Chapter 773

In fact, as long as Yan Chu explained the current precarious situation of the capital in the transfer order, even if the words were a little anxious and bad, Changsun Yuanhong would understand and rush back as soon as possible, even if all the soldiers under his command died and he was the only one left, he would rush back to the capital to rescue TXT download.

But Yan Chu did not write these in the transfer order. It was very simple. This was for the sake of the monarch's face. He was the king, and his orders were the king's orders. As a minister of Ningguo, Changsun Yuanhong had to obey unconditionally. He did not need to make too many explanations and elaborations to his ministers.

Yan Chu did nothing wrong in doing this, and Changsun Yuanhong's approach could not be said to be wrong. What was wrong was the long-standing distrust and various contradictions between the two of them.

When Changsun Yuanhong found that the Pingyuan Army and the Sanshui Army joined together and went north and went around behind him, he understood that the Feng Army was afraid that he would return to the capital, so they went north to block him first. Since the Pingyuan Army and Sanshui Army were stationed far away from Yuemen Pass, they did not cut off Yuemen Pass's supply, but only blocked its way back to the capital.

Changsun Yuanhong was very puzzled by Feng Army's actions. Why did Feng Army block him from going north? Were they so confident that they could join forces with Mo Army to annihilate all the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under their command?

Now, Changsun Yuanhong did not know the news of Xiaoling County's defeat. In that era, the spread of news was also very slow. If there was no special person to notify, given the distance between Xiaoling County and Jiashang County, the news might not be transmitted even after a year or two.

The transfer order was transmitted to Yuemen Pass, but Changsun Yuanhong was slow to act. Yan Chu was anxious. If Changsun Yuanhong did not come back to rescue, even if Chuanzhen was willing to send troops to attack Feng, Liangzhou might not be saved.

Yan Chu gave Changsun Yuanhong three more transfer orders in a row, ordering him to evacuate Yuemen Pass and lead his army back to the capital no matter what.

Changsun Yuanhong couldn't leave when fighting with the Mo army. Now that the Feng army has cut off the way back, he can't withdraw. However, he received three orders in succession, and he could feel Yan Chu's urgency. It was not until this time that Changsun Yuanhong realized whether there was any critical change in the capital.

He hurriedly wrote a reply letter, which detailed his current difficulties, and then asked Yan Chu about the current situation in the capital. His reply was directly delivered by a pigeon flying from the capital. Within two days, the pigeon returned, and Changsun Yuanhong learned that Xiaoling County had fallen, and the Feng army had entered Yunkou County and was heading straight to Liangzhou.

But it was too late for Changsun Yuanhong to learn about this at this time. Now he really couldn't withdraw even if he wanted to. There were hundreds of thousands of Mo troops in front, and more than 100,000 elite Feng troops behind. It was reported that Shangguan's flag was seen in the Feng army camp. It was known without investigation that Shangguan Yuanrang must have arrived in the Feng army camp.

There were strong enemies in front and behind, so how could he retreat? But the capital had to be saved. Finally, Changsun Yuanhong, who was at a loss, took a risky move and quietly went north with only 3,000 cavalrymen, hoping to get away from the eyes of the Feng army.

However, his move was expected by Liang Qi, who had set up an ambush in advance. When Changsun Yuanhong was about to bypass the Feng army camp in the dark, ambushes appeared all around. Shangguan Yuanrang rushed out first, without looking for others. After seeing Changsun Yuanhong, he raised his sword and ran straight to him.

The two men started a fierce battle as soon as they met. The battle did not last long, but the intensity was much greater than the last battle between Changsun Yuanhong and Lian Ge.

Shangguan Yuanrang and Changsun Yuanhong had not fought for two rounds when they both used the spiritual transformation of their weapons. The former's three-pointed two-edged sword turned into a strange giant blade, and the latter's Nine Nether Ghost Halberd turned into thirty-six kinds of spiritual weapons.

The two soldiers' spiritual transformation, one took a tough route, and the other took a fast attack route. When they fought, their figures were seen on the field. Sand and stones were flying, covering the sky and the moon. The flying energy cut cracks on the ground. The grass, trees and stones within more than ten meters were all crushed. For the soldiers of the two armies, this was not a human fight at all, but a fight between gods and ghosts.

The spiritual transformation of soldiers consumed too much spiritual energy and could not be maintained for too long. Shangguan Yuanrang and Changsun Yuanhong fought fiercely for more than ten rounds. The two fought evenly. With their spiritual martial arts and cultivation, it was impossible to determine the winner in more than ten rounds. However, Changsun Yuanhong saw that there were too many ambushes of the Feng Kingdom around him, and he was afraid that he would be surrounded by the opponent if he continued to fight. He took the lead in abandoning the battle and leaving after a feint.

Changsun Yuanhong came out with 3,000 light cavalry. When he returned, there were less than 1,000 people left, and the other more than 2,000 people died in the encirclement of the Feng Army.

It was not possible to sneak around, so Changsun Yuanhong launched another hard attack with a large army.

The Feng army did not fight back, but defended the camp and resisted the enemy stubbornly.

