The 550,000-strong army slowly retreated to the west, making a loud thunder-like sound, and the smoke and dust filled the air, covering the sky and the sun.
Yang Peng raised his right hand and shouted: "Advance the army!" The 200,000 Yanyun army immediately took action, slowly moving away from the city wall and following the Khitan army. Yang Jiumei on the city wall was shocked when she saw this scene and said: "No, King Yan has been fooled!" She quickly turned to Ye Qi Guanyin who was responsible for guarding the city and said: "Princess, the enemy is deliberately luring King Yan away from the city. Yes, we should quickly advise King Yan not to be fooled by the enemy!" Ye Qi Guanyin was also a little worried, but she believed in her elder brother more and said: "My elder brother is unmatched in his bravery! He will never fail to see the enemy. He must have his own plans, we don't have to worry!" Even so, how could she not be worried in her heart? She was just pretending to be calm. When Yang Jiumei saw what Ye Qi Guanyin said, it was hard for her to say anything else.
The armies of both sides moved to a place about ten miles away from the city and stopped, and the confrontation resumed. Yang Peng did not wait for the Khitan army to take further action, so he ordered the Zhanjin Kingdom to challenge. A man from the Kingdom of Zhanjin rode alone between the two armies, shouting a challenge, leaping on his horse and crossing his spear with murderous intent!
Who among the officers and soldiers of the Khitan Army does not know Yan Yun’s black-armored general Zhan Jin. In the past, countless famous generals from the Liao Kingdom died in his hands. They all know how powerful he is. Now they see the formation of Zhan Jin. Challenged before, I couldn't help but feel fear in my heart. The soldiers looked at their generals one after another, hoping that a brave general would appear to fight against the Zhanjin Kingdom and defeat the Zhanjin Kingdom. However, the generals were even more afraid to face the Zhanjin Kingdom. Almost all of them lowered their heads and became dull. He was so talkative that he didn't dare to make any noise at all, for fear that if he made any noise, the king would misunderstand him and send him to fight, which would be a dead end.
Seeing that the generals did not dare to fight, the officers and soldiers were disappointed and their morale was somewhat dampened.
Seeing that no one came to fight after shouting for a long time, the Zhanjin Kingdom simply started to insult them. The Zhanjin Kingdom was not very good at swearing, but the Khitan people felt very useless for being scolded in silence. Despite this, no generals dared to fight. As a result, the morale of the Khitan army was further dampened.
If Yeqi Hucheng continues like this, without fighting, our own side will probably collapse, so we immediately ordered the formation to slowly approach Yan Yun's army! The horns and drums sounded loudly, and the 550,000-strong army advanced while shouting. The huge sound shook the world. With this, the morale of the Khitan army was quickly restored by more than half! Seeing the 550,000-strong army slowly pressing forward, it was truly terrifying and overwhelming!
The Yanyun army formed a circular formation. Specially made huge shields that were taller than a man were arranged at the front to form two strong shield walls. Behind the shield wall were soldiers holding four-meter spears. The other soldiers were behind the soldiers with spears. Two hundred thousand troops formed a mountainous formation, ready to face the enemy's attack!
After a while, both sides entered the shooting range of the opponent's divine arm bow. In an instant, tens of thousands of crossbows were fired, and dense rain of arrows like locusts flew in the sky, and the sharp sound of breaking through the air filled my ears!
Most of the crossbow arrows fired by the Khitan Army hit the giant shield, but even a small number of crossbow arrows that crossed the giant shield caused considerable damage to the Yanyun Army. Once the powerful arrows shot by the Divine Arm Bow hit the human body, they would generally The armor of the Yan Yun Army was simply unable to withstand it, and the huge force knocked the soldier who was hit by the arrow to the ground; the crossbow arrows of the Yan Yun Army caused more damage to the Khitan Army. The Divine Arm Bow of the Yan Yun Army was based on the original Divine Arm Bow. The improved ones were even more powerful, piercing shields and armor, destroying everything. There were screams in the Khitan army, and many people were shot to the ground. The Khitan army officers couldn't help but see how powerful the opponent's divine arm bow was. I was shocked.
