Ye Hu Cheng knew that he could not delay any longer, and immediately ordered: "Pass the order, the front team will become the back team, the back team will become the front team, and retreat immediately!" Order all the light cavalry, spread the surrounding vigilance, and be ready to fight at any time! Send someone to quickly order Lakshin, cancel the plan, and retreat quickly! When the generals saw Ye Hu Cheng's sudden order with such a serious expression, they couldn't help but be stunned, came back to their senses, and subconsciously felt that the situation was serious, and they all agreed to go down and follow it.

was chasing Yan Yunjun Lakshen in front, and received an urgent order from Yelu Tiger City, and unexpectedly felt that it might be Yelu Hucheng who had discovered something. He thought of the strange situation he had seen along the way, and he also felt a little bad in his heart. He immediately ordered his cavalry to stop the pursuit and turn back on the spot.

At the same time, there was an army of fifty or sixty thousand Yan Yun led by Li Xu to ambush in the woods. Seeing that the Khitan army in the past turned back not long ago, I couldn't help but feel surprised.

A general asked Li Xu, who was leading the army, "General, why are they back again?" Li Xu stared at the approaching Khitan army outside the woods, frowned and muttered, "The situation is a little wrong!" They are strikers, how can they suddenly turn around? Immediately, his heart moved, and he quickly turned his head and ordered to the few generals around him: "Pass the order and prepare to attack!" The generals looked at each other, and one of the generals hurriedly said: "General, the task given to us by King Yan is to break the rear, this is the enemy's forward, and there is no order from King Yan, if we attack without authorization and disrupt King Yan's entire strategic intention, I'm afraid the sin is not small!" Several other generals nodded their heads, and they were also worried.

Li Xu said categorically: "Things have obviously changed, we must make a decision immediately!" If King Yan is to blame, I will bear everything and carry out the order! The generals glanced at each other, clasped their fists together, and said, "Since the general has given the order, we will obey the order." If King Yan is to blame, we will be punished with the general! ”

Rakshin led 50,000 Mongol cavalry and retreated. When passing by the edge of the woods, suddenly the arrows as dense as flying locusts roared out of the woods, and the Mongolian cavalry was caught off guard. At this moment, the sound of killing suddenly rose in all directions, shocking the earth, and I saw countless Yanyun Bu riding rushing out of the woods from the hillside, attacking fiercely, like a group of tigers descending the mountain! The Mongol cavalry hurried to meet the battle!

Yan Yun's cavalry attack was extremely fierce, killing the corpses of the Mongolian army with blood flying, and the screams echoed over the wilderness, and the blood dyed the green grass bright red; However, although the Mongol army was in an extremely disadvantageous position, it was also desperately resisting the battle and was not defeated.

The armies of the two sides fought a bloody battle, and the Mongol army suffered heavy casualties, and the remnants broke through to the north. Yan Yunjun saw that he couldn't catch up, so he stopped pursuing. At this moment, a herald suddenly felt informed: "General Li, King Yan has arrived!" Li Xu and the others hurriedly rushed to greet him, only to see that King Yan was leading more than 100,000 war horsemen from the south. Li Xu and the others greeted him. The two sides met, and Li Xu and the others sat on horseback and hugged their fists and bowed: "King Yan!" "Yanyun's military regulations, wartime status, and all etiquette are simple, so Li Xu and the others don't need to dismount and salute.

Yang Peng glanced at the battlefield strewn with corpses and asked, "Have you fought with the enemy's front?" Li Xu clenched his fists and said: "It's the order given by the last general!" Seeing the sudden retreat of the enemy's advances, the last general expected that things would change, so he took it upon himself to order the army to attack! Then he bowed and said, "Please punish King Yan!" ”

Yang Peng waved his hand, "You're not wrong!" Otherwise, we have carefully planned, and we haven't even caught a single hair! Li Xu and the others looked at each other, and Li Xu hugged his fists and asked, "King Yan, what happened?" ”

