Chapter Ninety-Seven, Precarious

"Brother thinks who on the Black Wind Mountain can compare to him?" Yang Xiong shook his head and said contemptuously: "There is no one who can compare with him, not even the black panther!" Then he looked at Shi Ping puzzled, "Brother, what do you mean by this?" Yang Peng slept on the tower of the city gate. The next day, I was woken up before dawn. Seeing Chen Jie standing in front of him with an excited and excited face, he asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?" Chen Jie hurriedly said: "Miss Chai has found it!" Yang Peng was stunned, and stood up, "Where are the people?" "Yang Guihua has already taken her to the post house!"

Yang Peng said angrily: "This uneasy woman! Then he ran out of the city gate. hurriedly returned to the post house and saw Chai Yonghui sitting in the hall eating, gobbling up, completely lacking the reserve that the eldest lady should have. His hair was messy, his face was full of stains, and although he hadn't seen it for a few days, he seemed to have lost a lot of weight.

The anger in Yang Peng's heart suddenly disappeared at this moment. walked up to Chai Yonghui and looked down at her, not knowing what to say. Chai Yonghui felt that someone was coming and raised his head. When he saw Yang Peng, his eyes immediately became uneasy, he lowered his head and stopped eating. Yang Peng sat down in front of her and sighed, "Are you okay?" Chai Yonghui nodded.

"Let's take a shower, change our clothes, and we'll talk later." Chai Yonghui nodded again. raised his head and glanced at Yang Peng, hurriedly lowered his head again, and said in a voice like a gnat: "I'm sorry!" ......""What? I didn't hear it! Chai Yonghui raised his head with red cheeks and said with some annoyance: "I said I'm sorry!" ”

Yang Peng smiled, "What a big lady!" Even the words of apology are so arrogant! Chai Yonghui was annoyed, but he had nowhere to vent, so he could only stare at Yang Peng with those beautiful and clear big eyes, and the **** fluctuated violently. Okay, okay, don't be angry. Count me wrong. ”

Chai Yonghui smiled. Yang Peng asked, "You won't run around anymore, will you?" Chai Yonghui shook his head. Yang Peng smiled: "What do you mean by shaking your head?" Did you run outside, or didn't you listen to me? Chai Yonghui said: "I won't run anymore." ”

Yang Peng smiled. Chai Yonghui stood up, "I'll take a shower." Then he left the hall. Yang Peng asked Yang Guihua, who was standing aside, "Where did you find her?" ”

Yang Guihua replied, "I found Miss Chai in Zhangshu Village. Last night, just as I was about to evacuate, I suddenly noticed someone sneaking out of the Black Wind Mountain barracks. I thought there might be some fame here, maybe it had something to do with Miss Chai, so I ordered someone to summon Xue Fu, and then brought someone to follow him. It can be regarded as Miss Chai's auspicious appearance, the person we are following is actually Wang Dayong's cronies, and he is going to Zhangshu Village to transfer Miss Chai. We found Miss Chai and immediately took action, killing seven or eight people who were guarding Miss Chai and the cronies, and rescued Miss Chai. ”

Yang Peng nodded, suddenly remembered something, frowned slightly, and asked: "Miss Chai, has she been ......" Yang Guihua shook his head with certainty: "Absolutely not!" There are two reasons, one is that Miss Chai doesn't look like a broken woman at all, and the other is that I interrogated the guards, and they all said that Wang Dayong hadn't been able to succeed yet, because Miss Chai was forced to die, and Wang Dayong threw a rat bogey. ”

Yang Peng smiled slightly, "Okay! patted Yang Guihua on the shoulder, "Hard work!" This time it's really thanks to you! Yang Guihua was overjoyed. Chen Jie smiled a little ridiculously: "After this time, this eldest lady shouldn't treat the people of Black Wind Mountain as heroes anymore, right?" Yang Peng and Yang Guihua both laughed.

