Chapter 620. The situation is dire
Everyone also showed a look of longing. Mo Haotian said ruthlessly: "If you can capture Yang Peng alive, you will definitely light his sky lantern just like you did with Dong Zhuo back then!" Everyone agreed, and everyone's eyes showed a bloodthirsty taste. Shang Shiheng smiled evilly: "When Yang Peng is eliminated, we will divide all his princesses!" Everyone laughed obscenely, their eyes showed impulsiveness, and they couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and one of them sighed: "So many beauties who are like immortals have been ruined by Yang Peng!" The others sighed as well.
Mo Haotian said: "Now that the situation is very good, we can take action!" Shang Shiheng nodded and said, "The reason why I called everyone here today is to discuss this matter. He glanced at everyone and said, "Now Yan Yun can't take care of the interior at all, it's a good time for me to wait for the army!" I advise everyone to gather their men at once, seize Bianliang in one fell swoop, and then move around. What do you think? “
Everyone was eager to try, and Bai Mu said loudly: "Master Shang, we all listen to you!" The others nodded. Seeing this, Shang Shiheng was excited, and said, "Well, since everyone loves me so much, I will not give in!" Then he called for a map, spread it on the table, and the people gathered around him. Shang Shiheng pointed to the map and began to lay out the action in detail.
Xiliang, the most important city in the Hexi Corridor, is not only the only way for merchants to come and go in the entire Hexi Corridor, but also a place where soldiers must fight.
Huang Zong, the governor of Hexi, stood on the gate tower of Xiliang, looking at the grassland in the west, and saw that the long dragon composed of hundreds of people was fleeing from the west, and the cries of children came from time to time along the west wind. Huang Zong frowned tightly, and was very worried in his heart: the Western Liao army broke through the Yumen Pass in one fell swoop, and the 10,000 defenders of the Yumen Pass were all wiped out, and then the Western Liao army was like a bamboo, and Shazhou, Guazhou, Suzhou, and Xuanhua Mansion were all drummed down by it! The Western Liao army is huge, as if unstoppable! Now the situation can be said to be extremely serious! At this time, I heard that there were still rebels in Xingqing Mansion and other places making trouble! Huang Zong followed the Yang family army to fight in the east and west, and went through countless battles, but such a sinister situation had never been encountered, and he really didn't know if he could successfully tide over the difficulties this time?
Huang Zong suddenly frowned, and made up his mind in his heart: Since King Yan has entrusted the Hexi Corridor to me, I can only repay him with death! A scout galloped from afar, ran into the city gates, and then jumped off his horse and ran up to the city gate. Running behind Huang Zong, he didn't bother to take a break, knelt down on one knee and reported urgently: "My lord, the enemy, the enemy's vanguard has arrived!" ”
Huang Zong frowned, only to see the dust rising in the distance, and there was a faint roar. As the smoke approached and grew larger, the people outside the city began to stir, some screaming and fleeing, others hurrying into the city.
An officer hurriedly said to Huang Zong: "My lord, you have to close the city gate!" Huang Zong squinted his eyes and said, "Wait! The people outside the city rushed into the city in a panic, and the soldiers of Yanyun at the gate of the city kept urging loudly!
Moments later, the enemy cavalry was less than five hundred paces away from the city gates. The officer was nervous and said to Huang Zong: "My lord, if you don't close the city gate, I'm afraid it's too late!" Huang Zong ordered: "Bow and crossbow ready!" The herald shouted, "Bow and crossbow ready!" The Yanyun soldiers on the city wall raised their bows and crossbows one after another. Huang Zong looked at the people who had not yet fled into the city, frowned, and raised his voice: "Close the city gate!" The herald shouted, "Your Excellency, close the gates!" When the soldiers guarding the city gate heard the order, they saw that there were still many people who did not have the capital, and they had no choice but to harden their hearts and close the city gate.
