Chapter 498, Beacon Fire,

Trumpets sounded on the city walls, and the soldiers who were originally guarding the city walls quickly withdrew from the city walls. Seeing a Liao general raise a command flag and shout loudly, all the Liao officers and soldiers immediately got busy, loading the artillery with gunpowder and stone shells, and loading the catapult with stones or oil cans. Seeing that his soldiers were ready, the general of the Liao State immediately pointed the order flag forward and shouted: "Release!" I only heard a loud bang, and the Khitan army burst into flames in front of the formation, and at the same time, countless stones and burning oil canisters flew into the sky and flew towards the city wall.

There was a loud crackling sound, and the cannonballs slammed into the city walls, and the stones flew wildly, and the sky shook, and one of the cannonballs hit a corner of the city gatehouse, and that corner collapsed in an instant. Before the loud noise caused by the cannonballs had passed, the stones and the canisters rained down again, and the bombardment of the stones was gone, but the canisters were so powerful that they ignited in an instant as soon as they landed on the city walls.

There were loud noises on the city wall, and the soldiers of the Yanyun army were hiding at the base of the wall, waiting quietly; And the people in the city heard the constant loud noise from the city wall, and their hearts could not help but tremble and panic; However, the students who were locked up in the cell were all restless and excited, as if they had been drugged.

Catapults and artillery bombarded the city, and the city of Tiger was watching closely, looking for where the walls were weaker. He noticed that there were more fine lines on one of the walls on the left, and although those fine lines were not enough to threaten the safety of the entire wall, they clearly indicated that the wall was fragile. Yeron Tiger immediately ordered the catapults to stop the bombardment, ordered all artillery to concentrate their fire on that wall, and ordered 30,000 assault troops to storm from other positions.

The long-range attack of the Khitan army suddenly stopped, and the original rumbling sound gradually stopped, and at the same time, the 30,000 Khitan troops were divided into three teams and surging towards the three selected city walls. The sentry in charge of watching the enemy's situation immediately waved a signal flag towards the city, and more than 10,000 Yanyun troops who were waiting under the wall immediately ran up the city wall along many city wall ladders, and looked out of the city, only to see that the enemy tide was approaching, and the sound of rolling thunder echoed in his ears.

"Three-bow bed crossbow ready, bow crossbow ready, rolling stone sassal ready!" With Li Xu's shouting, all the soldiers were busy, and the three-bow bed crossbow was wound with arrows, and the strong crossbow was wound with arrows.

Li Xu saw that the enemy army was only more than 100 steps away from the city wall, and shouted loudly: "Three-bow bed crossbow shooting!" More than 100 three-bow bed crossbows were immediately launched, huge guns and arrows roared out from the city wall, fell into the enemy bushes one after another, and crashed into many enemies, and then, violent explosions came one after another, a cloud of fireworks rose from the enemy bushes, and the stumps of the human body were lifted into the sky, and the Khitan army's charging momentum was paused, and then it surged towards the city wall more quickly. Boom, boom, boom, boom......! An earth-shattering loud noise suddenly came, almost at the same time, stone chips flew on a city wall on the right side of the city gate tower, the ground shook the mountain, and the Yan Yun soldiers standing on this city wall stood unsteadily and staggered, and a few were shocked to fall from the city wall, but fortunately, there were not many Yan Yun troops on the city wall in this place, and the loss was not large.

The Khitan artillery fire came down in a round of concentrated fire, and the city wall was peeled off and many walls came down, and then the second round of concentrated fire came again, only to see that the wall bricks kept falling, and the fine lines on the wall were expanding. At the same time, the Khitan army that had assaulted the city wall had rushed to the moat, and then covered it with shields, and at the same time began to fill the moat with earth; Strong arrow rain fell on the city wall from time to time, although the Khitan army prepared a large number of shields, but still people were shot down by the moat, some even rolled into the river, only a moment of work, the moat was piled up a lot of corpses, the moat also rose and fell on the float on many corpses, the Khitan people's river reclamation work was greatly restricted, but never stopped.

