Luoyang leads to Yingchuan has two main roads, there is one from the Yuyuan Pass through, mostly mountain roads, rugged and difficult, and quite a lot of mountains and forests, so few people pass from there, the other road is a road thirty miles away in front of the Yuanyuan Pass, from Yingchuan County bypass to Daguguan, this road is at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain, also known as Shannan Road, Shannan Road is relatively flat and wide, so Yingchuan, Runan side to Luoyang to go to Shannan Road.

Wei Xiang took Huang Zu to Shannan Road, Huang Zu was worried about the safety of the lord Liu Biao, and when he saw that the road was smooth and wide, he urged his subordinates to hurry up.

From Yingchuan County to this place called Elingkou, 200 miles away, Huang Zu's 30,000 soldiers were mostly infantry, relying on two legs, walking for two days and two nights, the rest time along the way added up to less than four hours, the soldiers were exhausted, quite complained.

Huang Zu is very similar to Zhang Fei's temperament, he never knew how to sympathize with the hard work of the soldiers, and those who dared to complain loudly were slashed by Huang Zu, making the soldiers below dare not speak out, and those generals were afraid of Huang Zu's irritability, and they did not dare to persuade more.

Huang Zu's 30,000 soldiers walked to the mouth of the Eling Mountains in exhaustion and resentment, the two mountains at the mouth of the Eling Mountains are sandwiched by a ditch, although the mountains on both sides are lush with vegetation, but they are very gentle, it seems that there can be no ambush, Wei Xiang still pretended to be cautious, and stepped forward to Huang Zu and said: "General Huang, the last general will go to investigate and see if there are any ambushes here." ”

Huang Zu glanced at the terrain near the Eling Mountains, waved his hand disdainfully and smiled: "Wei Yan's brigade is all in Dagu Pass, how could they come here to ambush us, and besides, this place is not suitable for ambushes." ”

Wei Xiang secretly laughed in his heart, Huang Zu, don't you know that Wei Yan's army still has a strong team of engineers, and they can transform any unfavorable terrain into a terrain suitable for their own tactical play.

Wei Xiang shook his head lightly and said, "General Wen, the last general still thinks that there is no big difference in being careful. ”

Because Wei Xiang was a general directly subordinate to Liu Biao, not directly subordinate to Huang Zu, Huang Zu didn't want to offend him, so he waved his hand and said, "If you are idle and bored, then go and explore." ”

Wei Xiang led hundreds of people to rush to the front, pretending to be careful to investigate, and after checking for two hours, he did not find any suspicious places, so he sent someone to report to Huang Zu, saying that there was no ambush here, and he could pass with confidence.

Huang Zu smiled contemptuously and said, "This Wei Xiang has followed the lord for many years, and his courage is still so small. ”

Huang Zu raised his broadsword, signaled his men and horses, and quickly passed through the mouth of the Eling Mountains.

The valley of the Elingkou stretches for more than ten miles, and all the rear troops of Huang Zu have entered the Elingkou, and the former soldiers and horses have not yet walked out of the Elingkou.

Just when all the horses and horses of Huang Zu's rear army entered the Eling Pass, there was a loud bang at the entrance of the Eling Pass, and more than a dozen thick trees that were originally standing on the hillside rolled down to the entrance with the loud sound.

The loud bang was accompanied by crossbowmen on the hills on either side, who had just hidden in the fortifications dug by the sappers, and the perimeter of the fortifications was covered with pine and cypress branches and grass leaves, and it seemed that there were no flaws.

Hao Zhao led the eight thousand crossbowmen, and with an order, ten thousand arrows were fired.

Huang Zu originally thought that there could be no ambush in this place, and Wei Xiang reported that there was no ambush after reconnaissance, so Huang Zu did not take any precautions at all, those sword and shield soldiers were exhausted after a day's journey, and they did not hold the heavy shield in their hands at all, but on their backs, and some soldiers even took off their armor and threw them on the baggage carriage, so that the defenseless state was suddenly attacked by random arrows, and there was a big chaos.

Huang Zu brandished the big knife and knocked the arrow feathers that shot over, and asked the soldiers around him sharply: "Where is Wei Xiang, didn't he say that there was no ambush?" ”

The soldiers around him hurriedly ran forward with their shields on their shoulders and asked about Wei Xiang's whereabouts, and after a short time, it was reported that Wei Xiang did not know his whereabouts.

Huang Zu was furious and scolded hatefully: "Wei Xiang, the dog thief, must have surrendered Wei Yan at Dagu Pass, and specially lured us into this ambush circle, no wonder his inseparable twin brother Wei Fei did not appear." ”

Hao Zhao led these 8,000 crossbowmen with the newly developed strong bows and crossbows of the Wei Army's Ordnance Division, and the bows and crossbows can be fired continuously, coupled with the strict training of three rows of crossbows that can make perfect, "one row of crossbows, one row of crossbows, one row of crossbows", and the crossbow arrows were fired continuously, like a storm, pouring on the heads of the Jingzhou army.

