Xiao Hong couldn't help but said: "How could we find such a secluded path without someone's guidance? It can be seen that this is the death of Yanyun!" Then he ordered the army to enter the mountain.
So the 30,000 elite soldiers turned into a long, thin snake winding between dangerous peaks and mountains, advancing slowly. Several hundred sergeants who were good at mountain climbing opened the way in front, and others followed behind. The mountain road was not only very rugged, but also
It is very bumpy and dangerous. Above is a steep mountain wall with dangerous rocks, and below is a bottomless abyss. If a small stone rolls down, you will not hear the sound of hitting the bottom for a long time; the mountain road is only a few feet wide.
The Khitan army could not move forward side by side at all, and could only move forward one by one, at a very slow speed.
At this time, the sound of killing in the direction of Yanmen Pass was much quieter. It was not that the sound was getting smaller, but that the steep mountains here hindered the propagation of the sound.
Xiao Hong led an army of 30,000 people to walk among the cliffs and mountains for more than an hour. The front suddenly stopped, and the whole team couldn't help but stop. Xiao Hong looked up and saw that the front team had arrived at an extremely dangerous place.
The sergeants who were opening the road in front climbed over on their hands and knees. Suddenly there was a loud crash and a shrill scream. Everyone was startled and then saw a sergeant who was opening the road in front sliding down the cliff, and his body quickly disappeared into the valley.
After a long time, I heard a muffled bang, which was already very deep.
Everyone stood in a daze on the mountain road, feeling worried. Xiao Hong came to his senses and shouted: "Keep moving!" The army continued to move forward, more cautiously than before, and most of them climbed on all fours regardless of their appearance.
, in short, image is not as important as life.
Rumble... There was a sudden loud noise on the mountain. The Khitan soldiers on the mountain road were startled. They looked up subconsciously and saw several huge rocks rolling down from the mountain with the force of thunder! The Khitan soldiers were shocked.
They all dodged, and some people lost their footing and fell off the cliff. A few unlucky guys couldn't escape, and were hit by large rocks rushing down from the mountain. Their flesh and blood flew everywhere.
When everything calmed down, the Khitan soldiers had just recovered from their shock. Xiao Hong cursed in annoyance: "The landslide would have happened sooner or later, but it happened at this time!" Then he shouted to the soldiers: "Keep moving forward!"
We continued to move forward, but with the experience just now, everyone glanced upward from time to time. Under the moonlight, many soldiers suddenly saw that the entire mountain seemed to be moving, and then they saw countless rocks rushing down, making a loud noise like rolling thunder.
, like a flash flood erupting, and like the sky falling apart, the whole mountain seems to be shaking!
The soldiers of the Khitan Army suddenly changed their colors and shouted one after another. Some ran forward and some ran backwards for their lives. However, the narrow mountain road did not allow them to escape in time. As a result, they pushed each other and many people fell off the cliff.
At this moment, rocks and rocks rushed down like a waterfall. In an instant, I saw blood and flesh flying all over the mountain road. Even those who were not killed on the spot were knocked down into the abyss by the huge impact. They cleverly held their bodies tightly at the critical moment.
The ground was pressed against the mountain wall, but he escaped disaster.
The huge roar and screams lasted for a while before they stopped.
Xiao Hong had just calmed down from the shock. He looked at the mountain road and saw that it was a mess. There were many corpses lying on the mountain road. Those who were not dead were huddled on the inside of the mountain wall. The general Xiao Hu said: "General, what happened just now?"
It really doesn’t look like a natural landslide!” Before he finished speaking, he heard the laughter of many people coming from the mountain. The Khitan troops huddled on the mountain road were all startled, and they all looked up and saw the bright light on the mountain.
Many torches were set up, and under the light of the fire there were countless soldiers in armor. Needless to say, they must be the Yanyun Army.
The Khitan army officers were horrified, and Xiao Hong said in disbelief: "Why, how could this happen? How did they know there was such a path?!" Xiao Hong was also too confident, and he did not want to think about the generals in the Yanyun army.
If a man is not both wise and brave, what he can think of cannot be thought of by the generals in the Yanyun Army. In fact, Han Bing already knew this path when he was stationed at Yanmen Pass. In addition, there is another path.
The small road was known to the Yanyun Army but not to the Khitan Army.
