Chapter 253. Overwhelming

Zhan Jinguo snorted: "My Xuanjia Army is the elite of Yanyun, so naturally we should take the lead!" Yang Jiajun is afraid that he can't bear this burden! "How can Yang Gui be convinced, "What the Xuanjia Army can do, the Yang Jiajun can also do, I don't believe that the Yang Jiajun will lose to the Xuanjia Army!" ”

Duan Zhixian suddenly interjected and said, "Since the two of you can't compete with each other, why don't you let yesterday's family take the lead!" Zhan Jinguo said angrily: "You are directly under the deputy capital of the legion, why are you competing with us for the position of this vanguard!" Yang Gui echoed: "Not bad! Duan Zhixian's words are so unreasonable! ”

Yang Peng raised his right hand, "Don't fight, there is no vanguard in this battle, all the light cavalry are advancing in separate ways, be sure to sweep the enemy in the shortest possible time!" The generals were a little surprised. Yang Peng looked at Yang Gui, "Yang Gui, you led the 20,000 cavalry of the Volcanic Army under your command to attack the Mianman Shuibei Military Village!" "Yes!" "Si Xing, lead 20,000 war cavalry to raid the Mianman Shuinan Military Village!" "Yes!" "Duan Zhixian and Yang Jing, each commander 10,000 war horses, raided Baijing Village and Pingding City respectively!" Duan Zhixian and Yang Jing hugged their fists and promised.

"Zhan Jin led two thousand Xuanjia troops out of the Chengtian Army Village to the north, and the goal was Yanmen Pass." Zhan Jin was greatly excited and took the military order. Yang Peng turned his gaze to the other generals, "I will lead the other cavalry to follow, Chong Min, you will lead the Eighth Legion to follow." Chong Min stepped forward to promise. followed Yang Peng's gaze on Yang Jiumei and Yang Erya, "Jiumei and Erya are responsible for escorting grain and grass!" The two girls were a little unhappy, but they couldn't disobey the eldest brother's order, and they clenched their fists in frustration.

Yang Peng glanced at the generals, "The enemy doesn't know that the cavalry of our army has arrived at the Chengtian Military Village!" The gist of this battle is to fight fast and slow, and sweep the Jin army in front of you with lightning speed! Generals only need to remember one thing, advance at full speed, don't look left and right to wait for the delay! If someone delays the fighter, Hugh blames the ruthlessness of military law! The generals agreed in unison.

The gaze turned to the Mianman Shuibei Military Village. In the night, several Khitan army sentries were standing behind the fence and chatting. It was early spring, the weather was cold, and several sentries were so cold that they held their spears and stomped their feet uncontrollably.

"Recently, the army has been moving frequently, and it seems that there will be a big battle again!" The sinknose soldier said worriedly. A young soldier next to him said with a look of longing: "I really hope to be able to establish meritorious deeds on the battlefield and glorify our ancestors!" The older soldier said angrily: "The little guy is not sensible, being Yan Yunjun is so easy to deal with!" For the Shangyan Yunjun, not to mention the achievements and glory of the ancestors, if you can save a life, it is all the virtue of the ancestors! The young soldier was very unconvinced: "I don't believe that Yan Yunjun is a three-headed and six-armed monster!" The veteran smiled, "They don't really have three heads and six arms, but ah, they're monsters!" The young soldier snorted.

Outside the fence, in the dark night, there was a sudden rumbling of horses' hooves. Several sentries immediately stopped talking and looked outside, only to see more than a hundred cavalry rushing from the night. The young soldier immediately raised his spear nervously. The veteran patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "Don't be nervous! They came from the west, and they were so swaggering, they must be their own people! As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the knights come to the gate and restrain their horses. Captain Yuanmen raised his voice and shouted, "What person?"

"Don't you know me?" A majestic voice rang out. The captain was taken aback, and hurriedly took a closer look, saw the appearance of the other party clearly by the light of the torch, and hurriedly bowed: "I don't know if the general has missed the distance, please forgive me!" "It turned out that it was none other than Xiao Gan, the general of the Liao State. The lieutenant hurriedly ordered someone to open the gate and welcomed the group into the barracks.

