Three days later,

Fifty miles southwest of Chencang, the Qinling Valley is scattered.

People inside and outside the customs have very different moods.

Lu Su, who had been nervous for several days, finally received a messenger from Liu Bei and Li Su, expressing his agreement with Lu Su's defensive strategy. This made Lu Su, who had struggled to support him, finally take a reassurance.

If we are allowed to retreat in a planned and rhythmic manner and abandon the Great Dispersion Pass, the defensive war will not collapse all at once.

All that's left is to drag the time, just drag it hard.

After getting the reply, Lu Su first showed it to the county lieutenants and officials of Sanguan County under the original Fa Zheng, and then explained to the temporarily promoted Qu Junhou and Tun Chang under his command one by one, telling them the news that the reinforcements were about to arrive.

"All the soldiers are good at guarding the throne! Don't worry about the lack of crossbow arrows, thistles, ash bottles, gold juice, and rolling wood stones, and smash them when you see enemy ants! The main guild will do its best to let the inventory of the arsenal in Hechi County support us! We'll just have to keep it for another 10 days at most! Let go of me and smash it!

General Zhang's main reinforcements should have received the messenger from the lord, although General Zhang has not replied yet, but he can arrive at Yangping Pass in 25 days!

And one more good news! Ganning Ganduwei, who is stationed in Ba County, has already replied to the lord! It also means that he has led 10,000 Bajun Ban Yuman from Jiangzhou to the north three days ago, and he will arrive six or seven days earlier than General Zhang! Eighteen days later, Gan Ning will go to Yangping Pass, and on the twentieth to Hechi County! ”

As soon as Lu Su told the good news to the recruits in Tuntian, who were originally unstable, the morale of the whole army was stabilized.

For the troops defending the pass, there is nothing more inspiring than the accurate arrival time of reinforcements, and everyone has hope in their hearts, and they will have to survive until this day.

It is also an unexpected joy, in fact, when Liu Bei just wanted to reply to Lu Su, he himself did not expect that there was another partial division that could be dispatched seven or eight days earlier than Zhang Fei, and that was Gan Ning.

Whoever let the southern offensive after last autumn's harvest have other generals either fighting or going south to train their troops to support the war, and they all have something to do. Only Gan Ning was not adapted to the climate in Nanzhong, and he vomited and had a serious diarrheal fever, and returned to Ba County to recuperate for half a year before he completely recovered his strength value.

At that time, Li Su also felt that Gan Ning was destined to commit Nanban, and every time he came to fight with Nanban, he would get a tropical infectious disease.

Since he recovered from his illness, Gan Ning couldn't be idle, so he divided some of the reserve troops that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were supposed to train in Qianwei, and asked to take up the training task and go to Bajun to eat. Now Liu Bei is asking for help, Zhang Fei is at the junction of Qianwei and Yuewang, and Gan Ning is closer, which can be regarded as harvesting Sangyu.

Gan Ning himself is a native of Bajun, although he is Han, he is still familiar with Ban Yuman. Wang Ping was by Guan Yu's side, and Gan Ning selected some other grassroots officers from the seven surnames to help him control the details, and he came to the rescue with barbarians.

Gan Ning, who missed the opportunity to make meritorious service in the war for a year, was extremely eager and wanted to take the first credit. The Ban Yuman he brought with him was a mountainous people, who originally lived in the Daba Mountains, and rushed north along the Jialing River as fast as a fly.

……

Fan Chou, Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu and others outside the gate were miserable.

Liu Bei had fled seven days earlier, and Dong Yue of Chencang City had sent troops six days earlier and arrived at Dasan Pass five days earlier.

However, the actual siege battle lasted more than three days, because when the troops first arrived, they had to spend two days repairing, recovering their strength, and building siege equipment. Don't look at the only fifty miles of road, because it is all Qinling Mountain Road, it is impossible to drag over the heavy siege equipment hoarded in Chencang City, and it can only be cut down on the spot.

At the same time as building siege weapons, Jia Xu actually sent people to scold the formation frantically, but it was obviously in vain, because no one would be stupid enough to go out of the field battle.

On the first day of the real siege of the city, the Xiliang army was still quite vigorous, and the soldiers all listened to the propaganda that "Hanzhong is short of troops, and the number of defenders of the city is not much", and they climbed the city by relying on the flying ladder and climbed fast.

