As early as the Warring States Period, it was already an important obstacle for Wei to resist Qin.

The dark clouds of war once again shrouded in this Central Plains name juncture, the Han army shamelessly undeclared war, suddenly turned over the Zhongtiao Mountain and crossed the Yuanqu Pavilion, forcibly set foot in the territory of Hanoi County controlled by Sima Wei, the king of Henan, the news has just been sent back to Yiguan by the Henan soldiers guarding the border with fast horses, and there is a rumor inside and outside the Yiguan immediately, the business travelers hurriedly fled from the city to avoid the war, and the guards hurriedly went to the city to prepare for war, blocked traffic, and expelled all irrelevant people who may have hidden the spies of the Han army, etc., shouting and shouting constantly, The sound of crying from time to time was heard in the panicked crowd, and the atmosphere was like the end of the world.

Although he was caught off guard by the Han army, Sima Wei, the king of Henan, also fell for the shameless tricks of the Han army, and did not send reinforcements to Yiguan in advance, but Liu A, the general of the Henan Army who is currently responsible for guarding Yiguan, did not panic, on the contrary, he was still a little gearing up, looking forward to the upcoming war, hoping to rely on this battle to establish miraculous achievements, so that his rank can be added to one or two hundred stones.

Liu A also has the capital to dare to argue with the Han army, although the troops in his hands are only 1,000 people, and the equipment is not particularly sophisticated, but the terrain of Yiguan is too dangerous, and the narrowest part of the road between the two mountains is only eight meters, and the attacker cannot expand the troops at all, and more than 1,000 troops are enough to hold on for a long time and wait for help.

In addition, the reinforcements close at hand are also Liu A's confidence, the Pingyin ferry south of Yiguan, there are a full 4,000 Henan army elite stationed for a long time, it only takes more than half a day to rush north to come to Yiguan reinforcements, in addition to Heyong and Yewang's county soldiers, can also send troops to rescue in a very short period of time, even if you send people to warn and reinforcements to assemble and prepare for war, you have to waste some time, Yiguan defenders only need to hold a little day at most, you can wait for reinforcements.

Before that, although the Han army and the Henan army had never had a friction and conflict, but for the sake of prudence, Liu A in addition to arranging a sentry guard on the border of Hanoi County, and in the Han army's control of the Yuanqu Pavilion placed a fine work, the Han army had just suddenly come to Yuanqu, the Henan army immediately sent the news back to the border, and the border guards also used only two fast horses to send the alarm at the first time, Not only did it give the Yiguan defenders enough time to prepare for the battle, but it also allowed Liu A to send a messenger for help a few hours in advance, which further shortened the time that the Yiguan defenders had to fight alone.

These objective advantages made Liu A full of confidence in holding the pass, and just finished the work of blockading the pass, Liu A immediately summoned the two five hundred lords and ten hundred commanders under his command, assigned specific tasks to guard the pass, and arranged twenty valuable cavalry, so that they could be responsible for probing the enemy situation and transmitting news back and forth, so that they could grasp the specific movements of the Han army at any time and calmly meet this big battle.

But the Han army's pre-war preparations also made Liu A quite shocked, when it was almost noon, first there was a fast horse in return, saying that the Han army divided its troops in the attack, divided about 3,000 troops lightly and rushed to Yiguan at the fastest speed, and then there was a scout report, saying that they clearly saw that the Han army carried dozens of light flying ladders made of bamboo, and the length was enough to directly mount the Yiguan wall. Liu A was inevitably very surprised when he heard this, and said: "In such a short time, the Han thief army got so many suitable length bamboos from there to make flying ladders? It's impossible for the thieves to bring siege weapons directly from Anyi, right? ”

"General Liu, there should be only one possibility." Li Ji, one of the five hundred masters of the Henan Army, said: "It is a flying ladder secretly prepared by the Han thief soldiers of Yuanqu. ”

"Shameless dog thief! It seems that they want to sneak attack Yiguan for a long time and it has not been a day or two! Liu Ah woke up and scolded, and said with a cruel smile: "But if you want to rely on dozens of flying ladders to win the Yiguan, the thief is also daydreaming!" General Ben wants to take a look at the terrain and how the thieves can give full play to their military advantages. ”

"General, the city is too small, and our forces can't be deployed." Another 500 lord of the Henan army suggested: "The road to the west of Yiguan is narrow, it would be a pity to give up like this, or take advantage of the fact that there is still a little time to let the last general lead his men and horses to repair a wall barrier at the narrow road, build a peripheral barrier for Yiguan, and buy more time for our reinforcements as much as possible." ”

