Three hours later, it was almost dusk, Li Jing stood at the head of Daizhou City, looking at the flags and carts that were thrown everywhere outside the city with a stern expression, followed by more than a dozen subordinates with excited faces, pointing to the enemy camp outside the city one by one, talking to each other.

And at the gap under the city, Hou Mo Chen Yi was directing hundreds of people to work in the flowing water, and the people behind were handing bricks and stones one by one, while the dozen or so sergeants in front were skillfully building the wall, and the gap that was more than two zhang wide was almost half filled in after a while.

Feng Xiaoci's voice rang loudly: "His grandmother's, it seems that Qiao Zhongkui finally couldn't bear the casualties, and admitted defeat and retreated." ”

Lu Yu took a closer look at the flags and carts outside the city, and said, "General, could it be that something happened behind the enemy's back, so he was in a hurry to withdraw the army?" From this situation, it does not seem to be a fake, you can see that all their flags and carts have been lost, and the horseshoe prints of the wheels are also in a mess. ”

Feng Xiaoci excitedly beat the battlements and shouted: "General, quickly order to go out of the city to pursue the enemy army, and press these rabbit cubs for almost a month, this time you can finally take revenge!" ”

Lu Yu smiled and said to Feng Xiaoci: "Old Feng, you are the most anxious, everyone has been tired for so many days, and the iron body can't bear it, I think it's better to treat the brothers well and let everyone rest and rest." There are tens of thousands of enemy corpses piled up outside the city, and we have not had time to clean them up, and the weather is so hot, if we don't deal with it in time, there will be an epidemic, these are all things we have to do now. ”

Li Jing stroked his hair and thought for a long time, and muttered: "I always think that things will not be so simple, just leave." This is not quite like Qiao Zhongkui's approach, he suffered such a big loss this time. How could you be so willing to withdraw like this? Even if there is something, even the infantry army will not walk so cleanly. And there is no rearguard left here to make a show. ”

Feng Xiaoci looked at it and gasped: "His grandmother's, it's really!" General, do you mean they're cheating? ”

Li Jing shook his head: "It's hard to say now, it's been a month since Yang Liang rebelled, and the imperial court should have requisitioned soldiers and horses from all over the country to encircle and suppress it, and we have dragged Yang Liang's most elite troops here, which will definitely be beneficial to the overall situation." In any case, we can't afford to slack off yet. I will give the order to go out of the city with 300 people, peel off the armor of the enemy's corpses, and then pile them up and burn them, and the rest of the soldiers defending the city must not slack off. ”

Suddenly, Wang Erniu ran over out of breath, shouting as he ran, "My lord, my lord." There is a situation in the northern city pass! ”

An hour later, Li Jing led Yang Yichen and walked all the way to the head of the southern city.

The gates of the city had been opened, and thousands of soldiers and men had covered their mouths and noses. They were busy stripping off the armor from the enemy's corpses and sending them back to the city, where dozens of large pots of boiling water had already been boiled. Throw the armor from these dead bodies into boiling water to sterilize.

In the open field outside the city, there were already three large piles of corpses as high as hills, two of which were burning with raging flames. The pungent black smoke was accompanied by a disgusting smell of corpses.

And the defenders on the city pass all knew the news of the arrival of reinforcements, and they were all full of spirits. Standing like a javelin, many people choked on tears in their eyes despite the thick smoke, and no one left their posts.

Yang Yichen looked around at these sergeants and sighed: "Brother Daoxing, you are really powerful, more than 3,000 lone soldiers can defend this not very strong city, and the soldiers can maintain such a high morale after more than 20 days of hard fighting, I am far behind." Li Jingzi Daoxing has been friends with Yang Yichen for many years, so Yang Yichen calls him by his words.

Li Jing replied with a smile: "Yichen, this is all thanks to the kindness of the former emperor, and his subordinates are deeply favored by the former emperor, and they are willing to repay him with death, and this is a Jedi, there is nowhere to escape, only to fight to the death with all his strength." It doesn't take you twenty days to gather troops and horses and cross this western place to come to the rescue, which is difficult for me to do. The two looked at each other and laughed.

