Chapter Ninety-Six: Short-handedness
Just when Yang Xiaotian was in despair, the army led by Luo Cheng inside the palace took the initiative to retreat and reserved a narrow checkpoint for him as a defense, which was simply an unexpected joy, and the old fox didn't care if it was a trap ahead, and the situation would not be worse than now. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 After he led 500 people, his son Yang Muchen led the remaining 4,000 people to retreat into the Chengde Gate in front of the Yanyang Palace.
Seeing that Yang Xiaotian led the troops to shrink, Chen Zhiyuan was willing to let him escape, and hurriedly chased after him, but the terrain in the palace was not conducive to the deployment of the army, and he did not have many longbow soldiers, so the old fox fought and retreated, and still arrived at Chengde Gate dangerously.
Yang Muchen at the head of the city was the answer, and only needed to deploy more than 100 archers, condescendingly and shooting, and the enemy who caught up was heavily killed and wounded.
It's a pity that the place reserved by Luo Cheng doesn't have an entrance to the tunnel, he doesn't want Yang Xiaotian to fly away, but now the real anger hasn't come in, and it is most beneficial for him to let the two armies of Na Chen and Yang kill each other. No one on Chen Zhiyuan's side knows the secret passage in the palace at all, even if Su Yan has been the concubine of the eldest prince for a few years, the waste wood is tight-lipped like a bottle, this is the way to save his life, of course, it will not be spread easily, and Diao Biqing is just a reluctant deputy commander in the palace, let alone heard of it.
At this time, the battle in the outer city was basically coming to an end, the governor Yang Mingsheng was defeated and committed suicide, except for the 3,000 people who were taken away by Diao Piqing, the rest of the 10,000 people were killed and wounded less than 20%, and the rest surrendered. Then the army represents orthodoxy, anyway, Luo Jing has become a mess, and it is not with which royal family. It's still important to live a little life, and everyone is as good as flowing.
After capturing Luojing, Zhenyi sent his cronies Zhao Tiedan and Zizang to guard the three gates to ensure that the fruits of victory would not be picked by others, and when he personally led an army of 30,000 to rush to the palace, the situation in Yan and Hui Prefectures had almost been settled.
But there will always be accidents in everything, and now the variable is in Yang Xiaotian's hands. That is her sister Yang Xuerao, since she was taken away from Fengyi Palace by her brother, she has never found a chance to talk to her relatives once. What's more, now that Yang Xiaotian is in danger, it is impossible to pay attention to this sister's thoughts.
It's just that whether to sit on the supreme throne or not, Yang Xuerao's heart is really hesitant, after all, her cousin treats her well. Zhe'er also grew up with her. It's just that her brother is ambitious, Luo Cheng will definitely refuse to give in, and her mood in the middle can be imagined.
Sometimes Yang Xuerao even wants to die in the chaos like this, but unfortunately she loves Luo Cheng very much, and she is unwilling to leave. It's really difficult to make a choice as a human being, not to mention that Yang Xuerao hasn't experienced any setbacks since she was a child, and now she can only hope that Luo Cheng can quell the turmoil as soon as possible, at most, she will save her brother's family in person.
It's hard to be so miserable for Yang Xuerao. Her brother and nephew didn't take her to heart at all, even if they were in a desperate situation now. There was no one to discuss with her at all. Yang Xuerao only has three children of the family who are afraid of death by her side, called protection, but in fact, she is evading responsibility.
The development of things was far beyond the expectations of Yang and Chen, and when the 30,000 troops rushed into the palace from the east, west, and south gates, Chen Zhiyuan was still hesitating.
Wu Tianshou is the vanguard of the Yan army, he led the troops from the south gate to enter, the closest to the Yanyang Palace, after discovering the enemy, immediately launched fireworks to warn, and soon the army gathered, and Chen Zhiyuan's army was sandwiched inside, and now from the outside to the inside are Zhen Yan, Chen Zhiyuan, Yang Xiaotian and Luo Cheng.
The rear was suddenly attacked, so that Chen Zhiyuan was surprised, according to yesterday's offensive outside the city, he concluded that it would take at least a few days for Yang Zhe to come in, but unfortunately the army outside the city has changed its master, so that this person who is undoubtedly wrong has also deviated, and now the road ahead is not passable, the back road has been broken, and a generation of heroes is helpless.
I really knew that Luo Cheng was in the innermost part of the palace, and the Savior wanted to storm it in his heart, but fortunately, even Chu was also in the army, he had anticipated all kinds of possibilities earlier, and did something at the exit of the secret passage of the Yanyang Palace, and now as long as 5,000 people were sent to reinforce Luo Cheng through the secret passage, Yang Xiaotian and Chen Zhiyuan, who were surrounded in it, could be taken down in one fell swoop.
With such a good proposal, Yan Yi readily accepted it, and immediately ordered the army to be led by Lian Chu, while he led the army to wait for it, beware of a master escaping.
Lian Chu led the army into the secret passage from the entrance of Vermilion Bird Avenue, and after walking a short distance, he met his senior brother Situ Lei, and after the two parties exchanged opinions, the two senior brothers joined forces again and killed together in the Yanyang Palace.
Luo Cheng relied on the Yanyang Palace, and did not let Yang Xiaotian's army take a step forward at all, and the three parties were in a stalemate for no more than an hour now, and when Lian Chu and Situ Lei led the army from the emperor's bedroom, this balance was finally broken. It is necessary to know that Yang Xiaotian guarded only a palace wall, and there was no danger to defend in the rear, and now Luo Cheng's side has increased to more than 8,000 people, almost twice as many as the other party, and there are Luo Cheng, Tu Xiaoyu, Zhang Bang, Lian Chu, Situ Lei and other masters, Yang Xiaotian has no luck.
At noon, after everyone had eaten a full meal of the delicacies they had scavenged from the various halls, Luo Cheng immediately ordered a fierce attack on Yang Xiaotian's army.
The square in front of the Yanyang Hall was open, enough for more than 200 people to walk side by side, Luo Cheng ordered 2,000 hoplites to be divided into dozens of rows to raise shields in front, he personally led the army, and 1,000 archers followed, by Zhang Storm to suppress the formation, and the remaining more than 5,000 people were prepared, so that they could repeatedly impact the enemy formation.
More than 3,000 people marched forward, and the heavy infantry neatly slapped their shields with their knives, and the sound of striking resounded through the sky, making people frightened. When there were still more than 100 paces left between the two armies, the longbowmen stood still, the bowstring was drawn into a full moon, and Zhang Bang gave an order, and the arrows took off, covering the sky, and the first arrow had not yet fallen into the enemy's formation, and the second arrow was already on the line......
The longbowmen in Yang Xiaotian's army are not far behind, the former robes are now their masters, on the battlefield either you die or I live, how can there be any emotion, for a time the archers on both sides suffered heavy casualties, but unfortunately Yang Xiaotian did not have reinforcements, and he was caught off guard, and the army was not at the mercy of the army, this kind of consumption is not something he can bear.
After the heavy infantry was hand-to-hand, the archers were useless, and Luo Cheng hurriedly replaced them, and lined up two thousand men five hundred paces behind the two warring sides, ready to enter the battle at any time.
In just one meal, the casualties on both sides add up to no less than 2,000 people, both sides have no way to retreat in the narrow terrain, Luo Cheng's side is better, the wounded can be dragged down in time for treatment, and for Yang Xiaotian's side, injury means death, under cannibalism, it is always the superior side with more morale, when Luo Cheng's second wave of offensive more than 2,000 people pounced, Yang Xiaotian's army finally faced collapse...... (To be continued.) )