It is worthy of praise, although it is only a nobody at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, but Liu A, the general of the Yiguan guard, is obviously more cautious and cautious than his master, Sima Wei, the king of Henan, and immediately said: "We can't take risks, our troops are too thin, and the temporary fortification not only can't buy much time, but also may be taken advantage of by the Han thieves to weaken our forces outside the city, or let the army take turns to go to the city and defend the pass with all our might." ”

After vetoing the suggestion of his subordinates to go out of the city to establish a buffer, Liu A took precautions and ordered the defenders of Yiguan to immediately start making dry food and torches in order to meet the attack that the Han army was likely to launch overnight, and at the same time went to the front line to quickly close the defense, inspect the preparation work, encourage the morale of the army, and calmly wait for the arrival of the Han army.

The three thousand Han army front team led by Zhou Shu, the general of the Han army, successfully arrived outside the West Gate of Yiguan, but Uncle Zhou did not rush to attack, and chose to let the Han soldiers rest temporarily, seize the time to eat and drink, and recover their strength. Liu A also went to the city to check the situation of the Han army in person for the first time, and after seeing that there was nothing special about the lineup of the Han army, Liu A also sneered and said: "I heard that Uncle Zhou, this horseman, is the favorite general of Xiang Kang's dog thief, and it only took five days before and after to annihilate the main force of Western Wei and force Wei Bao, the king of Wei, to surrender. ”

Uncle Zhou, the general of the Han army, was more mediocre than Liu A expected, knowing that time was precious, the defenders of Yiguan must have sent a messenger for help to the surrounding Henan army team, and Uncle Zhou still let the Han sergeant rest for nearly an hour, and then arranged for the long shield to cover the crossbowmen to step forward, and set up two rows of temporary fortifications outside the west gate of Yiguan, covering the crossbowmen to release arrows to cover the siege, and when the Han army completed this deployment, the sky was already close to full darkness, and it was difficult to see, which increased the difficulty of the Han army attacking the away battle.

Uncle Zhou's arrangement has only one advantage, that is, after the light is dim, it is difficult for the Yiguan defenders to effectively suppress the Han army's attack with bows and arrows, fortunately, Liu A is also quite experienced, and he ordered the Yiguan defenders to prepare enough straw torches on the city early on, and only waited for the Han army to launch an attack on the city, and then set the grass bundles on fire and threw them down the city wall, which not only set fire to the lighting, so that the defenders could effectively kill and injure the besieging Han army, but also create smoke and increase the difficulty of the Han army's siege.

When it was all dark, the Han army finally began to formally attack the city, three hundred warriors who had advanced to carry a light ladder carefully built for the city wall of Yiguan, with a team of ten people rushing forward, using the cover of night to directly attack the bridge over the moat, the guards who had been ordered by Liu A as early as possible threw a large number of lit straw bundles for lighting, while concentrating on bows and crossbows to cover the bridge across the river, causing a lot of casualties to the Han soldiers who had to cross the bridge to touch the wall, and at the same time paying special attention to the protection of the gate, not giving the Han soldiers the opportunity to destroy the city gate.

After paying a certain price of casualties, several flying ladders successfully set up the Yiguan city wall, the Han warriors stepped on the ladders, and the guards also hurriedly threw stones and trees, desperately blocking the Han army ants, but at this time, the first Han army warriors who went up the ladder suddenly threw out a few black and slimy things, rolled and smashed to the top of the wall in a parabola, and then before the defenders could figure out what was happening, the thunder had exploded on the Yiguan City one after another!

"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”

In this era, the news transmission was difficult, and the Chai Wu Army, who had tasted the bitterness of gunpowder before, was almost completely wiped out in the Qinling Mountains, and none of the officers and men of the Henan Army guarding Yiguan had heard of the original grenades of the Han army. That's the thing? Do thieves have witchcraft? Why did it suddenly thunder?! ”

"Knock knock knock!"

It was also at this time that the Han army suddenly sounded the earth-shattering sound of war drums, the war drums were accompanied by the primitive grenades that exploded from time to time, which suddenly formed a huge blow to the officers and soldiers of the Henan Army psychologically, and the military heart was suddenly in chaos.