Yang Jiumei looked at the Khitan army unable to advance or retreat on the mountain road below. She smiled coldly, raised her right hand and waved forward. The soldiers around her pushed down many rocks with all their strength. A scene like a mountain torrent appeared again, and the rocks were rushing forward again.
It went down and smashed many Khitan soldiers into the air, causing screams.
Xiao Hong's anxious voice sounded: "Retreat, retreat!" These Khitan troops were all elites in the Khitan army. Therefore, despite the huge changes, no one escaped without orders without permission. Now Xiao
Hong's order to retreat was given, and the Khitan army officers and soldiers turned to prepare to retreat. However, the mountain road was narrow and steep, and it was simply impossible to retreat in a short time.
The Yanyun army on the mountain just threw stones and shot arrows. Screams were heard one after another on the mountain road. The Khitan army soldiers were extremely angry and frightened. However, under such circumstances, their opponents had taken advantage of them. Even if they wanted to fight back, they could not.
Can't do it.
The Khitan army slowly retreated down the mountain. Stones and arrows were flying overhead. No one knew how many people had died in vain. Finally, the Khitan army withdrew from the ambush range of the Yanyun army.
Looking at the thrilling mountain road in the distance, everyone was extremely happy, but at the same time they couldn't help but feel fearful.
Xiao Hong cursed angrily: "I will repay this revenge to you ten times and a hundred times in the future!" The voice echoed in the mountains: "Give it back to you, give it back to you..." All the soldiers couldn't help but feel the same way.
Thinking of the scene of escaping from death just now, I couldn't help but feel furious.
Wow, wow, wow... A huge and terrifying scream suddenly came from above. The Khitan army officers were startled and looked up one after another. They saw a huge and ferocious black man carrying a pair of cold-light axes coming from above.
He jumped down from the bushes, and at the same time, hundreds of extremely fierce sergeants jumped down with steel swords in their hands.
The Khitan soldiers were shocked, and before they could react, they were rushed into the middle. The big black man roared strangely, and a pair of axes flew up and down, slashing the Khitan soldiers' flesh and blood. The other soldiers were also equally ferocious.
, killing lives wantonly like a bloodthirsty beast.
The Khitan soldiers had just recovered from the shock when they were attacked by such a fierce attack. Even the most elite soldiers could not help but panic. However, they had not collapsed yet, and many of them were still fighting back desperately. At this time, if Xiao Hong could take the lead and fight the enemy fiercely, he would
Maybe the situation can be restored, but Xiao Hong's performance was far from his heroic words just now. Seeing hundreds of extremely ferocious Yan Yun kill him, he was so frightened that he fled down the mountain in a hurry. In this way,
The morale of the Khitan army collapsed. Seeing that their commander had escaped, the Khitan soldiers lost all interest in fighting. They scrambled for their lives, pushed each other and fell off the cliff. Countless people died, far more than Yang Jing and the others.
Yang Jing was ready to kill, and he pursued him first with two axes. He couldn't help shouting excitedly, and saw that the Khitan soldiers who had no time to run away were cut into two pieces by him like firewood. Yang Jing and the others were getting closer and closer.
The more excited they were to kill, the more panicked the Khitan army became as they ran, truly rolling and crawling in a panic without choosing the right path.
The Khitan army finally escaped from the mountains. Seeing that the Yanyun army was no longer chasing them, they calmed down a little. Looking back on the experience in the mountains just now, I really felt like I was a human being again.
Xiao Hong looked at the soldiers around him. Although he hadn't counted them yet, he felt that they were almost half less than before entering the mountain. He felt depressed, angry, and scared at the same time, and there was also a sense of luck. Looking around,
Not seeing Xiao Hu and Zhou Fang, he was surprised and quickly raised his voice and asked: "Where are General Xiao and General Zhou?"
The soldiers looked around, and an officer rushed to Xiao Hong and reported: "Reporting to the general, I saw General Xiao Hu being knocked off the cliff by rocks on the mountain road!"
Xiao Hong was stunned for a moment, and then a feeling of sadness arose in his heart. Suddenly he thought of Zhou Fang, and asked quickly: "Where is General Zhou?" The officer shook his head and said he didn't know. At this time, another officer rushed over to report;
"Just now, General Zhou Fang was chopped into two pieces by the 'Black Evil God' with an axe!"
