Zhan Jinguo hummed: "Our Xuanjia Army is the elite of Yanyun, so naturally we should take the lead! I'm afraid the Yang Family Army can't bear this heavy burden!" How could Yang Gui be convinced, "What the Xuanjia Army can do, the Yang Family Army can do the same. If you do that, I don’t believe that the Yang Family Army will lose to the Xuanjia Army!”
Duan Zhixian suddenly intervened and said: "Since you two can't compete with each other, why not let the yesterday's family take the lead!" Zhan Jinguo said angrily: "You are the deputy commander of the direct army, why are you competing with us for this vanguard? position!" Yang Gui agreed: "That's right! What Duan Zhixian said makes no sense!"
Yang Peng raised his right hand and said, "You guys, stop fighting. There is no vanguard in this battle. All the light cavalry will advance in separate directions and must sweep away the enemy in the shortest possible time!" The generals were a little surprised. Yang Peng looked at Yang Gui, "Yang Gui, you lead the 20,000 warriors of the Volcano Army to attack the Mianman Shuibei Army Stronghold!" "Yes!" "Si Xing, lead the 20,000 warriors to attack the Mianman Shuinan Military Stronghold! "Yes!" "Duan Zhixian and Yang Jing, each commanding 10,000 war cavalry, will raid Baijing Village and Pingding City respectively!" Duan Zhixian and Yang Jing clasped their fists in agreement.
"The Kingdom of Zhan Jin led two thousand Xuanjia troops out of Chengtian Army Stronghold and headed north, with the goal of Yanmen Pass." The Kingdom of Zhan Jin was very excited and accepted the military order. Yang Peng turned his attention to the other generals, "I will lead the other cavalry to follow. Zhong Min, you will lead the Eighth Army to follow." Zhong Min stepped forward and promised. Then Yang Peng's eyes fell on Yang Jiumei and Yang Erya, "Jiumei and Erya are responsible for escorting the food and grass!" The two women were a little unhappy, but they could not disobey their elder brother's order, and they clenched their fists in frustration and agreed.
Yang Peng glanced at the generals and said, "The enemy still doesn't know that our cavalry group has arrived at Chengtian Army Stronghold! The purpose of this battle is to fight with speed and slowness, and to sweep across the Jin army in front of us with lightning speed! All the generals need to do is Remember one thing, rush forward at full speed, don't look around for delays! If someone delays the opportunity, don't blame the ruthless military law!" All the generals agreed in unison.
The sight turned to Mianman Shuibei Military Village. In the darkness, several Khitan army sentries were standing behind the fence chatting. It was early spring, and the weather was cold. Several sentries were so cold that they held their spears, huddled their necks, and kept stamping their feet.
"The army has been mobilized frequently recently, and it seems that there will be another big war!" The soldier with the flat nose said worriedly. A young soldier next to him said eagerly: "I really hope I can make meritorious deeds on the battlefield and honor my ancestors!" The older soldier said angrily: "The little guy is ignorant, and the Yanyun Army is so easy to deal with! Against me! Yan Yunjun, not to mention making contributions and honoring the ancestors, being able to save a life is all due to the merits of the ancestors!" The young soldier was very unconvinced and said: "I don't believe that Yan Yunjun is a three-headed and six-armed monster!" The veteran laughed, "They are indeed It doesn’t have three heads and six arms, but it’s really a monster!” The young soldier snorted.
Suddenly there was the rumble of horse hooves in the darkness outside the fence. Several sentries immediately stopped talking and looked outside, only to see more than a hundred cavalry running through the night. The young soldier immediately raised his spear nervously. The veteran patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous! They come from the west, and they are so arrogant, they must be our own people!" As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the knights arriving at the gate and reining in their horses. The captain of Yuanmen shouted loudly: "Who is this person?"
"Don't you recognize me?" A majestic voice sounded. The captain was startled, and quickly looked at the other party carefully, using the light of the torch to see the other party's appearance clearly, and quickly bowed: "I didn't know that the general arrived at a distance, so please forgive me!" It turned out that it was not someone else who came. , it was Xiao Qianbuli, the great general of the Liao Kingdom. The captain quickly ordered someone to open the camp gate and welcomed Gan Buli and his party into the military camp.
