The candle flame is dim.

Li Changjie sat in the tent, his eyes closed. The figure reflected in the tent flickered with the beating candlelight.

After the partial division in Hengzhou occupied Yongping County, it had already organized its army to the north. But the information about them, due to the time it takes to pass on, is all old news from a few days ago. Today has come to the day of the scheduled plan, but Kunlun is closed, and there is no sign of them arriving at their destination.

The generals who knew about this plan were talking in private, and their self-confidence had been shattered by the Song people in these days, and they were all worried about whether there was an accident.

And Li Changjie is still as stable as Mount Tai, and his calm attitude calms the floating military heart, also because the situation on his side is better.

The road was blocked with a heavy layer of antlers, and the defenders in the fortress were only stopped in front of the fence even if they wanted to fight back, which allowed the soldiers who were afraid of the Song army's surprise attack to sleep peacefully at night. It's just that it looks like he's more on the defensive side on his side. However, his soldiers moved their antlers up a little more every night, and in a few days, they had overwhelmed the city of Guancheng, which was only two miles away.

At a distance of only two miles, only one charge can rush to the city, but the defenders in the city have never fought, and the seemingly stupid siege method is still quite useful, so that the Song army in the city has nowhere to use it.

But the guards on the city were still tight, and Li Zi hung the flag on the city. If the obstacle he set up was to advance one mile further, he would probably be attacked by the Song army. He was asked to move the antlers at night, only one or two miles, and the Song army would directly come out to attack at night.

But that's what Li Changjie is aiming for. What he wanted was to test the reaction of the Song army and see if Kunlun Guanzhong had divided his troops to go out. The Song army retreated in Quy Nhon the day before yesterday, and Li Changjie's false and real tricks made Li Changjie embarrassed, and now although there is no movement in the city, it may be an illusion created by the Song people. Tonight he will advance another mile, and if there is no movement, the siege will begin tomorrow.

Calculating the gains and losses, there was movement outside the tent at this time.

Hearing the voice, Li Changjie opened his eyes: "How is it over there?" ”

"The Guangyuan army has all evacuated, and people have been sent to keep an eye on Liu Ji and them all the way, and they will not be allowed to mess around." Zong Jian walked in.

Although Hengzhou's partial division was important, Li Changjie did not let him take the lead, and handed it over to his confidant general Li Jue. However, Zong Jian doesn't care so much, with Li Changjie's personality, he will never pin his hope of victory on an external general like him.

"But what's going on here in Kunlun Pass? Hasn't Li Jue arrived yet? ”

"The lack of news doesn't mean he hasn't arrived." Li Changjie stood up, "Just look at how the Song people deal with it tonight, you can know the truth in Kunlun Pass." ”

The strength of the Song people is insufficient, and even if all the troops in Kunlun Pass are transferred, it is estimated that it will not exceed 6,000, which is less than the partial division in Hengzhou. If there were no 800 Song troops as the core main force, with only the little strength of Jinman, they would not be able to compete with Li Jue's 7,000 soldiers and horses - this was not the exhausted pursuers who counterattacked before, nor was it a sneak attack on friendly troops after the rebellion. Especially the 7,000 people who went to Hengzhou did not experience the previous two defeats and would not be afraid of the Guangyuan soldiers.

No matter how the Han Yun envoy is assigned, with the number of people in his hands, either the Guancheng troops are insufficient, or the troops to resist the partial division are insufficient, and there will be no possibility of having both worlds.

"As long as the main force of the Song army is not in the city, it is to use soil to pile up, and we can also pile it on the city in one go!"

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"It's already two miles away, and if you get closer, you'll close the city." Huang Quan whispered behind Han Gang.

Han Gang held the pheasant and looked into the distance, the Jiaozhi people were indeed getting closer and closer day by day, and the busy appearance under their noses was indeed annoying: "Looking at it, Li Changjie will not stop tonight." ”

"Do you want the villain to lead the troops out of the customs tonight?"

"Just keep it in the gate."

If Huang Quan's raid failed, the strength of Guanzhong would be small, and the morale of the only 2,000 Guangyuan troops in Guanzhong would be in trouble.

Even if Li Changjie reacted and came directly to attack Guancheng...... Even if there are only 2,000 soldiers and horses in the pass, it is not so easy to capture Kunlun Pass, it will take a few days to say the least, and he Han Gang only needs to have a few days of buffer.

Every day, a messenger passed the itinerary to Han Gang's hands. Yesterday he got good news.

The 700 Jiaozhi soldiers who raided Pennsylvania before were slowed down for half a day under the interference of the cavalry team led by Han Lian. The team led by Su Ziyuan and Huang Jinman bit it, and it was one step away from being able to jump into the mountains southeast of Yongzhou.

Just outside the mountains and forests, on the plains, a battle began between the two sides. Although these 700 soldiers were the elite carefully selected by Li Changjie, they first crossed the mountains and mountains in the rain, and then were harassed day and night, and the retreat in the mountains and forests was in front of them, making people have no will to fight. Let the golden man defeat them with ease.

