Xiao Xiaomu suddenly fell off his horse and rolled and crawled towards the edge of the Yellow River.
He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that nearly 40,000 people were gone with a few loud bangs.
The soldiers guarding him waited for him to crawl out more than ten feet before they recovered from their panic. They rushed forward one by one to help Xiao Xiaomu up.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty!"
"..."
The soldiers helped Xiao Xiaomu up.
Xiao Xiaomu's eyes were full of panic. He grabbed the soldier's arm and asked with a trembling voice, "Forty thousand people...forty thousand people are gone?"
The soldier trembled and said to Xiao Xiaomu: "Go back to the prince, it's gone..."
Xiao Xiaomu's pupils widened little by little, and he almost fainted on the spot.
Kou Ji killed 40,000 elite Liao soldiers in one blow, which not only frightened the Liao soldiers to pieces, but also took away Xiao Xiaomu's title and life.
Forty thousand Liao troops were gone in the blink of an eye.
The remaining Liao soldiers dared to continue fighting against Kou Ji.
The Liao soldiers did not dare to fight, so Xiao Xiaomu's intention of invading the Song Dynasty from the south was eliminated.
Xiao Xiaomu led 150,000 elite Liao soldiers and two Xiang armies to invade the Song Dynasty.
Now there are only 50,000 soldiers and horses left.
Two Xiang armies, one hundred thousand elite Liao soldiers, were buried in Song Dynasty.
An unprecedented defeat.
Not only could he not accept it, but Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty could not accept it either.
No one in Liao would care about what happened to Xiao Xiaomu in the Song Dynasty.
The furious Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu would definitely put all the blame for this defeat on Xiao Xiaomu.
Xiao Xiaomu must be dismissed from office and must die.
Unless he dies, Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu's anger will never go away.
If he doesn't die, everyone in Liao will not agree.
Such a disastrous defeat, such heavy losses.
Even if the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu led the army and suffered such a disastrous defeat and such losses, he must give an explanation to everyone in the Liao Kingdom.
"What are you still waiting for?!"
Just when Xiao Xiaomu was in despair.
Kou Ji had already withdrew his gaze from the pit and shouted at the dazed soldiers.
"Wang Kai quickly led his men to finish the killing blows! Guo Yi and Liu Qi pushed the big iron barrels and trebuchets to annihilate the Liao soldiers on the river!"
Wang Kai and others slowly came to their senses amidst Kou Ji's shouts.
Everyone responded blankly and subconsciously followed Kou Ji's instructions.
They haven't recovered from the explosion yet.
Wang Kai led the Jinning army to make up for the damage in the deep pit.
They just rushed to the edge of the pit, and no one dared to move forward, for fear that the explosive weapon would still have residual power.
It was the first time for all of them to see the power of firearms and kill so many people at once, so it was normal to be afraid.
They never thought that Kou Ji ordered them to touch up the wounds, which meant that there was not much danger around the pit.
Although landmines are buried underground, there are always some that cannot be exploded.
But it doesn't apply to this war.
Whether it was Gao Gao Gong who led the people to plant the landmines, or Kou Ji who took out the landmines, they were both very frantic when planting the landmines.
Landmines were buried almost in piles.
It's also manually controlled, so it would be a miracle if it didn't explode.
Wang Kai led his men to the pit and stopped.
In the end, there was still a soldier who was greedy for human heads and rushed to the edge of the pit at the risk of his own life.
There is the first, and naturally there is the second.
After a while, all the soldiers rushed forward to finish the attack.
Those Liao soldiers who were not killed by the explosion had long lost the will to live. When they saw someone coming to touch up their swords, some even took the initiative to put their heads to the swords.
They were in the center of the explosion. They were deafened long ago, and the seven holes were bleeding. What they saw was a purgatory on earth. If they were in purgatory on earth, how could they think of living.
Wang Kai and his men were finishing the attack.
Liu Qi and Guo Yi quickly appeared on the river bank with their troops and horses, pushing trebuchets and large iron cylinders.
The elite Liao soldiers who were still floating on the river became a living target in their eyes.
The long-handled grenades were tied into a bundle, the fuses were pulled off, and they were placed on a catapult and thrown out.
Throwing it onto the river, it blew up the Liao soldiers on the river and turned them upside down.
Some were killed on the spot, and some fell into the river.
The Liao people are good at riding horses, but they are totally useless at swimming.
If you fall into a river, 99% of the time you will drown.
Trebuchets are throwing grenades like crazy.
The big iron cylinder is not to be outdone.
Packets of gunpowder were stuffed in and started to make a banging sound after being lit.
The soldiers who were standing not far away from it and lighting the fire would have been deafened on the spot if they had not blocked their ears.
