Chapter 261 Attack the Camp! (Subscribe!)

And Ye Mingsheng’s reinforcements will take at least three days to arrive!
Once the camp is destroyed, Ye Mingsheng's troops will lose the protection of fortifications and encounter Khitan cavalry on the plains. It will be a massacre and the annihilation of the entire army will be inevitable!

This is also the reason why He Jingyun is so worried...

If Ye Mingsheng had encountered this situation a month ago, he would most likely have done as He Jingyun said and sacrificed the pawn to save the king.

Although the loss would be heavy, as long as Ye Mingsheng was still alive, he could slowly settle accounts with the Khitans...
But one month is enough to change a lot, such as allowing Ye Mingsheng to have a trump card that no one knows about!

The existence of this trump card may not change the course of the entire battle, but Ye Mingsheng believes that this trump card can help him hold out for one or two more days.

When the 4,000 reinforcements from Yuan Song and Lin Huaiwu arrived at that time, the one who would run away would be Yelu Yan!

Ye Mingsheng wants to use these thousands of Khitan people's heads to make his name, Ye, famous in Liaoyang!
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Every moment.

The warm sunlight of the sun dispelled the faint mist on the plain. The ambitious Yelu Yan, with his subordinates who had just finished breakfast, rushed to a place not far from Ye Mingsheng's camp.

Now that the situation is clear, Yelu Yan, who knows that speed is of the essence in war, will naturally not give Ye Mingsheng more breathing space. He wants to annihilate Ye Mingsheng's troops, and then defeat the reinforcements that will come one by one. In this way, he will plunder Fengzhou City, steal all the property, kill all the men, and take away all the women...
Although he wanted to seize the time and annihilate Ye Mingsheng's troops as soon as possible, Yelu Yan still understood the simple truth that sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.

With eyes as sharp as an eagle, he looked around at the camp in front of him, which was surrounded by three wide and deep trenches full of spears. He tried to find an exploitable gap in the camp to stab the fast and sharp scimitar in his Khitan cavalry into Ye Mingsheng's heart!
After joining forces with Xiao Xiu and Yelu Hange, Yelu Yan had nearly 5,000 troops, of which more than 60% were cavalry. The elite cavalry unit would be his most important weapon to defeat the enemy.

Although he had a large army, as the observation time got longer and Yelu Yan gained nothing, his expression became more and more serious. The strong confidence in his heart that he could break through the camp and annihilate Ye Mingsheng's troops within a day also began to slowly fade away...
"Did Ye Mingsheng's troops arrive last night? Did they build this camp and these trenches in one night?"

Although he knew the answer to the question, Yelu Yan couldn't help but ask the surrounding Khitan generals:
"Reporting to the eldest prince, according to the scouts' information, the Zhou people worked day and night to reinforce the fortifications last night. They only completed it half an hour ago!"

Many Khitan generals looked at each other, and finally Xiao Xiu, who was familiar with the situation, reported to Yelu Yan.

Yelu Yan frowned upon hearing this, and looked around again. He still couldn't find any loopholes that he could exploit in the heavily armed and heavily guarded camp. He finally made a decision and gave the order:

"The cavalry will surround the camp and fire their weapons. Provide cover for the infantry to carry sandbags to fill the trenches!"

"Yes!" All the generals responded in unison:

Following Yelu Yan's order, the Khitan army, which had been on high alert, began to move. Being good at riding and shooting, they took out their bows and arrows, swung the bowstrings, and shot a rain of arrows towards the Zhou army camp. Under their cover, thousands of Khitan infantrymen put down their weapons, picked up sacks filled with soil and sand, and marched towards the trench.

On the watchtower in the camp, Liang Xuezhang, who was in charge of the defensive operations, looked at the actions of the Khitan army with a scornful smile on his face, and said disdainfully to Ye Tie and other soldiers around him:

"Barbarians are barbarians. They have been doing the same old things for decades. They haven't improved at all!"

"Pass the order down, the first echelon's firearms can open fire!"

“Bang! Bang! Bang!…”

Under Liang Xuezhang's command, the firearms in the Zhou army camp began to roar, and dozens of Khitan soldiers who were at the front were knocked to the ground and cried for their parents. However, there were too many Khitan infantrymen, and as soon as one group fell, another group rushed up with shields and continued the unfinished work of their predecessors.

It has to be said that as a foreign race that believes in power, the Khitans are indeed very cruel. Not only are they cruel to their enemies, they are also very cruel to their own people!
As for the bodies of their comrades who died under Zhou Jun’s firearms, they did not waste a single bit and directly threw them into the trenches and mixed them with the mud, allowing these comrades who had just eaten and rested together not long ago to make the final contribution to filling the trenches...
With such a ferocious style, in less than an incense stick of time, after paying the price of hundreds of casualties, the Khitans filled a passage about ten meters long in the first trench.

Yelu Yan, who was standing in the rear, was overjoyed when he saw this situation. He waved his hand and more soldiers carried sacks full of soil and rushed towards the trench.

What Yelu Yan feared most about the Zhou army hiding in the camp was the firearms in their hands. In the battle just now, he had probably seen clearly that although Ye Mingsheng's troops had a lot of firearms, they were not many. There were only about five or six tiger-crouching cannons and hundreds of three-eyed muskets and bird-shaped guns, which could not pose much threat to them.

Yelu Yan, who realized this, became confident again. Since he had already tested the strength of Ye Mingsheng's troops through the battle just now, what he had to do now was to fill up the three trenches in one go to provide a way for the cavalry to attack the camp...

Standing on the watchtower, Liang Xuezhang looked at the large number of Khitan infantrymen rushing up. He knew that these Khitans had finally been fooled, and immediately said to Ye Tie beside him:

"Brother Ye, get all the firearms ready to fire! Tell your men to be quick and kill as many of these Khitan dogs as possible!

"After this lesson, the Khitans will never give us such a good opportunity again!"

(End of this chapter)