Yang Peng asked the scout: "Where are General Liu Xi's troops?" ”

The scout reported: "General Liu's army has passed Yongchuan and is advancing towards Gongzhou. "Gongzhou is now Chongqing City, and Yongchuan is Yongchuan County, which is now a hundred miles west of Chongqing.

Yang Peng said to Wang Kai: "Take out the map." Wang Kai promised, beckoned a few personal soldiers to take out the map, and unfolded the map in front of Yang Peng. Zhan Jinguo and Yuan Jue came to Yang Peng's side and looked at the map together. Yuan Jue, deputy commander of the Ninth Army and cavalry commander, friends who have read the previous article should know him, he is a fierce general under the command of the Yuan Ming Sect, since Fang Jinzhi defected to Yan Yun, Yuan Jue and many other strong generals under the command of the Yuan Ming Sect joined the Yan Yun Army, and made countless contributions to the Yan Yun Army.

Yang Peng looked at the map for a moment, frowned slightly, and muttered: "Cao Yong broke through Fuzhou, and the army advanced along the Minjiang River, which is also too unexpected!" ”

Zhan Jinguo and Yuan Jue didn't understand what Yang Peng meant, and glanced at each other.

Yang Peng pondered for a moment, his gaze left Gongzhou, and moved in a larger area. After a while, he raised his head and asked the scout: "General Liu Xi or the enemy army, who is closer to Gongzhou?" The scout reported: "The two sides are about the same distance from Gongzhou, and it's hard to say who is closer!" Yang Peng turned around and walked to Shuai Press, took out an arrow and threw it to the scout, and ordered: "Immediately send an order to Liu Xi, be sure to capture Gongzhou before the enemy!" After capturing Gongzhou, defend on the spot, don't attack rashly! If the enemy has already taken Gongzhou first, the army will immediately retreat into Yongchuan and Jiangjin to stop the enemy from continuing to advance westward, and it is also not possible to engage the enemy rashly! The scout clenched his fists and retreated.

Zhan Jinguo couldn't help but ask, "Big brother, why don't you let General Liu Xi fight the enemy army?" Yuan Jue also looked puzzled.

Yang Peng said: "Liu Xi is not Cao Yong's opponent, it's better to let him be careful." Zhan Jinguo and Yuan Jue both felt that Yang Peng was right, and couldn't help but nodded. Yuan Jue said: "Defeating Cao Yong depends on King Yan and us!" Yang Peng said: "We don't go to Gongzhou." The two generals were surprised.

The Hanzhong army and the Song army led by Liu Xi both rushed towards Gongzhou, and the two armies marched through the lofty mountains and mountains, like two giant dragons advancing, and the rumbling sound echoed between the steep mountains and rivers. Yu Qing, the prefect of Gongzhou, learned the news that the two armies were rushing towards his Gongzhou, and he couldn't help but be at a loss, and he didn't know what to do! Thinking about it, he felt that it was not right to go to either side, so he simply opened the city gate and called on the people to flee to the nearby mountains for temporary refuge. Yu Qing himself also abandoned the government with his family and official seal and fled from Gongzhou.

A day later, when the two armies approached Gongzhou, they saw that the gate of Gongzhou was open, and the streets were in a mess and silent, as if it had become an empty city.

Immediately, the scouts on both sides detected the news that the other party was also approaching Gongzhou, and the leading generals of the two sides felt that the situation was urgent, and hurriedly ordered the strikers to enter the city! Thousands of forwards on each side poured into the city from the east and west gates, met on the streets, and a great battle was immediately staged. The originally silent city suddenly became noisy, only to see the soldiers and generals fighting, flesh and blood flying, arrows and rain flying in the sky, the two sides fought inseparably, and no one could help anyone for a while!

Immediately, the armies of both sides also entered the city, and melee battles began in the streets and alleys, roars and screams one after another, killing corpses in the streets and alleys, and blood all over the ditches! For a while, the Song army attacked the Yanyun army array, and for a while, the Yanyun army swept the Song army, you come and go, swords and arrows rain, blood and water flying, and the fight is inseparable!