Huang Zu desperately swung the big knife to dial the crossbow arrows that came from the force, because the crossbow arrows were too dense, he protected his body but could not protect the war horse, after a while, the crotch of the war horse hit a few crossbow arrows, and fell to the ground with a bang, Huang Zu turned over and fell to the ground, the knife was scattered, and he couldn't protect himself, but fortunately, the soldiers around him used a big shield to cover him, and Huang Zu did not become a hedgehog.

Huang Zu stood up, carried a big knife, and said in a trembling voice: "The enemy's arrows are too strong, stay in place, you will only die, there is no sound ahead, presumably there is no blockage ahead, then rush forward, rush forward!" ”

Huang Zu, under the escort of his own soldiers, rushed forward for a few miles, rushed to the exit of the Eling, only to be stunned to find that on the flat ground outside the exit, there were 20,000 central elite cavalry, they were turned from the side of the mountain, it turned out that this is why the entrance is sealed but the exit is not blocked.

Thousands of Liu Biao infantry had fallen in front of the 20,000 central elite cavalry, and thousands of Liu Biao infantry had also knelt on both sides, and the Jingzhou infantry who swarmed out were sleepy and tired because of the day's road, and when they encountered the recuperated Wei cavalry, they simply hit the stone with an egg, or were shot by the crossbows of the Wei cavalry, or were stabbed to death by a halberd and spear, or simply disarmed and surrendered.

The 30,000 soldiers brought by Huang Zu were only 3,000 cavalry, and most of these 3,000 cavalry were easily shot by Hao Zhao's 8,000 crossbowmen because of the large target, and the remaining infantry were exhausted, and when they rushed out of the narrow exit, they were faced with 20,000 cavalry on the flat ground, and the valley mouth was narrow, and they could only rush out of hundreds of people at the same time but had to face the killing of thousands of cavalry, and many Jingzhou soldiers were desperate and helpless, coupled with resentment towards Liu Biao and Huang Zu, they simply threw down their weapons, knelt on the ground, and surrendered to the Wei army.

Huang Zu saw from afar the tall horse like a black dragon in the Wei army's array and the tall military general sitting upright like a god on that horse, he couldn't help but gasp: "Wei Yan actually went out in person!" ”

Huang Zu showed his head to look at Wei Yan, but he didn't expect that in a fortification high in the mountains, Hao Zhao aimed at Huang Zu with a crossbow inlaid with a clairvoyant mirror on it.

Huang Zu felt a sharp cold wind rushing towards his neck with his intuition of many years of fighting, he hurriedly dodged, Hao Zhao's crossbow arrow hit Huang Zu's shoulder, Huang Zu felt the arrow in severe pain, his right arm hung down weakly, the big knife could no longer be held, and it fell to the ground with a bang.

The soldiers around Huang Zu hurriedly used their shields to protect Huang Zu, Huang Zu's heart was cold, he was not Wei Yan's opponent before, this time he was injured again, and he was not Wei Yan's opponent, maybe he couldn't even go together, the plan for now is to escape, the front is a dead end, the back is a dead end, only to run to the mountain.

Surrounded by his own soldiers, Huang Zu climbed the gentle hillside and stormed the weakest part of the defense line on both sides of Hao Zhao, Hao Zhao only brought 8,000 crossbowmen, and it was impossible to defend all the slopes of more than ten miles, and several of Huang Zu's troops followed Huang Zu's example, took his own soldiers, climbed the hillside, and rushed out of the weak defensive place of the Wei army.

The slopes on both sides seemed to be gentle, but they were densely covered with traps, and those Jingzhou soldiers who followed Huang Zu up the hill to escape from the mountain either fell into the pit or were incapacitated by the dense thistles on the hillside, or were fascinated by the sudden explosion of dust, or were hit by the branches that suddenly fell next to them.

Of course, those who tried to cross the mountain were most threatened by the 8,000 crossbowmen of the Wei army hiding in the fortifications.

However, compared with knives and guns, if the arrows do not hit the vital point, they will not kill people, but will only make people lose their mobility and be forced to be captured, which is why Wei Yanlie's 20,000 cavalry did not charge at the valley mouth but sniped with bows and arrows.

A few days ago, Wei Yan opened a killing ring in front of Dagu Pass, and the red blood knife took the lives of seven or eight hundred people, Wei Yan regretted it a little afterwards, if these people were shot in the hands and feet with bows and arrows, the arrow wounds would be easy to heal, and after a while, they would be free labor in a hurry, and these seven or eight hundred people could create at least more than 20 million yuan a year, but Wei Yan thought about it, and in front of Dagu Pass, he was going to use such a massacre to crush the morale of Liu Biao's army, forcing them to retreat and retreat to Dagu's ambush circle.

