"Your Highness, they are here." A guard shouted, pointing at the smoke and dust stirred up by the cavalry in the distance.

Yang Yong stood on the city tower and looked at the cavalry coming from afar. In the distance, it seemed like a black line was advancing rapidly along the official road. A large area of ​​smoke and dust flew above the black line. The smoke and dust gradually formed a pillar of smoke above. The rumbling hoof sound came. It was very small at the beginning, but it gradually became louder and louder. In my ears, I could no longer hear any other sound except the roar of the cavalry running.

"What an elite cavalry!" Qu Tutong and Duan Da, beside Yang Yong, spoke out at the same time to exclaim.

Qu Tutong and Duan Da were originally guarding the two thousand rebels in the valley. Yesterday, the newly formed four hundred mansion soldiers replaced them. Yang Yong promoted all the guards in the valley as temporary commanders, and each of them was equipped with ten mansion soldiers to guard the rebels in the valley. In this way, only forty guards were needed in the valley, and the other one hundred and sixty guards were transferred to the city.

Although the personal strength of the mansion soldiers is far from the elite brought by Yang Yong, if they are on the plain, even if they are five or six people, they cannot withstand a guard. They are just used to guard the valley, but there is no problem. After all, there are many people and strong forces, such as logging wood and carrying huge rocks, a guard is not much different from a mansion soldier. If the defenders in the valley dare to attack outward, they can only throw heavy objects from the mountain and hit them.

Four hundred palace soldiers were replaced with one hundred and sixty guards, and the number of people in the valley doubled, so their strength naturally increased a lot. However, once such an army of government soldiers was attacked by external attacks, it was very easy to collapse. However, if they were really attacked by Liang Shiyan, they would still be unable to resist without replacing those elite guards. After the elite guards retreated to the city, the city's defense power was greatly strengthened. In addition, the forty elite soldiers drawn out, there was a 300 cavalry again in the city.

Whether the cavalry is elite does not have to fight. Experienced generals can estimate that they are almost inseparable by looking at the marching queue and the smoke pillars above. The smoke and dust on the heads of Liang Shiyan's cavalry gathered but did not disperse, and the sound of hooves was clear but not mixed. It was almost a whole, forming a momentum that could tear everything down. When everyone stood on the city tower, they could feel it. It can be imagined that if a team of infantry stood on the open space, facing such a cavalry impact, they would probably collapse first without fighting.

Seeing this team of cavalry, Yang Yong couldn't help but think of two scenes of fighting against the Turks and the Goryeo. The Turks were skillful in bows and horses, but they were undisciplined. Although they were as powerful as rainbows when they were defeated, they were like a mountain collapse when they were defeated. Only when they were two thousand people defeated tens of thousands of Turks would happen. Although the Goguryo people were not as good as the Turks, they had strict military disciplines. Compared with the Turks, the Goguryo people were even more difficult to deal with.

Since returning to Chang'an to become the crown prince, Yang Yong's heart seemed to be pressing on a big rock. The fate of history, the ruthlessness of the royal family, and Yang Jian's suspicious nature forced Yang Yong to suppress himself from time to time and take care of his work. Yang Yong finally knew how difficult it is to be a strong emperor to be a crown prince. No wonder the prince in this situation in history either ended up being a deposed fate, or was cowardly and incompetent when he became the crown prince, and became debaucherous and shameless after becoming the crown prince, because he was too much suppressed when he was the crown prince.

If he does not want to be abolished or becomes cowardly and incompetent, he must take his destiny into his own hands. Looking at the cavalry rushing in less than a few miles away, Yang Yong wished he could roar on the city tower and vent all the past.

"Close the city gate!" Yang Yong suppressed the excitement in his heart and tried his best to calm his voice, but his heart couldn't stop his blood from boiling. Come on, let's see how your five hundred cavalry broke through the city.

"Yes!" A guard responded loudly, and a creaking sound suddenly sounded at the southern city gate, followed by a loud bang. The entire city gate had been closed, and Liang Shiyan's riding was only a few hundred steps away from the city.

"Wow!" Seeing that the city gate in front of him was closed, Liang Shiyan had to raise his hand and let the cavalry stop.

The horse's chirping sounded, and the entire cavalry team stopped. The distance from running wildly to stillness, only a dozen steps, made people feel extremely coordinated. The entire team was arranged by five riders, without any confusion.