Yang Peng said: "Not long ago, the scout summoned him, saying that he found that the main force of the Liao State had suddenly turned back!" I realized that our plan might have been leaked, so I led all the cavalry to intercept their advance, but it was still a step too late! If you hadn't made a quick move, we'd have been busy this time! When the generals heard Yang Peng's words, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt a little depressed. Li Xu frowned and said, "This plan of King Yan can be said to be very clever, but I don't know how it was discovered by Ye Yu Tiger City?" His heart moved, and he exclaimed: "Is there a traitor?" ”

Yang Peng shook his head, "That's not necessarily!" Although our plan is very clever, it also has a big flaw. In order not to be detected by the scouts of the other side, it was necessary to arrange dozens of miles south of Danzhou, but in this way, although the problem of being detected by the scouts was eliminated, it brought another problem, that is, the other side would not catch up with our troops after a day and a night of pursuit. In this way, it is inevitable that resourceful people will be suspicious! Yeron Tiger City is not a mediocre person, so it's not surprising that he is aware of this problem! Li Xu and the others couldn't help but nodded.

Yang Peng said with a smile: "But this time we can be regarded as a little gain, you take the initiative to attack and hit its strikers hard, this is one of them; Second, after this time, the Khitan army will definitely be more cautious, and it will be a lot easier for us to hold the sixteen states of Yanyun. Then he frowned, he thought: the Khitans will inevitably become more cautious after this time, although this is conducive to defense, but at the same time, it will also make it difficult for their own side to get a chance to break the Khitan army.

Yang Peng raised his head and said, "After cleaning up the battlefield, the army retreated to Niulan Mountain. Li Xu clenched his fists and promised. Yang Peng glanced to the north, turned his horse's head, and ran towards the south, and the hundred thousand cavalry followed and ran towards the south.

Yang Peng had to give up Danzhou in order to use the plan to lure the king into the urn, and now the strategy failed to achieve the effect, so he had to retreat to Niulanshan and Shunzhou. Shunzhou and Niulanshan are both in the south of Danzhou, of which Shunzhou is in the south of Niulanshan, which is now Shunyi District of Beijing, and Danzhou is now Miyun. Both Shunzhou and Niulanshan are located on the west bank of the Qidu River.

Yang Peng returned to Niulan Mountain, and then the armies also retreated to Niulan Mountain one after another. The mood of all the generals was a little low, because a well-planned pocket array failed to achieve the expected effect, only Li Xu intercepted the opponent's forward in time, but only annihilated the opponent's 30,000 people, which can only be regarded as better than nothing.

Yang Peng glanced at the generals and smiled: "What's wrong?" It's just that the enemy ran away, why are they all listless? The generals felt that King Yan was right, and they all puffed up their chests. Yang Jing yelled angrily: "Fuck! Isn't it good for these Khitans to honestly get into our encirclement? I actually gave up halfway and ran away! It's so hateful! Everyone couldn't help laughing, and Li Xu teased: "Yang Jing, when you cut the enemy, will the enemy stand still?" Yang Jing couldn't understand what Li Xu meant, opened a pair of bull's eyes, and said angrily: "Of course the enemy will move!" What do you mean by this? Li Xu smiled, but didn't explain, it wasn't that he didn't want to explain, he just felt that explaining to Yang Jing was simply asking for trouble, so he simply didn't say anything.

Yang Jing was unrelenting, and shouted angrily: "Li Xu, do you think that Yang Jing is stupider than you!" I'm telling you, I'm not stupid! Li Xu smiled and hugged his fists and said, "Yes, yes, Yang Jing is much smarter than me!" In front of smart people, I had to say nothing! Yang Jing grinned and let Li Xu go. Yang Peng smiled and shook his head.

A scout rushed into the tent, and all eyes immediately converged on him. The scout rushed to the tent and knelt down and said, "King Qiyan, the Khitan army is stationed in Danzhou, and there is no further action for the time being. ”

Yang Peng couldn't help but secretly said: "This is really called stealing chickens and rice!" Originally, he deliberately gave up Danzhou with the intention of luring the monarch into the urn, but he didn't expect to be discovered by Ye Yu Hucheng, which caused the whole plan to fall short, and even Danzhou was lost! ’

Yang Peng is not a person who likes to dwell on the past, these thoughts only flash in his mind, and then he thinks about the current situation. Raising his head, he looked at the scout, and commanded, "Keep looking!" The scout said yes, got up and exited the tent.

