Chapter 156, Turning the Tide,
A general under the command of the king of Chu rode out of battle and shouted: "The officers and soldiers of the imperial camp called: "You and other small families have been collected, and those who surrender have been reunited, promoted to three ranks, and have a bounty." If you don't surrender, the new emperor will have a will, and all these family members will be together. "The Khitans have always been cruel and easy to kill, saying that they are "killed together", which is by no means a word of intimidation, and they really want to be killed together. Some officers and soldiers in the imperial camp have recognized their relatives, "Daddy, mother, child, husband, wife!" The two voices of the call rang out together.
The drums of the rebels sounded, and 2,000 axemen strode out, their broadswords shining brightly. As soon as the drums stopped, 2,000 broadswords were raised and aimed at the heads of the family members. The general shouted: "Surrender to the new emperor, there will be a reward, if you don't surrender, all the family members will be killed!" He waved to the left, and the drum beat again.
The soldiers of the imperial camp knew that with another wave of his left hand, the drumming stopped, and the two thousand bright broadswords were blown down. These pro-soldiers have always been loyal to Yelu Longxu, and the imperial uncle and the king of Chu recruited each other with "promotion" and "heavy reward", which is difficult to seduc, but at this time, seeing their parents and children waiting to be poked, how can they not be surprised?
The drums rumbled endlessly, and the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the pro-army camp were also pounding. Suddenly, someone in the royal camp shouted, "Mommy, Mommy, can't kill my mother!" He threw his spear and ran towards an old woman in front of the enemy.
An arrow shot out of the imperial camp with a fluttering arrow, right in the back of the man's heart. The man was not dead for a moment, but crawled towards his mother. I only heard the cries of "Daddy, Mother, Child" endlessly, and hundreds of people in the imperial camp rushed out. Yelu Longxu's cronies and generals drew their swords and slashed indiscriminately, but where could they stop? As soon as these hundreds of people rushed out, they followed thousands. After a few thousand, there was a great uproar, and among the 100,000 pro-army, 60,000 or 70,000 people rushed backwards.
Yelu Longxu sighed, knowing that the general situation had gone, taking advantage of the pro-army and family members to recognize each other, the chaos separated the rebels, and immediately ordered: "Retreat to the vast mountains in the northwest." The general of the Chinese army quietly passed down the order, and there were still more than 30,000 people who had not surrendered, and the rear army was transferred to the front army and galloped to the northwest.
The king of Chu hurriedly ordered the cavalry to chase after him, but the battlefield was full of old and weak women and children, and the cavalry could not gallop, so he had to push away everyone, and Yelu Longxu had already led the royal camp to go far. More than 80,000 pro-troops rushed to the foot of the vast mountain, it was already dusk, and the soldiers were hungry and tired, and rushed to build a camp on the slope, condescendingly, in order to defend the defense. After the camp was settled, before the food was cooked, the king of Chu had personally led the elite to rush out and immediately charge the hillside. The Imperial Battalion Sergeant rained arrows and repelled the rebels. Seeing that Yang Gong was unfavorable, the Chu army immediately withdrew its troops and set up camp at the foot of the mountain.
