After Li Xin attacked the city in Xialuo County for two days, he finally waited for Liao Chuan's arrival, and arrived at about the same time as the messenger sent by Deng Qiang to report the news. Thanks to the arrival of the Tang army, the Yan troops of Guangning and Shanggu are now cowering in the city and dare not come out because of the arrival of the Tang army. Otherwise, it will not be so easy to send people to communicate with each other.

"Very good, Deng Qiang's side is ready! In that case, then we can also act first! Liao Chuan, you will lead the men and horses to attack from the west of the city, and my side will attack from the north of the city, let's strive to take down the county town of Xialuo today! In this way, it will be able to play a greater deterrent role for the enemy troops in other counties! After getting the news from Deng Qiang's side, Li Xin said.

"Yes, the last general will go back and get ready!" Liao Chuan hurriedly responded.

His soldiers and horses came relatively stealthily along the way, and he did not kill directly to the city, but stopped less than five miles away from the county seat. Liao Chuan came to see Li Xin alone, so the defenders in the city did not know that the Tang army outside the city actually had a few thousand more people.

Especially for the west of the city, the previous Tang army did not have many soldiers and horses, and the intensity of the attack was not particularly large. Because of the siege battle in the past two days, Li Xin has always been in the direction of the north gate.

Therefore, if Liao Chuan's soldiers and horses were suddenly added at this time, it would definitely be an unexpected result for the side defending the city, especially the defenders in the west city.

This kind of thing is supposed to start during the day, but in order to facilitate the effect of a surprise attack by Liao Chuan's troops, Li Xin finally decided to fight at night continuously.

And on the night of their siege, the scouts sent by Deng Qiang finally met the Pingxi army that was heading north in Guangyang County, south of Yan County.

Guangyang County is a county under the jurisdiction of Yan County, which is located in the southern part of Ji County, which is just on the border with Fanyang Kingdom. Pingxi also met with Murong Ping in Fan Yangguo and learned about the previous war, so he quickly went north.

At this time, Pingxi was already appointed as the general of Pingbei, and he was the military commander of the three prefectures of Merge, You, and Ping, and it can be said that he was the most powerful Yan army general in the northern part of Taihang Mountain. It can also be seen from this that Yan Guo really spent a lot of thought in order to resist Li Xin's attack this time.

Pingxi himself led 10,000 cavalry to the north in advance, and as for the remaining 90,000 troops, the 20,000 horses that arrived in Zhongshan first had already begun to be arranged.

Except for the 20,000 remaining in Fanyang Kingdom and handed over to King Fanyang to lead, all the rest will be concentrated in Jixian County, and then cross the military capital and reach the territory of Shanggu County.

"General Qiyu! Outside the tent, there is a messenger sent by Kamiya Taishou asking to see him! On this day, Pingxi had just set up camp and was going to take a short rest before hurrying, when the guards outside came in to report.

"Oh? Hurry up and let them in! General Ben is trying to get a good idea of the situation over there! Hearing this, Pingxi hurriedly said.

Soon, a group of several people were invited to the tent, and after meeting them according to the week, they sent the single man's distress letter.

After Pingxi saw it, he couldn't help but look grim, and said: "Li Xin's army is storming Xialuo County, it seems that the situation is even more serious than I expected!" By the way, when you came, the other counties in Shanggu and Quang Ninh were safe, right? ”

"Back to the general's words, when the villain came, the Tang army had already surrounded Xialuo County for a few days. Although there were still 3,000 defenders in the city, there was no news for a long time. In addition, the Tang army also sent a lot of soldiers and horses to attack and harass other counties, even under the county seat of Fuyang, which was already not very safe. It's a safe place now, I'm afraid there is only one place left in Juyong County, but I'm afraid it won't be stable for long! ”

"Well, if that's the case, the rescue is urgent." After hearing this, Pingxi couldn't help but nod his head, feeling that the situation was becoming more and more urgent.

"When I came, my lord told me that I would definitely go north to support the general. Otherwise, once Shanggu County is lost, the military capital will be in danger. If even the military capital can't be defended, then Jidu and other places will be threatened, and even if you die, you won't be able to atone for your sins! Especially in the past two days since we went south, it is unknown what the situation in the north is, maybe Xia Luo County has been captured by the enemy! The messenger said hurriedly.

"What your adults say, General Ben understands! So be it! Go back at once and tell your lord, that he must hold out for two days, and then General Ben will surely lead a large army to the rescue!" When Pingxi heard this, he groaned for a while and commanded.

"Yes, the villain will immediately return to Fuyang County and report to my family!"

After these messengers left, Pingxi simply did not rest, and directly ordered the army to go on the road immediately, striving to rush to Shanggu County as soon as possible to block the advance of the Tang army.

