Looking at the mountains and rivers

Wei Changxuan still remembered all the hardships he had suffered when he first entered the palace, and he could imagine that the young Tuoba's fortune in the palace would not be better than him.He raised his eyes: "Did you leave the palace because you couldn't stand being bullied?"

The samurai sneered: "I have never paid attention to those weak methods. I returned to Yanyu because I am from Yanyu." He raised his hand and pulled open his skirt, revealing Half of the strong arms and chest muscles, "we were born to be emperors on the prairie. We have to carry a knife and mount a horse and gallop. Instead of looking at the sky in all directions in the small courtyard in the Central Plains every day, intrigue each other, and do some vicious things. little tricks."

Hearing what he said, Wei Changxuan nodded: "It seems that you are considered a leader here, but you are not like Ashinanur's subordinates. What is your identity?"

The samurai smiled and folded his hands: "You want to know about me? Well, it's okay to tell you. I was originally a centurion, and my monthly military salary was only enough to drink and eat meat. It's not worth the money. I went to the battlefield to fight my life, and besides, I couldn't understand Ashina Nur. So, I took my brothers and sneaked away when I set out, and I was stationed here, and I was going to wait and see for two days to see how the frontline battle was going. Intend."

Wei Changxuan sneered in his heart. This person's demeanor did not look like a deserter who was greedy for life and afraid of death. He was obviously unwilling to reveal his true identity when he told such a lie.

"What about you?" The samurai asked suddenly, "You killed He Lu, you should have made a great contribution, at least you should be named a general. Why did you bring such a few people to a place hundreds of miles away from the battlefield? do what?"

Wei Changxuan sighed feignedly: "I have neither status nor background in the army, and all the little credit I have made has been replaced by the general's nephew. I am still just an insignificant pawn. Therefore, the past two days I was bored, so I called a few people out to hunt and relax."

He said casually, and raised his eyes to see the other party's reaction, but he heard the warrior sneer twice: "I thought you were a man, but I didn't expect you to be a liar. Since you refuse to tell the truth, Then don’t blame me for being rude.”

He suddenly opened the tent door and shouted a few words to the outside angrily, only to see a few Yanyu soldiers running in immediately, tied Wei Changxuan tightly, dragged him out, and threw him directly behind the tent. In the stable.

Wei Changxuan was hurt all over from the fall. He lay in the snow, smelling the heavy stench around him, and smiled wryly: "Yexi, you are really welcome, an old acquaintance."

The moonlight in the snow was particularly dazzling and cold. Wei Changxuan listened to the movement not far away, and slowly turned over and sat up. While lying down, he cut open the leather rope with the copper teeth attached to his back waist. .Because he was frozen once, he is now moving his knuckles nervously, and the Yanyu war horse beside him is pacing back and forth. People come here.He crawled in the snow, slowly crawled forward a few steps, and then suddenly turned over and jumped onto the back of a horse.That was his gale, just a whistling, and this green horse jumped out of the stable and ran into the endless ice field.

During the gallop, Wei Changxuan could almost see the hot air he exhaled turned into frost. He kept whipping and urging him, fearing that he would freeze to death on the road.

Suddenly, a man and a horse suddenly appeared in front of him, and the moonlight shone on the top of his head, clearly showing that somewhat wild face of a foreign race.The man held a bow and arrow in his hand, and the arrow was already wound, pointing directly at Wei Changxuan.

Wei Changxuan stopped his horse and looked at him. He was unarmed and could no longer avoid the arrow in the opponent's hand.

However, the samurai smiled and lowered his bow and arrow, handed it over, and at the same time handed over another thing: "You forgot one thing."

Wei Changxuan reached out to take it, but it was the dagger that Yang Yan gave him. He picked up the bow and arrow, put the dagger in his arms, and said with some uncertainty, "Are you willing to let me go?"

The samurai smiled: "You escaped by yourself, what does it have to do with me?" He paused, "I didn't lie to you about one thing, I really don't like Ashina Nur."

Wei Changxuan was slightly taken aback, but also smiled.

"Also, I don't believe that the Central Plains people are really as heroic as they say." The warrior's pair of deep amber eyes fixed on him, "Unless you really have the ability to kill Ashinanur .”

