In the more than ten days that have been recorded, the Khitan army surprisingly did not launch any attacks, nor did they carry out any challenges, and the barracks were quiet, and they did not know what their intentions were. Yang Peng was worried that Ye Yu Guanyin had found any path to bypass the Yanmen Pass and climb over the lofty mountains, so he immediately invited the generals to discuss, and then ordered Yang Erya to take people to the surrounding villages and towns to inspect the mountain paths, and at the same time sent cavalry to patrol along the southern edge of the mountain range, and set up observation posts on some commanding heights in order to discover the unexpected situation as soon as possible.

However, after a few days of busyness, although no abnormal situation was found, Yang Erya, who went to the private investigation path, also found nothing, which made Yang Peng feel a little inexplicable, but he still didn't dare to take it lightly.

At about the same time, more than 100 heavy carts covered with black tarpaulins slowly entered the Khitan military barracks, and the Khitan army was heavily escorted, obviously caring about these tarpaulin-covered carts.

More than 100 carts were pushed onto the school yard in front of the big tent, and at this time, Ya Yu Guanyin and all the generals under his command had already arrived at the school ground.

The Khitan general who came to escort the cart came to Ye Yu Guanyin, made a chest salute, and said, "Princess, everything has been delivered!" Ya Kannon walked up to a cart and ordered, "Open!" The general immediately stepped forward in person and lifted the tarpaulin, revealing a black and heavy iron pipe, which was Yang Peng's heavy weapon, the cannon!

Ya Yin nodded excitedly, "Very good! They finally lived up to my expectations and finally succeeded! Very good! He turned his head and asked the general, "Have you tried all these cannons?" ”

The general said: "Returning to the princess, some of them have been tried, but the other part has not had time to test!" Ya Yin Kannon hurriedly asked, "How powerful is it?" "Although the power is a little different from Yan Yun's, it is also about the same, very amazing!"

The general Xiao Hunu said excitedly: "King, we have this kind of sharp weapon, it will not be difficult to break through the Yanmen Pass!" The generals echoed and looked very excited. West said suddenly: "Yanmen Pass, the terrain is dangerous, even if it is broken, it is not easy to attack it, not to mention that the soldiers of the Yanyun Army are all brave and good at fighting!" ”

Everyone was poured a basin of cold water on their heads, and the excitement subsided, and they couldn't help frowning, they all knew that what West said was true, and that was the truth. Even if the city wall is broken, it will definitely not mean the victory of the war, but I am afraid that it will be the beginning of a more brutal battle! Everyone seems to have seen the tragic scene of the desperate and bloody battle between the armies of the two sides at the gap, and they can't help but tremble, I really don't know how many men and horses will be lost in this battle, and how many of the generals present will survive?!

Ya Yin Guanyin said lightly: "As warriors, don't we die on the battlefield as we deserve to die? The generals' hearts were shocked, and their hearts couldn't help but surge with boundless fighting intent!

Early the next morning, the Khitan army, which had not moved for many days, suddenly poured out, and the sound of horns filled the sky and the earth, startling the birds and beasts within a range of dozens of miles. Yang Peng and the others hurried to the city wall, looked out of the city, and saw 500,000 Khitan troops slowly surging up like a tide, with flags like clouds, swords and guns like forests, a vicious killing scene!

Yang Jing said loudly: "It's really weird! Why is the bad woman suddenly trying to do her best? The crowd was also very surprised.

The Khitan army came to a stop at 500 paces ahead, and then a hundred artillery pieces were launched in the front of the army. Yang Peng and the others were shocked when they saw such a scene, how could they never have thought that the Khitan army would have artillery?! This is a big surprise!

"Cannon?! How could the Khitan army have artillery? Meng Hu exclaimed. Yang Peng frowned and said, "Now is not the time to pursue this issue!" Immediately send the order, leave a few people to observe the movement of the enemy army, and the rest immediately retreat from the city wall! Yan Yunjun immediately took action, and after a while, all the soldiers who were originally densely packed on the city wall left the city wall, leaving only a few observation posts.

