Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 3 Turbulent Central Plains

Chapter 2: The Crisis of Hunger Gathering

Verse 8 counts

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Yunwei led the main army of the Hanwei battalion to the north, preparing to pursue the army of thieves who had retreated to the north. Fearing that the army of thieves besieging Yanshi would scatter and flee on the spot, and that there would be no way to chase them when the time came, Liu Yunwei hurriedly ordered the army to pursue at full speed, not giving the thieves any chance to breathe.

By noon, the main army of the Hanwei battalion had been pursuing forty miles to the north, but still no trace of the thieves was found.

After resting for a while, Wu Xing was also suspicious, so he found Liu Yunwei and said: "Big brother, these thieves are some rabble, but we can't catch up after chasing for so long, it's too unbelievable!" ”

"That's right, there must be a demon when things go wrong!" Liu Yunwei said in a deep voice: "It seems that we have encountered an enemy, there must be someone in command among these thieves, we are probably fooled!" ”

At this moment, a team returned without collecting Pegasus at night, found Liu Yunwei and said: "General Qiyu, the trace of the thief army in front has disappeared, and now it is gone!" ”

Liu Yunwei was shocked when he heard this, and said: "We have won the scheme!" ”

Wu Xing was also shocked when he heard this, and said: "Big brother, these thieves must have returned to Yanshi to attack the city, let's hurry back to help!" ”

Liu Yunwei tried his best to calm down at this time, thought about it and said, "No! Even if the thieves go back to attack the Yanshi, it is impossible for them to break through the city before we return to help, so the army of thieves must have gone somewhere else. ”

"So where are they going?"

Liu Yunwei thought for a while, and suddenly a trace of realization flashed in his mind, and then he said angrily: "Yiyang! The main direction of attack of the thieves is Yiyang! The army of thieves on Yanshi's side must have gone to Longmen Pass, and they must have wanted to concentrate their forces to defeat Longmen Pass, so as to block the imperial court's reinforcements to the east of Longmen Pass! In this way, the main army of thieves can calmly break through Yiyang. ”

Wu Xing was shocked when he heard this, and exclaimed: "These thieves still know the art of war? We're really underestimating! ”

Liu Yunwei said angrily: "You dare to tease me!" Look how I exterminate these thieves who have brought disaster to the country and the people! The order was given, and the army immediately went south to Longmen Pass, and at the same time informed Lu Ying's Feiyu Department that the reinforcements of the thieves were about to arrive, so be careful! ”

Immediately, the main army of the Hanwei battalion turned around and moved south, and arrived at the north bank of the Yishui River an hour later.

Liu Yunwei looked at the wide river and was extremely anxious, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers of all departments to find boats to cross the river, but in a hurry, where could they find a boat that could transport tens of thousands of horses? For a time, the main army of the Hanwei battalion was stranded on the north bank of Yishui.

Liu Yunwei was anxious at this time, if the army of thieves in Yanshi and Longmen Pass succeeded in meeting, then the army of thieves gathered in Longmen Pass would reach a terrifying more than 100,000 people! No matter how outstanding Lu Ying's Flying Feather Department is, it will not be able to repel the 100,000 rebels independently, and the defenders of Longmen Pass are almost negligible, so Longmen Pass will definitely be lost!

At this time, a man who did not accept it came over and said, "General Qiqi, we have found a ferry port five miles to the east, and there are more ships there to transport the army over. ”

When Liu Yunwei heard this, he began to calculate: "No, if these tens of thousands of people want to cross the river, no matter how many boats at that ferry port are, they will not be able to transport the army across the river in a short time, it seems that this is the only way!" ”

Thinking of this, Liu Yunwei called Wu Xing over and said: "From now on, you will command the main army, you must hurry up and cross the river to Longmen Pass to support, and I will lead the Longxiang Iron Cavalry to the ferry to support first." Remember, be quick! ”

Wu Xing nodded when he heard this, and said, "Big brother, don't worry, I will definitely bring the army to Longmen Pass as soon as possible." Big brother should also be cautious, these thieves are not simple! ”

Liu Yunwei nodded, and then gathered the dragon and the iron horsemen set off, and the two thousand iron horsemen rushed towards the east with the roar of iron hooves, and disappeared at the end of heaven and earth after a while. Wu Xing then ordered the army to march as well, and also led the army towards the ferry to the east.

Longmen Pass.

At this time, Longmen Pass has been stained red with blood, tens of thousands of people are fighting to the death under the city, and Lu Ying is commanding the soldiers of the Feiyu Department to fight fiercely against the army of thieves besieging Longmen Pass.

At this time, the battle was extremely fierce, although the soldiers of the Feiyu Department led by Lu Ying were far more elite than the army of thieves, but the number of thieves was too much, tens of thousands of people were crowded on the battlefield outside Longmen Pass, and the boundless sea of people was like a dark cloud in the sky; Moreover, these thieves are all not afraid of death, all of them are going forward to attack the phalanx of the Flying Feather Soldiers, and the fierce battle has started less than an hour ago, and the corpses of half a person high have been piled up in front of the Flying Feather Phalanx, and those rogue soldiers are still rushing up over the "corpse wall" in front of the formation. The madness of these rogue soldiers made up for the lack of quality of their individual soldiers to a large extent, and brought great pressure to the soldiers of the Feiyu Division, and the battle situation was in a stalemate for a while.

