Late Tang

The three coalition forces of Datong marched southward along the Sanggan River to Juzhu Mountain. Mihaiwan, the governor of Sage, asked Shi Jingcun, the governor of Anqing, and Qi Bizhang, the governor of Qibi, to enter the account for discussion.

"Yanmen is dangerous, with high walls and solid terrain. At the beginning, 40 Khitan cavalry besieged Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and they lasted for several months. Although our Datong army has [-] soldiers, it may be difficult to conquer in a short time. If we don't encourage The Wu army and the Tiande army jointly attacked, and invited the Xia Xu army and the Hedong army to attack Shatuo together."

Qi Bizhang smiled and said: "The one-eyed wolf is currently trapped in the quagmire of Hebei, and it is difficult to turn around for a while. The king of Qin has already broken through the four states of Shatuo and forced Weizhou with his troops. Li Kexiu's entire army has been wiped out. Liu's Divide [-] troops to the rescue, Yanmen is empty at this time, there are only [-] Shatuo soldiers in the pass, plus [-] newly recruited Han soldiers, with this number of troops, don't we dare to fight?"

Shi Jingcun, the governor of Anqing, also nodded, this time the army was dispatched to Yanmen, it was Qin Wang Li Jing's secret invitation.The king of Qin had already promised that when Yanmen Town was captured, the Qin army would only have the four prefectures in front of the mountain and Yuzhou, and the remaining two prefectures, Dai and Xin, would belong to the third division of the Datong Army.

This proposal made the Datong Army very tempted. The three divisions now lead the Datong Army, but in fact the Datong Army only has the territory of Yunshuo and two states, but there are three divisions.Therefore, they are eager to get rid of their former enemy Li Keyong.Especially the two tribes of Sage and Anqing, who used to be the three tribes of Shatuo, are even more eager to get rid of Shatuo.According to the agreement of the three tribes, after the event is completed, Yunzhou will belong to the Sage tribe, Shuozhou will belong to the Anqing tribe, and the two states of Xin Dynasty will belong to the Qibi tribe.

At this time, more forces join in, and the final fruits of victory must be divided by one more party.Both Shi Jingcun and Qi Bizhang were unwilling.

Mi Haiwan said again: "Our army has been going all the way south, and the soldiers and horses are exhausted. Why don't we rest in the pass for a whole day to build up our strength and then send troops to attack the city?"

Qi Bizhang objected: "Our army must take advantage of the newly arrived sharpness to tackle key problems in one fell swoop, how can we defeat ourselves?"

However, Mi Haiwan was a little reluctant to fight head-on with the Shatuo soldiers. He was worried that if the fight was too miserable, even if he won the Yanmen, but in case Li Jing led the troops in the future, he was afraid that Li Jing would be defeated by then. After picking peaches, they even turned against the general and swallowed up their territory.It's just that it's inconvenient for him to say these words clearly, but Shi Jingcun and Qi Bizhang are determined to tackle the problem immediately.

After deliberation, one party finally decided to attack the city according to the original plan.

The next day, Mi Haiwan, Shi Jingcun, and Qi Bizhang each led their troops out, and Chen Bing closed down.

The three generals stood under the banner and looked at the pass from a distance. The defenders felt as if they were facing an enemy. They couldn't help laughing and ordered to attack the city.

The [-] Datong army launched the siege, the drums were loud, and the attacks were launched in batches.On the top of the city, Li Siyuan dressed as Li Cunjin's bodyguard, stood behind Li Cunjin and watched the Datong army attack the city.

Datong's army attacked fiercely, but although Li Siyuan on the city kept hiding the soldiers and horses that he had quietly entered the city last night, the [-] soldiers and horses in Li Cunjin's hands, together with the young and strong guards, were enough to last for a while .

The offensive and defensive battles on the first day were nothing new. One side attacked violently, while the other side defended to the death. The drums of battle were like thunder, and the bloody battle lasted all day. It was not until dusk that the two sides withdrew their troops and stopped fighting.

The Datong army stormed for a day without any results. Mihaiwan and others returned to the camp to discuss, saying: "I was watching from the city today. Several times our army almost attacked the top of the city. The situation of the defenders is critical, but there is no reserve soldier to kill them. Come out. It seems that Li Keyong has indeed not returned to Yanmen. If we follow today's offensive, we will increase our strength, and we may hope to break into the city tomorrow."

