Yang Qi said with some complaints: "Then why didn't the sixth brother hurry up and launch a full-scale attack on the place in front of him?" ”

Yang Yanzhao looked at the town with a little spark in the distance, and said, "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't." Although the enemy army has been defeated one after another, it is because they have fallen for our scheme. The enemy still has a lot of troops left, and if you don't wait for the right time to attack immediately, I am afraid that it will backfire, and the course of the battle will most likely be prolonged. Therefore, we must wait for the right time to strike hard and strive to completely wipe out the place in front of us in one fell swoop! This may seem like a lot slower, but it's the fastest way to do it today. Yang Qi frowned and nodded, the thick melancholy was very obvious.

The gaze turned to the big tent of the Western Liao Army outside Hezhou City. Sure enough, as Yang Yanzhao expected, Yelu Longqing decided to attack Hezhou with all his might after affirming that Yeluzhong's department was indeed ambushed and in danger. He summoned all the generals overnight and gave orders. When the generals retreated, Yelu Longqing said with a frantic expression: "I won't lose to you!" I definitely won't lose to you! I'm not defeated yet! As long as you capture Hezhousheng and capture you, the victory will still be ours! ”

As soon as the sky was bright, the war drums of the Western Liao army rumbled loudly, and the mist in the early morning was dispersed by the huge war drums, and the Western Liao army was presented in front of the defenders, with great momentum and murderous spirit.

Yang Peng, accompanied by Yang Erya, rushed to the city gate tower and looked out of the city. Yang Erya frowned and said to Yang Peng; "Big brother, the enemy's momentum is completely different from before!"

Yang Peng looked at the huge military array outside the city, which seemed to have no end in sight, nodded, and said with a smile: "They must have also learned the news that Yeluzhong's army is in a desperate situation, so Yelu Longqing wants to make a desperate bet!" Seeing Yang Erya's worried face, she naturally stretched out her right hand to hold one of her slender hands, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, he will never succeed." ”

Yang Erya glanced at Yang Peng, shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about anything else, I'm worried about the safety of my eldest brother." After a pause, "Big brother is the emperor of our Ming Dynasty, so you can't risk your life!" Big brother, you better leave Hezhou, and Hezhou can be guarded by the younger sister. ”

Yang Peng said with a smile; "Is the eldest brother the one who retreats?"

Yang Erya said hurriedly: "The eldest brother is not retreating, it's just that the eldest brother should not take risks for the sake of the overall situation!" ”

Yang Peng smiled slightly, and his left hand also came over to hold Yang Erya's other slender hand, and said with a smile: "Big brother has his own measure, don't persuade you." Yang Erya sighed depressedly and said angrily: "I know that what I said is also in vain, and the eldest brother doesn't listen to people's persuasion at all!" Yang Peng smiled.

Bang bang...... A loud crash suddenly came from outside the city. Yang Peng and Yang Erya turned their heads to look outside the city, only to see hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Western Liao Army smashing their shields with the back of their swords, or slamming their long weapons to the ground, such a sound would not have been very loud, but if more than 200,000 people did it together, the sound would be as thrilling as a landslide and tsunami. If it were an ordinary army, in the face of such momentum, I am afraid that the will to fight would immediately be reduced by several layers, and the poor army might collapse and collapse. However, the Ming Army is different from the general army, they are the world's sharpest, the division of tigers and wolves, what kind of big scene have you not seen? This tactic of the Western Liao army to harass the enemy was of no use to the Ming army at all!

Yang Peng said to Yang Dezheng: "Order all armies to prepare for battle." Yang Dezheng immediately raised his voice to give the order, and the horn sounded one after another. Groups of Ming troops were immediately ready for battle, the infantry armed with bows and crossbows were wound, the catapult crossbows and artillery were ready to fire, and the rest of the infantry were holding swords, guns, swords and halberds, ready to fight at any time. The Ming army was in full array, and its momentum was as solid as a rock.

