Chapter 862: Old Past

In fact, when the Xia people in Malu Pass began to attack the Flower Planter Army for the second time, Ye Qing had basically concluded that he and the Flower Planter Army might not only have to survive this night, but even survive the whole day tomorrow, so that it was possible to wait for Yu Yunwen's reinforcements.

There is basically a difference of twelve hours, which is due to the helplessness of the situation, and the reason why Yu Yunwen's reaction and prediction are slow.

But this is not anyone's fault, after all, the ever-changing situation of the battlefield is like this, relying on on-the-spot play and tacit understanding, nothing can be arranged step by step before the war, and then everything will be carried out in an orderly manner according to the plan.

The mobility of the troops in this era is basically the most cavalry, so the difference of a whole day can be regarded as within the range of accurate prediction, and it will not be like the previous life, which can be accurate to the minute and second, after all, there is no such condition at all now.

The bonfire shone on Ye Qing's cheeks, and there was a hot feeling, which made him feel extremely comfortable in the cold night, his hands were no longer as stiff as just now, and the horizontal and vertical bars drawn under his feet made him continue to think about how to deal with it alone tomorrow.

Looking up at the night sky studded with jewels, I sighed with some melancholy, if I could do it all over again, the situation would not be much different from now.

From the beginning of breaking the solid pass, he had to start to move forward quickly, and he had to break through the Great Earthquake Pass and Anrong Pass in a row, otherwise, it was very likely that he would be caught up by the Xia people who came from behind him before he could not wait for Yu Yunwen's reinforcements and could not reach the Red Deer Pass, and then he would bite them from behind, so that they would completely fall into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy on their backs.

So no matter how you plan it, this is a dead end, a desperate battle that cannot be solved, and only by fighting bloodily can it be possible to fight a bloody battle.

Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm continued to close their eyes to recuperate, Ye Qing continued to look at the bonfire quietly, feeling the slightly hot cheeks scorched by the bonfire, and the jump of the bonfire flames, as if he could already see the worst result of all the flower planters' army being killed after the day came.

The bright white star is gradually hanging high in the eastern sky, representing the end of the long night of winter, some people believe that the morning star is a metaphor for the coming of death, and others believe that the white star symbolizes the beginning of resurrection.

In the same way, there are people who always close their doors and windows tightly before dawn to block out the shining light of Taibai, whose light is said to bring diseases to people.

Along with the dawn, there is also in the east of Maluguan, dozens of miles away in the sky above Longcheng, I don't know when, but several fires have risen, illuminating half of the sky, and in the sky where there is still night, the beacon tower is also emitting thick black smoke at this time, but it can't be noticed for a while.

Yu Yunwen, Li Heng, Wu Juan, Lao Liu Tou, Zhao Qi'er, and Po Li San, a total of six people, launched a siege battle before dawn towards the small Longcheng, just like the westernmost part of Guanshan The size of Pingliang Town, at this time in the night like a lonely boat in the stormy waves, was attacked by the wave of the Song army, wave after wave of impact, destroyed.

The responsibilities of Longcheng and Pingliang Town are the same, they are the last supply stations for merchants when they are looking through the Guanshan Road, and then they start the arduous trek through the six checkpoints, or the five checkpoints of the Qinjiayuan Road, before they can enter the territory of Xia Kingdom, or enter the territory of Jingzhaofu Road.

Yu Yunwen, Li Heng, and Wu Ju were the main attackers, and Lao Liu Tou, Zhao Qi'er, and Po Li responded to the three strategies, and then after completely breaking through Longcheng, they led the elite soldiers and strong generals for the first time, pointing directly at the Red Deer Pass.

At the same time, the Red Deer Pass, also spent the night anxiously, and now the entire Guan camp is already brightly lit, because the Song people are lying on the Guanlong Road, so that they can't know when the reinforcements behind the Song people will be able to arrive, they also have to start to point generals, planning to take the lead in launching a real wave of attacks on the Song people after dawn.

There are too many people, which is obviously not conducive to fighting on the pass, and there are mountains on both sides, plus Ye Qing occupies the dilapidated and abandoned Baiqi Fort, which can be regarded as containing their large-scale cavalry charge, so it is completely impossible for Maluguan to put more than 20,000 troops into the Dawn Battle at one time.