When the young soldier saw this, he was very surprised, and said to the veteran with admiration: "Brother, you are so powerful! The veteran smiled, "It's nothing!" You'll be like me when you see more in the future! Xiao Gan waited for the gallop to gallop to the big tent, turned over and dismounted, and strode into the big tent. The camp master hurriedly greeted the general on the day of withdrawal: "The last general will withdraw to meet the general!" ”

Xiao Gan walked straight to the top, turned around and sat down. Looking at the withdrawal of the sun, "Is there any movement in the Chengtian Military Village?" "Returning to the general, everything is as usual in the Chengtian Military Village, and the Yanyun Army has not made any moves!" "Don't be careless! Now that the generalissimo has swung his army south, he can't make a mistake with us! ”

"The general doesn't have to worry, he has received a report from the details recently, there is no movement on the other side of the mountain, Yan Yunjun's attention is obviously not here, there will definitely be no problems!"

Xiao Gan nodded inseparably, "Nothing is the best!" "General, there is a sentence that the general doesn't know whether to say or not?" "Say it." "General, since the generalissimo was in charge of the affairs of the Central Plains, our army has not been to the main battlefield, last time we were the Yanyun army that was partial to the division to contain the Chengtian army village, and this time it is the case, the last general doubts that the generalissimo is the princess's army, so he is unwilling to give us the opportunity to make meritorious contributions!"

Gan Buli frowned, "The generalissimo won't be like this, right?" The last general also heard about what happened in Zhongjing before, and the princess doesn't want to quarrel with the generalissimo, but the generalissimo has a ghost in his heart, I'm afraid it won't be like the princess!" Once the Central Plains is swept this time, the generalissimo will have the rich land and a large population of the Central Plains, and his strength will surpass that of the princess, and he may attack the princess! Xiao Gan was not taken aback, and shouted: "Don't talk nonsense! ”

Retreat said: "How dare the last general talk nonsense, just worry about the princess!" It's better if it doesn't happen, but what if it does? Xiao Gan frowned and asked, "Then how do you think you should deal with it?" "The last general thinks that the princess should be in charge of the Central Plains as before, and there will be no worries! Even from the perspective of the interests of the entire Great Liao Kingdom, the princess should also be in charge of the Central Plains. When the princess was in charge of the Central Plains, how could Yan Yunjun ever be so arrogant? However, since the generalissimo took over the princess, the Central Plains has sunk, and our army has suffered heavy losses one after another, and the situation is almost out of control! ”

Xiao Gan was silent for a moment, then stood up and walked in front of the retreat, "What you said also makes sense. However, since the princess did not object to the generalissimo's rule of the Central Plains, how could we contradict the princess as a subordinate of the princess! As for the kind of situation you mentioned, since you can think of it, wouldn't the princess think of it? Let's not worry about it! Since the princess has not been instructed to come, we must not be half-hearted, and must obey the command of the generalissimo! Don't say what you said just now! "Yes!"

Xiao Gan said: "I came this time mainly to inspect the garrison, I have seen the situation near the barracks, and you have not disappointed me." The checkpoints that monitored the Chengtian Military Village didn't relax, did they? ”

"How dare the last general relax in the slightest, don't worry, the general!" Gan Buli nodded. The sentries who had been chatting with their spears were still chatting by the fence. The veteran looked up at the sky, and saw that it was pitch black, and the moon and stars were nowhere to be seen. The veteran scolded in a low voice, looked at the barracks again, and muttered, "I don't know when it is, it's time for the handover!" The young soldier said, "What is my brother anxious about, let's talk about it again!" ”

The veteran turned around and said with a smile: "You kid, you haven't experienced danger yet, but the things I said are very interesting!" If you experience it in the future, you won't find it interesting! Nose laughed and said, "What do you always scare him for?" ”

The young soldier was about to speak, when suddenly he heard something. He turned his head to look into the darkness outside the fence, but saw nothing. Seeing this, Collapsed Nose asked, "What are you looking at, boy?" The young soldier pointed outside and said with a puzzled expression, "I want to hear something!" ”

The veteran laughed and said, "Just now I said that your newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, why are you timid now?" The young soldier shook his head, "I'm not cowardly, I really heard the voice!" "How can I ......," the veteran's voice stopped abruptly, and an arrow flew out of nowhere and pierced his neck. The other two soldiers were startled, hurriedly looked outside, there seemed to be a shadow flashing in front of them, there was a slight sharp sound of breaking the air in their ears, before the two of them could react, they were hit through the throat and chest by sharp arrows respectively, and the two fell on their backs, and the only thought before they died was: enemy! How can it be! No wonder they had this thought, they were on the west side of the camp, how could an enemy come from the west?

