After Liu Juntao sent Yu Qian away, he led the army to rest in Zhangyimen for four days, and asked for a large amount of money and food from the military department.

During this period, Liu Juntao also presided over a grand memorial event, and buried more than 6,000 soldiers such as Liu Youcai, the general manager of Qian, in the suburbs of Beijing.

Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, also sent people to mourn when he heard the news, and even Shi Heng also sent people to pay respects.

In addition, Liu Juntao considered that a large number of siege equipment was needed to attack Juyong Pass, so he sent people to negotiate with the military department and mobilized ten artillery pieces and twenty elite gunners for the army.

Of course, these ten artillery pieces are still relatively old, and there is still a certain gap between them and the Franc machine guns and red-coated cannons that Liu Juntao expected, but they are enough to attack Guancheng.

According to Liu Juntao's estimates, the number of troops who will remain in Juyong Pass will only be a few thousand at best, not too many.

After all, since Yexian and Totokhunhua led the army south, the Wara army has been on the official, and the Ming army has been forced to defend everywhere, so it will not leave too many troops in the rear road first.

What's more, the Tartars are not good at defending the city, even if they have more troops, it doesn't matter the overall situation!

After ten artillery pieces and twenty elite gunners were in place, Liu Juntao temporarily set up an artillery team under his direct command.

At the same time, Liu Juntao considered that the commander Gao Ran was seriously injured, so he found several large mansions in the city, settled Gao Ran and hundreds of wounded soldiers in the city, and waited until the army was victorious before returning to the team.

After everything was dealt with, Liu Juntao calmed down and stayed outside Zhang Yimen.

Yu Qian was very anxious when he heard the news, and he was worried that he would withdraw his troops to the north first, and the losses of the Ming Dynasty in this war would be in vain!

So, Yu Qian sent four groups of people to urge Liu Juntao to send troops, but they were all delayed by Liu Juntao for various reasons.

Liu Zi'an and Zhang Yuqing were very puzzled, Liu Juntao originally hated the Tartars very much, but at this time, with such a good opportunity to kill the Tartars, what would Liu Juntao do not move again?

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Our army has suffered a lot of losses, and at the same time, the consumption of firearms is quite large, so we must rest in time!" I have sent someone to urgently inform Hu Dexing, the secretary of the new soldiers, and ordered his recruits to speed up their march north, and rush directly to Juyong Pass to join us. However, we'll have to wait a few days to give those recruits some time to get on the road! ”

Liu Zi'an and Zhang Yuqing were stunned when they heard this, but they didn't expect Liu Juntao to be so confident in laying down Juyongguan.

Zhang Yuqing said: "General! That Juyong Pass is a world-famous Xiongguan, and it is the back road of the Wara army, even if you don't pay attention to it at first, you will arrange heavy troops to defend it, don't take it lightly! ”

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Haha! The Tartar field battle is okay, this city attack and defense battle, hum! Our Han family is the ancestor of the Tatars! ”

Seeing that Liu Juntao was unmoved, the two of them both sighed slightly.

The next day, Liu Juntao finally received the news that 6,000 recruits had entered the Gyeonggi area and were speeding towards Juyong Pass, and it was estimated that they would be able to reach Guancheng in five to seven days!

So Liu Juntao no longer waited, and immediately ordered the whole army to set off, leaving hundreds of baggage soldiers to escort the baggage grain and grass, and the remaining more than 21,000 soldiers were all lightly armed and killed at Juyong Pass.

At the same time, he has also led his troops to Changping Prefecture and is resting in the city of Changping Prefecture.

At this time, there were still 110,000 soldiers and horses in the first department, and there were more than 72,000 soldiers and horses left under the command of Tokhoff Buhua, and the loss of soldiers and horses of the two had reached 100,000!

Such a loss can be said to have been hit hard for the Tartars on the grassland, that is, at this time, the strength of the Varat is strong, and it can still be supported by hard resistance.

If it had been replaced by some small tribal groups, these 100,000 soldiers and horses would have been lost and would have been removed from the grassland a long time ago!

At this time, he also looked at each other first, and their faces were extremely ugly, and this battle was already a dilemma for the Warat army.

If it continues, Beijing City is still impregnable, the Ming army has won all the battles, and the morale is even stronger, it will be even more difficult to take Beijing City, and Wara will also suffer greater casualties!

But if the army is withdrawn here, not only will he be unwilling to take off the army first, but even the generals under the command of the two are also indignant, after all, this time the south of Warat has lost 100,000 soldiers, if Beijing City is not captured, how can the losses of the Warat troops be compensated?

