Volume 10 Chapter 262

Chapter 262

The Fengyu Coalition Army launched a counter-siege against the Zhen Army that was besieging the Anhuan Coalition Army. This caused panic among the Zhen Army and also gave the Anhuan Coalition Army, which was on the verge of despair, a glimmer of hope.

After the Fengyu coalition forces from all walks of life completed the encirclement, 40,000 Fengyu cavalry led by Shangguan Yuanrang and Shi Xiao immediately launched a charge against the Zhenjun camp.

These two Fengyu warriors broke into the Zhenjun camp, as if they were entering an uninhabited land. The 40,000 cavalrymen were like a whirlwind, leaving behind countless Zhenjun corpses wherever they passed.

Shangguan Yuanrang and Shi Xiao forced their way into the interior from the outside of the Zhen army, and the lightning-fast cavalry team rushed straight towards the Anhuan coalition camp.

The officers and soldiers of the Anhuan coalition who saw their flags were overjoyed. People far away began to shout: "Brothers of the Feng Army, we are here! We are our own!"

The current flag of the Anhuan coalition has also been lost, and the military appearance is in chaos. The soldiers are all gray and disgraced, and the armor on their bodies is full of blood and dirt and has lost its luster. If they don't shout, Shangguan Yuanrang and Shi Xiao You may not even be able to recognize them as one of your own.

After hearing the news, Yue Ze and Li Xin were extremely excited. They rushed over at a trot. Before they could get out of the crowd of their own soldiers, they pulled their necks and shouted repeatedly, asking: "Who is the general in front?"

Shangguan Yuanrang did not see these two monarchs, but when someone asked, he shook off the blood on his three-pointed two-edged sword and replied to the crowd: "I am the general of Feng Kingdom, Shangguan Yuanrang!"

oops! Upon hearing the words Shangguan Yuanrang, Yue Ze and Li Xin couldn't help but look at each other, and tears fell down in unison.

They had never felt that Shangguan Yuanrang's name was so affectionate before. The two monarchs cried out while pushing out and shouting: "General Yuan Rang, save me!"

Who are you? Shangguan Yuanrang sat on the horse, stretched his neck to take a closer look, and almost laughed out loud. Now Yue Ze and Li Xin were in quite a miserable condition, with streaks of black and white on their faces. They had not washed their faces in how many days. His eyes were black and sunken, and his royal attire was even worse. It was damaged in many places. He had big holes and small eyes. He was unkempt and staggered. He looked like a beggar. There was no trace of the majesty of a monarch. .

It seems that the Anhuan and Huan armies were really miserably beaten by the Zhen army, otherwise Yue Ze and Li Xin, who pay so much attention to appearance, would not have fallen to this point.

Shangguan Yuanrang secretly shook his head and sighed. He held his sword in his hands on horseback and said, "It turns out to be His Royal Highnesses King An and King Huan. Please forgive me for wearing my armor and not being able to dismount and salute."

Yue Ze and Li Xin spent a lot of effort and finally squeezed out from the crowd of the two armies.

One of these two men stood on the side of Shangguan Yuan Rang, raised his hands high, firmly pulled the reins of his horse, and said repeatedly: "General Yuan Rang, you are finally here! Rescue me out of trouble!"

Shangguan Yuanrang was courageous, but he was not brave enough to lead two princes back to the Zhen army's encirclement. He had no eyesight with swords and guns. If something happened, how could he explain it to An and Huan.

He pulled on the reins, trying to free their hands, but Yue Ze and Li Xin held on tightly and refused to let go.

Shangguan Yuanrang was helpless and said with a wry smile: "Your Highnesses, please be patient. The two armies of Fengyu have surrounded the Zhenjun Army. Your Highnesses can just wait here for the good news. Now, the general will turn around and attack the enemy again." For a while!”

The implication is that they should let go quickly and not delay his time to kill the enemy. But when Yue Ze and Li Xin heard that Shangguan Yuanrang was leaving, they held his reins tighter and said in unison: "General, don't leave! I hope the general will stay to protect him!"

The two of them grabbed Shangguan Yuanrang and refused to let go. If Shangguan Yuanrang had stayed to protect them, if it had been someone else, he would have kicked them out one by one, but these two are the kings of the same country. Sir, no matter how much you look down on Shangguan Yuanrang, you still have to be wary of him.

Being worn down by the two of them, Shangguan Yuanrang had no choice but to dismount and ordered the wind cavalry to follow Shi Xiao's command and follow Shi Xiao to continue to attack the enemy.

Shi Xiao could see now that Yue Ze and Li Xin were frightened. They grabbed Shangguan Yuan as a life-saving straw and could not let him go again.

Seeing that Shangguan Yuanrang, who was so arrogant, was being helplessly beaten by the two kings, Shi Xiao secretly smiled in his heart, gave an order, and led the cavalry from Fengyu and Yu to fight back to the enemy's formation.

Seeing that the Fengyu cavalry went back to kill them again, while the Anhuan coalition troops were all standing motionless like wooden piles, Shangguan Yuanrang's nose was almost crooked with anger. He turned around and shouted loudly: "You are still standing there?" What are you doing here? If you don’t break out now, are you still waiting for the Zhen army to besiege you?”

A word awakened the dreamer, and even Yue Ze and Li Xin nodded in sudden realization. If the Zhen army is really frightened by the Fengyu coalition forces outside, it is likely that they will abandon the perimeter and go to great lengths to find the Anhuan coalition forces to fight for their lives and die together.

