It is bordered by the Yellow River in the north and Songyue in the south, the terrain is dangerous, known as the center of the lock sky, and the Tiger Prison Pass of the Sanqin Gateway, which has become the last line of defense for Xu Fu to attack the Tang army to attack Luoyang.

Xu Fu, who knew that if the Tiger Prison Pass was lost, Luoyang would inevitably be unsafe, left Cao Xuan to run Luoyang's defense, and he himself was stationed in the Tiger Pass with 30,000 elites.

With the loss of most of Henan, especially the loss of the Xuanwu region, the morale of the Liang army was quite low, as the foundation of Zhu Wen's beginning, the backbone of the Liang army, basically composed of soldiers in the Xuanwu area, the fall of the hometown, so that the Liang army fell into an extremely pessimistic atmosphere.

That is, Xu Fu can still rely on his extremely high prestige to make this army not fall apart, and if he changes someone, he is afraid that it will collapse a long time ago.

It has been a full month since the Tang army arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass. Several guards attacked in turn, uprooting the Liang army garrisons around the Tiger Prison Pass one by one, and now, the Tiger Prison Pass has truly become a lonely pass.

However, the extremely dangerous Tiger Prison Pass was still a roadblock on the way of the Tang Army.

As many as more than 100 trebuchets are arranged under the city wall in the pass, because of the shelter of the tall city wall, the Tang army trebuchets outside the city have the advantage of rate of fire and range can not pose much threat to these trebuchets, and the countless artillery carts set up on the city wall are not a small threat to the attacking Tang army.

This kind of artillery cart is not big and has a short range, but with the blessing of the tall city wall, the few pounds of stones they shoot out are a great threat to the Tang infantry.

Even a small stone, falling from such a high place, is enough to cause serious injury, let alone such a stone weighing several pounds. Good armor can effectively prevent damage from arrows, but there is nothing to be done about this kind of blunt object blow.

If you are next to each other, you may not be killed on the spot, but being injured is a big trouble for the logistics of the Tang Army.

By now, Tian Ping's medical battalion has been overcrowded, and most of them have been injured by this kind of artillery truck.

Tian Ping stood under the banner of the Chinese army, and saw that the trench that his soldiers were struggling to dig was infinitely close to the Tiger Prison, and finally showed a smile on his face.

Attacking Tiger Prison, he is the main attacker, but he still hasn't won it so far, which makes him feel quite disgraced. Compared to the brilliant achievements of the other guards, he hoped that the Right Jinwuwei would have a great victory to establish his position, not to mention surpassing the other guards, at least not to let them be suppressed.

Defeating Xu Fu and winning the Tiger Prison Pass is undoubtedly the best litmus test.

"That's a good idea." Glancing back at Tian An beside him, Tian Ping said with a smile: "Those artillery trucks are just shooting waves, and they can't aim at the target accurately, so we can greatly reduce casualties by digging a trench like this." ”

"Big brother, seeing us digging a ditch outside, Xu Fu also asked someone to dig a horizontal ditch outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and there will still be a vicious fight at that time." Tian Andao.

Tian Ping smiled: "Who are we afraid of?" ”

Before the two of them could speak, a vicious fight had broken out in front of them.

When more than a dozen trenches were excavated to a distance of only ten meters from the horizontal ditch of the Liang army, the Liang army on the opposite side rushed out in the shouts and killed the Tang army who were digging in the straight ditch.

The Tang army did not show weakness, although the Tang army at the front only held a sapper shovel in his hand, he still roared and rushed out of the straight ditch, brandished the sapper shovel, and slashed at the Liang army.

The sapper shovel in Tang Jun's hand can be called a heavy weapon, picking it up and slashing horizontally, and the armor on Liang Jun's body can't stop their momentum at all. As Tian Ping said, in close combat, the Tang army really didn't fear anyone.

Better armor, better weapons, stronger physique, and better medical facilities have kept the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army at an extremely high level.

Compared with the Liang army, which only maintained the complete detachment of the core army and used it as a professional soldier, the remaining army still maintained the system of government soldiers, and was only requisitioned in wartime.

And the hundreds of thousands of guards of the Tang Army were all professional soldiers who were out of production. Under the high salary, abundant meat, and high-intensity training, these people's combat ability far exceeds that of ordinary government soldiers.

Everyone knows why the Tang Army is strong, but other forces can't imitate it, and now the Tang Army's discipline has long been obtained by other forces, and there are not many imitators, but this kind of imitation can only be maintained by a small number of descendant troops, and if you want all the troops to be like the Tang Army, then you don't need the Tang Army to fight, they themselves will collapse.

Because in order to maintain the Tang Army's training methods and logistical supply, a large amount of financial resources are needed to support, Li Ze now basically controls the land route, the two foreign trade channels on the water, and can earn the most money from these foreign trade every year, internally, the land annexation has been strongly stifled and the population has been re-registered, and the people have been recreated, which has greatly increased the taxpayer population, and it seems that Li Ze's taxes on the people have been reduced again and again, but due to the increase in the taxpayer population, the tax revenue has been steadily increasing.

Then there's the development of business.

Although the tax rate of commerce is very high, the profits from industry and commerce are also extremely high, and a large number of large households who have lost their land in the past can only set their sights on business, and Li Ze has also created a good business environment for these people, of course, on the basis of paying taxes according to rules and disciplines.

And these policies, whether in the Liang army or in the south of Xiang Xun, could not be implemented.

It is undoubtedly painful to know what the other party is doing but not be able to do it yourself.

The two sides were close to each other under the Tiger Pass, and the Tang army soon had an overwhelming advantage.