The defenders on the Dragon Gate Gate were frantically firing arrows at the army of homeless people, hoping to relieve the pressure on the soldiers of the Feiyu Division, but in the face of the crazy crowd tactics of tens of thousands of thieves, the arrows of the defenders were like fallen leaves in the sea, and they couldn't stir up a drop of waves at all; Moreover, the defenders of Longmen Pass only have a total strength, and in addition, there have been many casualties in the previous battle to defend the city, so they have no ability to go out of the pass to attack the thieves at this time, so they can only stare anxiously at the wall.

Lu Ying once again summoned all the crossbowmen to shoot at the thieves in front of the formation that had already impacted, and finally beat this wave of attacks, but before he could take a breath, he saw that more thieves were gathering, and the next wave of offensive had already taken shape.

"These thieves are even crazier than those members of the Smelling Fragrance Sect, are they all crazy!" Lu Ying commanded his subordinates to guard against it strictly, and said in his heart.

Seeing that the thieves were killed again, Lu Ying knew that if this continued, once the morale of the soldiers declined, it would be the time when the phalanx would be broken by the thieves! After all, after a large expansion, the combat power of the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion has seriously declined, although it is still far more elite than the thieves, but how long it can hold out under such a crazy attack, Lu Ying's heart is also bottomless.

"Must fight back!" Lu Ying roared in his heart.

As a result, Lu Ying quickly mobilized a total of more than 1,500 soldiers from Division B and Division C, and when this wave of thieves was repulsed, he personally led the army to launch a counter-charge against the army of thieves.

These 1,500 soldiers had been pressed and beaten by thieves before, and they had already accumulated full anger in their hearts. Under the leadership of the main general Lu Ying, these 1,500 soldiers all rushed out of the phalanx with a roar, and one after another crossed the "corpse wall" that was close to one person high, and killed the army of tens of thousands of thieves.

Soon, the two sides were fighting together.

The war knife in Lu Ying's hand flew up and down, slashing the thieves to the ground, and the soldiers behind him also roared and fought with the thieves, and the entire battlefield suddenly shook the sky. Countless thieves swarmed in, wanting to kill Lu Ying's department, but the gap in strength was still very obvious in a short period of time, and the soldiers of the Feiyu Department who attacked were fighting in a neat formation, like a boulder in the stormy waves, no matter how the huge waves hit, they still stood still, but those huge waves collapsed and scattered after hitting the boulder.

At this time, a banner was erected in the rogue formation, and a leader was standing under the banner and watching the development of the battle.

The leader's name was Yu Shiqian, who was formerly an officer and army commander, and had participated in the Battle of Sarhu just a few months earlier, under Juniper. However, when the four armies of the imperial court were defeated one after another, Yu Shiqian fled back to the pass with his surviving soldiers. Because he was defeated and fled, he should be beheaded according to military law, so Yu Shiqian did not dare to return to the army, and after a while, he met the leader of the thieves in Henan, Zhao Guyuan, who was still a rich man at the time, and became a leader under his command.

At this time, Yu Shiqian looked at the fierce battle in front of him, and the shock in his heart had reached the point of no return: "These officers and troops are really strong, only three or four thousand people, and my tens of thousands of troops have been attacking for half a day, and they can't be attacked!" It's not okay to go on like this, in case other soldiers and horses in the imperial court arrive, my tens of thousands of horses will be explained here! ”

Thinking of this, Yu Shiqian prepared to mobilize another 5,000 people to kill, even if he fought with his life, he had to fight these thousands of officers and soldiers! Otherwise, when will Longmen Pass be captured?

Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the back of the army of thieves, and then Yu Shiqian saw a Ming Sun Moon Jintao battle flag appear behind him, and there was a Liu Zi General Flag next to the battle flag. Two thousand elite iron horsemen like dragons and tigers were charging on horseback, and under the guidance of the Ming Battle Banner, they crashed headlong into the thief array.

"Nope! How so! Where did these officers and soldiers come from? ”

Yu Shiqian shouted in despair, although he had tens of thousands of horses in his hands, but what kind of goods these horses were Yu Shiqian's heart was very clear. Attacked from behind by this elite iron cavalry, Yu Shiqian's tens of thousands of troops will collapse in an instant!

Sure enough, with the rapid impact of the two thousand iron horsemen, the rogue array had begun to fall apart, and the rogue soldiers who fled in panic could be seen everywhere.

At this time, Lu Ying saw the opportunity and roared, and led the soldiers of the Feiyu Department to take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the army of thieves suddenly fell into a situation where they were attacked by the enemy. Yu Shiqian was horrified when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered the army to withdraw from the battlefield and retreat to the east.

Suddenly, there was a sky full of dust on the north side of the Longmen Pass battlefield, and the earth was also shaking slightly, and the two sides who were fighting were very clear that a large group of soldiers and horses had arrived!

Seeing this, Liu Yunwei roared, and led the Long Xiang Iron Cavalry to kill the thief array, and rushed straight to the location of the Feiyu Division, and shouted loudly at the same time: "Reorganize the queue!" Reorganize the queue! Decisive battle! ”