Early in the morning of the second day, Liao Ziping led two thousand soldiers and horses from Longcheng and went straight to Longguan.

There were 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Longcheng, and Liao Ziping only brought 2,000 men and horses to go, which also relieved the officials of Longcheng. If there are too many troops with them, when the time comes, the upper authorities will be held accountable, although the first person to bear the responsibility is Liao Ziping, but they will not be able to eat and walk around. Now Liao Ziping only has 2,000 soldiers and horses, and the impact is not great, even if the boss blames him, Liao Ziping can bear it alone.

On Longguan City, Xie Yuan's face was heavy. The Li army has not attacked the city for several days, and it stands to reason that there is nothing wrong with letting the Guan army relax for a few days, but Xie Yuan is playing the drum in his heart, and he always feels that there is a problem, but if he wants to say what the specific problem is, he can't find it. I had to brace myself to avoid a sneak attack by the army.

Li Jun took advantage of the civil strife in Central Chu last year to take the opportunity to start a war, but was blocked by Xie Yuan. At the beginning of spring this year, Zhou Cheng led the army to come again. This time, the number of Li troops was not large, looking at the size of the banner and the camp was only about 60,000, and the 20,000 troops above and below Longguan were enough to block the attack of 60,000 Li troops.

Xie Yuan looked at the Li Jun camp in the distance and waved his hand to summon the adjutant.

"Here, take the military talisman and go to the northern battalion to transfer 20,000 troops. ”

Seeing Xie Yuan's actions, the deputy general was a little puzzled, "General, the Li army has only come to more than 60,000 people this time, and the defenders of Longguan are enough to block the Li army, so why bother to transfer troops from the northern battalion." ”

"I'm always playing drums in my heart, and I don't know what the army is doing, or it's better to be safe, so you can rush here as soon as you transfer the troops, so as not to have too many dreams at night. ”

Hearing Xie Yuan's explanation, he replied with his hand: "The last general will take the order." ”

After that, he was leaving.

Xie Yuan suddenly stopped him, "Liao Song, you must remember to be more careful along the way, don't be reckless." ”

"Well, thank you for the general's reminder, the last general will not fail in his mission. The lieutenant named Liao Song solemnly agreed.

After Liao Song walked away, Xie Yuan continued to look at the Lijun camp in the distance and fell into deep thought.

Early the next morning, the army began to tackle key problems again.

In this attack, the army was huge, and the big guys who were besieging the city were placed in front of the pass, like a beast out of a cage, showing off their fangs unscrupulously.

"Quick, give the order, put the whole army on alert, and enter a state of emergency combat readiness. Xie Yuan looked at the scene in front of him and hurriedly ordered.

Soon, the army began to besiege the city.

As soon as the vanguard of the army arrived at the city, the artillery arrows of throwing stones and giant crossbows came one after another. The fangs of the behemoths have always been the nemesis of the walls of fortified cities.

The successive cannon stones smashed on the city wall, making the walls of Longguan tremble incessantly, as if the emaciated young trees were mercilessly whipped by the storm and rain, and they could collapse at any time.

Xie Yuan saw that the Li army was on the offensive, drew his sword, and pointed at the stone throwing troops of the Li army outside the city.

In an instant, several machine sounds sounded from inside the Dragon Pass, and then, several boulders flew out from inside the Dragon Pass and smashed into the Li Jun military formation.

The boulder fell, and the army formation was chaotic everywhere, but this counterattack did not cause much damage to the siege troops of the Li army, but fortunately, it interrupted the siege rhythm of the Li army.

The Chu army on the wall saw that the siege equipment of the Li army was threatened, and the generals of the Chu army in the rear were rushing with their troops, and the army's morale was greatly boosted, and the Li army that had rushed to the city tower was repulsed one by one.

During this period, the two sides have been back and forth, although the Li army attacked the city fiercely, the Chu army was also high-spirited. At noon, Longguan was still firmly in the hands of the Chu army.

Seeing this, Zhou Cheng withdrew his troops.

As soon as the Chu army saw the retreat of the army, they applauded. In every battle, those who survive are lucky and deserve to be happy, even if they don't know what will happen in the next moment.

The Chu army rested on the city wall for an afternoon, and the army did not attack the city for a long time.

Xie Yuan couldn't figure out what Li Jun was doing, as if he was waiting for something, although he didn't know what he was waiting for. However, as the saying goes, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and if they don't manage the army, don't try to break his dragon pass.

There was nothing to do all night, but the army camp was full of fire, as if he was mobilizing troops and horses, so Xie Yuan raised his vigilance.

Early in the morning of the second day, the army set up a position in front of the pass.

