Yang Peng listened to Ma Jin's words, his expression softened a little, and said to Xiao Yanke: "There is no crime of escaping from the battle, but there is the crime of framing colleagues!" Come on, escort Xiao Yanke back to Yanjing for me, and wait for disposal! Wang Kai promised, and immediately ordered a team leader to escort Xiao Yanke back to Yanjing. Several secret guards stepped forward, Xiao Yanke kowtowed to Yang Peng a few times, stood up, and was escorted down by several secret guards.

Ye Yu Guanyin led the guards down the mountain and said, "Yang Xiong is gone!" He glanced at Ma Jin and said, "It should be that he saw General Ma Jin coming back, and his crime could no longer be concealed, so he absconded in fear of crime!" ”

Yang Peng said to Wang Kai: "Orders are sent to all places, Yang Xiong is afraid of crime and absconds, and rewards are offered everywhere for wanting." Wang Kai agreed, and immediately sent two secret guards to Yanjing to give orders. Yang Peng said to Ya Yu Guanyin: "You go to the mountain, the original plan is inconvenient. Ye Yu Guanyin nodded, turned the horse's head, and led her Feifeng female guard towards the mountain, and after a while, her figure disappeared into the mountain forest.

Yang Peng looked at Ma Jin and several other soldiers, and said, "You are not lightly tired, and you are not lightly injured, go back to Yanjing." Ma Jin clenched his fists and said: "The last general is fine, the last general will stay and fight side by side with King Yan!" Several other soldiers also expressed their determination to stay and fight, and everyone looked resolute. Seeing this, Yang Peng nodded appreciatively and said, "Okay." ”

At this moment, the faint sound of thunder came from afar. Yang Peng raised his eyes and looked into the distance, only to see a black line appear in the sky, and the black line gradually expanded into a large area surging towards this side. Yang Peng's eyes showed excitement, turned back to the side of the war horse, and turned over on the horse. Ma Jin and the others also stepped on their horses and entered the military formation, and Ma Jin immediately stood beside Yang Peng.

Soon after, the faint sound of thunder turned into a rumbling thunder, and the earth trembled, and I saw countless Khitan army horsemen coming all over the world! The flag is like a cloud, the spear is like a forest, the cold light is like snow, and the iron hooves are clanging!

Yang Peng ordered: "Beat up the royal flag!" Wang Kai promised and shouted loudly; Spread the flag! The strong and burly standard-bearer immediately raised the king's banner and shook it in the air, and the banner unfurled with the wind, and the hunt sounded.

The 200,000 Khitan army came to a halt at more than 300 steps in front of Yanyun's army under the leadership of Vester Butler. Butler saw King Yan's royal flag, showed a shocked expression, and said to West: "That's King Yan's royal flag, is King Yan here!" West stared at the heroic figure under the king's flag, frowned, and said, "It seems that it is really him!" Butler couldn't help but show fear and said, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect King Yan to come!" "He is more cunning than a fox, more fierce than a tiger, and he actually leads only a few people in formation, I am afraid, I am afraid that he has laid a big trap and is ready to deal with us!" ”

When Vest heard this, he couldn't help but feel this way, seeing that there were several mountains next to the other party, he couldn't help but look towards the mountains, only to see that the mountains were dense and mist, but the cold light of the blade was faintly reflected in it. West was taken aback, and hurriedly pointed to Niulan Mountain and said to Butler: "The cold light is shining in that mountain, there must be a heavy ambush!" Butler looked towards Niulan Mountain, and sure enough, he saw the cold light reflected from time to time in the dense forest, and his heart sank, and he hurriedly said to West: "The enemy's ambush may be more than this, we have to retreat quickly!" West nodded in agreement. Then the two of them turned their horses' heads and shouted, "Retreat!" Fall back! ”

The order to retreat came so suddenly that the 200,000-strong army was in turmoil, and then rushed to the north in a crowd with each other.

Yang Peng saw that the enemy army was retreating to the north and increasing the chaos, so he immediately took the lead and killed them, and Ma Jin and others saw this, and hurriedly shouted and rushed up.