Yang Peng stood up, walked to the map, looked at the map and thought. The map hanging on the map shelf is a complete map of the entire Yanyun and the surrounding situation. On this map, there are two big arrows straight into Yanyun, one is from the west, and the huge arrows go straight into Ningxia, the situation there is only afraid to be more sinister than this side, and now I don't know what the situation is; Another huge arrow is the northeast from the Liao State to the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, which is the current Khitan army, whether this battle can be won, Yang Peng has no bottom at all.

On the map, in addition to these two large arrows, there are also two smaller arrows, one is from the Khitan Kingdom Zhongjing Road to Longmen Mountain, and the other is from Tubo to Qingtang, which is the Goryeo Army and the Tubo Army; In addition, there is an arrow marked with a dotted line, in the southwest, which represents Dali, as for why it is marked with a dotted line, it is because there is intelligence that Dali has colluded with Tubo and other countries, but so far, Dali has not publicly stated that it wants to break the alliance with Yanyun and join the anti-Yanyun alliance, so this enemy is still uncertain. In addition, there are red circles and numbers indicating the Song army of Liangguang, which indicates the defensive strength of the Song army.

The above are all enemy troops, as for the Yan Yun army, it is represented by black arrows and black circles and numbers, and there are competing arrows facing the enemy in all directions, as far as the situation on the map is concerned, there is no danger on Yan Yun's side, but the real situation is that Yan Yun's side is in a very unfavorable situation! Although Yan Yun is strong, he can fight against several countries at the same time with the power of one country, and two of them are still almost attacking the country, not to mention winning, it is very difficult to resist! This situation really has the flavor of Qiang Qin resisting the six countries with the strength of one country back then!

However, there are also circumstances that are beneficial to Yan Yun, that is, Yan Yun still has an ally in the south, the Eighth Prince. At this time, on the map in front of Yang Peng, the army on the side of the Eighth Prince was marked in orange, pointing directly to Guangnan East Road. Yang Peng's side didn't know about the Eighth Prince's defection at the moment. The current situation of Yanyun is not an exaggeration to describe it as dangerous!

Yelu Hucheng sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter Yang Peng's movements, and after making sure that there was no danger, he mobilized a large army and slowly marched towards the south. Yang Peng found that Ye Hu City was coming in a big way, and originally planned to adopt a surprise attack strategy, but seeing that the other party had spilled too many scouts, there was no chance at all, so he had to temporarily give up the plan to surprise with surprise troops, and stepped up the deployment of defenses in Niulan Mountain and Shunzhou, preparing to meet the surprise attack of Ye Hu City's army.

Let's put aside for a moment, and let's turn our attention to the battlefield elsewhere. The 200,000-strong army led by Liu Guangshi has captured several prefectures and counties around Hongzhou, and Hongzhou has cut off contact with the outside world. Seeing the strength of the Eight Princes' army, many prefectures and counties on Jiangnan West Road ripped off the Yanyun banner one after another and re-raised the dragon banner of the Song Kingdom, while those Yanyun officials who were stationed in these states and counties were either killed or captured, and the entire Jiangxi seemed to have become the world of the Eight Princes in an instant. The Eighth Prince was originally worried about the army's raid on Jiangnan West Road, but after listening to the good news from the front, he became extremely excited, and suddenly he only felt that it was not a dream to sweep the entire Jiangnan!

In the direction of Nanling, Cao Yong and other Song troops received Zhao Heng's strict order and led the army to start a counterattack northward. The Guangzhou court continued to receive good news, rejoiced, and began to plan to return to Tanzhou, Huang Cong even said that in order to highlight His Majesty's great achievements, the Tanzhou Palace should be expanded according to the appearance of the Bianliang Palace. Huang Cong's suggestion won the sacred heart, and the dragon face was happy. In the past few days, the Guangzhou court has continuously held celebration banquets, and all the ministers and gentry from all walks of life have come to His Majesty one after another to offer money, grain and treasures, shouting Long live the Great Song Dynasty and Long live Your Majesty.