As soon as Yan Yunjun withdrew from the city wall, there was a loud rumbling sound like thunder in the distance, and then, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the crackling sound on the city wall was deafening. Yang Jiumei frowned and said: "I didn't expect the Khitan people to have cannons, I knew that this was the case, so I shouldn't have transferred the cannons to Hedong!" "Hundreds of cannons of the Yanyun army were originally hoarded in Taiyuan, ready to defend the city, and later Yang Peng led the army and Guo Tongli Yingwai to seize the Yanmen Pass in one fell swoop, Yang Peng thought that the Yanmen Xiongguan was dangerous, but there was no need to use artillery to defend, so he ordered all the cannons in the state to be transported to Hedong to resist the attack of the Western Xia. Who would have thought that the Khitans would actually launch cannons, if they have cannons on their own side and stand on the city wall, they will have a great advantage in range, and the enemy's artillery will not be able to exert its power.

Yang Peng frowned and said, "This is indeed a big surprise to me!" The Khitans even made cannons as well!? Yelu Hanyu said: "This is not unusual, since we can make it, they will naturally do it!" Hey, we're a little careless! At this time, the Khitans fired another volley, and a deafening loud noise came, and the voice was immediately muffled, and it was not clear at all.

After this round of loud noise, Yelu Hanyu looked up at the wall and said, "Listen to the sound, the other party is concentrating on bombarding the left and right directions of the city gate. Yang Peng nodded and said with a wry smile: "They have all learned our set of methods!" Then he frowned, "This northern wall has not been specially reinforced, and it is difficult to resist the continuous bombardment of artillery, but I am afraid that it will not be long before they blast out of the gap!" Immediately issued an order to prepare all the troops for battle, and especially ordered Yang Jing and Meng Hu to lead 10,000 infantry troops to stand by near the two city walls that were bombarded by enemy artillery.

After all, the artillery power of the Khitans was not as powerful as that of the Yan Yun army, and they bombarded it for a whole day, although it caused serious damage to the city wall, but it failed to break through the city wall.

Xixiang Xixia, the roar that lasted for a day suddenly fell silent, and the soldiers of Yanyun Army only felt that their heads suddenly loosened, and they actually felt uncomfortable.

An observation post staggered down from the city wall, came to Yang Peng, and said with a fist: "King Yan, the enemy army has retreated. ”

Yang Peng immediately ran onto the city wall, and the generals followed.

When I came to the city wall, I looked out of the city, and sure enough, I saw that the Khitan army was retreating. At this moment, Yang Jing's cry suddenly came: "Good girl, this place is about to collapse!" Everyone immediately followed the reputation, and sure enough, they saw that the city wall not far away had been shattered, with dogs' teeth intertwined, and a large part of the wall had collapsed on the outside, crumbling as if it would collapse at any time, and everyone couldn't help but change color slightly. Everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at the other side of the city gate, only to see that there was also a wall on the other side that was similar to this side, trembling and trembling, and the walls were constantly collapsing from the city wall with a loud noise.

Meng Hu said puzzledly: "It's really a strange thing, it will collapse after a few more bombardments, but why did you stop bombarding?" ”

Yelu Hanyu glanced at the sky and said, "It's getting dark, and it's inconvenient to attack in the dark, so she will suspend her attack!" ”

Early the next morning, the Khitan army began to bombard the city wall again, which lasted until noon. Suddenly, with a loud crack like the sky and the earth cracking, a wall on the left side of the gate collapsed. Immediately afterwards, a wall to the right of the gate also collapsed.

