Zhu Lihua walked down the gate to the pass to find Lu Chang, he knew that if he couldn't quickly clean up the internal response, then the battle to defend the pass would be even more troublesome. It's like fighting with someone, one person goes into battle lightly, and the other carries a hundred pounds of stones.

Fortunately, Yuxiao Pass is not big, and it didn't take long for Lu Lihua to see Lu Chang leading a team of soldiers to stand on top of the ground house where the soldiers of Yuxiao Pass rested daily.

Seeing Lihua walking towards him, Lu Chang also greeted him and said to Lihua: "General Lili, I have been in the pass for a few days and more than 300 soldiers are being detained in the stone house. ”

Lu Lihua nodded, and said to Lu Chang Shili: "What else does Lord Lu have to order, there are still some brothers here in Lu Li who are repairing after the gate at the moment, and they can go into battle to kill the enemy at any time." ”

Lu Chang looked at Lihua, nodded and said: "Although the brothers of the Baibai General and the Muqi Pass have gone through a three-day battle, and they also know that it will take time to repair, it is a matter of the survival of Yuxiao Pass, and I also ask the Baihui General to be able to transfer the brothers into the pass to assist in defending the city."

Zhu Lihua hurriedly responded: "It should be so." "After that, although the matter of internal response was handled hastily, there was a way to do it, so he turned around and walked outside the gate.

Zhu Lihua knew that most of his soldiers were also reinforcements from Yuxiao Pass in recent days, and Ma Yuan had only transferred reinforcements to Muqi Pass a few days ago, and the original veterans of Muqi Pass had only more than 60 people left after a few days of fighting, so in addition to these veterans, the remaining more than 200 people would not have much internal response. Zhu Lihua made a decision in his heart, and he must not let too many people know about the internal affairs, otherwise his soldiers will be feared by everyone, and it will not be good if the grass and trees are all soldiers.

As soon as Lihua returned to the camp after the pass, he immediately summoned An Xuzhi, Li Ji, Tang Yuan, Wei Yuanqi, Liang Qingshu, Liu He and others to discuss, and told everyone what was being discussed upstairs in the pass.

Unexpectedly, everyone was also surprised.

Wei Yuanqi said: "Since ancient times, although there have been traitors when the Rong people and my Qin people were at war, they were rare, and most of them were criminals and thieves who had to do it as a last resort to survive, but now there are so many insiders It should be really unheard of. ”

Liang Qingshu, Liu He and others all nodded yes, obviously this matter was too bizarre, and everyone was at a loss for a while.

Lu Lihua looked at the crowd and said: "I have a way to discuss with you, now there are more than 60 of our old brothers, I would like to ask you to divide these more than 60 brothers into the remaining five hundred people to serve as the commander and the chief, first, to improve the combat power with the old and new, and second, to deal with emergencies at any time." ”

After speaking, Liang Qingshu looked at everyone, and then Liang Qingshu hesitated a little and said: "Although the method that General Lili said is feasible, if the soldiers of the new army know about it, wouldn't it chill everyone's hearts." ”

Lu Lihua shook his head and said: "This is also an expedient measure, and more than half of the casualties of my soldiers in Muqi Pass are not a bad thing." But even so, you must remember not to divulge the slightest rumor to your brothers. ”

Everyone left in unison in response to the "promise".

It was an hour after Zhu Lihua entered the customs again, and he received a report from the herald soldiers, saying that the Rong people had arrived at the pass, and Master Ma and Lu asked Lu Lihua to quickly lead the troops into the customs.

Zhu Lihua entered the pass again with the three hundred-strong teams that had been reorganized.

The three hundred-man teams were led by Wei Yuanqi, Liu He, and Liang Qingshu respectively, while Li Ji and Tang Yuan stayed by Lihua's side and followed Lihua to Guancheng.

Afraid of being recognized by acquaintances, An Xuzhi was arranged by Yu Lihua to be under Wei Yuanqi's command, and before leaving, Yu Lihua repeatedly told him to be cautious and not to be discovered.

