It was the army led by Pang Huan, the deputy general of the Northern Second Army, who ascended to Tianmen Pass from the south side of Taihang Mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I remember that early this morning, Pang Huan led 20,000 Northern Second Army to leave Qinyang early, preparing to attack Tianmen Pass, who would have expected that he would be surrounded by nearly 30,000 or 40,000 Korean troops in a forest on the way.

At that time, even Pang Huan was inevitably a little flustered, and couldn't figure out why the whereabouts of his army were broken by the Han army at Tianmen Pass, so that before the army arrived at Tianmen Pass, he was caught by the cavalry of the Han army at Tianmen Pass.

But the strange thing is that the Korean cavalry did not attack the Northern Second Army led by Pang Huan from beginning to end, and the men and horses on both sides stared at each other more than a mile apart, as if it took most of the day to consume the scene, and when it was close to dusk, the Korean cavalry left belatedly.

Through various signs, Pang Huan concluded that most of the Han troops at Tianmen Pass were planning to retreat from Shannan.

After careful consideration, even if they were hostile sides, Pang Huan couldn't help but praise the Korean generals on the other side - knowing that the general situation had gone, regardless of the gains and losses of one city or one place, wisely chose to save troops and evacuate in time, and a general without courage could not make such a judgment.

The timid Han will choose to continue to defend Tianmen Pass, because they are afraid that if they take the initiative to retreat, even if they retreat smoothly with their soldiers and horses, South Korea will be questioned by King Han, and in fact, this choice is very stupid, not only Tianmen will not be able to pay attention to it, but even the tens of thousands of troops who have a glimmer of life in the pass will not be able to escape the end of the annihilation of the whole army.

At that time, there were two choices in front of Pang Huan, one of which was to take Tianmen Pass, after all, at the moment when the Han army of Tianmen Pass took the initiative to abandon the pass and evacuate, Tianmen Pass was completely an empty pass, and this feat could be said to be in vain.

The second is to pursue the evacuated South Korean army at Tianmen Pass.

The evacuation route of this Tianmen Pass Korean army, Pang Huan can guess without thinking about it, it must be going to 'Shanyang', because the Shanyang army of Yan King Zhao Hongjiang is also about to attack Mengmen Pass, and the situation of Mengmen Pass is the same as that of Tianmen Pass.

When the Korean army at Tianmen Pass was evacuated, he must have thought about making a handful of troops and helping the Korean army at Mengmen Pass to evacuate together.

To chase or not to chase, when this question was placed in front of Pang Huan, it really made the Wei army general hesitate for a while.

But in the end, Pang Huan decided to give up the pursuit of the Han army at Tianmen Pass.

This is due to two considerations.

First, it was approaching dusk, and the troops under Pang Huan's command were all infantry, if they pursued the Tianmen Pass Han army, they were likely to be attacked by the cavalry troops of the Tianmen Pass Han Army at night.

In the absence of any means of defense, once the infantry is attacked by the cavalry, it will be completely finished, and there will be no chance of turning the tables at all.

Second, the area around Tianmen Pass was not the only Wei army in their northern second army, according to Pang Huan's judgment, the reason why the Han army in Tianmen Pass withdrew in such a hurry was probably because they had a premonition of a threat from the Su Wang army.

To put it simply, if Pang Huan does not take Tianmen Pass, then Tianmen Pass will inevitably fall into the hands of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su.

Recovering Tianmen Pass, this is a credit for nothing, why did Pang Huan give up his low-hanging fruit and thanklessly pursue the Korean army at Tianmen Pass? The other side still has at least thirty or forty thousand cavalry, and if they bite the other side to death, the other party will definitely turn around and bite back.

Therefore, Pang Huan sent several scouts to Shanyang, hoping to inform the Yan King Zhao Hongjiang about the movements of the Han army at Tianmen Pass, after all, Yan King Zhao Hongjiang did not know that the Han army at Tianmen Pass had abandoned the pass and evacuated from Shannan at this moment, and it was very likely that the Korean army would be copied by this Korean army when attacking Mengmen Pass, and he would suffer a defeat.

In all fairness, whether the Shanyang army eats defeat or not on weekdays has nothing to do with Pang Huan, but in this situation in front of him, if Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, is attacked by the Han army at Tianmen Pass, the Northern Second Army will be jointly and severally responsible.

After all, it was the Han army of Tianmen Pass who attacked Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, and Tianmen Pass was the main attack of the Northern Second Army.

After sending out the liaison cavalry, Pang Huan led his army to rush towards Tianmen Pass, but what he didn't expect was that when he led his army to the Taihang Mountain Mountains around Tianmen Pass, the fire in Tianmen Pass, which was still blazing at first, gradually weakened.

At that time, Pang Huan realized: It's bad, and it was preempted by Su Wangjun.

Sure enough, when Pang Huan led the army to climb the mountain road of Taihang Mountain and came to the area of Tianmen Pass, he saw from a distance that the pass that was still emitting black smoke had been planted with the word "Wei" flags, in addition to some military flags such as "Shangshui Army" and "Northern First Army".

At that time, Pang Huan felt a little uncomfortable, after all, at the end of the first Northern Xinjiang Campaign, the Northern Second Army had already garrisoned in Qinyang, trying to attack the pass of Tianmen Pass. In August and September last year, when Wei and South Korea launched the second Northern Xinjiang Campaign, the Northern Second Army has been sparing no effort to storm this Tianmen Pass, and it is very difficult to attack the ground.