Xiao Hong was startled, and immediately felt like he wanted to cry without tears. He originally planned to seize Yanmen Pass with a surprise attack, but he didn't expect that the other party was already prepared. Not only half of the army was lost, but also two trusted generals were killed! What's really going on?
Stealing the chicken will end up losing the rice!
Xiao Hong felt sorry for himself for a while, calmed down, and led the remaining defeated soldiers back to the camp. When he returned to the military camp, he found that Xiao Zhanle had not returned yet, so he immediately ordered Xiao Zhanle to withdraw his troops and return to the camp.
Xiao Zhanle withdrew his troops and returned to the camp. He rushed into the tent and saw Xiao Hong sitting dejectedly on the commander's seat. He immediately expected something and did not dare to offend him. He just saluted and said, "The general has been ordered to withdraw!"
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Xiao Hong nodded, looked up at Xiao Zhanle, and asked: "How is the situation when you pretend to attack Yanmen Pass?" Xiao Zhanle said: "The opponent is well-defended, and our army has no chance to take advantage of it! However, because the general was only ordered to feint to attack.
, so there weren’t many casualties!”
Xiao Hong nodded and said, "Okay, as long as there are not many casualties!" After a pause, he said to Zhan Le, "Pass the order, all armies will be on guard. Without my order, no one is allowed to go into battle without permission. Violators will be punished under military law!"
Xiao Zhanle accepted the promise and ran down. Xiao Hong was stunned for a while, sighed, walked to the front of the marching collapse, and lay down.
His eyes turned to Datong Mansion.
The Liao army rested for a night, and early the next morning, they lined up to attack the city again. The battle was very fierce, and the Khitan army soldiers fought bravely to attack the city. However, Datong Mansion was like a Jincheng soup pool, with waves of attacks crashing into it.
The city wall was broken into countless pieces! This battle lasted for three days.
On the fourth day, the Khitan army continued to attack the city, and the intensity of the attack was obviously stronger than that of the previous three days. Just when the battle was stalemate and the two sides were fighting inextricably, the Khitan army unexpectedly launched many cannons with thick iron pipes in the battle formation. All the artillery pieces
All were concentrated in the direction of the West City Gate, because the Khitan Army had discovered through these days of siege that the West City Gate was the weakest defense point for the Yanyun Army.
The Khitan army's siege troops retreated like an ebbing tide. Immediately, the artillery fired in unison, and more than two hundred cannons roared at the same time. It was really earth-shattering and deafening! I saw the rain of bullets whizzing against the city wall, making a loud crackling sound, and countless
The wall bricks fell off, and two cannonballs hit the gate tower one after another, causing the majestic gate tower to collapse.
More than two hundred artillery bombardments continued for a long time. Although a lot of wall bricks collapsed, the entire structure was not damaged. This was also thanks to the Khitan people. If they hadn't reinforced Datong Mansion so well, how could they have done it?
Withstand such non-stop bombardment from more than two hundred artillery pieces?
Yeqianhu City saw that the city wall remained motionless under the bombardment of artillery fire, and couldn't help but cursed angrily: "It is so well built, but Yan Yun has been given an advantage. How can it be true?" Yeqianlongqing, who was accompanying the army, couldn't help but feel ashamed.
, he spent a lot of money to strengthen the city wall of Datong Mansion. He originally planned to use it as a golden soup pool to resist Yan Yun's army, but he didn't expect that it would become a hard nail that hindered his own side. He is really not as good as a human being.
God bet.
The artillery continued to fire for a while. Seeing that this was a waste of ammunition, Yeqihu City ordered the artillery group to stop bombarding. The roar of the artillery gradually stopped.
But at this moment, fireworks suddenly surged on the city wall, and then the huge roar of artillery reached the ears of the Khitan army soldiers. The Khitan army soldiers did not react for a moment, thinking it was the huge noise from their own artillery. However, this thought
Before the rotation was completed, the artillery shells flying from the city wall fell into the middle of our own artillery group. In an instant, dust and flesh were flying everywhere, and the artillery pieces were smashed to pieces by the roaring artillery shells! Khitan Army Artillery
They were rolling around and crawling around, making a mess! It turned out that the flaw in the west city wall was actually exposed by Cao Jun on purpose. He did this to lure Yeqihu City to concentrate all the artillery in this direction, so that he could gather them.