Yeqi Hucheng frowned, and Han Chang next to him exclaimed: "What kind of weapon is this? It seems to be more powerful than the God's Arm Bow!" Zheng Shilong frowned and said: "When we attacked the city earlier, why didn't Yan Yun's army Use this kind of weapon?" Other generals were also very confused. In fact, the reason is very simple. Because it is difficult to make and the cost is high, which is three times that of an ordinary divine arm bow, currently only a part of the army directly under the legion is equipped with this improved version of the divine arm called the 'Yanwang Divine Arm Bow'. The bow's range and power have been further enhanced, and it is currently the only powerful weapon that can penetrate Xuantian's armor.
Seeing that they could not gain any advantage in the shooting, Yeqianhu City immediately ordered two wings of light cavalry to outflank the Yanyun Army's rear route to disrupt the enemy. At the same time, he ordered the military formation to continue approaching the Yanyun Army and ordered the crossbowmen to fire with all their strength.
The Khitan army's formation continued to approach. What the Khitan army did not expect was that the Yanyun army on the opposite side was also slowly advancing. Yeqi Hucheng couldn't understand the opponent's intention for a while, but he felt that the distance between the two sides was just what he wanted. I don't mind. Both sides fired arrows non-stop. Although the power of the Khitan army's crossbows was far inferior to that of the Yan Yun army, their large numbers and firepower density were much higher than that of the Yan Yun army. Therefore, in such long-range shooting exchanges, Yan Yun's The military did not take much advantage!
But when the two sides came close to being only a hundred steps apart, the situation changed. When the distance is close, it becomes difficult to throw the crossbow. Therefore, at this distance, the divine arm bows of both sides can only shoot directly. The powerful rain of arrows shot from King Yan's divine arm bow pierced through the frontline shields of the Khitan army like a torrent, and penetrated the human body. The people in front of the Khitan army's formation were thrown off their backs, causing heavy casualties. However, the arrows fired by the Khitan army were all hit by Bi people. On the heavy shield that was still high, although many sharp arrows penetrated the heavy shield, they could not fly out from behind the heavy shield, so they could not cause much damage to Yan Yun's army!
Yanyun's military formation stopped, and at this distance, they continued to fire powerful arrows from various divine arm bows to sweep away the enemy! The powerful rain of arrows fired from King Yan's divine arm bow destroyed the shield line, and then the dense arrow rain from the ordinary divine arm bow swept over the Khitan army soldiers who had lost the protection of their shields. Under the rain of arrows, the Khitan army soldiers were shot down one after another. The ground was filled with screams.
The Khitan army officers and soldiers never dreamed that they would encounter such a thing, and they were horrified. Yeqianhu City urgently ordered 15,000 iron pagodas to come out and attack the enemy's formation! The Iron Buddha of the Khitan Army, a powerful brigade of the Khitan Army that roamed the world for righteousness, could once be said to be an invincible and invincible war-god-like existence. Usually in the wilderness, nothing could stop the charge of these heavily armored warriors. , what can really be said is that he is invincible with thousands of troops on his feet! In Shaanxi that year, Zhang Jun led nearly 500,000 Song troops, including the Wu brothers, to face hundreds of thousands of Khitan troops. However, they were killed and defeated in pieces. This was because the Khitan army was so powerful that the iron pagoda was unable to attack. After resisting, the 500,000 Song army formation was washed to pieces by the steel torrent composed of 10,000 iron pagodas like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and was ultimately defeated! This shows the strength of the Khitan Army’s Tiefutu!
Fifteen thousand iron pagodas shouted, rushed out, and swept towards the Yanyun army's battle formation with a roar. The iron hooves are rushing, the rolling waves are like overwhelming mountains, and the earth is shaking violently!
Yan Yun fired thousands of arrows, and the Khitan army's Tiefutu felt as if they were suddenly slammed into a violent storm. With a loud crackling sound, the people of Tiefutu turned on their backs! The violent torrent of steel was hit head-on, and its momentum was stagnant! The shouts rang loudly again, and the iron pagodas of the Khitan army continued to rush in. These iron pagodas were the elites of the Khitan army who were not afraid of death. Yan Yun's powerful arrow rain attack not only did not make them feel timid, but made them Becoming more bloodthirsty and crazy! The horses galloped wildly, roaring like thunder, iron hooves rumbling, and the cold light shining like snow!
In the blink of an eye, the torrent of steel from the Khitan army rushed in front of us, and we could clearly see the bloodthirsty and crazy eyes of the Iron Buddhas!