Zhu Lihua and the others boarded the city and came to Ma Yuan and Lu Chang's side, only to see Lu Chang's brows tightly locked, and Ma Yuan was dumbfounded.

Zhu Lihua was a little surprised in his heart, and walked forward and was about to ask a question, but seeing that Lu Chang seemed to already know his doubts, he pointed to the outside of the gate.

Zhu Lihua looked in the direction pointed by Lu Chang, and saw that the black battle clothes of Qin soldiers appeared in the ranks of the black Rong people outside the pass, and the number of these Qin soldiers in black clothes was about six or seven hundred, most of them were holding Changge and Qin bows, and when they saw that someone was pointing at them at the head of the city, many people in the crowd lowered their heads.

Surrender troops, it turned out to be surrenders.

The Qin people are most afraid of being captured, if they are defeated, most of them will find an opportunity to break through, and if they can't break through, most of them will choose to die in battle, but there are so many Qin soldiers in the enemy army, which is obviously beyond the cognition of Zhu Lihua, and what shocked Li Hua even more is that these people not only became prisoners, but also joined the Rong people and became surrendered soldiers.

Being captured and surrendering voluntarily were completely different, and Lu Lihua suddenly felt a little dazed, and the experience of the past few days made his brain drowsy like a dream.

Shaking his head, Zhu Lihua said to Ma Yuan and Lu Chang: "Two adults, are these people soldiers from the South Second Pass?" ”

Lu Chang nodded and said "yes".

Zhu Lihua stared at those soldiers for a long, long time.

Breaking the tranquility was the sound of the horn of the Rong people that Lihua had been accustomed to hearing in the past few days, and after the sound of "woo", the arrows in the sky fell into the Yuxiao Pass like locusts. Subsequently, a large number of infantry rushed up with several ladders under the pressure of arrows.

The war did not last long, because it was already afternoon when the Rong people arrived at Yuxiao Pass.

After about two hours of fighting, the sky gradually darkened, and the Rong people ordered to retreat and camp five hundred steps in front of Yuxiao Pass.

The camp tents of the Rong people were densely packed in front of Yuxiao Pass. Because the terrain is undulating, it is difficult to see how many there are.

Behind the dense tents, the setting sun glowed red like blood, slowly falling behind the mountains.

Yuxiao Pass was quiet, but the shadow of this tranquility was full of blood, and the Rong people left nearly a thousand corpses in front of the pass, and Yuxiao Pass also killed more than 300 soldiers.

In just two hours, the war showed a completely different appearance from the first four levels, and the gates were full of arrows and feathers of the Rong people.

Before the loss of the four passes, there were more than 1,500 soldiers in Yuxiao Pass, but later nearly 200 people were withdrawn from Jinniu Pass, and 300 people were brought by Lihua, and the military strength of the defenders of Yuxiao Pass was improved.

However, there were more than 300 soldiers in the battle today, and more than 300 people were locked up in the basement by Lu Chang, but there were only 13,400 soldiers left, including some seriously wounded soldiers.

After the end of today's war, the soldiers made a fire to make food and rested, and Zhu Lihua was also called by Ma Yuan and Lu Chang to discuss the military. After everyone discussed, they came to the conclusion that they could only fight to the death, because there was no way out after Yuxiao Pass, so they could only hold on to Longde City to send reinforcements or the Rong people retreated by themselves.

There are few soldiers in Rong, and most of the previous battles will not damage the soldiers in vain on these dangerous passes. However, in the past few days of fighting, it is estimated that nearly 35,000 Rong people have been killed or wounded in Yuxiao Pass alone. Three to five thousand casualties was an unimaginable number for the Rong Division, and in the past, such losses would only occur during the battle at Xiaoguan.

Therefore, everyone estimates that the possibility of the Rong people attacking Yuxiao Pass in the future will not be too great, or they will be invincible if they insist on attacking for a few more days, because the Rong people can't afford such high casualties, let alone so much food and grass supplies, so the longer they hold on, the more powerful the situation will be for Yuxiao Pass.

