King Qin said: "If Li Dang guards Tong Pass, no matter how many enemies there are, he can at least guarantee that within three days, the city will not fall. With three days of effort, our Qin army can go straight to Ziyi, and the general can rest assured. [Full text reading. Moreover, Ziyi's prestige has declined, and the soldiers of the Qin army will not recognize him as the commander-in-chief. Even if he wanted to betray, he would have to rely on those newly recruited soldiers. And these soldiers, are they the opponents of my Qin army. ”

Bai Qi nodded again and again, but the worry in his heart always lingered.

The next day, Bai Qi rushed back to Meixian with a few Qin soldiers. In the days of his absence, Lei Sheng and Wang Bao have been guarding the county seat and ensuring the peace of the three counties, and their contributions are not small.

A few days later, a scout reported to the King of Qin in Xi'an, saying that Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng and other officers and soldiers had rushed to Xingyang to assemble and would fight a decisive battle with the peasant army there.

Xingyang is in the northeast of Henan, far away from Shaanxi, so the king of Qin felt that the opportunity to capture Tongguan and Huayin had come.

So he immediately gathered the people and prepared to send out his army.

Wang Jian led 5,000 men and horses to sit in Xi'an, in case of accidents, Ziyi and Li Dang led 10,000 Qin troops and 3,000 cavalry, ready to attack.

King Qin instructed the two of them that if they wanted to attack, they could not attack Huayin first, because once Huayin was lost, Tongguan would be prepared, and the officers and troops who retreated from Huayin would definitely enter Tongguan, and the defenders of Tongguan would be strengthened at that time.

Therefore, the king of Qin ordered to fight Tongguan first.

As long as the Tongguan Pass is broken, then the defeated officers and troops will definitely run eastward out of the Tongguan Pass, and will not run into Huayin, and the occupation of Tongguan will also make the officers and soldiers of Huayin feel that they are already fish in the net, and this fear will make their troops disheartened and demoralized.

Ziyi and Li Dang nodded again and again, received the order in hand, and prepared to set off.

Ji Mengdie also wanted to follow, but King Qin might not. Because these two battles are not difficult, and after they are fought, it is impossible for her to let a girl go to the town. Ji Mengdie had no choice but to press her temper and stay in the city.

Ziyi and Li Dang have a good personal relationship, although Li Dang understands that Bai Qi was framed, but those things are all instigated by Fan Ju, Ziyi just listens to his orders, so Li Dang does not blame Ziyi, and is still very polite to him.

In the past, Ziyi's official position was above Li Kang, but now he has become Li Kang's deputy, Ziyi's tone is very humble, which makes Li Kang a little uncomfortable.

He naturally didn't know that Ziyi had a big plan brewing in his heart. King Qin sent him out, which was exactly what he wanted, and this was also the opportunity he had been waiting for.

Ziyi knew that this kind of opportunity would come soon, because there were not many generals in the Qin army, and even fewer were experienced and capable like him. As long as the Qin army wants to develop, it must lay more territory, and as long as there is more territory, the more defenders it needs, and it is time for him to come forward.

As long as you have a place and a county seat, it will be easier to do things after that, and it is much more convenient than being by King Qin's side and being careful everywhere.

Ziyi accompanied the smiling face, and Li Dang led the troops out of Xi'an and went straight to Tongguan. According to the scout's report, the guards of Tongguan were less than 2,000, and after Hong Chengchou took it from Gao Yingxiang, he left some men and horses to guard, because he wanted to chase Gao Yingxiang urgently, so he didn't care about strengthening the defense force of Tongguan.

After Li dared to leave the city, he ordered the infantry to walk behind, and he brought 3,000 cavalry, and he went straight to Tongguan without stopping. He wanted to give the officers and soldiers a thunderbolt and use a surprise attack to capture the city.

Since Li Dang came back to life with King Qin, at the beginning, he didn't pay attention to the Ming army at all, thinking that the strongest army in the world was none other than the Qin army. Such a strong Zhao ** team, the Hun cavalry that came and went like the wind, were all wiped out by the Qin army, or defeated, two thousand years later, the Ming army, is it more powerful than them?

However, since the Qin army left Huayin and was attacked by the official army, resulting in a great defeat, Li Kang had a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. He found that in terms of individual combat ability, the Qin army was far superior to the Ming army, but when it came to group combat, the Qin army was a little out of step with the times.

It is no wonder that after 2,000 years, the chariot and foot warfare at that time has long been replaced by the cavalry-based method of warfare. Therefore, as soon as Li Kang had time, he began to study cavalry tactics.

In the past two years of training, Li Kang has a deep understanding of cavalry, and he has become more and more handy in using cavalry.

In this attack on Tongguan, Li Kang wanted to give full play to the characteristics of the cavalry's rapid assault and suddenly launch an attack when the officers and troops were not ready.

The three thousand Qin cavalry were fully armed and rushed towards Tongguan with murderous spirit.

At this time, in Tongguan, only one of the members left by Hong Chengchou would be guarded. This partial general was also careless, thinking that the main force of the peasant army had entered Henan, and there was only the Qin army in Shaanxi, and it was far away, and Huayin was separated in the middle. If the Qin army came to attack, it would definitely attack Huayin first. It is impossible not to attack Huayin and make a detour to fight Tongguan, because in that case, it will be easy to be attacked by him and Huayin's defenders. Therefore, he was relieved, and the guards were much more lax.

