Life is nothing like a ballad, and one day you will be disappointed. When she heard her father Khan tell her this, Ah Sang always understood what it meant, and now when she saw that Ao Fang's 10,000 elite cavalry were ambushed by Ji Qingchen's 2,000 cavalry, and more than 3,000 horses were lost at once, Ah Sang finally understood the meaning of this sentence, indeed life is not a ballad, war is not a ballad, and even the cavalry that is as powerful as the yellow flag also disappointed her today.

"Ao Fang is incompetent, and I ask the princess to forgive her sins, but the emotional princess gives Ao Fang a chance, Ao Fang will definitely atone for his sins, and he will behead Ji Qingchen and dedicate his head to the princess." Ao Fang knelt in front of Ah Sang and pleaded guilty, and there were also eight thousand commanders by his side.

"10,000 against 2,000, you lost more than 3,000 horses, and his 2,000 were unscathed?" Ahsan tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and asked, "Are you still a little ashamed that this battle was fought like this by you?" ”

Ao Fang and the eight commanders stopped talking, and lowered their heads in unison. Because they lost this battle really badly, and they lost very temperlessly.

"Further on is the boundary of Liaozhou, I think Ji Qingchen has fled to Liaozhou, and most of Liaozhou and Suzhou are grasslands, which is very suitable for us to surround Ji Qingchen and his two thousand cavalry." Ahsan said, "This time, I will give you another chance, if you disgrace us Beirong again, don't see me alive again." ”

"Yes." Ao Fang and the eight commanders gratefully received the order.

"We are not familiar with the terrain of Yunzhou, so we will repeatedly fall into the trap set by Ji Qingchen, but Liaozhou is no stranger to us, and we will not suffer too much loss if we want to face the enemy Ji Qingchen on the battlefield in Liaozhou." Ah Sang said confidently, "Three hundred miles further northeast is a big river, as long as Ji Qingchen dares to continue to escape in the northeast direction, this river can block his way forward, and we will ambush him here." ”

"Ao Fang, divide the remaining yellow flag into two parts, you immediately set off to the river to ambush, and then I will force Ji Qingchen to let him cross the river on ice, and then we will attack on three sides and then besiege and annihilate him together." Ahsan ordered.

Now that she has seen how powerful Ji Qingchen is, she no longer dares to be arrogant and think that her 10,000 iron guards can kill Ji Qingchen, so she adopts such a tactic.

"Yes." Ao Fang and the eight commanders took the order and strode out of the big tent.

"Commander, I'm afraid Ji Qingchen has already crossed the river at this time, right?" After Ao Fang and the eight commanders left, one of the generals beside Ah Sang said.

"The river is not thick in ice, and the ice cannot be crossed." Ah Sang said, a lonely smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "This time Ji Qingchen was forced to Liaozhou by us, and he still took this road, so it can only be said that he is unlucky." ”

"It's rumored that the army will set off after an hour's rest!" Ahsan ordered.

"Yes." The generals beside her took the order and strode out of the big tent.

After a great victory in the battle with Aofang, Ji Qingchen led 2,000 cavalry to continue north, and unknowingly stepped into Liaozhou. Liaozhou is not like Yunzhou and Shangzhou, it is the same grassland as Suzhou, it is the place where Dayan keeps war horses, and nine times out of ten Dayan cavalry war horses are from Liaozhou and Suzhou grassland.

For this reason, Liaozhou is very important to Dayan.

And this time Liaozhou was occupied by Beirong, which was a heavy blow to Dayan. It made it difficult for Dayan to form a cavalry, to the extent that it was purchased from the Shangzhou Wei clan and the Beirong people.

However, at this time, Liaozhou was covered with heavy snow, showing a barren scene everywhere, and the war horses in the grassland had already been swept back to the outside of the pass when they were occupied by Beirong.

The whole meadow is very bleak.

"Brother Jiu, this is all in Liaozhou, what should we do next? We are not familiar with Liaozhou! Li Changzheng asked on horseback side by side with Ji Qingchen.

"Have the scouts returned?" Ji Qingchen asked, a faint worry appeared between his eyebrows, because he knew that after fighting with Ao Fang, the Beirong cavalry chasing him would be more careful, and it might be difficult for him to use such a strategy against them in the future. You don't need to scheming to deal with it, with the 2,000 men and horses around you, how can you compete with the remaining 17,000 troops of the other party? How can you escape the clutches of this pursuer?

This made him ponder.

It took him a long time before he came back to his senses, and he saw that the faces of Li Changzheng, Zuo Zongquan, and Yang Zhixing around him were very ugly, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Brother Jiu, the scout just came back to report that there is a big river blocking the way thirty miles ahead of us, and the ice on the river is too thin for us to cross the river and we can't go any further." Li Changzheng said, "And the scouts also came with news that they found a Beirong elite cavalry with enough 10,000 people to appear forty miles behind us. ”

"Moreover, according to the scouts' reconnaissance, it seems that there are ambushed Beirong cavalry on the bank of the big river, and they want to force us to the river and annihilate us in one fell swoop!" Zuo Zongquan added.

"Let the army rest!" Ji Qingchen sighed and said, "We'll continue to send it out later!" ”

At this time, Ji Qingchen also realized the seriousness of the problem, there were and blocks in front, there were ambushes on both sides, and there was a 10,000-person chasing army behind him, and he had entered a dead place!

