However, Huang Fayan, the official who supervised the grain and grass, sent no less than three batches, but after five days, it was not said that there was grain and grass delivered, and even the soldiers he sent were like a sea of stones, and there was no news.

As a veteran on the battlefield, the food and grass in the rear did not arrive, and there was no information back from the soldiers he sent for the second time, Huang Fayan already understood that the enemy had broken through his blockade, penetrated deep into the rear, destroyed the grain route, and hunted down the people he sent.

It's just that what worries and puzzles Huang Fayan is that he finally sent 1,500 people, divided into two groups, and went to Guangling in the south and Shiliang City in the southwest to ask for help at the same time. But two days later, no message has been returned.

Huang Fayan was very confident, and under his nose, it would never be possible for more than 2,000 enemy troops to sneak into the rear without being detected. To be able to rob and kill the soldiers sent by himself so quickly, only a cavalry with a very high mobile surname could do it. In the information he received, Wang Lin did not have cavalry in his hands, and the most elite cavalry of Qi State, the elite soldiers who had followed Emperor Shenwu Gao Huan to fight, were all defending Yanjing Yecheng.

The 1,500 men sent by Huang Fayan for the third time were the most elite soldiers in his hands, all of whom were good at fighting on the battlefield for a long time and fighting three enemies. The thousand men moved in two directions, knowing full well that there was an enemy in the shadows, but they were all ambushed, and none of them survived. Huang Fayan sent troops to search a radius of forty miles, but found no trace of the battle.

Gu Huang Fayan speculated that the number of enemies was not large, and it should be about 1,000 people. Regardless of whether the enemy kills the men sent by him one by one, or ambushes them separately, the enemy's combat effectiveness and military quality are quite terrifying.

Huang Fayan couldn't help but regret a little, if he had attacked Yangping at any cost at the beginning, he was afraid that he would have set foot on the head of Yangping City in only a month. It's just that he was afraid that his offensive would be too fast and too deep, and that the newly occupied land lacked a strong force to deter and rebel, so his offensive was not strong in the past three months, and it was more of a huge psychological pressure on Northern Qi. But I don't want to, and now I am in such a predicament.

If Huang Fayan had 50,000 soldiers in his hands, he would never be so distressed, but now he is short of manpower. After three months of attrition, although there were fewer losses due to the slow offensive, nearly 10,000 soldiers fell under Yangping City.

Excluding the nearly 2,000 people who asked for help but were missing, there are now less than 20,000 soldiers in Huang Fayan's hands. If there is plenty of food and grass in the army, he will be able to break through Yangping City in two days at most, as for the small group of enemies behind him, it is just a disease of mustard, and after having Yangping City, it is just a turtle in an urn, and it is easy to take it.

However, this can only be Huang Fayan's expectation and Yiyin, and now there are only two ways in front of him, either to do everything to step up the siege and take Yangping City before the grain and grass run out, or to retreat and then do his own plan.

According to the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Yangping City and the intensity of resistance, it is extremely difficult to take it within three days with less than 20,000 soldiers, and once it fails, the 20,000 army will be scattered in an instant.

If the troops are withdrawn, it will greatly damage the morale of the Chen * army of the Northern Expedition, and it is more likely to affect the development of other war situations.

In the huge handsome Zhangzhong, Huang Fayan kept pacing, his brows furrowed tightly, and the dim light illuminated Huang Fayan's somewhat old face flickering. The left hand is 20,000 fresh lives, and the right hand is the country's ambition and hegemony. His heart couldn't help but struggle, and his face kept changing.

"If you don't succeed, you become a benevolent! Wang Lin, this general will pay tribute to the heroic souls of our soldiers with your heads! Suddenly, Huang Fayan stopped, his face suddenly became serious, and he muttered to himself murderously. There was an unusually fierce light in his eyes, his fists clenched, and his clenched teeth creaked. Obviously, he chose to break the cauldron and storm Yangping City in a desperate gamble.

After making up his mind, Huang Fayan was no longer distressed, and just lay on the couch to rest, when a mournful cry sounded: "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack-"

Huang Fa was startled, jumped off the couch, and ran quickly to the outside of the tent. The camp was extremely noisy, and the voices of the generals shouting and tidying up the ranks were all in one piece, and although the scene was a little chaotic, these soldiers were usually well-trained, and they were not very alarmed at this time.

"General, someone is attacking the camp." Huang Fayan had just gone out, and the deputy general ran forward to report.

"Who? How many? Huang Fa asked in a deep voice.

"It's cavalry, it's too dark to see how many people there are!" The lieutenant said loudly.

"Don't panic, kill the enemy with me!" Huang Fayan scolded secretly, shouting loudly to issue orders, and the people quickly rushed towards the chaos.

When Huang Fayan arrived at the scene, he could only listen to the sound of horses' hooves and watch the enemy disappear into the darkness, leaving only more than 30 corpses, but none of them were enemies.

These soldiers were all dead under the bow and arrow, Huang Fayan quietly looked at the corpses on the ground, looking at the feather arrows that were deeply inserted into the bodies of the soldiers of Chen*, his face was so gloomy that he seemed to be about to lower his face.

After a long time, Huang Fayan raised his head, a smile actually appeared on his face, and he said loudly: "You don't have to worry, you should be happy." Wang Lin is a poor donkey, and he only sent a hundred people to attack the camp, isn't it a joke? This shows that Yangping City is now empty and abnormal, and the city is not far away. General Wang, send more people to guard, and the others go back to rest, and tomorrow will launch a general attack, and will definitely take Yangping City in one go! ”

The deputy general commanded, Huang Fayan looked at the nearly 100 arrows that were stuck on the ground and the dead Chen * Jun again, and turned away, but his mood was a little heavy.

