The Ming army attacked all the way, and it was already very tired, but it took advantage of a sharp spirit to storm the city. Seeing that he couldn't take it, he had to stop the attack for the time being.

The soldiers and civilians in the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that they had survived this round of onslaught, but when they thought of the current situation, their hearts became very heavy.

Yehu Hugo originally led an army to defend the Holy State. Suddenly hearing the news of the defeat on the Western Front and the Ming army approaching Bo to Beijing, he was shocked, leaving only a small part of the army to guard the surrender of Shengzhou, and he commanded the army to rush to Beijing. Ye Hugo led the army to go, and the Ming army, which was hoarding outside the city of Shengzhou, took the opportunity to storm the Shengzhou. At this time, there were less than 20,000 defenders in the Holy State, how to withstand the fierce offensive of the Ming Army like a landslide and tsunami, in less than three days, the Khitan Army was completely lost, and the Holy State was lost.

Yelu Hugo got the news on the way, and although he was very surprised, he couldn't care so much, and continued to lead the main force to rush to Beijing. Then a good news suddenly came, the general Xiao Liduo led 10,000 cavalry to raid Guangyi, and the 10,000 military army guarding Guangyi was caught off guard and the whole army was wiped out, and the grain and grass that the Ming army had hoarded in Guangyi was burned. When Brother Ye Hugh suddenly received this news, it could really be said that it was a long drought and a rainy day, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and praised repeatedly: "Well done Liduo!" What a great achievement! ”

After Yang Peng received the news that Guangyi was attacked and the grain and grass were destroyed, he was quite surprised, he didn't expect that when the Khitan army was defeated, there would be an army that dared to go deep into his rear to launch a counterattack! In view of the fact that Guangyi was attacked and the grain and grass were destroyed, Yang Peng had no choice but to suspend the attack on Shangjing, and the army withdrew to Raozhou. This is the end of the first phase of the war.

At this stage, the war lasted only half a month, but the number of troops on both sides on the battlefield was close to two million. The Ming army almost completely contributed to the Zhongjing Road, and the army led by Yang Peng was once close to the capital, and the Ming army was a complete victory! The Khitan army suffered heavy losses, losing countless lands, and all armies suffered heavy losses except for the large army led by Yehu Hugo!

Yang Peng returned to Raozhou, when even if a general came to report; "Your Majesty, Da Lan and Ye Yan Hongyan surrendered to our army with the Da Shui Bo area!" The Da Shui Po area, as mentioned above, is the western flank of the Raozhou defensive line. In view of the fate of being punished, Ye Yan Hongyan and Da Lazy simply led 30,000 soldiers and horses of their cronies to the Da Shui Po area in the name of assaulting the Ming army, and unexpectedly killed the defenders of the Da Shui Po area, annexed the local defenders, and then used the Da Shui Po area and the 50,000 soldiers and horses in their hands as the capital to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

How did Da Lazy and Ya Yan Hongyan so easily annex the defenders of the Da Shui Po area and occupy the Da Shui Po area? Da Lazy and Ye Yan Hongyan also thought that there would be a fierce battle. But he didn't expect that after killing the guards, he just tried to shout something to the soldiers of the army, saying nothing more than how Brother Ye and the court of Liao State harmed everyone's fathers and fellow villagers, and asked everyone to stop working hard for Brother Ye and Liao, and go to Daming, only by defecting to Daming, everyone will have a good life. Unexpectedly, after this shout, the local defenders all expressed their surrender, so Da Lan and Ye Yan Hongyan annexed the defenders of Da Shui Bo almost without blood and occupied the Da Shui Bo area.

After Da Lazy and Ye Yan Hongyan successfully obtained the Da Shui Po area and annexed the local defenders, they were excited, and they thought that they would definitely be reused by the Ming Emperor to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. But he didn't expect that the Ming Emperor used his soldiers like a god, and in just one day, he hit the defenders of Raozhou and occupied Raozhou, and then the army crossed Raozhou, all the way to the north like a bamboo, and almost took Shangjing in one go.

