The Northern Han army was trapped in the wilderness, fighting hard for more than ten days, and wanted to break through, but they were all blocked by the Yong army's death battle, but the Yong army could not break the Northern Han army formation in a hurry.

On April 18, the Northern Han army ran out of food, but killed horses for food, and at dawn, the troops broke through the siege, and the battle was decided.

-- "Information Governance Guide; Yongji III

What is a heroic stranger, what is a desperate situation, Long Tingfei sighed softly, after many years of fighting, he has never been in such a dangerous situation, but Long Tingfei was surprised to find that his mood had not fluctuated in the slightest, from the moment he found that he was besieged by the Yongjun, he clearly heard the sound of the tight string breaking in his heart. He is really tired, over the years, he has almost single-handedly supported the overall situation of the Northern Han Dynasty, the enemies on the opposite side are endless, and they are tenacious, they are not arrogant in victory, they are not discouraged in defeat, they almost grind away his edges and corners and fighting spirit, and the henchmen who leaned on his arms died to death, and he rebelled, and now he is alone, and he has personally pulled the lovers who concluded the Mandarin Alliance into a desperate situation, and his own path is afraid that it has come to an end, Long Tingfei knows in his heart that this time there will be no hope of escape.

The ambush of the Yong army and the iron cavalry of the king of Qi who had regrouped, more than 400,000 troops trapped the 100,000 Northern Han army in the wilderness, and there was no absolute difference in the combat strength of the two sides, and it was absolutely impossible to break through without heavy sacrifices. Qinzhou is narrow, and it is only possible to break through in the two directions of Ji and Zezhou, but if it is to break through in the direction of Zezhou, Long Tingfei and others know that they are afraid that there is no chance to return to the Northern Han Dynasty, the enemy occupies a strong position, and their own options are extremely limited, in this case, in the past ten days, Long Tingfei and Lin Bi personally planned several breakthroughs, but unfortunately because of the intention of the whole army, each breakthrough was blocked by the Yong army, leaving the flesh and blood of countless soldiers, Qin Shui whimpered, blood flowed like a river, in the Yongjun more and more tightening encirclement, Even the dirt was soaked in blood.

Sitting on the ground in the simple camp tent, the dim light of the torch reflected on Long Tingfei's emaciated and haggard face, compared to the heroic posture in the past, now Long Tingfei's expression is indifferent and lonely, only the slightly blue eyes, still flashing with light, but those who are interested can see that unlike the arrogance of looking at the world before, the light in his eyes is full of understanding of the world and inexplicable pathos.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the tent, Long Tingfei didn't look up, still looking at the simple map drawn by Xiao Tong himself, which recorded the Yongjun defense map that the scouts in the army had forgotten to die. Someone walked into the camp tent and stood in front of him, the firelight dragged the figure of the person for a long time, and the shadow blocked the map in front of Long Tingfei. Long Tingfei frowned slightly, raised his head, and the extinguishing firelight reflected the depths of his pupils, and also reflected the figure of the coming person into his eyes. Dark green armor, brocade golden phoenix, that person is Lin Bi.

Lin Bi was also a lot haggard, his once bright appearance was more weathered, the robe was stained with blood, and the identity of the golden branches and jade leaves was now a blood-stained robe, Long Tingfei felt sad in his heart, and he said lightly: "What is the matter with Princess Bi?" ”

Lin Bi shook his head lightly, sat opposite Long Tingfei, buried the head of the mantis in his hands, and said after a long time: "Fang Cai Yongjun sent a letter to my camp with a bow and arrow. ”

Long Tingfei said lightly: "It must be to persuade me to surrender, I have also received a lot of such letters in my camp, if it weren't for my efforts to boost morale, I am afraid that our army will inevitably be in turmoil." ”

Lin Bi's eyes flashed with coldness, and said: "It's not to persuade me to surrender, it's to tell my army, the barbarians invaded Daizhou, the momentum is huge, my second brother Lin Chenger led the army to attack, unfortunately fell into the tricks of the barbarian army, the second brother fought desperately to kill the bloody road, and died outside Yanmen Pass with more than ten arrows on his back, my father's old illness relapsed, and the dragons in the army were leaderless." ”

Long Tingfei only felt that his heart was violently shaken, so vicious scheming, whether what was said in this letter was true or not, the heart of the Daizhou army would inevitably be shaken, and he said weakly: "This may be the enemy's trick." ”

Lin Bi smiled faintly, but her smile was full of sorrow, she said coldly: "I also hope that it is the enemy's conspiracy, but even if it is a conspiracy, it has succeeded, and now the soldiers in my battalion are already panicking, even my third brother Chengshan, and the fourth brother Chengyuan have also lost their fighting spirit." What's more, this news is probably true, this letter was specially written to me by Li Xian, the king of Qi, unlike other letters, it said in detail about Daizhou, and Li Xian would not lie to me. With that, Lin Bi handed a letter to Long Tingfei.

