Spring and autumn are the high seasons for sandstorms in the north, especially in Youzhou, but there are not many sandstorms in Yuguan, but today they were unexpectedly born.

The Khitan people have had enough of the sandstorms, and every time the sandstorm comes, they will lose a large number of cattle and sheep, so that they have a fear of the sandstorm in their bones, so when the sandstorm hits, they see that victory is in sight, and they have to give up the upcoming Yuguan and withdraw to the camp.

In a moment, the sky was already full of yellow sand, and it was dark, and the strong sandstorm swooped down on the city wall again and again with the help of the strong wind, and the fierce battle just now had to be silenced under the threat of nature.

The sandstorm did not subside until dusk, when the 3,000 Lu Long army led by Li Zhen finally arrived at Yuguan.

When Xu Qinlian heard that Di Xiangguo also arrived with the reinforcements, he was very excited, regardless of the sand and dust fluttering in the sky, and personally greeted him, "Thank you Di Xiangguo for the rescue, it is more precious than sending charcoal in the snow"

Di Renjie covered his mouth and nose with a cloth, pointed to the sky and dust, and smiled: "They are the charcoal in the snow."

Xu Qin was stunned for a moment, and immediately burst out laughing, "That's right, this is the will of heaven and God is blessing Yuguan." ”

He hurriedly invited Di Renjie and Li Zhen and three thousand soldiers into the city, and entered a room without sand and dust, Li Zhen and Di Renjie washed their faces with water, and then they let out a long breath, Di Renjie smiled: "In my life, I have only encountered three sandstorms, but this time today is the most violent." ”

Li Zhen seemed to be thoughtful, he and Xu Qinlin greeted each other, and asked, "Has the Khitan army returned to Liaodong?"

Xu Qinshan shook his head, "They are bound to win Yuguan, it is impossible to retreat because of a sandstorm, and when the dust storm is over, they will attack Yuguan again, but they don't know that you have arrived." ”

"This is the chance to break the enemy"

Di Renjie next to him said with a smile: "It is because they don't know that we have arrived, so the defense must be loose, and we must seize this opportunity to break the enemy." ”

Xu Qinlian also agreed with Di Renjie's opinion, he only has 3,000 reinforcements now, and this reinforcement still can't hold Yuguan, if there is no surprise army, they have no chance of winning at all, "If you want to use the weather to break the enemy, then the opportunity is tonight." ”

The two looked back at Li Zhen together, Li Zhen pondered for a moment, and nodded slowly, "This is exactly what I thought"

The night is getting deeper and deeper, the sand and dust are gradually subsiding, and the sand on the ground can already shallowly submerge the instep, but the wind is still very strong, blowing up the dust on the ground, making the air chaotic, the sky and the earth are silent, the yellow fog is vast, and the situation on the other side is not clear from dozens of steps away.

The large camp of the Khitan army is stationed in a vacant land two miles north of Yuguan, covering an area of thousands of acres, surrounded by a camp fence, although the Khitan army is a nomadic people, but the main general Sun Wanrong is greatly influenced by the Tang army, and is stationed in accordance with the way the Tang army camps

Although Sun Wanrong lacked strategy, he was unambiguous in commanding the army, the tents of more than 10,000 troops were neatly arranged, the archers camped outside, and the camp fence with a height of two zhang and thick arms was erected around it, and a trench was dug outside the camp gate, and deer antlers were buried, and even a drawbridge was pulled up in front of the camp gate, and eight watchtowers were distributed around the camp, defending the whole camp like an iron bucket.

But a sandstorm caused a hole in the battalion's defenses, and the eight watchtowers became ornaments, and the defenders on the watchtowers could not see the situation dozens of paces away.

The camp is very quiet, it is now a watch, it is the time when the Khitan soldiers are sleeping soundly, although Sun Wanrong is accustomed to strict management of the army, but the defenders will not think that there will be a Tang army to sneak attack, there are only hundreds of people in the city, if it is not a sandstorm, they can break the city today, the Tang army may be able to escape, but there will be no such possibility to come to sneak attack.