"It's just that today's fierce attack caused a lot of casualties to our army!" Shi Jingcun said.

"We can't hesitate at this time. Li Keyong may come back anytime soon. We have to hurry up. As long as we can capture Yanmen, it doesn't matter if there are more casualties. Everything is worth it." Zhang is of great significance. According to the agreement, although he will hand over Yunzhou to Mi Haiwan, he will get the second state of Xindai, and his territory will be doubled directly. How can such a good thing be missed.

In the early morning of the next day, the re-leaders of the three tribes of Datong continued to attack the city, and the offensive became more and more violent.Both sides suffered heavy casualties, corpses piled up under the Yanmen city, after dark, more than [-] people were lost in the three divisions, and the defenders on the city also suffered heavy casualties.

There were [-] soldiers and horses in the city. After two days of defending the city, there were only less than [-] soldiers left.

Li Cunjin said to Li Siyuan worriedly: "With such a bloody battle, if we fight for another two days at most, we will not be able to defend the city."

Li Siyuan knew that Li Cunjin wanted him to send his soldiers and horses to fight, so he waved his hand, "No, it's not the time yet, let's wait another day, and then I will have a plan to defeat the enemy!"

On the third day, the Datong army, who were worried that Li Ke would return to aid, stepped up their attack again, completely ignoring casualties.Several times that day, the Datong army attacked the top of the city. In the end, Li Cunjin led his personal guards to fight the fire, and managed to last until dark.But after dark, the Datong Army did not retreat, but set fire to the night battle.

After fighting all night, by dawn, Li Cunjin only had more than [-] scarred and exhausted soldiers and horses left in his hands.At most they can only last one day!

Li Siyuan asked someone to invite Li Cunjin, who was covered in blood, and said: "The time is almost here, and I have a plan to defeat the enemy. General Kang Junli in Yanmen City was killed last time because he colluded with Li Quanzhong to plot against him, but the king is kind, His family was pardoned. The Kang family is a noble family with more than a thousand children. The Kang family has always been concerned about the murder of Kang Junli. A certain person has been monitoring the Kang family for the past few days. They found the Kang family last night. A family member wanted to sneak out of the city. After taking it down, he found a letter. After the interrogation, he knew that the Kang family was dissatisfied with the king because of Kang Junli's murder. "

"There is such a thing?" Li Cunjin also knew about Kang Junli's murder, and vaguely heard that it was manslaughter, so he pardoned the Kang family, but he did not expect that the Kang family would secretly stir up trouble at this time.

"This is a good thing." Li Siyuan said with a smile, "This is the breaking point that I have been waiting for!"

"Does the eldest brother want it?"

"That's right, the plan is right. The Kang family has been taken down by a certain person. A certain person sent someone to send the Kang family's letter out of the city last night, and wrote a letter to surrender. He secretly asked the Datong army to enter the army tonight, willing to respond internally. The bandit army attacked so violently last night, it is estimated that It is to prepare for the dispatch of troops tonight. If the three tribes of Datong come, we can lure them into the city, and then we will close the door and beat dogs, ambushes will be everywhere, and the bandits will be defeated in one fell swoop. Although the three tribes of Datong are fierce, they did not expect this when they came It’s a plan, and secondly, even after realizing it, they would never have imagined that XX had already returned to Yanmen with [-] elites for a long time, rested for a whole day, and waited for work with leisure, and they were already waiting for this day.”

When Li Cunjin heard this, he couldn't help admiring him.Li Siyuan was indeed bold and careful, at such a time, he dared to stand still and wait for this opportunity.But think about it, if the Kang Corporation does not rebel, he will force them to rebel.

Li Siyuan laid out a dense ambush, just waiting for the enemy to come.

On that day, the Datong Army continued to send people to attack the city during the day, but the attack momentum was significantly weaker. It was obvious that they were preparing for the attack at night.

After dark, Mi Haiwan led the army back, and the army was divided into three parts. Qi Bizhang led the army, Shi Jing was there, and Mi Haiwan was behind until Yanmen Pass.

