There was a night of scuffle in the military capital, fighting from dark to nearly dawn, and at dawn, Li Siyuan finally couldn't support it. Although he was unwilling, he wanted to defend the city to the death, and wanted to rely on the streets and alleys of the city to fight a street battle in the city.

The reinforcements led by Liu will arrive in the afternoon, and as long as he can hold out for half a day, there is still hope of recapturing Junduguan. He sent a fast horse out of the customs and went halfway to ask for help from the Liu family. He also promised his subordinates a heavy reward, saying that reinforcements would arrive tomorrow.

It's a pity that Li Siyuan didn't last until noon, and he didn't even last until dawn.

The Qin army raided a total of 10,000 horses, led by Yang Shihou, the commander of the Flying Cavalry Army, and Fu Cun, the leader of the Brigade Cavalry Army, and two disciples of Li Jing, Beiqin. With a sheepskin trick, he successfully captured the gate and solved the most difficult level of the raid on the military capital.

After entering the customs with this, he used 10,000 elite light cavalry to deal with 5,000 Shatuo soldiers. Although Li Siyuan's rampage is also one of the four elite trump cards of Shatuo, there are only 3,000 rampage, plus Shi Jingsi's 1,000 Marquis Yu's personal soldiers, and there are 1,000 wounded soldiers left. Moreover, Junduguan is an enemy city that has just been captured for a day, and there are still many prisoners of the Yiwu Army and the Lulong Army in it, and they also have their own manpower to guard these prisoners. Because this is a military town fortress, there are no people in the city except for his family and family, and he can't even recruit people to help defend it during the war.

What's more, the brigade cavalry and the flying cavalry are not only young and well-trained soldiers, but they are also well-armed and sharply armed. There are not only thin but strong half-body armor and rope armor, but also powerful repeater crossbows, thunderbolts, and even flying thunder cannons that are easy to carry and can be amazingly powerful.

The battle. Li Siyuan, who was beaten, was extremely depressed. He also fought many battles with the Qin army. But there was no time when I could really take advantage of it. Let's talk about it. His subordinates are very elite, brave, and fierce, but no matter how brave the Shatuo warriors, they were not defeated in bravery in the end, but lost in the Qin army's fine armor and sharp firearms and crossbow arrows.

Under the flying thunder cannons, thunderbolts, and crossbows of the Qin army, the so-called resistance was carried out. The plan to defend the city according to the streets and alleys and fight a battle of lanes soon failed completely.

Sha Tuojun hid in the house and fired arrows from the window, and Qin Jun directly threw a few thunderbolts into the house. Even their thunderbolts are divided into many types, and sometimes they don't need that kind of explosion, just get a few choking smoke gas bombs, and they can immediately make the Shatuo warriors in the house rush out of the house one by one, and they are shot to death by the Qin army one by one.

There was still a period of time before leaving the Ming Dynasty, and the fish belly white in the east had not yet appeared, and the soldiers scattered in the city sent by Li Siyuan were almost cleared by the Qin army. Wait until you retreat to the front of the West Gate. When there is no way to retreat, the five thousand Shatuo army in the pass. There were less than two thousand left, and many were scarred.

Will it live and die with Guan, or will it retreat?

Li Siyuan thought about it for a long time, but after that, he had to order the withdrawal of the customs in pain. If you don't leave, it's too late. The twenty black hole big iron cylinders of the Qin army were already placed more than a hundred steps in front of them. Li Siyuan knew that this kind of big iron cylinder could throw a 20-pound explosive bag directly within 200 steps. Although the hit rate is not high, even if this extremely shocking explosive bag hits incorrectly, it is not something they can afford.

Reinforcements are still nowhere to be seen, and no matter how fast they are, it will be too late.

At this time, Li Siyuan really regretted it in his heart.

Knowing that the Qin army would raid Jundu Pass, he shouldn't have selfish intentions in his heart, and agreed that Guo Chongtao would take 10,000 soldiers and horses into the pass. It's really harmful, he wanted to borrow a knife to kill people and teach Guo Chongtao, who doesn't know the height of the sky, a lesson, but now.

Junduguan was short of troops and was captured by a surprise attack by the Qin army. He lost his troops and generals, and the rampage was almost gone, leaving only more than 1,000 people. The Qin army captured the military capital pass, so Guo Chongtao was indeed in trouble, and he was in big trouble. Guo Chongtao's back road has been cut off, and he has completely fallen into the encirclement of the Qin army, and he has been shut down and beaten by dogs.

He originally just planned to teach Guo Chongtao a lesson, but after that arrogant guy was taught a lesson by the Qin army, he and his wife rushed to relieve the siege. But now, Guo Chongtao has fallen into a siege, and it is difficult to say whether he can come back alive.

He was careless, and at a slight cost of 5,000 people, he raided and captured the capital of the Youzhou Gateway Fortress in less than half a month. Who would have thought that not long after being happy and proud, he was slapped by Qin Jun.

