In the cold winter of December, the wind is cold.

Inside the city of Wuguan.

The weather was very cold, but Zhang Xiu couldn't feel the temperature at this moment, his burly body was dressed in a brocade robe, standing quietly under the eaves, looking up at the dawn of the sky, the sky was dark, the sky was dark.

He's been waiting, waiting for news.

"What time is it?"

"General, it's already time!"

Behind him stood two guards on the left and right, one of whom stepped forward and replied.

"It's time?"

When Zhang Xiu heard this, she squinted her eyes slightly, her eyes were deep: "There are still a few hours before dawn!" ”

Before the sun rises tomorrow, this is the deadline he gives.

As long as Dongwu can save his son within this time limit, he will surrender to Dongwu, and if he can't, he will be scattered.

"General, the hat man from before is here again!" At this time, a guard hurried in and whispered in his ear.

"Where?" Zhang Xiu's eyes lit up, and he suppressed the anxiety in his heart and asked.

"I'm taking him to the little living room!"

"Invite him to the study at once, I'll see him in the study!"

Zhang Xiu calmed down, his eyes crossed a touch of coldness, looked at the guards on the left behind him, and instructed: "Daniel Zhang, you lead all the soldiers in the mansion, martial law the entire mansion, no one is allowed to enter, if there is a disobedient, kill!" ”

The answer is tonight!

Whether it succeeds or not, he doesn't want the news to leak.

"No!"

When the slender and tall leader of the family heard this, he respectfully took the order and left.

……

When Zhang Xiu walked into the study, under the flickering light of the oil lamp, Li Nie in the room had already taken off the hat, and was on top of the guest seat, quietly drinking tea and waiting, calm.

"Governor Li, can I believe in my affairs?" Zhang Xiu came in again and couldn't wait to ask.

"If there is no news, how dare I enter this heavily guarded general's mansion, this is a letter from Ling Lang to me!"

Li Nie took out a letter from his long sleeve and handed it over: "You don't recognize Ling Lang's handwriting!" ”

"That's right, it's really my son's handwriting!"

Zhang Xiu looked at the font of the cover, his spirit was shocked, he took this letter directly, carefully opened it, and then looked at it carefully, when Zhang Quan went to Luoyang, their father and son knew that they could not meet for a long time, and there was a signal of agreed correspondence.

After the contact code between father and son was confirmed, Zhang Xiu was sure that this letter was written by Zhang Quan in a state of willingness.

The content is very simple, just saying that he has escaped from danger, and under the escort of Jinyiwei, he is currently rushing to Yanzhou.

"Jinyiwei is really amazing!"

Zhang Xiu sighed, being able to rescue his son in such a strict Luoyang, you can imagine how deep Jinyiwei's foundation in Luoyang is.

He believed he had made the right choice.

Da Wei is going to be finished.

"Huh!"

Li Nie's somewhat gloomy face showed an ugly smile, and said confidently: "Jinyiwei has been in business for ten years, and he has been sent to death one after another, so he will naturally not disappoint General Zhang Xiu, and now it is time for General Zhang Xiu to choose!" ”

In order to rescue Zhang Quan, he put in a lot of things.

These chess pieces that he expected to be used in the decisive battle were exposed because of this rescue, and if Zhang Xiu rebelled, he would destroy Zhang Xiu's entire clan at any cost.

"Li Dudu, Zhang Xiu is willing to lead the Xiliang soldiers, surrender to the Great Wu Dynasty, saddle up the horse and horse, go to the soup and the fire, and let the command be!"

Zhang Xiu is also a neat and tidy person, he bowed his head to Li Nie and said very directly.

"Good!"

Li Nie looked overjoyed, with Zhang Xiutou Cheng, then this matter has become more than half, as long as the plan is right, the rest of the matter will be much simpler.

As long as he was a little excited at the thought that Wuguan could fall into the hands of Wu Jun, any price was worth it.

Occupying the advantageous position of the gateway to Guanzhong, Wu Jun wants to enter Guanzhong whenever it is just a sentence, I will come, I will go, this is the initiative.