Xie Yuan realized that something was wrong with the Li army today, and when he looked closely, he found that the large battalion behind the Li army had been extended a lot. It seems that reinforcements from the army arrived last night, and there are quite a few of them, and this morning will surely be a fiercer battle than yesterday.

After the formation of the army was set, they began to attack the city, and it was still the same, and the siege troops of the army went forward one after another, closing down the stones, bed crossbows, and rushing cars one after another. However, even if some soldiers rushed to the city, they were immediately defeated by the swarming Chu army, and with Xie Yuan personally in charge, the army could not take the wall for a long time.

After two hours of fighting, the siege battle entered the white-hot stage, and the two sides fought in the dark.

Xie Yuan did not run back and forth like last time, but sat in the Dianjiang Building, commanding everyone, with a solemn face. However, with Xie Yuan's command, Longguan still stood firm under such a fierce attack.

"General, look, what is that?" A general saw a large number of flying troops suddenly floating over from the Li army camp.

"Hmph, that's true. Come on, shoot the sky crossbow and prepare. ”

Last time, the Li army almost broke through the Dragon Pass with this trick of the flying troops, and since then, Xie Yuan has changed the crossbow machine in the city to a movable crossbow, which can shoot into the sky at sixty degrees.

With the Sky Shooting Crossbow, the flying troops of the Li Army had already been shot down one after another before they reached the head of Longguan City.

In the end, only a few teams landed in the city, and as soon as they landed, they were hacked to death by the Chu army that had already been prepared.

Seeing that the flying troops of the Li Army were perfectly dissolved, Xie Yuan smiled contemptuously: "That's it, if you use it once, it's stupid to use it again." ”

When the surrounding generals saw it, they all praised it again and again.

Xie Yuan raised his hand to stop everyone and said, "Everyone cheer up and beware of the regeneration of the army." ”

As soon as the words fell, a person ran from under the city and hurriedly said: "General, a large number of Li troops suddenly appeared in the city, and they are killing towards the city pass. ”

Xie Yuanwen's color changed, "How did they come here?"

The man continued: "These soldiers rushed out of the houses in the back, and according to General Zhang's guess, they should have already opened the tunnel. While we were besieging the Flying Army, we broke through the ground. ”

When Xie Yuan heard this, he realized that the move of the commander of the Flying Troops was just a sound attack. Unexpectedly, he was tricked.

"General Feng, I order you to immediately lead your troops to support General Zhang. ”

"Ordered. ”

"The rest of the generals ......"

"Look, my lord, what is that?" Xie Yuan didn't finish speaking, and opened a hole in the military formation. In the distance, a cavalry slowly stepped forward.

"This is ......" Someone recognized this cavalry, and a cold sweat flowed for a moment.

"Forbidden Cavalry!"

"Hiss......"

Hearing this, everyone gasped.

"The first cavalry of the mainland, how could they appear here, what are they going to do?" someone wondered.

Xie Yuan's face was heavy, and the forbidden cavalry army appeared in Longguan, and it seemed that the Li army was bound to win Longguan today. He had to guard the gates, and if he allowed the Janissaries to storm the city, the consequences would be dire.

"General Li and General Chen, I order you two to go to the city and be sure to strangle the army in the city. ”

"Ordered. ”

The two received the order, immediately rallied the army, and went to the city to kill.

The troops that infiltrated the city were the trump card troops of the Li Army, the beggar camp, which was brought out by Zhou Quan.

The soldiers of the beggar camp were prisoners who had committed capital crimes, and they could only atone for their sins after they had made meritorious service on the battlefield.

So every time this beggar battalion went to the battlefield, it didn't think about leaving alive. Some of the prisoners had been pardoned for capital crimes after their exploits in several wars of the army, but the generals of the beggar camp were treated too well and stayed.

The commander of this beggar camp is called Qin Ba, because he once committed a capital crime and could not get an official title, so the soldiers in the beggar camp called him Boss Qin.

As soon as the sinners of the beggar camp rushed into the city, they went to the gates. They were given orders to help the Forbidden Cavalry open the gates of the Dragon Pass.

At the beginning, everyone rushed all the way over, and no one could stop them by relying on their ruthlessness that was not afraid of death. But the more they went to the back, the more Chu troops there were, although they didn't care about life and death, but their fists were hard to beat with four hands, and the casualties of the beggar camp were gradually increasing.

Qin Ba knew how to fight before he was imprisoned, and after careful guidance, his battle qi skills were okay, and he killed all the way, and he also beheaded a general of the Chu army. But when the Chu army was numerous and overwhelming, he was a little overwhelmed and had already been wounded in several places.