On the evening of this day, Yelu Longxu stood beside the cliff and looked south, but saw that the camp fire in the rebel camp was like stars, and three fire dragons were winding in the distance, but it was the follow-up troops of the rebels who came to participate in the siege. Hong Ji's heart was gloomy, and he was about to be put into the account, when the privy envoy of the Northern Court came to say: "The 15,000 soldiers and horses under the subordinates rushed down the mountain to rebel. There is no way to govern the army, and the crime deserves death. Yelu Longxu waved his hand, shook his head and said, "It's not your fault, go down and rest!" ”
He turned his head and saw Yang Peng looking into the distance, and said: "As soon as the dawn comes, the rebels will make great achievements, and our generation will be taken prisoner." I am the king, and I cannot be dishonored by rebellion, but I should kill myself in the newspaper. Brother, you rushed out on your own in the night. You are strong in martial arts, and the rebels must stop you. Speaking of this, his expression was sad, and he said: "I wanted to give you a great fortune, but I didn't know that it was difficult to protect myself as a brother, but I tired you." ”
Yang Peng said: "Brother, the eldest husband can bend and stretch, today's battle formation is unfavorable, I guarantee that you will retreat, recruit the old department, and Xu Tu will raise again." ”
Long Xu shook his head and said: "I can't even protect my mother's wife, where can I talk about a big husband?" In the eyes of the Khitans, the victor is heroic and the loser is rebellious. If I am defeated, how can I rise again? Go on your own! Take my sister and aunt with you, right? ”
Yang Peng knew that what he said was the truth, and said angrily: "Since this is the case, then I will accompany my brother and fight to the death against the traitor tomorrow." You and I marry Jin Lan, whether you are the emperor or the people, Jin Yongsan is a righteous brother when you are a righteous brother. If a brother is in trouble, he should live and die with you, so how can he escape by himself? ”
With tears in his eyes, Yelu Longxu held his hands and said, "Thank you, good brother. ”
Yang Peng returned to the tent and saw Han Bing lying in the corner of the tent, with a pair of big round eyes, and he had not slept. Han Bing said: "Yang Peng, do you blame me?" Yang Pengqi said: "What do you blame?" Han Bing said: "It's all my fault, if I didn't have to go to the prairie to play, I wouldn't be tired and you would be trapped here." Yang Peng, we're going to die here, aren't we? ”
The red light of the torches outside the tent reflected on her face, and there was a flush in the paleness, which made her even more petite and weak. Yang Pengzhong felt pity and said softly: "How can I blame you? This time I decided to come to Liao, and this time it has nothing to do with you, you know? ”
Yang Peng stretched out his big hand and said, "You are young, but you suffer with me." Han Bing said: "Yang Peng, I didn't understand why the sisters liked you so much, but I didn't understand it until later." ”
Yang Peng thought to himself: "Other sisters treat me affectionately, what does this little girl know." Actually, Yang Tong, why did Yang Jiumei fall in love with me, a rude man, even I don't understand, how can you know? Thinking of this, he shook his head sadly.
Yang Peng pulled on the felt, covered her neck, gently tied it for her, unfolded the felt, and slept in the other corner of the tent by himself. The fire outside the tent was extinguished from time to time, flickering uncertainly, but the crying was faintly heard, knowing that the officers and soldiers of the imperial camp missed their families, and everyone knew that the life of this meeting was difficult to protect, but everyone was loyal to the emperor and refused to betray.
Yang Peng came to the tent of Ye Yu Guanyin and Ye Yu Hanyu again, Ye Yu Guanyin said, "Big brother, this time I am not good, even if you are like this, I didn't expect that the imperial uncle would rebel, the imperial uncle used us to deal with Xiao Tianzuo this time, and actually laid such a big trap for me to drill, I am not reconciled, you take Jin Yu and wait to leave, we are Khitan people who want to die and die in Liao." ”
Ye Yu Hanyu pondered, looking at Yang Peng with tears in his eyes, Yang Peng's heart was in turmoil, and he said in his heart, "I'm going to die and still tease me like this, it's really a goblin, eh, I'll talk about it tomorrow, no matter what, no woman can die for herself." ”
The next time, Yang Peng woke up early in the morning, instructed the captain in the room to prepare the horses, take care of Han Bing, and stop by himself, eat a pound of mutton and drink three pounds of wine, and walked to the side of the mountain. At that time, it was still dark in all directions, and after a while, the dawn of the east first appeared, and the horn in the imperial camp whined, but it was heard sonorously, and the sound of armor and blades colliding was endless. Groups of soldiers and horses in the battalion drove out and stood guard at various important points. Xiao Feng looked condescendingly and went out, only to see people surging from the east, south, and southeast, all of which were rebels. A white mist covered the distance, and there was no end in sight.
Suddenly, the sun showed an arc on the edge of the grassland, the golden light was ten thousand ways, shooting into the white mist, the thick dew gradually disappeared, showing that the fog was also full of military horses, and the drums in the ground were loud, and the two teams of yellow flag troops in the enemy formation galloped out, followed the imperial uncle and the king of Chu to gallop to the bottom of the mountain, raised the horse whip, and pointed to the mountain to discuss.
