Yuanshan accompanied An Ziluo and Cruy all the way to talk and laugh, all the way hurriedly, at noon, the group rushed to Yangguan.
The one hundred thousand soldiers and horses they led lined up in front of Yangguan, looking very spectacular.
Yuanshan, Anziluo, and Cruy rode to the front of the battle, looking at Yangguan City, each thinking.
There are many flags on Yangguan Pass.
Di Qing and Chen Yaozi stood side by side, also looking thoughtfully outside the city.
On the left and right sides of them, there were full of soldiers, who were holding muskets in their hands and waiting in full battle.
Outside Yangguan.
Yuan Shan put away his hippie smile, and rode his horse to the side of An Ziluo, with a solemn expression: "Song State has increased troops to Yangguan, and Yangguan is not easy to fight."
An Ziluo inferred the strength of the troops in Yangguan through the banners and the figures exposed at the fortresses, and said to Yuanshan: "It’s a bit difficult to fight... Previously, only Song Jiang Diqing was sitting in Yangguan. Now there is not only Di Qing, but also Yongzheng. State Song General Chen Yaozi.
Adviser Chen Yao is a forbidden army.
In addition to the forbidden army in Di Qing's hands, the number of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty in Yangguan should be eight or ninety thousand.
The imperial army of the Song Dynasty was tyrannical, and the number of eighty to ninety thousand could stop us from tens of thousands of string-controlling men in Qingtang.
Coupled with the fact that they are guarding according to the barrier, we need to pay more troops to break through the Yang barrier. "
Yuan Shan said solemnly, "But we have no troops to dispatch."
An Ziluo hesitated: "Don't we still have Liao soldiers to help?"
Yuan Shan snorted coldly, "Can you trust the Liao Bing?"
An Ziluo had no words.
If he had believed the Liao Bing, he would not hesitate when he mentioned the Liao Bing just now.
Cruy, who had no sense of existence, did not know when he had already rode his horse to the two of them. After hearing the dialogue between the two, he hesitated for a long time and said slowly: "We can't pin our hopes on the Liao people, we have to On their own."
Yuan Shan laughed, "Then you say, how can we break through Yangguan on our own?"
Cruy smiled dryly and didn't speak any more.
Yuanshan saw Cruy counseled and looked at An Ziluo again.
An Ziluo was silent for a long time, and said in a deep voice, "Croy is right, we have to rely on ourselves."
Yuan Shan asked, "Then tell me, how should Yangguan fight?"
An Ziluo thought and said: "If we head-on, it will be difficult for us to gnaw down Yangguan for a while. If we want to win Yangguan as soon as possible, we can only win by surprise."
"How to win by surprise?"
Yuanshan asked.
An Ziluo said solemnly: "Find a way to draw them out, without the shelter of Guancheng, they are not our opponents. Yuanshan's iron cavalry charge is enough to defeat them, and we will be able to attack the city."
Yuanshan narrowed his eyes slightly, "If they dare to come out, my Yuanshan Iron Cavalry can naturally defeat them. I am afraid that they will shrink in Yangguan like a tortoise and refuse to come out."
An Ziluo glanced at Yuanshan and said: "We can slowly think about the way to lead them out of the city. What we have to do now is to issue an order arrow to Xiao Pidi, and let Xiao Pidi lead the soldiers and horses to come over, forming a double-sided attack with us. Song Jun has some pressure."
Yuan Shan heard the words and urged: "What are you waiting for, hurry up and send the arrow."
An Ziluo nodded and ordered to go down.
More than a dozen sharpshooters came out, drew out the arrows from their waists, and shot them into the sky.
There is a whistle on the tail of the ringing arrow.
After more than a dozen sounding arrows were lifted into the sky, the crisp whistle sound spread throughout Yangguan.
At Yangguan Guanxi, Xiao Bijie who had just approached Yangguan with his soldiers and horses, heard the whistle, and immediately ordered the Liao soldiers to abandon the marching method of hiding and change to the marching method of horse riding.
Tens of thousands of Liao soldiers, after receiving orders from Xiao Bidi, vigorously waved their whip towards Yangguan.
For a time.
