After Wen Cheng left Han Ming, he commanded the grain and grass to go to Dragon City in the northwest.

Longcheng is the largest city in the northwest of Central Chu, all the grain and grass reserves, armaments and materials are stored here, it is a shining pearl in the northwest of Central Chu.

Guarding Dragon City is the fourth-class lord Pu Yi, but Pu Yi, who is in his forties, looks like a person in his fifties and sixties, looking very old, but his body is healthy.

The journey was safe and sound, Wen Cheng safely transported the grain and grass to Longcheng, and Pu also personally went out of the city to meet him.

Pu Yi was also a native of the capital in the early years, because he offended the powerful when he was young, he was transferred to the northwest, and later relied on his own ability to climb step by step to the position of the governor of Longcheng.

Wen Cheng also admires such a person, relying on his own ability to get to the top, not relying on his grandfather Meng Ze, such a person has real ability.

Along the way, the two talked happily, Wencheng was infected by Pu Yi, and he also wanted to rely on his own ability to work hard. It happened that His Majesty the Emperor sent the new champion Xie Yuan to Longguan to defend against the Li army, and Wen Cheng took advantage of the situation to ask Pu Yi to send grain.

Pu Yi also shirked at first, after all, Wencheng was the grandson of the prime minister of the dynasty, if something happened to him here, he couldn't afford to bear the responsibility, so he didn't agree to Wencheng's request.

However, Wen Cheng insisted on going to exercise, and moved out of his grandfather's words, so Pu Yi had no choice but to let Wen Cheng go, but he was equipped with a group of elite guards.

Looking at Longguan again, Xie Yuan has been in Longguan for half a month, Longguan is the gateway to Longcheng, and it is also the first threshold for Liguo to set foot in Zhongchu.

For hundreds of years, countless outstanding Zhongchu generals have guarded the Dragon Pass, and they have not allowed the people of Liguo to cross the city pass by half a step.

Xie Yuan hadn't closed his eyes for a day and a night, and since noon yesterday, a large number of Liguo troops suddenly appeared on the land in front of Longguan.

It didn't take long for the army to launch a fierce offensive, but fortunately, Xie Yuan was prepared at the beginning and barely resisted a wave of offensives.

At first, Xie Yuan, like everyone else, thought that Liguo's army was just a tentative attack, and he never thought that this attack would be a whole day, and even at night, there would be a rain of arrows from the enemy. He understands that it seems that this time the country is not good.

He's already sent someone to call for help, as long as he can hold the checkpoint before reinforcements arrive.

At the beginning, Kuang Hua asked Xie Yuan to come, mainly to train him, but he didn't expect that as soon as he came, he encountered this kind of thing.

In peacetime, there were 20,000 troops guarding Longguan, and because there was movement on the side of Liguo, Xie Yuan summoned 10,000 people from the northern camp behind in order to guard against the other party.

Judging from the current situation, the other side will come with at least 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack in turns, so it is difficult to hold only 30,000 people in Longguan now, and he has already sent people to the northern camp and the Xiaocai battalion to continue to transfer troops.

Although there were many difficulties, Xie Yuan knew that if Longguan missed, then Zhongchu would definitely be at a disadvantage in this kind of battle, and even lose a large piece of territory. So, this battle, he can't lose.

Just as Xie Yuan was thinking, Li Guo began to attack the city again.

In order to resist the enemy's attack to the greatest extent, Xie Yuan divided the 30,000 people in Longguan into three waves and took turns to defend the city.

This time, the leader of the army was Zhou Quan, who was known as the first general of the country, who had dealt with the border army of Zhongchu all the year round and had a very thorough understanding of the situation in Longguan, so that Xie Yuan felt very difficult when he first resisted.

The Li army commanded by Zhou Cheng went from a small siege at the beginning to a large-scale siege in the back, constantly using harassment tactics to attack the living forces of the Chu army. What's even more excessive is that he shoots arrows and raids at night at every turn, builds earthen towers outside the wall, feints, etc., all of which come, making Xie Yuan also exhausted.

No, it didn't take long to rest, the attack started again, and Xie Yuan also scored to distinguish whether the enemy army was really menacing or feint.

However, no matter what, Xie Yuan hurriedly commanded everyone and began to resist.

The number of people besieging the city this time was not much compared to the last time, and the soldiers defending the city saw that the enemy's attack was not as fierce as the previous ones, so they were a little negligent, but fortunately, the enemy army only started to charge with strong momentum, and the more they went under the city wall, the weaker they became.

Xie Yuan also noticed that the attack was obviously weakened, and the surrounding generals were all discussing whether the enemy army was preparing to retreat.

However, Xie Yuan noticed a detail, the enemy organized a large number of shield soldiers in the rear of the charge, forming groups of square formations, like big turtles, slowly leaning towards this side.

The generals beside him all said that the enemy army should prepare to retreat and use shield soldiers as a defense, so as not to be pursued when retreating.

At first, Xie Yuan thought that this was the case, but his natural alertness made him feel that things were not so simple, and then thinking of the attacks in the past few days, Xie Yuan immediately sent an order, and then asked another team to go to the wall, ready to support at any time.