As a result, the fighting on the side of Ueya-gun began to become fierce. Li Xin and the others stormed the county town of Xialuo, while the reinforcements of the Yan army accelerated towards the north, seeing that a battle was about to break out.

In the territory of Yanzhou Chenliu, Huan Wen is leading the army to constantly fight with Murong Chui.

Over the past few days, the two sides have fought a lot of battles in large and small counties around the junction of Chenliu, Xingyang, and Yingchuan counties. But in the end, there are winners and losers, and no one can help anyone.

However, since the news of Li Xin's troops in the north reached this side, the situation on the battlefield has become much more favorable for Huan Wen.

After all, it is of course a good thing that someone helps him to contain Yan Guo's energy, especially to attract part of the opponent's troops and resources.

"Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Xin sent out his troops, he won a big victory, and wiped out all the 50,000 troops led by Murong Ping! However, this is also good, the more he wins, the more he will be able to attract Yan Guo's attention. For us, the pressure is naturally much lighter! In Xuchang City, after Huan Wen received the news about Tang Jun, he couldn't help but nod.

"I'm afraid that the Yan Kingdom will really not be able to resist the attack of the Tang Army, if Li Xin is allowed to cross the Taihang Mountain and go straight south, all the way to capture Youji and other places, and even destroy the Yan Kingdom, I'm afraid it will not be a good thing for us!" Wang Xun said on the side.

"Don't worry! If Murong Ke is still there, even if Li Xin wants to destroy the Yan Kingdom, it is impossible, at least, with the current strength of the Tang Army, it is impossible! Murong Ke was also restrained by Li Xin, otherwise, Bengong really wanted to see what the two of them would be like if they fought in the north! Regarding his worries, Huan Wen obviously disagreed.

After Wang Xun heard this, he thought about it and seemed to be like this, so he didn't say anything more. After all, now Yan Guo is under attack from the north and south, like a tree in a gale, but in fact, its strength is still very strong.

Not to mention that now the Tang Army has only dispatched 30,000 troops, and it seems unlikely that it will be impossible to destroy the Yan State like this. If it comes out with the strength of the country, it will be about the same.

"It's just that the Tang Army has won many battles, which is not a good thing for us after all! In contrast, it will inevitably make people all over the world laugh at the unfavorable war on our side! Wang Tanzhi said on the side.

In fact, his words were not too straightforward, what he really meant was that he felt that both sides were dealing with the Yan army, one was not defeated in any battle, and the other was equal in victory or defeat.

In this way, it will be easy to get the impression that the Tang army is better than the Yan army, and at the same time it is better than the Jin army.

Think about Jiang Zuo's self-proclaimed righteousness in the world, whether it is the Yan State or the Tang State, in their eyes, they are just rebellious ministers who have divided one side and established themselves as kings. If his army can't match these people, of course it will make people laugh when it spreads.

"You're right! Since Li Xin had already sent troops according to the agreement, he won one after another. We can't be idle, especially not to make them feel that we are inferior to them, and we must also come up with a big victory! Ordered the generals to come to discuss the matter, this time the duke will fight Murong to the death! Huan Wen listened, and after being silent for a long time, he said slowly.

Not to mention how Huan Wen is preparing to fight, just say that Pingxi's side has just arrived at the south entrance of the military capital, that is, when the military capital passes, they got a very bad news. That is, the county town of Xialuo has been taken by the Tang army, and now Li Xinzheng is leading the army to rush to Fuyang County.

What's more serious is that it is said that after Li Xin heard the news that Pingxi's army was heading north, he had the idea of giving up attacking Fuyang County. Because he planned to directly capture the Juyong Pass in the north first, the general Ducheng would block it, so that the Yan army reinforcements could not go north to rescue.

After hearing the news, Pingxi suddenly became anxious and sped up again. After all, everyone knows that if Juyong Pass is lost, tens of thousands of troops on his side will not be able to pass, so what's the use.

At that time, the loss of Shanggu Guangning and other places will become a foregone conclusion, and I am afraid that my trip will be in vain. Ping Xixing's division moved the crowd to come, of course, he didn't want such a thing to happen, and the army had to travel day and night.

The military capital is long and narrow and winding in the deep mountains, except for the Juyong Pass in the north and the Jundu Pass in the south, the middle more than 40 miles are in the valley. In such a place, even if Pingxi led the cavalry, it would not be fast at all!

Fortunately, for Pingxi, the military capital is still under his control. So, even if you move slowly through this valley, you don't have to worry too much.

But what he didn't know was that just when he was about to enter the military capital, some changes had begun to appear in the Juyong Pass in the north.

On a moonlit and starry night, the Yan soldiers in Juyong Pass were patrolling separately, and most of them were already asleep.

Although it is said that there is continuous fighting in the north at this time, for the defenders here, there is no Tang army after all. Therefore, no matter how strict the defense is ordered from above, it is impossible to be as vigilant as on the battlefield.