After laughing, Li Jing looked at the stars outside the city, and asked thoughtfully: "Could it be that my judgment is really wrong, Qiao Zhongkui really got some kind of emergency and withdrew the army?" ”

Yang Yichen patted Li Jing on the shoulder: "Be careful to make the Ten Thousand Years Ship, firmly hold this place is the most important, even if Qiao Zhongkui really catches fire in the backyard, it is because the soldiers and horses from other roads of the imperial court have hit Yang Liang's hometown, so he has to withdraw his troops to save it." ”

Li Jing nodded: "If that's the case, we can chase them fiercely." ”

Yang Yichen thought for a while and said: "Otherwise, I will lead 8,000 cavalry out of the city first, if I catch up with Qiao Zhongkui, I will hit them, if they have an ambush, my cavalry can also withdraw at any time, the remaining 10,000 infantry troops should be able to arrive tonight, and then I can help you defend the city, tomorrow afternoon, Yang Xuangan's 5,000 Xiaoguo can also arrive, even if Qiao Zhongkui plays any tricks, our army will not have to worry." ”

Li Jingdao: "This is very good, but you must be careful of the righteous ministers, Qiao Zhongkui's subordinates are all elite iron cavalry, if you fight head-on, I am afraid that your light cavalry-based army will suffer, once you find that something is wrong, leave immediately, don't fall in love." ”

Yang Yichen smiled "hehe" and stopped talking.

At noon the next day, Yang Xuangan and Wang Shichong's five thousand Xiaoguo finally entered Daizhou City from the path of Naxi Cheng after a long trek of ten days.

Li Jing said with a stern face: "Yichen has been gone all night, and there is no news yet, I am afraid that I have really encountered the main force of the enemy, I am full of infantry here, and I want to defend the city, I am afraid that I can't help Yichen now, the two generals are all elite Xiaoguo knights, and they can just go to help Yichen." ”

Wang Shichong nodded at Yang Xuangan and said, "Xuangan, General Yang may have an accident, you take Xiaoguo to answer it, don't do it, don't fall in love with war!"

Yang Xuangan went down the city directly, and after a while, the city gate was opened, and all five thousand Xiaoguo had two horses and two horses, and the fish came out, and in less than half a pillar of incense, it was lined up into a standard cavalry formation of fifty horses in a row, and the infantry soldiers in the city were busy draping the vests on the deputy horses one by one on the front row of war horses.

Yang Xuangan ordered, and the four thousand horsemen in front of him were all armored. marched in formation, and the 1,000 horsemen behind them were not armoured. Carrying the group of deputy horses forward, after an order. The Iron Cavalry Formation of the Elite Armor began to rush south, rolling up the dust.

After walking for more than ten miles, Yang Xuangan suddenly found that some small black dots appeared on the horizon in front of him, and quickly moved towards him, as the distance approached, the small black dots gradually became clearer, and the number became more and more, from dozens at the beginning to hundreds, thousands. In the end, there were seven or eight thousand, bringing up billowing smoke and dust.

Yang Xuangan stopped the black cloud, raised his right hand, and the herald on the side hurriedly took out the horn and blew the trumpet to stop the march, and the steel cavalry array was suddenly fixed in place, and the knights in the front row took out their winding crossbows one after another and aimed them at the front.

Yang Xuangan's eyes were like torches, and he suddenly saw that these knights who were running wildly were the Shuozhou cavalry who had been setting off for more than a day. The armor was scattered, the faces were disgraced, and the banners were also beaten crookedly, and it was obvious that it was already a rout.

In the front of the cavalry. A handsome banner embroidered with the word "Yang" was moving rapidly, and Yang Yichen under it was already in his armor and his armor was cracked, and he was hit by an arrow in his shoulder. He was holding the neck of the speckled brown-maned horse, and the whole person was lying on the horse's back. The legs kept kicking the horse's belly, and the horse's belly had already been pierced with blood by the boot spurs. He was spitting blood and running desperately.

More than 20 zhang away from Yang Yichen, a black-faced general who was as strong as a bear, with a double halberd on his back, holding a spear, a black horse on his crotch, also a full vest, and a steel horn thorn high on the horse's forehead, was gritting his teeth and chasing Yang Yichen, shouting while chasing: "Hugh is leaving Yang Yichen!" ”

Behind him, thousands of rebel cavalry wearing ghost masks and armor were also desperately pursuing the Shuozhou cavalry.

