When Heluo in the north was making trouble, the defenders of Yiyang seemed to be out of the way, and they turned a deaf ear to all personnel changes in the outside world and did not react in any way, but under the strict orders of the main general Yuan Jing'an, they paid close attention to the opposite side of the same track defense and Nankun Road, with an attitude of facing a great enemy, and did not let go of a little wind and grass.

Such a stark difference in attitude is certainly due to the duties of the Yiyang garrison, and it is also very related to the personal thoughts and wishes of the guard general Yuan Jing'an.

Yuan Jing'an is cautious and cautious by nature, not as greedy and rash as ordinary soldiers. Therefore, when Emperor Wenxiang presided over the recovery of Heluo, Yuan Jing'an was appointed as the Taishou of Yiyang and sat in Jiuqu City, an important front-line border town. Later, Emperor Wenxiang was assassinated and killed, and major events in the country were frequent, and Yuan Jing'an's position was not transferred, and he has remained until now.

Of course, the main and main reason is Yuan Jingan's background. He is a relative of the Yuan clan, and at this critical and sensitive moment of changing the dynasty, his surname itself is a sin. And the most important point of Mingzhe's self-protection is to stay in his own place and do more mistakes!

In addition to being born in the Yuan family, Yuan Jing'an can also be called a close confidant of Emperor Wenxiang. As early as the old years, when Emperor Wenxiang entered the Ye auxiliary government, he went with him. Now, although the Gao family is the Wei dynasty, Emperor Wenxiang has fallen on the eve of the Yiding Revolution, and it is unknown how much care and tolerance the old Wenxiang subordinates like him will be given today.

Therefore, for Yuan Jing'an, keeping to himself and sticking to his duty is what he can think of and can do to protect himself to the greatest extent.

Although as the situation developed, he gradually found that it seemed that he should look back at the rear, especially when Baiting City was besieged, Yuan Jing Anxin was also extremely entangled. On the one hand, he was well aware of the significant impact of the gains and losses of Baiting City on Yiyang, but on the other hand, he was worried that if he rashly interfered, it might lead to other unfavorable changes to himself.

After all, he is not the only one in Heluo now, and the Fufeng King Ke Zhu Hunyuan has a lot more troops in his hands than him, and the power of the officials is far above him, and he is the real boss of the Heluo region.

Even Zhu Hunyuan sat back and watched Baiting City being besieged and did nothing, either Zhu Hunyuan had a far-reaching plan to break the enemy and needed to use Baiting City as bait, or Zhu Hun Yuan had lost control of the current situation.

In either case, he should not rush to interfere. Especially if when he reviewed the situation in Baiting City, the main force of the Western Wei army suddenly poured in, then he would definitely have to take care of one or the other.

In this tangled mood, Yuan Jing'an paid close attention to the enemy situation in the south, while sitting back and watching Baiting City being surrounded without rescue.

Thankfully, the large army from Kansai did not rush out of the Nankun Road, and there were no further changes to the same rail defense after the first few days of anomalies. But what worries people is that Baiting City has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the entire city has been burned by the enemy.

When the enemy army went north, Yuan Jing'an couldn't hold back after all, and sent scouts all the way north to investigate, only to see a ruined city with black walls on all sides and ruins inside.

Fortunately, on the way to scout, he found several groups of barbarians carrying supplies, so Yuan Jing'an hurriedly sent additional people to intercept them, and transported the captured materials back to Yiyang, as if they were transported from the rear, so as to appease the crowd.

Although the scene of the fire and smoke rising in the direction of Baiting City was seen by many soldiers of the garrison here, when they saw that the materials could still be delivered as scheduled, the soldiers did not make more guesses, but the back road was safe and sound.

Although he appeased the morale of the army, he couldn't hide it from himself. Yuan Jing'an knew that the current calm was only a temporary illusion, and if the situation did not change greatly in the future, it was very likely that they would be destroyed.

Because his duty is to guard Yiyang, he also does not dare to abandon the city when he knows that the back road has been cut off. Although he didn't know that Zhu Hunyuan had led his troops back to the north of the Yellow River, he could also guess that the situation was very bad when he saw that the Western Wei people dared to be so presumptuous in the north, and he might have to sit back and wait if he stayed.

What is more serious than the situation of being unable to advance or retreat is that Yuan Jingan does not know how to reverse this situation.

