Hanzhong, north of the Qinling Mountains, south of Pingba Mountain, the Han River runs through it, the land is fertile, the products are abundant, known as the granary of the northwest. In addition, Hanzhong also has an important position in the military, has always been a place where soldiers must fight, the ancient Chu State won Hanzhong and became the hero, the Qin State won Hanzhong and Ling Chu, Liu Bang got Hanzhong and won the world, it tightly choked the two northern roads into Sichuan, Dong Zhuojun wanted to invade Yizhou, he must control Hanzhong. Otherwise, they can only make a detour to Qishan and take the long and rugged thousand-mile mountain road, which is not only difficult and slow for the army, but also a nightmare for logistics and supply. What's more, there is still a large amount of grain in Hanzhong City, although there is no shortage of grain in Dong Zhuojun's rear, but the transportation of the Meridian Valley is also inconvenient, and if he can get this batch of grain and grass, Dong Zhuojun's logistical pressure is bound to be much easier.

Dong Zhuojun just arrived at the city of Hanzhong, Kang Peng immediately sent an envoy into the city to recruit Zhang Lu, Xu Guannei Hou and Zhennan generals, wanted to avoid casualties on both sides as much as possible, but at this moment Zhang Lu had already received the news that Yan Pu sent reinforcements were coming, and categorically refused Kang Peng's surrender, but Zhang Lu was cautious, and did not poison Dong Zhuojun's envoy, and Dong Zhuojun completely tore his face, but treated the envoy well and sent him out of the city.

That night, the envoy returned to the camp to report Zhang Lu's attitude to Kang Peng, Kang Peng sneered: "He is looking forward to Yizhou reinforcements, but unfortunately Jia Meng is in the hands of the prime minister, he is looking forward to a hundred years, and Yizhou's reinforcements will not arrive." Before Kang Peng's words fell, the roar of horses' hooves suddenly came from outside the camp, Kang Peng was taken aback, Jia Xu, Fa Zheng and others also looked at each other, and hurriedly went out of the camp with Kang Peng to check.

As soon as Kang Peng and the others walked out of the big tent, Zhao Yun, who went to reinforce Jia Meng Pass, rushed to the big tent with a group of people with black faces, and as soon as one of them saw Kang Peng, he threw himself in front of Kang Peng and knelt down, holding Kang Peng's fat legs and crying, "Taishi, we are sorry for you, we ......, we lost Jia Meng Pass!" Woo ......" Kang Peng's face shook with fat, and when he looked carefully, he saw that the man's beard was burnt, his face was blackened and purple, and his clothes and armor were in tatters, and he couldn't tell who it was at all, and he could only vaguely identify it as Wei Yan from his voice.

"What's going on?" Kang Peng was furious and yelled: "How did you lose Jia Mengguan? What about Chen Gong? What about Gao Shun? What about the camp? Do you all eat dry rice? "It's no wonder that Kang Peng is so angry, as soon as Jia Meng Pass is lost, the Yizhou army can reinforce Hanzhong at any time, and Dong Zhuojun will face the danger of fighting on two fronts, so how can Kang Peng be calm?

The other two people beside Zhao Yun knelt down, Chen Gong kowtowed and cried bitterly: "Taishi, yesterday at noon, the commander of the Yizhou Army, Jia Long, led the army to storm Jiameng Pass, and the siege fought from noon to midnight, during which the palace also sent the trap camp out of the pass to meet the enemy, who knew that Jia Long ordered the sergeant to attack the camp with stone grease water and fire, and our army did not dare to go out of the pass after the defeat, but just insisted on waiting for help, but that Jia Long was extremely treacherous, and the onslaught was just a tired tactic, and when our army was exhausted, the other Wudang Fei Army sneaked into the pass from the tunnel in the middle of the night, opened the gate, and the enemy army poured in, Our army is outnumbered, if it weren't for General Zilong's timely rescue and killing the pursuers, it would be difficult for us to even escape back. ”

Zhao Yun also stepped forward to report: "Qi Yu Taishi, the last general met General Gao and others on the way to reinforce, and fought with Na Jia Long's Wudang Flying Army, that Wudang Flying Army is really powerful, although it is not the opponent of Xiliang Iron Cavalry on the flat ground, as long as they flee into the foothills of the woods, our army will be helpless." ”

Kang Peng's face was uncertain, he gritted his teeth and was just about to speak, when an earth-shattering cheer suddenly came from Hanzhong City in the distance, which was particularly clear in the silent night, Kang Peng understood that the Hanzhong Army had also received the news that the Yizhou Army had broken through the Jiameng Pass.

"Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers." Lu Su was afraid that Kang Peng would severely punish Chen Gong and the others, so he hurriedly interceded for Chen Gong and the others: "Taishi, the chief of the public station has done their best, they can only blame Jia Long for being insidious and cunning, I really don't know where his tunnel came from?" ”

"Five years ago, Jia Long once held on to Jiameng Pass for several months." Jia Xu analyzed: "It should have been excavated at that time to be used when the pass was broken, and our army was just unlucky, not a crime of war." ”

Kang Peng nodded, waved his hand to let Chen Gong Gaoshun and the others go down to rest, and rewarded Zhao Yun again, and then returned to discuss countermeasures with Jia Xu and others. Early the next morning, Kang Peng ordered Zhao Yun and Gan Ning to lead 40,000 iron horsemen to Wuxiang to meet the enemy, in case the Yizhou army reinforced Hanzhong, Jia Xu handed over Zhao Yun and Gan Ning a bag, and ordered them to open it when Jia Long's army arrived. Then the war drums in the army beat together, and Dong Zhuojun's killer catapult and foot bow of the siege war were used again to start the first round of attacks on Hanzhong City.