At this moment, the Khitan people's arrow tower was slowly approaching the city wall, condescending, shooting arrows at the city wall, and many Yanyun troops fell to the ground in the middle. Yan Yun's strong crossbow immediately turned to attack the enemy's arrow tower, but the strong arrow rain flew over, but most of them hit the baffle of the arrow tower, and did not cause much damage to the Khitan soldiers on it. Another rain of arrows flew down from the arrow tower, and many more Yan Yun soldiers fell down from the arrows.

Li Xu shouted: "All three-bow bed crossbows, aim at the enemy's arrow tower!" ”

The three-bow bed crossbows adjusted their firing angles one after another, and in the process, the Khitan crossbowmen on the arrow tower fired arrows at the city wall without interruption. The three-bow bed crossbow was aimed at the arrow tower, and they were fired one after another, and the huge spears and arrows flew towards the Khitan army arrow tower with a scream! The loud bang rang out, many guns and arrows were nailed to the arrow tower, the Khitan soldiers on the arrow tower only felt a vibration under their feet, and they looked down, and they saw that the guns and arrows were tied to the gunpowder bag, and the lead was burning with sneer, and they were all frightened and screamed. At this moment, the firelight flickered, and the violent explosion instantly deafened the ears; Clusters of flames bloomed in mid-air, and the arrow towers were blown apart and collapsed, and the Khitan soldiers on the arrow towers fell from the sky like raindrops, and the screams of surprise and screams rang out.

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The fierce siege lasted a whole day before it ended, and the Khitan army spent a day filling up three moats and blasting one wall to the ground with heavy artillery fire.

Ya Hu Cheng sat in the big tent and looked at the map, his face thoughtful. At this moment, a loud killing sound suddenly came from outside. Yelu Hucheng raised his head, frowned, and immediately got up and left the big tent. Looking in the direction where the sound of killing came, I saw the fire shining in the direction of the back camp where the grain and grass were hoarded, and the figures were longing, as if countless people were fighting. Tiger City smiled slightly, looking like he had everything under control.

Immediately, a general rode his horse to the front, reined in his horse, turned over and came down to report: "King Qiqi, the enemy has really come to attack the camp, it has been surrounded by our army, and now it is in the midst of destroying the enemy!" Ye Hu Cheng nodded and said, "Very good! How many people are coming from the enemy? The general said, "About two thousand people." Ye Hu Cheng frowned, and said angrily: "Just two thousand people want to attack the camp? It's just looking for death! Yang Peng also underestimated me, the protector of the Great Liao Kingdom! Then he said to the general: "Tell Long Ba that you must destroy this enemy!" The general answered, turned on his horse, turned his horse's head, and galloped away.

Ye Hu Cheng smiled coldly and said angrily: "Yang Peng, you are too arrogant!" Immediately fled in the direction of the rear camp, still the scene of the figure longing for the glittering fire, and the sound of fierce fighting was constantly coming.

Yelang Tiger City suddenly felt the ground under his feet seem to tremble, and he couldn't help but be stunned. Immediately, the tremor became more pronounced, and the roar of rolling thunder was heard in my ears. Yelu Hucheng reacted suddenly, suddenly turned around and looked towards the gate, and saw countless huge war horses in black clothes and black armor gushing out of the darkness outside the gate, and couldn't help but be shocked, and couldn't help but shout; "Xuanjia Army!" The Xuanjia Army, Yanyun's most elite troops, the two thousand Xuanjia Army arrived in Yanjing shortly after Yang Peng arrived in Yanjing, and they had not been used before, just to achieve a surprise effect at the most critical time.

The Xuanjia Army's war horse, which rushed to the front, led a few logs with sharpened heads, and was violently thrown towards the closed gate at the speed of the warhorse's high-speed gallop. I saw a few logs crashing into the gate one after another, and the closed gate suddenly opened, and then two thousand Xuanjia war horsemen rushed into the gate under the leadership of Chen Xiao and Yang Zaixing, and rushed straight towards the handsome tent of Yeyu Tiger City. The Khitan soldiers reacted and hurriedly came to resist, but once the Xuanjia army charged, it was unstoppable, and the Khitan infantry fell in front of the Xuanjia war cavalry like harvested wheat.

Yang Peng rushed to the front of Yehu Hucheng first, and stabbed straight into Yehu Hucheng's chest like a poisonous dragon in his hand. Ye Hu Cheng shouted, brandished his mace to block the attacking horse lance, and then shouted back with a bang, and Yang Peng avoided it sideways.

