Everyone also showed a look of longing. Mo Haotian said fiercely: "If we can capture Yang Peng alive, we must light his sky lantern just like we did with Dong Zhuo!" Everyone agreed, and everyone's eyes showed bloodthirsty. Shang Shiheng smiled evilly: "After Yang Peng is eradicated, we will divide all his princesses!" Everyone laughed obscenely, with impulsiveness in their eyes, and they couldn't help but swallow their saliva, One person sighed: "So many beauties who are like gods have been ruined by Yang Peng!" Others also sighed.
Mo Haotian said: "The situation is now good, we can take action!" Shang Shiheng nodded and said: "The reason why we called everyone here today is to discuss this matter." After scanning the crowd, Said: "Now Yanyun can't care about the internal affairs at all. It's a great time for me to raise troops! I suggest that everyone gather their people immediately, seize Bianliang in one fell swoop, and then develop to the surrounding areas. What do you think?"
Everyone was eager to give it a try, and Bai Mu said loudly: "Mr. Shang, we all listen to you!" Everyone else nodded. When Shang Shiheng saw this, he was very excited and said, "Well, since everyone loves me so much, I will do my part!" Then he asked someone to get the map, spread it on the table, and everyone gathered around. Shang Shiheng pointed at the map and began to plan the operation in detail.
Xiliang is the most important city in the Hexi Corridor. It is not only the only way for merchants to travel throughout the Hexi Corridor, but also a battleground for military strategists.
Huang Zong, the governor of Hexi, stood on the gate tower of Xiliang, looking at the grassland to the west. He saw a long queue of countless people fleeing from the west. The cries of children came from time to time along the west wind. Huang Zong frowned tightly, and was very worried: the Western Liao army broke through Yumen Pass in one fell swoop, and all the 10,000 defenders at Yumen Pass were wiped out. Then the Western Liao army was overwhelming, and Shazhou, Guazhou, Suzhou, and Xuanhua Prefecture were all destroyed. Drum down! The Western Liao army is so powerful that it seems unstoppable! The situation now can be said to be extremely serious! At this time, I heard that there were rebels making trouble in Xingqing Mansion and other places! Huang Zong followed the Yang family's army on expeditions east and west, and experienced numerous small and large battles. However, he had never encountered such a dangerous situation before. He really didn't know whether he could successfully overcome the difficulties this time?
Huang Zong suddenly frowned and made up his mind: Since King Yan has entrusted the Hexi Corridor to me, I can only die in return! A scout galloped from a distance, ran into the city gate, jumped off his horse, and ran up the city gate tower. He ran behind Huang Zong, and without taking a break, he knelt down on one knee and reported urgently: "Sir, the enemy, the enemy's forward has arrived!"
Huang Zong frowned and saw dust heads rising in the distance, and there was a faint roaring sound. The billowing smoke and dust kept getting closer and bigger, and the people outside the city began to commotion. Some people screamed and ran away, while others hurried into the city.
An officer quickly said to Huang Zong: "Sir, we have to close the city gate!" Huang Zong squinted his eyes and said: "Wait a minute!" The people outside the city rolled and crawled in panic and rushed into the city. Sergeant Yanyun kept urging loudly!
After a while, the enemy cavalry was less than 500 steps away from the city gate. The officer was very nervous and said to Huang Zong: "Sir, if we don't close the city gate, it may be too late!" Huang Zong ordered: "Prepare the crossbows!" The herald shouted: "Prepare the crossbows!" Yanyun's soldiers raised their crossbows one after another. Huang Zong looked at the people who had not fled into the city, frowned, and shouted: "Close the city gate!" The herald shouted: "Your Majesty has an order, close the city gate!" After hearing the order, the soldiers saw that there were still many people who did not have the capital, and had no choice but to close the city gate with a hard heart.
The people who could not escape into the city screamed in horror when they saw the city gate closed. The Xiliao cavalry came all the way towards the city gate, slashing at anyone they saw, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. The people suffered heavy casualties, and the surviving ones ran around in all directions. Huang Zong frowned so hard that his teeth were almost broken. Seeing the Xiliao cavalry entering the shooting range, they shouted sternly: "Fire the arrows! Shoot these bastards to death!"
