Chapter 351, Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas

Yang Peng raised his voice and said, "Let them come over." When the secret guard heard Yang Peng's order, he immediately got out of the way. The family hurriedly ran over, knelt down with a plop, kowtowed vigorously, and all of them were extremely excited, only kowtowing, not knowing what to say.

Yang Peng picked up the old mother and smiled at everyone: "Get up, it doesn't have to be like this!" The crowd stood up. The old mother cried and said: "I thought we were going to die, but I didn't expect that King Yan would send someone to save us lowly grass people!" I, I'm ......" said and couldn't help the excitement in his heart, so he knelt down towards Yang Peng again. Yang Peng held her up and said with a smile: "The old man doesn't have to be like this!" Saving you is what we should do! ”

The old father said movingly: "I have lived for such a long time, and I have seen countless officials, who of them treat us grass people as people, and no one cares about our life or death!" Only King Yan, only King Yan ,......" was excited, and the words behind him were choked.

Yang Peng smiled and said: "Don't be grateful for anything, you can live well, I will be satisfied!" Several people looked at Yang Peng with infinite excitement, and the second Xianghu suddenly said loudly: "King Yan, you are so good, I want to follow you to fight the world!" Xiang Meng hurriedly said: "King Yan, you promised me before, let me be your subordinate, you can't talk and don't count!" ”

Yang Peng glanced at the two brothers, and saw that the two of them were extremely strong and extraordinary, and felt that even if the two of them didn't know martial arts, they were definitely the embryos of fierce generals, and if they were cultivated for a period of time, they would definitely become fierce generals on the battlefield, and said with a smile: "If you want to join the Yanyun Army, I naturally welcome it, but what about your parents?" ”

The old father hurriedly said: "The two of us can still move, and we can still manage ourselves, besides, don't we still have two daughters-in-law?" Xiang Hu nodded vigorously, glanced at his daughter-in-law, and said with a grin: "My wife should take care of my father, otherwise what will I do if I marry my wife?" The two women smiled innocently.

The old mother begged: "King Yan, although my two unsuccessful sons do not have any great ability, they have strength and courage, it must be possible to be a little soldier for King Yan!" ”

Yang Peng smiled, "The old man is too modest, the two of them are not just materials for being soldiers!" When the family heard this, they were all very happy.

Yang Peng said to their family: "You are temporarily living in the barracks, and I will send someone to inform you of the rest of the matter." The family was resigned, Xiang Huwu was not at ease, and asked, "King Yan, did you really agree to let us join the army?" Yang Peng smiled and nodded, "Agreed!" Xiang Hu grinned. Yang Peng said: "Okay, let's go down and rest." The family responded, bowed respectfully to Yang Peng, and turned to leave.

Yang Peng looked at their backs and smiled, turned around and walked into the big tent. Wang Kai stayed outside the big tent, and Yelu Hanyu and Han Bing followed.

Han Bing said: "To be honest, I really don't understand why the eldest brother sent someone to risk them out? Yelu Hanyu also looked at Yang Peng puzzled. Yang Peng said lightly: "This is our responsibility, isn't it?" The two women were stunned and looked at each other, both of them looking puzzled. Yang Peng glanced at the two daughters and said: "Our Yanyun is like a big family, and we are the parents of this big family, the people are members of the big family, someone in the family has an accident, can we parents just ask?" ”

The two girls were silent, and Han Bing sighed, "This truth couldn't be more obvious, and besides, I thought so a long time ago when I didn't follow my eldest brother." thinks that those officials and emperors are the parents of the big family of Huaxia and should take responsibility for taking care of them, and if they fail to do this, they are not qualified, and they are not qualified to be his officials and emperors! However, I don't know when it began, but I gradually felt that the people of the world should serve us, we are high, and it is natural for them to serve us and serve us! It's like those literati said, what 'the king is the minister, the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die', they should die for us! ……”

Yang Peng smiled and glanced at Han Bing, "It's not surprising that you have this kind of thought!" There is such a thing as power that makes people think this way unconsciously! ”

