The embarrassed cavalrymen saw Huang Xuan and wept one by one.

Huang Xuan's heart was anxious, so he shouted and asked:

"It's all seven-foot men, crying so much?

One of the well-spoken cavalrymen intermittently explained what had happened to them. It turned out that when Dugu Yanjing and 300 cavalry were camping and resting outside the Iron Gate Pass, the defenders inside the Iron Gate Pass suddenly launched a surprise attack, and they were caught off guard by most of the dead and wounded, and less than two or three out of ten escaped.

After hearing the exact news, Huang Xuan, who had been worried, calmed down, since he already knew that there were indeed people with ill intentions stationed in the Iron Gate Pass, then there was an enemy on the surface, which was a hundred times stronger than carefully guarding against the enemy who came out of nowhere along the way.

"Where is the long history of Dugu?"

Dugu Changshi naturally refers to Dugu Yanjing, Dugu Yanjing has a long history in the Shazhou Army, which can be regarded as Huang Xuan's arm, if there is no such person, it will be a big loss.

But the cavalryman continued to weep:

"When the camp was attacked, we were separated from Dugu Changshi, and we still don't know whether Changshi is alive or dead!"

Huang Xuan asked again:

"How long have you been hiding in the back of the hill?"

"There's always half a day and half a night!"

This answer made Huang Xuan's heart sink, there has been no news of Dugu Yanjing for such a long time, I am afraid that it is more than auspicious, otherwise it is impossible for him not to get in touch with the team all the time if he breaks out of the encirclement.

"What do you know about the situation inside the Iron Gate?"

"We, we drank mutton soup, and we didn't go in at all, and we didn't go through the iron gate at all......"

A brigade leader behind Huang Xuan was angry and scolded:

"Fools, a bunch of fools, don't they just know how to eat, can't they go into the city to find out what's going on?"

Huang Xuan sighed and said:

"I don't want them either, it should be that Dugu Yanjing strictly abides by the discipline code, otherwise if they enter the gate city for the night, I'm afraid none of them will be able to escape, and at that time, you and I may also be concocted in the same way!"

Hearing this, Lu Yu stomped his foot in a daze.

"Who is the thief in the city?

In the final analysis, two-thirds of the Shazhou army are the children of noble relatives, and although their status has fallen into the quagmire, their temper will not change overnight. This brigade rate is from a noble relative, and he is naturally open-mouthed when he speaks.

Huang Xuan looked at the cavalrymen and asked:

"Do you remember the road leading to the Iron Gate Pass from here?"

A dozen horsemen nodded in unison.

"Remember, remember!"

After thinking for a while, Huang Xuan still shook his head.

"The defenders in the Tiemen Pass are not ordinary bandits and horse bandits, they should have a deep relationship with the Anxi Army, we are now less than ten miles away from the Tiemen Pass, and they must be within their reconnaissance range, maybe they are already under surveillance at this time, and the sneak attack is impossible!"

Although this sentence is a bit of a self-talk, as long as anyone with a little brain can understand it, Huang Xuan actually wants to storm the Iron Gate!

Although Tiemen Pass is a small gate city in the Western Regions, the scale is incomparable with the major dangerous passes in the Central Plains, but after all, it is a well-armed gate, controlling the main road leading to Yanqi from Qiuzi, and only these 4,000 people want to break the city, I don't know how many people will die......

However, Huang Xuan had absolute prestige in the Shazhou Army, and both the two people in the Hexi Army and the 3,000 prisoners recognized his decision.

When the sky was about to dawn, Huang Xuan led the exhausted Shazhou army to arrive outside the Iron Gate Pass.

Unexpectedly, the iron gate closed the city gate, and the * battle flag on the head of the city was waving in the wind, but at this moment, it was dazzling and ironic.

Although he didn't see the thieves in the Iron Gate Pass, Huang Xuan, who had many years of experience in battle battles, still smelled the smell of danger, and at this time it seemed calm on the surface, but it was under this calm that there were many dangers hidden.

Of course, Huang Xuan would never be so stupid as to rush forward with only more than 4,000 people, with the scale of the Iron Gate Pass, even if two or three thousand people are stationed in the city, it is more than enough, not to mention whether there are these people in the city, even if there are only three or five hundred people, more than 4,000 Shazhou troops can be exhausted by virtue of the strong city.

"Shoot a few people to shout and see how the city responds!"

Soon, several high-pitched soldiers were sent to the front and shouted to the city.

"Listen to the people in the city, let your lord come out to talk, if you actively cooperate with everything, it will be good to discuss, otherwise it will ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the city responded with a rain of arrows, and one of the soldiers was unable to dodge and was grazed by the arrows on his arm.

Seeing this, Huang Xuan hurriedly ordered someone to call back those soldiers with loud voices, and the most unaffordable thing at this time was people. The current Shazhou army is less than 5,000 people, and it must not make senseless sacrifices under the iron gate.

After the rain of arrows forced back the shouting Shazhou soldiers, the city also began to shout to the city.