There are many battle flags on the east and west sides of Yangguan.
Di Qing and Chen Yaozi stood on Yangguan Pass and saw everything in their eyes.
When the Liao soldiers approached Yangguan, Di Qing snorted coldly and ordered: "Fire a few shots to cheer them up!"
Following Di Qing's order, the artillery placed on the east and west walls of Yangguan opened fire.
"Boom, boom..."
A volley of hundreds of guns fired.
The roar and explosions resounded inside and outside Yangguan.
The war horses outside Yangguan Pass heard roars and explosions, and they made waves of neighing. Some war horses smashed the ground with their hooves uneasy, and some war horses were frightened and wanted to escape here. The cavalry on their horses was tight. Holding the reins to restrain them, they can only keep raising their front hoofs on the spot and jumping continuously.
For a while, the formation and queue became a little messy.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty imperial army in Yangguan burst into cheers with excitement and joy.
"What a good one!"
Yang Guandong.
Yuan Shan restrained the horse, and exclaimed.
Di Qing fired cannons to demonstrate when the Qingtang soldiers and Liao soldiers flanked on both sides, disrupting the formation and formation of the two armies, causing the morale of the two armies to be slightly slack.
However, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty forbidden army in Yangguan used the power of artillery to inspire even more violent morale.
Morale is a very subtle thing.
The morale of soldiers and horses and the morale of soldiers and horses are completely two kinds of soldiers and horses.
The strength of morale is sometimes the key to determining the outcome of the battlefield.
So Di Qing mobilized his morale in just a few shots, and Yuanshan naturally wanted to admire him.
An Ziluo frowned, listened to the shouts in Yangguan, and slowly said: "The enemy's momentum is like a rainbow, but our army's momentum is somewhat frustrated. It is not suitable to fight today.
Set up camp on the spot, rest for a day, and tackle Yangguan tomorrow. "
Yuan Shan nodded in agreement with An Ziluo's idea.
As for Cruy, when he got here, he was like an outsider.
No one cares about his opinion, and he doesn't want to express any more opinions.
An Ziluo immediately ordered an encampment and burying the pot for cooking.
Cruy's soldiers and horses followed.
On the contrary, it was the soldiers and horses of the Yuanshan tribe, who started camping and burying their pots for cooking only after Yuanshan ordered them.
Yangguanxi.
After Xiao Pidi led his soldiers and horses to Yangguan, he restrained the formation that had been scattered under the deterrence of artillery. Hearing that An Ziluo did not lead his troops to attack Yangguan on the other side, he knew that An Ziluo had temporarily avoided Yangguan. Song Bing's sharpness chose to camp.
Xiao Pidi immediately ordered the soldiers and horses under his command to camp and bury their pots for cooking.
The Qingtang soldiers and Liao soldiers on the east and west sides of Yangguan were camped, and there was no other movement.
Di Qing and Chen Yaozi on the head of Yangguan City were a little uneasy.
The two stared at Yang Guandong, the tents erected by Yuanshan troops, dumbfounded, and could not say a word.
The square tents and the neat arrangement are so familiar to them.
The two stared at the tent erected by Yuanshan's soldiers and horses for a long time.
Chen Yao couldn't help but ask Di Qing, "I... if I read it right, it should be our standard tent..."
Chen Yaozi's tone was uncertain and doubtful.
Di Qing solemnly said: "It's not just that tents are the standard equipment of our Forbidden Army, but the method of camping and the order of arrangement are also our Forbidden Army's set."
Chen Yaozi swallowed his saliva, lowered his voice, and said to Di Qing: "So... Priest Kou said that they are his own, maybe it is true?"
Di Qing hesitated for a moment, and said: "My brother's words, I never doubted. But how did they get the tent of our Forbidden Army, and how did they get the way of camping by the Forbidden Army
Moreover, if they use it so blatantly, are they not afraid of others' suspicion? "
Chen Yaozi said with a weird expression: "If people from Qingtang and Liao State have been to Jiaozhi, they shouldn't doubt it."
Di Qing looked at Chen Yaozi in amazement and didn't understand the meaning of Chen Yaozi's words.