Han Bing couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Yelu Hanyu smiled when she saw it: "Sister Han Bing, you don't have to be embarrassed, my sister didn't consciously think like this when she was a princess!" After a pause, he frowned and said: "Now that I think about it, I worked tirelessly and conscientiously at that time, not for the people at all, just for the sake of our Yelu family!" At that time, I just hated the people for not doing our best for the Jeremiah family, and I didn't think much about what we Jeremiah should do for the people! Perhaps, maybe what the dynasties said is wrong! ”

Yang Peng said: "Of course it's wrong! The world is the world of the people of the world, why do the people of the world work hard to support the family? The whole world, hum, how did this world become a family with one surname? I can't justify myself, so I made up a set of nonsense about the divine right of kings, everything in heaven and earth was created by God, so God granted me power, and it is naturally legal for me to sit on the world! In fact, this is all bullshit, all made up by those emperors to fool the people! If the people choose you, you are legitimate, otherwise you are a thief! If the people are not satisfied with you, they will rise up against you. ”

The two girls felt the same way, and Han Bing said: "What the eldest brother said makes sense!" ”

Yelu Hanyu's beautiful eyes flowed, and he asked Yang Peng teasingly: "Isn't the eldest brother going to be the kind of person who has studied in the past dynasties in the future?" Yang Peng shook his head, "I don't have the slightest interest in the world!" Glancing at the two girls, he said jokingly: "I'm afraid that you are eager to be a queen and a concubine!" But I didn't expect the two girls to say in unison: "What's so good about that!" The two women were stunned and smiled at each other. Han Bing glared at Yang Peng, "If you really become the emperor, we will have to live in the harem all day long, so many rules are already annoying to death, and we have to endure the open and secret battles in the harem, it is really not a human life!" Yelu Hanyu nodded, "Sister Han Bing is so right!" Looking at Yang Peng, "I mean, if one day in the future, we can live in seclusion in a paradise, then the gods will not change!" Han Bing nodded sympathetically.

Yang Peng smiled: "What's so difficult? Yelu Hanyu glanced at Yang Peng, "It's natural and simple to talk about it now, but where can things in the world be carried out according to your own wishes everywhere!" In the future, how can you not be the emperor, big brother! ……”

At this time, Yang Erya was woken up by the sound of the three of them talking, rubbing her eyes, sleepy-eyed and asked in a daze, "Is the eldest brother going to be the emperor?" Seeing Yang Erya's cute appearance, the three of them couldn't help but smile at each other, and Yelu Hanyu smiled: "Yes, the eldest brother is going to be the emperor, is it okay to make you the queen?" ”

Yang Erya hadn't fully woken up yet, and when she heard this, she hurriedly shook her head and said, "How can I be a queen?" The queen is not Sister Yelu, but also Sister Yonghui! "Sister Yelu, naturally it is Yelu Hanyu, Sister Yonghui, is Chai Yonghui, in fact, according to the order of precedence, the first to enter the door is naturally Yang Tong, the first to enter is the biggest, she should be the best candidate for the queen, but people have always attached great importance to the height of birth, although Yang Tong is the first woman to follow Yang Peng, but her birth is too poor, in anyone's opinion, it is impossible to be the mistress of Yanwangfu, naturally, if Yang Peng is the emperor in the future, the queen's candidate can never be her, It should be Yelu Hanyu or Chai Yonghui, these two daughters followed Yang Peng earlier, and they were born very noble, the Chai family has been a noble scholar for generations, and the Yelu family is the blood of the former Liao emperor, only the two of them are worthy of the mother's honor in the world.

Yang Peng smiled, "Then what do you want to do if you don't become a queen?" Yang Erya gradually came to her senses, and suddenly found that her eldest brother and two sisters were looking at her with a smile, thinking of what she had just said, her face turned crimson, and she was very uneasy.

Han Bing said: "What did the eldest brother ask you, but you haven't answered?" Yang Erya looked at Han Bing blankly, and Han Bing said angrily: "Big brother asked you, what do you want to do if you don't want to be a queen?" Yang Erya was shy, peeked at Yang Peng, lowered her head and whispered: "I don't dare to do it, except for the queen, I can do anything!" The three of them couldn't help but be slightly moved when they heard her say it with deep affection.

