When Ma Chao led 5,000 light horsemen to rush to Tongguan, although the defenders there had already received the news, increased their vigilance, and strengthened the palace, but because this has always been the deep rear, the garrison should be small in peacetime, and the troops were stretched thin for a while, and all of them rushed to the pass to defend it. Vertex updates are the fastest

Fortunately, Ma Chao's troops are all light cavalry, except for the swords, guns, bows and arrows he carries, and the grain bags tied to the horse's back, there are almost no other tools.

The defenders naturally knew that Ma Chao was riding well, and there were only a few hundred people in total, and no one wanted to come out to fight against others, so they just couldn't hold on to the pass, turning a blind eye to Ma Chao's provocation, and not saying a word, just as if he didn't exist.

Oh, you can't really pretend that it doesn't exist, you can't get in touch with Chang'an, and you should send a message to Luoyang urgently.

Ma Chao couldn't fight, so he had to order the sergeants to go into the mountains to cut down long trees, make long ladders, and prepare to turn the cavalry into foot soldiers and forcibly attack Tongguan.

I couldn't help but secretly curse Wei Yan in my heart, if it wasn't for the fact that he was going out of Chencang, he would have gone straight to Tongguan all the way, maybe he would have been able to achieve the same effect as when he entered and occupied it, and he had already rushed in before the enemy even thought of retreating.

However, it can only be thought about, if there is no army to respond later, even if he occupies Tongguan, he can only fall to his own death, and sooner or later he will be besieged and die.

Thinking about it, I can only blame Wei Yan for being too slow, forcibly leaving Ma Dai's people behind, and not caring about it, but going to Meridian Valley to pick up people.

Didn't you say that there were 5,000 Wudang Flying Army there who wanted to help me attack Tongguan? It's been a few days, why haven't you rushed over yet? What about people? Where did the death go?

"It's coming, it's coming! It's coming, it's coming! Wei Yan led five hundred horsemen and rushed over overnight.

Ma Chao looked at Wei Yan's five hundred subordinates, the fire was even bigger, where did he go around and come back? Immediately asked loudly, "Aren't you going to lead five thousand Wudang Flying Army?" Why are there still 500 people? ”

"This is the Wudang Flying Army! General, you can see clearly, this is no longer the original 500 people! Wei Yan opened his mouth and hurriedly pleaded.

Ma Chao didn't know any of them anyway, so he just asked loudly: "Didn't you say five thousand?" How is it still five hundred? ”

"General, this is not fair! How can I, Wei Yan, be like you, let everyone under my subordinates be equipped with mounts, go wherever you want, and arrive whenever you want! At this time, they had just come out of the Meridian Valley, and they were still desperately trying to get on the road. Wei Yan took advantage of the sound to complain loudly.

These words really stopped Ma Chao all at once. He had also heard a long time ago that Wei Yan was a guy who cared about harvesting war horses in every battle, and he had a harvest in every battle, but he was always asked by Da Sima and supplemented him with Ma Chao.

Ma Chao felt a little embarrassed, and changed his tone unnaturally: "Then, do you want to send someone to pick them up?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Wei Yan nodded like a chicken pecking rice, he originally meant this, but he didn't dare to bring it up directly to Ma Chao.

Ma Chao was just about to give an order, and then he paused again: "Here, there are still 5,000 people, isn't it necessary to send 5,000 war horses, then don't you have to send all the war horses here?" ”

Wei Yan shook his head again and again: "General, you don't need to be so much, you only need to send 1,500 war horses, and I have 500 horsemen here." ”

Well? Fifteen hundred plus five hundred equals two thousand, which doesn't count?

Ma Chao counted twice with his fingers, and was sure that he was not wrong: "Didn't you say that with Zhang Wei's people, there are five thousand in total?" ”

Wei Yan hurriedly explained: "Alas, my hussar general! Five thousand are useless, one thousand are now with your Ma Dai, as for Zhang Wei's two thousand, they have other combat missions, and they will not come to Tongguan! ”

Damn Wei Dazui, he doesn't have a margin at all when he speaks! Ma Chao even felt that he was being tricked by Wei Yan.

Wei Yan then excused himself: "General, this Tongguan should not have time to strengthen its precautions, and there is no need for five thousand men and horses. I left a thousand Wudang to cooperate with your general Ma Dai, he came all the way, and he fought whichever city he wanted, wouldn't it be more useful? Okay, general, don't be surprised, let's quickly pick up people and fight Tongguan as soon as possible, if you wait for a long time, the reinforcements sent from the direction of Chang'an City need you to resist, and Luoyang Cao Pi got the news, and then sent troops to Tongguan to help defend, we will be more difficult to capture! ”

Ma Chao had no choice but to hide his anger for the time being, and hurriedly sent a thousand cavalry, another five hundred war horses, and replaced the five hundred horses brought by Wei Yan, and asked them to go to the direction of Meridian Valley to pick up Wei Yan's soldiers and come to Tongguan to fight.

