Victory was in sight, and Chen Cang was only a few dozen miles away from Ma Chaojun.

If he could, Ma Chao really didn't want to stop attacking, but the sergeant was too tired to launch a battle immediately.

In Ma Chao's plan, this passage was to be opened within three days at the latest, and the New Han army would enter Xiliang at any cost. As long as this plan is carried out within three days, then he will have time to lead his army back to Longxi to meet the invading Han Sui army.

However, sometimes the ideal is the ideal after all, the plan is the plan, and the actual situation makes Ma Chao red-eyed.

The pass in front of Ma Chaojun is the most majestic and dangerous pass from Tianshui to Chencang. Compared with the dangerous pass like Tongguan from Luoyang to Chang'an, its terrain is even more precipitous.

It is said to be a pass, but it is equivalent to the mountain road between the two mountains, which is called Funiu Mountain on one side and Fengmingling on the other.

The mountains on both sides are rocky cliffs, and a valley road in the middle leads to Guò, which stretches for miles long.

In recent years, Li Daojun has built a large number of fortifications on the mountains on both sides of the valley road, and has accumulated a large number of rolling stones and sassal trees on the mountains on both sides. What's more, their positions are not completely connected, but according to the needs of the mountain, they have set up camps in those places on the mountain that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and even several military camps. On the cliff on the mountain, in one place, it is estimated that there are several enemy soldiers staying, and pushing down the rolling stones and sassal wood prepared on it can block the attack of Ma Chao's army. If Ma Chaojun enters the valley, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties.

Of course. The mountains on both sides can be climbed by special sergeants of the mountain forest. However, it is useless to be able to climb up. Because the enemy soldiers have already kept an eye on all the places that can be climbed up, once someone dares to climb up, it is estimated that they will be stoned to death by the most primitive stones of Li Daojun above.

In particular, although the sides of this valley road are rocky, there are not many shrubs and weeds. In addition, it is already winter, and it has snowed again, and the snow has covered those weeds. As long as someone climbs up, it will inevitably be seen by the people on the mountain, and when the time comes, they will be stoned to death.

Such topography. Cavalry simply cannot play a common role. In fact, since the attack on the small city of Hedong, the cavalry has basically no effect, and when fighting, it is all used as infantry.

Ma Chaojun's Xiliang Iron Cavalry, if it is not fighting on horseback, its power will be at least halved.

In this way, Ma Chaojun stopped attacking. Another day passed, and I didn't get an inch.

Multi-flip forced attack. Thousands of men and horses were lost.

At this moment, Ma Chao really only sighed at Guan Xing, helpless for a while.

Three days have come, Ma Chao's heart is a little angry and disappointed, there is only a mountain road dozens of miles away, and he can't take a step forward, which makes him too late to return to Longxi, his heart is as anxious as being burned.

But there is no way to do this, in fact, even if Liu Yi had expected it, knowing that the two or three hundred miles long mountain road wants to completely open up and receive the new Han army that should come in Chencang, I am afraid it will not be easy. Otherwise, Liu Yi would not have cautiously talked to Ma Teng about letting him give up Longxi, Liu Yi wanted Ma Teng and his son to have a psychological preparation.

Now, Ma Chao is able to win more than 200 miles of mountain roads in one day and two nights, which is beyond Liu Yi's expectations. But this is also by relying on quick battles, fast fighting, and with the help of Wang Yue and other masters and apprentices, Ma Chaofang can fight and win. Otherwise, Ma Chao is probably still in a stalemate with Li Dao's defenders before some checkpoints.

Normally, it is basically impossible to open the passage from the direction of Tianshui, if there is no military horse in Tianshui Town to deter Li Wei, if Li Dao leads the army out of the city and attacks Ma Chaojun from behind, Ma Chao will not be able to get too much benefit. There is even the possibility of being trapped in the mountain road.

Now, Ma Chao only needs to attack forward, without worrying about what is behind him, so he dares to advance so quickly.

On the third day, it was already the fifth day before Ma Chao began to launch an offensive, and Ma Chao's army fought fiercely with Li Wei's army, which was guarding the mountain roads of Funiu Mountain and Fengming Mountain.