After rushing to the head of the city, they found that the defenders were really not good at melee martial arts, as long as one or two Xiliang soldiers had a slight foothold, they could take at least five or six lives before they were killed by indiscriminate spears.

But they soon discovered that the defenders were not skilled in martial arts, but they were very resilient. Moreover, the reserve team was arranged very decently, the rotation was orderly, and there were no obvious defensive holes due to physical exhaustion due to the continuous siege.

And if the Xiliang soldiers want to be attached to the city alone, they must at least be shot to death on the ladder, so that the terrifying exchange lasts a little longer, and the sharp qi quickly dissipates.

After the attack on the third day, Fan Chou calculated his own casualties, and hundreds of people died in today's onslaught, all of them were Xiliang gangsters who licked blood with their knives, and they were immediately very dissatisfied.

Fan Chou rushed directly into Zhang Xiu's camp, and came out of the crowd and grabbed Jia Xu's sleeve: "You old boy Wen Crepe said 'don't miss if you hit hard', lose a ghost!" We have all killed and injured more than 2,000 people in such a pass guarded by Tuntian soldiers, this is what you call 'Hanzhong emptiness'? ”

Zhang Xiu still respects Jia Xu more, and hurriedly came over to grab Fan Chou: "How dare you be rude!" Fan Chou, you are just a school captain, School Captain Jia is also a school captain, you and my uncle are both at the same level, School Captain Jia is the person General Yangwu relies on the most, don't you want to be promoted to a general! ”

Fan Chou was short-tempered, of course, he didn't show weakness, and pushed Zhang Xiu hard before he stopped: "Vertical! You don't have the right to interject when you speak! You also know that I am on a par with your uncle! ”

Zhang Xiu swallowed his anger and didn't dare to ask for it back, so he rubbed it, just begging Fan Chou to go too far.

It turned out that in history, after Li Dao and Guo Yan entered Beijing, Li Guo and the others were immediately named General Yangwu and General Yanglie and other miscellaneous generals, while Fan Chou and Zhang Ji should be promoted to Zhonglang Generals.

But now because of the butterfly effect, Zuo Zhonglang sent Dong Yue to Chen Cang, and he did not participate in the attack on Chang'an, so he had no credit, and even Fan Chou, who was under Dong Yue, could not be promoted for the time being.

After all, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou were all lower than Dong Yue at the beginning, when they were Zhonglang generals, they were just captains, Dong Yue did not die and was not promoted, so they had to wait, hoping to make a meritorious service and have a name, and then ask the emperor to be an important official.

Don't look at Chang'an has become a mess, but the official still has to pay a little attention to the name. Even Li Dao himself didn't dare to be a heavy general at the beginning.

In history, after Li Dao took power, he first respected Huangfu Song as a general of the chariot and cavalry, and transitioned for three or four months, using this signboard to stabilize people's hearts. Then he secretly demoted Huangfu Songming to the rank of lieutenant, and Li Dao himself replaced him as a chariot general. In this life, Li Dao still respects Huangfu Song, but in fact, he doesn't have any military power, and he is a mascot.

As for Jia Xu, before Dong Zhuo moved west, he had already been promoted to the "Pingjin Pass Captain" (Xiao Pingjin is one of the eight passes of Luoyang, a ferry port on the south bank of the Yellow River west of Mengjindu), after Luoyang was abandoned, Jia Xu had been promoted to the captain of the school, so he was on the same level as Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Jia Xu was just afraid of being the first bird to be too hateful, so at the beginning of the rebel uprising, he chose not to ask for promotion for the time being - just like at the end of Qin, Peixian rebelled, Xiao He Cao Shen didn't want to be the first evil because his life was more valuable, and he didn't want to be the first evil, so Liu Bang, who was barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes, was the "first evil".

It's just that with the complete confrontation with Liu Bei's camp, Jia Xu's mentality has actually undergone a subtle loosening, and he feels that if there is indeed no possibility of escaping Liu Bei's hatred, it is better to be an official, strengthen the power of the descendants, pull more hardcore allies, and strengthen self-preservation.

In history, Jia Xu dared to take refuge in Cao Cao after offending Cao Cao, because he knew that Cao Cao before and after the Battle of Guandu was in urgent need of foreign aid, and he no longer respected the Han family in his heart. So no matter how many crimes Jia Xu has done to the Han family, Cao Cao doesn't care.

