Beginning on February 25, Li Guo resumed the attack on Tongguan, and when Wang Yan arrived at the front line of Tongguan on March 9, Tongguan, which had been shelled for half a month, was already full of holes, but Xiongguan was Xiongguan, even if the Ming army shelled fiercely and the attack was surging, the city still stood tall, blocking 300,000 Ming troops from the pass.

The Ming army gathered outside Tongguan, the army set up the camp fifteen miles away from the Guancheng, the Jin army rangers in Tongguan, often went out of the pass to harass, and reconnoitred the situation of the Ming army, but under the drive of the Ming army horse army, the Jin cavalry was suppressed by the Ming cavalry, and the reconnaissance line could only shrink to the range covered by the Jin army's artillery on the Guancheng.

The large camps of the two towns of Zhongzhi and Zhongyong were set up in front of the armies and were closest to Tongguan.

The camp is outside the maximum range of the Jin army's artillery, and there are two tall watchtowers in front of the camp gate, with flags planted on them, and there are sentries who climb high and look into the distance day and night.

The camp is built with a wall, the wall is separated by a distance, a cannon is set up, two deep trenches are dug outside the wall, which are covered with sharp wood, and there are horse rejection piles outside the trenches, sprinkled with thistles, to prevent the Jin army from sneaking up at night.

After he personally appointed the martial arts academy to avoid alcohol, every time he gave a lecture to the new issue of martial arts, he would talk about his housekeeping skills, and he would fight a dumb battle in the hard village.

Wang Yan doesn't like wave warfare very much, with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty, the camp is strong, does not take risks, and is basically invincible.

Although it is difficult to cultivate any war wizards, his kind of thinking is very useful to most mediocre generals.

There are some young generals in the martial arts, who don't like this honest way of fighting Wang Ba, and Wang Yan is not against them fighting, but how to camp, how high the wall should be, how many trenches to dig, and how many horses to reject, it is best to follow the regulations.

The Ming army was influenced by him, and the camp was basically quite strong, and the Ming army had not been attacked or broken in the past few years.

Li Guo, who was born in the army, has a deep understanding of this, when they were pursued by the Qing army, they were raided by the Qing cavalry many times, and the horses stepped on the company camp.

This is the case in Jiujiang and Jingzhou, in fact, these can be avoided, as long as it takes some effort to tie the camp strongly, dig a few trenches, and put some horses to reject, but they did not pay attention to these details at that time.

At this time, in front of the Ming military camp, nearly 1,000 people were driving the strong cattle and dragging 20 huge objects covered with red cloth into the camp of Zhongzhi Town.

These huge objects looked very heavy, and each of them was dragged forward by ten healthy oxen, and there were more than fifty people.

Tang Tong on Tongguan was holding a clairvoyant mirror, observing the Ming army camp, and when he saw a scene at the camp gate, his brows furrowed, and he turned back to a golden general and said, "Go, send a scout horse to take a look." ”

Not long after, the gate of Tongguan was opened, and more than 300 cavalrymen galloped out, scattered to the Ming army camp, and carried out raids and reconnaissance.

Li Guo, who was on the watchtower, saw the cavalry of the Jin army, and was about to send the rangers of Zhongzhi Town to rush out to intercept it, but the camp gate of Zhongyong Town next to it was wide open, and a camp flag was waving in the wind, and Qin Feng, the fierce general of Zhongyong Town, led four or five hundred cavalry with firearms in hand, rushed out, and fought with the cavalry of the Jin Army.

The cavalry of the Ming army who rushed out shot with a firecracker, but the firearm was much shorter than the firearm of the infantry army, and after shooting a gun, they drew their swords and charged.

At this time, the cavalry of Zhongzhi Town also rushed out of the camp, ready to go around the back of the Jin army, the cavalry of the Jin army saw the danger of being outflanked, turned around and ran, ran back to the wall of the pass with a smoke, relying on the cover of the artillery and fire guns on the pass, and confronted the two Ming troops who were stationed four miles away from the city for a while, and the generals of the Jin army saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, so they could only retreat to the pass.

The Ming army gathered, the number of cavalry has exceeded the Jin army, and the Ming army has absorbed a lot of people from Mongolia, and the quality of the cavalry is not worse than that of the Jin army.

Recently, the cavalry of the Jin Army went out several times to harass and investigate, but almost all of them returned in vain.

"Guogong, incompetent, did not approach Mingzhai!" The general hurriedly ran up and pleaded guilty on one knee.

Tang Tong shook his head, in fact, there was no need to investigate, he also knew that it was a cannon.

"Get up!" Tang Tong didn't blame, paused, and suddenly ordered: "You take someone to seal the city gate, don't go out of the city in the near future." ”

The effect of cavalry harassment is not obvious, and he just used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the Ming army camp, Wang Yan is worthy of the name of the old turtle, the camp is very strong, and the chance of sneak attack is not great, so Tang Tong decided to close the gate and prepare to meet the onslaught of the Ming army.

The general was stunned when he heard this, reacted, and hurriedly clenched his fists, "Yes, the last general will obey the order." ”

After saying that, he turned around and went down to the city, led his subordinates, brought stones and sandbags, and blocked the gate.

When the Jin army retreated to Tongguan, the two Ming troops galloped excitedly, raising a piece of yellow dust, and then rushed back to the base camp with cheers.

Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry made a batch of guns for the cavalry of the Ming army, the range is farther than the bow and arrow and the three-eyed gun, and the power is much greater, it is to equip the border cavalry on the grassland to deal with the nomadic cavalry, and the response is not bad.

Dai Zhifan went to Nanjing, near the water, and when he heard that the response was very good, he won a batch for the old troops.

The cavalry of Zhongyong Town has often practiced with the Jin Army's sentry cavalry recently, and almost as soon as the Jin Army comes out, whether it is against their own camp or not, the cavalry of Zhongyong Town will roar out and find the Jin Army to practice.

At this time, seeing the legendary new cannon coming, Liu Fangliang rode to the door and came to the camp in Zhongzhi Town.

When he saw Li Guo, he turned over and dismounted, and asked, "This is the newly made cannon of the imperial court?" ”

He watched the ten healthy oxen pulling, and secretly said, "It's so heavy, it must be bigger than the Hongyi cannon, and it must hit far." ”

Li Guo said with a smile: "It's bigger, but it is said that it can't shoot far, and you can only shoot more than a mile." ”

This batch of artillery is the siege mortar cast in the Xin'an Artillery Foundry, because it is too heavy and must wait for the road to harden before it can be transported, so it took half a month to transport it to Tongguan.

Liu Fangliang was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then wondered: "There is no problem with the artillery of the Jin Army in Guancheng to shoot three or four miles, what is the use of shooting one mile." It was so bulky that it was knocked over before it was pushed to the gate. How did the Ministry of Industry make such a thing? ”

Li Guo was about to explain, when a general behind him suddenly reminded: "Governor, the herald is here!" ”

Wang Yan arrived a day earlier than the artillery, and he first learned about the situation of the army and Tongguan in the camp before deciding to convene the generals to discuss the matter.

Li Guo, Liu Fangliang and others received the order, and then went to the tent of the prison state, and they passed through the camps of Zhenwu, Wuwei and other armies along the way, which were all in full swing to build equipment, and the camp was full of shield carts and siege ladders.

Wang Yan's tent was in the middle of the entire camp, and the further they went, the denser the tent became, and it was almost a sea of banners and heads, and there were black and oppressive Ming troops everywhere.

Everyone rode their horses to the Chinese army, galloped for seven or eight miles, and only arrived at Wang Yan's camp.

The two led the generals of Wuzhong and the two towns to the outside of the big tent of the Chinese army, in front of the huge tent, a three-zhang high, thigh-thick Wang Qi Daxu, fluttering in the wind.

Li Yuanyin of the Wuwei Army, Zhang Mingzhen of the Zhenwu Army and other generals had already arrived early and were whispering outside.

People from each of their factions get together and don't talk to anyone else. The people of the Five Loyal Army also gathered together, at most exchanged a few words with others, and did not join each other's conversations.

There are still estrangements and competition for resources between the various factions of the Ming army, and the same is true within the Wuzhong Army, such as Dai Zhifan, who only competes for resources for his old troops, and does not care about the other four towns.

The higher the position of the old chief, the more resources they can fight for them, and they can also become political resources for them to climb up.

At this time, the first drum of the gathering general had already been beaten, and a row of wrestlers outside the tent began to beat the second drum again.

Many generals outside the tent were talking and laughing, and when they heard the sound of drums, Li Guo looked around and found that the people were almost there, so he led the generals of the Five Loyal Army inside.

The inside of the big tent is very spacious, with Wang Yan's throne in front, behind the throne is a Huanghuali screen, and there are also some seats on both sides.

After everyone entered, the governors of each town took their seats under the guidance of Wang Yan's guards according to their identities, and some other generals could only stand behind them.

After a short time, the third drum was beaten, and everyone in the big tent immediately quieted down, Wang Yan strode out from behind the screen, followed by Chen Bangyan and Su Guansheng, two scholars, and Lu Shikui pressed the knife and led the guards to follow behind.

Wang Yan wore a winged crown, a four-clawed dragon robe, and his hands held the jade belt around his waist, full of energy, as soon as he came in, the generals present got up together, and after he sat down, they bowed down and saluted, "Ministers and others see the prison country." ”

Wang Yan and the other two cabinet members walked to the seats, and waved their hands calmly, "The generals don't have to be polite, sit!" ”

When the generals sit down, the chess and card officers come out to check whether the personnel are all there, and those who do not arrive and those who are late will be dealt with by military law. Naturally, no one dares to joke about the affairs of the country, and Wang Yan will be asked to wait if he doesn't want a future, so they are all here.

The chess and card officer stepped aside, and at this time Wang Yan sat up straight, glanced at the generals quite majestically, and then said: "I have two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty, plus three capitals, all of which are the inheritance left by the ancestors, and half of it cannot be given to others. Now most of these places have been recovered, but Guanzhong is still divided, and every time I think about it, I can't eat sweetly, and I can't sleep at night. ”

Wang Yan paused, and then said: "Today, the Guxing army is conquering Guanzhong, just to restore my old Ming Dynasty. This is not a matter of the lone king, you are all my Ming generals, and you must do your best to recapture Guanzhong with Lone people. ”

After the opening scene was finished, all the generals said that they would do their best, Wang Yan immediately became serious, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, next, let's talk about how to attack Tongguan ······"

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