The young man dressed as a commoner was brought to Wu Guang by Pingyuan soldiers. The latter looked him up and down and said seriously: "I am Wu Guang! What is your name?"

"Come back to the general, my name is Zhang Yi!" Wu Guang didn't know this secret agent, but he had heard of Wu Guang's name. He hurriedly knelt down on one knee, stepped in and saluted, and said: "General, all the enemy soldiers have retreated to the palace now.

Invincible soldiers have gathered everywhere in the city."

"Oh?" Wu Guang's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he asked: "Little brother, do you know where the palace is?"

"My subordinates know."

"Lead the way quickly!"

"yes!"

Wu Guang and Zhan Hu were led by the Sky Eye spies and headed straight for the palace. When the army rushed to the palace, Wu Guang looked up and saw, well, there were soldiers and generals standing on the walls of the palace, at least thousands of them.

There are so many people, and the palace wall is extremely high, not much worse than the city wall of Yancheng.

The most important thing is that all the soldiers in the palace are ready for defense. Rolling logs and stones are piled up like mountains. Pots of boiling oil are placed on the palace walls. Thick smoke is billowing straight into the sky. Wu Guang looks at it and frowns secretly.

First, the palace walls are so high and the city defense equipment is so abundant. We currently have no weapons to attack the city. If we attack by force, we will probably suffer a lot of casualties.

Thinking about it, he took two steps forward and shouted to the top of the city: "Yancheng has been captured by our army. You are now isolated and helpless. If you resist stubbornly, there is only one way to die. If you want to survive, open the palace gate immediately."

Come out of the palace and surrender!"

After Wu Guang finished shouting, there was no one on the palace wall who spoke to him. The Peng Bing Peng generals had no intention of talking to each other at this time. Looking outside, they saw that there were so many Tianyuan troops on the street outside the palace that they could not be counted.

How many people were there? Peng Jun, headed by Ye Cheng, grinned secretly, with his heart in his throat.

Seeing that no one answered, Wu Guang felt depressed. It seemed that he had no other option but to attack violently! He took a deep breath, slowly raised the spiritual sword in his hand, paused in the air for a moment, then dropped it sharply forward, and shouted at the same time:

"Siege the city! Kill!"

"kill--"

Wu Guang's order sounded the clarion call for the soldiers of the Pingyuan Army to attack. The soldiers below swarmed up, set up ladders, and began to climb up the palace wall with all their strength.

It was easy for the Pingyuan Army to break through Yancheng's defense line. The main reason was that they came too suddenly. Peng's army was unprepared. There was a shortage of defense weapons and personnel on the city. In addition, the general was absent and there was no one to command, so they were killed by the Pingyuan Army.

They were defeated, and now the remaining thousands of Peng troops were huddled in the palace. They had no way out and had no choice but to fight. Even Ye Cheng had no choice but to go into battle in person, and naturally used all his strength in the battle.

Wu Guang and Zhan Hu took the lead in the attack, but the rolling logs and rocks on the top of the city were like raindrops, and kerosene poured down from time to time. Wu Guang and Zhan Hu led their troops to charge several times, but all failed.

The soldiers below suffered many casualties.

Seeing that this was not the way to go, Wu Guang issued an order to suspend the attack. Then he ordered some trebuchets from Yancheng to be moved over and used the Peng Army's trebuchets to break open the Peng Army's defense line.

Soon, the officers and soldiers of the Pingyuan Army moved over a dozen trebuchets and also pulled in a large number of boulders.

Now, as long as Wu Guang gives an order, more than a dozen trebuchets can launch huge rocks at once, dealing a devastating blow to the Peng army on the palace wall. However, Wu Guang hesitated at this time, because the destructive power of the trebuchets was too great.

Strong, while killing the enemy, the various buildings in the palace will inevitably be affected and damaged. The palace is a symbol of the Feng Kingdom. Once it is damaged by one's own side, it may cause dissatisfaction among the people, and it will have to be repaired by one's own side after the war.

, the waste of money and labor is not worth the gain. The best way is to successfully break into the palace without using large siege equipment, but what is the best way?

Wu Guang was in a dilemma. He neither ordered an attack nor ordered a retreat, so he led the Pingyuan Army officers to stay in front of the palace and silently confronted the Peng Army inside the palace.

On the other side, Li Qi led 50,000 Peng troops to pursue the Tianyuan army that was retreating to Lehu County.

When Li Qi and others caught up with the Tianyuan Army, the Tianyuan Army was resting. From a distance, they saw dust flying behind them and flags fluttering. The soldiers were startled. When Peng's Army got closer and closer, people could see each other clearly.

Flag.

"It's Peng Jun! It's Peng Jun who is chasing us!"

I don’t know who was the first to shout. It was like a fuse. Not long after, the Tianyuan Army camp began to be in chaos.

Because Tang Yin was 'dead', the soldiers of the Tianyuan Army had no intention of fighting. At this time, seeing a large number of Peng Army chasing them, everyone panicked. They heard people in the camp shouting and screaming, and they were panicked.

The soldiers were running in all directions, their tents collapsed, and their pots were overturned. They looked panicked and confused, as if they had seen a savage beast.

At this time, Qiu Zhen ignored the chaos of the entire army and took the lead in escaping. As soon as Qiu Zhen escaped, the generals below naturally followed suit. The Tianyuan Army officers and soldiers without anyone under their command were like flies without a leader, instinctively attacking Qiu Zhen.

Wait for the person to escape and chase them in the direction they are running away from.