Wei Changxuan looked at him for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay."

They rode horses at the same time, crossing each other, both of them thought about the same thing: when they meet on the battlefield in the future, this person will be a difficult enemy.

In the sixth year of Yong'an, on the seventh day of February, Yunxia Pass.

The tall Xiongguan Pass is no longer its former glory. Nearly half of the wall to the west has collapsed, and there are still scorched marks on it, which were smashed by a huge fireball the day before.

Chen Yan was not wrong, Ashina Nur not only brought heavy cavalry and 10 horses, he also allyed with the Kamo Kingdom in the Western Regions, brought newly-made artillery carts, and gathered them at Yunxia Pass.Yesterday's strong attack was like a rain of fire in the air, and the defenders suffered countless casualties.

"Is the mud paved yet?" Yu Chifeng yelled angrily after his eyebrows were burned off during yesterday's battle, and kicked the sluggish soldier beside him.

"Major General, the opponent's fire bombs are too powerful, and the mud may not be effective." A voice said behind him.

Yu Chifeng replied anxiously: "Then what can we do, we can only stay in seclusion now, can't we let them smash the city wall!"

"Alternatively, we could smash their cannon carts first."

Yu Chifeng was startled when he heard it, and only then did he realize who the person behind the voice was, and quickly turned his head: "General Chen."

Chen Yan nodded, and the soldiers behind him had already carried huge equipment to the top of the wall, and were loading and unloading them in an orderly manner.

"General Yuchi's reinforcements haven't arrived yet?" Chen Yan's face was a little dignified, he looked at the city, "the opponent's offensive is so fierce, we are afraid that Yunxia Pass will be breached if we don't wait for the reinforcements, major general, do you want to go to Anyang? Avoid in the city?"

Yu Chifeng's eyes widened: "Father ordered me to guard Yunxia Pass to the death before he left, and I will never retreat." He looked behind Chen Yan suspiciously, "General Chen, what is that?"

"These are bed crossbows. I didn't bring any ready-made ordnance from Jian'an this time. I just dismantled some old ordnance and asked them to refit it overnight." After Chen Yan finished speaking, he shouted back, "Are you ready?"

"Report to General, everything is ready!"

The gun carriages under the city were already igniting, and the flames were soaring into the sky, reflecting the surrounding snow, it was dazzling.At this moment, the flag at the head of Yunxiaguan City was shaken, and countless arrows rained down along with dozens of heavy arrows. Almost no one within hundreds of steps below the city was spared, and even a few nearby artillery carts were heavy. The arrows shattered into pieces.

Before the soldiers who succeeded in the city had time to cheer, a few fire bombs were suddenly thrown up, and the heat wave was billowing, engulfing several nearby people in an instant.

"There are still a few gun carriages that are too far away. The crossbow on the bed is not accurate enough to shoot at all."

Chen Yan caressed the city wall, sighed softly, and then said in a deep voice: "Send troops and horses, follow me out of the city to meet the enemy."

Yu Chifeng was a little surprised: "General Chen, now that the opponent's formation has not been broken, it is still too dangerous to leave the city."

"At this point, it's no longer time to care about life." Chen Yan walked down the city wall without looking back, "Since we can't just watch Yunxia pass fall, we can only go out of the city to gamble."

The iron hooves of the cavalry rushed out of the city gate first, and then the infantry swarmed out. The artillery cart temporarily stopped attacking, and the two armies fought to one place like a tide.

Chen Yan only took more than [-] people out of the city, and was surrounded by the opponent almost instantly. His target was very clear, not the enemy's rear camp, but the guard infantry and hundreds of gunners around the artillery cart.

Enemy troops rushed up from the side, and the soldiers on both sides blocked the way with long knives, but they still couldn't stop these brave Yanyu people.Holding the epee in his hand, Chen Yan bent down to cut down a pawn, but saw another figure flashed by the side, and the person beside him reacted faster than him, and had already cut off the man's head with a single blow.

Chen Yan turned his head to look at this athletic young man, but seeing his nephew's face, he couldn't help being startled, and then roared angrily: "I ordered you and Major General Yuchi to station in the pass, why did you leave the city?"