Yang Peng frowned and said, "Now there is only one question, how to defeat the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army?" Yang Guihua frowned and said, "Actually, it is not difficult to deal with them, as long as the surrounding states work together with us, we can force the Black Wind Bandit Army and Horse to retreat." However, the surrounding states, although they deserve to be beautiful, have not taken practical action and have a wait-and-see attitude. This makes things difficult. With the city walls of Gaotang Prefecture, with these native soldiers in Gaotang Prefecture who are much weaker than we expected, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold it for long. Based on the current situation, I estimate that the city will be breached in three days at most! ”

Yang Peng showed a thoughtful look. Chen Jie said depressedly: "If it is our Cangzhou army, a thousand people will be enough to garrison." If there are five or six thousand people, you can go out of the city and defeat them! It's really suffocating now! A secret guard rushed in, hugged his fists and said, "Master, the Gaotang Prefecture regimental training envoy asks to see you." ”

Yang Peng said: "Please let him in." The secret guard answered, ran down, and after a while, led the regimental training envoy in. This Gaotang Prefecture regimental training envoy, surnamed Zhao, has a parenthetical single name, hehe, and the Zhao Kuo who talks on paper has a name. Medium stature, ordinary physique, average appearance, this is a middle-aged man with no characteristics and no impression.

Zhao Kuo hugged his fists and bowed: "Xiaguan meets Lord Yang!" "General Zhao doesn't have to be polite. Can I help you? Zhao Kuo straightened up and said urgently: "There are deserters again!" ......" Chen Jie said angrily: "What's so strange about this, isn't there a deserter every day?" "This time the situation was different, it was a whole team of 200 people, and they fled together. It is estimated that it is still hidden in the city, so I specially came to ask Lord Chen how to deal with this matter? ”

Chen Jie said: "I really don't know how you train the army!" Why are all your subordinates so pustules? Zhao Kuo was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't dare and couldn't say anything. Yang Peng thought for a while, "You go to the army and tell everyone that reinforcements from the surrounding states will arrive within three days, and my Cangzhou soldiers and horses will arrive within five days." Don't be afraid. ”

Zhao Kuo asked with a look of surprise: "Are all the reinforcements coming?" Is this true? "Nature is true! You also have to tell everyone that if any soldier who persists until reinforcements arrive, Lord Ding will reward each with fifty taels of silver. Zhao Kuo's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Xiaguan will go and tell everyone the good news immediately!" He arched his hand towards Yang Peng and left in a hurry.

Chen Jie asked puzzledly, "Why didn't I know that reinforcements were coming?" Yang Guihua smiled: "This is the big brother's plan." In this way, the morale of the army was stabilized. Chen Jie suddenly realized. Yang Guihua frowned and said, "It's just that it won't last long!" After three days, the soldiers of Gaotang Prefecture will know the truth, and if they can't defeat the Black Wind Bandit Army before that, the morale of the soldiers of Gaotang Prefecture will collapse in an instant, and this Gaotang Prefecture will fall immediately. ”

Yang Peng touched his chin and muttered, "It would be nice if we could find the grain and grass hoarding place of the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army!" "Knock knock knock......! Woo......! The sound of war drums, horns, suddenly loud sounded. Yang Peng suddenly got up, ran out of the hall, and looked south. Yang Guihua, who was standing behind Yang Peng, frowned and said, "It must be the Liangshan army that has begun to attack the city!" ”

"Let's go!" Yang Peng ran outside, followed by Chen Jie and Yang Guihua. The three of them and all the secret guards rushed to the city wall, only to see thousands of Black Wind Mountain bandits rushing towards the city wall with shouts. Although the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army had not yet climbed the city wall, the city wall was already in chaos, and the native soldiers were running around like headless flies, no matter how Zhao Kuo and the others shouted hoarsely, it would be useless at all.

Yang Peng shouted: "Don't mess up! If you want to live, resist with me! When the local soldiers saw Chen Xiao, their originally flustered hearts calmed down a lot. Yang Peng walked to the battlement, only to see that the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army had already set up a ladder and was ready to storm the city wall. Yang Peng pulled out his sword and shouted: "The crossbowmen shoot, and the others throw the wood and stones!" The native soldiers did so at once, and the crossbowmen fired arrows at the city, while the others desperately threw down the rolling stones. The Black Wind Bandit Army that attacked the city wall was knocked to the ground one after another, and the bows and arrows of the Black Wind Bandit Army continued to shoot arrows to the city, and from time to time some local soldiers were shot to the ground, and the native soldiers were terrified, if it weren't for Yang Peng's constant cheering them up, they were afraid that they would have collapsed!

