The two lieutenant generals Xu Hui and Wei Xuan who were entrusted with important tasks by Zhong Tian and stayed in Yancheng, one died at the hands of Tang Yin and the other died at the hands of Shangguan Yuan Biao, both of whom met a good end.
Zhao Hai, the Peng general who was fighting against Shangguan Yuanwu on the other side, did not go through ten rounds before Shangguan Yuanwu shot him off his horse. After killing the enemy general, Shangguan Yuanwu did not continue to charge, but galloped to the horse.
Brother Shangguan Yuan Biao approached, shook his head and shouted: "Withdraw our formation!"
Shangguan Yuanwu was too aware of his brother's cultivation. Shangguan Yuanbiao forcibly used the top skill of Bleeding Soul Chasing?, which consumed very little spiritual energy. If he stayed in the enemy's formation, it would be difficult to deal with it, so Shangguan Yuanwu called Shangguan
Yuan Biao withdrew with him.
When the two men fought back, the soldiers of the Tianyuan Army had already come into contact with the Peng Army and started a battle between the troops.
The head-on confrontation between the corps and the corps does not allow for the slightest trickery. Whichever side is well-trained and cooperates with each other tacitly will have the absolute upper hand.
The discipline of the soldiers of the Tianyuan Army is very average, but they are unambiguous in fighting. Not only are the soldiers strong in individual combat, but their strength in group combat should not be underestimated. On the other hand, the Peng Army is far behind. Peng Bing
Ordinary people and slaves who were only temporarily recruited, without systematic training and no combat experience, immediately showed their disadvantages in the battle between the corps.
I saw Tianyuan's soldiers lined up in a neat square formation. The soldiers in the upper and lower ranks were all in uniform, whether they were advancing or retreating. The soldiers in the first row held up their shields to withstand the Peng army's attack. The soldiers in the second row were
Then he slashed and stabbed with the sword in his hand. The moment the two sides came into contact, a row of Peng soldiers fell down.
Without waiting for the Peng soldiers behind to step forward to fill in, the Tianyuan Army's front-line personnel had all stepped forward, stepping on the enemy's corpses and wounded, and continued to kill the enemy behind. The Tianyuan Army's phalanx was like a huge
The meat grinder kept moving forward, constantly devouring Peng Jun's life.
No matter how capable Li Qi is, no matter how strong he is in commanding on the battlefield, he can only stare blankly at this time and have no choice. What's terrible is that with the advancement of Tang Yin's Tianyuan Army, the Peng soldiers are forced to retreat steadily, and Qiu
The Tianyuan Army's formation on the other side came up again with Peng's army behind them. The two Tianyuan Army's square formations were like iron pliers, tightly clamping Peng's army in the middle.
The Peng Army could not even withstand one side, let alone being attacked from both front and rear. As more and more soldiers fell and fewer and fewer living people stood on the battlefield, the morale of the Peng Army began to rise. Many soldiers saw that
There were corpses and blood all over the ground, and the fear had reached an unbearable level. People seemed to have lost their minds and ran madly towards the Tianyuan military formation.
However, in front of the Tianyuan Army's phalanx, the lives of Sergeant Peng's soldiers were too fragile, and they were chopped to the ground as soon as they came into contact.
More Peng soldiers did not obey the command, threw away their weapons, screamed and fled in all directions. The first person ran away, followed by the second, and the third. Soon, the mood of fleeing spread like a plague.
By the time the whole army was reached, the remaining 20,000 Peng soldiers had no intention of fighting anymore. They gave up resistance one after another, surrendered with their weapons, or fled in panic. Looking at the Peng army at this time, there was no formation at all, just like a swarm.
The headless fly that blew up the camp.
It's over! Seeing this scene, Li Qi couldn't help but look up to the sky and lamented. He never thought that he would die here?!
At this time, the Peng generals beside him gasped and said: "General Li, the rebels are powerful, let's... let's escape too!"
"Escape? Where else can we escape?" Li Qi is already desperate. Now there are Tianyuan Army in front and behind him. Not to mention that he can't escape, even if he escapes, where can he go? Back to Yancheng? When he left with 50,000 troops,
Now he is the only one left in Yancheng. He cannot stop the Tianyuan Army's counterattack even if he returns to Yancheng. It is still a dead end.
"If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood!" Seeing that Li Qi had no desire to live, the generals around him said anxiously: "General Li, as long as we break out of the siege and return to the capital, we can still organize the people in the city
Common people, if you resist the Tianyuan Army and stay here, you will really be doomed!"
"Yes! General Li, let's go!"
After listening to the advice of the generals, Li Qi felt a glimmer of hope in his heart. Yes! Yancheng has nearly one million people, and the city has sufficient military resources. If tens of thousands of people can be organized to resist the Tianyuan Army's attack, it will not be impossible.
Maybe. Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "That's fine! Generals, follow me to break through!"
"Yes!" All the Peng generals responded in unison.
Since there were Tianyuan Army phalanxes in front and behind, Li Qi and others couldn't rush out even if they wanted to. They mixed in with the deserters of Peng Army, got off the official road, rode their horses and whipped their whips, and rushed towards the woods on the roadside.
It seemed that the Peng Army had been expected to flee into the forest. There were also a large number of Tianyuan Army ambushes in the woods. The Peng soldiers who ran into the woods were knocked to the ground from time to time by the Tianyuan Army soldiers who were ambushing them. From time to time, miserable sounds could be heard in the woods.
of howls.
