Zhong Xuan can be left and right, and govern Guanzhong in an orderly manner, naturally he is not a stubborn and pedantic person, and he also wants to listen to Yuan Xi's request, and said to Yuan Xi: "General Yuan might as well come and listen, how can you let go of our army?" Yuan Xi said: "It's very simple, I want you to help me open the tiger prison gate, as long as you take down the tiger prison, I will let you go back." When Zhong Xuan heard this, it was really not so easy, he didn't help Cao Cao, if he still took the opportunity to defect, he was so treacherous and sorry for his friendship with Cao Cao for many years, shook his head, and rejected Yuan Xi's proposal.

Ma Chao felt that Yuan Xi was quite fair, a checkpoint for the lives of more than 20,000 soldiers, and it was a pity to see that Zhong Jian wanted to give up this opportunity, and persuaded: "Why don't you think about it anymore, 20,000 soldiers can be in the mind of an adult, I believe that General Yuan is a trustworthy person, and he will not embarrass the adult if it is successful." Ma Chao's advice made Zhong Xuan hesitate, on the one hand, Cao Cao's trust, on the other hand, 20,000 innocent soldiers, I don't know how to choose? Xun Zhan and Zhong Xuan were officials in the same dynasty, and when they saw Zhong Xuan's hesitation, they persuaded: "Yuan Chang, you have an old relationship with Cao Mengde, I can understand it, you just need to follow our army, and our army will capture the Tiger Prison Pass by itself." ”

Zhong Miao listened to Xun Zhan's words, and was a little moved, he didn't have to send troops, whether he could capture the tiger prison was Yuan Xi's business, and he was not sorry for Cao Cao, but this time Zhong Miao learned the lesson of the last time, and he had to make things clear: "I can go with you in the past, no matter whether you succeed or not, you don't blame me!" Yuan Xi saw that Zhong was going to agree, and by the way, he also wanted to win over Ma Chao, and said to Ma Chao: "In order to reassure Dr. Zhong, I also want to ask General Meng Qi to help us testify, I wonder if the general is willing?" Ma Chao thought for a while and said: "It's okay for me to go, but afterwards, I still want to have a competition with General Zhao Yun, I don't know what General Zhao Yun thinks?" Zhao Yun is also a person who is keen on martial arts, so naturally he did not refuse. With Ma Chao's participation in this transaction, Zhong Yao was also a lot more relieved.

After Yuan Xi and Zhong Xuan reached a purchase agreement, they led the army back to Luoyang together, and Yuan Jun changed into the uniforms of the Guanzhong Army and the Xiliang Army, and came towards the Tiger Prison Pass. In order to prevent the Yuan army from passing through the Tiger Prison Pass and attacking Xuchang, he sent 10,000 elite soldiers to serve in the Tiger Prison Pass, and Cao Cao even sent his capable generals Lu Qian and Lu Jian, the two brothers can be regarded as capable of writing and martial arts, so they were appointed as the guards of the Tiger Prison Pass. After hearing that Yuan Xi had captured Luoyang, Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu had voted for Yuan Xi, they not only stepped up the patrol of the Tiger Pass, but also sent a messenger to inform Cao Cao, but after receiving the reply, Ma Chao had already led the Xiliang army to Guanzhong and sent troops to deal with Yuan Xi with Zhong Yao, and Lu Qian was immediately relieved. Because he also looked down on Zhang Xiu's wall grass, he lost Luoyang in less than ten days, not surrendered, is it because Yuan Xi's partial division is so strong? And Xiliang Bing's toughness is famous all over the world, but he still didn't expect that Yuan Xi would get the two of them so quickly and lead the troops to Tiger Prison Pass.

When Lu Qian saw that this army of the relevant Chinese soldiers and the Xiliang soldiers formed a coalition army, he was stunned at first, but he also admired his foresight, and said to his brother Lu Jian: "The Xiliang soldiers are really not comparable to the county soldiers in Luoyang, and they defeated Yuan Xi so quickly. Lu Jian also nodded, but he still asked the other party's purpose first, and shouted to the leading general: "I don't know which general's subordinate you are, what are you here for?" The general replied: "We are the generals under the command of Captain Zhong, our Guanzhong coalition army has defeated Yuan Xi, and Captain Zhong has persuaded Ma Chao to come to the aid of Prime Minister Cao." ”

Seeing that it was really Guanzhong, Lu Qian immediately let down his guard, and asked just in case: "I don't know where Captain Zhong is, have you ever caught Yuan Xi?" The general pointed to Zhong Xuan and Ma Chao, who came slowly, and said: "This is my family's Captain Zhong, and this is General Ma Chao, but it's a pity that Yuan Xi fled back to Jizhou." ”

Lu Qian has actually only seen Zhong Qian a few times, not very familiar, Ma Chao has not even seen face-to-face, naturally he doesn't know him, but looking at the middle-aged man dressed as a scribe below, and the other is a heroic young general, he no longer interrogated and ordered the door to be opened. However, Lu Qian still found the suspicion in time, as if everything was based on this general, not Zhong Xuan or Ma Chao, Lu Qian shouted: "The enemy is cheating, close the city gate quickly!" Lu Qian shouted and ordered the city gate to be closed. Just as the open city gate was about to be closed again, Zhao Yun rushed into the city gate at a very fast speed, stabbed the soldiers who were about to close the city gate under their horses, and the soldiers behind also rushed in quickly.

Although Yuan's army was numerous, with 30,000 people, while the defenders of Tiger Prison Pass were only 10,000, they did not have an advantage in the battle at the city gate. The brave man wins when he meets on a narrow road, and the Yuan army relies on the bravery of Zhao Yun, Guo Huai, and Hao Zhao, as well as the siege team commanded by Gao Shun, to quickly climb the city wall and comprehensively suppress the defenders of the Tiger Pass. However, Lu Qian was not Zhang Xiu Ma Chao, but Cao Cao's trusted general, so he naturally had to fight to the death, which also brought a lot of casualties to Yuan's army. In order to occupy the Tiger Prison Pass more quickly, Zhao Yun was very brave to move forward and take Lu Qian, Lu Qian's martial arts were not as good as Zhao Yun, but at the critical moment, he also played extraordinarily, fought to the death and did not retreat, insisted on dozens of rounds in front of Zhao Yun, and was finally killed by Zhao Yun.

Yuan Xi won the Tiger Prison Pass, counted the number of deaths, there were as many as 5,000, and the captured Cao army was only a thousand, except for a small number of personal soldiers taken away by Lu Jian, the rest of the Cao army were all killed, this was the most tragic battle since Yuan Xi went to war, and he immediately lamented. Xu Shu also sighed: "I didn't expect Cao Cao's regular army to be so strong in combat, and in the case of a surprise attack by our army, it also caused such a large number of casualties." Yuan Xi also relieved from the sentimentality, most of the soldiers who died in the battle were Bingzhou soldiers, and they had been absent from the battle formation for a long time, so they were naturally not as good as Cao Cao's well-trained elite troops, and self-reflected: "This battle can be regarded as a lesson for us, don't underestimate Cao Cao!" ”

Now that he has won the Tiger Prison Pass, Yuan Xi is also ready to return to Luoyang to reorganize the army and discuss the next battle plan, and the next thing he will face directly is an extremely powerful opponent Cao Cao. Zhong Xuan and Ma Chao still had to deal with it themselves to be more sincere, and after discussion, Guo Huai and Hao Zhao led troops to guard the Tiger Prison. Seeing that Yuan Xi valued it, the two were grateful, and bluntly said that they would guard the Tiger Prison Pass and not let Cao Jun advance half a step.