Yan Yun army stormed Yumen Pass, the Western Xia army resisted desperately, originally thought that the offensive of Yan Yun Army on the first day should be easier to resist, but I didn't expect the offensive to be like a raging wave, the whole city was crumbling, the soldiers of the Western Xia army resisted very hard, although they had done their best, but there was a feeling that they were not able to catch it, as if in the face of the huge storm in the desert, as a mortal, they could not resist the sky at all! ……

After a day of fierce fighting, the corpses on and off the city wall piled up, the blood soaked the city wall into mottled spots, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood, which was disgusting. The Yan Yun army had already retreated, and the wilderness was littered with the remains of many siege equipment, many of which were still burning fiercely; The exhausted Western Xia army was throwing corpses from the city, and the wounded soldiers were constantly being transported down the city walls, and the wails were coming and going, which was particularly poignant under the night.

Brother Wei Ming Xiu stood at the head of the city and looked at the Yanyun military camp with lights on outside the city, his brows furrowed, according to the battle situation during the day today, he estimated that his side could hold on for two or three days at most. Wei Mingtai, the cronie general standing behind him, said worriedly: "The combat power of the Yanyun army is too strong, and it is impossible for our lonely city to resist it!" General Zhang Jiang said with some hesitation: "General, let's retreat!" The generals' hearts couldn't help but move, and the famous tiger bear shouted and scolded: "You, a Han man, do you want to give the Yumen Pass to Yan Yunjun!" As he spoke, he only heard a choking sound, and the famous tiger bear drew a knife in his hand, and glared at Zhang Jiang viciously: "I will kill you first, lest you sell us all!" ”

Zhang Jiang was furious, hurriedly took a step back, drew a knife in his hand, and frowned: "Although I am a Han, I have done my best for Daxia and died!" You say that about me, it really chills my heart! ”

The breath of evil that Wei Ming Tiger Bear had been holding in his chest for many days had nowhere to vent, and he glared and scolded: "Who can believe you as a Han man, I see that you have been following us just to dedicate our head to Yan Yunjun!" I'm going to kill you! He scolded and raised his scimitar and slashed at Zhang Jiang. Zhang Jiang didn't expect him to really make a move, so he quickly jumped back in shock, dodging the other party's blow, his heart was full of anger, and he wanted to fight back, but then he thought of the identity between the two sides, and the scimitar in his hand couldn't be handed over anyway. At this moment, the famous tiger bear slashed again, and Zhang Jiang dodged again.

The famous tiger bear still has to do it, "Enough! Brother Hugh's roar suddenly came. The tiger bear was startled and stopped. Brother Hugh walked between the two, snatched the scimitar from the hand of the tiger bear, and threw it away, choking with a loud sound. Brother Wei Mingxiu shouted: "Zhang Jiang has followed me for many years and is loyal to me and Daxia, how can you talk like this? The famous tiger bear lowered his head, very disappreciative in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Brother Xiu walked in front of Zhang Jiang, and at this time, Zhang Jiang had already returned the knife into the sheath, and bowed slightly towards Brother Xiu. Brother Wei Ming Hugh patted Zhang Jiang on the shoulder and said, "General Zhang, don't take it to heart, you know, my younger brother has always been so reckless, and he often offends me!" Zhang Jiang smiled bitterly in his heart: 'Since you have said so, what else can I say?' He bowed to Brother Hugh and said: "The general's words are serious, and his subordinates don't take it to heart, and his subordinates know what General Tiger Bear is like!" Brother Hugh smiled and said, "Okay, that's fine!" You're still good brothers! The two glanced at each other, Zhang Jiang saw a fierce and tyrannical look in each other's eyes, and couldn't help but feel shocked. Turning his head to look at the other generals, he found that the other generals also had more or less similar expressions in their eyes. Zhang Jiang's heart sank, and he suddenly felt that he was like an outlier in this group of people.

