The World of Yellow Sky

Sun Jing's eyes were serious. Although his face was normal, his heart was extremely heavy.

Just two quarters of an hour ago, he had just received the news that the Jiuli Mountain camp had been broken and that Ji Ling was alive or dead.

He immediately sent a team to Pengcheng, just to stabilize Pengcheng and defend the four villages.

Jiuli Mountain was lost, the northern barrier was lost, and Pengcheng was the first to bear the brunt. Sun Jing couldn't understand what happened to those Xiangyongs.

Facing the Ming army's attack, it might be difficult to stabilize those Xiangyong with the thousands of regular troops under Cheng Yu's command.

He also received the news that the Ming army sent two ten thousand cavalry. One cavalry seemed to be preparing to attack Beizhai, while the other seemed to want to go around to the west of the Southwest Company Battalion and cut off their way back.

Facing the situation that the Ming army might cut off his retreat, he had no solution.

Cavalry is the king of field battles. If you want to win cavalry with infantry in field battles, the quality requirements for infantry are extremely high.

And even if you win, it's useless, because there is no way to pursue it.

If an army has only pure infantry facing cavalry in field battles, it will often be defeated by the cavalry in mobile warfare, and will be slaughtered by the chasing cavalry after the final collapse.

Although the shooting distance of the step bow is farther than that of the riding bow, the maneuverability of the riding bow is several times higher than that of the step archer. If the level of training is not enough, many times when the riding bow has already shot a round and runs away, Only then did the infantry shoot their counterattack arrows.

Relying on crossbows and tight formations, the infantry can last for a while, preventing the cavalry from attacking, but these require physical strength. Once the infantry is exhausted, the cavalry can easily defeat the infantry at this time.

In the Battle of Shuofang, the reason why Xu An was able to defeat the Southern Huns was because Xu An pushed the Southern Huns to a desperate situation by encircling them from all sides.

In order to protect the old, weak, women and children among the tribe, the Southern Huns could only put all their eggs in one basket and fight the Yellow Turban Army at that time.

And at that time, Xu An was not only infantry, Xu An held two cavalry in his hands, the Xiaoqi Battalion and the Duliao Battalion.

In order to win the battle of Shuofang, Xu An concentrated all the armor and weapons under his command at that time, and replaced the equipment of the Xiaoqi Battalion and Du Liao Battalion with the best equipment in the entire Yellow Turban Army, and even surrendered some of the Yellow Angels. own armament.

However, now Sun Jing has only three thousand cavalry in total, and even if he adds the orderly soldiers and the other generals' personal guard cavalry, he can only gather more than five thousand cavalry at most.

The [-]-odd cavalry that were pieced together were about the same combat power as the Xiaoqi Battalion in the Shuofang Battle.

But their opponent was not the Southern Huns who didn't even have a few pairs of iron armor, but the elite cavalry of the Ming army who wore sleeve armor and arm armor with iron rings on their arms.

The Ming army occupied the horse farms in the north, completely monopolized the source of war horses, and even went to the western regions to continuously improve the horse breeds in the north.

According to the report of the embroidered clothes envoy, the Ming army now has an elite cavalry with both men and horses wearing heavy armor. It's even more terrifying.

Most of the cavalry vests of the tiger and leopard cavalry protect the vital points, and the rest are joint protection, while the knights wear cavalry double armor and ordinary iron armor underneath.

But the armor worn by the heavy armored cavalry in the Ming army today is similar in appearance to the armor of the Yellow Angel.

War horses are not only fortified at key positions, but also like wearing horse clothes, wearing a vest.

The people and horses are well equipped, like moving iron towers.

The pressure the Ming army put on him was like a mountain.

Make bricks without straw.

It is more difficult to train a qualified cavalry than war horses.

War horses can be searched, but cavalry can only be trained.

Lose the North, and lose thousands of riders who are skilled riders.

He only has [-] capable cavalry in his hand, and many of them are not skilled in riding.How can they defeat the elite cavalry of the Ming army?

Xu An used the advantage of the cavalry to its peak, and he was already invincible.

Sun Jing originally pinned his hopes on the Pengcheng company battalion. He planned to drag Xu An into the battlefield he had set up in advance, so that he could drag Xu An into his own rhythm.

But from the beginning of the battle, from the beginning to the end, Xu An has always controlled the rhythm, and he has always been led by the nose.