For many people, when they can't stay or go, it may be a good choice to surrender directly to the enemy. But this was also a dead end for Yuan Jing'an, because he entered the pass from Xiaowu in the old year, and fled back from the pass after the death of Emperor Xiaowu. If you go to the West again this time, you can imagine that there will be no good end.

"Why is Providence so tricky? There is no hope for life! ”

The ants are still stealing life, and Yuan Jing'an is facing such a tricky situation, and he is sad in his heart.

When Baiting City was besieged before, he didn't dare to send troops to save it, but now that he is in a position to retreat, all he can do is save himself. Fortunately, there are nearly 20,000 soldiers under his command, and in addition to obtaining supplies from the rear every month, Jiuqu City usually stores supplies in the city for one to two months for emergency preparedness.

The soldiers and food are all available, and at the same time, there is the fortress of Jiuqu City to defend it, but it is not completely desperate. For Yuan Jing'an, the only way to survive is to stick to Jiuqu City and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the back road. As for whether the country will reward or punish him after the siege is lifted, he doesn't bother to think deeply.

In order to resist the enemy's attack as much as possible, Yuan Jing'an began to gradually abandon some less important strongholds around Jiuqu City, and concentrated his manpower and material resources in Jiuqu City.

After all, the previous mission was to prevent the enemy from entering the Heluo area, but now it is to save their lives, even if they don't give up these surrounding strongholds, they have become out-and-out lone troops.

Just when Yuan Jing'an was hurriedly adjusting his defense, Cai You also led 3,000 elite soldiers from Nankun Road to smoothly enter the Luoshui River Valley, and then approached Jiuqu City north along the Luoshui River Valley with a group of defenders on the same track.

Yuan Jing'an's complicated mood when he learned the news can be imagined, he was vigilant and fortified in every possible way, but the Kansai people never appeared. As soon as he contracted his defensive line here, the army of Kansai entered the Luoshui River Valley smoothly and bloodlessly.

At the same time, the army led by Li Tai also came from the north to the south, gradually approaching Jiuqu City.

The reason why he arrived later than Cai You's department was because when he came south from Heyang, he turned to capture Hangu Guancheng by the way. After Zhu Hunyuan was expelled to the north bank of the Yellow River, the threat of the defenders in the Han Pass to Li Tai's troops was almost none, but only by conquering this city could the Beikun Road be opened, and it would be easier to transport Heluo's personnel and materials to Xin'an and Guannan.

When he came to the outside of Jiuqu City, Li Tai saw the enemy army put on a posture of shrinking and defending. There are a total of nine Sakahara before and after Jiuqu Castle, and the city itself is located on the second Sakahara in the east, and the terrain is condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In the old year, Li Yuan only led a few thousand remnants of the army to defend the city, so he resisted more than 20,000 people led by Zhu Hunyuan for a short time, and waited until Li Tai led the army to come to help.

Now this city is built on a larger scale than before, and the garrison in the city is also more than Li Yuan, just look at the appearance of the defenders of Jiuqu City when Baiting City was besieged before, presumably a considerable amount of materials have been accumulated in the city.

Looking at this posture, if it is just a normal attack, I am afraid that when Yuwentai and others withdraw their disgraced troops, Li Tai may not be able to capture Jiuqu City here.

Li Tai carefully inspected around Jiuqu Sakahara, and then met with Cai You and others to exchange intelligence opinions, and then gradually formed an offensive plan.

Li Tai then garrisoned the Banyuan to the east of Jiuqu City, and while methodically erecting the Heyang cannon, he escorted the Northern Qi prisoners to the city of Jiuqu and shouted for surrender, telling the defenders that they had been abandoned, thus breaking the enemy's fighting spirit.

As for Cai You and the others, they dug trenches around Jiuqu City and made a blockade and interception, and the progress of the project was clearly placed in front of the defenders of Jiuqu City, so that they could watch the road of breaking through and fleeing being compressed and destroyed a little bit.

Li Tai rarely puts himself on the defensive in a completely passive position, even if his strength is far weaker than the enemy, he has to take the initiative to attack and strive for mobility as much as possible, so he rarely has been trapped in one place for a long time, and he does not know much about what kind of experience and mentality this is.

But he understands the truth that the lonely city cannot be defended, and it is better than Wang Sizheng to hate the lonely city. Although Li Tai could not invest as much military power as the Eastern Wei Dynasty conquered Wang Sizheng, he was good at creating an atmosphere that made people anxious to go.

