"Run, the spear and iron cavalry can't stop it!"

"Run up the hill! They won't be able to catch up on the mountain! ”

The cavalry of the Western Liang Army has always been dominated by spears, which was deeply experienced by Cao Cao when he fought Ma Chao in later generations. Therefore, the best way to deal with the Xiliang soldiers is to either form a formation with a bow and crossbow first, or build an earthen wall, so that "even if Ma Chao has a spear, An Neng will stab".

It's a pity that these points are not available to the lack of crossbows and long soldiers, and the lack of construction technology. Therefore, Gan Ning stayed in Ma Mingge Road for the five thousand banban, and the two deception defeats and the two attempts to "try to detour into Yangping Pass for reinforcements" were all played so realistically.

At the same time, it is realistic, and it climbs the mountain every time it is overtaken, so the casualties are very small. However, because the grain carts and baggage could not climb the mountain, dozens of truckloads of military supplies could be captured by the Xiliang Army every time, and a little blood was returned.

Let Dong Yue and Fan Chou still be tempted by the temptation of "annihilating the enemy and capturing the enemy's supplies" when they knew that the enemy's advance reinforcements had arrived and that follow-up reinforcements might appear at any time.

And all the preparations, in the coming and going of the past few days, everything has been prepared.

In the Xiliang Army, it is not that no one has seen through all this, but that person did not know it for the first time, and he was not on the front line - that is Jia Xu, who led the rear army of 10,000 or 20,000 people with Zhang Xiu and stationed in Hechi County to confront Lu Su and Huchuquan.

Jia Xu got the news from the front more than a day after the debacle the day after Gan Ning's arrival. He also traveled more than 100 miles to this end, from the camp in Hechi County to the camp in Yangpingguan, to learn more about the situation and witness Gan Ning's second defeat.

Then Jia Xu strongly advised: "Gan Ning, I'm afraid it's not a deception to lure the enemy, right?" He used mountain brutes like this, and he didn't seem to know how to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses. Forget it, it seems that Yangping Pass can't be attacked. ”

It's a pity that Dong Yue has already killed the red eye: in the previous battle of Yangping Pass, he could kill at least five soldiers to replace Liu Bei with a peasant soldier, what is the exchange ratio? And now fighting a field war with Gan Ning, although he can't kill many people, his own exchange ratio is still quite profitable.

Who can bear to let a gambler who has lost money for so long finally get off the table when he is lucky?

Dong Yue reprimanded viciously: "Gan Ning is defeated and comes again, why is it to lure the enemy?" Obviously because our blockade was done well, Gan Ning didn't know how dangerous Yangping Pass was, he was the savior, so he attacked my strength with his own shortcomings, and fought with cavalry along the valley road with short soldiers! ”

No matter what Jia Xu said, Dong Yue interpreted Gan Ning's "repeated defeats and battles" as "the savior's heart".

Jia Xu can't help it, anyway, Dong Yue is a separate Zhonglang general, and the other three Zhonglang were defending the eastern front back then, and he defended the western front, and the friendship between the two sides is not deep.

Jia Xu really has no ironclad evidence, all he has is suspicion.

So he quickly went back to Hechi and continued to be with Zhang Xiutun. After these days, he found that only Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew respected him the most, and they obeyed their words, so they still controlled them to protect themselves.

There are too many friendly generals who are not aligned, and they can't take them.

……

On the second day of September, the decisive day of the final tightening of the pockets has finally arrived.

The 5,000 troops who Gan Ning stayed in Ma Mingge Dao who "wanted to reinforce the Savior of Yangping Pass but were repelled twice and were never able to enter the pass to rendezvous" finally came over for the third time.

However, to the surprise of the Xiliang army stationed in Xiguanyi on the opposite side, this time it was no longer 5,000 barbarians who were good at mountain warfare, but more than 10,000 Han infantry.

The first big flag showed that the coming general was Zhang Yide, the general of the conquest.

Zhang Fei's more than 10,000 horses, there are still nearly 2,000 people, two battalions, all of whom are equipped with iron armor and hold a horse chopping sword made of stainless steel - obviously, these soldiers are all configured according to the "quasi-trap camp", but the elite level and martial arts are definitely not as good as the original trap camp led by Gao Shun.

As mentioned earlier, because of the looting of the imperial arsenal by chance, as well as the results of Liu Bei's own farming after entering Yizhou, the Han army could take out as many as four or five thousand pairs of iron armor for the infantry to use, which was enough to form five new trapping camps. And let the cavalry change into breastplate armor,

The training plan of the newly trapped camp will be completed in at least two years, and it will have to go through the baptism of blood and fire in the battle formation and mature in actual combat, so strictly speaking, it has not yet been trained.

Because Guan Yu and Gao Shun brought relatively few troops to Nanzhong, each newly formed trap camp also took turns to go into battle for training, and more than half of them stayed behind the Chengdu Plain for training. This time, Zhang Fei hurriedly roared to rescue the eldest brother, so he brought these two battalions that were left in the rear to take turns to rest.

