Sun Jian and Liu Bei sent troops to attack Dong Zhuo together, and Dong Zhuo's response was not much different from before, with Hu Zhen guarding the Yique and Taigu lines, Xu Rong guarding the tiger prison, and sitting in Luoyang to respond to all parties.

Although Sun Jian played a game, Dong Zhuo was also a person who had experienced a hundred battles, and there were no loopholes in the military deployment he made. Originally, Yuan Shu's army in the direction of Nanyang, Dong Zhuo also had to be on guard, this time it was just to send more cavalry to guard, anyway, Dong Zhuo had a lot of cavalry and fast speed, and when Liu Bei, Sun Jian, and Yuan Shu really merged, it was not too late to send more troops to meet the enemy.

Sun Jian led 40,000 foot cavalry, known as 100,000 troops, and Liu Bei was even more ruthless, but 16,000 foot cavalry was also known as 100,000 horses.

Sun Jian took Huang Gai as the vanguard, commanding 5,000 troops, Sun Jian and the generals led the main force for the Chinese army, a total of 30,000 cavalry, and after Wu Jingdian, he also commanded 5,000 troops.

Although Yingchuan is a famous city, but the place is not big, Sun Jian 40,000 steps to ride, plus heavy vehicles, the team is dozens of miles long. Tens of thousands of horses set off, covering the road, Liu Bei waited for Sun Jian to set off for a few days, and opened up enough distance, so that the commander rode 16,000 horses and set off from the camp.

Because Liu Bei's generals asked for battle, Liu Bei put several generals who asked for war, all of them were stuffed into the vanguard army, with Zhang Fei as the vanguard, Le Jin and Yu Ban as the two deputies, commanding 3,000 men and horses to go first, Liu Bei personally led 10,000 people to accompany Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and others in the Chinese army, and Zang Hong led 3,000 soldiers and horses as the rear army.

Starting from Sun Jian, all the way forward, tens of thousands of horses and horses are so huge, Sun Jian did not hide it, and simply set off with a swagger.

Along the way, Sun Jian fought successively, successively broke through several small groups of Dong Zhuo's army, swept away Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses deployed outside Taigu Pass and Yique Pass, first kept his back road from losing, and then sent Sun Ben to play his own banner and lead a partial division to feign Yique. After Hu Zhen's attention was attracted by Sun Benjun, he suddenly sent troops and took Taigu Pass.

Hu Zhen is a lord of Liangzhou and a general in the Liangzhou army, who has been on the battlefield for a long time and is extremely brave, but he also fell for Sun Jian's plan to attack the east and the west, and personally guarded Yique Pass. Seeing Sun Jian's banner below, Hu Zhen laughed and said: "Sun Jian'er, I think I am resourceful, but I don't want to be expected by a certain family, but I can't hide it from others, how can I hide it from me." ”

When the Xiliang army heard this, they all laughed, and they all laughed at Sun Jian's lack of plans, and "Sun Jianjun" saw it below, knowing that there was a defense on the city pass, and they did not attack Yique Pass, but camped far away.

Hu Zhen saw that the "Sun Jian's army" under the pass had many soldiers and horses, and he did not send troops to attack the "Sun Jian's army", but only strengthened the defense of Yique Pass. Although it cannot be said that Taigu is completely ignored, and there is no increase in troops, although there are Dong Zhuojun garrisons in Taigu Pass, there are not too many, but only thousands.

The Taigu Pass guard is named Yang Ding, this person has also been in the Xiliang Army for a long time, has been with Dong Zhuo for a long time, and is Dong Zhuo's confidant, Taigu Pass is one of the eight passes in Luoyang, Dong Zhuo naturally has to guard it with his henchmen. Yang Ding was also a fierce general, and he saw Sun Jian's army coming. I secretly said in my heart, there are not many defenders of Taigu Pass, and if there are no reinforcements, Sun Jian will be able to break through this pass sooner or later, so he asked for help from Luoyang on the one hand, and arranged to guard the pass on the other.

