Ji Wen was already confused, and he had no idea in his heart. Hearing Yang Xue's words, Ji Wen had no choice but to look at Ma Hua's Hao Yang, wanting to hear their opinions.

Hao Yang originally didn't want to fight anymore, but he was like a mirror in his heart. If you retreat to the next city now, although you have gained temporary stability, you will inevitably be surrounded by enemy legions, and when the time comes, let alone attack Dieling Pass, whether you can break through from the next city is a question. If you can't break through, your army may be trapped alive!

Thinking of this, Hao Yang said: "My subordinates think we can give it a try, the enemy army in the Stacking Ridge Pass is already at the end of the crossbow, and with the support of the cavalry, we should be able to take it in one fell swoop!" ”

Ma Hua felt that the enemy army was behind him, so he said anxiously: "How can we have time to attack the city now?" The enemy will be there soon, and if you are halfway through the fight and the enemy comes behind you, it will be too late to run! ”

When Ji Wen heard Ma Hua's words, his heart was shaken. Yang Xue saw it in his eyes and hurriedly said: "The enemy's army is full of infantry, how can it come so fast, let's attack the city now, there should be enough time!" And if we give up attacking Dieling Pass now, even if we retreat to the next city, we will be trapped alive by the enemy, so why not give it a go? If you don't worry, General Ma can send 2,000 cavalry to warn and report back as soon as the enemy is found! ”

After listening to Yang Xue's words, Ji Wen calculated in his heart. He came to attack Huaiguo with an army of 150,000, and it would be too much to be trapped and die here! If you occupy Dieling Pass, you can still retain the hope of continuing to attack Huaiguo, so it is obviously more cost-effective to give it a go!

Thinking of this, Ji Wen gritted his teeth, pulled out his saber and said, "Okay!" Just do what Yang Xue planned! If this battle can't be defeated, this king and all the soldiers will die together! ”

Everyone understood his determination when they heard Ji Wen's words, and the soldiers who didn't want to fight anymore had to cheer up, after all, this battle was related to everyone's net worth and life, and everyone had to fight!

With Ji Wen's order, Ma Hua no longer refutated. After sending 2,000 people to warn, he personally led the cavalry to attack the city gate of Dieling Pass, and Hao Yang followed closely with the infantry.

Since the city gate was broken, Leng Yu had to order a large amount of debris to be piled up at the door hole as an obstacle. But this time the Jingguo army launched a ruthless attack, in the case of a wolf in front and a tiger in the back, the Jingguo soldiers broke the boat, and rushed into the door hole of the Dieling Pass with the determination to die, even if there were a large number of obstacles in front of them, the soldiers did not hesitate to rush forward, and used their lives to kill a bloody road!

Leng Yu didn't expect the opponent's combat power to suddenly rise, but he still didn't flinch, leaving only a thousand people on the city wall to block the soldiers who were attacking the city with cloud ladders, and the rest of the people were all transferred to the door.

But in the face of the enemy's suicidal onslaught, the people of the Western Route Army were also more than capable of strength. The Jingguo cavalry relied on the corpses of their predecessors as cover, and finally dispersed the Western Route Army in the city, and the south gate of Dieling Pass was lost!

But Leng Yu didn't give up yet, he immediately organized soldiers to form a formation, fighting and retreating, and retreated towards the city gate to the north.

At this time, Pang Yuan and the cavalry of the Wuxiu Army had already touched it, and just happened to bump into the two thousand Jingguo cavalry who came to warn. When the Jingguo cavalry saw Pang Yuan, they did not hesitate, and turned around and fled directly.

When Pang Yuan saw this, he felt that the enemy army must be tired, but he couldn't guess it. For the sake of prudence, Pang Yuan sent people to report the news to the large army, and he led people to chase after him.

Ji Wen was overjoyed when he learned that the troops had broken through the gate of Dieling Pass, but he didn't have long to hear the sound of horses' hooves behind him. At this time, there was no need to guess that everyone knew that it was the enemy's reinforcements that had arrived, and Ji Wen didn't care whether the battle in the city was over or not, and immediately fled into Dieling Pass with people.

