Chapter 80: The Verge
Just when Dongfang Yu said goodbye to the princess's mansion and was about to go home to pack his bags and leave, he suddenly found that in the direction of Qingyun City, which was about to be shrouded in night, the stars had changed a lot, and a bad premonition filled his heart, and he hurriedly pinched his fingers and calculated, and the result made him afraid.
And Qingyun City, which was watched by all parties, Yan Guo stopped attacking, Chu State's side also quieted down, Ye Beijiang appeared on the wall, and the remaining 40,000 defenders of Qingyun City had already assembled in the city, just waiting for an order.
On the Yan Kingdom's side, there was still nothing to know, and Xie Wang also transferred the troops defending the Jin Kingdom to the front line, preparing to capture Qingyun City in one fell swoop.
In the dense forest on the edge of Yishui, looking at the sky that had already darkened, the iron army was also nervous, and they might be in the enemy's encirclement tonight, fighting to the death.
Ye Yunyi hid in front of them, holding the long sword in his hand, his heart was similar to that of Tie Jun, he was panicked, and he was more apprehensive.
"Manshan, wait a minute, I will take half of my troops to attack the Ji Nan Prefecture of the Yan Kingdom, and you will take the other half of the troops to attack the Jin Kingdom, with my signal as an order, then we will both attack at the same time, in the night, they will not be able to see our identity clearly, and we are in the dark, they are in the light."
"When it comes to attacking, we have the advantage, as long as they attack us, we will retreat, Yan and Jin they mistakenly think that they are each secretly attacking, even if they have any suspicions, they will fight at all costs."
"War master, why don't you let me harass the Yan army, after all, the Yan army is more dangerous, you are our military master, if you make any mistakes, no one will know about the existence of our iron army."
"No, this is a letter written by me, after causing a dispute between the Yan State and the Jin State, rush directly in the direction of Qingyun City, once the two countries fight, they will not notice us for a short time, and then we can seize this opportunity to rush out, you take my letter, if you meet the Chu army, hand my letter to their guards, they will help you retreat."
"No, military master, just let me go, we are good at this kind of thing, our brothers of the Iron Army are very grateful to the military master for bringing us out, otherwise we don't know when we will have to wait until we can go to the battlefield again", Man San stubbornly snatched the letter in Ye Yunyi's hand, and rushed to the direction of Ji Nan Zhizhou with half of the iron army in the twilight.
"Man San, I'm waiting for you to drink in Qingyun City," looking at Man San, who was already stubbornly gone, and then looking at the Iron Army soldiers around him, Ye Yunyi wanted to say something, but in the end he only asked him to drink.
At this time, it was the season of late autumn, and the night came quickly, Ye Yunyi put on his helmet, and he could already see that the Jin army not far away on the opposite side had lit up the torches.
Inside Qingyun City, Ye Beijiang was also waiting anxiously, the cold wind swept by, but it couldn't stop him from staring at the junction of Jinyan.
In the Yan army's camp, Xie Wang was still arranging the next attack mission for his subordinates.
Suddenly, in the quiet night sky, a firework lit up, stirring the nerves of all parties.
"Kill", a shout that shook the Jin army, and when the Jin army just reacted on the border, more than 10,000 iron troops rushed out of the forest like tigers, and under the leadership of Ye Yunyi, they rushed towards the Jin army.
The Jin army without the slightest defense broke and fled in large numbers, and there were only a few who could resist, and the more than 10,000 iron troops with extremely strong lethality, in just a few breaths, they killed the people and horses on the border of the Jin Kingdom, and the screams were endless.
The Iron Army was killing fiercely, and there was a momentum to swallow the Jin Army in one bite, but Ye Yunyi, who was in front, knew that this was just caused by their sudden attack and the Iron Army's original combat power, and when the Jin State reacted, their team of 15,000 people would be surrounded by the 100,000 Jin Army on the opposite side.
"Retreat, don't fall in love," Ye Yunyi stopped in time, flew out with a knife, nailed a commanding general in the distance in front of him, and then commanded the iron army to retreat quickly.
It was already faintly visible in the distance, and a large number of Jin troops had already rushed over here, and the purpose had been achieved.
And the good military discipline of the Iron Army made it so that even if they were now destroying and killing, as soon as they heard the order to retreat, they did not continue, but quickly evacuated according to the order.
On the other side of the river, the other half of the Iron Army led by Man San also attacked the Yan army garrison at the same time as Ye Yunyi's attack, but even if the Yan army withdrew the team that resisted the Jin army, it did not relax its vigilance against the Jin army.
The Iron Army that had just launched the attack was discovered by the Yan Army, the Yan Army was not many in number, but the combat effectiveness was still very strong, which brought great resistance to the attacking Iron Army, and seeing that it was unable to break through the defense of the Yan Army, Man San was a little unbearable to retreat like this.
If they make a small fuss, they will not be able to attract the attention of the Yan army, they will not achieve the expected effect, and they will not be able to arouse the contradictions between the Yan State and the Jin State very well, so they will lose their meaning.
No matter what, Man Shan directly took his big knife and rushed directly to the opponent's guard, the heavy Pu knife smashed into the Yan army guard on the opposite side, the opposite side couldn't dodge, and was directly shocked for several steps before he stabilized, but the serious internal injuries made him have no strength to stand up.
Looking around, there were already few defending Yan troops left, so the Yan army guards who had no choice but also took out a signal to prepare and ignited it directly, and the second ignition signal completely attracted the attention of the Yan army from Qingyun City.