The artillery bombardment of the Khitan army immediately stopped, Yang Peng and others realized that the enemy was about to attack, Yang Peng immediately ordered Meng Hu and Yang Jing to prepare to block the gap, ordered Jiao Ting to lead the archers to the city wall, and ordered the rest of the armies to stand by and not act rashly. When the order was issued, the Yanyun army immediately took action, Meng Hu and Yang Jing each led 10,000 infantry troops to the gap and lined up, while Jiao Ting led the crossbowmen to climb the city wall and prepare to shoot. Standing on the city wall, Jiao Ting saw tens of thousands of enemy troops surging towards the two gaps in two teams, and fifty or sixty thousand war cavalry accompanied by two wings, the smoke and dust were waving, and the earth trembled.

After a while, the enemy entered the range of the crossbowmen, Jiao Ting ordered the crossbowmen to fire a volley, only to see ten thousand crossbows fired in unison, arrows flying locusts towards the enemy, and then saw that the earthy yellow wave stirred up many ripples. The Khitan army roared, charged at full speed, rushed up the hillside, rushed up the slope formed by the collapsed wall and rushed into the city pass, crashed into the defense line of the Yanyun army, and the two sides were killed; At the same time, the crossbowmen who followed suddenly shot at the city wall, the rain of arrows flew over the city wall, and many Yanyun soldiers were shot to the ground, and the Yanyun army crossbowmen had no choice but to turn around and shoot the Khitan crossbowmen outside the city, so that the pressure on the Khitan army assault force was sharply reduced.

At this moment, the second wave of the Khitan army attacked again, they carried siege ladders and ran up the hillside under the cover of crossbowmen, put one after another ladders on the head of the city, and then began to storm the head of the city. Yan Yunjun kept shooting, constantly throwing rolling stone sasswood, the Khitan army rushed hard but just couldn't rush up, one by one was shot down by arrows, or smashed down by rolling stone sasswood, suddenly there was a loud click, a cloud ladder was smashed by the heavy sassavel, and the Khitan soldiers on it fell down; On the other side, several Yan Yunjun took hook and sickle guns to a cloud ladder, and then pushed it out with a shout, and the cloud ladder turned backwards, and the Khitan soldiers on it fell one after another with screams.

At this time, the battle at the gap was also in full swing, the two sides had fallen into a state of melee, the Khitan army rushed to kill like crazy, the Yanyun army sacrificed their lives to resist, the beast-like roar and the terrible scream, only to see blood flying all over the sky, and the soldiers on both sides fell in a pool of blood; That Yang Jing had already killed the red eyes, wielding a pair of plate axes and slashing wildly in the crowd, and the flesh and blood were invincible, but the Khitan army was also red-eyed, and there was no fear at all, and the front and rear continued to surge.

Just when the two sides were fighting inextricably, the Khitan army actually retreated a cannon not far from the city gate, adjusted it and then fired a cannon at the city gate. In the loud bang, I saw that the city gate was completely shattered!

The Khitan army commander Vest roared and immediately led 10,000 Tiefutu and 20,000 light cavalry into the city gate. As soon as he entered the city gate, he met the iron cavalry led by Huyan Chijin, and the heavy armored war horses of both sides fought fiercely near the city gate, the iron armor was strong, the sword light was like snow, the big axe and mace were flying whirring, smashing on the iron armor with a sonorous sound and sparks splashing everywhere, and in the neighing sound of the war horses, one by one the iron horsemen turned over on their backs!

At this moment, Huyan Chijin suddenly led the Iron Cavalry to retreat. Before the Khitan army could react, they found that countless heavily armored Mo sword armies were rushing towards them, and their complexion couldn't help but change! West immediately understood the intention of the Yan Yun Army, and they dispatched the Iron Cavalry to break the formation not to block their own side, but to suppress their own sufficient speed, so that the Mo Sword Army could fight! Before this thought was finished, Yan Yunmo Sword Army brandished the Mo Knife and killed it! Advancing head to head, the sword light is like a wall, the Khitan cavalry that has lost its speed is very disadvantageous, and the sword light is everywhere to see people and horses are broken, and flesh and blood are flying!

Vest was ruthless and led the army to attack, and the Khitan army Tiefutu bravely moved forward, wielding a battle axe to kill the Modao army, and the Modao army continued to suffer casualties; However, the formation of the Modao Army was not chaotic, and it still marched forward firmly, with extremely sharp swords and guns, killing the Khitan soldiers on their backs!