At this moment, hundreds of thousands of Yelu Tiger City's personal soldiers rushed up, Yang Peng successively picked and killed several pro-soldiers, Yelu Hucheng rode his horse and rushed up, and smashed Yang Peng with a stick, Yang Peng raised the iron horse lance, and the mace smashed heavily on the iron gun, and there was a loud bang, which shocked Yang Peng's whole person trembling, and the power was really not small. Yang Peng's eyes showed excitement, and he pushed away the opponent's mace, and then moved his hands with a lance, and picked it up from the bottom to the top towards Yelu Tiger City, and Yelang Hucheng swung his stick away, and so on for several rounds of fighting, the two sides still didn't know the winner.

At the same time, the Xuanjia Army has killed the personal soldiers of Yehu Tiger City to the point of corpses and blood flying back again and again, these personal soldiers of Yehu Tiger City are also ruthless characters who are not afraid of death, in such an unfavorable situation, they did not flee for their lives, and are still fighting desperately, but their combat power is far inferior to the Xuanjia Army after all, and under the ruthless killing of the Xuanjia Army, they have fallen in a pool of blood.

On the other side, Yang Peng and Ye Hu Cheng have been fighting for more than 30 rounds, Yang Peng is a little anxious and anxious, but Ye Hu Cheng is getting braver and braver, the battle between the two is very fierce, the fight is difficult to solve, the stick is going back and forth, and it is very dangerous.

At this time, the surrounding Khitan soldiers had discovered the critical situation of the commander, and were quickly rushing towards this side, with the light of torches in all directions, and the figures under the firelight were longing and endless.

Yang Peng attacked several moves one after another, and in a hurry, he only attacked but did not defend, and the moves were all ruthless moves that fought for his life, but although Ye Hu City was attacked in a hurry, he was all able to resist without danger. Yang Peng suddenly turned his horse's head and ran towards the gate, shouting at the same time: "Retreat!" The two thousand Xuanjia troops immediately broke away from the battle and rushed towards the gate.

Seeing that his army was arriving, the attack and defense were changing, where would he let Yang Peng, the king of Yan, go like this! immediately shouted: "Don't let Yang Peng go, chase me!" Shouting, he chased Yang Peng first, followed by all the relatives and soldiers, and the surrounding soldiers also followed.

Yang Peng and others were about to run out of the gate, Ye Yu Hucheng was very anxious, and subconsciously urged the war horse, what he thought was that as long as he entangled Yang Peng, then thousands of troops and horses would surround him, and he Yang Peng would be unable to escape!

At this moment, I suddenly saw Yang Pengle turn the war horse, and the war horse neighed and stood up, and almost at the same time, I saw Yang Peng bending his bow and aiming an arrow at him. Ye Hu Cheng suddenly thought of Yang Peng's terrifying archery skills, and was shocked, and hurriedly pulled the reins of the horse, and the war horse neighed and stood up. At this moment, he heard an extremely sharp sound of breaking the air, and Ye Hu Cheng's heart sank, and then he felt a tingling pain in his left chest, and he couldn't help but snort, and the strength in his body disappeared in an instant, and his huge body fell off the horse on his back with a mace.

The surrounding Khitan soldiers were shocked, some of them shouted and ran towards Yeyu Tiger City, and more of them howled and rushed towards Yang Peng and them. Yang Peng saw the arrow fall in Ye Yu Tiger City, his heart was overjoyed, and he saw the enemy army rushing up like a tide, knowing that if he didn't leave, he would not be able to get out, so he immediately turned his horse's head and led the Xuanjia army to run out of the gate and leave.

The Khitan army saw that they couldn't catch up, so they didn't chase anymore. At this time, there was chaos in the camp, and the generals and personal soldiers of the Khitan army were trying to save Yeyu Tiger City.

Yang Peng led the Yanyun army into the city gate, Ye Yu Guanyin and Li Xu immediately came to greet them, they all looked relieved, Ye Yu Guanyin said angrily: "As the commander-in-chief, you actually went to attack the camp, it's too chaotic!" Yang Peng smiled and said, "Big brother is wrong." Ye Yu Guanyin glanced at Yang Peng and said, "I said it wrong today, you will do it again next time!" Yang Peng smiled, turned over and dismounted, and ordered the Xuanjia army to go down to rest, at this time Wang Kai came up and led Yang Peng's black dragon horse down.

