In the afternoon of the same day, Hu Zhen led his soldiers and horses to gallop through the night, and had already crossed Hu County and arrived at Wu Township, which was only dozens of miles away from Hangu Pass.

Hanya Pass only defends Kanto, not Kansai.

Kanto is Hangu Heaven, and Kansai is wide open.

"I heard that behind is the pursuer sent by Li Dao, Li Dao is cruel, he opened the bow and did not turn back, if he enters, he will succeed, and if he escapes, he will die. Before sunset, take Hangu Pass and open the city gate to welcome Wang Shi into Hangu. ”

After Hu Zhen and his 5,000 soldiers and horses rested in Wuxiang for an hour, Hu Zhen got up and encouraged the soldiers again. If you want to go all out and take Hangu Pass.

"Together with the general, we will gain fame together!"

The soldiers shouted.

The soldiers were well fed and drunk, and all their baggage was left behind, and they marched lightly with only their arrows.

A lightly armed army, even an infantryman, could travel 200 miles a day. However, this way of marching is very dangerous, and there is no place for the whole army to die without a fight.

In order to be surprised, Hu Zhen made a desperate bet to fight for this hard-won fame.

On the eve of sunset, Hu Zhen came to Hangu Pass a few miles away.

The defenders of Hangu Pass were guarding against Zhao Yun and Duan Xuan in front at this time.

An army suddenly came from the rear, thinking that support had arrived. Their vigilance is not high.

Hu Zhen led 5,000 soldiers and horses, getting closer and closer to Hangu Pass.

Hundreds of cavalry in front and infantry in the rear.

The cavalry was not very fast, allowing the infantry in the rear to keep up.

The flag fluttered, and the soldiers had nothing but weapons, bows and arrows in their hands, and five thousand soldiers and horses were huddled together, seemingly aimless, but they were stepping on very heavy feet.

The weapons in their hands were held very casually, but the soldiers' eyes were wide open, and everyone had the intent to fight and kill in their hearts!

"But you're here to support Hangu Pass?"

The captain of the guard ran down from Hangu Pass to meet Hu Zhen's troops and horses.

"It was the general who sent us to support Hangu Pass!"

Hu Zhen kept walking, clenched his spear, and replied in a loud voice.

"It turned out to be General Hu."

The captain frowned slightly, but he was also relieved in his heart.

Hu Zhen was nominally bound by Li Dao. If Hangu Pass is broken by Liu Fan, it will not be good for Hu Zhen.

But......

The captain noticed that something was wrong.

Hu Zhen's soldiers and horses looked a little imposing, not at all like they had come here to support.

It is getting closer and closer to Hangu Pass, and Hu Zhen is still non-stop.

"General Hu, please stop, I will first tidy up the Hangu Pass, and then ask General Hu to enter the pass."

Seeing that many of Hu Zhen's subordinates had already held bows and arrows in their hands, the captain hurriedly shouted to stop.

But Hu Zhen turned a deaf ear to the shouts of the captain guarding the pass, as if he hadn't heard it at all, and was bent on entering the customs.

"Quickly block the guardrail, this is not the general's department!"

The captain of the guard said as he fell off his horse and ran towards Hangu Pass.

But there were only hundreds of soldiers on this side, and they were still immersed in the clouds.

"If there is no conflict now, when will it be?"

Hu Zhen shouted, raised his spear and rode straight to the gate of the village.

Hundreds of horsemen behind him, with bows and arrows, threw arrows at the soldiers guarding the village a hundred paces away.

The situation changed suddenly, and the soldiers of Hanguguan were unsuspecting and fell to the ground one after another.

Not to be outdone, the infantry followed closely behind the cavalry. Let's go to Hangu Pass together.

The walled gate to the west of Hangu Pass is very fragile, and because there is no natural danger, it is only a roadblock.

After a round of arrow rain, Hu Zhen's cavalry directly broke the level.

The cavalry was the first to enter the Hangu Pass.