Yelu Longqing, who was immediately under the imperial flag, saw that the Ming army on the city wall was as dignified as a mountain, and there was no sign of panic, so he was very annoyed in his heart, and turned his head and shouted at Alidaiyi: "Attack immediately!" ”

Alidai received the order, immediately ordered the drummer to give the order, and for a while the drums rumbled, the flags were rolled, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the Western Liao pushed the catapult forward to the firing position, loaded the stones, and prepared to launch. At this moment, thunder and fireworks surged on the city wall! Before the soldiers of Xiliao could react, countless cannonballs roared and smashed into the stone artillery cart formation, and in an instant, the artillery carriage was torn apart, the soldiers were flying flesh and blood, and the originally rigorous artillery carriage formation was in chaos. Yelu Longqing's face changed drastically, and he immediately ordered the artillery carriage to fire.

The gunners of the Western Liao army braved the whistling shells to fire stones, and hundreds of stones and canisters of fire oil flew towards the city walls. But most of them did not hit the city walls, but fell on the wasteland outside the city, and the few stones and oil cans that hit the city walls caused a lot of commotion. Stones smashed into the walls and splintered with debris, and canisters of fire exploded in flames on the city's head.

Boom Boom Boom...... The Ming cannon fired a second salvo. The rain of bullets roared and flew into the sky between the two sides, and it actually fell into the large array of the Western Liao Army, smashing the flesh and blood of the soldiers of the Western Liao Army, and the huge explosion sounded in one piece, and the stumps of the human body were flying all over the sky with fireworks! The large array of the Western Liao army was suddenly attacked by the artillery fire of the Ming Dynasty, with many casualties, and there was chaos when it came, and Yelu Longqing urgently ordered the army to retreat 500 steps. The army immediately retreated. The gunners who were in charge of operating the stone artillery carts saw that the army was retreating, and they couldn't help but be panicked and anxious, and without waiting for orders, they threw away the stone artillery carts and fled after the army.

The Western Liao army retreated five or six hundred steps before stabilizing its position, and they all looked frightened. Yelu Longqing saw that although his own soldiers and horses were not losing a lot, his morale was greatly frustrated, and he couldn't help but be angry, and he couldn't help but rush into the city and cut all the Ming people with a thousand knives! However, in the face of the enemy's sharp artillery fire, he was at a loss for a while.

Mills came to Yelu Longqing's side and said, "Your Majesty, although the enemy's artillery fire is fierce, the weakness is also obvious, that is, those walls that have been destroyed by us before, those places are easy to break through. The last general thought that since it was difficult to attack during the day, it was better to attack again at night, when the night was dark and the enemy's artillery fire would not be good. We took the opportunity to rush through the makeshift walls with our rams! As long as the gap is opened, with the strong strength of our army, we will definitely be able to sweep away the enemy troops in the city in one fell swoop! ”

Yelu Longqing's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Very good, just do it!" He then ordered the army to stop the siege and retreat to the camp.

Yang Erya on the city wall couldn't help but get excited when he saw the enemy retreating, and shouted: "Big brother, look, the enemy has retreated!" Yang Peng looked thoughtful, in his opinion, Yelu Longqing came to attack today, it should be desperate, how could he be so easily discouraged?

Night fell, and the city gradually fell silent. In the middle of the night, it was quiet, and most of the defenders at the head of the city had fallen asleep, and only a few sentries were still patrolling back and forth.

A sentry suddenly saw countless black shadows faintly coming towards him outside the city, and he couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly pushed his companion, pointed to the outside of the city and asked urgently: "Look, what is outside the city?" The companion turned his head to look out of the city, and could not help but wonder that by the dim moonlight he could faintly see as if a tide was rushing in this direction. Hurriedly fixed his eyes and looked carefully for a while, only to see that the surging 'tide' was clearly countless enemy troops, and his face changed when he landed, and he shouted loudly: "It's the enemy!" Call the police! The sentry hurriedly picked up the gavel and struck the gong with a clatter, and the silence of the night was broken at once, and the sleeping Ming soldiers woke up one after another, and subconsciously rushed to their positions.