But Liu Bei is different, Liu Bei is a hardcore pro-Han faction, even if Jia Xu offends Liu Bei himself, Liu Bei can forgive generously in the future, but those sins of "trying to overthrow the Han family" are difficult to run.

This is very clear with Jia Xu's IQ. He could only either protect himself or take refuge in someone who was Liu Bei's enemy to protect him.

……

Jia Xu waited for Fan Chou's attack to pass and Zhang Xiu to endure his grievances, before he sincerely bridged the internal contradictions of the coalition forces and confessed to Fan Chou:

"Captain Fan, I let you strike hard without losing it, and it is also for everyone's good. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Although Guanzhong is known as having the four stops of Qin, but now Liangzhou, Hanzhong, and Wanluo are all enemies, and it is not a long-term solution to take the opportunity to find a place without worries.

As for the temporary setback, I didn't expect the defenders to be so tenacious. Sanguan is located in a narrow valley, and it is not easy to expand the army through the wall. At first, I planned to suppress the noise of suspicious soldiers and bows and crossbows, so that all the guards could not rest. However, our army relied on the strength of the people to attack in turn, and within a few days, our army was full of physical strength and the enemy's strength was exhausted, so it naturally broke through.

It's a pity that the guards were able not to be moved by the noise of our suspicious soldiers, and the dispatch was peaceful. Originally, I heard that the Sanguan County Order was a law, but he was a young man who was not as good as the crown, although he was known to have a lot of ingenuity. Now it seems that I expected him wrongly, or did the defender not be correct? But Li Su must have been by Liu Bei's side to counsel the military plane, and he was defeated by me in Wuzhangyuan a few days ago, so he shouldn't be able to rush to Sanguan......"

"Say so much nonsense, you just say how to take this Sanguan! Don't you want to say that more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded in vain? Fan Chou was very impatient when he heard this, he didn't care about these excuses at all.

Jia Xu was slightly ashamed: "For the time being, I can only continue to attack, but don't worry, I will find out the situation of the guards as soon as possible, and there will be eyebrows tonight." ”

Fan Chou couldn't continue to complain for a while, so he could only wait and see for another night.

Fortunately, on the third day of the storm, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the besieging side even had a chance to try to capture some prisoners - when the ants climbed the city, they often fell off the wall with the defenders in the battle after climbing the city. The city wall of Sanguan is not high, and those who fall may not all die.

Jia Xu was careful, so he ordered the soldiers to take advantage of the night to go to the wall to pull the corpse and pretend to collect the corpse.

At first, the head of the city desperately lowered the arrows, but the target could not be seen clearly in the dark, and the killing efficiency was not high. Later, Jia Xu simply asked the soldiers to shout in the distance in advance, saying that he was just collecting the corpses, and he also ran on the grounds that "it is unjust to prohibit the collection of corpses, and the corpses collected are both offensive and defensive".

Of course, the defenders will not give up shooting arrows because of the advantage of words, but the key is that after confirming that Jia Xu just wanted to collect the corpse, the defenders felt that it was also beneficial to themselves, so they adopted an attitude of acquiescence while monitoring, as long as the corpse collection team did not make any other changes, they would not stop it for the time being.

Because the defenders of the level are also afraid that the corpses will be piled too high, and even form a slope that is flush with the city wall, the besieging party can step on the corpses and attack the city directly, regardless of casualties.

However, Jia Xu obviously didn't plan to make the corpse pile much shorter, and the corpse collection team he commanded pretended to be mainly the corpses of the Xiliang army, but in fact, they tried to select the fallen Han soldiers as much as possible.

After being pulled back to the camp for screening, Jia Xu really found a few people who were still angry, including a few grassroots officers, so that the military doctor could wake up with a little treatment.

Jia Xu ordered some porridge and water to torture the guards, and without much effort, he tricked them into knowing the guards' information and some other personnel information.

After listening to this, Jia Xu secretly wondered in his heart: "It turns out that the general of the scattered customs is actually Lu Su? And that day I was defeated in Wuzhangyuan was Fazheng? It's a pity, I thought I had beaten Li Su to almost annihilation.

From this point of view, Liu Bei's strategists in the army should not be underestimated, and a Lu Su defending the city is so powerful. It's also strange that the Shu Road is difficult, and the news is not clear after the plank road is burned out, and I only know about the enemy's deployment now. The land of Hanzhong is really a heavenly hell. ”