As soon as the three sentinels arrived, a dense rain of arrows suddenly flew out of the darkness, crackling loudly, and the soldiers of the Jin Army at the gate were shot to the ground one after another. The lieutenant was seriously wounded, but he was not yet dead, and he desperately crawled towards the alarm gong. At this moment, ghostly war horses surged from the darkness, smashed open the gate and rushed in, and the captain was trampled into flesh by countless iron hooves before he could touch the gong!

Kill!!! Xiao Gan, who had just rested, suddenly heard an amazing killing sound outside, his heart jumped, and he quickly jumped up and ran out of the big tent. I saw countless black war horses sweeping the camp, trampling on the long knives and slashing with iron hooves, and under the reflection of the firelight, I saw blood flying, and my soldiers were scattering and fleeing, and many people didn't even have time to put on their clothes and pants, and they were very embarrassed.

Xiao Gan was shocked, how could Yan Yunjun suddenly appear?! It's no wonder he has such doubts, his Khitan army has arranged more than a dozen sentry posts near the Chengtian military village, how could Yan Yunjun suddenly appear here? Xiao Gan didn't know at this moment that the dozen or so checkpoints had been pulled out by the secret guards half an hour ago. More than a dozen checkpoints did not have time to send a single warning signal.

Retreat stumbled over, and said urgently: "General, we can't resist it, let's withdraw quickly!" "Fart! If there is a defeat here, it will definitely shake the hearts of the entire army, and the consequences will be unimaginable! Go, lead the army to fight back for me! If you can't win, come and see you! "I couldn't withdraw from the sun, so I could only promise and run down.

The retreat hurriedly gathered thousands of men and horses to counterattack, and the Yanyun army, which had already formed a prairie fire, felt as if it had been thrown into a whirlpool and could not extricate itself. Seeing that the general of the Yanyun Army took the lead, wielding a pair of hammers, the blockers were invincible and very fierce, so he mustered up the courage to rush forward. Yang Gui caught a glimpse of an enemy general rushing towards him, became excited, urged the horse to catch up, and when he got closer, he grabbed the hammer with his right hand and slammed it from the bottom up! Seeing the hammer whistling and flying, he was taken aback, and hurriedly reined in the horse, and the horse neighed and stood up, and the hammer smashed heavily on the horse's neck, and the horse fell to one side, throwing off the sun.

Retreat hurriedly got up, only to see that the other party had rushed to the front, and wanted to dodge in a panic, but it was too late, the hammer roared and fell, and the head burst when he landed, and the plasma flew!

The Khitan army was already unable to resist, and at this time, when they saw that the general who withdrew from Japan was killed by the opponent's generals, they were terrified and turned around and fled. The Yanyun army pursued and killed, and the Khitan army was no longer able to return to the sky.

Xiao Gan saw that the situation was irreparable, and hurriedly led his soldiers to escape from the camp, wanting to flee to Mianmanshui Nanzhai, but he was shocked to see the fire in the south of Mianmanshui, and Mianmanshui Nanzhai was also broken by the other party, and in panic, he hurriedly fled to Pingding.

After running all the way for dozens of miles, Pingding City was in sight, only to see a Yanyun army cavalry storming the city, and was shocked to settle down, and found that the Yanyun army had not entered the city, and was a little relieved. Hurry up and run towards the north gate of Pingding City. At this moment, Yan Yunjun was attacking the East City Gate, and there was no situation in the direction of the North City Gate, so he ran to the North City Gate.

After Xiao Gan entered the city, the sound of the battle in the east gradually stopped, and when he arrived at the east gate tower, the Yanyun war cavalry that had attacked the east city gate just now had already retreated.

He turned his head and asked Hanun, the general who stayed behind in Pingding: "What's the matter?" Hanon said in shock: "More than half an hour ago, a group of cavalry wearing our army uniforms appeared under the city gate and called the door!" The last general almost opened the city gate, but fortunately, he didn't open the door because he found something strange in time! When the other party saw that the plan was revealed, he suddenly attacked! Fortunately, they were all cavalry and had no siege equipment, so the city was not lost! Gan Buli said with great joy: "You have made a great contribution!" You, immediately send someone to the Taiyuan to warn the generalissimo! "Yes!"

