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After hearing this, Ruan Zhengyu couldn't believe it, and finally he came to the front of the city and looked down.

Sure enough, as Li Guangqing said, the soldiers wearing their military uniforms had been driven by the enemy cavalry and stood in a line.

I saw these people holding simple weapons in their hands, and some of them were waiting to charge there with ladders on their shoulders.

Ruan Zhengyu was very angry when he saw this. He had already seen the soldiers under the city. If they dispersed in a crowd, the opponent's cavalry, although powerful, would not be able to kill all of them. It seems that his soldiers were already frightened. up.

As the leader of Zhenghuangqi, Jirigla is now directing the first wave of attack, and next to him is the leader of Xianghuangqi, Mandu Latu, the deputy of this attack.

Mandu Ratu is also considered a courageous and resourceful person among the Eight Banners. He watched from the bottom of the city. There are already a lot of rolling wood and lightning stones on the tower. If there is no cover, the captives below may suffer heavy losses. .

So Mandu Ratu urged his horse to come to Jirigela's side and said, "Jirigela, let me see if we send some cavalry to shoot arrows below to cover these captives."

Jirigla also saw what was going on in the city, and he nodded: "Then each of us will send 5000 cavalry, and we will divide into two teams and walk down the tower to give some support to the captives so that they don't die. The grassland can't explain to the family."

After the two made up their minds, they each sent 5000 men and horses to walk under the tower from the left and right, and kept shooting arrows at the tower.

And those people on the city wall were originally old, weak and remnant soldiers, and the young and strong who were gathered just last night. Don't dare to show your head.

Seeing that the enemy soldiers on the tower had been suppressed, Jirigla hurriedly ordered his cavalry to drive the captives to attack the city.

To say that these Annan prisoners are honest and grandson-like to the soldiers of the Central Plains, but they are very cruel to their own people.

Many of them have tried their best to express themselves since they surrendered, so they have been reused by the Eight Banners.

Now these people are the supervising army, they are shouting with knives and guns one by one, and at the end they are driving these captive soldiers forward, but the one who dares to stop, these supervising troops of them immediately stepped forward and punched and kicked , This is not bad, if there is a little resistance, the steel knife next to it will come over.

Therefore, these captive soldiers could only take crude weapons and carry ladders to the city, because they knew that if they retreated, they would die without a place to die, and if they moved forward, there was still a chance of survival, so instead they fiercely attacked upwards.

When Ruan Zhengyu on the city wall saw this situation, he hurriedly ordered his soldiers to urge the young men and soldiers on the city wall to start throwing rolling wooden thunderstones down.

This time the fierce siege battle began.

Due to the insufficient preparation of Longchengguan, there were not many rolling wood and thunder stones on the top of the city. At the beginning, it caused huge damage to the Annan prisoners who attacked the city.

But as time went by, there were fewer and fewer rolling wood and thunder stones, and the soldiers and young men on the top of the city had to pick up weapons and go up to fight with the Annan captives who were besieging the city.

But these people on the tower are either old and weak soldiers, or farmers who have just been recruited. How can they be the opponents of the trained Annan prisoners downstairs.

As a result, it didn't take long for Leilei to be killed and wounded from the top of the building. Ruan Zhengyu saw that this was not an option, so he had no choice but to send the soldiers brought back by Ding Hao to the tower.

There are about 6000 of these soldiers. Originally, Ruan Zhengyu would use them as a reserve team at the last moment, but judging from the current situation on the tower, if you don't join the reserve team now, I am afraid that without you, Longcheng Pass will be closed in two hours. I can't keep it.

With this new force joining the city tower, it finally stabilized.

But there are too few soldiers and horses, and they are just delaying time by joining the city wall.

An hour later, Jirigla blew the horn and made his troops withdraw.

Next, Dutong Jiya of the Zhengbai Banner and Dutong Menggen of the Xiangbai Banner began to take over their siege.

Chapter 644 Critical

Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner took over Jirigra's attack. This time, these two banners have seen that the soldiers on the top of the city are tired, and they think this is a good time for them to make contributions.

So the one with the white flag was in charge of Ji Ya, and the one with the white flag was in charge of Meng Gen. The two men discussed it and felt that this time the battle should be done in one go, directly breaking the will of the guards on the top of the city.

So the two immediately ordered their cavalry to drive away the captives they had obtained and attack the city desperately.

