Midnight.

The Shimen Road outside the Jiangyou Fortress, the mountain wind is howling, and the cold is soaking.

Guan Yi crouched behind a large rock, unaware of the difficulty of the cold night. In the past few years, he and his five hundred blood guards have not been tempered by the sun and wind one day. In Guan Yi's words, the reason why he practiced so hard was to be able to better kill and injure the enemy on the battlefield, and at the same time give himself the greatest protection. In fact, among the five hundred blood guards, all of them had experienced ruthless killing and death on the battlefield, and most of them were veterans of the Guan clan who had survived a hundred battles, so they naturally understood the meaning of Guan Yi's words.

Only soldiers who have experienced the iron-blooded battlefield and faced life and death can understand the value of survival.

Since Guan Yi took over the defense of Jiangyoushu, on the one hand, he ordered Ehu to readjust the deployment of the city defense and increase the number of soldiers defending the city, and on the other hand, he asked Chen Lie to mobilize all the families and civilians of the army in the Guan, to collect stones and rolling logs to assist in defending the city. Chen Lie saw that Guan Yi was well arranged, and there was quite an order between advance and retreat, and the mood that was still a little worried gradually stabilized, and immediately made various preparations according to Guan Yi's requirements, with the full support of Chen Lie and other soldiers guarding the pass, although the total number of soldiers and horses was still only one-fifth of the Wei soldiers, Guan Yi was very confident that he would fight with Deng Ai by virtue of the geographical advantage.

The Jiangyou garrison city is high and deep, extremely dangerous, Guan Yi originally planned to hold on to the pass and wait for help, but when inspecting the topographic map of the Jiangyou garrison, he found a dangerous place called Shimen Road, located fifty miles outside the city, it is a road embedded between the two mountains, the mountain is steep and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is the necessary place to pass through from the skyscraper cliff to the Jiangyou garrison. He immediately made a decision, personally led 400 blood guards and 800 soldiers selected from the Jiangyou garrison, and decided to ambush the Wei soldiers at Shimen, and give Deng Ai a dismount first.

Considering that Chen Lie and the original guards of the pass followed him, just in case, Guan Yi finally left E Hu to lead a hundred blood guards to guard the key points in the pass, and by the way, monitor the Jiangyou garrison to prevent them from surrendering cowardly, so as not to have no way to retreat at that time. As for Ma Miao, he was temporarily imprisoned in a prison and punished after defeating the Wei soldiers.

The night is vast, the stars and the moon are hidden, and when the Jiangyou garrison can't bear the bitter cold in the middle of the night and begins to complain, the dark shadows in front of them are building, and the Wei soldiers of the brigade are swarming like a long snake.

Guan Yi stared into the distance, and sighed softly, history does not deceive people, the Wei army is here in the end, and except for him, the others in the Han court may never have imagined that Deng Ai would dare to take risks.

"Goo-goo-goo......"

The muffled voice of the night owl came from the dense forest on the opposite mountainside, revealing a terrifying aura in the quiet night, which was a contact signal from the blood guards, indicating that they were ready to attack. Seeing this, the Jiangyou garrison defenders, who had already been in a commotion, immediately quieted down, thinking that this Guan Yi was really prescient, and the Wei army really dared to sneak attack Jiang Youshu along the Yinping Trail.

In the shadow of the stars and the moon, the vanguard of the Wei soldiers has all entered the canyon, and according to the scouts, this Wei army should be led by Shi Shu and Deng Zhong, with a strength of 2,000 people.

1,200 people against 2,000 people, they are unprepared, and they are waiting for work, and they raid in the dark, and the odds of victory are very great.

Looking at the Wei soldiers who entered the valley, the corners of Guan Yi's mouth flashed with a cold smile that was not easy to detect. There is a cloud in the art of war, and if you attack halfway, you can get great profits. If the Wei soldiers are suddenly attacked in the cold night, the army will inevitably be flustered, and if they can't take care of each other, it will inevitably be a situation where they can't form an army, and they will be broken.

After a cup of hot tea, half of the two thousand Wei soldiers had already entered the valley, but no one noticed that a great danger was coming. Guan Yi sighed lightly, slowly raised the repeater machine in his hand, and aimed it at a tall Wei army flag soldier in the valley.

"Put!" There was a loud shout, and the sound shook the valley. Immediately after, the flag-bearer snorted, and fell to the ground without warning, and the crossbow arrows that pierced his neck dripped blood, which was particularly eye-catching.

Before the rest of the Wei soldiers could react, the flames suddenly burst out, and the arrows were like flying locusts, covering the sky from both sides of the east and west. Zhuge Wuhou handed down a chain of ten crossbows powerful, within fifty steps through the stone into the iron, the most suitable for close-range shooting, at this moment from the top down shooting is more powerful, Wei soldiers like harvested wheat, in the blink of an eye fell a large piece, screams sounded everywhere, many Wei soldiers have not had time to snort has been shot into a sieve, confused to do the arrow of the soul.