The soldiers guarding the door all found a place to sleep, such a big dust, you can't see anything, what's the point of guarding the door?

At this time, twenty small gray dots appeared a hundred steps away from the barracks, under the cover of yellow fog, quickly approaching the northwest corner of the camp, this is twenty people, it is the twenty internal guard warriors brought by Li Zhen, they are all strong in martial arts, vigorous and athletic, they are divided into two teams, one left and one right, close to the Khitan camp.

The night and the sand and dust in the air became their most advantageous cover, and they put on their light yellow robes, so that they did not have to worry about being seen by the watchtower, and gradually, they were less than thirty paces away from the watchtower, and they were about to enter the sentinel's sight,

The warriors of the internal guard had a lot of experience in sneak attacks or ambushes, and he changed from trotting to crawling, lying on the ground and squirming forward, each carrying a heavy leather bag behind his back, slowly groping and crawling forward, mainly for fear of stepping on the thistle terrestris in the grass.

Fortunately, the other party did not sprinkle thistle, perhaps the Khitan people also thought that there would be no large cavalry to attack, gradually, the two internal guard warriors approached the camp fence, in front of the trench, the trench is not wide, less than a zhang, they each brought a plank, the plank is also very particular, there must be long nails at both ends, this is to facilitate the long nails to pierce into the soil, the plank is fixed on the trench.

Climbing through the trench, there is a thick camp fence in front of them, they need to climb over the camp gate to enter the camp, the place to climb over is also very particular, according to the observation of the samurai, the distance between the two observation towers is about eighty paces, and in the dust and night fog, the visual distance can only reach about thirty paces at most.

Then there was a blind spot twenty paces wide in the middle of the two belvederescoes, and this was their chance to climb into the camp.

At this time, the rich experience of the samurai was full of display, and they knew in their hearts that the other side would also think of this defensive blank area, and generally speaking, the other side would send people to guard here, and if they hurriedly crossed it, they would inevitably be revealed, and the samurai lay motionless in front of the camp fence, waiting patiently.

The autumn wind howled, and the wind swept in from the northwest again, rolling up clouds of yellow dust, and struck the warriors in the faces, making people unable to open their eyes, and they crawled for a full quarter of an hour, only to see a corner of the camp fence move, and sure enough, there was a person huddled up, he cursed, got up and came to the camp fence to pee.

A warrior slowly aimed his crossbow at the peeing soldier, they were only five steps apart, this arrow was extremely critical, the hanging knife buckle, a poisonous arrow silently shot at the Khitan soldier, the Khitan soldier's body naturally shook, at this moment, the arrow shot into his throat, he covered his throat suddenly, wanted to shout but couldn't shout, his throat gurgled twice, and slowly withered to the ground.

When the opportunity came, the two warriors jumped over the barracks like apes and leaped in, and in a moment there was another muffled scream, and another sentry who was sleeping behind the tent was also dropped.

The two warriors waved, and the remaining eighteen warriors all jumped in, entered the Khitan army camp, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the camp, only to see a black shadow running quickly between the big tents, they untied the skin bags on their backs, and sprayed the burning lamp oil in the skin bags on a top camp tent, and in a moment, dozens of camp tents in the northwest corner were sprayed with lamp oil.

Click, a ball of fire appeared in the hands of the dark shadows.

A hundred steps east of the Khitan camp, the 3,000 Lulong army is ready, including 2,500 infantry, and 500 cavalry, and the 3,000 army are waiting nervously, this will be a battle for their revenge, whether they can wash away their shame and win back their dignity depends on tonight's battle.

Li Zhen was also very nervous in his heart, this was also the first time he led his troops to fight, they had no experience, the other party was an army of more than 10,000 people, once the other party appeared, with one enemy and four, could they beat the strong Khitan army?

Li Zhen rode at the front, his eyes calmly watching the enemy camp, by this time, he had completely calmed down, and he told himself to trust the warriors of the internal guard, they would be able to complete the task successfully.