While destroying it, Cao Jun deliberately exposed his flaws and secretly moved the artillery onto the city wall, leaning it on the inside and covering it with a tarpaulin so that it could not be seen outside the city. When the opponent's artillery group appeared and the attack failed, he was ready to retreat.
At this moment, the artillery that had been ambushed on the city wall suddenly pushed up and opened fire. As expected, it worked immediately.
A round of fire rushed over, and the place where the Khitan army's artillery group was originally located was in a mess. The originally very powerful artillery pieces lay staggered on the ground, and there were many broken corpses of the Khitan army. The Khitan army officers saw
Such a scene is extremely shocking.
Yeqi Hucheng reacted first and shouted urgently, "Save the artillery now!"
The Khitan Army's artillerymen and some infantry troops rushed forward, preparing to rescue the intact artillery before the Yanyun Army's artillery unleashed its power again.
At this moment, countless fireworks appeared on the city wall, and then an earth-shattering roar came. The Khitan army officers were shocked, and Ye Qihu City exclaimed: "Why so fast?" Haha, ancient artillery.
It is indeed impossible to be so fast, but Cao Jun thought of a clever way to divide all the artillery into two parts and fire one after another. The artillery that just bombarded the enemy's artillery array was actually only half the number, and the other half was ready to go but was not.
Open fire, wait for the enemy to come out to rescue the artillery, and then open fire together to catch him off guard.
The Khitan soldiers were rescuing the artillery, but they did not expect the enemy's artillery fire to come in. All they saw was blood and flesh flying everywhere. The artillerymen and infantry did not care about rescuing the artillery, and ran away one after another.
The second round of sudden fire attack caused heavy losses to the Khitan army, with the loss of personnel second. What was most unbearable for Yeqihu City was that many of the precious artillery were destroyed. Yeqihu City strictly ordered the sergeant
Stepping forward to rescue the artillery piece, the sergeants, forced by the pressure of military law, had no choice but to step forward and suffered heavy casualties under Yanyun's artillery fire, but could not save the artillery piece.
The Yanyun Army's artillery fire took turns, and the Khitan Army could only watch their artillery being destroyed, but there was nothing they could do. When everything calmed down, the Khitan Army's artillery positions were left with only wreckage on the ground.
, the wreckage of the artillery and the wreckage of the Khitan soldiers were shocking. The two eyes of Yeqi Hucheng almost spit out fire, but what could be done?
At the same time, the sound of artillery was also rumbling in the other two directions. Although Yeqi Hucheng did not see the situation in the other two directions, he knew from the sound that the situation must be bad. Although he wanted to fight with Yan Yunjun, but his reason was not
He told him that the attack must be stopped. Yeqi Hucheng forced himself to suppress his anger and ordered all attacking directions to stop attacking and withdraw his troops back to camp. The battle was over. The Khitan army suffered more losses than the previous days combined, but
No progress has been made at all.
The atmosphere in the Khitan army's tent was extremely depressing, and no one said a word. Many generals no longer had much hope of conquering Datong Mansion. They felt that the Yanyun army's artillery was too powerful, and their own artillery was almost completely destroyed. How could they fight this battle?
Ye Qi Hucheng stood up, and the generals were shocked, and their heads hung lower. However, Ye Qi Hucheng did not get angry, but walked to the sand table in the middle of the tent, looked at the terrain on the sand table, and thought about it.
. Suddenly his expression changed, and he pointed at Yu He, "Yu He! I have a solution!" The generals glanced at Yu He, but they were all confused.
Yeqihucheng rushed to Han Chang and said: "Han Chang, you immediately lead ten thousand soldiers under your command to a place thirty miles upstream to build a dam and block the river water!" The generals were all veteran generals on the battlefield. After hearing what Yeqihucheng said,
Yeqi Hucheng immediately understood Yeqian Hucheng's intention, and their eyes lit up. Han Chang saluted and agreed excitedly. Yeqian Hucheng then said to Xiao Qianbuju: "Xiao Qianbuju, you lead 10,000 cavalry to guard Han Chang."
, just in case!" Gan Buli bowed and promised.
