Chapter 196: First Battle

Lulong Mountain.

The Yuan family's troops flowed through the valley like a black river.

Guo Tu, dressed in military uniform, looked at the dried blood on the ground.

At this moment, he seemed to see Mo Di almost killed by the Yuan family's children here.

If Mo Di had died at that time, would he not have been forced to go out by Bei Di?

This thought flashed through his mind.

Then, his eyes turned cold.

For him, this question was meaningless now.

At this moment, he was heading towards a road that he could not turn back.

Perhaps the people of Da Song would call him and Yuan Li traitors in the future.

But so what.

The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.

One day, the iron cavalry of Bei Di will crush the mountains and rivers of Da Song.

The Yuan family will only be the heroes of the new dynasty, and he will continue to enjoy supreme wealth.

"Have you attacked the troops of King Yan?" Guo Tu said to Yuan Xiu.

"If they did, they would block the troops of King Yan in Ping County." Yuan Xiu said.

Guo Tu nodded.

He did not forget the existence of King Yan, but the most important thing now is Yanguan.

As long as Yanguan was broken, the Northern Di army entered the pass, and the King of Yan could not escape death.

Therefore, he had to concentrate all his forces to attack Yanguan and could not lose.

But he knew very well that the King of Yan would not remain indifferent if the Yuan family's troops moved.

So he thought of dividing the troops to contain the King of Yan's troops. 20,000 Yuan family soldiers held the King of Yan in Pingjun, and 20,000 soldiers went to attack Yancheng to distract the King of Yan.

...

Pingjun.

Less than half a day after the Wangfu army entered here, an army with messy flags and various styles of armor blocked the army, with a total of more than 20,000 people.

In front of the army.

A general galloped back and forth on horseback, shouting: "King of Yan, I am Dong Qi, the captain of the Yuan family, why don't you hurry up and die."

When the Wangfu army marched, there were always scouts in front of them.

Knowing that there was an army blocking the road ahead, Chang Wei ordered the army to march and change formations at the same time.

When they stopped, the army had turned into a large horizontal formation used in combat.

Now, they can launch an attack on the army in front of them at any time.

"Your Highness, do you want to fight?" Chang Wei asked.

This army looks like the Yuan family's miscellaneous soldiers.

Its purpose is naturally to prevent them from rushing to Yanguan.

Zhao Xu nodded gently, "Pull the artillery forward."

Since the Yuan family started the army, Yan Wei has been passing on messages.

On the way, he learned that Guo Tu had divided his troops to delay him.

With his order, one hundred city defense cannons that fired 32-jin heavy shells were pushed to the front of the formation.

Twenty field cannons were pulled to the two wings of the Wangfu army formation, ten on each side.

"Let the cavalry prepare!" Zhao Xu ordered again.

The 4,000 cavalry brought by Zhongli this time acted as light cavalry, using their mobility to pursue and kill, and surprise attacks.

And the 1,500 cavalry under Chen Hu were all dressed in plate armor, and the horses were also covered with armor and equipment, playing the role of real heavy cavalry.

Crossing the Yanshan Mountains, the Yanzhou area is flat.

In such terrain, heavy cavalry is the nightmare of infantry.

However, before letting Chen Hu charge, he needs to use artillery to disrupt the enemy's formation so that they cannot organize effective resistance.

"What?"

When the soldiers of the King of Yan made way for a path, a door of iron pipes with a shining metallic luster appeared in front of the formation, and Dong Qi's heart trembled.

After receiving the news of the attack on Yanguan, he thought Guo Tu was crazy.

But when Guo Tu mentioned that the Northern Di army was about to arrive and would attack Yanguan with the Yuan family, he immediately made his own choice.

Standing on the side of the Yuan family.

So after receiving Guo Tu's order, he decisively came to challenge.

Naturally, he had no hope of defeating the King of Yan.

But he had to delay as long as he could.

Otherwise, how could he show his merits in front of Yuan Li when the Northern Di entered the pass?

Moreover, he was born in a noble family in Ping County and was originally in the same mind with the Yuan family.

In their view, Yanzhou was finished, and Dasong was finished too.

Once the Northern Di entered the pass, Dasong would be destroyed like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.

If not vying to make merit now, when would you?

He was thinking.

Suddenly, he saw the soldiers behind the iron pipes light up the fire starter.

Instinctively realizing that something was wrong, he immediately ran to his own army.

Before he had run a few steps, suddenly "boom boom boom..." thunder-like explosions broke out.

The huge sound scared him like a chicken.

The horse he sat on was startled and neighed, and raised its front hoof to throw him off the horse.

At the moment he fell to the ground, he felt several strong winds passing by him.

One after another, black shadows flew out of the army behind him.

"Squeak squeak squeak..."

One after another, the sound of pork being slapped sounded.

He looked and saw several gaps in the dense army.

In each gap, a dozen soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the soldiers who were not dead kept screaming.

At this moment, his head was numb and he had no idea what was going on.

For the soldiers, Dong Qi was lucky.

When the loud noise came, many soldiers were frightened and trembled all over, and some even sat on the ground.

But this seemed to be just an appetizer.

Before they could react to the loud noise, they suddenly felt wet and sticky on their faces.

A soldier wiped his face and found that his hands were all covered with blood.

He looked to the side like a zombie twisting his neck, and saw that only half of the soldier's head was left stuck to his face, and blood was gushing out of his neck.

And in the small area behind this soldier, there was no living person.

He had never seen such a tragic scene. An extreme fear instantly occupied his whole body and mind. His whole body seemed to be frozen and unable to move.

"Boom boom boom..." Just when he hadn't figured out what happened, a loud noise came from the Yan Wang army again.

At this time, he saw it.

A black afterimage rushed towards them, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

That was the weapon brought by Yan Wang! It was the iron pipe that did it.

The legs of the Yuan family soldiers were out of control, as if nailed to the ground.

He took a hard step. Now, he had only one idea, escape!

"Witchcraft!"

A soldier couldn't stand it anymore. He covered his head and screamed like a madman, dropped the sword in his hand and ran away.

The tense fear in the hearts of other soldiers finally spread in this sound.

There was not even a Yuan family general to stop the soldiers. The entire Yuan family army was in chaos.

"Boom boom boom..." The loud noise was like the messenger of hell coming again.

The black afterimage pierced the army again, bringing blood and rain.

Seven or eight soldiers in a line had their limbs torn to pieces.

This horrifying scene made the Yuan family soldiers wish they had two more legs.

At that moment, the Yuan family's army formation was completely disrupted, and the soldiers ran everywhere.

But at this moment.

They suddenly heard a sound different from the loud noise.

"Rumble..."

Some Yuan family soldiers turned their heads.

They saw a group of cavalrymen wearing silver armor and their horses also covered with armor lined up in a horizontal line in the glow of the setting sun.

The sabers in the hands of the first row of cavalrymen were raised and came towards them.