Two hundred and eightieth chapter: The Battle of Yanmen Pass Twenty-two
"Long live the old general, come and ask for an audience," Zhang Huaian said respectfully to Yang Guang, who was sitting on the dragon chair, in the palace inside Yanmen Pass.
"Yes," Yang Guang nodded feebly after hearing Zhang Huaian's words. These days, he has been frightened much more than he had in the first half of his life combined. Yang Guang is not young now. Such a series of frights After coming down, Yang Guang's body couldn't bear it anymore.
Soon, Lai Hu'er walked into Yang Guang's palace under the leadership of Zhang Huaian. Although Lai Hu'er was fifty or sixty years old, he had a strong smell of blood on his body at the moment, and he was walking , Huhu was so powerful that even the ordinary young disciples were not as good as him. Lai Huer strode to the front of Yang Guang, knelt down with his fists clasped in front of Yang Guang, and shouted loudly: "Lai Huer, see my emperor, long live, long live ,Long live,"
"Come on, old general, get up." For Lai Hu'er, Yang Guang is now Yang Guang's life-saving straw. In the past few days, thanks to Lai Hu'er, he has come up with all the clever strategies and was able to defend Yanmen Pass. Therefore, even though Yang Guang is now I didn't have much energy, but when I saw Lai Hu'er coming, I still cheered up and said to Lai Hu'er: "Old General Lai has been working really hard these days. How about it? Is there any movement among the Turks today?"
"Report to your Majesty," Lai Hu'er stood up slowly, but kept his head down, and clasped his fists at Yang Guang and replied: "There is still no movement from the Turks today, but I think I can't relax my vigilance yet. I will be on the city wall." The ambush set in the place cannot be removed yet,"
"Everything must be controlled by the old general," Yang Guang believed deeply after hearing Huer's words. This Turk was so cunning that he would sneak attack Yanmen Pass, which left a deep impression on Yang Guang. He would never see it again. I don't dare to let down my guard against those Turks.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty," Lai Hu'er shouted in a deep voice, "As long as the general is around, make sure those Turks cannot break into Yanmen Pass."
Lai Hu'er's words were simple and full of confidence. Even Yang Guang was infected by the confidence in Lai Hu'er's words, and his spirit improved a lot. He nodded and shouted: "Okay, okay, the old general Lai is here, I'm here too." You can sit back and relax,"
"Your Majesty trusts me so much, how dare I not retaliate with death," Lai Hu'er knelt down and kowtowed to Yang Guang three times in a row, and shouted with tears in his eyes. As the saying goes, thunder, rain and dew are all the emperor's favor. For Lai, For a loyal minister like Hu'er, Yang Guang's simple words of praise have already been engraved in his heart.
"Report..." At this moment, a shout suddenly came from outside the palace. Immediately afterwards, a figure was seen quickly coming to the door of the palace, kneeling at the door and shouting loudly toward the inside: "Your Majesty, we have urgent military information sent to you,"
Emergency military situation. Upon hearing the word, Yang Guang and Lai Huer shuddered subconsciously. Yang Guang immediately stood up from the throne and shouted to Zhang Huaian: "Quick, quick, let him come in. "
As Yang Guang agreed to pass the message, the sergeant immediately ran into the palace, bowed directly to Yang Guang, and shouted: "Your Majesty, good news, good news, the Turks outside the pass, the Turks outside the pass, Let them go, they have retreated." The sergeant looked so excited that he couldn't even speak clearly. He spoke intermittently, and it took him a long time to finish the sentence.
Quiet, there was silence in the entire dormitory. Everyone in the dormitory stared at the sergeant with wide eyes, even the nurse. After a long while, Yang Guang's breathing gradually became heavy, and his body also He started to tremble, raised his hand, pointed at the sergeant, and said in a trembling voice: "You, you, what did you say, tell me, tell me again,"
The sergeant seemed to know why Yang Guang became like this. He swallowed hard, took a deep breath, stabilized his breath, and then shouted loudly: "Reporting to your Majesty, the Turkic army outside the pass has begun to retreat. Sima stationed on the city wall The general sent a villain here to ask your majesty and the old general to come and check."
"Retreat, retreat." After hearing it again, Yang Guang was finally sure that he heard correctly, but he still couldn't help but exclaimed. He took two steps in a row and reached Zhang Huaian's side. He grabbed Zhang Huaian's shoulders and exclaimed: " Huai'an, Huai'an, I heard you right, the Turks, the Turks have retreated, they really have retreated,"
Zhang Huaian was extremely excited at the moment. When the Turks first attacked, he, like Yang Guang, thought it was impossible to escape this time. However, he did not expect that now there was another village with a dark and bright future, and they were coming with a menacing force. The Turks actually retreated. Now Zhang Huaian wanted to look up to the sky and laugh. However, in front of Yang Guang, Zhang Huaian did not dare to be so casual. He just lowered his head and nodded with tears. Said: "Yes, yes, my slave said that if Long Live the Heaven is full of prosperity, he will surely become auspicious in adversity. Now the Turks are also afraid of Long Live Dragon's power and flee in haste. Long Live is the real emperor."