Yelu Longxu led the guards to stand on the side of the mountain, and when he saw such a scene, he became angry, took the bow and arrow from the guard's hand, bent the bow and arrows, and shot at the king of Chu. Looking down from the mountain, it seemed that they were not far away, but in fact they were still a few arrows away, and before the arrow was halfway, it fell with all its strength.
The king of Chu laughed and shouted loudly: "Long Xu, you usurped my father's position and became a puppet for many times, and you also gave way. If you surrender quickly, my father will spare you death, and how about making you the emperor's nephew with pretense of benevolence? Hahaha! These few words obviously ridiculed Hongji's sealing of Yelu Chongyuan as the emperor's uncle, which is hypocritical benevolence and righteousness.
Long Xu was furious and scolded: "Shameless traitor, he is still taking advantage of this tongue. ”
The privy envoy of the northern court shouted: "The lord has humiliated his ministers to death!" The Lord has been gracious to us like a mountain, and today is the time for us to repay the Lord. Led three thousand pro-soldiers, shouted in unison, and rushed down from the mountain. These 3,000 people are all warriors in the Khitan tribe, and this time they have the heart of death, and they all take one as ten, shouting and rushing to kill, and the enemy army will be driven back at the time. But where the king of Chu ordered the flag to wave, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses surrounded him, swords and spears were thrown together, only to hear the shouts that shook the heavens and the earth, and the flesh and blood flew sideways. The 3,000 men fought less and less, and they fought until the end, and all of them died. The privy envoy of the Northern Court killed several people and killed himself. Long Xu, the generals and ministers and Yang Peng could see it clearly on the mountain peak, but they were powerless to save each other, and they felt the loyalty of the envoys of the Northern Courtyard, and they all wept for a long time.
The king of Chu galloped to the side of the mountain again and said with a smile: "Longxu, will it descend or not?" What can you do with this little military horse? These people under you are all Daliao warriors, so why do you need them to accompany you to die? If you know that your anger is exhausted, it is better to thank the world for yourself, and you will avoid more injuries. ”
Yelu Longxu sighed with tears in his eyes, and said, "This splendid country will be given to your father." You are right, our uncles and nephews, flesh and blood, why hurt Khitan Yong's life. As he spoke, he raised his knife and strangled it to his neck.
Yang Peng stretched out his ape arm, snatched his knife away, and said: "Brother, you are a hero, you should die on the battlefield, how can you kill yourself?" ”
Long Xu sighed: "Brother, these many soldiers have been following me for a long time, and I am going to die anyway, and I can't bear that they all gave their lives with me." ”
The King of Chu shouted: "Long Xu, you still don't kill yourself, how long will you stay?" The horsewhip in his hand was pointed directly at his face, and he was extremely arrogant.
Yang Peng saw him getting closer and closer, his heart moved, and he said in a low voice: "Brother, you are perfunctory with him, I will quietly cover up and shoot him with an arrow." ”
Knowing that he had mastered him, he rejoiced: "This is very good, if I can shoot him to death first, I will die blindly." Immediately raised his voice and shouted: "King Chu, I treat your father and son well, and your father wants to be the emperor, why should he kill and injure these many soldiers and civilians in his country, and cause great damage to the Liao State?" ”
Yang Peng held a hard bow, Shizhi was fierce and long-arrowed, led a horse, slowly pulled to the side of the mountain, a short body, turned to the horse's belly, hid under the horse, hooked the horse's back with both feet, kicked on the toes, and the horse rushed away. The rebels at the foot of the mountain saw an empty horse galloping down, and there was no rider on the horse's back, but the military horse was running away with a broken rein, which was a very common thing, and no one paid attention to it. But soon the rebel sergeant saw someone under the horse's belly and shouted.
Yang Peng kicked the horse with his toes, rushed straight towards the king of Chu, and when he saw that he was about 200 steps away from him, he pulled out his strong bow under the horse's belly and shot an arrow at him. The guards beside the king of Chu raised their shields and blocked the arrows. Yang Peng galloped on his horse, and shot arrows in a row, one arrow knocked down the guard, and the second arrow shot straight into the chest of the king of Chu.
