Chapter Seventy-One: Striking the West (1)

The young general became more and more brave after killing the city wall, and one of his spears made him so amazing that none of the defenders on the city wall could get close to him, but he killed dozens of people. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

With the increasing number of the Xiliang army, plus this killer general, the resistance of the defenders began to become weaker and weaker, and they were constantly forced to retreat and killed, and the Xiliang army controlled more and more places.

"General Zhang, your nephew is really a fierce general, I have the intention to play the prime minister, to show him a former military captain, I don't know what you think of General Zhang?"

Looking at the brave Zhang Xiu at the head of the city, Guo Yan had a heart of love, although he said that he wanted Dong Zhuo to play, but a former military captain was just a small captain, he could appoint it himself, and he didn't need to apply to Dong Zhuo at all, and the reason why he said to Zhang Ji like this was that he wanted to ask Zhang Xiu to come over.

Zhang Ji snorted coldly in his heart, he naturally knew very well what Guo Bian's idea was, although Zhang Xiu was not his biological son, but he was his brother's son, and Zhang Ji had no children under his knees, Zhang Xiu was the closest person around him, how could he let him out for the position of a mere lieutenant, Guo Yan knew that Zhang Xiu was his own subordinate, but he only said that he was his nephew, how could Zhang Ji not guard against such intentions.

"General Guo's kindness Zhang Ji received it, but when my brother died, he specially told me to take care of his child, and the general also knew that I Zhang Ji had no children under his knees, and this embroidery was the only seedling of my Zhang family, to be honest, I didn't want him to go to the battlefield to fight, but this child was stubborn, and if he had to serve the prime minister, I could only let him go, just to fulfill his promise to his father, I was heartbroken for the safety of this child."

Guo Yan saw that Zhang Ji refused to let go, although he was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't say anything, he suddenly remembered that one of Li Ji's subordinates was a general, as if it was called Yangfeng, there seemed to be a fierce general who made an ax under his hands, I don't know if he was favored by Li Ji, if he was not fancied, he would have to shoot earlier, this person's martial arts seem to be much higher than Zhang Xiu.

While the two were talking, the Xiliang army had occupied the city wall, and the soldiers, under the leadership of Zhang Xiu, killed the city wall and scattered the soldiers defending the city gate, and then opened the city gate and enlarged the army into the city.

At this time, there were less than 500 people left around Zhu Jun, they were surrounded by the Xiliang army that was several times their number, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Zhu Jun also suffered several wounds, at this time, a soldier galloped on horseback, came to Guo Yan's side, and reported loudly: "Report, general, there is an unknown army suddenly attacked Bishui Town, killed all our grain transporters, and then pretended to be our army to deceive the city gate of Tiger Prison Pass, at this time is attacking Luoyang, general, please hurry back to the army to rescue, The brothers can't resist it! ”

"What! The Tiger Prison Pass is lost!? ”

Guo Yan was taken aback, looked back to the west, and sure enough, he saw thick black smoke rising from the direction of the Tiger Prison Pass, obviously a fierce battle broke out.

Tiger Prison Pass is an important checkpoint to guard the eastern gateway of Luoyang, losing the Tiger Prison Pass will not only be a great risk for Luoyang City, even they will become lonely, not only will they be cut off from contact with other Western Liang troops, but also face the danger of cutting off materials and logistics, so Guo Yan immediately abandoned Zhongmu City, and ordered: "The army will set off immediately, rush to the aid of Tiger Pass, Luoyang City is originally a scorched earth, I don't care if it is lost or not, but I must take the Tiger Prison Pass for me!" ”

After hearing the order, the Xiliang army quickly gave up the remnants of the army besieging Zhu Jun, and immediately withdrew from Zhongmu City.

Luoyang is only more than 200 miles away from Zhongmu, and the Tiger Prison Pass is only more than 70 miles away from Zhongmu, and it only takes two hours to reach it at the speed of cavalry.

The Xiliang army quickly whipped up their horses and went towards the Tiger Prison Pass at full speed, but the army had just walked twenty miles, and when they came to a forest, suddenly more than a dozen soldiers in front of them suddenly fell into a horse trap, and were all poked to death by the sharp piles planted inside, and the cavalry behind couldn't stop their inertia, and they also fell down a lot of people to enter, and the whole army stopped at once.

At this moment, there was a sudden burst of arrows between the two woods, and a dense array of feather arrows came in unison, and the attention of the Xiliang army was in front, and the soldiers behind did not know what was happening, so they were defenseless, until the enemy released three waves of arrows in a row, and the Xiliang army reacted and began to chase into the woods.

It was only that the trees grew in the woods, and the soldiers went in and saw nothing, but many of them tripped over the roots and other vines.

Guo Yan was anxious and didn't know what the situation was at the Tiger Prison Pass, so he ordered the soldiers to take a detour from the woods on both sides and rush to support first, while the logistics troops escorting the supplies hurriedly filled in the big hole and then continued to hurry.

Not long after the vanguard of the Xiliang Army left forward, he heard bursts of shouting and killing behind him, and when he looked back, he saw bursts of smoke coming from the direction of the logistics baggage troops, Guo Yan was taken aback, realized that something was wrong, and immediately led the army back to help, and when he arrived, he found that his logistics troops had suffered heavy casualties, and there were materials burning with raging fire and the corpses of dead soldiers everywhere.

He immediately ordered the soldiers to extinguish the fire, and a soldier was brought in to ask him what had happened.

It turned out that the enemy army did not leave immediately after releasing the arrows, but ambushed in the woods, and after the combat troops of the Xiliang Army left, they immediately attacked the grain and grass escort troops of the Xiliang Army, they were not many people, only more than 1,000 people, and the escort troops of the Xiliang Army were at least 3,000 people, if the formation was well formed, the other party might not be able to fight, but this group of people did not love to fight at all, they rushed to the defenders who had scattered in one place and then began to set fire everywhere, and the Xiliang Army was able to form a formation to resist at first, However, the battlefield was full of raging fires and thick smoke, which caused them to be in disarray, and only a small part of the food and grass were saved, and the rest of the supplies were burned by the enemy.

Guo Yan was furious and ordered the escort officer to be arrested and beheaded on the spot.

It's just that half of the grain has been burned now, and the Tiger Prison Pass has been taken away by the enemy, which means that the grain and grass of the Xiliang Army can't last long, and now it's summer, the forage is not in a hurry, and the war horses can eat on the spot, but the soldiers can't also eat grass, so the top priority is to take the Tiger Prison Pass!