The retreating Khitan army saw the Yanyun army rushing up, and they were already a little panicked, but at this moment they were even more panicked, scrambling to ride their horses and gallop wildly, many people were knocked off their horses, and many people and horses lost their front hooves, and as a result, they were all trampled into meat paste by the surging horses' hooves.

Yang Peng took the lead in the middle of the enemy army, and the iron horse lance flew up and down, like a dragon, and the others followed into the middle of the Khitan army to kill, and for a while I saw blood flying all over the sky, and the Khitan soldiers turned over on their backs.

Yang Peng and others chased and killed for more than ten miles in one breath before collecting troops and returning, killing thousands of Khitan troops. After the Khitan army ran out of more than 30 miles, they saw that the Yan Yun army did not chase after them, so they stopped one after another. Immediately, Baster West received a report from the scouts, knowing that the enemy army was actually chasing and killing his army, which was actually less than a thousand horsemen, and he couldn't help but look at each other and be depressed, and then became angry and led the army to make a comeback.

rushed to the foot of Niulan Mountain and found that Yan Yunjun had already disappeared. The two immediately led 200,000 cavalry to the south, and after sunset, they captured Shunzhou bloodlessly, but at this time Shunzhou City had already become an empty city, and the Khitan soldiers did not get anything here, which inevitably diluted the joy of capturing Shunzhou. The Khitan army did not stop here, continued to Nanjing, crossed the Wenyu River before midnight that day, and approached Yanjing Mansion with its troops. 200,000 iron horsemen galloped on the endless grain fields, and the original peaceful atmosphere had long been swept away by the wolf smoke!

The next morning, the rolling waves of 200,000 Khitan soldiers surrounded Yanjing City. The army immediately launched a fierce attack, and waves of attacks hit the city wall fiercely, and the soldiers of the city defense army resisted desperately, and the majestic Yanjing City stood still! However, the situation is not optimistic at all, the city defense army is not as good as the field troops, has never fought with a strong enemy, the combat power is limited, often under the onslaught of the Khitan army, the army is shaken by heavy casualties, and the Khitan army is relying on ten times the strength advantage, attacking from all sides, which makes the already insufficient defenders even more stretched.

After a whole day of fierce fighting, the Khitan army almost broke through the city defense several times, if it weren't for Yang Peng, Ma Jin, Xiao Feng, Ye Yu Guanyin and other pioneers desperately counterattacked, the consequences would really be unimaginable.

The Khitan army stormed for a whole day, but it was unable to break through the city defenses, and the fighting spirit inevitably weakened, and the attack was not as sharp and fierce as before. Seeing this, West felt very sorry and ordered the army to retreat ten miles to the village. The fierce battle came to an end for the time being, and the originally noisy battlefield suddenly quieted down. The weary defenders sat staggered to rest in the pile of corpses, and the city was silent, except for the snorts of the wounded echoing in the night sky from time to time.

Yang Peng patrolled the city wall, and unconsciously came to the west city wall, and saw Ye Yu Guanyin standing behind the battlements in the distance and looking out of the city in a daze. Yang Peng's heart moved, he walked up, turned to look outside the city, sighed, and said softly: "Guanyin, it's really difficult for you!" ”

Ya Yu Guanyin retracted his gaze, glanced at Yang Peng, and said angrily: "Do you think I'm the kind of useless woman who can't face this kind of thing in front of me?" Yang Peng looked at her puzzled. Ye Yu Guanyin said lightly: "Since I have married you, it is your person, it is Yanyun people, it is Han people, to help you fight against foreign enemies, it is natural, I have nothing I can't think of!" What's more, there was no shortage of civil wars between our Khitans back then! Didn't you say that the Khitans and the Han people were both descendants of Yan and Huang? So the war we have now is just a civil war between the descendants of Yan and Huang, and that's nothing! Yang Peng smiled: "If you can think so, I will rest assured!" Ye Yu Guanyin sighed, glanced at Yang Peng, and said faintly: "Who called my man the King of Yan!" Yang Peng smiled softly, stretched out his right hand and held the left hand of Ya Yu Guanyin.

