In the Jinniu Pass Building, Ji Yuntian sat opposite each other with Lihua and Wei Yuanqi, and when he was having dinner, Lihua had already explained yesterday's events to Ji Yuntian, and also learned from him that the Rong people outside Muqi Pass had gathered thousands of people, but they did not attack the city.

Ji Yuntian, like An Xuzhi, is also a cloth-clothed common man who has sat on the post of hundreds of generals with his military exploits, and originally led the troops to fight in Shuiqi Pass. Shuiqi Pass is the southernmost pass of Yuxiao Pass, but the terrain is far less precipitous than Jinniu Pass, although it is not as good as the Wooden Hedgehog Pass can gather thousands of people, but it is also relatively flat, so it is the main pass of the Rong people since ancient times.

After many anti-war battles over the years, this Ji Yuntian also suffered more than a dozen injuries, and several major injuries made him unable to mention Ge again. Thinking of the old skills, Han Qianren transferred him to Jinniu Pass, also wanting him to leave the dangerous place to cultivate his body well.

After Yu Lihua came to Yuxiao Pass, he met Ji Yuntian many times in Han Qianren, and had a deep influence on this black-faced man with a gloomy face.

After Ji Yuntian heard what he had experienced, his eyes widened in surprise and he stared at him. He also admired Lihua very much in his heart, if it weren't for the two sleeping Sumeru wolf cubs in Lihua's hands right in front of him, if it weren't for Lihua and the others who entered the pass from the west of the Golden Bull Pass, he wouldn't have believed what Lihua said at all.

Ji Yuntian stood up and said to Zhu Lihua: "Ji rarely convinces people in his life, but Zhu Libai impresses him with this action, and Ji admires it." ”

Zhu Lihua and Wei Yuanqi also stood up and said with a smile: "Ji Bai will not have to be like this, if he is replaced by Ji Bai General, it will definitely be better than Ji Li, maybe the brothers will not have so many casualties." After speaking, Zhu Lihua's face changed slightly, making Ji Yuntian look a kind of indescribable loneliness.

Zhu Lihua gave Ji Yuntian another salute and said: "There are at least three thousand Rong people under the Golden Bull Pass, Ji Bai will make plans in advance, and Zhu Li will return to Mu Qi Pass and leave." ”

Ji Yuntian hurriedly stepped forward and held up Lihua's arm and said: "The terrain outside the Golden Bull Pass has also been seen by the hundreds of generals in the city, and the Rong people will generally only contain our army outside my pass, and rarely take the initiative to attack the city. ”

Zhu Lihua nodded, and he had a good impression of Ji Yuntian in his heart, because he just wanted to inform Ji Yuntian of the enemy's strength and tell him to be careful. But if the same thing is heard by a narrow-minded person, he will think that he does not believe in his ability to defend the city.

Ji Yuntian replied like this, obviously a broad-minded person, and did not give birth to other ideas, it seems that this person who lives and dies is indeed much easier to deal with than those nobles in the General Mansion.

After the two exchanged a few more words, Zhu Lihua led everyone out of the Golden Bull Pass, and it took less than half an hour to come to the Muqi Pass.

Originally, An Xuzhi was the most suitable candidate to lead the troops, but he was already "dead", so it was inconvenient to come forward to give orders, but he just cooperated with Gao Yunce to do something to command the troops.

In fact, after arriving at Jinniu Pass, Lihua and the others had already sent people back to Muqi Pass to deliver the letter, but Gao Yunce, Liang Qingshu and others still looked lonely after seeing the soldiers entering the pass. After sending someone to bring the two Sumeru wolf cubs to his room, he went straight to the castle.

Outside the Muqi Pass, it has been the main attack direction of the Yuxiao Group Guanrong people since ancient times, and there are several open places distributed outside the pass, which are enough to accommodate thousands of troops. Once the war starts, even if the front of the pass is not wide, but it is not as narrow as the Jinniu Pass, and the difficulty of guarding the pass lies in whether it can hold up the continuous support of the Rong people.

Although the outpost of the Rong people was less than two hundred steps away from the Guancheng, and the bows and arrows could be shot, the defenders on the Guancheng were less than 100 people, so they did not do such an unwise move before the Rong people attacked.

"When will the reinforcements from Yuxiao Pass arrive?" Standing behind the battlements in front of the gate, he asked while observing, and Gao Yunce, who was beside him, replied: "Lord Baijiang, after the Rong people were found at the outposts under the mountain yesterday, the situation has been reported to Yuxiao Pass, and this morning Yuxiao Pass has sent reinforcements to each pass, but my Muqi Pass has not yet been rescued, but according to the time, it should be soon." ”

Zhu Lihua nodded, and continued to observe the movement outside the gate, beside him and in the arrow window of the Guan Lou was already full of dense soldiers, ready to fight to the death with the Rong people who attacked the key points, and the hunting Xuanwu banner was waving in the wind above the Guan Tower.