Seeing this, Chen Yaozi smiled bitterly and said: "The soldiers and horses of Jiaozhi also use this set. Tents, camping methods, marching methods, combat methods, and even armaments are no different from ours."
The color of astonishment on Di Qing's face was even thicker.
Chen Yaozi smiled bitterly and said: "They were all sold to them by Priscilla Kou, and the price is not cheap. Often the price of one tent sold is enough for us to build three.
When I was in Yongzhou, I took soldiers and horses to escort the armaments. "
Di Qing didn't know what to say in an instant.
It is no secret that Kou Ji reselled Da Song's armaments in Da Song.
Kou Ji eliminated Da Song and sold the unused armaments at a high price to obtain huge sums of money for Da Song.
The three of Lu Yijian watched Kou Ji sell the waste that was eliminated by Da Song at a sky-high price, and each one protected Kou Ji in this respect.
As long as someone uses this to impeach Kou Ji, they will be jointly attacked by the three of them.
And one strike at a time.
Because Zhao Zhen, who was in charge of the ruling, knew how much benefit Song had gained.
It's just a matter of selling General Kou Ji's armaments, and even teaching how to set up camps, makes people a little speechless.
After Di Qing was silent for a long time, he asked Chen Yaozi, "So, is it not a special case that the soldiers of Yuanshan can get my Da Song tent and how to camp?"
Chen Yaozi nodded.
Di Qing asked again, "Then we treat them as our own, is it too sloppy?"
Chen Yaozi thought for a while, and said with a smile: "It was a bit sloppy, whether they were their own, and then verified on the battlefield to find out. But you don't have to think too much, we have made enough preparations, ready to The power of facing the enemy.
So it doesn't really matter whether they are their own.
If they are our own, we will naturally end the war sooner.
If they are not our own, then we are nothing more than spending more time. "
Di Qing nodded slowly.
The two made a decision and did not continue.
After Di Qing finished speaking, he went to the city wall to the west of Yangguan, while Chen Yaozi stayed in the east of Yangguan.
The next day.
The sky was full of clouds and gloomy.
God seemed to feel that there might be a big battle today, so he specially selected a weather suitable for them to fight in Yangguan.
After An Ziluo, Yuanshan, and Cruy woke up, they ordered the soldiers and horses to bury the pot to rebel and ate a hastily.
The horn of the horns, which marked the beginning of the war, was sounded.
"Uuuuu..."
The long horns of horns spread all over Yangguan.
For a while, people inside and outside Yangguan entered a tense wartime state.
After the Qingtang soldiers and Yuanshan soldiers gathered, An Ziluo led the Yuanshan soldiers and Qingtang soldiers to the Yangguan.
The gust of wind made a stern sound like a howling ghost and wolf, seeming to urge them to march as soon as possible.
After the army was forced to Yangguan.
An Ziluo hardly hesitated, and dispatched Cruy to lead his troops to attack Yangguan.
This siege was just a feint, a temptation.
Therefore, An Ziluo did not dispatch the entire army.
Yangguanxi.
After hearing the horn of Qingtang soldiers, Xiao Pidi immediately assembled the soldiers and horses of the Liao State and launched an attack on the west of Yangguan.
Both sides of Yangguan were caught in war.
It is worth mentioning that it seems to be to prevent artillery and grenades from affecting the horses and frustrating their own siege.
When An Ziluo and Xiao Pidi sent troops and horses to attack the city, all the soldiers and soldiers were left behind.
Yang Guandong.
Chen Yaozi stood on the wall and watched the Qingtang soldiers slowly approaching under the city. When the Qingtang soldiers entered the range of the artillery, heavy crossbow, and bed crossbow, Chen Yaozi decisively ordered the shooting.
"Shoot!"
Cannonballs and crossbow guns burst out.
The sound of explosions and the sound of crossbow guns piercing the flesh instantly filled the entire battlefield.
The Qingtang soldiers stared at the artillery shells and crossbow guns and killed them under the city of Yangguan.
The musketeer on the head of the city was holding a musket, and he shot them violently.
Under the powerful firepower of muskets, artillery, and grenades.
Qingtang soldiers can be said to have suffered heavy losses.
