Xiao Hong couldn't help but said: "How could we find such a secluded path without someone's guidance? It can be seen that this is the death of Yanyun!" Then he ordered the army to enter the mountain.
So the 30,000 elite soldiers turned into a long, thin snake winding between dangerous peaks and mountains, advancing slowly. Hundreds of sergeants who were good at mountaineering opened the way in front, and others followed behind. The mountain road was not only very rugged, but also It is very bumpy and dangerous. Above is a steep mountain wall with dangerous rocks, and below is a bottomless abyss. If a small stone rolls down, you will not hear the sound of hitting the bottom for a long time; the mountain road is only a few feet wide. The Khitan army could not move forward side by side at all, and could only move forward one by one, at a very slow speed.
At this time, the sound of killing in the direction of Yanmen Pass was much quieter. It was not that the sound became smaller, but that the steep mountains here hindered the propagation of the sound.
Xiao Hong led an army of 30,000 people and walked among the cliffs and mountains for more than an hour. Suddenly, they stopped in front of them, and the whole team couldn't help but stop. Xiao Hong looked up and saw that the front team had reached an extremely dangerous place, and the sergeants who were opening the way climbed over on their hands and knees. Suddenly there was a loud crash and a shrill scream. Everyone was shocked and then saw a sergeant who was opening the way in front of him sliding down the cliff. His body quickly disappeared into the valley. After a long time, they heard a muffled bang. The sound is already very low.
Everyone stood in a daze on the mountain road, feeling anxious in their hearts. Xiao Hong came to his senses and shouted: "Keep moving forward!" The army continued to move forward, more cautiously than before. Most of them climbed on all fours regardless of their appearance. In short, their appearance was not as important as their lives.
Rumble... There was a sudden loud noise on the mountain. The Khitan soldiers on the mountain road were startled. They subconsciously looked up and saw several huge rocks tumbling down from the mountain with the force of thunder! The Khitan army officers and soldiers were frightened and fled one after another. Some people lost their footing and fell off the cliff. A few unlucky guys couldn't escape and were hit by large rocks rushing down from the mountain. They were immediately bloody and bloody.
When everything calmed down, the Khitan army officers and soldiers were stunned. Xiao Hong scolded in annoyance: "If there is a landslide sooner or later, the landslide will happen at this time!" Then he shouted to the soldiers: "Keep moving forward!" He glanced upward. Under the moonlight, many soldiers suddenly saw that the entire mountain seemed to be moving, and then they saw countless rocks rushing down, making a loud thunder-like sound, like a flash flood, or like the sky was falling apart, and the whole mountain seemed to be shaking!
The Khitan soldiers suddenly changed their colors and started shouting. Some ran forward and some fled backwards. However, the narrow mountain road made it impossible for them to escape in time. As a result, many of them pushed each other and fell off the cliff. At this moment, the rocks rushed down like a waterfall. In an instant, all the blood and flesh were flying on the mountain road. Even those who were not killed on the spot were knocked down into the abyss by the huge impact. They cleverly tightened their bodies at the critical moment. He clung to the mountain wall and escaped disaster.
The huge roar and screams lasted for a while before they stopped.
Xiao Hong had just recovered from his shock and looked at the mountain path. He saw that the mountain path was in a mess and there were many corpses lying on it. Those who were not dead were huddled on the inside of the mountain wall, trembling. General Xiao Hu said: "General, what happened just now does not look like a natural landslide!" Before he finished speaking, he heard the laughter of many people coming from the mountain. The Khitan troops huddled on the mountain road were all startled. They all looked up and saw many torches lit up on the mountain. Under the light of the fire, there were numerous shadows of soldiers in armor. Needless to say, they must be Yan Yunjun is here.
The Khitan army officers were horrified, and Xiao Hong said in disbelief: "Why, how could this happen? How did they know there was such a path?!" Xiao Hong was also too confident. He didn't even think about where the generals in the Yanyun army were. If someone is not both wise and brave, can he think of things that the generals in Yan Yun's army can't think of? In fact, this path was known to Han Bing when he was stationed at Yanmen Pass. In addition, there was another path that the Yanyun Army knew but the Khitan Army did not.
