Recruitment notices were posted all over the city, and there was an endless stream of applicants, not to resist the invasion of the enemy, but also to respond to the Xuanwei Army for the monthly salary.

Historically, there has never been a talk of salary for conscription for labor, and it has been directly assessed from house to house, and if you don't go, you will be punished or imprisoned.

In another day, the full recruitment of 2,500 people was recruited again, but the quality of this recruitment was slightly lower than that of the first batch.

After the recruitment was over, each team of these young and strong people still took the veterans of the Xuanwei Army as their officers and immediately put them into training.

Liangshan City was not big enough to accommodate five or six thousand people to train at the same time, so half of it was in the city, and half of it was transferred outside the city, and it was urgently practiced for ten days.

In these ten days, the Dananguan Youyi Army sent a messenger to invite the Xuanwei Army to Yulin to discuss the defense of Yulin, and by the way, give them some grain and grass support. Yang Congyi didn't go to Yulin, nor did he get close to Da Nanguan, but only brought a sentence to You Yijun: The Xuanwei Army will defend Liangshan, and the You Yijun should also defend it

Good Yulin.

He no longer had the luxury of getting help from the Guerrilla, but he also didn't want the Guerrilla to assist the enemy. If Li Yue's army on the Fusui front retreated to Yulin, did not encounter any resistance, and obtained Yulin City for nothing, they would have a chance to breathe, go south to besiege Liangshan, recapture the pass, and open up the grain road, they would be able to steadily occupy Da Nanguan and Yulin, and the Xuanwei army would have no reinforcements, and it would be defeated in the end.

However, if the Youyi army held Yulin City with 10,000 people, Li Yue's army would not be able to attack it easily, and there would be no way to take Liangshan City in a short time, even if they opened up the grain route, it would not make much sense to spend a long time under Liangshan City.

Therefore, whether they can retreat from the enemy still depends on whether the You Yi army can hold on to Yulin City.

The next day, the Xuanwei army took Qingzhuang and sent 2,000 loads of grain and countless bows and arrows to the Dananguan Youyi army.

There was no other purpose in doing this, just to provide some supplies for the Youyi army, which would give them the confidence to hold on to Yulin for half a month.

The enemy troops on the front line of Fusui will not retreat as soon as possible after cutting off the grain and grass, after all, they have been preparing for a long time before they arrived near Yongzhou, so they will not be reconciled, they will hope that Yulin and Shenglong will work together to open up the grain road, but when they learn that Yulin is also lost, if they continue to confront each other, it will not make any sense, and they can only withdraw if they can't take Yongzhou.

From the moment the guerrilla army occupied Yulin, there was only one way left for Li Yue's army on the front line, to retreat.

The distance from Fusui to Yulin is not close, but the retreat is always faster than the advance, and half a month is enough to withdraw to Yulin.

As long as the You Yijun does not withdraw before Li Yue's army arrives in Yulin, You Yijun is a hard bone that Li Yue's army is difficult to swallow, bite it, and there is no meat in the teeth, at that time, for Li Yue's army, the best choice is to ignore Yulin City, go straight to Da Nanguan and Liangshan, and eat Liangshan to have the capital to return to Yulin, but will Liangshan be so delicious?

Yang Congyi is not worried about Liangshan, he is only worried about Yulin, if the You Yijun sticks to Yulin, great things can be accomplished, and if Yulin is abandoned, it will be a failure.

After taking Liangshan, the battle report of the Xuanwei army has been urgently sent to Yongzhou, Yang Congyi naturally said the problem of the You Yi army in the war report, and hoped that He Jian Jun could mobilize the You Yi army to take Yulin, but the road is really far away, and the news cannot be delivered in half a month, but I hope it will be in time.

After the grain and ordnance were sent to Da Nan Pass, the You Yi army never sent anyone to communicate anything, although Liangshan and Yulin belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, but they broke off contact, and neither side wanted to take the initiative to contact anyone, but they wanted to guard their respective positions.

The pass in the west of the city encountered several crazy attacks, but they were all blocked by the Xuanwei army, and the enemy suffered heavy losses.

Ten days, after two batches of young training, the initial results, not to mention the rest, within fifty steps, five arrows can have two arrows hit the target, the bow shooting skills are basically mastered, and it should be enough to assist in defending the city.

Subsequently, all the young people in Liangshan were mobilized back to the city and began to cooperate with the Xuanwei army to practice defending the city.

Dananguan and Yulin are in the hands of You Yijun, the two sides do not communicate, and Yang Congyi does not get news from the outside world, but because of the danger from Liangshan to Tongmian Mountain, the road is difficult to travel, and the news can only be exchanged once in four or five days, which is relatively closed.

The last time Yang Congyi received news from Tongmian was the day before yesterday, and spies came to report that the enemy army in Fusui had begun to retreat gradually, and according to their retreat speed, it should have passed Zuozhou at this time, and it would be possible to reach Yulin in five or six days.

Liangshan and Yulin are separated by the Great South Pass, and it is difficult for the two armies to exchange information, and the You Yi Army is the elite forbidden army of the Dianqian Division, even if they can find out the enemy situation more easily and quickly, they will not necessarily tell the Xuanwei Army.

Therefore, Yang Congyi demanded that Tongmian should report the enemy situation once every two days, and if there is a special and urgent enemy situation, report it once a day, or even report it at any time.

The Xuanwei army and Liangshan Qingzhuang began to defend the city together, and a large number of ordnance materials were moved from the armory to the vicinity of the city gate.