Especially in September last year, the Northern Second Army almost never retreated and repaired.

And in this case, a friendly army in China suddenly appeared and took the Tianmen Pass, which his army had worked so hard to attack for a long time, Pang Huan's mood was certainly not much better.

However, at this point, he had no choice but to continue to advance towards Tianmen Pass with his army.

Unexpectedly, when he led the army to arrive in front of Tianmen Pass, he and his army were stopped by the Northern First Army - the Northern First Army refused to allow the Northern Second Army to enter Tianmen Pass.

What does this mean?

Pang Huan's brows suddenly condensed, and the generals of the Northern Second Army under his command also looked excited.

They are all the troops of the Wei State, why should they refuse to allow my Northern Second Army to enter the customs? Could it be that the Su Wang Army and the Northern First Army want to monopolize the credit?

At that time, there was a general beside Pang Huan who pointed at the general of the Northern First Army and shouted angrily, and ordered the other party to open the gate, because the general of the Northern First Army saw the armor and knew that the military rank was not high, and he was a partial general (2,000 generals) to death.

They really guessed correctly, the general of the Northern First Army was called 'Ma Jian', and he was really a partial general who had just been promoted from the army not long after Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, and Zhou Yu, the general of the staff, had not yet adapted to the position of partial general, so that he was asked by the general next to Pang Huan.

In fact, it was not that he briefly refused to allow the Northern Second Army to enter the customs, but because this was an order from His Royal Highness King Huan, how dare he disobey?

But unfortunately, Ma Jian couldn't hold back at all, so that when he was scolded and scolded by the generals of the Northern Second Army, he was sweating profusely and didn't know what to do.

At that time, there was also a 3,000-strong general of the merchant army, Lu Zhan, who couldn't see it, so he said: "It's such a big place, why are you all squeezed in?" According to me, 3,000 people above the level can enter the customs, and all the rest will go down the mountain. ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a general in the Northern Second Army ask, "What are you?" Dare to make a big deal out of this? ”

Lu Zhan is an old man from the Pingxuan Army, he has been in the Shangshui Army for four years, and he has also made many military achievements, how can he be afraid of those generals of the Northern Second Army.

He immediately revealed his identity and said lightly: "The three thousand generals of the Shangshui Army are Lu Zhan." …… If you humiliate Lu just now, please report your title and name, so that Lu can investigate the crimes committed by several of the following to the Ministry of War and the General's Mansion in the future. ”

In Lu Zhan's eyes, the Northern First Army is the younger brother of His Royal Highness King Su and the army under the command of King Huan Hongxuan, plus the Northern First Army has traveled thousands of miles to help, even if it is not an exaggeration to call it a brother and friendly army, in this case, of course, Lu Zhan did not hesitate to choose to side with Ma Jian.

But then again, when Lu Zhan said to himself "3,000 generals", the generals of the Northern Second Army who just opened their mouths to ask him immediately stopped talking, after all, the so-called official level crushes people to death, don't look at the difference between 2,000 generals and 3,000 generals, it seems that there is only one level difference, but the two are actually a watershed, and some people can't be promoted from 2,000 generals to 3,000 generals in their lives.

Of course, the generals at the same level as Lu Zhan still showed an indifferent attitude.

But no matter what, after Lu Zhan came forward, I am afraid that only Pang Huan and other generals who could stabilize the 3,000 generals of the Shangshui Army were present, to be precise, Pang Huan, Meng Luo, and Yang Yu, the three generals of the Southern Liang King Zhao Yuanzuo.

Among them, it was Meng Luo's temper that was the most irritable, and he immediately pointed at Lu Zhan and mocked: "Yo, three thousand generals, such a great majesty." …… Lu Zhan: Right? You said that you want to go to the military headquarters and the general's palace to investigate the crimes committed by us and the others? Okay, I'm a general, and I just said that about you, you're just a lieutenant, what are you going to do? …… Today, no matter what, I will enter this heavenly gate! ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhan snorted coldly, clasped his hands and said lightly: "His Royal Highness King Su and His Royal Highness King Huan are both in the pass, I want to see if you, with the rank of general, dare to collide with the two highnesses!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a voice suddenly appeared behind Lu Zhan: "General Lu Zhan is reasonable, and this king also wants to see it!" ”

Lu Zhan was stunned for a moment, looked back, and found that Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, and his general Zhou Yu had walked up to the gate tower at some point, and hurriedly clasped their fists and saluted: "His Royal Highness the King of Huan." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongxuan nodded kindly to Lu Zhan, then approached the wall, looked condescendingly at the generals of the Northern Second Army outside the pass, and said lightly: "This king is Zhao Xuan, the king of Huan, this Tianmen Pass has been occupied by our Shangshui Army and the Northern First Army, and there is nothing to do with your Northern Second Army, so go down the mountain." ”

On the side, Zhou Yu, a staff general of the Northern First Army, secretly smiled bitterly and shook his head.

There is no way, Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan is such a person who can't rub sand in his eyes, since the Northern Second Army is indifferent to the fact that his brother Su Wang Zhao Hongrun's army is trapped in the party, then Zhao Hongxuan will definitely not give the Northern Second Army a good face.

In this kind of matter, this highness has always been very stubborn, just like when he first decided that Zhao Hongli, the former prince of the East Palace, treated him sincerely, he was very unaccustomed to the use of intrigue and tricks Zhao Hongyu, even his brother Zhao Hongrun never persuaded him to draw a line with the original East Palace.

Obviously, after King Yong's reputation, Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, has become the second object of disgust of Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan.