closer,

The penetrating power became stronger and stronger, and the number of casualties of the Liao army also increased. By the time it was about ten meters close to the stone pile, more than 500 people of the Liao army had died.

The Liao troops behind saw that the further they went forward, the more dangerous they became, so they were too frightened to move forward and retreated one after another.

Xiao Daguan, who was in the middle, saw the soldiers retreating and quickly ordered: "Use your shield to block the arrows and continue to charge forward. Don't be afraid. Charge."

After some adjustments, the Liao army formed a shield wall in front of the soldiers holding shields, and slowly pushed towards the place where the stones were piled step by step.

The soldiers of the Song Army were preparing to shoot arrows again. Gao Zhan saw that the Liao Army had formed a shield wall with shields. No matter how powerful the crossbow arrows were, it would be difficult to cause casualties to them. He immediately stopped them from continuing to shoot arrows and said, "Take out the gunpowder sticks."

, when they get close, use gunpowder sticks to blow them up."

"yes."

The Song soldier took out the gunpowder stick, holding it in one hand and the gunpowder in the other. When the Liao army came within 25 meters, Gao Zhan shouted: "Throw it away!"

The soldiers who were already prepared immediately lit the fuse of the gunpowder stick. When the fuse was half burned, they immediately threw it towards the Liao soldiers.

boom!

boom!

boom!

Explosions continued to sound. Because the gunpowder sticks were not just thrown in front of the Liao troops who were walking in front with shields, some were also thrown into the middle of the Liao troops hiding behind the shield-bearers, so many people were killed.

The frightened Liao soldiers further behind turned around and ran back, leaving behind again the bodies of two to three hundred Liao soldiers.

"Sir, the things they used are so powerful that we can't even get close to the pile of rocks." The soldiers who retreated said to Xiao Daguan and other generals.

Seeing that he could not rush in, Xiao Daguan had to temporarily lead his soldiers to withdraw from the valley passage, and then reported to Wu Yanguang: "General, they blocked the valley passage with stones, and also used a firecracker that can explode

Something is attacking us, and we can’t rush in.”

"What is that?" Wu Yanguang asked.

"I don't know." Xiao Daguan said.

He Yun next to him said: "When I was dealing with the corpses of Song soldiers just now, I found something wrapped in kraft paper on some Song soldiers, which looked like firecrackers and had leads. Could it be that thing?"

Wu Yanguang immediately said: "Hurry up and get it for me to take a look at."

He Yun immediately asked someone to bring the gunpowder sticks they found from Song Jun's corpse to Wu Yanguang. After Wu Yanguang looked at it carefully, he asked someone to dismantle one of them and found that it was wrapped with gunpowder.

, but the amount is dozens of times more than ordinary firecrackers.

"Is this thing capable of killing or injuring people?" Wu Yanguang picked up another gunpowder stick and looked at it carefully, and said with doubts on his face.

Although gunpowder had already appeared in this era, it was not taken seriously in either the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom, the Xixia Kingdom, or the Jin Kingdom. It was only used as a festive material for making firecrackers.

Therefore, when Wu Yanguang saw the gunpowder stick for the first time, he also doubted its power.

"Whether it is so powerful, you will know after you try it." Wuyan Yanshou said.

Wu Yanguang handed the gunpowder stick to a soldier next to him and said, "Light one and try it."

The soldier didn't think much about it, took out the fire stick he carried and blew it, then lit the fuse far away and threw it out. It happened to be thrown among several rocks, but because the fuse was a bit long, it didn't burn inside.

, so it didn’t explode after landing.

"Why is there no response?" Wuyan Yanshou said.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a "boom", and the gunpowder sticks made a deafening explosion. Several rocks were blown everywhere. Fortunately, the people around him were far away, otherwise they would all be injured.

"Oh my god, this is hundreds of times more powerful than firecrackers!" Wuyan Yanshou said in shock.

Wu Yanguang also had an incredulous expression on his face and said, "I didn't expect that this thing would be so powerful when it increases in size."

Wuyan Yanshou immediately said: "Father, since the Song army can use these things to deal with us, then we can also use them to deal with Guan Sheng and fight against them."

"My son is right."

Wu Yanguang turned to look at He Yun next to him and asked, "How many are these in total?"

"Not every Song army has it, so we only collected more than 600 in total." He Yun said.

Guan Sheng and Gao Zhan only carried archers in their team, and each archer only carried ten gunpowder sticks. Most of the Song troops who were killed earlier were soldiers and archers with knives and guns.

Not many people died, so the Liao army did not receive many gunpowder sticks.

"Go and get all these things immediately." Wu Yanguang said.

He Yun immediately sent people to get all the remaining gunpowder sticks. Wu Yanguang said to Xiao Daguan: "Immediately take these things and blast the rocks at the mouth of the valley, then rush in to capture Guan Sheng and Gao Zhan.

"

"yes."

Xiao Daguan took some soldiers and went back with those gunpowder sticks. He found more than two hundred soldiers, gave them three gunpowder sticks each, and then asked the shield bearers and archers to cover them and walk in the front, and the rest

The soldiers followed and rushed into Qingshiyu again.

"General Guan, General Gao and the others rushed in again." said the Song Army archers guarding the valley entrance.

"Get ready to throw the gunpowder stick." Gao Zhan said.

At this time, the Liao soldiers holding gunpowder sticks, under the cover of shield bearers, approached thirty meters away from the stone pile. Then these Liao soldiers lit the gunpowder sticks and threw them towards the Song army behind the stone pile.

past.

"Everyone, be careful, they are attacking us with our gunpowder sticks." Zhu Tong shouted.

"Get out of the way!"

Guan Sheng, Gao Zhan shouted at the same time, and then the two of them immediately dodged to both sides of the valley entrance.

boom!

boom!

boom!

Most of the Song soldiers dispersed. Only a dozen soldiers reacted slowly and did not get out of the way. They were injured by gunpowder sticks and lay on the ground wailing.

"Come on!"

The Liao army took advantage of this opportunity and quickly rushed to the stone pile. The soldiers holding bows and arrows quickly climbed up to the stone pile, hoping to climb on top of the stone pile and use bows and arrows to suppress the Song army inside, so that other Liao troops could remove the stones.

Get it open.

"Blow them up for me."

Gao Zhan saw that the Liao army was about to reach the stone pile, and immediately shouted to the Song army archers holding gunpowder sticks.

The archers of the Song Army quickly lit gunpowder sticks and threw them at the Liao soldiers who were about to climb up the stone pile. After an explosion, the Liao soldiers who were about to climb up the stone pile were killed and injured one after another.

Immediately afterwards, the Song soldiers lit gunpowder sticks and threw them in front of the pile of stones. The Liao soldiers who were struggling to get rid of the stones were instantly killed and a large area was injured. The remaining soldiers were frightened and retreated one after another.

Because the passage in the valley is relatively narrow, and there were too many soldiers who had just poured in, they suddenly retreated and caused a blockage. Many soldiers

He was pushed to the ground and trampled.

Gao Zhan, Li Cheng, Wen Da, Zhu Tong, and Lei Heng took this opportunity to lead the Song soldiers to the pile of rocks, and threw gunpowder sticks at the Liao soldiers outside. The blasted corpses of the Liao soldiers lay all over the ground.

Exited the mountain pass.

"Hurry up and carry the brothers who were injured just now aside."

Guan Sheng directed the soldiers to carry the injured soldiers to the side, and then asked a thousand archers to tie gunpowder sticks to the arrows, so as to prevent the Liao soldiers from approaching for a long distance.

Xiao Daguan and other generals once again led the Liao soldiers out of the valley passage and reported to Wu Yanguang: "General, they have more gunpowder sticks than we do, but we still can't rush in."

"A bunch of trash."

Wu Yanguang cursed loudly, and then said to Wu Yan Yanshou: "Yanshou, lead your troops and rush in to catch them."

Xiao Daguan quickly said: "General, their gunpowder sticks are very powerful. If we can't restrain them, it will be useless no matter how many people rush in. Now let the major general lead people to rush in. In addition to increasing casualties,

If it doesn't have any effect, I hope the general will learn from it."

"General, what General Xiao said is true. The Song Army's gunpowder sticks are really powerful. Sending more people at this time will only increase casualties. General, please think twice."

The generals who followed Xiao Daguan in also said that because they had personally experienced the power of gunpowder sticks just now, they knew that their existing protective equipment could not provide any protection at all, so they tried hard to persuade them.

Wu Yanguang didn't know this truth, but now the Song army was approaching Youzhou. If he couldn't capture Guan Sheng and Gao Zhan as soon as possible, he wouldn't be able to lure Hua Ju and the others here.

Therefore, he knew that rushing in like this would cause heavy casualties, but he could only do this, otherwise once the Song army reached Youzhou, the Liao Kingdom would be really in danger.
To be continued...