Sergeant Yan Yun fired arrows together, and the arrows roared away, causing the Xiliao cavalry to flip over! Seeing that there was no opportunity to take advantage of them, the Xiliao cavalry retreated. Huang Zong quickly ordered the city gates to be opened and sent a team of soldiers out of the city to rescue the people. Unexpectedly, the Xiliao cavalry came back again and again, rushing to kill! The Yanyun army outside the city immediately told the people to enter the city quickly, and he met the Xiliao cavalry! In the wilderness, Yan Yun's army was all infantry. Not to mention their small number, they had no time to form an array! The Xiliao cavalry screamed strangely and charged into Yanyun's army. Blood and flesh flew everywhere immediately, and Yanyun's soldiers fell into a pool of blood one after another! However, their sacrifice was not in vain, and most of the people were able to escape into the city!
The Xiliao cavalry killed all Yan Yun's troops outside the city. Seeing that the city gate was closed again, they yelled and cursed at the city in annoyance, and then walked away. More than thirty miles west of Xiliang, the main force led by Yelu Dashi is marching towards Xiliang Mansion. The army is huge, like a giant dragon winding over the wilderness, with clouds of banners, swords and guns, fierce cavalry, and infantry. The army is mighty, its footsteps trample on the ground and make a loud rumbling sound, and the mountains are echoing. This is definitely an invincible and terrifying army!
In the middle of the army, a large black flag is particularly eye-catching. On the big flag is embroidered a golden word 'Liao' with flying dragons and phoenixes! Under the banner, a middle-aged man wearing a golden helmet and a red cloak, high-spirited and majestic, was none other than Yelu Longqing, the founding emperor of Western Liao. He was guarded by dozens of powerful generals in heavy armor, with their axes and axes hooked and gleaming in cold light. One of them was General Mills of Hamili from Xiliao. Next to him is a general with a West Asian face, a steel needle beard on his face, a face with Chinese characters, and a majestic bear. In terms of power alone, he is even more powerful than Mills. He is the four tent guards of Yelu Dashi. One of the great generals, Wahid.
Wahid said: "The Yanyun Army is nothing more than that. Except for the admirable 10,000 Yanyun Army who closed the Yumen Gate, the rest of the Yanyun Army are simply vulnerable! I don't think our Daliao army can sweep the entire Xixia. It would be easy to sweep the entire Central Plains in one fell swoop!" The generals laughed, and Yelu Longqing also laughed. Seeing that Mills frowned slightly and did not laugh like everyone else, he asked: "Mills, you don't agree with Wa? What did Sid say?" The generals immediately looked at him.
Mills saluted Yelu Longqing and said: "General Wahid is right! But I always feel that Yan Yun will not be defeated so easily!" All the generals showed disapproval, and Wahid ridiculed Said: "Mills, I really don't understand how you could be scared out of your wits by the useless Han people! I heard that you have been defeated by the Han people many times before, which really brings shame to our people!" "Mills was furious and wanted to refute, but for a moment he didn't know how to refute.
Yelu Longqing said: "You can't blame Mills for this. At the beginning, his troops did not have any advantage compared to the Yanyun army. It is not like our current army of 500,000, which is like Mount Tai! And the main force of Yanyun is contained elsewhere. !" Wahid disagreed, but since the emperor said so, he did not dare to refute it.
Yelu Longqing glanced at the generals and said seriously: "What Mills said makes sense! The Yanyun Army is by no means an easy opponent to deal with! We just caught them off guard! You should all know that we were originally defeated. In the hands of brother Ye Qianxiu, his homeland was taken away! However, in the past few years, the Liao Kingdom was repeatedly defeated in the battle with Yan Yun. In the end, Yan Yun regained the entire Central Plains. This can be seen from this Yan Yun's strength!" When the generals heard this, they felt it made sense and couldn't help but put away some of their contempt for Yan Yun.
