Chapter 251 Dragon and Tiger vs. Kirin

Li Ze was on the top of the city wall at that time. Although he had never seen Yang Chang before, he could recognize him by his clothes.

Commander Yang is the Grand Marshal, so normally he should wear a purple robe. But when Li Ze disappeared from the city, he wondered if Commander Yang came in person, maybe he would be wearing a military uniform?
When faced with Ma Lin knocking on the door outside the city, Li Ze had no right to answer directly because Tu Hesu was right next to him.

Tu Hesu had been defeated in several battles with Yang Chang, and was about to use Liaozhou's conspiracy to avenge his previous defeat. However, when he looked at the soldiers under the city, he did not see the figure of his "old friend".

"General, look!"

"Ask him where Yang Chang is!"

"okay."

Li Ze asked for instructions and got them. Then he walked up to the wall and replied: "May I ask what is your name, General?"

"I am Ma Lin."

"So it's General Ma. I'm the prefect Li Ze. I see that the general has not brought many soldiers. Is this the front of Weisheng's reinforcements? Where is General Yang now?"

"Front part?"

Ma Lin was stunned when he heard this, and then he responded with Commander Yang's instructions: "The Grand Commandant is busy with military affairs, how can he come to Liaozhou in person? This is all the reinforcements. Does Governor Li think that I don't have enough soldiers?"

"Uh, how could that be? General, don't worry."

Li Ze just answered loudly, and at the same time he stood there, he asked Tu Hesu quietly: "General, did you hear everything? Yang Chang didn't come in person, so what's next?"

"I prepared a table of food, but the people I wanted to invite didn't come, but some irrelevant people came. Ma Lin has never heard of this before. It seems that Yang Chang doesn't really want to save him."

"Then should we still let this group of people into the city?"

"Let it go, why not?"

Tu Hesu's expression was grim, and he said in a deep voice: "Although there are only 5,000 people, Commander Yang has few troops to begin with, and he feels bad to kill them. Let them enter the city quickly."

"Yes!"

Li Ze received the latest instructions. While instructing Ma Lin to lower the drawbridge, he replied with a smile, "General Ma, please wait a moment. The city gate is opening. We can talk in person later."

"Ah."

Ma Lin responded and immediately rode back to the army.

This back and forth made Tu Hesu, who was peeping, surprised and thought to himself that Ma Lin was not the main general.

Tu Hesu followed Ma Lin and saw him communicating with a military general. The man was tall and mighty, and was most likely the real commander.

This guy has a decent appearance, but looks so unfamiliar. Is he the general recruited by Yang Changxin?
Thinking of this, he suddenly stopped Li Ze and asked again: "Li Zhizhou, do you know the person next to Ma Lin?"

"Please forgive me, General. I don't recognize any of them."

Seeing Li Ze bowing his hands to apologize, Tu Hesu questioned: "Liaozhou is adjacent to Weisheng, why don't you have any contact with Yang Chang?"

"Liaozhou is located in a remote area, and it is inconvenient to get in and out. Yang Chang also rose to power suddenly, and I really didn't have time to pay him a visit."

"It's troublesome for you Han people to communicate with each other because you are cautious. But it doesn't matter if you don't know him. When you enter the city and I capture him, you will know who he is."

After Tu Hesu finished speaking, he waved his hand and then approached the city wall to watch the drawbridge being released. However, when the drawbridge fell to the ground and splashed dust, he did not see the "thing in the bag" continue to move.

Not moving? What does that mean?
"You're asking, what is Ma Lin doing?"

"Ah."

After receiving the reminder, Li Ze immediately waved and shouted to the people below the city: "General Ma, you can enter the city now! General Ma!"

Upon hearing this, Ma Lin led his horse back to the moat, glanced at the empty streets in front of him, raised his head and asked with a playful look on his face: "It suddenly occurred to me that there seems to be no Jin army in Liaoshan, so what is the point of entering the city? I think it is better not to bother you anymore, and lead the troops back to Weisheng to report."

