"It turned out to be a soldier under Jiye, let me ask you, who is the military attache in charge of the team?" Liu Renyu asked.

"Back to the general's words, the villain Xiao Ping, the captain of the team, was ordered by General Li Qian to lead the soldiers of the team to guard the tunnel here."

"Okay, Captain Xiao, let me ask you, where is the Broken Dragon Stone?"

"Back to the general, the Broken Dragon Stone is here," Xiao Ping said, pointing to the top of a passage that Liu Renyu had passed through earlier.

Liu Renyu looked at it and found that there was indeed a small section of stone exposed above the tunnel. He walked back and looked at the stone, and found that it was half a meter thick and at least two meters wide, and its left and right ends were embedded in the stone trough.

"Where's the mechanism?" Liu Renyu took a look at this piece of broken dragon stone, and then asked Xiao Pingdao again.

"Back to the general, the mechanism is in this basement." After Xiao Ping finished speaking, he pointed to a device in the basement that resembled a sluice valve.

"Very good, as soon as the dragon stone is broken, the tunnel will be sealed. Not bad, not bad. Liu Renyu sighed again and again for a while, and then continued: "The tunnel is an important place, and you still need to guard it carefully. ”

"Yes, General, we'll keep it in mind." Xiao Ping and a group of soldiers knelt on one knee and responded.

"Let's go, learn martial arts, let's move on." Liu Renyu saw that the soldiers behind him were about to follow, so he said to Wang Xuewu.

Wang Xuewu walked through the basement with Liu Renyu, and then they walked up a narrow passage and came to a basement, which was the location of the control organ of the second Broken Dragon Stone.

The soldiers guarding this place are also a team under Li Jiye, Liu Renyu gave another exhortation to the soldiers and horses here, and then continued to move forward, walking through a wide passage of 6 meters wide and 4 meters high, and then saw a 4-meter-wide slope 'zigzag' slope, and walked up along this slope to the Jingbianbao barracks.

However, he said that when the officers and soldiers on duty in the barracks saw Liu Renyu, they all stepped forward in surprise and saluted: "The general is back, and the little one has seen the general." ”

"No courtesy." Liu Renyu first waved his hand to signal that everyone didn't need to be polite, and then asked urgently: "How is the war?" ”

These soldiers on duty glanced at each other, and one of the officers said with a relaxed face: "Back to the general's words, although the thieves have besieged the city for three and a half days, the thieves have few soldiers, so they can only attack the city from one side. ”

"Really!?" When Liu Renyu heard this, his heart was stable.

In fact, he saw that there were soldiers on duty in the tunnel earlier, and he didn't tell himself about the war crisis, so he had guessed that there must be no problem with the city guard, but considering that the tunnel was cramped, he didn't ask the soldiers on duty how the battle was doing. He was pleased with the answers given by the soldiers.

"What about our casualties?" Liu Renyufu asked again.

"If you go back to the general, there will be no casualties in our army." The officer replied with a grin.

"That's very good." Liu Renyu nodded with satisfaction.

After a short time, a group of officers and soldiers from Jingbian Fort came out of the tunnel one after another, and Liu Renyu ordered all the officers and soldiers: "You hand over the horses to the logistics department, and now follow me to the city to defend the city." ”

"Yes, General." When the officers and soldiers received the order, they handed over their horses to the logistics department, and then followed Liu Renyu to the city wall.

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On the head of Jingbian Fort, Li Jiye looked at the enemy troops who were helping the old and the young in the city, and they would die when they came, and he was slightly unbearable in his heart and said to Wang Zuo: "The people who came to attack our Jingbian Fort were actually the people from Zuo, who were forced by thieves and suddenly came here to die!" ”

"Master Li, this is all helpless things, as the saying goes, 'be another peace dog, don't be a troubled person', since you were born in such troubled times, you will accept your fate." Wang Zuo looked at the people who were killed by firearms under the city, and said lightly.

"That's right." Li Jiye nodded.

"Report ........." A herald with a small flag behind him rushed to Li Jiye and Wang Zuo in front of him, knelt on one knee, and said loudly with a smile on his face: "Tell President Li Qian, General Wang, the general has brought people back to Jingbian Fort, and he is on his way here." ”

"Oh, really!?" When Li Jiye heard this, he was extremely happy and said to Wang Zuo: "The general is back, the strength of our army has increased greatly, and we can cut off the heads of the northern captives under the city!" Go, hang left, and quickly follow me to the general. ”

"Yes, Master Li." Wang Zuohang agreed, followed Li Jiye, walked down the steps, walked down the city wall, and went straight to meet Liu Renyu.

After a short time, Li Jiye and Wang Zuojiao saw Liu Renyu leading Yang Desheng and others in the direction where they were.

"The general has arrived, and he will quickly meet him with me." Li Jiye said a word to Wang Zuohang, and then walked forward quickly.

