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Chapter 423: Retreat twenty miles

"General, what's wrong, there is a group of troops behind our army, coming to cover them up!"

Suddenly, General Huyan, who was beating the drum happily, received a report from the horse scout.

He handed the drumstick to the soldier beside him, turned to look at Tan Ma, frowned and asked, "How many people are here?"

Tan Ma said: "General, judging from the number of torches, there are at least... thirty or forty thousand people!"

"Thirty to forty thousand people?!"

General Huyan was shocked, and his two thick eyebrows were squeezed together.

They are attacking the city. If there are 4 or [-] troops behind them, it will be a big deal!

But Jiang was still old and hot, General Hu Yan quickly realized that the crowded eyebrows scattered, and then he sneered: "Fart! There are only [-] defenders near Youzhou City."

"Previously, 5000 people showed up, so the number of people who appeared behind us is only [-] at most! Oh, you can't fool me if you try to use the method of suspecting soldiers!"

"..."

"General, but..."

"Stop talking, it's just five thousand soldiers and horses, continue to attack the city."

"..."

The brutal siege continues.

Youzhou has already made sufficient arrangements. There are not only [-] soldiers, but also tens of thousands of young men. The resources for defending the city are continuously transported to the city in an orderly manner.

As for the Liao army, they are indeed not suitable for siege. What they are really good at is cavalry combat. When sieging a city, although they imitate it well, they are actually easy targets for others.

At the rear, General Huyan saw that he could not attack for a long time, and his heart gradually became agitated, and he was no longer calm and calm as before.

At this moment, several soldiers pushed a man in Liang Jun's armor forward and reported that they had captured an enemy soldier who had not had time to return to the city.

General Hu Yan didn't want to pay attention to this matter. He was just a pawn and could not get into his eyes.

But the general of the Liang army suddenly shouted:
"You are all dead!"

"General Yan has returned. At this moment, General Yan personally leads an army of [-] men and is guarding behind you. None of you can escape..."

"..."

"What did you say?" General Huyan's attention was attracted. He looked over and asked in a deep voice: "What general? What [-] troops? Haha, what a joke."

The captured Liang Jun general smiled and said:
"I didn't expect that in just over ten years, General Yan's name is no longer famous in Youzhou. Have you forgotten the time when you were scared to death by General Yan's flag?"

As he spoke, he shook his head repeatedly, as if he was sighing or remembering that time.

He said this lightly, but it shocked the Liao army officers and deputy generals present. They suddenly turned around and looked here with complicated eyes.

"That's nonsense, come here, pull him down and chop him down!"

General Huyan was furious. He had both the bad memory of being scared to death by General Yan more than ten years ago and the anger of being deceived.

He still couldn't believe that there were thirty or forty thousand people behind him.

Only five thousand at most.

However, just at this moment, a scout came to report that a Liang army had been found behind the army. Judging from the torches, their number was at least thirty or forty thousand!
This news couldn't have come at a worse time.

General Hu Yan was furious again, pointed at the unlucky Tan Ma and shouted loudly: "This man is deceiving the public with his evil words and disrupting the morale of our army. Come on, pull him out and chop him!"

"..."

After beheading the Liang Jun prisoner and the unlucky Tan Ma, General Hu Yan gave an impassioned speech.

These words successfully inspired the military morale of the soldiers.

They are full of fighting spirit and will not stop until they take Youzhou City.

However, not long after, another scout came back and reported that there were [-] to [-] Liang troops behind the army...General Hu Yan was furious and beheaded.

In this way, after beheading three or four Tanma in a row, not to mention the deputy generals, even General Huyan himself began to feel scared.

If one or two scouts reported this, they might have misunderstood.

But four or five scouts all said the same thing, this matter is by no means unusual.

There might be thirty or forty thousand Liang Jun behind them!

In addition, the lieutenants tried their best to persuade each other, and General Hu Yan frowned and thought for a long time. Finally, he took a deep breath, not daring to take too many risks, and ordered without enthusiasm:
"Stop attacking the city and retreat five miles!"

"Yes!"

"..."

After the Jin Dynasty, the Liao army attacking the city retreated like a tide, leaving corpses on the ground under the city wall.

But the Liao army did not send anyone to collect the corpse, but retreated in a hurry without looking back.

"Kill!"

At this time, the gates of Youzhou City, which had been closed for a long time, were opened, and [-] Liang Army soldiers came out to chase the retreating enemy troops.

"Too deceiving!"

General Huyan couldn't help but became furious when he saw this. These Liang troops are really annoying. Attack them. They will hide in the city and defend the city.

You retreat, they will come out to hunt you down again...

This style of play can't make full use of the grassland cavalry's means of running thousands of miles. They passively "exploit their strengths and avoid their weaknesses", which is really annoying.

But General Hu Yan has not lost his mind, and it is impossible to order another turn around to attack the city, so he pinched his nose and ordered:
"Retreat twenty miles!"

The reason why he retreated twenty miles was because General Huyan expected that since the Liang army was out in force, they would not dare to stray too far from the city. It would be terrible if the Liao army in turn took away the city.

Sure enough, after the [-] Liang army chased and killed them for ten miles, they stopped and stopped chasing and killing.

Seeing this, General Huyan breathed a long sigh of relief. Suddenly, he remembered something, found a capable lieutenant, and ordered:

"You go to the rear of the army to see for yourself, to find out the reality of that Liang army, and see if they have thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses."

"The last general takes orders."

"..."

After the army retreated twenty miles, General Huyan ordered to set up camp on the spot and wait for dawn.

At this time, the deputy general returned and reported to General Huyan:
"General, we've been tricked!"

"The Liang army actually only had about 5000 people. Each of them got a few torches and spread them out, so judging from the torches, they numbered 4 to [-]!"

"hateful!"

General Huyan was furious and his chest heaved violently. Although he firmly believed that the Liang army did not have thirty to forty thousand people, he still couldn't accept it after hearing the truth with his own ears.

Originally, the Liao Kingdom sent six thousand elites to secretly sneak into Youzhou City in Daliang, preparing to launch an uprising at the critical moment and capture the entire Youzhou.

This is a "wonderful" strategy.

But what is the result in the end?

Not only did they crack their "excellent" plan and wipe out six thousand of their elites, but they also used the trick to "lure the enemy deep" and "catch the turtle in the urn".

Previously, General Huyan was cautious. Although he was tricked by the hateful Prince Hunxie and lost 5000 men, the large army was not damaged.

For this, he was quite proud.

But in the end they were tricked and mistakenly thought that there were thirty or forty thousand Liang troops behind them, so they withdrew hastily.

This time, it was good. Youzhou City was not captured, but it made our own soldiers exhausted.

If he hadn't retreated from the city of Youzhou just now, he really wanted to send troops to attack the city again...

(End of this chapter)