Autumn nights come early, and are much darker than starry summer nights, with howling night winds whipping the trees along the road and littering the sky with dead leaves. On this night when the night is dark and the wind is high and the fire is good, on the hill next to the road north of Chenggu, a group of black shadows were quietly felt, all of them were dressed in black clothes and black pants, and they had a horse belt ring, but the steel knife in their hands reflected the cold light from time to time, and they were going to be traitors at first glance.

This team has about three or four thousand people, as if they are very familiar with the local terrain, stepping on mountains and wading around Dong Zhuojun's open and dark posts, and sneaking to the front of Dong Zhuojun's vanguard army camp, and Dong Zhuojun doesn't know whether he doesn't know that the danger is approaching, or relying on his own soldiers to be strong and strong.

Yang Ren and Yang Bai looked from afar through the fence, and saw that the candle flame in the big tent of Dong Zhuojun's Chinese army was still burning, and Dong Zhuojun's pioneer Gan Ning was sitting in the tent drinking, the two were overjoyed, and quickly pulled their bows and arrows to shoot down the sentry on the walled tower, maybe it was the auspicious heavenly phase, the two brothers who usually bow and horse and had eighteen kinds of martial arts were sparse today, and they both hit the sentry, and the sentry on the walled tower fell to the ground.

Yang Yiyi waved his hand, several soldiers stepped forward to move away from the antlers in front of the village, and opened the gate of the village, the two brothers suddenly shouted at the same time, the army poured into the village together, the two brothers did not pay attention to those miscellaneous soldiers, rushed straight into the big tent, and shot at Gan Ning, who was still sitting still, as soon as the steel gun touched Gan Ning's body, the two brothers felt that it was wrong, and looked closely, that Gan Ning was actually a straw man.

"Hit the mark!" Yang Ren shouted frantically: "Retreat!" Evacuate! But it was too late, and suddenly a cannon rang out behind the village, and an army killed in front of the village from the flank woods, and immediately blocked Yang Ren and Yang Bai in the village, and at the same time rockets rained down, and those camp tents were drenched with fire oil and sprinkled with sulfur, and immediately burned.

In the firelight, a general outside the village was carrying a horse-carrying knife, wearing bird feathers on his head and decorated with bells, and was laughing wildly in the melodious copper bells, "Ugly boy, you have fallen into my family's ugly master's plan, quickly dismount and be captured, so as not to stain Uncle Gan's beautiful big knife." ”

Yang Ren and Yang Bai glanced at each other, turned around and rushed out desperately, but Gan Ning would give them a chance, the big knife swung wildly, and a burst of overwhelming feather arrows fell, instantly taking away the lives of countless Hanzhong soldiers, and in the skyrocketing firelight, the wolf-like Dong Zhuojun soldiers smirked and pounced on this group of poor sheep who were surrounded, using their blood to celebrate the victory of Dong Zhuo's army and the Hanzhong army in the first battle after entering Sichuan.

Yang Ren and Yang Bai didn't rush far, they bumped into each other, and the two of them didn't answer with Gan Ning, gritted their teeth and fought Gan Ning with a gun, Gan Ning put them in his eyes, and the battle was not three-in-one, Gan Ning's big knife opened Yang Bai's steel gun, and with a flick of the situation, he cut off Yang Ren's thigh in half with his backhand.

"Brother!" Yang Bai roared with red eyes and rushed straight away, trying to save Yang Ren, but Gan Ning didn't give him a chance at all, the big knife was faster than a knife, and Yang Bai, who was desperately rushing forward, was forced to retreat again and again, Yang Bai was not his opponent, and his marksmanship was even more scattered when he was angry, Gan Ning grabbed him a flaw, grabbed his steel gun with one hand, and pulled it to the side, bringing Yang Bai and his people close to him, and the big knife was raised, and Yang Bai was about to be cut in two.

