Shengshichun

Chapter 384 His Highness is Brave
Lian Yang opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.

He sneaked to the capital of Great Zhou to track down Yang Yi but was defeated halfway. Later on his way to the northwest, he did not hear any news about the eldest prince from Great Zhou. Even Luo Zhao, the leader of the border defense army, was completely unaware of it. He just thought that Yang Yi still refused to see the emperor, so he still had an opportunity!
In short, all this was not just a trap set by Luo Zhao, the mastermind of this trap was not Luo Zhao! It was the Northwest Army, the entire perimeter defense!
Lian Yang gritted his teeth, held the reins tightly and looked around. When he looked up, he heard shouts of killing coming from all directions like a tide.

At this time, Wu Chengping opened his eyes and pointed behind him and shouted: "Look behind you!"

Before Lian Yang could turn around, the earth-shaking sound of horse hooves came from behind.

At the entrance of the gorge a few miles away, there were several stone mountains of varying sizes and rocks scattered all over the ground. At this time, led by Liang Zhi and Cheng Chili, countless Great Zhou soldiers were rushing out from the other end of the narrow road. They were like a torrent rushing from ancient times, rushing towards him and the 100,000-strong army in an instant...

"Quickly meet the enemy!"

The other two rebel generals who were traveling with Wu Chengping immediately raised their swords and ordered the generals on all sides.

The 100,000-strong army immediately deployed to fight back, and in the blink of an eye the frontline troops had already started fighting with the Dongzi Army and the Great Zhou Army led by Yang Yi.

Lian Yang, Wu Chengping and the other two who were surrounded in the center by the soldiers did not dare to relax at all. In a normal battle between two armies, the commander-in-chief would not take the risk of going to the front line in person. The commander-in-chief is the soul of a team. Unless it is a life-and-death moment, they all have to stay in the rear to command the battle.

But at this moment, not only were they present at the battlefield, but they were also surrounded in the center by Da Zhou and Dong Zi. In such a formation, there was no question of command. Even a fool could see that the top priority right now was to break through!

Their only way to survive is to break out!
If they can't do this, they will definitely be dead!
"We will split into three groups and charge out! Head towards Dayue!"

It was already dawn at this time. Wu Chengping looked at the situation on three sides, then immediately raised his sword, reined in his horse and charged forward.

Following his order, the rebels immediately left Lian Yang and stood forward.

Lian Yang rode up to catch up and said, "Pei Zhan is behind us, what are your plans?!"

"Don't you have someone else?!"

Wu Chengping reined in his horse and pointed at the large number of guards behind him.

Lian Yang looked back at his hundred men and gritted his teeth, "Do you think they can withstand Pei Zhan and his men's iron hoofs?"

Wu Chengping said: "You are the one who brought this person here, so you should take the responsibility for the aftermath!"

"You are still separating from each other at this time. Don't you want that half of the tiger talisman?!"

Lian Yang took a rectangular brocade box from the guard behind him, quickly opened the box and took out a half-moon shaped jade token from it!

As soon as this thing appeared, Wu Chengping gritted his teeth and calmed down. He waved his left hand and sent out a group of people to protect Lian Yang from behind: "These two thousand people are for you to use. Whether you can keep up depends on your ability!"

Lian Yang knew that he couldn't ask for more at the moment, so he signaled Lian Yi to command the two thousand men and join the battle.

Pei Zhan had already reined in his horse and stopped at the back, looking at them like ants on a hot pan.

Gao Changyuan and Luo Zhao had already caught up with their men. At this time, with the help of the rising sun, Luo Zhao pointed at the only person beside Wu Chengping who was not wearing armor and did not hold a spear or halberd and said, "That's Lian Yang!"

Being surrounded on all sides, Lian Yang and his men moved forward very slowly. Pei Zhan narrowed his eyes and estimated the distance between the two sides. He took the bow and arrow from the soldier beside him, and galloped into the battle. Halfway through, he fully loaded the bow, aimed at Lian Yang and shot an arrow!

The arrow seemed to have eyes and followed the direction in which he fled in panic!

Lian Yang was startled and reached out to grab a long spear beside him and started waving it.

But with soldiers all around him, his range of movement was limited. Finally, with a faint sound of "puff", the arrow pierced his left back, and the force caused him to stagger forward on his horse.

"Hurry and fight the enemy! Hurry and protect the master!"

Seeing Pei Zhan and Zhou Jun rushing towards them, Lian Yi panicked and shouted, but he saw Pei Zhan raising his longbow again, and three arrows, pushed by the full bowstring, shot straight at his face!

A piercing pain started from his shoulder blade and spread in all directions. He gritted his teeth and raised his head. Then he felt pain in his right arm again. Two of the three arrows shot by Pei Zhan simultaneously hit his left and right shoulders.