Suddenly, watching the battle under the city, he suddenly showed a look of surprise and said to the black panther: "Brother, they won't be able to resist for long!" Tao Ran finally saw the details of the earthen soldiers on the city wall. The panther glanced at the city wall and asked, puzzled, "How so?" ”

Tao Ran said: "Although these native soldiers are still resisting, their actions are chaotic and disorderly. Then Yang Peng is a good fighter, how could he let these native soldiers have such a situation? The only explanation is that these native soldiers are panicked to the extreme! If it weren't for a famous general like Yang Peng, I'm afraid that Gaotang Prefecture would have been broken by us a long time ago! ”

The panther nodded, "What the military advisor said is extremely true! He turned his head and said to Wang Dayong: "Brother Wang Dayong, Brother Zheng Tianhu, Brother Tianshou, you also go up!" Intensify your offensive and break through the city today! Wang Dayong and the three of them excitedly hugged their fists and promised, and led a thousand infantry troops under their command to join the battlefield.

The fierce battle continued, and Gao Tang Prefecture was crumbling. Just when the fierce battle in the south of the city was in full swing, the prefect of Gaotang Prefecture, Lord Ding, ran away from the north gate with his wife and family property. The battle lasted until the evening, when the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army stopped attacking, and the native soldiers of Gaotang Prefecture miraculously held on. However, this is already their maximum limit, in fact, if the Black Wind Bandit Army launches another wave of attacks, the city will be broken! Fortunately, the Black Wind Bandit Army did not launch another round of attacks and temporarily retreated.

Yang Peng let out a long breath. Looking at the frightened and exhausted soldiers around him, he felt that this war could not be fought anymore. Yang Guihua whispered beside Yang Peng: "My lord, we can't win, it's better to give up." Chen Jie asked angrily: "Just ran away like this?" Yang Guihua said: "Chen Jie, don't be rash!" In today's situation, if you don't go, there is only a dead end, so why die in vain? Besides, this Gaotang Prefecture is not Cangzhou, it is not our responsibility, and we don't need to fight for Gaotang Prefecture! ”

Chen Jie said angrily: "So you should throw the people here to the bandits?" Yang Guihua wanted to continue to explain, but Yang Peng raised his hand and said, "Okay, stop fighting!" Zhao Kuo panted and ran to Chen Xiao, hugged his fists and said, "Oh no, Lord Yang, Lord Prefect, he ran away!" When Yang Peng heard this, he couldn't help but be angry, "If you talk about running, I'm afraid no one can compare to this Lord Ding!" ”

Chen Jie snorted coldly, "What good birds can the Ding family have!" Yang Peng was thinking about whether he should give up, but it was difficult for him to leave the people here behind. Another native soldier came running to report: "My lord, someone outside the West City Gate called the door, saying that he was the old man of the adult. ”

Yang Peng was a little surprised, where did he come here? Hurry to the west gate. When I came to the city wall, I saw two people under the city gate, riding horses, and I couldn't see who they were at all, but the silhouette was indeed a little familiar.

"Who are you?" Yang Peng asked in a loud voice. "General Yang, it's me, don't you remember?" A somewhat familiar voice floated up from below. Yang Peng's heart moved, and he remembered a person, and it was certain that he was indeed an old man. However, Yang Peng couldn't figure out what the purpose of his trip was. Could it be that he came to issue a war letter or persuade him to surrender? But why don't you go to the south gate, where the battle is going, but to the remote west gate?

Early the next morning, the insolent war drums sounded outside the city, and in the early morning mist, I saw the fierce Black Wind bandit army and horse slowly approaching the city wall. Chen Jie commanded all the native soldiers to prepare for battle, but all the native soldiers were extremely nervous, it was really embarrassing for them, they hadn't collapsed yet!

"The bandits outside the city are inhumane! They will kill all the men, the old and the children, and take all the women and the money! If we can't resist them, we will only have a dead end, not only that, our parents will be killed, our children will also die, and our wives and sisters will be snatched back by them and ravaged! If you don't want all this to happen, there's just fighting, fighting! With our blood and our swords, keep these hateful thieves out of the city! ......" Chen Jie said loudly on the city wall, and the fighting spirit of the local soldiers was gradually inspired, but it was still difficult to say what the situation would be after the fight.

After the three-way drum outside the city, nearly 10,000 Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army shouted in unison, like a group of beasts roaring. The native soldiers on the city wall turned pale, and the people hiding in their homes trembled.