And after the counseling, all the people dispersed. But Ma Yuan was obviously in a good mood, and he understood that the reason why this Yuxiao Pass was called Xiongguan was that it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was a place that had never been breached in history.

He suddenly thought that after this battle of the Rong people's invasion of the pass, he would obtain strong results that the children of the nobles on the border had never imagined, and his promotion to the rank and rank was a foregone conclusion.

First sad and then happy, the bright future made him sigh that the ups and downs of life were really exciting, and he couldn't help but whistle when he thought about it. But if you don't blow the whistle, you will feel a little urgent when you blow it. With a shiver, he waved his hand to the guards beside him and walked out of his house, turning and going to the hut.

There is a latrine specially opened by the main general on the upper floor, which is not far from Ma Yuan's residence. Not long after, Ma Yuan entered the toilet and heard the sound of running water.

Ma Yuan, who was focused on releasing water, didn't see that there were several people in black standing behind him.

After Zhu Lihua came down from the Guan Tower, he found that Gao Yunce was already standing under the Guan Lou waiting for him, he was not in a hurry to step forward, but slowly walked down from the Guan Tower.

Most of the Qin soldiers standing on the Guanlou and Guancheng had also heard the story of this wooden deer guarding going to investigate outside the Guanguan in the past few days, so their eyes were full of curiosity and respect when they looked at Zhu Lihua.

Gao Yunce saw that Lihua had come down, so he walked side by side with him, and said softly: "Lord Baijiang's guess is right, Ji Yuntian arranged his soldiers at the city gate today, but the strange thing is that he did not make trouble during the daytime battle, and I and more than 20 brothers pretended to carry weapons and materials, and they did not embarrass us. ”

He thought for a while and said, "He is waiting for the opportunity. ”

Gao Yunce frowned slightly: "Waiting for the opportunity? The time of the big war is the best time, so what do you have to wait for? ”

Zhu Lihua said to Gao Yunce: "Brother Gao is careless, if you are Ji Yuntian, open the city gate during today's battle, what are the chances of those Rong people taking Yuxiao Pass?" ”

Gao Yunce thought for a while and said: "Half the chance, although Ji Yuntian controls the gate, but the gate of Yuxiao Pass has a special terrain, and it will take time for the Rong people to attack from the bottom up. ”

Zhu Lihua nodded and said: "Ji Yuntian and the Rong people have made an appointment, and there are not many soldiers at the gate when the Rong people attack the city today, and obviously they don't plan to cooperate with the outside and break through the gate today." I'm just worried. Speaking of this, Zhu Lihua was obviously a little unsure of his guess and didn't want to say it.

Gao Yunce understood that Zhu Lihua was thinking about countermeasures, so he didn't interrupt him, but just followed him silently.

Seeing that he was about to reach the camp of his soldiers, Zhu Lihua said to Gao Yunce: "Brother Gao, you take your brothers back to the gate, if you find any changes in the gate tonight, you will kill Ji Yuntian to create chaos, but there is no need to clash with other soldiers, if you do not slack off, you must protect yourself." ”

Gao Yunce said "No", just wanted to leave but hesitated for a moment, turned around and caught up with Zhu Lihua and asked, "Why didn't Lord Baijiang tell the Lord and Deputy General about this?" After speaking, he looked at Zhu Lihua,

From Lihua's gaze, Gao Yunce vaguely seemed to see the answer, only to see Lihua frowning and looking ugly.

"Senior brother, be careful." Zhu Lihua grabbed Gao Yunce's hand and said.

"I will not be dishonored", Gao Yunce also held Lihua's arm tightly.

With that, the two parted ways.

Zhu Lihua walked a few steps, and then stopped and stood in place, his eyes were full of Ji Yuntian's appearance, why would that upright and hearty man be Neiying.

Thinking of this, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath after a moment, opened her eyes and walked quickly into the darkness ahead.