The words are divided into two ends.

On the morning of February 14, outside Yangping Pass.

The second day of the attack on Yangping Pass.

Before yesterday afternoon, Guan Yu took the lead in arriving at Yangping Pass with thousands of pioneers of the main force, and immediately began to build simple flying ladders, and construction to destroy the moat, trap and sheep and horse wall in front of the pass.

At the same time, he frantically fired arrows at the head of the city with a large rattan card, without any regard for the lethal exchange ratio that was far inferior to the enemy.

After an afternoon and a whole night of bloody battles, especially the efficient destruction under the cover of night, Guan Yu, who paid hundreds of lives and nearly 1,000 wounded, used the fastest speed to fill in several gaps in the city and river for the army to pass, and also destroyed all the outer obstacles and fortifications.

Early this morning, Liu Bei also came with the remaining main force, and the Han army concentrated 20,000 people and camped outside the pass to attack in turn.

Because of the lack of time, heavy equipment such as ladders must not be able to be built, and wooden donkey carts cannot be used. There are only simple ladders, and simple rams that cut down trees and carry them to hit the city gates.

Liu Bei knew very well in his heart that according to the reconnaissance before the war, there were at least 10,000 defenders in this Yangping Pass in a non-wartime state, accounting for a small half of the entire military strength of Hanzhong.

Therefore, even if Zhang Wei took away the main force guarding the pass, the siege rhythm must still be stepped up - as long as the guard general found that someone was tackling the problem, he immediately asked for help in the direction of Hanzhong, counting the round-trip time and emergency mobilization, at most three days later, the reinforcements from the southern Zheng county seat of Hanzhong County will come.

Before the arrival of the Nanzheng soldiers, they could not break through the Yangping Pass, and the defenders on the pass were replenished, and the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain was in vain. At best, it is only to kill Zhang Wei and defeat thousands of the enemy's living forces, which will not help the overall situation.

Whether Zhang Wei's garbage dies or not does not affect the overall situation at all, the pass is the key!

"It's the second day! Must be beaten before sunset tomorrow! Attacking day and night is not allowed to give the enemy a chance to breathe! Don't worry about casualties, the whole army will rush to my death!

Now is the weakest time in Yangping Pass, after yesterday afternoon and a night of fierce fighting, now there are less than two thousand people left in the city! The first to ascend will be crowned with other Sima! Originally, he was the commander of the Sima Dynasty! The captain is the first to be crowned the captain! ”

Liu Bei personally risked the arrows and stones to wave his double swords to supervise the battle in front of the battle, dozens of Danyang soldiers around him held big shields to cover them, and the Han army rushed up.

However, Liu Bei still pays attention to strategy, he knows that it is not easy to highlight martial arts in this kind of unfancy battle, and the soldiers consumed at the beginning are purely cannon fodder.

Therefore, their own descendant troops should also be divided into three, six, nine and so on:

The Youzhou soldiers are not good at attacking the city, so there is no need to consume them indiscriminately, so they are only responsible for suppressing the arrows.

Danyang soldiers are the elite of climbing and fighting, and they can be used as a reserve team to suddenly increase their impact when the situation is more anxious.

And most of the time, he had to count on the Hedong soldiers who had just been selected from the White Wave Thief captives before Guan Yu entered Sichuan to be cannon fodder.

Who let them have been thieves for a long time, and their qualifications are short anyway, this can only be arranged like this at this time.

In order to boost morale, Guan Yu also put on a posture of advancing and retreating with the Hedong soldiers, and dismounted to supervise the battle there. However, it was Xu Huang who actually served as the commander of the arrow to ascend the city.

After this battle, the 5,000 Hedong soldiers don't know if 3,000 people will come back alive. Alas, who let us be white wave thieves, I hope that after the war, General Zhenxi can completely trust our surviving people. ”

Xu Huang was also conflicted in his heart, but he knew that this reason could not be lifted, so he had to fight to the death in order to make meritorious contributions.

He had already led his troops to the city three times with shields in person, and slashed and killed more than ten people with his own hands, but in the end they were all killed.