For the whole night, the pacified defenders were nervously guarding the city. The next morning, in the early morning mist, I saw a fast horse galloping from the southeast, galloping to the city gate, holding a command flag and shouting: "Open the city gate quickly, I have an urgent military intelligence report general!" Immediately the gates opened, and he galloped in. Soon after, this knight appeared at the head of the city and reported to Gan Buli: "General Qiyu, Baijingzhai has also been lost!" Xiao Gan had long expected that Baijingzhai would definitely not be able to hold it, but he couldn't help but be a little shocked when he heard the exact news at this moment.

"Look, General!" Hanon suddenly pointed out of the city and shouted. Xiao Gan hurriedly looked outside the city, and saw that countless troops seemed to be approaching in the mist, and he was shocked, and shouted loudly: "The whole army is on alert, ready to fight!" "The Khitan army was waiting for the battle, and they were very nervous.

After a while, I saw more than 100,000 Yan Yunjun coming out of the fog and coming to a stop a few hundred steps ahead. Looking at the winged flying tiger war horse, and looking at the amazing murderous aura of the Sensen army, the soldiers of the Jin Army couldn't help but get nervous.

Xiao Gan's inseparable gaze fixed on the incomparably heroic figure under the battle flag, and he was taken aback, "Yang Peng, he actually went out in person!" Yang Peng looked at Pingding City in front of him, and frowned slightly. Duan Zhixian next to him said with a look of shame: "Yesterday, I was sorry for the eldest brother, I failed to capture Pingding City!" Yang Peng shook his head, "It's not your fault!" I didn't expect the guards of Pingding City to be so alert! ”

Duan Zhixian hugged his fists and said, "Big brother, I went to challenge them yesterday!" Yang Peng nodded. Duan Zhixian immediately slapped his horse out of battle, came between the two sides, reined in the horse, and scolded loudly: "Donkey birds in the city, come out and die quickly!" ”

Xiao Gan did not leave several of his generals and immediately couldn't hold back and wanted to go out of the city to face the battle, but Xiao Gan did not leave but shouted: "Don't go to war!" A warrior with a particularly strong physique, fierce temperament, and a bearded face said angrily: "Since the other party has come to challenge, how can he not shrink back!" "This person's name is Hua Hao, and he is a famous general under Xiao Gan's command. Xiao Gan said angrily: "Do you know who this is? He is Yang Peng's sworn brother, Yan Yun's important general, and the great general Duan Zhixian! Fierce and abnormal, Yan Yun's army is like a cloud, but there are few who can be stronger than him! If you rush into battle, you have no chance of winning! ”

Duan Zhixian saw that the Khitan people couldn't shrink back, so he continued to scold, "You donkeys and cows shoot frustrated birds, and you don't have eggs, since you don't dare to fight with yesterday's family, run away quickly!" Then he threw away his vulgar words on the rivers and lakes. The Khitan generals on the city wall were so angry that they couldn't help but be demoralized when they saw that their generals were so insulted by others.

"General, let me fight! I don't believe how powerful that general can be! I'm going to split his head with this big axe in my hand to see if he can be arrogant! Hua Qi said angrily.

Xiao Gan was still hesitating, he didn't think that Hua Yi must not be Duan Zhixian's opponent, in his heart, Hua Hao should be a general equivalent to Duan Zhixian, but he was worried that Hua Hao would make a mistake, if that was the case, he was afraid that the blow to his morale would be even more serious.

Hanon whispered: "The morale of the soldiers is low, it is better to fight." If you can win, it will greatly boost morale! ”

Xiao Gan couldn't leave to look at the demoralized soldiers around him, nodded thoughtfully, and said to the flower with a look of longing: "I allow you to fight!" Hua Yu was overjoyed and pressed his right fist on his chest, "The general will see how the last general kills the general!" Then he picked up his axe and ran down the wall. Immediately, the city gate opened and closed, and Hua Hao rushed out on a flower-maned horse with a Xuanhua axe. Ran to more than 20 steps in front of Duan Zhixian and restrained the horse, wanting to report his name. But Duan Zhixian had already rushed up on horseback, and he was menacing. Hua Wei had no choice but to swallow back the words that came to his lips, and urged the war horse to meet him!