Zhang Fei's quality of more than 10,000 people is far from being comparable to that of the newly recruited peasant soldiers in Hanzhong, and among them, as the backbone of grassroots officers, they are all veterans who have followed Liu Bei for five or six years. Those infantry brought by Youzhou back then, as long as they are still alive now, basically everyone has at least been promoted to captain.

There are one or two veterans in the army who have been in the army for five years, and the rest are also two or three years of experience in the army, and Zhang Gaoshun's training is also related, so when he swings there, the momentum is very different.

Dong Yue's Xiliang cavalry, at the beginning, was more reckless and rushed as usual, but in the face of the opposite gun array, the front row of soldiers with a sword in one hand and a big shield in the other, waited for a strict formation, and the bows and crossbows in the back took turns to shoot, and they were immediately intimidated.

The quasi-trapping camp of the two battalions was firmly established, because the terrain was narrow, the formation was very thick, and there were barbarian soldiers on the slopes of the two wings. After the Xiliang soldiers lost hundreds of casualties, they found that this battle could not be fought at all, and retreated to Xiguanyi again and again, and reported to Dong Yue and Fan Chou.

"Zhang Fei is also here so soon? It seems that we are really dragged by Gan Ning, so let's retreat, let the foot soldiers on the Xiguanyi side also prepare to withdraw first, leaving only the cavalry behind, and then let the broken cavalry disengage after our army has opened up the distance a little. Fan Chou, after your organization is broken! ”

Zhonglang took advantage of his high rank and Fan Chou's lieutenant to make it clear that he would perform more dangerous tasks.

Then Dong Yue himself gradually took the Chinese army, first retreated slowly in the direction of Chencang Road, and tried to return to Hechi County to meet Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu within two days.

Fan Chou had no choice but to face the front of Yangping Pass first, make arrangements to prevent anyone from rushing out of the pass, and prepare to go to Xiguanyi to block Zhang Fei from going north.

Let's say that Dong Yue thinks that he is foolproof, there is Zhang Xiu in front and Fan Chou in the back, he is very safe in the middle, and the Chinese army with more than 10,000 people withdrew nearly 20 miles away, and the vigilance is gradually relaxed.

Suddenly, on the hillside on the northeast side of the valley, where the woods were dense, there was a rush of drums and horns, waving flags and shouting, and many crossbowmen and ambush soldiers were killed together - in fact, Gan Ning only had 3,000 people here, but the problem was that Dong Yue didn't know.

"Shoot me hard at that group of iron horsemen with everyone's armor!" Gan Ning brandished the flail and iron halberd and shouted loudly, and the eighty Zhuge crossbows deployed in advance on the high slope suddenly opened fire together, and in ten seconds, eight hundred featherless iron arrows shot out, swarming towards Dong Yue and the elite Xiliang Xuanjia Iron Cavalry guards beside him.

"Hurry up and protect the middle general!" The Xuanjia soldiers waved their weapons one after another, looking for shields to cover them.

Dong Yue's own eyes and pupils dilated violently, and subconsciously brandished his sword and spear to block together, he was originally quite confident in the excellent set of Mingguang armor on his body, and felt that there was hope to carry it through, but he was taught to be a man within a few seconds.

"Uhh......h

Back then, Dong Zhuo's Sizhonglang, with Niu Fu dying and Lu Bu escaping, now Dong Yue has died again, leaving only a timid and afraid of following the crowd.

is similar to Dong Yue's fate, as well as his Xuanjia personal soldiers. And those ordinary soldiers who only had leather armor or even no armor in the back, seeing a small group of elite ironclad soldiers wiped out with the commander, the visual impact was simply too shocking, and they didn't know how many enemy troops there were for a while.

"Kill!" Gan Ning led hundreds of dead soldiers to block the way from the trees, and there were crossbows on them to suppress it, turning the narrow mountain road into a place of death that could not be passed through at all. Occasionally, there were those who passed through the crossbow array suppression area dozens of steps in front of Gan Ning and approached the distance of hand-to-hand combat, and there was no enemy of Gan Ning, and they were killed into a string of blood gourds by the halberd in hand.

The Xiliang rebels were soon in chaos, and they just wanted to squeeze back to the front of Yangping Pass, and then go to Xiguan Post to retreat by Fan Chou's road.

But this kind of retreat is extremely chaotic, not everyone thinks of changing ways to break through, it's just those who are timid and cowardly, and there are stunned young people who are not afraid of death and still want to rush forward to Gan Ning. As a result, the Xiliang army itself paid a lot of rapid trampling on each other before it could be regarded as a unanimous opinion.

It's a pity that Gan Ning didn't dare to chase deeply, he only dared to block the road and slash, after all, his preset position was here, and the Zhuge crossbow firepower point above his head couldn't move the nest. If he rushed out and left the fire protection of the crossbow array, he would easily be swallowed by tens of thousands of rebels.

But Gan Ning's strategic purpose has been achieved, and the task given to him by Li Su is to force the enemy army not to dare to go here.

