After Zhang Hao saw that all the Xiliang cavalry rushed into the barracks, he immediately asked people to block the camp gate with firewood, and then ordered to set it on fire.

After Hua Xiong found out that this was an ambush, a fire had already broken out at the camp gate. Immediately after that, rockets flew in from outside the camp, and the entire coalition military camp immediately turned into a sea of fire.

"Get out, get out!" Hua Xiong shouted in a hurry.

However, the horses of the Xiliang cavalry were frightened by the fire and fled in all directions, and did not listen to the drive at all. They collided with each other, knocking the cavalry off their backs. Many of the cavalry were either thrown to death, trampled to death, or burned in a burning fire.

Hua Xiong could not reorganize these cavalry, which had fallen into disarray, by shouting alone. The air in the camp was getting hotter and hotter, and he was already starting to feel a little dizzy and uncomfortable between his breaths.

There's no way, it's too late if you don't escape. Hua Xiong took those cavalry who were not chaotic, and rushed towards the camp gate directly.

After coming to the camp gate, Hua Xiong looked at the camp gate that had been burned down and was still burning with flames, and immediately turned his heart sideways and frantically drove the war horse under his crotch.

The horse also seemed to understand that if he couldn't jump, he would die here. On the verge of the fire, it leaped and leaped a foot high over the wall of fire in front of it.

Many of the cavalry who followed Hua Xiong also crossed over, but some of the cavalry's horses hesitated directly in front of the wall of fire, and as a result, they were blocked inside.

Hua Xiong escaped, but before he and the cavalry who had escaped behind him had time to rejoice, they saw rows of allied crossbowmen not far away, their cold arrows glowing in the moonlight.

Tai Shici, who was standing behind, saw that a cavalry had escaped, and immediately ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

Hua Xiong's revenant spirit did not dare to stay, and immediately turned his horse's head and fled.

Of course, Tai Shici saw that the leader should be the general of this night attack. He immediately took off his longbow, stretched out his bow and arrows, and aimed at Hua Xiong.

With a whoosh, Hua Xiong immediately felt a huge impact on his left shoulder, almost knocking him off his horse. Then there was a sharp pain in his left shoulder, and he knew he had been shot.

But fortunately, it's night, even if the bright moon illuminates the earth, the sharpshooter who shot himself shouldn't be able to shoot himself anymore.

This is exactly the case, after Tai Shici shot an arrow, he secretly said that it was a pity that he should have shot the enemy general, but it seemed that he did not shoot the vital point, so the enemy general did not die.

In such an instant, the figure of the enemy general has merged with the shadow of the tree, and it is no longer easy for him to aim. Tai Shici had no choice but to give up Huaxiong and deal with the Xiliang cavalry who escaped one after another.

When 5,000 cavalry came, now those who have returned with Huaxiong are only scattered with less than 100 cavalry. And now Huaxiong is also seriously injured, this night attack can be said to be a complete failure.

By the time Hua Xiong could already see the city wall of the Revolving Gate Pass, a person had already been waiting there with a large group of people, it was Guan Yu.

Guan Yu said arrogantly: "The enemy general can leave his name, and there is no nameless ghost under Guan's knife." ”

Hua Xiong endured the severe pain, broke the arrow on his left shoulder, opened his eyes angrily, and yelled at Guan Yu: "I am the Zhonglang general Hua Xiong is also!" ”

Guan Yu stroked his long beard: "It turned out that Huaxiong personally led the night attack, but unfortunately it fell short, and tonight is the time for you to die in Huangquan." However, seeing that you seem to have suffered an arrow wound, Guan Mou is not victorious, so he will let his corporal take your life. ”

"You, a caretaker, dare to despise me, even if you are wounded by an arrow, it is easy to take your dog's life, you give me my life!"

Tonight's night attack failed and he was ambushed, Hua Xiong knew that he would die, but he couldn't let Guan Yu humiliate himself.

The left arm was already unable to grasp the weapon because of the injury, Hua Xiong held the long knife in one hand and rushed towards Guan Yu on horseback. When he rushed in front of Guan Yu, he swung the long knife in his right hand and slashed down hard.