A moment later, Lu Lihua and the others heard the noisy voices behind the pass, and Gao Yunce turned his head to look at the back of the pass.

Zhu Lihua didn't look back, but just asked, "Coming?" ”

"Here we are." Gao Yunce replied.

"Report", a soldier hurriedly ran up to the gate tower and saluted to Lihua: "Report to the hundred generals, Yuxiao Pass sent five hundred soldiers to help." ”

"Five hundred!" Lu Lihua and Gao Yunce glanced at each other, and both of them saw a trace of puzzlement in each other's eyes. Yuxiao Pass is greatly affected by the topography, and the garrison is only more than 2,000 people on weekdays. Yuxiao's first four passes usually have one or two hundred people stationed, but this time the five hundred people came to help the two of them unexpectedly.

Lihua asked the soldier to bring reinforcements into the Muqi Pass first, and then led the general of the soldier to meet him on the city tower. The soldier said "Whoa" and turned to leave.

After a while, the two only heard the footsteps of "oh oh oh", a tall and white man in black armor went up to the city tower, followed by six guards, only to see the white-faced and black-armored young man shouting as he spoke: "It's really a big shelf, a hundred generals actually asked me to see him." ”

A person next to him hurriedly smiled and said: "Doctor Ma, don't be angry, how is it good to be angry, it's wartime now, maybe the guard will be delayed for something, and when I see him beat and scold him a few times, let him remember it for a long time, and if you are angry, your body is not worth killing that guy." ”

While speaking, several people had already walked up to the city tower, and Lu Lihua and Gao Jie glanced at each other, of course they heard the words of a few people, and understood that the person who led the troops was probably a general with an official rank of more than 100 generals. The two of them were silent, greeted the young man surnamed Ma, and gave a salute and said, "The wooden deer guard will see the adult. ”

When the doctor surnamed Ma saw the jade-faced young man in black in front of him and Gao Yunce, who was wearing a blue linen dress and had a pale face, he immediately felt a sense of arrogance, he straightened his waist and twisted his face, and a person next to him immediately shouted: "Bastard, why didn't the little hundred generals kneel down when they saw the five hundred lords?" ”

Zhu Lihua looked up at the young man surnamed Nama and the entourage who was talking beside him and said: "I was ordered to guard the pass, and I haven't seen my lord, so I don't know my lord's lordship, please calm my anger." ”

"Bastard, are you blind or dumb with a dog's mouth, just Buyi dares to talk to Doctor Ma like this without repentance." The attendant glared at Lihua and scolded.

Gao Yunce stepped forward and was about to speak, when he was pulled by Zhu Lihua's hand. The soldiers on the city turned their heads to look at Lihua, their faces full of disgust.

But seeing that Lihua was not angry, he ignored the entourage, just looked at the young man surnamed Ma and said: "Since the five hundred lords have led the troops to Muqi Pass, please show the proclamation to receive the defense and arrange the defense." ”

Although the young man surnamed Ma looked a little domineering, he still knew some of the rules of commanding the army, he turned his face and said "um", and the entourage quickly bowed his head and said "Woo". The attendant threw the proclamation talisman to Zhu Lihua and said viciously: "Wipe your dog's eyes and look at it."

Zhu Lihua smiled, opened the proclamation talisman and handed it to Gao Yunce after reading it carefully, and then gave another salute: "It turned out to be the Ma family in Jingyang, how is Master Ma Xuan of Jingyang County?" ”

As soon as Lihua finished speaking, the young man surnamed Ma turned his head to look at Lihua in surprise, and after careful observation, he found that the guards of this wooden deer pass were indeed a little different from those Qiu Ba in Yuxiao Pass, so he put away a trace of arrogance and said: "My father is fine, who are you?" ”

"Yuanzhou Lili family, hereditary doctor, 100 generals in the military rank, a single name and a Chinese character."

"Ah", as soon as Lihua finished speaking, he heard an exclamation, and it turned out that the entourage was taken aback when he heard that Lihua was also a nobleman.

No wonder he was so surprised, after learning that he had just spoken disrespectfully to a nobleman, he suddenly noticed a cold sweat whizzing down his forehead.