Under the gaze of Su Dao and Wei Minglinggong, the cavalry of 8,000 people was already in full armor and waiting for the door to be opened, and then began to launch a real attack on the Song people.

Su Dao, who was on the upper floor of the closed gate city, looked at the direction where there was no longer a fire in the distance, and wished that he could look farther, or in the hazy morning mist, he suddenly saw the banner of the Xia people appear in the field of vision.

But even if he tried his best to see it, all he could see was a misty land of mountains and rivers in the early morning, which was where even the Song people were stationed last night, and at this time it was also blurred in the morning fog, and he couldn't accurately identify the direction.

The door slowly opened with a creak, and under the armor that flashed with a cold and murderous aura, there were resolute-faced Xia soldiers, with bows and arrows, waist knives, and spears in their hands, indicating that they would never fight with the Song people this time like last night, just tentatively.

The whimpering horn sounded in the thick morning mist, which woke up not only all the Xia soldiers in Maluguan, but also the Song army under the morning fog in the wilderness, suddenly raised their heads one by one and listened to the faint sound of the horn in the cold air.

"I'm tired of waiting......."

"What is more terrible than death is the time to die, but when you send you to death, it is also counted, the Xia people come to send them to death, and the brothers are a little ...... in spirit."

"The spear in Lao Tzu's hand is already impatient!"

Ye Qing pulled from the ashes of the bonfire, and finally found the two black hare legs buried under the bonfire last night, threw them to Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm, and said, "Eat more, so as not to lose strength." ”

"My lord, what are you doing here?" Mo Xiaobao also took it unceremoniously, wiped the ashes on his body indiscriminately, and then took advantage of the heat to bite off most of it.

Ye Qing looked up at the banner of the somewhat listless flower planting army under the morning mist: "The flag does not fall, and the flower planting army does not die!" It is enough to have two people with me to keep the flag. ”

"Adults should be careful, if we can't stand it, adults will run into the mountains alone, the mountains here are not high and not dangerous, but fortunately, they are quite undulating, as long as the adults see the opportunity to ......." Mo Xiaobao said while eating.

But when he said the back, the words were interrupted by Zhong Silkworm on the side: "Mo Xiaobao, why are you such a mother-in-law now?" Take care of my back, don't let the sneak attack happen. As for the Xia people...... Whether or not you can step over my corpse is one thing. ”

As they spoke, they could faintly hear the sound of iron hooves in the distance, and even the ground under their buttocks seemed to shake with it.

Before the dense fog of the early morning could disperse, the atmosphere that was originally a little quiet became solemn and solemn, as if it was grabbing people's hearts tightly in the early morning, making people feel a little breathless and uncomfortable.

The war horse was restless and used its front hooves to gouge the cold ground under its feet, or its front hooves were neighing at the thick fog of the early morning, and the soldiers of the entire flower planting army fell into silence one by one as the sound of iron hooves got closer and closer, or silently prepared their armor, wiped the waist knife and spear in their hands, checked the bow and crossbow in their hands, comforted the war horse, and strengthened the saddle.

"Brothers, it's ...... on our journey." Zhong Silkworm turned over and jumped on the horse's back, and drank the wine in the jar in one gulp, and then the jar was smashed to the ground with a crisp sound, and he roared at the morning mist.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Immediately there was a shout of slaughter from all over the mountain, followed by the rumbling of hooves, which swept like mercury rushing towards the simple fortifications.

"Take care, my lord!" Mo Xiaobao wiped his mouth, and then saluted Ye Qing and said, "If the end is unfortunate...... Adult, Xiaobao is willing to continue to follow adults in the next life! ”

"Come back alive and see me!" Ye Qing lightly imprinted a footprint on Mo Xiaobao's cold armor, and then watched Mo Xiaobao lead the silent army of five hundred kinds of flowers, passing in front of his eyes one by one.

The early morning assembly was like a farewell, Ye Qing wanted to remember every solemn cheek, but in the end, all he had in his mind was Mo Xiaobao's red eyes, and the resolute eyes of Zhong Silkworm when he left, and the straight armor back.