It's just that with such one-handed force, you can't even exert half of the strength of both hands. As a result, Hua Xiong's long knife was naturally blocked by Guan Yu.

Then Hua Xiong felt the world spin in front of him, and after landing on the ground, he saw a headless corpse slowly fall from the horse.

"Ah, that's me." Hua Xiong closed his eyes, and his consciousness slowly dissipated with these words.

Guan Yu said with some approval: "I take back what I just said, you are also a man, and dying in my hands is not an insult to you." ”

After Hua Xiong's death, the remaining cavalry no longer resisted and all surrendered.

After dawn, Guan Yu returned to the original military camp with his men and horses, and directly found Tai Shici, who was cleaning the battlefield with Zhang Hao, and the first thing he said was: "This arrow is yours, right?" Then he showed the broken arrow in his hand.

Tai Shi Ci saw the word "Taishi" engraved on the shaft of the arrow, nodded and said, "That's right, this is my arrow, how can it be in Yun Chang's hands?" ”

"The attack on the barracks last night was led by Hua Xiong himself, and he was stopped and killed by me when he was defeated." As he spoke, Guan Yu handed a head to Tai Shici.

"I'm not here to ask General Zhang for credit, nor am I here to show off to you. It's just that when I killed Hua Xiong, he had the arrows you shot on his back, so I think it's your credit, and I don't care about stealing it. ”

Tai Shi Ci knew that it was Hua Xiong who he shot. However, he is also a fair and upright person, so he refused: "But I just injured him, and it was Yun Chang who killed him." Yun Chang doesn't want the credit of this victory, and I don't accept the food that comes from me. ”

Zhang Hao walked over and said with a smile: "Then I'm in charge, how about half of the credit?" ”

The two looked at each other, and since the main general had said it, they didn't have any opinions. In unison, he said, "No." ”

……

After cleaning up the battlefield, Zhang Hao ordered the whole army to rest for a day. The next day, Zhang Hao led an army of 30,000 and came to the spiral gate gate again.

When the defenders of the pass saw that the main general Hua Xiong had not returned for a day, they knew that something had happened to him and the cavalry who had gone out together. Especially when seeing the coalition army coming to Guanwai, this guess was directly confirmed.

Several coalition soldiers shouted at the defenders: "Listen to the defenders in the pass, your main general Hua Xiong, who has been killed after the night attack failed, Hua Xiong's head is here, my general Pingbei advises you to surrender the city, if you don't surrender after a stick of incense, the army will go into the city, and the chickens and dogs will not stay!" ”

The defenders in the pass were in chaos, and some of the defenders tried to escape, but were caught by Hua Xiong's subordinates and beheaded in public. "Whoever else wants to run away is the end!"

The defenders suddenly quieted down, and when their subordinates saw this, they tried to make themselves look calmer, and said: "The revolving gate pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and we have 10,000 people, so we can definitely defend it, so don't panic."

Think about it, we are soldiers under the command of Taiwei, what have we done in Luoyang, these people outside the gate are under the banner of revenge, they hate us to the bone, even if they surrender, they will still kill us, we can only survive if we desperately defend the revolving gate! ”

After hearing this, Ren Li, one of the soldiers, secretly thought to himself: You did it, I didn't do it.

But he thought about it, even if he hadn't done it, he was also a soldier of the Xiliang Army, and in the eyes of others, he was the same kind of person, and the coalition forces outside the gate would naturally rather kill the wrong ones than let them go. "Why don't you wait for the war to start later, and then I'll secretly find a place to hide?"

The time of a stick of incense is only five minutes, which is still very fast. Since the defenders still wanted to defend after the death of the main general, there was nothing to say, and Zhang Hao immediately ordered the siege of the city.

Because the revolving gate pass is located in the middle of the valley between the two mountains, the area in front of the city gate is also very narrow, and can only accommodate a phalanx of 3,000 people. Although Zhang Hao had 30,000 men, he could not use all his strength to attack the city. From this point of view, it is very beneficial to the defenders.

However, due to the failure of the defenders' night attack and the death of the main general, the morale plummeted, and when faced with the morale of the coalition army after the victory, it was a little cowering, afraid of engaging the coalition army.