He said to the cavalry dispatched: "Just two people can ride on it, keep other men and horses, and be ready to meet the enemy's reinforcements at any time!" ”

Wei Yan led five hundred Wudang, and after a short rest, he came to see Ma Chao: "General, without further ado, let's immediately launch an attack on the Tongguan defenders." ”

Ma Chao was shocked again: "You specially asked me to send someone to pick up the rest of your Wudang army, why do you say that you have to tackle the problem now, don't you have to wait for them?" ”

Wei Yan opened his mouth and said without mind: "I think that this pass has been occupied by Cao Cao for several years, and Tongguan has long lost its preparation to defend against the enemy, at this time, the guards of the pass are only a few hundred soldiers at best, so why wait until the rear army arrives?" With my existing 500 Wudu, and the warriors under the general's command, it is easy to take advantage of the arrival of enemy reinforcements. ”

What do you mean? Could it be that my 5,000-strong army arrived at Tongguan for a few days, and if I didn't defeat the pass, even your 500 Wudang is not as good as you?

Since you think that five hundred is enough, why do you want me to send someone to pick up the rest of yours?

Ma Chao stood up reluctantly, and he was about to get angry.

Wei Yan didn't finish his sentence yet, and continued: "General, to be honest, it's really a waste to let your five thousand light horsemen attack the pass. I think, Ge Gong asked you to come to Tongguan first, it should be to prevent the Chang'an defenders from increasing troops to Tongguan, right? Now that we have captured Tongguan earlier, you can leave here as soon as possible, General, and go to fight fiercely with the enemy army that has withdrawn from Longyou. ”

It seems to be reasonable, Ma Chao didn't have anything to refute, and after a long time, he ordered the army to prepare to tackle the problem.

Okay, you Wei Yan, when Guanzhong is decided, I must teach you a good lesson!

At that moment, the army moved out of the long ladder that Ma Chao's soldiers had prepared, rushed to the front of the pass, and began to forcibly attack the fortification.

Wei Yan seemed to be grabbing the merit, stopped Ma Chao's soldiers, and said to Ma Chao: "General, your subordinates are all good at cavalry warfare, it's a pity to use them to tackle key problems, let's do it." ”

Ma Chao snorted, but he wanted to see how he Wei Dazui's five hundred people could take Tongguan.

Wei Yan asked Ma Chao's soldiers who were good at archery to shoot from a distance under the pass, and commanded his five hundred incompetents, wrapped in hooks and ropes, with iron pickaxes in their waists, and rushed towards the wall with a long ladder and shouting.

Just like in the previous training, a number of sergeants rushed forward with a long ladder, and one sergeant held the front end of the ladder, rushed down to the wall, and immediately leaned back and stepped on the wall, and ran directly to the wall.

The sergeants in the back continued to run, holding on to the long ladder and sending the sergeant in front of them directly to the shut.

When rushing to half the height of the wall, the sergeant in front held the long ladder with one hand, took off the iron hook hanging on his body with the other, threw it at the battlement with a flick of his hand, pulled it hard, and then threw the long rope on his body down, leaving a rope path for the rear army to climb the city.

At the same time, he did not stop at his feet, still under the support of the long ladder, and rushed to the close, and at the same time pulled out the iron pickaxe at his waist, and when he approached the battlement, he pulled the city wall with one hand, and his body went up, and the other hand climbed up the battlement.

At the same time, the long ladder has been set up, and there are already sergeants rushing up the edge ladder.

For a while, some of them hurriedly smashed stones, some stabbed with guns, and some hurriedly drew their knives to cut the ropes that the enemy had set up at the battlements to stop the enemy from pulling the ropes and climbing.

Wei Yan watched the sergeant attack the key under the pass, and shouted desperately with his big mouth open: "Warriors! Come on! Rush up! There aren't many enemies! Fight twice and you're done! Come on! The first to attack the level, I, Wei Yan, will not only ask for credit for him, but also be willing to give him another reward of 100,000 yuan! ”

One by one, all the sergeants fought bravely to be the first.

Ma Chao was a little dumbfounded at the pass, he was indeed shocked by the wall-climbing ability of this Wudang Flying Army, looking at the agile skills, there was no such person in his own horses.

Alas, the inch is long, the ruler is short, and this forcible climbing of the city to attack the key problems really depends on their unpopular flying army.

As for my cavalry, let's go to the field and find the enemy to fight.

Seeing Wei Yan shouting desperately with his big mouth open, he frowned, shook his head, and ordered the close cavalry to take out the only war drum he carried with the army, and personally cheer for the Wudang Fei army.

After a long period of fierce fighting, because Tongguan had not fought for many years, there were few sergeants stationed there, and they had already been replaced by corrupt people who blackmailed merchants who came and went.

Zhong Wudang took the opportunity to rush up, quickly rushed to the gate of the city, opened the gate, and welcomed the influx of troops.

Counting the battlefield, there were really only a few hundred people stationed here, and almost all of them came to the front to defend at that time, and once they were broken through to the pass by the Wudang Flying Army, they couldn't even send a single reinforcement.

Wei Yan counted his subordinates, and everyone fought bravely, but most of them were killed or wounded. Of the 500 men, there are only more than 100 soldiers left.

Ma Chao saw that Wei Yan had taken down Tongguan so easily, and secretly thought that his efforts were really in vain, and he ran here for a few days desperately, but it turned out that he only did Wei Yan a big favor.

This Tongguan was defeated, but it seemed that there was nothing to do with my Ma Chao, and he was very unwilling, so he said to Wei Yan at the moment: "Since this place has been taken, please ask General Wei to guard here, and my Ma Chao immediately turned west to meet the enemy's army!" ”

Wei Yan suddenly panicked: "General, don't go too fast!" I only have more than 100 capable warriors, in case the enemy comes, how can I defend Tongguan! (To be continued.) )