"How many soldiers and horses does Zuoyangwei have?" Ligne asked.

"Now there are only 40,000 left, all of them are elite soldiers!" Zhang Xiu replied.

In the bloody battle of Kwantung, Nanyang and Jiujiang were the first to fight Li, and in the battle of Nanyang, he suffered many casualties, although it is said that because of the influence of the conservative strategy, the main force of the elite soldiers was maintained.

However, in the face of the strong attack of the Wu army, his fierce general Hu Che'er was killed, and the general Zhang Xian was killed.

Speaking of which, he still hates Wu Jun.

However, the grievances and grievances forged on the battlefield are either found on the battlefield or lost in politics.

As a veteran who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, Zhang Xiu has lost too many sons, even his uncle died on the battlefield, and he himself has killed countless people, this resentment is actually just anger, and as he calms down, it is not too strong.

"Forty thousand?"

When Li Ne heard this, he was a little surprised, he didn't expect Zhang Xiu to be able to keep so many elite soldiers and horses under Lu Bu's strong attack, worthy of being the king of spears in the north, although he lost a lot of sharpness, but he still had the ability.

"Can you fully control these 40,000 elites?" Li Nie asked again.

"It used to be fine, but now it'......"

Zhang Xiu analyzed with a slightly wry smile: "Since the Wei Dynasty court was suspicious of me, openly and secretly, they installed a lot of court generals in our army, especially after the Kwantung War, my son was above the court, and had to be free from their coercion, and they played the banner of supplementing officers, but let them insert a lot, a few months, enough for them to win over a lot of my soldiers, plus my loss of Nanyang rootless duckweed, naturally some people have different hearts, if it is absolute control, I can only control half of the soldiers and horses at most!" ”

"Enough!"

Li Nie said: "You gather all the generals above the rank of lieutenant in the army, and kill them all, those who surrender live, and those who resist stubbornly die!" ”

"How do I assemble?" Zhang Xiu said: "If they let them smell the wind, I'm afraid they won't be so easily fooled!" ”

"My Wu army already has two divisions, more than 20,000 soldiers, quietly transported to Danshui City, less than fifty miles away from Sidaoling, I will inform them, tomorrow night to take Sidaoling, Sidaoling is the first pass of Wuguan, as long as they take it, the soldiers and horses in Wuguan will inevitably shake!"

A shrewd calculation crossed Li Nie's eyes: "At this time, in the name of resisting the Wu army, you gathered the generals, and then directly announced the change of banner, and ambushed your most loyal sword and axe man outside the camp, damn it, it should be alive, you know it in your heart!" ”

"Got it!"

Zhang Xiu felt a chill in his heart, and he was afraid that countless people's heads would fall to the ground at this moment.

"So many soldiers of the Wu army actually arrived in Danshui City, and I don't know any news?" Zhang Xiu came back to her senses and said suspiciously.

"I know you put a lot of eyeliner in Wancheng!"

Li Nie said: "But basically they were all pulled out by our Jinyi Guard, and the soldiers of the Wu Army were broken into pieces and went north, and the action was very small, and what they wanted was unknowing!" ”

"Awesome!"

Zhang Xiu gasped, but he was still a little worried: "Can the Wu army break through the Sidaoling?" ”

"You don't believe in the combat effectiveness of the Wu army?"

He insisted on letting the Wu army fight Sidaoling not to be strong, but to collect his heart, only by letting Zhang Xiu see the strength of the Wu army, he would willingly surrender to the battle banner of Great Wu.

"I naturally believe in the combat effectiveness of the Wu army, whether it is weapons and armor, or the training level of the soldiers, the soldiers of the Wu army are far beyond our Zuoyangwei, but you must know that Sidaoling is a pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and my subordinate soldier Zhang Han is also a good guard, his personality is not leaky, he used 5,000 soldiers in Thorn Water, and he was the one who blocked the 8,000 soldiers of your Wu army's pioneers!"

"It turned out to be him, this is a talent!"