As soon as the news of Tongmian was delivered, the enemy army was returning quickly, crossing Zuozhou and approaching Ningming. Almost at the same time, the attack of the enemy army outside the pass in the west of the city also became more and more ferocious, and many times desperately approached the pass wall, hitting the gate, if it were not for Yuan Hua and Liu Shi to completely seal the gate with soil and rocks early in the morning, the foot-thick gate could not help the enemy army to ram wildly.

As the retreating enemy army quickly approached Ningming, Yang Congyi and Yao Chang and others discussed, and decided to let Yuan Hua and Liu Shi withdraw to Liangshan in advance, and jointly organize the defense of Liangshan, in case the news was not smooth, the enemy army suddenly accelerated its march and appeared outside Liangshan City after crossing the Great South Pass, if that was the case, the Xuanwei army guarding the pass would be stopped outside the city, and Yuan Hua and Liu Shi would be in danger of annihilation. It doesn't make much sense to continue to defend the pass, and more importantly, once the enemy retreats to the vicinity of Liangshan, the pass will inevitably return to their hands, so the most advantageous way now is to take the initiative to abandon the pass and retreat to Liangshan.

After the herald sent the general order to the pass, although Yuan Hua and Liu Shi were reluctant, the attack of the enemy army outside the pass was more and more fierce every time, there was no siege equipment before, and the last time they actually used a cloud ladder, if it were not for the lack of follow-up of the enemy, the damage of the Xuanwei army would be incalculable, and now the overseer army ordered to abandon the pass, they did not hesitate too much.

That night, he quietly withdrew at night, leaving behind a brightly lit and empty pass in front of the enemy.

That night, the west gate was opened, the lights were shining, Liangshan City was very lively, and the soldiers who had not seen each other for a long time greeted each other and greeted each other.

In addition to the more than 200 people who were still blocking the enemy in the southeast and southeast of Liangshan, the rest of the soldiers gathered in Liangshan, and the morale of the whole army was greatly boosted, and the confidence in holding Liangshan was greatly increased.

In the palace, Yang Congyi and Yuan Hua, Liu Shi, Yao Chang, Su Zhong, and Zhang Dai gathered together, and Yuan and Liu, who guarded the pass, became the protagonists.

After Su Zhong heard about the two of them in the Chengxi Pass during this time, he slapped his legs with both palms, and regretted: "I knew that I wouldn't fight to go to Da Nanguan, I went once, but I didn't get anything." How good it is to go to the west pass of the city, there are enemies to kill, and there are food and military funds to rob, what a regret! ”

Zhang Dai said: "Second Su Lao, you also went to Da Nanguan and killed five hundred enemy troops, I have been staying in Liangshan City, did I say anything?" ”

Yuan Hua said with a bitter face: "Don't envy us, you don't know how hard it is to guard the pass, before the retreat, robbed and killed the grain transport team, feared, for fear of running away from an enemy, after the retreat, there were six or seven thousand people outside the pass, and they came to fight from time to time, I don't know when they will attack, we don't dare to relax at all in the pass, and we can't sleep well for half a month." You see, I used to have a round face, but now I'm a long face. After saying that, he reached out and touched his face with regret, but there was a deep sense of satisfaction in his tone.

Liu Shi said with a smile: "Brother Yuan is right, guarding the pass is really not simple, don't look at us killing thousands of enemies and seizing nearly 10,000 quintals of grain, now if I want to choose, I would rather stay in the city and not go anywhere." ”

Su Zhong sneered: "The credit is all in hand, and it is useless to say this." Defend Liangshan, don't rob me if there is a tough battle! ”

Yang Congyi quietly watched these young people of the same age as him perform and boast, after the next battle, if Liangshan is held and Li Yue's army retreats, they should all be rewarded for their merits and awards, and they will be awarded official positions.

"Okay, let's get down to business. The withdrawn Li Yue army has 50,000 elites, and the number of auxiliary troops is not clear, but it will not be less than 50,000, although it is cut off from food and grass, and evacuated in a hurry, but such a huge army, once it comes to Liangshan, it is bound to give us a heavy blow, if we can block their first wave of attacks, Liangshan City has the hope of holding on, if we can't stop it, they will take it in one fell swoop, and our lives will not be guaranteed. But in order to end this border war, we must defend Liangshan, and we must defend it, otherwise we will be busy in vain if we come to Guangnan from Changguo to live desperately for so long. Therefore, from today onwards, everyone must remember one sentence, vow to live and die with Liangshan! "Yang Congyi had previously revealed the news that he was going to defend Liangshan, and at this time, all the battalion commanders were gathered together to officially announce the follow-up battle plan.

Seeing that everyone's faces were calm and there was no intention of opposition, Yang Congyi said again: "Swear to defend Liangshan to the death, this combat goal must be known to everyone in the Xuanwei Army, and all the trained Liangshan young and strong people should also know, it is best to tell the people in Liangshan City that they can also help when necessary, the enemy army is 100,000, if we take turns to attack the city, we can't even eat, and the Xuanwei Army must use the strength of tens of thousands of people in Liangshan to win this battle!" ”

Then began to assign the task of defending the city, the east, west, north and south four gates, by Yuan Hua, Liu Shi, Yao Chang, Zhang Dai each led a battalion of Xuanwei Army and a battalion of Liangshan Qingzhuang to guard, Yang Congyi, Su Zhong led the remaining Xuanwei Army and Qingzhuang to maintain order in the city, and as a mobile force, support the four gates at any time, stick to the weak place of the city defense.