After two days of vigorous momentum and the use of Heyang artillery to smash two cannons into Jiuqu City, on the third day of the siege of Jiuqu City, Li Tai asked Cai You and others to stop the fortifications and evacuate Jiuqu Sakahara, and go to a remote place to temporarily garrison.

The defenders of the city were frightened and undecided, and they were amazed when they saw this scene, and finally in the evening they could not help but send scouts out of the city to check, and when they saw those trench defenses that had already been quite large, they could not help but secretly smack their tongues. As for the reason for the sudden interruption of the enemy's fortifications and the evacuation of the area, they naturally had no way to find out in this uninhabited wilderness.

On this night, Li Tai's camp also frequently made the illusion of personnel entering and leaving.

By the next morning, the appearance of the camp had changed dramatically, not only had more flags been erected, but the camp had expanded a lot, and it seemed that there had been a lot more men and horses. However, the gate of the camp was closed, and it looked like it was heavily guarded, and it was not like a few days ago when men and horses were sent to rush to the city early in the morning to shout and scold and invite war.

"General, the situation of the thief army is quite strange, do you want to go out of the city to fight to find out the truth?"

The soldiers in the city were already anxious and nervous, and they paid close attention to the situation of the enemy army outside the city, and when they saw such an unusual performance of the enemy army, they naturally couldn't help but guess, so some people couldn't help but ask Yuan Jing'an for battle.

After hearing this, Yuan Jingan shook his head and said: "The thief general Li Boshan is cunning and vicious, and he has defeated my country's famous generals in a row, which must not be underestimated. I didn't come to the siege for a long time, and I was afraid that it was to lure me to attack. Today, the teachers in my city are strong and well-supplied, so there is no need to rush out, and sticking to the party is the best plan! ”

When the soldiers heard Yuan Jing'an's words, they didn't say anything more. Although according to Yuan Jing'an's previous defensive strategy, they didn't know anything about the changes in the back road, and they were caught off guard in the face of the enemy's attack, but at least so far in terms of Yiyang defense, Yuan Jing'an has not made any particularly serious mistakes.

Two days after he disappeared, Cai You's unit reappeared outside the city and continued to dig ditches. More than 2,000 dejected captives were added to the ranks. And under the beating and scolding of its sergeant supervisors, the prisoners could only bury their heads in digging ditches.

When it was almost dark in the evening, suddenly more than a dozen captives jumped out of a certain ditch, and while the guards were not paying attention, they rushed towards the direction of Jiuqu City, shouting loudly while running: "The thief army is bluffing, Heluo still has several cities to defend, and the army of the Fufeng King is ......."

"Stop! Get back! ”

Before the captives approached the city, the Wei soldiers on guard had already noticed it, and they were busy chasing after them, shouting and shooting with their bows, but the accuracy of the head was not very good in a hurry, but the speed of those fleeing soldiers in order to avoid the arrows was also greatly reduced, and they were finally all captured.

"What are the fugitives shouting? Did you hear me clearly? ”

The soldiers of the defenders at the head of the city saw this scene and talked about it one after another, it seems that the situation outside is not as the Wei army claims, there are still many friendly troops between Heluo and Luo, and it seems that the Fufeng King has not been expelled to Hebei.

In times of difficulty, people tend to believe in more positive and beneficial messages, and this situation was soon reported to Yuan Jing'an. Although the chaotic cries of the fugitives were vague and the message was very limited, they could not hold the minds of the people, and when they relayed them, they had already added a lot of details.

After listening to these reports, Yuan Jing'an's brows couldn't help frowning, this virtual situation made him unable to judge, and he also hesitated about whether to send people out to investigate.

"If you don't give up the outer cities, you may be able to find out more about the situation outside."

Suddenly, a general spoke, although it was just a casual emotion, but it also showed that he was skeptical of Yuan Jing'an's decision.

"Our army is strong, there is plenty of food and grass, and it is our duty to stick to Jiuqu City! No matter how the situation changes outside, as long as this city is not lost, all the soldiers will have a place to live! ”

After hearing this, Yuan Jing'an's originally somewhat wavering train of thought suddenly became firm again, and he made up his mind to continue to stick to the city.

But his firm belief lasted until the next day, and no, it was shaken that night.

