As soon as He Renlong heard this, the anger that had been suppressed because of the loss of the strength of the garrison camp immediately broke out, and he was about to step forward with a big fist holding a sand bowl.

Fortunately, He Huchen and Wang En saw the opportunity quickly and forcibly pulled it. He Huchen persuaded and coaxed, and finally persuaded He Shoubei, who was snorting.

Xu Liang glanced at He Renlong with disdain, and then ordered Luo Rucai, the vanguard officer of the Liang army, to lead the vanguard battalion to attack.

The tiger's head, which had been quiet for a while, closed down and killed again.

Under the leadership of Luo Rucai, more than 3,000 soldiers of the Liang army rushed towards Hutou Pass like a rising tide. Xu Liang stood in front of the Chinese army and asked the five general cannons of the Ming army to aim at the city gate of Hutou Pass. According to the tried and tested experience of the past, as long as the gate of Hutou Pass is smashed and the Liang army enters the city, no matter how stubborn the rebel army at the head of the city is, it will inevitably collapse at the touch of a button.

Regarding Xu Liang's suggestion, General He naturally instructed to do so. Five large general cannons aimed at the gate and bombarded it three times, and the two pieces of the gate, which looked very strong, finally lived up to expectations and shattered into several pieces. The Liang army cheered, and a group of Liang soldiers rushed to the shattered gate, moving the broken wood to make way for the large army behind to enter the city.

In front of the Ming army, He Huchen, Wang En and other generals couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that Xu Liang's method was really effective. Seeing this, Xu Liang squinted at He Renlong, who was still sulking, and his eyes were very proud.

However, Xu Liang's pride did not last long. As the team of Liang Jun who ran to the front of the gate screamed and scolded angrily, the team of Liang Jun actually turned around and ran away.

On the upper floor of Hutou Pass, arrows rained down, and all of them fell on the Liang army. At this time, Luo Rucai, a pioneer officer who had already brought hundreds of Liang troops behind him and was preparing to enter the city, saw this and his eyes changed greatly. With a roar of rage, he slapped down the stray arrow that fell on his head. Immediately retreat and lead the army back.

In the distance, Xu Liang and He Huchen. The joy on the faces of Wang En and the others froze on their faces. I have questions in my heart: Why did the door close and shatter, Luo Xianfeng didn't lead the troops into the pass, but retreated to do something?

The answer was then revealed. After the Liang army retreated, the vanguard officer Luo Rucai ran to Xu Liang dejectedly, shook his head and said: "My lord, several generals, even if our army bombards the gate into slag, it will not be able to enter the city." Luo Rucai said and scolded angrily: "Those grandsons sealed the entire city gate, except for climbing over the city tower. Or blow up the entire shut-in, otherwise, there is no way to think of a trick. ”

Xu Liang was stunned for a moment, then his face turned pale, and he muttered, "So that's the case!" ”

When He Huchen and Wang En heard that this was the case, they couldn't help but sigh and secretly said that it was a pity.

"Hahaha!" Suddenly, there was a long laugh of schadenfreude in front of the Chinese army.

The generals turned their heads to look, and saw that the Qingyang garrison He Renlong, who had a blue face, was smiling at the tiger head pass. The place where his gaze landed was the place where the previous Liang army was killed.

Xu Liang said angrily: "Don't laugh! ”

He Renlong snorted coldly when he heard this: "The mouth is long on the face of this general. General Ben laughs when he wants to, can you handle it? ”

"Enough!" He Huchen shouted. He glared at He Renlong, then lowered his gaze to the tower of Hutou Guancheng, and pursed his lips. His face gradually turned pale.

"It's so ruthless!" He Huchen sighed.

Xu Liang and Wang En looked at He Huchen in surprise, and they didn't understand what He Zongbing meant for a while. He Huchen pointed to the gate with one hand, pointing to the faintly exposed stone bricks behind the broken gate. Said: "The enemy blocked the gate with stone bricks, which means that he has the determination to defend it. Tiger head pass this battle. It's hard to fight. ”

Xu Liang listened and figured out the joints. I can't help but be secretly awe-inspiring. Generally, the army guards the gate and locks the gate, and it is very rare to use such extreme means to seal the gate. Because once the gate is sealed with stones and bricks, although it can smoothly block the possibility of the enemy attacking from the city gate, at the same time, when the pass is breached, the people in the pass will not even have a chance to escape, so they can only surrender or fight to the death.

