(Third Update.) ）

The Gubeikou Beiguan was originally owned by the Khitan army, and its fortifications were built facing south, and the defenders were the Tang army attacking north through the mountain road. After Huang Fu Lin captured this pass last year, his mission changed from defending the south to defending the north, but the change of mission was easy, but the transformation of the fortifications was very difficult, and the scale of the fortifications was no less than rebuilding a Xiongguan.

For most of the year, the border troops stationed here have been building fortifications non-stop, but they are often harassed by Khitan rangers who are unwilling to sit idly by, and the fortifications are very difficult to build. In order to complete the construction of Beiguan as soon as possible, in the past six months, Li Congjing had ordered Huangfulin to go north three times to fight against the Khitan rangers, and at the same time recruited a large number of people to rush to work day and night, which led to the smooth development of the Beiguan project.

It is also Huang Fulin and Sima Chang'an are not mediocre people, after nearly a year of hard work, the fortifications of Gubeikou Beiguan have been largely completed, and the defense has been greatly improved, the only deficiency is that there is still a shortage of supporting defense equipment, and the number of bed crossbows and wolf tooth rackets is relatively rare.

It was at this time that Yelu Deguang was trapped in Danzhou, Gubeikou Beiguan, and ushered in the onslaught of the Khitan army that the Savior was anxious about!

On the second day after Sima Changan received a letter from Zhao Xiangyao and went to Beiguan to defend the town, the war broke out suddenly. The Khitan army, which had been concealed outside the pass in advance, with 5,000 cavalry each, rushed to the outside of the pass in one day, and under the personal supervision of the two captains, they attacked the Xiongguan Pass in Gubeikou!

The regular defenders on the Gubei Pass were only more than 2,000 people, and in the face of an enemy five times their size, Sima Changan personally climbed to the top of the city, and the soldiers wore armor and held swords, and rejected the enemy who came to attack.

This battle lasted for three days and three nights.

Three days and nights, the Khitan cavalry army is like a mad beast, endlessly rushing to the city, the offensive is like a tide, never stop for a moment, no matter how many corpses they drop under the city wall, they have never slowed down the pace of attack, among them, several times, the Khitan soldiers with their bravery, climbed to the top of the city, and even once stood firm on the city wall, and the Tang border army hand-to-hand combat. In that battle, the head of the city was full of blood, and one after another, they fell from the city wall and fell under the city, leaving their lives here forever.

Three days later, on the eve of dawn, the Khitan army, which had been like wild beasts, was frantically biting this border pass with its fangs and sharp teeth, and suddenly stopped attacking.

The dark night in front of Li Min is as dark as ink, the light is always in the distance, and the waiting always seems extraordinarily long, as if this long night will never end. For the Tang soldiers in Gubeikou and Beiguan, Tianming is not the end of the war, on the contrary, it just means the beginning of another battle.

Under the bright lights, the newly repaired city wall has become unrecognizable due to the bombardment of huge rocks and arrows by the Khitan army for several days, there are gaps everywhere, broken stones, scattered sand and gravel are densely scattered everywhere, the remains of wolf teeth and bed crossbows have been reduced to ashes in the burning flames, and the traces of black scorch emit a pungent stench, making this place close to hell.

Sima Changan leaned against a relatively intact female wall, panting, his bright light armor, which seemed bright and dazzling in the past, was already broken at this time, covered with different shades, dense knife marks, arrow marks, and it looked hideous and terrifying, and the mottled blood stains were their only decoration.

The horizontal knife wrapped around the right hand with a strip of cloth had been cracked into countless gaps, and the blade had lost its original color, stained purple and black with blood. Sima Changan untied the strip of cloth, replaced it with a long knife, held it tightly in the palm of his hand, and then wrapped it tightly with the strip of cloth, after doing this, he took off his helmet, let the long hair scatter on his head, and let the long hair scatter on his head, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Sima Changan suddenly turned his head and smiled at one of the young generals beside him: "Mouse head, how does it feel, is the big battle in the past few days refreshing?" ”

Compared to Sima Changan's embarrassed appearance, the mouse's head looked much neater, and while he was tidying up his battle robe and armor, he raised his head and grinned, revealing his snow-white teeth, "I killed a total of seven barbarians today, do you think I'm happy?" ”

