In the Chang'an Palace

A few days ago

Liu Chan, the lord of the Han Dynasty, asked the hussar general Li Yan again: "Is there any news from Shaoxian?" ”

Shao Xian is Huo Yi's expression, Liu Chan grew up with Huo Yi since childhood, and they are like siblings. Now that I learned that Huo Yi was stationed at Pujin Pass to resist the Wei army's invasion of Chang'an, I was happy and worried, happy that Huo Yi finally had the opportunity to show his ambitions, and worried that I didn't know if he could resist it, after all, Huo Yi only had 10,000 defenders, and the Wei army had tens of thousands.

"Tell Your Majesty, there is no news yet." Liu Chan asked several times a day, and Li Yan was helpless.

"If Your Majesty is not at ease, the minister is willing to lead the army to reinforcements!" The general of the town army said to the pet.

Liu Chan was a little embarrassed when he heard this, Xiang Pet was close to the general of the Su Guard Army, and with him leading the Hu Ben sergeant to escort him, he could go north with peace of mind. If Xiang Pet led the troops to the front line, who would escort him in the palace and Chang'an? But if you don't go to reinforcements, you are really worried about Huo Yi, I heard that the Wei army has arrived at Pujin Ferry a few days ago, and at this moment it may already be a fierce battle, which is really a dilemma.

The hussar general Li Yan saw Liu Chan's difficulties, and knew that Xiang favored his people, with a peaceful and kind personality, although he won the hearts of his subordinates, but he had more than enough to defend the city, and it was not enough to attack, so it was more secure to stay in Chang'an. So Li Yan said: "The general of the town army is responsible for the palace guard, and he can't leave Beijing easily. Please leave the general to protect Your Majesty, I am willing to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses for the general to reinforce Pujin Pass! ”

Li Yan didn't say a big thing, the first emperor Liu Bei Tuogu appointed Li Yan as the protector of the central capital, and he was in charge of the internal and external military. In the early years, the thieves Ma Qin and Gao Sheng of Guanghan County and Gao Sheng made a rebellion, and soon Gao Ding, the commander of Nanzhong Yue, led the army to invade, and the thief army was tens of thousands, when Liu Bei led a large army to the north to conquer Hanzhong, there was no time to look south, Li Yan only led 5,000 people to quickly quell the two rebellions, and the military ability was not strong.

Liu Chan was very happy when he heard this, he didn't need to be transferred to the pet, and he had the veteran meritorious Li Yan to lead the troops, so he hurriedly said: "Okay, good, what the hussar general said is very appropriate, just go to the palace and prepare!" ”

Great Sima Jiang Wan, Taiwei Dong Yun and others also agreed, so Li Yan led 5,000 tiger troops to Pujin Pass to help.

Upstairs in Pujin Guancheng

It was getting late, Huo Yi stood at the head of the city, looked at the opposite bank with his eyes wide open, except for finding a few ghost-like lights, he couldn't see clearly, he listened carefully for a while, except for the sound of the Yellow River, the other bank was silent. He asked a little strangely: "Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have gathered on the other side, why is it so quiet?" ”

Huang Chong on the side replied: "Could it be that the Wei army is tired from attacking the city and rests early." ”

Huo Yi still said suspiciously: "The two armies are fighting, and they are close at hand, how can the Wei army be so bold, aren't they afraid that our army will attack the camp at night?" Huo Yi thought for a while, and then said: "No, this quiet is a bit abnormal, could it be that Wei Jun is playing tricks?" ”

Huang Chong also began to be vigilant: "Could it be that the Wei army deliberately put on a relaxed posture to lure our army out of the customs and robbery camp?" In this case, our army sticks to the pass, but it does not go out of the city to see what else the Wei army can do! ”

"I'm afraid it's more than that." Huo Yi looked at the somewhat dark night sky, suddenly turned around and said: "The reason why the Wei army was defeated a few days ago was because it didn't know that our army already had a "Yuan Rong", and it was not prepared enough to attack the problem in a hurry. However, there are many wise people in the Wei army, and I heard that Yang Fu is in the Wei army on the other side at the moment, and he has defeated Ma Chao with a trick, which is not unintelligent. If the Wei army understands this, strengthens its own defense when attacking the fortifications, and changes the day attack to the night attack, takes advantage of the night to transport the soldiers to the open area under the pass, and attacks from multiple places at the same time, how should our army defend? ”

After Huo Yi said this, Huang Chong also realized the seriousness of the problem, beads of sweat from his forehead, and it was about to be completely dark, and he had to come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible.