Now the rebel guards on this small Hutou Pass ordered the gate to be sealed, obviously with the intention of defending the Hutou Pass.

In this way, the Ming army had no other way to capture this pass except to cross over the city wall.

After the problem was figured out, the generals were also dead hearted, and they were ready to fight from the city wall to the pass. Seeing that it was getting late, He Huchen ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Xu Liang set up the Liang military camp tent to the south of the Ming army's camp tent, which was not the same entrance and exit as the Ming army. In the first battle of the Liang army, the number of casualties reached more than 700 people, and after the number was reported, Xu Liang felt that his heart was dripping blood. More than 3,000 Liang troops attacked for the first time, but as a result, they failed to move even a piece of the city bricks of Hutou Pass, but lost more than 600 soldiers of the pioneer battalion.

Because he didn't think of any good way to capture Hutou Pass, He Huchen did not attack again that day, and ordered all battalions of the Ming army to make nearly 10,000 arrows overnight.

He Huchen did not convene a meeting, so Xu Liang was happy and relaxed, and did not go to other camps to move around, so he stayed in the Liang military camp to inspect the Liang army's camp.

When it was almost time, an order finally came from the commander's tent, and the whole army attacked Hutou Pass again at three o'clock tomorrow!

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, both the Liang army and the Ming army had already sobered up, and according to the request of General He, more than 200 archers were dispatched.

Perhaps stimulated by the blocked city gate, He Zongbing was ready to play a big one, he ordered the Liang army and the Ming army to attack Hutou Pass repeatedly, and more than 500 archers were ready to release arrows towards Hutou Pass at any time to suppress the archers on the city tower and provide extremely valuable time for the soldiers who were struggling to support the siege on the ground.

However, the result of the matter made Xu Liang very frustrated, the infantry of the Ming army and the Liang army were not heroic, and the archers of the Ming army were definitely not too bad, and nearly three thousand corpses were added under the city wall, including those of the Ming army and the Liang army. Hutou Pass is still standing still.

He Huchen had no choice but to withdraw his troops. He summoned several of the generals who had gone out to discuss the shape of the war.

The atmosphere in the camp of the Ming army and the big tent of the Chinese army was very dull. The strength and determination of the Tiger Head Pass guards surprised all the generals.

"Since our army attacked Hutou Pass, nearly 6,000 soldiers have been killed." He Huchen said bitterly: "The casualties of our army are not unmiserab, but the difficulty of the defenders has surprised us, and no one has thought that the soldier of Gao Yingxiang, who is known as the king of Chuang, is so strong!" He Huchen sighed, counted his fingers and said, "Our army has been stopped in front of this small tiger head pass for five days. How should our army act in the future, and what are the opinions of the generals? ”

No one was in a hurry to speak. Wang En, the general soldier of Ningxia, was bowing his head and drinking water, Qingyang garrison He Renlong was playing with the teapot, Xing Zhongshan and Luo Rucai were staring at Xu Liang, and Xu Liang was distracted.

From He Huchen's point of view, Ping Liang and Xu Liang's eyes were looking at at a forty-five degree angle, his eyes were out of focus, and he was obviously distracted.

He Huchen's brows furrowed slightly, and soon turned into a kind look again, looking at Xu Liang and asking, "Lord Xu is so engrossed, he must have a very clever opinion?" ”

Wang En, the general soldier of Ningxia on the side, hurriedly pulled Xu Liang's sleeve and made Xu Liang come back to his senses.

Xu Liang replayed the picture he had just recalled in his mind, looked at He Huchen, and said: "General He, this official carefully recalled the battle in the morning, although he can't be sure, but this official thinks that what is guarding Hutou Pass must not be an ordinary peasant rebel army!" It's probably not even a temporary recruit. ”

He Huchen said: "Go on." ”

Xu Liang nodded, his eyes patrolled over the faces of several generals, and said: "I don't know if the generals have noticed, whenever the rebel army on the city tower is about to be unable to resist, there are always some black-clothed people who can appear appropriately, the number of people is two at a time, five or six people at a time, and there are only three people at a time, but no matter how many people appear, these black-clothed people have strong martial arts and excellent archery skills." Compared with the ordinary rebel army, the combat power is more than a little bit higher. ”

He Huchen also recalled for a while, nodded and said, "Yes, General Ben has noticed these things a long time ago. ”

Xu Liang said: "People who seem to have terror like this can't afford to be supported by people who don't have deep family assets. (To be continued......)