Hangu Pass, the Shang Dynasty called it the peach forest, the Zhou Dynasty set up a small city fortress here, so the name is the peach forest stopper, and later it was divided into the territory by the Jin State. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info to the Jin State Liuqing Civil War, after the Qin State took the opportunity to control this place, the eldest son of the Qin State Pu set up a pass on the basis of Xiaosai, because it guards the Han Ancient Road here, so it is called "Hangu Pass".

As early as before the Hangu Pass was set up, Cuihan was selected into the so-called "Nine Stops in the World": Taifen, Ying'e, Jingshan, Fangcheng, Cuihan, Jingcheng, Lingzhi, Ju Note, Juyong, and now it is even more deserved......

In the shouting of killing, another attack failed, looking at the danger in front of him, the thief's eyes were unwilling, he was full of anger, but he had to admit:

"Sentence notes, wells, etc. are not as good as Hangu, and it is not too much to call it the head of the nine stops in the world!"

In March, the thief led the army to make a detour into Zhou, raided the rear of the coalition army, induced You Su to turn back, defeated the Zheng army on the north bank of Luoshui, and slaughtered 5,000 Zheng prisoners.

Because of the rout of the Zheng army, the Qin and Wei coalition forces that were besieging Yucheng naturally could not attack the city with peace of mind, so they lifted the siege, and then, they made the biggest mistake since the beginning of the war - moved to Hedong, and then were trapped there by Zhao Wuxian's urn.

After the army of thieves rested in the land, he asked Han Hu to dispatch all the soldiers who could still move, some of them in Maojin to contain part of the Qin and Wei troops, and the rest of them all followed him into Hangu Pass.

This is Zhao Wuxian's military order, as long as the Hangu is broken and the south bank of Fenglingdu is controlled, the east of the river will completely become an impenetrable urn.

However, this fortress, which had just been established for less than five years, was not so easy to break, and before reaching Hangu Pass, the thieves understood why Han Hu and his generals would be helpless when it came to this fortress.

Hangu Pass is now the east to Luoyang, west to the throat of Qin, this letter road is one of the most difficult and dangerous paths that the thief has walked in this life, the valley of Mount Tai, the sheep intestine of Taihang can only be ashamed of itself compared to here. The section of the road from Kunshan to Hanguguan is mostly in the valley, the deep danger is like a letter, so it is called the Hangu, there are pines and cypresses everywhere here, the pedestrians are at the bottom of the deep valley, but the old ape in the mountain is sad and screams, and it is difficult to see the sun when you look up.

From Yucheng to Hangu Pass, there are a hundred miles of land, and the thieves take the people for five whole days, and sometimes they can only advance ten miles in one day. Fortunately, the Qin-Wei coalition army retreated in a hurry, there was no fortification here, and there was no much resistance, and in early April, the thieves finally arrived at the pass with 20,000 Zhao and Han troops.

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After seeing the appearance of this closed city, not to mention the Han army who had met here, even with the might of the great victory, the bloody generals of the Zhao army suddenly lost confidence.

Although Hangu Pass has only been established for three or four years, it is far from being the insurmountable city of "Tiankai Hangu Zhuangguan, and Wangu Dust to the North Sky" in later generations, but it has begun to take shape.

In front of the pass is the Hongnong stream, it constitutes a moat of Hangu Pass, it is early summer, the water flow in the stream is turbulent, and it is difficult for people and horses to cross.

After crossing the river, they must go south along the west bank of the river, and enter a narrow road in front of the pass that leans on the high post before they can approach the city, which can only accommodate two horses in parallel, and the army cannot be deployed at all. Not only that, the east and west ends of the Guanlou are lofty loess plateaus, they are like a natural city wall, becoming an impassable fortification for foreign enemies.

"How did the Qin people choose the site of the city...... "The thief just wanted to roll his eyes, he began to feel that it was futile to bring so many soldiers and horses, because with the terrain here, it was impossible to use thousands of troops and horses. It is no wonder that when he attacked the Qin State a few years ago, Zhao Wuxian gave the Han clan the task of attacking here, but as a result, Hexi was all over, and the Han clan was still at a loss for anything.

No matter how difficult it is, it has to be fought, as far as the thieves know, there are only 3,000 people in the pass, and the rest are dragged to Hexi to resist the Zhao cavalry, and Han and Wei cross the river from Pusaka.

