The majestic atrium was closed, and Han Xin stood on the city wall and looked to the east.

The sun was rising in the east, shining brightly, and it looked peaceful, but just after the scout came to report, Mengfang's soldiers and horses were already fifty miles away, and they were rushing to kill, and the Qin army of Tonglu County had already entered Shanyuan County and was coming at the speed of a rapid march.

This is the danger that Han Xin will face, if he can block these Qin troops, he can wait for the reinforcements of Great Xia, if he can't stop it, then he can only die.

This is also the reason why Han Xin wanted to disperse his forces to defend the two passes, the troops gathered by the Qin army were not enough to capture the Zhongting Pass and the North Hub Pass at the same time in two ways, they could only take them in turn. So if the atrium is lost and Han Xin dies in battle, it will create an opportunity for the Northern Pivot Pass and reduce the pressure, and they will be able to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from Great Xia.

Now that Meng Fang is attacking the atrium pass, first, the distance is closer, and second, Han Xin's troops stationed here are small, and Meng Tian will definitely pick soft persimmons and pinch them.

"Hold on here, the sixteen counties of Dongqi will be in Great Xia."

Han Xin muttered to himself, then stretched out his hand and patted the city wall in front of him vigorously, starting with the stiff and solid stone bricks, but it brought Han Xin greater motivation and confidence.

The three passes of the Qinling Mountains are built on the basis of the Qinling Mountains, just like the city walls built by Daxia in the Qimeng Mountains, and these three passes are also built in the low places of the mountains.

The atrium pass is eleven miles long, extends to the mountain peak left and right, the height of the city wall is as high as more than 20 meters, the thickness is more than ten meters, there are also city towers, sentry towers and other buildings on the city wall, although it is lower than the mountain range, but can block thousands of troops and horses.

As the saying goes, one husband should be the key, and ten thousand people can't be opened, which is the truth.

At this time, the stairs on both sides of the city gate were piled with earth and stones, and if Meng Fang wanted to seize this pass, he could only use cloud ladders and ladders.

Gradually, a dark shadow appeared in the southeast, getting closer and closer, it was the soldiers and horses that were released.

Finally, they approached and stopped five miles away from the atrium.

Meng Fang led people to pat their horses forward, and when they saw that the staircase passage was full of earth and stones, and they couldn't attack it at all, Meng Fang's mood became more and more gloomy.

raised his head and looked at the dense Xia army standing on the city, lined up, all with indifferent expressions, not frightened or frightened, as if they wanted to live and die with the city pass under their feet.

"Who's Han Shin?" Meng said angrily.

Han Xin stood on the top of the city gate, and said with a condescending smile: "What is the matter with General Meng Fang looking for this general?" ”

Meng Fang had never seen Han Xin, and when he saw him for the first time at this time, he didn't expect him to be so young! I heard that he is still from Yan State, born as a slave, and such an identity is actually reused by Emperor Xia, which is really incredible. The new emperor of the Xia Kingdom is really unsuspicious.

This was just a thought in a flash, and then Meng Fang drew his sword and pointed at Han Xin, and said angrily: "Han Xin, the Xia State has attacked our Great Qin territory regardless of morality, and now it is even using a conspiracy to seize our city pass, which is simply abandoned by people and gods, this general advises you to be captured, don't make useless resistance!" ”

Han Xin smiled: "Okay, I can be captured, but General Meng has to convince my subordinates, so how about you give me ten days?" ”

"Fart! Hugh is going to stall for time again! Meng said angrily.

Han Xin shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "It's you who joke with General Ben again!" The Atrium Pass was taken away by you from the hands of Zhao Guo, and now it falls into the hands of our Great Xia, and that is Great Xia's. If you have the ability, you can take someone to take it away, and just let General Ben see your means! But listening to what you just said, no wonder you are not the Five Tiger Generals of the Qin State! ”

As soon as he heard this, he was furious and shouted: "Han Xinxiao'er, if you have a kind, can you dare to come down and fight?" ”

Han Xin smiled and said, "Are you stupid to be a general?" Why don't you come up? If you have the guts, you can attack now. If you don't have the guts, you might as well go back and set up camp and wait for your reinforcements! ”

"Haha" The soldiers of the Xia Kingdom laughed one after another, laughing at Meng Fang's innocence.

This was so angry that he wanted to give an order to start a strong attack, but his 20,000 soldiers and horses really couldn't take the city.

"Good! Han Xin'er, after General Ben takes the Atrium Pass, see if you can still laugh! Meng let go of his anger and turned his horse's head back.

Next, Meng Fang ordered the soldiers and horses to start camping.

A large number of Qin troops were coming from all directions, so Meng Fang needed to wait patiently, and the siege of the city was in a hurry. However, Meng Tianfang also scratched his head, that is, the North Pivot Pass was also occupied by the Xia army, Meng Fang knew that this was Han Xin's cunning rabbit three holes, he really wanted to divide the army into two ways, and take the atrium and the North Hub at the same time, but the troops did not allow it.

There are more than 700,000 Qin troops in the Dongqi area, more than 300,000 are in Meng Yi, he has 60,000 in Mengfang, and only 20,000 are left, and there are 670,000 soldiers and horses in Sanguan, and only Nanli Pass is left. Tonglu County had 60,000 troops, Zhaodu County was the old Zhao capital with 80,000 troops, Dongqi County originally had 70,000 or 80,000 troops, and the rest were distributed to other counties.

So calculated in this way, there are not many troops that can be called up in the shortest time in Mengfang, and it would be good to be able to make up 100,000 when the battle is full, and the soldiers and horses of Zhaodu County and Xichuan County are blocking Chen Qingzhi, and Meng Yi is even farther away, and more than 300,000 troops are beyond the reach of the whip.