Yelu Longqing thought: "Now the situation is very favorable to us. We must take advantage of the temporary inability of Yanyun's main force to return reinforcements, sweep across Xixia with lightning speed, then capture Shanxi, and then go south to capture Bianliang! If we can do this At this point, Yanyun will no longer be able to make a comeback! And we, Daliao, will also gain the capital to truly dominate the world!" The generals were inexplicably excited, and Wahid loudly shouted: "Destroy Yanyun, and the next one will be Goryeo. The country is over!" Yelu Longqing nodded, looked up at the distant sky, his eyes radiated with astonishing brilliance, and murmured: "The great vengeance of genocide must always be avenged!"
The Xiliao army rushed eastward. By evening, it was less than twenty miles away from Xiliang. Yelu Longqing thought that Xiliang was the core of the Hexi Corridor, and the Yanyun army would fight to the death. The battle tomorrow would be fierce, so he ordered the army to camp on the spot and have a good night's rest, and then march again early tomorrow morning to try to seize it in one go. Xiliang.
The hundreds of thousands of troops from Xiliao came to rest. There was silence in the camp, and the only sound in the air was the chirping of insects. Yelu Longqing, however, had not rested yet. He was sitting behind the desk, looking at a map of the Central Plains, with a look of excitement and longing in his eyes. He was thinking about what would happen after entering the Central Plains, and felt that as long as he obtained the huge resources of the Central Plains, his ambitions would have a basis for realization. His ideal is not just to invade the Central Plains and establish a great empire, nor is it just to destroy the Tiger City of Yeqi and take revenge! His ultimate ideal is actually to build a huge empire that is unprecedented and unprecedented, so that everyone in the world now and in the future will involuntarily stand in awe when they hear his name! He wants to become the greatest hero under the sky!
Yelu Longqing suddenly frowned, looked at the Central Plains area, and murmured: "The Han people have a large population and are tough and good at fighting. If a hero appears among them, it will be a huge threat to my rule!"
Yelu Longqing read this, and his eyes couldn't help but reveal terrifying murderous intent. At this moment, he thought of a way to prevent the Han people from rebelling, and that was to kill. As long as he killed all the Han people, he would not be afraid of the Han people rising up in rebellion! Thinking of this, I felt that this matter was not easy to handle, so I couldn't help but lower my head and think deeply!
Suddenly a gust of night wind blew in from the door, blowing out the oil lamp on the table, and the big tent suddenly became dark. Yelu Longqing frowned and shouted: "Come here!" No one seemed to hear him, and no one came in. Yelu Longqing immediately raised his voice and called again: "Come here!"
This time someone came in.
Yelu Longqing said: "Light the oil lamp for me!" But the other party didn't say anything and walked straight over. Yelu Longqing felt very unhappy when he saw him being so rude, and then a strange feeling couldn't help but surge into his heart. At this moment, a cold light suddenly flashed in the darkness. Yelu Longqing had experienced countless dangers and had already developed a sensitivity that ordinary people did not have. When the cold light flashed, he immediately felt the danger and subconsciously turned back. He fell to the ground and rolled, and almost at the same time, there was a loud snap, and the cold light struck heavily on the back of the chair he was sitting on just now.
Yelu Longqing was greatly frightened and angry, and the first thought in his mind was that some of his men intended to rebel. The man missed a single hit and continued to attack. Yelu Longqing dodged and ran towards the outside of the big tent, shouting loudly at the same time: "Someone is coming! Someone is coming! There are assassins!" Rapid footsteps came from outside the big tent, and at the same time a large group of people came holding torches. Yelu Longqing was so happy that he quickened his pace and rushed out the door. At this moment, he only heard a whining sound coming from behind. Yelu Longqing didn't understand what was going on. He only felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder. He couldn't help but screamed, staggered and fell down. On the ground.
Fortunately, at this time, the tent guard general Wahid led all the soldiers to rush into the tent. Seeing His Majesty injured and falling to the ground, he was shocked and quickly protected him. At this time, everyone's torches had illuminated the big tent, and they saw a masked man in black standing not far away holding a long knife, with extremely cold eyes! Everyone was shocked when they saw this. Wahid raised his mace and pointed at the masked man in black and shouted: "Who are you?"