In the following time, the Khitan army continued to storm Yanmen Pass under the supervision of Yelu Hucheng, and the offensive was like a tide, wave after wave, and the Khitan army was ruthless, and it looked like it would not give up if it did not break through Yanmen Pass. However, is the Yanmen natural danger just talking? It is like an impregnable that firmly locks in the surging flood, no matter how high the wind and waves are, it cannot shake it in the slightest, but one by one the ferocious waves crash into its body!

For seven consecutive days, the Khitan army continued to storm onslaught, but did not make any progress, the majestic city wall of Yanmen Pass has been soaked in blood into a mottled dark red, and under the city wall is a mountain of corpses, ten thousand feathers into a forest, everywhere are broken siege equipment, everywhere are abandoned knives and guns, a miserable scene between heaven and earth. After seven days, the Khitan army had exhausted its sharpness and was already exhausted.

The atmosphere in the Khitan army's tent was depressing, and everyone did not have the spirit of being bound to win before, and they became depressed and depressed.

Da Lazy couldn't help muttering: "It seems that it is really impossible to say it, Yanmen is dangerous, we are indeed insurmountable!" The generals couldn't help but nod. Ye Hu Cheng chuckled in his heart, his heart was very unhappy, but he couldn't say anything. I couldn't help but wonder if I was going to retreat, and it shouldn't be too late to change course. I couldn't help but glance at the generals, I couldn't pull this face in my heart, and changing my course was to admit defeat, where should I put my face!

At this moment, there was a sharp footstep at the door, and everyone couldn't help but look towards the door, only to see a pro-soldier officer leading a middle-aged man in Western Xia clothes to rush in.

The pro-soldier officer knelt down and said: "King Qiyu, the envoy of Li Zongdao, the generalissimo of Western Xia, is here, saying that there is an urgent military report to the king!" Everyone's eyes immediately converged on the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man bowed and bowed: "I am here to inform the king on the order of my generalissimo that my 300,000 elites in Daxia have set off for Yinzhou, and they will launch an attack on Yinzhou soon!" When they heard this, their spirits were lifted.

I saw that the messenger of Naxixia took out a letter from his bosom and held it up with both hands, "This is a handwritten letter from the generalissimo of my family, please look at it!" ”

Yelu Hucheng immediately glanced at the opposition, and the latter immediately stepped forward to take the letter, and returned to forward it to Yelu Hucheng. Ye Hucheng took the letter, opened the envelope, took out the stationery, unfolded it and read it, and his face showed joy. He glanced up at the generals and said excitedly: "Generalissimo Li Zongdao will concentrate his forces on attacking Yinzhou, but the direction of the Great Wall Ridge is just a feint to contain the main force of the Volcano Army. "Stand up, walk to the map, point to Yinzhou, and then swipe your finger to the southeast, and cut into Shanxi sharply," Generalissimo Li Zongdao planned to attack Yinzhou in one go, and then the main army turned to the southeast sharply, attacked the hinterland of Shanxi, and cut off the back road of Yanmen Pass! ”

The generals were overjoyed, and Da lazy said: "In this way, our Yanyun army here can only retreat, and Yanmen Pass can go down without a fight!" The generals nodded their heads one after another, all looking excited. Ryuba sighed, "It's just that it's really shameless to win like this!" Da Lazy said angrily: "There are only winners and losers on the battlefield, what do you care about so much?" ”

Xiao Hong frowned and said, "The plan is good, but can it succeed?" These words poured cold water on everyone in the excitement, and they couldn't help but worry: There are 300,000 elites in Western Xia, but there are quite a few people, but can they beat the Yanyun army in front of them? We are so difficult for the Shangyan Yun Army, not to mention the Western Xia people! The 170,000 Yanyun in northern Shaanxi are also the elite of a hundred battles!