"Let go of the ......" did not allow the Wei soldiers to have a chance to breathe, and hundreds of huge fireballs soaked in pine oil then rolled down from the halfway up the mountainside, like a long dragon smashed towards the panicked Wei soldiers, and then in the rumbling sound, countless boulders followed the fireballs and also fell on the heads of the Wei soldiers in an instant.

In the firelight, one of the members, Wei Jiang, held a spear in one hand and fired a rain-like crossbow arrow, while shouting: "Brothers, don't panic, meet the enemy quickly!" ”

But the Wei soldiers have been completely stunned by the sudden attack, this canyon was originally a passage between the two mountains, there is no hiding place at all, the Han army from the left and right sides of the attack, many soldiers were either smashed by the boulder to the flesh and blood, or were ignited by the fireball on the armor and clothing on the body, in extreme panic and pain waving their hands and screaming for help, the lucky ones who did not die ran around trying to find a place to hide, where to take care of his shouting.

Guan Yi watched the battle situation coldly, and saw that the Wei soldiers had lost their ability to maneuver and the army's morale was scattered, and it was a good time for the whole line to attack, so he immediately gave a loud order, and the whole army rushed out of the left and right at the same time to attack the Wei soldiers. In addition to the weapons and equipment that were different from the regular troops of the Han Dynasty, each of his blood guards was also equipped with high-grade war horses carefully selected from Xiliang. Although the line from the Yinping Trail to Motianling is extremely dangerous, the mountain has gradually flattened after entering the boundary between Jiangyoushu and Fucheng. In the field, especially on the wide plain battlefield, the cavalry against the foot soldiers, is basically a one-sided slash, and owning a war horse is undoubtedly a death talisman.

Although this Wei army has been on the battlefield for a long time, but was suddenly attacked in the dark night, has suffered heavy casualties, and I don't know how many ambushes, seeing the Han army roaring and rushing to kill, where do they dare to engage in battle, they have abandoned their armor and fled for their lives along the way, that Wei general saw that the army had no fighting spirit, the defeat was decided, and had no choice but to give up the hope of counterattack, with the defeat fleeing back and forth, the battle situation has been completely one-sided.

Guan Yi was wearing bright light heavy armor, and sat on a green horse given by the heir, holding a big knife in the eighteen horsemen surrounded by the blood guard, and the prancing horse crashed into the Wei army first, and the big knife flew up and down, or chopping or slashing, or stabbing or picking, but seeing the blade over, the stump was broken and flew sideways, and the blocker was invincible. The eighteen cavalry blood guards are safe and safe, so they are extremely ruthless, but if they collide with their ordinary Wei soldiers, they will either be killed or injured after the blades intersect, and it is difficult to have a combined enemy.

And the four hundred blood guards behind Guan Yi have been tempered for a long time, and at this moment, when they heard the smell of blood, they were already very excited, and seeing that Guan Yi was in the lead, they were naturally not far behind, and followed the Wei soldiers to chase after them. This passion also infected the selected Jiangyou garrison, although they have been absent from the battle formation for a long time, but after all, they are also soldiers, not to mention that the battlefield is a life-and-death situation, they cannot tolerate the slightest hesitation, once they start to kill the red eye, they can often glow with strong combat effectiveness.

Four hundred blood guards were dressed in white robes. This kind of black armor has iron sleeves to the elbows, the sundress armor protects the knees above, swallows the shoulders and the tiger's head, the leopard's mouth covers the heart, and the all-iron hood only exposes the eyes, nose and mouth, and the protection can be described as very tight. Guan Yi made a comparison, according to the current equipment configuration of the regular army of the Han Dynasty, the cost of equipping a blood guard can be converted to equip at least fifty ordinary soldiers. Fortunately, although the cost of equipment for the five hundred blood guards is amazing, the Guan family was originally the founding meritorious service of the Han Dynasty, and the family background is prominent, and at the same time, it has the support and acquiescence of the heir, and everything has become much simpler.

Under the cover of the fire at night, the blood guards covered the Wei soldiers who were scattered and fled like a whirlwind, and once they caught up, some Wei soldiers fell screaming. In addition to their equipment selected Xiliang war horses, Zhuge repeaters, and some raid combat necessities, Guan Yi also tailored for them a hundred refined steel swords that were most suitable for immediate raid melee combat.

The so-called chopping * saber originated from the period of Wang Mang's New Dynasty. However, at that time, the horse chopping knife was just a sword on the basis of a sword to lengthen the handle and thickness of the blade, so some people say that the prototype of the horse chopping knife is not much different from the sword than the sword. However, according to the blood guard essence is good at close combat, Guan Yi determined the horse chopping knife to be a slightly arc-shaped blade, five feet long, and the handle of the knife is one foot and five inches long, and it can be held horizontally with both hands to chop and slash the style.

Of course, there is a key factor in this. Although Guan Yi himself does not understand iron smelting, he knows that iron-smelting and steelmaking technology has been developed on a large scale in the Western Han Dynasty, which is impressive that after the founding of the People's Republic of China by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, he ushered in the great development of the popular steel-making technology, especially when Emperor Guangwu sent Du Shi, who was appointed as the Taishou of Nanyang, invented the water drainage technology of blast iron smelting, which brought a leap in the texture of steel calcining. The sword-making master of the Han Dynasty, Pu Yuan, who was the Xicao rafter of the Marquis of Zhuge Wu, invented the quenching technology after many tests, pushing the hundred steels to a new height.