Yang Jiumei looked at the Khitan army unable to advance or retreat on the mountain road below. She smiled coldly, raised her right hand and waved forward. The soldiers around her pushed down many rocks with great effort. A scene like a mountain torrent appeared again, and the rocks were rushing forward again. Going down, many Khitan soldiers were smashed away, and screams were heard.
Xiao Hong's anxious voice sounded: "Retreat, retreat!" These Khitan troops were all elites in the Khitan army. Therefore, despite the huge changes, no one escaped without orders without permission. Now Xiao Hong's order to retreat was given, and the Khitan army officers and soldiers turned to prepare to retreat. However, the mountain road was narrow and steep, and it was simply impossible to retreat in a short time.
The Yanyun army on the mountain just threw stones and shot arrows. Screams were heard one after another on the mountain road. The Khitan army soldiers were extremely angry and frightened. However, under such circumstances, their opponents had taken advantage of them. Even if they wanted to fight back, they could not. Can't do it.
The Khitan army slowly retreated down the mountain, rocks and arrows flying overhead. No one knew how many people had died unjustly and cowardly. Finally, the Khitan Army withdrew from the ambush range of the Yan Yun Army. Looking at the thrilling mountain road in the distance, everyone was extremely happy, but at the same time, they couldn't help but feel lingering fear.
Xiao Hong cursed angrily: "I will repay this revenge to you ten times and a hundred times in the future!" The voice echoed in the mountains: 'Give it back to you, give it back to you...' All the soldiers couldn't help but feel the same, Thinking of the scene of escaping from death just now, I couldn't help but feel furious.
Wow wow wow...a huge and terrifying scream suddenly came from above. The Khitan soldiers were startled and looked up one after another. Suddenly they saw a huge and ferocious black man jumping down from the bushes above carrying a pair of cold-lighting axes. At the same time, hundreds of extremely fierce sergeants The portable steel knife also jumped down.
The Khitan army officers and soldiers were shocked. Before they could react, they were rushed into the middle by the opponent. The big black man roared strangely, and a pair of axes flew up and down, slashing the Khitan army with blood and flesh flying everywhere. The other soldiers were also equally ferocious, killing lives wantonly like bloodthirsty beasts.
The Khitan soldiers had just recovered from the shock when they were attacked by such a ferocious attack. Even the most elite could not help but panic. However, they had not collapsed yet, and many of them were still fighting back desperately. At this time, if Xiao Hong could take the lead and fight the enemy fiercely, he might be able to reverse the situation. However, Xiao Hong's performance was far from his heroic words just now. He was so frightened when he saw hundreds of extremely ferocious Yan Yun killing them. His soul was shattered and he hurriedly fled down the mountain for his life. As a result, the morale of the Khitan army collapsed. Seeing that their commander had run away, the Khitan soldiers lost all desire to fight and scrambled for their lives. They pushed each other and fell off the cliff. Countless people died, far more than Yang Jing and the others.
Yang Jing was ready to kill, and he pursued him first with two axes. He couldn't help shouting excitedly, and saw that the Khitan soldiers who had no time to run away were cut into two pieces by him like firewood. The more Yang Jing and the others fought, the more excited they became. The more the Khitan army ran, the more frightened they became. They were really rolling and crawling in a panic, not choosing their way out.
The Khitan army finally escaped from the mountains. Seeing that the Yanyun army was no longer pursuing them, they calmed down a little. Thinking back to the experience in the mountains just now, I really feel like I am a human being again.
Xiao Hong looked at the soldiers around him. Although he hadn't counted them yet, he felt that they were almost half less than before entering the mountain. He felt depressed, angry, and scared at the same time, and there was also a sense of happiness. He looked around, but didn't see Xiao Hu and Zhou Fang. He was surprised and quickly raised his voice and asked: "Where are General Xiao and General Zhou?"
The soldiers looked around, and an officer rushed to Xiao Hong and reported: "Reporting to the general, I saw General Xiao Hu being knocked off the cliff by a stone on the mountain road!"
Xiao Hong was stunned for a moment, and then sadness arose in his heart. Suddenly thinking of Zhou Fang, he quickly asked: "What about General Zhou?" The officer shook his head and expressed his ignorance. At this time, another officer rushed over and reported: "Just now, General Zhou Fang was chopped into two pieces by the 'Black Evil God' with an axe!"