Sun Jing frowned, thinking quickly in her mind.

The news he received was from Cheng Yu from Pengcheng, and he knew nothing about what happened in the Jiulishan camp.

How could it be possible that the Jiulishan camp lasted less than two hours? He knew the strength of Ji Ling and the Yanzhou army under his command, especially the strength of the Zhangwu camp.

More than [-] people, relying on such a strong fortress, how could it be impossible to hold it for two hours.

Somewhere, this was Sun Jing's first reaction.

But even if he was thinking about it, he couldn't figure out what happened to Jiuli Mountain to fall in such a short time.

Due to the limitation of vision, Sun Jing didn't think about the rebellion at all.

Everyone knows how harsh Xu An is on the aristocratic family. Even if he surrenders, he still needs to pay a huge price to barely preserve the clan.

Although the rebellion of the Mi family in Xuzhou was used as a lesson for the past, the Mi family was a family of merchants, famous for its cargo breeding, and was named an official merchant of the Ming court.

And after the fall of Xuzhou, the details of Xuzhou Mi's rebellion were also exposed.

Everyone in the Han court thought that it was Lu Kang's repeated demands, and finally forced Mi to rebel.

Although Lu Kang died because of this, he was still abused by others.

The dead cannot speak, nor can they justify.

The guilt of losing Xuzhou was also pushed to Lu Kang's head.

Just as Sun Jing was thinking hard, a rush of horseshoes crushed his thoughts.

Sun Jing followed the prestige and saw Guo Jia galloping into the camp on a horse, galloping all the way to the direction where the watchtower was.

Guo Jia, as the commander of the southern part of the company, was charged with guarding the southern part. He had the responsibility of dispatching troops to assist the villages and resist the Ming army's attack.

The fierce battle on the front line is in full swing, but Guo Jia has left the station. This is obviously an extremely important matter, and it must be said in person. Ordinary information can be dispatched to report.

Although Liu Xie has read military books and studied military strategy with Sun Jian and Huangfusong for a period of time, this kind of battle involving hundreds of thousands of people is still difficult for him to understand. He only knows that the situation on the front line is extremely bad. His brows have been furrowed but never relaxed.

And not long ago, I heard that Jiuli Mountain was breached, and two cavalrymen of the Ming army had circled behind.

Although Sun Jing looked normal, he issued a military order to counter it.

But Liu Xie had talked with Sun Jian, and he knew exactly what it meant to have [-] cavalry on the battlefield.

If Wei Ting had not had cavalry several times larger than theirs, Sun Jian would have already crossed the Yellow River and defeated Wei Ting.

Although the power of command was handed over to Sun Jing, Liu Xie had been observing the situation on the battlefield. Guo Jia galloped into the camp, which naturally caught his attention.

"Feng Xiao, why..."

Sun Jing didn't stay in the commanding position, and went directly to meet him.

Before he finished speaking, Guo Jia grabbed his arm first.

Guo Jia's face was pale. He followed the army many times in the north and south, and he was tossed all the way.

For a long time, Guo Jia has been recuperating at home due to illness.

However, he became ill from overwork, and if it was delayed until now, it was already difficult to cure.

At this time, Guo Jia's eyes were red and bloodshot. Sun Jing could feel that Guo Jia's body was about to collapse, and Guo Jia had no strength at all to hold his hand.

"The thief inside..."

Guo Jia held Sun Jing's arm tightly with both hands.

His voice was extremely hoarse, and his eyes were full of despair.

"Inside……"

Sun Jing was frozen in place as if struck by lightning.

Guo Jia's words were like counting the nines of winter, pouring a basin of bitingly cold water on him, making him icy cold from the beginning to the end, from the inside to the outside.

"boom----"

In Pengcheng City, the flames shot up to the sky.

The soaring fire made the sky red, and also made Liu Xie's eyes red.

On the watchtower, Liu Xie, who was sitting on it to observe the battle situation, suddenly got up.

Sun Jing suddenly turned her head to look at Pengcheng, and he also saw the fire that soared into the sky.

A trace of fear flashed across his eyes.

As the general of the army, he still maintained a calm expression on his face, but his slightly trembling arm betrayed the most true thoughts in his heart.

Day and night defense, home thieves are difficult to prevent.

He tried his best, tried his best, and exhausted his strength.

But after exhausting all the calculations, the most important point-people's hearts have been missed.

