After Ruan Zhengyu finished speaking, he took out a command arrow from his arms and handed it to Du Peng, "You take my order arrow to the south to organize the army, and this time you will concentrate another 500,000 horses for me no matter what." ”

Du Peng took the arrow and replied categorically: "Don't worry, the king, I will not dishonor the king's order when I go to the south this time." ”

Ruan Zhengyu nodded, and then continued: "This time you go to the south, you don't have to wait to concentrate all the troops in the north, but if you concentrate one or two hundred thousand people, you will be sent to Longcheng Pass as soon as possible." ”

Du Peng understood as soon as he heard it, Ruan Zhengyu didn't have the slightest confidence in the defense of Longcheng Pass, and after thinking about it, there were only a few thousand old and weak soldiers in Longcheng Pass, plus more than 10,000 untrained farmers, but they had to resist hundreds of thousands of elites in the Central Plains, which made people's scalps tingle when they thought about it.

Du Peng hurriedly patted his chest and assured Ruan Zhengyu that within five days after he left, he would gather 10,000 horses and horses to send them to Longcheng Pass to resist the invasion of the Central Plains.

Ruan Zhengyu then asked Du Peng to set off overnight, not to delay time.

Du Peng has been looking forward to leaving this ghost place for a long time, who knows if the Central Plains soldiers outside the center will attack the city overnight, or it will be safer to leave this place?

So Du Peng made a righteous and awe-inspiring gesture and said to Ruan Zhengyu: "Since the military situation is urgent, then Weichen will no longer delay, I will set off now, transfer the soldiers as soon as possible, and make Longcheng Pass safe for a while." ”

Ruan Zhengyu knew that the general under his command wanted to leave quickly, and thought that he was loyal to the imperial court, so he was relieved to let him leave immediately.

Du Peng got the order and did not delay, and immediately went out of the hall, led his horse, and went directly from the south gate of Longcheng Pass with his personal guards.

That night, Ruan Zhengyu did not dare to slack off, on the one hand, he recruited people, and on the other hand, he ordered the city to strengthen the guard, because he was afraid of a sudden attack at night, which would cause the Longcheng Pass to be broken.

And on the night of this day, Jia Ke's troops outside the city did not attack Longcheng Pass, Jia Ke just prevented the other party from raiding him, and sent the Eight Banners cavalry to roam under the city non-stop.

Although it is said that Jia Ke did not attack the city, because the cavalry of the Eight Banners kept walking in the downstream of Longcheng Pass all night, the officers and soldiers in the city did not sleep all night, and when they arrived the next morning, they were all listless.

Besides, Jia Ke immediately beat the drums and gathered the generals in the morning, and after all the civil and military forces came to the big tent of the Chinese army, Jia Ke entered the big tent accompanied by Li Deshan and sat in the middle.

"Everyone, Longcheng Pass is a dangerous place in the world, but once the Longcheng Temple is captured, further south is a horse Pingchuan, and now according to my Tanma report, there are not many soldiers and horses on Longcheng Pass, it is a good time for us to attack, otherwise when Annan transfers troops from the south, it will be difficult for me to capture Longcheng Pass."

After Jia Ke finished saying this, he looked at Sun Yan who was standing below, "Lord Sun, what do you think about this battle?" ”

Sun Yan heard Jia Ke's inquiry, stood up for the class, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said: "Lord, rank general, I don't have much grain and grass to wait, if I can't capture Longcheng Pass immediately, then I have to stay for a while again, waiting for the grain and grass to be transported from the country, and at that time, even if we win, it will consume a lot of strength, so I agree with the lord's idea, it should be done at any cost, and it will be resolved quickly." ”

After listening to this, Jia Ke nodded, "Lord Sun's intention coincides with mine, since this is the case, then I will give the order." ”

"Where are the Manchu Eight Banners?"

As soon as Jia Ke finished speaking, among the generals, eight big men with tigers and bears came out.

"The minions are waiting."

"Order you to divide into 4 waves, within one hour, and attack Longcheng Pass separately, and never let the enemy soldiers above the pass have a chance to breathe."

After hearing this, these eight people looked at each other a little, they brought cavalry this time, and let them attack the city, isn't it to drive ducks to the shelves?

Jia Ke looked at these eight people in a daze, and knew that they didn't understand what they meant.

"Eight stupid people, I didn't let you send cavalry to attack the city, you captured so many enemy troops, did you let me raise them in vain, now is the time for them to contribute."

As soon as these eight people heard Jia Ke's words, they understood what they meant, this is to let the prisoners attack the city, in order to reduce the casualties of their own troops, they used to be Tatars in the past, and they often used this trick, but since following Jia Ke, they have rarely done these things, but they didn't expect that now this can make them go back to their old jobs.

Now that they understood what Jia Ke meant, these people naturally agreed.

Jia Ke then ordered: "Wu Lu, the chief soldier of Guangxi, and Liu Zhi, the chief soldier of Yunnan, each of you will bring 30,000 wolf soldiers, and ambush behind the Eight Banners Cavalry, waiting for my order." ”

The two general soldiers listened to Jia Ke's order, and immediately surrendered their hands, and then went out of the big tent to reorganize the army and horses.

Next, Jia Ke took the rest of the generals with many siege equipment to personally supervise the siege of the army.