Qin Ba looked at the Chu army that surrounded him and others, and he had a will to die in his heart, knowing that he would not be able to live today, so he forcibly infused the battle qi, and the surrounding soldiers were pushed away by Qin Ba's surging battle qi.

Qin Ba was holding a big knife, his beard was messy, his eyes were red, and he was covered in blood, and the surrounding Chu troops were all stunned by Qin Ba and did not dare to step forward.

However, the rest of the soldiers of the beggar camp kept falling to the ground under the strangulation of the Chu army. Seeing that the Chu army surrounded the begging camp and was about to be annihilated in one fell swoop, a group of men and horses suddenly rushed out from the rear of Longguan, the number was not much, only more than a thousand, they were dressed in the uniforms of the Chu army, and they killed the side of the Li army.

......

Xie Yuan watched the forbidden cavalry outside the city slowly set up a charging posture, and his uneasiness became more and more intense. Cutting down a soldier of the army, he shouted, "Someone." ”

"In. The guards around him immediately rushed up.

"Let's see how it's going in the city. ”

Xie Yuan wants to sit in the city tower and beware of the army being killed, so he can only rely on the rest of the generals to lead the army to kill the army in the city.

After a while, someone rushed over and reported: "General, I don't know why a unit suddenly came out of the city, wearing our army's uniform, General Feng was attacked and killed, and General Chen also died in the chaos, leaving General Li on top and ordering me to come and ask for help." ”

"What? Where did this come from? How did you get into the Dragon Pass?"

The man shook his head with a bloody face.

"Where is General Zhao? ”

There was a guard beside him who said: "General, General Zhao was dragged by the army of the Western Wall, and he couldn't leave him. ”

At this time, Xie Yuan was attacked by the enemy on his back, he took a spear in his hand, his battle spirit surged, and he swept it away, sweeping the army that rushed up to the wall and knocked it down the city wall.

"Go, come with me to help. ”

"My lord, there are too many enemy troops on the wall to rush through. ”

Xie Yuan said angrily: "If you can't rush down, you have to rush to take your life." ”

"Ordered. ”

Just when Xie Yuan's personal guards were using their lives to open the way for Xie Yuan, Liao Ziping and Qin Ba had already killed under the city pass.

Qin Ba and Chu generals fought fiercely, and after Liao Ziping cut down the two guards at the city gate, he cut off the chain of the city gate with one sword.

"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......"

With a few thick and slow sounds, the bridge deck in front of the dragon gate slowly lowered.

Na Chu loosened the chain of the city gate as soon as he saw it, and he didn't care about Qin Ba, so he grabbed the broken chain and held it tightly, not letting it go.

Seeing this, Liao Ziping slashed at the Chu general's body several times. But even though he was stabbed several times and was on the verge of death, this Chu general still did not let go of his hands, and the drawbridge was held to death.

Seeing the increase in the number of Chu troops around him, Qin Ba became angry, ran to the back of this Chu general, and beheaded the Chu general with a knife, and Liao Ziping immediately cut off his hands.

Losing the pull, "Bang!" There was a loud bang, and the drawbridge fell.

As soon as the forbidden cavalry outside the city saw that there was a change in Longguan, they immediately beat drums and charged. The black iron hooves flew up, and the entire forbidden cavalry army was like a dark cloud, surging towards the fragile Dragon Pass.

As soon as the city gate was opened, Xie Yuan finally arrived at the city gate under the desperate impact of his personal guards, and when he took the troops down the city tower, he saw that General Li was cut off by Qin Ba.

"Li Xiang!" Xie Yuan shouted, his eyes were red, and he dragged a spear backwards to kill him.

In one face, Xie Yuan greeted Liao Ziping and Qin Ba.

Although Liao Ziping and Qin Ba have both practiced battle qi, they are obviously not Xie Yuan's opponents, and both of them have the upper hand. Liao Ziping was even stabbed in the left shoulder by Xie Yuan, broke his left arm with one shot, and flew out.

Qin Ba saw Liao Ziping lying on the ground, his broken left arm flying aside, life and death were unknown, and he also knew that he was not Xie Yuan's opponent, so he had to fight to the death.

Rao is Qin Ba was fighting with his life, but he still couldn't cause any damage to Xie Yuan, but was pressed and beaten by Xie Yuan all the way, and there were a few more wounds on his body.

Seeing that the situation was about to be suppressed by Xie Yuan, at this time, there were bursts of thunder by the city gate, and the sound was impressive, like a landslide and the earth cracked, as if the heavens and the earth were about to collapse.

The two armies of Chu Li, who were fighting at the city gate, looked sideways, only to see the black-pressed forbidden cavalry rushing to the foot of Longguan City with a thunderous momentum.