Bai Qi and Wang Jian nodded opposite each other, each led two phalanxes, put twenty crossbowmen at the front, and quietly touched the barracks. When they were less than fifty paces away from the camp gate, they ordered the twenty crossbowmen to release their arrows and shoot the Ming troops on Diao.

In the eyes of these Qin Jun, the people on Diao Dou are simply live targets. There was almost no need to aim, and the ten crossbowmen in the front row fired at the same time, and none of the four Ming soldiers on the two Diao fights in front of the camp gate were spared, and they were hit by arrows in the chest and abdomen, some fell in the Diao fight, and some fell straight down.

Sure enough, someone in the camp found out that there were not only soldiers patrolling the camp below, but also guards the gate.

Dangdangdang...... The sound of a huge gong echoed in the barracks, and could be heard far away in the quiet night.

But they only struck a few times, and they were knocked down by the powerful arrows flying from the peaks on both sides.

At the same time, under the orders of Bai Qi and Wang Qian, the Qin army began to rush towards Yuanmen. Because the barracks were suppressed by the rain of arrows on the peaks on both sides, many Ming soldiers who rushed out of the camp were shot dead on the spot, so no one answered at the gate for a while.

The vanguard of the Qin army had already rushed under the wooden wall, and they set up a human ladder and began to climb.

For Qin Jun, the wooden wall more than four feet high was almost the same as flat ground, one person was lying underground, and the other person stepped on his shoulder and jumped up, and then turned over, and he was inside.

In the blink of an eye, thirty or forty people had already jumped into the barracks.

These thirty or forty people were immediately targeted by the Ming army, but they could not surround them, because arrows were still being shot on the peaks on both sides.

At this time, an officer had already come out to command, shouting: "Shield cover, all the troops are on the line, hold the gate......"

In the end, it is a regular army, and the order is carried out immediately. The Ming army gathered in one place, raised their shields, and protected the head and body of the military formation, forming a turtle shell-like formation, so that the arrows of the Qin army did not work, although there were also a few Ming troops who were shot down by the arrows shot in from the gaps, but on the whole, they could not stop the Ming army from responding to the gate.

But they had enough time to buy.

The gate had been opened by the Qin soldiers who had jumped into the barracks, and the people outside lined up in a neat formation and broke in. The Qin army also wanted to use the method of dealing with the king of Qi, march hand in hand, and destroy the Ming army with an army formation. But no, the barracks are not in the wilderness, there are tents, stables, vehicles, and haystacks, and it is impossible for the military formation to be used.

Moreover, in such a terrain, the free attack of the Ming army will definitely be more effective and more aggressive.

Bai Qi and Wang Jian ordered almost at the same time, disperse the formation, and fight!

The spearmen who walked in front threw down their spears and drew their single knives from their waists, as did the crossbowmen in the back, and all the Qin troops began to engage the Ming army in close combat. For a while, the sound of weapons colliding was like a dense rain, mixed with the shouts and screams of countless people, mixed with the blood splashing out, turning the entire military camp into a Shura field.

Tongguan is a dangerous pass, and the Ming troops stationed here are also very combative, but they still fall behind. First, the Qin army took advantage of the night to sneak attack and took it by surprise, and second, the number of the Qin army was almost three times more than that of the Ming army, and the huge gap in strength made the Ming army resist for only one hour, and it was unable to parry. More than half of them have already been killed.

When the general guarding the pass saw that it was not good, he hurriedly called the sergeant to retreat and retreat to the head of the city, intending to be condescending on the city wall, relying on the city wall horse road, and resisting step by step. But they were too late, all the Qin army and the Ming army were mixed together, the Ming army retreated to the city, and the Qin army behind them almost chased after their heels.

After killing for a while, the Ming army was left with less than 500 people, and the general guarding the pass saw that the general situation had gone, so he had to order the city gate to be opened and flee to the outside of Tongguan.

Outside the pass is a mountain road, narrow and dangerous, the Qin army is not easy to pursue, the Ming army let the archers break off, all the way down the pass. The Qin army chased for a while, but could not catch up, so they had to withdraw their troops.

The battle ended in the middle of the night, when it was nearly dawn. The Ming army lost Tongguan and buried more than 2,000 people, while the Qin army also suffered more than 500 casualties.

Bai Qi ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up quickly, and the corpses of the Ming army were thrown into a deep stream, and the corpses of the Qin army were properly buried. Later, he left Ziyi, led 2,000 people to defend Tongguan, and took care of the wounded, and ordered them to change into Ming army clothes. He and Wang Jian led the army back to Yuehuazhuang. By the time dawn came, the Qin army had already returned to the four villages and began to rest.