Seeing that it is impossible for Ma Chaojun to have time to open the passage and receive the Xinhan army into Xiliang, and then he will wave his army back to Longxi.

However, just as Ma Chao personally led a group of military horses to attack the pass in front of him against the rolling stones and trees rolling down the mountain roads on both sides, a burst of passionate shouting and killing suddenly burst out in the middle of the pass mountain road of Funiu Mountain.

At the same time, the defenders seemed to panic all at once.

Ma Chao didn't know why, but when he saw that the defenders of the pass ahead were in chaos, he immediately ordered the sergeant to attack with him.

On the wall of the Funiu Mountain Pass, Li Xin and another guard, Yue Ming, were really shocked at the moment.

He fled all the way from Hedong City to here, and finally stabilized his position with Yue Ming, the defender of Funiu Mountain, and took advantage of the natural dangerous terrain to stop Ma Chao's army for two or three days. Until now, they have taken advantage of Ma Chao and forced Ma Chao to red-eyed.

Especially the comparison of the battle losses of the military horses of the two sides, it is basically equivalent to the loss of all the military horses by the 0 Bima Super Army, and their own military horses, because they hid on the cliff, the Ma Chao Army failed to attack them at all. From the top of the mountain, looking at the Ma Chaojun attacking below, it was as if he was in a hurry to die.

If this continues, Li Xin knows that he and Yue Ming will definitely become famous all over the world because of this battle, at least, if they can defeat Ma Chao, they will also rise under Li Wei's tent, and their status will be completely different.

Anyway, according to the current method, Ma Chaojun will not want to take another step forward. Ma Chao kept attacking, more like letting those sergeants come to die, as long as Ma Chaojun can no longer afford the price of casualties, presumably Ma Chao will stop fighting and retreat. When the time comes, they will regain the lost level and regain contact with Li Dao in Tianshui City.

Just when Li Xin and the others thought they were at ease, who would have thought that a military horse suddenly came behind them.

It turned out that the New Han Army had laid eyeliner in the passes along the road early in the morning, these eyeliners. Mixed in with Li Dao's army, when Ma Chao's army captured the small city in Hedong, someone reported the situation to Hua Xiong, Xu Rong, Li Ru, Huang Fu Song and others who were ready to attack in Chencang.

And these people. They have been working hard to open up the road to Xiliang, and they have used almost all the methods they can use. Like counter-intermittent, lurking, persuasion, etc., all means are used.

After so much preparation, they were ready to storm one day.

Therefore, when they heard that Liu Yi had already started to do it in Xiliang, it was naturally impossible for them to wait for Ma Chaojun to open the way for them.

So. That is, when Ma Chaojun was like a bamboo, and he broke through for more than 200 miles in a row, Hua Xiong and Xu Rong. He also began to wave his army to attack the pass of Tianshui.

And unlike Ma Chaojun's strong attack all the way, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong, Li Ru and others, they have done so much work, and it is not without any results.

Before. Persuade the counter-policy or something. Just talking, it didn't put too much pressure on the defenders. In particular, some policies of the New Han Dynasty made many Li Daojun dare not surrender lightly, after all, most of the people in their army are guilty, and they are afraid of surrendering. The New Han Army will settle accounts after the autumn and investigate all the sins they have done.

But. No matter what kind of army it is, there will be some people who are quite upright among them, or in other words, there are also people with good consciences in Li Dao's army. After Li Ru and others sent people to infiltrate and understand, they were able to persuade some people who wanted to abandon the secret and turn to the light.

Another point, compared to Li Daojun, generals like Li Ru, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and other generals, they are not strangers, on the contrary, they are still very familiar, and there are even many people who have respect for Li Ru, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and others. In fact, at the beginning of Dong Zhuojun, many sergeants were not only fixed under the command of a certain general, in addition to the headquarters of each general, many military horses, according to the actual situation, there is a situation of mutual transfer of command.