Xiao Hong was startled, and immediately felt like he wanted to cry without tears. He originally planned to seize Yanmen Pass with a surprise attack, but he didn't expect that the other side was already on guard. Not only did the army lose more than half, but even two trusted generals were killed! It’s really like stealing the chicken but losing the rice!
Xiao Hong felt sorry for himself for a while, calmed down his mood, and led the defeated soldiers back to the camp. When he returned to the military camp, he found that Xiao Zhanle had not returned yet, so he immediately ordered Xiao Zhanle to withdraw his troops and return to the camp.
Xiao Zhanle withdrew his troops back to the camp and hurried into the tent. He saw Xiao Hong sitting dejectedly on the commander's seat. He immediately expected something and did not dare to offend him. He just saluted and said, "The general has been ordered to withdraw!" "
Xiao Hong nodded, looked up at Xiao Zhanle, and asked: "How is the situation when you pretend to attack Yanmen Pass?" Xiao Zhanle said: "The opponent is well-defended, and our army has no chance to take advantage of it! But because the general was only ordered to feint to attack , so there weren’t many casualties!”
Xiao Hong nodded and said, "Okay, as long as there are not many casualties!" After a pause, he said to Zhan Le, "Pass the order, all armies will be on guard. Without my order, no one is allowed to go into battle without permission. Violators will be punished according to military law!" Xiao Zhanle agreed and ran down. Xiao Hong was in a daze for a while, sighed, walked to the front of Marching Collapse, and lay down.
His eyes turned to Datong Mansion.
The Liao army rested for a night, and early the next morning, they formed formations to attack the city again. The battle was very fierce, and the Khitan soldiers fought bravely to attack the city one after another. However, Datong Mansion was like a Jincheng soup pool. A wave of impact hit the city wall but broke into countless pieces! This battle lasted for three days.
On the fourth day, the Khitan army continued to attack the city, and the intensity of the attack was obviously stronger than that of the previous three days. Just when the battle was stalemate and the two sides were fighting inextricably, the Khitan army unexpectedly launched many cannons with thick iron pipes in the battle formation. All the artillery were concentrated in the direction of the west city gate, because the Khitan army had already attacked the city after the past few days. It was discovered that the West City Gate was the weakest defense point for Yanyun's army.
The Khitan army's siege troops receded like an ebbing tide. Then the artillery fired in unison, and more than two hundred cannons roared at the same time. It was really earth-shattering and deafening! I saw a hail of bullets whizzing against the city wall, making a loud crackling noise, and countless wall bricks collapsed. Two cannonballs hit the city gate tower one after another, and the majestic city gate tower collapsed.
More than two hundred artillery bombardments continued for a long time. Although a lot of wall bricks collapsed, the entire structure was not damaged. This was also thanks to the Khitan people. If they hadn't reinforced Datong Mansion so well, how could they have done it? Withstand such non-stop bombardment from more than two hundred artillery pieces?
Yeqianhu City saw that the city wall remained motionless under the bombardment of artillery fire. He couldn't help but cursed angrily: "It is so well repaired, but Yan Yun has been taken advantage of. How can it be really unreasonable!" Yeqianlongqing, who was accompanying the army, couldn't help but feel ashamed. , he spent a lot of money to strengthen the city wall of Datong Mansion. He originally planned to use it as a golden soup pool to resist Yan Yun's army, but he didn't expect that it would become a hard nail that hindered his own side. He is really not as good as a human being. God bets.
The artillery continued to bombard for a while. Seeing that this was a waste of ammunition, Yelihu City ordered the artillery group to stop bombarding. The roar of the artillery gradually stopped.
But at this moment, fireworks suddenly surged from the city wall, and then the huge roar of artillery reached the ears of the Khitan army officers. The Khitan soldiers did not react for a moment and thought it was the loud noise from their own artillery. However, before this thought was finished, the cannonballs flying from the city wall fell into the middle of our own artillery group. In an instant, only dust and flesh were flying everywhere, and the artillery pieces were smashed to pieces by the roaring cannonballs! The artillerymen of the Khitan Army were rolling and crawling around in a chaotic mess! It turned out that the flaw in the west city wall was actually exposed by Cao Jun on purpose. He did this to lure Yeli Hucheng to concentrate all the artillery in this direction, so that he could gather them and annihilate them. While Cao Jun deliberately exposed his flaws, he also secretly moved the artillery onto the city wall, leaned it on the inside, and covered it with a tarpaulin so that it could not be seen outside the city. When the opponent's artillery group appeared and the attack failed, he was ready to retreat. The artillery ambushed on the city wall suddenly pushed up and opened fire, and it worked immediately.