At this moment, an officer rushed up and reported: "The envoy of the Great Liao of the Great General is here!" ”

Brother Hugh showed a look of surprise, "Great, I'm waiting for them!" Hurry up, please! The officer answered, hurriedly ran down, and after a while, he led a middle-aged man dressed in Khitan armor to come up, and said to Brother Xiu: "The Great Liao envoy has arrived!" Then he stepped aside. The envoy of the Liao State stepped forward and said arrogantly: "I am the envoy of the Great Liao, are you the famous Brother Hugh who surrendered to Cheng?" Seeing the arrogant attitude of the envoy of the Liao State, everyone felt a little unhappy, but now that it is a situation under the fence, where do they dare to attack.

Brother Hugh said: "I am Brother Hugh, your envoy has worked hard!" ”

The envoy of the Liao State took out a letter, handed it to Brother Hugh, and said, "This is the letter given to you by our general, take a look." ”

Brother Hugh hurriedly stretched out his hands to take the letter, looked at the envelope, but nothing was written on the envelope. Li hurriedly opened the envelope, took out the letterhead, unfolded it and read it, with a very happy look on his face, and bowed to the envoy of the Liao State: "The general's grace, the last general is grateful!" The Liao envoy said: "Our reinforcements are on their way here, and they will arrive at sunset tomorrow." Brother Hugh and the others were overjoyed, and the tiger and bear said excitedly: "Great, the army of Da Liao is here, we are not afraid of the Yanyun army!" The Liao envoy said: "My business has been done, and I will leave!" Brother Hugh hurriedly retained: "Your envoy, please take a break, so that I can wait for the friendship of the landlord!" The envoy of the Liao State said arrogantly: "No need! He didn't salute Brother Hugh, but turned around and left. When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel angry.

When the Liao envoy left, the famous tiger bear couldn't help but scolded in a low voice: "This person is really powerless!" ”

Brother Hugh said: "Yan Yun in General Mills's letter is very polite. Hey, isn't this the case from ancient times to the present, it's always been a little ghost who is difficult to see the king of Hades! Everyone nodded in agreement.

Brother Wei Ming Hugh glanced at the generals and admonished: "The army of Da Liao is coming, we have to show our spirits, don't let people underestimate it!" The generals agreed in unison.

Zhang Jiang returned to his residence, and suddenly kicked the coffee table in front of him out, and fell to the ground with a loud bang. All the relatives and soldiers were shocked, and they didn't know what to do, and no one dared to come forward.

Zhang Jiang stared at the oil lamp in front of him, the anger in his eyes seemed to be substantial, he was so angry, thinking that he was a bloody battlefield for the Southern and Northern Wars of Great Xia, and in the end, all the party members actually doubted themselves! In this matter, the famous tiger bear is simply too deceitful, but Brother Hugh just said such a sentence without pain, which is clearly shielding the famous tiger bear! Zhang Jiang suddenly became disheartened and lazy, feeling that he had really sold his life for nearly twenty years for Daxia in vain!

A personal soldier rushed up, bowed down and said, "General, General Zhang Yuan asks to see you." Zhang Jiang's heart moved. There are two Han generals under the command of Brother Hugh, one of whom is Zhang Jiang, and the other is this Zhang Yuan. Zhang Jiang turned around and said to his soldiers: "Please General Zhang Yuan to the hall, I will be there immediately." The soldiers answered and ran down. Zhang Jiang cleaned up his mood, took a deep breath, turned around and left the room.

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On the second day, the Yan Yun army continued to attack the city, but the offensive was much weaker than the first day, and often retreated when it encountered a slight obstacle. Wei Mingtai said with a smile: "General, the Yan Yun Army ran out of sharp energy yesterday, and today it has no strength to attack the city!" Brother Wei Ming Xiu smiled and nodded, his expression was very relaxed, he was originally worried that Yan Yunjun's offensive would be more fierce than yesterday, in that case, he was really unsure whether he could hold on until dusk, but he didn't expect Yan Yunjun's offensive today to become like this, compared to yesterday, it is really incomparable, it seems that Yan Yunjun has indeed exhausted his sharpness in yesterday's big tent. Yesterday, Yan Yunjun definitely wanted to take advantage of the vigor when they first arrived to break through the Yumen Pass, but they didn't expect that their desperate resistance of their soldiers and horses would completely fail their wishful thinking. Thinking of this, Hugh couldn't help but feel proud of himself for his army.