When the young soldier saw this, he was very surprised and said to the veteran with admiration: "Brother, you are so awesome!" The veteran laughed and said, "This is nothing! You will be like me if you see more in the future. !" Xiao Qianbuli waited until he galloped to the big tent, got off his horse, and strode into the big tent. The leader of the camp, General Turi, hurriedly came up to pay homage: "General Turi will pay homage to the general!"
Xiao Qianbuli walked straight to the top, turned around and sat down. Looking at the retreating sun, "Is there any movement in the Chengtian Army Stronghold?" "Reporting to the General, everything is normal in the Chengtian Army Stronghold, and the Yanyun Army has not made any moves!" "Don't be careless! Now the Generalissimo has sent his army south. But we can’t let anything go wrong here!”
"General, don't worry. We have received detailed reports recently. There is no movement on the other side of the mountain. Yan Yunjun's attention is obviously not here. There will definitely be no problem!"
Xiao Qianbuli nodded, "Nothing is best!" Zhiri said: "General, there is something I don't know whether to say or not?" "Tell me." "General, since the time when the generalissimo took charge of the affairs of the Central Plains, , our army has never been to the main battlefield. Last time we were diverted to contain the Yanyun Army in the Chengtian Army Stronghold. This time it is the same. The general suspected that the Generalissimo saw that we were the princess's army, so he did not Are you willing to give us a chance to make meritorious deeds!"
Qian Buli frowned, "The general is not like this, is he?" Zari continued: "The general also heard about what happened in Zhongjing before. The princess does not want to have a dispute with the general, but the general may have something in his heart. It won't be like the princess! Once it sweeps through the Central Plains this time, the generalissimo will have the rich land and a large population of the Central Plains. By then, his power will exceed that of the princess, and he might attack the princess!" Xiao Qianbuli was shocked. , shouted: "Don't talk nonsense!"
Zui Ri said: "How dare you talk nonsense? I'm just worried about the princess! It's best if nothing like that happens. What if something like that happens?" Xiao Qianbuli frowned and asked, "Then how do you think we should deal with it? "The general believes that the princess should be in charge of the Central Plains as before, so there will be no worries! Even considering the interests of the entire Liao Kingdom, the princess should be in charge of the Central Plains. When the princess was in charge of the Central Plains, Has the Yanyun Army ever been so arrogant? However, since the Generalissimo succeeded the princess, the Central Plains have been sinking, and our army has been defeated one after another and suffered heavy losses, and the situation is almost out of control!"
Xiao Qianbuli was silent for a moment, then stood up and walked to Zuiri, "What you said makes sense. But since the princess has not objected to the generalissimo's control of the Central Plains, how can we, as her subordinates, contradict the princess! As for what you said Since you can think of that situation, how can the princess not think of it? Let’s not worry about it! Since the princess has not given any instructions, we cannot be half-hearted and must obey the command of the general! What you just said will not matter in the future. Stop talking!" "Yes!"
Xiao Qianbuli said: "I came here mainly to inspect the defense situation. I have seen the situation near the military camp. You did not disappoint me. The checkpoints monitoring the Chengtian military camp are not slack, are they?"
"How dare you relax at all, General? Don't worry, General!" Gan Buli nodded. The few sentries who had been chatting with their spears were still chatting by the fence. The veteran looked up at the sky and saw only darkness, with no trace of the moon or stars. The veteran cursed lowly, looked inside the barracks again, and muttered: "I don't know what time it is, it should be time to hand over the shift!" The young soldier said: "Brother, why are you so anxious? Let's chat more. chant!"
The veteran turned around and said with a smile: "You kid, you haven't experienced danger yet, you just think the things I said are very interesting! If you have experienced it in the future, you will definitely not find it interesting!" Flat nose smiled and said: "What do you always scare him for?"
The young soldier was about to speak when he suddenly seemed to hear something. He turned his head and looked into the darkness outside the fence, but saw nothing. Seeing this, Flat Nose asked: "Boy, what are you looking at?" The young soldier pointed outside and said with a confused look on his face: "I really want to hear something!"
