Chapter three hundred and thirty fourth army pressure (1)
At dawn, there was noisy outside the military account.
The Khitan soldiers came and went, either making fire, cooking, or mobilizing. Zhou Bian knew that this meant that they were leaving.
These Khitans will cross the Mengyin River and defeat Bai Wenxi's Western Route Army. Where the horse's hooves pass, there will be no grass growing, and they will point their swords at Fengzhou.
The curtain was suddenly lifted, but A Baoji walked in.
"Are you here?" A Baoji looked up and saw Zhou Bian. He was stunned for a moment, then saw Yelu Hailan lying on Zhou Bian's legs like a gentle kitten. A Baoji's face suddenly turned dark.
"Cough cough." A Baoji coughed, "Master of the Big Wolf, my subordinates have something to report."
Zhou Bian suddenly felt Yelu Hailan on his legs open his eyes, and the next moment, Yelu Hailan sat up.
Only then did he realize that Yelu Hailan didn't sleep all night.
She was just lying on her lap.
Yelu Hailan blanched at Zhou Bian, and there was an ineffective anger between her eyebrows.
She closed her hair and said:
"What's wrong?"
"The army has set off. Lord of the Wolf, it's time for us to set off."
"Where is Yelu Zong and Ashina Chongguang?"
"They have already led the vanguard."
"Okay." Yelu Hailan nodded and turned to Zhou Bian beside her:
"Wait for me to come back here, and don't forget what I said to you."
Zhou Bian nodded blankly and watched Yelu Hailan get up and walk towards the door. He suddenly felt something in his heart becoming empty and said hurriedly:
"Can I go to find you when I kill Yelu Yan?"
Yelu Hailan stopped, turned around, looked at Zhou Bian with a smile on her face.
"Hurrah."
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Chuanyang Army garrison.
After a few days of rest, Li Xin'an's injuries have almost healed.
I don’t know if it was because he was lucky or Zhou Bian’s subconscious mind, but the arrow that should have killed him hit the vital point, but it was not deep.
"Brother Li, how are you doing?" Ye Qinglan visited.
"It's no big deal anymore, you can move freely."
Li Xin'an's expression seemed a little lonely, as if the improvement of his physical injury was not something to be happy about.
"I know what you are thinking." Ye Qinglan stared at Li Xin'an's eyes and sighed:
"You still want to save people, don't you?"
"……right!"
"I talked to Brother Chang Yu about this. What he meant was that people would save you. You can't go."
"Why?" Li Xin'an raised his head in shock and looked at Ye Qinglan. The latter looked serious, obviously not saying anything.
"This should be what Pei Shuai meant." Ye Qinglan said, "He hasn't come to see you these days. I'm afraid he has made this decision a long time ago and has been hiding from you."
"Why did the master do this..." Li Xinan looked confused, "I can't stop going."
"You know your own shortcomings very well." Ye Qinglan sighed deeply, "Brother Li, you are too prone to emotional trouble."
“…I can change.”
"Disaster."
Ye Qinglan shook his head and said, "One Zhou Bian makes you feel desperate to save people and lose your correct judgment of the situation. What's more, now are you going to save Murong Bai and Xiao Xuangan, who were captured in order to cover us?"
"At that time, Brother Li, you will be more excited than anyone else."
Li Xin'an remained silent.
"These days, Brother Chang Yu and I have talked a lot and learned a lot of your past from him." Ye Qinglan said, "It's hard for me to believe that you were so... cold-blooded."
"Brother Chang Yu said, when you were fifteen years old, you took thirty blood-clothed killers to assassinate Xue Cheng, the owner of Baili Jian Tower in Qinzhou. Xue Cheng was cruel by nature and loved to go out and hunt. I don't know when your assassination was leaked. Xue Cheng set up an ambush in advance, and you suffered heavy losses. Only
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You escaped alone, and finally you were desperate and plunged into the Han River."
"Xue Cheng threatened you next to the Han River. He peeled all the injured and caught Assassins in Blood Clothing Hall, chopped them into meat paste by the Han River, and threw them into Han River. The blood water made the river water red. Even so, you did not show up."
"In the end, Xue Cheng thought you were dead and let go of your guard. Then you jumped out of the Han River and took Xue Cheng's head away."
"Brother Li, compared to you, who was cruelly killed in front of you, you have really changed a lot now."
After hearing this, Li Xin'an sighed: "Yes, now thinking about it, the one I in my memory is so strange, it is hard to imagine how I endured it. If I had been fifteen years old who had been in the blood-red Han River for two hours, I saw Li Xin'an now, I was afraid I wouldn't believe it."
"No, you are very good now." Ye Qinglan said, "We don't want our hall master to be a big demon who is full of indifference to human life. If so, Murong Bai and the others will have no meaning to fight to the death."
"So, I'm going to save them."
"So, you have to be honest!"
Chang Yu walked in from outside, and Li Xinan said helplessly: "Senior brother, I promise not to cause trouble."
"This is no longer a question of who will go." Chang Yu's face was solemn, "I'm afraid, none of us can go."
"What happened again?"
"Just just got the information, the Khitans made a big move, and nearly 100,000 people were displayed less than a hundred miles away from us."
"The situation is true?" Li Xin'an and Ye Qinglan looked at each other and couldn't help but take a breath:
"How did the master and Bai Wenxi decide?"
"I don't know yet, but the master gave me an order. Once I find the Khitan army, I will immediately send you back to Fengzhou. The luggage has been packed and I will set off in an hour."
"I won't leave!" Li Xin'an said angrily, "Who does the master treat me as? Am I a greedy person who is afraid of death!"