When the messenger saw that everyone doubted his own combat strength, he could not help but be unconvinced, and said: "Our army is very well planned, and the enemy army is defenseless, so it will definitely succeed!" In addition, there is another situation, Princess Qingxia of our country has sent an envoy to Tubo, and I believe that Tubo can be persuaded to attack Yanyun together! Our three kingdoms are all strong, there is no reason why we can't beat a Yan Yun! When everyone heard him say that Tibet might also join in, they were really surprised and delighted.

Yeyur Hucheng pondered for a moment, and then said to the messenger: "We are very happy that your country can abide by the covenant and send troops to help! "The Messenger prays;" Can't! Raising his head, "There is a request from our country that the king has granted?" Ye Yu Hucheng knew that there was no cheap thing in the world, and since the other party had exhausted his elite, he must have asked for something, so he asked quietly at the moment: "What do you want?" ”

The messenger said: "Our request is actually very small, just asking the Liao side to keep the previous promise and hand over all Shanxi to us. "The generals were in an uproar, but they all knew that there had been such an agreement before, and they were not good at blaming anything. Ye Hu Cheng nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, but Yanmen Pass is very important to the security of my Great Liao Kingdom, and it must be controlled by our Liao Kingdom!" The messenger said with a beaming face: "No problem! Now that we have made up our minds, I would like to ask the king to write a relevant letter and reply to my generalissimo! Ye Hu Cheng smiled coldly, took the letter paper and spread it in front of him, picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and quickly wrote a letter. When it was over, he double-checked it and handed it to the messenger, "Take it!" ”

The messenger came forward, took it with both hands, looked at it, smiled with satisfaction, then carefully folded it, put it in his bosom, bowed, and said, "If the king has no other command, I will take my leave!" ”

Yelu Hucheng stood up, walked up to the messenger, looked at him, and asked, "Is your Princess Qingxia sure to convince Tibet?" The messenger said, "There should be no problem." In fact, in addition to the envoy to Tibet, the princess also sent an envoy to the Song Kingdom in the south, lobbying them to send troops to attack Huainan from the south! If this plan can be realized, Yan Yun will surely perish! Yelu Hucheng nodded, "Alright, you can go!" The messenger saluted the tiger city and withdrew from the tent.

Ye Hu Cheng thought about it when he returned to the handsome case, and his fingers tapped on the handsome press in front of him, making a trembling sound. All the generals knew that Ye Hu Cheng was thinking about things, and they didn't dare to disturb him.

Suddenly, Ye Hu Cheng turned around, glanced at the generals, and sneered: "The Han people have a saying, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind!" They want to treat us and Yanyun as praying mantis and cicadas, and they make yellow finches themselves! It's a beautiful thought! The general Xiao Yegan couldn't help but say: "King, the last general really doesn't understand why he agreed to the request made by the Western Xia people!" We worked hard to attack Yanmen Pass, but in the end we let the Xixia people occupy Shanxi, which is really infuriating! Many of the generals chimed in, all with unhappy faces.

Yelu Hucheng smiled coldly, "They want to pick up the bargain, but won't we?" The generals didn't know what was going on, and they looked at each other. Yelu Hucheng said: "From now on, stop the attack, and spread the news that we are short of food and grass and are about to retreat." ”

Xiao Hong praised: "The king's plan is wonderful! Our army has made a gesture of giving up, so once northern Shaanxi is in danger, Yang Peng will inevitably transfer troops from Yanmen Pass to reinforce it! At that time, our army will suddenly storm Yanmen Pass, and it will definitely be able to break through the pass and go south to the Central Plains in one fell swoop! The crowd was excited. Ye Hu Cheng sneered: "When my army goes south and occupies Shanxi first, then whether or not to hand over Shanxi to him is a matter for the Empress Dowager and His Majesty the Emperor, I am just a courtier, how can my words be counted!" The generals burst out laughing.

