Accompanied by the half-crisp sound of iron striking the bricks, the patrol was stunned for a moment, and soon let out a cry to warn the defenders.

However, there were suddenly many black shadows at the head of the city, and they had bright steel knives in their mouths and spiked shoes on their feet.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The defenders were suddenly in a mess, and the defenders in their sleep had just been awakened, and some of them had not yet picked up their weapons when they heard a burst of manic shouts of killing.

As soon as the defenders in some of the towers poked their heads out, they retracted their heads again, and they found that there was a sturdy man in a night suit on the city, holding a blood-dripping steel knife in his left hand and a human head in his right hand.

In the darkness, he seemed to smile at these people, but this smile was more ugly than a ghost, more terrifying than a demon.

The red-eyed demon carried a knife and walked up and down the walls, killing the defenders when he saw them, and he was so cruel that each knife cut them in two.

His sword was also sharpened rapidly, and at first glance it was a treasure sword, and he sharpened iron like clay, and cut off many of the weapons of the defenders.

There were more and more hooks hanging from the battlements, and there were more and more black shadows on the city, and they were all extremely fierce, and the cruelty of killing people was outrageous.

Some of the defenders hurriedly tried to cut the ropes on the hooks, but as soon as they appeared, they would fall to the ground with arrows, and the arrows of the sharpshooters under the city were like eyes, so that people did not dare to raise their heads at all.

"Take the west side of the city, hold the head of the city, and all the defenders, as long as they see it, they will not leave any of them." The red-eyed man in black gave orders while swinging a knife and slashing people.

The other man in black beside him asked him without saying anything, "General, don't we open the city gate and wait for the follow-up army to arrive?" ”

The red-eyed man smiled, "The large army is still on standby, as long as our two thousand elite soldiers climb the city and hold on to prevent the enemy from taking the city back from us, in a moment or three, many reinforcements will arrive to help us kill the enemy." ”

"The general is laughing, right? The Duke of Hubei is still in Xi'an, and Wang Jincai has not been able to reach Tongguan, where do we get reinforcements? ”

Li Jin stood at the head of the city, glanced down at the city that had affected the fate of the life and death of the Dashun army many times, and sighed: "If the Qin soldiers are not destroyed, Chongzhen will never die, and where do you think so many elite Qin soldiers under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting came from?" ”

"Tongguan?" The man in black beside him also looked at the city in surprise.

"Yes, of course, it is Tongguan, half of the military households in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty are stationed in Tongguan, only need to repel the attack of the defenders a few times, and then we all shouted, 'The Ming army has broken through the west city of Tongguan,' the Tongguan military households who have long been unable to resist and want to take this city will definitely move, which is why I don't need to bring all the horses to attack the city at all, and we have a lot of people and horses, it is inevitable that the defenders will find out, how can we capture the west city so easily and quietly?"

"General Chuang is worthy of being the son of King Chuang, decisive and wise, and the last general admires him!"

The red-eyed man in black was Li Jin, and his Chuang Wang Sword had already killed a lot of enemies, but he still underestimated the ability of the reinforcements he expected from him. The uprisings in the northwest are surging, but the Tongguan military households have not seen any movement, not that they do not want to destroy the Qing army defending the city and recapture Tongguan, but they are all high-quality professional soldiers, their ancestors have been soldiers for generations, and have been stationed in Tongguan for three hundred years.

As soldiers, they did not move because they were not sure of victory.

There were only a few hundred defenders in the west of the city, but in the time of a stick of incense, the defenders were almost wiped out by Li Jin leading two thousand elite veterans of the Dashun army, and the two hundred reinforcements who came in the first wave of the Qing army did not even touch the city wall, and they were defeated by the deputy general under Li Jin with men and horses like tigers descending the mountain on the streets and alleys, and they only struggled slightly, leaving more than 100 corpses.

When Tong Tou, the guard of Tong Pass, mobilized Qing troops from all over the eastern city and continued to rush to the west of the city, Li Jin's 2,000 elites guarded the head of the city and fought fiercely with Tong Tho. Li Jin even personally led some of his men and horses to rush down to the city and slash and kill them several times, but Tong Tou's offensive was simply powerless.

At this time, the defenders of Tongguan were all Red Banner Han troops under Meng Qiaofang, although their combat effectiveness was not weak, but in the face of a sudden blow and condescendingly fought with them Li Jin's loyal battalion elite did not have any advantage.

"Turn the muzzle of the cannon, fire the cannon into the city, let them come, the more the better, blow them all up!"

Li Jin, who had just returned to the city, ordered his command to turn the gun port down, and a few shells fell, and the Qing army was suddenly in chaos.

Tong Tou was waiting for the purge to start charging again, but he found that at some point, there was already a tide of people in the city around him, holding all kinds of weapons and tools.

These people didn't speak, and they didn't care about the artillery fire at the head of the city, they rushed up and beat them, and Tong Tou's team was completely stunned, but they didn't know how they offended the people in the city.

There was no need for Li Jin to shout, the military households in Tongguan City had already calculated that it must be the regular army of the Ming army that broke through the city, and it was an extremely elite team, otherwise it would be impossible to capture the entire western city wall in less than half an hour after hearing the shouting and killing, so that the two sides could attack and defend the situation.

Most of the middle-aged and older men in the military households are Ming veterans who have taken off their robes, and they are very familiar with the battlefield.

"Turn around and stop the rioters!" Sweating profusely, Tong Tou shouted loudly in the face of the enemies that appeared on various street corners in the city.

Li Jin in the city saw all this, and smiled faintly, all the streets in the city were already crowded with people at this time, and the people in Tongguan, more than ninety percent of them were military households of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally they were all enemies of Li Jin and the Dashun army.

"The emperor has given us a meaningful offensive target!" Li Jin said lightly, and several lieutenants beside him listened to him silently.

"Maybe his intention is to let our Dashun army and the military households in Tongguan reconcile for the great cause of restoring vision, right?"

"General, why do you think the emperor thinks so?"

Li Jin smiled, "Hehe, the emperor is so good at military strategy, how can he not know the importance of Tongguan and the Tongguan military households in our battle to recover Shaanxi?"

Sun Chuanting's second and third battles with our Dashun army in the Tongguan battle, the reason why he was able to quickly organize a team from scratch and fight us again and again was because of the Ming military households who had lived in this Tongguan city for more than 200 years.