A simple feint, in the end, it turned into a unilateral massacre.
Although Qingtang Soldier had a shield in his hand, he could withstand the bullet.
But it couldn't stop the grenades exploding at the feet frequently.
The war on the west side of Yangguan was almost the same as the war on the east side of Yangguan.
Under the cover of artillery, muskets, and grenades, the enemy could not get close to the city at all.
Yang Guandong.
An Ziluo and his group stood in the distance, looking at the Qingtang soldier who couldn't even get close to the city wall, their expressions were very ugly.
"This is the true strength of the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army..."
Cruy was the first to mutter.
Yuan Shan said with a solemn expression: "Under the coverage of the firearms offensive, our soldiers and horses can't get close to the city. Except for the bows and crossbows in our hands, there is no other weapon that can do anything to the Song Army."
An Ziluo nodded with a sullen face.
Yuan Shan continued: "If we want to break the city, there are only two ways left. Either lead them out and meet them in the field.
Either you can't get hurt, attack Yangguan, and tear a hole with your life. "
After listening to Yuanshan's words, An Ziluo decisively ordered: "Retreat..."
As An Ziluo's order was passed on, the Qingtang soldiers withdrew from the battlefield like a tide, leaving behind a place of corpses and a place of severely injured Qingtang soldiers.
Xiao Pidi heard the sound of An Ziluo's mingling and retreating soldiers, and he also resolutely mingled to retreat.
After the two sides closed their troops, they checked a little, and found that the battle was extremely damaged.
There were over a thousand dead and wounded soldiers, and over ten thousand wounded soldiers.
This is just a feint.
If it were to formally attack the city, there would probably be more dead and wounded soldiers, and the number of wounded soldiers would be too much for them to accept.
"You all talk about it, how can you draw them out?"
After An Ziluo and others returned to the Great Tent of the Chinese Army, An Ziluo sat in the Great Tent of the Chinese Army and asked everyone.
Everyone look at me, I look at you, no one speaks.
Seeing this, Yuan Shan slowly said, "Should I send someone to call the formation?"
An Ziluo shook his head and said: "This is not the Qin and Han Three Kingdoms period. It is useless to call the formation. They relied on the benefit of firearms and easily repelled us. They don't have to go out of the city to take risks."
As soon as this remark came out, the Chinese Army's Great Tent fell into silence again.
An Ziluo looked at the crowd and said solemnly: "When we attacked Xiliang City, Ganzhou, Suzhou and other places, although we did not encounter the Song army, nor did we encounter a large number of people in the Song state.
But some of the Song people scattered outside, as well as the messengers who rushed to deliver letters here, were caught by us.
There are roughly three hundred people.
We will drive them to Yangguan City to see if the people in Yangguan will be saved.
If they are rescued, then we will take advantage of the trend to rush over and entangle them.
If they don't save, then we will miss him. "
As soon as these words came out, the generals in Qingtang nodded together.
Yuanshan's brows wrinkled into a word "Chuan", "Will it be too obscene to do this?"
An Ziluo stared at Yuanshan and asked, "Do you have a better way?"
Yuanshan gritted his teeth and said nothing.
An Ziluo patted the short couple in front of him, and said loudly, "That's it. You go back quickly and gather your soldiers and horses, and I will send people to drive away those Song people who have been caught."
Yuan Shan got up and left the Chinese Army's Great Account first.
Cruy hesitated for a moment, and followed Yuanshan to leave the Chinese Army's Great Account.
Afterwards, others left the Chinese Army's Great Account one after another.
Cruy ran out of the tent and caught up with Yuanshan.
"Leader Wonsan wait a minute..."
After a meal at the foot of Yuanshan, he turned around a little displeasedly: "What advice does Chief Cruy have?"
Cruy hesitated, took out a finger and handed it to Yuanshan, "When I went to Song Kingdom, I picked up a finger. I heard it is a good thing, can you help me see."
Yuanshan was taken aback and wanted to refuse, but seeing Cruy staring straight at him, as if he had something to say, he did not refuse.
He took his finger and glanced back at random.
Yuanshan was stunned.
