"Fool, with Jizhou's current strength, how can there be ambush soldiers? According to what you said, there are at least 10,000 soldiers in ambush. With so many people in ambush, how could there not be the slightest movement?"

Yan Gang returned to Gongsun Chan, and after reporting the situation, he was immediately scolded by Gongsun Chan.

Yan Gang thought about it at this time, and it seemed that he was right. Such a big movement, ambush of 10,000 soldiers, the spies should have discovered it a long time ago, there is no reason not to know anything. Moreover, after they retreated, Zhang He did not pursue, which is also very unreasonable. Thinking of this, Yan Gang's cold sweat couldn't stop flowing.

"The last will be guilty, and he will be punished!"

Yan Gang knelt on the ground and said respectfully. He knows Gongsun Zhan's temperament, and at this time, it is better for him not to shirk his responsibility, and it is better to admit his guilt directly.

"Forget it, you can't blame you for this matter at all, it seems that the other party's general is a capable guy. ”

Gongsun Chan waved his hand and did not hold Yan Gang accountable. Now is the time of war, and if Yan Gang is punished, I am afraid that it will cause bad results. Moreover, Yan Gang was originally a pioneer, and his main purpose was to explore the enemy's reality and reality, and Yan Gang was not defeated in this battle. Therefore, Gongsun Chan did not intend to continue the investigation.

"The last general thanked the lord, and the last general asked to lead his troops to attack Huguan again, and he must take Huguan. ”

Yan Gang was relieved to see that Gongsun Zhan did not punish him. However, thinking that he was put on a position by the other party, he was extremely unhappy and wanted to fight again.

Gongsun Zhan suddenly got up, gritted his teeth and said: "Yuan Shao is selfish, which can be seen when the coalition forces fought against Dong. Later, he used my prestige to seize Jizhou, and handed over half of Jizhou to me without keeping his promise. It killed my brother, and this time I will personally lead my troops to attack Huguan. Take the pot pass, Yecheng is the bag, I want to take Yuan Shao's head to worship my brother's soul. Yan Gang, you go to the Yellow Turban Army to spread the word, and ask them to set off with me to Huguan immediately. ”

"Oh, the last general obeys!"

Yan Gang commanded, turned around and strode out of the camp.

A quarter of an hour later, Gongsun Zhan's army advanced from camp. The more than 50,000 Yellow Turbans also set off at the same time, and when the Yellow Turbans approached Gongsun Chan for cooperation, they promised that they would only plunder property and food, and would never harm anyone's life. Therefore, Gongsun Chan agreed to cooperate with the other party. Goods and food are gone, and they can be reproduced, but when the population is gone, they are really gone. As long as Jizhou is taken, he can develop slowly, and when the time comes, he will have no difficulty in sweeping away the alien races.

Gongsun Zhan has always believed in the belief that "the heart of the non-ethnic group must be different", and his ambition since childhood is to sweep away the foreign race, and since then only the Han people have survived. For dominating the world, Gongsun Chan has never had such an idea, as long as the world is the world of the Han people, it doesn't matter to him who is the emperor, as long as it is not a foreign race.

To put it simply, Gongsun Chan has a paranoid hostile attitude towards other races.

It's just that the strength of the alien race is not weak, and it is also extremely fierce when fighting. In particular, the alien race grew up on horseback, and it was difficult to fight the alien race without enough troops. Therefore, Gongsun Chan felt that he had to first control the power of Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Liangzhou, which were handed over to the aliens, before he could do his best to fight against the aliens. As for the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, it will be handed over to those who want to dominate the world, and he will concentrate on attacking foreign races.

When the tiger prison was connected to the army, Gongsun Zhan saw that Yuan Shu had the intention of transgression, so he cooperated with him. Gongsun Chan helped Yuan Shu eliminate Yuan Shao and seize Jizhou, while Yuan Shuri supported Gongsun Chan in fighting against the aliens, and the two sides did not have the slightest conflict. Moreover, the death of Gongsun Yue, the younger brother of Gongsun Zhan, is also related to Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Chan also has a reason to send troops to attack Yuan Shao.

