Sun Ce and they had never seen so many cavalry,

Zhang Biao's eyes lit up, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and muttered: "Puppet gods, so many horses, how nice it would be if they were all us." ”

Sun Ce tightened his face, slapped him the chest, and said: "In broad daylight, don't dream, hurry up and order to go down, prepare to meet the enemy, remember, there must be enough people left on the southern wall." ”

He was always not at ease with the soldiers stationed under Yangping Pass, especially when the enemy was at present, he had to be extremely vigilant, watching Zhang Biao hurriedly walk down the city, Sun Ce turned his head to look outside the city, and said to himself: "If we can have so many war horses, we will wake up laughing when we fall asleep." ”

Li Sheng and the others were stunned at first when they heard Sun Ce's words, and then the muscles on their faces became distorted because they couldn't hold back their laughter, and their expressions were extremely strange.

Zhang Biao had already ordered to prepare for the defense, and returned to the city, the shock just now had been replaced by the excitement before the battle, he looked at the city, clenched his fists and said: "General Sun, let me take a team of cavalry out to rush and see how many catties and taels the world-famous Xiliang Iron Cavalry has." ”

Sun Ce said undoubtedly: "No, what we have to do now is to hold on with all our might, until the lord's brigade arrives, and there are those who dare to speak out to fight, behead, and tell the brothers that no one is allowed to take a step back." ”

Yangping Pass is built in the bottleneck area between the two mountains, the terrain in front is not open, Li Dao's brigade of cavalry also had to slow down the speed of galloping, otherwise they don't need others to do it, they will trample on each other, seeing Yangping Pass in front of him, Li Dao was a little excited, but he was not dizzy, his subordinates are all cavalry, and there is no siege equipment, the assault is obviously unrealistic, or according to Jia Xu's strategy, persuade to surrender, so he turned his head and ordered: "Come forward and shout." ”

When his nephew Li Jin heard this, he galloped out of the team on horseback, went straight to the front of the pass, and shouted: "Listen to the people in the pass, my general was strictly ordered by the Taishi to come to Hanzhong to suppress the bandits, and quickly open the gate if he knows the current affairs, otherwise when the army enters Yangping, the chickens and dogs will not be left." ”

Sun Ce looked at the city, held the bow and arrow in his hand, and laughed: "Dong Zhuo is something, a thief, sooner or later he will take his dog's head, you eat my arrow first." ”

Li Jin saw that Sun Ce refused to surrender, and called Dong Zhuo's name, and was about to scold when he opened his mouth, but when he heard the sound of "whoosh", he only felt a cold throat, opened his mouth wide but couldn't speak, and shook it twice on the horse.

Li Wei saw that Li Jin was killed by Sun Ce's arrow, his heart was furious, and he turned around and ordered the siege, so 50,000 cavalry dismounted one after another, each preparing siege equipment, at that time due to the poor road, many siege equipment was not carried with the army, but local materials, on-site production, the road on both sides of the mountains and forests are dense, some are withered vines and old trees, although the ladder, the well, the car and other large equipment is impossible to do well, but a few ladders are a simple thing,

Soon, the Xiliang army was divided into two groups, one group abandoned their horses, carried a simple wooden ladder, and rushed to the city with a shout, and the other group rode horses and arrows, galloping back and forth in front of the pass, wanting to suppress the defenders on the city with skillful bows and horses.

Sun Ce saw that the enemy army was numerous, but he was not panicked, the city wall of Yangping Pass was strong and tall, the area in front of the pass was narrow, and the large-scale troops could not be deployed, what was the use of the number of people, Sun Ce did not wait for the enemy army to rush to the front, so he ordered to release the arrows, and the defenders' strong bow range and strength were above the Xiliang army, and they were condescending, and in a blink of an eye, they shot down a large area of the Xiliang army,

The Xiliang army has been fighting with the northern nomads for a long time, everyone is good at riding and shooting, although the siege is not their strength, but they have the spirit of not fearing death, although the comrades around them fell one after another with arrows, but not a soldier of the Xiliang army flinched, almost stepping on the corpses of their companions, step by step close to the city wall,

Yangping Pass is the gateway to the north of Hanzhong, and it is also an important checkpoint for Liu Yan to block the contact with the imperial court, not only is there a heavy army on the pass, but also a huge number of arrows, rolling wood, and stones are piled up, the only thing that is lacking is only grain and grass, and there is no way to do anything about the lack of grain and grass, and the grain and grass in the whole Hanzhong are not abundant, and the people often do not eat their stomachs, so the Wudou Rice Sect can prevail in Hanzhong, but the problem of grain and grass is not in Sun Ce's consideration, and there is a rich Jingzhou as the backing, not only grain and grass, There are all kinds of other materials that will continue to arrive in Hanzhong, and all the difficulties will be solved, and all he has to think about now is how to hold Yangping Pass.