Dong Yuebu trampled back on each other, and just before arriving at Yangping Pass, he wanted to pass through the gate and slipped directly, and the second hand arranged by Li Su was launched again.

Dong Yuejun probably passed seven or eight thousand people in front and seven or eight thousand people behind him, when the door suddenly opened, and Dian Wei rushed out with hundreds of barbarian warriors waving swords (halberds). Dian Wei rushed to the lead and cut off the long snake formation in the enemy's march.

Although there were many enemy troops, because the formation was very long, there were really not many people who were engaged in the battle head-on for a while, so they were caught off guard and killed more than a dozen by Dian Wei's blade.

Dian Wei is not in love with war either. When the enemy realized that "there were only a few hundred people rushing out of Yangping Pass", and stopped fleeing and prepared to organize a counterattack, Dian Wei immediately rushed back - anyway, the road in front of Yangping Pass was not long, about two arrows away, and it was easy to run back.

In the chaotic army, I don't know which other Sima or Qu Junhou level officers of the Xiliang soldiers shouted angrily: "Take the opportunity to grab Yangping Pass!" ”

Then, from the troops that had planned to retreat, thousands of people who had ideas in their hearts were instigated to rush to the wall in chaos.

Dressed in iron armor and holding iron halberds, Dian Wei looked very good at taking care of his soldiers, because it would take time for hundreds of people to return to the city, and he personally stood last to let the others enter the city gate. This gesture made the Xiliang soldiers even more excited, and they flocked to kill Dian Wei and the more than 100 Han soldiers who were waiting at the city gate, wanting to wipe them out in one fell swoop and then rush in.

The thirty repeating crossbows that had been arranged on the wall last night opened fire again, instantly bringing down a large number of Xiliang soldiers who were rushing to the front. The others were also instantly breathless.

"This ...... This is the divine crossbow that shot Dong Zhonglang just now! Liu Bei came prepared! We've got it! ”

The frightened Xiliang soldiers desperately wanted to retreat, and the stunned Qing who reacted slowly was still rushing. But even if the stunned youths saw Dian Wei retreat into the city gate, it seemed that they could cover up and seize the gate.

However, the moment they actually stepped into the city gate, they could still see that there was a temporary inner urn city formed by a semicircular earthen wall behind them. There were crossbowmen and pikemen behind the inner urn earthen wall, and it was not connected to the upper staircase of the outer wall.

And although the door is open, a thousand-pound iron gate can fall from above, catching turtles in the urn that has entered the door.

The level of congestion and chaos at the gate reached the level of crowding on the bus. Such a dense force was shot with a crossbow, and they didn't even need to aim, they just swept casually.

The lethal efficiency is like a bus full of people, and then sweeping the car with a big pineapple. Thirty Zhuge crossbows didn't even sweep up for two minutes, and the Xiliang army completely collapsed.

Everyone retreated like a tidal wave, leaving behind a bloody corpse. The soldiers under Dong Yue's command could no longer muster up the courage to carry out any counterattack, and the only thought left in their hearts was to flee for their lives.

……

In front of Xiguanyi, Fan Chou's blocking troops were fighting with Zhang Fei, and the situation was also very unoptimistic. Fan Chou still relied on the courage of blood and qi at the beginning, and actually dared to rush to the front line to kill, and fought with Zhang Feili seven or eight times in the chaos, almost dangerous.

After realizing that there was a gap between his martial arts and Zhang Fei, Fan Chou changed to retreat to supervise the battle, regardless of his own low morale.

But this kind of battle was less than half an hour, and there was a steady stream of deserters coming from the northeast and passing through the Xiguan Post to the north. Because of the seizure of the road, the flow of soldiers retreating north on the side of Xiguanyi was cut off several times.

Fan Chou couldn't help but be furious, and he stopped drinking and cutting a few deserters, and then grabbed an officer's collar and asked, "Didn't you follow Dong Zhonglang and retreat?" Nayon is here to help you block the pursuers, and you are still here to rob Naion's way? All of my soldiers were swept into the river by you and drowned! Nayon chopped you! ”

The officer knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "The general spares his life, it's not that we want to take the road, it's Dong Zhonglang who was shot by the enemy's crossbow, and there are ambushes on the way!" Our army suffered heavy casualties, and a large number of elite reinforcements came to Yangping Pass, and they were able to come out of the wall to respond, and our army was in chaos! ”

"What? Dong Yue is dead? His guards are also dead? Fan Chou was stunned for a while, seeing that Zhang Fei was still pressing forward, and at most half an hour later, the three-way intersection of Xiguanyi would completely fall into Zhang Fei's hands.

Desperately blocked here, blocking reinforcements for the large army that hasn't had time to escape, or running first?

Fan Chou was stunned for the first time, watching Zhang Fei rush like a mad tiger, and once again broke through several fronts to approach him, Fan Chou chose to turn his horse and run.

It doesn't matter if he has 20,000 or 30,000 left, don't do it!