However, it was also because it was too close to the mountains and forests, so most of the Jiaozhi soldiers ran in, and after the battle, they were only in their early 200s. The nearly 500 people who ran out of the gang were either unscathed or slightly injured by their flesh and skin. If someone can reorganize them, they will still have a certain amount of combat effectiveness, but in a short period of time, they will not pose much of a threat.

On the same day that this military report reached Han Gang, the news of Li Xin's rendezvous with the two divisions of Huang Jinman, and the news that nearly 10,000 Jiaozhi troops had appeared in the southeast of Pennsylvania also reached him a little later. Judging from the timing, most of the decisive battles between the two sides will be either today or tomorrow.

It's a beautiful right hook, but if you want to hit your side of the waist, you have to be stealthy and unexpected, and it's a pity that Li Changjie didn't do it. Although the strength of the troops is very different, one side is waiting for the battle, the other side is the failure of the sneak attack, and the difference in combat strength, Han Gang will not doubt the victory of the official army. What he has to guard against now is a straight punch from Li Changjie's head-on.

That night, the Jiaozhi soldiers began to approach the city again, pushing forward interceptors such as horses and antlers. The sound they made in the night could be heard clearly at the juncture, but the defenders in the city of Guancheng did not hear it, so they let the people of Jiaozhi move freely, and pushed the defense line to within a mile of the city in one breath.

"There are no soldiers in Guanzhong!"

Just after the two antlers, Li Changjie looked up at the hunting and flying flags at the pass. His squinted eyes were full of pride, all the precautions he had worked so hard to prevent the defenders in the city from killing last night did not come in handy, but he finally tested the details of the Song people.

Without wasting any more time, the drums of war that had been restless for days sounded again, and a Cochin soldier rushed towards the fortress with bags of dirt in his arms. Just by looking at the way they ran, the defenders of the city knew exactly how they were preparing to attack the city.

"Messenger! Let the villain go out and face the battle! Huang Quan shouted urgently.

"There's no need for that." Han Gang shook his head, "It's okay to guard it in the pass!" ”

Han Gang did not agree to let the Guangyuan army go out of the city to face the battle. They are not officers and soldiers, and they have no possibility of gritting their teeth and persevering to the end in the face of adversity. After exiting the customs, if the battle is stalemate and they cannot win for a while, there is a high possibility that they will retreat. It is only at Guancheng that they can stabilize their position and confront the Jiaozhi people.

The silence in the castle made the soldiers more excited, and they ran more vigorously on their two legs.

Seeing that the first batch of Jiaozhi soldiers had approached the city, a drum sounded at the head of the city, and an arrow shot down, shooting down the Jiaozhi soldiers who were preparing to go to the city. The arrows on the city were like rain, shooting the leading Jiaozhi soldiers into a wolf howl, forcing them to retreat and flee back

The crossbows issued to the Guangyuan army were all infected with moisture these days, and although they were temporarily roasted with fire, they were still far less powerful than normal, and the chance of damage was much higher. In just a quarter of an hour of shooting, two percent of the god's arm bows were broken, and even more than twenty crossbow arms were broken.

"That's right!" Li Changjie once again affirmed his judgment, as a war-hardened general, he is still very sensitive to some things on the battlefield. Kunlun closed the crossbow and shot with the wrong sense of rhythm. It was completely different from the Song Army arrow array he had seen before. If it is the Song army, even if it uses a bow and crossbow that is not in good condition, it will only be unable to pursue the enemy who flees away, the interval between the arrows fired will not be so long, and the choice of targets and the timing of the launch will not be so chaotic, "It will only be Guangyuan soldiers!" ”

It was even more certain that there was no Song army in Guancheng, and the Jiaozhi soldiers soon held a giant wooden shield against arrows and attacked again. There were not only soldiers holding dirt bags, but also a few people shouting Guangyuan local dialect in a loud voice, trying to shake the hearts of the soldiers in the city.

"Messenger, what should I do?" Huang Quan went down to suppress the army's heart and came back, and asked Han Gang worriedly.

"As long as you can hold it for two days, it's enough." The mound of earth under the city rose little by little, and Han Gang remained calm.

There was no lime, no oil, no bed crossbows, and nothing but a pile of mossy rocks and lumbers. But relying on the city walls and bows and crossbows, as well as two thousand defenders, to maintain a certain level of morale, it is still more than enough to keep the city for two days.

Arrows continued to shoot from the city, but the city continued to accumulate mounds of earth.

In the evening, Li Changjie looked at the dirt slope that had been piled up to half of the city wall, and turned back to the generals behind him with a smug smile: "It's won!" ”

Only one mile away from Li Changjie in a straight line, just inside the Guancheng, Han Gang clutched the note he had just received in his hand, looked down at a sergeant kneeling in front of him, and had the same smile on his face, "It's won!" ”