"Seven?" Sima Changan was shocked by this number, and then laughed, "Mouse head, when will your braggart temper change, you can't say whether your horizontal knife has touched seven barbarians, even if you hurt seven barbarians, but you can take the lives of seven barbarians?" ”

The mouse head glanced at Sima Changan, too lazy to argue with him, he finished sorting out his armor, took off his combat boots, and poured out the sundries inside, these trivial things, but he did them very seriously, "Brother, you can take a good look, I will kill seven more barbarians for you tomorrow!" Don't wait until the battle is over, and don't report my military merits! ”

Sima Changan shook his hand and slapped the mouse's head, and scolded with a smile: "Lao Tzu is the chief general of the first army, will he be jealous of your military achievements? ”

The mouse's head pouted, "Not necessarily!" ”

"You little bunny!" Sima Changan was simply amused by the mouse's head, although he wanted to stand up and kick the mouse in the head a few times, but he also knew that at this time, every bit of physical strength was extremely precious, and that was the basis for him to survive in the next battle, so he couldn't waste anything. He sighed when he saw that the mouse head was still tidying up, and in his memory, the mouse head seemed to be very careful about its dress all the time, but if there was a small wrinkle or irregularity, he would immediately correct it. But right now, Sima Changan couldn't help but remind: "Mouse head, it's useless, no matter how neatly you dress now, it won't be long before it will be messy...... Besides, that doesn't make you kill one more brute. ”

The mouse head did not listen to Sima Changan's advice, and the movements of his hands did not pause in the slightest. When he recovered his most neat attire, he stood up and smiled brightly at Sima Changan, "General, you don't have to persuade me, I haven't worn a complete dress before joining the army in my life, even if I die here now, I will die neatly!" ”

A touch of distress flashed in Sima Changan's eyes, and the serious look of the mouse head made him unable to look at each other, and his voice changed the topic in a slightly hoarse voice, "What about your cousin?" Haven't you always been inseparable from him? ”

The mouse head lowered his head and was silent for a long time before he said: "He died in battle, just before the Khitan barbarians retreated. ”

Sima Changan opened his mouth, speechless. He had the delusion that whatever he said was wrong at this point, because he didn't know how to comfort the mouse's head—how to comfort a young man who had just lost his last loved one. Comfort, these two words are too useless.

The mouse head touched a handful of tears, revealing a heartless smile, "It's okay, he just goes first, and he will wait for me over there, and when he finishes killing these barbarians and avenges him, we can still be inseparable good brothers!" ”

Sima Changan's face sank, he stood up, gritted his teeth and said: "Mouse head, don't say such things, you guys who haven't lived to be twenty years old are still very early to die!" ”

The mouse's head touched Sima Changan's stern and loving eyes, his eyes were warm, he lowered his head and said softly, "Got it." ”

Sima Changan patted the mouse's shoulder vigorously and walked past him, "Go, follow me to inspect the city defense!" ”

After three days of fierce fighting, the approximate casualty statistics were quickly sent to Sima Chang'an, and as he expected, more than 2,000 defenders of the entire Gubeikou had been lost more than half. Although the casualties they inflicted on the Khitan barbarians far exceeded this number, in the face of the absolute superiority of the Khitan army, such a comparison was meaningless. The fact is that in the next offensive, the Don Army is very likely to be defeated.

After all, a battle to the last man is almost non-existent, and after the casualties reach a certain scale, the army will lose its fighting spirit, so that it can only withdraw from the battle, otherwise there is a danger of complete rout and total annihilation. To tell the truth, on the premise that more than half of the soldiers were injured, the Gubeikou soldiers still did not lose their fighting spirit, which is a very rare thing.

But it is obvious that the fighting spirit of the Khitan infantry riders outside the Gubeikou Pass is not weaker than them in the slightest.

Outside the city, in the Khitan army camp, in the makeshift Chinese army tent, two captains were looking at each other, one of the slightly older ones had a scar on the bridge of his nose, which looked extremely hideous, and the younger ones were in their thirties, with a braid falling from the back of their heads.