The king of Chu quickly swung out his horsewhip and struck upward. This technique of whipping the arrow was originally the skill of the king of Chu, but he didn't know that the person who shot this arrow was not only strong, but also had internal strength attached to the arrow, although the whip hit the shaft of the arrow, but only the feather arrow was slightly crooked, and with a bang, it was inserted into his left shoulder. The king of Chu shouted, "Ahh "I fell on the saddle in pain.
Yang Pengyu's arrow arrived again, this time closer, and an arrow pierced through his left flank, piercing his chest. The king of Chu shook his body and slipped off his horse.
Yang Peng succeeded in one fell swoop, thinking: "Why don't I take the opportunity to shoot the imperial uncle!" ”
The king of Chu fell from the horse with an arrow, and everyone in the enemy array shouted, and hundreds of feather arrows were shot at the horse of Yang Peng's hidden peak, and in an instant, the horse was hit by more than 200 feather arrows and became a hedgehog horse.
Yang Peng rolled a few times underground, slipped under an officer's mount, and started a small and soft effort, and then, from under this belly to under that horse, one rolled, and then under another. The officers and soldiers could not release their arrows, so they used spears to cut them. But Yang Pengdong drilled and rolled west, all under the horse's belly. The enemy officers and soldiers are chaotic into thousands of horses, you push me to fight, trample on each other, but where can you find him?
Yang Peng slipped out of the grass like a snake, without making a sound at all, and the speed was not slow. He swam in the grass the whole way of sneaking, and he didn't even touch the snow off the grass, and he didn't know how he did it. Anyway, it may be a light skill taught by the master, right? Whether it is the Ditang Fist, the Ditang Knife, or the Ditang Sword, they are all rolling and moving underground, waiting for the opportunity to attack the enemy. At this time, he used it in the battle array, his eyes and hands were quick, and he dodged the trampling of thousands of horses' hooves. To see whose uncle the emperor is, roll straight over, shoot three arrows, and shoot at the uncle.
Uncle Huang's guards saw Chu Wuzhong's arrows before, and they were already prepared, more than 30 people each raised their shields, and they were densely blocked in front of Uncle Huang, only to hear three rings, and the three arrows hit down on the shield, Yang Peng listened to shoot seven of the ten arrows, only three were left, seeing that the enemy's more than 30 shields were covering each other, it was difficult for these three arrows to shoot the three dead guards, let alone shoot the imperial uncle. At this time, he had gone deep into the enemy formation, and thousands of soldiers behind him were chasing after him with spears, and there were thousands of troops and horses in front of him, and he was really in a desperate situation. On that day, he fought alone in the Central Plains, the other party was only a few hundred people, it was already extremely dangerous, fortunately someone rescued him, he was able to escape, and today he was trapped in the siege of hundreds of thousands of people, but how to escape?
At this time, he was desperate, and suddenly there was a loud roar in the ground, and he jumped up with a snort, jumped over the thirty or so shields, and landed in front of the imperial uncle's horse. The imperial uncle was taken aback and raised his horsewhip and shot him down in the face. Yang Peng leaned over and jumped up, landed on the saddle of the imperial uncle, grabbed him in the back of the heart with his left hand, lifted him high, and shouted, "Do you want to die or live?" Tell everyone to lay down their swords! The imperial uncle was so frightened that he didn't hear a word of his words.
At this time, the noise of disturbance in the rebels was even more deafening, and thousands of officers and soldiers bent their bows and arrows to aim at Yang Peng, but the imperial uncle was captured by him, and no one dared to act rashly.
Yang Peng was lucky and shouted: "Uncle Huang has an order, all the three armies put down their swords and listen to the holy decree." The emperor was lenient and pardoned all the officers and soldiers, and everyone was held accountable. These few words overshadowed the noise of more than 100,000 people, and the sound was heard for miles, so that few half of the more than 100,000 officers and soldiers before and after the mountain could hear it clearly.