The Khitan army finally couldn't resist it and retreated.

The Modao army did not chase and kill, and immediately gave way to both sides, and almost at the same time, the sound of surging horses' hooves sounded, and Yang Gui led 10,000 war horses to rush out of the city gate like a whirlwind to chase and kill the enemy. There was chaos under the surprise of the war cavalry of the West Division, fortunately, Ye Yu Guanyin had prepared in advance, but when Yang Gui led the war cavalry to rush out of the city gate, five thousand war cavalry rushed out on both sides to intercept Yang Gui's department, Yang Gui had to give up the pursuit to meet the enemy, the two sides fought a vicious battle, regardless of victory or defeat, Yan Yunjun took the initiative to retreat into the city pass. Immediately, many infantry troops brought stones, door panels and other debris to block the city gate hole.

The crisis here is over, but the battle at the two gaps is even more dangerous, the two sides have been killed like a mountain of blood, but the Khitan army still has no sign of retreat, and continues to increase troops at the gap; Yan Yunjun's side could only keep increasing its troops, and the gaps in the two places were like two huge meat grinders constantly devouring the soldiers on both sides.

The bloody battle continued into the evening without the slightest sign of stopping, and continued from the evening until the early hours of the next morning.

The bloody battle finally stopped, and the exhausted Khitan army finally suspended its offensive. In the early morning sun, I saw that the corpses on the two gaps and on both sides of the gaps were like mountains of shocking, the gaps were originally only more than two meters high, but at the moment they were at least four meters high! The Khitan army paid a very heavy price in order to break through the city, and the Yanyun army also suffered heavy casualties in order to resist the enemy's attack.

Yang Jing sat on the big bluestone under the eaves and panted, two plate axes were thrown aside, the two plate axes seemed to have been soaked in red paint, so red that people were frightened, and Yang Jing's whole person seemed to be fished out of blood water.

Yang Peng walked up to Yang Jing, squatted down, and asked with concern, "How is it?" Are you hurt? Yang Jing shook his head and glanced at Yang Peng with bloodshot eyes, "******, this is a good killing, it's really his grandma's pleasure!" These Khitans are also ****** heroes, and I can't afford to use these hands! ”

Yang Peng patted Yang Jing on the shoulder, "Hurry up, have a good rest, and soon there will be another war!" Yang Jing nodded, leaned against the door panel and closed his eyes.

Yang Peng stood up and looked around, only to see that thousands of bloody battles were resting on the spot, everyone was extremely tired, and they couldn't care about the blood all over their bodies.

At this time, in the big tent of the Khitan army, all the generals of the Khitan army looked depressed, and Hu Nu frowned and said: "After a bloody battle for a day and a night, there is no gain!" ”

Ya Kannon asked, "How much has our army lost?" Da Lazy said: "According to a rough count, our army has more than 20,000 killed and more than 20,000 wounded, with a total of about 50,000 casualties; The casualties on the Yan Yun Army's side are estimated to be few! Xiao Gan frowned and said: "The Yanyun army resisted desperately, although the city wall has been broken, but it is still not easy to occupy Yanmen Pass!" I don't think Yan Yunjun will fight hard, they will never give up! And the Yan Yun army is exhausted, we will at least lose more than 300,000 people! Hey, this battle is ......."

Ye Yu Guanyin said categorically: "This battle must be fought to the end!" The generals' hearts sank. Ye Yu Guanyin glanced at the generals and said, "Yan Yunjun has no way to retreat, and we also have no way to retreat!" No matter how big the losses are in this battle, we must defeat the Yanyun army! We will definitely be able to defeat the Yan Yun army! Yayo Guanyin's firm words gave the generals endless confidence.