In the future, the prestige of Warat in the steppe will also be damaged, and the Tatar department, which has been constantly rubbing with Warat, will also take the opportunity to make waves!

So, he also spent time in Changping Prefecture to meditate day and night, constantly weighing the pros and cons of war and non-war.

In the end, the two decided to wait a little longer, and after the army had rested, they would go south to Beijing City to test it, maybe they could win the battle, and the battle would take a turn!

Just when he was stuck, Liu Juntao had already led his troops to the periphery of Juyong Pass.

Juyong Pass is one of the "nine stops in the world", the eighth of the "Taihang Eight Mountains", the canyon where the Guancheng is located, belongs to the mountainous area of the military capital of Taihang Yumai, the west mountain is sandwiched, there is a huge stream below, the cliff is steep, and the terrain is extremely dangerous.

At this time, Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass, Reverse Horse Pass, and Guguan are called the four famous passes in the west of Daming Beijing, among which Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, and Reverse Horse Pass are also called the three inner passes.

Juyong Pass is the general name of Nankou Pass, Juyong Pass, Shangguan and Badaling.

The name of Juyong Pass began in the Qin Dynasty, and it is said that when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, prisoners, soldiers and forcibly recruited people lived here, taking the meaning of "migrating to Yongjiao". In the Han Dynasty, it was called Juyong Pass, the name of the Three Kingdoms era was Xiguan, the Northern Qi Dynasty was changed to pay the pass, and the Tang Dynasty had the names of Juyong Pass, Jimen Pass, Jundu Pass and so on.

The situation of Juyongguan is dangerous, connecting Lulong and Jieshi in the east, and Taihang Mountain and Changshan in the west, which is really dangerous in the world. Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for soldiers.

Juyong Pass has two passes in the north and south, the south is called "Nankou", the north is called "Juyong Pass", and it is the northwest gateway of Beijing City.

Juyongguan city wall reaches Cuiping ridge in the east, drives to the top of the Golden Cabinet Mountain in the west, the circumference is more than eight miles, the north and south moon city and the city tower, the enemy tower and other supporting facilities are complete. There are various related building facilities such as government offices, temples, Confucianism, etc., inside and outside the city, and the stone gate built by the pass is like a platform, and it is worn under the trapezoidal garden coupon road. The carvings are complicated.

And the urn city of Nanguan is horseshoe-shaped, the main city gate of Nanguan goes north and south, there is a heavy eaves rest mountain city tower upward, it is more than 30 meters tall from the ground, there is the avenue of the urn city gate leading to the south of the city on the west side of the urn city, there is a fort on the arc-shaped urn city platform, the outer wall has a battlement, and the inner wall is low and has no battlement. When fighting, the enemy can be lured into the urn city, the main city is closed to block its entry into the city, and then put the urn city gate, the enemy is trapped in the urn city, can only be captured, there is the meaning of "catching turtles in the urn", so it is named the urn city, and there is a temple of the king of the Guanwang who blesses the city in the urn city.

The role of the north pass is the same as that of the south pass, the rectangular urn city is equipped with a fort, the urn city gate faces the north side, the north urn city is built in the north to guard the great god Zhenwu Temple, the temple is dedicated to the twelve zodiac gods, water and fire.

At this time, Liu Juntao led the army directly to the south of the city, the battalions of soldiers and horses outside the city of the city lined up on standby, the ten artillery pieces of the army were also lined up in front of the large army array, and 20 gunners were in full swing to load the artillery with the assistance of more than a dozen baggage soldiers.

Due to the command Gao Ran staying in Beijing City to recuperate from his injuries, the soldiers and horses of the right battalion of the Yushan Town Guard were temporarily commanded by Chang Hongdao, the general manager of Qian.

In the face of Liu Juntao's army, the Wara soldiers and horses stationed in Juyong Pass poured into the city, preparing to defend the city and fight.

The soldiers and horses in the city are Yexian's subordinates, and the number of troops is about 3,000 people, and Liu Juntao doesn't care about this.

It's just that, according to the information provided by Liu Zi'an, there were ten artillery pieces in Juyong Pass at this time, and Liu Juntao couldn't help but be a little worried.

Originally, the Ming army deployed five artillery pieces on the walls of Juyong Pass, South and North Bonds.

Both the South and North Coupon Cities are equipped with two general iron cannons and three bamboo iron cannons.

At this time, there were ten artillery pieces in Juyong Pass, which was the same number as the number of artillery carried by Liu Juntao's department, and Liu Juntao could only hope that Warat did not capture the gunners of the Ming army, so that the ten artillery pieces were equivalent to ten iron lumps and could not play any role.