Da Lan and Ye Yan Hongyan were worried that they would be attacked by the Ming army if they surrendered to the Ming Dynasty too late, so they immediately sent envoys to surrender to the Ming side. The Ming side naturally accepted their surrender, but for Da Lazy and Ye Yan Hongyan, the merits of Toucheng in this case were obviously far from being compared with the expected situation.

Yang Peng met with the two. The two of them were not as apprehensive as the big tent, and when they saw a heroic and extraordinary young man sitting on the top with a golden sword, they couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts, and their legs fell down uncontrollably and knelt in front of Yang Peng, and bowed: "The guilty minister meets His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Yang Peng smiled: "You are not criminals, you are heroes." Get up. ”

The two were overjoyed, hurriedly thanked them, and stood up. Ye Yan Hongyan bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, General Weichen and General Da Lan led 50,000 soldiers and horses, as well as the Da Shui Bo area to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, please accept it!" ”

Yang Peng nodded, "From now on, the two of you will be my Ming generals." The two of them thanked each other and then retreated to the back of the right column and stood up.

Yang Peng said to the generals: "The war has continued until now, and it can be said that it has come to an end. The armies ceased fighting and rested to prepare for the next stage of the big battle. The generals clenched their fists and promised.

After the meeting ended, Han Chang caught up with Ye Yan Hongyan and Da Lazy, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that the adults and generals would also abandon the darkness and turn to the light!" ”

Da Lazy smiled: "It's not only General Han that you can see the general trend of the world!" ”

Han Chang laughed and said, "Two, why don't we go to the tavern in the city for a drink while we have time at this moment." The two of them nodded in unison. The three of them left the barracks together, came to the tavern in the city, asked for a private room to sit down, Han Chang called some drinks and dishes, and then waved away Xiao Er, and the three of them ate and chatted in the private room.

Han Chang said: "I have a heartfelt word," he glanced at the two of them, "We are all courtiers of the Ming Dynasty now, and we are all from Khitan, so we should support each other and share weal and woe!" Ye Yan Hongyan and Da Lazy deeply sympathized, and Da Lazy smiled: "Of course! Shouldn't the generals and ministers of our Khitan family be headed by the eldest princess? Ye Yan Hongyan nodded and said, "We should all gather around my aunt and grandmother!" "Don't look at Ye Yu Hongyan's age is a little older than Ye Yu Guanyin, but in terms of generation, he is really the grandchild of Ye Yu Guanyin, so Ye Yu Hongyan called Ye Yu Guanyin his aunt.

Han Chang smiled: "We can't call the eldest princess now!" This is the old name of the Liao State, although His Majesty will not take it seriously if he is as open-minded as the sea, but he is afraid that other people will make a big fuss about it! Ye Yan Hongyan and Da Lan felt that what he said made sense, and couldn't help nodding, Ye Yan Hongyan smiled: "Then it's not called the eldest princess, it's just called Niangniang." Da Lazy nodded and smiled: "That's it!" Guanyin Niangniang! Then he asked Han Changdao curiously: "I heard that Guanyin Niangniang has given birth to three children for His Majesty?" ”

Han Chang nodded and said, "That's the case." However, the three highnesses are still very young. ”

Da Lan lowered his voice and asked, "I wonder if it is possible for His Royal Highness the prince to inherit the throne?" Da Lazy also showed a look of concern.

Han Chang shook his head and said, "How do I know this?" Then he smiled and said: "You two don't ask me everything, I'm actually the same as you, I just joined Daming!" Da Lan and Ye Yan couldn't help but laugh.

Ye Yan Hongyan couldn't help but say hopefully: "I really hope that the prince born by Guanyin Niangniang can inherit the throne!" The other two couldn't help but nodded, and Han Chang said, "I'm going to help a group of Guanyin Niangniang in this matter." The other two looked impressed. Immediately, the three of them chatted about the current war, and the atmosphere was relaxed, and they were obviously full of confidence in the current war.

Look back at the big tent.

Soon after the meeting ended, Yang Peng received a military report from Cao Jun that the 200,000 military army led by Cao Jun had successfully captured Jingbian City and the ancient city of Jumu. However, in order to capture these two cities, the military army can be said to have suffered heavy losses. In addition, due to the retreat of a large number of Mongol troops to the Mongolian area, Cao Jun's troops and Yang Yanzhao's troops have stopped fighting and formed camps to adjust their deployment.