Gan Ning's big knife was raised into the air, and suddenly a rider rushed out from the side, regardless of his life, and hugged him by the waist, "Brother Bai, run!" Gan Ning looked down and looked closely, but it was Yang Ren who was covered in blood. Yang Ren hugged Gan Ning to death, and didn't care about Gan Ning's big knife ruthlessly slashing his body, just yelling, "Brother Bai, run, run!" ”

"Brother! Brother! Yang Bai shouted again and again with red eyes, seeing that Yang Song's body was already blurred with flesh and blood, he was willing to retreat alone, but in the chaos of the army, he was rushed farther and farther away from Yang Ren, and saw that several Dong Zhuojun soldiers had cut off Yang Ren's hands, knowing that his brother's life was difficult to protect, the tiger shouted with tears, and led the defeated army back to Chenggu, but his own brother Yang Ren had been chopped into meat by Dong Zhuojun.

Gan Ning led the army to chase and kill for a while, and killed countless defeated troops, but he didn't dare to chase far away in the dark, and collected his troops back to the camp after chasing more than ten miles, while ordering the sergeant to bury Yang Renhou, and on the other hand, he sent people to report the good news to Kang Peng.

Three days later, Dong Zhuojun's main army arrived in Chenggu, Kang Peng sent people to surrender to the guard Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei categorically refused, Yang Bai tied the messenger to a tree and whipped him out of the city, the messenger who was back to the camp cried to Kang Peng, Kang Peng was furious, "Siege the city, let Hanzhong see the majesty of my Xiliang Jian'er!" ”

Kang Peng had the intention to show off the military strength of Dong Zhuojun, and the 500 catapults in the main force went into battle together, adopting the tactics of encircling the north, south and east gates of the city fortification, leaving only the west gate and not fighting, and more than 10,000 foot bows were also put into battle, preparing to use this small city less than five miles long and wide to practice siege tactics.

Five hundred catapults threw their arms down, more than 100 pounds of boulders were loaded into the throwing spoons, the wrist-thick hemp rope began to jump, tens of thousands of archers lay on the ground, in front of them, there was a row of white feather arrows more than four feet long, the special arrows shone dazzlingly in the sun, and the long arrows were placed on the bow one by one. Kang Peng sat under the flag gate with a big belly full of fat, and seeing that the soldiers were ready, Kang Peng grabbed a flag and handed it to Zhao Yundao: "Start." ”

The flags flickered one by one, and with the roar of the creaking, the blue-gray boulder rose from the ground and flew to the city wall a hundred zhang away, splashing a burst of blood, followed by an overwhelming rain of arrows, as many as 10,000 arrows, whistling to sweep away the defenders on the city wall......

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At the same time that Dong Zhuojun's army began to attack Chenggucheng, Yan Pu, who was sent by Zhang Lu to ask for help, also met Liu Yan who went out in person in Langzhong, and Liu Yan's army was already divided into two factions, the main battle faction headed by Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and Li Yan, Li Hui and others, and the main surrender faction headed by Zhang Song, Du Wei and others.

When Yan Pu met Liu Yan, Zhang Song, who had already hooked up with Kang Peng, didn't care that Liu Yan was in front of him, and immediately gave him a dismount, Zhang Song asked Yan Pu coldly: "Why did Mr. come?" ”

Yan Pu glanced at Zhang Song out of the corner of his eyes, hugged his fist at Liu Yan and said, "I came to save Liu Yizhou." ”

"Huh." Zhang Song sneered, "You and I are incompatible, why do you want to save my lord?" Besides, what can you do to save my lord? ”

Yan Pulang said: "Although my lord has been at odds with Liu Yizhou for a long time, but now that the Dong thief army is pressing the border, if Hanzhong and Yizhou do not abandon their previous suspicions and join hands to resist the brutal invasion of the Dong thief, the time for your army and our army to perish is just around the corner." ”

"Wait." Zhang Ren interrupted Yan Pu's words, "Zhang Tianshi, isn't he an alliance of Dong thieves and wants to attack our army together?" Why did you suddenly tear your face with Dong Thief again? Do you want to join hands with our army to fight the thieves? ”

