Luoyang City, known as the central capital, is a big city of great political significance in the world, and taking Luoyang is of great significance to the Qing court.

After Li Zicheng captured Luoyang, he grew rapidly, and the dynasties of the past dynasties were rare if they were not Luoyang.

For the Qing court, only by taking Luoyang and occupying Zhongzhou could it conquer Guanzhong in the west, Jingxiang in the south, and Huaisi in the east.

If the Qing army could not capture Luoyang and occupy Henan, then the influence of the Qing army would be limited to the north of the Yellow River, and its power would not be able to enter the south, but could only become a separatist regime.

After Duoduo crossed the river from Mengjin in the first month, he let Beizi Wakda and Bolo lead more than 12,000 Qing troops to drive and capture tens of thousands of young men and strong, dig trenches and besiege Luoyang.

At that time, Li Zicheng besieged Luoyang with hundreds of thousands of people, and the army stormed Anximen, and attacked for dozens of days in a row, with no casualties, but it was not defeated.

Later, Li Zicheng really had no choice, so he asked Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai, the Ming generals who surrendered in the city, to shout outside the city for a night, "Yingchuang Wang does not accept food." ”

The defenders in the city listened to Li Zicheng's political slogan, and saw that King Fu did not pay for food, so they burned Anximen in a fit of anger, and Li Zicheng entered Luoyang.

In the face of a big city like Luoyang, it is generally difficult to be attacked if there are no internal problems.

Duoduo let Bolo besiege Luoyang, luring Gao Yihuan to rescue, he and Gao Yihuan fought in Ruzhou, and Luoyang was handed over to Wakda and Bolo.

At this time, Wakda and Bolo were already outside the four gates, digging deep trenches crisscrossing Luoyang and surrounding Luoyang for four months.

At this time, in the Songshan Mountains southeast of Luoyang, a group of 6,000 men and horses were moving rapidly along the road.

This is exactly the Jin Shenghuan and his party who were ordered by Gao Yihuan to go to Luoyang to rescue.

Now Duoduo's attention was attracted by Gao Yihuan's retreat, and his army also rushed to the area of Jiaxian, which made him distance from Luoyang and gave the Wei army the opportunity to raid Luoyang.

The goal of Jin Shenghuan and his group was to take advantage of the opportunity of Duoduo being dragged in Jiaxian County to break through the Dagu Pass, and then drive directly to Luoyang City, meet Li Yan and Bai Wang to break through, and finally quickly evacuate Luoyang before the Qing army reacted, and return to southern Henan by the same route.

After four days of marching, the 6,000 Wei army had reached the foot of the Wushi Mountain near Dagu Pass, only eighty miles from Luoyang.

At this time, the army was silently hurrying away, and a team of scouts suddenly galloped over and saluted, "General, fifteen miles ahead, it is Dagu Pass!" There are 300 Qing soldiers stationed there! ”

When Jin Shenghuan heard this, he immediately waved his hand, "Let the army stop and rest!" ”

For several days, the soldiers marched continuously, and in many places they were leading horses on foot, and the soldiers were already tired.

The soldiers of the two battalions of Tiger and Dragoon hurriedly drank some water, ate a little dry food, and fell asleep, while Jin Shenghuan found Hu Dawei and Xu Heihu and others to come over to discuss how to break through the Dagu Pass.

Luoyang is located in a basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the Yellow River on one side, and the terrain is like Shu and Guanzhong.

After the Qing army crossed the river from Mengjin, the passes that originally guarded Luoyang did not work, and they were occupied by the Qing army, and then sent some soldiers and horses to garrison, which cut off the connection between Luoyang and the outside world.

