Tang Yuan climbed the cliff to shoot arrows, although Guan Jingyun was forced to retreat to the second stone wall, but in fact, he didn't shoot many enemy soldiers, and yesterday's battle only wiped out 3,000 of his people. Counting Guan Jinglin's three thousand, it is a total of six thousand. And the casualties of the Liang army exceeded this number. So Zhang Yunlong led the rear team of 10,000 people and rushed up, and the old general was old and strong, standing on the first stone wall in person to observe the terrain.

At this time, Zhang Zhikui, the second deputy marshal of the crusading army, also led people to come and accompany the old marshal Zhang Yunlong.

"Tang Yuan, how are you going to fight?" Zhang Yunlong asked with a solemn face.

"Burn."

"Burn?" Zhang Zhikui was puzzled: "There are stones everywhere, and even the grass has been pulled out by the enemy, how can you burn it?" ”

"There is no grass or trees on it, so we give them grass and trees, and there are many stones on it, so we burn the stones." Tang Yuan said.

"Nonsense." Zhang Zhikui had never heard of it: "If you want to burn stones, what kind of fire does it have to be?" ”

Tang Yuan said: "When I was in Jingzhou, I asked the army to collect a large amount of pine oil, and yesterday I captured forty-nine super heavy crossbows, which can launch slightly thinner tree trunks to the top of the mountain. When you are below, you set the trees on fire with pine oil and launch them to the top of the mountain. ”

Zhang Zhikui pondered for a moment: "Forty-nine is too few, it can't be formed, the enemy has time to extinguish the fire, and it is even possible to shoot back the wooden stake you lit, aren't we asking for our own hardship?" ”

Tang Yuan said: "Then withdraw the troops and retreat to the back of the first stone wall." ”

When Tang Yuan and Zhang Zhikui were talking, Zhang Yunlong didn't speak, but his face was not very good-looking.

Tang Yuan continued: "Last night, Scout Feng Pegasus found a path up the mountain, I originally planned to send people to guard there and cut off the enemy's rear road, but now that I have changed my mind, it is better to send a team to kill from there. ”

Zhang Zhikui frowned and said: "There are at least 17,000 people on the mountain, walking on the rugged path, it would be good to climb up a thousand people, and if you go, you will be sent to death." ”

Tang Yuan said: "I will personally lead the troops." ”

"No." Zhang Yunlong finally spoke, "If you fight like this, it is better to bypass Yunting Mountain, you will take a large army to directly aid Lin Chongyang, and I will break off here and block the enemy of Yunting Mountain to go back." If the enemy's reinforcements come, it doesn't matter if I die here, but if Lin Chongyang is gone, Hanzhong's courage will be gone, and this battle will be completely lost. ”

In fact, what the three generals said was all considered, including Zhang Yunlong's trick to break the boat, at first, everyone thought that Zhang Laoshuai would send a division to garrison Yunting Mountain, he took people around it, but he didn't expect him to stay by himself.

Tang Yuan said: "From Yunting Mountain to Dingjun Mountain, there are still two hundred miles of road between them, on this road, there are four small towns, if I make a detour to raid, if the enemy army is deployed in the town, it will also stop us, and then our front will be too long, the supply will be insufficient, and we will be defeated without a fight." ”

Zhang Yunlong seems to have made a decision: "Don't hesitate, we don't have time." ”

Back at the commandery, Zhang Yunlong asked Tang Yuan to lead 70,000 people to continue to move forward, and he took the remaining 10,000 people to stop between Yunting Mountain and Dingjun Mountain. In this way, the supply of the Liang army was completely cut off, and now the only thing that is competing with Shu Han is speed. At the same time, it is hoped that Tang Xiao can break through Xingcheng Pass and open up the supply line of Chang'an.

It was a bold decision.

The more than 10,000 people under Zhang Laoshuai are more than 10,000 people under Han Dang and Huang Ying, including many wounded soldiers and prisoners. Tang Yuan led the troops away, but he sweated for the old man in his heart. If the enemy of Yunting Mountain rushed down the mountain at this time, would the old man be able to resist it?

Within a day, Tang Yuan's vanguard troops had already arrived in the golden city, and the deputy marshal Zhang Zhikui led 50,000 troops to follow.

"It's a small town again." Tang Yuan frowned: "Looking at the fluttering flags in this city, it seems that there are at least five thousand people." The city is small, but the walls are very high, so it's not easy to fight. ”

"Forget it." Tang Hu said.

"Still around?" Tang Yuan said: "If they still go around, they will attack the old handsome Zhang Yunlong to the east instead, what do you think of the consequences?" Are you really going to throw the old handsome man into the furnace? Beat! And it has to be fast! ”

Tang Hu was not lightly injured, and now he still has a fever, so this task cannot be handed over to him.

Ma Ben asked for battle, Tang Yuan felt that he was too young, and finally chose Yue Pu to lead the troops to attack the city.

All kinds of siege methods were used again, the captured super powerful crossbows crackled, several of them had been broken, and the arm-thick wooden stakes were actually inserted into the cracks of the city wall, and the soldiers climbed the wooden stakes to climb the city head and fight hand-to-hand with the enemy city head.

The battle lasted for a day and a night, and before Zhang Zhikui could arrive, Tang Yuan's troops broke into the golden city.

"Grandma's, this is too miserable."

Tang Yuan entered the city to see that the city had been burned to the point that there was not a single complete house, Yue Pu ordered to shoot rockets into the city with a heavy crossbow, and a fire burned the enemy army to charcoal, but at the same time, the town also became a dead town. The Golden City was taken, and almost no booty was obtained, but 8,000 casualties were paid.

Continue to go forward, the old road Xingdao City, and it is a small city, and the shape is the same as the golden city.

"Fu Ying, you come to fight this time."

Tang Yuan asked Fu Ying to lead his troops to attack the city, but halfway through the battle, suddenly an enemy cavalry rushed over, and they did not rush from the city, but from behind.

Could it be that the enemy has increased reinforcements again?

"Chen Bao, a thousand cavalry go up!"

Fortunately, it was not a large-scale cavalry, Chen Bao came back two hours after he went out, saying that the enemy army only had more than 500 cavalry, all of whom were killed in battle, leaving no survivors.

Tang Yuan sighed: "We are all Han people, although the Han people are good and bad, they can always come out of heroes. Although these men were defeated, they were still glorious in defeat. ”

The battle lasted from midnight to midnight, when Fu Ying rushed into Xingdao City and captured a small amount of grain.

Nalan Xin smiled bitterly: "It seems that both sides are rushing for time, and they don't plan to fight for a long time at all, if we are not in a hurry, this city will not have to fight at all, and if we besiege him for ten days, we can starve them all to death." ”

The troops continued to the west, at this time Tang Yuan's troops had only 7,000 people left, and Su Beiqin's 10,000 people had been defeated, General Su was very annoyed, saying that Tang Yuan deliberately harmed him, and ran back to Zhang Zhikui with the escort group, but was scolded by Zhang Zhikui, and could not let Tang Yuan's lone army go deeper, Zhang Zhikui sent Wan Lin with 10,000 troops to follow.

"General Tang, Zhang Shuai said, if you use soldiers, you don't have to divide between you and me, and I have no complaints when my Wanlin soldiers are gone." Wan Lin said.

Tang Yuan smiled ashamedly: "I also sympathize with General Su's soldiers, but who told you to equip your Xuanjia Army." On the other hand, although my troops are the best equipped in the Flying Tiger Army, they are still a lot worse than the Xuanjia Army. The task of besieging the city is to hand over a Xuanjia army. ”