Sun Ce knew that his troops were limited, and he had to guard against Zhang Lu's soldiers, and he had to reduce casualties as much as possible, so the use of bows and arrows, wood and stone was almost at any cost, and the last thing Li Dao cared about was human life, the big and small battles he commanded, which victory was not piled up by human lives, in the face of the rain of arrows and stones in the city, Li Dao had only one order, rushing forward one after another,

The siege battle was killed from noon until the sun set in the west, the siege was the cavalry, and the defenders of the city were also cavalry, which was probably a strange scene that mankind had never seen since the history of war, after half a day of fighting, the Xiliang army under the city left seven or eight thousand corpses, but still did not see the slightest sign of retreating, and the soldiers of Liu Xinjun guarding the Yangping Pass had also suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the rest of the people were also because they kept drawing bows and shooting arrows, throwing rolling logs, beating stones, all of them had numb arms, tired faces, but they could not get the slightest rest,

Zhang Biao glanced at the Xiliang soldiers who were surging over like a tide under the city, the excitement on his face had been completely replaced by worry, he didn't know how long his soldiers could hold out in this situation, because everyone didn't get a moment of rest, and shot two arrows in a row, Zhang Biao finally couldn't help but say: "General Sun, let the brothers in the southern city go up." ”

Sun Ce left a thousand soldiers on the southern city, that was to prevent the rebellion of the soldiers after the pass, it can be regarded as the only reserve force in his hands, it is indeed a new force, however, Sun Ce pondered for a moment, and still shook his head firmly,

At this moment, there was a sudden earth-shattering shout from the gate, and a soldier hurriedly ran over and said in a panic: "General, the big thing is not good, the pawn has rebelled." ”

Sun Ce was shocked, he was really afraid of something, these soldiers really rebelled, but Sun Ce understood that the more he was at this time, the more calm he became, those soldiers were unarmed, they just wanted to set up a ladder, and they didn't have the tools to cut down trees, and they wanted to climb the city wall a few feet high with their bare hands, it was just a dream.

These soldiers were driven to the back of the pass and stationed, sleeping in the cold wilderness, naturally full of complaints, at first there were hundreds of black-armored cavalry patrolling there, but at noon, these cavalry suddenly withdrew to the city, there was no special person to take care of it, some of the bold soldiers have been smeared with oil on the soles of their feet, slipped away, and the rest began to be restless, and gradually closed and there was a sound of fighting, and finally someone couldn't hold it back, and ran towards the pass, everyone had a blind surname, and others also made noise, and poured into the pass, Pushing the gates with all his might,

As a majestic pass, the city gate must be very strong, there is no tool such as rushing to impact, only rely on both hands to push, it is an impossible task to push open the city gate, but these soldiers have lost their minds, although the city gate can not be pushed open, but the shouts are earth-shattering,

The Xiliang army that was struggling to attack the city obviously also heard the shouts over there, and the pace of the siege obviously stagnated, Sun Ce saw that the offensive of the Xiliang army under the city was not like the wave after wave just now, it seemed to be a little condensed, and he couldn't help but have a plan, and said loudly to the soldiers around him: "Soldiers, our reinforcements have come, fill the bows in your hands, aim at the enemy under the city, shoot hard, so that they will not return." ”

The spirits of the soldiers at the head of the city were all lifted, shouting in unison, for a while, the arrows rained down, several times more fierce than just now, the Xiliang army was originally a little hesitant by this sudden shout, vaguely heard what the city said about the arrival of reinforcements, and suddenly suffered such a head-on attack, just now the morale of the rainbow suddenly plummeted, and they retreated,

Among the generals under Dong Zhuo, in fact, the most capable of fighting is Li Dao, not long after the siege, he keenly felt that the number of defenders in the city was not much, and he wanted to rely on the tactics of the sea of people, through the continuous impact to take Yangping Pass, half a day of siege battle, Li Dao already knew that the defenders on the city were not Zhang Lu's army, this city had already fallen into the hands of Liu Xin, and now he knew that the reinforcements came from the pass, Li Dao suddenly had no confidence in capturing Yangping Pass, and it was too late to see that it was too late, so he had to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops and retreat thirty miles to the village,

Seeing that the Xiliang army retreated, there were bursts of cheers from Yangping Pass, this half-day battle was too hard, if it wasn't for the Xiliang army choosing to retreat and fight again, the result was really difficult to predict, the soldiers who were clamoring behind the pass heard the cheers in the city, and immediately dispersed, anyway, there was no one to supervise, they were all natives of Hanzhong, and their feet grew on themselves, and now if they don't run, when will they wait,

Sun Ce saw it at the head of the city, and only shook his head and smiled bitterly, the soldiers had fought for a day, and now they needed to seize the time to rest, he couldn't spare his hands to catch these pawns, so he had to let them go, speaking of which, today can hold Yangping Pass, these pawns are also "indispensable", if there is no shouting from them, they really can't scare the Xiliang army outside the city, but tomorrow, if the Xiliang army makes a comeback, this Yangping Pass may really not be able to hold it, Sun Ce looked at the tired soldiers around him, gritted his teeth, He turned his head to Li Sheng and said, "General Li, you take some people to set fires all over the pass, and if you can't hold it tomorrow, you will set fire to Yangping Pass." ”

At this time, Li Wei was already sitting in the newly built big tent, thinking of the failure just now, he couldn't help but be a little angry, and ordered repeatedly: "Quick, go and invite Mr. Jia over." ”

After a short time of his own soldiers, he came back and said, "General Qiqi, Mr. Jia has disappeared, leaving only a letter. ”