When fighting in close quarters, the equipment advantage of the Han army was immediately revealed, the Han soldiers wearing the armor of the good female rhinoceros carried steel knives, like chopping melons and vegetables, and the soldiers of the Henan army who were blown up by the primitive grenades were flustered, and retreated in panic, and did not dare to go forward to besiege the Han warriors who had succeeded in the city, and the Han warriors took the opportunity to constantly rush up the city wall and quickly occupied a large area of the city position.

was blown out by the primitive grenade, as well as Liu A, the general of the Henan Army who commanded the battle in Guancheng, or after the Han army warriors had already landed in the city in large numbers, the dizzy Liu A came back to his senses and hurriedly sent a reserve team to the city to rescue, but seeing the Henan army soldiers rushing to the city wall with torches, the Han army warriors who had rushed to the city wall immediately threw a few primitive grenades, blowing up the Henan army reinforcements into a mess, screaming and fleeing in all directions, morale fell directly to the extreme, and there was no courage to rush to the city wall for reinforcements.

The Guancheng of Yiguan is indeed too small, after more than 100 Han warriors quickly rushed to the city wall, most of the West Gate position of Yiguan has been controlled by the Han army, and at the same time, the Han soldiers and soldiers also smashed the grenade into the West Gate City Tower of Yiguan very viciously, not only the Henan soldiers in the city tower jumped directly to escape for their lives, but also directly ignited the West Gate City Tower, the West Gate City Tower of Yiguan quickly smoked and caught fire, losing the role of hiding soldiers and guards.

"Kill!"

More Han warriors shouted to kill, while going directly to the city through the flying ladder, while carrying the crashing wood directly to hit the west gate of Yiguan, although the soldiers of the Henan army behind the city gate desperately blocked the city gate with their bodies, but without the cover of friendly troops in the city, the west gate of Yiguan was quickly knocked to a clang, and the door latch cracked.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu A plucked up the courage and personally brought the Henan Army soldiers who entered the city from the east gate to come to the rescue, but the Han army continued to concoct the same method, using only a few primitive grenades, the second batch of reinforcements of the Henan Army was quickly blown up, and the ceramic fragments flew sideways, and also stabbed Liu A's cheek, making Liu A's face bleed profusely, and also affecting the morale of the Henan Army even more.

More troublesome is still to come, more and more Han soldiers rushed to the city wall, but also on the spot, the Henan army prepared the grass bundle was lit and thrown into the city, set fire to the houses in the pass, the fire broke out in all directions, the houses in the pass also continued to burst into flames, adding to the chaos of the Henan army.

Still relying on the primitive grenade to open the way, a team of Han soldiers rushed into the city from the steps of the city, and also gave priority to rushing into the city gate and slashing the soldiers guarding the gate, and the Han soldiers outside the door took the opportunity to exert their strength, successfully crashed open the city gate, and rushed into the city with cheers.

As soon as the city gate was broken, the victory or defeat of the Yiguan battlefield completely lost the suspense, the Han army not only had the absolute upper hand in terms of troops, but also had an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment, just like the tide continued to pour into the city, the Henan army soldiers who had no time to escape were cut to cry dad and shout mother, screaming constantly, and then smashed the east gate, the defenders of the east gate of the Henan army did not even have the courage to resist a little, and rushed out of the city directly, the Han army soldiers were like a bamboo, and rushed directly out of the east gate of the pass, Take advantage of the victory to kill the rear team of the Henan Army stationed outside the east gate of Yiguan.

Outside the city, the Henan army soldiers just resisted for more than a moment of time, and then were killed by more and more Han soldiers, laid down their arms and surrendered countless people, Liu A, the general of the Henan army who escaped from the city with injuries, was killed by the Han army soldiers in the chaos, the Yiguan defenders completely collapsed, and the Han army took only a little more than an hour before and after, and took the Yiguan important land in one fell swoop, and basically annihilated the Henan army's Yiguan defenders.

In the middle of the night, the rear team of the Han army successfully arrived at the battlefield of Yiguan, and Uncle Zhou quickly dispatched troops and arranged for more than 1,000 troops and wounded soldiers to stay in Yiguan, and then took the initiative to go south with 8,000 troops in the early morning of the next day, and went straight to Pingyin Ferry, another military important place in the Henan Army.