The Ning army retreated hastily without attacking for too long, not because of heavy casualties, but because the Mo army learned that a large number of Ning army had left the pass, and took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on Yuemen Pass. Changsun Yuanhong was worried that if Fengying did not rush down, Yuemen Pass would be taken away by Mo army again, and his situation would be extremely passive. He had no choice but to retreat first and make plans after stabilizing Yuemen Pass.

After a few days, Changsun Yuanhong tried every possible way he could think of, and his brain was almost empty, but no matter whether it was an open attack or a secret attack, he could not get through the blockade of the Feng army. Hundreds of thousands of Ning troops led by Changsun Yuanhong were dragged to Yuemen Pass by the Feng-Mo coalition.

Zhang Sun Yuanhong could not return to Liangzhou, but Tang Yin's Feng Army never stopped its westward advance. On the tenth day after entering Yunkou County, more than 200,000 Feng Army soldiers finally arrived in Liangzhou.

Liangzhou is the capital of Ningguo and the largest city in Ningguo. It covers a vast area and has a large population. In addition, the city defense of Liangzhou is also very complete. Not only are the city walls high and thick, but there is also a moat several feet wide outside the city.

Because the army of Fengguo is approaching, Liangzhou closed its four gates early, and the four walls were almost full of Ningguo's central army. Each armor is neat and bright, the sword is unsheathed, the arrow is on the string, as if facing a great enemy, and the killing atmosphere is naturally revealed.

The Feng army stationed five miles east of Liangzhou. Tang Yin deliberately led the generals of the whole army out of the camp and approached Liangzhou to check.

Seeing such a huge Ningguo capital, the generals were secretly shocked. Looking closely, Liangzhou's city defense is very complete. Even if there are not many defenders, it is very difficult to take it down, not to mention that there are no less than 200,000 central troops in Liangzhou.

It is a conclusion in military books that a force three times larger than the enemy can be used to attack a city. However, given the defense of Liangzhou, it is probably necessary to have a force four or five times larger than the enemy to have a chance of capturing it. And if we have 200,000 troops to attack an enemy force of 200,000, is it possible to capture Liangzhou?

Before the battle, just looking at the defense of Liangzhou, the generals were somewhat discouraged.

Tang Yin also knew that Liangzhou was difficult to conquer, but on the surface he was much calmer than the other generals. He smiled and sighed: "I am finally back again!"

Many generals did not know that Tang Yin had been to Liangzhou before. Hearing his sigh, people asked in surprise: "Has the king been to Liangzhou before?"

"Yes! I even went into the city for a few days!" As he spoke, Tang Yin smiled to the generals around him: "Liangzhou is worthy of being Ningdu. There are palaces and pavilions everywhere, gold, silver, jewelry, beauties and wine everywhere. After conquering Liangzhou, everything inside will be ours, haha..."

Seeing Tang Yin laughing happily, the generals also laughed, but they laughed bitterly. Can it be so easy to conquer Liangzhou?

Everyone looked at each other, and then asked: "Has the king already thought of a way to break the city?"

"Yes!" Tang Yin nodded seriously.

Everyone was shocked, their eyes lit up, and they asked in unison: "What method?" Since the last battle of Wohu Pass, the generals have more confidence in Tang Yin.

Tang Yin squinted his eyes and said word by word: "My method is... to force the defense and kill into the city!"

Puff! His words almost made the generals vomit blood on the spot. This was the same as not saying anything!

Tang Yin looked around at everyone, sneered, and said: "In this battle, I will fight with you brothers, live and die together, advance and retreat together, what? Do you think our army can't take Liangzhou?"

The king is going to fight side by side with him, how can the generals show weakness, and they all said: "We are willing to fight bravely with the king, even if we die on the battlefield and are torn to pieces, we will not refuse!"

"Well! This is what our generals should say!" Tang Yin turned his horse's head and said: "Let's go back to the camp for now!"

Tang Yin led the generals back to the camp.

He had no idea how to fight the battle of Liangzhou, but one thing was certain, Zhang Zhihong in the city would definitely help his side in secret, but Tang Yin was not sure how he would help.

No talk during the day, the Feng army came from afar, and they were marching all the way, the soldiers needed to rest, and they had to wait until the next day to attack the city.

In the evening, Tang Yin did not rest, and looked at the sand table in the central army tent, thinking about how to fight the siege tomorrow.

With Tang Yin were Qiu Zhen and Ziying, who looked much more solemn than Tang Yin, standing beside the sand table, frowning more and more tightly.

Ziying was an old fox on the battlefield, and in his opinion, this battle was also extremely difficult to fight.

Just as they were thinking about each other around the sand table, Le Tian walked in from outside, came to Tang Yin, and whispered: "My king, Ning Xiang Zhang Zhihong's retainer Lu Hui wants to see you!"

"Oh?" Tang Yin came back to his senses and rolled his eyes. Lu Hui, he didn't know this person. He asked, "Where is the man now?"

"I have taken him outside the tent!"

"Can you confirm his identity?"

"The man who came with him is the Tianyan brother lurking in Liangzhou. There is no doubt about it." Le Tian replied.

Tang Yin pondered for a moment, raised his head and said, "Let him come in."

"Yes! Your Majesty!"

Tang Yin turned around and sat back in the commander's seat. As soon as he sat down, Le Tian came in from outside with an old man and a young man.