Chapter 85, The Crisis of Tongguan 8

At this time, Luo Rucai also arrived, and he brought a thousand archers, looked at the situation in front of him, and immediately gave the order to release arrows at the head of the city.

At the same time, he ordered his soldiers to push through the cart and ram the city gates. Even if it can't be opened, at least it can attract a lot of Ming troops. Luo Rucai kept watching from behind, and saw that Li Yan had already fought hard and his men had suffered heavy casualties, so he knew that he was sincere, so he led the army to reinforce.

At this time, Li Dang had already killed red eyes, in order to welcome Li Yan into the customs, he took the Qin army to rush desperately, this thousand Qin troops saw the Ming army, all of them were angry, and they had to report the shame of the last defeat, so they killed very bravely.

Li Dang held a knife in one hand and a spear in the other, urging the war horse, rampage, and everywhere he went, there was a lot of blood. was killing sexually, and saw a group of people rushing down from the city, led by the generals, who were the Tongguan guards.

At this time, the guard took off his iron armor, and his left shoulder was wrapped with a white cloth, and blood was still oozing, which was shot by the red lady. He is also a fierce general, and he is bare-chested, wielding a big sword, to fight Li Kang.

The two of them clashed with two horses, the guard picked up the big knife, cut the head, Li Dare used the knife to meet him, when there was a loud noise, only the shock made Li Dang's arm numb, his five fingers hurt, the knife in his hand could no longer be held, and fell to the ground.

This person has so much strength, Li Kang was secretly surprised in his heart, the guard cut down Li Kang's weapon with one sword, and the power was even greater, and the second knife fell again.

At this time, Li Dang only had the spear left in his hand, he no longer fought hard, tilted his body, let the knife cut into the air, and then raised the spear and stabbed the guard in the front heart. The guard was not ambiguous, and made an iron bridge on the horse, and his back was attached to the horse's back, and he gave way to the spear.

Two people you knife me gun, fight a few rounds, Li Dare is anxious, can't take this person, the officers and soldiers can't get up, the battle will last for a long time, thinking of this he had an idea, when the guard will miss a knife, he stabbed with a spear, the guard will use a knife to the outside, Li Dare deliberately pretended to be too forceful, a body leaned forward, it seemed that he almost fell off the horse.

The guard was overjoyed, and saw Li Kang's head in front of him, and he shouted: "The thief will take his life......" and chop his head with a big knife in his hand.

As soon as he saw the guard's knife, Li Dang shouted, threw away the spear in his hand, kicked hard with both feet, and a body actually left his horse's back and jumped onto the guard's horse.

The two immediately collided.

The guard's knife was long, and he couldn't come back for a while, but Li Kang had already pulled out the short knife from his waist, stabbed it from the bottom up, and stabbed it under the guard's left ribs, and it went straight into the abdomen. The guard, who had no iron armor on his body, was stabbed squarely, screamed, and fell straight off his horse.

Li Dare jumped off the horse, grabbed the big sword, took off the head of the guard, and then jumped on the horse again, and raised the head high: "You wait for the main general to be awarded, do you still want to fight?" ”

As soon as the Ming army saw that the guard was about to be killed, they immediately lost their fighting spirit and fled in all directions, Ziyi supervised the battle in the back, and when he saw the Ming army fleeing, he knew that he could not fight, so he immediately ordered: attack the city, and at the same time open the city gate to welcome the people's army into the customs.

Li Dang rushed straight to the city gate, ordered the army to open the city gate, and the civilian army outside poured in.

Nearly dawn, the battle ended, the Ming army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, the Qin army suffered more than 200 casualties, and Li Yan's men and horses lost nearly half, which was a tragic victory.

In any case, Tongguan is considered to have been won, and this victory is not trivial.

Li Yan met with Li Kang and others, and then rested in Tongguan. Ziyi took the Qin army back to Huayin, and the next thing is to see if Zhang Xianzhong can fulfill his promise.

Fan Ju had already learned the news of the breakthrough of Tongguan, and as soon as Ziyi came back, he immediately set up a banquet and invited Zhang Xianzhong to pick up the wind for Ziyi together. During the banquet, the two sides talked and laughed, Zhang Xianzhong was very good at talking, and immediately said that the Qin army attacked and broke through the Tong Pass, so that the peasant army could enter the pass smoothly, and this person was very favorable, and he must return it. In addition to what Fan Ju asked for, he added a thousand taels of gold.

