Wu Youyi suddenly realized that Li Zhen used the assassination to threaten him and had no confession at all. Of course, the assassin was in his hands. If he wanted, he could fabricate his confession at any time. Li Zhen's real purpose was to force himself to hand over the task given to him by the emperor.

The emperor did have an order in his hands, and ordered Li Zhen to command Lu Long's army, but Wu Youyi did not want to disperse military power, so he never mentioned this matter. But now Li Zhen used the gold medal of inner guard and assassination to suppress him, obviously to force him to hand over power, which must be Di Renjie's intention.

Wu Youyi had heard of Li Zhen's method of dealing with Xue Huaiyi and Lai Junchen, and even Wu Sansi was a little afraid of this person. It would be better for him not to go against him.

Wu Youyi could not withstand Li Zhen's pressure in the end, so he had to pretend to be surprised and said: "I remember that the emperor sent someone to send a few handwritten orders early this morning. Before I could read it, maybe General Li arranged it. Please wait and I'll look for it."

He refused to let Li Zhen get in, and he hurriedly returned the bill. Li Zhen sneered slightly, saying that this is called "no toast and not eating and punishing the wine". He had to force him to take out the things.

After a moment, Wu Youyi came out with an imperial edict and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, General Li's appointment was really the one I sent it just now, but I didn't see it."

Li Zhen took the imperial edict and opened it. The superior appointed him as the envoy of Lu Long's army, temporarily commanding Lu Long's army and assisting Di Renjie in restoring order in Yingzhou. This was really beyond Li Zhen's expectations. When he saw a small table next to him, he placed the imperial edict on the table and knelt down to salute, "My minister Li Zhen, please obey the will of Your Majesty."

He stood up and took the imperial edict and said to Wu Youyi: "Since the emperor has made other arrangements for me, the assassination will be temporarily put on hold. Let's investigate it later. Now we should put military affairs first."

Wu Youyi cursed in her heart, but she had no choice but to hand over the general talisman to Li Zhen and said to him: "The cavalry is stationed in the southwest of the camp, and I will accompany General Li to take over the military power."

The 100,000 Tang troops commanded by Wu Youyi were actually pieced together by several armies, including the original Hebei garrison, the Andong Protector and tens of thousands of Jingji Guards.

The Lulong Army belonged to the Andong Protectorate. It was originally stationed on the Pingzhou line with about 6,000 people. It was also an independent army, commanded by General Zong Huaichang. However, Zong Huaichang was surrounded by the Khitan army in the trap. Lulong Army suffered heavy damage and suffered nearly half of the losses. Zong Huaichang himself was unfortunately killed.

The three thousand defeated Lu Long who escaped, who are temporarily in charge, are temporarily under the jurisdiction of Wu Youyi. Wu Youyi originally planned to disperse all the three thousand defeated troops and distribute them to each army, but he did not expect that the emperor would let Li Zhen take over the remaining troops.

However, Wu Youyi changed his mind and said that this would be fine. Throwing this remnant soldier to Li Zhen was a burden to let him deal with it. What would happen to him if he was defeated in the end?

The Lulong Army was stationed in the southwest corner of the camp. At this time, the army was dismal and morale was sluggish. The ambush at the Jiushi Valley was very fierce. Not only was the general manager Zong Huaichang killed in battle, but five of them were killed in the six commanders. Another commander was seriously injured. The soldiers were in a very low mood. Groups of three or five were talking around the tent, guessing their lives.

At this time, a team of soldiers guarding General Wu Youyi and walked into the cavalry garrison. The soldiers stood up one after another and stared at Wu Youyi nervously.

In the big tent, more than a dozen lieutenants gathered in the tent. After Wu Youyi announced his appointment, he hurriedly left and threw a bunch of messes to Li Zhen.

More than a dozen captains stared at Li Zhen, their eyes full of hope. They had received news before that Wu Youyi was preparing to break them up and distribute them to the armies. At that time, they would become miscellaneous scattered armies, with a low status, and eventually become scapegoats for the attacks of the armies.

