Wang Qiaonian has been guarding Tongguan these days, waiting for news from Zhu Ping'an and Zhangjiakou, and he is also not idle. Fu Zonglong and Li Zicheng's army fell into a bitter battle, Wang Qiaonian sent a few urgent messages to the imperial court in a row, asking for money, food and soldiers, but they were all like a stone sinking into the sea, there was no news, you don't have to think about it, there must be chaos in the court today, around whether to send troops or not, where to pay for food, the courtiers must be hyped up again.

Wang Qiaonian felt a little desperate at the same time, but a bold thought surged in his heart, not long after Zhu Ping'an sent out his troops, he sent a light horse to Mizhi Lijia Station, and dug Li Zicheng's ancestral grave overnight, and all the villagers in the nearby villages who were related to Li Zicheng were also killed.

In Wang Qiaonian's view, these chaotic parties should be exhumed and whipped to wipe out the nine clans.

On August 20, the fortress near Tongguan was continuously lit with beacon smoke to warn, and Wang Qiaonian suddenly became excited, and the rogue really arrived at Tongguan as scheduled.

But the arrival of the Liukou is somewhat unexpected by Wang Qiaonian, today, today's Liukou is no longer the original Wuxia Ameng, especially after Li Zicheng successively broke through Luoyang and other places, the assets of the palace officials were looted, greatly replenishing the military needs of the Liukou, plus a large number of defeated Ming troops joined the Liukou camp without hesitation, the Liukou army is indeed not what it used to be, in terms of ordnance, equipment, clothing, supplies, etc.

But standing on the high tower of Tongguan City, looking from a distance, the rogues in front of him did not seem to meet this characteristic. The scale of 10,000 people seems to give people a feeling of blocking, the clothes are ragged, the weapons in their hands are varied, the siege equipment is nowhere to be seen, and the figures of the old and weak women and children can still be seen in the crowd.

Tongguan Valley is deep and precipitous, the mountain is high and the road is narrow, and there is a narrow sheep intestine path in the middle, and the Liukou who is far away begins to be loud and irritable, and the officers and soldiers on the Guancheng also scolded loudly, and an offensive and defensive battle turned into a battle of words, which made Wang Qiaonian cry and laugh for a while. However, after all, Wang Qiaonian had been in Shaanxi for many years, and after a little thought, he immediately realized that this was a suspicious plan by the rogues, and it was not possible to use this rogue to attract the official army, but its main force did not know where to launch a general attack.

Hesitating, the soldiers came to report that Niu Chenghu, the Shaanxi army stationed in the north of Tongguan, was in an emergency, and some rogues pretended to be officers and soldiers to seize the ferry, and now they are storming the Fenglingdu military fort, and Wang Qiaonian was asked to send reinforcements quickly. This news made Wang Qiaonian break out in a cold sweat in an instant.

"What is the enemy?" Wang Qiaonian asked.

"The mountains are all over the wilderness, and there are countless of them!" The soldiers who came to report the news looked terrified.

Wang Qiaonian almost fainted, and suddenly regretted it in his heart, he shouldn't have promised Zhu Ping'an's layout of Lao Shizi, this is good, Zhu Ping'an's elite has not yet turned, but this Tongguan has become precarious, if it really falls into the hands of the enemy, then what is the strength of this battle!

"Hurry up, quickly send an order to Shandong Zhang Yaoxian's department, and immediately rush to the aid of Fenglingdu! There is also an immediate mobilization of Zheng Jiadong's department to reinforce Tongguan! ”

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Niu Chenghu, who was guarding Fenglingdu, just wanted to scold his mother at this time, originally he was stationed in Tongzhou and coordinated with Tongguan, but a few days ago, Wang Qiaonian was transferred to Fenglingdu, a military fort. Tongzhou is finally a county seat, even if the military salary is short, Niu Chenghu's subordinates will not go hungry, and they will have nothing to do to go out of the city to loot, or find out a few rich families in the city, and squeeze some money. But what does this Fenglingdu have? It began to be abandoned during the Apocalypse, and it was not until the civil unrest became more and more rampant that the imperial court restored the military fort facilities and sent troops to garrison them. To put it bluntly, the whole is a desolate place where birds don't poop, and the hungry people have been wild all these years, and even wild game is rarely seen. Niu Chenghu couldn't help but hold back the fire in his belly.

The Shandong army was ordered to rescue, but why didn't this drudgery be handed over to them? Niu Chenghu actually held a grudge against Zhu Ping'an.

Early in the morning, the outside shouted to kill the heavens, but Niu Chenghu, who was drunk last night, jumped up as a spirit, and didn't care that he was not wearing clothes, so he got up the saber at the head of the bed and ran outside. Before he could scold, the news in the mouth of the pro-soldier made him scattered.

"General, it's not good, the rogues dressed up as my officers and soldiers, and stormed the ferry while the sky was still dark, and the brothers were caught off guard, and they couldn't hold it when they saw it!"

Roving bandits! Niu Chenghu stirred up a cold war. That's not right, this rogue is fighting with Fu Zonglong in Henan, how could he suddenly appear in Tongguan, besides, Fenglingdu is still in the north of Tongguan, where did this rogue come from? Could it be that Tongguan was lost?

Patting his head hard, Niu Chenghu finally sobered up, hurriedly put on his armor, and trotted all the way up to the wall of the military fort. A large number of rogues swarmed in, and the smoke and dust reached the sky, and it was impossible to see how many people and horses had come.

