Recruiting soldiers came in large numbers, with great force.
The Beiwei guards in the rear row also lost their bows and arrows, and fought side by side with their comrades in the front row with knives.
The two sides collided with each other with shields and swords, and from time to time someone fell into a pool of blood.
The Beiwei Guards resisted with all their strength, even Xia Yue suffered several injuries, but the other side was still fearless, stepping on the corpses one layer after another and charging forward, vowing to drive Xia Yue and others out of the city gate.
Despite this, the time left for Liyang City's defenders was only a dozen breaths, which was more than a hundred meters of sprint time.
Hundreds of Beiwei guards from behind had already poured into the city gate corridor.
As the bowstrings in their hands sounded one after another, arrows were fired at close range at the elite soldiers who were in close contact with the Weiwei guards in front.
Under the heavy arrows, these elite soldiers who were fighting bravely fell to the ground due to arrows in the face, or lost the ability to move due to arrows in their limbs, and were killed by the opponent's sword.
Hundreds of Weiwei guards rushed past the city gate corridor like a torrent, followed by two thousand Sui army infantry.
The streets and alleys in Liyang City were full of flying arrows, the sound of clashes of soldiers was heard, and corpses and wounded soldiers lying in pools of blood were everywhere.
As time went by, the sounds of shouts of death and the sounds of clashes gradually became smaller.
Half an hour later, the only sound left was the moaning and wailing of wounded soldiers all over the street.
At this time, the Sui army had completely controlled Li Yang.
Xia Yue left two thousand Sui army infantry to guard Li Yang.
He simply bandaged the wounds on his body, then led hundreds of Weiwei guards on horseback to rush out of Li Yang and disappeared without a trace.
Du Fuwei, who was trapped in He County, was still waiting for Ximen Junyi's arrival with peace of mind.
At this time, Ximen Junyi led the troops mobilized from all over Liyang County and had already arrived nearby.
The original plan was to mobilize an army of 30,000 troops, but due to the slippery snow and road conditions, in order to rush for time, only more than 20,000 cavalry troops were mobilized.
When he came to the river bank, he saw that the river was full of burnt and stranded warships, as well as the masts of sunken warships.
He knew that the battle was over, but he did not know who had won and who lost.
He led his army to the foot of Liyang City again, and found that the king's flag had been replaced at the top of the city.
Only then did he know that something was wrong.
Ximen Junyi didn't know what to do for a moment.
He was stunned for a while, and then he sent dozens of scouts to disperse and search around for Du Fuwei's whereabouts.
In the evening, he finally got the definite news that a large number of Sui troops had gathered in He County, and that his lord Du Fuwei should be trapped in He County.
Ximen Junyi immediately rushed towards Hexian without stopping, and soon he saw the overlapping Sui soldiers and horses reflected in the afterglow of the setting sun.
Chen Ling, who commanded the Sui army, had already received military reports, assembled his troops, and arranged his formation to prepare for battle.
Ximen Junyi immediately ordered to go down and divide the 20,000 troops into three groups on the left, center and right to outflank the Sui army.
His soldiers immediately became noisy and busy, arranging in formation in chaos.
Before the military formation was set up, a probing horse came galloping from a distance.
Before anyone arrived, someone on the horse shouted from a distance: "The enemy is coming.
The enemy is coming."
Before he could finish his words, the war horse under his crotch let out a mournful cry, and the man stood up, then fell to the ground.
He himself rolled off the horse and fell to the ground.
Only then did others see clearly that the horse's body had been hit by multiple arrows.
There is already "white mist steaming" at the rear of the battle, which is the effect of thousands of horse hooves trampling on the snow and splashing on it.
Ximen Junyi saw the enemy cavalry rushing towards him and quickly changed his formation.
Have the infantry soldiers set up a formation to defend the cavalry against the enemy, and have the cavalry prepare for a countercharge.
This Sui army was naturally light-armored flying cavalry.
They opened their bows and fired arrows sixty or seventy battles away from Ximen Junyi's army.
They suddenly changed the direction of movement and began to circle around the latter's military formation.
Ximen Junyi quickly ordered his crossbowmen to fight back, but his crossbowmen's range was limited and the effective range could just reach the opponent.
In addition, the flying cavalry moved extremely fast and kept changing its direction of movement.
Most of the arrows fired missed.
But conversely, their big bows have a long range, and coupled with the mobility of their mounts, the arrows of these flying cavalry can be shot accurately and hard.
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From time to time, they would speed up and approach, shooting an arrow to hit an enemy soldier.
Then they would gallop to a relatively "safe" area in the distance and continue to wander on horseback.
"Cavalry Attack" Ximen Junyi knew that the consequences would be unpredictable if he continued like this, so he issued an order for the cavalry to counterattack in advance.
Three thousand thieves' iron cavalry rushed out from behind the formation, and then spread out to attack these lightly armored flying cavalry.
The captain commanding the flying cavalry whistled a few times, and the cavalry "dispersed" and galloped further to the outside.
They played a cat and mouse game with three thousand rebel cavalry, but they not only ran, but also turned around and shot back at the chasing rebel cavalry from time to time.
The high-quality fast horses and precise archery caused the cavalry chasing them to be hit by arrows constantly, but the flying cavalry themselves were unscathed.
At the same time, the Sui army gathered at the foot of Hexian City, led by Chen Ling, except for the soldiers who had left behind to block the four gates, suddenly attacked the Chinese army at Ximen Junyi's side, attacking at an extremely fast speed.
Ximen Junyi hurriedly changed his formation again to deal with Chen Ling's infantry attack.
At this critical moment, another army appeared behind him, it was the hundreds of Weiwei guards led by Xia Yue.
Because of the snow, this force came without a sound.
Ximen Junyi's attention was all on the battle formation of infantry to the east and cavalry to the south, but he did not pay attention to the rear.
The Beiwei guards urged their horses and rushed into Ximen Junyi's Chinese formation from behind at lightning speed.
Although the number of these humble guards was small, such an impact caused the opponent's military formation to instantly become chaotic.
The Beiwei guards wielded their steel swords wildly, slashing left and right, attacking in a wedge-shaped array, and then attacked in all directions.
Some Beiwei guards jumped off their horses and continued fighting because their horses were injured.
At this time, the soldiers at the front of Ximen's Chinese army were still struggling to withstand Chen Ling's attack, but the Beiwei guards "flowered" among them.
Some soldiers were fighting in full swing, but they were chopped down by a sudden horizontal sword from behind.
Under attack from both front and rear, Ximen Junyi's Chinese army was quickly defeated.
Almost at the same time, his three thousand cavalrymen who were flying kites by light armored flying cavalry could not get rid of the situation of being passively beaten, and the casualties continued.
In fact, all the cavalrymen lost their will to fight, and some even quietly left their chariots and became deserters.
Then they saw that the Chinese army had been defeated and fled northward.
The light-armored flying cavalry did not chase them, but killed Ximen Junyi again.
At this time, Ximen Junyi was sitting in the right formation of the army.
He saw three enemy troops coming towards him.
Knowing that something was wrong, he quickly led the right formation to evacuate north.
The remnants of the Chinese army and the left army were facing the attack of light cavalry.
The formation also collapsed and followed Ximen Junyi to flee north.
Everything that happened on the battlefield was seen by Du Fuwei, who was standing at the head of Hexian City.
Seeing that Ximen Junyi had been defeated, he immediately made a decisive breakthrough.
The city gate of He County suddenly opened, and Du Fuwei personally led two thousand soldiers to rush out of the city and charge outwards
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