But now they have welcomed a new military envoy, and they are also the world-famous General Li Zhen of the Inner Guard, which means that Lu Long's army will continue to be retained. How could they not be so excited? They suddenly knelt down on one knee together, clasped their fists and whispered: "See General Li"

Li Zhen nodded and smiled, "Please exempt you from the gifts of all generals. From now on, I will temporarily serve as the envoy of the Lulong Army. This is a special designation of the Lord, which means that I will rebuild the Lulong Army."

Li Zhen slowly swept the crowd and said, "I heard that the six commanders were almost killed or seriously injured, so they need to be appointed again. However, I will be promoted to the new commanders in the war, and you may be promoted to compete for promotion with your military merits."

Everyone nodded silently. Although everyone was eager to be promoted, they also knew that there were only three commanders in the three thousand troops at most, so Li Zhen's plan was acceptable to everyone and decided to be promoted based on their military achievements.

"alright"

Li Zhen no longer said anything to the lieutenants and immediately ordered: "Everyone gathers all the soldiers, we must speak to the soldiers."

The lieutenants came out one after another and gathered their subordinates. After a moment, the three thousand soldiers lined up. Li Zhen stood on a big table. He whispered to everyone: "Listen, brothers, from now on, I will lead everyone to rebuild Lulong's army and rebuild your glory."

Three thousand soldiers were silent, everyone stared at Li Zhen blankly, and tears began to appear in many people's eyes. Li Zhen took a deep breath and said loudly: "Some people say you are defeated soldiers and vulnerable, and some even suggested disbanding Lu Long's army, but is that true? I think it is not that the defeat of the war is that the main general underestimates the enemy and encounters ambush. You face tens of thousands of Khitan troops, no one surrenders, and they broke through the siege. You are not defeated soldiers and defeated the enemy. You are heroes. You should receive honors, not discriminate against."

Many soldiers couldn't help crying, almost every soldier shed tears, which were tears of humiliation, and Li Zhen's eyes also flashed with tears. He wiped away the tears and shouted loudly: "Honor cannot be obtained by prayer, it must be won in the battle between blood and fire. We are heroes, not losers. We must use facts to prove, win back our dignity with blood, and defend the dignity of Lu Long's army with blood."

Everyone's blood began to boil, tears turned into excitement, the soldiers raised their arms and shouted, their hissings drowned Li Zhen's motivation, and their decadent morale was swept away. Everyone longed for war and to kill the enemy, and they wanted to use their blood to win their dignity.

An hour later, Di Renjie rushed towards Pingzhou under the escort of Li Zhen and the three thousand Lu Long Army.

Pingzhou is the area around Qinhuangdao today. Shanhaiguan had not appeared at that time, but there was the famous Yuguan. Yuguan guarded the Liaoxi Corridor and was the only way to enter Hebei from Liaodong. Before that, the Khitan army divided into two groups, one led by Sun Wanrong to attack Miyun County, Tanzhou, and attempted to enter Youzhou from Miyun County. The other was led by general Luowuqi and led 20,000 troops to go south along the Liaoxi Corridor, preparing to conquer Yuguan and enter Hebei from the eastern line.

When the news that Wu Youyi led a 100,000 army northward came, the Khitan army on both sides of the east and west were both hurriedly retreating north. But just as Chen Zi'ang was worried, Wu Youyi stationed the army in Youzhou without any intention of making progress, and the Khitans' fear gradually faded.

Li Jinzhong sent general Sun Wanrong to lead an army of 15,000 troops to attack Yuguan, trying to seize the gate entering Hebei first.

There were only more than 800 defenders in Yuguan, led by Xu Qinji, deputy envoy of the Longshan Army in Yingzhou. He had been asking for help from Wu Youyi, but reinforcements never arrived.

The siege battle has been fought for three days and three nights, and more than 10,000 Khitan troops are attacking wildly. The defenders have suffered more and more than half of their casualties. Seeing that the defenders' combat effectiveness is getting weaker and weaker, the situation at Yuguan is in danger.

