The war kicked off as scheduled.

Longjing Pass, Hongshankou, and Da'ankou were also attacked by fiercely by the Later Jin army.

These passes of the Great Wall were built in a narrow place at the entrance of the valley, guarding a dangerous place. Even if the army of the Later Jin Dynasty was large, it was difficult to unfold. It could only invest hundreds of people at a time, and rely on waves of continuous attacks to consume the strength of the defenders.

Under the command of Yi Ai, the general of Hongshankou, there were only 500 defenders. Last evening, the Later Jin army had set up camps on the grassland outside the Hongshankou Pass, and all the non-combatants evacuated overnight.

The remaining 400 people, fully armed, gathered together when it was dawn to mobilize before the battle.

General Yi Ai stood on the stage, pointed to the sound of trumpets coming from outside the wall, and said loudly: "This is the trumpet of the attack by the Later Jin army! Here, it will be the brunt of the brunt!"

Everyone has a solemn face and knows what this means.

In front of the Later Jin army, this pass could not be stopped at all. And their border troops would inevitably die here as the fall of this pass.

"You... all have the determination to die, I know!" Yi Ai continued to shout, "Master Yuan knows, and Madam knows too!"

"But the military order given to me by the Grand Master will not be able to tell everyone until now!"

"We don't need to die here, but if we can't hold on for a day and a night, then we will all be executed!"

"Now, tell me, can you stick to this time tomorrow? Then, with victory, leave no ground, safely evacuate?"

Everyone was stunned. Liu Zongmin pulled out the Yanling knife from his waist, raised his arms and shouted: "Yes!"

"Yes!" Everyone woke up like a dream and spoke out one after another.

It's just that the sound is uneven, it sounds like noisy and not neat at all.

Yi Ai was very dissatisfied and shouted sternly: "I can't hear it! Can you?!"

"able!"

Everyone raised their weapons, shouted in unison.

This time, Yi Ai finally nodded with satisfaction and said loudly: "Very good! This is what it looks like! Liu Zongmin, you lead the team to take the lead! The others are ready for battle!"

The four hundred defenders were divided into four teams, led by four hundred households, and took turns to fight on the city wall.

Liu Zongmin carried a geese-feathered sword, took his order loudly, and took his men to the city wall.

General Yi Ai brought his personal soldiers to several places where others were strictly prohibited from entering. He carefully checked and confirmed that the stored turbid oil and gunpowder were not missing. He then climbed the city wall. Looking at the Later Jin army walking like ants outside the pass, he said to Liu Zongmin beside him: "I'll leave this here to you. Once you can't hold on, you'll immediately signal it!"

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Huang Taiji's troops were divided into three groups and attacked Longjing Pass, Hongshankou and Da'ankou at the same time.

Luo Feiyu had been preparing for this battle for a long time. He had personally walked through every pass and issued a secret order to the pass guards. He only needed to hold on for a day and a night, then set fire to blow up the pass and remove everyone.

Even the retreat routes of each barrier's defenders were set in advance so that they would not know where to evacuate temporarily.

As soon as the battle came, news flew from the passes like snow and gathered in Jizhou City.

Then the Jingqi rode out of Jizhou City and rushed to his respective destinations.

A big net has been set up, and now Huang Taiji, the big fish, has come as scheduled, waiting for him to enter the net.

Luo Feiyu has not left Jizhou City yet.

This place is less than a hundred miles away from the three passes in the fierce battle, and all kinds of movements can be reported on the same day.

The next morning, according to the booked plan, the three pass guards should abandon the pass and retreat, but before retreating, they would ignite tin oil and destroy the pass.

This can at least stop the Later Jin army from half a day to one day, and allow the defenders to evacuate calmly.

At Hongshankou, fierce fighting continued day and night, and more than half of the defenders had suffered casualties.

Liu Zongmin was wearing several wounds on his body, wrapped in white cloth, but his spirit was still high. But even though he and his subordinates were still fighting, with such a little tired army, he could not defend this Hongshan Pass at all. At most, he would fall.

General Yi Ai was very satisfied with the current results of the battle. He waved his hand and ordered: "Retreat!"

The surviving soldiers, holding the slightly injured, carrying the seriously injured, and out in a row.

Liu Zongmin frowned, came to Yi Ai with the other three hundred households, and asked in a low voice: "General, you..."

On the wall, there are only more than 30 personal soldiers under the general Yi Ai. They have not participated in the battle, but are now sticking to the wall. Everyone thinks that they will cut off the back of everyone here.

Yi Ai reached out and patted their shoulders one by one, laughed and replied, "Don't worry, the Grand Master has been prepared for a long time. You can take the people to leave with confidence. I will tell you where to go, so as to follow the order to evacuate. After I finish this last thing, I will catch up later!"

Liu Zongmin said: "General, let me stay and help!"

Yi Ai shook his head and replied, "Take people to evacuate, it is the military order for you! Don't waste your time anymore, now, leave!"

The military orders were like mountains, and everyone knew. General Yi Ai said this, and Liu Zongmin and the other two could only leave according to the order. They turned around three times, but they didn't know how Yi Ai had only brought thirty personal soldiers to break the rear.

Outside the pass, the shouts of killing sounded loudly, and the Later Jin army couldn't wait to start attacking the key points.

Buckets of turmeric oil were thrown down from the wall and fell on the rocks, smashing to pieces. The turmeric oil inside splashed everywhere and flowed down the mountain road.

The soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty began to charge, and the arrows were hissing, but the distance was still far, and even the soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty who were good at shooting could not shoot the arrows onto the wall.

General Yi Ai stepped onto the wall and threw the last bucket of turmeric oil down. He immediately said coldly: "Light!"

Thirty personal soldiers fired their bows and arrows, and rockets shot out from the wall. They shot an arrow and immediately turned around and left.

The general Yi Yi Ai was still standing on the city wall. Outside the pass, there was a fluffy sound, the tinder was ignited, and balls of flames rose into the air and spread rapidly.

Although the charging Hou Jin soldiers knew that the tincture was flowing on the mountain road and everyone knew what the Ming army was going to do, there was no order to withdraw the troops, and no one dared to run back. They could only keep moving forward, hoping to rush to the bottom of the city wall before the fire started.

Yi Ai looked at the fire ignited outside the pass coldly, and swept the Houjin soldiers in, and a sense of pleasure rose in his heart.

But he didn't have time to watch more here, walked down the wall, took the torch from his personal soldiers, waited for everyone to leave, lit the fuse directly, then threw the torch, turned around and took the two personal soldiers, ran away.

Boom boom boom boom!

The sound of noise was muffled, shaking the sky and the earth. Liu Zongmin and others had already walked away, and at this moment they could not help but turn around. Looking at the smoke and dust rising from the pass and the flames rising from the sky, they couldn't help but lose their horror.
Chapter completed!