In the direction of Sichuan, Dali finally exhausted the country's 200,000 troops, led by the general Duan Zhichun, to attack Sichuan from the southwest. The Xilin Division, the Qiongbu Division, the Mahu Division, Jiazhou, Lizhou, and Yazhou fell one after another, and the morale of the Dali army was greatly boosted.

The Tubo army attacked Qingtang, and many markets around Qingtang fell, and the Tubo army had already divided into a joint attack and was besieging Qingtang City.

Just when the war situation was tense everywhere, in the Ningxia area, many people fled into Xiliang Mansion from the west in a hurry, and they said: "Yumen Pass is lost!" The Jade Gate Pass is lost! "It turned out that just a few days ago, the Yumen Pass, which was garrisoned by 10,000 soldiers and horses, finally couldn't resist after holding on for more than ten days, and was captured by the Western Liao army. Hundreds of thousands of troops in Western Liao broke through the Yumen Pass and rolled east, and the situation was already extremely critical!

The monarchs and ministers of the Song Kingdom, who were having a banquet in the palace in Guangzhou, were very surprised when they suddenly received a report that the Western Liao army had broken through the Yumen Pass and entered Ningxia, because they had no idea that there was actually a Western Liao joining this grand battle against Yanyun! After the surprise, the monarchs and ministers of the Song State rejoiced, and some ministers sang praises to Song Qinzong: "Your Majesty's holy virtue touches the heavens and the earth, so that the foreign races of Fanbang thousands of miles away are also willing to serve Your Majesty!" If the mandate of heaven is like this, the Great Song Dynasty will be revived, and Your Majesty's name will go down in history! Only then did the rest of the ministers react, secretly annoyed that they had been preempted by him, and then they all stood up and praised: "Your Majesty is the immortal Shengming monarch, under the light of Your Majesty's Shengde and glory, the Great Song Dynasty will be revived, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" Song Qinzong was overjoyed, and had a fluttering feeling, only feeling as if he was really the holy monarch who could make the foreign races of Fanbang submit as the ministers said, stretched out his right hand, and said loudly: "Since the mandate of heaven is in me, it is natural that I will not live up to the will of heaven!" ”

Just as Song Qinzong squinted his eyes and enjoyed this supreme glory, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the hall. Everyone couldn't help but look towards the door, and saw a privy councillor hurrying up.

Huang Cong smiled and said to Zhao Heng: "Your Majesty, there must be good news again!" Zhao Heng smiled and nodded, "Maybe Generalissimo Cao Yong has already recovered Tanzhou!" The crowd shouted long live. The privy councillor ran to the bottom of the jade steps, bent down, held up a book with both hands, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, good news from the front!" ”

Huang Cong immediately stepped forward, untied the fold, climbed the jade steps, and presented it to Zhao Heng. Zhao Heng took the fold, opened it, and after reading it, he raised his head and said with a smile: "Although Generalissimo Cao Yong has not recovered Danzhou, it is almost there, Generalissimo Cao Yong has recovered Hengzhou." The ministers were overjoyed, and praised the emperor's holy virtues and martial arts, and they were disturbed for a long time.

Bang bang bang ......! Suddenly, a huge explosion was heard. The hall fell silent, and everyone looked dazed and surprised. One of the ministers couldn't help but mutter, "What's going on? It's like who's setting off the fireworks! Another minister shouted with joy on his face: "It must be the people who spontaneously celebrated when they learned of the good news from the front!" The ministers' eyes lit up and they agreed. The emperor laughed and said, "Okay! I just want to be able to have fun with the people! ”

At this moment, there was another loud bang! The sound seemed to be much closer than before, and even the tiles on the roof of the main hall seemed to shake. Everyone sensed that something was wrong, and a minister frowned and said, "It doesn't seem to be fireworks!" It's a bit louder! ”

At this moment, a general rushed in in a hurry, didn't bother to kneel down and salute, and clasped his fists and said urgently: "Your Majesty, something is wrong!" Yan Yun's army has invaded the city! When the monarchs and ministers in the hall suddenly heard this, they only felt like thunder, and everyone was stunned for a long time without moving, and the hall was quiet, and it was almost audible that a needle had fallen.