When the king of Qin saw that everyone had returned victoriously, he was very happy and ordered the three armies to be rewarded and let everyone have a good rest. Bai Qi said: "King, the Ming army lost Tongguan, and the world will soon be shaken, so we should take advantage of the time when the Ming army has not time to send reinforcements, and quickly take Huayin as a base." ”

Fan Ju nodded: "The general is right, as long as Huayin is taken, he can become a horn with Tongguan, and there are echoes between them, and if you occupy a city, you can also hoard grain, soldiers and horses." King Qin agreed very much: "I naturally understand this, but everyone has been fighting all night, and they have gone back and forth for dozens of miles, and they are too tired to run for their lives, in my opinion, it is not too late to fight again tonight." ”

Bai Qi thought for a while: "It's better to do this, I'll send some warriors first, blend into Huayin, set fire to the city tonight, we will take advantage of the chaos to attack, if they can open the city gate, it's better, even if they can't open it, the inside and the outside should be combined, and the chance of winning is also very good." ”

King Qin agreed.

Bai Qi sent 200 Qin troops, disguised as ordinary people, hid the things that ignited the fire, and mixed into the city in twos and threes, and specially ordered one person to connect with Li Kang, telling Li Kang to lead these people, tonight, at the third watch, set fire to the noise on time, and it was best to open the city gate in one fell swoop to welcome the army into the city.

The Ming army lost Tongguan, and the first to know the news was not Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, but Sun Chuanting, the commander of Huayin County.

Since being shot by Li Dang with a poisoned arrow, Sun Chuanting almost survived, thanks to the old immortal's wonderful hand of rejuvenation, his life was saved, so he did not go to the Hades Palace to eliminate the number. After a few days of recuperation, Sun Chuanting gradually recovered, he couldn't get out of bed, but his brain was not idle, thinking about what happened to him, he felt very strange.

In the entire Huayin County, he has no enemies, and it can be said that he has no personal enmity. So who sent the Assassins to kill themselves?

He wanted to interrogate the Assassin himself, but the servant told him that there was chaos in the city that day, and that some thieves had robbed the prison and let all the prisoners go.

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he was even more surprised, and he immediately thought that the assassin could hide until now, and there must be an answer in the city. There is a huge Huayin County, tens of thousands of households, and finding a person is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

What intrigued him even more was that this assassin had a lot of background, and he must have done it by thieves. However, there are no thieves in Huayin Realm, so his assassination is very coincidental.

Suddenly, Sun Chuanting thought of those homeless people in Yuehuazhuang. The fact that he sent officers to spy on them aroused the suspicion of these people, or rather, they really had secrets to hide from them.

Based on the clues reported by those officers, Sun Chuanting believed his judgment, so he sent people to the edge of the village overnight to investigate, telling the spies that they did not need to enter the village, but just watched from a distance outside the village to see if they had any changes.

Sure enough, the Qin army secretly assembled last night, which alarmed the spies. He didn't dare to get closer, and looked from a distance, only to see those people fully armed, heading in the direction of Tongguan.

The spy didn't know why, and he didn't dare to go back to report easily, so he had to follow behind the Qin army, and when he saw the Qin army attacking Tongguan, the spy was half frightened to death, and he saw that the Ming army couldn't stand it, so he hurriedly ran back to Huayin.

Traveling dozens of miles back and forth, the spies were tired and half dead, and it was not until the morning that he ran back to Huayin to see Sun Chuanting. When he breathlessly told what he had seen, Sun Chuanting almost jumped out of bed and hurriedly ordered his family: "Hurry up, go and ask for a meeting in the future." Say I have important military intelligence. ”

When the general came, Sun Chuanting was lying on the sickbed and told the matter, and the general was skeptical: "Lord Sun, is this true?" ”

Sun Chuanting hurriedly said: "My people have seen it with their own eyes, how can they talk about it." ”

The general said: "What your people have seen with their own eyes is true, but as far as I know, in Huayin, within a radius of 100 miles, there are no thieves entering, could it be that these people fell from the sky?" Sun Chuanting said: "They have been hiding in Huayin, just disguised as ordinary people and concealed from the government. Now that they are suddenly attacking and occupying Tongguan, the next step must be to attack Huayin. I only have more than 1,000 defenders in Huayin, less than half of Tongguan, if you want to resist how easy it is to say, please ask the general to immediately impose martial law, strengthen the garrison, and at the same time report to the governor Hong, the military situation is urgent, and it will not be delayed for a moment. ”