Yongping Mansion is close to the sea, it is a beautiful place, neither as desolate as Liaodong outside the Guan, nor as bitter cold as Datong Xuanfu, it can be regarded as livable, but at this moment the scene under Yongping City is very different from the past, in the smell of gunpowder and shouting and killing, only one life after another disappeared like cheap weeds.

Governor Geng Bang is the second son of Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing, and Geng Bingwen's eldest son and third son are different, he did not choose to be a Beijing official, but chose to enlist in the army like his father, and he has climbed well over the years, especially at the beginning of this year, before the imperial court decided to attack King Yan, Geng Bang was sent to Shanhaiguan, commanding 30,000 troops to monitor the movements of King Yan, but last time Geng Bingwen led the army in the battle of Zhending, the soldiers and horses of Shanhaiguan were useless, this time Li Jinglong's 500,000 army went straight to Beiping, and it didn't seem to have anything to do with him, Because Li Jinglong, the rebellious general who replaced his father, parachuted a boss into him - Jiangyin Hou Wu Gao.

That's right, Wu Gao, who conscientiously followed Geng Bingwen to guard the city, was sent to Shanhaiguan, Wu Gao is the marquis, whether it is a military position or a title, he is above Geng Stretch, and he should become the commander, and Geng Stretch can only be a deputy.

A few days ago, Li Jinglong's general order arrived, and let the Shanhaiguan defenders go south to encircle, but he changed his mind halfway and asked them to attack Yongping, so that Geng Jian was ready to fight and have high morale, because his father was defeated in the hands of Yan Rei, and he dreamed of washing away this shame for his father, so as soon as the general order arrived, he encouraged Wu Gao to gather troops and horses, and went straight to Yongping City with Jiangyin Hou Wu Gao and Liaodong General Yang Wen.

The total number of the three armies is more than 60,000, and it is too much of a fuss to fight Yongping, which has only a few thousand garrisons, but what Geng Jian Wu Gao didn't expect was that they who had arrived earlier and wanted to take the lead first, but they were deflated.

After two days of siege, thousands of casualties on both sides, but the city wall of Yongping is still majestic, fortunately, Geng Jian has information in his hand that will never go wrong, and the food and ordnance in this city in front of him are no longer enough, otherwise he really wants to collect troops and wait for Yang Wen to arrive and then attack the city together.

But Li Jinglong still had to explain, and in desperation, Geng Jian could only lead his troops to sweep around Yongping City, uproot some strongholds of the Yan army, and ask Wu Gao to write a good report and submit it to Li Jinglong's camp.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the battle report was sent out, the Tanma sent to the north quickly sent back the news, the army of King Yan was galloping from Beiping to the direction of Yongping, Geng Jian was taken aback, and hurriedly found Wu Gao to discuss, but the two were still a little optimistic, Wu Gao said: "Yan Reverse reacted quickly, and after only a few days of attacking Yongping, reinforcements have been sent, but the number of reinforcements should not be much, the general's side..."

Before the words were finished, the second wave of detectives reported back: "Report! The reinforcements of King Yan have crossed the Qingjiang River, and they can reach Yongping City in three days at most, and the estimated strength has exceeded 50,000! ”

"How is that possible?" Geng Jian was taken aback, "How could Yan Wei dispatch an army of 50,000?" The general went straight to Beiping, didn't he want Beiping? ”

Wu Gao touched his beard and said, "How can this be?" If King Yan abandons the city to fight, it will be fine, and if he loses his foundation, how long can he jump? At that time, the morale of the army will inevitably be weakened, and the army of 50,000? This is already beyond the limit of the strength that King Yan can mobilize to fight, impossible! King Yan must be suspicious, bluffing, more fanfare, more stoves, confusing my ears and eyes, and exploring again! ”

However, not long after the Tanma left, the third group of Tanma returned, and brought back an even more shocking news: the number of troops had indeed reached 50,000, and the commander of the troops was Zhu Di, the king of Yan, himself!