"You stay here just cause trouble." Chang Yu said, "What's the use of fighting a war? The master still has to spend energy to take care of you. You say you will change, you say you are not emotional, so you are slapping yourself in the face now?"
"I..." Li Xin'an was speechless for a moment and lowered his head in dismay.
At this moment, Fu Kang's voice rang outside the camp:
"Is Mr. Li here?"
"Brother Fu, please come in."
Fu Kang walked in and saw that Chang Yu was also here. The two nodded and greeted each other.
"Brother Fu, what's the matter with me?"
"Pei Shuai wants to see you."
"Master?" Li Xin'an said in surprise, "Where is he?"
"Zongmen."
...
Seeing Pei Min standing outside the gate from afar, Li Xin'an walked over with a complicated expression and shouted in a low voice:
"master."
"The Khitans are about to attack, do you know?"
"Senior brother has told me."
"Do you think it's heartless to send you back to Fengzhou?"
"Something." Li Xin'an sighed deeply, "I also understand that I am just a drop in the ocean to war and it's nothing. Staying here can only drag you down... I'm willing to go to Fengzhou!"
"But... we must rescue Bai Mutou and the others!"
Pei Min smiled: "I have not officially notified you yet, and you have already made up your mind to return to Fengzhou. If there is any change, I will not call you."
Li Xinan was stunned for a moment and asked tentatively:
"What do you mean?"
"Ship Bai and I have formulated strategic policies. Faced with an army of hundreds of thousands of Khitans, it is natural to be inappropriate to fight. Therefore, we reached a consensus that the army retreated and retained vitality. At the same time, we strengthened the walls and cleared the fields to ensure that the Khitans could not get effective supplies, thereby lengthening their supply lines.
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He sent people to ask for help from the Central Army, and ordered the Eastern Army to launch a large-scale attack, besieged Wei and rescue Zhao, forcing the Khitans to return to defense."
Pei Min said in a deep voice: "The woman named Yelu Hailan is undoubtedly a genius. She will increase her troops and reduce her stoves and hide the situation. Once they are caught up, the Khitan will be able to break through Fengzhou in one go. At that time, thousands of fertile fields will be the supply of these hundreds of thousands of Khitan soldiers. They can fight back and annihilate all the Central Army and the Eastern Army."
"But this strategy also has a big disadvantage, that is, the Khitans must pass us faster than time. As long as we distance ourselves and delay, the Khitans will be defeated in a hard expedition!"
"But our enemy is not just Yelu Hailan." Li Xin'an whispered, "and An Lushan."
"The food and grass of the Eastern Army are all supplied by the three towns. Once An Lushan interferes, the plan to surround Wei and save Zhao will fail. Just the Central Army cannot save us."
"So, we still need to take the initiative."
Pei Min smiled mysteriously: "Guess how empty the Mengyin River camp is this time in Khitan's large-scale attack? Their food and supplies are all transported there."
Li Xin'an thought of something, and his excited voice began to tremble: "Master, don't tell me that the Chengyang Army is going to bypass the enemy's back and rush to the back of the Khitan."
“That’s exactly that.”
Pei Min said: "Burn food and grass, cut off its supplies, and make the Khitan lose its own way. You can also save your friends by the way, killing two birds with one stone."
"So is this saying that I can go too?"
"If you insist on going back to Fengzhou, I won't stop you." Pei Min said with a smile.
"Thank you, Master!" Li Xin'an said excitedly, "When will you set off?"
"I'll leave tonight." Pei Min said, "Before I leave, I have some things to do with my subordinates."
...
As night fell, three thousand elite cavalry were ready to go outside the Chengyang military camp.
"This time I attacked the enemy, I must be concealed, so the number of people should not be too large." Pei Min said, "I went to the battle myself this time, Chang Yu's house is flat?"
"There are the following!" the two of them said in unison.
"You two lead 5,000 troops and stay here with the 8,000 Chuanyang Army. As the first line of defense for the army to retreat. Remember, once you fight, you must not be surrounded by the Khitans and retreat while fighting."
"Receive the order under the mark!"
"Zhang Zhongyou?"
"Tagged below!"
"You bring three hundred men and horses, traveling starry night and rush to the middle army for help. It is important to bring back reinforcements within ten days."
"Receive the order under the mark!"
"Meng Guoliang, Lan Zuxing?"
"Tagged below!"
"You two led 3,000 troops, as the second line of defense for the retreat of the army, the purpose was not to block the enemy, but to support Chang Yu and Fang Ping's retreat."
"Receive the order under the mark!"
All the orders were ordered, Pei Min looked around, and everyone's face was full of determination.
This time it was a tough battle, a tough battle that the Chengyang Army had never fought before. The Khitans were several times their own troops. After this battle, I don’t know how many people could survive.
Pei Min took a deep breath and said slowly:
"Everyone, after this battle, I and I will celebrate the merits in the Mengyin River Camp!"
He turned the reins and shouted loudly:
"Set off!"
...
Inside the Chuanyang Army's garrison.
Bai Wenxi stood outside the tent, looking at the sky worriedly.
"Ship Bai, why don't we stop Pei Shuai's desperate action this time?" asked Deputy General Yin Ying.
"Stop? This is the only way to break the enemy. How to stop it?"
Bai Wenxi sighed and said, "Now, I can only rely on Pei Min to cut off the Khitans' retreat so that they can't take care of each other."
The two sighed without notice. In the shadow, there were pairs of cold eyes watching all this.
Soon, a small eagle falcon rose into the air and flew north in the Tang camp.