When Li Jiye and Wang Zuohang walked to a place 20 steps away from Liu Renyu, the two generals knelt on one knee and saluted: "I have seen the general in my humble position." ”

Liu Renyu shouted loudly from afar: "You two don't have to be formal, please get up quickly." ”

"Thank you, General." Li Jiye and Wang Zuohang stood up according to their words.

"Two, you fought a really good battle, the thieves besieged the city for three days, and they didn't even touch the bricks of the city wall." Liu Renyu approached Li Jiye and Wang Zuohang's side, and praised the two generals.

"The fortifications of the city built by the general's order are stable, our army has sufficient food and salary, has been trained for a long time, and the armor soldiers are sharp, so we can have this result." Li Jiye hurriedly said modestly.

"If you command well, you also have merit. Let's not talk about that, let's go to the city, and I'll go see the situation. Liu Renyu commanded.

"General, please." Li Jiye agreed, led the way in front, and walked towards the city with Liu Renyu and other officers and soldiers who had returned from the northern expedition.

"Dare to ask the general, how is the battle situation when you go to the northern grasslands?" Li Jiye asked Liu Renyu as he walked.

"Naturally, it was a great victory, our army beheaded more than 400 Mongolian soldiers, rescued more than 300 Han compatriots, and more than 100 Mongolians were naturalized, capturing nearly 10,000 cattle, sheep and horses." Liu Renyu replied with a smile.

"Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general, our army has won a great victory!" Li Jiye and Wang Zuo congratulated each other.

"Well, soldiers use their lives, and our military has this advantage." Liu Renyu should say the last sentence.

Liu Renyu and Li Jiye and Wang Zuohang talked about the war on the grassland, and arrived at the city wall after a short time, which coincided with the Shenyi Yuan Department driving the people to attack the city.

The soldiers had no time to salute Liu Renyu, and they were all engrossed in killing the enemy troops on the edge of the second trench with tiger cannons and firearms.

Liu Renyu looked at the scene in front of him, and said to the generals behind him: "The enemy army attacking the city is uncovered, exposed to our army's guns, and it costs in vain. ”

"What the general said is very true, the thieves are just a rabble, and all our army needs to worry about is the northern captives. General, you see that you are back, our army has more than 2,000 available soldiers, why not rely on the fortified city to go out of the city to engage the enemy, so that you can win the head of the northern captives and obtain military merits. ”

Li Jiye has been looking forward to the return of the main force, so he went out of the city to fight in the field, and killed the northern captives, so as to make meritorious contributions, and now Liu Renyu has returned, and he has returned with the heads of many northern captives, so he is naturally very eager to immediately put forward such suggestions.

"Don't be busy, let me observe the enemy's situation." Liu Renyu was noncommittal to Li Jiye's suggestion, he took out the clairvoyant mirror, first looked at the situation on the other side, and then said to his subordinates: "Gentlemen, the enemy building has a meeting. ”

After he said this, he went straight into the enemy tower, and Li Jiye, Yang Desheng and others followed the lord.

In the enemy building, the generals sat down first, and Liu Renyu spoke: "Gentlemen, according to the information obtained by the sentinels, the strength of the enemy army should be about 10,000, of which the strongest combat power is the Mongols, with 4,000 people, and the rest are thieves, about 6,000 people, and the combat power is not to be feared.

Logically speaking, the best tactics for our army is to rely on this fortified city to deal with the enemy, and when the enemy Mongolian troops retreat, our army will attack again to attack the thieves. This method of warfare is quite labor-saving, but just now I raised my eyes and found that the enemy army has picked a lot of saplings we have sown, and these saplings we planted this spring, and it will take at least 10 years to grow into big trees. As a result, this guy is a good thief, and he has cut a lot of fucking off. Therefore, I intend to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible. ”

"Okay, general, fight with the enemy, and our department is willing to be the vanguard." Martial idiot Yang Desheng heard that he was going to take the initiative, so he hurriedly asked for battle.

"Desheng, you have cut enough of the heads of the northern captives on the grassland, this time you will fight the northern captives, let me fight with Zuo Jiao." Li Jiye saw that Yang Desheng wanted to steal business with him, so he hurriedly spoke out to stop him.

"Come on, Mr. Li Qian, the people under your command are all artillerymen, and when you are fighting, can your subordinates still be able to charge with cannons?" Zhang Tieniu smiled and teased Li Jiyedao.

"This ........" Li Jiye only then remembered that his subordinates were all artillerymen, and their mobility was very poor, and the charge was basically equivalent to a fool's dream, and he had nothing to say for a while.

Wang Zuohang was very young because of his qualifications, but he didn't dare to say that he could go out of the city to fight, and the scene in the enemy tower was a little dull for a while.

"Don't be busy, don't be busy, gentlemen, our army has only two thousand troops, if we go straight out of the city to engage the enemy, we may be able to win the battle, but I am afraid that there will be large losses, so I mean, this battle also needs to use a divisive strategy to force away the Mongols, and then we can destroy the thieves." Liu Renyu smiled and suggested.

"The plan of separation, dare to ask the general, how to divide the division?" Li Jiye wondered.