Squeak, squeak, five hundred catapults frantically dumped stone bullets towards the Hanzhong wall, each round of stone bullets down, can always splash a burst of blood, the foot bow is also non-stop firing, as long as there is a figure on the wall of Hanzhong shaking, Dong Zhuojun will not hesitate to shoot down with an overwhelming rain of arrows, until there is no one standing at the head of the wall, so that the Hanzhong defenders can not raise their heads at all.

Dong Zhuojun's offensive was fierce, but the tenacity of the soldiers and civilians in Hanzhong completely exceeded Kang Peng's expectations, because Zhang Lu's benevolent government and religious anesthesia, coupled with Dong Zhuojun's reputation of 'loving the people like a son', more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Hanzhong City, the old and weak, women and children went into battle together, defended their homes, carried materials to defend the city, transported stones and soil, and repaired the city wall smashed by catapults without fear of death or life.

The selfless performance of the people of Hanzhong in the tragic siege war even Kang Peng exclaimed, "Aren't they afraid of death?" The original phase is a big stick and a candied date in Chenggu, and they are both encouraged, but they still resist so fiercely? ”

Jia Xu, who was beside Kang Peng, said with a wry smile: "Taishi doesn't know, this is that our army is marching too fast, and what happened in Chenggu has not yet reached Hanzhong; The second is that the people of Hanzhong are all members of the Wudoumi Sect, only know the decree and do not know the emperor's order, and the order of the sect advocates Lu is more important than their lives. ”

Kang Peng shook his head, although he had a bad nature, after all, he didn't want to see his compatriots kill each other, but Zhang Lu couldn't hold on, and exchanged the blood of the people for time, and Kang Peng had nothing to do about it. Hanzhong is not a three-mile city like Chenggu, a small city with a five-mile outline, nor is it a city wall built of adobe like Wuwei, but a big city with a circumference of more than ten miles on the outside of the base, and the city walls are built of big bluestone strips, and the catapult has to be smashed in one place several times in a row to cause damage to the city wall, but it can be quickly repaired with the efforts of the military and civilians in Hanzhong, and it is impossible to smash the city wall at all. Under the city is a moat that is more than ten zhang wide, leading the Han water around the city, the water flow is turbulent, the six city gates only rely on the suspension bridge to maintain external contact, the city car is useless at all, only the cloud ladder can barely play a role, but Kang Peng looked at the strength of the soldiers and civilians in Hanzhong who swore to death, gritted his teeth or was reluctant to let Dong Zhuo's soldiers go up to die, but ordered the catapult and the foot bow to continue to fire, in an attempt to make Hanzhong unable to bear the huge casualties and surrender on his own initiative.

The fierce battle lasted from morning to afternoon, the archers were changed in four batches, and most of the special long arrows were consumed, and five hundred catapults threw at least millions of catties of boulders into the city, and the walls of Hanzhong were stained red with blood, and the casualties were not heavy, but the city of Hanzhong was still standing still, and Zhang Lu was not seen to come out and surrender.

Kang Peng finally couldn't sit still, jumped up and shouted: "Catapults and foot bows stop firing, cloud echelons, siege!" Whoever climbs the city wall first will be rewarded with a thousand gold and given to ten thousand households! ”

In the sound of majestic war drums, the battle entered a white-hot state, the cloud echelon of hundreds of people rushed up to eighty teams in one breath, followed by countless ordinary archers, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers became more courageous under the stimulation of heavy rewards, braving the feather arrows, ash bottles, sasswoods and rolling stones that fell like raindrops on the city wall, using the cloud ladder as a bridge to quickly climb the moat, and put the cloud ladder on the city wall, killing the wall with red eyes, and the archers behind were also shooting frantically on the city wall, reducing the pressure on the brothers of the cloud echelon.

Dong Zhuojun is brave, and the soldiers and civilians of Hanzhong are more afraid of death than Dong Zhuojun, braving the rain of arrows poured by Dong Zhuojun's archers on the city wall, they step on the corpses of their companions and desperately throw stones under the city, throw ash bottles and fall wood, hook guns surge, or push or pull, overturn the ladders that are on the wall, whenever a Dong Zhuojun soldier rushes to the wall, the Hanzhong army soldiers whose equipment and training are far inferior to their opponents will pounce on it, and use simple swords and wooden guns, stones, teeth, and even their bodies to cut down or squeeze Dong Zhuojun soldiers off the city wall. Defend their homeland, defend their loved ones. Every time a Hanzhong army soldier falls, there will be more Hanzhong army soldiers or civilians on top, and Dong Zhuo's army will be pressed under the city wall, and for a while, the city wall is like a bloody and tragic Shura slaughterhouse.

Seeing this scene, the two of them were shaken, one was Kang Peng, he had long understood that he was fighting an unjust war, for his own selfish interests, for his goal of dominating the world, and let countless soldiers go to death, resulting in the destruction of lives and the continuous war. In the previous battles, Kang Peng either hid in the safe rear, out of sight; Otherwise, he resisted foreign invasion and fought for the country, so he had no psychological burden, and now that he was on the scene, seeing this bloody scene, he thought that this was a sibling cannibalism, and the determination of the bad students was shaken.

Another psychologically shaken person is Zhang Lu, as the founder of Taoism and Buddhism in China, Zhang Lu did not want to see this bloody scene, he was independent from Liu Yan, mainly because of Liu Yan's unclear relationship with his mother, and later killed his mother, Zhang Lu was forced to become independent, but Zhang Lu, a religious fan, did not want to build a peaceful and prosperous world? What's more, Zhang Lu also knew the prosperity and wealth of the new Chang'an, and also knew that it was a good thing that Hanzhong fell into the hands of Dong Zhuo......