Yan Pu sighed, shook his head and said: "It's all to blame that Yang Song for being greedy for money, accepting bribes from Dong thieves, and deceiving my lord into forming an alliance with Dong thieves, and also blaming the contemptible people for being incompetent, and failing to dissuade the lord from luring wolves into the house, causing the Dong thief army to steal Jia Meng Pass, and my lord and Liu Yizhou are completely at odds." Yan Pu took out Kang Peng's letter of blackmail to Zhang Lu and handed it to Zhang Ren, "General Zhang, please look at this shameless document from Dong Thief, and you can understand why our army tore up with Dong Thief." ”

Zhang Ren took the letter and presented it to Liu Yan, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Dong Thief's shamelessness is simply unheard of, 20,000 catties of gold, 500,000 stone grain, not to mention the small Hanzhong, even we Yizhou can't take it out." ”

Yan Pu took the opportunity to say to Liu Yan: "Liu Yizhou, Hanzhong and Yizhou are completely the relationship between teeth and tongues, and the so-called lips and teeth ......are cold."

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The catapult continued to throw boulders, the foot bow was still frantically pouring arrows, the defenders in the city wall had been killed and wounded, and the defenders who were lucky to be alive did not care about the orders to escape from the city wall, away from the killing of these new weapons, at this time, the catapult began to throw sacks filled with hay mixed with chili peppers at the upwind place, and the smoke emitted when the sacks burned did not matter to whomever it smoked, who wept and couldn't see, Dong Zhuojun's infantry flying bear army also pushed the cloud platform and carried the cloud ladder to gradually approach the city wall.

The city is only a small city, and the population in the city is less than 60,000, but now Zhang Lu's army is 50,000, and the population of this small city has nearly doubled at once, and the population density can be imagined, so Dong Zhuojun's catapults and foot bows can always bring countless casualties to the city every wave of attacks.

Dong Zhuojun's offensive was fierce, but the vast majority of the troops sent by Zhang Lu were ordinary farmers who had just put down their farm work, and they didn't even have a unified military uniform, only tied a white belt on their heads to identify, and most of the weapons in their hands were hoes and wooden forks and other farm tools. The total population of Hanzhong is less than 400,000, but Zhang Lu adopted the policy of integrating politics and religion and hiding soldiers from the people, drawing one for every four people, and he managed to gather nearly 100,000 troops to meet the battle, but the quality of the soldiers can be imagined. The three states of Yonghe and Liang controlled by Kang Peng originally had nearly two million people, and in the early years of the early peace, he brought 1.1 million people from the north from Luoyang, and in recent years, he has been abducted and deceived nearly 500,000 in Luoyang and Yanzhou, with a total population of 3.5 million and is increasing rapidly, of which the total strength is 400,000. At the same time, there are hundreds of thousands of Qiang slaves captured by Dong Zhuojun, although Dong Zhuojun's army is the most well-equipped, but the burden on the people is the smallest among the princes.

The words are far away, back to the point, Kang Peng saw that Dong Zhuojun had the upper hand under the flag gate, nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "The catapult and the foot bow are stopped, the infantry go up to the city wall, before sunset, take the city for me." ”

The flag order flashed, the catapult stopped throwing, and the foot bow also stopped pouring feather arrows, so as not to injure their brothers by mistake, and a group of Dong Zhuojun soldiers carried the ladder, pushed the cloud platform and the crashing cart and shouted towards the city wall that had been stained red with blood......

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"Fart!" Zhang Song, who was poor in words, couldn't care about his identity and scolded, so he raised his fist and wanted to fight Yan Pu, "Dong Taishi is the destiny of heaven, 400,000 soldiers, generals are like clouds, dragons and tigers, who in the world can stop it?" If my lord descends early, he will not lose his position as a prince, and blocking it will be like hitting a stone with an egg, and burning the jade together! "It's a pity that Zhang Song, who has a short stature, has no power to restrain the chicken, although Yan Pu is similar, but between pulling, Zhang Song can knock down Yan Pu at once.

Liu Yan watched Zhang Song and Yan Pu scuffle weakly, and didn't let people pull them away, but he was in a state of confusion and had the heart to surrender, but he was unwilling to think about it, but if he tried his best to resist, he was afraid that he would be unable to escape the fate of being punished after the defeat of the army, and it was difficult to choose for a while.