Tianyuan's army fled in such a hurry that they did not even have time to collect the tents where they were stationed. At the same time, they also left behind a large amount of food, grass, military supplies and equipment.

Soon, Li Qi and the others rushed into the empty Tianyuan Army garrison. They raised their eyes and looked around. Li Qi, Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and other generals couldn't help laughing. Tianyuan lost Tang Yin.

The army is a leaderless and scattered army. Although there are hundreds of thousands of people, it is simply vulnerable.

As the Peng Army poured into the Tianyuan Army's garrison in large numbers and searched out countless supplies, armor, weapons, military flags and other items, a regiment commander rushed up to Li Qi. Unable to suppress the excitement in his heart, he grinned broadly.

He said: "General Li, we have captured countless grain and grass supplies from the rebels..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Qi's expression was serious and he said in a deep voice: "My general ordered that all the belongings of the Tianyuan Army be left here. No one is allowed to move. The whole army will follow me to continue to pursue the enemy!" Li Qi was a relative.

An excellent general knows the difference between importance and importance. Capturing supplies is only a small achievement, killing the enemy is a great achievement. It would be a pity if you only covet the small profit in front of you and miss the opportunity to chase the enemy.

Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and others standing next to him nodded repeatedly and said in unison: "What General Li said is absolutely true. Seizing supplies is small, but chasing enemy soldiers is big!" Now, everyone could see that the legendary

The Tiger and Wolf Division's Tianyuan Army is in disarray, and neither the generals above nor the soldiers below are interested in fighting. At this time, as long as they can catch up with the Tianyuan Army, they will win a great victory without any effort.

Under Li Qi's order, the Peng Army did not stay longer in the Tianyuan Army's camp and continued to pursue the north. At this time, the generals headed by Li Qi never thought about whether this would be a tempting enemy for the Tianyuan Army.

plan.

First of all, in their opinion, Tang Yin must be dead, otherwise the whole Tianyuan Army would not be able to pay filial piety. According to the customs at that time, it was very rare to cheat death, and it was taboo for a living person to pay filial piety to a living person.

People have done such things; secondly, the panic of the Tianyuan Army when they fled was not pretended, but the true performance of the soldiers. No one could see any flaws in it, and Li Qi and others were certainly no exception.

For these two reasons, the cautious Li Qi believed that the Tianyuan Army was a real defeat rather than a false defeat.

The chaotic Tianyuan Army retreated as fast as the victorious Peng Army. It didn't take long for Peng Army to catch up with the Tianyuan Army's rear. This time, Peng's soldiers were all energetic and thought they had caught the stick.

Taking advantage of the situation, they rushed forward crazily, slashing and stabbing the Tianyuan soldiers who were lagging behind. From time to time, some people screamed and fell to the ground, and were cut into pieces by the surrounding Peng army.

Xu Hui laughed when he saw this, turned to Li Qi and said: "General Li, judging from the current situation, our army will definitely be able to completely annihilate the Tianyuan Army. Not only can we welcome the king back to the capital, but we can also take back the territory occupied by the rebels."

Lost ground!"

The battle went smoothly, and Li Qi was in high spirits, nodding his head repeatedly and saying: "If our army is to completely annihilate the Tianyuan Army, all generals should be the first to attack!"

"Haha——" All the generals looked up and laughed.

They now only saw the Tianyuan Army's rear army that was defeated in a mess, but not the front and middle armies of the Tianyuan Army.

At this time, seeing that they had almost lured the enemy, the generals headed by Qiu Zhen suddenly reined in their horses and stopped escaping. Plains Army Chief General Xiao Muqing, Chifeng Army Chief General Peng Haochu, and Directly Affiliated Army General Guyue simultaneously issued orders to gather their fleeing soldiers.

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After hearing the general's order, the corps commanders and commanders of each legion shouted loudly and summoned their subordinates. For a while, the shouts of orders in the Tianyuan Army camp could be heard one after another. The panicked soldiers were also heard by the corps commanders and commanders.

Under the command of the elders, the crowd gradually calmed down and quickly formed a square formation.

The Tianyuan Army is not a mob. The soldiers of each legion are trained quickly. Even when they have no fighting spirit and are being chased by the enemy, the soldiers can still obey the commands of their generals.

A phalanx was being set up on their side, and the soldiers in the rear who had fled also fell one after another.

Under the command of the generals of each army, the middle of the formations spread out, vacated the passage, and let their own soldiers pass. When Sergeant Peng's soldiers came forward to pursue them, the passage they gave up immediately closed up, and the soldiers in the front row

One after another, they set up their shields to withstand the enemy's charge, while the soldiers at the rear set up their halberds and spears. In an instant, the front ranks of each formation were lined with sharp points, with halberd tips and spear tips of different lengths, moving forward in unison,

Like a hedgehog.

The wave of Peng soldiers that rushed the fastest was not well prepared and did not have enough strength. It crashed directly into the Tianyuan Army's square formation. With a muffled sound, the bodies of hundreds of Peng soldiers were stabbed by countless sharp edges.

Kong, died on the spot.

"ah?"

Only then did Li Qi and others clearly see the dense formation of the Tianyuan Army in front of them. The soldiers stood up closely together and stood ready. After seeing this, everyone was shocked and secretly took a breath.

Although the Tianyuan Army had no fighting spirit, there were hundreds of thousands of them after all. If they fought hard, they would not have the upper hand. At this time, Li Qi had the intention to retreat again. He said to the generals on his left and right: "The enemy troops have been lined up.

Phalanx, our army should not fight head-on with it, I think... we should retreat to the capital temporarily!"
Chapter completed!