According to the news from other sources, not only the Mongol troops from Songshanguan to Shangjing fled from the battle without authorization, but also from all other directions, and it is estimated that the Mongolian army in the Liao army sequence has a total of 1230,000 cavalry seems to have fled back to the Mongolian area.

Yang Peng thought for a moment, and immediately wrote two letters, called Li Lang, and asked him to send two letters with carrier pigeons.

Xiao Lou Room noticed the situation of the Mongolian army's return to Mongolia, and immediately sent people to make contact, preparing to unite the Mongolian army to counterattack the Ming army entrenched in the Mongolian area. However, the envoy sent back to say that the Mongol army had rejected Xiao Lou's request. Xiao Lou was shocked, so he did not dare to rashly counterattack the Ming army, but retreated his soldiers and horses to the northeast shore of Beihai, camped and held firmly, and at the same time sent people to Shangjing to report to Ye Yu Hugo for instructions, and at the same time to understand the situation on other fronts.

After the Mongol army broke away from the main battlefield, the garrison troops stood still on the west bank of Hulun Lake, and at the same time sent people to meet Cao Jun.

When the Mongolian envoy saw Cao Jun, he immediately saluted respectfully and said: "We Mongolians don't want to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why we fought in the past was only because of the pressure of the Liao State. Now we Mongols want to break away from the Liao, hoping that the Ming can help. ”

Cao Jun asked, "What do you want to do when you break away from the Khitans?" Do you want to belong to our Daming? ”

The envoy bowed and said, "We hope to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty like Xiliao!" ”

Cao Jun said: "I can't make the decision on this matter, you must go and talk to Your Majesty." The Mongolian historian asked Cao Jun to send someone to escort him, and Liu Qi immediately agreed, and asked the Mongolian envoy to be brought down.

After sending away the Mongol envoys, Cao Jun immediately ordered all the armies to prepare for battle.

Yang Peng looked at the flying pigeon biography he had just received, couldn't help but smile, walked to the map with his hands behind his back, looked at the map and thought.

At this moment, there was a sound of hurried footsteps at the door, and then Li Lang's excited voice said in the back: "Your Majesty, Guanyin Niangniang and Yelu Niangniang have arrived to escort the grain and grass!" ”

Yang Peng was overjoyed and hurriedly turned around. I saw two women dressed in military uniforms and dusty servants walking in, and when they saw each other, they couldn't help but rejoice in their hearts. The two daughters bowed and said, "The concubine has seen Your Majesty!" Yang Peng smiled, hurriedly stepped forward, helped the two girls, and sighed: "I'm out on a campaign, I really want to kill you!" ”

The two women smiled, and Yelu Hanyu hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, we have transported all the grain and grass that have been gathered from all over the country, and all the grain and grass materials are currently hoarded in Dading Mansion and are being distributed. Yang Peng nodded, looked at the two women and said distressedly: "You have worked hard!" Ya Yin Guanyin smiled: "This is not hard at all! Yang Peng smiled, and couldn't help but reach over and brush the hair on her sideburns.

Yang Peng pulled the two girls to sit down and talked about things at home. Immediately, Ye Yu Guanyin noticed a flying pigeon biography in Yang Peng's hand, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Who sent the letter in the eldest brother's hand?" Yelu Hanyu also noticed a letter in his lover's hand at this time, and couldn't help but be curious.

Yang Peng picked up the letter and glanced at it, and said with a smile: "This is what Cao Jun just sent." He looked up at the two girls and said with a smile: "You guys came at the right time, I just want to discuss this matter with someone!" In the previous battle, all the Mongolian cavalry left the battlefield without authorization, and now the 1230,000 Mongolian cavalry have all gathered on the west bank of Hulun Lake in the Mongolian region, and they are not moving. At the same time, they sent an envoy to meet Cao Jun and expressed their desire to join. ”

Ya Kannon asked, "The situation is different now, and they don't insist on the conditions they put forward before, right?" It turned out that after the end of the last round of the war, Yang Peng sent a secret envoy to secretly meet with the commander of the Mongol army, Lakshen, trying to persuade him to break away from Liao and defect to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Rakshin was also quite moved, and only put forward the condition of Mongolian statehood, so the matter was temporarily shelved.

