It was dark, but the inside and outside of the stone gate were still as bright as day.

In the pass, soldiers and horses moved frequently, and torches were lit everywhere.

Outside the Shimen Pass, Gongsun Zhan's army was in full array, shouting to kill the sky, and would launch a wave of attacks from time to time. After dark, Gongsun Zhan's army did not withdraw its troops, but lit torches and fires, and depending on the situation, it seemed that they were going to continue the siege overnight.

Gongsun Zhan did follow the discussion with Liu Xian at that time, and began to put on a siege posture three days ago, constantly putting pressure on Shimen Pass.

Gongsun Chan himself, and even the military horses of his subordinates, had been fighting against Qiu Liju here for too long. At this time, the whole army had a high fighting spirit and high morale.

Those who offend me will be punished even though they are far away.

For the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, their combat effectiveness is actually not weak, and even some border defense military horses still maintain a strong state of combat effectiveness.

The weakness of the Han Dynasty is not the weakness of the military, but the sluggishness of the imperial court, but the traitors in the court who weakened the Han Dynasty.

In fact, the Han military still maintains a sense of superiority over people of different races.

The reputation of a Wuhuan tribe is far inferior to that of the Xiongnu tribe, nor as good as those Di and Qiang tribes in the Xiliang region, and even as tenacious and fierce as the Xianbei tribe. Being attacked by the military horses of the Wuhuan tribe here against the Han army's soldiers, which in itself made these Han soldiers feel aggrieved, and they held back their hearts and hated to defeat these aliens who betrayed the Han in front of them as soon as possible.

In the past two or three days, Gongsun Zhan has not only made a feint attack as planned, he will send a team of men and horses every day to try to attack the head of Shimen Pass, hoping to directly capture Shimen Pass.

He believed in Liu Xian, but if they could get it directly, it would be the best.

For Gongsun Zhan, his hatred for these aliens is deep in his bones, which is related to his experience as a teenager. And he hoped that his Han army and horse could directly crush and defeat those aliens head-on, and only in this way did he feel happy.

It's just that if you want to defeat Qiu Liju head-on, how easy is it?

Gongsun Chan sent a small number of men and horses to try to attack, but was beaten back, losing a certain number of people and horses, and the next day, he added some more men and horses to attack the city, but the progress was also not very good.

On the third day, Gongsun Chan had already sent two waves of men and horses to attack the city. But it still lost a lot of people and horses, and had to retreat.

If Liu Xian knew that Gongsun Zhan's feint had turned into a real siege battle, Liu Xian would definitely be a little speechless.

Liu Xian took the risk to help Gongsun Chan capture Shimen Pass, one, because he needed to defeat Qiu Liju during this time period, and two, Liu Xian didn't want Gongsun Chan to have too many casualties when he captured Shimen Pass.

Liu Xian thought that Gongsun Chan only needed to put on a position and attract the military horses in the city, and there was no need to make too many senseless sacrifices.

However, this is also good, because Gongsun Zhan turned a feint attack into a real attack, which made Qiu Liju in Shimen Pass feel even more nervous, so that he had to pay attention to the situation in front of the pass at all times. In this way, there is naturally some negligence about the situation in the city.

In Shimen Pass, the combined strength of Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun really has 100,000 people. They really never thought that anyone would be able to sneak into their gates and make moves.

At this time, Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun were really a little nervous, and they were really worried that Shimen Pass would be broken by Gongsun Zhan. Once Gongsun Chan captures Shimen Pass, then they will be completely passive.

At that time, they were not thinking about how to attack Dahan Youzhou, but thinking about how to face Gongsun Zhan's crazy attack.

The land of western Liaoxi is actually the base camp of their Wuhuan people, and once they lose the western Liaoxi region, then they will be very sad in the future. At least, it will be difficult to raise grain and grass in the future, and without the land of Liaoxi, they can only live those herding lives as before. If that happens, their Wuhuan tribe will stop thinking about development, and when the time comes, it won't take long, maybe a few years or more than ten years, and their Wuhuan tribe will be completely weakened, and there will never be a chance to counterattack the Han.