There were shouts from outside the city, and the sound was like a raging tide. At night, it doesn't really matter, but it feels like there are infinite enemy forces outside the city.

Yang Peng and Yang Erya rushed to the city wall. Yang Dezheng immediately greeted him and reported: "The enemy army suddenly appeared just now, with many men and horses, but it did not attack the city!" ”

Yang Peng walked to the edge of the wall and looked out of the city, only to hear a burst of landslides and tsunamis-like shouts, and vaguely saw some surging figures, but he couldn't see how many people there were at all, and there seemed to be infinite soldiers and horses under the cover of night. Yang Peng smiled and said to Yang Dezheng: "Do as planned." Yang Dezheng responded and ran down.

Yelu Longqing personally led the army to approach the thin city, looked up at the busy figures on the city, and couldn't help but show a smile. Then he shouted at the generals around him: "Make the movement bigger again!" The generals immediately gave the order, and the shouts of the soldiers became louder, just now it was like a sea of tides, but now it can be said to be deafening.

And under the cover of this huge movement, several teams of soldiers of the Western Liao Army were quietly running under the city walls that had just been repaired. As mentioned above, when Mills led the army to evacuate Hezhou that day, he had wreaked havoc on the walls of Hezhou, so many places on the walls of Hezhou were actually temporarily repaired by the Ming army not long ago. Due to the limited time, this repair was only a temporary filling of the damaged wall with wood and masonry, which was obviously not able to withstand a strong attack.

The soldiers of the Western Liao Army who came to the city wall immediately piled bundles of gunpowder packs under the wall, and then lit the fuse and left quickly. The fuse snorted, flickering with an inconspicuous fire, and quickly spread towards the powder bag. Although the Western Liao side has not yet made artillery, it is no secret that gunpowder is no longer a secret.

Boom Boom! Three violent explosions suddenly sounded, and the three walls of the western city wall, which had only been repaired not long ago, were torn apart and fluttered in the sky in the surging smoke and flames. Then there was a loud crackling sound in the rumbling echo.

In the rumbling echo, there was a loud crackling sound, and countless bricks, stones, and wood fell like raindrops. Yelu Longqing, who was in the distance, saw such a scene, his face was full of excitement, and he muttered: "No matter how treacherous you Yang Peng are, you didn't expect me to have this trick!" Then he drew his scimitar and shouted; Charge! The Western Liao army let out a fierce shout, and the tide rushed towards the three gaps that had been blown up, and poured into the city in one fell swoop.

The forward troops howled and rushed into the gap, seeing that no enemy troops were coming to stop them, it was obvious that the enemy troops were caught off guard and had not yet reacted! The troops who rushed into the city immediately flooded the city.

Yelu Longqing saw that the troops continued to pour into the city, and hurriedly said to Ali Daiyi: "You go to the front, you must capture Yang Pengsheng alive!" This Ming Emperor is very useful to us! Alidai bowed down and ran. Yelu Longqing looked up at Hezhou City, his expression extremely excited. A picture couldn't help but come to his mind, he escorted the embarrassed Yang Peng to Yelu Hanyu, and let her know who the real hero is in this world!

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... A series of explosions suddenly came, pulling Yelu Longqing back from his fantasy to reality. Yelu Longqing followed the prestige and muttered strangely, "What's the matter? How can there still be an explosion? ”

At this moment, I saw the fire surging inside the three broken gaps, and there were faint terrible screams. Then the flames grew brighter and brighter, and in a few moments, the flames had already crossed the city walls, and they could be seen even outside the city! I saw that the flames were fangs and claws, and the army that had just poured into the city withdrew in a hurry, and as a result, it was crowded together with the army that was about to enter the city.

When Yelu Longqing saw this scene, he couldn't help but be surprised. I couldn't help but feel bad in my heart, but I didn't want to believe it.

