Back to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 198

Seeing this, Deng Yangjun's morale was greatly boosted, and he raised his sword and roared loudly: "Don't leave the enemy general Li Tong!"

Li Tong was frightened at this time, and led his army to fight and retreat.

Deng Yangjun chased after him, and before he knew it, he killed him in the grand canyon between Stone Mountain and Wang Dashan. Seeing that he was about to catch up with Li Tong, Li Tong suddenly burst into laughter and ordered the army to stop. There was a loud drum beating behind Tong, and an army rushed out to meet Li Tong.

The leader turned out to be an 11-year-old boy, Li Yin!

"Father! Why don't you see Uncle?" Li Yin asked.

Li Tong said sadly: "Your uncle has died in battle!"

"Father! Don't be sad, meet the enemy quickly, and avenge your uncle!" Li Yin said.

When Deng Yang saw an army rushing forward, Li Tong stopped and came back. Seeing the dangerous mountains on both sides, he shouted: "My army retreat quickly! Be careful in ambush!"

After shouting, an army came out from the mountains on both sides. Arrows from both sides rained down before they could get close.

Ji Ling saw it from behind and was shocked. He hurriedly led his army to kill Deng Yang, but was shot by Li Song and Li Fan's arrows. Ride behind to break the enemy.

At this time, Deng Yang's army was trapped in the valley and was killed by more than a thousand arrows. Li Tong and Li Yin led the army to charge, and the whole army was wiped out in an instant.

kill! !kill! !kill! ! !

Li Tong, Li Song, and Li Fan roared and came after the victory, causing Ji Ling's army to be in chaos, their morale collapsed immediately, and they ran for their lives in all directions.

Only when Ji Ling's hundreds of soldiers still obeyed the order, defended Ji Ling desperately, retreated while killing, retreated for more than ten miles, and met the main army, did they stop the defeat.

The two armies fought again, and the battle lasted for more than an hour, until it was dark, and the two sides jointly led the troops to retreat.

Li Tong led the army back to the city victoriously, counted it, a total of [-] soldiers went to battle, with less than [-] casualties, this battle was a big victory, the only thing that made Li Tong heartbroken was the death of his brother Li Yi.

Ji Ling led the army to set up a camp at the foot of Xiaohuang Mountain, and slowly cleaned up the defeated army!Only more than [-] soldiers were taken away!

A total of seven thousand soldiers were lost in this battle!Killed less than three thousand enemies!
Deng Yang, the Sima of the Biebu, was killed in battle, and Chen Lan, the governor of the Buqu, was killed in battle! !
The only good thing is that the grain and grass are still intact.

The attack on Langling has failed, and it is impossible for the remaining [-] soldiers to take down Langling City again!
Ji Ling held back his grief and anger, and ordered the whole army to guard carefully, waiting for the Lord's order.

He wrote another battle report and handed it over to Feng Yao overnight by his cronies.

……

It's only one day's journey from Dynamic City to Wufang!

When Wang Hu arrived at Wufang with [-] soldiers, Zhou Cang was overjoyed. The next day, he mobilized [-] troops from the whole city, split up with Wang Hu, and besieged the city overnight!
Just after the ugly hour of the next day, civil turmoil suddenly broke out in the city. It turned out that some soldiers in the city were originally Zhou Cang's father Zhou Zhi's former troops.

Hundreds of Zhou Zhi's former troops took advantage of the chaos to open the city gate and welcome Zhou Cang into the city.

Nearly [-] defenders surrendered in the city, all of which belonged to Zhou Cang's subordinates. Zhou Cang ordered the army to search the whole city and rescued Zhou's family members one by one, crying loudly.

Zhou Cang's immediate family members had all been killed by Li Tong, and the surviving Zhou family members were distant relatives of Zhou Cang, so they survived.

……

Snow, I don't know when, it fell again, and the whole west of Runan was shrouded in cold!

When Feng Yao was still forty miles away from Yang'an, he ordered the army to station in Yihe, and planned to reach the city of Yang'an in one breath tomorrow.

As a striker, Wei Yan has also arrived five miles outside Yang'an City at this time!
"My lord! It's snowing outside!"