Yang Peng smiled and handed the letter to Ya Yu Guanyin. After reading the letter, Ya Yan Guanyin frowned, and said angrily: "Why are the Mongols still in such conditions? Then he handed the letter to Yelu Hanyu on the side. Jerutrius took the letter and read it.

Yang Peng said: "The Mongols probably rely on hundreds of thousands of elite horsemen in their hands, so they have nothing to fear!" Ya Yu Guanyin nodded and said, "It must be so, yes!" ”

Yelu Hanyu finished reading the letter and said, "Although the Mongols made such a request, it doesn't necessarily mean that there is nothing to talk about in this matter!" Maybe the Mongols could be forced to abandon the current conditions! ”

Yang Peng nodded and said, "Maybe." But I don't think it's likely. Narakshen has more than 100,000 elite horsemen in his hands, I'm afraid he wants to fight! ”

"If the Mongols insist, then we have only two choices. Either agree to their request and allow the Mongols to establish a state, and follow the example of Western Liao as a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty, so that we can not only solve the Mongol problem without bloodshed, but also have an extra elite army as the vanguard of the attack on Yehu Hugo; Otherwise, we will have to choose to destroy them, and the Mongol cavalry, although not very numerous, but very powerful, will cause us a great hindrance, and in the end we will pay a much more price than the first option. But the advantage of this second option is that it is better to solve the Mongolian problem once and for all, and to include Mongolia in the territory than to let them establish a state, right? ”

Yelu Hanyu said: "I tend to take the first path. If you can solve the problem easily, why choose the difficult path? What's more, the wild land of Mongolia is not very important for our Ming Dynasty! Why pay so much for this? ”

Yang Peng smiled, looked at Ya Yu Guanyin, and asked, "Guanyin, what do you think?" ”

Ya Yin said with a smile: "I choose the second way, I think it is better to directly occupy the Mongolian region." Yelu Hanyu said angrily: "If you don't go against me, it will be really strange! Ya Yin Guanyin laughed, "This is not against you, don't talk nonsense." Yelu Hanyu glanced at Yelu Guanyin and asked Chen Xiao, "What did the eldest brother say?" ”

Yang Peng touched his nose and said with a smile: "I haven't thought about this good thing properly!" Yelu Hanyu was disgusted, and Yelu Guanyin pointed at Yang Peng and laughed: "Big brother is playing tricks again!" ”

Yang Peng smiled: "Okay, okay, let's put this matter aside for the time being and talk about other things." The two girls immediately stopped laughing and resumed their serious expressions.

Yang Peng said: "I have ordered all armies to stop marching and rest on the spot. The attack was swift and the results were very gratifying. However, because the offensive was too fast, there were still many states and counties in the rear of our army, which were actually still in the hands of the Khitans. When the two girls heard this, they understood, and Ya Yu Guanyin said: "The eldest brother wants the main force to rest and recuperate, and at the same time solve the problems of these states and counties. I'll take care of that. Yelu Hanyu said: "It's better for me to do it." ”

Ye Yu Guanyin angrily said to Yelu Hanyu: "I used to be the eldest princess of the Liao Kingdom, I know many Wenchen and military generals, naturally I am the best candidate, Yelu Hanyu, you can't compete with me!" ”

Yelu Hanyu said-for-tat: "You used to be the eldest princess of Liao, but I used to be the princess of Liao, local officials of the people's situation in various places, no one is more familiar than me, I am definitely more suitable than you to appease those states and counties!" ”

Yang Peng couldn't help but smile when he saw the two women fighting each other and refusing to give in to each other: "Looking at you like this, I really don't understand how you transported the grain and grass over safely!" The two girls turned their heads together and gave Yang Peng a blank look. Two stunning women with very different styles rolled their eyes at the same time, what a charming scene it was, Yang Peng was fascinated on the spot. Then he came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Don't fight between the two of you!" Let's be in charge of this appeasement at the same time! The two girls were stunned, and then secretly competed. Ya Yu Guanyin said: "I'll do it immediately!" As he spoke, he turned around and left, Yelu Hanyu naturally wouldn't let Yelu Guanyin take the lead, and when he saw this, he also said: "Big brother, I'll go too!" Then he turned around and went.