The reason why they are afraid of Gongsun Chan is because Gongsun Chan's political views on them are completely different from Liu Yu. Gongsun Chan is the main battle faction, and he is the one who wants to destroy these aliens. In other words, Gongsun Chan should be a pure nationalist. If Qiu Li hadn't betrayed the Han Dynasty, then Gongsun Chan would barely tolerate them and wouldn't send troops to attack them for no reason. Usually, Gongsun Chan pursued and attacked those tribes who dared to invade the Han Dynasty, and he would not give up on his vow.

In this way, Qiu Liju basically moved his military horses to the front, always ready to use superior forces to resist Gongsun Zhan's attack.

In this way, although there are many military horses stationed in Shimen Pass, the troops in the pass are a little empty.

Qiu Liju didn't know that this night was the time agreed between Liu Xian and Gongsun Zhan, and now Gongsun Zhan's military horses were ready to rush into Shimen Pass outside the city at all times.

And Liu Xian, what about them? They hid in the bags of marijuana for the shipment, feeling that they had been pulled to a place with the shipment and then not moving. In this way, Liu Xian estimated that he should have entered Shimen Pass, and this batch of goods had been sent by Qiu Liju's people to a place they thought was safe, or a place where the goods were stacked.

Liu Xian carefully cut through the hemp bag with a dagger and got out of the weeds in the bag.

Liu Xian had already sensed that there was no one guarding around this batch of goods. Yes, there is, but there is still some distance from this batch of things.

Sure enough, after Liu Xian came out, he saw that this batch of goods was concentrated in a courtyard. For the time being, only someone outside the courtyard was guarding the door, and no one paid attention to the situation of this batch of goods.

The general sent by Qiu Liju to receive this batch of goods, he didn't think that there were people hidden in this batch of goods. He was relieved to see that the goods were finally safely transported back to the city. After arranging for people to watch this batch of goods, he rushed to Qiu Liju to report the situation.

Qiu Liju's army did lack warm clothing. The Wuhuan general estimated that the king would immediately distribute the clothes to the soldiers below. Therefore, although they delivered the goods to their quartermaster's office, they did not put them into storage immediately.

It was very quiet in this courtyard, and Liu Xian took a look at the surroundings and found that they looked more like some warehouses. He called Huang Wudie and the others out first.

When everyone came out of the bags of weeds, Liu Xian had already reconnoitred the situation of the houses around the courtyard. He found that there were only people guarding outside, but inside, there was really no Wuhuan inside.

To Liu Xian's surprise, those houses were indeed Qiu Liju's warehouses, which were piled up with mountains of military supplies. Most of it is some grain and grass.

Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun have a total of 100,000 horses, and it is estimated that all the grain and grass of these military horses are stacked here.

Liu Xianzhen is really overjoyed, this is called God help me.

It is conceivable that as long as Liu Xian puts a fire here, then how panicked Qiu Liju and them will be? The grain and grass are gone, what do they and horses eat?

The most important thing is that their Wuhuan tribe is different from the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty has a lot of resources, and you can get grain and grass from anywhere, which is just a matter of time. But what about the tribes outside the gates? Food is extremely precious to them. It is true that their food sources are very limited, especially since they are not engaged in farming at all. Relying on the cattle and sheep they graze, it will definitely not be enough to eat.

They mainly have no food source, Liu Xian estimates that this batch of grain should be accumulated by Qiu Liju for a long time. If this batch of grain is gone, then what else will he use to feed the army of 100,000 people who have closed the stone gate?

It can be said that as long as this fire is put into play, even if Liu Xian does not open the gate of Chengguan and let Gongsun Zhan's military horses come in, Qiu Liju will definitely be defeated.

Of course, the plan to open the gate of the city must be carried out. It's for the sake of your own life.

If after setting the fire, they failed to open the gate of Chengguan in time to let Gongsun Zhan's military horses come in, then Liu Xian and Huang Wudie, the thirty or so people, would have nowhere to hide in Shimen Pass, and it would definitely be a dead end.

The problem that Liu Xian is facing now is not the matter of setting fire to these grains and grasses, but the problem of how to open the gate of Chengguan after the fire starts.