Originally, it was a great achievement to capture the military capital pass, but now, not only did the army pass be lost, but he lost his troops and lost his generals, and he also trapped Guo Chongtao in the enemy's encirclement.

How do you go back?

Now not only Guo Chongtao is under siege, but even Shi Jingsi, the handsome's favorite general, has also fallen into the hands of the Qin army.

Li Siyuan is a very decisive person, once he decides, he will never hesitate again.

Judging that he could no longer hold on to the arrival of reinforcements, Li Siyuan immediately organized a retreat to break through. The seriously wounded were directly executed with mending knives to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Qin army again. Then nearly 1,000 people who were slightly injured were left behind by him to carry out a mortal mission and cover the retreat of the remaining 1,000 people.

Quickly arranged all this, Li Siyuan took Xue Atan, the second general An Xiuxiu, and more than 1,200 soldiers who rushed through the gates, opened the gate, and the one-man and two-horse riders who did not look back went out of the customs and fled from here.

The more than 1,000 Shatuo soldiers left behind were very fierce, but unfortunately they did not cause any harm to the Qin army. After a rain of arrows and bombs, thousands of people in this area immediately died and fell completely silent.

"No need to chase." After a brief discussion between Yang Shihou and Fu Cun, he did not agree to his subordinates' proposal to go out of the customs and pursue.

Li Siyuan ran away very decisively, not only the seriously wounded were killed, but even the lightly wounded stayed and waited for death. He didn't bring the slightest burden, and he had two horses alone. They fought all night, the men and horses were tired, and at this time the pursuit had little chance of victory. In addition, they had already learned from the captives that Li Keyong's wife, Liu, had already led most of the follow-up troops to arrive, and they might arrive in the morning at the earliest. At this time, chasing out of the Lu, the biggest possibility is to run into them.

"Immediately clear the castle and take over the defenses. In addition, please ask the envoy from Yiwu Town to announce our alliance with Li Dashuai to the prisoners of war of Lu Long and Yiwu Second Town who are imprisoned in the city, and let them choose freely, and if they are willing to stay and belong to us, they will be assigned to the auxiliary army camp to assist in defending the city. If you don't want to. Send it to Shunzhou immediately. Get there and make arrangements. Fu Cun ordered.

Took the military capital pass. It was a crucial victory.

The urgent order sent by the King of Qin was that this time the army must seize Youzhou and block Shatuo outside the pass. Now that the military capital pass has been taken, the Shatuo people have been stopped outside the pass. Although there are still 10,000 people in the gate, they have already become turtles in the urn.

"Taking the military capital pass is already a great achievement for our flying cavalry army and brigade cavalry. Over there in Youzhou, we don't have to pay attention to it, just leave it to Pei Dudu and them, we just need to guard the military capital. You can't take all the credit. Yang Shihou stood on the top of the pass, looking at the Lu Longjun and Yiwu troops below who had volunteered to stay behind and belong to the Qin army, and said with a chuckle.

As soon as the order was given to stay voluntarily, more than ninety percent of the nearly 20,000 prisoners of war originally held in Guanzhong chose to stay, joined the Qin army, and were incorporated into the auxiliary battalion of the Qin army. The composition of these people is more complicated, and Lulong Town has changed continuously in the past two years, with several civil strife, from Liu Yue to Liu Yan, Liu Rengong, and Li Quanzhong. In a short period of time, there have been four owners here. The military capital pass is an important gateway to the northwest of Youzhou. There have been several changes since then. Every time Youzhou changes owners, the soldiers here also have to change. Most of the people who guard here are the henchmen of the original festival marshal, so often after the descendants replace the original festival marshal, many of the old guards of this city are also attached, but there are also those who are imprisoned.

In this way, coupled with Li Siyuan's surprise attack and seizure of the pass, and the capture of a large number of officers and soldiers stationed here in Yiwu Town, therefore, there are Liu Yue's subordinates, Liu Yan's subordinates, Liu Rengong's subordinates, and Li Quanzhong's subordinates, but there are no Shatuo prisoners of war, and they were all killed.

The Qin army is powerful, and these people also know the choice of the Dao, even the defenders of the Yiwu Army who were previously captured by the raid of the Shatuo Army, after the alliance between Li Quanzhong and Li Jing of the Dao Dao, did not change their thoughts of joining the Qin army. In these years, who to be a soldier is not to be a soldier, if you want to choose, you naturally have to choose a strong boss.

According to the last statistics, excluding the part that was willing to leave, there were almost 20,000 people in Guanzhong who were attached to the Qin army. However, although these were all soldiers, many of them were just old and weak soldiers who were forcibly recruited, some were white-haired old men, and some were just half-human tall boys. Naturally, these people could not become the Qin army, but for the time being, they still had to be incorporated into the auxiliary army camp.