Among Li Wei's army, there were many sergeants who had served under Huaxiong and Xu Rong. Those sergeants who had followed Hua Xiong and Xu Rong for a short time, especially those who were a little more upright and had a clear conscience, they would naturally feel that serving under Hua Xiong and Xu Rong was in a completely different situation from serving under the accounts of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others.

As long as it is those Dong Zhuo soldiers who are honest and have a clear conscience, they will prefer to serve under the account of Hua Xiong and Xu Rong. even wants to follow Hua Xiong and Xu Rong all the time.

Therefore, now that Hua Xiong and Xu Rong sent people to contact these people, they were still a little worried at first, but when Hua Xiong and Xu Rong officially sent troops, they fell back one after another and surrendered to the New Han Army.

Of course, this will naturally not be the whole story, from Chen Cang to Tianshui, the first few checkpoints, almost all of them are loyal to Li Dao, and they are Li Dao's own soldiers, so it is extremely difficult to rebel. It was only the most trusted person by Li Dao that Li Dao dared to let those military horses confront the Xinhan army on the front line.

However, Li Ru and others have already done a good job of the strategies for the first few levels. Therefore, Hua Xiong and Xu Rong, with the momentum of thunder, quickly continued to play a few levels. Then, things are easy to do.

At the back checkpoints, the defenders in the general passes are more or less willing to surrender to some of the soldiers of Li Daojun. Under the guidance of the people sent by Huaxiong and Xu Rong, when the Xinhan army killed their checkpoint, when they surrendered, they took the gate by the way and let Huaxiong and Xu Rong's Xinhan army enter the pass.

And it just so happened that Li Xin and Yue Ming, because they were eager to defeat Ma Chao and stabilize their positions, they transferred a lot of soldiers and horses from various checkpoints to Funiu Mountain and Fengming Ridge. This made Hua Xiong and Xu Rongjun capture the speed and soon attack Funiu Mountain.

Of course, the mile-long valley passage between Funiu Mountain and Fengming Ridge, no matter which side of the attack was launched, was almost the same, and it would be met with the same resistance.

However, because there were many reasons why Li Daojun surrendered, Hua Xiong and Xu Rong basically blocked the news every time they won one pass along the way. Then, the two generals took Li Xin's transfer order, and took the soldiers who had surrendered to pretend to be reinforcements from various passes, and entered the Funiu Valley in a foolish way.

In this way, Hua Xiong and Xu Rong were allowed to go all the way unhindered, and directly to the front where Li Xin and Ma Chao were fighting.

"Huaxiong is here! Who will you be? Sign up and die! ”

"Xu Rong is here! Surrender or kill! ”

Hua Xiong and Xu Rong, the two generals, appeared almost at the same time and launched an attack on Li Dao's army in the pass.

On the off wall, far away. Li Xin and Yue Ming heard Hua Xiong and Xu Rong's shouts, and they shivered in unison.

You must know that Dong Zhuo and his subordinates at the beginning. The most famous is not their current lord Li Dao, nor Lu Bu, who later worshiped Dong Zhuo as his father-in-law, but Hua Xiong and Xu Rong in front of them now. Lu Bu's martial arts are outstanding, and he is invincible in the world. However, since Lu Bu returned to Dong Zhuo, he generally had no dealings with the generals below Dong Zhuo. There is no friendship. Even, Dong Zhuo's old department and Lu Bu, who was newly promoted to Dong Zhuo's son, looked at each other a little wrongly, and they were always secretly clamoring.

So. In the minds of many of Dong Zhuo's old generals, Lu Bu is an outsider after all, and they are not all the way, and they are the most recognized generals. or Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and other generals.

And in front of these famous fierce generals. Li Xin, Yue Ming and the like don't look down on them at all. Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and others, in front of Dong Zhuo's account, when they had already sonic shock the three armies, Li Xin, Yue Ming and others were probably just a small soldier, and they hadn't even followed Dong Zhuo.

Therefore, as soon as they heard the names of Hua Xiong and Xu Rong. And they were all in a panic.

This may be called coercion.

Li Xin and Yue Ming. They glanced at each other, then turned their heads to look around, and then almost unanimously fled to the side of the mountain.