The veteran laughed and said, "You just said that your kid is not afraid of tigers when he is a newborn. Why are you timid again now?" The young soldier shook his head, "I'm not timid, I really heard the sound!" "How could... "The veteran's voice suddenly stopped, and an arrow flew from nowhere and penetrated his neck. The other two soldiers were startled and hurriedly looked outside. There seemed to be a flash of shadow in front of their eyes, and there was a slight sharp sound breaking through the air in their ears. Before they could react, they were shot through the throat and chest by sharp arrows. , the two fell on their backs, and their only thought before death was: Enemy! How can it be! No wonder they had this idea. They were on the west side of the camp. How could enemies come from the west?
Just as the three sentries arrived, a dense rain of arrows suddenly flew out of the darkness, making a loud crackling sound, and the Jin Army soldiers at the gate were shot to the ground. The captain was seriously injured, but he was not dead yet. He desperately crawled towards the alarm gong. At this moment, ghostly war cavalry surged out of the darkness, broke open the shaft door and rushed in. Before the captain could even touch the gong, he was trampled to pieces by countless iron hooves!
kill! ! ! Xiao Qianbuli, who had just rested, suddenly heard the shocking sound of killing coming from outside. His heart skipped a beat and he quickly jumped up and ran out of the tent. Suddenly, I saw countless black war cavalry sweeping through the camp, trampling on them with iron hooves and slashing with long swords. Under the light of the fire, I saw blood flying. My own soldiers were running away in all directions. Many of them didn't even have time to put on their clothes, and they were in a very embarrassed state.
Xiao Qianbuli was shocked, why did Yan Yunjun suddenly appear? ! No wonder he was so confused. His Khitan army had deployed more than a dozen checkpoints near the Chengtian army stronghold. How could the Yanyun army suddenly appear here? Xiao Qianbuli didn't know at this moment that the dozen checkpoints had been removed by the secret guards half an hour ago. More than a dozen checkpoints failed to send out a warning signal.
Zuiri stumbled over and said in a hurry: "General, we can't resist anymore, retreat quickly!" "Fart! If we lose here, the morale of the entire army will be shaken, and the consequences will be disastrous! Go and lead the army to fight back!" If you can't win, come and see me!" Zuri could not do anything, so he could only promise and ran down.
Turi hurriedly gathered thousands of troops to counterattack. The Yanyun army, which had turned into a prairie fire, felt as if they had been thrown into a whirlpool and could not extricate themselves. Zuiri saw the general of the Yanyun Army leading the way, wielding a pair of hammers, invincible and very fierce, so he mustered up the courage to charge forward. Yang Gui caught a glimpse of an enemy general rushing toward him. He became excited and urged his horse to meet him. When he was close, he held the hammer tightly in his right hand and gave it a sharp lift from bottom to top! Zuiri was shocked when he saw the hammer whizzing towards him. He quickly reined in his horse. The horse neighed and stood up. The hammer hit the horse's neck hard. The horse overturned to one side and threw Zuiri off.
Zuiri hurriedly climbed up, only to see that the opponent had already rushed in front of him. He was shocked and wanted to dodge, but it was too late. The hammer whizzed down and his head burst open and blood flew!
The Khitan army was already unable to resist. When they saw the Japanese general being killed by the opposing general, they were so frightened that they turned around and ran away. The Yanyun army continued to pursue them, but the Khitan army was unable to recover.
Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Xiao Qianbuli hurriedly led his soldiers to escape from the camp. He wanted to escape to Mianmanshuinan Village, but he was shocked to see the fire in the south of Mianmanshui. Mianmanshuinan Village was also attacked by the opponent. He was horrified. Next, he hurriedly fled to Pingding.
After running for dozens of miles, the city of Pingding was in sight. I saw a Yanyun Army cavalry storming the city. I was shocked and calmed down. I found that the Yanyun Army had not invaded the city, and I felt relieved a little. Hurry towards the north gate of Pingding City. At this moment, Yan Yun's army was attacking the east city gate, and there was nothing going on in the direction of the north city gate, so he rushed to the north city gate.
After Xiao Qianbuli entered the city, the sounds of fighting in the east gradually stopped. When he arrived at the east city gate, the Yanyun warriors who had just attacked the east city gate had retreated.
Gan Buli turned around and asked Hanon, the general who was staying behind to pacify Ding, "What's going on?" Hanon said in shock: "More than half an hour ago, a group of cavalry wearing our flag and wearing our army uniforms appeared under the city gate. Call the door! The general almost opened the city gate, but fortunately he noticed something strange in time so he didn't open the door! Seeing that the opponent's plan was exposed, they suddenly attacked! Fortunately, they were all cavalry and had no siege equipment, so the city was not lost! " Bu Li was extremely happy and said: "You have done a great service! You immediately send someone to alert Taiyuan and alert the Generalissimo!" "Yes!"