Xu Huang himself relied on his martial arts skills and was not injured by the enemy's blade, but every time he was pushed down by the swarming enemy army with a shield from the gap in the five-zhang high city wall. Even in order to push a fierce general like Xu Huang down, the enemy couldn't hold back and rolled down together.

Fortunately, the base of the city wall was also covered with thick corpse pads, and the fall from a height of twelve meters was only a minor injury.

Those rice thief soldiers who were shot down under the wall but were still alive in the chaotic battle, in order to survive in a desperate situation, still fought fiercely on the ground, but without exception, they were all hacked to death by the Han soldiers.

At least 1,000 corpses from both sides were piled up under the city.

At the head of the city, there were even more dead people, and corpses kept filling the battlements of the women's wall, which were pushed down by the defenders who felt that they were in the way. even pushed the corpses of his own people, which shows that the two sides have completely beaten their eyes.

Lu Su was also a little at a loss when he looked at the battle situation so tragically in front of the battle, although he had the potential to be a famous general, after all, he was still too young and had too little knowledge. Since following Liu Bei, I have never seen a bloody battle of this level.

He couldn't help but persuade: "General, it's inevitable to waste people's lives in vain...... It is better to attack the heart, please General Guan divide the cavalry to go south, chase and kill Zhang Wei, and rescue Li Zhonglang by the way, as long as the news of Zhang Wei's killing comes back, I am afraid that the morale of the city will soon collapse.

Anyway, the front of this wall is too narrow, and my 20,000 troops can't spread out, and maybe we can let the idle soldiers find a way to climb, even if the mountains on both sides of the valley pass can't cross the Yangping Pass, at least it can attract the attention of some enemy soldiers guarding the pass, so that they are tired and can't take turns to rest. ”

Liu Bei was busy, and waved his hand to beckon: "Zijing, you don't understand, you are a scholar, quickly retreat and avoid arrows." ”

Lu Su arched his hand: "The general personally risked the arrows and stones, how could the staff avoid the arrows." ”

Liu Bei scratched his head: "Okay, I will avoid arrows with Zijing." ”

As he spoke, he pulled Lu Su back an additional fifty steps or so, and the shield array also retreated, so that he could analyze it neatly: "Zhang Wei is familiar with the road, our army is not familiar with the road, and if you want to hurry, you can't reach it." Even if you want to kill Zhang Wei quickly and crush the enemy's morale, it is better to let Yun Chang wait for work.

However, Zi Jing was right in the second half of his sentence, our army was worried that 20,000 people could not be arranged and could not rush up at the same time. Divide the suspicious soldiers to climb the mountain to build momentum, or shoot arrows at the wall near the mountainside, so as to divide the enemy's military situation. ”

Lu Su suddenly realized that his plan was a little taken for granted. At the level of specific details, after all, it is not as knowledgeable as an old oilman like Liu Bei, who has led troops to fight for five years.

As for the other strategists around Liu Bei, they are not useful at present, Zhuge Jin is one or two years younger than Lu Su, but he can only record and study like a clerk in a daze.

After some discussion, the Han army further upgraded its attack strategy:

On the one hand, let Guan Yu take the idle main force of the Youzhou cavalry to the south and set up an ambush at Xiguanyi (later near Yang'an Pass), ready to meet the Zhang Wei reinforcements that should appear today.

Liu Bei also took care of Guan Yu: It would be better if Zhang Wei could be captured alive, so that Zhang Wei could be tied to the front of the pass and tortured and shouted, even if he could not surrender, he could also hit the morale of the enemy army, and let them know that the commander and the main force had really been killed by Liu Bei.

Otherwise, you only get back a human head, a few hundred steps away, and the defenders on the wall don't believe that it is Zhang Wei's head. Before the war, although Liu Bei had already shouted to the city, 'The Han army of 50,000 has attacked', Yang Ang didn't believe it at all, and he also pressed the soldiers to say that this was Liu Bei's rumor. Only by neatly annihilating Zhang Wei and capturing him alive did Yang Ang have to believe that the Han army was indeed huge.

On the other hand, according to what Lu Su said, the soldiers who were crowded behind and could not play were sent to the mountains on both sides as suspicious soldiers.