The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, and seeing that the sun was setting, Liu Xi's subordinate general Li Tai led an elite army from outside the northern city to the side of the Song army and suddenly attacked fiercely. The Song army was caught off guard, and the flanks were shaken. Xue Tongshan saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly retreated. Yan Yunjun expelled the Song army from the city, and then closed the city gates on all sides. Although the Song army retreated, they camped in the mountains outside the city and confronted Gongzhou.

Liu Xi won a game, was very excited, and said to the generals: "Rest for one night tonight, go out of the city early tomorrow morning, and wipe out the enemy army in one fell swoop!" ”

General Zhou Xu hurriedly said: "General, King Yan's order is for us to stick to Gongzhou, not to fight without authorization, if we go to war without authorization, I am afraid that the military law will be ruthless!" ”

Liu Xi said angrily: "How can I not know about the Yan Wangjun order? However, the general will not be affected by the life of the foreign monarch, the fighter plane is in front of us, how can we miss it, King Yan will not blame us! I have decided that tomorrow morning, the army will go out of the city to sweep the enemy army, and I must succeed in one fell swoop! "The people will make a promise together.

At the same time, Yang Peng, Zhan Jinguo, and Yuan Jue led 7,000 cavalry to march hard in the lofty mountains, and in such terrain, the advantage of cavalry was not too great.

Seven thousand men and horses marched through the mountains all night, and in the early hours of the morning, the army walked out of the mountains and into a flat basin. Yang Peng saw that the soldiers and war horses were very tired, so he ordered: "Rest on the spot for two hours!" The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, turned over and dismounted, some fed the horses, some took out dry food and water to eat and drink, and some dragged the reins of the horses to lie down on the ground, and after only a moment, they snored like thunder.

Yang Peng asked Wang Kai and a few secret guards to unfold the map, and the two hidden killers lit two torches and stood on the left and right sides of the map. Yang Peng pointed to a location on the map, looked at the surrounding terrain again, and said, "We should be in the Red Willow Valley now." Zhan Jinguo and Yuan Jue nodded. Yang Peng asked Yuan Jue, "Is the scout back?" Yuan Jue shook his head and said, "Not yet." Yang Peng frowned slightly, motioned to Wang Kai to put away the map, and said to the two generals: "You guys hurry up and rest, you will be on your way again at dawn!" The two generals hugged their fists together and said: "Please eldest brother (Yan Wang) rest, we are responsible for vigilance!" ”

The next morning, the army continued on its way. By ten o'clock at noon, there was still no report from the scouts, and Yang Peng was still calm, but Yuan Jue and Zhan Jinguo were a little anxious. Yuan Jue couldn't help but say, "King Yan, did we make a mistake?" Although Yang Peng's expression was not moving, he was actually a little worried in his heart: if he made a mistake in judgment, Liu Xi's side would be in danger! If Liu Xi's army is defeated, the matter will be serious!

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard behind him. The crowd turned to look, and saw a herald galloping on horseback. Zhan Jin Guo said: "It must be a battle report from Liu Xi's side!" The herald rode his horse to Yang Peng, reined in the horse suddenly, turned over and dismounted, knelt down and said, "King Qiyan, there is an urgent military situation!" Then he untied the bamboo tube on his back and held it high with both hands. Wang Kai took the bamboo tube and handed it to Chen Xiao.

Yang Peng picked up the bamboo tube, quickly picked up the seal, unscrewed the cover, and poured out a letter. handed the bamboo tube to Zhan Jinguo next to him, opened the letter, took out the letter, unfolded it and read it, with Yang Peng's concentration, he couldn't help but change his face slightly, but he regained his calm in a blink of an eye. Yang Peng put away the letter, instructed Wang Kai to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then turned over and dismounted. Wang Kai quickly prepared pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and Yang Peng wrote a letter, put it in an envelope, handed it to Wang Kai, and instructed: "Seal it." Wang Kai immediately ordered someone to bring the cement and the bamboo tube, put the letter into the bamboo tube, screw the lid, and then press the sealing mud, and after all this, the bamboo tube was handed over to Yang Peng.

Yang Peng handed the bamboo tube to the herald and said, "Pass it to Liu Xi immediately!" The herald answered, took the bamboo tube with both hands, retreated to his horse, carried the bamboo tube on his back, turned on the horse, turned the horse's head, and galloped away.

