Night fell, Yang Peng was very happy and very strange, the Khitan army had wasted a whole day and did not attack, with his understanding of Yeyu Guanyin, she should have launched a new attack around noon, but why was there no movement at this moment? Yang Peng stood on the city wall and looked at the camp of the Khitan army in the distance, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Meng Hu ran up the city wall to Yang Peng's side, hugged his fists and said, "King Yan, the gunpowder traps have been arranged, and the daredevils are ready." ”

Yang Peng asked, "What do you say the Khitan Army is doing now?" Meng Hu glanced at the Khitan army camp lit up in the distance and said, "It should be preparing for an attack." Yang Peng nodded and sighed, "Let's go." Then he turned around and walked under the city wall, and Meng Hu followed.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves outside the city sounded, and then the horse's hooves rushed up the hillside and ran into the gap, it was a scout of Yan Yunjun's return. Yang Peng came down from the city wall, and the scout ran straight to Yang Peng's vicinity, reined in his horse, turned over and jumped down, ran in front of Yang Peng, and knelt down and said: "Qiqi Yan King, the Khitan army is quietly retreating!" ”

Yang Peng and the others were surprised, and Yang Peng asked in disbelief: "You said retreat?" "Yes, the Khitan army is secretly retreating!" "Are you mistaken?" The scout said: "The subordinates are absolutely not mistaken, the subordinates saw that they first withdrew the heavy supplies and the wounded, and then a group of infantry left the camp and retreated north!" ”

Yang Peng and Meng Hu looked at each other, and Meng Hu couldn't help but say, "This is too strange!" The current situation is very favorable to the Khitans, but why did they retreat? Even if they retreat, why bother sneaking, with the current situation of our army, it is impossible to raid them! Yang Peng pondered for a moment and said, "If the retreat is true, then they are so sneaky because they don't want us to find out." If we don't find out, then it is possible that we will not take the right measures, such as taking the initiative to abandon Yanmen Pass. Smiled, "Guanyin, she didn't forget to use her tricks at this time!" Then he frowned, "It's just, why are they retreating?" Is it true or false that they retreated? ”

Meng Hu asked, "King Yan, what should we do, do we continue to evacuate Yanmen Pass?" Yang Peng shook his head, "Something like this has happened, and the retreat has been temporarily stopped." Turning his head to Meng Hu, he said, "Send someone to tell Princess Yelu to stop retreating for the time being and stay put." Meng Hu responded and ran down.

The night passed, the sky was bright, and the mist of the early morning was wrapped around the Yanmen Pass, decorating a Yanmen Pass as if it were a fantasy and a fairyland. Ye Yu Guanyin immediately looked at the Yanmen Pass in the distance on a hill next to the camp, and saw that the defenders in the Yanmen Pass were waiting for each other, and everything was as usual, and he couldn't help but feel disappointed. She originally estimated that after the vicious battle in Liao State yesterday, Yan Yunjun was ten likely to give up Yanmen Pass and retreat south, but she didn't expect her judgment to be wrong.

Ye Yu Guanyin sighed, "The Yanyun army has not retreated north, and Yanmen Pass cannot be recovered. The general next to him said: "I can't take it back today, but in the future, I will definitely be able to take it back!" Ya Yin smiled bitterly. After thinking for a while, he said to West, "You go and send a message to King Yan and say that I want to see him." Vest replied and urged the war horse to run towards Yanmen Pass.

Soon after, Yang Peng rode out of Yanmen Pass alone, and saw Ye Yu Guanyin riding alone on the wasteland between the two armies, looming in the mist, really like a fairy, Yang Peng couldn't help but secretly marvel. Yang Peng rode his horse to the front of Ye Yu Guanyin, and said with a smile: "Guanyin ......" Ye Yu Guanyin looked at Yang Peng stupidly, then raised his eyebrows, and said angrily: "You have won again!" Yang Peng smiled, "Actually, I almost lost, if you don't withdraw your troops suddenly!" "Hmph, it's good to know!"