Liu Bei's army is ten times more numerous, since he wants to break through Yangping Pass in three days and two nights, the most important thing is to continue to attack the city! Wheel warfare ensures that all the defenders can't sleep! 60 hours will even tire you to death!

If there are not many soldiers needed in the front, and give the rice thief soldiers time to sleep in turns, it will be half the effort.

Last night, the Han army was not strong enough to keep all the enemy troops from sleeping, and tonight we must consume it until we can't close our eyes!

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The continuous siege of the city and the war of attrition fought for a long time, and by the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Wei finally rushed back with 4,000 men and horses to rescue and arrived at Xiguanyi, which was still thirty or forty miles away from Yangping Pass.

In fact, his intelligence work was very inadequate, and he didn't even know how many people the Han army came to attack Yangping Pass, which is why he was so bold and marched at full speed. If he knew that Liu Bei had 20,000, I am afraid that he would have been frightened step by step, or simply focused on killing Li Su.

According to Liu Bei's instructions, Guan Yu set up an ambush in Xiguan Post in advance. His Qinglong Knife has been waiting for a long time to be hungry and thirsty, seeing that the other generals of the friendly army have something to do, either rushing to attack the key points, or following Li Su to lure the enemy, but he is squatting here, can he not be depressed?

Guan Yu knew that the place of Xiguanyi was a three-way junction, so he moved part of the ambush troops north along the Xihanshui River Valley in advance, and stopped only after turning a mountain pass, so that the enemy soldiers coming from the south could not be seen.

When Zhang Wei turned from the Xiguan Post and left the bank of the Xihanshui River and rushed towards Yangping Pass, Guan Yujun killed from both sides of the road as soon as he had just walked three or four miles.

At the same time, the troops ambushed at the three-way intersection also saw the beacon smoke signal to kill, and the front and rear flanking intercepted Zhang Wei in the middle.

Because Guan Yu used the Youzhou cavalry, he couldn't go to the high places on both sides of the mountain road to set up ambushes and crossbows to shoot, and he could only use the most open sword and spear frontal melee charge, but even so it was enough to deal with Zhang Wei.

The number of troops on both sides is about the same, how can the rice thief soldiers be the opponents of the Youzhou cavalry that have been tested by more than two years of bloody battles? What's more, the rice thief soldiers still came from afar, and they were physically exhausted.

Zhang Wei originally planned to rest for a while at Xiguanyi, send scouts to find out the situation in front of the pass, and fight again after recovering his strength, Guan Yu traveled dozens of miles to find him, making Zhang Wei's daily rectification operations come to naught.

"Quickly dismount and surrender, follow me to the gate to recruit Yang Ang, and you will not die!" Guan Yu had been saving up his anger for two days without venting, and it seemed to be condensed in these few cold surrenders, as well as the Qinglong knife that was ready to be attacked.

It's a pity that Zhang Wei only understands the generals of the Liangzhou Army, and he is not familiar with outsiders in other places, so he just waited for the order: "The matter has come to this, the whole army will rush over for me!" ”

Then with a wave of the ring-headed sword, the cavalry next to him rushed forward.

He knows that his martial arts are not as good as Yang Ang and Yang Ren, and he is on the throne by blood, of course he will not kill in person, this kind of shouting belongs to a typical "brothers give me up" rather than "brothers follow me".

"I'm afraid of death, for the sake of this bit of self-knowledge, there is another use for leaving your dog's life for the time being." Guan Yu put his long hair into the collar of his robe, so as not to swing the knife too quickly and get in the way for a while, and then rushed up with a swift wind and thunder.

The action, like a billiards player who was originally a hanger, suddenly became serious and stuffed the tie that was thrown out into his suit.

The friendly cavalry next to him didn't feel a slight chill for any reason.

Especially those old subordinates who know him have begun to mourn for Zhang Wei: when General Guan tidied up his beard and stuffed his battle robe before the war, it was when his will to fight quickly exploded to the peak.

"Drink-" Guan Yu rarely roared like his third brother Zhang Fei while slashing, and the rice thief cavalry had no enemy.