They knew in their hearts that at this moment he was surrounded by Ma Chao, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and others, and at this moment, the checkpoint was no longer defensible. And judging from the fact that Hua Xiong and Xu Rong led the army to kill behind them, the passage from Tianshui to Chencang may have completely fallen into the hands of the enemy. If they continue to resist, they are afraid that there will be only one way to die.

Ants are still stealing life, not to mention that these are originally greedy for life and afraid of death?

At this moment, no matter how loyal they are to Li Dao or something, it is all fake, they just want to escape with their lives.

As soon as Li Xin and Yue Ming fled, Li Daojun's army was naturally disheartened, and almost all the sergeants fled to the mountains on both sides of the pass.

Well, as long as you can escape to the mountains, and then escape into the mountains, then you can escape with your life.

The Funiu Mountain Pass, which had been stormed for two or three days, was finally captured by Ma Chao under the army led by Hua Xiong and Xu Rong.

Finally, Ma Chaojun and the new Han army of Huaxiong and Xu Rong successfully joined forces in the Funiu Mountain Pass.

For a time, the cheers of victory were deafening and went straight to the clouds.

Ma Chao, who was red-eyed, found Hua Xiong and Xu Rong, who were also covered in blood.

Ma Chao and the two generals are also old acquaintances, and Ma Chao usually has a lot of contact with the two generals.

Seeing Hua Xiong and Xu Rong, Ma Chao stepped forward and arched his hand, and said in a sincere tone: "General Hua, General Xu, Ma Chao sincerely appreciates you, you are too late." If you hadn't killed it in time, now, Ma Chao might not be able to take this pass and open up this route. ”

"Little brother Meng Qi, you don't have to be too polite with my brother. Relatively speaking, why don't we thank you Ma Jiajun? If you don't respond, if our Xinhan army wants to enter Xiliang, I'm afraid we will really have to pay a big price. What's more, we are already a family, and we are working together under the main account, and in the future, we will have more opportunities to fight side by side. Hua Xiong stepped forward heartily and said with Ma Chao's fist.

"What Brother Hua said is that we don't know how much effort we have done in order to open up the passage from Chencang to Tianshui, and we don't know how many predictions and speculations we have made, but after calculation, it is difficult for our Xinhan army to avoid sacrifices. Now, with Meng Qi and you responding, our New Han Army has opened up the passage into Xiliang at a relatively low cost. Don't worry, in the future, to recover Xiliang, the first credit is you, Ma Mengqi, none of us can snatch it, haha......"

"Haha!" When Ma Chao heard this, he also smiled, followed by Jun's face, and said solemnly: "Okay!" The family didn't talk to each other. My horse Chao has been fighting fiercely for several days now, and now the army and horses are tired, and if there is no rest or a day or two, I am afraid it will be difficult to march and fight for a long time. Now, the road into Xiliang has been opened, and the two generals are invited to lead the army to attack Tianshui, lead the army to Longxi, and help Ma Chao defend Longxi City, I hope there is still time in time. ”

"Oh?" Hua Xiong and Xu Rong have not yet received the changes in the situation in Xiliang, and the information has not been delivered to them for the time being.

Therefore, they didn't quite understand that Ma Chao seemed to be a little anxious.

"The two generals probably don't know yet. Ma Chao and his master led the army to attack Tianshui, and when the troops approached Tianshui City, Cao Cao's close minister Zhong Miao also arrived in Tianshui and persuaded Li Dao to submit to Cao Cao. Moreover, Zhong Xuan has already contacted Han Sui and Guo Yan and other Xiliang princes to form an alliance and prepare to resist our New Han army. Right now. They should not have thought that we had already opened the passage, and at this time, as long as the two generals led the army into Xiliang. It will definitely be able to deter the princes of Xiliang. I also asked the two generals to immediately wave the army to Tianshui and join the main guild division. Ma Chao briefly described the situation.

"I see! Brother Ma Chao, you can rest assured, this time, we directly led 100,000 Xinhan troops to come, and the military horses behind did not participate in the battle. We can lead tens of thousands of troops and horses to Tianshui immediately and go to Longxi to help! ”

Hua Xiong and the others did not hesitate, and immediately agreed.