Yang Peng called twice, but the two women who were competing didn't notice it, and they both went out of the big tent by themselves.

Yang Peng chased out of the big tent, only to see that the two women had already stepped on the war horses and walked away.

Yang Peng couldn't help but smile bitterly and muttered: "Finally, the two wives came, but in the blink of an eye, they became lonely again!" Alas, my life is so miserable! "Then I thought: 'Did you transfer Sister Yang Erya?' As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but be very moved, but I felt that it was really not good to move the army indiscriminately for the sake of my own small desire, so I had to give up on this matter.

The armies of the Ming Dynasty have stopped attacking. On the northern front, the front stopped at the first line of Raozhou and Jianshengzhou, the middle line stopped at the Shuangshan area, and the southern front stopped at the Songshan Mountain.

At the same time, the two Ming Niangniang each led 10,000 military troops to appease those states and counties that had not yet surrendered. These two mothers, one is the former princess of Liao, who has outstanding prestige among the people, and the other is the eldest princess of Liao, who has prestige among the bureaucrats of Liao. As soon as these two mothers came out, those states and counties that had not yet surrendered could be said to have surrendered, and Jinzhou, Tanzhou, Runzhou, Qianzhou, Laizhou, etc. surrendered one after another. However, the Khitans on Juehua Island have always refused to surrender. The two mothers were greatly annoyed, and immediately asked Yang Peng for his life to sweep away Juehua Island. Yang Peng transferred 10,000 elites of the First Army and 30,000 military troops to the two women, and asked them to attack Juehua Island together.

On the coast, the two women prepared boats to build rafts, ready to cross the sea to attack the island, and at the same time, in Raozhou, the Mongolian envoy was meeting Yang Peng: "Mongolian envoy, only on behalf of all men, women and children of our clan to visit Your Majesty, I wish Your Majesty a long life!" ”

Yang Peng said: "Your envoy came from afar, and there is no need to talk nonsense, let's make it clear." ”

When the Mongolian envoy heard this, he said: "My clan wants to belong to the Ming Dynasty, just like the story of Western Liao, and use it as a subject country of the Ming Dynasty!" Please give your Majesty's permission! ”

Yang Peng smiled, stood up, and walked in front of the Mongolian envoy, whose head was lowered.

Yang Peng looked down at the Mongolian envoy and said, "Now that a large area of Mongolia has been occupied by my Ming Dynasty, if I allow you to establish a Mongolian state, won't I give you so much land for nothing?" Do you think I'll say yes? ”

The Mongolian envoy couldn't help but sink his heart and said, "What is the use of the grassland land for the people of the Ming Dynasty?" It's better to hand it back to us Mongols, so that you can shield the north for Your Majesty!" Wouldn't that kill two birds with one stone? ”

Yang Peng smiled and asked rhetorically: "Let you herd horses in the north to recuperate, and then wait for the opportunity to invade the south?" When the Mongolian envoy heard this, he couldn't help but be a little flustered, and hurriedly swore: "We can swear to the Immortal Heaven that we will always be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and Your Majesty for generations!" If you break your oath, everyone in our clan will not be able to die a good death! ”

Yang Peng shook his head and said, "It's useless!" I don't want to talk to you about anything, the war has come to this point, and I must include the mountains and rivers of the north! No one or anything can stop this will! ”

The Mongolian envoy raised his head, his face showed a fierce light, and said: "If Your Majesty insists on going your own way, our clan will be desperate, and whether Your Majesty can extinguish the Liao State is probably not certain!" ”

Yang Peng laughed, his laughter was full of mockery, and the Mongolian envoy became unflustered. Yang Peng glanced at him and said with a smile: "Whether you work hard or not, it will not have any impact on the will of our Ming Dynasty, all that can be affected is the safety and misfortune of your Mongolians!" Once you choose the path of confronting my Ming to the end, my Ming will definitely show no mercy! Will Mongolia still exist at that time? The Mongolian envoy's face turned pale, and he knew very well that with the current power of the Ming Dynasty, these words were by no means a lie.

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