Can 100,000 troops take the atrium pass guarded by 20,000 Xia troops?

Meng Fang understood that even if he could take it down, it would be up to the Qin army's corpses to pile it up! But there is no way, the atrium pass must be taken down!

This night, the soldiers and horses on both sides rested well, and they both understood that this was the last time they slept soundly before the war.

Han Shin didn't sleep, he was waiting for a letter from the falcon.

Meng Fang came to the atrium pass, so naturally he did not pursue Dian Wei. According to Han Xin's plan, Dian Wei's soldiers and horses had already touched the vicinity of Nanli Pass, hiding and waiting for the time to come.

However, now that his whereabouts have been exposed, it is difficult to say whether Dian Wei can get close to Nanli Pass, and Meng Fang did not pursue Dian Wei, so he must have sent someone to follow, and at the same time, he also notified Nanli Pass. Therefore, the environment in which Dian Wei is located is also very dangerous.

In the middle of the night, the eagle letter came.

Seeing the secret letter sent by Dian Wei, Han Xin breathed a sigh of relief, Dian Wei had already hidden in the Qinling Mountains, only more than twenty miles away from the South Leaving Pass, and the scouts who were following him had been eliminated, and their whereabouts were very safe.

So far.

Han Xin's last thing to worry about is not worried, the next thing is to deal with the battle, whether it is success or failure, it depends on the result.

In the early morning of the next day, the soldiers and horses of Mengfang began to get busy, cutting down bamboo to make ladders, and at the same time making simple ladders with wood, in the afternoon, there were already Qin troops coming one after another, and in the second half of the night, a large number of troops from Tonglu County came, gathered in front of the atrium pass, and looked at the past from a distance, all of them were torches.

At this time, the atrium was closed and torches were also lit, like a fire dragon, I don't know if the Qin army will attack tonight, so Han Xin ordered the soldiers to rest on the city.

At this time, Han Xin also received an eagle letter from Chen Qingzhi.

Chen Qingzhi had already entered Xichuan County, but unfortunately he was hindered by the Qin army in Xichuan County, and his speed was limited, and the time for possible assistance had to be postponed.

This was expected by Han Shin.

The ugly hour has passed, and everything is silent, except for the sound of the summer wind blowing on the flag, blowing the torches.

At this moment, there was movement in the Mengfang barracks.

The Qin army began to fish out of the barracks, and the first group of Qin troops were death squads, they carried ladders and shields, their tasks were heavy, and they had to lean the ladders against the city walls!

This was followed by archers, who relied on bows and arrows to suppress the Xia army on the city walls and provide cover for the infantry climbing behind them. At the same time, the Qin army also brought bed crossbows, relying on the terrible lethality of bed crossbows to suppress the Xia army.

Next, there's the ladder.

At the same time, Meng Fang also specially arranged for shield men and infantry to cooperate to excavate the earth and stones on the stairs of the city, and once the stairs were cleared, they could rush up from the stairs.

In order to win the atrium pass, Meng Fang tried his best!

At this time, the city was closed, and the vigilant Xia Jun also sensed the attack of the enemy, and immediately warned with the sound of drums, Han Xin, who had just squinted for a while, woke up and walked out of the city tower, and then looked at the figures moving in the night, he roared: "Prepare for war!" ”

In an instant, all the Xia soldiers were busy.

Hot oil, rolling logs, stones, bows and crossbows, one by one, hid behind the city walls, waiting for the arrival of the enemy army.

Finally, the Qin army arrived.

At a distance of more than 200 meters, the archers of the Qin army released arrows, and the rain of arrows flew up and down in the sky, falling on the city pass in a perfect parabola, in an attempt to hurt the Great Xia soldiers.

The Great Xia soldiers immediately raised their shields to defend, and listened to the arrows and feathers shooting at the shields, making a clattering sound, like a torrential rain hitting plantains.

At the same time, the death squads of the Qin army rushed forward and began to erect ladders.

The Xia army began to counterattack, and they fired bows and arrows from the battlements with their backs against the battlements, shooting the Qin army's death squads. However, one person was shot, and the Qin army rushed up to replenish it, and they began to attack desperately.

And just like that, the siege battle in the middle of the night began.

Han Xin, as the commander, naturally didn't have to take the lead, he just sat on the city gate and didn't go anywhere, with him, Daxia Erlang would have the backbone and be able to kill the enemy bravely.

It didn't take long for the Qin army to pile up a passage by piling up the corpses, and the infantry rushed up, and had already set up a dozen ladders on the city wall, and the Qin infantry began to climb.

The Great Xia soldiers threw hot oil and rolling wood down, or fired crossbow arrows, and attacked condescendingly, and the Qin army suffered heavy casualties, on the other hand, the Great Xia soldiers suffered very few casualties, and they were all injured by the fall of arrow feathers.

This battle was fought until dawn, and the Qin army's first attack failed, leaving behind the corpses of the Qin army after retreating.

Meng Fang inquired about the number of dead in battle, and there were more than 3,000 people and 4,000 casualties.

Knowing that the siege is difficult, this is the first attack is so tragic, and the difficulty of successfully winning the Atrium Pass can be imagined.

At this moment, Meng Fang felt that his heart had become very cold, and he couldn't help but be merciful.

He looked at the lieutenant general beside him and asked, "In an hour, continue the attack!" After exhausting the bows and arrows of the Xia army, rolling logs, and hot oil, I will see what defense they have. ”

"Yes!" The adjutant general led the troops down to make arrangements.

Meng Fang looked at Bai Lie, the commander who had brought troops from Tonglu County.

Whether you can win the atrium pass or not, the key is still in this person.