Li Dang led the cavalry, bypassed Huayin, ran wildly for two days and one night, and finally came to Tongguan City on the night of the next day.

From a distance, there were few lights on the city of Tongguan Pass, dim and dim, and several soldiers were listlessly leaning on the battlements and dozing, and there was no figure of the officer, perhaps having slept on the city.

Li Dang looked at the Qin army behind him, all of them were sweating and sweaty, and they were so tired that they were panting. He estimated the time, and it was not yet time, so he was not in a hurry to attack. So he ordered all the horses to rest on the spot.

These Qin soldiers only nibbled on a few mouthfuls of dry food and drank a few mouthfuls of water in two days and one night, and at this time, after listening to the general's order, they immediately took out the dry food in their arms and chewed it. They knew that in a short time, the siege was coming.

Li Dare looked at the height of Chengguan and had a bottom in his heart. He didn't want to take a hard charge that would lose the effect of the raid. He ordered the soldiers to immediately cut down some trees and tie them into ladders.

A hundred elders said: "General, I'm only making a ladder now, I'm afraid I can't do so much." ”

Li Dare smiled: "Bastard, what do you know, you don't need much, it's enough to make two." The Bai Chang was puzzled, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he took dozens of people to cut down trees.

There are many people to do things, but in half an hour, the two ladders were tied up and dragged over. Li Dang took a look and felt that it was high enough to climb the city wall with it.

But he did not give the order to attack, and waited quietly under the city.

After another hour, the lights at the head of the city were even more dim, and most of the soldiers were asleep. Only then did Li Dang order thirty soldiers, carrying two ladders, to secretly climb the city wall.

He specially explained that he was not allowed to light torches, not to make a sound, and not to be discovered by the guards at the head of the city.

Only then did everyone suddenly realize.

The two ladders approached the city wall in the dark, and because the lights at the head of the city were dim, they could not shine under the city at all, so the thirty Qin soldiers leaned the ladders against the city wall smoothly and began to climb up.

They bite their steel knives and crawl up lightly, all in silence, like wild wolves that sneak close to their prey.

The officers and soldiers at the head of the city never thought that someone would come to attack Tongguan tonight, the flag general on duty drank a lot of wine, and was sleeping on the edge of the fire at the head of the city, and the other soldiers also lay on the ground, leaving only a few sentries in charge of the sentry, who were also asleep at this time, so there was no sober officer or soldier in the whole city.

In a short time, these thirty Qin soldiers all climbed to the top of the city.

When they went up to the city, they did not shout, and they did not light fires, but each of them touched an officer or soldier.

There were about forty people on duty at the head of the city, and the Qin army each stared at one, and quietly came to these officers and soldiers, led by a hundred chiefs, nodded their heads, they held down the mouth of the Ming army with one hand, and the steel knife in the other hand had been pushed into the hearts of these officers and soldiers from the bottom up.

Someone woke up in severe pain, but his mouth was covered and he let out only a few whining sounds before he fell to the ground.

After killing these thirty people, there were more than a dozen officers and soldiers left, and they also concocted the same method, and all the officers and soldiers left Tongguan in their sleep and went to Ghost Gate Pass.

After solving the officers and soldiers on duty, a Qin soldier raised the lamp at the head of the city and shook it a few times, and then everyone got off the city, came to the city gate, and opened the west gate of Tongguan.

Li Dang led three thousand cavalry, like a black lightning, and rushed in.

Tongguan is not big, there are no people in it, only garrisons. So it's easy to find. These officers and soldiers were asleep in the camp, and suddenly felt a violent tremor of the ground, and then they were awakened, and by the time they woke up, the steel knives of the Qin army had already cut off their heads.

At this time, the remaining officers and soldiers realized that the enemy had come to sneak attack, and hurriedly sounded the gong, and at this time, the Qin army had all rushed into Tongguan and slashed and killed.

As soon as the general guarding Tongguan was put on and mounted on his war horse, he was rushed by Li Dang's flying horse, and with a knife in his hand, he chopped off half of his head.

The rest of the army was unprepared and leaderless, and immediately dispersed, opened the eastern gate, and fled to the east.

Li Kang's 3,000 men and horses galloped across the flock, and everywhere they went, they were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, chopping melons and vegetables, killing the officers and soldiers to the point of a river of blood.

In less than an hour, only more than 400 of the 2,000 officers and soldiers fled and entered Henan. The rest were killed five hundred, and more than a thousand were taken prisoner.

On the Qin side, there were only more than 100 casualties.

After dawn, Li Dang completely occupied Tongguan, he just didn't feel enjoyable, the officials and soldiers were not prepared, and the second was too few people, so he couldn't kill enough.

This is the second time that the Qin army has occupied Tongguan, and Li Kang secretly thought in his heart that if he occupied it this time, the official army would never want to take it back.

He immediately sent someone to inform Ziyi, telling him that he could confidently and boldly besiege Huayin.

Ziyi is also a fierce general, and he is not ambiguous in the battle, if it weren't for this, he would not dare to frame Bai Qi and lead the Qin army alone.

He had 10,000 horses under his command, and Huayin's officers and troops were only a quarter of him, but Ziyi still felt that it was necessary to use some tricks, so he made a momentum, overhauled the fortifications outside the city, and built a large camp, and the camp was more than ten miles, and the fireworks were endless, so that people could see that there could be an army of 100,000.

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