At this moment, Ali Daiyi, who had just run down, rushed back in a hurry, and said angrily: "Your Majesty, that Yang Peng is really too cunning!" As soon as our army poured into the city, he immediately set fire to it, and the fire spread rapidly, and the army that rushed into the city was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties! ”

Yelu Longqing was almost crazy, and screamed hysterically. Turning his head to look at the city, he happened to see a figure reflected in the light of the torch, it seemed to be Yang Peng, Yelu Longqing immediately couldn't control his emotions, pointed at the figure and roared: "Yang Peng, I don't believe that I can't defeat you!" ”

Yang Peng stood on the city wall, smiling and looking at the enemy army that was in a mess. Yang Erya on the side looked at Yang Peng with infinite admiration and asked, "Big brother, how did you know that the enemy would use the sound to blow up the gap?" Big brother's use of soldiers is really unfathomable! Yang Peng smiled: "Not so godly!" Actually, it's not difficult to guess this, I would do it if I were Yelu Longqing. In this case, I will arrange it in advance, and I will always be prepared! Hehe, Yelu Longqing really did this! Then he said: "Little sister, you guard the city!" Without waiting for Yang Erya to reply, he ran down the city wall.

Yelu Longqing was already crazy, and shouted at Alidaiyi: "Immediately gather a large army and attack head-on!" Our army of 200,000 is that everyone can drown them with a spit! Ali Daei bowed and promised.

At this moment, the thrilling war drums of the Ming army suddenly came from the city wall, rumbling into a piece and shaking the earth. The soldiers of the Western Liao Army, who were in a panic, suddenly heard the sound of the war drums of the Ming Army, and they couldn't help but panic, and they didn't know what the Ming Army wanted to do for a while, and they only felt overwhelmed.

The city gate suddenly opened, and Yang Peng, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally led the defenders of the whole city to pour out of the nest and slammed into the chaotic Western Liao army. Yang Peng took the lead, wielding an iron horse lance, such as entering a no-man's land, Yang Dezheng followed closely, but also like a tiger and a dragon, brave and unstoppable, more than 10,000 Ming soldiers rushed and killed, just like a dragon in the enemy tide stirred up countless waves!

The Ming army was indomitable, killing the corpses of the soldiers of the Western Liao Army, and the 200,000 troops of the Western Liao Army were unstoppable for a while, panicked, and retreated again and again. However, the Western Liao Army is not an ordinary army in the end, although it was caught off guard by the Ming Army Shenlong stirring the sea, but it did not collapse, although the army was in a disadvantageous position, it was defeated but not chaotic.

Yelu Longqing suddenly saw Yang Peng leading the Ming army out of the city to counterattack fiercely and strongly, and he couldn't help but be shocked. Then he turned to joy, he was worried that he could not attack the city for a long time, and now that the opponent himself came out, it can be said that he was in the middle of it! As soon as he thought of this, Yelu Longqing immediately ordered all armies not to retreat, and the military law of those who retreated was to deal with their relatives! Generals at all levels and officers at all levels rushed to the front to supervise the battle, strictly forbidding the sergeants to retreat, and those who retreated were killed on the spot, and constantly reiterating Yelu Longqing's orders! The soldiers only felt that there was no way out, and they were ruthless, stopped retreating, and moved forward desperately! The advantage of the Ming army in the round of raids just now was quickly neutralized, and the numerical advantage of the Western Liao army was immediately brought into play, like a giant beast with a huge mouth open, wanting to swallow all the Ming troops out of the city in one bite.

Yang Peng placed the iron horse lance horizontally in front of the saddle, then took out the cloud-piercing bow, pulled out three wolf's tooth arrows and clamped them in his fingers and put them on the bowstring. The bow opened the full moon, and the arrow was aimed at Yelu Longqing, who was desperately roaring in the crowd in the distance. As soon as the fingers were loosened, there was a bang, and the three sharp arrows disappeared in front of Yang Peng in an instant. Almost at the same time, Yelu Longqing and the two fierce generals around him were hit by arrows at the same time, screaming and falling off their horses. The soldiers around Yelu Longqing were in turmoil.