At this time, Wu Gao and Geng Jian looked at each other, and after a while, Geng Jian said inexplicably: "How can this be reasonable, Cao Guogong's hundreds of thousands of troops are pressing the border, Beiping is in danger, and King Yan ignores it and comes to Yongping to do something?" Could it be that this Yongping is still important to Beiping? It just makes no sense! ”

Wu Gao's face was a little ugly: "No matter what, I'm afraid the news won't be fake, even if Yongping is defeated, it is not appropriate to stick to it, and General Yang's army has not yet arrived... It is better for us to withdraw our troops first, so as not to be attacked from both sides. ”

Geng Jian sneered: "Master Hou, you still haven't understood? King Yan clearly means that the weak defeat the strong and each one is broken, isn't this the original means of dealing with his father? He wants to solve our way of soldiers and horses, relieve the worries, so that he can deal with Cao Guogong wholeheartedly, and then through our defeat, dampen the military spirit of the army, in my opinion, if we can dampen his spirit, it will be a big victory, our 60,000 troops are crowded under a small Yongping city, as long as we do our best to defeat Yongping, can't we fight against Yan Rebellion? ”

Wu Gao disagreed: "The small walls of Yongping City are short, how can the 60,000 army be arranged?" Moreover, General Yang's soldiers and horses came later than King Yan's army, and when the time came, Yongping couldn't be defeated, but was blocked by King Yan, what should I do? Most of your men and horses are cavalry, and the king of Yan is not good, how can we defend the city? Didn't you hear about what happened to the city at the beginning? With that kind of weapon, how can Yongping hold it? Let's return to Shanhaiguan. ”

"We have more people than him, or do we wait for work, and we have to think about defeat before we fight?" Geng Jian couldn't believe it, "Isn't this to increase the morale of others and destroy your own prestige?" ”

Wu Gao is old after all, and his temperament is not comparable to that of young people, and he doesn't care when he is looked at by Geng Jian with this kind of gaze: "Thinking about defeat before every battle is the way to general, not to mention that King Yan's move is obviously to catch turtles in the urn and destroy our army, why give him this opportunity?" Yan Wang dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, but we don't need to resist stubbornly, Geng Dudu's meaning, the old man also understands, but we only need to retreat to Shanhaiguan, which is a sharp blade inserted into the back of Yan Wang's abdomen, so that he is worried and restless, why fight to the death here? ”

He glanced at Geng Jian meaningfully: "The previous Yan King broke the order of more than 100,000 troops with a few tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, which shows that the combat power of the Yan army cannot be underestimated. Blame King Yan for not playing his cards according to common sense, Geng Dudu, your soldiers and horses..."

Seeing that Wu Gao carried his father out and stabbed him without yin or yang, Geng was furious, and without waiting for Wu Gao to finish speaking, he sneered: "The soldiers and horses of the last general are naturally going to continue to attack the city, the army of Cao Guogong is here, and attacking Yongping is the duty of the last general, and most of the 50,000 soldiers and horses of King Yan, most of them are soldiers, how much combat power can he have?" The last time my father was won by him, it was all because he was treacherous, this time I want to see what tricks he has after Yongping is defeated! ”

After that, he didn't wait for Wu Gao to answer, so he turned his head and walked out of the big tent, as if he was dead determined to continue to fight Yongping, and Wu Gao was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, but he was the commander who was airborne, and the soldiers and horses in his headquarters were only a few thousand, and he really couldn't help Geng Yan, a real governor, so he could only pinch his nose and endure this evil breath, and arrange his own soldiers and horses to cooperate with the siege.

And the last luck in his heart is probably that King Yan can come later... Arrived late Yongping was beaten down by them, and then came to Yongping offensive and defensive battles, won a great success, and lost... Then you can only desperately break through.

This... Can you really win?