War General Meng Hu shouted sternly: "Attack with spears!" All the spearmen shouted in unison, leveling their four-meter-long spears and pointing them at the rushing steel torrent. In the blink of an eye, the torrent of steel from the Khitan army hit the forest of spears heavily, and there was a huge sound of broken spears. Many spearmen were blown away by the huge force; at the same time, many iron pagodas were pierced through their bodies. , horses neighed and people shouted. The torrent of steel broke through the forest of guns, and then violently hit the heavy shield defense line, like a stormy wave crashing on the shore! However, most of the impact of the iron pagoda was removed when it hit the forest of guns. Therefore, although it was very violent when it hit the heavy shield defense line, it was not powerful enough to break through the heavy shield defense line!
There was a violent impact, and the heavy shield defense line was knocked unevenly. However, the defense line was not torn apart by the opponent's iron pagodas, and the impact of the iron pagodas was completely removed!
The heavy shield defense line was immediately withdrawn. Yang Jing, who had been impatient for a long time, led fifteen thousand Modao troops wearing Xuantian armor. They roared out of the military formation like a tiger out of its box and rushed into the Khitan army. In the middle of the pagoda. The huge Mo Dao flew up and down, and wherever the sword passed, people fell down, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and screams were heard. The heavy armor on Tie Fu Tu was like a piece of paper in front of the sharp Mo Dao. It's broken and vulnerable! But the battle ax in the hands of the Khitan army could not cut through the most sophisticated Xuantian armor. There was a loud clang and sparks flying, but it could not cut through the armor on the Mo Dao army! The Iron Buddhas had never encountered such a thing before. They had also fought against the Mo Dao Army before, but they had never been unable to cut through the opponent's armor. What the Tiefutu people didn't know was that the Mo Dao army in front of them had already been equipped with Yanyun's most sophisticated Xuantian armor before the war started. This kind of Xuantian armor has extremely excellent defense and is better than the previous equipment. The Black Lion Armor is even more powerful. It is a double-layered plate armor that can withstand attacks from almost any weapon in this era!
The Mo Dao army formed a horizontal row, waving the Mo Dao, and the wall of swords flashing with cold light continued to advance forward. The enemies in front of them were torn to pieces, and blood was flying all over the sky! Tiefutu is brave, and even under such circumstances, he continues to charge forward, one after another, without any fear!
While the Khitan Army's Tiefutu and Modao Army were fighting fiercely, the Khitan Army's light cavalry divided into two groups and rushed fiercely towards the two wings of the Yanyun Army's formation. Smoke and dust filled the sky, and the huge roar was like a pack of wolves rushing towards their prey. A huge noise!
Yanyun's crossbowmen fired immediately. Under the dense rain of arrows, the Khitan army's light cavalry was seen flipping over. However, the Khitan army's light cavalry continued to charge forward, using their riding and archery skills to fly while firing arrows, which also caused damage to Yanyun's army. Certain damage. They rushed fifty or sixty steps in front of the Yanyun Army's defense line, suddenly turned around, and flew side by side with the Yanyun Army's line. At the same time, they fired arrows at the Yanyun Army's formation. Many Yanyun Army soldiers fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. The volley of crossbows blew past like a storm, and the Khitan army's light cavalry fell. The other light cavalry were frightened and hurriedly turned their horses' heads and ran away from the Yanyun army's formation.
Seeing that the two light cavalry who intended to disrupt Yanyun's army were repelled by the opponent's powerful arrows, Yeqianhu City couldn't help but frowned. He immediately ordered all the infantry to charge. He intended to use the huge advantage in numbers to overwhelm the Yanyun Army in one fell swoop. In his mind, as long as the Yanyun Army's formation was destroyed, he would be able to finally annihilate the enemy with his own huge strength advantage!
Yang Pengjuan immediately ordered the army to be divided into ten small circular formations. Yan Yun's army was well-trained. Before the wave of enemy troops came up, they changed their formations and formed ten small circular formations that supported each other. Just like the previous large formation, The heavy shield bearer is at the outermost position, the spearman is at the back, and the other soldiers are at the center!
The trumpet sounded loudly, and the Mo Dao army who was killing the enemy at Tiefutu immediately gave up the battle when they heard the signal, retreated to the middle of the ten circular formations, and formed a separate circular formation. Tiefutu was killed by Mo Dao's army and suffered heavy casualties. He was in a daze. Seeing Mo Dao's army retreating, he didn't even think of pursuing him.