The halberd that he had been holding in his hand suddenly became as heavy as a boulder. His hands felt sore as he struggled to hold it tightly and lift it up, but just as it passed his head, the halberd fell down heavily!
A piercing cold feeling pierced his chest at this moment - he looked down and saw that a sharp sword had penetrated his chest, leaving only half of it outside, and the hilt at the other end was held in Pei Zhan's hand!
Lian Yi looked at him in disbelief. He was also a general of Dayue and one of the bravest young men of the Lian family, a family of military generals. When Pei Zhan led his army to defeat their Dayue, he did not think highly of Pei Zhan. He felt that it was a fluke and that Pei Zhan was lucky!
So he had no choice but to follow Lian Yang. He wanted to prove that Pei Zhan's strength was just so-so!

However, he had not even fought with Pei Zhan before he was defeated by him!
"I know your father. I cut off his head myself. You look a lot like your father, so when I saw your face, I thought of him."

Pei Zhan drew his sword back.

A pool of blood soaked Lian Yi's clothes.

Lian Yi gritted his teeth, shouted loudly and rushed towards him.

But Pei Zhan turned his horse around without thinking and chased after Lian Yang.

Lian Yi fell to the ground and thrashed around twice, before being stepped on by Cheng Chili who had rushed over, and finally became unable to move.

Pei Zhan jumped to the other side, and Lian Yang had already brought his men to fight Liang Zhi.

The two sides were in a fierce battle. Pei Zhan raised his bow and arrow again and shot at Lian Yang's back.

Lian Yang turned his head to dodge, and the arrow hit him in the waist.

The force of the arrow caused him to fall forward, his head pitched forward, and he immediately rolled off the horse's back!

Pei Zhan rode forward, pointed his sword at the ground, twisted his wrist, and after a deafening scream, Lian Yang's hands and ankles were covered in blood, and all his meridians were severed.

Liang Zhi and Gao Changyuan rushed over, took the document with his palm prints on it, and took out several other papers with fingerprints of different ages from their pockets. They pulled up Lian Yang's palms to compare them one by one, then they looked up and said in a strong voice, "It's him!"

"Search him!"

Gao Changyuan immediately grabbed Lian Yang's collar, fumbled for a while, and took out the half tiger talisman.

Pei Zhan took it in his hand and saw that it was exactly the same as the one he had drawn for Luo Zhao beforehand.

When the Zhou army broke into the Dayue Imperial City and captured Duan Ruo, he had already left behind some remnants waiting to be restored. This was beyond Pei Zhan's expectations.

Looking at the major and minor disturbances that have occurred over the past year, they are all closely related to Lian Yang and his party's ambition to restore power.

Duan Ruzhi was so insidious, and Lian Yang was even worse. Among all of them, only Luo Zhao had seen Lian Yang's true face. If he didn't take his palm print in advance to verify his true identity, how could people feel at ease?

And if Lian were to carry out another evil scheme to escape now, wouldn't there still be trouble afterwards?

Only by catching Lian Yang and getting the tiger talisman can we cut off their thoughts! Pei Zhan tucked the tiger talisman into his arms and sheathed his sword: "Take him back!"

Then he looked to the other side and saw that the two rebel commanders on the other side had already faced off against the Dongzi army. On the other side, Yang Yi was fighting with Wu Chengping.

After Lian Yang and Lian Yi fell, the two thousand troops that Wu Chengping had sent over earlier were already in chaos. Wu Chengping saw from afar that the tiger talisman fell into Pei Zhan's hands, gritted his teeth, and rushed forward with all his might!
He had gone to such great lengths to betray Dong Zi just for this tiger talisman, and now all his efforts were wasted, how could he be willing? !

But he simply couldn't get out.

Right in front of him, a man and a horse stood against the light, tall and mighty like a god, with his bow drawn towards him, his eyes under his furrowed brows were as resolute as the towering mountains around him! ...

"Yang Yi..."

Wu Chengping had only heard of this name. This eldest son of the emperor of the Great Zhou who was exiled outside had been imprisoned in Dayue for five years. However, the five years of shackles had not overwhelmed him, who was only in his teens. He escaped from Dayue! He also secretly stirred up the situation several times! He was obviously the legitimate son of the emperor of the Great Zhou, and the supreme power was within his reach, but he would rather live in exile outside until the Great Zhou might fall into crisis again! ...

How can there really be people in the world who don’t covet power?

They and Lian Yang are a group of people who are willing to fight for power!
"Marshal, be careful!"

He suddenly heard a reminder from a soldier, and Wu Chengping looked up, only to see an arrow had already escaped from Yang Yi's hand, and it was heading straight for his face!

Wu Chengping no longer hesitated. With a loud shout, he swung his spear to split the arrow and rode his horse to meet Yang Yi.

Yang Yi abandoned his skills, raised his halberd, and rushed forward without thinking!
At a distance of only forty or fifty steps, spears and halberds collided in a flash, causing a string of sparks in the air.

Pei Zhan reined in his horse and looked from afar at the two spears and halberds shining brightly in the sunlight, creating a flash of silver light.

After about twenty rounds, one of the riders suddenly retreated. Pei Zhan saw with his sharp eyes that it was Yang Yi running towards this side with a long spear in hand.

He instantly looked at Wu Chengping, only to see two streams of blood spurting out of his chest. He was still standing upright on his horse, pointing his gun at the galloping Yang Yi, until a few breaths later, he fell off his horse like a collapsing mountain!
"...Mr. Yang is mighty!"