The panther raised his right hand, and the two thousand former soldiers immediately rushed towards the city wall with a loud shout. The battle began. "Archers prepare! Rolling stone sasswood ready! Listen to me! Chen Jie shouted at the top of his voice. The soldiers pursed their lips tightly, staring at the oncoming waves, with a dizzy and terrifying feeling, wanting to run away, but because they were worried that their relatives would be poisoned by the bandits, they tried their best to hold on, and tried their best not to be afraid!

Crossbowmen from both sides began to fire at each other, and people on both sides continued to fall to the ground with arrows. The ladder reached the top of the city, and the Black Wind Bandit Army began to storm the city walls. The native soldiers at the head of the city desperately threw down the rolling stones and trees, smashing the flesh and blood of the Liangshan army, and screaming.

However, the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army was fierce after all, and they quickly rushed to the top of the city. Like a wild beast crashing into a flock of sheep, flesh and blood flew under its claws, and the native soldiers fell one by one in a pool of blood. The situation is already extremely critical. Chen Jie led more than a dozen secret guards to kill, wielding iron rods and killing with long knives! If the Black Wind Bandit Army is a jackal, then Chen Jie and the secret guards are fierce tigers, killing the jackals with flesh and blood, and the gap that the Black Wind Bandit Army has just opened is quickly blocked!

However, this side was blocked, and another hole was torn open there, and the Black Wind Bandit Army swarmed in. Blocked that side, and there were gaps in other places. Chen Jie's dozen people were like a firefighting team running for their lives on the top of the city, struggling to support the city wall defense line from being breached.

Seeing Chen Jie's bravery, the black panther asked in surprise, "Who is this person?" Zheng Tianhu, who had fought with Chen Jie, turned around and hugged his fists and said: "Brother, this person's name is Chen Jie, and he is the deputy commander of the first division under Cangzhou. The wound on the little brother's body was given by him! The black panther couldn't help but admire: "No wonder he is so brave, it turns out to be a fierce general in Cangzhou!" ”

Wang Dayong was not happy when he heard this, and hugged his fists and said: "Brother, why should he grow up with other people's ambition to destroy his own prestige!" The little brother is willing to go to the city to take his head! Then he rode his horse towards the city wall. Black Label whispered to Black Dragon: "Wang Dayong saw that Chen Jie had been fighting for so long, and he wanted to take advantage!" The black dragon smiled coldly.

Wang Dayong rode to the city wall, jumped off his horse, pushed away a little minion, and climbed the ladder with his knife. Jumping on the city wall, I happened to see Chen Jie and the two secret guards fighting fiercely in the crowd, and the people of Black Wind Mountain were killed and retreated again and again. Wang Dayong shouted: "Chen Jie is rampant, I, Wang Dayong, will meet you!" With that, he raised his sword and joined the warband.

A secret guard was fighting with several small leaders, and there was no time to care, Wang Dayong took the opportunity to rush in from one side and cut off the hidden kill's left arm with a knife. The hidden killing was painful, and his movements slowed down, and several small leaders in front of him immediately stabbed him with knives and pierced his chest together. The secret guard spurted out a mouthful of blood, his eyes spurted a desperate look, and with a roar of rage, the steel knife in his hand swung forward, slashing the necks of the three small leaders in front of him, and several people fell together in a pool of blood.

Chen Jie was furious, and swung his stick hard to smash over a few small minions in front of him and came to Wang Dayong, Wang Dayong saw this and first raised a knife to stab Chen Jie, but Chen Jie ignored the steel knife that was stabbed in the chest, shouted, raised the iron rod and slashed down at Wang Dayong's head, like a mountain! Wang Dayong couldn't help but be terrified in his heart, and hurriedly withdrew his long knife and raised his knife to resist! With a loud bang, the iron rod smashed heavily on the steel knife, and Wang Dayong's whole person was smashed to the ground, and his heart was terrified to the extreme! Chen Jie continued to pursue, Wang Dayong crawled to the ground and ran for his life, running to the side of the wall, but it was not the place where he came up just now, there was no cloud ladder, and he couldn't help but panic.

Hurriedly turned around, only to see Chen Jie rushing up like a mad tiger, and subconsciously swung his knife to attack in shock. But how could he be Chen Jie's opponent! I saw Chen Jie swing his stick away the long knife he stabbed, and then turned around, and kicked Wang Dayong's chest heavily with his right foot. Wang Dayong flew out of the city wall with a scream, and fell to the ground outside the city with a loud bang, spurting out a mouthful of blood from the boss. However, because the city walls of Gaotang Prefecture are not high, and the dirt ground outside the city is relatively soft, Wang Dayong picked up a life.