At this moment, there was a sudden flash in the yellow mist, it seemed to be a cluster of firelight, Li Zhen straightened up all of a sudden, his eyes were firmly fixed on this cluster of firelight, only to see another cluster of firelight appear not far away, followed by three clusters, four clusters more and more, the firelight became brighter and brighter, more and more widespread, and there began to be a frightened shout in the camp.

At this time, the three thousand Tang soldiers were excited, the flames in the camp rose in their eyes, igniting the courage in their hearts, everyone was impatient, the war horses kicked and moved, with a heavy snort, the cavalry held spears in their hands, tightly strangled the war horses with one hand, and looked at the enemy camp excitedly.

At this time, the Khitan army camp fire was monstrous, first starting from the northwest camp corner, under the northwest wind, the fire quickly spread to most of the camp, the flames were monstrous, the horses were neighing, a string of camp tents were like a fire dragon spitting flames wildly, under the flames, more than 10,000 soldiers cried their fathers and mothers, scattered and fled, most of them did not wear armor, bare feet, hugged their heads and rats, and fled for their lives.

Out of instinct, they all fled for their lives to the northeast of the camp, and the entire south and west sides were engulfed in flames, which were still spreading rapidly, and more than sixty percent of the barracks were set on fire.

At this time, the north gate was smashed open, and thousands of soldiers rushed out, scrambling for their lives, pushing and trampling each other, screams, cries, and pleadings resounded in the night sky

The fighter plane came out, and under the reflection of the flames, the large group of escaped soldiers could be seen even in the vast yellow fog, Li Zhen yelled, "Kill

He rushed forward on his horseback, and everyone's blood burned, "Kill," they shouted and charged, brandishing spears and swords, five hundred horsemen galloped through the sand, the infantry followed, and three thousand troops rushed down the mountain like tigers in front of the enemy.

Nearly 8,000 people had escaped from the flames, they were unarmoured, armoured, armoured, and even more than half of them were standing barefoot on the sand without shoes.

But many people carried a cloth bag, which was their belongings, in the face of the danger of being burned to death, what soldiers' responsibilities, what rules in the army, all hell, fleeing for their lives and protecting their belongings is the first priority.

Many of the soldiers did not have time to take their belongings, and they all stamped their feet and beat their chests in remorse at the fire, while those who carried the belongings secretly rejoiced, but none of them could have imagined that death had already pounced on them from behind.

The sudden 500 cavalry launched a fierce and storm-like offensive, they rushed into the crowd, slashing with swords, stabbing with spears, and trampling on horses, instantly breaking away a bloody path, scaring the unsuspecting Khitan soldiers into disarray.

The Khitan soldiers shouted and fled to both sides, but they were intercepted by the infantry, the Tang soldiers slashed their knives and stabbed their guns, and suddenly killed and wounded, countless people knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, although more than 8,000 Khitan soldiers were several times more than the sneak attackers, but they were unarmed, and there was no general to command, and everyone was panicked, except for fleeing for their lives, who still had the heart to fight?

They are like a flock of sheep that have fallen into the trap of wild wolves, in addition to running and fleeing for their lives, they are waiting to be killed, and there are groups of soldiers who have been killed and driven away, corpses are all over the field, and rivers of blood are flowing, Li Zhen has never killed people as happily as today since he became the commander of the internal guard.

He held a big knife in his hand, and killed in the crowd on his horse, and the big knife swung over, and several human heads were split in a row, and with another backhand, the two were cut off by the waist, and the internal organs flowed all over the ground

Li Zhen was so wild that he shouted loudly: "The three armies listen, and judge the merit by the head"

The killing was even more crazy, it was useless for the Khitan soldiers to surrender on their knees, the Tang soldiers who were eager for military merit ruthlessly kicked over and chopped their heads, and the blood-stained fields were full of Khitan soldiers who were frightened and ran frantically, and behind them, the red-eyed Tang soldiers chased after them, and the soldiers shouted, "Escape, leave the head"

In this battle, more than 4,000 Khitan troops were burned and nearly 6,000 were killed, except for the main general Sun Wanrong who broke through and fled with more than 1,000 soldiers, the 15,000 Khitan pioneers were almost wiped out.