There are not many soldiers who follow Yang Yichen's side, there are only more than ten people left, there are four people who turn their horses' heads, wield guns, spears, hammers and axes and other weapons, and turn around to kill with the black-faced general, only to hear the black-faced general laughing wildly, while waving the spear with one hand in his right hand, and pulling out the iron halberd on his back with his left hand, opening the bow left and right.

Seeing this, the other three horsemen shouted, their left spears and their right spears, stabbing the two ribs of the black-faced general, while the hammer soldiers directly rounded the sledgehammer, and rushed to the black-faced general with the help of their horses, and smashed it on his head.

The iron halberd in the left hand of the black-faced general flew out, in the middle of the front door of the spear soldier on the left, the spear in the right hand first swung horizontally, and the spear soldier on the right suddenly felt a strange force coming from the wrist, the tiger's mouth burst suddenly, and he could no longer hold the spear in his hand, and was swung to the side, the middle door was wide open, and the spear of the black-faced general was like a poisonous snake out of the hole, "poof", directly from his front heart penetrated, and the back of the heart drilled out.

The spear soldier screamed miserably, grabbed the shaft of the spear tightly with both hands, and stared at the black-faced general with his eyes before he died. And the last one of the hammer soldiers was about to spurt blood in his eyes, and stood directly on the horse's shoe, the long-handled copper hammer held high above his head, ready for the thunderous blow.

The black-faced general yelled "Good coming"! With one hand, he used the shaft of the spear to lift the body of the spear soldier directly, high above his head, and roared loudly with his tongue, and the corpse was thrown out by him heavily, impartially, and smashed on the body of the soldier who was still five or six paces away from him.

The hammer soldier was too fast, and stood on the horse's pedal, at this time there was no way to avoid, and was directly smashed upside down and flew out five or six steps, "bang", fell to the ground, the black-faced general had a cruel smile on his face, took two steps forward, pulled the reins, the black horse stood up with its hooves high, and stepped down heavily, directly stomped on the head of the hammer soldier who was still squirming on the ground like a watermelon.

The black-faced general killed four strong guards around Yang Yichen in a moment, and the high level of martial arts was really staggering. It's just that the desperate struggle of these four people bought a little time for Yang Yichen, and Yang Yichen was already a hundred steps away from this person at this time.

The black-faced general spat heavily on the ground and scolded: "Yang Yichen, I cheapened you today, and he will take your dog's head one day!" ”

Before the black-faced general's words fell, he suddenly felt a strong wind in front of him, and there was a terrible sound of breaking the air in the air, and a white light flashed so that his eyes could hardly open, and he screamed in his heart that it was not good, and it was too late to block. Hurriedly bowed his head.

The black-faced general only felt as if a fire was burning on his head, and then his scalp was cold. The helmet was pierced by a long-pole wolf's tooth arrow, and flew directly more than a dozen paces away. The castration was not over, and it was nailed into the heart of a cavalryman of his own side in the back.

The black-faced general raised his head, only to see that more than two hundred steps away, a knight in armor and cavalry, black horse and silver armor, and a gold-faced knight, was holding a pure steel tire bow more than half a person high, his eyes were like electricity, and his eyes were full of murderous intent!

The black-faced general was secretly shocked in his heart. He gritted his teeth, and with his left hand quickly removed his four-and-a-half-stone strong bow from the saddle, and with his right hand he took out a goose feather arrow from the quiver and put it on the bowstring, and the bow was like a full moon, and with a loud roar, he shot the arrow.

It's too late. At that time, Yang Xuangan's arrows were also shot almost at the same time, and the two arrows were castrated like meteors catching the moon, and they collided in the air.

I only heard a "ding" sound. The black-faced general's Yan Ling arrow broke into several pieces in the air and fell to the ground, while Yang Xuangan's long-pole wolf tooth arrow was blocked somewhat. The strength and accuracy are a lot worse, but the remaining momentum is not exhausted. Continue to run towards the black-faced general.

The black-faced general really saw one side of his face. The arrow flashed, and a blood mark was immediately rubbed on the right cheek, and it hurt fiercely. And the cavalrymen who followed this person to pursue Yang Yichen were so frightened that they stood on the spot one by one, which one dared to step forward again?