Yang Peng, Ye Yu Guanyin, and Li Xu walked side by side on the city wall, looking out of the city, only to see the fire in the Khitan army camp in the distance, as if it was daytime, and the chaotic shouts were faintly heard. Yang Peng frowned slightly and said, "I don't know if this arrow killed him?" "With the power of the cloud-piercing bow, at that distance, it is right in the chest, generally speaking, no one can be spared, but the situation was a little different at that time, the powerful arrow shot by the cloud-piercing bow was shot through the abdomen of the war horse first, and then shot into the chest of Yelu Hucheng, and Yelu Hucheng, as a general of the Liao State, was wearing heavy armor with excellent defensive power, and after the arrow was shot through the war horse, the power had been greatly weakened, and it was difficult to say whether it could cause fatal damage to Yelu Hucheng wearing heavy armor again!

Li Xu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Yang Peng's words, and hurriedly asked, "Big brother, do you mean Yeyu Tiger City?" Yang Peng nodded, looked at the Khitan army camp and said, "I shot him with an arrow, right in the chest, but I don't know if I shot him!" Li Xu said excitedly: "The eldest brother's cloud-piercing bow is extremely powerful, he must have shot him to death!" Great, as soon as the enemy chieftain is gone, the enemy will be leaderless, and it will be a chaotic situation, and it will be difficult to form an effective offensive in a short time! Ya Yu Guanyin looked at the Khitan army camp in the distance, frowning, and his eyes showed worry and sadness.

Yang Peng saw Ye Yu Guanyin's expression, and he didn't know what to say, but he felt that this matter was really helpless. Suddenly remembered something and asked, "Ma Jin, are they back?" ”

Ya Yu Guanyin shook his head and said, "Not yet." Yang Peng frowned and said, "No, I'm going to pick them up!" With that, he turned to leave. Ye Yu Guanyin grabbed Yang Peng with a horse, pointed to the outside of the city and said, "Look, it should be them!" ”

Yang Peng turned around and looked outside the city, only to see more than a dozen horsemen galloping towards him, and when he got closer, he could see clearly, it was indeed Ma Jin. Yang Peng couldn't help but be happy, and then frowned.

The city gate opened, Ma Jin and others ran into the city gate, and then Ma Jin and others ran up the city wall and came to Yang Peng, and bowed: "I've seen King Yan, I've seen the princess!" ”

Yang Peng saw that Ma Jin and the others were covered in blood and scarred, so he couldn't help sighing, stepped forward to help Ma Jin, and said to the others: "Get up." The crowd stood up. Yang Peng looked at Ma Jin, who looked resolute, patted Ma Jin's shoulder heavily, and said, "Hard work!" Ma Jin shook his head and said, "The last general is nothing, it's just a pity that those two thousand soldiers!" Yang Peng turned to look at the Khitan army camp outside the city and said, "Without their sacrifices, our two thousand Xuanjia war cavalry would not have been able to break into the main camp of the Khitan army!" Their sacrifice was not in vain! The crowd nodded.

Earlier today, Yang Peng and Ya Yu Guanyin and others discussed the strategy of breaking the enemy, Li Xu proposed to attack the camp at night, he thought that the enemy's strong army would inevitably think that his side would not dare to fight, and the raid on the camp would definitely catch them by surprise. Ma Jin, Zhan Jinguo and others agreed, but Ye Yu Guanyin said: "Big brother Ye Yu Hucheng is a battlefield general, although he is a little reckless, but he is very experienced, and his strategy is not simple, it is impossible not to guard against our sneak attack, and he will definitely be prepared!" As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't help but be a little discouraged, but in the face of the current extremely unfavorable situation, sitting still is obviously not the way to stick to it, as the saying goes, 'long hold will lose', must surprise the army to win, so Yang Peng after careful consideration, decided to attack the enemy camp at night, but the plan was slightly modified, and the two thousand elite infantry troops of the Second Army led by Ma Jin sneaked into the rear camp of the enemy army hoarding grain and grass.