Ji Qingchen, who dismounted and walked on the snow-covered grass, was silent for a long time. Li Changzheng, Zuo Zongquan, and Yang Zhixing followed him closely like this.

After a long time, Yang Zhixing hesitated, but still spoke, "Brother Jiu, I have a way to get us out of the current crisis, but it's just ......"

"Don't just say it!" Li Changzheng on the side hurriedly said.

"It is to divide the current army into a part of the men and horses, and let this part go to break the Beirong ambush by the big river, as long as we break the ambush by the big river, we can break through to the left and right sides of the river, and we can get rid of the pursuit of the pursuers behind us." Yang Zhixing said that he was a little afraid to look at Ji Qingchen's eyes, because if his plan wanted to succeed, the price would be to sacrifice this part of the people who had been separated.

After Yang Zhixing's words were finished, Li Changzheng and Zuo Zongquan were stunned. Because they heard the price they had to pay for making Yang Zhixing's strategy successful, and Ji Qingchen didn't speak when he heard Yang Zhixing's words, just walked quietly. After a long time, he turned back to the three people around him and said, "I don't want to sacrifice any more brothers." Also, you have to remember that the men of Yan Kingdom don't know what it means to give up! Don't worry, everyone, we'll have a solution. ”

His words stopped in the ears of Li Changzheng, Zuo Zongquan, and Yang Zhixing, which was equivalent to rejecting Yang Zhixing's proposal, and the reason was obvious that he was unwilling to pay such a heavy price. But Li Changzheng, Zuo Zongquan and Yang Zhixing knew very well in their hearts that there was no good strategy except for this strategy at the moment, and seeing that the pursuers were about to catch up with their own army, if they didn't make up their minds and waited until the 10,000 Beirong cavalry caught up with them, and then did this, I'm afraid it would be useless!

So they didn't follow Ji Qingchen anymore, but glanced at each other, nodded to each other, and returned to the garrison of the army.

Because they have a decision in their hearts.

After a stick of incense, when Ji Qingchen returned to the station, he found that the two thousand army was divided into two groups, eight hundred horsemen for the battalion, and the remaining more than 1,000 black eagle cavalry and white cavalry battalion soldiers for one group, and Yang Zhixing rode in front of this group of cavalry.

Ji Qingchen, who saw this scene, suddenly understood, he strode forward and walked in front of Yang Zhixing and shouted, "Yang Zhixing, what are you trying to do?" ”

"Brother Jiu, I used to be just a gentleman in King's Landing City, and since I followed you, I know that the Dao man should gallop across the field, fight bloodily, and use his own strength to worship the marquis and glorify the ancestors." Yang Zhixing said loudly, "I still remember what Brother Nine told us at the beginning, but I can't follow Brother Nine anymore in the future." Brother Jiu, I may not be able to see the day you said, but I believe that day will definitely come......"

"Yang Zhixing, what are you doing, without the order of this king, you are not allowed to act without authorization." At this moment, Ji Qingchen was angry, he shouted loudly, and was about to step forward to kick Yang Zhixing, but was stopped by Li Changzheng and Zuo Zongquan, "You guys, what are you going to do-"

"Brother Jiu, it was my own decision to follow you to Caozhou, and I have never regretted it! Because the time I spent with you on the Beirong campaign was the happiest moment of my life. This time I am going to defeat the Beirong ambush by the river, which is also my own decision, and I also do not regret doing it. Because in addition to being my ninth brother, you are also the king of Northern Liao in Dayan, and you are a king worthy of my Yang Zhixing to defend your glory with his life. If I can survive this battle, I am still willing to be a sword in the hands of Brother Jiu in the future, and I am willing to follow Brother Jiu's battle flag to fight the world. Yang Zhixing shouted loudly, "Let's go!" ”

"No!" More than a thousand cavalrymen around Yang Zhixing received the order and shouted proudly. They knew that they would definitely die this time, but they still stood up and followed Yang Zhixing's side, because they were fighting for the king of Northern Liao and the king they respected the most in their hearts.

"Kill!" More than 1,000 cavalry followed behind Yang Zhixing and resolutely left.

The boy is determined to go out of the bridge mountain,

Beirong will not be destroyed, and he will not return it.

Why do you have to lay in ambush and mulberry land,

Life is full of green hills.

……

Quietly staring at the distant cavalry, Ji Qingchen's eyes were already moist. After a long time, he came back to his senses and angrily reprimanded Li Changzheng and Zuo Zongquan, "Which of you is this idea? ”

"Plop-" Two sounds, Li Changzheng and Zuo Zongquan knelt in front of Ji Qingchen. Zuo Zongquan met Ji Qingchen's gloomy gaze, and said proudly, "Ninth brother, this is Yang Zhixing's own meaning, if he doesn't do this, I, Zuo Zongquan, will do the same, I will be a brother with Brother Nine in this life, my Zuo Zongquan's life is Brother Nine yours, it is worth it to die on the battlefield for Brother Nine." ”

"You-" Ji Qingchen was furious, he kicked over Zuo Zongquan who was kneeling in front of him, and kicked Li Changzheng on the side, glared at the two of them fiercely, and strode away angrily.

Because at this moment, he finally thought of the words of a sage in the history books he had read: I sometimes think that when I am born, the path is not chosen by myself. No matter how hard we try, we are just one person, but other people, many people, they are pushing you to go on the road you don't want to take. Even if you want to escape, it's useless. At this moment, he finally understood what the meaning of this sage's words was.