The next morning, the Han army in the south and the Pingyin garrison of the 3,000 Henan army in the north to rescue Yiguan encountered in the wilderness, seeing the fierce attack of the Han army, the reinforcements of the Henan army did not dare to slack off, and immediately formed a formation to prepare to meet the enemy, but Uncle Zhou made a quick decision, and immediately ordered 500 soldiers to launch a death attack, and used shields to cover the bombardiers and threw primitive grenades. The result was as Uncle Zhou expected, although the Henan army had received a report of defeat, knowing that the Han army had a terrifying weapon that would make a loud noise, and the lethality of the primitive grenade was actually very pitiful, but after dozens of grenades exploded in the dense queue of the Henan army officers and soldiers, the Henan army officers and soldiers were immediately in chaos, screaming and fleeing in all directions, and Uncle Zhou took the opportunity to order a general attack and hit the Henan army battle formation head-on.

There was still no suspense in the battle, although the Henan army that rushed to reinforce from the Pingyin ferry was more elite than the Yiguan defenders, but the troops and equipment were still at a disadvantage, and they were frightened by the original gold-finger grenades of the Han army, and they simply did not have enough courage to fight to the death with the Han army. In the face of the brave impact of the Han army soldiers, the main force of the Henan army that was taken care of first collapsed, and then the two wings were also defeated almost at the same time, the Henan army was defeated like a mountain, and the top and bottom scrambled to escape for their lives, even in the open wilderness during the day, there were a large number of trampling on each other and dying, and the Han soldiers were morale like a rainbow, and they chased and killed for nearly 20 miles in one breath before stopping to rest for a while.

While resting on the spot, Uncle Zhou first gathered his army and arranged for 2,000 troops to clean up the battlefield and capture prisoners of war, and then decided to continue southward and take advantage of the victory to capture the Pingyin ferry of the Henan army. As a result, it was also at this time that Li Bicai, a young general of the Han Army who was promoted by Uncle Zhou, questioned: "General Zhou, is it too much?" The task given to us by the King of Han is to feint Hanoi and lure Sima Wei's thief army to the north for reinforcements, if we take Pingyindu again and cut off Sima Wei's road to the north, we will not be able to complete the errand assigned by the King of Han? ”

"You don't understand that." Uncle Zhou smiled and said: "We feint Hanoi, if we don't take the opportunity of the enemy to prepare and go all out to take the Pingyin Duzhong, not to mention the old fox of Li Zuoche, even Sima Wei's reckless man can see that we are feintting, ready to cover our main force to launch a frontal attack, if we want him to go to the middle and send heavy troops to rescue Hanoi, our only way is to attack with all our strength and completely hurt Sima Wei, so that he will believe that our main attack direction is in Hanoi, and send his main force to Hanoi for reinforcements." ”

Li Bi suddenly realized, and hurriedly said: "General Zhou, do you want to take Pingyin Ferry first, deceive Sima Wei's main force to Pingyin, and then deliberately give up the ferry and lead Sima Wei to cross the river with all his might?" ”

"Of course not." Uncle Zhou shook his head again, and said with a smile: "What should we do specifically, you will naturally know when the time comes, in short, if we want to deceive Sima Weifu completely, we have to fight a few tough battles." ”

After deliberately selling a pass, Uncle Zhou didn't even send a scout to explore the road, let alone waste time waiting for news from the enemy on the flank, and immediately personally led the Han army soldiers to quickly go south, and did not hesitate to kill Pingyindu, the military stronghold of the Henan Army, and before sunset that afternoon, he successfully arrived at the Pingyindu battlefield. The Henan army guarding the Pingyin ferry did not dare to face the battle, and honestly chose to close the camp to protect itself, and at the same time sent messengers to the south bank again to ask for help.

Seeing the opportunity of the lack of strength of the defenders of the Pingyin battalion of the Henan army, Uncle Zhou once again chose to resolutely attack, first deliberately attacked the north gate of the Pingyin camp of the Henan army, and lured the defenders of the Pingyin battalion to concentrate on the frontal battlefieldThe Han army won three battles and three victories in more than a day, and successfully captured the two important places of Yiguan and Pingyindu with lightning speed.

The matter was not over, after taking Pingyindu, Uncle Zhou not only ordered the Han soldiers to seize the wharf ferry, but also divided the manpower, collected all the surrounding large and small ships, and concentrated all the ships at the ferry wharf, sent troops to protect it, and at the same time recruited sailors and boatmen, and put on a posture of preparing to cross the Yellow River in the south. In the end, after all this was arranged, Uncle Zhou, who had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights, breathed a sigh of relief and said secretly: "I have already done everything that should be done." Whether or not Sima Wei's main force can be deceived depends on whether Li Zuoche can stop Sima Wei. ”