The Liao soldiers who were hit by it were miserable.
Some were torn apart, and some were bleeding from seven holes.
Anyway, there is no complete one.
The big iron barrel is not an artillery piece, but a flying thunder barrel, nicknamed the Heartless Cannon.
Simple to make and powerful.
Very practical.
The reason why Kou Ji made it when he was studying the mass production of artillery was because it was very practical and very simple to make.
It's just a bit wasteful.
But does Kou Ji care about the gunpowder money?
Do you care about the gunpowder?
Xiao Xiaomu on the other side of the river was awakened by the explosion. He panicked and ordered the messengers to send orders to the Liao soldiers on the river to retreat.
In fact, without him needing to send orders, the Liao soldiers on the river had already begun to flee back toward him in embarrassment.
Seeing grenades and heartless cannons destroying the lives of Liao soldiers on the river.
Xiao Xiaomu's heart was bleeding.
The Liao soldiers fled, but the Song soldiers and horses had no intention of giving up.
After Gao Chugong recovered from his temporary deafness, he immediately appeared on the battlefield. Seeing the Liao soldiers fleeing in embarrassment after being killed, he shouted at the students in the martial arts hall.
"Quick! Get out the raft we prepared in advance, cross the Yellow River, and capture Xiao Xiaomu alive!"
When the students in the martial arts hall heard this, they pushed the raft without saying a word.
Wang Kai led others to finish mending the sword, and then heard Gao Chugong's shout and stared at Kou Ji eagerly.
Liu Qi, Guo Yi and others also turned around and looked at Kou Ji with burning eyes after the Liao soldiers escaped from the shooting range.
The lieutenant of the Zhejia Military Academy led the Zhejia Army and stared blankly at Kou Ji.
Seeing this, Kou Ji glanced across the river several times, pursed his lips and said, "Seize the opportunity to pursue the victory..."
Wang Kai and others rushed to the river bank excitedly, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
Nearly 40,000 Liao soldiers were killed by bombing, and many were killed by fire and bombardment. Many rafts were pierced and turned into a layer of skin, floating on the river.
But there are still some rafts intact.
Wang Kai and others got on the Liao soldiers' raft and rushed to the opposite side.
Kou Ji knew that they were eager to fight, so he did not stop them.
Although the Liao soldiers still numbered tens of thousands, they were frightened and found it difficult to form a formation to deal with Wang Kai and others.
It was also difficult for them to get on horseback and charge Wang Kai and others.
Kou Ji's frantic explosion not only killed nearly 40,000 Liao soldiers, but also scared away nearly 100,000 horses.
Unlike humans, horses do not understand the situation on the battlefield, nor do they know that explosions do not threaten them.
They were frightened as early as when the earth shook and the mountains shook, and the thundering explosions sounded.
One by one, they ran rampant and fled in all directions.
Some soldiers on horseback were also dragged elsewhere.
The gelding horse that Kou Ji was riding on had already disappeared without a trace, not to mention the uncastrated and fierce-tempered horses under the Liao people's crotches.
Therefore, Kou Ji was not worried that Wang Kai and others would be backhanded by the Liao people when they crossed the river.
If the Liao people wanted to strike back, they had to at least organize their already chaotic troops together.
The soldiers and horses were in chaos, and it was very difficult to organize them quickly.
If it were easy to organize, there would be no talk of a crushing defeat.
Of course, the above are not the fundamental reasons why Kou Ji can safely let Wang Kai and others pursue him.
The reason why Kou Ji felt relieved and allowed Wang Kai and others to pursue him was because of the grenades in the hands of Liu Qi and Guo Yi, as well as the heartless cannons controlled by Kou's servants.
The Liao people were frightened by firearms.
The grenades in the hands of Liu Qi and Guo Yi were enough to scare the Liao people into fleeing in panic.
In addition, a few people can carry the heartless cannon that runs around the battlefield, and it is easy to scare the Liao people.
Nearly 40,000 elite Liao soldiers had just been wiped out, and such a shocking achievement was unprecedented.
Before the Liao people had the means to deal with firearms, it was absolutely impossible for them to stop and fight against the Song soldiers and horses who had firearms.
Wang Kai, Guo Yi, Liu Qi, and the latecomer Gao Changgong led their men to cross the river in a mighty killing spree.
The Liao people were in chaos and there was no way to prevent effective resistance, so Wang Kai, Gao Zhanggong and their party could be said to have unimpeded access.
The Liao people who were the first to escape ashore did not take long to regain their footing.
The Liao people who finally escaped ashore had just gained a foothold when the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty arrived.
They still want to keep running.