Long Tingfei took the letter and read it at a glance and ten lines, it really wrote the situation of the Daizhou army very clearly and in detail, if even Lin Bi felt that there was no flaw, then it was probably true, he put down the letter in despair, and said: "You have made a decision, if the Daizhou army wants to surrender, I won't blame you." ”

Lin Bihuo suddenly got up, and said coldly: "The Daizhou Army has never done anything treacherous, this time the army is decided by public discussion, how can it be changed in battle, since the establishment of our Daizhou Army, only the same end, never bent the knee to the enemy, even if it was said to be obedient to the Northern Han Dynasty in the past, it has not said a word of surrender." ”

Long Tingfei's expression became solemn, and he also got up and said: "I have long expected that the princess is determined, and it is just a tentative word, I am the commander of the army, and the heart of the army is the most important, and I ask Bi Mei to forgive me." ”

Lin Bi's expression was a little relaxed, and said: "But the matter has come to this point, we also need to deal with it, we must make up our minds to break through the siege regardless of sacrifice, if it is delayed any longer, I am afraid that I will not be able to control the morale of the army." ”

A cold light flashed in Long Tingfei's eyes, and he said, "I also wanted to invite you over to discuss the breakthrough." These have fought many times, Bi Mei should know that the Yong army will never let me go, whenever I lead the army to charge the battle, the Yong army is regardless of the sacrifice to block our army, if the Daizhou army rushes alone, the Yong army will lure the enemy into the strategy to deal with it, if it is not for Bi Mei's decisiveness, I am afraid that I have already fallen into the siege of the enemy. It can be seen that the goal of the Yongjun army is mainly the main force of Long and the Qinzhou army, but there is room for the Daizhou army. So I carefully planned a new breakthrough plan, and I need your full assistance. ”

Lin Bi didn't say anything, she couldn't see what Long Tingfei said, but no matter how heroic the Daizhou Army was, there were only 15,000 people, even if the Yongjun was tolerant, it was impossible to take the opportunity to break through the Yongjun military formation, slowly raised her head, her tone was light but clear, and said: "You want me to cover the Qinzhou Army to break through on behalf of the Zhou Army." ”

Long Tingfei smiled faintly and said: "The strength of the Daizhou Army, it is impossible to cover the breakthrough of the Qinzhou Army, the Yongjun only needs 50,000 elite soldiers to block the Daizhou Army from rushing into battle, if I take the opportunity to lead the main force to break through, the Yongjun will inevitably go all out to encircle it, if the strength is invincible, even if the Daizhou Army is released, the Yongjun Army will not let our army have the possibility of breaking through." Bi Mei should understand that for the loyalty of the Northern Han Dynasty, our army is far superior to your army, so the Yongjun army will take the Qinzhou army as the main target. ”

Lin Bi didn't speak, she listened quietly, waiting for Long Tingfei's explanation, Long Tingfei continued: "So I decided that this breakout is divided into three waves, you lead the first wave of the Daizhou army to rush into the formation, break through from the northeast, the Yongjun army will inevitably adopt the previous practice, try to lure the Daizhou army into the encirclement, separate the two armies of you and me, and then I will lead 20,000 elite cavalry, multiple banners, from the north direction, the Yongjun will do everything possible to block me, after that, the Lu brothers will lead the main force of our army to break through from the northwest, during which the troops will be divided to Qinshui, Destroy the strong crossbow trebuchet that the Yongjun army blocked the river, and help the water army get out of the trap. ”

Lin Bi felt a chill in his heart, and said: "You want to use yourself as bait to lure the main force of the Yongjun army to besiege, so that the main force of Qinzhou can break through." ”