On the inner wall of the finger, he saw a character "Kou" inscribed on a plum blossom seal with a missing stroke.
Yuanshan held the finger, raised his head, and stared at Cruy, "This finger is a good thing."
Cruy changed his previous attitude of ignoring everything, staring at Yuanshan and said, "I don't know how much it is worth?"
Yuan Shan hesitated for a moment, and asked, "No one told you when you picked up the finger?"
Cruy said solemnly: "When I picked up the finger, the owner of the finger told me that if I meet you, just listen to you. He said you won't treat me badly."
Yuanshan threw his finger to Cruy, "Gather the soldiers and horses first..."
Cruy put away his fingers, not speaking, and left Yuanshan's side.
The negotiation time between the two was very short, and they negotiated inadvertently. Although some people saw it, they didn't think about it.
After all, the two of them are now in the barracks and are considered second and third in command.
Except for No. 1 An Ziluo, no one has the right to interfere in the negotiations between the two, let alone ask what the two said.
So even if someone saw the two negotiate, at most they would think that they were discussing military affairs and would not think about other aspects.
After Cruy left, Yuan Shan hurriedly returned to his tent.
The nine chiefs of Yuanshan Iron Horse were waiting for him in the tent at this moment.
Yuanshan entered the tent, and the nine commanders got up together and looked at Yuanshan.
Yuan Shan walked to his seat and sat down, and the nine commanders looked at each other.
Someone asked, "Leader, what happened?"
Yuan Shan hesitated and asked, "Do you know how many of us are in Qingtang?"
The nine leaders, Qi Qi, were taken aback, not understanding what Yuanshan meant.
Yuanshan didn't sell them to them either, and said frankly: "Croy found me just now and showed me something. Then I found out that he is our own."
"Master's person?"
The nine commanders all asked questions.
Yuan Shan shook his head slowly, "I'm not sure if it's Young Master's person, but he is holding Young Master's things."
"Hiss..."
The nine commanders took a breath.
They all knew that the things that Kou Ji gave were not Kou Ji's people, but that they belonged to the court.
Whether it is from Kou Ji or from the court, here, they are all their own.
Although Cruy was not good at talking, he didn't like to be pushy, and he seemed unremarkable.
But his status in Qingtang is not low.
He used to be the young patriarch of a large tribe of Tubo.
When his father was fighting for the Tubo co-lord with Jiao Si Luo, he was beheaded by Jiao Si Luo.
After he succeeded as the patriarch, under the pressure of Jiao Si Luo, he took refuge in Jiao Si Luo.
After Jiao Si Luo had confiscated the tribesmen, soldiers, horses, money and food of their tribe, he gave him a position as a very high-ranking general in Qingtang, and gave him more than 60,000 soldiers and horses in return.
It stands to reason that this kind of person is placed in the Great Song Dynasty, and is the role of the people in power.
But in Qingtang, Jiao Si Luo couldn't cut him a thousand times.
Because Jiao Si Luo did not completely digest his tribe, if he cut him, it would directly force everyone in his tribe.
Others who have taken refuge in the horns like Cruy will also give birth to the sad thoughts of rabbits and foxes.
There will be chaos in Qingtang by then.
Therefore, Jiao Si Luo can only temporarily raise him high, give him some identities, give him some soldiers and horses, so that he can be safe and stable until he is old and dead.
It stands to reason that such a character is not easy to be instigated.
And it is easy to be found when instigating rebellion.
Because Jiao Si Luo will send someone to stare at them after they have invested in their own subordinates.
But the nine chiefs did not expect that Kou Ji's hand stretched so long, unexpectedly instigating this person.
"Young Master's methods are still the same as before, making people unpredictable."
The leader of Yuanshan Iron Cavalry said in a deep voice.
Another Yuanshan iron cavalry commanded: "How can we speculate about the young master's methods?"
Another Yuanshan iron cavalry commanded: "The young master's method, we can't even think of it even if we want to break our heads. So we don't need to pay attention to this matter.
Since the young master let this person contact us, it means that this person can use it.
What makes me even more curious now is how many people did the young master instigate
Since the young master has the means to instigate this person, then he has the means to instigate other people. "