"The people under the city listen well, hurry up and get out of the egg with their tails between their legs, maybe they can escape with their lives, otherwise the three hundred cavalry will be the end of your waiting!"

It was a threat to the Shazhou army to leave quickly.

The officers and men of the Shazhou Army rolled up their arms and sleeves one by one, gearing up for a big fight. Although they were all convicts in the past and did not have much cohesion, after all, after going through thousands of miles in the past few months, stumbling to the present, they have long established a relationship between them that is not easy to be noticed.

Huang Xuan has experienced a hundred battles in the Shenwu Army, and he is no longer a chick who has gone out to the battlefield, so he naturally will not be afraid of this intimidation with no one and no deterrent.

"Retreat to camp three miles away, make food and rest!"

This order exceeded everyone's expectations, originally everyone thought that a vicious battle was just around the corner, who would have thought that they would actually have to make a meal.

It was only at this time that the soldiers felt hungry, and they had not slept all night and marched hastily, so they were already exhausted, and rest was also what they wanted.

After noon, the Turkic tribesmen actually caught up, about three or five hundred. The leader is still the elder who negotiated with Huang Xuan that day.

"After the unanimous discussion of the tribesmen, it was decided to help the general quell the chaos, and I only hope that after the general comes to calm Anxi, he must treat our people well!"

This was a pleasant surprise, and at the same time, it also caused Huang Xuan to change his preconceived view of the Turks. In all kinds of propaganda and rumors of the government and the opposition, the Turks have always presented themselves as negative figures, but now it seems that the real situation seems to be quite different from it, and those who can help in the snow, no matter what the reason is, are worthy of respect.

So, Huang Xuan, who rarely showed his right arm, swore to heaven that as long as he was alive, he would treat this Turkic people as well as he could.

After receiving this assurance, the Turkic elder breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said bluntly:

"The defenders in the Iron Gate Pass are less than a thousand people, if the general can attack the Guancheng, he will definitely be able to kill them all with his absolute superiority!"

This suggestion made by the Turkic elders was immediately ridiculed by the generals around Huang Xuan.

"If it's so easy to break through the city, what's the use of closing the city?

"Who said no, the siege has always been hundreds of dead people, it's easy to say, it's better to make a demonstration for us to see......"

Fortunately, these Turks do not understand Chinese and cannot understand exactly what these people mean, and even if they are aware of what they realize in their expressions and tones, it is only speculation. Huang Xuan knew the Turkic language, so he said to the Turkic elders:

"Tonight's siege of the city, you have to rest well during the day, and be ready to enter the city at any time to fight!"

"Into the city?"

The Turkic elder was also stunned, his suggestion was just a statement, and the point was to show that there were not many people in Guancheng. But he never expected that this Tang general would really attack the fortified city, and it was a strong attack at night!

"No, no, the walls of Guancheng are tall, even if they are captured by the general, the general will not gain more than he loses......"

In this regard, Huang Xuan seemed calm and relaxed, as if he was very sure.

According to the intelligence of the Turks, since there were less than 1,000 people in the city, they would definitely not go out of the city to attack, which allowed the Shazhou army to rest peacefully. However, Huang Xuan still didn't dare to be careless, and arranged 1,000 people to be ready for battle at any time, and the remaining 3,000 people all rested and recuperated.

During this period, Huang Xuan was not idle, but took more than 100 cavalry retinues to wander along the vicinity of Tiemen Pass to survey the terrain. This move is not only unknown within the Shazhou army, but even the thieves in the customs are confused.

In the meantime, Huang Xuan also dismounted from time to time, squatted down and picked the soil under his feet with a horizontal knife. The soil here is different from that of Guanzhong, but it is by no means as soft as sand. As the sun was approaching, he finally returned to the barracks with his entourage.

The first thing he did when he returned to the barracks was to select the most powerful soldiers, roughly a thousand of them, divided into five teams, and arrived at a place a stone's throw away from the city.

"Dig, a tunnel leading to the bottom of the city!"

Digging tunnels, this is also a common method when attacking the city, but the opponent's city defense is tight, how can it be obediently waiting for the Shazhou army to dig through the tunnel?

"Calculate the distance and dig until you reach the bottom of the city!"

It was only at this moment that Huang Xuan took out the secret weapons of the three major cars, and lifted the thick oiled paper covering it, revealing a black lacquer powder lump inside, and people with insight should recognize it.

“*？”

The corners of Huang Xuan's mouth showed a sneer, it was indeed *. When he was in Zhangye, he accepted Zhou Mi's critical order, but he made a request, that is, to go to Zhangye's arsenal to choose weapons at will. What I never expected was that it was found in the arsenal*.

* Before the Shenwu Army promoted this kind of thing, it was just an alchemy by-product of the Taoist Fangshi, and it could be taken out and used when pretending to be a ghost. It wasn't until the firearms of the Shenwu Army became famous all over the world that the major border towns hoarded a lot* in the same way, waiting for emergencies.

Huang Xuan brought it up without saying a word, packed all the * into the car, and took it away, which finally came in handy today!