The generals next to him couldn't help but shout.

Pei Zhan couldn't help but tighten his grip on the hilt of his sword.

He had heard about Yang Yi's experiences abroad over the past twenty years from Fu Zhen many times. Later, he also heard from Pei Yu about Yang Yi's intelligence and bravery when he was young. If he were to recount it, it was indeed worthy of the word "amazing".

But no matter how many emotions are described, there is always a layer between them and they cannot touch people.

The Yang Yi in front of him was extremely powerful and calm. Although he was not a general, he still had the power of a general. He seemed to have walked out of a book and suddenly came alive! He became real!

This is the real Yang Yi who has gone through hardships but remained unyielding!

He is the eldest son of the Great Zhou Dynasty who showed his extraordinary side at a young age!

Gao Changyuan said excitedly: "Your Highness's prowess is not inferior to that of the generals in our Northwest Camp!

Pei Zhan took a deep breath and nodded deeply: "With the master's help, things will be easier after returning to Beijing!"

After that, he gave the order in a deep voice: "The cavalry battalion, take your positions and draw your bows! The rest of you, attack together!"

……

The place where the battle took place was the territory of Dayue.

Pei Zhan had been in the northwest for more than half a month and had already sent messengers to the Dayue Imperial Court. Although this war was triggered suddenly, the nearby camps that had received orders from their court also responded shortly afterwards.

After Wu Chengping and Lian Yang's group were brought down, the fierce battle lasted until noon, and the winner and loser were already clear.

But the rebels were clearly unwilling to die and continued to fight stubbornly.

Finally, when the Dayue soldiers attacked again, a general among the rebels shouted "No more fighting". This kind of abandonment attracted more people to abandon the battle. When the sun was at its highest, the troops of Da Zhou, Dayue, and Dongzi had surrounded the less than 30% of the remaining rebels.

The number of people is overwhelming, it would be unreasonable not to reduce it.

But settling the situation in just half a day was the best outcome.

The purpose of Pei Zhan's trip was to capture the remnants of Lian Yang's gang. The task of dealing with the 100,000 rebels in Dongzi would naturally be taken over by the border defense camp.

Cheng Chili put Lian Yang into the prison car. Liang Zhi and Gao Changyuan had also found the other half of the tiger talisman, as well as the rebel's seal and other items from Wu Chengjun.

When they defected to Dongzi, they fled with their entire family, and naturally they took these things with them.

The army returned to the northwest camp. Gao Changyuan and his men were busy dealing with the aftermath, while Pei Zhan and Liang Zhi and their men were organizing their equipment and preparing to return to the capital.

When they were about to look for Yang Yi, Yang Yi arrived in the big tent first.

"You guys go back first. I want to go to Dongzi and meet Jin Xu."

Pei Zhan said: "Last night, the incident happened suddenly, and I didn't have time to report it to Your Highness. Zhen'er sent an urgent letter, saying that something has happened in the capital, and now Your Highness and I must return to the capital as soon as possible!"

Yang Yi's towering figure suddenly stopped at the foot of the tent: "What happened?"

Pei Zhan looked solemn, "I don't know what happened specifically. But Ah Zhen sent a letter with a fast horse five hundred miles away. I am eager to go home and cannot stay here for a moment."

Yang Yi frowned and glanced at the faces of Liang Zhi and the others in the tent. He saw that none of them had the joy of success. Instead, they all looked nervous. How could he dare to be careless?
He tightened and loosened his right hand around the hilt of the sword, and then he took a deep breath and strode out, saying, "Let's go! Set off immediately!"

His decisiveness at this moment made everyone in the tent smile and then follow him.

Outside the big tent, the bright September sun shone brightly on the earth. The yellow sand in the distance was a bright golden color, and the post roads with fluttering flags on both sides extended all the way to the horizon.

In the prison van ready to go, the identities of the remnants of the country's troubles such as Lian Yang had been identified. They became stray dogs and looked at the ground in despair. The bodies of rebel leaders such as Wu Chengping who had died from serious injuries were also placed one by one on the flatbed truck.

——Today, the Northwest Rebellion that lasted for fourteen years has finally come to an end.

The end of the last chapter was indeed a bit rushed, because I thought few people wanted to see the war scene, but I was surprised to find so many people "protesting" in the book review area this morning. I went back and saw that it was really my fault, because I wanted to speed up the progress, so I missed a lot of important details. For example, when Yang Yi appeared, he was with the Dongzi army, not alone (this point has been mentioned before), and this point was not written, causing everyone to mistakenly think that only Pei Zhan and his few people started to fight against the 100,000-strong army.

So today I have completed the end of the previous chapter and the content of this chapter together.

It is almost finished, so I would like to tell you about the creation of this book. In the past two years, I have experienced many major changes in my life and have not had much energy to try new themes. The original intention of conceiving "Spring in the Golden Age" was to write a refreshing story, but I am ashamed to say that some of the plots are indeed not well handled. Every time I write a book, I want to explore better ways of presentation, and I want to write better and better, and write stories that at least most people will like. I am still very passionate about this book, and I am working hard to give it a good ending. Thank you all for your company and encouragement. The author will keep working hard~