More than 20 miles away from Chen's army camp, about 100 black-clothed knights stood quietly in the night, like a statue, without the slightest movement. The first person wore a mask with green fangs on his face, and under the faint starlight, it was extremely scary, and he was not happy that someone would come.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard with a little hurry, and at the same time nearly a hundred horsemen rushed towards him in a happy vision.

"General." The hundred horses came to a distance of five meters in front of Gao Xing, and stopped neatly, and even the mount did not make a single abnormal sound. If you look closely, you can see that all the knights are with bamboo and horses, and all the hooves of all the horses are tightly wrapped in cotton.

"How's it going, is anyone hurt?" Happy asked.

"In accordance with the general's orders, we did not get too close to the camp of Chen's army, but only released a round of arrows and then retreated, but unfortunately only thirty or forty enemies were shot!" He still doesn't give up, and there is a hint of regret in his tone.

"Hey, you're greedy!" After scolding happily, he said: "It's good that no one is injured, our goal of harassing the enemy is to succeed, and it doesn't matter how many enemies we kill." Could it be that you didn't vomit enough that day? In the latter sentence, the happy tone was a little teasing.

"Coax" all the other soldiers laughed good-naturedly, until Shang Buqi felt a hot face, and couldn't help but cast his angry and warning eyes on the smiling soldiers. It's a pity that maybe it's because of the night, everyone can't see the eyes that don't give up, and the laughter doesn't stop.

Seven days ago, they were all killing for the first time, when the blood in their hearts was slightly cool, the cruel bloody and disgusting battlefield, and the fear after the killing, made everyone feel uncomfortable and vomited frantically.

However, the strange thing is that after the happy song "Lullaby", the next day, everyone magically came to life, the shadow in their hearts faded a lot, and there was no too much rejection of killing.

All this is due not only to the gentle and soothing tune of "Lullaby", but also to the joy of the singer.

In my previous life, because of the unknown material of the Buddha pendant on my chest, I was happy to study a lot of Buddhism. He was also very familiar with some Buddhist scriptures and mantras, and when he sang that night, he used his true qi to imitate some Buddha qi, which was of great help to cleanse people's hearts of the evil qi.

In the past few days, there is accurate news from Zhang Shunzhi, who is happy to run around with a thousand cavalry, and eat all the people sent by Huang Fayan, except for more than 100 people who were seriously injured and could not fight in a short time, no one was killed, which is all due to the sharpness of the crossbow arrows and bows and arrows that were improved by Xingxing, and the harsh training of the past.

"Okay, don't laugh, be careful not to give up the food for you when you go back, and practice you well!" Said with a happy smile.

All the soldiers laughed and looked at him with some suspicion. He was amused and angry, and he didn't know what to say, so he just snorted and rode his horse behind him.

It didn't take long for a hundred horsemen to return, and just like Shang Bu Wai, they were also faithful to the happy order, but they just released a round of arrows, killed a handful of people and ran back.

The officers and soldiers of Chen*jun in Yangping City all felt pain, and they had an urge to scold their mother. In the middle of the night, the enemy came to attack the camp one after another, but they were anticlimactic, and they didn't even let out a fart when they came, so they ran back again.

They really wanted to beg those black-armored cavalrymen to slow down a little, not to go so fast, so dashing, not to take away a single cloud, but to leave a hundred feathered arrows.

Seeing that the sky was hazy, it was about to dawn, but the officers and men of the Chen * army were still worried and did not dare to relax in the slightest. The hateful raiders did not stop overnight, and the whole group of people came to attack the camp. If it is in vain, the cavalry of these hundred people does not pose the slightest threat to them, but not at night.

Chen's army did not dare to send troops to pursue, for fear of falling into the enemy's annihilation, but it was also very difficult to defend passively.

The first three groups of cavalry attacked the camp, and there was only half an hour between them, which did not cause much damage to the much more vigilant Chen * army. Just when they thought they had touched the enemy's pattern, an hour passed, but there was no trace of the enemy. An hour and a half later, just when Chen *jun was glad that the enemy was not coming and his heart was relaxed, the enemy came again.

This time, it was from all sides, which made Chen *jun, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, tense his nerves again. In the same way, the enemy still left them with that gorgeous back. The time interval between the enemy's attacks seems to be regular, and when you follow it to defend, the enemy just doesn't come, and when you slacken, he appears just right. Throughout the night, the nerves of the officers and men of Chen's army remained in a state of high tension.

The night before dawn, the most dangerous time, and the most tired time of man, the enemy really came again.

Attacking the city during the day, these Chen * soldiers were already very tired, and they were worried all night, and they couldn't sleep, and they were even more physically and mentally exhausted at this time. When the sound of horses' hooves was heard, all of them came to their senses and rushed to the intruders excitedly, and they wanted to teach these abominable fellows who disturbed their dreams a good lesson.

However, when these Chen soldiers excitedly shot the intruders with their bows and arrows, they found that the enemy was simply out of the range of their bows and arrows, and their own side was so suppressed by the enemy's dense feathered arrows that they couldn't lift their heads.

Of course, there is a happy professional traverser here, and the compound bow used by the Mongolian iron cavalry across Europe and Asia is stronger than Chen *jun in terms of range and lethality, which is also the reason why Chen's army cannot hurt any cavalry.

When Chen *jun dodged the arrows in a panic, a heart-shaking buzz sounded, and then after hearing the "whoosh" dense and drizzling roar, the screams of his own camp sounded one after another, but the enemy retreated again at this time, without the slightest nostalgia.