"Hurry, hurry up and ask Tongguan for help! Order the soldiers to retreat to the fort and wait for reinforcements! "Niu Chenghu is not confused, this Fenglingdu is backed by the mountains, it is the key point in the north of Tongguan, there is no way to retreat, on the contrary, there may be a glimmer of life in this military fort, I only hope that Wang Qiaonian will get the news and send reinforcements to the army.

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Luo Ruliang is Luo Rucai's brother, brave and brave, was appointed by Luo Rucai as the chief general of the pro-military camp, has been following his side, this attack on Tongguan, Luo Rucai is to dispatch his soldiers and horses.

Before dawn, Luo Ruliang led eight thousand soldiers to change into the robes of the Ming army, and quietly came to the ferry, as long as he seized Fenglingdu, he could calmly cross the river and attack Hulutan. Then you can arrive at the north gate of Tongguan, where the relatively weak military allocation, if Fenglingdu and Hulutan can be taken quietly, then then you can repeat the old tricks, open the city gate, Tongguan can go down without a fight.

But I didn't expect that Fengling was guarded by about 3,000 officers and soldiers, and it was really unrealistic to want to conquer quietly, there was no way, Luo Ruliang had to launch a strong attack, fortunately, the combat strength of the officers and troops on the opposite side was indeed very weak, and when a charge came down, the officers and soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they retreated back, apparently planning to withdraw to the military fort to defend it.

Luo Ruliang smiled coldly, "Order the brothers, stick to it, and rush into the fort together among them!" ”

The sky was about to dawn, but suddenly there was a fog, as time went by, the fog became thicker and thicker, and the Liukou was overjoyed to see this, and entangled with the officers and soldiers, and some of the soldiers even tore off the white cloth on their arms, and took the opportunity to blend into the ranks of the officers and soldiers, and rushed to the military fort first.

Seeing Liukou approaching the military fort step by step, Luo Ruliang couldn't help but feel a little proud, turned his head and ordered a personal soldier: "Send the news to the commander, Fenglingdu is about to fall, please bring his troops to join the division and attack Tongguan together!" ”

However, before the words fell, the pro-soldiers around him suddenly exclaimed, Luo Ruliang couldn't help frowning, but the pro-soldiers pointed to the north side of the army with some panicked fingers, "General, look over there!" ”

Luo Ruliang raised his eyes impatiently, the fog was still thick like a silk silk that could not be dissolved, but through the flow of the mist, it seemed that he could vaguely see a rare figure swaying in the mountain col, and he also heard rhythmic footsteps in his ears.

Luo Ruliang couldn't help but be a little surprised, he is also a veteran of the battlefield, and the reality of the enemy on the opposite side has also been explored a long time ago, Wang Qiaonian was ordered to lead the main force out of Tongguan, and there were also spies who had seen it along the way, and the number of troops was four or five thousand, and it was already half of the Tongguan defenders. The Shandong Army has also been transferred to the Jiexiu area to quell the rebellion, and there are indeed no other officers and troops near Tongguan today except Zheng Jiadong and Niu Chenghu. It stands to reason that there will be no ambushes of officers and soldiers around here!

I just wanted to send someone to investigate, but the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the red robes of the Ming army could already be faintly seen from the dense fog.

"Stop! Musketeers reload their ammunition! This order fell into the ears of most of the rogue's soldiers with unmistakable accuracy. Immediately, the formation began to panic.

"Don't panic, the right army is advancing north, and the rest of the troops are still storming the military fort, there must be no mistake!" Luo Ruliang gave the order loudly, trying to stabilize the morale of the army.

The right flank of the rogue adjusted its formation, panicked for a moment, and finally began to move forward towards the back, but at this time, a series of musket fires rang out in the dense fog.

I couldn't see the enemy on the opposite side clearly, but hundreds of deadly projectiles were shot out in an instant in the dense fog, although this kind of attack was not violent, but the pressure on Liukou's heart was extremely great.

The rogue in the front row fell down in an instant, and the clear bullet holes on his body proved that the opposite side was indeed the elite troops of the Ming army, and the firearms were so sharp, which was not something that ordinary local troops could equip.

"Enter!" The voice from the other side sounded again, the suffocating footsteps again. Seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, after only a hundred steps, Liukou finally saw the appearance of the enemy on the opposite side.

It's really an official army! The red battle suit, the red cotton armor, behind it is the steel torrent of the brigade, and the flag flutters in the wind, but the words on it are not clear in the shroud of fog. But it's not like the official army, where did the official army open such neat equipment and uniforms, and the fire guns in the front row each had a fire gun that was obviously different from the standard configuration of the officers and soldiers. Not far away, the three platoons of musketeers calmly exchanged positions and fired continuously, which made the rogues who tried to approach them suffer a big loss.

The frequency of firing is alarming, and the casualties caused by the rogue are also increasing.

Finally approaching fifty steps, Luo Ruliang's subordinates, which is the capital that Luo Rucai relied on, are all veterans of battle, and a large part of them are also the elite of the border army, they are familiar with the tactics of the officers and soldiers, although they suffered casualties under intensive fire in a short period of time, but they aroused their fighting spirit, as long as they are close to the officers and soldiers on the opposite side, their muskets are no longer useful.

"Grenadier ready! Projection! The herald officer on the opposite side spoke in a calm tone, without the slightest panic in the face of the swarming rogues.

The charging rogue's footsteps faltered, and then he saw hundreds of swarthy things flying out of the thick mist, flying towards the rogue brigade with a strange arc. R1152