"Li Yanqi, lead your five thousand infantry to dig a diversion channel outside the North City of Datong." Li Yanqi came out to accept the promise. Ye Qian Hucheng glanced at the three of them and said, "The sooner this happens, the better. Han Chang, Xiao Qianbujue"
, you two take action tonight, don’t let Yan Yun’s army notice you!” The two men agreed and immediately left the tent.
What solution did Yeqianhu City come up with? You might as well take a guess. Haha, you guessed it right, it’s the water attack. It’s the Mid-Autumn Festival, the climate is dry, and the Yuhe River is not a big river, it’s just a mulberry dry river.
It is very convenient to build a dam to block water on a tributary of the river. There is no problem at all. If ten thousand people work day and night, a simple dam can be built in three days. After ten days, the dam will be able to accumulate enough water. At that time
, open the dam, and the river water that is bound upstream will rush out in an instant, rushing downstream with the infinite power of uplifting mountains and crushing dryness. The water diversion channel dug by Li Yanqi can guarantee that such a force will be directed to Datong Prefecture.
The strategy of water attack has been an effective strategy often used in China and abroad from ancient times to the present. It can be regarded as a kind of utilization of the power of nature. During the Three Kingdoms period, when Cao Cao defeated Lu Bu, Lu Bu's last city could not be conquered for a long time.
Cao Cao then came up with the idea of using water jars to lower Pi; during the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government also did a similar thing and dug up the Yellow River, but that was to retreat and stop the enemy rather than attack. China's losses were much greater than Japan's.
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Ye Qian Hucheng looked at the sand table and considered it carefully for a moment, trying to find the loopholes in this plan. After thinking for a moment, he felt that this water attack plan could be said to be impeccable. If Cao Jun had not noticed it, then when the water flooded Datong Mansion,
, he may not know what is going on; if he senses it in advance, that's fine, he can only take the risk of leading his army out of the city to attack my dam-building army, so that he can be killed on the way.
If you don't stay, kill as many of them as they come out. In short, once this water attack strategy is implemented, you will be in an invincible position.
Ye Qian Hucheng smiled confidently. However, Yang Peng's face suddenly appeared in his mind, and his anger suddenly surged. He frowned and murmured: "We must beware of him attacking our building."
Dam army!" With this thought, he ordered Xiao Loushi to lead 20,000 war horses to the east bank of Yuhe River to guard against Yang Peng and the Xuanjia army that came and went without a trace, and then assigned tasks to the other generals.
, guarding the fort, guarding the fort, ambush halfway.
After the arrangement was completed, Ye Qianhu City ordered the generals to retreat, return to the main seat and sit down. Exhaustion surged up uncontrollably, and he couldn't help but close his eyes and gently rub his temples. At this time, there was a sound from the door.
Rapid footsteps. Ye Qi Hucheng opened his eyes and saw a very strong young general in his twenties running in excitedly. Ye Qi Hucheng's extremely stern and fierce face immediately revealed a look of love.
Come.
The young general rushed to the front of Yeqihu City and said, "Grandson, meet grandpa!" It turned out that this young general was the most beloved grandson of Yeqihu City, Yeqi Pingnan.
Ye Qian Hucheng said: "Get up." Ye Qian Pingnan stood up.
Ye Qi Hucheng asked: "Did you not encounter any enemies while escorting the grain and grass?" Ye Qi Pingnan shook his head, "I didn't even see a shadow of a ghost! Grandpa, I really want to see that King Yan, but I do.
Let’s see which one is stronger, his horse or my mace!”
Ye Qian Hucheng laughed loudly, "Okay! Grandpa is very happy that my grandson has such ambition!" Then he frowned, "But if you meet Yang Peng, you must not be reckless! King Yang Peng of Yan is the most brave in the world.
, Invincible, you are no match for him! If you meet him, you must win with more, and you must not fight with him alone!" Ye Qian Pingnan was very unconvinced, "Grandpa looks down on his grandson, so my grandson must prove it to grandpa!
"Ye Qi Hucheng said sternly: "You must remember what grandpa said and never act arbitrarily!" Ye Qi Pingnan was shocked. He had never seen his grandpa speak to him so sternly! Although he was still unconvinced,
But he didn't dare to go against his grandpa and nodded, "I understand."
Ye Qian Hucheng's expression softened, "My grandson, your martial arts skills are indeed rare among the younger generation! However, compared with King Yan, there is still a long way to go! You still need time!"