"Here we go again, everyone get ready, wait until this group of people takes the ladder before releasing the arrows." The sword gate guard's mouth came again, naturally referring to the rebels in Shuzhong.

On the fifth day after the last battle, the rebels came to attack again, and this time, like the last time, it was already a thatched shield covering the troops and slowly marching towards the Sword Gate.

Seeing such a scene, the guards of Jianmen Pass have also learned to be smart, if you don't attack the city and start to climb the city, I won't release arrows, anyway, it's useless to release arrows in advance, you can save a little is a little.

In this way, the battlefield became extremely strange, the besieging side did not charge, the troops lined up in a phalanx and carried the haystacks forward, and the defending side did not release arrows, waiting for the other side to attack the city.

Originally, the situation on the battlefield was weird enough, and then something even weirder happened. When the rebels were about to reach the Jianmen Pass, they actually stopped in a place where the rolling wood and stones could not be directly hit, and then began to throw bags of unknown contents at the base of the city wall.

"What's it this time?" The defenders of Jianmen Pass are already going crazy, they have never seen such a battle, the army is standing under the city with haystacks and still bags at the base of the city wall? Which one is this singing?

While the defenders of the city were still unclear about the situation, the bags of things under the city piled up more and more, and gradually began to form a small slope along the city walls. When the slope had become too tall for the bag to throw any further, the rebels began to make a new move.

I saw that some people in the rebel ranks began to charge the top of the hill against the wall, at first one or two, and then more people rushed to the slope.

At this time, the generals of the official army finally understood what the rebels were going to do, and the rebels planned to use these bags to build a mound as high as the city wall and then directly use the mound to launch a general attack. These bags are full of dirt.

The officers and generals who reacted to the bad situation immediately issued an order: "The whole army should attack the rebels who rushed up the mound, and they must not let the rebels build this big slope well." ”

Having received the order, the officers and soldiers began to launch a fierce attack on the rebel soldiers who rushed uphill with their backs, and at this time they could not save money, and all the arrows were fired in unison, and the arrows were fired at the enemy like flying locusts.

However, after the official army attacked for a while, they found that the effect was not very good, because the soil slope established by the rebels was in a corner on the left side of Jianmen Pass, and because Jianmen Pass was built on the valley between the two mountains, there was only one side and its thick city wall connecting the two cliffs. Therefore, when the enemy army gathers in one corner of the city wall, most of the defenders of the city have the problem of attacking this corner from too narrow angles. Most of the arrows could not be fired at all at the rebels who were climbing the slopes.

In addition, the rebels deliberately used the cliff-facing side of the slope to climb, so arrows other than directly above could not attack the rebels who were climbing.

As a result, the officers and soldiers exhausted their arrows, but the mound continued to grow slowly higher and farther away.

Four hours later, the mound against the wall reached the height of the battlements of the wall, and at this moment the condescension of the Sword Gate Pass ceased to exist.

"Brothers, rush." With Zhang Yu's order, the rebels began to launch a general attack.

The rebels began to rush to the tower of Jianmen Pass through the mound, although the defenders on the upper floor had already taken precautions, whether they were facing the huge crowd of rebels, they were still overwhelmed, and they were gradually suppressed by the rebels.

"Everyone hold on for a moment, and the reinforcements will arrive immediately." The guard, who had cut down the two rebel soldiers around him, shouted, hoping to instill hope of resistance among the soldiers defending the city.

Zhang Yu, who also cut down one of the officers and soldiers around him, also shouted: "Don't listen to the enemy's gossip to confuse the people, they can't have reinforcements." ”

Although Zhang Yu didn't know whether the words of the Sword Gate guards were true or false, but in order to boost morale, he could only say this, and from the bottom of his heart, he didn't believe that the official army would have reinforcements arriving at this time, if there were reinforcements, the official army would have rushed out of the city for a decisive battle, instead of shrinking into the city and watching the dirt slopes pile up.

With Zhang Yu's encouragement, the soldiers of the rebel army also began to have the same idea as him, that is, it is impossible for the official army to have any more troops to reinforce them, as long as the city is taken, the Jianmen Pass will be lost.

So the morale of the rebels is getting higher and higher, on the other hand, the officers and soldiers defending the city, although the general said so, but they have been guarding the sword gate alone for so many days, and there are still no reinforcements. Therefore, at this time, the credibility of the general's words was shaken, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was constantly weakened by the gradual increase and strengthening of the rebels.

At this moment, the defeat of the official army has been decided, and the Jianmen Pass is about to be lost.

At this critical moment, the gate of the Sword Gate Gate suddenly opened, and a group of cavalry rushed out of the city gate, and rushed towards the rebels who were still under the city in the middle of the city.

The rebels, who were still immersed in the victory of Jianmen Pass, did not expect that there would be cavalry garrisoned in the pass, and under surprise, the rebels under the entire city were rushed by this sudden cavalry team.