"Where is the signal lit", Xie Wang came out of the barracks in a hurry, he had already expected that Qingyun City would be theirs tomorrow, and once Qingyun City was taken, then the entire Chu State would be equivalent to half of it, and he would also become the supreme hero of the Yan State to dominate the world.
As a result, the signal that sounded halfway made him feel a little bad.
The other Yan generals who rushed over when they heard the sound also asked their men and horses to quickly check what was going on.
At this moment, Xie Jiao hurriedly came. When the first signal firework sounded, Xie Jiao had already gone down to check, but after a while, he saw the signal of his Yan army.
"Marshal, I just came to report that we were attacked by the army suspected of being Jin in the south, and it was fierce, and the men and horses left behind before were probably wiped out at this moment."
"Jin Kingdom, the things that are not enough to succeed and more than to lose, the good things that harm me, when I clean up the Chu State, I will definitely hit their national capital and screw off the head of their main general." The scolding was extremely harsh.
Everyone understood in their hearts that if he hadn't drawn all his forces to the front to attack the Chu State, how could he leave such a hole for the Jin State, but they didn't dare to say it in front of Xie Wang, they just complained in their hearts.
"Xie Jie, you continue to guard the front, don't slow down the attack on the Chu State, I will go with 50,000 soldiers and horses to slaughter this Jin State that does not know the height of the sky", in the end, Xie Wang scolded for a long time, but still made a quick decision.
It can be seen that Xie Wang's boldness is not only reflected in his strategy, but he himself also looks down on Jin and Chu extremely much.
The darkness of night was not conducive to the attack, but Xie Jiao still commanded the remaining more than 100,000 Yan troops to attack Qingyun City at night according to the requirements.
In fact, the purpose of this is not to really fight Qingyun City, but to fight for so long during the day before, the resentment has long been very deep, in case the Chu State seizes this time and gives you a frontal charge out of the city to face the battle, it will be a great blow to the morale of the Yan State.
And the dispatch of troops is actually just to feint and drag down the Chu army on the opposite side, so as not to let them take the opportunity to do things.
However, Ye Beijiang, who had been waiting for a long time, didn't want to fight the Yan army casually, his son was still surrounded by the enemy, and the stronger his counterattack, the greater the chance that Ye Yunyi would survive.
"Donating my body to go to the country, seeing death as if I were going home, I have a strong heart, Chu Di Lang, the Yan people bully my country's land, kill with me", Gao Zhuang's voice aroused the defenders who had been waiting for a long time in Qingyun City.
Just when the Yan army launched a pretended feint, Ye Beijiang gave an order, the gate of Qingyun City opened, 8,000 cavalry opened the way, and the remaining 30,000 defenders followed, rushing towards the Yan army desperately.
Xie Jiao didn't expect that when would the Chu army be so crazy, before the daytime, he felt that the defenders of Qingyun City were already insufficient, at this time, why did the Chu army dare to go out of the city directly to fight with him.
At night, it was impossible to see whether it was friend or foe, and could only see the clothes on the other side by the torches in his hands. The two sides of the chaotic handover, the formation was completely scattered, and the unsightd soldiers could only instinctively kill everything around them, so as to ensure their lives.
And Xuan Ke, who stayed in Qingyun City, knew that it would be extremely unfavorable to Ye Beijiang and them if they continued like this, so they lit all kinds of torches that could be used, and let people run downstairs to collect the arrows that Yan Jun shot before they were gone.
The arrows wrapped in fire cloth strips passed through the night sky, illuminating the ranks of the Yan army on the opposite side clearly, and it was to seize this opportunity that the defenders led by Ye Beijiang quickly beat the Yan army on the opposite side with the help of firelight.
On the side of the Yang army, half of the iron army led by Man San was bitten by the 50,000 Yan army led by Xie Wang, who had already rushed over, because it had dragged on for too long, and it would not be able to leave for a while.
And after Ye Yunyi led the other half of the Iron Army out of the Jin Army, he only saw that the Yan Army was fighting hotly, but he never saw them coming back from the mountain.
If they don't leave at this time, they may all be surrounded here, and it is very likely that their identities will be exposed, if they know that it is the Chu State that is doing things, then the Yan State and the Jin State may really turn around and attack the Chu State together.
On the Jin army's side, they were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, which can be described as extremely angry. Originally, they could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and they could pick up a big bargain for nothing, who was not busy currying favor with the warring Yan State and Chu State, and the result was good, since the Yan State did not know what to do, then don't blame them for the ruthlessness of the Jin State.
The army of the Jin State directly crossed the Yishui River and attacked the Yan army in a big way, and the huge torch group made the entire Yishui River lively.
Ye Yunyi was waiting in advance, and he didn't see the arrival of Man San for a long time, and he was also anxious.
"Military master, if you don't withdraw first, we will go to meet the banner master", the captain of the Iron Army who followed behind Ye Yunyi saw Ye Yunyi's worries and said his own suggestion.
Ye Yunyi didn't speak, but looked back at the iron army behind him, although he couldn't see their expressions, Ye Yunyi knew that they were unwilling to leave their brothers like this.
"You are brought here by me, since you can't leave, then fight and die here together, how can there be any reason to go privately, brothers, cheer up, we will go to meet the Lord of the Full Banner, the iron army will live together, and die together."
Ye Yunyi's words made the Tie Jun completely agree from the bottom of their hearts from this moment, although they can leave the other half alive and rush out, but this is not Tie Jun's demeanor, they are brothers who live and die together.