Throughout the night, the pacified defenders guarded the city nervously. The next morning, in the early morning mist, I saw a fast horse galloping from the southeast, running to the city gate, holding a flag and shouting: "Open the city gate quickly, I have an urgent military situation." Report to the general!" The city gate opened immediately and he rushed in. Soon after, the knight appeared on the top of the city and reported to Qian Buli: "General Qi, Baijing Village has also been lost!" Xiao Qianbuli had long expected that Baijing Village would not be able to defend it, but now he heard I was still a little shocked when I heard the exact news.
"General, look!" Hanon suddenly pointed outside the city and shouted. Xiao Qianbuli quickly looked outside the city, and suddenly saw countless troops approaching in the mist. He was startled and shouted: "The whole army is on alert, prepare to fight!" The Khitan army was prepared and he was very nervous.
A moment later, tens of thousands of Yanyun troops were seen coming out of the mist and stopping a few hundred steps ahead. Looking at the pair of winged flying tiger warriors and the astonishing murderous aura of the gloomy military formation, the soldiers of the Jin Army couldn't help but become nervous.
Xiao Qianbuli's eyes were fixed on the extremely heroic figure under the banner of war, and he was surprised, "Yang Peng, he actually took action himself!" Yang Peng looked at Pingding City in front of him and frowned slightly. Duan Zhixian, who was standing next to him, said with a look of shame on his face: "I'm sorry for not being able to capture Pingding City yesterday!" Yang Peng shook his head, "It's not your fault! I didn't expect the defender of Pingding City to be so alert!"
Duan Zhixian cupped his fists and said, "Brother, I went to challenge them yesterday!" Yang Peng nodded. Duan Zhixian immediately rode out of the battle, came between the two sides, reined in the horse, and shouted loudly: "You donkey bird in the city, come out and die!"
Several of Xiao Qianbuli's generals couldn't hold it any longer and wanted to go out of the city to fight, but Xiao Qianbuli shouted: "You are not allowed to fight!" A warrior with a particularly strong physique, fierce temperament and a beard said angrily: "Since the other party has come to challenge , how can you not shrink out!" This person's name is Hua Cha, a famous general under Xiao Qianbuli. Xiao Qianbuli said angrily: "Do you know who this person is? He is Yang Peng's sworn brother, Yanyun's important general, General Duan Zhixian! He is extremely ferocious. There are many powerful generals in Yanyun's army who can be stronger than him. But there are not many! If you rush into battle, you will have no chance of winning!"
Duan Zhixian saw that the Khitan people were unable to retreat and continued to curse, "You donkeys and oxen shoot birds with no eggs. Since you don't dare to fight with the yesterday's family, you should run away quickly!" The vulgar words on the page were thrown away. The Khitan generals on the city wall were so angry that they were furious, and the sergeants did not dare to fight when they saw that their generals were so insulted, and their morale was low.
"General, let me go to battle! I don't believe how powerful that general can be! I will use the big ax in my hand to split his head open and see if he can still be arrogant!" Hua Chao said angrily.
Xiao Qianbuli was still hesitating. He didn't think that Hua Chao was definitely not Duan Zhixian's opponent. In his mind, Hua Chao should be a warrior comparable to Duan Zhixian. However, he was worried that Hua Chao would make a mistake. If so, I'm afraid that The blow to one's own morale is even more serious.
Hanon whispered: "The morale of the soldiers is low, so it is better to accept the challenge. If we can win, our morale will be greatly improved!"
Xiao Qianbuli looked at the demoralized soldiers around him, nodded thoughtfully, and said to Hua Chao, who looked eager, "I give you permission to fight!" Hua Chao was overjoyed and pressed his right fist hard on his chest. "General, let's see how the last general kills that general!" Yuluo picked up the ax and ran down the city wall. Immediately the city gate opened and closed, and Hua Chao ran out holding a Xuanhua ax and riding a flower-maned horse. He ran to Duan Zhixian about twenty paces away and reined in his horse, wanting to announce his name. But Duan Zhixian had already galloped forward on horseback, coming menacingly. Hua Chao had no choice but to swallow back the words that came to his lips, and urged his horse to rush forward!