The people, who had not been able to flee into the city, cried out in horror when they saw the gates closed. The Western Liao cavalry came all the way to the city gate, cutting people when they saw them, flesh and blood flew everywhere, the people suffered heavy casualties, and those who did not die ran around. Huang Zong furrowed his brows tightly, and his teeth were almost crushed. Seeing that the Western Liao cavalry had entered the firing range, he shouted sharply: "Release the arrow!" Shoot these bastards! ”
Sergeant Yan Yun fired arrows together, and the rain of arrows roared away, shooting the Western Liao cavalry on their backs! Seeing that there was no chance to take advantage of it, the Western Liao cavalry retreated. Huang Zong hurriedly ordered the city gate to be opened, and sent a team of soldiers out of the city to rescue the people. I never thought that the Western Liao cavalry would go and return, rushing to kill! The Yanyun army outside the city immediately told the people to enter the city quickly, and they themselves met the Western Liao cavalry! On the field, the Yanyun army is all infantry troops, and the number of people is small, not to mention that it is too late to line up! The Western Liao cavalry screamed and slaughtered into the Yanyun army, and when the flesh and blood flew sideways, the Yanyun soldiers fell in a pool of blood! But their sacrifice was not in vain, and most of the people were able to flee into the city!
The Western Liao cavalry killed all the Yanyun troops outside the city, and when they saw that the city gate was closed again, they shouted and cursed at the city in annoyance, and then walked away. More than 30 miles west of Xiliang, the main force led by Yelu Dashi is marching to Xiliangfu, the army is mighty, like a giant dragon winding in the field, the flags are surging, the swords and guns are like a forest, the cavalry is fierce, the infantry is mighty, the footsteps trample the earth and make a loud rumbling sound, the mountains are echoing, this is definitely an invincible and terrible army!
In the middle of the army, a black banner is particularly eye-catching, and the big banner is embroidered with a big golden 'Liao' character of dragon flying and phoenix dancing! Under the banner, a middle-aged man wearing a golden helmet and gold armor and a red cloak, full of spirit and majesty, was Yelu Longqing, the founding emperor of Western Liao. It was guarded by dozens of powerful generals in heavy armor, axes, hooks and forks, and the cold light was shining, and one of them was Mills, the Hamil general of Western Liao. Beside him was a general with a West Asian face, full of steel needles and beards, and a face as majestic as a bear, and in terms of power alone, he was one of the four great generals of Yelu Dashi, Wahid.
Wahid said: "The Yan Yun Army is nothing more than that, except for the 10,000 Yan Yun Army on the Jade Gate Gate, which is admirable, the rest of the Yan Yun Army is not vulnerable at all!" I think that our Great Liao not to mention sweeping the entire Western Xia, it is sweeping the entire Central Plains in one fell swoop, and that is also a simple matter! The generals laughed, and Yelu Longqing also laughed, and when he saw that Mills frowned slightly and did not laugh like everyone else, he asked, "Mills, do you disagree with Wahid's words?" And the generals immediately looked at him.
Mills saluted Yelu Longqing and said, "General Wahid is right! But I always feel that Yan Yun is not so easy to defeat! All the generals showed disapproval, and Wahid sneered: "Mills, I really don't understand, how can you be frightened by the useless Han people!" I heard that you have been defeated by the Han people many times before, and you have really lost the face of our people! Mills was furious and wanted to refute, but for a moment he didn't know how to refute.
Yelu Longqing said: "This can't be blamed on Mills. At the beginning, his strength did not have any advantage over the Yanyun army, unlike now, the 500,000 army is like Mount Tai pressing the top! And Yan Yun's main force is pinned down in other places! Vahid disagreed, but since the emperor said so, he did not dare to refute it.
Yelu Longqing glanced at the generals, and said, "Mills's words also make sense!" Yan Yunjun is by no means an easy opponent to deal with! We just caught them off guard! As you all know, we were originally defeated at the hands of Yashu Hugo, and our homeland was taken from us! However, in the past few years, the Liao State has been defeated repeatedly in the competition with Yan Yun, and finally Yan Yun recovered the entire Central Plains, which shows Yan Yun's toughness! When the generals heard this, they felt that it was very reasonable, and they couldn't help but put away some of their contempt for Yan Yun.