It's terrible.
Firearms are terrible.
There is simply no way for people to survive.
Xiao Xiaomu opened his mouth several times, trying to organize his troops to strike back, but in the end he did not open his mouth.
Because he had just made up his mind and was about to use killing methods to restrain some of the soldiers and horses to backhand attack the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses, when he saw the servants of the Kou Mansion carrying the big iron tube, getting on the raft, and charging forward majestically.
Came over.
Xiao Xiaomu was confident that he could restrain the pursuit of the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses, but he was not confident that he could block the attack of the big iron cylinder.
"withdraw!"
Xiao Xiaomu reluctantly issued an order.
As if they had been granted amnesty, the Liao soldiers fled northward one by one crazily.
Gao Chugong and others crossed the river and rushed up after the Liao people without stopping.
They were not afraid of an ambush by the Liao people, because the Liao people who were pursued closely by them did not have much time to set up an ambush.
They were not afraid of not being able to catch up with the Liao people, because few of the Liao people had horses.
There are many people crossing the river.
But after crossing the river, the only ones who stopped pursuing were two men and two troops.
One is Zhe Jiajun and the other is Wang Kai.
After the two crossed the river, they stopped moving forward.
At the same time, he gave orders.
"Quickly search for those horses that escaped from the Liao people!"
The two of them ordered in unison.
After giving the order, they looked at each other and could see what the other was thinking.
How can two legs run faster than four legs?
The elite Liao soldiers were riding good horses, so they were naturally faster.
Even if they can't catch up with the Liao soldiers, getting a large number of good horses is still a good harvest.
The two of them are not as greedy as Gao Changgong, nor are they as eager for merit as Liu Qi and Guo Yi.
The war has ended so far, and the Zhe family army is already very satisfied.
They have already captured the heads that should be harvested.
Not too much, not too little, just right.
Too little, not enough for the family to survive.
Too much is not a good thing for them.
Zhe Jixuan lost his troops and generals in Baode, but they became wealthy and wealthy landowners by virtue of their military exploits on the edge of Quyechuan River.
Can Zhe Jixuan give them a good look?
If Zhe Jixuan didn't take out all the grievances he suffered in Baode on them, then he wouldn't be called Zhe Jixuan.
As for Wang Kai, he is also greedy for merit.
But while he was greedy for merit, he also wanted to strengthen his troops.
Kou Ji had a saying that he remembered clearly, which was to break out of the Great Wall.
If Kou Ji wanted to conquer the Great Wall, he would naturally not be able to fight just one battle at Quyechuan. There would definitely be several more battles to follow.
Some of the credit is for him to reap.
There is no need to rush.
Only by making his troops stronger can he fight more battles with Kou Ji and gain more military exploits.
If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.
Wang Kai likes to sharpen his knife very sharply before killing people.
That will get twice the result with half the effort.
After Wang Kai and others crossed the river for a long time, Kou Ji sat on a raft and appeared on the other side of the river.
His face was slightly pale, and there was a layer of dense sweat on his forehead.
He was not sick, nor was he worried that Gao Chugong and others would be ambushed on the way to pursue him.
It was because of him that he discovered it.
He's seasick!
He didn't feel any dizziness when he was sitting on a covered awning boat, or when he immersed his body in the water.
But when he got on a raft with no shelter and floated in the middle of a wide river, he felt seasick.
The servant on the boat kept reminding him not to look down at the water.
But it's okay if the servant doesn't remind him. Once he does, he always likes to look down.
Then, I fainted.
When Kou Ji got off the raft, Lieutenant Zhejia Military Academy and Wang Kai saw his pale face and hurriedly came up to him.
"Where was Kou Jinglue injured?"
Wang Kai quickly asked.
Kou Ji was a favorite of the official family and a trembling grandfather who was still famous in the Song Dynasty.
If he was injured and did not receive timely diagnosis and treatment, he would lose his life.
So everyone in Quyechuan this time, to be precise, all those who are officials, will probably have a bad career, and may even lose their lives.
Those soldiers might be found a reason and sent to some nook and cranny.
Kou Ji forced a smile and said, "I'm fine. I should have caught a cold due to the cold wind blowing on the river. Don't worry, I'll be fine after I rest for a while."
Wang Kai heard this and wanted to greet the officials accompanying the army.
Kou Ji didn't give him a chance to speak, "Why don't you two lead the crowd in pursuit?"
Wang Kai said frankly: "I sent my men to search for those lost horses and prepared to mount the horses and chase them."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and looked at the Zhejia Military Academy Lieutenant, "Do you think so too?"
Lieutenant Zhejia Military Academy hesitated for a moment and nodded.