After spending several days crafting simple siege engines, the thieves launched tentative attacks, all of which ended in failure, and not only that, but in mid-April, he learned the bad news from the rear.

The king of Chu is personally recruited, and the handsome army is coming to Lu Hun!

When the thief heard this, he laughed and scolded: "It's really getting more and more lively." ”

So he was faced with a choice, whether to continue to attack Hangu Pass, or to go back to rescue Lu Hun and block the King of Chu?

"Lu Hun City is also dangerous, and it is not easier for the Chu army to attack this place than for us to attack Han Valley." The thief didn't mean to save Wang Sunsheng at all, and with his understanding of Wang Sunsheng, this son valued revenge and reputation very much, and he would not surrender immediately. Because if he surrenders, not only will the Zhao family hate him, but the loyal and brave Chu people will also look down on him.

So let him fend for himself, and stop his uncle from the king of Chu to buy time for us, although he didn't say it directly, but that's what the thief meant.

"As long as I am equal to the king of Chu to break through Hangu before breaking through Lu Hun, send a division to stay here, and then enter the peach forest and the flawed land in the west, and control the south bank of Fenglingdu, I can complete the order of Shangqing and cut off the last chance for Qin Wei to escape......"

At that time, even if the Chu army takes all the outside of the river, what does it matter? Hangu Pass will keep them out, and when they finish cleaning up the remnants of the enemy in Hedong, the Zhao family's 100,000 army, are you afraid that his 50,000 Chu army will not succeed?

But not everyone has this kind of consciousness of abandoning the car to protect the handsome, and when he heard that the king of Chu had marched into Yiluo, Han Hu, the head of the Han family, panicked.

In this war, the Han clan was probably the biggest loser in Zhao Wuxian's camp, because of the terrain, they were the first to be attacked by Qin Wei, and Zheng Guo also came to join in the fun and take revenge for the battle of Tiger Prison Pass in previous years. From January to late March, Han had been suffering defeats and losing territory, resisting enemy attacks with his pitiful body, and gaining time for Zhao to assemble an army......

Nowadays, there are only more than 10,000 people left in the Han family, and the territories in Hedong and beyond the river have also been ravaged, the grain has been looted, and the people have fled into Zhao to avoid the military disaster.

The Han clan couldn't afford the loss anymore, anyway, he stayed in Hangu Pass, and Han pawn was also stolen and went to the moth to attack the city with malicious intentions, and lost nearly a thousand in a few days, so it was better to take this opportunity to withdraw.

So Han Hu and the thief had a disagreement on whether to return to help, the thief insisted on attacking Hangu Pass, but Han Hu decided that there was no hope of breaking through, so it was better to turn back and prevent the Chu army from going deeper.

Although with the killing of Wei Manduo and Wei Ju's treason, Han Hu has risen to the high position of the vice secretary of the Jin State, but is the thief a person who bows his head easily? He thought that Han Hu would not be able to fight, and he had repeatedly failed, so he completely ignored his request to lower his profile.

Han Hu was furious, although Zhao Wuxian promised to compensate him when he came, but those were not counted, so he returned the same way with eight thousand Han soldiers, and he would rather defend than attack......

In his opinion, there is not much difference between marching and fighting for thieves, and only by taking risks can he get the greatest benefits, although the Han army withdrew first, but Hangu Pass, a hard bone, he still had to gnaw hard.

"It would be nice if there were fewer cannons......"

Although they brought some Ludi craftsmen, Shaoliang artillery was the core technology of the Zhao family, and ordinary craftsmen could not reach it, so they could only make a little ladder, rushing carts, trebuchets, plus the ballista guns carried by the army, to carry out continuous attacks on the front of Hangu Pass. Fortunately, there is no shortage of wood or stones here, although it is difficult for the Zhao army to launch an offensive formation, the fierce firepower still makes the Qin army guards in the pass unable to raise their heads.

But this is not enough, it is impossible to break through the level by fire suppression, someone must climb the top of the city. In the past few days, the thieves had used Han Hu's soldiers as gully fillers, which greatly consumed the energy of the guards, and after several days of bombardment, using trebuchets and ballistas to smash down a city tower, he gave the order for the moth to attack......