Wei Ming Huxiong laughed and said: "If it is like this, let alone persist until this evening, even if it lasts for ten days and half a month, there will be no problem." The generals thought so, and said with a straight face: "Having said that, you must not be careless!" The generals agreed in unison.

This untemperate battle lasted from morning to noon and from noon to afternoon. The sun was setting, and although the battlefield was still lively, Yan Yunjun did not make the slightest progress.

Brother Wei Ming Xiu looked up at the sky, frowned and asked, "Why haven't the reinforcements come yet?" At this moment, the soldiers on the watchtower above their heads pointed to the west and shouted, "There are dozens of cavalry running towards this direction from the west." It was very strange that Brother Hue and the others arrived in a hurry, and the tiger and bear said anxiously: "Why are there only a few dozen cavalrymen?" Then he climbed the watchtower, and the generals also climbed the watchtower one after another.

Looking to the west, sure enough, under the afterglow of the setting sun, I saw dozens of cavalry rushing forward, and I could faintly hear the sound of horses' hooves, and the sand and dust were raised by more than a hundred horses' hooves, drifting into the distance like light smoke.

In just a moment, the cavalry rushed closer, and everyone saw their outfits clearly, it was indeed the cavalry of Daliao, but why were there only these dozens of people? Didn't you say that there were 10,000 reinforcements?

Dozens of cavalrymen rushed to the West City Gate, stopped, and spoke loudly to the Western Xia sergeants guarding the gate. Brother Hugh's side was far away, and he couldn't hear what was being said clearly.

After a while, an officer galloped from the west gate, jumped off his horse, ran up the city wall, and after asking where Hugh and the others were, he ran to the bottom of the watchtower and raised his voice towards it: "General, the other party claims to be Niaz, a general under General Mills, and also brings the official seal of the general and a letter from the general to General Mills, requesting that the city gate be opened!" As he spoke, he held up the official seal and a letter.

Brother Wei Mingxiu and others came down from the watchtower, and Wei Mingtai took the official seal and letter from the officer's hand and forwarded it to Brother Xiu. Brother Wei Ming Hugh picked up the camp and the letter and looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "It is indeed that I sent Shouzhong to General Mills earlier. Then he said to the officer, "Open the gates of the city at once, and let them in." The officer answered and ran down.

"General, the Yanyun Army has stopped attacking." Li Qiyuan pointed to the road outside the city. The attention of Brother Wei and the others has been on the Liao army since just now, and they didn't notice when the Yan Yun army retreated, and looked outside the city, and sure enough, they saw that the Yan Yun army, which was still attacking the city just now, had retreated, but the Yan Yun army did not collect its troops and returned to the camp, and was still lined up outside the city. In view of Yan Yunjun's poor performance all day today, Brother Wei and the others didn't pay much attention to Yan Yunjun, and their attention returned to Liao Jun.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard in the street, and the generals walked to the battlements on the inner side of the city wall and looked down, only to see dozens of Liao cavalry running under the city gate with one of their officers. Immediately, everyone dismounted, and the Liao army in the lead, dressed in the general's armor, and the officer from his own side rushed up.