The general trend of the world lies in Ming.

Destiny has shifted...

People change their minds.

He should have thought of it earlier.

Those aristocratic families regard inheritance as everything, as long as they can pass on the clan, they can do anything.

Betting separately is just a rare and common thing for those powerful families.

There is no dynasty with a thousand years, but a family with a thousand years.

Those aristocratic families are too smart.

They are just too smart.

No one is stupid enough to put all their eggs in the same basket like their Sun family.

The heaven and the earth are repeated, and the fire is eager to go.

The building will fall, and it will be difficult to support a tree.

The building of the Han Dynasty has already been devoured by those aristocratic tyrants, and it is already about to collapse.

It was people like Lu Zhi and Sun Jian who used their bodies as pillars to support the country with all their strength in times of crisis.

Although the fire that ignited on Yashu in the first year of Zhongping did not burn down the building.

But in the end, the foundation of the Han Empire was shaken, and her prestige was also shaken.

It was at that moment that the destiny quietly shifted.

The cluster of sparks that spread from Xiaquyang at the beginning ignited Taihang Mountain and Bingzhou.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

That fire has swept through the Northland and Western Regions.

Now, the trend of sweeping has become.

This fire, even if it is the sea that pours out the sea, cannot quell it.

Everything is coming to an end.

Sun Jing closed her eyes.

Guo Jia let go of Sun Jing's hand, and stumbled towards the railing of the watchtower.

He leaned on the railing with both hands, looking at the fire rising to the north, his eyes were full of despair.

Guo Jia stared blankly at Pengcheng engulfed in flames in the distance.

He just felt as if he was in the sea of ​​flames in Pengcheng, the fiery flames were burning around him, as if they were going to swallow him up.

Guo Jia looked up at the dark sky, all thoughts in his heart were lost.

"Could it be...it's destiny..."

He was a step too late after all.

After the Jiuli Mountain camp was broken, the message was transmitted from the north to the south in turn.

First, it passed through the hands of Cheng Yu in Pengcheng and Xun Yu in the north of the company, then it was delivered to Sun Jing, and finally it was delivered to him.

After Guo Jia received the news, he caught something that was extremely wrong.

He used to fight with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, and he and Ji Ling were old acquaintances.

He knew that Ji Ling was not some kind of wine bag and rice bag. Among the generals and schools under Yuan Shu's command, Ji Ling could definitely be ranked first.

Jiuli Mountain is a defense he personally arranged, and Ji Ling's defense, so it is impossible to be breached in such a short period of time.

Even if it is impossible for the trapped camp and the yellow angels in the Ming army to attack the Jiulishan camp at the same time, every position of the bed crossbows he deployed in the Jiulishan camp has a mystery, and they are not arranged randomly. , to ensure that the maximum power of the bed crossbow can be exerted.

With the bed crossbow, the heavy armored infantry of the Ming army could not play a role at all, and the cavalry of the Ming army could not cross so many horses and tall walls to attack the camp.

But now that it was breached in less than two hours, the impossible became possible.

Internal thieves have appeared in the army, and the internal thieves are probably not a minority, and their status may be very high.

It is impossible for internal thieves to appear in the main army. Almost all the generals are trustworthy and have passed the strict inspection of the embroidered clothes envoy.

But those brave men have not been investigated...

"what happened?"

Liu Xie walked up to Sun Jing, his voice trembling.

He saw that Guo Jia and Sun Jing seemed to be talking about something, and he also saw that Pengcheng was on fire.

At this time, as the emperor, he should not panic. His panic will definitely destroy the last hope in the hearts of the rest of the generals.

But how can Liu Xie remain calm at this time.

"Pengcheng... I'm afraid he has fallen into the enemy's hands..."

Sun Jing turned around, his voice was low and terrifying.

"I'm afraid there are many people among the brave in the army who have contacted the Eagle Wolf Guard in private, and turned against them at the critical moment... Jiuli Mountain also fell because of this..."

Guo Jia's reminder made Sun Jing understand everything.

But even if he wanted to understand everything now, it was already too late.

Before Sun Jing could finish his sentence, the noise in the distance had already interrupted his words.

Sun Jing followed the sound and looked in the direction where Pengcheng was, and the noisy sound came from that direction.

The mountains and plains are full of fleeing soldiers...

And above the south gate of Pengcheng, at some point, a large ocher-yellow flag was planted on the tower.