After dark, everything went on as usual, but in the second half of the night, the rear of the enemy camp outside the city suddenly flickered with fires, drums and horns, and mixed with the sound of all kinds of men and horses running and shouting, even from the top of the city it seemed to be very chaotic.

Yuan Jing'an was awakened in his sleep in the city lord's mansion, and after learning of this situation, he hurriedly put on his armor and climbed the city, and before he had time to look closely, he learned that a general had led his headquarters out of the city and ran towards the enemy camp.

After learning of this situation, Yuan Jing'an was furious, but it was difficult to investigate it at the moment, but he ordered the troops defending the city not to move.

The commotion in the enemy camp lasted for half an hour, and with the sound of galloping horses, a cavalry squad rushed back from the direction of the enemy camp to the city, which was the same team that had just been killed.

Yuan Jing'an walked to the city gate with a pale face, and before he could order to take down this group of men and horses who went out of the city without asking for instructions, he saw that these people had a lot of money, silk and goods in their hands and on horseback, and even a lot of gold, silver, pearls and jade.

"Envoy, the enemy camp is not defended, and the last general will go directly into his camp, and the goods will be taken. I think that the rear camp was attacked, and the thief army did not stop it at all. The camps in front were completely empty, and even the river cannon was unguarded! After the last general entered the camp, the thieves in the camp also shouted that the Heyang cannon should not be lost......"

The general turned over and dismounted, grinned at Yuan Jing'an, and showed off the spoils of the robbery.

Yuan Jing'an's face was tense at first, but when he heard this, his expression changed sharply, and he hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the general's arm and said, "You saw the Heyang cannon?" Is it really unguarded? Why don't you get one back! ”

After hearing this, the general hurriedly said: "The last general saw that the enemy camp was full of money and silk, no, no, the Heyang cannon was tall and heavy, and it was difficult to ...... with only one hundred and ten horsemen at the end general."

"Stupid, stupid! Greedy and despicable, if you get a Heyang cannon, it is not a problem to be knighted, I don't know how many times the money is better than this mere money! ”

Yuan Jing'an knew the virtue of these generals, and after hearing this, he immediately scolded angrily. He doesn't pay much attention to money and silk things, but the Heyang cannon is very famous in their Northern Qi army, Hu Lujin, Pan Le and other famous generals are defeated by this sharp weapon, if this attack camp can capture one, with this merit Yuan Jing'an consciously can safely survive the turmoil of the change of dynasty, and even have a reward!

There has never been a person in this world who has been able to maintain absolute sanity, and the reason why he can remain calm and hold back is mostly because the temptation is still not enough.

When Yuan Jing'an heard that this heavy weapon that really made his heart flutter was placed in the enemy camp and could be picked up, he couldn't hold it anymore. Seeing that the chaos in the enemy camp outside the city was about to end, he refused to let go of this excellent opportunity, even if he ordered to gather 3,000 elite soldiers in the city, go directly out of the city and kill the enemy camp.

As for Yuan Jing'an himself, he continued to gather people and personally sat in front of the city gate to observe the development of the situation and respond in time.

Three thousand elite soldiers rushed into the enemy camp, and at first it was as the previous robes said that the enemy camp was empty, and the flags planted all over the camp were just a bluff and a cover-up, but in fact, several battalions were empty one after another.

Seeing this, these Northern Qi soldiers became even more emboldened, and even according to the commander's instructions, they searched for traces of the Heyang cannon in each battalion.

"Here, here! Heyang Cannon ......"

In the middle of the battalion, which was relatively deep, a soldier suddenly shouted in surprise, and in front of them stood several thick and tall instruments in the center of the camp, which looked very similar to the Heyang cannon they saw in the distance at the head of the city.

When the soldiers of the other battalions heard this, they all moved closer to it, and their great surprise even made them ignore the strange silence that seemed to be in the enemy camp. When a group of soldiers flocked here, those who rushed to the front exclaimed, "How can this be? ”

Although they hadn't really seen the Heyang cannon up close, they could also tell that the few large wooden stakes planted in the camp would never be able to launch the huge and heavy cannonball into the city!

However, the backroad guards are not aware of this, and they are still desperately squeezing inward.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden wind and arrows falling like a shower, and although the vision was greatly limited in the night, because the soldiers were all crowded together, there were countless arrows at one time.

However, this was not too late, and what was even more amazing was that the surrounding flames suddenly burst into flames, and spread rapidly, and these soldiers were swallowed up in the sea of fire in an instant. Seeing the opportunity, he hurriedly took off his armor and escaped, but most of them fell into it, wailing and wailing.

