Chapter 19: The Battle of Fencheng
Li Chaoping and Zhang Tao hurried day and night, and it didn't take long for them to come to several cities close to the border passes, and in Li Luoyun's reply, Chaoping learned that they were in Fenzhou, so they hurried to Fenzhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Refugees outside the city of Fenzhou are displaced, many people in the city are busy fleeing, Chao Ping asked a refugee about the battle situation in front, the refugee said: "The city of Fenzhou has long been breached, General Li Lao has already ordered everyone to withdraw from the city, now there are almost no people in the city, our army and the Liao army dare not occupy this city, because the city wall and other fortifications have been damaged, can not resist the attack, this city has now been used by the armies on both sides as a buffer zone, it can be regarded as a dividing line, alas!" After this person finished speaking, he sighed and left, and Li Chaoping hurriedly took Zhang Tao along the road to find Li Luoyun.
Outside the city of Fenzhou, refugees gathered, and there were countless dead bodies, most of which were left by the two armies, and the clothes of the Liao army were also of any kind, obviously from multiple tribes, Chao Ping and Zhang Tao walked along the road outside the city, and suddenly found a man in black riding a horse, immediately carrying a big bag, and a person dressed as a chivalrous man ran towards Fenzhou City. Chao Ping and Zhang Tao saw it, "Strange." Chaoping said: "Why didn't this person run to the Central Plains but to the city, could it be that he was from the Liao army, what was in the bag?" "Ah, no, it's a princess." At this time, Chao Ping hurriedly took Zhang Tao and others to chase after that person, and after following up in the city, he couldn't find any trace of that person, Chao Ping's health was too bad, Zhang Tao didn't dare to throw him down in this place of right and wrong, so Zhang Tao and Chao Ping and his party looked for the man in black before. There were almost no living people in this city, at least they hadn't seen any living people in the city all the way, and some of the corpses here had long since decomposed, and some were insects or something. They searched street by street, and at night they didn't find it, so they found a relatively clean place to live, they were in a dead end, spread some Wei grass and fell asleep, the next morning, Chaoping felt that Zhang Tao was calling him, Chaoping got up and saw Zhang Tao like he gestured, meaning not to make a sound. Chaoping heard the sound of fighting, they slowly walked towards this sound in the alley, they only saw the man in black fighting with a person, that person was none other than Tian Zhen, the palace guard, Chaoping had seen him when he was in the capital. Chaoping watched carefully, they were fighting on the roof, and under the house stood a little girl, this girl was none other than the sixteenth princess. Tian Zhen found Chaoping and them, and while resisting the man in black wearing a hat, he shouted: "The son of the Li family will take the princess away." Chaoping hurriedly walked over with Zhang Tao to protect the princess, the princess was very frightened, but the moment she saw Chaoping, she felt very secure, of course she knew Chaoping, after all, they had been together for so long. "Brother Chaoping, why are you here. The princess said. Chaoping said, "Her Royal Highness the princess, come with me." Then he took the princess and went to the gate of the city.
When Chao Ping and Zhang Tao walked to the gate of the city, they saw a cavalry squad rushing in the distance, they hurriedly retreated into the city, Chao Ping said to Zhang Tao: "Brother Zhang, let's find a place to hide, they can't fight us on horseback, but look at them are only thirty or forty people, and they are introduced to us one by one, and now they go out to find grandpa's soldiers, and now we have more than ten people, it should be enough." Zhang Tao said: "Well, son, let's go to the alley first, and then make plans." "Those cavalrymen came to meet the man in black, and when they saw the princess, they didn't care about Tian Zhen and their fights, and they were all looking for Chaoping in the city. He scattered out and searched in groups of six. Zhang Tao and the others had already set up an ambush in a room in an alley that extended in all directions. It happened that a team came to their door, and the six of them kicked open the door with a kick, and rushed in with a scimitar, only to see Zhang Tao and them kill a few of them in three strokes and five by two, and then they went out, hoping to escape the search of these people and run out of the city. Walking on the street, I met more than a dozen Liao troops, a bloody battle, and finally killed and wounded three or four people, and wiped out those Liao troops, and a Liao army shot an arrow from the cuff before dying. "It's not good now, son, let's go. Zhang Tao hurriedly said to Chaoping. After saying that, they ran to the center of the city, intending to evacuate from the south gate of Fencheng, only to see dozens of Liao troops rushing from the east side of the street, these Liao troops did not appear out of thin air, they were sent to reconnoiter the city, and there was a small group of cavalry to meet the man in black. Zhang Tao hurriedly ordered his soldiers to resist hard to ensure that the prince and princess were out of the city, and then he took Chaoping and the princess Zhao Biying to the outside of the city in a hurry.
Tian Zhen and the man in black were evenly matched, and they were tired after fighting for two hours, only to see the man in black take off his cloak and shoot out a few sleeve arrows, these arrows went straight to Tian Zhen's chest, Tian Zhen fell down with a somersault, the man in black thought that Tian Zhen was injured and was a little careless, only to see Tian Zhen rise from the ground, and the knife from the bottom to the top of the body was picked up, and the hole was cut directly in the chest of the man in black, and then Tian Zhen stood up and continued to fight with the man in black, because the man in black was not injured lightly, and his physical strength also dropped rapidly, Tian Zhen seized the opportunity and killed him with a knife, Tian Zhen lifted his cloak, took a look, and it was obvious that he was from the Central Plains, It's not a Liao person, but why do things for the Liao people, he couldn't figure it out, and then he mentioned that he went around to find Chaoping and the princess.
Chaoping and the princess ran desperately to the city gate, Zhang Tao followed, and those Liao soldiers had been resisted by Chaoping's government soldiers, but they might not be able to hold out for long. Tian Zhen looked for a long time, saw Chaoping and them walked to the gate of the city, and just wanted to shout to them, they saw the eighteen horsemen of Youyun rushing from outside the city, Tian Zhen was shocked, and hurriedly ran over. Chaoping and Zhang Tao they saw Youyun Eighteen riding over, and then ran no longer in a hurry, only to see them in a blink of an eye, Zhang Tao was behind Chaoping and the princess, the princess was in front of Chaoping, a guy in a black robe in Youyun Eighteen rode up without saying a word and bent down to grab the princess on the horse, Chaoping saw this and hugged his arm tightly without saying a word, Zhang Tao then rushed up, did not wait for the person to hit Chaoping, Zhang Tao's knife came over, Zhang Tao and the person on the horse played two or three moves with one hand were drawn, at this time the person behind the knife to Zhang Tao slashed, Zhang Tao was defeated by the other party slashed to the face from the left forehead to the right cheek, His face was bloody and fell, and the man he was holding was just about to draw a knife to kill Chaoping, but Chaoping bit the man's right wrist in one bite, and the man shook his arm, and then the knife in his other hand slashed at Chaoping's head.