A round of fire rushed over, and the place where the Khitan army's artillery group was originally located was in a mess. The originally very powerful artillery pieces lay staggered on the ground, and there were many broken corpses of the Khitan army. The Khitan army officers and soldiers were extremely shocked when they saw such a scene.
Yeqi Hucheng reacted first and shouted urgently, "Save the artillery now!"
The Khitan Army's artillerymen and some infantry troops rushed forward, preparing to rescue the intact artillery before the Yanyun Army's artillery unleashed its power again.
At this moment, countless fireworks appeared on the city wall, and then an earth-shattering roar came. The Khitan army officers were shocked, and Ye Qi Hucheng exclaimed: "Why is it so fast?" Haha, it is true that ancient artillery could not be so fast, but Cao Jun thought of a clever way to divide all the artillery into two parts. They opened fire one after another. The number of artillery pieces that had just bombarded the enemy's artillery array was actually only half of the number. The other half was ready to fire but did not fire. They only waited for the enemy to come out to save the artillery, and then opened fire together to catch him off guard.
The Khitan soldiers were rescuing the artillery, but unexpectedly the enemy's artillery fire came. All they saw was blood and flesh flying everywhere. The artillerymen and infantrymen didn't care about rescuing the artillery, and ran away one after another.
The second round of sudden fire attack caused heavy losses to the Khitan army, followed by the loss of personnel. What was most unbearable for Yeqi Hucheng was that many of the precious artillery were destroyed. Yeqianhu City strictly ordered the sergeants to step forward to save the artillery. Under the pressure of military law, the sergeants had no choice but to step forward. They suffered heavy casualties under Yanyun's artillery fire, but could not save the artillery.
The Yanyun Army's artillery fire took turns to bombard them, and the Khitan Army could only watch helplessly as their artillery was completely destroyed, but there was nothing they could do. When everything calmed down, only the remains of the Khitan Army's artillery positions were left on the ground. The wreckage of the artillery and the remains of the Khitan Army soldiers were shocking. Ye Qian Hucheng's two eyes almost spit out fire, but what can be done?
At the same time, the sound of artillery was also rumbling in the other two directions. Although Yeqi Hucheng did not see the situation in the other two directions, he knew from the sound that the situation must be bad. Although he wished he could fight Yan Yunjun, his reason told him that he must stop the attack. Yeqian Hucheng forced himself to suppress his anger, and ordered all attacking directions to stop attacking and withdraw his troops back to camp. A big battle was over. The Khitan army suffered more losses than the previous days combined, but it did not make any progress.
The atmosphere in the Khitan army's tent was extremely depressing, and no one said anything. Many generals no longer had much hope of breaking through Datong Mansion. They felt that the Yanyun army's artillery was too powerful, and their own artillery was almost completely destroyed. How could they fight this battle?
Ye Qi Hucheng stood up, and the generals felt their hearts tremble, and their heads lowered even lower. However, Ye Qian Hucheng did not get angry. Instead, he walked to the sand table in the middle of the tent, looked at the terrain on the sand table, and thought about it. Suddenly his expression changed, and he pointed at Yu He, "Yu He! I have a solution!" The generals glanced at Yu He, and they were all confused.
Yeqihucheng rushed to Han Chang and said: "Han Chang, you immediately lead ten thousand soldiers under your command to a place thirty miles upstream to build a dam and block the river water!" The generals were all veteran generals on the battlefield. After hearing what Yeqihucheng said, After saying this, he immediately understood Ye Qian Hucheng's intention. Their eyes lit up, and Han Chang excitedly saluted and agreed. Yeqi Hucheng said to Xiao Qianbuli again: "Xiao Qianbuli, you lead 10,000 cavalry to guard Han Chang, just in case!" Ganbuli bowed and agreed.