And Wei Yan ambushed Huang Zu's 30,000 horses this time, there was no need to kill like this, 8,000 crossbowmen shot on both sides of the valley, Wei Yan's 20,000 cavalry blocked the valley mouth and shot, and at the same time, the arrival of Wei Yan's 28,000 men and horses also brought a clear signal to Huang Zu's department, their lord Liu Biao was indeed defeated, otherwise Wei Yan would not have been able to ambush Huang Zu with so many men and horses.

Huang Zu's 30,000 horses had been marching for three days and three nights under Huang Zu's irritable urging, extremely tired, and now they were ambushed by Wei Yan, and woke up to Liu Biao's 100,000 army had been defeated, and the 30,000 soldiers of the Jingzhou army, who were physically and mentally exhausted and almost desperate, had no intention of fighting against Wei Yan again, and could not break through the exit blocked by Wei Yan's 20,000 elite cavalry, and were trapped when climbing the hillside. They dropped their weapons and knelt on both sides of the road, waiting for reorganization.

Only a few high-ranking generals such as Huang Zu escaped from the encirclement under the desperate protection of the pro-soldier guards, and these personnel together were less than 1,000 people, and Huang Zu's 30,000 horses could be regarded as the total annihilation.

Huang Zu climbed over the hillside, and after many twists and turns, he returned to Jiangxia County, only to find that Jiangxia County had been occupied by the guerrilla regiment led by Gan Ning, and Huang Zu had no choice but to return to Xiangyang City with hatred.

After Gan Ning occupied these cities, he quickly mobilized the poor people to form grassroots county soldiers to curb the family soldiers of local families.

At the same time, many cities in Nanjun were also occupied by the Wenpin guerrilla regiments, and after the Wenpin occupied these cities, they quickly mobilized the local poor people to form grassroots county and township soldiers to assist the guerrilla groups in defending the cities.

Many cities in Shangyong County were also captured by Liaohua's men and horses, and they referred to the system that the Wei army has always had, mobilized the grassroots masses, and formed county and township soldiers belonging to the grassroots masses, all of which were retired soldiers of the Wei army as officers and instructors of the county and township soldiers, and all the county and township soldiers were in the hands of the Wei army, and those families who were ready to move did not dare to move.

Wei Yan took advantage of the defeat of Liu Biao and Huang Zu, and took advantage of the emptiness of the three counties of Jiangxia, Nanjun and Shangyong to quickly seize these three counties, and appointed Wen Ping as the general of Jingzhou and Gan Ning as the deputy general of Jingzhou, and formed a qualified Jingzhou corps, while defending the three counties, actively exploring other counties.

Wei Yan's series of big moves this time caught Liu Biao off guard, his Jingzhou now only has the four counties of Jingnan and a few cities such as Xiangyang and Jiangling, and Liu Biao can mobilize less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and can only survive under the coercion of the increasingly powerful Wei army.

Because Wen Pin and others newly won Jiangxia, Nanjun, and Shangyong County, and these three counties are full of families, and Nanjun is Liu Biao's lair, Wei Jun wants to gain a firm foothold, and it will take at least half a year to rectify the place.

After Wei Yan defeated Huang Zu, the general Hao Zhao led 2,000 cavalry and 8,000 crossbowmen to surrender and reorganize the Jingzhou army.

Huang Zu gathered 30,000 horses, and finally took away less than 1,000 people and horses, more than 3,000 people died on the spot, and more than 2,000 people were seriously disabled by arrows and knives, and the others were more or less traumatized, but after the careful care of the Wei army's medical battalion, most of them were cured, and those who were severely disabled were incorporated into the Tuntian Corps to do the simplest work such as raising chickens, ducks, and geese, and the remaining more than 20,000 people were only selected to supplement the battle losses of the Wei army, and the rest were incorporated into the county soldiers under the Wei army. Those who had anything to do with the big families were cleared out and pressed into the labor reform brigade of the Tuntian Corps to receive labor education.

The Jingzhou Corps was supplemented by 20,000 surrendered troops, and its strength has grown a lot, and it is no longer afraid of the counterattack of the local clans.

The 20,000 cavalry brought by Wei Yan were only wounded in the battle just now, and Wei Yan left them all to Hao Zhao to command to reorganize those surrendered troops, and Wei Yan led 18,000 cavalry to rest for a while, and then galloped towards Guangcheng Pass.

Wei Yan's 18,000 cavalry made a big circle from the east of Guangchengze before coming to Guangcheng Pass.

At this time, Guangcheng Pass had been reoccupied by Ma Zhong, a general under Wei Yan, and Tai Shici, the general who participated in the ambush of Liu Biao, was also waiting for Wei Yan's arrival at Guangcheng Pass, and Zhao Yun also urged the rear army to come to Guangcheng Pass.

However, he said that a few days ago, Wei Yan saw that Dian Wei had captured Wei Fei and Wei Xiang, and he had an idea, using Liu Biao as bait to lure Huang Zu to take the bait and eliminate Huang Zu's Jiangxia army.

When Wei Yan led 20,000 cavalry out of Dagu Pass, Liu Biao was stepping into the ambush circle that Wei Yan had already built for him.