Tongguan is an important passage connecting Xiliang to Sili, and if Yuan Shao wants to enter Sili from Xiliang, he must capture Hangu Pass. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] Similarly, if the people of the imperial court want to pacify Xiliang, they must also take Tongguan.

Duan Xuan and Hu Zhen led an army of 26,000 and acted according to Li Ru's strategy, but they did not want to suffer a big defeat. Duan Xuan's deception failed and became a real defeat, but Hu Zhen failed to analyze the form correctly. If Hu Zhen could see that Duan Xuan was really defeated, he would take the lead in ambushing Xia Mou, saying that he had to encounter this fiasco, and ended up with two deaths and one surrender.

Yuan Shao's plan to get the letter to Guguan failed, and he lost his troops and generals, so he could only temporarily stick to Tongguan and wait for good news from Han Fu and Yuan Shu. According to the information that the soldiers who fled back kept waiting, the defenders at Hangu Pass numbered tens of thousands, not at all the 6,000 people as originally thought.

The defeat of the army on intelligence made Yuan Shao unable to complain about Li Ru's bad strategy. Moreover, now the two sides can be said to be offensive and defensive, and there are tens of thousands of imperial troops stationed at Hangu Pass. The Xiliang army in Tongguan is only more than 60,000 people, and it is all the strength of Xiliang. Now the pressure is on Yuan Shao's side, in case the imperial army captures Tongguan like the Hangu Pass, Yuan Shao doesn't know whether Tongguan can be defended.

Li Ru was also very curious about how the imperial army captured Hangu Pass, but no one knew about the people who guarded Hangu Pass. This is also the fact that all the Xiliang troops stationed on the wall were killed, where would anyone know how the imperial army attacked the wall?

"Fa Xiaozhi, you are familiar with Hangu Pass, you may guess how the imperial army attacked the wall in the first place?" Sitting in the room, Li Ru asked Fa Zheng while tinkering with his tea set, and handed Fa Zheng a cup after making tea.

Fa Zheng took the tea soup handed over by Li Ru, put it in front of him dignifiedly, thought about it, and said: "My lord, the defense of Hangu Pass is being arranged by himself, and it must be leaky. It's just that the imperial army has been escorted away on the day when it captured Hangu Pass, and I don't know how General Duan Xuan deployed the defense later. ”

Li Ru took the tea soup, took a sip slowly, and then said to Fa Zheng: "Fa Xiaozhi, can you draw the original defense map of Hangu Pass?" With that, Li Ru put down the tea bowl, walked to his desk, and after some tinkering, found a map of Hangu Pass.

Fa Zheng looked at the map of the Hangu Pass, and told how he had deployed the Hangu Pass in the first place, and made important arrangements in the immediate place that might have been missed. Li Ru looked at Fa Zheng and pointed at the map, and also recognized Fa Zheng's ability. According to the deployment of the law, this is indeed not the slightest omission, if Duan Xuan did not change this deployment at the beginning, then the imperial army would be too terrible.

"My lord, what's wrong?" After Fa Zheng finished speaking, he found that Li Ru was just silent there, and Fa Zheng thought that there was a mistake in his defense, so he immediately asked.

After Li Ru was awakened by Fazheng, he said to Fazheng: "The arrangement of filial piety is indeed leaky. If General Duan Xuan hadn't changed Xiaozhi's deployment at the beginning, then the imperial army would have been terrible. ”

Fa Zheng didn't care, and said with a smile: "My lord, at the beginning, General Duan Xuan thought that he was colluding with the enemy, how could he not change the deployment of Hangu Pass?" If General Duan Xuan hadn't changed the deployment of Hangu Pass, how could the imperial army have a chance to attack Hangu Pass? Could this court army have fallen from the sky? ”

"From the sky?" When Li Ru heard Fa Zheng say this, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly took out the map, and after looking at it for a while, he said to himself: "Understood, understood." This imperial army is really a good strategy and courage! ”

"My lord......" Fa Zheng saw Li Ru talking to himself, but he didn't know what Li Ru understood, so he opened his mouth and called in a low voice.