Chen Shao's face was still splattered with the enemy's blood, he raised his long knife: "Uncle, you can't lock me up forever, I am a descendant of the Chen family, and I was born to go to war," a piece of snow fell leisurely on the ground. The knife he raised was melted by the heat of blood, and water droplets flowed towards the blade. He lowered his voice, "Even if I die in battle, I will never regret it."

Chen Yan was slightly distracted. He looked at his nephew's side face, as if he saw himself on the battlefield for the first time. He nodded: "Okay!" Then he rode his horse and led the army straight to the front of the enemy's formation.

The ordnance is cumbersome, and it is completely inferior to the maneuverability of the cavalry. The infantry and gunners guarding the artillery carriage died almost instantly under the trample of these ten thousand people, and blood and fire ignited at the same time.Chen Yan raised his head, and saw that the back road had been heavily blocked by Yan Yu Qingqi. He held up his sword and shouted loudly: "Stay away!"

The formation of the enemy army suddenly changed, the two sides spread out like wings, and the flag bearer in the center had already raised the command flag, as if it was about to wave it down.

"Uncle," Chen Shao approached at some point, and whispered, "They are..."

The heavy sound was like thunder, faintly coming from the enemy's rear. It didn't seem like the sound of horseshoes, but the sound of giant beasts.

"It's Yan Yu's heavy cavalry." Chen Yan nodded. At this time, he showed the calmness of a general, and turned to his nephew, "Keep an eye on the rear army, and kill those who retreat!"

Chen Shao nodded solemnly, turned around and turned around, but heard an exclamation from the crowd.I saw the command flag officer in the Yanyu army was about to wave the command flag in his hand, but he couldn't help but leaned back, and was actually shot through his forehead by an arrow, and fell to the ground.

Not only the Yanyu army, but even the soldiers of the Forbidden Army here were shocked. It was the Yanyu Zhongjun, about five or six hundred steps away, and it was impossible for anyone to shoot an arrow that far.What's more, the direction of the arrow is not here at all, it seems to be shot from Yan Yu's rear army.

"It's Wei Changxuan!" Chen Shao shouted suddenly, and he saw a green horse galloping on the ice field on the snow, followed by a large number of Yanyu cavalry.The man and the horse seemed to fall from the sky, and they came out like lightning, and the young man with the bow and arrow in his hand was Wei Changxuan.

Chen Yan immediately raised his epee and shouted: "The first battalion and the second battalion are covering with bows and arrows, Chen Shao, you lead the elite cavalry battalion to meet them."

"Yes!"

A layer of frost had already formed on Wei Changxuan's thick black eyebrows. He held the bow and arrow tightly in his hand, and at the last moment of breaking through, he shot an arrow in the direction of the Chinese army.Feather arrows nailed into Yan Yu's king's banner with a gust of wind, and the man under the heavy siege lifted his pure gold mask. He looked in the direction of the arrow and narrowed his falcon-like eyes.

The two wings of Yanyu's army kept moving forward, almost completely encircling the Jokhang army that had left the city. At this moment, the sound of heavy war drums sounded from the wall of Yunxia Pass.With the sound of the drum, the door mechanism of Yunxia Pass rang and slowly opened. With the sound of the drum, a white-armored cavalry jumped out, which was the army of Yu Chixian's direct line. A large red flag slowly poured out from the city gate.

Chen Yan's tense face finally eased, and he whispered: "It seems that the reinforcements invited by General Yuchi are still in time."

In the border war with Yan Yu from the fifth year of Yong'an to the sixth year of Yong'an, this was the most critical battle at Yunxia Pass. Both the east and west walls collapsed, and the west wall was the most serious. There were more than three feet, and the wall was covered with corpses, and the defenders were killed and injured by tens of thousands.

Faced with the overwhelming army, Tuobaxin dispatched [-] elite men to Anyang, which slightly eased the border crisis.Under Yan Yuya's tent, the right general Ashinanur led his troops to retreat for the time being, but he was stationed two hundred miles away from Yunxia Pass, watching him covetously.For a while, the two forces did not dare to act rashly, and the two sides confronted each other for a short time.