When passing through Ruxiang, Tian Chenghe's troops plundered, which was his usual method of boosting morale before the war. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and now doing so not only boosts morale, but also hijacks the local population.

In the confrontation stage between the Yan army and **, Ruxiang was not looted on a large scale, no matter which side in order to win the hearts of the people, they opened up to this small county next to the Yellow River, and showed mercy to their subordinates. Especially after Sun Xiaozhe captured Tongguan, he ordered people to post notices, declaring that the Yan army aimed to protect the territory and the people, so that the local people should not be afraid and live as usual.

At first, the people were skeptical, but after two months, Yan Junguo was basically the same as the people of Kwantung as stated in the proclamation, and many people who avoided the disaster began to gradually return to the village. But what the local people never expected was that Tian Chenghe's 30,000-strong army pounced on them like wild beasts, burned and killed adulterers, not only robbed them of their property, but also burned down the houses where they had lived for generations.

Li Baochen felt that Tian Chenghe's doing this was too cruel, even if he robbed all the property and women, and burned down the house, didn't he want to make these people homeless and freeze to death?

Tian Chengsi sneered:

"I just want to make them homeless, only then can I obediently drive you and my brother!"

Li Baochen was stunned.

"Could it be that the commander wants to attack the city with these people?"

Tian Chengsi had a smile on his face, which could be regarded as an affirmative answer to Li Baochen's rhetorical question.

"The 30,000 horses under the command of you and my brother are capital that can be inhabited, and they must not be easily consumed unless they are absolutely necessary. The casualties in siege warfare are bound to be worse than those in field battles, so they can't fight to the death, or these villagers will have to die of cold and starvation, why not let them die worthwhile?"

Finding that Li Baochen seemed to be a little unbearable, Tian Chengsi asked rhetorically:

"I can't bear it? Then you can return the food you stole from them! I won't stop you!"

Li Baochen was silent, of course he knew that the stolen grain was used as military rations, and the 30,000 soldiers ate horses and chewed on horses, and the cost was not small, how could he return the grain he had received?

"Also, not only do you want these villagers to be ants to attack the city, but they can also be used as suspicious soldiers, so that the Tang army of Fengling Pass mistakenly thinks that we have 100,000 horses, and won't it save a lot of trouble if we surrender without a fight when the time comes?"

Tian Chengsi had already made a plan, if the defenders of Fengling Pass surrendered without a fight, he would take advantage of the victory to go north and seize the key pass between Guanzhong and Hedong Road, Hedong City. After capturing Hedong City and negotiating with the Tang Dynasty, perhaps there will be more chips in hand.

It's just that the idea is good, but it is not disappointing in reality.

Tian Chengsi quickly crossed the Yellow River from the ice after looting in Ruxiang, and he planned to grab it in Yongle County on the north bank of the Yellow River, but he was disappointed to find that the people here had already fled, not to mention the human figures, even if there was a dead chicken or a dead duck, there was not a single one. Yongle was less than a day's journey from Fengling Pass, so they flocked to the west without stopping.

Arrived at the foot of Fengling Pass, it was just past noon, and the scene of going out of the city and landing did not happen, and what was waiting for Tian Chengsi was the one who was waiting for him.

The scale of Fengling Pass is far less than that of Tongguan, Tian Chengsi stands on a slope three miles away from Guancheng, and can even see the rolling wood and stones piled up on the road of the city wall.

"Drive the people away, attack the city!"

Li Baochen hesitated for a moment, but still said:

"The people of Ruxiang have not finished their rice since last night...... Why don't you give them a stutter first......"

"Attack the city first, and only those who survive can have food!"

Tian Chenghe's intention was very simple, after this battle, many people would definitely die, and now that food was distributed, wouldn't they all feed the dead?

After speaking, he said to Li Baochen seriously:

"When did you become a woman's benevolence? The troubled times have come, if you don't be ruthless, the result waiting for our brothers can only be a mermaid! Those people want to blame Li Tang for being immoral and incompetent, making the world disorderly!"

At the head of Fengling Pass, Chen Qianli looked at the black rebels outside the city, his face was gloomy and solemn.

"General Gao, I didn't expect this day to come so quickly, you and I can't let these ghosts and ghosts easily bargain!"

Gao Qi, the guard of Fengling, was just an unknown little person before, but Chen Qianli now has great respect for this person, and it is too rare to be able to be afraid of his own life and death. Originally, he thought that this kind of person must abound, but after experiencing all kinds of hardships, he realized that there are many people who are greedy for life and afraid of death whenever and wherever they are.

"Changshi rest assured, Gao Qi has long had the heart of death, and if it's a big deal, I'll send them a dead city!"

This is also what Gao Qi and Chen Qianli have discussed in advance, in case the city is broken, the Fengling Pass will be burned with a fire, and it must not fall into the hands of the rebels.

Chen Qianli smiled miserably.

"I didn't expect that the rebels actually used so many people to attack, but they attached great importance to us!"

Gao Qi also said strangely:

"It's also strange, Tanma came back early this morning, and he didn't find any change in Tongguan, so why did the rebels take us first?"