Looking at this old man, Fan Ju secretly sneered in his heart, the banquet was dispersed, and after sending Zhang Xianzhong back, he was pacing back and forth in the house, and suddenly there was a person outside, it was Gan Yue.

Fan Ju grabbed him: "Have you ever seen Hong Chengchou?" ”

Gan Yue nodded, the two entered the back room, Gan Yue said: "The villain has seen Hong Chengchou, and told him what Fan Xiang meant, Hong Chengchou seemed very interested, so he sent a team of 100 people, and they have secretly assembled on the way from Huayin to Tongguan, just wait for the surname Zhang to arrive, and take his head." ”

Fan Ju nodded: "Very good, are these people Ming army costumes?" ”

Gan Yue said: "No, they are all wearing ordinary people's clothes, as long as they kill the surname Zhang, Hong Chengchou will naturally report to the court, and soon the world will know about it, and the peasant army will not suspect us." ”

Fan Ju sneered: "Hmph, even if they suspect it, it's useless, at that time, the main force of the Ming army has returned to Shaanxi, and the peasant army is too busy to take care of itself, what can they do to us." ”

He asked Gan Yue: "What about the conditions I proposed?" What did Hong Chengchou say? Gan Yue said: "He said that as long as Zhang Xianzhong can be caught or killed, everything is negotiable." The Qin army can live in Huayin for a long time. ”

Fan Ju smiled: "That's good, as long as we can stabilize for a while, we can incorporate other peasant armies and increase our strength, at that time, even if the official army turns its face, we are not afraid." ”

He patted Gan Yue on the shoulder: "You did a good job, go down and rest, I will reward you heavily." ”

Besides, Li Yan and others, since the Tongguan was defeated, the armies were jubilant, although Li Yan's men and horses suffered heavy losses, those who survived became experienced soldiers, and Luo Rucai's side was almost bloodless, in order to thank Li Yan for his help, Luo Rucai allocated another 500 people to Li Yan.

They rested in Tongguan for a day, and early the next morning, Li Dang took Zhang Xianzhong's military adviser Xu Yixian back to Huayin to meet Fan Ju, he came to pass the word, Zhang Xianzhong's army has begun to prepare things, and it will be sent over tomorrow, and Xu Yixian hopes that Zhang Xianzhong will return to the army as soon as possible.

Fan Ju agreed: "Mr. Xu doesn't need to run in person, we are close to the peasant army, we are a family, I can guarantee that as long as the war horses and weapons arrive, General Zhang can go back immediately, and we will also send off the mile with wine." In the future, we will echo each other, fight together, and dominate the world, wouldn't it be happy! Ahh......h

Xu Yixian thanked him first, and then said goodbye and went back.

Li Dang also wanted to go back to the barracks, but was stopped by Fan Ju: "Li Kang, you stay for a while." Li Dang hurriedly surrendered his hand: "What's the matter with Fan Xiang?" Fan Ju said: "Regarding the assassination of you by Bai Qi, I am very sorry, I didn't stop it in time, it was my fault that you suffered and almost died." Li Dang hurriedly said: "Where is it, if Fan Xiang hadn't exposed Bai Qi's conspiracy in time, I, Li Dang, would not dare to come back until now, and I would like to thank you a lot in this matter." ”

Fan Ju smiled: "Okay, don't mention this, after I subdued Bai Qi that day, I suddenly remembered that you have a confidant in the city, as if you were born exactly like your fiancΓ©e in your previous life, I was afraid that Bai Qi would harm her, so I sent someone to protect her, but found that the woman had disappeared, did you rescue her?" ”

Li dared to say: "Exactly, as soon as I found out that the person who was chasing me was Qin Jun, I immediately thought of Qianniang's safety, so I put on makeup and went back to the city and picked her up." ”

Fan Ju nodded: "Affectionate, righteous, brave and strategic, he really deserves to be a good man in my Qin army." Let me ask one more question, where is Qianniang now? ”

Li Dare said: "She is still in Li Yan's army, and with the red girl and the little green girl accompanying her, it will be fine." ”

Fan Ju thought for a while: "Tongguan is not a place to live for a long time, why don't you go and ask her to go back to Huayin to live, after all, it is her hometown, besides, Bai Qi has fled, and no one in the city will want to harm her anymore." ”

Li Dang pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Fan Xiang is right, I will pick her up tomorrow." Fan Ju smiled and said: "Okay, okay, after you take it back, you must take care of others, don't let her suffer from displacement anymore." Li Kang was a little moved: "Thank you Fan Xiang......"

Watching Li Dare leave, a sneer appeared on the corner of Fan Ju's mouth.