But to his surprise, Zhu Lihua did not have the same knowledge as him, but just looked at the young man surnamed Ma. The young man smiled and bowed his hand to Lihua: "It turned out to be Brother Lili, why is Brother Lili just holding the position of a hundred generals?" ”

Zhu Lihua smiled slightly: "The responsibility of defending the territory and protecting the territory is not the size of the position, but the action and heart, Zhu Li doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with the hundred generals." However, Dr. Ma was able to come to the Qimu Pass to relieve my danger in person, which made Lili admire me. ”

When the young man surnamed Ma heard the words of Zhu Lihua, his old face turned red. The entourage hurriedly bowed his head and said to Yulihua: "Doctor Lili doesn't know, my family is unwell today, and the medical officer of Yuxiao Pass also told my family to return to Yuxiao Pass immediately after bringing reinforcements to Guiguan for medicine, so I won't stay in Muqi Pass to guard." ”

Zhu Lihua was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at the horse doctor, and the young man said: "This, this is actually the Yuxiao Pass that I only arrived at yesterday." Thanks to the love of the king, Ma Yuanxi, as a nobleman, should have fought against the enemy with Dr. Li, but he was really unwell, and he had to have Dr. Laoli to fight against the enemy. After that, he actually swung his upper body, as if to tell everyone that he was terminally ill and was about to faint at any time.

Lu Lihua glared at Gao Jie, who was about to laugh beside him, and said respectfully to Ma Yuan: "In this case, please also ask Doctor Ma to return to Yuxiao Pass quickly, but I am afraid that this soldier and horse will not be able to mobilize my hundred generals, please..."

"It's okay to do this" The young man surnamed Ma saw that Lihua was also easy to speak, and hurriedly said: "Now all the customs have received a notice from the Yuanzhou General Administration, saying that the Rong people invaded the customs in advance, and Xiao Pass was besieged by 50,000 Rong soldiers a week ago. The soldiers who came to Guiguan with me were also the guards who had just come to Yuxiao Pass in the past two days. ”

Listening to Wan Ma Yuan's words, Lihua looked at Gao Yunce, only to see that Gao Yunce also nodded to himself, saying that he did receive a proclamation yesterday, but Lihua was outside the customs at the time and had no time to inform him.

After a few more polite words with Ma Yuan, Zhu Lihua sent the master and servant out of the Muqi Pass, and he said to himself with a wry smile: "If the generals of Great Qin are all such gentlemen, what is the use of this Qin Lan barrier. After that, he told Gao Yunce and several chiefs in Guancheng to pay attention to the movements of the Rong people, and went downstairs to arrange for reinforcements to prepare for war.

Zhu Lihua understood that the Rong people's invasion of the customs was ahead of schedule, resulting in insufficient preparation in the various passes, and the soldiers who were fighting were not allocated in time. Most of the soldiers were concentrated in a few large fortresses, and most of the garrisons sent to the passes were not equipped with generals, so it was expedient to issue notices to the passes, asking the localities and the passes to collect the guards and wait for the dispatch. It can be said that this is already a relatively quick response, and Zhu Lihua understands that this must be the arrangement of the meson, so when did Zhao Zhize have such a ability.

The soldiers brought by Ma Yuan were divided into five hundred-man teams, and Wei Yuanqi, Liang Qingshu, Liu He, Li Ji, and Tang Yuan each led a hundred-man team to distribute archers and Changge soldiers in proportion to the Qin army's conventions, and formed an echelon formation.

However, only one hundred-man team was left in the pass, and the remaining four teams camped after exiting the wooden hedgehog pass.

Seeing the four hundred people retreating from the small pass, Zhu Lihua suddenly felt a sense of shock for some reason, as if he always felt that there was something wrong, but he thought twice and found nothing wrong. I had to climb the castle again. Far away, he saw Gao Yunce's somewhat gloomy face.

Gao Yunce looked at Guan Wai and frowned, and said to Zhu Lihua, who walked in front of him, "My lord, it's about to start." ”

Zhu Lihua looked at the flag hunting outside the gate, and at least three thousand people had already formed a formation and were ready to go. Zhu Lihua has always thought that these Rong people are just fierce in the field, who knows that there are some rules when I see them today. This made him feel a little bad, so he called An Xuzhi on the side and asked: "Brother An, you have fought with this Rong several times, and their tactics were like this before?" ”

An Xuzhi obviously felt that it was inappropriate, and frowned and said: "Lord Huili's words, the Rong people have fought with me several times before, in all fairness, they are not afraid of death, and have the courage to kill the enemy, but they are short of strategy, and they never care about the formation queue when they fight, and today they see that their army formation is orderly and disciplined, it is indeed strange, and it feels ......" Speaking of this, An Xuzhi obviously felt that what he thought was a little ridiculous, so ridiculous that he would not believe it, so he shook his head and stopped talking.

Zhu Lihua understood what An Xuzhi thought, in fact, he felt the same way, but like An Xuzhi, he didn't believe that what he was thinking would happen.

"Uh......h Woo ......" suddenly came out of the Rong people's battle array. The Rong people's battle formation began to move forward slowly, one step, two steps, until it was one hundred and fifty steps away from the Wooden Snake Pass and stopped.

At this time, Zhu Lihua saw dozens of rows of soldiers in front of the Rong people's battle array, raising the arrows in their hands and aiming at the wooden deer pass.