Yang Peng smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect you to actually create a cannon, and you almost lost the whole game if you made a mistake!" Glancing at Ya Yu Guanyin, "You've done a really good job of secrecy!" I didn't even find out about it until you pushed the cannon out! Ye Yu Guanyin smiled proudly, and glanced at Yang Peng with beautiful eyes, "When dealing with a character like you, naturally you have to be cautious in everything!" ”

Yang Peng smiled, "Can you tell me how you made the cannon?" Ya Yu Guanyin stroked the hair of his sideburns, looked at Yang Peng, and said teasingly: "Maybe it was leaked to us by the people in your armory." Yang Peng shook his head with a smile, "Since you say so, it definitely didn't leak from me!" Ya Yin squinted his eyes and said, "Maybe I did this on purpose, so that you don't have any suspicion!" Yang Peng smiled: "Maybe." Seeing Yang Peng's expression, Ye Yu Guanyin was always unmoved, and said angrily: "Knowing that I want to disturb your mind, won't you pretend to be shocked?" Damn man! ”

Yang Peng showed a very shocked look: "Really? Ya Yin Guan Yin chuckled and said happily: "This is almost the same! Then he sighed and said quietly, "It would be great if the two of us could be like this forever!" ”

Yang Peng couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. Ye Yu Guanyin looked at Yang Peng and said categorically: "One day I will destroy Yan Yun and capture you!" Yang Peng smiled and said teasingly: "Others are fighting the world for power, but Ye Yu Guanyin is fighting for men, I am really flattered!" Ye Yu Guanyin stared at Yang Peng and said fiercely: "That's it! If I can't capture you in this life, I won't be able to die! Yang Peng touched his nose and said, "Do you hate me, or do you love me?" "Both." Yang Peng smiled.

"What about you? What are you fighting with my Great Liao Kingdom for? Ye Yu Guanyin looked at Yang Peng very concernedly. Yang Peng's heart moved, looked at the eyes of Ye Yu Guanyin, and said affectionately: "I'm for a woman!" I will destroy the Great Liao Kingdom and take this woman captive to be my wife!" Ye Yu Guanyin's beautiful eyes trembled, and she looked very emotional. The two just looked at each other, neither of them spoke, the two hearts slowly merged, and the wind blew gently, blowing the hair of Ya Yu Guanyin.

After a long while, Ya Yu Guanyin turned his head to look at the sky in the distance, and said faintly: "If there is really such a day, I will take off this armor and be a good wife wholeheartedly!" Yang Peng's heart couldn't help but be shocked.

Ya Yu Guanyin turned his head to look at Chen Xiao, "Okay, we're going to break up again!" Yang Peng felt reluctant emotions in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh. Ye Yu Guanyin's legs gently clamped the horse's belly, and the horse slowly walked to Yang Peng's side, Ye Yu Guanyin suddenly leaned over and kissed Yang Peng's lips. Yang Peng was stunned for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he only heard a giggle, and the fragrant wind had already swayed.

Ya Kannon turned his horse's head sharply, galloped away into the distance, and shouted, "Goodbye! Take care of yourself, you are my man, you can't die at the hands of others! Yang Peng smiled and raised his voice: "Take care too!" Don't forget, you're my woman! Ya Yin Guanyin laughed, and the figure quickly disappeared, and soon it was no longer clear to see.

Yang Peng cleaned up his mood, turned his horse, and ran back to Yanmen Pass. Later that day, scouts came to report that all Khitan troops had been evacuated. Yang Peng still can't figure out why the Khitan army suddenly retreated, but no matter what, this is definitely a great thing for his side.