Yang Peng ordered the army to rest for a while, and then walked with Zhan Jin and Yuan Jue to a large camphor tree. Yang Peng said: "The military report I just received said that Liu Xi rashly went out of the city to attack, but was ambushed by the Song army, and the losses were not small, and the Song army almost captured Gongzhou. ”

Zhan Jinguo and Yuan Jue were taken aback, and Zhan Jinguo couldn't help but scold: "How did he do it?" Didn't the eldest brother make him not rush to fight, why did he rush to fight? Yang Peng shook his head and said, "You can't blame him for this!" I just gave a general order, and I didn't strictly order him not to fight, and he made a judgment based on what he saw, and then acted, which is also the quality of a general! It's just that the opponent's skills are superior! ”

Yuan Jue frowned and said: "The opponent is so cunning, is our judgment really wrong, Cao Yong did not want to attack Chengdu directly from the direction of Hezhou with a surprise army, but attacked along the Min River with all his troops?" ”

Yang Peng pondered: "I also have this suspicion!" ”

At about the same time, the elite of the 30,000 Song army led by Cao Yong suddenly appeared outside the city of Hezhou, as if a divine soldier had descended from the sky. The Hezhou officials were shocked, did not dare to resist, and hurriedly opened the city and surrendered. Cao Yong immediately left 3,000 men and horses to garrison Hezhou, and he led the main force to continue to enter Chengdu at the same time.

The general who Cao Yong stayed to garrison Hezhou was named Sun Qi, and he was a talented general under Cao Yong, and it was because of this that he was left by Cao Yong to guard the key node on the retreat of Hezhou. Sun Qi stayed in Hezhou, made a list of Anmin, Yu Minqiu did not commit any crimes, and frequently invited local scholars to help stabilize the situation, and the local people had a very good impression of Sun Qi, and some scholars also wrote poems to praise Sun Qi and Cao Yong.

That night, Sun Qi was discussing with his generals, when suddenly the herald came, and reported excitedly: "General Qiyu, the general has conquered Puzhou!" "Between Chengdu and Hezhou, there are Jianzhou and Puzhou, from Chengdu to Jianzhou, from Jianzhou to Puzhou, from Puzhou to Hezhou, the distance is comparable, the four cities are almost on the same line, Cao Yong conquered Puzhou, and it is closer to Chengdu.

When Sun Qi heard that Puzhou had been captured, he was very excited, and said, "The general's clever plan caught Yan Yunjun off guard!" I believe that the general will be able to break through Chengdu in one fell swoop! All the generals also excitedly agreed. Sun Qi glanced at the generals and said, "The Yanyun army will learn the news soon, and then divide the troops to capture Hezhou, you must be careful to defend, and you must not be negligent!" All the generals agreed in unison.

After Cao Yong led his army to break through Puzhou, he captured the prefect of Puzhou, beheaded his entire family on the charge of rebellion, and then left 3,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Puzhou, and he led the main force to continue to march towards Jianzhou.

When the news that Cao Yong was approaching Chengdu reached Chengdu, the whole city immediately boiled, and the civilians who had just received the land from Yan Yunjun were nervous, while the squires of the scholar clan seemed to have taken a dose of strength, and they all became excited. Many gentry of the scholar clan secretly connected with each other, intending to contact Cao Yong, and cooperate with each other to help Cao Yong liberate Chengdu from the Yan Yun army.

The atmosphere in the restaurant teahouse was completely different from before, and it became a little depressing and tense. The drinkers standing by the window suddenly stood up one after another, pointing and talking outside, and the other drinkers also rushed over curiously. I saw an army of Yanyun driving out of the city along the street outside the restaurant.

One of the drinkers asked curiously, "Where are they going?" A middle-aged man who looked like a businessman said: "I heard that the Song army led by Cao Yong has broken through Puzhou, and Jianzhou can't be saved, General Huyan Bixian led the army to meet the battle!" ”

A farmer-like drinker said worriedly: "I don't know if General Huyan Bixian can resist it!" A young man in a Confucian shirt next to him smiled mockingly, and said in a weird manner: "General Cao Yong has been like a bamboo all the way, and he has approached Chengdu in such a short time, how can Hu Yan Bixian resist him?" I see, this is enough to choke! When the drinkers heard this, they were really happy and sad! In this way, this situation spread throughout Chengdu, and many people who had just obtained the title deed from Yan Yunjun quietly returned the title deed to the Shi squire, and the Shi squire was imposing, although the Song army had not yet entered Chengdu, but their words and deeds had begun to become arrogant!