Yuan Jing'an, who was in front of the city gate, saw that the camp was suddenly in flames again, and he was a little suspicious for a while, but he still didn't know what was going on in the camp, but through the light of the fire, he saw that many figures were evacuating to the north, and even subconsciously meant that the enemy army was routed and fled.

However, the most important target of Heyang artillery was still missing, and Yuan Jing'an was also concerned about the chaos, when he led the two thousand light cavalry that were hurriedly assembled to kill in the direction of the enemy camp outside the city, wanting to expand the results of the battle.

Although there were all kinds of chaotic sounds in the night, when this formed cavalry team galloped, the sound of iron hooves stepping on the ground was also very eye-catching.

In order to prepare for this trap, Li Tai had already divided the camp into two camps, the front camp seemed to be robbed in the rear, but in fact it was himself who did it. At this time, he was in this back camp, and when he heard the sound of galloping horses' hooves, he smiled and said: "The thieves have finally been transferred, and the meritorious service of killing the enemy will be here on this night, and you will not hurry up!" ”

A big city like Jiuqu City usually does not have too many cavalry, after all, the war horse occupies too much space in the city, and there is a strong city to rely on, and the requirements for mobility are not high. But as long as the cavalry is dispatched, then it will definitely be the elite of the defenders, so Li Tai said this.

After hearing the general's words, the generals who had been fighting for a long time agreed to the promise, and then they went out of the camp with their armor, and each led his men and horses to weave a net on the plains outside the city, to capture and kill the enemy troops in this big net!

The sound of iron hooves stomping on the ground one after another sounded from all around, and Yuan Jing suddenly felt that something was wrong, he was a cautious person by nature, and he had endured it until now, but he didn't want to step into the enemy's trap after all.

For a while, he naturally didn't care about any more loot from the enemy camp, and immediately led the crowd to rush back in the direction of the city gate.

However, at this time, another enemy army had already penetrated from the side, directly cutting off the people of Yuan Jing'an, who was not far from the city, from the city, and the leader was Cai You. Seeing the enemy army rushing back, Cai You didn't have time to form a formation, so he directly led dozens of cronies to rush towards the enemy without hesitation, and his subordinates also shouted: "The ironclad general is here, and the thief will die!" ”

Yuan Jing'an couldn't think of any ironclad general for a while, but seeing that the enemy general was so fierce and brave, he was also quite frightened for a while, and he didn't dare to collide head-on directly, turning to the flanks to wander, but it was this fork that tightened the encirclement of the enemy cavalry around his army.

All sides were attacked and killed, and Yuan Jing'an's troops were involuntarily carried by these enemy horses in the direction of the slopes of the mountains in the north of the city. At the same time, Li Tai also led the rear battalion troops to bypass the front camp that was still burning from the blazing flames, and approached Jiuqu City.

Along the way, they were surrounded and outflanked, and when they arrived at the Kunshan Ridge, there were only 100 remnants of Yuan Jing'an's army. With the arrival of dawn, the field of vision gradually broadened, and when Yuan Jing'an looked back at the enemy cavalry, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said loudly: "Is it Pi Lang?" ”

Pi Jinghe just chased and killed the enemy all the way, but he didn't know that Yuan Jing'an, the main general, was actually in the team, and he couldn't help but be happy after hearing this shout, and even replied: "Personnel Xuanqi, I didn't expect to meet the acting father here again!" ”

"Beggar Pi Lang to take care of the old feelings and let me go. I have escaped from the mountains and wilderness, and I dare not be the enemy of your army again......"

Yuan Jing'an was already exhausted at the moment, and seeing that the number of people was decreasing, he couldn't help but beg for mercy from Pi Jinghe and this old man.

When Pi Jinghe heard this, he only sneered: "It's really difficult for the acting prince to invite you, and it hurts the old feelings!" My lord General Li is the best in the world, I live with high righteousness and bestow grace, loyalty and service, I myself die is not a pity, and I dare to undermine this loyalty on behalf of the public! On behalf of the public trust me, please dismount and be bound, you can still have a little dignity, otherwise the next arrow will be merciless! ”

As he spoke, Pi Jinghe raised his hand to draw the bow, and an arrow grazed directly past Yuan Jing'an's ear, and the other arrow swirled around and landed on the string.