A group of soldiers helped Yelu Longqing up, Yelu Longqing's face was painful, and his heart was shocked, he didn't expect that he was wearing two layers of heavy armor and wearing a dark iron heart guard, and this arrow still hurt himself! However, it was precisely because he had done so much protection in advance that the sharp wolf tooth arrow shot by Yang Peng with the Cloud Piercing Bow failed to kill him, as long as he was missing one of the three layers of protection, where would he still have his life at this moment? However, the other two generals were not as lucky as Yelu Longqing, and the heavy armor on their bodies failed to resist the wolf tooth arrows shot by Yang Peng, and they were killed on the spot.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?" Alidai was in charge of Yelu Longqing and asked anxiously.

Yelu Longqing endured the pain from the arrow sores and shook his head, "I'm fine!" Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw this. Yelu Longqing then said to Alidaiyi: "Help me to get on the horse!" Ali Dayi hastened to take charge of Yelu Longqing and returned to his horse.

The Western Liao army saw Yelu Longqing's arrow fall off the horse, and was so frightened that it couldn't do it, and the Ming army took advantage of the momentum to attack, and the Western Liao army saw that the formation was in chaos again. However, at this moment, the Western Liao soldiers saw their emperor reappear on horseback, and their morale was greatly boosted, and then under the supervision of the generals, they once again fiercely counterattacked the Ming army. Although the combat strength of the Ming army is strong, the situation is getting worse and worse.

Yang Peng glanced at Yelu Longqing in the distance with admiring eyes, and then led his soldiers and horses to turn one hundred and eighty degrees, and rushed out before the enemy army completely completed the encirclement. Although the Western Liao army tried to stop it, where could it be stopped, and watched the Ming army break out of the siege and return to the city. Yelu Longqing saw that his success had fallen short, and he was so angry that he couldn't do it, and coupled with the pain of arrow sores, he didn't lift it in one breath, and fainted on the spot and fell off his horse. The scene was a mess again. Alidai hurriedly carried Yelu Longqing to his horse, and then ordered the cavalry to break off, and the army withdrew into the camp. The Western Liao army immediately died down and retreated like a sea at a receding tide.

Yang Peng returned to the city and saw Yang Erya staring at him angrily.

Yang Peng smiled and said, "Didn't I say it's okay?" Don't you see I'm back well? ”

Yang Erya didn't speak, but two tears overflowed in her beautiful eyes. Yang Peng was taken aback, quickly grabbed Yang Erya's slender hand, and swore a curse: "I will definitely listen to my wife's words in the future, and I will never do anything wrong!" If I do anything wrong, I will be punished for being Yang Erya's sister's puppy in the next life! ”

Yang Erya couldn't help but laugh, raised her right hand and punched Yang Peng's chest lightly, and said angrily: "Nonsense! Everyone else is watching! ”

Yang Peng looked around and said with a smile: "Who is watching?" ”

Yang Erya looked around and was surprised to find that everyone had run away from the distance and turned around.

The Western Liao army retreated into the camp in a hurry, and Ali Daiyi immediately rushed into the big tent with Yelu Longqing on his back, and ordered all the medical officers to hurry to the big tent. When the medical officers heard that His Majesty the Emperor was injured, they panicked and hurriedly rushed to the big tent with various items for the treatment of the wounds. Under the anxious gaze of the generals, they nervously rescued. As the minutes ticked by, everyone raised their hearts to their throats; There was no one talking at the scene, only the sound of breathing and the sound of water when washing towels, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

It seemed that a century had passed, and I saw the old imperial doctor at the head stand up and let out a long sigh of relief.

The generals couldn't hold back any longer, but they didn't dare to speak up, and they all lowered their voices and asked, "How is Your Majesty?" Your Majesty, is he alright? ”

The old imperial doctor nodded and said, "Your Majesty has no worries about your life, so don't worry, generals!" When the generals heard this, they finally let go of the big stone in their hearts, and some of them couldn't help but thank the gods.

The old imperial physician handed an arrow cluster taken from Yelu Longqing's chest to Ali Dayi, and said, "Fortunately, this arrow has only shot one point, and if it enters another half point, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Everyone couldn't help but feel happy when they heard this.

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