Liu Xian opened the door of one of the warehouses and let everyone hide in first.

Calling everyone together, Liu Xian whispered to them: "Brothers, we are not very familiar with Shimen Pass. But I also have some understanding, after all, Shimen Pass was originally our Han's, and it has always been guarded by our Han's officers and soldiers. Now it has been taken away by Qiu Liju. Now let's talk about the situation, let's all think about how we can get mixed up before the closing door and open the closing door. ”

Liu Xian did learn about the situation in Shimen Pass from Gongsun Zhan.

Shimen Pass is mainly facing the outside of the pass, and the wall facing the Han Dynasty is not too strong. And the closing door is also an old-fashioned closing door, not the kind that uses a jack box and then uses a noose to put it down or pull it up.

In other words, if you want to open the gate, you have to go inside the gate, enter the gate hole, and pull the bolt open so that the gate can be opened.

The only thing to be thankful for now is that Qiu Liju didn't completely block the gate. After all, when Liu Xian and Takoro were fighting, they could still go out through that city gate.

In normal times, the person in charge of guarding and closing and opening the door is usually a team of fifty people. This is the situation of guarding the city gate when Shimen Pass was still in the hands of the Han officers and soldiers, and it is definitely different now.

Liu Xian estimated that now that Gongsun Zhan's army is pressing the border, there will definitely be a lot of people guarding the gate of the city, at least several times the number of people guarding the gate of the original Han army.

And this is only for the troops guarding the gates of the city. In fact, of the 100,000 horses that Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun combined now, one-third of the military horses must be guarding the wall.

The open city wall of Chengguan, which is only one or two miles away, is arranged with about 30,000 horses to guard the town. In this way, in the small area of the Chengguan Gate alone, Liu Xian estimated that there would be no less than four or five thousand people.

Liu Xian only has about 30 people, if he can not be discovered by those thousands of people, get to the gate of the city, and open the gate under the noses of hundreds of Wuhuan soldiers?

And opening the city gate is not counted, Liu Xian must also buy a certain amount of time for Gongsun Zhan's military horses, and let Gongsun Zhan's military horses enter the city to be considered a success.

If Liu Xian and the others escaped directly from the city gate when they opened the city gate, then the Wuhuan soldiers could also close the gate of the city gate again before Gongsun Zhan's military horses reached the city gate.

After Liu Xian explained these situations to everyone, he said to them: "The key now is how we can enter the city gate. If we had been exposed in advance, it would have been impossible to get close to the gates. So, you all talk about it, do you have any ideas? ”

It's best to work together. After all, by now, this is no longer Liu Xian's business alone. Even if Liu Xian is their lord, it is related to the lives of each of them.

Liu Xian always thought that even if they were his own people, but now that they were in the midst of this 100,000 army, he had no reason to forcibly ask them to die.

Even if you have a plan, you have to tell them, after all, in the process of planning, there is no room for mistakes, and once you make mistakes, it will lead to the failure of the plan.

"My lord, what do we think? When we carry out this plan with our lord, we have put life and death out of the way. What the lord plans is, just give a direct order. ”

"That's it, young master, we are not people who are afraid of death, please give the lord an order."

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Several captains immediately stated that at this time, it was indeed a little difficult for them to think about how to complete the plan.

"Brother Liu Xian, just say what you are going to do." Huang Wudie also said at this time.

After entering the stone gate, the action can indeed only be improvised. It turned out that there was no plan.

What Liu Xian needs is just an attitude from them.

Liu Xian nodded and said, "This time, we successfully entered Shimen Pass, and we also came to their material warehouse. This is God helping us. My plan is this, let's just set fire to their grain and grass. But before we do that, let's change our lineup. ”

"We have all seen the soldiers of the Wuhuan tribe, most of them are dressed completely differently from us, and there are also their fur armor in these warehouses, and after we set the fire, we pretend to be their soldiers, and then try to get to the city gate."

"I think that if there is a fire here, it will definitely alarm them very quickly, and when the time comes, they will definitely come from all over to put out the fire and save their food. Let's not rush to leave, pretend to put out the fire together, and then leave quietly when they are completely confused. ”