When Li Ru heard Fa Zheng call him, he turned back to Fa Zheng and said, "Does filial piety know how to walk in this Qinling Mountains?" ”

"Impossible? The Qinling Mountains are so dangerous, even the local hunters only operate in the periphery, and never enter the depths of the Qinling Mountains, how to walk? Could it be that the lord is saying that the army of the imperial court attacked Hangu Pass from the Qinling Mountains? Fa Zheng listened to Li Ru's question, and immediately shouted that it was impossible. As he spoke, Fa Zheng's heart was shocked, and Li Ru suddenly asked this question, could it be that the imperial army attacked Hangu Pass from Qinling?

"How not? The imperial army only had to march in the Qinling Mountains to avoid the eyes and ears of our army, and after coming down from the cliff with ropes, they could strike a surprise blow to the defenders of Hangu Pass. Only in this way will our army not know how the imperial army captured Hangu Pass. When Li Ru heard Fa Zheng say that it was impossible, he immediately refuted it.

Seeing that Li Ru was so convinced that the imperial army was marching from the Qinling Mountains to Hangu Pass, Fa Zheng explained: "The terrain of the Qinling Mountains is complex and difficult to walk. At the same time, fierce beasts are rampant in the mountains, and poisonous insects are everywhere. The most important thing is that if you don't know the direction in the mountains, how can you accurately reach Hangu Pass? ”

After Li Ru listened to Fa Zheng's words, he suddenly fell silent. If it is really as Fa Zheng said, then there is only one possibility, that is, Duan Xuan changed the defense of Hangu Pass. According to the deployment of the law, Hangu Pass must be worry-free, but if changes are made, there will definitely be gaps.

Just when Li Ru and Fa Zheng were still discussing how the imperial court occupied Hangu Pass, the generals of Hangu Pass had already thought about how to attack Tongguan.

"General Ye Hua, do you really need to trap a certain camp?" Lu Yi looked at the five thousand soldiers who followed Ye Hua and asked. These 5,000 soldiers are just ordinary soldiers, but Koji Yi has walked through the Qinling Mountains and has a deep understanding of the dangers in the mountains. With these 5,000 ordinary soldiers, Koji Yi is really worried that half of them will fall off the cliff by then.

Ye Hua only felt that Lu Yi was worrying blindly, they were also people, how could they not go over? There is no way for Koji Yi, it doesn't mean that Ye Hua has no way. What does Ye Hua do, he is very good at leading a group of rabble to use the terrain advantage to defeat the enemy army that is not so rabble.

"General Koji Yi can rest assured that these 5,000 soldiers are enough. The general can't be taken lightly when he is in the rear, don't forget how the young master captured Hangu Pass in the first place. Ye Hua was not worried that something would happen to his side, but he was a little worried about Koi Yi.

When Li Yi heard Ye Hua say this, he said: "General Ye Hua, don't worry, how can the Xiliang Army have such a strategy as the lord. It's just that he doesn't take the Xiliang Army in his eyes, but in his heart, he wants to pay attention to the movement in the direction of Qinling.

"In this way, then Ye Hua will leave." Let's say it, Ye Hua took five thousand soldiers and went into the Qinling Mountains without looking back. Now that the spring snow in the Qinling Mountains has melted, it is really the time when everything recovers, and the beasts in the upper middle will also begin to come out to forage, this way, it is not as simple as Ye Hua said.

Everyone watched Ye Hua lead people into the Qinling Mountains, and Hu Zhen also opened his mouth and said to Lu Yi, Xu Rong and others: "Since General Ye has already left, then I will also set off immediately." ”

"General Hu take care." Hearing Hu Zhen say this, Xu Rong and Lu Yi said with their hands in fists at the same time.

"Take care, Hu is leaving!" As he spoke, Hu Zhen took more than 5,000 soldiers who did not carry any weapons and armor and headed towards Tongguan.

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