The so-called moth attachment is the siege technique of letting soldiers carry wooden ladders close to the city wall and climb up the city wall one after another, which is the most primitive and extremely costly way.

Some generals objected: "The method of moth attachment, even if it succeeds, will lead to heavy losses among the soldiers......"

"But this is the only way to break the letter valley pass." Unmoved, after slaughtering Zheng prisoners from Luoshui, he became even more ruthless and ruthless than before.

Unlike Ran's method of governing the army like a son, the thief believes that in addition to this, only harshness and cruelty can be used to train a strong army.

Those who make good use of soldiers can kill half of the pawns, then kill the thirteenth, and the eleventh of the subordinates; Those who can kill half of them, Weijia Hainei, kill thirteen, Lijia princes, kill eleven, and order the soldiers......

This is not only to describe the strictness of military law, but also to think that it is the proportion of losses that can be borne in combat, and Han Hu can't even endure one-tenth of it, so he has been defeated repeatedly. And the thief, he thinks that he can completely break through Hangu Pass at the cost of thousands of lives!

The military order was like a mountain, and the soldiers bravely put the cloud ladder on the city wall, and the first to be driven up were the Qin prisoners captured along the way, and then the local people who were unlucky.

The screams continued, the ladders were constantly being pushed down, and people were falling from above and breaking their heads, and the corpses under the city were piled up one layer higher.

The thief looked at this slaughterhouse that was constantly devouring his life and was unmoved, he had his own plan in his heart: there should be a lot of food left in Hangu Pass, but there were fewer and fewer arrows, when they first came, the Qin people did not hesitate to shoot arrows, but slowly only shot when the situation was critical, and the arrows also changed from copper to stone and bone, and the feathers on the shafts of the arrows gradually thinned until they became bare, many of which could be seen to be newly made.

When the guards had exhausted their arrows and had to use local materials to smash down bricks and wood to stop the attack, the thief knew that his chance had come, and he waved his flag violently, and Zhao's crossbowmen began to wantonly enter within a hundred steps of Hangu Pass.

Although he disliked the weak combat power of the Han clan, he recognized the skills and efficiency of the Han craftsmen, and there were not many other arrows and crossbow arrows in the city. Because of his timidity in hand-to-hand combat, Han Bing preferred bows and crossbows, which was cheaper than thieves, and although Han Hu was gone, the baggage was still transported far and constantly through the channel.

So the rain of arrows flew to the city, the dense arrows were like a dark cloud impermeable, the strong bow and hard crossbow allowed the Zhao army under the city to stay away from the stones and bricks thrown at the city, and the three thousand crossbowmen squandered a sharp arrow.

Hangu Pass is far from being the male fortress of "millions of corpses and bleeding and drifting" in later generations, and the city wall is not high, and no one dares to raise his head under such a fierce attack.

Seeing that the time was ripe, the thieves resolutely ordered the siege of the city.

Dozens of drums sounded at the same time, and the dull sound of the drums was like a call of death from the Nine Shadows, urging everyone on the battlefield.

The crossbowmen gradually retreated to the sides, maintaining the attack on the city, and 200 steps outside the Hangu Pass, Liu Xia Xuan drew his sharp iron sword and raised it above his head, and the blade glowed with an unusually cold light.

The thief turned his head, and thousands of Zhao pawns behind him occupied the narrow road in front of Hangu Pass, they did not speak, did not complain, and were silently watching him. Most of these people came from the expedition of the Lu State, and many of them were thieves who were born and died with him, and were recruited by Zhao Wuxian to become dead soldiers who worked for him.

Feeling the eyes of the soldiers behind him full of trust and awe, and for some reason, the thief's eyes suddenly warmed.

After this war, I don't know how many people will never see the sun tomorrow and will never be able to return to their hometowns thousands of miles away.

Eat the Lu of the Zhao family, receive the field of the Zhao family, and fight for the Zhao family.

The people of the pre-Qin period didn't have too many twists and turns in their hearts, even if they were former thieves. Simple reasons, simple logic, but things that are taken for granted, prompted them to come here.

Cannibal Tian Lu works hard for others, and he is also a thief!

The thief didn't think about it anymore, his sword pointed at the Hangu Pass, but he didn't shout slogans like "Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao" like other Zhao Jun.

It's a slogan familiar to the bandits.

"Plantar Disciples! Listen to me! ”

(To be continued.) )