While he was talking, the shouts of killing suddenly sounded, and a large number of rebels flocked to Fengling Pass like ants.

Chen Qianli and Gao Qi thought that the rebels would set up camp outside the city first, rest for the night, and attack the city after recuperating their strength, but they didn't expect these people to be so anxious.

But that's fine, the rebels are attacking the city with a tired army, which is definitely in their favor.

The rebels did not have large siege equipment, but only carried ladders one by one, slowly rushing to the city walls.

"No, these thieves seem to be ordinary people!"

Chen Qianli soon discovered the strangeness of the siege rebels, he had dealt with the rebels more than once in Jiangzhou and other places, the other party's equipment was very sophisticated, in addition to the necessary weapons, even the ordinary soldiers also had simple leather armor to protect their chests and abdomen, but these people under the city were wearing different forms of cloth clothes, and some even wore single clothes, obviously the people looted nearby.

Gao Qi had been stationed at Fengling Pass and had hardly dealt with the rebels head-on, and he couldn't help but hesitate a little when he saw Chen Qianli so determined.

"This, how should this be?"

Chen Qianli described it coldly.

"The two armies are facing each other, and they must not hesitate to be soft-hearted, if they are restrained, they will fulfill the traitor's thoughts!

Ladders climbed up the walls, ant soldiers climbed upwards, and the defenders of the city held long poles and pushed them outward with the ladders. The ladder fell out of the city, and the ant soldiers who had climbed halfway up fell like dumplings.

"Shoot the arrows!"

However, there were too many ant soldiers attacking the city, and some people climbed the city wall one after another if they moved a little slower. In order to stop this momentum, Gao Qi ordered a salvo of crossbow arrows to hit the morale of the siege ant soldiers.

After three rounds of arrows, the Ant Soldiers' offensive was frustrated, but the attack did not stop, and the two sides fell into a stalemate that repeated the process over and over again.

Seeing this, Chen Qianli was very worried.

"How many days can the arrows last at this rate of consumption?"

Gao Qi wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead.

"At this rate, it won't take more than seven days!"

Fortunately, it soon got dark, and the rebels stopped the siege, leaving thousands of corpses outside the city and retreating.

At night, Tian Chengsi was a little depressed, judging from the battle this afternoon, the will to fight of the defenders in the city was much higher than expected, and the only thing that could make him feel a little consolation was that after this battle, there were thousands of mouths to consume food.

While thinking about it, Li Baochen pushed the door in.

"Dashuai, the hearts of the people in Ruxiang are fluctuating, and if it is not good, it will stir up a roar!"

Tian Chengsi said:

"Let them have a full meal, and when they are full, they all want to sleep, and tomorrow they will drive them to attack the city, and if they have grievances, vent their grievances to the Tang army. ”

"The Tang army defended the city quite in order, judging by the last general, it is difficult to make progress in attacking the city with ants alone, and it will only consume manpower in vain!"

Tian Chengsi nodded.

"That's true, the defenders of today's World War I obviously didn't use all their strength, and I can't imagine that the small Fengling Pass is also a nail that is difficult to pull. But there's nothing to be afraid of, the gates of a small city like this are the weakest places, and the timber is harvested overnight to make a rushing car, as long as the city gate is knocked over, the defenders in the city have to be obediently appointed even if they have three heads and six arms!"

Tian Chengsi and Li Baochen are both people who have been in battle for a long time, and they slept soundly until dawn all night, and when they got up early in the morning, they saw three huge and bulky rushing cars lined up and parked outside the gate.

The war drums rumbled, and the three rushing vehicles moved slowly under the impetus of the rebels, heading for the southeast, west, and west of Fengling Pass.

The scale of the fortress was not large, and Tian Chengji decided to attack on three sides at the same time, as long as one of the walls was broken, the army could rush in.

A large tree that was difficult to hold was dropped by a rope on the car, and although the car moved slowly, nothing could stop it. Crossbow arrows rained down on the city, and the rebels pounced, but soon someone came up to make up for it, and the car continued to move forward steadily.

About half an hour later, the rushing car finally reached the gate of the gate, and the heavy crossbar swayed back and forth under the impetus of the soldiers. The front end of the crossbar has been sharpened, and when it hits the wooden gate, it leaves a deep pit, and the number of collisions is too much, and a large area of patent leather has peeled off and peeled off.

"Work hard, there will be wine and meat to eat when you enter the city tonight!"

The people who operated the rushing car were all Yan soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than the ant soldiers gathered by the people of Ruxiang.

At the same time, the ant soldiers rushed to the city wall as they had done the afternoon before, and the Fengling Pass City was like a small boat swaying in the stormy waves, as if it could be overturned by the rolling waves at any time.

The car slammed into the heavy gate again and again, and after about a hundred and ten hits, cracks soon appeared in the gate, and even the joints of the folds began to loosen.

Suddenly, there was a cheer.

"Cracked, the gates cracked!"

Seeing that the door panel of the city gate could no longer withstand the strong impact force, it split from the middle, and several soldiers rushed up to slash the city gate with axes, and cleaned up the fragments of the door panel one by one.

When everyone saw the situation inside, they couldn't help but gasp again.