Long Tingfei said solemnly: "Only in this way can we keep the main force of the Qinzhou army, Long is not effective in combat, and the soldiers of the three armies are involved, if you spare your life again, what face will you have to see the king, the Yongjun army is surrounded on all sides, and the strength of the north is only more than 100,000 at most, but once our army falls into a bitter battle, the remaining three sides will attack from behind, which makes us never be able to break through, this time I personally rushed into battle, inducing the main force of the enemy to trap me with all my might, with the courage of the Lu brothers, the chance of breaking through is very high, and once the Yongjun mistakenly thinks that the Daizhou army is to cover my breakthrough, The siege of Bimei will inevitably weaken, and the chance of the Daizhou army breaking through is also very large, with the surname of a certain person and the sacrifice of 20,000 personal guards, in exchange for the main force of our army to break through, it is worth it. However, Bi Mei is the first to break through, and the losses will inevitably be heavy, so I have to discuss with you first. ”

Looking at Long Tingfei's indifferent expression when he talked about his life and death, Lin Bijiao's body was shaky, the person in front of him was his fiancé, but his family and country were in danger, both of them were generals with troops, so they gathered less and left more, every time they met, in addition to military affairs, they rarely talked about personal affairs, but Lin Bi had long regarded him as a lifelong partner, but now he had to separate in the middle of the road, how could she bear it. At this moment, she is no longer the "princess general" admired by the military and civilians of Daizhou, but just a hard-working woman who is about to lose her lover.

Holding back the tears in his eyes, Lin Bi said in a low voice: "You are so generous to death, what about me, do you still remember the wedding period between you and me, which is at the end of this year." ”

Long Tingfei's expression changed, and his eyebrows showed a gloomy look, this time he asked for the Daizhou Army to send troops, Lin Yuanting made an additional request, that is, the marriage of Long Tingfei and Lin Bi could not be delayed any longer, the lord of the country set a date, if the Yongjun retreated, the end of this year was the wedding period for the two, when Long Tingfei was secretly happy in his heart, if he could retreat to the Yongjun, then he would also have a face to welcome. It's just that now it seems that the two are destined to have no part, and there is no possibility of getting married.

Long Tingfei was ruthless and said: "Sister Bi, it's not Tingfei who has made a contract, it's just for the sake of his family, country and society, Tingfei doesn't dare to be greedy." ”

Lin Bi hid his face and staggered back, leaning on the wall of the tent, his body trembling slightly, although he didn't cry, but the self-suppressed whimper was even more heartbreaking. Long Tingfei couldn't bear it even if his heart was like an iron stone, he strode forward and took Lin Bi into his arms, Lin Bi's head was buried in Long Tingfei's chest, and the sound of small cries echoed in the camp tent, Long Tingfei could feel a burst of warmth on the robe on his chest, he knew that it was Lin Bizhu's tears that penetrated his clothes, and under the severe pain in his heart, he hugged Lin Bi's delicate body tightly. At this time, the torches burned out and went out, and the tent was dark, with only the breathing of the two people and Lin Bi's low sobs in the small space. In the darkness, Long Tingfei, a famous general who has always been radiant in front of people, also burst into tears.

After a long time, Lin Bi gently broke free of Long Tingfei's arms and said softly: "Since it has been decided, I will go back and make arrangements." Long Tingfei didn't speak, he listened to Lin Bi open the curtain and went out of the tent, listened to Lin Bi's footsteps in the distance, clenched his fists, and said in a cold voice: "The eldest husband is alive, and he can't repay the kindness of his father, and he can't protect his wife, so that his blood-stained robe will not have the face to live in the world." ”

Suddenly, a faint singing voice came from Long Tingfei's ears, and after a while, the singing became louder and louder, and it could already be heard very clearly, Long Tingfei listened carefully, but the singing came from the military camp of the Daizhou Army.

"The black clouds crushed the city and wanted to destroy it, and the armor light opened to the moon and gold scales. The sound of horns fills the sky with autumn colors, and the swallow branch is stuffed with night purple. Half a roll of red flags is in the water, and the frost is heavy and the cold is silent. repay the king's will on the golden platform, and carry the jade dragon to die for the king. ”

This war song is the favorite song of the Daizhou army, the Daizhou army and the barbarians fight, mostly in the autumn when the horse is fat, to fight to protect the township, according to the Yanmen and resist the Hu cavalry, at this time although it is not in line with the times, but let the Daizhou army re-arouse the war.

The singing was hoarse and difficult at the beginning, presumably the Daizhou army was a bloody battle, and it was already a dry mouth and a cleft lip, but it became louder and louder later, only more than 100 people were singing at the beginning, and then more and more people echoed, and finally in addition to the Daizhou army, the Qinzhou army also began to sing, as if thousands of rivers and thousands of rivers flowed into the sea, the singing converged into a majestic torrent, and the Northern Han army with weakened morale re-condensed into an invincible force.

