Although Duan Xuan is Dong Zhuo's old department, it is recorded in the history books that on the way to the Eastern Capital of the Son of Heaven, Duan Xuan showed commendable loyalty, and he sent food, clothing, and food to escort along the way, and later Li Wei was killed by him, and he also escorted Li Dao's three clans to Xuchang, which shows that Duan Xuan and Li Dao and others are not all the way.

Yang Xiu was worried that Duan Xuan and Guo Yan's gang might not be able to be loyal to the imperial court, and he was always restless along the way, but Zhao Yun was a traverser, although he had never seen Duan Xuan, but after all, he knew Duan Xuan's personality.

After Yang Xiu saw Duan Xuan, he was still half-convinced, and as soon as he told the situation, Duan Xuan learned that Zhao Yun was going to return to the east, and the current situation was quite bad, should he help Zhao Yun deal with Guo Yan, or should he completely cut off Zhao Yun's return route with Guo Yan to take Tongguan?

Duan Xuan frowned, and was silent for a long time, frankly speaking, Zhao Yun's current situation is not optimistic, and compared with Guo Yan, he does not have the upper hand.

Although Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses are many, but the vast majority of them are in Luoyang, and the current situation in Tongguan is quite grim, and it has been attacked by Wang Yi for several days in succession, and there are no reinforcements.

"General, this is the handwritten letter that General Zhao Yun asked me to pass on to you."

Seeing Duan Xuan's hesitation, Yang Xiu sighed in his heart, becoming more and more bottomless, but at this time, no matter what, he couldn't give up easily.

After reading Zhao Yun's letter, Duan Xuan's heart suddenly lit up, Zhao Yun said very clearly in the letter, if Duan Xuan abandoned the secret and was willing to send troops to help, Zhao Yun would not blame the past, if not, he would bear the consequences.

The reason for the hesitation before was largely due to Duan Xuan's fear that Zhao Yun would not let him go, with this letter, Duan Xuan's heart was wide, and a big stone suddenly fell to the ground, seeing that his mind was loose, Yang Xiu hurriedly persuaded "General, who is Guo Yan, you and I both know it, with him, the general will be involved by him, I hope that the general understands the righteousness, do not help the abuse, after the matter is completed, the Son of Heaven escapes, the Han family is revived, there must be a strong stroke of the general in the merit book, and I hope that the general will think carefully and act carefully, and do not make mistakes." ”

"Childe's words, let me suddenly open my mouth, like seeing the sun through the clouds, don't worry, I know what to do, please reply to General Zhao, Duan Xuan is willing to serve the court with enthusiasm."

Yang Xiu nodded, his heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "I don't know the general, what do you want to do?" ”

Duan Xuan's face was solemn, choking, and he suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist, and replied impassionedly, "I'll gather people and horses and fight Guo Yan to the death." ：”

Yang Xiu shook his head and sighed, "General, this move is absolutely inappropriate, let me ask you, how many soldiers and horses are there around you?" ”

"Five thousand."

"The art of war is cloudy, ten are encircled, five are attacked, and multiple are battled, the general is really loyal, courage is commendable, so rash to act, too reckless, and listen to me."

"I want to hear about it."

".................." Yang Xiu leaned over and pressed his ear, Duan Xuan suddenly frowned, and nodded appreciatively: "This plan is very good, thank you for your advice." ”

Duan Xuan immediately gathered soldiers and horses, turned the day, as soon as the sky was bright, he took the men and horses to Tongguan, not only that, but also prepared a lot of grain and grass for this trip.

Seeing that Duan Xuan not only brought troops to help, but also brought a lot of grain and grass, Guo Yan was pleasantly surprised, and excitedly stroked his beard and laughed at the sky: "Zhongming, it is really timely rain, so that the capture of Tongguan is just around the corner." ”

Everything was ready, Guo Yan immediately ordered the siege of the city, seeing that there were only a few hundred defenders on the wall, Guo Yan was overjoyed, and hurriedly urged, "Give it to me, the defenders are insufficient, this is a godsend, we must take Tongguan before sunset." ”

Although there are only 500 defenders, there is no one who is greedy for life and afraid of death, Captain Tang Hu gritted his teeth hard, picked up a boulder and smashed it down, boom - a loud bang, a Xiliang soldier was immediately smashed brains burst, and several people behind him also fell down the ladder with bad luck.

"Kill, fight with them." Tang Hu roared, like a mad beast, the action did not stop, one after another stones were ruthlessly smashed, and the others did not show weakness, the boulder roared, the flesh and blood splashed, with the danger of Tongguan, everyone was fearless, and the fighting spirit was unprecedentedly high.

After half a day of fierce fighting, the dead bodies under the city wall were piled up, and the blood had already dyed the city wall scarlet blood, Tang Hu glanced to the side, there were still more than 200 people left, Tang Hu subconsciously glanced behind him, "Reinforcements haven't come yet?" ”

At the first time when Guo Yan attacked the city, Tang Hu sent someone to send a letter to Xu Huang, but Tang Hu knew that this time, even if Xu Huang brought troops to help, it would take half a day to arrive.

"Brothers, you must hold on, reinforcements are coming soon, you must not embarrass the lord, and you must not lose Tongguan."

"Don't worry, grandma has a hammer, isn't it just death, Lao Tzu is not afraid." Erniu roared, pushed a cloud ladder out hard, dozens of Xiliang soldiers hanging on the top of the cloud ladder, all screamed in horror, the cloud ladder smashed down obliquely, chirping, not only lying on the ladder fell to death, but also the Xiliang soldiers under the wall also had to dodge and die with bad luck.

Erniu is tall and strong, and he knocked down several ladders in a row, and suddenly, a cold arrow has been shooting, hitting his shoulder, Erniu was slightly stunned, and scolded for a while, "Turtle grandson, hateful." Gritting his teeth, Erniu endured the pain and dragged the arrow out, at the same time, several Xiliang soldiers had already climbed the ladder, brandished knives and guns, and went straight to Erniu to chop over, Erniu was wounded in the shoulder, cut down two enemy soldiers, too late to dodge, was stabbed in the heart by a shot, Erniu shouted, "Brothers, I go first." ”

Before the words fell, Er Niu jumped up, knocked down three or four enemy soldiers in a row, and smashed several Xiliang soldiers down the ladder by the way.

The rolling wood and stone have been lost, as more and more Xiliang soldiers climbed the ladder, the battle entered a white-hot fierce battle, Tang Hu and others did not retreat, bloody fierce battle, hard to fight the terrible fighting spirit of not afraid of death, the enemy soldiers were repelled wave by wave, when Xu Huang arrived with people, Tongguan was about to be lost, only Tang Hu and other dozens of people were still fighting with the enemy, some broke a set of arms, some broke a leg, almost everyone was injured, none of them were intact.

Seeing the reinforcements coming, Tang Hu shouted, and swung his knife to slash a Xiliang soldier to the ground, and he was also pierced with a gun from behind, Tang Hu let out a burst of laughter with a hideous face, and pounced forward, with a flash of knife light in the air, a bloody human head flew up, and Tang Hu himself also heroically fell off the high wall.