"It's really strange that the situation is favorable to the Khitan army, but why did it suddenly retreat?" Yelu Hanyu frowned. Yang Peng said: "This matter also makes me very puzzled. However, I estimate that there is something going on inside Liao. Yelu Hanyu glanced at Yang Peng and said with a smile: "I heard that Guanyin met with the eldest brother when he left, didn't the eldest brother take the opportunity to ask?" ”

Yang Peng held Yelu Hanyu's slender hand and teased: "Why do I seem to smell a smell of vinegar?" Yelu Hanyu withdrew his hand and snorted, "I'm just jealous, so don't touch me!" Looking at the cold rain, "You haven't answered my question yet?" Yang Erya on the side said: "I think the eldest brother may not be able to ask." Yelu Hanyu frowned and thought for a moment, then looked at Yang Peng and sneered: "You are really considerate!" ”

Yang Peng naturally knew why Yelu Hanyu, who had always been wise, suddenly became so angry, after all, there was a love between her and Yelu Guanyin, and this hatred could not be eliminated in this life. Yang Peng sighed and held Yelu Hanyu's slender hand, "Why are you angry for her?" I'm afraid that her life and I will never be possible! ”

Yelu Hanyu thought of the relationship between Yanyun and Liaoguo, and the displeasure in her heart suddenly disappeared without a trace, replaced with a pitiful mood, she felt that Yelu Guanyin was really pitiful compared to herself, and fell in love with an enemy, I am afraid that there will be no results in this life, and I will suffer from lovesickness for the rest of my life and cannot be discharged. Yelu Hanyu couldn't help but sigh, looked at Yang Peng, and said angrily: "You man is really hateful, it's really harmful!" ”

Yang Jiumei smiled: "I remember who seems to have said that the eldest brother is 'the male goblin who harms the women of the world'!" Yang Erya burst out laughing, and Yang Peng laughed embarrassedly. Yelu Hanyu glanced at Yang Peng, "That's it!" This sentence is so true! ”

The four of them chatted for a while, and Yang Peng suddenly frowned, "Now the crisis on the Yanmen Pass side has been resolved, but the Hedong side, Henan and Lianghuai don't know what the battle situation is?" The three girls couldn't help but worry, there had been no military reports from those three places for many days, and they didn't know what the situation was now. Yang Peng frowned and said, "I want to rush to Hedong!" Glancing at the third girl, "Little Sister Yelu is in charge here, and Ninth Sister and Yang Erya will assist Little Sister Yelu from the side!" The third girl frowned and nodded. The four of them didn't speak, they were all thinking about the battle situation in the other three directions, although they had confidence in the soldiers on their side, but it was still difficult to feel at ease.

At this moment, Wang Kai led a dusty officer in, clasped his fists and said, "Master, General Yang Dezheng's messenger has arrived." Yang Peng and the others turned around and saw the officer. The officer immediately knelt down on one knee and clenched his fists and said, "The villain greets the master, and the ladies meet!" Then he untied the bamboo tube on his back and held it high with both hands.

Yelu Hanyu stepped forward to pick up the bamboo tube, came back and handed it to Yang Peng. Yang Peng took the bamboo tube, picked up the seal, poured out a roll of sheepskin, opened it and looked at it, and his face showed a look of surprise. Seeing this scene, the three daughters who were watching Yang Peng intently immediately felt that the battle must have been won on the Hedong side. Sure enough, Yang Peng said: "The Western Xia army was defeated, the 200,000 troops on the south road were wiped out, and the 200,000 troops on the north road were also heavily damaged and retreated to Yan'an Mansion, Suide and Tongzhou were captured by our army, and the governor of Danzhou surrendered!" The third girl was overjoyed, and Yang Erya said happily: "I was still worried just now, but I didn't expect the good news to come all of a sudden!" But now that I think about it, I think that such a result is a matter of course, and it would be really strange if we invested so many troops and could not win! ”

Yelu Hanyu said: "Suide, Danzhou, and Tongzhou are all in Hexi, but I didn't expect General Yang Dezheng to not only defeat the Xixia people, but also capture the bridgehead in Hexi, it's really good!" Everyone nodded, all with joy on their faces. That Suide, which is now Suide County in the north of Shaanxi Province, is on the bank of the Wuding River on the west bank of the Yellow River, not far from Yinzhou in Western Xia. Danzhou is hundreds of miles south of Suide, Tongzhou, located near the big bend of the Yellow River, and is also Dali County, which is now under the jurisdiction of Weinan City, Shaanxi Province.