Now the two of them are not like when Jirigra attacked the city, they are divided into waves of attacks, and now they order all the captives to swarm up.

Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner fought desperately to attack the city, and the defenders on the top of the city couldn't stand it anymore.

These defenders managed to hold the city wall with great difficulty. Seeing the enemy retreat, they wanted to take a break at first, but now they changed again, which made the defenders feel even more tired.

The boredom that this person has produced psychologically has very obvious manifestations physically.

And the captives below are now starting to attack the city, and these people on the top of the city, seeing tens of thousands of people attacking together, also feel unprecedented despair.

But the captive soldiers below saw hope instead. As long as they break through the Longcheng Pass, they can save their lives and get rewards.

So these people are desperate this time, they don't care about the various rolling logs and stones flying from above, they are desperately climbing to the top of the city.

As long as one person falls from the ladder, the people behind will immediately make up for it, without giving the defenders on the tower any respite.

And the Eight Banners cavalry not far behind the city tower used their superb cavalry skills to provide non-stop support behind.

This caused even greater losses to the defenders on the top of the city. These people had to brave the rain of arrows and throw logs and thunderstones down the city.The captive soldiers spent a bloody battle climbing up the stairs, but it didn't take long for them to be unable to hold on from the head.

Ruan Zhengyu had many such situations, and hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to go to reinforce them. Although these soldiers were very brave, they were not many in number.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Li Guangqing hurried to Ruan Zhengyu's side.

"Your Majesty, the matter is urgent. Your Majesty immediately ordered all the men in the city to go to the city immediately, and ordered the strong women to gather under the tower and wait for reinforcements at any time."

Ruan Zhengyu shuddered when he heard this, if he really told Li Guangqing like this, then after this war, there might not be many people left at Longcheng Pass.

Seeing Ruan Zhengyu's hesitation, Li Guangqing stomped his feet angrily, what time has it come, and the benevolence of these women.

"My lord, think about the millions of people behind Longcheng Pass, think about the ancestors of the Ruan family."

After hearing this, Ruan Zhengyu immediately gave up his hesitation. He also knew that it was time to cut off his tail to survive. To sacrifice the people of Longcheng Pass and protect the safety of millions of people, this business is capable.

So Ruan Zhengyu didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered his own soldiers to separate out a part, call all the men in the city, and drive them to the tower.

While Ruan Zhengyu and the others were discussing here, a change occurred on the top of the city.

Now there are fewer and fewer soldiers on the top of the city, and they are gradually unable to resist the attacks of those captive soldiers.

Seeing the crisis, Ruan Zhengyu immediately pulled out the sword beside him, and said to the ministers of civil and military affairs behind him: "Once the Dragon City Pass is broken, we will die without a place to die. Since this is the case, it is better to fight to the death, and maybe we can fight back!" enemy."

After Ruan Zhengyu finished speaking, he rushed forward with his sword in hand, and the civil and military officials behind him all looked at each other in blank dismay.

All the generals blushed a little, so they drew their swords and followed Ruan Zhengyu up.

But these civil servants didn't take it seriously. What's the use of them going up without the power to restrain the chicken?Isn't it a chance for the Central Plains to set up an army to attack?

So these civil servants, not only did not follow their king to charge, but let their guards escort them back into the city tower.

Prime Minister Li Guangqing stomped his feet angrily when he saw the appearance of these literati, but at this critical moment, he really had nothing to do with them, so he could only go forward and persuade him: "You are all the pillars of the country. Send your own soldiers to reinforce them."

After hearing Li Guangqing's words, these civil servants also blushed, and finally nodded silently one by one. Li Guangqing saw that they agreed and immediately ordered the soldiers of these people to follow him to the top of the city.

Ruan Zhengyu led his men to fight desperately. In this battle, only the corpses were strewn across the city tower. In the end, the rolling logs and thunder stones were not enough. The soldiers defending the city directly used the corpses of their comrades as rolling logs and threw them down to attack The captured soldiers in the city.

But even so, Ruan Zhengyu and the others couldn't hold on any longer. The three thousand old and weak soldiers at Longcheng Pass had all been lost, and the thousands of strong men they had recruited had also been lost. Ding Hao's thousands of soldiers and horses had also been lost In the battle just now, there were many casualties, and in the end even Ruan Zhengyu's civil and military ministers' personal soldiers were very few left.

Meng Gen saw that the resistance on the city was getting weaker and weaker, and he immediately smiled. He knew that the city would be broken at this time.