Yelu Longqing pondered: "Now the situation is very favorable to us, we must take advantage of the temporary inability of Yanyun's main force to come back to help, and sweep through Western Xia with lightning speed, and then capture Shanxi, and then go south to capture Bianliang!" If this can be done, Yan Yun will never be able to make a comeback! And our Daliao will also get the capital that truly dominates the world! The generals were inexplicably excited, and Wahid said loudly: "Destroy Yanyun, and the next one should be Goryeo!" Yelu Longqing nodded, looked up at the sky in the distance, his eyes radiated an amazing brilliance, and muttered: "The great revenge of the extermination of the clan always has to be avenged!" ”
The Western Liao army rushed eastward, and by evening, it was less than twenty miles away from Western Liang. Yelu Longqing thought that Xiliang was the core of the Hexi Corridor, and the Yanyun army would definitely resist desperately, and the battle would be very fierce tomorrow, so he ordered the army to camp on the spot and rest for a night, and then march again tomorrow morning, and strive to capture Xiliang in one go.
The hundreds of thousands of troops in Western Liao rested, and there was silence in the camp, and there was only the chirping of insect babies in the air. Yelu Longqing had not rested, he was sitting behind the desk, holding the map of the Central Plains and looking at it, with a look of excitement and longing in his eyes. He was thinking about what would happen after he was stationed in the Central Plains, and felt that as long as he obtained the huge resources of the Central Plains, his ambition would have a basis for realization. His ideal is not only to invade the Central Plains and establish a great empire, nor is it just to destroy Yelu Tiger City to take revenge! His ultimate ideal is actually to build a huge empire that has no one before and no one who has ever come after, so that all the people in the world now, and all the people in the world in the future, can't help but be in awe when they hear their name! He wants to be the greatest hero under the sky!
Yelu Longqing suddenly frowned, looked at the Central Plains region, and muttered: "The Han people have a large population, and they are fierce and good at fighting, if a hero appears among them, it will be a huge threat to my rule!" ”
Yelu Longqing thought of this, and his eyes couldn't help revealing terrifying killing intent. At this moment, he thought of a way to prevent the Han people from rebelling, that is, killing, as long as the Han people were killed, he would not be afraid of the Han people rising up to rebel! Thinking of this, I felt that this matter was not easy to do, so I couldn't help but bow my head and ponder!
Suddenly, a night breeze blew in through the doorway, and at once blew out the oil lamp on the table, and the tent became dark. Yelu Longqing frowned, and shouted, "Someone! "No one seemed to hear, and no one came in. Yelu Longqing immediately raised his voice and shouted again: "Someone! ”
This time someone came in.
Yelu Longqing said: "Light the oil lamp for me!" The other party didn't say anything, and walked straight over. Yelu Longqing was very unhappy when he saw him so rude, and then a strange feeling couldn't help but come to his heart. At this moment, a sudden cold light flashed in the darkness, Yelu Longqing had experienced countless dangers, and had already practiced a sense of sensitivity that ordinary people did not have, when the cold light flashed, he immediately felt the danger, and subconsciously fell backwards and rolled on the spot, almost at the same time, only a loud snap was heard, and the cold light slashed heavily on the back of the chair he was sitting on.
Jerulongqing was furious, and the first thought in his mind was that some of his men were trying to rebel. The man misses a blow and continues to attack. Yelu Longqing ran towards the outside of the big tent while dodging, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Someone! Come! There are assassins! Outside the tent there was the sound of hurried footsteps, and at the same time a large crowd of people rushed with torches. Yelulong was overjoyed, and quickened his pace and rushed out the door. At this moment, he only heard the sound of breaking the sky behind him, Yelu Longqing didn't understand what was going on, he only felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder, and couldn't help but exclaim, his body staggered, and he fell to the ground.