Yang Peng asked the officer, "How did you defeat the Tanguts?" ”

The officer recounted what had happened. It turned out that Yang Dezheng used a trick of deception to lure the main force of more than 200,000 troops on the southern line of Western Xia across the Yellow River, and then led the Xuanjia army to penetrate directly behind the enemy to break through the ferry in one fell swoop, burning the pontoon bridge on the river, and then waved the army to attack the rear army of the Xixia people, killed the enemy army in Suqian, and burned countless baggage. At this moment, Yang Dezheng's army launched a full-scale attack, first of all, the cavalry rushed the retreating Tanguts, and just as the Tanguts were struggling to resist, hundreds of thousands of infantry troops rushed to kill fiercely! The Western Xia army could no longer resist, the whole army collapsed, and the Yanyun army pursued all the way to the bank of the Yellow River, surrounding the remaining 100,000 Western Xia legions. Seeing that the general trend had gone, the Tangut people surrendered, but unfortunately, Li Bingchang, the prince of the Western Xia, crossed the Yellow River in a flat boat.

Immediately, Yang Dezheng ordered the army to build several pontoon bridges, and then the army crossed the Yellow River, taking advantage of the great victory to capture Tongzhou in one fell swoop, and then divided the troops to the north to prepare to cooperate with Liu Gao to break the army of the North Road of Xixia. The commander of the Western Xia received an urgent report and retreated in a hurry, Fan Long took advantage of the situation to cross the Yellow River, three battles and three victories, the Western Xia army suffered heavy losses, the defeat was like a mountain, and more than 100,000 remnants retreated into Yan'an Mansion.

Liu Zhitong, the governor of Danzhou, is a wall grass, used to be the governor of the Song Dynasty, the Khitans called and took refuge in the Khitans, and then did not hesitate to take refuge in the Western Xia, and now seeing that the Yanyun army is like a bamboo, without saying a word, he immediately killed the supervisor army sent to the same state by the Western Xia, erected the banner of Yanyun, and at the same time sent people to lose sincerity to the Yanyun army, so Danzhou went down without a fight.

Now Yang Dezheng, Fan Long and others have stopped marching and are waiting for Yang Peng's order. Yang Peng wrote a letter, stamped it with the seal of King Yan, sealed it and handed it to the messenger, and instructed: "First hand it over to General Fan Long, and then it will be handed over to General Yang Dezheng by General Liu Gao!" The messenger took the letter with both hands, answered it, and ran down.

Yang Peng let out a long breath and said with a smile; "Good! My worst fears have finally been solved! Then he scolded angrily: "****** if it weren't for the court stabbing Lao Tzu in the back, this time I would have taken back all of northern Shaanxi!" Yang Erya and Yang Jiumei showed puzzlement, and Yelu Hanyu asked: "Big brother sent an order in his heart to Fan Long and Yang Dezheng to divide troops to the south?" Yang Peng nodded, "The Song army is attacking in a big way this time, and it is led by several famous generals, although there is no news now, I am afraid that the situation is not optimistic!" The three girls nodded sympathetically, and they couldn't help frowning.

Fan Long and Yang Dezheng received Yang Peng's order, and immediately followed Yang Peng's instructions to divide the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Army Corps to the south to support. More than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the three legions marched south day and night. At the same time, Yang Peng had already arrived in Tianjing New Town, and learned that Yang Yanzhao had defeated the Song army attacking Henan, so the worries here were put down, and now only the situation in Huainan remained. Yang Peng didn't want to wait for news in Tianjing New City, and was ready to rush to Huainan.

At this moment, Han Bing finally sent a military report from Huainan. Yang Peng received the military report and couldn't wait to read it. After Yang Peng received the military report, he continued to rush to Yangzhou. I traveled day and night, and after a few days, I entered Yangzhou City.