It was at this time that the gate of the Tiger Prison was opened, and a cavalry rushed out of the wide open gate, and the first person was the chief general of the Liang army, Xu Fu.

Seeing Xu Fu fighting, Tian Ping was not surprised, this was the first time in a month that Xu Fu personally led his troops out of the city to counterattack.

"The left and right wings, press the siege, the Chinese army will follow me to meet Xu Fu, leave this old thief behind, and the tiger prison will be broken!" Tian Ping yelled.

The flag waved, Tian Tong on the left wing, and Pei Zhiqing on the right wing, immediately destroyed the soldiers and horses from the left and right wings to press up, and launched a suppressive attack on the Tiger Prison City, and in the middle, Tian Ping led his three thousand personal soldiers to meet Xu Fu.

The Tang Army's move was equivalent to forming an inverted zigzag battle formation under the Tiger Prison Pass, embedding Xu Fu in the middle. gave him the space to fight Tian Ping.

Compared with a year ago, Xu Fu is too old now.

The death of his only son Xu Chong hit him hard, but it also made him ruthless. The short man riding on a large horse with an unusual steed formed a huge contrast, and a huge mace wielded in his hand made this visual abnormality come to the extreme.

The short Xu Fu has been discriminated against a lot in the army, so after he became famous, except for his stature, he pursued maximization. The horse should be the tallest, the weapon should be the most powerful, his small body, there seems to be endless power hidden, this kind of mace weighing more than ten pounds, not everyone can run freely in their hands.

With his white hair tied only with a black belt, Xu Fu's eyes widened angrily, and he plunged into Tang Jun's pocket. The Tang army in front of him flipped on his back in an instant.

A stick down, a member of the Tang army will block the horizontal gun, the gun barrel is broken from the middle, the mace hit the man's upper body heavily, and in an instant, the upper body of the person was directly folded down, when the mace was lifted, not only hooked the tooth general's breastplate, but also with the slightest wisps of flesh and blood.

The mace swept, and the spears in the hands of several Tang soldiers who pounced flew into the sky one by one, and before these Tang soldiers could turn around and escape, the maces that came back in a circle knocked these people away one by one.

The 3,000 Liang troops who went out of the city were opened by Xu Fu, and they did not attack the Tang army's main formation, but kept rotating on the battlefield like a grinding plate, constantly killing the Tang army in this area.

Xu Fu, who was like a killing god, made the Tang army, who had always been fearless of death, involuntarily afraid, and where Xu Fu's war horse was going, the Tang army avoided one after another.

In a short period of time, the attacking Tang Army in front of the Chinese army was defeated by Xu Fu.

Seeing this scene, Tian Ping was furious, and rushed towards Xu Fu after destroying the war horse.

Xu Fu held the mace in one hand, spun around in the air, and slammed towards Tian Ping from the bottom up, but the horse lance in Tian Ping's hand stabbed Xu Fu in the chest flatly.

The moment the two horses approached, the mace and the lance became entangled.

The barb on the mace and the lingering ring on the horse lance are linked to each other, one stick and one lance, and no one can get rid of anyone for a while.

"Let go!" Tian Ping shouted violently, and stirred vigorously with the lance in both hands, wanting to pick Xu Fu into the air with a lance. Xu Fu sneered, and his other hand also put on the mace rod, and with a loud shout, Tian Ping suddenly felt that a thousand catties of boulders were pressed on his hands, and the bones crackled.

"Let go!" Xu Fu also shouted.

Tian Ping didn't let go, even if his whole body was pressed close to the horse's back at this time, and the lance was bent into a semicircle, if it weren't for the quality of this family heirloom horse lance, it would have been broken into two at this moment.

Seeing that Tian Ping's horse lance was not taken, Xu Fu was also slightly surprised, and twisted his hands hard, Tian Ping only felt that the horse lance kept beating in his hand, and his palm was hot, and he was almost about to fly out of his hand.

Tian Ping knew that as long as Xu Fu twisted half a circle, he would definitely not be able to hold the lance, and when his heart was cold, another horse lance in the oblique stab stabbed towards Xu Fu, but it was Tian An who saw that Tian Ping was in danger and Pegasus came to save him.

Xu Fu snorted coldly, his wrist flicked, the mace broke free from the entanglement of the horse lance, the horizontal stick was smashed, Tian An screamed, the horse lance in his hand had already flown away without a trace, and when he saw the other party's mace smashed on the head, it was impossible to avoid it.

Tian Ping, who was out of danger, once again stabbed at Xu Fu.

In this short moment, he could already see very clearly, Liang Jun was only Xu Fu who was powerful, and the rest of the people were retreating under the attack of their own guards, as long as he could entangle Xu Fu, in the end, this old thief still had no way out. When it is surrounded on all sides, even if this old thief is a god, he has to fold here today.

didn't have time to kill Tian An, Xu Fu waved his stick to block Tian Ping's horse lance, but Tian An, who got rid of a broken head, leaned over and picked up another spear and stabbed forward.

At this moment, even if he knew that he might be smashed by this little man in the next moment, he still had no way out.

Xu Fu was not entangled, after knocking open Tian Ping's horse lance, he clamped the horse's belly, and actually walked away, Tian Ping and Tian An looked at Xu Fu as if no one was in a no-man's land, gathered his subordinates, and then rushed in the direction of Pei Zhiqing on the right wing.

In an instant, Pei Zhiqing was broken open by his people, and Xu Fu led people around to the other side, where the city opened in time, and Xu Fu was broken by himself.

The offensive came to an abrupt halt.