The two came to Brother Xiu and the others, and the Western Xia officer bowed down and said, "General, General Niaz is here." With that, he stepped aside. The general-looking guy immediately stepped forward, pressed his chest to Brother Hugh, and said in jerky Chinese: "I, Niaz have seen it, General Weiming!" ”

Seeing that there were blood stains on Niaz's body, his expression was very frightened, and he couldn't help but feel bad in his heart, and hurriedly asked: "General Niaz, I heard that you have 10,000 soldiers and horses to help, why are there only a few dozen of you left?" ”

Niaz's face was ashamed, then he showed fear and anger, and said: "We, we are, on the way, we met the enemy, they, they suddenly came to attack us. We were defenseless and were scattered by them at once! My subordinates and dozens of pro-soldiers broke out of the encirclement and came here! ”

Brother Hugh and the others were shocked inexplicably, and Brother Hugh asked urgently, "Who is attacking you?" Is it Yan Yunjun? ”

Niaz shook her head and said, "No, I don't know! ”

Brother Wei Ming Xiu frowned, and then his heart moved, and he hurriedly pointed to Yan Yunjun outside the city and asked, "Is it that kind of army?" Niaz looked in the direction of his finger and saw the army arrayed outside the city, his face was terrified, and he glared and shouted, "It's them, it's them!" They are the ones who attacked us! These guys are even more ferocious than the wolves of the desert! ”

Brother Weimingxiu's heart sank, frowned and muttered: "I didn't expect that they didn't do it, but they actually expected that I would ask Da Liao for help, and I set up an ambush!" Then he was shocked, and his face changed color and said: "In this way, the tepid attack of the Yan Yun army all day today is obviously to paralyze us, and at the same time, it is also to prevent our army from escaping, so that their ambush attempt cannot be realized!" So cunning! ”

At this moment, there was a whine from outside the city...... Woo...... Woo...... The sound of a long horn. Brother Wei Mingxiu's whole body was shocked, and he hurriedly looked outside the city, only to find that Yan Yunjun had actually collected his troops and returned to the camp. Brother Wei Ming Xiu originally thought that the Yan Yun army outside the city would take the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, but he didn't expect them to actually return to the camp, which was very unexpected, and he couldn't understand Yang Yanzhao's intentions for a while.

In fact, Yang Yanzhao's intention is nothing to put it bluntly, but it is to wait for the news of the destruction of the reinforcements to spread throughout Yumen Pass before attacking, and it will definitely be much easier and easier at that time.

Sure enough, as Yang Yanzhao expected, the news of the annihilation of the Liao reinforcements soon spread in Yumen Pass. The reason why this remnant army of Western Xia was able to withstand the onslaught of the Yanyun army, in addition to the fake news propagated by Brother Hugh, the most important reason was the news that reinforcements from the Liao army were coming. It was precisely because of hope that they could do their best to fight against the Yan Yun Army. However, looking forward to the stars and the moon is looking forward to the news that the reinforcements have been wiped out, it is like a drowning man who sees a big boat coming to rescue him, and he is overjoyed, but in an instant he sees that the big boat is dragged to the bottom of the sea by a whirlpool, and hope is replaced by despair in an instant.

Hugh and the others walked around, and all they saw were officers and soldiers with low morale and desperate faces, and they could hear cries from time to time. The entire Yumen Pass was filled with a mournful atmosphere.

Brother Xiu stopped and looked at the Yanyun military camp outside the city where the lights were bright and there was a faint sound of singing, and said angrily: "It turns out that you are waiting for us to collapse without a fight!" Wei Mingtai said worriedly: "General, we can't hold it, we have to find a way to retreat!" Brother Wei Ming Xiu frowned and nodded, even Wei Ming Tiger Bear, who had always opposed the retreat, didn't say anything at this moment, frowning tightly, with a sad look.

Brother Wei Ming Hugh glanced at the Yanyun military camp outside the city, and said coldly: "Yang Yanzhao wants to wait for our own morale to collapse before destroying us in one go, hmph, I will never let him succeed!" He turned his head and said to the generals: "Yang Yanzhao will launch a full-scale attack on us early tomorrow morning, and now the morale has collapsed, and there will be no way to fight tomorrow!" I have decided to lead all my men and horses to break through the siege from the west gate tonight and go to Hamili. All the generals nodded in agreement, but everyone was eager to get out of here as soon as possible.

The generals passed down the order of the famous Hugh Ge, and the Western Xia soldiers who were originally in despair couldn't help but be overjoyed, only to feel as if they had suddenly seen a bright light in the dark night, and a surge of hope suddenly surged in their hearts. Under the leadership of their respective generals, all the officers and men immediately took action and made preparations before breaking through, and everyone was full of energy.