After quietly arriving at the bottom of the city, Qi Bizhang looked from a distance, and saw figures of people on the city, and flags flying around. Among the black flags, there was an arrow tower and a tree with five lanterns hanging on it. The password agreed upon by Shi.Qi Bizhang was overjoyed, and said to the left and right: "After today, the Yanmen Jiedu Envoy will be so and so!"

Qi Bizhang immediately ordered to use fire as a sign to contact the city.

At this time, it was just after the first watch, the moonlight was not up, and the sky was dark.

Qibibu raised a torch under the city and shook it. After a while, they heard the sound of horns blowing on the city, and then there were shouts, and the flames on the door flew wildly.Qi Bizhang waited nervously at the base of the city, and within a short while, the city gate was opened wide and the suspension bridge was lowered.

Qibizhang's blood boiled with enthusiasm, and with a loud cry, he was the first to pat his horse and gallop away. Behind him, countless warriors from the Tiele Qibi tribe rushed forward and rushed into the city.

After breaking into the city gate, Qi Bizhang led his men to rush directly to the inner city.Along the way, I saw some people and horses, regardless of whether they were friends or foes, they directly hacked and killed them.Soon, they broke into the gate of Yacheng, and were about to rush into the inner city again.But suddenly there was a sound of drums, and then the fire on Yacheng was brightly lit, and countless figures suddenly appeared, all of them drew their bows and took arrows, shouting fiercely and shooting them down.

All of a sudden, arrows rained down, and the Qibi soldiers who rushed to the front were shot down one after another. Qibizhang swung his mace to block fiercely, but he was also hit by several arrows and fell off his horse.If it weren't for the double armor on his body, he might have died in battle at this moment.

Qi Bizhang had already understood at this time, knowing that he had fallen into the enemy's trick.But he still had luck in his heart.As far as he knew, there were only 5000 people in Yanmen City, but under their fierce attack in the past few days, the number of defenders in the city no longer exceeded 5000.

It would be ridiculous if the Shatuo people thought that they would sue the five thousand remnants and try to defeat them.They have already entered the city, and the Shatuo people are looking for death.

But at this moment, there were countless thunderclaps in the empty streets all around, and groups of black armored cavalry galloped out.Those people are not Datong Army, but Shatuo Cavalry!

Qi Bizhang was shocked. Judging by the appearance of these cavalrymen, they were by no means the Yanmen defenders who had been beaten by them for several days and were covered with scars.These soldiers are fierce and powerful, where did they come from?

In a panic, Qi Bizhang jumped onto a war horse led by the guards, turned the horse's head, and shouted: "Withdraw!"

The entire Yanmen City has become a big battlefield at this time, and it will be full of flames and shouts of killing everywhere.

On the empty street, groups of black armored cavalry kept pouring out, and groups of archers suddenly appeared on the high street roofs.

In the streets and alleys, many people suddenly poured out, carrying wood and stones, carrying cabinets and horses, and blocked the streets.

The three divisions of the Datong Army had all entered the city, and Li Siyuan personally led Hengchong to rush out from one side, Li Cunxin also led the Yuhou soldiers from his headquarters, and Li Cunjin led his troops to rush out from Yacheng. Caught in the ocean of the Shatuo people.There are enemy troops everywhere, they are cut off from front to back, blocked from all sides, even those common people will take cold shots and throw cold arrows and spears in the dark, and there are even more sturdy people carrying big sticks, kitchen knives and hunting knives in groups, intercepted and killed everywhere. The divided Datong army.

Mi Haiwan led his troops to turn around and go to the gate of the city to leave the city. Countless kerosene and trees rolled down from the city, and arrows rained down like rain.

Datong is like a mouse caught in a fire, completely in chaos.At this time, their soldiers and horses were several times that of Shatuo's army, and they were killed in chaos. They scrambled to retreat to the city gate, trampling on each other countless dead along the way.

The Shatuo army defended the city gate, but the dog would jump over the wall in a hurry. At this time, the Datong army broke through the siege. Although the Shatuo army wanted to block their retreat, the two sides desperately managed to guard the city gate with more than [-] Shatuo soldiers. After all, they were defeated, and they fought till dawn, all the defenders of the city gate were killed, and the three tribes of Datong finally managed to find a way out, scrambling to escape from the city.