Li Qi and others were not spared either. As soon as they entered the woods and had not run very far, several horse locks suddenly popped up from below. Before Li Qi and the other generals could react, they fell to the ground along with their horses. Several people who had just entered the woods were thrown to the ground.
Standing up, they heard shouts of killing all around them. Hundreds of soldiers from Tianyuan jumped out from the trees and grass, waving their swords and charging towards them.
Li Qi and other generals used all their abilities, put on their spiritual armors and held spiritual soldiers, and forced hundreds of Tianyuan soldiers back. When the Tianyuan army withdrew, Li Qi and others did not dare to delay for a moment.
They even abandoned their horses and hid on foot deep in the woods. However, before they had gone very far, countless eagle feathers suddenly flew behind them. The two lagging Peng generals hurriedly used their swords and guns to block, but they were able to block one.
One or two arrows, but they couldn't stop hundreds or thousands of them. The dense arrows passed through their weapons and were nailed to the spiritual armor of the two from time to time. The tinkling color was endless.
Not long after, cracks appeared in the spiritual armors of the two of them. They screamed secretly. It was too late for the two of them to escape. With a crisp sound, the spiritual armors of the two of them were finally fired continuously by arrows.
They were shattered by the impact, and in an instant, the bodies of the two generals were nailed into hedgehogs. Their bodies filled with arrows were kneeling on the ground, unable to even fall down.
However, taking advantage of the obstruction of these two Peng generals, Li Qi and the remaining three Peng generals finally got rid of the ambushing Tianyuan army and fled deep into the woods. The shouts of killing behind them were heard getting farther and farther away, and finally disappeared.
, the exhausted four finally stopped and sat on the ground, leaning against the trees, breathing heavily.
"General Li, listen to the sound... the rebels are not chasing us, we... are finally safe..." A Peng general took off his spiritual armor and said breathlessly while wiping the sweat from his face.
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"Alas!" Li Qi sighed bitterly and said quietly: "I have been on the battlefield for a long time since I was in the army, but I have never been defeated so miserably..."
Hearing this, the three Peng generals all blushed. They were also one of the generals who urged Li Qi to go out of the city to pursue the Tianyuan Army. Now they fell into the Tianyuan Army's trick and the whole army was wiped out. They could not escape the blame.
"General Li, as long as we can defend the capital, this defeat is nothing."
Yes! Being able to defend the capital is better than anything else, but can it be defended? Li Qi had no confidence at this time. He held on to the tree trunk, stood up, and said: "We can't rest anymore, we have to rush back immediately
Capital, reorganize your forces to resist the Tianyuan Army’s counterattack!”
"Yes! General!"
The three Peng generals stood up tiredly and followed Li Qi back to Yancheng.
When they left the city, they were a mighty 50,000-strong army. After only half a day, when they returned to the city, only Li Qi and three low-ranking generals were left. The disastrous defeat was evident.
The four of them had no horses, so they had to walk back to Yancheng. By the time they arrived in Yancheng, it was already evening and the sky was dark.
Li Qi lowered his head and walked into the city with sighs and sighs without paying much attention. When the three generals around him raised their eyes to look at Yancheng, they were all stunned. They rubbed their eyes in unison and looked towards Yancheng carefully.
Watch from the top of the city. When the three of them saw clearly, they were dumbfounded and couldn't recover for a while.
"Li...General Li..."
A Peng rolled his tongue and stammered, calling Li Qi who was walking in front.
"What's the matter?" Li Qi stopped and looked back at him in confusion.
"General Li, is... is this subordinate dazzled? I... why do you think the wind flag is hanging on the top of the city?" General Peng looked straight at Yancheng, as if he had lost his soul.
"Are you kidding?!" Li Qi sneered. Even if Ye Cheng had the courage, he would not replace the peng flag with the wind flag. As he spoke, he turned around and looked casually at the top of Yancheng.
He glanced at it, but at this glance, Li Qi was also dumbfounded.
I saw that on the top of the city of Yancheng, the red peng flag was no longer visible. Instead, it was filled with black and white flags. On the middle one, there was the word "wind" with a dou on it. On both sides of it, there was a big flag.
The right flag has the word "Tang" written on it, and the left flag has the word "Tianyuan" written on it.
Ah? Li Qi was very surprised. What is going on? Ye Cheng was so brave that he dared to change the capital's flag privately? After a while, Li Qi came back to his senses and his face became gloomy.
At this time, he had not thought that Yancheng had been lost. What he thought was that Ye Cheng was too courageous and secretly changed the national flag. If Zhong Tian knew about this, Ye Cheng would lose his head, and he would not be able to live with it.
He turned back angrily and said, "Don't be stunned! Follow me back to the city. I want to see what medicine Ye Cheng took wrong?!"
As he spoke, he took off his stride and strode toward the city gate.
Before he could get closer, suddenly, there was a piercing scream from the top of the city, and then, a rattle arrow flew down from the top of the city, hitting the ground in front of Li Qi.
This is completely a warning signal from the enemy to the enemy.
Li Qi's heart trembled and he stopped subconsciously. Then he became even more angry. He raised his head and shouted at the top of the city: "I am General Li Qi. Who dares to shoot an arrow at me?"
Hearing his shout, there was an obvious commotion on the top of the city. Not long after, the gate of Yancheng opened and a group of people ran out from inside.
There are not many people in this team, only about 500 in total. The leader is a burly Jing Zai, who stands at the front of the soldiers. He is a head taller and carries a huge gun on his shoulders.
Iron Hammer, when viewed from a distance, this general does not look like a human, but more like a spirited bear.