Ningxia Mansion used to be the territory of the Dangxiang people, after the death of the Yuan Dynasty in Western Xia, the Dangxiang people were slaughtered, and the Yuan Dynasty settled a lot of craftsmen here, and after hundreds of years, they have multiplied here.

After the Western Wei State occupied Guanzhong, it took control of Ningxia Prefecture, as well as Lanzhou, Suzhou, Liangzhou and other places, and expanded its power to Jiayuguan.

The land of Guanzhong was divided into two parts, Sili and Gansu, and Gansu was barren and strong, and the control of the Western Wei Dynasty was very limited.

At this time, a group of Wei army scouts galloped from the north, the horses' hooves raised a yellow dust, and the cavalry galloped to the city, and then shouted urgently, "Open the city gate quickly, the Tartars are coming!" ”

In order to discover the movements of the Qing army as soon as possible and determine the direction of the Qing army's attack, the Wei army scouted out of the city and went deep into the grassland to investigate.

The guard of Zhenyuan Pass also sent a team of scouts, he walked to the battlement, and looked down, twelve cavalrymen, only three horsemen came back, and all of them were wounded, and there were many arrows stuck in their backs.

"Quick, let them in!" Gao Chenghu, the guard of Zhenyuan Pass, hurriedly waved his hand.

The drawbridge fell, and the three cavalrymen had already rushed into the gate at the moment when the gate was opened, as if there was something terrifying behind them.

At this time, Gao Chenghu had already gone down to the city, and when he came to the door, he asked, "What's the situation!" ”

"Du Wei, a large number of Tartars, there are forty or fifty thousand people, are coming to kill Guancheng!" The first team is right, turned over and dismounted, and reported urgently.

"Forty or fifty thousand?" Gao Chenghu's face sank, and he secretly said in his heart that he was unlucky, and the Tartars actually came to attack the town of Yuanguan.

Zhenyuan Pass is located in the north of Ningxia, between Helan Mountain and the Yellow River, and is garrisoned by more than 2,000 Wei soldiers.

This time the Qing army attacked Guanzhong, and the feudal government also had a strategy for how to defend it.

The first goal of the feudal government is to guard the first line of the Great Wall and keep the enemy out of the Great Wall, but if the first line of the Great Wall cannot be defended, the focus is to protect the division, and if the Qing army enters the division, it will resolutely prevent the Qing army from entering the Weihe Plain and the troops will come to Xi'an.

The Great Wall controlled by the Western Wei State, from Jiayuguan in the west, to Yulin in the east, is thousands of miles long, there are more than 20 large and small passes along the way, there are countless military forts and beacon towers, each pass garrisons 1,000 people, each fort garrison 300 troops, each garrison team, at least 50,000 or 60,000 people, can barely meet the most basic defense.

In addition, the Wei army also needed to garrison tens of thousands of troops in Tongguan, Wuguan, Pujindu and other places, and Wang Jing and various prefectures also needed garrisons.

Although the Wei army had more than 100,000 people, it was evenly distributed, and the strength of each place was actually very limited.

Gao Chenghu's face was gloomy, forty or fifty thousand Tartars, the strength was twenty times that of him, close to the defenders, he would definitely not be able to hold Zhenyuan Pass, he immediately said urgently: "Quickly release the wolf smoke, report the military situation, and ask Zhao Dudu to send reinforcements." ”

The Wei army's defense line on the Great Wall was first to garrison troops at various passes and beacon towers on the Great Wall, and then at the rear of the Great Wall, select a few key cities to garrison and arrange a general to guard it.

The Tartar cavalry can run more than 100 miles a day, and it is difficult for the Wei army to judge where the Tartars enter from, and they cannot deploy their troops to the place where the Qing army breaks through the pass in advance, so they can only send a part of their troops to defend each pass, and then put the heavy troops in the big city behind, and wait for the pass to warn and judge the direction of the Qing army's attack, and then quickly support it.