Now, because of Liu Yu's gentle policy towards the alien race, the alien race has calmed down a little, and it is just the right time to give Gongsun Zhan the opportunity to seize Jizhou. With Jizhou's abundant money, grain and population as the foundation, it will be easier to take Liangzhou and merge the state.

After Gongsun Zhan's army and the remnants of the gold advanced to five miles in front of Huguan, Yan Gang ordered his cronies to investigate in the woods, and sure enough, he found that there was no sign of a large group of people in the forest.

Yan Gang was extremely angry and vowed to take revenge.

Subsequently, Gongsun Chan ordered the army to set up camp and cut down trees in the woods west of Huguan to make siege equipment. Huguan originally had more than 10,000 defenders, and Yecheng sent 10,000 soldiers to help, but when Zhang He and Yan Gang fought, they also lost 1,000 people. Now there are less than 20,000 defenders in Huguan, and they can only watch as Gongsun Zhan's soldiers cut down trees and make siege equipment.

After a night of rushing work, before the sun rose the next day, fifty ladders and ten trebuchets were finally built. For a while, Gongsun Zhan's camp was in full swing, but in the Huguan, it was gloomy.

Zhang He, Dong Zhao, and Feng Ji looked at the situation in Gongsun Zhan's army from the top of Huguan, and the three of them frowned. Looking at Gongsun Zhan's appearance, it seems that he intends to storm Huguan, even if there is the benefit of the city wall, with Gongsun Zhan's 100,000 army and 50,000 yellow turbans, the population can fill the Huguan.

Feng Ji's eyes rolled, and he said: "Now Gongsun Zhan has built a cloud ladder and trebuchet, which is the most dangerous to our army. You can send a general to lead the cavalry out of the pass to assault and destroy Gongsun Zhan's siege equipment, otherwise there will be heavy casualties in Huguan. ”

Zhang He said loudly: "I am willing to go out of the customs, and I will complete the task even if I die." ”

"No!"

Dong Zhao stopped him, and glanced at Feng Ji imperceptibly, he was not stupid, he had already seen that Feng Ji wanted to kill people with a knife. It's just that Dong Zhao didn't know what grudge Feng Ji and Zhang He had, and he wanted to frame him. What's more, now is the time when the two armies are fighting, and the only general who can command the troops in Huguan is Zhang He, and Zhang He's ability has also been shown yesterday, according to Dong Zhao's personal opinion, Zhang He's ability is definitely stronger than Wen Chou and Yan Liang, who only have the courage of a horseman. Thinking of this, Dong Zhao felt a little chilled, what time is it now, Feng Ji still has the heart to frame his colleagues. If Dong Zhao knew that Feng Ji wanted to frame Zhang He only because the two did not ask Feng Ji's opinion when they discussed it yesterday, I am afraid it would be even more chilling. Moreover, Dong Zhao is also on the list of Fengji's frame-up cases.

"Dong joins the army, why can't it? If Gongsun Zan is allowed to attack, how can the current defenders of Huguan be defended? If Huguan is lost, Yecheng will be in no danger to defend. When the lord returns, what face will I have to see the lord?"

Zhang He retorted urgently.

Dong Zhao secretly praised in his heart, Zhang He is such a loyal and righteous person, Feng Ji even wants to frame him? Dong Zhao has always heard that Yuan Shao's advisers are intriguing and fighting for power and profit, and today when he sees Feng Ji's behavior, he is even more convinced in his heart.

Dong Zhao admired Zhang He's loyalty and righteousness, and naturally didn't want him to be framed by Feng Ji, so he explained in a deep voice: "If you can destroy Gongsun Zhan's siege equipment, I will definitely not object." However, there is not the slightest possibility of a cavalry assault. Gongsun Zhan's [White Horse Yicong] was an elite cavalryman, so how could Gongsun Chan not think of our approach? Once General Zhang went out of the pass to make a surprise attack, he would inevitably be intercepted by the [White Horse Yicong], and when the time came, not only could he not destroy the siege equipment, but he would also take the lives of his soldiers in vain. ”

Zhang He was silent, he had also heard of the power of the [White Horse Yicong] under Gongsun Zhan. Now listening to Dong Zhao's explanation, he no longer insists.