"Li Yanqi, lead your five thousand infantry to dig a diversion channel outside the North City of Datong." Li Yanqi came out to promise. Ye Qian Hucheng glanced at the three of them and said: "The sooner this happens, the better. Han Chang and Xiao Qian will not leave. You two take action tonight and don't let Yan Yunjun notice it!" The two agreed and immediately Left the big tent.
What solution did Yeqi Hucheng come up with? You might as well take a guess. Haha, you guessed it right, it’s a water attack. It is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the climate is dry, and the Yuhe River is not a big river, it is just a tributary of the Sanggan River. It is very convenient to build a dam to block the water. There is no problem. If ten thousand people work day and night, it will be completed in three days. Build a simple dam, and after ten days, the dam will be able to accumulate enough water. At that time, when the dam is opened, the river water bound upstream will rush out in an instant, rushing downstream with the infinite power of uplifting mountains and crushing dryness. The water diversion channel dug by Li Yanqi can guarantee that such a force will be directed to Datong. Mansion.
The strategy of water attack has been an effective strategy often used in both China and foreign countries from ancient times to the present. It can be regarded as a kind of utilization of the power of nature. During the Three Kingdoms period, when Cao Cao defeated Lu Bu, Lu Bu's last city could not be captured for a long time, so Cao Cao came up with the idea of using water jars to sink into the pit. During the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government also did similar things and dug up the Yellow River, but that It was to retreat to block the enemy rather than to attack. China's losses were much greater than Japan's.
Yeqian Hucheng looked at the sand table and considered it carefully for a moment, trying to find the loopholes in this plan. After thinking for a moment, he felt that this water attack plan could be said to be impeccable. If Cao Jun didn't notice it, he might not know what was going on when the water poured into Datong Mansion; if he realized it in advance, that's fine, he could only take the risk of leading his army out of the city to attack my army building the dam. As soon as they come, they can kill him on the way without leaving a single piece of armor behind, and kill as many of them as they come out. In short, once this water attack plan comes out, we will be in an invincible position.
Ye Qian Hucheng smiled confidently. However, Yang Peng's face suddenly appeared in his mind, and his anger suddenly surged. He frowned and murmured: "We must beware of him attacking my dam-building army!" At this thought, Xiao Lou Shi led 20,000 war horses to guard the east bank of Yuhe River to guard against Yang Peng and the Xuanjia army that came and went without a trace. Then he assigned tasks to the other generals, guarding the forts and ambushing them halfway. Ambush halfway.
After the arrangement was completed, the generals of Ye Qianhu City retreated, returned to the main seat and sat down. Fatigue surged up uncontrollably, and he couldn't help but close his eyes and gently rub his temples. At this time, there were rapid footsteps at the door. Ye Qian Hucheng opened his eyes and saw a very strong young general in his twenties running in excitedly. Ye Qian Hucheng's extremely stern and fierce face immediately showed a loving expression.
The young general rushed to the front of Yeqi Hucheng and said, "Grandson, meet grandpa!" It turned out that this young general was the most beloved grandson of Yeqi Hucheng, Yeqi Pingnan.
Ye Qian Hucheng said: "Get up." Ye Qian Pingnan stood up.
Ye Qi Hucheng asked: "Did you not encounter any enemies while escorting the grain and grass?" Ye Qi Pingnan shook his head, "I didn't even see a ghost! Grandpa, I really want to see that King Yan, but I Let’s see who is stronger, his horse or my mace!”
Ye Qian Hucheng laughed loudly, "Okay! Grandpa is very pleased that my grandson has such ambition!" Then he frowned, "But if you meet Yang Peng, you must not be reckless! King Yang Peng of Yan is the bravest in the world. , invincible, you are no match for him! If you meet him, you must win with more, and you must not fight with him alone!" Ye Qian Pingnan was very unconvinced, "Grandpa looks down on his grandson, so my grandson must prove it to grandpa! "Ye Qi Hucheng said sternly: "You must remember what grandpa said and never act arbitrarily!" Ye Qi Pingnan was shocked. He had never seen grandpa speak to him so harshly! Although he was still unconvinced, he did not dare to rebel against Grandpa and nodded, "I understand."
Ye Qian Hucheng's expression softened, "My grandson, your martial arts skills are indeed rare among the younger generation! However, compared with that of King Yan, there is still a long way to go! You still need time!"
After all, what happened next will be explained later.