After returning to Hangu Pass, the captain hurriedly gathered his soldiers and horses to defend against Hu Zhen and tried to break Hu Zhen's soldiers and horses.

On the Hangu Pass, only 200 soldiers were left to stand by to prevent a sudden attack by the soldiers outside the pass.

Nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses were organized to defend and counterattack Hu Zhen's soldiers and horses in various dangerous places in Hangu Pass.

The peculiarity of Hangu Pass lies in the fact that there are also dangerous places in Hangu Pass, and in some places a cart cannot be parallel, and the cavalry cannot be in the same column.

Some of them have steep slopes, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After Hu Zhen entered the Han Valley, he planned to go through the valley and go straight to the closed door, and then open the closed door.

However, the soldiers in the pass were tenacious and stubborn in the face of danger.

On a high slope in the pass, thousands of soldiers of Hangu Pass are holding on to the high slope.

The high slope is dangerous, the horses cannot rush, and the soldiers need to climb.

Three thousand Hu Zhen soldiers attacked this high slope, but the Hangu Pass soldiers on the high slope were prepared, and hundreds of dead and wounded did not attack the high slope.

Hu Zhen led hundreds of horsemen to a deep valley like a box, this canyon and three horsemen could not walk, hundreds of Hangu Pass soldiers with spears, bows and arrows, standing on this canyon road.

The cavalry came one by one, and they burst through one, and they could not pass at all. It has formed a trend of one husband and one man, and ten thousand people are not open.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Seeing this, Hu Zhen was furious, and he gave an order, and the soldiers took bows and arrows.

The soldiers of Hangu Pass were shot dead on the narrow road.

Hu Zhen was about to take advantage of the situation, but in an instant several soldiers were added, and these soldiers carried shields to defend against the arrows.

Hu Zhen gritted his teeth angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

He looked at the sky, and the red sun was about to sink into the valley. He also didn't expect the terrain in Hangu Pass to be so complicated.

Outside Hanya Pass, a soldier standing on a cliff spotted the situation inside the pass. And the soldiers on the Hangu Pass were much reduced.

He immediately climbed down the cliff and told Liu Fan.

After Liu Fan got the news, he knew that the opportunity had come.

Liu Fan ordered Duan Xuan to lead the whole army of 500 strong crossbowmen to advance towards Hangu Pass.

Five hundred soldiers armed with strong crossbows followed the stone road until they were one hundred and fifty paces down the Hangu Pass.

Under the Hangu Pass, there is no room for thousands of troops and horses, but it is more than enough to accommodate five hundred strong crossbowmen!

The crossbow is a siege weapon, but the wall of Hangu Pass is very high, and the female wall is thick, so the damage caused by the crossbowman to the soldiers of Hangu Pass is not too great.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Whoosh!"

As soon as Duan Xuan's voice fell, there was a burst of sound of breaking the sky, and the bows and arrows in the city could not reach it, so they could only hide behind the female wall.

There were several Hanguguan soldiers who couldn't dodge and were directly nailed to the castle tower.

After a round of crossbow arrows, there was no movement under the pass, and the soldiers of Hangu Pass just wanted to rise up, when the sound of breaking the sky sounded again, and more than a dozen people were shot dead on Hangu Pass.

The wall hundreds of zhang long is difficult for only 200 people to hold, especially under the blow of the strong crossbow, and even the head can't come out.

At this moment, a Sima led hundreds of vigorous people, carrying a ladder, and quickly rushed to the Hangu Wall.

They alarmed the guards, who got up desperately and shot arrows out of their hands. Then go and carry the thunder stone and roll the log, ready to crush the attacking soldiers to death.

Crossbowmen are not vegetarians, and some soldiers were shot to death by crossbows before they had time to drop the thunder stones in their hands.

There was a gap in the wall, and a part of the ladder was hooked on the Hangu Pass.

Suddenly, hundreds of soldiers appeared at the Hangu Pass. They brought iron shields, set them on the women's wall, blocked the crossbow arrows, and threw the thunder stones and rolling logs accumulated on the gate to the gate.

(End of chapter)