Huang Cong reacted first and shouted hysterically at the general: "It's nonsense! Yan Yunjun is in the midst of a rout, how could he suddenly enter Guangzhou City! If you lie about the military situation, aren't you afraid of military justice? The emperor and the ministers also reacted at this time, the emperor looked very displeased, and all the ministers angrily accused the general, and the fierce one of them actually said that he collaborated with the enemy and treason, and should be beheaded all over the house. The general was in such a hurry that he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Bang bang bang...... There was another loud bang, and it seemed to be closer than before. The noisy hall fell silent, and the ministers looked at each other. The general said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, the last general will never dare to lie about the military situation, it is indeed the Yan Yun Army that has come in!" ......" Huang Cong pointed at the general's nose and scolded: "You are talking nonsense! Tell me, how did Yan Yunjun come from? Will they not be able to fly? ”

The general hurriedly explained: "They didn't fly, they came from the sea!" The monarchs and ministers were stunned for a moment, and then they remembered that Yan Yunjun also had a unique naval army in the world, and they had been receiving good news before, but they had forgotten about it! I only heard the general continue: "The Yanyun Naval Army suddenly appeared just now, and our army thought it was a merchant fleet, but I didn't expect them to suddenly launch a fierce attack with artillery fire!" We were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, and there was chaos, and the water gate and a city gate were also breached! Immediately, the Yanyun Navy landed nearby and entered the city! The monarchs and ministers were stunned, although they felt that what the general said should be true and reasonable, but they still didn't want to believe it.

At this moment, the huge roar of artillery fire came again, and the entire palace shook suddenly, and the remnants of bricks and tiles fell straight down, and this time the artillery fire actually went straight to the palace. The monarchs and ministers were shocked and ran around, and the cases that were originally full of wine and delicacies were staggered, spilling wine and delicacies everywhere! At this point, they couldn't help but believe it.

In the chaos, some ministers escaped from the palace, and most of them fled from the palace with the pro-army escort of the emperor and the members of the imperial family. At this time, the sound of killing in the city shook the sky, mixed with chaotic cries, it was really chaos! The emperor and the ministers were so frightened that they didn't care about everything, they fled from the north gate of Guangzhou City in a hurry, and then they ran wildly for a night, and the exhausted people stopped to rest, all of them looked frightened, they were already ministers not like ministers, and the emperor was not like the emperor, as if they were birds that had just escaped.

An officer rode up on a fast horse, and the officer turned over and dismounted, kneeling and saying, "Your Majesty, the entire city of Guangzhou has fallen!" ......" When the emperor and his ministers heard this, they were really shocked and angry, and the emperor shouted hysterically: "I have 50,000 defenders in Guangzhou, why did I fall so quickly?" The officer didn't know how to answer this question, so he clenched his fists and said: "A Yanyun army has left Guangzhou and is chasing this side, please take refuge immediately!" When the emperor and the ministers heard this, they immediately didn't care about blaming, and they all became colorless, and Huang Cong hurriedly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's hurry up!" Zhao Heng nodded in a panic.

The fleeing army continued to flee north, despite its exhaustion. Bad news kept coming, the Yanyun army behind it was constantly approaching, and another Yanyun army was moving west along the Xijiang River, and had already broken through Duanzhou, and the surrounding area of Guangzhou had become a situation of erosion and could not be controlled. Panicked, the emperor hurriedly sent an order to Cao Yong, ordering him to immediately lead all his troops back to help. At this moment, he can't care about recovering Jinghu South Road.

Cao Yong rested in Hengzhou and prepared to continue the attack on Tanzhou, but suddenly received an urgent order from the imperial court, saying that Guangzhou and its surrounding areas had been captured by the Yanyun army, and His Majesty and the imperial court were fleeing, so he immediately led a large army to help. When Cao Yong and the others received such an order, they couldn't help but be shocked, and then they couldn't help but worry about their relatives who stayed in Guangzhou. Cao Yong didn't think about it, and urgently ordered all the armies to assemble and prepare to return to help.

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