The man in black took a step back, put the long knife back into the scabbard on his back, then pulled out two crescent flying blades with both hands and threw them at Yelu Longqing! Everyone saw a flash of cold light and were horrified. Wahid hurriedly swung his mace and knocked a crescent flying knife away with a bang. The other flying knife was fired by a soldier at the critical moment. He blocked it with his body and fell to the ground with a groan, seeing that he could not survive!
Everyone was in shock, only feeling the strong wind blowing against their faces. They were shocked to see the man in black pull out his long sword and rush forward. He swung his sword to kill a soldier in front of Yelu Longqing, and then slashed towards Yelu Longqing's neck with one sword. , the sword flashed, and the speed was extremely fast!
Wahid was so frightened that he subconsciously shouted and swung his mace at the man in black. But the man in black ignored the incoming mace and struck Yelu Longqing with the light of his sword without slowing down!
Snapped! The mace hit the man in black's waist hard. The man in black grunted and spurted out blood, but the long knife in his hand also cut into the human body! But unfortunately, he only hit one soldier! It turned out that Yelu Longqing was not an ordinary person. At the critical moment, when he saw that the sword was about to approach, he subconsciously shrank back, and at the same time stretched out his left hand to the side, grabbed a random person and pulled him in front of him. At just a hair's breadth, the opponent's long knife was about to cut into his neck, but in the end it cut open the soldier's neck!
Wahid was horrified and quickly looked back. Seeing that Yelu Longqing was unharmed, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Then boundless anger surged into his heart. He raised his arms hard and flew the body of the man in black away. The man in black flew ten feet away, fell heavily to the ground, squirmed a little, and then stopped moving.
Wahid still didn't dare to be careless, and slowly approached the opponent with the mace to protect himself. Suddenly he raised the mace and smashed it against the opponent's chest. With a pop, the chest of the man in black collapsed. ! Even if he wasn't dead just now, he will definitely not survive this time!
Wahid put away his mace, squatted down, and pulled off the mask of the man in black. He saw that his face was not that of a human being, but that of a Han man. So he turned to Yelu Longqing and said, "Your Majesty, this assassin seems to be Han!"
Yelu Longqing frowned and stepped forward, seeing that the assassin's face indeed looked like a Han. He said to Wahid: "Tear off his shirt." Wahid responded and reached out to pull open the assassin's shirt. At this time, the assassin's chest was already bloody and bloody due to the heavy blow just now, but he could still do it. I saw a double-winged flying tiger tattooed with red paint on his left chest. The two-winged flying tiger was soaked in blood, making it look even more ferocious and terrifying!
Seeing this scene, Wahid couldn't help but exclaimed: "What is this?"
Yelu Longqing said: "This is the military emblem of the Yanyun Army. Every Yanyun soldier will have this pattern tattooed on his left chest."
Wahid was stunned for a moment, then woke up and said angrily: "It turns out they are assassins sent by the Yanyun Army! Humph, they can't defeat us on the battlefield, so they resorted to this method!" Yelu Longqing put down the big stone in his heart at this moment, He originally thought it was an assassin sent by someone in the country, but it turned out to be an assassin from the Yan Yun Army.
Suddenly, chaotic exclamations came from outside the big tent. Yelu Longqing frowned and asked, "What happened again?" He quickly ran out of the tent, followed closely by Wahid and others.
As soon as everyone came out of the big tent, they saw that the camp where the food and grass were piled was sparkling with fire, as if there was a fire! Yelu Longqing was shocked and shouted: "Quickly mobilize the people to put out the fire! Don't burn the food and grass!" Several soldiers agreed and ran down. The gongs, drums and horns sounded loudly, and the soldiers of the Western Liao Army They rushed to put out the fire.