As everyone left, there were only two old Beiwei soldiers left beside Ye Qing, as well as the banner of the Hua Family Army, which was making a hunting sound overhead in the cold wind at this time.

All the soldiers of the Flower Planter have been placed at various key points by Ye Qing, so now he, even if he has never fought once since the beginning of last night, but all the soldiers of the Flower Planter Army know very well in their hearts that their Lord Ye has now achieved the ultimate in what he can do.

A dignified privy envoy of the Privy Council of the imperial court, the pacification envoy of Huainan East Road, the commander of the Imperial City Division, and the envoy of the five roads in the north, now in wartime, there are only two people guarding him with him, guarding the banner of the flower army for the flower army.

Ye Qing didn't have the heart to listen to the shouting and killing sound at all, but even so, the shouting and killing sound that came into his eardrum pierced his heart for the first time, and the blocking trap that he grabbed last night was completely flat for today's Xia army, and it did not cause the ideal result at all.

The range of the bow and crossbow is much farther than the bow and arrow, which is the only advantage of the flower army in today's battle, the hedge of the two sides, the arrow rain falls from the air through the morning mist to the Xia people, with the Xia people charging cavalry at the front, when the descendants of the arrow rain design turn over on their backs, at this moment both sides have been able to see each other's faces clearly through the morning fog.

Zhong Silkworm decisively waved the flag in his hand, and the cavalry who had already been ready to charge, like an arrow from the string, stepped on the dense fog of the early morning, and rushed towards the Xia people first, and the arrow rain still fell on the heads of the Xia people who were impacting like rain behind him, and at this time, the bows and arrows of the Xia people finally launched the first wave of effective shooting within their range.

The quiet morning and the tragic fighting made the permanent "residents" of this area, birds and beasts, have long been hiding in groups towards the depths of the mountains, and at this moment they can not see through the morning fog, but can only bow their heads and prick up their ears, listening to the shouts of human cannibalism.

The rain of arrows of the Xia people fell short again, and as Zhong Silkworm let the first wave of soldiers of the Flower Cultivation family start to charge for the first time, so when the bow and arrows of the Xia people could be shot, the soldiers of the Flower Planting Army rushed forward a distance of dozens of zhang, and the large open space reserved was not filled by the crossbow cavalry behind them, so those arrows fell to the ground weakly one by one.

At the same time, under the time difference, the crossbow cavalry began to fill the gap just now after another shot, and the cavalry at the forefront of the charge, at this time had already exchanged hands with the Xia people, the cold spear successfully stabbed the target, stuck in the armor and couldn't move, when there was no time to react, it was easy to give up the spear, and then pulled out the waist knife and slashed at the Xia people in front of him.

It was just an army of more than 2,000 people, and at this time, it was only divided into three waves to charge again, and the army of up to 8,000 people on the Xia people's side had just rushed out of the gate for five miles at this time, but it had just passed the road that could lead to the direction of Changning Station.

The scout armor of the begging stone martyr god slave seemed to be fished out of the water, and it was covered with a thin layer of mist: "General, the Xia people and the Song people have exchanged ......." ”

"Xia Ren really can't wait, it seems that he really doesn't want Ye Qing to live one more day." The beggar stone lie gods and slaves looked at the short distance between themselves and the red deer pass, sighed easily, turned to the golden general, and said, "Let's go, but don't rush to the road, it's enough to arrive at noon to clean up the mess." ”

The 10,000-strong Jin soldiers finally began to continue moving forward from the mountain road leading from Changning Yi to Maluguan, but their speed was even slower than that of some merchants, after all, for them, when the Xia people and Ye Qing were almost finished, it was more in their own interests for them to go over and clean up the mess.

The army had just set off for two or three miles, and the scout ran back quickly, and said with a somewhat solemn expression: "Tell the general, I found the scout ...... of the Song people." ”

"Scouts of the Song people?" The Jin general was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly turned his head to look at the begging stone martyr god slave with a leisurely expression.

"I said it a long time ago, Ye Qing had insight into our plan early on, and he already knew that we would join forces with the Xia people, so he would make a plan, and slaughter the Xia people so arrogantly along the way was to attract the attention of the Xia people. But it seems that he even counts us into account. The beggar god slave shook his head with a smile and sighed.