A gentle color flashed in Ya Guanyin's eyes, and then he said jokingly: "It's still a war now, and you, the commander, can't think nonsense." Yang Peng pinched the palm of Ye Yu Guanyin's hand and said with a wicked smile: "What if I have to think nonsense? Ye Yu Guanyin's eyes showed a wild look, and he held Yang Peng's palm with his backhand, and said, "Since you are not afraid of being a commander, what am I afraid of!" Then he dragged Yang Peng and walked under the city wall. Yang Peng was just joking, how could there be such leisure at this time, seeing that Ya Yu Guanyin was really coming, he quickly grabbed her and said with a smile: "I'm really afraid of you, how can I have such interest at this time!" Ye Yu Guanyin glanced at Yang Peng, and said angrily: "If you say it's you, it's you who says you don't, it's really hard for you to serve!" Yang Peng smiled.

Ye Yu Guanyin accompanied Yang Peng to inspect the city wall, and the situation he saw made the two worried, after all, the city defense army is only the city defense army, in the face of this huge pressure in front of them, many people are demoralized and have low morale, not at all like the field army, the stronger the more they fight, the more brave they become.

The two of them came down from the city wall and prepared to return to the palace for a short rest. At this moment, seeing Yang Jiumei leading many subordinates to run towards them, the two stopped. Yang Jiumei and the others rushed to the two of them, saluted together, and then Yang Jiumei said: "Qi Yan Wang, his subordinates have mobilized hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged people in Yanjing City, and these soldiers and horses are currently waiting in various camps. ”

Yang Peng nodded, but he didn't look particularly surprised, because there were hundreds of thousands of young adults, although there were a lot of them, but these people had not undergone any training, and they fought with a moment of blood. It is really difficult to say what role they can play on the battlefield, and they may be able to turn the tide, but it is also possible that they will collapse at the touch of a button and scatter the city defense army, and as a result, they will lose faster! Therefore, Yang Peng had already made up his mind not to use these people's troops as a last resort.

Yang Peng said: "I don't need them for the time being." "It's too dangerous for them to go into battle without any training." Turning his head to Wang Kai, he said: "Pick two hundred secret guards to train them in various military camps, although the time is not enough, but the guns are sharpened in battle, and they are not bright or light!" ”

Wang Kai answered and ran down.

Yang Peng asked Yang Jiumei: "When did you forward the transfer order of the Second and Third Army Corps?" In fact, Yang Peng had already realized that there might be an invasion of the Liao army after receiving the report of the earth movement that day, and Yang Peng passed down an urgent order to order the second and third legions originally stationed in Luanzhou and Yingzhou to immediately rush to the aid of Yanjing, the entire Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, the most important thing is Yanjing, even if the entire Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures all fall, as long as Yanjing is still under control, then the situation is not too bad.

However, from Tianjing New City to Yanjing, and then from Yanjing to Luanzhou and Yinzhou, after all, the road is long and time-consuming, so the second and third armies may have just left the garrison at this moment.

Yang Jiumei listened to Yang Peng's question, bowed down and said, "My subordinates have something to ask King Yan for their guilt!" ……”

Yang Peng looked at Yang Jiumei puzzled. Yang Jiumei continued: "After receiving the report of the collapse of the Gubei Pavilion, the subordinates realized that the Khitan army was very likely to take the opportunity to invade, so they did not wait for the military order of King Yan, and even passed the order of the Left-behind Mansion to Yingzhou and Luanzhou, so that the main force of the Second and Third Army Corps immediately rushed to the aid of Yanjing!" ”

Yang Peng was overjoyed and asked, "That means that you issued orders to Yingzhou and Luanzhou at least two days in advance?" "Exactly. The subordinates did not wait for the military order of King Yan, and they transferred the army beyond their authority without authorization, and the crime was not small, please punish King Yan! "Yang Jiumei is appointed by Yang Peng to stay in Yanjing, the chief officer of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures Civil Affairs, for military affairs, Yang Peng has never given her the right to transfer troops, but he also did not say that she cannot transfer troops, and according to the tradition of this era, the stay in a place is often the local military commander, and has the power to transfer troops.