Cao Yong led the army to march to the city of Jianzhou, and the prefect of Jianzhou immediately opened the city to greet him. Cao Yong's army rested in Jianzhou for a while, and then immediately marched towards Chengdu. Two days later, the 24,000 elites led by Cao Yong encountered Lingquan County between Chengdu and Jianzhou, and a major battle broke out between the two sides.

Cao Yong took the lead and led the elite to storm the Yanyun army front, this was the first time Cao Yong really faced the main army of Yanyun, the Song army soldiers were like raging waves, like a storm, wave after wave rushed to the Yanyun army defense line! However, the defense line of the Yanyun army was as immovable as a rock, and every charge of the Song army seemed to be able to push the mountains and fill the ravines, but every time it was smashed in front of the front of the Yanyun army's front!

Cao Yong couldn't help frowning when he saw that his soldiers had never been able to break through the defense line of the Yanyun army, but had suffered a lot of losses. At this moment, the war drums on the opposite side suddenly rumbled loudly. Cao Yong was startled, and saw the opponent's frontal line open, and under the cover of a strong rain of arrows, the enemy army wearing heavy armor and holding a long knife like an iron tower crashed into his own army head-on, roaring and dancing the knife as if killing a god, and the flesh and blood in his own army flew sideways! However, the soldiers of the Song army were not afraid, and still attacked like crazy, but they failed to stop the other party's advance, those terrible iron tower soldiers stepped on the bloody corpses, killing one step at a time, although the soldiers of the Song army were out of the way of life and death, they couldn't resist at all, and fell in a pool of blood!

Seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Cao Yong immediately handed over the command to the deputy general, and he personally commanded five hundred elites, left the brigade, and rushed to the flank of the Yanyun army in the oblique stab. At this time, the Yanyun army was caught off guard, and the large array of the Chinese army was shaken. At the last moment, Huyan Bixian personally and handsome elite counterattacked, and the two sides fought bloodily, like two groups of fierce beasts sacrificing their lives to fight, and the soldiers on both sides fell in a pool of blood in the flesh and blood! The soldiers of the Yanyun Army are certainly very brave, and the soldiers of the Song Army are also extremely sharp!

The two sides fought a bloody battle for more than two quarters, and the Song army finally had to retreat due to insufficient troops. Cao Yong was stabbed twice and shot once, and his armor was already stained red with blood, but he didn't feel anything.

Cao Yong looked at the frontal battlefield and saw that although his soldiers were still fighting desperately, they couldn't resist the opponent's Modao army, and the entire army was about to collapse! Cao Yong frowned, knowing that there was no way to do it, he couldn't help but sigh, and decisively ordered the dead to retreat.

The main force of the Song army broke away from the battle, but hundreds of dead soldiers rushed towards the Yanyun army like hundreds of fierce tigers! The Yan Yun army has no time to pursue the enemy army and kill the opponent's dead soldiers with all their might! The scene was full of flesh and blood, and the battle was extremely tragic! Half an hour later, all the five hundred dead soldiers were killed, and Yan Yun Xiaorui actually paid the price of more than three hundred dead!

Soldiers Yan Yun looked at the dead soldiers of the Song Army who fought to the death and unyielding the blood-stained battlefield, and was full of admiration, and couldn't help but give them a military salute. Immediately, Huyan Bixian led his army to pursue the enemy.

Cao Yong led the soldiers and horses to retreat for more than ten miles, relying on the terrain to line up, and fought another big battle with the Yanyun army. Cao Yong knew that he could not defeat the Yanyun army in front of him, so he gave up his original plan and led the army to retreat sharply, while constantly sending small troops to intercept the pursuing Yanyun army.

When the good news came into Chengdu, the people who were originally worried couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and their smiles opened, and many people couldn't help but set off firecrackers, and Chengdu City suddenly became as lively as the New Year. However, those scholars and squires who were looking forward to the arrival of the Song army were as if they had heard a thunderbolt from the sky, their faces turned pale, and many people couldn't help but scold Cao Yonglai.