And Ruan Zhengyu had been busy with young and strong things until almost dawn last night, and had just slept for a while, when suddenly his own soldiers broke into the room and woke him up.

"Wake up, the king, the enemy army is beginning to attack the city."

Ruan Zhengyu didn't sleep very soundly, but when he heard this, he woke up suddenly.

"What's going on?"

When the soldier saw that Ruan Zhengyu had woken up, he hurriedly reported: "Just now, the enemy's battalion of men and horses poured out, and there seemed to be hundreds of thousands of people, Prime Minister Li Guangqing ordered me to come and inform the king, so that the king could quickly go up to the city tower to command the battle. ”

After hearing this, Ruan Zhengyu didn't care about anything else, and immediately ordered his own soldiers to straighten his armor.

After Ruan Zhengyu finished dressing, he immediately took the horse to the city.

At this time, Li Guangqing was standing on top of the city tower, commanding the young and strong and the old and weak soldiers on the Dragon City Pass to carry the rolling wood thunder stone there, guarding against the other party's success at any time.

And the remnants of Ding Hao, those thousands of men and horses, are Ruan Zhengyu's last hope, Ruan Zhengyu has already given an order, without his royal order, no one is allowed to mobilize this army.

Li Guangqing saw Ruan Zhengyu coming three steps and two steps, saluted him first, and then said: "King, the enemy army is about to attack the city, and I am afraid that the vanguard is our original captured soldiers." ”

Ruan Zhengyu was a little incredulous after hearing this, and finally he came to the front of the city and looked down.

Sure enough, as Li Guangqing said, the soldiers wearing their uniforms below had been driven by the enemy's cavalry and stood in a queue.

I saw these people holding rudimentary weapons in their hands, and some of them were carrying ladders and waiting there to charge.

Ruan Zhengyu was angry when he saw this, he had already seen that those soldiers under the city, if they dispersed in a hurry, although the cavalry of the other party was powerful, they could not kill so many people, it seemed that his soldiers were already frightened.

As the commander of the Yellow Banner, he now commands the first wave of the attack, and beside him is the commander of the Yellow Banner, the deputy of the attack, Mandu Latu.

Mandu Latu is also a brave and resourceful person in the Eight Banners, he watched from under the city, and there were already a lot of rolling wood thunder stones prepared on the city tower, if it was not covered, the captives below would probably suffer heavy losses.

So Mandu Ratu urged his horse to Jizhigra's side and said, "Jizhigra, I will see if we should send some cavalry to fire arrows below to cover these captives. ”

Ji Zhigra also saw the actions of the city clearly, and he nodded: "Then the two of us will each send 5,000 cavalry, divide into two teams and walk downstream of the city tower, give these captives some support, save them all from dying, and we will not be able to explain to our families when we return to the grassland." ”

After the two men had made up their minds, they divided 5,000 men and horses to walk downstream from the towers on the left and right, and kept firing arrows at the towers.

And those people on the city wall, originally the old and weak soldiers, and the young and strong who had just gathered last night, their will to fight was very weak, and now seeing the city tower constantly throwing arrows upward, they were frightened one by one, lying under the city wall and did not dare to show their heads.

Seeing that the enemy soldiers on the tower had been suppressed, Gizhigra hurriedly ordered his cavalry to start attacking the city with the captives.

To say that these Annan captives are honest like grandsons to the soldiers of the Central Plains, but they are very cruel to their own people.

Many of them, since their surrender, have been desperately trying to show themselves, so they have been reused by the Eight Banners.

Now these people are the prison army, they are roaring with knives and guns one by one, and finally drive these captives forward, but the one who dares to stop, these warlords of theirs, immediately stepped forward is a punch and kick, this is not bad, if there is a slight resistance, the steel knife next to it will split over.

Therefore, these captives could only carry rudimentary weapons and ladders to the city, because they knew that if they retreated, they would definitely die without a place to be buried, and if they moved forward, there was still a chance to live, so they attacked fiercely upward.

Seeing this situation, Ruan Zhengyu on the city wall hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to urge the young men and soldiers on the city head to start throwing the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone downward.

This fierce siege battle began.

Because the preparation of Longcheng Pass was not sufficient, there were not many rolling wood thunder stones on the head of the city, and at the beginning, it also caused great damage to those Annan captives who attacked the city.

But as time went by, there were fewer and fewer rolling wood and thunder stones, and those soldiers and young men at the head of the city had to pick up their weapons and go up to fight the captives of Annam, who were besieging the city.

But these people on the castle tower were either old and weak soldiers, or farmers who had just been recruited, and where were the opponents of these trained Annam captives downstairs.

As a result, it didn't take long to kill and wound Lei Lei from the top of the building, Ruan Zhengyu saw that this was not a solution, so he had no choice but to send the soldiers brought back by Ding Hao this time to the city tower.

There are about five or six thousand of these soldiers, and Ruan Zhengyu will use them as reserves at the last moment, but looking at the current scene on the city tower, if you don't put in the reserves now, I'm afraid that without you, Longcheng Pass will not be able to be saved in two hours.

With this new force joining the castle tower, it has finally stabilized.

But this army is too few horses, and their joining the city wall is only delaying time.

An hour later, Girigra blew his horn and withdrew his men.

Next, the white flag of the capital of Jiya and the white flag of the white flag of the capital of Munggen, began to take over their siege.