Although the people around him didn't quite understand what Xie Yuan's move meant, as a general who guards the frontier all the year round, ordering and prohibiting is the most basic quality.

The defenders of Longguan saw it right, the troops besieging the city this time were feinted, their formation became more and more loose, and after leaving a few corpses under the city wall, they retreated like a tide, looking at the retreating enemy army, the defenders on the city wall breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the besieging army retreated, but the phalanx holding shields behind did not stop, but got closer and closer, and after making contact with the retreating defenders, it did not stop.

Everyone only realized at this moment that something was wrong, the other party was preparing a large-scale attack, but fortunately, Xie Yuan had already sent people to transfer troops at the beginning.

Xie Yuan looked at the shield-shaped phalanxes that moved like turtles, and there must have been siege weapons in the shield arrays they protected. Thinking of this, Xie Yuan's heart became more and more uneasy.

"Archer, aim above the shield and shoot at me. Xie Yuan ordered.

Suddenly, a shower of arrows came from under the city walls. However, the enemy's shields protected the entire phalanx tightly, and it didn't matter if one or two arrows occasionally shot into it, and one by one the shield arrays were still moving slowly towards the city.

Xie Yuan didn't know what was in the shield array, let alone what the other party thought, but he had a hunch that the other party was completely sure of this attack.

The only way to do this is to take advantage of the enemy's slow movement and send cavalry to open the shield array. However, the enemy army is huge and numerous, and I am afraid that I will not be able to come back if I go out.

While Xie Yuan was pondering, a general next to him stood up and said, "General, the last general asks to go and break the formation." “

Xie Yuanxun's prestige is a strong man with a strong body, his name is Liao Bai, and he is a man who is worthy of the number one here in Longguan. These days fighting side by side with Liao Bai have allowed Xie Yuan to see the roughness and heroism of this northwest man, and he didn't even speak in a twist and turn.

Xie Yuan patted him on the shoulder, stopped talking, his eyes were slightly red, and he slowly said in a deep voice: "Take care." “

"The last general will not fail in his mission. ”

As soon as the words fell, Liao Bai walked down the city with his big knife.

The drums sounded, and in a short time the gates of the city were opened, and a cavalry team was struck out of it, and went straight to the shield array.

When the enemy saw that the gate of Longguan was wide open, the defeated army with a feint attack immediately turned its head and launched a second onslaught towards Longguan.

However, the cavalry came out quickly, Liao Bai led a group of cavalry to rush out of the city gate, and went straight to the shield array in the center, and the rest of the people scattered, taking advantage of the fact that the attacking troops were not as fast as horses, ready to break the shield array before the enemy arrived.

Xie Yuan was on the city wall, looking at Liao Bai and the others who were charging, his eyes were fixed, and he was looking down.

Liao Bai's troops rushed the fastest, and he was also the first person to contact the shield array, just as he was about to break through the shield array with his knife, this turtle-like mobile fortress stretched out more than ten spears, Liao Bai's horse was stabbed a few times by surprise, but he was cut off with a big knife.

But the people who followed behind Liao Bai were not so powerful, the moment they touched the spear, they turned on their backs, some were pierced through the body, some were bounced off the horse, and some fell directly into the shield, and were cut into meat sauce by the long knife sticking out of it.

Instead, some rushed through the guns and broke through the shield array, but then they were surrounded and killed by the enemy's indiscriminate guns.

Liao Bai was brave, slashing left and right all the way, riding an injured war horse, and he opened a hole in the shield array alive.

Without the shield to cover it, the contents were immediately exposed.

"This is, catapult. The general beside Xie Yuan said.

"There are also siege engines and ballistas. The other generals said in surprise when they saw the other phalanxes exposed.

"If these things go down the city walls, the gates will be dangerous. A general continued.

Xie Yuan looked at these and did not make a sound, but waved his hand and said something to the person next to him, and then continued to look at Liao Bai under the city wall.

Because the horse under the seat had already been traumatized, Liao Bai knew that it was not good to continue to entangle, so he drove the horse back, but after not going far, the horse under the seat turned his head and fell to the ground.

Liao Bai flipped over and crouched on the ground, and at this time, the siege brigade that rushed up from the rear killed him again.

The army surrounded Liao Bai, and then slashed at him. Liao Bai was brave, brandishing a big knife and slashing in the enemy's formation, and everyone in the army was frightened and did not dare to step forward.

But there are so many people in the army, no matter how brave Liao Bai is, he is also poked by the spear that keeps stretching out, and his vitality slowly loses with time.

Blood had already stained his armor, his hair covered his cheeks, and the rhythm of his broadsword swings began to be chaotic. Under the fatal shot that stabbed the vest, Liao Bai slowly lay on the ground.

Xie Yuan watched Liao Bai fall from the city wall, and saw the warriors around him who were surrounded and hacked to death, his eyes widened red, and he roared angrily.

"Shoot me. Shoot this group of bitches. ”

The soldiers on the wall had already blushed, just waiting for Xie Yuan's order, and then, the arrows were as dense as a drizzle, shooting directly towards the enemy's encirclement, and at this moment, the enemy army suffered heavy casualties.