Yang Peng waved his hand and said, "As a left-behind guard, according to the usual practice, you have the right to mobilize the army, so you issued a big order to the two armies to stay behind, which is not considered overstepping your authority!" Yang Jiumei bowed: "Thank you King Yan for your grace!" ”

Yang Peng frowned and muttered, "What I'm most worried about now is whether the brothers of the two legions will refuse to carry out the orders of the Left-behind Mansion because I have not been explicitly authorized!" Ya Yu Guanyin said: "It is very likely that they refuse to carry out the orders of the Left-behind Mansion is also reasonable. Yang Jiumei frowned and thought, "If that's the case, I'm afraid the two major legions haven't received orders yet!" Then he said to Yang Peng: "The subordinate is the royal military order received by King Yan on the night before he arrived in Yanjing, and he forwarded it at that time!" Yang Peng nodded.

In the prison cell of the government office, Duan Yao and other rebellious scholars who were imprisoned here couldn't help but be shocked when they heard the sound of killing outside. Duan Yao ran to the door and shouted at the jailer who was sitting in the distance: "Official, official! The jailer turned his head and shouted in displeasure, "What are you shouting?" ”

Duan Yao was annoyed when he saw that a small jailer on the other side was so rude to him, but the smile on his face was even brighter. He took out a small piece of broken silver from his bosom, raised it to the jailer, and said, "Xiaosheng has something to ask." ”

When the jailer saw the silver, he immediately got up and walked over. walked outside the cell door and looked at the silver in Duan Yao's hand. Duan Yao immediately stuffed the silver into the jailer's hand. The jailer got the silver, he was in a good mood, put the silver in his arms, and asked with a smile, "What can I do for Duan Gongzi?" He thought that this boy might be tired of eating in prison and wanted to improve the food, and he thought it was not a big deal.

Duan Yao hugged his fists and said, "Xiaosheng, may I ask the jailer, brother, what's going on with the shouting and killing outside?" The jailer sighed and said with a look of resentment: "What else can it be, it's not a Khitan yet!" ......" Duan Yao's heart moved when he heard this, and then a ray of hope appeared in the bottom of his heart. I only heard the jailer continue to say angrily: "Dog's Khitans, fuck! We Yanyun don't go to them for trouble, but they come to us for trouble, it's really boring! This group of ungrateful bastards has forgotten that our Yan Yun supported them in fighting the Japanese back then! There was a hint of fear and worry underneath the angry tone.

Duan Yao asked, "I wonder how many Khitans came?" Can we hold it? The jailer couldn't help but look worried, and said, "I heard that there are 200,000 troops!" However, with King Yan personally in charge, I believe that he can hold it! "When the jailer said the word 'King Yan', he couldn't help but feel refreshed and his confidence increased, and he only felt that with King Yan here, no matter how difficult it was.

Duan Yao didn't know that Yang Peng had already come, and when he suddenly heard the jailer's words, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "King Yan is in Yanjing?" ”

The jailer nodded and said, "That's right! It's only been a long time, and it's been less than two days. Seeing Duan Yao's strange expression, he thought he was thinking about his case, so he comforted: "Since King Yan is here, maybe he will summon Gongzi." If the son has a grievance, just say to the king of Yan, the king of Yan is extremely wise, and I believe that the son can be returned to a fair person! He didn't really think that Duan Yao was innocent, but since he took the other party's money, he had to say something nice, anyway, it didn't cost half a dime to say these things.

Duan Yao sneered in his heart when he heard the jailer say that King Yan could give him justice. He clasped his fists at the jailer and said, "Thank you, brother jailer!" The jailer smiled, "If there is anything else Childe wants to know, just ask." In the words of you readers, I know everything! ”

Duan Yao said: "No, thank you." When the jailer heard this, he turned and departed.