Just as the two of them racked their brains and pondered hard about countermeasures, a crisp neighing of war horses broke the silence of the night. I saw a messenger jump off his horse, run quickly up to the city tower, and reported: "Tell the general, Your Majesty has sent the hussar general to lead 5,000 tiger troops to reinforcements, and they will arrive in a few days, please be sure to hold on!" ”

A neighing interrupted Huo Yi, who was contemplating, and he didn't seem to hear the messenger's report, staring at the war horse not far away, watching silently.

The scene was a little embarrassing, Huang Chong hurriedly said: "I know, I've worked hard for you, go down and rest!" The messenger bowed down, Huang Chong turned around and was about to open his mouth to ask Huo Yi what he was thinking, only to see Huo Yi suddenly laugh and say excitedly: "I know what to do!" After saying that, he beckoned Huang Chong to come over, and said a few words in his ear, and Huang Chong couldn't help but say happily after hearing it: "General Huo is really resourceful!" I'm going to prepare! ”

"Wait!" Huo Yi thought about it, grabbed Huang Chong, and said with a sly smile: "This is not enough, you go and prepare something, we will let Wei Jun come and go this time, and dare not peep at Pujin Pass again!" After speaking, he whispered a few words, and Huang Chong was even more admired when he heard it, and hurriedly led the sergeant to prepare.

The Wei army camp on the other side of Pujindu

Three watches

"Let's go!" Qin Lang waved his hand in a low voice and said, and the Wei soldiers secretly walked out of the camp and quietly walked towards Pujin Pass along the pontoon bridge on the ferry.

It seems that the sky is helping the Wei army, this night the dark clouds cover the moon, the surroundings are as dark as ink, and the sound of the flowing water of the Yellow River drowns out the footsteps of the Wei army. However, this also brought a lot of difficulties to the Wei army, they could not see the road, they could only grope in the darkness like blind people, and they did not dare to raise their feet, so they could only hunch their bodies close to the ground, and slowly move forward little by little.

Qin Lang and Yang Fu, with the support of several cronies, slowly moved closer to the pass with their soldiers. Seeing that he had come to a place a hundred steps away from Pujin Pass, Qin Lang stopped, suppressed his violent heartbeat, and looked up at Pujin Pass carefully. At this moment, Pujin Pass is like a sleepy giant beast, and there are several dim lanterns hanging on the city tower, as if the tired eyes of the giant beast look listless. Qin Lang saw that his precautions were sparse, and he was secretly happy in his heart, after all, they were two yellow-mouthed children, lacking experience, and he couldn't imagine that the Wei army would sneak attack at night, and he was probably sleeping at the moment.

"Huh?" Several soldiers let out a low exclamation.

"What's the matter, report the situation quickly!" Qin Lang was startled and asked in a low voice.

After a moment of fumbling, the soldier replied softly, "No general, we just came across a pile of haystacks." ”

Qin Lang said angrily in a low voice: "Don't make a fuss! Be careful to disturb the enemy army, I will cut off your head! ”

Although he didn't understand how there could be haystacks here, Qin Lang still gave the order to attack, "Rush up for me!" ”

The soldiers in the front row got up and began to charge, "Ring, ring, ring!" Bell bell bell! Almost at the same time, there was a burst of noise from the soldiers who rushed ahead.

It turned out that they had come across a series of horse bells, which were the same ones that were strung between the piles of haystacks!

The sound of the bell was loud in the silence of the night, and it woke up the drowsy beast, which roared like a lion awakened.

Qin Lang's heart jumped to his throat, he raised his head, and was horrified to find that Pujin, which had just been quiet, was closed, and suddenly the lights were bright, the drums shook the sky, and the soldiers of the Shu army who were ambushed on the city tower jumped up, shouted in unison, and began to shoot a dense network of arrows to the sound of the bell.

This catastrophe that fell from the sky happened in an instant, it came so suddenly, so suddenly, so unexpectedly, that Qin Lang didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and was stunned in place. It wasn't until there were bursts of screams from the Wei soldiers around him that Qin Lang realized that he had been tricked. There were thousands more corpses in an instant, but this was not the end of the disaster, on the contrary, the real disaster had just begun.

I saw a group of Shu archers quickly appearing at the head of the city, holding torches, lighting arrows, and quickly shooting dense rockets towards the predetermined position. The rocket accurately shot onto the haystack, igniting a raging fire, instantly illuminating the open area under the city pass, and now the Wei army had nothing to hide, completely exposed to the range of the Shu army's field of vision! Many Wei troops were also hit by rockets, and they were strung around, which exposed more Wei troops' positions, and the Wei army was in chaos in an instant.