I only heard Yang Xuangan say coldly: "If you can take me two arrows, you can be regarded as a hero, spare you today and don't die, and take your life on the battle array another day!" The sound came clearly into everyone's ears from a distance of hundreds of paces, and everyone who heard it lost color.

The black-faced general roared hatefully: "Who will come, leave your name, grandpa will not kill the nameless ghost, he will meet on the day so that you can die to understand, I am the second general under General Qiao, and Wang Ba is also." ”

Yang Xuangan's cold tone revealed a strong killing intent: "I am the Great Sui Pillar Kingdom, Xiaoguo is the leader Yang Xuangan, Wang Ba, see you next time, you won't have such good luck!" ”

Wang Ba gasped: "Yang Xuangan? Are you really Yang Xuangan who broke the Turks? ”

Yang Xuangan replied proudly: "Will this still be fake?" ”

Wang Ba's face was full of fear, and finally he gritted his teeth, shook his horse's head, and shouted to the soldiers on the left and right: "Look at what, collect the troops!" ”

When he passed by his helmet more than ten paces away, his wrist shook, and the tip of the spear was like a smart snake's head, and he directly picked up the helmet and put it back on his head.

Yang Xuan coldly watched the tide-like pursuers retreat back one after another like the waves of the ebbing tide, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the reason why he came alone just now was because the enemy and me were mixed, and even Xiaoguo's formation was a little shocked by his own defeated army.

In this case, Yang Xuangan can only fight alone, relying on the fighting general and retreating from the enemy's chasers, fortunately, that Wang Ba is really the enemy's leading general, and he is still at the forefront, but this person's martial arts are high, Yang Xuangan's life has only been seen, obviously above the vast sea, and only Xue Rengao of the Golden City can be compared with it.

Yang Xuangan also turned the horse's head, only to see that the crooked and slanted "Yang" character banner had gradually been erected on the side of the Xiaoguo cavalry array, and the defeated Shuozhou cavalry was regrouping towards the banner in twos and threes, and Yang Yichen was stationed under the banner, his face was full of dust, his black and white eyes were full of tears, and his expression was full of loneliness.

Yang Xuangan galloped to Yang Yichen's side, looked at the cavalry gathered behind him, there were more than seven thousand, and his heart was a little relieved.

Yang Xuangan took off his face, squeezed out a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "Brother Yichen, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and occasional small setbacks are inevitable, but fortunately, most of the brothers have returned, and the loss is not big, now that our Xiaoguo Knight has arrived, we will regroup and fight again tomorrow, and we will definitely be able to win." ”

Yang Yichen shook his head bitterly, and every word he said seemed to be crying blood: "No matter what happens, it can't make up for Si'en's life!" ”

Yang Xuan was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped: "What?!" Sien, what's wrong with him?! ”

Yang Yichen shook his head in pain, but he didn't want to say a word, Yang Xuangan suddenly turned to a guard general dressed as a lieutenant beside Yang Yichen, and asked sharply: "What the hell is going on?!" ”

That person was Liu Wuzhou, he sighed, and his eyes were shining with tears and said what happened after Yang Yichen left Daizhou City yesterday:

Yang Yichen's more than 10,000 cavalry, after leaving Shuozhou City, all the way forward, Yang Yichen is a battlefield general, although it is a pursuit, but still cautious with troops, the front and flanks are widely distributed scout cavalry, no blind advance.

As a result, after running for more than two hours and chasing sixty or seventy miles, the front suddenly reported that there was an enemy cavalry formation five miles away from the main army, and the flanks also returned, saying that there seemed to be a large group of cavalry on both sides interspersed with maneuvers to the rear, intending to encircle.

So Yang Yichen immediately decided, the front team retreated, with a strong bow and crossbow to suppress the position, and then the army began to cover the retreat in echelons, so arranged, the enemy army in the dark night could not judge the specific number of the other party, and did not dare to rush to press, the two armies confronted each other all night, until dawn to see the whole picture of the other party.

As soon as the enemy saw that Yang Yichen's army was neat and orderly, and knew that this army was a strong enemy, they did not dare to outflank it with a large division of troops, but withdrew the troops on both wings and engaged them in a dignified formation. (To be continued......)