Gao Chenghu gave an order, and the soldiers on the pier platform immediately lit the wolf smoke, and the billowing smoke and dust rose to the sky, spreading south one by one.

In Ningxia Prefecture, the people who were working in the fields and the herdsmen who were grazing their cattle suddenly straightened up, looked up to the north, and saw the smoke column rising into the sky, their faces showed surprise, and they hurriedly packed up their things and rushed home.

After a while, the county was divided into fast horses, and the officials and catchers beat gongs and drums, shouting urgently, beckoning the people to enter the city to take refuge.

At this time, outside the Zhenyuan Pass, the yellow dust was rolling, the horses' hooves were roaring, and tens of thousands of Qing troops had galloped over.

With a fierce face, he galloped wildly, he saw a thick smoke rising from the pass in the distance, his face showed arrogance, and he sneered: "Little pass, can you stop me?" ”

Seeing the Wei army lighting the beacon smoke, Ao Bai was still full of confidence, in his opinion, the role of the Great Wall was only to prevent a small group of cavalry from going south to prevent the encroachment of the Central Plains, but once it encountered a large group of nomadic Koubian, the Great Wall was probably unstoppable.

Not to mention far away, let's just say that Taizong of the Qing Dynasty entered the Kou Pass six times, and the Ming army failed to defend it once, and the Qing army can always find the weak point, and then rely on the superior forces to enter.

At this time, the Qing cavalry of the big drum galloped to four miles away in front of the pass, and as soon as they pulled the reins of the horse, tens of thousands of Qing troops slowly stopped.

With an arrogant face, Ao Bai glanced at Xiaguan City, and shouted an order: "The army prepares equipment and quickly breaks through this pass." If they cannot be attacked, they will be dealt with by military law. ”

"Wow! Obedience! Behind him, a group of yellow-armored and blue-armored Eight Banner generals clasped their fists one after another.

Ao Bai looked at Guan Pass and snorted coldly, "I heard the cowardice of the two white flags earlier, saying that the Western Wei army is powerful, and the general doesn't believe in this evil, but today I want to let them see and understand, the general is powerful!" ”

On the Zhenyuan Pass, the captain Gao Chenghu, looking out of the pass, saw the Qing army congested in front of the pass, and couldn't see the end at a glance, and his heart couldn't help but feel a pang.

"Quick, immediately arm!" Gao Chenghu hurriedly ordered, his face was a little panicked, he only had hope now, Zhao Dudu's soldiers and horses would hurry up to support.

For a time, more than 2,000 soldiers on the city began to get busy, carrying stones and logs up the city walls, setting up cauldrons on the city, mixing arsenic, dung and other objects to boil into gold juice.

This is the ancient method of defending the city, the juice boiled out is extremely poisonous, the arrows, the knife is smeared on a little, and the blood is killed immediately, it is a very poisonous method of defending the city invented by the ancestors.

Outside the pass, the Qing army in sight gave the defenders a huge pressure, and the soldiers carried all kinds of equipment to the city, fire pots, bundles of arrows, and gunpowder, all of which were the guarantee of the Wei army's defense of the pass.

The Wei army lit the wolf smoke, if the Qing army could not break through the pass as soon as possible, as soon as the Wei army reinforcements arrived, the pass would not be easy to break.

Although the Qing army could use the advantage of cavalry speed to break through the pass after the Wei army's reinforcements arrived, Ao Bai felt that it was too troublesome, and it was not as pleasant as directly breaking the pass.

The Qing army outside the city cut down the woods on Helan Mountain, made ladders and other equipment, and after a little preparation, the banner raised its head and blew the horn.

"Woo woo~" A low horn sounded.

At the foot of the mountain, a Qing soldier continued to make equipment, and the finished equipment had been carried to the front of the battle by another soldier.

Seeing this, Gao Chenghu hurriedly shouted, "The Tartars are about to attack the city, cheer up Lao Tzu and keep the Tartars out of the pass." ”

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