In the blink of an eye, the two horses collided with each other. There was a loud clang, and the two of them tried their best. Immediately, the two horses passed each other, ran more than ten paces, turned their horses and charged towards each other again. At this time, the war drums of both sides sounded as loud as the sky, and the shouts came one after another. Hua Chao and Duan Zhixian fought each other for seven or eight meetings. Duan Zhixian became more and more courageous as he fought, but Hua Chao only felt numbness in his arms and was a little frightened in his heart. The two sides clashed again. When they got closer, Duan Zhixian shouted loudly and swung his iron Zen staff. The staff tore through the air and made an astonishing whistling sound. Hua Chao hurriedly raised his ax to block, only to hear a loud clang, and the ax in Hua Chao's hand flew up. Hua Chao was so frightened that he hurriedly turned his horse and ran towards the city. Duan Zhixian reined in his horse and laughed loudly: "Is this all that a donkey or an ox can shoot at a bird?"
The Yan Yun army laughed, but the Khitan army officers and soldiers were all frightened, and there was a dead silence. Yang Peng smiled coldly, raised his right hand, and the war drums rang loudly. The rumble was like thunder. Then he saw five thousand Yanyun infantry carrying simple ladders rushing toward the city wall, and another five thousand holding flints. The riflemen followed.
I saw arrows flying in the sky. Yan troops were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground. The Khitan troops on the city wall were also shot down. The assault infantry put up ladders on the city wall against the constant rain of arrows and climbed up the city wall bravely. Rolling stones and trees kept falling from the top, making loud rumbling noises. It was difficult for Yan Yun's army to reach the top of the city, and the losses were considerable.
The strength of the Khitan army's resistance was somewhat beyond Yang Peng's expectations. Yang Peng originally thought that the Jin army's morale had been dampened and that it might be defeated in one attack, but he did not expect that it would still have such strong combat effectiveness. He turned around and ordered: "Send the order and stop the attack!"
The Yan Yun Army's ferocious offensive suddenly stopped and receded like an ebbing tide. Then the Khitan army officers and soldiers saw Yan Yun's army retreating and couldn't help but cheered. Ganbuli said to Hanon: "The Yanyun army is only retreating temporarily, and will definitely attack again. Order all armies to be on guard!" "Yes!"
Yanyun's army retreated more than ten miles and settled in the mountain. Then thousands of soldiers and horses entered the mountain forest to cut down trees. At the same time, they continuously transported the cut logs back to the military camp. In the military camp, craftsmen from the ordnance field accompanying the army were working with some soldiers. Step up the production of siege equipment such as siege vehicles and nest vehicles.
In the big tent, Khitan looked at the map with a thoughtful look on his face. Duan Zhixian next to him said angrily: "If the cannons come up, let's see how long those birds can resist!" Yang Peng said while looking at the map: "The cannons are coming." It will take at least ten days to get here. We cannot wait for the artillery to come up before attacking. We must seize Pingding City before the Khitan army returns to support as a wedge for our army to enter Shanxi. Otherwise, this raid will be disrupted. Brother Ye Qianxiu's attack rhythm doesn't make much sense!" He turned around and said, "Zhixian, pass on the order and tell everyone to take time to rest and attack tonight!" Duan Zhixian was stunned, "How can we attack tonight? Those siege equipment will take at least a few days to make!" Yang Peng smiled enigmatically, "Have you forgotten that we still have gunpowder?" Duan Zhixian still didn't understand and looked very confused.
Gan Buli, who was in the city, received a report from the scouts and knew that Yan Yun's army was rushing to make siege equipment, so he felt a little relieved. He understood that it would not be possible to build siege equipment overnight, it would take at least three or four days. At least during these three or four days, he would not have to worry about Yan Yun's army coming to attack. Even so, he still did not dare to be careless, and ordered all the troops to be on guard and not slack off.
Xiao Qianbuli's troops rushed non-stop and arrived in Bingzhou in the evening. Bingzhou left-behind Zhang Xiaochun (this man was originally a pseudo-prime minister under the Han people, but he left the Central Plains with Dalan and retreated to Shanxi. After that, he was accepted by the Khitans as Taiyuan's left-behind and hurriedly came to the hall.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
