"Yes!" Shangguan Yuanrang responded with his nose, then threw the knife in his hand towards Zhang Feng and said, "Then, the head on the knife belongs to General Ning. I forgot to bring back Zhang Feng's head!"
Zhang Feng was startled, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to catch the sword. Looking at the grinning human head on it, he hurriedly turned around and handed it to the soldiers beside him, and ordered it to be hung on the top of the city.
"Where is Liang Qi?" Shangguan Yuanrang looked around and asked, not seeing Liang Qi's figure.
"General Hui Yuanrang, the general is now in the city, encircling and suppressing the remaining Ning army in the city..."
Before he could finish speaking, Shangguan Yuanrang nodded and said, "I understand, I'll go find him." After saying that, he knocked his feet in the stirrups and ran towards the city quickly.
It is easy to find Liang Qi. You only need to ask the soldiers passing by on the street to know his location.
Shangguan Yuanrang galloped all the way, and soon found Liang Qi near the general's mansion that was reduced to ashes and rubble. From a distance, he saw Liang Qi gesticulating and making arrangements surrounded by the generals. Shangguan Yuanrang
Rang was so angry that he shouted: "Liang Qi, you villain!"
As he spoke, he rushed to Liang Qi's vicinity, dismounted from his horse, and walked toward Liang Qi with long strides.
Seeing Shangguan Yuan Rang come back safely, Liang Qi's eyes lit up and he was overjoyed. At the same time, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing Shangguan Yuan Rang's menacing appearance, Liang Qi's heart moved. Before Shangguan Yuan Rang could ask, he grabbed the
He stepped forward, gave him a deep salute, and said with a smile on his face: "General Yuan Rang has returned victorious. It is really gratifying and congratulatory!"
"Young master..."
"This time our army was able to successfully capture Tongmen, and General Yuan Rang deserves a great deal of credit for his great contribution!"
"You're talking nonsense..."
"I will make it clear to you in the future. The reason why our army was able to seize Tongmen with lightning speed is entirely due to General Yuan Rang. I was just assisting from the side!" Liang Qi did not give Shangguan Yuan at all.
Give him a chance to speak, and talk to himself like a barrage of firecrackers.
After hearing what he said, Shangguan Yuanrang was stunned, looked sideways at Liang Qi, and asked uncertainly: "Seriously?"
"Of course!" Liang Qi secretly laughed in his heart. He had already figured out Shangguan Yuan Rang's aloof and arrogant character. No matter how angry he was, as long as he said something nice, his momentum would definitely soften. "I am Sanshui.
Commander-in-Chief of the Army, how can you go back on your word? I will definitely report to you truthfully when I see you in the future!"
Sure enough, Liang Qi's words made Shangguan Yuanrang's anger disappear in an instant. He grinned widely, his dark face slightly flushed, and scratched his hair and said: "Capture Tongmen, it can't be said that it is all.
Of course, thanks to my contribution, if I hadn’t attracted so many Ning troops, it wouldn’t have been easy to conquer Tongmen!”
"Yes, yes, yes! What General Yuan Rang said is absolutely true! I would like to thank General Yuan Rang on behalf of the soldiers of the Sanshui Army!" As he spoke, Liang Qi saluted Shangguan Yuan Rang again half-heartedly.
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"Huh?" This time, Shangguan Yuanrang was a little embarrassed. He hurriedly held Liang Qi's arms and said with a smile: "General Liang, you're welcome!" This time he didn't call Liang Qi by his first name.
He was renamed General Liang.
Bai Yong watched and chuckled to himself. Although Shangguan Yuanrang was the most brave in the world, he was far inferior to Liang Qi in terms of brains. However, these two people, one full of strategies and the other brave and invincible, together they were a perfect match.
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He was right. Liang Qi and Shangguan Yuanrang would indeed cooperate more often in the future. Shangguan Yuanrang was able to obtain the title of Invincible General and sweep all the princes around the world, and Liang Qi also played a major role in it. The two of them were like the same person.
In a panic, one person uses his brains and the other uses his strength to command the Sanshui Army, making them invincible in every battle and invincible in every attack.
Liang Qi cleverly used Shangguan Yuanrang's bravery to first kill Zhang Feng, the Ning general in Jufeng, and then used the cousin relationship between Zhang Feng and Zhang Xiaoting to successfully attract the main force of the Tongmen defenders to Juefeng, and then again
Taking advantage of Tongmen's lack of defense, he captured Tongmen with lightning speed and won with one blow. His strategy was also coherent, both meticulous and clever. This also made Zongyuan's plan of detouring and sneak attack on Tongmen more complicated.
be successful.
Tian Fan's stragglers fled back to Juifeng. After seeing Zhang Xiaoting, they told him about the situation in Tongmen. Zhang Xiaoting almost fainted on the spot. Tongmen was not only his lifeblood, but also the lifeblood of Ningguo. For
How much effort did Ning Guo put in to occupy Tongmen, and how many soldiers did he sacrifice? Now that he fell into the hands of the Feng Army in an instant, how could he have the face to return to his country?
Zhang Xiaoting was stunned for a full minute before he came back to his senses. He suddenly let out a strange scream, jumped up high, and shouted at his generals: "Hurry! Go back to Tongmen quickly. No matter what, we must take back Tongmen."
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He didn't know where the wind troops who suddenly captured Tongmen came from, but because he hadn't heard any news, he thought that the number of enemies was not large, so he had to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to attack them again.
Tongmen snatched it back and offset the effort.
However, he never imagined that the Sanshui Army occupying Tongmen had nearly 90,000 people, and they also occupied the natural barrier of Tongmen. How could he defeat more than 20,000 people?