At the same time, Yang Peng personally commanded the Xuanjia Army to ambush outside the main camp. The elite of the 2,000 infantry army attacked first, and if the enemy army was unprepared, they burned their grain and grass in one fell swoop, then the Khitan army would not want to retreat. On the contrary, if the enemy army is prepared, these two thousand foot soldiers will certainly fall into a heavy siege, but the attention of the enemy army will inevitably be attracted to it, then Yang Peng's side will have a chance to break the camp in one fell swoop! The development of things is really like this, although the two thousand foot soldiers in the rear camp of the raid were ambushed, but they attracted the attention of the enemy, creating favorable conditions for Yang Peng Zhanjin to lead the Xuanjia army to break the camp in one fell swoop. However, the current question is, is Yeron Tiger City dead? ……

The people in the camps of the Khitan army were panicked, and there were rumors that Yeyu Hucheng had been seriously injured and killed, and the commander was dead, so everyone was naturally at a loss for what to do.

The main generals came to the big tent one after another, and Long Ba, who had just wiped out the sneak attack on the Yanyun army, also hurried to the big tent, looking anxious and infinite. When he opened the curtain, he didn't see the imaginary mourning hall and the corpse of Yehu Hucheng lying in the middle, but he saw Yehu Hucheng actually sitting on the marching collapse, drinking medicine, and the generals and an old medical officer were standing on the edge of the bed. Long Ba was surprised, and then he was overjoyed, stepped forward, and said excitedly: "King, you, you didn't ......!" The last general, the last general thought it was ......" and then said angrily: "Which bastard is spreading rumors, and the last general is going to arrest him and break his body into pieces!" ”

After Ye Hu Cheng finished drinking, he handed the medicine bowl to the old doctor, who took the empty bowl and bowed down and admonished: "Although the king has no worries about his life, he is also not lightly injured, and he must recuperate well, and he must not act rashly!" Ye Hu Cheng said impatiently: "You are really verbose! I've said this more than once! The old doctor said: "No matter how unhappy the king is, the slave must be constantly reminded!" If the king's body has three long and two short, the villain can't afford it! Ye Hu Cheng said: "Okay, okay, I know what you said, go down." The old doctor saluted again and retreated.

Ye Hu Cheng glanced at Long Ba and smiled happily: "If it weren't for the fact that this king was born different from ordinary people, I would be dead by now!" "It turns out that the heart of Ye Hu Cheng is different from the position of ordinary people, ordinary people are on the left, but he is on the right, so although Yang Peng's arrow hit his left heart, it did not hurt his heart, but even so, Ye Hu Cheng was hit by an arrow in the chest, and the injury was not light, and it was not a pretense to faint on the spot last night. Although Yelu Tiger City has no worries about his life, it is impossible to recover in a short period of time, and it is even more impossible to go to war.

The generals also felt very happy when they heard the words of Ye Yu Hucheng, and couldn't help but think that if the king's heart was on the left side like ordinary people, it would really be unimaginable, this is really providence.

Ye Yu Hucheng said with palpitations: "King Yan is brave and unparalleled, I am not his opponent!" The generals recalled the scene last night when Yang Peng and Zhan Jinguo led the Xuanjia Army to break through the camp and enter the invincible direction, and they couldn't help but feel palpitations.

Ya Yu Hucheng looked at Ryupachi and asked, "Did you catch any prisoners?" Long Ba said angrily: "Yan Yunjun is stubborn, although he is in a desperate situation, he does not surrender, and he has committed suicide!" Yelu Hucheng frowned and asked, "In other words, you didn't catch a single captive?" Ryuba nodded ashamedly. Yehu Hucheng bowed his head and was silent for a moment, then said to the generals, "Do you know why I deliberately spread the news that I am dead? The generals were greatly surprised and looked at each other, and they did not know until this moment that the news that King Gao had died had been spread in the camps was actually deliberately spread by King Gao.

Long Ba asked puzzledly, "Why does the king spread this, such unlucky words?" His question was also the question of the generals, and they all looked at Yelu Tiger City.

Ye Hu Cheng frowned and said: "Yang Peng is extremely brave and cunning like a fox, if he doesn't use some means, even if he breaks through Yanjing City, our army will suffer heavy losses." Yesterday's incident, I can just give Yang Peng a trick to death. When all the generals heard this, they all understood, and they couldn't help but sincerely admire Ye Hu City.

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