"Are there scouts ...... capture them?" The Jin general asked his scout again, because he was completely ignorant of the words of the begging stone lie gods and slaves, and his thinking could not keep up with the thoughts of the begging stone lie gods and slaves at all.

"Back to the general, I didn't catch it. Their scouts saw us from afar and ran away, not stopping at all. The Golden Scout replied truthfully.

"General...... Do you want to send more scouts in case the Song people set up ambushes ...... us along the road? The Jin general looked at the silent and contemplative Qishilie Divine Slave and asked.

"I'm starting to worry a little now, whether the Xia people can successfully kill Ye Qing, if Ye Qing doesn't die, even if the Song people's flower planting army is all killed, the Xia people can't win this battle. Is there any movement in Red Deer Pass? The brows of the begging stone martyrs furrowed deeper and deeper.

"Back to the general, there is no movement in the camp, but it doesn't look like all of them have been dispatched, and it should be that only a part of the troops have been dispatched to attack the Song Dynasty." The scout said hurriedly.

The begging stone spirits and slaves were looking up and listening, at this time they were not very close to the Red Deer Pass, so they could not hear the sound of the battle blocked by the mountains, even if it was faintly transmitted to them.

Under the gaze of the Jin generals, the begging stone lie gods and slaves suddenly looked back at where they came from, and then muttered to themselves on horseback: "At this time, maybe we should evacuate quickly, will Ye Qing really fight the Xia people to the death?" Don't you want to use yourself to attract the Xia people, so as to win Yu Yunwen a red deer pass with empty troops? ”

"General...... Ye Qing is my big gold trouble, and I can't keep it. If this person is still alive, it will always be a threat to my Dajin and to the Holy Lord, and now that there is such a good opportunity, we should take this opportunity to kill him to solve the trouble. If....... The Jin general looked at the gradually gloomy face of the begging stone martyr and said.

"What if? If General Ben is afraid, are you willing to take someone to help Xia Ren? The beggar stone god slave asked coldly.

"General, it's not a pity for the last general to die, as long as I can get rid of Ye Qing's great trouble for my big gold and for the saint, the last general is willing to die even if he dies!" The Jin generals didn't understand very much, at this time, it was obviously the best opportunity to get rid of Ye Qing, why was the saint Shang, a confidant general, extremely hesitant?

Could it be that it was the Liao State and his party that made him afraid of Ye Qing in his heart, or was there other reason!

"I'm worried that we will fall into Ye Qing's trap, how could Ye Qing sacrifice his life in exchange for Yu Yunwen to seize Guanshan? Guan Shan is certainly important to the Song people, but they should know that Ye Qing is more important to him Yu Yunwen and Beidi Silu. If Ye Qing died, whether it was Jingzhaofu Road or Beidi Fourth Road, after losing Ye Qing's backbone, what kind of climate could they become? So no matter how you look at it, Ye Qing should be more important than Guan Shan, how could they put the cart before the horse and exchange Ye Qing's life for a small Guan Shan? Could Ye Qing be so stupid? Could Yu Yunwen be so stupid? "The doubts that have been haunting the beggar stone martyrs since yesterday are still unanswered, but as Ye Qing's situation becomes more and more dangerous, they are becoming more and more confused.

"General, have you forgotten how Ling Zun and Brother Ling died in battle?" The Jin generals looked at the hesitant begging stone lie gods and slaves, and in a hurry, they didn't choose to speak, and poked the sore spot of the begging stone lie gods and slaves.

"Presumptuous!" The tone of the begging stone martyr became more and more cold, and his gaze stabbed at the golden general like a knife!

But also because of the words of the Jin general, the begging Shilie gods and slaves wanted to know even more what the truth was back then!

The father of the begging stone lie god slave: begging stone lie zhining, in the mouth of Wan Yan Jing, died in the hands of Ye Qing, who was the envoy to the Jin Kingdom back then.

And his brother, Qishi Liezhong, died in Ye Qing's hands in the battle of Ye Qing's Northern Expedition.

All of this was originally all the reasons why he begged the gods and slaves of Shilie and hated Ye Qing to the bone.

But since he went to Liao with Ye Qing, he began to wonder about the cause of his father's death, how he died, and whether it was related to Ye Qing!