Dai Ling, who was watching the night outside, got into Feng Yao's big tent with his head covered in snowflakes.

Feng Yao woke up suddenly, and hurriedly patted Xu Chu who was soundly asleep, and opened the curtain, a gust of cold wind blew in with snowflakes.

Although the relatives standing outside the tent were wrapped in thick cotton robes, they were still shivering from the cold.

"Yang Wu, send me an order. It's cold outside at night. The soldiers on duty outside should be rotated every half an hour!" Feng Yao immediately ordered.

Yang Wu responded to the order and immediately summoned ten followers to replace the ones guarding the big tent.

After entering the big tent, these replaced relatives took off their coats and immediately got into the quilt, still trembling. Although they didn't speak, they could see their loyalty and gratitude to Feng Yao from their eyes!

It was almost five o'clock, and the sky was getting bright soon. Feng Yao didn't sleep anymore, put on his robe, and led Xu Chu to make a tour outside.

As soon as he returned to the big tent, before he had time to enter, he saw Liu Shun hurriedly leading two scouts over. When he saw Feng Yao, the two of them knelt down in the snow at the same time, clasping their hands together to report.

"My lord, generals Ji and Zhou sent people to report the battle!" Liu Shun said.

The fire light was reflected on the faces of Liu Shun and the other three from the snow. One of the scouts looked a little pale and his eyes were full of grief and indignation.

Feng Yao was startled, and thought to himself, "Could it be that there is some bad news?"

Looking around, some of the tents had been lit up, it should be that the soldiers who woke up early had already started to move.

"Come in first!" Feng Yao commanded in a low voice.

After entering the big tent, the scout with a sad face immediately responded to the order and told about Ji Ling's defeat and Deng Yang's death in battle.

Feng Yao couldn't finish listening, so he burst into tears, Xu Chu and others were all in tears, and vowed to avenge Deng Xuanmao!

After crying for a while, Feng Yao put away his tears and said: "Deng Xuanmao died in battle for me, I will treat his family generously!! And I will punish Li Yin to sacrifice to his grave!"

"Yang Wu, quickly go and invite the military adviser to discuss military matters!"

Yang Wu went away at the sound, and soon invited Xu Shu.

When Xu Shu learned of Ji Ling's defeat, he also sighed bitterly and said after a long time: "My lord, Li Tong is well-known in the Langling area, and most of his soldiers are mountain people who practice martial arts. If there is a strong attack, the loss of troops will be huge! There is a plan! It's just that this plan is too vicious! I'm afraid it will damage the name of the Lord's benevolence and righteousness!"

"But please speak clearly!" Feng Yao said.

Xu Shu said: "Tomorrow our army will arrive at Yang'an City. As long as the lord acquiesces in the massacre of the city, Yang'an can be breached within half a day! Once Yang'an is broken, Langling will surely shake. Langling, the morale of Langling's defenders will definitely drop, and they will flee with them!"

As soon as Xu Shu's words of slaughtering the city came out, everyone was shocked, Feng Yao was also startled, his eyes widened suddenly, and looked at Xu Shu in amazement.

Xu Chu said loudly: "My lord, massacre of the city is absolutely unacceptable, it will destroy the reputation of benevolence and righteousness that the lord has established for a long time!"

Dai Ling remained silent, as if analyzing the pros and cons of massacring the city.

Yang Wu first took a sharp breath of cold air and frowned, but suddenly he seemed to think of something, his face changed and he smiled.

"My lord! This subordinate believes that massacring a city is not necessarily a bad thing!"

"How do you say that?" Feng Yao wondered, unexpectedly, Yang Wu, who was always taciturn, would take the initiative to express his opinion on such a major event today!Unconsciously, I have some expectations for Yang Wu.

Yang Wu bowed and cupped his fists, and said: "Although my subordinates are not good at stratagems, I understand one thing. Most people who practice martial arts will not accept softness! If you use tricks, even if you win the city, you will not be able to control them, and there will be chaos in the future." And in the area of ​​Yangan and Langling, nine out of ten people are martial arts practitioners!"

(End of this chapter)