"what?"

"What did this guy find out? Find a way to calm him down!"

Li Ze was threatened by Tu Hesu and had to ask Tu Hesu to keep the person.

"The Jin army that besieged the city just left yesterday. They are expected to go to Heshun to plunder. However, the road to Heshun is a dead end. The Jin army will definitely come to Liaoshan again. General Ma is leading the army into the city. God bless the people of Liaozhou."

"Oh? I have been ordered to rush to Liaoshan to provide assistance. Since Liaoshan is safe now, I will lead the army back to Weisheng to report. Bye."

"No. General Ma, didn't you hear clearly? The Jin army just went to Heshun and will be back soon. How could you just walk away after arriving there?"

"As the saying goes, one order must be followed. If the general ordered me to stay here, but I didn't receive such an order, there would be no way for me to enter the city. I will come back later when I receive the order from the general. See you!"

Ma Lin answered in a resonant voice with a fist clasped, then immediately turned his horse back to the front of the army, and then saw the reinforcements withdrawing.

Come from afar and return home.

This situation is unbelievable.

Tu Hesu was stunned and didn't say anything. Li Ze was also shocked and didn't react. He muttered to himself for a long time: "Is this guy mentally ill? Even if Yufu wants to go back to the army to ask for instructions, shouldn't he take a rest after walking such a long distance? Is the food and grass he brought enough to return to Weisheng?"

“I’m afraid the answer is not that simple.”

"General's meaning."

Li Ze was suddenly awakened, and his curious questioning came to an abrupt end.

Tu Hesu wiped his beard, muttered with empty eyes, "Just when you were talking, I suddenly saw a few cavalry scouts moving behind the enemy."

"What does this mean?"

"I suspect that Ma Lin's return was influenced by the intelligence from the scouts."

"What do you mean?"

Li Ze was still in the dark. Although he was persuaded to surrender to the Jin army, he was not aware of the Jin army's complete plan.

Tu Hesu did not explain much, and immediately asked Li Ze to gather the soldiers in the city and immediately follow him to pursue Ma Lin.

Li Ze swallowed his saliva when he heard this, thinking to himself that although the Jin army was indeed powerful, Yang Chang's troops were also not weak. How could the Liaozhou wing army be able to defeat them?
Although he was still frightened, he didn't dare to refuse.

There were a total of 30,000 Jin troops in Liaoshan and the wing troops. Tuhesu was afraid that Ma Lin would escape, so he hastily assembled more than 20,000 troops and left the city, and sent Li Ze to follow up and contain the enemy, trying to delay the Weisheng reinforcements.

Li Ze didn't dare to disobey, but he also didn't dare to catch up for fear of being discovered, so he kept a distance from Ma Lin, giving a sense of "close yet distant".

As the sun was setting, Li Ze chased to the Shixia ambush point, but was caught up by Tuhesu's main force. He then reported that he could not hold them back and could only follow and monitor their movements.

Tuhesu was not angry after hearing this. Seeing that 90% of the front army were infantry and their strength was far less than his own, he knew that a complete victory was a foregone conclusion.

There is still more than an hour before it will be completely dark. Should I launch an attack now while it is still light, or continue to wait for Yelu Yudu?

Yang Chang's plan to lure the enemy today was successful because he took advantage of the sudden change in his mentality of "it's better to get less than more, and it's better to get now than to get less". It's like someone borrowed 100,000 yuan and couldn't pay it back, but suddenly he took out 5,000 yuan in cash from his pocket. How could the creditor give up the opportunity to recover his losses?
Ma Lin's inhumane response just now was also a means of 'forcing an order' borrowed by Yang Chang from later generations, which was to not give Tu Hesu time to think, and let him make a wrong decision in panic.

Yang Chang had more than 20,000 soldiers at this time, but less than 30% of them were elite soldiers. Even with the support of [Po Jun], their combat effectiveness could not sustain a strong attack on the city. Moreover, the route to capture the Liaoshan grain road was far away, and they might be threatened by Yelu Yudu, so they could only use a trick to lure them out and destroy them. If Tuhesu was not fooled, Yang Chang would decisively return to Yushe, and the "cooperation" previously discussed with Gao Qingyi would fail due to insufficient strength.

Fortunately, God’s will is clear.

Tu Hesu was eager to fight. When he confirmed that Yang Chang had not come, and saw that Ma Lin was unknown, he was really led to the Shixia ambush point.

This guy was hesitating when to charge when suddenly he heard cannon fire from far behind him. It was Yang Chang who had rushed back to the valley in advance. He now led Lu Zhishen and Ou Peng to attack from the waist, splitting Tu Hesu's army into two.

"what's the situation?"

"do not know"

Before Tu Hesu could figure out the situation, the army in front heard the signal cannon fire and quickly changed their formation and approached.

The war horses neighed and the soldiers shouted.

Lu Junyi had suppressed his fighting spirit for a long time, but now he finally rode out on his horse with his spear in hand, charging straight towards Tu Hesu.

Soon, he pulled the reins and stopped his horse in front of the Jin army, pointed his spear at Tuhesu and others and shouted: "Lu Junyi of Hebei is here, you have fallen into the trap set by General Yang, why don't you dismount and surrender quickly?"

"I fell into a trap again?"

Tu Hesu didn't take Lu Junyi seriously. Instead, he was attracted by the "General Yang" in his words. He then confirmed with Li Ze and asked, "Isn't Commander Yang not here? Is he commanding from far away in Weisheng?"

"I don't know. No scout has returned to the city to report. Maybe he is nearby."

"is it?"

Li Ze's answer made Tuhesu's eyelids jump, and he immediately ordered his trusted Mouke: "Pass my order immediately, and change the front army to the rear army, the rear army."

"Report to the general."

The messenger who came in a hurry stopped the order from coming. He came closer and reported anxiously: "Captain Yang led his troops to attack from the valley on the left side of the rear and forcibly separated our troops."

"Is it really Chief Yang? How many people does he have?"

"The valley is crowded with people, shouting and roaring. It's impossible to count how many soldiers there are. I guess they are not less than ours."

"What? Commander Yang has so many people, and he still wants to lure the enemy into an ambush? How despicable."

Tu Hesu cursed and said, "The rear army is connected to the Liaozhou garrison, and Yang Chang is fierce and brave. Logically speaking, our army should have the advantage in terms of area. Can the rear army hold out now?"

The messenger spread his hands and responded bitterly: "I just can't stand it. Yang Chang brought a fat monk with him, like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, as if entering an empty space."

"That fat monk must be Lu Zhishen"

Thinking that Yang Chang and Lu Zhishen were in the rear, and Tu Hesu had been staying in Taiyuan for a long time, he was unaware of the reputation of the Jade Unicorn of Hebei.

Going back to Liaoshan at this time would be too much of a help, and Lu Junyi only had 5,000 soldiers and horses, and Yelu Yudu was also in the northernmost part of Liaozhou, so breaking out from the front was the best option.

"The fact that there were no scouts to send a message before shows that Yang Chang was marching quickly and did not consider the threat from Pingcheng at all. However, this plan has a big drawback. As long as we break out to the north and go to Pingcheng to get reinforcements and block the intersection, he will still be trapped here and die."

After Tu Hesu finished speaking, he pointed at the person who came and asked Li Ze curiously, "Lu Junyi, who is he? Is he good at fighting?"

"General, don't you know? Lu Junyi's nickname is Jade Unicorn, and he is known as the best in the world with spears and sticks. Like Yang Chang, he was born in Liangshan. Later, he was appointed as the commander of Yongning Army for his merits. He should lead his troops to garrison in Hebei at this time. Why did he come here to fight? And he is under Yang Chang's command."

From the moment Li Ze started explaining, his face was full of suspicion.