Wang Dayong was shot down from the city wall, which deeply shocked the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army. Immediately, the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army receded like a tidal tide at a low tide, and the battle was suspended. However, the battle is far from over, the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army is still lined up outside the city, and it is clear that they will launch an even more fierce attack in the near future!

A native soldier officer whose name Chen Jie couldn't name rushed to Shi Jin and said in a panic: "General, our regimental training has made the adult disappear!" ”

Chen Jie frowned and scolded: "Damn! Must have escaped! Then another native officer ran over and reported: "General, many soldiers have secretly run away!" Shi Jin hurriedly looked at the city wall in the distance, and found that the people on the city wall were indeed much sparser than just now, and he also saw a few native soldiers throwing away their weapons and running down the city wall. Chen Jie's heart sank to the bottom, and he asked the two officers in front of him: "How many people are there?" One officer said, "Probably less than a thousand!" ”

Chen Jie's brows tightened, and he felt that this battle could not be fought, "If only the officers and soldiers of Lao Tzu's First Division were here!" A thousand people are enough! At this moment, Yang Guihua came to the city wall. Chen Jie saw him and said angrily: "Aren't you taking care of the Chai family, why did you come here?" Yang Guihua said: "I saw that many local soldiers escaped, and I knew that you must be in trouble, so I came to help you!" Chen Jie snorted, "It's useless for you to come, and you can't turn into soldiers!" Yang Guihua smiled: "That's not necessarily! ”……

The black panther looked at the city wall, only to see flags on the city wall, and the native soldiers standing in a dense row, and couldn't help but be taken aback, "Why are there so many soldiers and horses in this Gaotang Prefecture?!" Tao Ran looked at the city and frowned: "This should be the other party's suspicious plan!" He clenched his fist at the black panther, "Brother, don't be fooled by such an illusion, I believe that as long as you have another impact, you can break through the city!" ”

However, the panther showed a hesitant expression. Seeing this, Tao Ran was ready to persuade again. At this moment, someone suddenly pointed to the south and shouted, "Look! There's a fire in the south! Everyone turned their heads to look, and sure enough, they saw a hill in the distance to the south, behind which thick smoke billowed into the sky. Tao Ran's face changed greatly, "It's not good! It is the direction of Zhangshu Village! The black panther was taken aback and hurriedly ordered: "Quick! The whole army returned to Zhangshu Village! ”

Chen Jie and the others on the city wall saw the army of Black Wind Mountain turn around and rush to the south. Yang Guihua said happily: "Fortunately, the eldest brother's movements are fast enough!" ”…… The Black Panther and the others were anxious and rushed all the way to Zhangshu Village, only to see the flames in the sky, the smoke billowing, the wind to help the fire, the fire to help the wind, the entire Zhangshu Village simply became a huge furnace, and there were constantly soldiers and horses of the Black Wind Mountain who ran out of the terrifying fire.

The Black Wind Mountain Army was dumbfounded. Tao Ran stopped a small leader who had escaped and asked, "What happened?" The little boss was shocked and said: "Yes, it's the prefect of Qingzhou!" They, they're like ghosts, and when we find out that something is wrong, most of them have already been killed and the grass has been set on fire! ”

The panther asked angrily, "Where are they?" The little boss shook his head, "No, I don't know. They set fire and walked away! "Chase! Give me chase! The panther roared hysterically. The black dragon and the black tiger immediately led the cavalry to chase aimlessly in all directions.

However, Yang Peng and the others had already returned to the city at this time. Chen Jie and Yang Guihua greeted them, Yang Peng turned over and dismounted, and said with a smile: "Burn their grain and grass to the fullest, see how long they can hold on!" Chen Jie and Yang Guihua laughed. At this time, two people walked from behind Yang Peng, one of them turned out to be Yang Xiong, and the other turned out to be Shi Ping! It turned out that the reason why Yang Peng was able to accurately attack the grain and grass storage place of the Black Wind Mountain Bandit Army was because the two of them led the way. The so-called old man who came to Xicheng last night to see Yang Peng was actually none other than Yang Xiong and Shi Ping. They came to seek refuge with Yang Peng.

After all, what happened next, and listen to the next breakdown.