At the same time, the number of officers and soldiers on the walls of Jianmen Pass began to increase suddenly, and a large number of officers and troops came up from the inner city.

This turned the tide of the situation entirely.

This sudden reinforcement was Li Jiguang's troops, and our General Li hurried to finally rush to Jianmen Pass at the most critical moment.

The general guarding the pass just now was not a soldier fooling him, at that time, it was true that Li Jiguang's troops had just entered the pass from Guanbei, but because the troops needed to enter the combat state from the state of hurry, they delayed it for a while and did not enter the battlefield at the first time.

Due to the addition of Li Jiguang's troops, the battlefield situation soon changed.

The rebels under the pass were rushed back and forth by the cavalry, and they were miserable. Although it is only a narrow valley outside the Sword Gate, it is not suitable for a large-scale cavalry charge. However, small cavalry units can still play a role, and because of the narrow roads, the rebel soldiers have nowhere to hide, and can only be trampled repeatedly by the official cavalry.

The rebels at the end of the border were also having a hard time, and with the addition of reinforcements from the officers and soldiers, the numerical superiority of the rebels began to disappear.

Once there is no numerical advantage, the difference in combat effectiveness between the rebels and the official army begins to be reflected, and the official army can fight two or more rebels at a time, but at this time, the rebels who had previously fought bravely have been killed by the officials.

"General Zhang, let's withdraw quickly, we can't fight anymore." Seeing that the balance of victory had begun to tilt in favor of the official army, Zhang Yu's personal soldiers began to persuade Zhang Yu to retreat.

Zhang Yu also knew that the current situation was very bad, the rebel army under the city had been blocked by the cavalry of the official army, and there were no new troops to replenish the city through the mound, and the troops in the city began to be gradually eaten away by the official army. To make matters worse, more officers and soldiers began to come out of the gate of Jianmen Pass and go around the front of the pass to outflank the rebels through the mounds built by the rebels.

But Zhang Yu was unwilling, very unwilling, the mound offensive actually worked, if there was no official reinforcements, Jianmen Pass had already been taken by him.

But now there is no time for him to think about it anymore, either retreat as soon as possible, or die in the city, Zhang Yu only has these two options at this moment. Of course, Zhang Yu can also choose to surrender, but although he Zhang Yu is a peasant, he also has his pride, surrender is impossible, but he is unwilling to die here like this, so he chose to retreat.

Under the protection of more than a dozen soldiers, Zhang Yu quickly withdrew from the mound when the officers and troops who were ready to outflank him were not in place, and then joined the equally embarrassed Wang Cormorant under the city, and evacuated to the south with the few remaining troops that could still be commanded.

Due to the evacuation of the commander-in-chief, the remaining rebels lost the will to fight and chose to surrender one after another. In this way, the offensive and defensive battle of the Sword Gate finally came to an end.

"The general Li Jiguang, I don't know the general's surname?"

"Last General Wu Wen, thank you General Li for his timely arrival, otherwise, the Sword Gate would have fallen into the hands of the rebels."

"What General Wu said, if it weren't for your desperate resistance, I wouldn't have been able to arrive in time, so the biggest credit for the victory in this battle is still on you."

"General Li praised it falsely, although the battle is over now, what should I do with these prisoners?"

Although the rebels suffered many casualties in the battle, some of them survived but were not able to retreat with Zhang and Wang.

In desperation, this part of the population had no choice but to surrender.

Although this part of the people has surrendered, now the officers and soldiers are faced with whether to accept their surrender, because once they accept their surrender, it means that before the rebellion is completely put down, not only must they not only support this wave of people, but also send people to watch this wave of people. That's a lot of money.

From Wu Wen's point of view, he didn't want to accept the surrender of these people at all, and killed them directly. But Li Jiguang didn't dare to do this, before he led the team out alone, Zhao Weiji also specially instructed him that once someone surrendered, no matter how much, he would accept it.

"Send someone to gather them first and then take care of them, and wait until King Wu Yue comes."

"But does General Lee have the need to take prisoners? There is not much food and grass in the pass. ”

"You don't have to worry about the problem of grain and grass, when I led the troops here, I also brought a lot of grain and grass, plus King Wu Yue will arrive in twenty days at most, so there will be no problem with grain and grass. And the surrender of prisoners is also the meaning of King Wu Yue. ”

As soon as he heard that it was Zhao Weiji's intention to surrender the prisoners, Wu Wen no longer objected, after all, although he had not led his troops to fight for many years, Zhao Weiji's deeds of defeating Yelu Hugo were still praised in the army. There are still many supporters of Zhao Weiji in the army, and Wu Wen is one of them.

After receiving the rebel prisoners, the inside of Jianmen Pass began to be repaired, waiting for the arrival of Zhao Weiji's army.

At the same time, King Zhang, who had fled back to his garrison in embarrassment, was not reconciled to this defeat, and decided to consult the old man who had given them a siege of the city, hoping to get another good plan to wash away their shame.