Niaz hurried to find Hugh and asked angrily, "Why are you retreating?" ”

Seeing him questioning himself in person like this, Brother Hugh was displeased, and the other generals also showed annoyance, but the other party was General Mills, and no one dared to attack him. Brother Hugh said lightly: "In this situation, there is no other way but to retreat. There is only one way to stay, and you can only give up Yumen Pass! ”

Niaz exclaimed, "I won't allow you to retreat!" ”

The famous tiger bear couldn't help but say, "What qualifications do you have to order us?" "Niaz was stunned for a moment, and said secretly: "They are the generals, and I am really not qualified to order them, but the generals attach great importance to Yumen Pass, so they can't just give up and give up." As soon as he thought of this, he said: "I am naturally not qualified to order you, General Mills is always qualified, General Mills wants the Jade Gate Pass, you must defend it, if you can't hold it, General Mills will definitely condemn you!" ”

The generals looked at each other, worried in their hearts, they knew that Niaz was telling the truth, it was easy to give up the Jade Gate Pass, but they were afraid that it would not be easy to face General Mills. They all looked at Brother Hugh to see what he said. Brother Hugh stood up and said, "We naturally have to obey General Mills's orders, but General Mills is in Hamili at the moment, and he doesn't know anything about the situation at this Yumen Pass, let alone that your army that should come to support our army has been wiped out!" When Niaz heard this, she couldn't help but feel uneasy.

Brother Wei continued: "General Niaz's 10,000 soldiers and horses were killed by Yan Yun's army in less than half an hour, and we faced Yan Yun's main force alone for a few days, isn't it good enough? Niaz had nothing to say. "In the current situation, even if our army does not retreat, it will definitely not hold out until tomorrow evening, so it is impossible to wait for the rescue of General Mills. Since it is impossible to hold on to it, why do you have to sacrifice so many soldiers in vain? Such a ridiculous approach, General Mills must not approve of it! ”

After a pause, he glanced at Niaz, who was obviously shaken in his mind, so he continued: "The general must let us defend the Jade Gate Pass, it's not impossible!" Since we have decided to serve Da Liao and be loyal to Da Liao, it is also a matter of course, but after the war, will all the responsibilities be borne by the generals? ”

Niaz was taken aback, he didn't even know what to do with the responsibility of his 10,000 soldiers and horses, where would he dare to take on this greater responsibility again, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, no, no, it's not my responsibility!" The general is the chief general of Yumen Pass, since the general thinks it is better to retreat, then I will listen to the general! ”

When the generals saw that Niaz had softened, they all secretly laughed. Brother Wei Ming Hugh said: "Since the general has no problem, let's go down and prepare, we will act in the third watch!" Niaz sighed, answered, and ran down.

On the third watch day, the torches on the wall of Yumen Pass were still burning fiercely, the flags were still planted everywhere, and the figures were longing, but they were not real people, they were all scarecrows wrapped in military uniforms. At the same time, all the soldiers and horses in the Yumen Pass have been gathered in front of the West City Gate, and nearly 10,000 horses are silent.

Brother Wei looked up at the sky, raised his right hand and waved forward, when even if an officer and a soldier stepped forward to open the city gate, nearly 10,000 horses were born immediately, and they didn't care about closing the city gate, and soon disappeared into the night.

Hugh and the others hurried west along the road that the caravan had trampled out, and the long procession loomed in the moonlight, and only footsteps and wheezing could be heard, but no one spoke.

An hour later, the army had left Yumen Pass for more than 20 miles, and everyone couldn't help but put down their hearts and couldn't help but slow down their speed. Hugh and Niaz walked in tandem, and Hugh asked Niaz, "Where is the general?" Niaz was thinking about how to explain to General Mills when he returned, and after listening to the words of Brother Hugh, he said absentmindedly: "I am a man who has ears to be cut out by Husi. ”

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