When he commanded his men to return to Tongmen and launch a massive attack on the city, they were met with a fierce counterattack by the Sanshui Army. The perfect city defense facilities built by the Ning Army in Tongmen became a barrier for the Sanshui Army and the city was destroyed.
Crossbows and army-breaking crossbows were also carried to the top of the city, and their powerful shots from above were even more powerful. The wooden stakes they shot could often hit several or even dozens of people at once.
Zhang Xiaoting's more than 20,000 Ning soldiers were unable to defeat the city within half an hour. They saw piles of corpses under the city wall. Countless Ning soldiers died miserably from their own arrows, rolling logs, stones, and kerosene.
The situation was so miserable that it was unbearable to witness.
Seeing that the enemy's defense of the city is too strong, if we continue to attack, not only will we not be able to defeat it, but our soldiers will also have to die in vain under Tongmen City. Several generals suggested to Zhang Xiaoting that they should withdraw their troops immediately and not attack again. But this
Zhang Xiaoting, who was so worried that he had completely lost his mind, could not listen. He drew his sword, stabbed to death a general who was trying to persuade him, and shouted: "Whoever dares to retreat lightly again will be dealt with according to military law."
Kill without mercy!"
At this time, no one dared to come forward to persuade them. The soldiers of Ning Army could only bite the bullet and push forward, even though they were killed one after another.
By the end of the battle, more than half of Ning's army had been killed or wounded. At this moment, the city gate of Tongmen suddenly opened, and Shangguan Yuanrang took the lead and rushed out. This time he used a three-pointed two-edged sword that he had in hand, and he was even more ferocious and invincible.
Among the Ning troops attacking the city, they killed people like chopping vegetables. They killed the Ning troops near the city gate until they cried for their fathers and mothers, and they were defeated in pieces.
The soldiers of the Sanshui Army who fought out with Shangguan Yuanrang also had high morale and launched a frantic pursuit of the defeated Ning Army.
Zhang Xiaoting also wanted to order the defeated soldiers to return to the battlefield to withstand the enemy, but at a glance he saw Shangguan Yuanrang coming straight towards him dragging a three-pointed two-edged sword. Recalling his bravery in Jufeng Camp, Zhang Xiaoting
Xiao Ting couldn't help but provoke Lingling into a cold war. He didn't even dare to give way to Shangguan Yuan's moves, turned his horse's head, and fled downwards.
He took the lead and ran away, which made the officers and soldiers of the Ning Army breathe a sigh of relief. People no longer attacked the city to die. They all ran back. The defeat was like a flood that broke a bank.
Shangguan Yuanrang led the Sanshui Army and chased him for more than two miles. If Liang Qi hadn't been afraid of his mistakes and ordered the gold to retreat, Shangguan Yuanrang could have continued to pursue him.
Zhang Xiaoting's 20,000 Ning army failed to attack the city, but most of them were killed or wounded. He took the remaining troops to defeat the generals, retreated again and again, and retreated ten miles away before he could barely stabilize his position. Looking back, he saw more than 20,000 soldiers.
With only a few thousand people left, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, lamenting: "Heaven wants to destroy me, this is God trying to destroy me!"
As he spoke, he looked at the sword in his hand. Feeling sad, he closed his eyes and raised the sword to his neck.
Seeing that he was going to commit suicide, Xu Zhen hurriedly got off his horse, stepped forward, grabbed Zhang Xiaoting's arm, and said in a trembling voice: "Not allowed, general! Not allowed, general!"
"If I lose Tongmen, how can I have the face to go back to see you? How can I be worthy of the soldiers who fought desperately? The general is incompetent and killed the entire army..." As he spoke, Zhang Xiaoting's eyes turned red and tears flowed down his face.
came out.
Xu Chen and the remaining defeated generals around him also cried. Now it is delusional to think of returning to the capital. Tongmen was occupied by the Feng army, which is equivalent to cutting off the way back to the country.
Xu Chen said: "Because Tongmen has been lost, the general should not commit suicide, but should find a way to regain Tongmen!"
Zhang Xiaoting shook his head and sighed: "Our army only has a few thousand soldiers left, how can we still take back Tongmen?"
"General, why not go to Yancheng and join up with the two generals Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi. With the help of his two brothers, it may be possible to recapture Tongmen!"
"Oh?" A word woke up the dreamer. When Zhang Xiaoting heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. Yes, how could he forget about Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi? They still have two hundred thousand people in their hands.
As for the large army, if they lead troops to Tongmen, they can annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop and recapture Tongmen.
Thinking of this, he took off the sword from his neck, nodded, and said: "Xu Zhun, as you see it, let's go to Yancheng to find the two generals Wushuang and Invincible!"
Zhang Xiaoting followed Xu Zhun's advice and led thousands of his remaining soldiers to Yancheng.
The battle at Tongmen went very quickly, taking only half a day. However, the loss of Tongmen had a huge impact on the situation between Feng and Ning.
Tongmen is in the hands of Ning Guo, and Ning's army can enter Fengdi at any time. Whether fighting or defending, they have absolute advantages and initiative. However, if Tongmen falls into the hands of Tianyuan Army, Tongmen, the gate of Fengguo, will be lost.
The Ning army in the east could not enter and the Ning army in the west could not get out. The 200,000 Ning troops commanded by Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wuwei were trapped alive in Fengdi.
What's even worse is that the 200,000-strong army can no longer get supplies from the rear. All the required food, wages, ordnance, and materials have to be supplied by Zhong Tian.
If you don't obey Zhong Tian's orders, the conflicts between the two parties will naturally gradually be exposed and become more acute.
Chapter completed!