Yelu Longqing frowned and murmured: "How could the food and grass catch fire?" His heart moved, and he quickly looked back at the corpse and said to himself: "Is it Yan Yunjun?" ! 'At this moment, the earth suddenly trembled, and there was a loud rumble like thunder in my ears. Yelu Dashi's expression changed, and he quickly looked in the direction of the stables. He saw that for some reason the war horses originally placed in the stables all rushed out, like rolling waves, flattening tents and knocking away human bodies wherever they passed, causing panic among the soldiers. Running around in confusion.
Yelu Longqing shouted at the top of his lungs: "Don't mess up! Don't mess up! Use torches, use torches!" In the chaos, no one heard him at all. Yelu Longqing frowned and prepared to personally lead the tent-protecting army to stabilize the situation. But at this moment, an exclamation came from the direction of the camp gate: "Yan Yun Army! Yan Yun Army is coming!" Yelu Longqing was frightened and hurriedly looked towards the camp gate. He saw countless shadows rushing in from the darkness. Enter the fortress! Yelu Longqing was horrified and couldn't understand how such a thing could happen for a moment!
Yelu Longqing had naturally considered the enemy's surprise attack a long time ago. However, considering that the enemy's troops were limited, and its elite troops should have been wiped out in the bloody battle at Yumen Pass, after that, our own army was overwhelming, and many prefectures and counties were destroyed. With a bang, Yan Yun's army was obviously defeated and could no longer form effective resistance! Under such circumstances, how could it be possible to launch a surprise attack? Even if they have the intention, there is nothing they can do! It was precisely based on this consideration that Yelu Longqing led the army all the way eastward. He no longer worried about the surprise attack of the Yanyun Army, and only focused on occupying the entire Xixia in one fell swoop, and then marched to the river and swept across the entire Central Plains! He never dreamed that the Yan Yun Army, which should have been unable to resist, would launch a surprise attack at this moment!
The Yanyun army's offensive was extremely fierce, and the two leading generals were extremely brave. The one on the left wielded a pair of copper hammers, smashing the Liao soldiers' flesh and blood everywhere, like tigers rushing into a flock of sheep; the one on the right brandished a horse spear, extremely fierce, Wherever he goes, no one can match him. Behind the two of them, thousands of black-clad and black-armored warriors were extremely powerful. They jumped on their horses and charged, as if they were in an uninhabited land. Behind them were tens of thousands of Yanyun infantry, roaring and charging, moving forward indomitably!
The Xiliao army could not resist and retreated steadily, and was about to collapse before their eyes.
At the critical moment, the reinforcements of the Liao army, led by the generals of the Liao army, continued to join the battlefield to resist the Yanyun army. Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was stabilized, I never thought that all the warriors in Xiliao would be killed one after another by the two warriors from Yanyun. The powerful generals of the Liao army are like tigers fighting sheep! When the officers and soldiers of the Western Liao Army saw this scene, they couldn't help being shocked and their morale was turbulent. The Yanyun Army took this opportunity to move forward bravely. The Western Liao Army was terrified and the army was on the verge of collapse!
Just when the situation here was worrying, an uproar broke out in the north of the camp. It turned out that another Yanyun army, led by Yue Fei Gao Chong, invaded the Xiliao military camp from the north. At this time, the Xiliao army was overwhelmed by the fire and the frightened horses. Secondly, all the attention was concentrated. In the west, they were responding to the attack of the Yanyun Army in the west. They were not prepared at all from the north, so they were rushed in by this Yanyun Army! Yanyun's army invaded the Liao army camp in one fell swoop, swept through the camp, broke down the camp tents, hacked and killed the Liao army, and set fire everywhere. The Liao army panicked and ran around!
Almost at the same time that the Yanyun army broke into the Liao army camp, to the south, Yang Xin and Fan Long led the third group of Yanyun army to break into the Liao army camp. They pushed forward relentlessly, but the Liao army could not resist and retreated steadily. The entire Liao army camp was caught in a huge melee. The Liao army was already exhausted from marching for days, and now it was attacked by the Yanyun army with a fierce attack. It could not withstand it at all, causing heavy casualties. The entire camp was in chaos. Yan Yunjun was thrown into a mess.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
