As Su You thought, Duan Ruqi, who fled again and again, had already become a frightened bird. +

After returning to the old nest ironclad fort, Duan Ruqi's first order was to clear the wilderness. The residents of the villages and towns around the ironclad fort tossed and turned until dawn the next day, and then they basically got people and things into the city.

The ironclad fort within a radius of seven or eight miles was crowded with more than 70,000 residents and about 20,000 soldiers.

These more than 70,000 people are Duan Ruqi's greatest wealth, and they are also the barrier he can rely on.

It was obviously impossible for Duan Ruqi to squander the remaining soldiers in his hands, so he had no choice but to send the necessary scouts to Funing City and Pubu to investigate.

The Iron Armor Fort is Duan Ruqi's base camp, and although the food in it is not as good as Dong Zhuo's dock fort, there is no problem at all with these grains supporting the nearly 100,000 people in the city for two or three years. And Funing City, where the coalition army is located, is thousands of miles away from Dali and Kunchuan, and it is not a simple matter for them to transport grain.

Therefore, in Duan Ruqi's heart, there is only one procrastination.

In the end, the war is still about attrition, and Duan Ruqi obviously knows the key to this, so he believes that as long as he repels an attack by the coalition forces, they will definitely withdraw because they can't afford it; When the time comes, he will be able to make a comeback and break through each of them.

With this in mind, Duan Ruqi got up early in the morning and inspected his territory as usual, encouraging the morale of the soldiers along the way, and ordering them to actively prepare for war, calling on the soldiers to meet the attacking coalition forces.

On this day, in the anticipation of the soldiers, they quietly left.

Duan Ruqi's only feeling was that the scouts sent to Funing City to explore the path did not come back with any news, and with the precedent of sending scouts before retreating from the south gate of Funing City last night, he inevitably had a bad premonition in his heart.

At times like this, no news is the worst news.

Duan Ruzhong felt that there was a chance that the coalition forces would raid the Iron Armor Forts tonight, the question was, could they bite the Iron Armor Fort?

When night fell, the crescent moon in the sky also quietly fell behind the western mountain.

The defenders of the north gate of the Ironclad Fort could not see their fingers, but they were still vigilantly monitoring any movement coming from the road to the north.

After a light breeze, I don't know which soldier was the first to muttered in surprise, "How did I feel the sound of horses' hooves coming from the north just now?" Do you hear me? ”

"Really? Could it be that your boy has become a frightened bird? The captain of the squad guarding the north gate was behind him at this time, and having said that, he still ordered someone to go down to the city, and put his ears to the ground to listen to the sounds.

Another pawn received the order, and after listening to it for a long time, he replied, "It seems that there are really people rushing over, and there can't be more than 800 people." ”

The captain of the city gate team frowned, in fact, he didn't need the pawn to report, he had already seen the torches raised by the cavalry rushing from the north, and at this time they happened to turn a mountain col,—— their formation was completely exposed to the eyes of the city gate team leader.

What's going on? Could it be that the enemy would be so arrogant as to attack the city with less than a thousand men?

Although he was puzzled in his heart, the captain of the city gate squad still ordered another pawn to quickly report what he saw to the city lord Duan Ruqi as soon as possible.

Duan Ruyu was obviously a little confused about this kind of information, and Duan Ruyu volunteered to go and investigate in person, Duan Ruyu nodded in agreement, only telling him to be careful in everything.

Duan Ruyu received the order, and after coming out, he brought nearly 100 relatives with him, and rode to the north gate of the Iron Armor Fort.

As soon as he went to the city, Duan Ruyu heard the people below shouting, "Please open the city gate, we are really not spies, although we were captured, we swore to die."

Duan Ruyu listened to the voice, and it seemed that he was the captain of a hundred-person team in his army, and immediately frowned and asked the captain of the city gate team, "What is the situation?" ”

Seeing Duan Ruyu rushing over, the captain of the city gate team finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said with a wry smile, "The seven or eight hundred people under the city are indeed brothers we left behind when we retreated from Funing City, but I don't dare to determine their current identity, so I don't dare to let them in easily."

What the captain of the city gate team meant, how could Duan Ruyu not understand?

Now is an extraordinary period, without 100% confirmation of whether these people under the city are friends or foes, he obviously does not dare to put them in the Iron Armor Fort, otherwise they will rob the city gate, wouldn't it be a bad thing?

"You're doing a good job." Duan Ruyu nodded and praised the captain of the city gate, but he was also a sentimental person in the end, he looked at the captain of the city who was already very familiar, and he heard them begging to reveal their identities, and looked at them unarmed, even if his heart softened a little.

After struggling in his mind for a while, Duan Ruyu ordered the captain of the city gate squad, "Okay, let them in, they are unarmed, even if they surrender to the enemy, what can they do?" ”

Since the leaders have opened their mouths, although the captain of the city gate squad is still a little suspicious, he is also worried that he will not get along with these captured colleagues in the future, so he did not persuade Duan Ruyu, but directly ordered the pawns under the city gate to open the city gate.