Rao was Zhang Wei only let his subordinates charge, or was killed by Guan Yu in front of him with half a cup of tea. There were already hundreds of corpses along the way, dozens of which were killed by Guan Yu himself, and the rest were killed by Youzhou cavalry.

A half-moon knife light flashed by, like a meteor catching the moon and slashing horizontally, Zhang Wei was so frightened that his soul was in a hurry, instinctively erected his weapon to block, and reflexively shrank his neck.

There was a loud "bell" sound, Zhang Weihu's mouth cracked, the blade flew away, and his hands were unable to let go of the weapon, and Guan Yu's knife posture lifted the whole person diagonally from the horse.

However, Guan Yu's knife was fast, accurate and ruthless, and it was calculated that it was slashed from three inches to half a foot from the top of Zhang Wei's helmet - Liu Bei took care of him and captured him alive to tie him to the front of the pass to hit morale, of course Guan Yu did not forget, so this knife was cut a little higher, which was to force Zhang Wei to block, and then capture him alive.

It's a pity that Zhang Wei's whole body shrank when he blocked, and his muscles and joints were all stiff, and he was hit by this knife and lifted up a few inches all over his body, and the knife surface happened to hit the helmet.

Zhang Weiru was hit hard by a giant hammer, his brain "buzzed", and the eighteen musical instruments in his ears sounded in unison, but it seemed to be a dojo of the whole hall of water and land, and he vomited blood and stunned in an instant.

Guan Yu was still slightly nervous, picked up Zhang Wei's body with a knife, and stretched it out in front of the soldiers next to him: "See if he is still angry." ”

The personal soldier tried it on the end of Zhang Wei's nose with his hand, and replied solemnly: "Congratulations to the general, capture Zhang Wei alive." ”

Guan Yu flicked the knife and threw Zhang Wei back on the empty horse: "Why are you pinching the knife so tightly, you asked for it." ”

If you are relaxed, how can you hurt so badly? It was all good!

Guan Yu's tone was like a surgeon complaining about a patient: Don't move, don't move, don't move, don't move!

Dr. Guan had to find a few more materials to practice his hand feel and find the hot state of his hand that was interrupted by Zhang Wei.

It's like when a national table tennis player encounters a friendship factor and has to concede the ball, he would rather serve directly and lose one than let it be plausible. Because there are many technical movements of deformation, it will affect the feel and muscle memory.

Capturing Zhang Wei alive was very defeated, and it destroyed the hot hand and muscle memory.

Fortunately, there were still many rice thief cavalry waiting in line to chop it, Guan Yu was like a surgeon who returned to the anatomy laboratory to find a feeling after being defeated, and after slashing and killing thirty rice thief cavalrymen with thirty knives in a row, he finally recovered the lost hand hot muscle memory.

"General, they've descended!" The shouts of the pro-soldiers next to him reawakened Guan Yu, who was immersed in the craft.

It turned out that he had already led the team to kill for half an hour, and the remaining remnants of the soldiers had already been rushed to their knees and surrendered.

Guan Yu put away his knife unsatisfied, and asked a few personal soldiers to send Zhang Wei back to Guan quickly.

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An hour later, the unconscious Zhang Wei was finally tied up by Wuhua and sent to Yangping Pass.

The morale of the Han army also rose to the limit in an instant.

"Yang Ang listen, Zhang Wei's department has been completely wiped out by my Zhenxi general! Zhang Wei's life is captured here! He ordered you to surrender! ”

Of course, Yang Ang would not surrender directly because of a comatose guy, but after recognizing that it seemed to be Zhang Wei, his morale was also wild.

Liu Bei asked Zhang Wei to wake up with cold water, and didn't let him say too much, just screamed a few times to confess his identity, and then let the loud Han soldiers shout to disturb the will of the enemy.

After a while, he said, "Zhang Wei told you to go back and retreat to Hanzhong, and inform Shijun to pack up and flee south quickly, and Hanzhong will not last", and for a while, he was looking for Yang Ang to go down the stairs.

In the end, the Han army even used the door panel against Zhang Wei to rush up the flying ladder, causing the rice thief soldiers to dare not release arrows for fear of hurting the commander, and they were once attacked at the head of the city.