Han Bing and the others received the news that King Yan was coming, so they hurriedly threw down the matter at hand and rushed back to the mansion. When they came to the lobby of the mansion, they saw Yang Peng standing in the lobby with his back to the door, and everyone hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Meet King Yan!" Yang Peng turned around and smiled, "You don't have to be polite!" The crowd straightened up. Yang Peng said: "Let's sit down." Everyone thanked them, and then sat down on the left and right according to the rank of their respective ranks.

Yang Peng sat down, glanced at everyone, smiled at Han Bing, and then smiled at everyone: "I received your good news when I was in Tianjing New City, what a surprise, I didn't expect the matter in Huainan to be solved like this!" I was still worried about whether Huainan or even Lianghuai would be able to hold it! ”

Everyone smiled, and Cheng Shijie said respectfully: "This is thanks to my sister-in-law's strategizing!" If it weren't for my sister-in-law's trick, the situation at this moment would probably be very bad! The crowd praised it. Yang Peng looked at Han Bing with a very gentle expression. Han Bing smiled and said: "Everyone has won the award, if it weren't for everyone working together, I wouldn't be able to do anything alone!" Yang Peng said with a smile: "Han Bing is right, this time he can turn the danger into a disaster, it is everyone's credit!" The crowd smiled.

Yang Peng looked at Han Bing, "Han Bing, the letter you gave me only gave me a rough idea, what was the specific process?" Han Bing sorted out his thoughts, and then told the story of the incident: "In fact, when I and the officers and soldiers of the First Army just arrived in Huainan, the situation was still very unfavorable, the Song army had strong troops, continuous support, and what was even more worrying was that Gao Hu and Cao Jun were both famous generals who could fight well, be wise and brave!" "Paused, "The turning point of the whole war was the removal of Gao Hu and Cao Jun in the imperial court, and the people who succeeded Gao Hu and Cao Jun were Wang Qinruo's cronies. ”

"Gao Hu was succeeded by Sun Jin, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council of the imperial court, who arrogantly thought that he could defeat our army in a battle, so the whole army poured out to storm the city. When our army saw this scene, it made a calculation, on the one hand, it was resisted with a small number of troops in the front, and on the other hand, the main force secretly went out of the city from the east gate at night, and when the enemy army swooped down on the city again, the main force suddenly attacked the large array of its army from the flank. The enemy army couldn't resist it, and when Sun saw that the situation was not good, he actually fled first, and then took over and caused the whole army to collapse instantly, and the defenders in our city took the opportunity to kill out of the city gate at this time, and cooperated with the troops outside the city to flank the enemy. The enemy army was no longer able to return to the sky, and the defeat was like a mountain, and our army pursued and killed to the bank of the Yangtze River, annihilating half of the prisoners and half of the prisoners, and the 200,000 enemy troops besieging Yangzhou were all wiped out! ”

Yang Peng smiled and nodded. Han Bing continued: "As for the enemy forces besieging Haozhou, the situation is similar. After the main forces of the two enemy armies were completely annihilated, the remaining enemy troops turned into frightened birds and fled back to Jiangnan, and all the prefectures and counties they had previously lost were immediately recovered. ”

Yang Peng asked: "In this case, we now have hundreds of thousands of Song army prisoners?" Han Bing nodded, "There are two hundred and fifty or sixty thousand, which are held in Haozhou and Yangzhou respectively, and are guarded by special troops. How to deal with these people, I have to show the eldest brother. ”

Yang Peng showed a thoughtful look and looked up at Han Bing, "The imperial court suffered such a big defeat, do you have any reaction?" Han Bing shook his head, "There is no reaction for the time being, but I think the imperial court is already out of order at the moment." The crowd laughed.

Han Bing was right, the imperial court was indeed out of order at this moment. For the monarchs and ministers of the Bianjing ******, the experience of these days can be described as a roller coaster, first of all, their own soldiers and horses are like bamboos, and the upper and lower monarchs and ministers think that the recovery of the two Huai is just around the corner, but suddenly, the situation is reversed, and the two main armies of their own side are actually wiped out, which is tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day for the monarchs and ministers of the court, everyone is like a lamb frightened by thunder, panicked and at a loss.

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