In the blink of an eye, the two horses intersected, and with a loud bang, the two fought a move. Then the two horses staggered, ran more than ten paces, and turned their horses to rush towards each other again. At this time, the war drums of both sides rang out like an earth-shattering sound, and the shouts were wave after wave. Hua Hao and Duan Zhixian fought back and forth with each other for seven or eight rendezvous, Duan Zhixian became more and more courageous, but Hua Hao only felt a tingling in his arm, and he couldn't help but be a little frightened in his heart. The two sides hedged again, and when they got closer, Duan Zhixian let out a loud shout, and slammed the iron Zen staff, which tore through the air and made an amazing whistling sound. Hua Qi hurriedly raised the big axe to block, only to hear a loud bang, and the big axe in Hua Hao's hand flew up. Hua Xi was frightened, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and ran towards the city. Duan Zhixian reined in his horse and laughed: "The frustration bird shot by the donkey and the cow, is this the ability?" ”

Yan Yunjun laughed, and the Khitan soldiers were all frightened, and there was a dead silence. Yang Peng smiled coldly, raised his right hand, and the war drums rang out violently, booming like thunder, and then he saw five thousand Yan Yunbu troops carrying simple cloud ladders surging towards the city wall, followed by five thousand infantry armed with flintlock pistols.

I saw that the rain of arrows in the sky was staggered, and the Yan army continued to fall to the ground with arrows, and the Khitan army on the city wall was also constantly shot down; The assault infantry braved the rain of falling arrows and climbed the ladder up the city wall; Rolling stones and trees kept falling on the city wall, rumbling loudly, and it was difficult for Yan Yunjun to climb the city, and the loss was not small.

The strength of the resistance of the Khitan army was somewhat unexpected by Yang Peng, who originally thought that the morale of the Jin army would be frustrated and might be broken in one attack, but he did not expect that there would be such a strong combat effectiveness. Turning his head and ordering: "Pass the order, stop the attack!" ”

The ferocious offensive of the Yan Yun Army suddenly stopped, and it receded like the tide of the ebbing tide. Immediately, the soldiers of the Khitan army saw that the Yanyun army had retreated, and they couldn't help cheering. He said to Hanon: "The Yanyun army is only temporarily retreating, and it will definitely come to attack, and the army is ordered to be on guard!" "Yes!"

Yanyun's army retreated more than ten miles to the village, and then thousands of soldiers and horses entered the mountains and forests to cut down trees, and at the same time transported the cut logs back to the barracks in a steady stream, and in the barracks, the craftsmen of the ordnance field with the army stepped up the production of siege equipment such as storming vehicles and nest cars together with some soldiers.

In the big tent, Khitan looked at the map with a thoughtful expression, and Duan Zhixian next to him said with an annoyed face: "If the cannon comes up, see how long those frustrated birds can resist!" Yang Peng said while looking at the map: "It will take at least ten days for the artillery to be transported here, we can't wait for the artillery to come up before attacking, we must seize Pingding City as a wedge for our army to enter Shanxi before the Khitan army returns to help, otherwise this raid will disrupt the attack rhythm of Ye Hugo, and it will not make much sense!" Turning around, "Jihyun, pass the order, and ask everyone to hurry up and rest, and attack tonight!" Duan Zhixian was stunned, "How can you attack tonight?" It will take at least a few days to make those siege engines! Yang Peng smiled incomprehensibly, "Forgot that we still have gunpowder?" Duan Zhixian still didn't understand, and looked very dazed.

The cadres in the city received the scout's report and knew that Yan Yunjun was rushing to make siege equipment, and he was slightly relieved. He understood that it was not an overnight effort to make siege equipment, it would take at least three or four days, at least in these three or four days, he didn't have to worry about Yan Yunjun coming to attack. Even so, he still did not dare to be careless, and ordered all armies to strictly defend and not slack off.

Xiao Gan did not leave the dispatch of the people who rushed non-stop, and arrived in Bingzhou in the evening. Zhang Xiaochun was left behind in the state (this person was originally a puppet prime minister under the Han people, but he left the Central Plains with Da Lazy and retreated into Shanxi, and then was ordered by the Khitans to stay in Taiyuan and hurriedly came to the hall.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.