Fortunately, at this time, the general of the tent, Vahid, led the soldiers to rush into the big tent. Seeing that His Majesty was injured and fell to the ground, he was shocked and hurriedly protected him. At this time, everyone's torches had already lit up the big tent, and they saw a black-clothed masked man standing not far away with a long knife, his eyes were extremely cold! Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but be shocked, Wahid raised his mace and pointed at the black-clothed masked man and shouted, "Who are you?" ”
The man in black took a step back, inserted the long knife back into the scabbard on his back, and then pulled out two crescent moon flying blades with both hands and threw them at Yelu Longqing! Everyone saw a flash of cold light, and they were shocked, Vahid hurriedly waved his mace, and with a snap, knocked a crescent flying blade out, and the other flying knife was blocked by a personal soldier with his body at the last moment, and he fell to the ground with a muffled snort, and he couldn't survive!
Everyone was shocked, only to feel the strong wind blowing in their faces, and they were shocked to see that the man in black actually pulled out a long knife and rushed up, swinging the knife and slashing away a personal soldier in front of Yelu Longqing, and then slashed towards Yelu Longqing's neck, the knife flashed, and the speed was extremely fast!
Vahid was so frightened that he subconsciously screamed, brandishing his mace and sweeping towards the man in black. But the man in black ignored the attacking mace, and the sword light slashed towards Yelu Longqing without delay!
Syllable! The mace slammed into the waist of the man in black, and the man in black snorted and spurted blood, but the long knife in his hand also slashed into the human body! But alas, he only slashed a personal soldier! It turned out that Yelu Longqing was not an ordinary person, at the last moment, seeing that the sword light was about to come to the body, he subconsciously shrank back, and at the same time stretched out his left hand to the side, grabbed someone casually and pulled it over to block in front of him, only a millimeter, the opponent's long knife will cut into his neck, but finally cut the neck of the pro-soldier!
Wahid was horrified, and hurriedly looked back, seeing that Yelu Longqing was unharmed, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then boundless anger surged into his heart, and his arms struggled to pick up the body of the man in black. The man in black flew out of the ground, slammed to the ground, squirmed, and then stopped moving.
Vahid still didn't dare to be careless, slowly approached the other party with a mace protection, and suddenly raised his mace and slammed it on the opponent's chest, and with a poof, the chest of the man in black collapsed! Even if he wasn't dead just now, he definitely won't be alive this time!
Wahid put away his mace, squatted down, and pulled down the hood of the man in black, only to see that his face was not a man of lust, like a Han man. So he turned his head to Yelu Longqing and said, "Your Majesty, this assassin seems to be a Han Chinese!" ”
Yelu Longqing frowned, stepped forward, and saw that the assassin's face was indeed Han Chinese. He said to Wahid: "Tear off his shirt." Vahid answered, and reached out to tear open the assassin's shirt, at this time the assassin's chest was already blurred by the heavy blow just now, but he could still see that his left chest was tattooed with red paint a pattern of a two-winged flying tiger, the two-winged flying tiger was soaked in blood, and it looked even more terrifying!
Seeing this, Wahid couldn't help but exclaim: "What is this? ”
Yelu Longqing said: "This is the military emblem of Yan Yunjun. All Yanyun soldiers, everyone will have such a pattern tattooed on their left chest. ”
Wahid was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and said angrily: "It turned out to be an assassin sent by Yan Yunjun!" Hmph, we can't be defeated on the battlefield, so this method is used! Yelu Longqing let go of the big stone in his heart at this moment, he originally thought it was an assassin sent by some people in the country, but it turned out to be an assassin of Yan Yunjun.
Suddenly there was a chaotic exclamation outside the tent. Yelu Longqing frowned, "What's going on again?" With that, he hurried out of the tent, followed by Vahid and the others.
As soon as everyone came out of the big tent, they saw that the camp where the grain and grass were stacked was actually on fire, and it seemed to be on fire! Yelu Longqing was shocked and shouted urgently: "Quickly mobilize people to put out the fire!" You can't burn the grain and grass! Several pro-soldiers responded to the promise and ran down, gongs, drums, horns and horns sounded loudly, and the soldiers of the Western Liao Army rushed to extinguish the fire.