The pupils of Zhu Lihua's eyes shrank slightly, and he immediately shouted: "Pass my military order, all the soldiers dodge the arrows, and those who shoot arrows randomly before the Rong people attack the city will be killed!" As the military order was issued, Lu Lihua and Gao Yunce and the defenders of the city each looked for battlements to avoid arrows. As the military order was issued here, a horn was also issued from the Rong people's side.

The defenders of the city only heard the sound of "boom", and the sound of hundreds of arrows breaking through the sky came into their ears, and arrows like raindrops poured down from the sky, or broke on the masonry of the city, or inserted in the wood of the city tower.

It is impossible to say that he is not nervous in his heart, after all, this is the first time he has fought head-on with the Rong people as the main general, but he tried his best to suppress his nervousness, closed his eyes and stood behind the battlement, quietly listening to the sound of arrows breaking through the air and landing.

One, two, three, and fourth, when he heard the Rong people pull the bowstring for the tenth time and send out the arrows and the arrows landed, he suddenly shouted: "All the soldiers listen to the order, and the arrows are wound." After finishing speaking, he moved his head to the battlement to observe the Rong people, and sure enough, the Rong archers were not wound again, and the Rong people archers were crowded after them, and Lu Lihua looked back at Gao Yunce and smiled at him, and whispered: "It's time to give gifts to the guests." ”

Then he shouted: "Shoot the arrow!" ”

There were more than 50 defenders on the wooden deer pass city, and there were more than 40 archers in the two-story wooden building on the pass city.

At this time, the Rong people were preparing to send infantry to attack the city, and the soldiers with sticks and axes behind the queue and the archers who had just finished sending arrows were staggered together in front and back. The two teams of soldiers were huddled together in an instant, and the confusion became more and more chaotic.

The first round of shooting was just over, and the second round came, and the bows and arrows on the wooden deer pass were also shot ten rounds like the Rong people. Although the casualties on the Rong people's side were not very large, this huge sense of panic that could only passively wait for death made the first thousand troops of the Rong people show signs of collapse.

Only then did someone want to squat down and dodge the arrows, but they were trampled under the feet of the rolling crowd around them and couldn't get up again, and the soldiers on the north and south sides of the queue were squeezed into the abyss in the chaos.

After ten rounds of arrows, he ordered to stop shooting. He knew that even if the archers didn't run out, such a shot wouldn't kill too many soldiers, and after a moment of confusion, it wouldn't have much effect, only increasing the consumption of arrows and archers' physical strength.

But the effect of these ten rounds of shooting was also somewhat unexpected, he calculated that after the Rong people shot arrows, the rear team would come to attack the city, so he wanted to take advantage of the staggered front and rear teams of the Rong people to cause more damage and chaos, so as to improve the morale of his soldiers as much as possible. But it is clear that this goal has not only been achieved, but it has also been achieved quite well. The soldiers defending the city also cheered and jumped for joy.

The Rong people saw that the shooting had stopped at the wooden hedgehog pass, and finally completed the staggering of the front and rear queues, and those stick and axe soldiers swept away the despair that they could only wait for death, and rushed towards the misthorn pass with red eyes and roaring. The roars of hundreds of people gathered together, making an earth-shattering sound, so that the soldiers of the hundred-man team behind the wooden hedgehog pass also felt shocked when they heard it.

Zhu Lihua found that several of the Rong people who rushed out were armed with simple ladders, apparently preparing to use them in the city. The queue of Fang Cairong people was chaotic, and these ladders also played a certain role. Zhu Lihua ordered the archers on the upper floor to shoot at the Rong people carrying the ladder, and several people fell to the ground in an instant.

The Changge soldiers on the city watched their archers exert their power for a long time, although they couldn't use their strength, they were also excited to watch.

Suddenly, he heard another "boom" sound from the Rong people's team, and then the "boom, boom, boom" sound, and he understood that the Rong archers had started shooting again, and this time they chose to shoot freely.

Although they don't know much about the Rong people, they also know that there are also so-called Orions among the Rong people, although there are not many of them, they are skilled in bows and horses, and they are often the most headache for the Qin people in the Rong and Qin wars.

Lihua immediately discovered this, and the screams of archers began to sound on the castle tower.

Once there are casualties, it will inevitably cause the suppression of the stick and axe soldiers under the pass to weaken, and then gradually a cloud ladder arrived in front of the pass, followed by the second and third planes on the head of the city.

Fortunately, the open space in front of the Wooden Hedgehog Pass is only about ten zhang wide, which makes the Wooden Hedgehog Pass unable to accommodate too many defenders on the city, but also makes the Rong people outside the pass unable to show too many troops.

Around several ladders, the offensive and defensive battle of Muqi Pass gradually entered a white heat.