Both of them are warriors who have been fighting with Yelu Deguang for a long time, and they are Yelu Deguang's confidants, otherwise, Yelu Deguang will not take them to hide outside the Gubeikou Pass this time.

The older captain said worriedly: "Since receiving the order of His Highness to attack Gubeikou a few days ago, there has been no news of His Highness, even if we send out a thousand horsemen to find out His Highness's whereabouts, it is nothing, and now His Highness's life and death are uncertain, and Gubeikou is as solid as a rock, and it can't be attacked for a long time, how can this be good!" ”

The young master snorted coldly, as if he had some disdain for the older master, and he said coldly: "Your Highness is the body of ten thousand gold, and he has the protection of the immortal heaven, this time he must be safe and sound, how can there be a saying that life and death are uncertain?" ”

The elder captain didn't care about the young captain's unkind words, but said in a cold voice: "This time, you and I followed His Highness here, before leaving, the emperor said first, and the army can't attack the Tang border pass head-on!" Your Royal Highness's whereabouts are unknown now, if you are safe, it is okay, if there is really something wrong, you and I not only have the responsibility of poor guards, but also the crime of disobeying the emperor's order, and it will be difficult to escape the blame for death when the time comes! ”

The young captain stood up and glared at each other angrily, his eyes gloomy, "What do you mean?" Do you want to abandon Your Highness and flee north alone? ”

"Shut up!" The elder captain was also angry, he leaned down and looked at the other party, gritted his teeth and said: "Fool, you should know that our top priority now is to find His Highness and ensure His Highness's safety, not to waste time here when we know that Your Highness can no longer be with you and me, and is no longer waiting in Gubeikou Pass!" ”

"Bastard, without His Highness's order, if you dare to evacuate Gubeikou one step, I will cut off your head and feed the wolf!" The young captain drew his dagger and stuck it the small table, staring at the older captain head-on.

"You brainless idiot, try if you have a kind!"

The two of them bowed down and stared at each other face to face, the tips of their noses less than two inches apart, like two hungry wolves competing for food, neither of them would retreat a bit, as if they could pounce on each other at any moment, and bite each other.

"Capture Gubeikou and rescue His Highness, even if you can't, you can make credit for your crimes!"

This was the final consensus reached by the two.

Dawn finally came, and the glow that appeared on the horizon dispelled the darkness, but it failed to dispel the shadow of death, on the contrary, when the Khitan infantry cavalry attacked the city again, the god of death opened its arms instead.

"Fight!" Sima Changan raised the horizontal knife that was entwined with his right hand and ordered loudly.

The silent city in the middle of the night was once again overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle, and the soldiers resting on the city wall stood up with their swords in their hands, and hurried into their respective battle positions.

In the early morning, when everything wakes up and is full of vitality, and here, in the entanglement of blood and fire, the fierce battle begins again.

……

A vigorous and powerful cavalry team galloped through the mountain road, all black helmets and black armor, and each knight had a cloak fluttering in the wind behind him, shining in the scorching sun. Three thousand cavalry gathered into a rushing torrent, majestic mountains and rivers.

Guo Wei's pupils have already reflected the outline of the Beiguan of Gubeikou.

After galloping some distance further, he finally saw the whole picture of Gubeikou in his eyes, but he couldn't help but be frightened. On the city wall, countless figures are fighting to the death, the Khitan soldiers and the Tang army soldiers are mixed together, and they can't distinguish each other, and in terms of quantity, there are even more Khitan barbarians on the city wall!

Everywhere in Xiongguan, there are the bones of comrades.

More than 2,000 soldiers at the border pass were killed and wounded, but no one evacuated the pass.

Guo Wei looked up, and suddenly saw that a general in Mingguang armor, after being stabbed several times, fell off the city wall with several Khitan barbarians in his arms!

"General Sima!" Guo Wei recognized the other party, he couldn't help but be sad and indignant, he pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist, and led the gentlemen to go straight to the gate, "Open the door!" ”

In front of the 10,000 Khitan army, the door that was always closed slowly opened.

Guo Wei took the lead, rushed out of the gate, led the sword forward, and led the gentlemen to rush into the grassland and enter the Khitan army!

Gentlemen, break the enemy in one battle!