Cao Yong led the army all the way back and retreated to the city of Jianzhou, where the prefect of Jianzhou had learned the news of Cao Yong's defeat, so the city gate was closed tightly and Cao Yong was not allowed to enter the city. Cao Yong did not have time to teach this capricious villain a lesson, and immediately bypassed Jianzhou and retreated to Puzhou. It was already midnight when we retreated into Puzhou City.

Cao Yong and others sat in the lobby of the Puzhou Mansion, and a bonfire was lit in the middle of the hall, and the firelight reflected everyone's faces, looking gloomy, and the atmosphere in the hall was very depressing. Cao Yong sighed and said with emotion: "It's a failure, it's a failure!" Yan Yunjun really deserves his reputation! ”

One of the generals clenched his fists and asked, "General, what should we do now?" ”

Cao Yong frowned and said: "The matter has come to this point, there is only one way to retreat!" "The generals feel very regretful, but they also know that there is only one way to retreat at present, and as far as the current situation is concerned, I am afraid that if the retreat is slow, the whole army may be wiped out!

Hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and everyone couldn't help but look out of the door, only to see a dusty herald rushing in. The herald ran to the hall, knelt down on one knee, and said with a worried face: "General, it's not good, Fuzhou is lost!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals in the hall were shocked, and one of the generals couldn't help but shout: "Fuzhou is lost!" That's impossible! The other generals were also talking, and the lobby was noisy. Cao Yong frowned and shouted, "Quiet! The generals closed their mouths, and the hall fell silent.

Cao Yong asked the herald: "You mean Fuzhou is lost?" You're right? ”

The herald hurriedly said: "The villain is talking about Fuzhou!" The villain escaped from Fuzhou City with General Li, and General Li ordered the villain to report to the general! "General Li in the herald's mouth, called Li Tongjiang, is a general who stayed in Fuzhou on the orders of General Wu Lin.

Cao Yong's brain couldn't turn for a while, he really couldn't understand, how did Yan Yunjun capture Fuzhou? At this time, the herald continued: "It is the cavalry that captured Fuzhou, there are almost 10,000 horsemen, and the leader of the army will be King Yan himself!" Cao Yong was taken aback: "King Yan himself? The herald nodded.

Cao Yong hurriedly ordered his soldiers to open the map, and after Cao Yong looked at the map carefully, he looked at the area between Hezhou and Gongzhou, and frowned: "There is a Fujiang River between Hezhou and Gongzhou, the river is turbulent, and the mountains on both sides are steep, how could they bypass the army in front of us and directly attack Fuling?" Where exactly did they get around? Cao Yong doesn't know now, in fact, the 7,000 cavalry led by Yang Peng went around in a big circle, from between Puzhou and Hezhou to the east of Hezhou, and then went straight down from the east of Hezhou to the southwest, and crossed several rivers and unexpectedly appeared under the city of Fuzhou. When Yan Yun's army attacked Fuzhou City, the enemy troops in Fuzhou had not yet reacted.

A subordinate general said anxiously: "General, how the Yan Yun Army bypassed it is no longer important!" Now that Yan Yunjun has captured Fuzhou, it is equivalent to cutting off the retreat of our army, so we have to think of a way! ”

Another general said: "Immediately go all out to retake Fuzhou!" ”

Cao Yong frowned and shook his head: "No! Nearly 10,000 Yanyun elites are guarding Fuzhou, even if our army attacks with all its might, it will not be able to capture it! Besides, Liu Xi's Yanyun army is in Gongzhou, our army will attack Fuzhou, he will inevitably go to reinforcements, and if he can't capture Fuzhou, he will fall into the enemy's encirclement! The generals felt that what the general said was reasonable, and they couldn't help but become even more uneasy, feeling that they seemed to have become a turtle in the urn.

Cao Yong suddenly heard something, and hurriedly said to the herald: "You immediately rush to General Xue's camp, so that he must not return to the army to capture Fuzhou, and immediately wave his army north to Hezhou to join our army!" The herald said yes and ran down. Wu Lin followed and said to the generals: "Now that the situation is urgent, the whole army set off for Hezhou overnight!" "The generals promised in unison, but they didn't understand what to do in Hezhou, now that Fuzhou has been taken away, they have become a turtle in the urn, can they get out of trouble by going to Hezhou?

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