Seeing the opponent's change of formation, Yeqian Hucheng didn't care so much and ordered the army to attack with all his strength! More than 500,000 Khitan troops shouted, rushing towards Yan Yun's army like a rolling wave! In the blink of an eye, this powerful wave submerged the eleven Yanyun army formations. The Khitan army soldiers surrounded a circular formation and attacked fiercely. However, the Yanyun army was on the periphery with heavy shields. Although the Khitan army was outnumbered, Everyone, for a moment, was unable to tear apart the Yan Yun Army's shield defense line!
Countless spears suddenly shot out from the circular formation. Many Khitan soldiers had no time to dodge and were stabbed down on the spot! change! The circular formations rotated one by one, and the sharp spear blades rotated and swept away. The bodies of those who stood in the way were cut open one after another, and blood and flesh flew everywhere for a while. The Khitan army retreated continuously, not daring to get close at all.
At this moment, Yan Yun's war drums sounded loudly, and the Mo Dao army, which had been shrinking into a military formation, immediately shouted, then dispersed and rushed out, rushing into the middle of the Khitan army and killing the Khitan army soldiers, directly killing the Khitan army soldiers. The corpses were covered in blood and retreated continuously. Every Modao Army member was like an immortal god of death, and the Khitan Army soldiers' swords were completely useless when they hit them.
Seeing that the Khitan Army soldiers could not break through the Yanyun Army's defense line, and that their own soldiers continued to suffer casualties due to the opponent's counterattack, they could not help but feel panic and retreated continuously. The army retreated to the starting position when attacking. At this time, the eleven small circular formations of the Yan Yun Army gathered together, and in just a moment, they actually transformed back into the previous huge circular formation.
When the Khitan army officers and soldiers saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel terrified. Han Chang said with some fear: "The Yanyun Army is not only tough and good at fighting, but also skilled in battle formations. It may not be easy to defeat them!" If Han Chang usually said such words, someone would definitely refute them loudly, but this time But no one said anything, everyone frowned and looked solemn.
At this moment, Yan Yun's army formation was opened, and countless majestic, tall and murderous war cavalry poured out of the formation. The ground trembled violently. King Yan's cavalry rushed up like a tide, like mountains moving forward, unstoppable! These King Yan's iron cavalry numbered 15,000. They were the strongest elites in Yanyun's army except the Xuanjia army. Each knight was an iron-blooded warrior selected from thousands of times. They wore Xuantian armor and straddled Sitting on King Yan's horse and holding a mace, they are extremely powerful and powerful. They look nothing like a human army, but like the Demon King's cavalry descending from the demon world to the human world! And the one who led these 'Devil Cavalry' into the formation was naturally the 'Big Demon King' Yang Peng. He took the lead and swallowed up the mountains and rivers!
Seeing this scene, Ye Qi Hucheng and others were shocked. Ye Qi Hucheng shouted: "No!" It turned out that the Khitan army had just retreated after a defeat, and it was still in a mess. It was too late to form a formation to meet the enemy!
Yeqianhu City had no choice but to order all the iron pagodas to fight, and at the same time ordered other armies to quickly form formations. The Khitan Army's Tiefutu received the order, and even though they knew they were no match for King Yan's cavalry, they went forward without fear. At this time, there were only about 10,000 people left in the Tiefutu of the Khitan Army. The others had just been killed by the Mo Dao Army led by Yang Jing!
The cavalry of both sides clashed at full speed, like two surging waves of steel. In the blink of an eye, the two sides collided and started killing each other. The King of Yan's cavalry wielded a huge mace, which was fierce and fierce. When it hit Tiefutu, the armor was dented and the bones and flesh were broken. Tiefutu turned over like a sheep entering a herd of tigers. Tiefutu is worthy of being the elite of the Khitan army. Although he was defeated, However, because their mounts were much shorter than the King Yan's cavalry, it was difficult for their tomahawks to hit the vital points of the King Yan's cavalry, even if they hit the body of the King Yan's cavalry. , often just splashing some sparks, and it is difficult to cause any substantial damage to King Yan's cavalry!
After a round of charges, the two sides passed each other. At this time, the field between the two sides was littered with corpses, most of which were the corpses of the Iron Buddha, and the scale of the Iron Buddha was obviously weakened a lot.
Yang Peng glanced at the Khitan army and saw that the Khitan army was still hurriedly forming their formation. He immediately ignored the Khitan army's Tiefutu and led the King of Yan's cavalry to charge straight towards the Khitan army. Yeqi Hucheng was shocked and didn't know how to deal with it for a moment!