Yang Ding was behind him, standing on top of the Guancheng, looking at Sun Jian's soldiers and horses from a distance, only to see that outside the Taigu Pass, there were dense flags and many soldiers and horses. Looking back, when I saw the generals on the left and right, everyone had fear on their faces.

So Yang Ding laughed and said: "Sun Jian claims to have 100,000 soldiers and horses, and Liu Bei is also known as 100,000 troops. Although Liu Bei supports Qingzhou, but there are many yellow turbans in Qingzhou, and the state and county are broken, no matter how desperate Liu Bei is, how many soldiers and horses can be pulled out, and he is not afraid of the resurgence of Qingzhou yellow scarves. Although Sun Jian has a history of assassination in Yunyu Prefecture, there is only one county in Yingchuan, although Yingchuan is rich, but its place is small, how can it raise an army of 100,000. These Liu and Sun are not very good at fighting, but they are very good at bluffing. ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded, how many people Sun Jian had, and they also had a number in their hearts, although it was not necessarily completely accurate, but it was not too much worse.

Therefore, although Sun Jian claims to have 100,000 people, at most he is to scare and scare the small soldiers in Dong Zhuo's army, but he can't scare these Dong Zhuojun generals who know the inside story.

However, Liu Bei is different, Liu Bei is sitting in Qingzhou, and he has not fought much with Dong Zhuojun, and it is really impossible to say how many people there are.

At this moment, when everyone heard the words of this guard, they thought it was true. Only then did he feel relieved, and said, "The captain is wise." ”

Dong Zhuo controlled the imperial court, and gave his subordinates the titles of lieutenant general and captain, and this Yang Ding also had the title of lieutenant. One is that you can choose to go out of the customs to welcome him and fight against Sun Jian.

Yang Ding secretly thought to himself, if he stayed in retreat and waited for reinforcements, although it would be safe. However, Sun Jun won consecutive battles, but Dong Jun was demoralized because of consecutive defeats.

Sun Jian's soldiers and horses suddenly appeared in front of Taigu Pass, as if a divine soldier descended from the sky, just looking at the people around me, they were all afraid, and I knew that the soldiers in the pass had no heart to fight. In case the defenders mutinied, Taigu Pass was only afraid that it would not be defended.

Yang Ding looked at everyone's faces, then turned his head to look at Sun Jianjun outside the pass, and said secretly: The morale of the defenders is low, but they can't hold on. There is no need for a big victory, only a small victory, rubbing Sun Jian's sharpness, boosting the morale of the defenders, and then you can hold on. Taigu Pass is also dangerous, as long as the morale of the defenders is still there, they will be able to hold on. Moreover, my Xiliang elite soldiers have always been good at field warfare, and those who are clumsy in defending the city have made up their minds to go out of the city to fight.

So Yang Ding stretched out his hand and pointed outside the gate and said to everyone: "Since ancient times: the lonely city is not guarded. Defending the city must defend the wilderness, and the same is true for guarding the pass. Sun Jian's troops have won successive battles and their morale is high, and our army's reinforcements are far away, and it may be difficult to arrive within a few days. When the troops are dispatched first, their spirit is frustrated, and then this pass can be defended. ”

The people around Yang Ding listened, some agreed, and some disagreed. Yang Dingdao: "Outside the pass, there are only thousands of people in the vanguard of Sun Jian's army, which is the same as the number of our army, and it is when the foothold is not stable." And the Kanto Prefecture has been peaceful for a long time, how can it be the opponent of my Liangzhou boy. I have made up my mind, when I go out to face the battle, the husband has made meritorious contributions, at this time, as long as you win this battle, the country will be rewarded. ”

Everyone was in good spirits for a while, all of them were ordered to promise, Taigu closed the door wide, and the guard Yang Ding personally led 3,000 men and horses out of the customs to face the battle.