Chapter 189 Night Battle
By late night, dark clouds covered the moon, and Pingzhou City was completely dark inside and outside, so dark that one could hardly see one's hand in front of one's face.

Wang Xiaojie summoned all his personal guards and personally selected dozens of brave warriors to break out with him.

Deputy General Sun found a local who was very familiar with the surrounding terrain to guide Wang Xiaojie.

Under the cover of night, a hole was quietly opened at the west gate of Pingzhou City, and Wang Xiaojie and his guards slipped out of the city gate silently.

Before leaving, Wang Xiaojie couldn't help but look back at this city that had experienced war and was scarred, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

Then he gave his horse a sudden kick and galloped off to the west, with his guards following closely behind him.

The Khitans showed no intention of stopping this small group of cavalry from leaving quietly.

Because they had all gathered outside the north gate of Pingzhou, just like the night they joined forces to capture Yingzhou.

Wang Xiaojie was unaware of this and successfully bypassed the Khitan army's defense line. Under the guidance of the guide, he came to a fork in the road. The guide chose the path to the north without hesitation.

"Wait a minute!" Wang Xiaojie suddenly tightened the reins, and the warhorse stopped immediately. He frowned and asked the guide: "Isn't this road wrong? The road to Tanzhou should be on the left, why are you going to the right road?"

Upon hearing this, the guide quickly reined in his horse and turned around, explaining, "General, I know a shortcut. If we go to the right, we can reach Tanzhou earlier than the left."

"Okay, let's take this road." Wang Xiaojie nodded, without any doubt, and rode ahead.

However, not long after, a tripwire suddenly appeared across the road, blocking the horse, and Wang Xiaojie flew out due to inertia.

When he struggled to get up from the ground and looked around, he saw rows of torches lit up in all directions. This was an ambush by the Khitans!
A general dressed in Khitan clothing slowly walked out from the firelight and sneered, "General Wang, I have been waiting for you here for a long time!"

After he finished speaking, the Khitan soldiers around him started shouting and killing, and the guards led by Wang Xiaojie were quickly caught in one fell swoop.

Wang Xiaojie himself was tied up and sent before the Khitan general.

"General Wang, now that it has come to this, why don't you surrender to us? Then you can have wealth and glory at your fingertips, and we can even negotiate for you to be crowned a king." A man in purple said sinisterly.

At this moment, Wang Xiaojie just discovered that among this group of Khitans, there were actually several Han faces hidden.

He also recognized the familiar accent of the purple-clothed man, and cursed: "I was wondering why our army was having such a hard time, and the Khitans always got the upper hand. It turns out that it was all because of you traitors!"

"Su Honghui! You and Qiu Jing will be infamous for eternity! You will not die a good death! Judge Di and the imperial court will not let you go!"

Facing Wang Xiaojie's angry rebuke, Su Honghui not only did not take it seriously, but instead laughed loudly towards the sky, his laughter full of pride and arrogance: "Ahahahaha, General Wang, you are wrong, very wrong! You know nothing about your opponent."

"You will soon find out that you are the traitor and the traitor to the country. It was you, Wang Xiaojie, who handed over the army and Pingzhou City to the Khitan!"

"And I, Su Honghui! I am the hero who led the army to repel the Khitan and recapture Pingzhou City. I am the hero who turned the tide. We can talk about it then. Come on, take Wang Xiaojie away!"

Wang Xiaojie was shocked when he heard this, and then he struggled violently, cursing uncontrollably: "Su Honghui, you will be punished by God! You will not die a good death!"

Watching Wang Xiaojie being taken away, Su Honghui smiled at the Khitan general Luo Wuzheng and said, "General, if we calculate the time, Vice General Sun should have made some moves by now. When the time comes, please follow the original plan and cooperate with me!"

"Of course. When the time comes, we will have to rely on General Su to deal with the newly arrived army of Di Shijie of the Zhou people." Luo Wuzheng said with a smile.

As they were talking, a huge fire broke out in the direction of Pingzhou City. Su Honghui and Luo Wuzheng looked at each other and laughed triumphantly. "It seems that Deputy General Sun has already taken action. General Su can go back and prepare." Luo Wuzheng said.

Su Honghui was about to agree, but suddenly a Khitan soldier came to report: "General, it's bad, an unknown army attacked our camp and set fire everywhere."

Luo Wuzheng was extremely shocked when he heard this: "What? It's our army camp that's on fire? General Su, what's going on?"

Su Honghui's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and he said in a deep voice: "General Luo, it is possible that Di Renjie has arrived, or it is possible that Zhao Ji has arrived. We must not panic now."

"Go back and reorganize the team. Don't linger in the battle. I'll proceed according to the original plan. This will seem more natural."

"Okay." Luo Wuzheng also knew that the situation was urgent and there was no time to hesitate, so he immediately spurred his horse and headed towards the army.
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According to the plan of Su Honghui and Luo Wuzheng, after Wang Xiaojie left the city, Lieutenant General Sun immediately turned around and went to the north gate of Pingzhou City.

With the help of his confidants, the north gate was opened, and the Khitan vanguard troops, who had been waiting outside the city for a long time, poured into the city like a tide.

However, most of the guards in Pingzhou City had no connection with the snake spirit. They woke up from their sleep and spontaneously resisted the Khitans.

At the same time, the Khitan camp was attacked and immediately turned into a sea of ​​fire. The rear troops of the Khitan army preparing to enter the city were also attacked by the Zhou army.

With the help of the fire in the Khitan camp, a large flag with the word "Zhao" fluttered in the wind, and the sound of Zhou army horses neighing and soldiers shouting and killing could be heard everywhere.

After a day of fierce fighting, the Zhou army soldiers in Pingzhou City had already been retreating step by step and could not withstand the Khitan offensive.

The Khitan camp was on fire and their rear was attacked. This sudden change made the Khitans mistakenly believe that they had fallen into the elaborate layout of the Zhou army. The momentum of the attack was immediately stopped, and they began to retreat desperately, trying to leave Pingzhou City.

Although the Zhou army in the city was confused by the Khitans' sudden change, their morale was greatly boosted when they saw the enemy retreating, and they pursued the enemy one after another. For a while, the Khitans were on the verge of retreating.

Fighting at night, all orders and flags were ineffective, the entire Pingzhou city was in chaos, and the Zhou army and the Khitan army inside and outside the city were fighting each other.

Zhao Ji, who had just set fire to the Khitan army camp, led a team of cavalry and once again dispersed a group of Khitan fleeing soldiers.

He suddenly tightened the reins, and as the horse neighed, he shouted loudly: "Shen Tao! Xiao Bao! Where are they?"

Shen Tao seemed to emerge from the fireworks, and a somewhat scattered team gathered behind him: "General! I'm here!"

"Gather the troops and don't rush in recklessly. We have few soldiers, so go into Pingzhou city first!" Zhao Ji ordered.

Shen Tao bowed and said, "General, the troops have dispersed. We only have a few hundred people around us. I'm afraid we can't gather many people."

Zhao Ji looked around the battlefield and said, "Raise my big flag, light more torches, gather as many people as possible, and annihilate the Khitans who have entered the city first, and then save Pingzhou City!"

"Yes!" Shen Tao agreed loudly.

Afterwards, Zhao Ji led hundreds of cavalrymen around him and rushed towards the north gate of Pingzhou City. Gradually, the Zhou army gathered and caught up with the team.

However, after Zhao had dispersed the Khitan's fleeing troops, he discovered that another Zhou army unit had come to rescue Pingzhou City.

That army had entered Pingzhou City before Zhao Ji and expelled all the Khitans in the city.

(End of this chapter)