Fifteen thousand heavily armored war cavalry slammed into the middle of the Khitan army. The iron hooves rolled forward and trampled the Khitan army. There was a terrible sound of shattering bones and flesh. Maces whizzed and flew, smashing the Khitan soldiers to pieces. , screams kept coming and going! The Khitan army was terrified. Seeing that King Yan's cavalry was unstoppable, they ran backwards one after another. The formation of hundreds of thousands of troops was actually overwhelmed by 15,000 King Yan's cavalry!
At the same time, Yanyun's main force launched an all-out attack, charging towards the Khitan army from all over the mountains and plains. The Khitan Army's Tiefutu and War Cavalry rushed forward desperately to intercept King Yan's Iron Cavalry and other Yanyun troops. The soldiers and horses of both sides were in chaos, and bloody and tragic battles continued. The Khitan army's cavalry, who were not afraid of death, continued to counterattack, causing considerable losses to the Yanyun army; while the Yanyun army walked on the enemy's corpses and blood. Keep moving forward, beheading people at the top and horses at the bottom, killing the enemy until their corpses are covered in blood. …
The fierce battle continued until dusk. The Khitan army retreated, and the Yanyun army did not continue the pursuit and retreated to Yanjing City. Thousands of people in the city were idle and cheering. The people were so happy to see their own army defeat the enemy in one fell swoop! Many people knelt down and worshiped Yang Peng. In their eyes, Yan King Yang Peng was probably equivalent to a god.
In the palace hall, Yang Peng glanced at the generals and said with a smile: "Thanks to all the brothers for their hard work, otherwise we would not have been able to defeat the Khitan army!" All the generals showed excitement, and Yang Jing said very depressedly: "I, Yang Jing doesn’t understand, the Khitans have already been defeated, why don’t we pursue the victory and kill all those birds?”
Ye Qi Guanyin smiled and said: "Although the Khitan army was defeated, it was not in chaos. If it continues to pursue, the Khitan army will definitely turn around and fight. After all, our military strength is far inferior to that of the Khitan army. If the Khitan army fights to the death, the result will be But it’s hard to say!” Yang Jing felt that what Ye Qi Guanyin said made sense, smacked his lips and said, “What my sister-in-law said seems to make sense!” Everyone laughed.
Yang Peng frowned and said: "Although our army won this battle, the basic situation has not changed. The enemy is still strong and we are weak!..." Yang Jing said carelessly: "We are afraid of them! We can defeat them once. You can defeat them ten times! After defeating them ten times, they will be finished!"
Everyone laughed. Yang Jiumei said: "It is very difficult to win this kind of battle with a small number of enemies, let alone ten times!" She looked at Yang Peng and said solemnly: "King Yan, please don't act rashly in the future unless it is absolutely necessary. Lead the army to attack!" The generals were very dissatisfied with Yang Jiumei's words, but Yang Peng nodded solemnly and said: "What Mr. Yang said is very true, I have written it down!" After a pause, he thought: "Although what Mr. Yang said is true, It makes sense, but we still have to find a way to defeat the Yeli Hucheng in front of us! Only by defeating him will our situation be fundamentally improved!"
Everyone started talking in low voices, and Yang Jiumei frowned and said: "Although our army won a battle today, the Khitan army suffered a lot of losses. The enemy army is still far stronger than our army! It is not easy to completely defeat Yelihu City. !”
Yang Peng smiled and said: "Although it is difficult, it is not completely impossible! At least the current military strength gap between us and the Khitan army is much better than the military strength gap between Cao Mengde and Yuan Shao back then!" Ye Qianhu Chengdao: "Yuan Shao is not as good as big brother!" Yang Peng smiled and nodded, saying: "That's true!" Then he thought: "To defeat Yeqi Tiger City, a frontal attack is obviously impossible, we can only win by surprise! ..." Then he fell into deep thought. Everyone knew that Yang Peng was considering countermeasures and did not disturb him.
On the other side, Yeqi Hucheng howled loudly like a wounded beast in the tent. The generals were frightened, lowered their heads, and did not dare to breathe out.
Barun rushed in and reported with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, our iron pagoda has suffered heavy losses, and only more than 3,000 people are left!" Yeqi Hucheng felt a pain in his heart and couldn't help but shed tears and screamed in sorrow. He said: "These iron pagodas will fight with me in the world. They are the most loyal and brave warriors of our Great Liao Kingdom! I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it..." Then he roared fiercely: "Yang Peng, if I don't cut you into pieces, I swear. Not human!"
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