Yan Pu grabbed Zhang Song's hair and scolded: "Zhang Song, you shameless villain, you are the same raccoon dog as Yang Song, you sell the master for glory, what kind of person is Dong Zhuo, even if your lord surrenders, he will definitely die, Han Sui is a living example!" ”

Zhang Song hung on Yan Pu's collar, "Yan Pu dog thief, Dong Taishi is merciful, and marching into Sichuan is also on the orders of the imperial court, if my lord does not surrender early, he will definitely endanger his descendants." The rice thief is dying, and he is still working as a car in the mantis arm, and he sent you to pull my lord into the water......"

Zhang Song and Yan Pu couldn't stop scuffling, Liu Yan ignored it, without his order, others couldn't pull it, and it didn't pull it, so they had to stare at it dryly. At this time, an old but righteous voice suddenly appeared outside the tent, "Zhang Yongnian, you shameless villain who sells for glory, shut up the old man!" ”

Zhang Ren looked back and was immediately overjoyed, "Teacher! ”

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The crashing car was pounding heavily on the crumbling gates of the city, and on the city wall on the front of the crashing car, there were noisy shouts of killing, the sound of weapons colliding, and the screams of people when they were dying, and from time to time corpses or wounded soldiers fell from the city walls, stirring up a puddle of blood.

Personally led the army to attack the wall is Dong Zhuojun general Wu Yi, Kang Peng has personally promised him that as long as he takes Hanzhong, he will crown his younger brother Wu Ban as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and guard Hanzhong for generations, Kang Peng and hinted to him that if he performs well, his sister will also have a good belonging, Wu Yi has also heard of the relationship between his sister and Kang Peng, for the glory and wealth of the family and the lifelong happiness of his sister, Wu Yi has no reason not to work hard?

Wu Yi was the first to rush to the city wall, cutting down more than a dozen defenders next to the battlements in one go, so that Dong Zhuojun on at least two cloud ladders took the opportunity to rush to the city wall, as more and more Dong Zhuojun soldiers rushed to the city wall, the defenders' already shaky morale completely collapsed, and the control of the north gate was also handed over to Dong Zhuojun.

Wu Yi saw that Dong Zhuojun had occupied the city wall, and immediately rushed to the city wall with his own soldiers, wanting to open the city gate and let the army enter the city. Wu Yi raised his knife to greet him, the two knives intersected, and there was a loud noise, the general's arm strength was obviously inferior to Wu Yi, and Wu Yi was so shocked that the steel knife almost escaped. At this time, Wu Yi also knew that Zhang Wei was not his opponent, and he struggled to slash three times in a row, which shocked Zhang Wei's arms numb, and when he slashed to the fourth knife, Zhang Wei finally couldn't resist it, and the steel knife flew out of his hand, Zhang Wei was shocked, and turned around to run, but Wu Yi was willing to let go of this opportunity to add a big weight to the glory and wealth of his family......

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With Zhang Ren's cheers, Liu Yan also jumped up and greeted the man, "General Jia, you are here." The military generals under Liu Yan's account were also happy, "General Jia! General Jia! ”

The man outside the tent walked into the big tent with his head held high, the man was about seventy years old, eight feet tall, his hair and eyebrows were as white as silver, his face was as white as silver, his face was Chinese, his eyes were phoenix, his face was wide and square, his old body stood straight, and his military temperament was heartbreaking, and he was the teacher of Zhang Renzhi, the first general in Shuzhong in the late Han Dynasty, and the real hero of the Yellow Turban in Sichuan-Jia Long!