Yang Peng has fought in battles and some people have betrayed their own experience, understand the traitor's mind, after the adversity, the most important thing is to avoid the crime, as long as the party guarantees not to remember the old evil, never to investigate, the rebels will naturally disappear. At this moment, the rebels were strong, Yelu Longxu was only seventy or eighty thousand horses around him, and he was outnumbered, and he was by no means an enemy of treason.
These words came out loud, and the noise of the rebels suddenly fell silent, you look at me, I look at you, everyone is confused. Yang Peng knew that the situation was dangerous at the moment, and there were only people in the rebels who were dissatisfied, and hundreds of thousands of rebels who were not like flies immediately caused a great change, and the real film could not be delayed, and he shouted loudly: "The emperor has a decree: all the rebel officers and soldiers are innocent of their official positions, and the emperor is gracious and will never be held accountable." Officers and soldiers are in their places, everyone quickly put down their blades! ”
In the silence, suddenly choked! There were a few long choking sounds, and several people threw down their spears. The sound of the blades being thrown was infectious, and in an instant, the sound of choking was loud, and half of them threw their blades, and the rest of the vultures hesitated.
Yang Peng raised the body of the imperial uncle high with his left arm, and slowly went up the mountain, no one dared to stop the rebels, he was everywhere, and he gave way in front. Yang Peng rode to the mountainside, and two teams of soldiers in the imperial camp came down to greet him, and drums were played on the mountain peak.
Yang Peng said: "Uncle Huang, you quickly give an order and ask your subordinates to put down their swords and surrender, and you can be spared your life." ”
The imperial uncle said in a trembling voice: "You promise to spare my life?" Yang Peng looked down the mountain, only to see that the rebels were still holding bows, arrows and spears in their hands, the army's heart was undecided, the danger had not passed, and he thought: "At present, the heart of the army is the first priority." The life and death of the imperial uncle is not enough, he only needs to send someone to guard it strictly, and forgive him for not being able to do evil in the future. Then he said: "You are guilty of meritorious service, your eyes are the only good opportunity, Your Majesty knows that it is your son who is not good, and he will forgive your life." ”
The imperial uncle had no idea of competing for the throne, but because of the ambition of his son King Chu, he fell into the hands of others, but he asked to avoid death, so he said: "Okay, I will follow your words!" ”
Yang Peng asked him to sit in the saddle, and said loudly: "All the three armies listen, the imperial uncle has something to say. The imperial uncle said loudly: "The king of Chu has stirred up trouble, and he has now been ambushed. The emperor is generous and forgives everyone's sins. Everyone quickly put down their swords and pleaded guilty to the emperor. ”
Since the imperial uncle said this, all the rebels were leaderless, and although there were fierce and stubborn people, they no longer dared to disobey, but they heard the sound of choking, and all the rebels threw down their blades.
Yang Peng escorted the imperial uncle up the vast mountain. Yelu Longxu was overjoyed, as in a dream, he grabbed Yang Peng's side, held his hands, and said: "Brother, brother, brother, this country will be shared with you in the future." When I said this, my heart was stirred, and I couldn't help but cry.
The imperial uncle knelt on the ground and said, "The rebellious ministers ask Your Majesty for their guilt and beg Your Majesty for mercy. Yelu Longxu was in a very good mood at this time, and said to Xiao Feng: "Brother, what do you say about the moment?" Yang Peng said: "There are many rebels, so we must calm the hearts of the army, and ask Your Majesty to pardon the death penalty of the imperial uncle, so that everyone can rest assured." ”
Ye Yu Longxu smiled: "Very good, very good, everything depends on you, everything depends on you." He turned his head to the king of the north courtyard and said: "You passed down the holy decree, named Jin Yongsan as the king of Chu, the king of the southern courtyard of the official residence, supervised the rebels, and returned to Beijing." "Ye Yu Guanyin and Ye Yu Hanyu didn't expect Yang Peng to turn the tide at this time, let alone Yang Peng's martial arts were so good, and even Han Bing didn't expect Yang Peng's martial arts to be so good. At this time, Ye Yu Hanyu didn't care about face, so he hugged Yang Peng, and Ye Yu Guanyin was also dumbfounded next to him, is this still his sister-in-law?
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.