This sneak attack on Luoyang was mainly based on Jin Shenghuan, and he spoke first: "Judging from the situation we have learned before, there are more than 10,000 Qing troops near Luoyang, and we suddenly killed them, and it should not be difficult to catch the defenders of Luoyang." The difficulty is how to kill Luoyang unconsciously. ”

As he spoke, Jin Shenghuan picked up a wooden stick, drew a picture on the ground, and then continued: "The problem now is that Dagu Pass is in front of us, although there are not many Qing troops in this pass, but attacking it will alarm the Qing army in Luoyang. If the Qing army in Luoyang knew that we were coming, they would inevitably be prepared, then we would be afraid that it would be difficult to realize our plan to take over Luoyang. ”

Hu Dawei frowned and said: "Then we can only sneak attack at night, and as soon as we emerge during the day, the other party will definitely light a cigarette and report the news." ”

Jin Shenghuan listened, and looked at Yi Daosan on the side, "Captain Yi, are you sure?" ”

Yi Daosan groaned slightly, and arched his hand, "Do your best!" ”

Seeing this, Jin Shenghuan immediately said: "If the sneak attack is successful, then we can prepare a little and then raid Luoyang." If the sneak attack fails, then grab the Dagu Pass, and then I will stay at the pass to ensure the way out, and the Tiger Battalion will be non-stop, straight to Luoyang, no matter whether Li Jiedu can be picked up or not, he must return immediately, and he cannot stay in Luoyang. ”

Xu Heihu and Hu Dawei had no opinion, and nodded their heads.

Dagu Pass, also known as Taigu Pass, is one of the eight passes set up in the late Eastern Han Dynasty for the Yellow Turban.

He was in the southeast of Luoyang, the east of Longmen Pass, and the west of Tiger Pass, which was originally an important pass, but in the great unified dynasty, the inland pass was basically not taken seriously, and it was a little thin under the disrepair.

On April 22, the fifth watch at night, Taigu was closed, and several dim lanterns were hung at the head of the city, and from time to time moths and mosquitoes collided on the top, and the wings flapped and made a "poof" sound.

On early summer nights, the moon is sparse and full of frogs and mosquitoes chirping.

Closing upstairs, several Qing soldiers were gambling in the building, from time to time let out a smug laugh, several soldiers outside the building were alarmed by the laughter, glanced at the figure gambling money in the window, and then continued to doze off.

On the hills on both sides of the wall, there is a Qing army team stationed on each hill, and there are six people on each hill, taking turns to be on duty, watching the wolf smoke and beacon fire.

I have to say that the Qing army still has a very good set of defense for the Guancheng, but the execution of the people and horses is obviously not good, not a tendon outside the Guan, and doing things like the official army of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, in the darkness, more than a dozen figures, under the cover of night, slowly climbed up the mountain.

The three green battalion soldiers above were sitting around a fire, roasting a hare. Next to them was a tent, and there was a sound of snoring coming from inside, and several Qing soldiers were snoring.

Yi Daosan glanced at the three of them, and immediately took out a crossbow, and then made a gesture, and then two black shadows also took out their crossbows and aimed at the three Qing soldiers who were not gossiping.

Suddenly, Yi Daosan made a gesture, and the three crossbows were loosened at the same time, and the quenched arrows shot out with a "whoosh", and the three Qing soldiers by the bonfire fell to the ground in an instant.

At this time, a black shadow suddenly rushed out from Yi Daosan's side, and quickly entered the tent, and after a while, Hu Dawei carried three bloody heads out of the tent. He went to the campfire and saw the dripping rabbit, and immediately threw away the head, picked up the roast meat, and did not care about the hot mouth, so he took a big bite.

Yi Daosan inspected it at the top of the mountain, mended the corpse of the Qing army, and then made a gesture, and the black shadows shook the fire down the mountain.

"The wolf smoke is under control!" Seeing this, Jin Shenghuan's face was happy, and then with a wave of his hand, a pair of black shadows carried a ladder and quietly approached the wall.

At this time, a few people also fell from the mountains on both sides, and their bodies fell on the wall like ghosts, raising their hands to shoot a crossbow arrow that shot the napping Qing army.

The black shadows were very skilled in this, a few people blocked out of the hug, and a few people went down the building with their waists.

Hu Dawei led a few people and blocked the barracks of the Qing army in Guannei.

Only 300 Qing troops were stationed in Dagu Pass, as long as they were not allowed to light beacon fires and not make too much noise, it would be difficult for Luoyang to get the news.

At this time, the door was suddenly pushed open by a black shadow, and Jin Shenghuan saw the fire on the close, so he yelled, "Kill!" ”

Thousands of cavalrymen immediately raised their torches and followed him towards the entrance of the gate, which was hundreds of paces away.

(End of chapter)