Early the next morning, when the rooster had just crowed, Lijun Qingqi had already left Licheng.
Along with the friction of the steel armor and the tremor of the horse's hooves on the ground, the dark clouds that had been hanging over Li City for many days finally dissipated.
The blood stains on the top and bottom of the city gate have been cleaned away. Although you can still smell the smell of blood if you walk closer, it seems to be no big deal.
The heavily armed soldiers patrolling the streets also disappeared into the streets and alleys again, and only moved around in areas under military control such as city walls and military camps, as usual.
After the officials from Licheng's government office took to the streets one by one, holding loudspeakers to announce the fact that everyone in Licheng and even Lijun had paid homage to the new governor, the more courageous people took to the streets.
As more and more merchants' shops were asked by the government to reopen, more and more people came out of the houses and courtyards where they had lived for a long time. Licheng, a big city that had been prosperous for hundreds of years, quickly became lively.
The merchants and common people who had been suppressed for too long rekindled the city with a wave of astonishing consumption.
This kind of enthusiasm is probably the deepest spirit of this city.
However, not many people know that just when Lijun Qingqi left Licheng, Lijun's war machine had already started to move. A big battle had already begun at the place where Lijun Qingqi was about to go.
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Ganyuan is connected to the northern part of Yongchang County by a long and narrow valley. The towering Tianmen Mountain stands here, so people call this valley Tianmen Pass.
There is only one narrow and long road in Tianmen Mountain Pass, which is the Dading Official Road. On both sides of this official road, there are military camps from Yongchang County and Li County respectively. Usually, merchants and pedestrians can pass through unimpeded. Only a few times, there are military camps on both sides.
Only the camp may be subject to card review.
But the recent situation is a little different.
Both Li County and Yongchang County are constantly adding troops to the frontline camps at Tianmen Pass. The camps that could only accommodate 2,000 people have each expanded to nearly 10,000. The two sides are even more at war with each other, with more and more frequent battles.
Additional scouts were sent to patrol the official road inside the Tianmen Pass that had long been impassable. Small battles involving dozens or even dozens of people broke out more and more frequently, and the atmosphere in the camps on both sides became increasingly tense.
Fortunately, the peace has indeed lasted for a long time, and the generals on both sides have been relatively restrained. They have a tacit understanding and have not sent out a team of more than a hundred people to participate in the patrol. Therefore, as the confrontation lasted for a long time, the originally strong fighting spirit in the camps of both sides disappeared again.
A little lighter.
As night fell that day, the camp in Yongchang County was filled with joy because the patrol team of more than 70 people sent out today defeated the Gan Yuan army on the opposite side.
In the past period of time, except for the small number of patrols at the beginning, the Yongchang Northern Army occasionally won several times due to its large number of people. When the friction between the two sides became more intense, the number of patrols reached the level of ten or even dozens of people.
From then on, in the encounters on that narrow official road, the Yongchang Northern Army never took advantage of the slightest advantage. Now, there was such a young general who led his subordinates to defeat several ten-man teams from Lijun, and also defeated them.
Capturing one of the enemy's scout captains was undoubtedly great news for the Yongchang Northern Army generals who were in urgent need of inspiring results.
As a result, the young general became a model of heroism. He rode a tall war horse and was ordered to lead the captain who was tied into a rice dumpling. He walked through the camps and tents one by one. Everywhere he passed, there was joy, as if he had won a big victory.
generally.
The bonfire was lit very late and then gradually extinguished, and it was already late at night that the soldiers, who rarely relaxed, returned to the camp to rest.
According to the custom of these days, they can live a quiet life for a few days.
The sky is cloudy and there is no moon.
When it entered the second half of the night, the sleeping people fell into the deepest dreamland. Except for the firewood that was still being replenished by patrols around the camp at the foot of the mountain, the sky and the earth were completely dark. The thick night darkness swallowed everything up, and it seemed calm.
A dark curtain that blocks people's eyes.
Under the dark curtain, thousands of soldiers with their cloaks off were like cheetahs foraging for food in the jungle, quietly descending the mountain, each one moving skillfully, as if they were not walking on an unknown hillside, but on the mounds in their own backyard, as skillfully as they could.
Descending the hillside, blending into the night, approaching the camp.
Several flying swords that extinguished the light silently took away the lives of key checkpoints, making the soldiers from all walks of life advance more smoothly.
Then, a blue light lit up in the sky above the camp, like a faint star that was hard to detect, flickering on and off, back and forth endlessly.
After the stars flickered on and off nine times, more than a thousand sparks suddenly lit up outside the camp. A moment later, those thousands of sparks streaked across the sky like shooting stars and landed in the densely packed camp! Then, countless stars flashed across the sky like meteors.
Soldiers poured out from the darkness. They broke through the wall to resist the flood of horses and poured into the camp. They threw jars of burning kerosene into the military tent. In just a short time, most of the camp was on fire.
soaring!!
Countless soldiers of the Yongchang North Army woke up from their deep dreams and were already in the sea of fire. They didn't have enough time to react and didn't even bother to put on their armor. The smarter ones could pick up one or two weapons, while the more panicked ones just left naked.
The body rushes into the cold winter and merges into the world of blood and fire...
Only the officers and soldiers in the military tents near the core of the camp got some breathing space, but before they could find their respective queues in order, the sound of earth shaking and endless soldiers shouting for death could be heard from Tianmen Pass in the distance.
Just by listening to the sound, you knew it was definitely not a small group of enemies invading. Deserters immediately began to appear in the camp that was set on fire from three parties...
The leader of the Yongchang Northern Army here was General Yang Ming. When the fire broke out in the camp, he was still sleeping with his two young concubines in his big tent of the Chinese army. He waited until a soldier who had no regard for his identity panicked and directly
After he broke in and was slapped away by him, he seemed to have regained some consciousness. He didn't bother to put on his armor and ran out of the military tent with his upper body exposed. What he saw was already a sea of fire, "Shen Cheng, this thief...
...Are you crazy...?!"
His eyes were splitting, his lips were trembling, and he didn't know what to say for a moment, "How could he... how dare he?!"
"General, the camp has been destroyed, let's go?!" A soldier approached Yang Ming and said tremblingly.
Yang Ming reflexively slapped the opponent and spun him around, glaring angrily, "You want to escape?! You...!"
He pointed at the horrified soldiers, but out of the corner of his eye he saw the chaotic appearance of countless soldiers near and far in the camp with the night flames as the background. He couldn't help but be frightened, "Instructions, each unit is organized into units of hundreds.
, retreat to Tongcang City, organize your own troops, hurry up!!"
The ordering soldiers left quickly, and the soldiers began to gather around Yang Ming.
As more and more well-equipped soldiers gathered, Yang Ming's mood gradually stabilized. When the soldiers hurriedly helped him put on his armor, he looked at the collapsed arrow towers on both sides of the camp gate in the distance, and his eyes jumped unnoticeably.
He jumped, looked back at the military tent behind him, and squeezed out one word through his teeth, "Withdraw...!"