Seeing that the jailer was far away, Duan Yao immediately ran to the fence adjacent to the cell and shouted in a low voice, "Father! Duan Wenrui was curled up on his side on the straw, when he heard Duan Yao's cry, he sat up, looked at Duan Yao, and asked unhappily, "What are you doing?" The tone clearly contained a strong resentment, it turned out that the Duan family was imprisoned for rebellion, and the family property was confiscated, Duan Wenrui blamed all the sins on his son Duan Yao, thinking that it was his delusional rebellion that affected the whole family, so since he was imprisoned, he hated Duan Yao to the core, and regarded him as an enemy!

Duan Yao was very dissatisfied with his father's very hostile tone and attitude, and said secretly: "You blame me now, but you didn't express the slightest objection at the beginning, and many things are still at your disposal!" Suppressing his anger, he asked, "Father, do you hear the voices outside?" Duan Wenrui naturally heard it, and said angrily: "I heard it, what's wrong?" ”

Duan Yao glanced at the jailer in the distance, and lowered his voice: "Father, maybe our chance has come!" When Duan Wenrui heard this, he became interested, and he didn't care about hating him, so he quickly got up and ran to Duan Yao and asked, "What did you say?" Our chance has come? ”

Duan Yao nodded and said, "I just heard that jailer say that the Khitan army's 200,000 soldiers and horses are overwhelming!" Duan Wenrui's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Two hundred thousand?!" Great, great! This Yanjing only has 20,000 city defense troops, and there is no doubt that it will be defeated! Maybe tonight or tomorrow, the Khitan army will be able to attack Yanjing City! ”

Duan Yao nodded approvingly, and said, "It must be because the earth movement has given the Liao State a big opportunity, so the Khitan people will suddenly send troops!" Father, the Khitans suddenly attacked, Yan Yun was defenseless, and I heard that they had already run out of food and grass, so the Khitans would definitely be able to seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in one fell swoop this time! After they seized the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the immediate question was how to manage the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun! If my expectations are correct, they will definitely choose the right person from the locals to manage the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun! ”

Duan Weirui's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Among the sixteen states of Yanyun, who is more suitable to be the master of this Yanyun than our Duan family?" Duan Yao nodded, "What my father said is extremely true!" The Khitans may attack Yanjing at any time, so we have to think of a set of rhetoric first, so as not to be caught off guard when we get it! Duan Weirui nodded approvingly, glanced at Duan Yao, and praised: "Yao'er, you are really resourceful!" Duan Yao smiled proudly.

After Yang Jiumei and Yang Pengye Guanyin separated, they led their subordinates back to the mansion. As soon as he walked into the door, a subordinate behind him said: "My lord, my subordinates don't know whether to say a word or not?" ”

Yang Jiumei stopped and turned around, and when she saw that all the subordinates looked strange, she asked puzzledly, "What's wrong with you?" If you have anything to say, just say it! I saw a middle-aged subordinate and said: "My lord, the 200,000 elites of the Khitan army have surrounded us, and we only have less than 20,000 city defense troops, and although the hundreds of thousands of temporarily mobilized people are large, they have little effect at all!" With our current situation, it is impossible to hold out until the second and third corps come! ......" the other subordinates nodded in agreement.

Yang Jiumei frowned and asked, "What exactly do you want to say?" The middle-aged staff member said: "My subordinates think that it is not beneficial to stick to the current situation at all, and it is just sacrificing human lives in vain!" It's better to give up Yanjing and make all the soldiers and horses retreat to the border of Hebei, so that the danger can be turned into safety! ”

Yang Jiumei glanced at the others and asked, "You think the same way?" Everyone bowed down and said, "We think the same thing." ”

Yang Jiumei said: "King Yan has already made it clear that Yanjing must be defended, and Yanjing must not be lost!" Military orders are like mountains, and when you speak like this, it is clearly disobeying military orders, and you say, what should I do with you? Everyone's hearts sank, and they bowed one after another: "Subordinate, subordinates will never dare to disobey the military order in the slightest, but just say what they think in their hearts for the adults to refer to!" Please be enlightened! Yang Jiumei's expression softened, and she said categorically: "Since King Yan has made up his mind, we must swear to carry it out, otherwise it will be disloyal!" I don't think I heard it, and I don't want to hear anything like that again! Everyone trembled and agreed, wiping the cold sweat from their foreheads.

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