The gloomy look on Long Tingfei's face was swept away, and he slowly tied up the armor around him, his robe was like fire, his face was like ice, and he walked out of the tent.

Walking out of the tent, Long Tingfei looked out, the bonfires dotted under the dark sky, the air was full of the smell of blood, in addition to the singing all over the field, he could also faintly hear the sound of the sergeant moaning in pain, while carefully calculating the success or failure of the breakthrough strategy, while listening to the desolate and heroic singing of the army, the cold spring night was cold and silent, Long Tingfei's heart was very empty, he knew that it must be Lin Bi who ordered the Daizhou Army to sing the familiar military song to stimulate morale, and he admired it very much, He even hoped that Lin Bi would be able to break through, he knew in his heart that the danger faced by Lin Bi was only lower than his own, and the greatest possibility was that both of them would die in the chaos.

At this time, Xiao Tong walked closer, but in a dozen days, he was already described as emaciated, haggard, in addition to the hard work of spying on the enemy's virtual and real military situation, he felt very guilty in his heart, since the Yongjun army attacked Qinzhou, he repeatedly feathered, his secret spies were killed and injured countless times, this time the ambush failed to immediately discover the enemy's movements is also one of the reasons, Xiao Tong hated himself countless times for his incompetence and dereliction of duty, so that there is a crisis today, under the internal and external torment, only to make Xiao Tong describe the loss so.

He walked to Long Tingfei's side and said nervously: "General, my subordinates just saw the princess and said that you have decided to break through. ”

Long Tingfei said lightly: "Yes, you assisted the Lu brothers to break through in the end, and I will explain the detailed arrangements when the military discussion is held later." ”

Xiao Tong said: "General, you are the commander of our army, how can you put yourself in danger, let others do the trick of luring the enemy, you might as well choose someone similar to you from the army, wear your armor as bait, and then let the Daizhou army serve as the main force to break through, the general has a great chance to take the opportunity to break through." ”

Long Tingfei said lightly: "I am the commander of the three armies, if I don't go first, how can I motivate the soldiers to die, as for letting the Daizhou army make sacrifices, this matter will never be mentioned again, the Daizhou army does not need to send troops, but now it is in the death of helping our army, if we do something ungrateful, what face do we have to see the Daizhou fathers." ”

Although his tone was indifferent, but the words were like steel knives carved on the rock, Xiao Tong listened, knowing that his heart had been decided, and there was no room for turning, he also knew that what Long Tingfei said was true, and only if he personally went out to induce the main force of the Yongjun to dispatch, Xiao Tong bowed down and said: "Please allow your subordinates to break through with you." ”

Long Tingfei glanced at Xiao Tong and said: "What's the trouble, although you have suffered many setbacks this time, but that's because the enemy's scout post is really powerful, if I talk about spies in the Northern Han Army, I think you are the best, if it is someone else, I am afraid that we will already become deaf and blind." Don't feel too guilty, this defeat is none of your business, I never thought that the enemy army would lure the enemy into an ambush. Xiao Tong, this time you need to listen to my orders and break through with the Lu brothers, their three brothers' army is slightly mediocre, I am very worried, you have been by my side for many years, and you have also grown a little, with you by your side, we can ensure that they can break through smoothly. ”

Xiao Tong was silent, and said after a long pause: "The subordinates obey the order." He has already made a decision in his heart, to make meritorious contributions, to keep a useful body, and to help the Lu brothers break through with all his might, even if he is to thank him with death, he also needs to wait until the future is calm.

Long Tingfei saw that he had promised to break through with the main force of the Yong army, and said happily: "Okay, look at the sky, it's almost the third watch, you order to go down, make food on the third watch, break through the siege on the fifth watch, and let the army masters see me in the future first." ”

Xiao Tong's heart jumped and said: "General, our army has run out of food, because the general has been thinking about military aircraft in the tent, so his subordinates have not reported it." ”

Long Tingfei smiled coldly, such a major event related to the military aircraft was not reported, how could there be such a reason, he had a great prestige in the army, and the sergeant had already reported to him secretly, and the generals of the Qinzhou Army had secretly discussed the matter, if it were not for this, he would not have decided to break through tomorrow morning, and originally wanted to knock Xiao Tong for a few words, but seeing Xiao Tong's anxious expression, thinking that it was the time of death and parting, he didn't want to reprimand him too much, but said lightly: "I know, all the wounded war horses and excess war horses are killed, let the army eat." ”

Under Long Tingfei's cold and indifferent gaze, Xiao Tong only felt a cold sweat, and retreated, after dinner, all battalions had run out of food, and the generals discussed privately, saying that they must break through only by sacrificing some people to rush into battle, it is possible to break through successfully, and the relationship between the Qinzhou army and the Daizhou army is indifferent after all, so they all want to force Long Tingfei to agree to sacrifice the Daizhou army to ensure that the main force of the Qinzhou army can break through, but they are worried that Long Tingfei will not be willing, so they want to take advantage of the lack of food in the army, but they no longer thought that Long Tingfei would make up his mind. Sacrifice yourself to fight for the opportunity to break through for the main force of the Qinzhou Army and the Daizhou Army.