Hit the passageway. is to enter Xiliang, this, without Ma Chao's request, Huaxiong and Xu Rong also want to quickly wave their troops into Xiliang.

Present. The generals ordered the army and horses to assemble. He also stopped searching for and chasing deserters, and directly left those military horses that needed to rest, and left a small number of soldiers of the New Han Army to stay at the various passes along the road from Chencang to Tianshui to ensure that these checkpoints would not be lost. Then, Hua Xiong and Xu Rong each led an army with a total of 50,000 troops and horses to rush directly to Tianshui City.

More than 200 miles, after a day and a night of marching, he finally arrived at Tianshui City and joined Liu Yi, who was holding back Li Wei in front of Tianshui City.

Hua Xiong and Xu Rong led the army to arrive. Ma Chaojun in front of Tianshui City burst into a burst of cheers.

The movement outside the city naturally alarmed Li Daojun in the city. At the head of the city, they also saw the battle flags fluttering, and there was no end in sight, and the marching columns of the New Han Army with neat military appearances could not be seen.

The arrival of the New Han Army really deterred the defenders of Tianshui City at once, and frightened the Li Dao soldiers who defended the city with bloodless faces and trembling hearts.

Yes, before the war began, they were frightened.

The New Han Army has established an invincible image in the minds of ordinary forces and military horses. Because, in their eyes, many wars that were impossible to win were won by the New Han Army, and many miracles were created, all of which used facts to confirm the strength of the New Han Army.

Especially the military horses that were once Dong Zhuo's subordinates, when they were in Xiliang, they actually dealt with foreign peoples outside the Saiwai, and also fought with the Huns in the northwest desert. They knew very well the strength of the Huns, and they fought with the Huns, and they did not dare to say that they had the advantage.

However, in the desert, the most powerful alien nation, the most famous and powerful Huns, was actually wiped out by the New Han Army. This is not an ordinary thing, compared to the Han people, once upon a time, how many people thought about exterminating those murderous Chang Koubian and invading the Huns of the Han Dynasty? However, who can do it if you only have to think about it? Now, the New Han Dynasty has done it, and the New Han Army has done it.

Ask yourself, these military horses of Li Dao, they feel that they are really not the enemies of the New Han Army. Not to mention the enemy of the New Han Army, as long as they think of fighting with the New Han Army, they will panic.

They dared to fight a decisive battle with Ma Chaojun, but they never dared to say a decisive battle with the New Han Army.

When the people below reported to Li Dao, Li Dao was first shocked and angry, slammed an innocent wine glass, and then his whole body went soft, as if the whole person had lost his strength all of a sudden, and fell softly in the seat.

"Zhong Xuan...... Zhong Xuan...... You, you mistook Li......" Li Wei read a sentence in a daze, and then raised his eyes weakly and said to the left and right: "Quick! Go and invite Mr. Zhong Xuan to come and ......"

In the past few days, Li Dao's heart has been tight.

Because, Liu Yi is outside Tianshui City, and he is worried all the time about when Liu Yi will attack the city and when he will enter the city. Even if his spies had already found out that Ma Chao actually led another army to bypass Tianshui City to attack Hedong Town, he found out that Ma Chao led the army to capture Hedong Town overnight, and even advanced dozens of miles in the direction of Chen Cang, capturing him dozens of checkpoints in a row. Li Dao knew that once the road from Tianshui to Chencang was opened by Ma Chao, then he, Li Dao, would definitely never have the art to return to heaven, and he would definitely not be able to compete with the New Han army that had entered Xilianglai. He knew the importance of these two or three hundred miles of road, but even so, he didn't dare to lead his army into the city lightly and attack Ma Chao from behind Ma Chao's army. Knowing that Ma Chao led the army to advance alone, he killed from behind Ma Chao's army, and it was possible to block Ma Chao's army in the two or three hundred miles long mountain road, and it was very likely that he could destroy Ma Chao.

But Li Dao didn't dare, he really didn't dare, Liu Yi was under Tianshui City, did he dare to go out of the city? (To be continued......)