Feng Ji was dissatisfied with Dong Zhao's conspiracy to destroy him, squinted his eyes, and asked with a sneer: "Dong joins the army, since you can't go out of the customs to raid, I don't know if Dong joins the army has a clever strategy?"

Dong Zhao shook his head and sighed: "The only way to do this now is to defend the Huguan Pass and wait for the arrival of the lord and reinforcements from all over the country." As a subordinate, what I can do is to do my best to guard the kettle pass and be worthy of the lord's entrustment. ”

"Humph!"

Feng Ji snorted coldly, but he stopped talking.

Outside the Huguan, after the soldiers prepared the ladder and trebuchet, Gongsun Zhan looked at the Huguan, waved his hand, and shouted: "The whole army is attacking!

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

"Promotions and fortunes are only in the future!"

The soldiers under the command of Gongsun Zhan charged towards Huguan with red eyes, and the 10,000 soldiers were divided into ten teams and drove the ladder straight to Huguan. Gongsun Chan has the talent to command the army, so naturally he will not let the 100,000 army rush out in a swarm, which will not only prevent the soldiers from spreading, but will cause his own soldiers to trample on it. The 10,000 soldiers were followed by 5,000 soldiers pushing the trebuchet, which had to be cast by 500 men in order to be able to use it.

And 50,000 yellow turbans also sent 10,000 to follow the battle. If you follow the practice of the yellow scarf, it will naturally rush up in a swarm. However, Gongsun Chan naturally wouldn't let this happen, and asked them to send 10,000 people to follow their soldiers to climb the ladder to attack Huguan.

"General Zhang, the two of us are not as good as you in commanding the troops, so I will leave it to you to command this time. ”

"Whoa!"

Zhang He did not refuse, he stood in front with a solemn expression, the sword at his waist was drawn, and he pointed obliquely at Gongsun Zhan's army. The archers had already put their arrows on the bowstring, and they could fire thousands of arrows at the same time as long as Zhang He gave the order.

Zhang He looked at the bottom of the Huguan, and did not give an order immediately, calmly watching the Gongsun Zhan soldiers and the Yellow Turban approaching the Huguan, five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps... One hundred steps. When the enemy army in the front approached a hundred paces, Zhang He's eyes lit up, his sword was swung down, and the three thousand archers who were waiting immediately let go, and the arrows shot at the enemy like locusts.

Suddenly, the screams under the pot closed continued, and more than 1,000 people fell down in a blink of an eye.

The range of the archers is 200 paces, Zhang He spares the enemy in front of him, and when he is close to 100 paces, he orders the archers to shoot, so that the archers' shots can reach the target. And the bow and arrow fell from the Huguan, coupled with the power of the shot, it was able to injure more than 1,000 enemy soldiers in one round, which was already a very brilliant result.

However, only a few hundred of the more than 1,000 people who fell were killed, and the rest stood up, with arrows stuck in their bodies, and continued to charge. After a short time, it was already close to the Huguan city wall. Zhang He did not panic in the slightest, and ordered another round of archers to step forward and continue to release arrows, and more than 1,000 people fell.

After three rounds of volleys, nearly 2,000 casualties were inflicted on the soldiers under Gongsun Chan and the Yellow Turban Army.

At this time, the rest of the troops had also come to the city wall of Huguan, set up a ladder, and prepared to climb Huguan.

"Ready!"

Zhang He raised his saber again, and the soldiers who had already prepared lifted boulders and rolled oil, and when the ten ladders were full of people, Zhang He's saber swung down. The soldiers threw boulders and oil down, and suddenly Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and the Yellow Turban Army rained down the ladder.

Dong Zhao watched from the sidelines, and praised it even more in his heart.

Zhang He can still remain calm and command properly in such a situation, and he will definitely become a general in the future. And Zhang He is loyal, but he is a rare general.