At the reminder of Shangguan Yuanrang, the Anhuan coalition forces followed the Fengyu Cavalry and began to charge into the Zhenjun camp.

The current battlefield is more than just a mess of words. There is a fight on the outside and a fight on the inside. The Zhen army is under attack both internally and externally, and the situation is already precarious.

The arrival of the reinforcements was a shot in the arm for the soldiers of the Anhuan coalition. The already exhausted 200,000 remnant troops suddenly burst out of energy and followed the Fengyu cavalry and killed them in the Zhenjun camp. He found a bloody path and forced his way out.

When the An-Huan coalition army was completely freed, the Feng-Yu coalition army had no more people in the Zhen army, and there was no need to worry about the attack. The two armies set up catapults on the periphery and launched a fierce attack on the Zhen army camp.

With catapults outside and the Feng-Yu coalition army's fierce attack inside, the Zhen army, which had already been in chaos, could no longer support it and was defeated step by step.

Now the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed. The Feng-Yu coalition army occupied the position that originally belonged to the Zhen army, while the Zhen army retreated to the position that originally belonged to the An-Huan coalition army.

Even the strength of both sides is roughly the same as it was then. Now, after removing the dead and wounded, the Zhen army only has more than 200,000 people, while the Feng-Yu coalition army is close to 400,000 people, not counting the 200,000 troops of the An-Huan coalition army.

At this point in the battle, the Feng-Yu coalition army has firmly controlled the situation on the battlefield. Just like the choice of the Zhen army at the beginning, the Feng-Yu coalition army did not continue to attack, but also chose to be trapped, intending to trap the Zhen army to death in its own encirclement.

As the saying goes, things change over time. The tactics used by the Zhen army to besiege the An-Huan coalition were copied exactly by the Feng-Yu coalition at this time.

Outside the battlefield, Tang Yin and Ling Shuang met Yue Ze and Li Xin, whom they had not seen for a long time. Seeing Tang Yin and Ling Shuang at this time, the latter two stepped forward and held Tang Yin's hand as if they had seen their relatives. Before they could speak, Yue and Li burst into tears and cried.

They both thought they were dead this time, and even wrote a suicide note to designate the successor. Who knew that the situation suddenly changed, and the Feng-Yu coalition came down from the sky and solved the danger of the An-Huan coalition at the most critical moment. This made Yue Ze and Li Xin experience the feeling of surviving a disaster for the first time.

They were so grateful to Tang Yin and Ling Shuang for their timely help that they could not express it in words. At this time, they were so excited that they could not say a word. They felt mixed emotions in their hearts, including excitement, excitement, humiliation and bitterness.

Tang Yin could understand their feelings. He patted Yue Ze and Li Xin's hands and said, "I've made you suffer these days! Since receiving the letters from you, I and Sister Ling have been leading the army to Canglin, but the journey is long and we are still late for several days. Fortunately, you are safe and sound, so I am relieved."

"It's good that you can come! It's good that you can come!" Yue Ze and Li Xin nodded repeatedly, raising their arms from time to time and wiping their tears with their sleeves.

"I guess you two are hungry, right? I have asked people to prepare wine and food, and they will be delivered later." Now, even if you give Yue Ze and Li Xin the stars and the moon, it is not as good as giving them a sumptuous banquet.

Sure enough, when they heard Tang Yin say that wine and food had been prepared, Yue Ze and Li Xin felt hungry and their stomachs were churning.

The two of them did not express their gratitude to Tang Yin in detail. On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Fengyu coalition began to loudly persuade the trapped 200,000 Zhen troops to surrender.

In Gu Anmin's dictionary, there is no word for surrender.

He suppressed his anger and ordered the whole army not to pay attention to the Fengyu coalition's persuasion to surrender. If the other side does not take the initiative to attack, the army should not attack rashly. The whole army should conserve its strength and wait until night before breaking out with all its strength.

If the encirclement of the Anhuan coalition by the Zhen army is an iron barrel formation, then the encirclement of the Zhen army by the Fengyu coalition is an iron plate formation.

The soldiers who are arranged in the innermost part and have direct contact with the Zhen army are all Feng army. Tang Yin made such an arrangement because he did not trust the combat effectiveness of the Yu army, fearing that the Yu army would give the Zhen army a chance to break out.

Behind the Feng army are the large weapons of the Fengyu coalition, mainly catapults and arrow towers. Looking further back, it is the Jade Army camp.

Although the Jade Army did not have direct contact with the Zhen army, Tang Yin did not let the Jade Army idle. He dug trenches and built earth walls, and built a second line of defense behind the Feng army, which was also a double insurance.

If the Zhen army wanted to break out, they had to not only withstand the smashing and shooting of the catapults and arrow towers, but also break through the defense line of the Feng army, and then face the Yu army that had completed the fortifications. It was extremely difficult.

That night, under the order of Gu Anmin, 200,000 Zhen troops launched a breakout.

This battle was extremely difficult for the Zhen army. The shield array arranged by the Feng army on the periphery was like a layer of iron armor, blocking countless Zhen troops outside. The crossbow arrows shot from the shield array were like raindrops, and the stone bombs thrown by the catapults and the arrow arrays shot from the arrow towers caused great damage to the Zhen army.

Often the Zhen army in front desperately broke through the shield array of the Feng army, but when they looked back, there was no one behind them. The soldiers in the back were shot back by the stone bombs and arrow arrays falling from the air. It was basically impossible for the Zhen army, which was not strong enough, to tear open the defense line of the Feng army.