Although Guan Yi had never met Pu Yuan, he knew that Pu Yuan had received a total of four disciples before and after, and only the second disciple named Tie Songzi had obtained his true inheritance, and the war knife made by Tie Songzi was not only extremely sharp, but also tougher than the war knife made by ordinary craftsmen. Pu Yuan's name of "Sword God" is well-known in the world, and today's Tie Songzi is not far behind, and its reputation is also widely recited by the Han military and civilians.

The blood guards can be said to have taken advantage of it at this time, pity these Wei soldiers, marching in the mountains and mountains for dozens of days in a row, they have already eaten enough to eat and sleep in the open, and at this moment they are being killed by the Han army who have been waiting for a long time, and they can't organize a decent counterattack at all, so they only care about fleeing for their lives, and they only hate that their father and mother didn't give themselves two more legs.

Chased all the way until the sky was twilight, and the corpse of the Wei soldier lay down all the way. The further forward the road becomes, the more rugged it becomes, and the war horse can no longer exert its mobility ability on this mountain road, otherwise once the hoof is cracked, it means that the war horse retires early. Moreover, Guan Yi knew that although the vanguard of the Wei soldiers was defeated, the thousands of elites led by Deng Ai were on the way to Jiangyoushu, and the Han army fought in the middle of the night, and they were already sleepy and tired.

This is the end of a killing.

When the brigade returned to Jiangyoushu, Hu and Chen Lie had already received a report from the scouts and led the crowd out of the city to greet them. But what surprised Guan Yi even more was that according to the report of the soldiers who counted the people, except for one of the 400 blood guards who was accidentally injured in the calf by a stray arrow, there were no other casualties, obviously the hard training in the deep mountains of Zitong County was not in vain, and the 800 Jiangyou soldiers who were dispatched only suffered more than 30 casualties. The Wei soldiers killed more than 1,500 corpses, captured more than 200 people, and captured countless weapons and armor, which can be described as a great victory in the true sense.

Guan Yi, who was standing on the wall, was still as calm as water, and his bizarre life experience and years of hard training in the deep mountains of Zitong County made his already calm and calm character unconsciously reach a realm that another peer did not have.

"Don't you think it's a pity, O Hu? If this fight can capture Deng Zhong, Shi Su and others alive, it will be even more perfect! ”

At the other end, Ehu, who was busy directing the soldiers to continuously strengthen the wall and prepare various garrison equipment, turned his head blankly when he heard this: "Young master, you called me?" ”

With a wry smile, Guan Yi waved his hand, since Ehu followed him, he was loyal and diligent in everything, but he had a rough personality and a straightforward mind.

"By the way, has the recital for the imperial court been sent out?" Guan Yi took a deep breath of the fresh morning air, and his thoughts immediately refreshed.

Ehu said: "The request for reinforcements has been sent yesterday, and the subordinate is the death order of the Marshall people, it is estimated that it has arrived in Chengdu at this time, as for the soldiers and horses of Fuxian and Mianzhu and other passes, if the troops are raised immediately, this must have been half the way." ”

Guan Yi nodded, looked at the rolling mountains in the distance, and fell back into deep thought.

Although he won a big victory last night, Guan Yi did not feel the slightest sleep, not because of excitement, but because he was worried about winning the battle. Although he knew that he was not from this era, his memory of his previous life was extremely vague. To be precise, although he inherited everything Guan Yi learned and knew in this life, he had no memory of his own era in his previous life, and his cognition of the current era only stayed in about half a year after Deng Ai's successful sneak attack on Jiang Youshu and forced the heir to surrender.

In addition, Guan Yi no longer has the slightest memory of the future historical process of this era in his previous life, nor does he know what kind of fate this era will greet him. Since he inexplicably became the third generation of the Guan family, all the memories of his previous life seem to have come to an abrupt end, like a cat drinking water, moisturizing things silently, without the slightest vein to be found.

For Guan Yi, the most fearful and heartbroken person is knowing that he does not belong to this era, but he still has to accept and bear everything about this era.

"Hurry up, step up the repair of the fortifications, and don't leave any loopholes and opportunities for the Wei army!" Behind him, there was a loud and arrogant voice from Ehu, which pulled Guan Yi back from his contemplation.

Guan Yi took a deep breath, cleaned up his mood, and thought about Deng Ai's next reaction. After Deng Zhong's fiasco, Jiang Youshu was bound to usher in a frantic attack by the Wei soldiers.

The battle of Shimen, although he set up a huge prestige, but after all, he had less than 3,000 men and horses, including in addition to five hundred blood guards, the original soldiers and horses guarding the pass of Jiangyou were extremely low because they had not experienced battles for many years, and the difference between the two was self-evident. Therefore, Guan Yi wrote a chapter as early as yesterday, ordering the blood guard scout to send Starry Night to Chengdu for help.