Jia Long, Yizhou Qian, when the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty, Yizhou also had a large number of Yellow Turban rebellion, even the Yizhou Thorn Shi Jian was killed by the Yellow Turban Army, Liu Yan, who came to take over the position of Jianjian, was also too frightened to enter Sichuan, and lived at the border of Yizhou, at that urgent moment, Qianwei Taishou Jia Long stood up, raised troops to destroy the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in Mianzhu in one fell swoop, personally killed the Yizhou Yellow Turban Commander Ma Xiang, and blocked the counterattack of tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans with only 3,000 men and horses in Jiameng Pass, after the Yellow Turban Army was exhausted, Jia Long personally led his troops out of Jiameng Pass and wiped out all the Yellow Turban Army. It's a pity that Jia Long is too honest and upright, after he worked hard to eliminate the Yizhou Yellow Turban, Liu Yan was very kind to erase his name from the merit book, and put all the credit on himself, Jia Long was also driven back to Qianwei, and still did his Qianwei Taishou. Originally, in history, Jia Long, who was a master of high merit, should have been poisoned by Liu Yan a year ago, but probably it was Kang Peng who came to this era to change history, Jia Long survived by luck, and now Dong Zhuojun is pressing, and Jia Long has stepped forward to resist Dong Zhuojun's brutal invasion.

Jia Long glanced at the tent, Zhang Song was suddenly frightened, obediently let go of Yan Pu, and said Cancan: "Old General Jia, the villain has seen Old General Jia." ”

Jia Long's eyes were like lightning, and when he saw that Zhang Song's heart was furious, Jia Long said coldly: "Zhang Yongnian, did you want the lord to surrender to Dong Thief just now?" ”

Zhang Song was frightened and muttered: "Old General Jia, the villain is for the sake of the billions of trillions of living beings in Yizhou, so as not to ...... and avoid the jade being burned together." ”

Before Zhang Song's words were finished, Jia Long slapped him in the face, making his eyes burst into gold stars, and Jia Long said solemnly: "Shut up, a shameless villain who is greedy for life and afraid of death, a traitor seeks glory, Xichuan only has a decapitated general, not a surrendered general!" Zhang Song was most afraid of Jia Long, afraid of his awe-inspiring righteousness, so he didn't dare to speak immediately, and cowered and hid to the side.

Jia Long also ignored Zhang Song anymore, turned to Liu Yan and hugged his fists and said: "Lord, our army cannot be surrendered, Yizhou and Hanzhong are dependent on each other, Zhang Lu also has to be saved, although the enemy army is powerful, but we have the danger of mountains, rivers and Qinling, the wealth of money and grain in Tianfu, the courage of the children of Shuzhong, the right time and place and people are all in my hands, as long as we are united, we will be able to break the enemy army." The lord can rest assured, Jia Long is willing to lead the army to fight to the death with the Dong thief, and take the head of the Dong thief! ”

"Lord, we are willing to fight to the death with Dong thief!" Zhang Ren and Yan Yan took the lead, and the tent Chinese Wu knelt down on one knee towards Liu Yan.

Liu Yan was thinking about it in his heart for a long time, he was not worried about anything else, but worried about the consequences of the military power falling into the hands of Jia Long, he didn't know much about Jia Long's methods at the beginning, in case Jia Long held a grudge against him, he would really die without a place to be buried. But when Liu Yan looked at Jia Long again, he still made up his mind, this Jia Long was already seventy or eighty, and he didn't have any ambitions anymore.

Liu Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's ask General Jia to come out of the mountain again!" ”

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"Boom!" The city gate of the city can no longer withstand the continuous impact of the city car, and it fell to the ground with a bang, killing and injuring many Yizhou soldiers behind the city, Dong Zhuojun cheered and killed into the city, at the same time, Wu Yi, who was already covered in blood, kicked Yang Bai's steel knife away, and then cut off Yang Bai's head with a knife.

"Report!" A herald rushed to the flag gate and knelt down on one knee in front of Kang Peng, "Report to the Taishi, the four gates of the city have been breached, the defenders Zhang Wei and Yang Bai were all killed by General Wu, and the defeated army in the city fled from the west gate to Hanzhong." ”

Kang Peng smiled and said, "Gentlemen, let's go, let's go into the city to celebrate." ”

Under the sunset, in the cheers of Dong Zhuojun, Kang Peng rode slowly into the city on a black horse, under his feet, the fallen flag burned quietly on the ground, the land was stained red with blood, and there were fragments of broken corpses everywhere, and the corpses were scattered everywhere, and the sunset was like blood.