Morale is a mysterious thing, and the threat of Huaxiong's subordinates alone will definitely not be able to save it. In this way, the defenders occupy the territory, and the coalition forces occupy the people.

In the art of war, it is said that the time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. Moreover, the defenders relied on the city pass, and the number of people who could go into battle was also limited. If when morale is at its peak, one can exert the strength of five, then now the morale is low, and a soldier can't even exert his own strength.

These days, Zhang Hao trains soldiers to attack cities and build siege weapons, but it is not in vain. In today's siege, the results were immediately brought into play.

In less than half an hour, soldiers had already ascended to the top of the city, and after he had occupied a point, one after another, more and more soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and engaged the defenders. Seeing this, Zhang Hao immediately ordered more soldiers to go to the city to engage the defenders.

The city was strewn with corpses, but the coalition soldiers were getting braver and the defenders were retreating.

Hua Xiong's subordinates saw that the situation of victory and defeat was becoming more and more clear, and they were extremely unwilling in their hearts, and yelled that they wanted to launch another counterattack.

As a result, he was seen by the soldier who ascended first, and when the soldier saw that he was dressed as a general, he immediately guessed that it was a big fish, took out a halberd directly from his waist, threw it over, and just hit the chest under the middle, and died of anger instantly.

"Hey, this guy's head should be able to exchange a lot of food." The soldier laughed.

The leader of Hua Xiong's subordinates also died, and the defenders had no leader, let alone an opponent of the coalition forces, and the battlefield was quickly transferred from the city to the city, and finally the city gate was opened by the coalition soldiers.

Zhang Hao drew his sword and ordered the remaining coalition soldiers: "Charge the whole army, kill!" The cavalry, who had long been unable to hold back, immediately rushed out like arrows from the string. The other soldiers also shouted and rushed towards the gate.

The defenders could not bear the pressure and collapsed, and they scattered and fled, some along the river valley, some into the mountains, but no matter how fast they ran, they could not fast the cavalry. Those who ran to the valley were quickly overtaken, and those who ran up the mountain were caught not long after they went up the mountain.

By the time the sun was about to set, the battle was completely over.

……

When cleaning the battlefield, Zhang Hao specially found the soldier who had ascended first, ready to reward him. The soldier was eight feet tall, with a burly appearance and very thick arms. Zhang Hao felt that his thighs were thick.

The soldier knew that Zhang Hao was the main general, and seeing that he must be rewarding himself, he was very excited to hand the head of Hua Xiong's subordinate to Zhang Hao: "General, look, this is the head of the enemy general, and it is worth a lot of food." ”

Zhang Hao took it with a smile, and then handed it to the guards behind him.

This move surprised the soldier a little, and he once gave the head of a thief leader to Zhang Miao, but Zhang Miao walked away with a look of disgust, and offset his own credit.

He thought that Zhang Hao was so polite and polite, and he would be the same person as his lord Zhang Miao, but he didn't expect Zhang Hao to appreciate his behavior and always look at himself with a smile.

"Look at your dress, you are a soldier under Zhang Taishou, what's your name?" Zhang Hao asked.

"Yes General, my name is Dian Wei."

Having picked up the treasure, Zhang Hao thought very happily in his heart. What he just guessed was also Dian Wei, because when he was talking about Dong, Dian Wei was working under Zhang Miao. In such a year, he can grow so strong, and there is no one under Zhang Miao.

Dian Wei continued: "General, how much food can I exchange for this merit." ”

Zhang Hao said with a smile: "Dian Wei, you took the lead in ascending the city pass and killed the enemy general, this is a great achievement, you want to exchange food?" ”

"Every time I make meritorious service under Lord Zhang, I exchange my credit for food." Dian Wei said embarrassedly, "The main thing is that I eat a lot more than ordinary people, and the military rations for one person are not enough for me to pad my stomach." ”

"You can be an officer with this merit, it's a pity to exchange it for food." Zhang Hao said, "Why don't you come to my account, I'll let you be a military horse." ”

Dian Wei hesitated for a moment and asked, "Go to the general's tent, are you full when you eat?" ”

"Eat as much as you want, until you can't eat anymore."

"Then I agreed, Dian Wei will meet the lord."