Yang Shihou and Fu Cun interrogated the Shatuo prisoners after the battle, and knew that it was not safe for the Daoist army to be closed. There are 10,000 Shatuo soldiers with Guo Chongtao in the pass that have not yet been resolved, and outside the pass, Li Siyuan ran away with more than 1,000 people, and Liu is coming with more than 30,000 troops.

They only had 10,000 horses, but they had to defend the military capital.

Fortunately, the military capital Guan Xiongguan Fortress, although it is said that the Shatuo army and the Qin army took this pass in less than a day twice. But they are all tactics, and they really want to attack head-on, and 10,000 people will defend this pass, and they will not be afraid of the attack of 350,000 people at all. It's not difficult to keep it for a year or two. However, Xiongguan Fortress is not so safe. It is difficult to attack head-on, but there is no guarantee that there will be two strange attempts by the Shatuo army and the Qin army.

Yang Shihou and Fu Cun didn't dare to be careless, and prepared to face the battle with all their might.

Outside Youzhou City, after Guo Chongtao defeated Changping, he left 2,000 soldiers and horses to guard Changping, and then led the remaining 8,000 troops to the northwest of Youzhou City, 20 miles away and camped in the village. At this time, Guo Chongtao was watching the terrain near Youzhou with his subordinates, discussing the plan to attack Youzhou.

Although Guo Chongtao is crazy, he is very cautious and cautious when fighting. He didn't pay attention to Li Congwei's 20,000 horses in Youzhou City, what he was really wary of was the Shunzhou Qin army in the north of Youzhou. This is also the reason why although he only has 10,000 soldiers and horses, he also has to leave 2,000 people to guard Changping. is afraid that the Qin army will suddenly send troops to intercept and cut off his back road.

"Send more detectives to keep an eye on the movements of the Qin army in Shunzhou. As soon as there is any wind and grass, the general will know the way clearly. Guo Chongtao's eyes were sharp, sweeping over his generals like an eagle.

"Also, how's the siege equipment being prepared?"

Youzhou is the first city in the north, not only the cultural and economic center of the north, but also a military fortress. It's not so easy to fight this city.

A Han officer replied: "With our craftsmen and many craftsmen from Changping and the surrounding areas, we will be able to build sufficient siege equipment in just seven days." ”

Guo Chongtao snorted coldly, "I don't have seven days for you, seven days?" Are the daylilies cold? For three days, three days at most, you must build me at least thirty towers, each of which must be able to accommodate a dozen people standing on it to shoot arrows. In addition, there must be at least 100 ladders for siege. In addition, there are also bridge plates for sports trenches, and catapults for siege, which are also indispensable. ”

The Han officer was sweating on his forehead, except for the ladder and the Haogou Bridge, the rest were very complicated and large instruments, how could they be made so easily. But he didn't dare to refute, so he had to be stunned and nodded with a bitter face.

Li Keyong, who accompanied the army, said with his son Li Cunxin: "It will take time to build equipment, why don't you find another plan and take care of it?" ”

"Could it be that General Cunxin has no good plan?" Guo Chongtao saw that it was Li Cunxin who spoke, and changed his color a little. This Li Cunxin was originally a Uighur, and Li Keyong sent it to the Tatars under the fence, and the Tatars were bribed by Li Jing to attack the Shatuos. As a result, Li Cunxin's father reported the news in advance, allowing Li Keyong to escape. But Li Cunxin's father was later found and executed by the Tatars. After the most embarrassing, Li Keyong adopted his son as an adopted son and named him Li Cunxin. Li Cunxin is not as good as Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao and other righteous brothers, but he is the most clever at words, and often slanders in front of Li Keyong and says bad things about other righteous brothers. Guo Chongtao has also heard of it, and he is a little respectful of this snake-like guy.

Li Cunxin now holds the post of Marquis of Duyu in Guo Chongtao's army and is a military judge.

"A certain person did have a not-so-mature idea, so he threw bricks in front of the general, which made everyone laugh." Li Cunxin smiled slightly, and said with some smugness: "Po Youzhou, there are three strategies here, and I am willing to relieve the general's worries." ”

Guo Chongtao is very crazy, but because of his high ability, people with some skills are naturally crazy. Li Cunxin likes to slander behind his back and tell right and wrong, this kind of person is generally a person with no ability, so he has to do something shameless. Guo Chongtao looked down on Li Cunxin very much, and when he heard him say that he had a plan to break Youzhou, he secretly despised it in his heart. How can Youzhou be broken if it is broken? When I heard him say that there were still three strategies to break through Youzhou, I almost threw up my sleeves and left.

However, he still held back and sat there and listened to Li Cunxin's three strategies.

After listening, Guo Chongtao's brows furrowed, and he suddenly fell into deep thought. He didn't expect that what this roe head villain said about breaking the Youzhou was not completely nonsense, on the contrary, after listening to it, he suddenly had a feeling of brightness. (To be continued......)