Han Chang said: "King, since it has been decided, without further ado, it is better to put on a posture of withdrawing troops tomorrow and spread the news at the same time!" ”

Tiger City thought for a moment and nodded. On this morning, Yang Peng was patrolling the city wall, looking at the enemy camp outside the pass. Seeing the chaos in the enemy camp, it seemed as if they were about to leave the camp. Yang Peng couldn't help but worry: 'Could it be that Yeyu Hucheng has finally woken up and is ready to give up attacking Yanmen Pass and return to the army to attack Datong Mansion?' "His grandmother's, the Khitans are running away!" Yang Jing shouted in a scareless manner. Han Bing frowned and said, "I'm afraid that they are going to give up attacking Yanmen Pass and go to besiege Datong Mansion!" That's not a good thing! ”

At this moment, there was a sharp sound of horses' hooves outside the gate, and a scout officer was seen galloping from afar. When he came to the gate, he suddenly reined in the war horse, and the war horse man stood up, and the scout officer shouted: "I have an urgent military situation, open the door quickly!" The gate creaked open, and the scout officer urged his horse to gallop in, and then the gate slammed shut.

The scout officer went straight to the city wall, came to Yang Peng, and bowed: "Meet King Yan!" The subordinates found out the news outside the city that the Khitan army was short of food and grass and was ready to retreat! ”

Yang Peng was a little surprised, "Lack of grain and grass? The scout nodded, "In the early hours of this morning, my subordinates and his cavalry captured two patrolmen of the other side, and obtained this information under torture!" ”

Yang Peng pondered: "If there is not enough food and grass, then there is only a retreat, and it is impossible to talk about going back to besiege Datong Mansion, and the victory came so suddenly?" Looking at Han Bing, "Hongyu, what do you think?" Han Bing frowned and shook his head: "It's hard to judge, it may be true or false!" If it is true, then we will win this battle; If it is fake, then what is the purpose of the Tiger City? Yang Peng frowned tightly and muttered, "This is also what I didn't expect!" Yang Jing couldn't help but say loudly: "Since the eldest brother and sister-in-law can't think of it, then there is no problem!" ”

Yang Peng and Han Bing looked at each other and smiled, Yang Peng nodded and said, "Yang Jing's words also have some truth!" Yang Jing was very happy when he heard Yang Peng's words agreeing with him, and said loudly: "Since there is no problem, then we will win, and since we win, we can eat and sleep well!" ”

Yang Peng smiled, "You cow, eighty percent of you haven't eaten well and slept well these days!" I'll give you two days off and allow you to do nothing but eat, drink and sleep! Yang Jing was overjoyed, "Big brother, this is what you said!" Yang Peng smiled and nodded, "I said it!" Yang Jing said: "Then I'll go!" Yang Peng smiled and nodded. Yang Jinghuan sang and ran down the city wall.

Yang Peng glanced at Yang Jing's back and said with a smile: "Yang Jing is as simple as a child!" Yang Peng joked: "The kid won't carry two axes to cut people!" Han Bing chuckled. Thinking of the Khitan people in front of him, he couldn't help frowning again, "Are the Khitans really retreating or fake?" Yang Peng looked at the Khitan army camp in the distance, frowned, and said: "Since we can't figure out the situation, we can't take it lightly!" After a pause, "I want to send scouts to monitor the movements of the enemy army, I want to see what tricks Tiger City is playing!" Han Bing said with a smile: "Maybe it's what Yang Jing said, if you can't think of a problem, then there is no problem, and if there is no problem, we win!" Yang Peng smiled, "I hope so!" Then he frowned slightly, "It's just that this victory came too suddenly!" ”

There was a sound of rapid footsteps on the wall ladder, and the two followed the sound, only to see Yang Erya, who was dressed in military uniform, trotting up, turning his head and seeing Yang Peng and Han Bing, with joy in his eyes, and hurriedly ran over.

"Big brother, Sister Han Bing!" Yang Erya ran to the two of them and greeted.

Yang Peng asked: "Is there something happening in such a hurry?" Yang Erya handed a letter to Yang Peng, "This is the letter I just received, and it is an urgent letter sent by General Yang Yanzhao!" Yang Peng thought of the situation over there, and couldn't help but feel a little worried. He took the letter, opened the envelope, took out the stationery, and looked at it, his brow furrowed tightly. After reading the letter, Yang Peng turned to look at the Khitan army camp in the distance, and the whole person fell into deep thought. Han Bing and Yang Erya were very curious, but they didn't dare to disturb Yang Peng.

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