Ye Yu Guanyin pondered: "You can't give Yan Yunjun a chance to breathe, although our army is hard, they are also hard!" "Raise your head," the armies rest at noon, and then go on the offensive! The generals agreed in unison, and everyone's hearts couldn't help but feel desperate, and when it came to this part, they could only fight hard.

An officer hurried into the big tent and reported: "King Qiqi, the minister is here!" Ya Yu Guanyin frowned, "Minister Qincha? What is the minister doing at this time? Then he led the generals to greet him.

The gaze turned back to Yanmen Pass. Yang Peng was discussing the military with the generals, and Yang Peng said: "If we are blindly trapped, we won't be able to hold out for long!" I decided to take the initiative! ”

Yelu Hanyu frowned and said: "Ye Yu Guanyin's strategy is not under the eldest brother, there is a very good understanding of the eldest brother, he must be able to expect that the eldest brother may launch a surprise attack, he will definitely be prepared, and the attack is only afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses!" Yang Jiumei nodded, "Princess Yelu is right!" Meng Hu and Jiao Ting nodded.

Yelu Hanyu said: "It's difficult to hold on here, I think we should retreat and merge the state, and the state side is more conducive to defense." Yang Peng frowned and said: "If you give up Yanmen Pass today, I am afraid it will be difficult to take it back in the future!" ”

Yelu Hanyu said angrily: "If the directly subordinate legions are exhausted, it is good to be able to hold Yanmen Pass, but if they are exhausted, then what will be the situation in the entire Shanxi?" Shanxi is bound to be undefendable, and the whole of Shanxi and even Henan will fall into the hands of the enemy! Big brother, this matter is very important, and you must not leave anything to chance! ”

Yang Peng felt that Yelu Hanyu's words were reasonable, but he was really unwilling to give up Yanmen Pass like this, and frowned: "I don't know what the situation is in Hedong?" If only the Tanguts had already been defeated! Raising his head, he glanced at the generals, "You all share your opinions." ”

Meng Hu and Jiao Ting both said: "The last general thinks that what Mrs. Yelu said is extremely true! Yang Jiumei also said: "Princess Yelu is right, we really shouldn't bet on this, the benefits of winning are not very big, and the consequences of losing are unimaginable!" Yang Erya nodded in agreement. Yang Peng couldn't help but be moved. Yang Jing said angrily: "I think it's better to kill it!" Yelu Hanyu said angrily: "You stupid cow, you don't know anything else except to cut and kill with a board axe!" Yang Jing smiled, "It's good that you understand, so I don't hurt that brain!" Anyway, you can do whatever you want, and I Yang Jing will follow! ”

Everyone smiled, and Yang Peng glanced at Yang Gui and Huyan Chijin, "Why don't you two speak?" Yang Gui hugged his fists and said: "The last general is dull, don't dare to talk nonsense, anyway, King Yan has a life, and the last general will obey it." Huyan Chijin smiled and hugged his fists and said: "The two of us are the same as Yang Jing, we don't have any strategy, so we won't be ugly, just obey orders!" ”

Yang Peng smiled, thought about it, everyone looked at Yang Peng, no one spoke, everything that should be said was said, now listen to King Yan's decision. Yang Peng sighed, "Little Sister Yelu is right, you can't bet on this matter, give up Yanmen Pass." ”

The generals agreed in unison. Retreat is not a simple matter, you have to arrange the order and arrange the break. The soldiers of the army were making preparations for retreat, no one spoke, and there was no smile on everyone's face, the retreat in this situation made them feel as if they had been defeated by the Khitan army, and the atmosphere in the entire city was very depressing. When Yang Peng saw such a scene, he sighed in his heart, but there was no way, he suddenly felt that he was old, and he seemed to have lost his original sharpness, and he seemed to have more scruples. Shook it with a wry smile, now such a big plate, I can't help but have some scruples!

The wounded and logistical baggage retreated first, Yang Peng ordered Yelu Hanyu, Yang Jiumei and Yang Erya to lead, he actually had selfish intentions in this arrangement, and wanted them to leave the dangerous place as soon as possible.

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