In the early morning, the sky was getting brighter, and a low horn sound woke Gao Chenghu up.

He lifted the blanket from his body and sat up straight, feeling a pain and numbness all over his body.

Beside him, a bloodied face with tears in his eyes stared at the situation outside the gate.

At this time, he noticed that Gao Chenghu had woken up, so he hurriedly wiped away his tears, adjusted his emotions, turned his head and said, "Captain, the Tartars are assembled again!" ”

Seeing this, Gao Chenghu patted him on the shoulder, "What, are you afraid?" ”

"It's not that I'm afraid, or I'm reluctant to give up my mother!" The palm brigade said calmly.

Gao Chenghu knew that he realized that he might die in Zhenyuan Pass, and he was reluctant to let go of his relatives.

Yesterday, after the Tatars arrived at the pass, they began to attack, and there were many people, and it was a round of wheel warfare that came up, and the Qing troops of each department fought until the third watch last night, and the defenders were exhausted, and most of the equipment was consumed.

Gao Chenghu didn't know if he could hold out until Zhao Daxian's men and horses came to reinforce him, but he still smiled and said, "Don't worry, let's hold on a little longer, and the reinforcements will arrive." ”

As he spoke, Gao Chenghu stretched out a hand, and the palm brigade immediately pulled him up.

Yesterday's battle lasted until midnight, and the defenders were exhausted, and they were worried that the Qing army would steal the city, so Gao Chenghu and the defenders spent the night in the city.

Gao Chenghu stood up, moved his body, turned his head and saw the smoke rising from the Qing army's camp, so he said to the palm brigade: "Let the Huotou Army bring up the breakfast." ”

The commander hurriedly ran down the city, and Gao Chenghu patted the sleeping soldiers and said to the defenders: "Brothers, wake up, the Qing army is about to attack the city, everyone hurry up and move your shinbones and prepare to eat!" ”

The soldiers leaning on the top of the city opened their eyes one after another, and the military academy kicked the sleeping soldiers awake one by one, yesterday's battle was so exhausting that the trumpets of the Qing army could not wake them up.

Gao Chenghu bent down to pat a soldier's cheek and said softly, "Wake up~"

The soldier did not react, but his cheeks were cold and his body stiffened.

This made Gao Chenghu's heart blocked, and he was silent for a while before waving his hand to the guard: "Carry it down!" ”

After yesterday's battle, the defenders lost more than 500 dead and wounded, and many of the wounded soldiers were already stiff in the morning and did not get up again after falling asleep.

At this time, more than a dozen fireheads picked up baskets of steamed buns and buckets of broth, and Gao Chenghu adjusted his mood and shouted loudly, "Get up!" Don't sleep, hurry up and eat! ”

There are many people in Aobai, and when the fight starts, it must be a wheel war, so the defenders must eat well, otherwise the battle will be fought for a day, and the soldiers will have the strength to dance their swords and guns, and pull their bows and arrows.

Just as the defenders were eating, groups of Qing soldiers began to pour out of the camp and quickly assembled in front of the pass.

In the horn company camp of the Qing army, the guards who were eating food were in a state of panic, and their mouth movements stopped for a moment, and then they began to swallow again.

As soon as the city is broken, the Tartars rush into the pass, the people will be slaughtered, and in the face of the attack of the Qing army, the defenders do not know if they can withstand it, when will the reinforcements of Zhao Dudu come?

As the soldiers ate their food, the alarm bell at the head of the city suddenly rang out, and the voice was extremely sharp and piercing, 'Dang! While! While! It makes people's hearts tight.

Gao Chenghu glanced outside the gate, and before the corpses of the Qing army scattered on the ground had not been taken away, the Tartars of the city group began to gather in front of the pass again.

"Prepare to defend!" Gao Chenghu walked to the wall to hide, his eyes were fixed on the city, and he suddenly turned his head and shouted.

The defenders of the city immediately put down their food, stood at the head of the city with their weapons, and wounded the lightly wounded men wrapped in gauze, and also used their firearms, shaking their spirits, and preparing for a bloody battle.

Gao Chenghu pressed the hilt of the knife, walked over the city wall, looked at his soldiers, and encouraged in a hoarse voice: "The military regulations of the Great Wei, everyone knows, fleeing from the battle, treason to the enemy, immediately beheaded, the feudal government takes back the military land, and the family members are removed from the military status. In this battle, if you die on the battlefield, your children and grandchildren will give you shade, and your dependents will be supported by the feudal government. The king has made everyone have no worries, and the brothers will fight the Tartars to the death with the generals today, and swear to defend the city to the death, so that the people will not suffer from the scourge of the Tartars! ”

The defenders in the city listened to Gao Chenghu's words, and they were not particularly excited, but they just clenched their weapons one after another, and watched the Qing army under the city assemble.

Under the pass, the 5,000 Qing troops who attacked in the first wave had been assembled.

Ao Bai estimated that the Wei army's reinforcements, that is, would rush to Zhenyuan Pass in the next two days, and the Qing army had already suffered more than 2,000 casualties in the siege yesterday, so he could not give up, and he must take Zhenyuan Pass as soon as possible, so as not to waste his previous achievements.

As long as Guancheng is taken and the Wei army reinforcements come, he is not afraid, and he can even take advantage of the situation to defeat the reinforcements who are coming.

At this time, Ao Bai, who was riding on a horse, waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him immediately raised their heads and blew the horn.

At this time, the defenders of the city, just after the preparation, the first wave of the Qing army's siege team, about 3,000 people, divided into two phalanxes, began to kill the city.

The 3,000 Qing troops, half of them were sword and shield bearers carrying ladders and shields, and the other half were foot archers carrying wooden planks and holding bows and arrows.

The Qing army was divided into two steps, and the formation approached the city, and the soldiers fought with swords and shields, and slowly advanced, giving the defenders a lot of pressure.

At this time, the artillery at the head of the city opened fire first, and the shells smashed into the Qing army's formation, splashing mud pillars one after another, but they could not stop the Qing army from continuing to advance.

When entering the wall within fifty paces, the birds and archers in the city began to shoot one after another, and the Qing troops marching in line immediately raised their shields in unison, and the shields covered the top of the soldiers' heads, as if paved with a layer of floor, and the projectiles hit it and sparked everywhere, and the arrows shot on the shield, making a series of 'do-do~' sounds.

At this moment, 1,500 people in the front of the Qing army suddenly roared angrily, began to charge forward quickly, rushed to the bottom of the city, built a trench bridge, erected a ladder and began to climb.

Behind them, 1,500 Qing archers, holding wooden planks, advanced to 30 steps away from the city, and planted a wooden plank three inches high on the ground, and the archers stood behind the wooden wall composed of wooden planks, and began to bend their bows and arrows, throwing them at the head of the city.

Originally, the Qing army attacked the city with a shield cart to connect the wooden wall of the city, and then let the archers hide behind the shield cart, shoot at the city, and shoot at the head of the city to suppress the defenders, but because of the urgency of time, the Qing army did not build a shield car, but just made some wooden planks and wooden cards to use as a shield wall.

The two Qing army arrays entered the city, and the overwhelming arrows shot at the head of the city, suppressing the Wei army at the head of the city, and the Qing army holding swords and shields went up with the shield.

The Wei army in the city has experience in this, the soldiers squatted on the side of the city wall, fired back from the shooting hole, a soldier took out the earth-shattering thunder and lit it, dropped the city, "boom" a loud sound, the Qing army gathered under the ladder of the city, blown up in all directions ~ (Thank you for your support, ask for a monthly pass, recommend, subscribe.) ）

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