Yelu Longqing frowned and muttered, "How could the grain and grass catch fire?" "My heart moved, and I hurriedly glanced back at the corpse, and said secretly: 'Could it be Yan Yunjun?!' At that moment, the earth suddenly trembled, and there was a loud rumbling sound like thunder in my ears. Yelu Dashi's face changed, and he hurriedly looked in the direction of the stable, only to see that the war horses that were originally placed in the stable did not know why they all rushed out, like a torrent tumbling, stepping on the tent where he passed, knocking into the human body, and his own soldiers rushed around in panic.
Yelu Longqing shouted at the top of his voice: "Don't mess up! Don't mess around! Use the torches, use the torches! In the chaos, no one heard him. Yelu Longqing frowned, and he was ready to personally lead the army to stabilize the situation. But at this moment, an exclamation came from the direction of Yuanmen: "Yan Yunjun! Yan Yunjun is here! Yelu Longqing was shocked, and hurriedly looked towards the gate, and saw countless shadows rushing in from the darkness and killing the camp! Yelu Longqing was shocked and inexplicable, and he didn't understand how such a thing could happen for a while!
For the enemy's surprise attack, Yelu Longqing naturally had already considered it, but considering that the enemy's strength was limited, and its elite troops should have been wiped out in the bloody battle on the Yumen Pass, after which his own army was like a bamboo, and many states and counties were all drummed down, Yanyun's army was obviously defeated like a mountain and could no longer form an effective resistance! Under such circumstances, how could a surprise attack be launched? Even if they have the heart, they can't do anything about it! It was based on this consideration that Yelu Longqing led the army all the way eastward, no longer caring about the surprise attack of Yan Yun's army, and only wanted to occupy the entire Western Xia in one fell swoop, and then the army came to the river and swept the entire Central Plains! He never dreamed that the Yan Yun Army, which should have been powerless to resist, would launch a surprise attack at this moment!
The Yanyun army's offensive came extremely fiercely, leading the two fierce generals, extraordinary heroism, the one on the left wielded a pair of copper hammers, smashing the flesh and blood of the Liao army soldiers, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep; The one on the right wielded the horse lance, extremely powerful, and wherever he passed, no one was his general. Behind the two of them, thousands of black-clothed and black-armored war horses were also extremely strong, prancing horses and rushing to kill, as if entering a no-man's land, and then tens of thousands of Yanyun infantry troops, roaring and killing, indomitable!
The Western Liao army couldn't resist it, and it was losing and retreating, and it was about to collapse.
At the last moment, the Liao army reinforcements, led by the generals of the Liao army, continued to join the battlefield to resist the Yanyun army. The situation on the battlefield was stabilized, but I never thought that the fierce generals of the Western Liao were beheaded by the two Yan Yun warriors one after another, hammering and picking, no one could stop them, and the two Yan Yun warriors were like tigers fighting sheep! When the officers and soldiers of the Western Liao Army saw this scene, they couldn't help but be shocked, the army's heart was turbulent, Yan Yunjun took this opportunity to move forward bravely, the Western Liao Army was terrified, and the army was crumbling!
Just when the situation here was worrying, there was also an uproar in the north of Daying. It turned out that another Yanyun army under the leadership of Yue Fei Gaozhong attacked the Western Liao military camp from the north, at this time, the Western Liao army was overwhelmed by the fire and frightened horses, and secondly, all the attention was focused on the west, and it was dealing with the attack of the Yanyun army in the west, and it was not prepared for the north at all, so it was broken into by this Yanyun army in one fell swoop! Yanyun's army attacked the Liao army camp in one fell swoop, swept the columns, broke through the camp tents, slashed and killed the Liao army, set fire everywhere, and the Liao army ran around in panic!
Almost at the same time that this Yanyun army broke into the Liao army camp, in the south, Yang Xin and Fan Long led the third team of Yanyun army to enter the Liao army camp. The entire Liao army camp was caught in a huge melee, the Liao army was already exhausted because of the continuous march, and now it was attacked by the fierce and overwhelming assault of the Yan Yun army, and it could not resist at all, with heavy casualties, and the entire battalion was thrown into a mess by the Yan Yun army.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.