The gates of the city were opened, and the 800 soldiers who had been captured immediately opened with joy, and lined up to lead their horses into the city in an orderly manner.

At this moment, Duan Ruyu suddenly heard the rumbling of hooves from the north, and he didn't know how many people and horses were rushing towards this ironclad fort.

At that moment, Duan Ruyu even thought that there was something wrong with his ears, was this the coalition army really going to attack the city? How did they manage to get the centaurs to rush two miles away before they found out?

In just an instant, Duan Ruyu felt that the enemy in front of him had already rushed closer, and at this time, he could even feel the fierce wind brought by the iron cavalry rushing in.

Duan Ruyu realized the seriousness of the matter, and immediately ordered loudly, "Close the city gate!" ”

The soldiers under the city who were captured and then released back seemed to hear the sound of thousands of horses galloping behind them, and at the same time, they also heard Duan Ruyu's history.

At this time, staying outside and taking it is to expose your back to the enemy, so isn't there only a dead end?

And in order to survive, these soldiers could no longer care about what order, and even if they shouted, hundreds of people crowded towards the city gate.

Under the irreconcilable contradiction between the soldiers outside the city rushing into the city and the soldiers defending the city shutting the gates according to the order, the guards with weapons in their hands finally raised their swords against the unarmed soldiers.

But in order to pick up the life that had already been picked up once, those unarmed soldiers were not afraid of blood, and squeezed into it brazenly; All of a sudden, the bloodshed widened, but the gates could not be closed.

To the north of the city gate, more than a thousand horsemen flew over with iron hooves, and they arrived in a few miles away.

When Duan Ruyu watched the invading enemies swarming violently, he only felt that his heart was stirred up by the sound of hooves.

"Shut the gates at all costs! Also, spread the news here to Daxiangguo as soon as possible! ”

Duan Ruyu shouted while regretting the decision he had just made, he obviously knew what the enemy was fighting in mind,—— didn't they just want to take advantage of the situation to hide from the city gate when they let those captured brothers into the city?

It's ridiculous that he easily fell for their tricks because of his soft-heartedness.

Duan Ruyu no longer knew how to face the more than 1,000 enemies who were about to rush to the city gate, because he knew that it was impossible for the enemy to send only such a few people.

In fact, when Duan Ruyu raised his head again, he could spot the hordes of enemies a few miles to the north, who were now disdainful of hiding their own hiding, and even used torches to strike a dragon three or four miles long.

The gates were finally shut, but the enemy had already rushed in.

"Burst" "Burst" "Burst"

There was a sound of bows and arrows being cast, and the hundreds of soldiers who were still stranded at the city gate were already down, and their mounts under their crotches were even more frightened.

After watching the enemy attack the first round, Duan Ruyu remembered what he should do at this time, and immediately shouted, "Release the arrow!" ”

But as soon as Duan Ruyu's words fell, he felt that the sound of long arrows breaking through the air was loud, and he subconsciously flashed into the battlements, but the soldiers around him were not as sensitive as him.

Then, Duan Ruyu heard a scream, and most of the soldiers on the city gate suddenly fell down.

Two rounds later, dozens of coalition cavalry had already rushed into the city gate, and these people were divided into two groups.

A group of a dozen or so, all armed with spears, fought to the death against the guards who had been killed from within the city; The other dozen or so people had a deep understanding of the structure of the city gate, and they flew in unison with the scimitars in their hands, nervously and orderly wreaking havoc behind the city gate.

The design of any city gate is to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, and the internal structure is extremely simple. More than a dozen warriors moved together, and in just a few moments, the city gate was destroyed. And more than a dozen colleagues who stood in their way before their deaths were all killed by the defenders of the city at this moment.

Fortunately, at this time, dozens of coalition forces rushed in.

Duan Ruyu personally went down to the city to command at this time, and after a round of bows and arrows, the soldiers who rushed into the city of the coalition army fell more than ten people.

Duan Ruyu even believed that as long as he was given another half cup of tea, he would be able to drive out these soldiers who rushed into the city and close the city gate again.

It's a pity that he doesn't seem to have much time left.

The cavalry of the coalition army had already swarmed into the city at this time, and the arrows in the city gate were like locusts. Whether it was the soldiers who had squeezed into the city before, or the warriors who were the first to rush into the city by the coalition army, they had all been shot into hedgehogs by random arrows at this time.

In the screams, the corpses in the city gate cave were piled up, and it became a hell on earth for a while.

At the same time, the main force of the coalition led by Su You and Princess Zhao Biyun of the Castle had already arrived within a hundred zhang of the north gate of the Iron Armor Fort, and Duan Ruqi also led the mobile troops on the way to help.

The second real confrontation between the coalition and the rebels is on the verge of breaking out.