In the Dieling Pass, Leng Yu retreated to the north gate with more than 3,000 soldiers, preferring to die rather than surrender, and Hao Yang and Ma Hua also tried their best to kill. At this time, the two got the news that the enemy's reinforcements had arrived, and Ji Wen had already entered Dieling Pass. Hao Yang hurriedly dispatched 5,000 soldiers to guard the south gate to prevent the enemy from attacking the city.

Pang Yuan chased the Jingguo cavalry who had an early warning to the front of Dieling Pass, and just happened to see a magnificent chariot at the gate of Dieling Pass entering the city. Coupled with the sporadic battles on the city wall, Pang Yuan immediately understood the current situation: it seems that the cavalry in front is a sentry, the enemy army should have just broken through the city gate, and the Western Route Army inside should still be resisting! Do you just want to risk going in and helping?

As soon as Ji Wen entered the city, he immediately shouted: "Quick! Block the gates and don't let the enemy in! ”

When the Jingguo soldiers heard the order, they didn't care about cleaning up the corpses on the ground and began to look for things to block the door in a panic, for fear that the Huaiguo coalition army would attack.

Pang Yuan hesitated while chasing the Jingguo cavalry, and suddenly saw that the Jingguo soldiers in the city actually began to block the city gate with obstacles without waiting for the two thousand cavalry to enter the city, so he immediately judged that the other party should have no fighting spirit, so he gritted his teeth and said to his subordinates: "Brothers, the time has come to make meritorious contributions, everyone listens to the order, follow me to capture the city gate, and open the way for the army!" ”

On the other side, Zhang Shumo waited until he received the news from Pang Yuan and immediately analyzed it.

"That cavalry ran away when they saw Pang Yuan, could it be a bait trying to lure Pang Yuan into an ambush?" Zhang Jun analyzed.

Qin Sheng narrowed his eyes and said, "No!" Since Pang Yuan had met Ma Hua before, it meant that Ma Hua had just rushed over, and they didn't have time to design an ambush. ”

Chen Lin nodded: "That's right, I also think that the possibility of an ambush is not very likely, if I guess correctly, this army is likely to be on guard, and Ji Wen should not have captured Dieling Pass yet!" ”

Zhang Shumo immediately agreed with Qin Sheng and Chen Lin's speculation: "The speculation of the two gentlemen also coincides with the following thoughts!" Since Ji Wen has not yet captured Dieling Pass, now is a good time to drive him out of the northwest! ”

Jiao Qiang clapped his hands after listening: "Okay!" In this case, let's hurry to Dieling Pass, join forces with Leng Yuli, and destroy Ji Wen in one fell swoop! ”

Zhang Shumo's original intention was just to drive Ji Wen out of the northwest, so when he heard Jiao Qiang wanting to exterminate Ji Wen, he subconsciously shouted: "Don't!" ”

Everyone was stunned, looked at Zhang Shumo differently, and Jiao Qiang also asked in wonder, "What does Zhang Gongzi mean by this?" ”

Zhang Shumo hurriedly explained: "We can consume Ji Wen's troops, but we can't kill them all. Ji Wen's troops are quite numerous, if we have to kill them all, we will let the other party break the boat and fight with our army! At that time, even if our army wins, it will pay a great price. Don't forget that we still have to watch out for Jingguo's reinforcements, so we can't afford to consume it! ”

After hearing this, everyone fell silent, and Jiao Qiang couldn't help but ask, "Then what should we do now?" Does Zhang Gongzi have a clever plan? ”

Zhang Shumo looked in the direction of Dieling Pass: "Since we can't kill them all, then we can only open the net!" As long as we leave a way for Jingguo's army to survive, I believe that they will rush to escape, and when they have no will to fight, we can consume Ji Wen's troops at the lowest cost! ”