"Hahahaha," thinking about the flattering words Zhang Huaian said, Yang Guang didn't know how many times he had heard them over the years. In normal times, Yang Guang would have just smiled at most, but in this situation, Yang Guang couldn't hear these words. It was very pleasant to hear. After smiling up to the sky, he patted Zhang Huaian's shoulder repeatedly and said with a smile: "You are the only one who can talk with your mouth. Hahahaha, no one can take away my life except God." "Children, you are not qualified yet,"
"Long live the great blessings to the sky," for a moment, all the chamberlains and maids in the palace knelt down to Yang Guang and sang in unison. Hearing this, Yang Guang became more and more proud, and had long forgotten how worried he was before.
However, not everyone in the dormitory was too complacent, at least not the veteran Lai Hu'er. Lai Hu'er frowned. Apart from the initial surprise, Lai Hu'er vaguely felt that something was wrong, and immediately When he came to protect his children, he clasped his fists at Yang Guang and shouted: "Your Majesty, this matter is strange. I think it would be most appropriate to go to the city wall to check it out in person."
"Well, well," Yang Guang was so proud that he forgot about it. He nodded in agreement, and then shouted to the guardian: "Okay, I will go with the old general." Such a big show of publicity When the time comes, with Yang Guang’s character of being so ambitious about success, how could he miss it?
Lai Hu'er had no objection to this. What he wanted to do most now was to rush to the city wall to see clearly what was going on. Although Hu'er had repelled the Turks' attacks one after another these days, But Lai Hu'er knew very well that he had not hurt the Turks' bones at all. As long as the Turks attacked Yanmen Pass with all their strength, Yanmen Pass would still be in danger. Logically speaking, it is impossible for the Turks to retreat at this point. .
With doubts in his heart, Lai Hu'er left the palace with Yang Guang and headed outside the pass. Of course, when the emperor travels, these various postures are indispensable. Although Lai Hu'er was anxious in his heart, he could only wait patiently. After thinking about it, he waited for Yang Guang to prepare everything, then left the palace in a mighty manner and rushed towards the door.
Soon, the group of people arrived at the gate. As soon as they arrived at the gate, Laihuer couldn't wait any longer. He got off his horse and walked quickly up the steps to the top of the city. After the burning three days ago, There was only a piece of scorched earth left on the top of the city, and even charred corpses could be seen on the ground, giving off a faint pungent smell.
Regarding this, Lai Hu'er didn't care at all. Seeing that the city was already crowded with people, Lai Hu'er was even more impatient. He stretched out his hand to push the people in front of him away and forced his way through. The soldier who came to protect the child was about to yell and curse, but as soon as he saw that it was the child who came to protect the child, he swallowed the curse words that came to his lips.
Soon, Lai Huer came to the original female wall, and the people standing next to the female wall at the moment were all civil servants and generals in the court. Their expressions at the moment were also quite strange, as if they were seeing something. It was like an extremely ridiculous performance. Lai Hu'er didn't understand why these people had such expressions. He turned around and looked outside the gate, but when he saw it, the expression on his face immediately became the same as that of the people around him.
Outside the pass, I saw that the hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops who had brought hellish nightmares to everyone in Yanmen Pass during this period had already left their camp and were heading north quickly, apparently intending to retreat to the northern grasslands. Of course, Lai Hu'er and the others would not show such expressions at this point. What really shocked Lai Hu'er and the others was that behind this huge Turkic army, there was an army of only twenty or thirty thousand men. They were chasing the Turkic army, but after all, the Turkic army was all cavalry, while most of the army behind them were infantry. They were chasing behind them, but they couldn't catch up.
An army of hundreds of thousands of cavalry was actually being chased by an army of only 20,000 to 30,000 people. Among the people on top of the city, there were also veterans who led troops to fight. But this situation was simply like... A newborn mouse cub chased an adult big black cat with all its teeth and claws, but the big black cat showed no intention of turning around to teach the audacious mouse cub a lesson.
"This," it took a long time for Lai Hu'er to regain his composure. He looked at the scene in front of him with a strange look on his face and asked Sima Dekan, the general of the Imperial Forest Army, Hu Benlang, who was standing on the left: "What on earth is going on? What's going on,"
Sima Dekan also said with a wry smile: "The general doesn't know. Originally, the Turkic army was already moving out of camp. Suddenly, such an army appeared. Without saying a word, it launched an attack on the Turkic army, but it happened. But the Turkic army was like a mouse seeing a cat, turning around and running away without any intention of turning back and launching a counterattack. We were also confused and didn't understand what was going on."