Dongdong,

In the afternoon, the Khitan army launched an attack on Yuguan again. The overwhelming army came to Yuguan. They carried the siege ladder, held shields, held swords and spears in their hands, and shouted to kill the sky.

The soldiers on the city were exhausted, but at the critical moment of life and death, everyone had to force themselves to get up, lift stones, raise bows and crossbows, and carry out the final resistance.

"Person Wu, you take the ten brothers Wu to the gap in the east wall to defend."

The chief general Xu Qinji commanded the defense on the top of the city. His eyes turned red and his voice hoarse. Faced with the endless attacks of the Khitans, he could only take a single bet and fight to the death with the enemy.

"Boundman Preparation"

He shouted, and more than 200 crossbowmen aimed at more than a thousand enemy troops running in the front. Xu Qinji saw that the enemy had entered the range of crossbow arrows, and he shouted: "Pull the arrows."

More than 200 crossbow arrows shot down from the city and shot strongly at the Khitan army. The Khitan soldiers' leather armor could not resist the Tang army's crossbow arrows, and dozens of people running in front screamed and fell.

Immediately afterwards, the second round of crossbow arrows of Tang Army were shot out again, and Sun Wanrong was furious and ordered: "Put the arrow to suppress them."

Two thousand Khitan archers shot arrows at the city wall together, and dense arrows shot towards the city wall like dark clouds. A Tang army captain yelled and "look down"

The Tang soldiers lay down one after another, but more than a dozen Tang soldiers were still bent over and were shot by arrows, and they screamed and fell from the top of the city.

Seeing that the arrow had been effective, Sun Wanrong shouted again: "Arrow covers, siege ladder up the city"

The arrows shot towards the city like rain, suppressing the Tang army and unable to look up. The Khitan army suddenly made a loud drum sound, and thousands of soldiers carried the siege ladders and approached the city wall.

Tall siege ladders were erected, and Khitan soldiers climbed up like ants. At the same time, Khitan's bows and arrows stopped shooting.

Xu Qinji shouted: "Smash them with stones and smash them back."

Hundreds of Tang soldiers carried huge rocks and smashed them up the siege ladder. The huge rocks rolled down, causing the Khitan soldiers to break their bones and tendons to roll down the ladder.

More than a dozen Tang soldiers held the ladder with long steel forks and pushed it out hard. The ladder gradually left the city and turned outward. Dozens of Khitan soldiers on the ladder screamed shrillly.

The captain Wu Xiaoming led fifty soldiers to guard a gap in the east. The situation here was the most critical. The city wall collapsed in the fierce battle yesterday, and a gap of two feet long appeared.

Hundreds of Khitan soldiers attacked the gap, and dozens of fierce Khitans had rushed to the top of the city. The Tang army fought to the death, with heavy casualties.

The captain Wu Xiaoming slashed an enemy with one knife, but a sharp spear suddenly stabbed from below and stabbed into Wu Xiaoming's lower abdomen. Wu Xiaoming screamed. When death came, he tried his best to hold the enemy who stabbed him, and fell down the high city wall together.

Seeing that the Tang army was about to be unable to support it, at this moment, a soldier rushed over and said loudly to the chief general Xu Qinji: "Report to General Xu, our reinforcements have reached twenty miles away. Please hold on for a while."

‘Twenty miles,

Xu Qinji smiled bitterly, the reinforcements finally arrived, but there were still twenty miles to be at least an hour, but in the current situation, how could they still defend the city?

Perhaps the tragic war moved the heavens, suddenly, a soldier pointed to the north and shouted: "Look, look."

The sky in the north suddenly turned dim and the wind increased. The smell of sand and soil hit the cheeks. A powerful sandstorm was pouring out toward Yuguan.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Sun Wanrong shouted: "Retreat immediately"

‘Dangdang, the bell of withdrawal rang, and the Khitan army evacuated like a tide, running towards the camp two miles away.
Chapter completed!