Qin Lang saw that he could not succeed in tackling the key problems, and if he dragged it on, he was worried that the whole army would be wiped out, so he had to grit his teeth and order the withdrawal of the army. But as soon as he turned around, he saw that the Shu army in the city tower set up a projectile again, and frantically looked at the Wei army in the formation and threw a bunch of pots and jars, and the strange thing is that many Wei troops were hit and were just wet.

Qin Lang grabbed a handful and sniffed it, and said in shock: "It's not good, it's tung oil!" "Qin Lang is really going to cry now, the Shu army is clearly going to burn them.

Sure enough, after a while, the Shu army began to throw fireballs again, mixed with dense rockets and repeaters. Pujin Guan instantly became a human purgatory, with thick smoke billowing and flames rising. The Wei army was on fire one by one, like coals of fire, rolling all over the ground, and just wanted to stand up and was pierced into a hedgehog by the dense rain of arrows. Heart-rending screams resounded across the riverbank, shaking for miles.

Qin Lang stood in place dumbfounded, muttering to himself: "It's over, it's over, it's all over......" suddenly drew his sword across his neck, and cried: "I didn't expect to achieve the prestige of these two boys today!" I lost my teacher and humiliated the country, what face do I have to see Your Majesty again, I can only die to thank the world! Yang Fu on the side hurriedly grabbed it and shouted: "The general must not!" Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and if the general kills himself, the army's morale will be in chaos, and I am afraid that the whole army will be annihilated! Come on, escort the general away! Qin Lang hung his head and retreated with the support of his own soldiers.

The Shu army on the tower of the city cheered when they saw the defeat of the Wei army, and Huo Yi was also ecstatic to look at his masterpiece. Seeing that the Wei army was about to flee the battlefield, he suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "Order, the cavalry will go out of the city with me, and never let the Wei army cross the river!" ”

Huang Chong on the side was shocked and said: "The art of war is cloudy, don't chase after the poor, besides, the prime minister has repeatedly told us to hold on, we have won a big victory and repelled the enemy army, is it too dangerous to rush out of the city?" ”

Huo Yi said confidently: "At this time and that time, the prime minister ordered us to hold on, but we didn't expect that our army could turn against the guest and defeat the Wei army. The Wei army has been defeated at this moment, and at this time, the pursuit will definitely be able to win a complete victory. Besides, there are many Wei soldiers, if they are allowed to escape across the river, it will not be long before they will regain their strength and come back again. Only by taking advantage of this opportunity to completely defeat and destroy the enemy army in one fell swoop can we bring real victory! ”

Huang Chong also nodded when he heard this, Huo Yi left Huang Chong to lead 7,000 soldiers to continue to defend the city, and he personally led 3,000 cavalry, wrapped in wet cloth, carrying bows and crossbow rockets to rush out of the city, and the Wei army was shot and killed, driving the Wei army all the way to the river, Huo Yi set fire to the pontoon bridge, and the Wei army was forced to fall into the Yellow River one by one. Huo Yi led the army to calmly shoot the Wei army on the shore, most of the Wei army were northerners, unfamiliar with the water, and there were arrows and crossbows to interfere, and they were buried at the bottom of the river. Qin Lang and Yang Fu held the saddle and swam across the river, embarrassed.

In this battle, except for the rear of three or four thousand Wei troops, who were frightened and hurriedly crossed the river and retreated, almost all the troops were wiped out. Qin Lang and Yang Fu's personal soldiers were all killed in the battle, and they were only spared. Qin Lang was afraid that the Shu army would take advantage of the victory to chase and kill across the river, so he hurriedly withdrew his camp and fled. The Shu army killed more than 10,000 Wei soldiers and captured more than 20,000 prisoners. Huo Yi left a few prisoners to strengthen the city defenses, and the rest were all escorted to Luoyang Zhuge Liang to replenish the troops.

Here, Li Yan, who was in a hurry, finally led the reinforcements to arrive, and when he saw that the Wei army was actually defeated and retreated, he couldn't help laughing, and at the same time praised Huo Yi and Huang Chong, the two young heroes. After resting for a few days, Li Yan took a few high-ranking generals of the Wei army and took prisoners all the way back to Chang'an with great fanfare. Li Yan trumpeted the victory of the Shu army along the way, and showed off the strength of the tiger army, so that they all wore iron armor, and the iron cavalry of 5,000 was ten heavy Chen, and the sun was shining, and the army and the people were terrified. As a result, the Yongliang region in the northwest has settled down, and there is nowhere to dare to have riots.