Tuhesu was a general under Nianhan. He had no idea about the conspiracy between the Eastern Army and King Kang, nor did he know that Lu Junyi had escaped from Hebei. So he made a wrong judgment and mistakenly thought that Lu Junyi, who was shouting in front of him, was impersonating Yang Chang to help him contain him.

"He is unrivaled in the world in terms of spear and stick? Isn't he even more arrogant than Yang Chang? I want to test his strength."

"General, don't be careless. Lu Junyi is well-known in the martial arts world. He used to be the second in command of Liangshan. I think his martial arts skills are not worse than Yang Chang's."

Li Ze had heard of both of them but had never seen them, but Lu Junyi became famous earlier than Yang Chang, so when he saw Tu Hesu "underestimating the enemy", he immediately gave him a friendly reminder.

Tu Hesu already had a plan in mind, so how could he not listen to Li Ze's advice?

The fellow rode forward with a mace in hand, and said confidently: "I just don't believe that I can borrow someone's power by borrowing his name. I will kill this beast, and then take advantage of the situation to lead the army to break out to the north. Go!"

"Well come."

Seeing a general rushing out of the battle, Lu Junyi excitedly held his spear across his chest and shouted, "General, please tell me your name!"

"Tuhesu, Wanyan Tuhesu, I have come to take your head!"

"Sudden combination of speed? This isn't it."

Lu Junyi muttered to himself in ecstasy, thinking to himself, this is not the commander of the Jin army in Liaozhou? He just fell into his arms like this?
Tsk tsk, my luck has improved since I joined the Taiwei's army?

At that time, the two armies were less than a hundred steps apart, and they suddenly joined forces and rode their horses in an instant. When he saw the joy on Lu Junyi's face, he thought to himself, are you addicted to pretending?

I have a mace and you have a skull, right?
Seeing that he was getting closer and the counterfeit Lu Junyi was still unmoved, Tu Hesu rushed forward and swung his stick at him on the head.

As the saying goes, one should plan before taking action. The reason why Lu Junyi remained motionless was that he was overtaken by the sudden attack. He immediately took a defensive posture and planned to observe his opponent secretly.

From analyzing the movements of suddenly controlling the horse, lifting the stick, and swinging the stick, Lu Junyi saw that this person did have something, with outstanding body balance and strength, but not much that could be compared with himself.

"Go to hell!"

"too slow!"

Lu Junyi leaned sideways and poked the gun, hitting the mace at the seven-inch mark just like hitting a snake at its seven-inch mark, and then he easily resolved Tu Hesu's first move with a little effort.

The first move has the impact force of a warhorse, and if it is not handled properly, it will result in death or injury.

Lu Junyi's response was so clever that when the two horses passed by each other, Tu Hesu was dazed for a moment.

who am I?Where am i?

"Take my hit!"

"what?"

Lu Junyi turned his horse around and shot back, almost piercing Tu Hesu's heart. The guy escaped a disaster and broke out in a cold sweat, thinking, can this martial art be used to impersonate someone else? Could it be that it was really me?
After only two moves, Lu Junyi figured out his sudden attack speed, which was only about the same level as his colleague Shi Jin, much worse than Yue Fei whom he met in Cizhou.

The so-called general of the Jin army is actually just like this?

After the fifth round of fighting, Tu Hesuliqie tried to escape, but was predicted by Lu Junyi.

It’s not that Tu Hesu is not brave enough, but since he met Yang Chang, he has met only tough guys.

He didn't get the title of 'Dragon and Tiger King' as he was shot in the chest by Lu Junyi.

Seeing their main general being beheaded in front of the battlefield, all the soldiers under Tuhesu were terrified. They disobeyed orders and fled southward. Lu Junyi took advantage of the situation and led his troops to kill them.

As the sky gradually darkened, the Jin soldiers in the south fled to the north, and the Jin soldiers in the north fled to the south, crashing into and trampling on each other. The Weisheng Army was chasing them from behind, and the number of people picking up corpses was as bright as stars in the sky, countless.

(End of this chapter)