Liu Bei didn't ask about the content of these shouts, they were all shouted by Lu Su to the soldiers, and Lu Su also knew that the surrender effect of the shouts was not the key, but the key was to give Yang Ang the steps.

After all, even if Yang Ang originally had the intention of abandoning the pass and running away, he didn't dare, what if he returned to Hanzhong and was beheaded by Zhang Lu?

But if Zhang Wei ordered him before the battle to return to Hanzhong on the grounds of "informing Zhang Lu to buy time to run quickly", then he would have an excuse to flee in fear.

Because as we all know, once Yangping Pass is broken, it is not easy to defend Hanzhong County to govern Nanzheng County, Hanzhong is a flat and fertile basin, and there is no danger to defend. If Zhang Lu continues to struggle, it is really better to flee south to the ditch or Langzhong in Brazil, and join forces with Ban Yuman to survive for a long time.

In this way, Yang Ang's escape became a "risking death to inform Shijun", rather than cowardice.

Sure enough, Yang Ang finally only resisted desperately for an hour, and after the night was completely dark, Yang Ang pretended to send some scout heralds, saying that he was going to Nanzheng to deliver military news, but in fact, he himself gave up Yangping Pass and ran first.

The remaining hundreds of remnants of the soldiers relied on the wall to hold for another hour, and finally found that Yang Ang was not there in the middle of the night, and their morale was completely collapsed and completely broken. It was Xu Huang who led the Hedong soldiers to rush up for the last time without fear of death, and finally Xu Huang successfully took the lead and gained a firm foothold, killed the city tower, and controlled the situation.

As the gate of Yangping Pass was opened and the Han army swarmed in, Liu Bei had mixed feelings.

After a rough calculation, the Han army actually killed as many as 3,000 people in two days and two nights, but only killed more than 2,000 enemies. Yangping Pass is worthy of being a dangerous pass in the world, relying on the flying ladder and mallet to attack, it is simply filling with human lives!

Of the more than 3,000 people killed, the Hedong soldiers, who were cannon fodder, died a full 2,000 in battle, so that the size of the Hedong soldiers was sharply reduced from 5,000 to 3,000.

Moreover, not all of the dead were killed by killing the enemy head-on, and there were dozens of them who were beheaded in front of the battle because they escaped from the battle and were supervised by the rear army in front of the battle. It can only be said that the battle was so tragic that the Hedong soldiers would have collapsed if they hadn't overseered the formation.

The remaining more than 1,000 were killed, and the Danyang soldiers and Youzhou soldiers accounted for roughly half, and both of them died six or seven hundred people.

You must know that the soldiers under Liu Bei, in terms of martial arts, morale and other elite levels, are far superior to the rice thief army, and in a frontal hard battle in the field, even if both sides don't need to plan, it is not impossible for Liu Bei to beat Zhang Lu with 20,000 people and 40,000 or 50,000.

But everything is worth it, as soon as Yangping Pass is broken, with just Nanzheng County, Zhang Lu is already a grasshopper after the autumn.

"The army rests overnight in the pass, rewards for meritorious deeds, wine and meat hospitality, rice thieves store grain and materials at their disposal, and the army works for three days!" Liu Bei announced in high spirits.

Only Lu Su was very calm and advised Liu Bei in ecstasy: "The general must not slack off!" Taking advantage of Yang Ang's retreat, he hurriedly divided an army along the south bank of the Han River overnight to seize Dingjun Mountain! I've seen the map, and Nadingjun Mountain is also a dangerous point in Hanzhong.

After occupying the top of the mountain, the entire Hanzhong Basin can be regarded as truly unsafe. If our army does not advance in a hurry, Yang Ang will return to Nanzheng tomorrow and discuss with Zhang Lu, he will definitely organize a second line of defense at Dingjun Mountain to delay our army. ”

Liu Bei's high-spirited horsewhip froze in the air, and he sighed: "Zi Jing is reasonable, I am proud, come here, let Yide lead the wounded soldiers, and occupy Dingjun Mountain overnight." ”

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