Liang Shiyan was protected by several subordinates and walked slowly to the city. A follower came forward and shouted, "Listen to the people in the city, Duke Hui of Puzhou governor is here, please open the city gate quickly and let us enter the city to pay homage to His Royal Highness."

Yang Yong said to Miao Meng beside him: "Go and answer and ask him, since he is paying homage to the prince, why do he bring so many soldiers?"

Miao Meng had just seen the power of the cavalry led by Liang Shiyan, and was secretly shocked. This was the Great Sui Jingqi. The soldiers in the city were too different. If it were normal, he would probably have opened the city gate and curled Liang Shiyan. At this moment, with the support of the prince, Miao Meng felt that his back was much straighter and conveyed Yang Yong's words loudly.

The personal follower quickly replied: "Duke Hui is worried about the safety of the prince, so he brought people to guard him and quickly open the city gate. Otherwise, it will delay Duke Hui's trip and you will not be able to afford to be punished."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is very safe in the city. If Duke Hui wants to enter the city, please retreat five miles away. Duke Hui can bring ten people to the city."

"Bastard, call Yu Wencheng out. What qualifications does he have to stop Duke Hui from entering the city? Be careful that Duke Hui impeached the emperor for his arrogant and arrogant attitude." Liang Shiyan's follower couldn't help but be furious.

"The Shangguan of Wanrong County is Hedong County, so it doesn't cost the Duke of Hui to worry." Miao Meng immediately retorted.

The person who shouted was helpless and had to retreat to Liang Shiyan: "Duke Hui, they want our army to retreat five miles before Duke Hui can enter the city. What should we do?"

Liang Shiyan stood beside him, and could hear the words on the city and under the city clearly, and he couldn't help but frown. When he came, he thought that it might not be easy to take the prince into his hand, but he didn't expect that the city gate would be closed in front of him. After all, both sides were grasshoppers on the same rope, which was temporarily in a cooperative relationship.

Everyone on the city tower also looked nervously below. If Liang Shiyan really retreated and only brought more than a dozen people into the city, as long as Liang Shiyan was captured, the war could be eliminated invisibly.

Xue Moer said next to him: "Mr. Hui, it seems something is wrong. The city is very cautious about our army. Do you know what we are going to do?"

"It's possible." Liang Shiyan nodded, looked at the high city walls of the county town, and couldn't help but hesitate. If it were normal, he wouldn't refuse to enter alone. He could only feel that Wanrong County is strange and instinctively felt that there was danger in the city. But if he didn't enter alone and the other party refused to open the city gate, would he have to attack?

Liang Shiyan was in a dilemma and had to personally urge the horse to move forward and shouted to the city: "I am the governor of Puzhou. I would like to ask the magistrate of Wanrong County to see him at the top of the city."

Seeing Liang Shiyan coming out in person, Miao Meng didn't dare to answer casually, and looked at Yang Yong. Qu Tutong looked at the distance between the two sides. Liang Shiyan was only a hundred steps away from the city and was within the range of his bow and arrow, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, Bei Zhi requested to shoot this person."

Yang Yong once met Liang Shiyan when he was exterminated by Yuchi Jiong. At that time, Liang Shiyan was the chief marching manager, holding tens of thousands of troops, and was connected with Yuwen Xin and Cui Hongdu. If he turned to Yuchi Jiong, then Yuchi Jiong would win. If he was loyal to the court, then the court would win. It was the time when Liang Shiyan was most energetic. Although he was over 60 years old, he was full of energy and black hair. Now three years have passed. Liang Shiyan has white hair and his face is full of old age. In the past three years, Liang Shiyan may have regretted that he did not support Yuchi Jiong at the time, so he wanted to rebel again.

Yang Yong couldn't help but feel a little pity for this veteran who had made great military achievements in the Great Zhou Dynasty. If he had known this, why would he have ended up like this if he hadn't been greedy for money and accepted Yuchi Jiong's gold? Now he shouldn't have been buried half of his body and wanted to rebel. It can be said that he was wrong, every step he was wrong.

In an instant, Yang Yong's pity for Liang Shiyan disappeared and he nodded: "Accurate!"

Qu Tutong was allowed and was immediately overjoyed. He took off his strong bow, bent his bow and put an arrow on his back, and let his hands loosen, and a loud buzzing sound, the long arrow shot towards a meteor and quickly shot towards Liang Shiyan.

Seeing that the city was delayed and was about to urge him again, Liang Shiyan suddenly saw a black light flying towards his throat. He had been through the battle formation for a long time and immediately reacted. Someone in the city attacked him with a secret arrow, but he was about to dodge, but his body's reaction was not as good as before. The long arrow was approaching in the blink of an eye. His throat seemed to have felt the cold arrowhead, and he thought to himself that my life was over.

"Be careful, Mr. Hui." A black shadow hit Liang Shiyan's waist heavily. Liang Shiyan fell to the ground with a bang, as if his entire bone had been knocked apart. He touched his throat. Although the throat was covered with wrinkles, it was not hurt at all. It was just a figure lying on the left, a long black arrow shot through the man's throat and passed through the entire back of his neck. Even if the gods came, they were helpless.

Liang Shiyan knew that it was this guard who had just hit him hard, otherwise the long arrow would have been his neck now.

"Hurry, save me." When Xue Mo'er saw a long arrow flying towards Liang Shiyan just now, she was so scared that the dead were all emitting their souls. Fortunately, he had already seen something was wrong in the city, so he asked a guard to pay attention to Liang Shiyan's safety at all times, so he saved Liang Shiyan's life.

Without Xue Moer's instructions, several guards around Liang Shiyan had already arrived next to Liang Shiyan and blocked the middle between Liang Shiyan and Wanrong City with their own bodies.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!" The arrows on the city flew down like raindrops. They all rushed forward with no armor on their bodies. The long arrows shot down from the city were dense and urgent. Liang Shiyan's guards screamed from time to time and fell down from the horse. However, the other guards successfully helped Liang Shiyan to the horse and left the range of arrow rain in the city. However, more than a dozen cavalry had fallen under the city.

Seeing Liang Shiyan escape, Yang Yong sighed in his heart. It seemed that he was not suitable to order a plot against others. He ordered a plot against Goguryeo generals for the first time. Although he shot, he still did not shoot him to death. This time, he plotted against Liang Shiyan, which only caused Liang Shiyan to fall off his horse and did not shoot at all.

Qu Tutong was very upset when he saw that the first arrow did not hit Liang Shiyan. Just as he was about to shoot the second arrow, the opponent's guards had surrounded Liang Shiyan, so he had to shoot at Liang Shiyan's guards. More than ten guards below, there were only four or five people who died under Qu Tutong's men.

Although Liang Shiyan was not injured by an arrow, he was hit by the guard first and then fell off the horse. His body was no more severe than that of a young man. In fact, he was seriously injured. After being rescued by the guard, half of his body was numb and could not even stand up. He felt pain as if he were cut by a knife. If it weren't for Gu Yi's image, he would have wished he could moan loudly.

Seeing Liang Shiyan's painful look, Liang Wu hurried over and asked, "Sir, how are you doing?"

"Duke."

"Duke."

Many soldiers couldn't help but surrounded Liang Shiyan and looked at him with concern. Liang Shiyan endured the pain and waved his hand: "I'm fine!"

"Sir, let's go into the city and pull Yuwen Cheng out."

"Yes, Lord Duke, this revenge must be avenged, let's go into the city."

His lord was injured by the hidden arrows of the people in the city. Many people couldn't help but curse and were extremely angry. They still thought it was Yu Wencheng's arrangement. It was unbearable for a county magistrate to be so bold that these soldiers wanted to level Wanrong County immediately.

Many impatient soldiers had already stepped on their horses and were leaping towards Wanrong County. Although Liang Shiyan was also angry, he was not confused. Wanrong County's walls were high and thick, and it was not worse than the prefecture city. It was not like some small cities. Cavalry could directly attack or attack the city. If the cavalry attacked directly like this, they could only seek death.

"When I came back, I passed the order from my official and immediately retreated and set up camp, and then sent a team to collect food in the nearby villages. It was said that the magistrate of Wanrong County rebelled on the city and asked people from nearby villages to provide force to assist the official army in logging wood to build a ladder and then attack the city."

"Yes." Everyone who received the order temporarily suppressed the anger in their hearts and had to retreat reluctantly.
Chapter completed!