A wounded or intact war horse neighed, the big eyes of the copper bell revealed a look of disbelief, the long knife cut down the horse's neck, blood gushed, when the heavy body of the war horse poured dust, the sergeant of the Northern Han Army who wielded the knife to kill the war horse suddenly dropped the long knife, threw himself on the horse corpse and cried bitterly, several sergeants pulled him up and pulled him aside, but their eyes were also tears. For them as cavalry, the war horse is their closest friend, in order to raise the war horse, and the war horse to establish a tacit understanding, they are almost the war horse to eat and sleep together, how incomprehensible it is to kill the war horse, generally speaking, only when a war horse is seriously injured to the point that it can not be saved, it will be killed, and eating horse meat is not allowed. But now they have to kill a large number of war horses, some of these war horses are slightly injured, some are even intact, but they have lost their owners, for the Northern Han army to break through, only need to keep enough war horses, and the rest of the war horses can only be killed and eaten. The horse meat was cut off, and in addition to feeding the army to prepare for the breakout, all the rest was made into dry food, after all, the time for the breakout battle was not sure how long it would take. The whole barracks was filled with a tragic atmosphere, and the excitement of killing the beloved war horses with his own hands made the eyes of all the Northern Han soldiers turn red, and there were flames and sorrows inside.

After eating what is likely to be the last meal of the war, the Northern Han army began to reorganize the army, looking at the large camp that was still neat and orderly despite the setbacks, Long Tingfei rode his horse in front of the camp, and behind him were the generals of the various armies, which had already been finished, just waiting for the general order to set off. Long Tingfei's expression was calm, as if he was not going to die, but just to a friend's invitation. There was a familiar sound of horses' hooves and a crisp Luan bell in his ears, Long Tingfei raised his eyebrows, turned his head with a smile, and sure enough, it was Lin Bi who rode over surrounded by the guards of the Daizhou Army.

Lin Bi came to Long Tingfei's front of Pegasus, wanting to say something, but found that she had nothing to say, as if all her words had been said last night, she stared at Long Tingfei's thin and handsome face almost presumptuously, and unconsciously, a drop of tears fell. Long Tingfei saw Lin Bi's slightly red and swollen phoenix eyes at a glance, and he wanted to reach out to comfort her, but he finally didn't do so, just saluted on the horse and said: "This breakthrough requires Bi Mei's martial arts, and Tingfei is grateful." Sheji is in danger, Bi Mei is the princess, and she still needs to worry about it and share her worries for the king. ”

Lin Bi turned his face sideways, and after a long time, he said in a calmer voice: "General take care, although it is dangerous to break through, but General Shenwu, if the sky blesses us, or we can still meet." ”

Long Tingfei smiled slightly and said, "It's almost dawn, Bi Mei is the first wave of people to rush into battle, please prepare to go." ”

Lin Bi rode away and said in a loud voice: "Lin Bi obeys orders, and the general cherishes it." When the war horse turned to the Daizhou army formation, Lin Bi took the opportunity to look back, although the distance was already very far, but Lin Bi saw Long Tingfei's light blue eyes at a glance, the deep eyes as deep as the sea contained sorrow and blessings, she had never seen so many emotions in those eyes, and at the moment when the eyes met, that kind of affection suddenly disappeared, Lin Bi's body trembled, if it wasn't for the female guard beside her who helped her in time, she almost fell off the horse.

She hadn't broken free from the pair of light blue eyes, she had already seen the military flag of the Daizhou army hunting, Lin Bi's heart was shocked, and she threw away all distracting thoughts in an instant, took off the silver gun, Lin Bi raised her arms and roared, clear as the whistling sound of the nine days of the phoenix echoed in the sky, the officers and soldiers of the Daizhou army were greatly excited, and they also roared loudly, and the roaring sound of the mountains and seas shattered the last trace of darkness before dawn.

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