Li Ne smiled slightly, and said: "Actually, they just need to fight, breaking the pass is second, with this news, it is enough for you to do it, as for this Zhang Han, don't worry, I will let the officers and soldiers in the army not hurt him as much as possible!" ”

"Thank you!"

Zhang Xiu nodded, there are only these generals under his command, one less is less capital, it is good to invest in Wu and Wei, and the strength in his hands is strong enough to stand firm.

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The next day, a peaceful day passed, and the city was still quiet, and the evening without sunset was gradually shrouded in darkness.

Night is coming.

On the top of Sidaoling, at this time, Captain Zhang Han was taking his personal guards to check the deployment of troops at one pass after another.

Zhang Han is a cautious person, and every day before he goes to sleep, he will check the arrangement of all the guards on duty, in order to be foolproof.

He also went to check as usual that night, and after there was nothing abnormal, he returned to the main camp and slept with his clothes together.

But soon an impatient voice woke him up.

"Lord Captain, the granary of the rear camp is on fire!"

"What?"

Zhang Han suddenly got up from the military bed, tidied up his clothes in twos and threes, and then directly put the battle armor on his body, picked up a big gun, and walked towards the outside of the camp.

"What's this all about?"

Everywhere I looked, there was a fire, and the four barracks on the mountain ridge where the troops were arranged were all on fire, and the fire was fierce, and it was practiced into a piece, and there was a great tendency to burn the entire mountain range to the ground.

"What started the fire?"

Zhang Han's face was gloomy.

"Lord Captain, we didn't know what was going on, all of a sudden there was a fire, first the granary where the grain was stored caught fire, and then the barracks of the barracks also caught fire, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and it couldn't be extinguished!"

A soldier said with a sad face.

"Hurry up!"

Zhang Han drank loudly.

"Yes!"

The mountain began to be rescued, but the water source was insufficient, there was only one mountain spring, and thousands of soldiers were already in chaos in the sea of fire.

"Kill!"

"Sons, take down the four ridges for me!"

"Rush forward!"

"Whoever stands in my way will be killed!"

At this moment, the fire suddenly brightened at the foot of the mountain, and under the light of a torch, the sound of drums and battles was heard in all directions, and there were shouts of killing one after another.

Zhang Han trembled, and his pupils contracted suddenly: "It's the Wu army attacking the mountain!" ”

"What do we do now?"

"Are we going to put out the fire or are we going to hold off the enemy?"

The generals immediately panicked and became a mess.

"Block the enemy's attack first and keep the four ridges!"

Zhang Han immediately decided: "Pass my order, all sons, immediately pick up weapons, stick to the four passes, support each other, be sure to block the offensive of the Wu army, as long as you hold tonight, the reinforcements will arrive immediately!" ”

Sidaoling is only a few hours away from Wuguan, and the firelight here can be seen over Wuguan, and once they find that something has happened here, they will immediately send troops to reinforce it.

"Yes!"

Several soldiers listened to the order and hurriedly went to arrange the defense.

"We're all burned to death now, and we're all spanking!"

"The Wu army is all over the mountains, how can we fight?"

"I still want to save it!"

"What kind of life to save, everyone has hit the door, meet the enemy first!"

But now the mountain is full of fire, chaos everywhere, the military spirit of the soldiers has long been unstable, in addition to the Wu army poured out, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses attacked the four major openings, the momentum is fierce.

In less than an hour, the Wei army was defeated and retreated, and the three passes were lost, and in the end, only the main pass where Zhang Han personally sat was left.

"Damn it!"

Zhang Han was furious, and he was about to kill him with a spear, he had to use his own soldiers to stabilize the morale of the army, otherwise he would soon collapse: "Sons, fight with me, kill!" ”

"Zhang Han, a certain Chen Wu, I'll meet you for a while today!"

However, at this time, I don't know where a powerful figure suddenly pounced, holding a war knife in his hand, and directly slashed at him.

"Why are you in my barracks?"

When Zhang Han saw it, he was shocked, and he immediately understood: "It turned out that you set the fire, a group of despicable people, who want to fight, there is a kind of battle with us in the open, setting fire behind the back, what kind of heroes are you?" ”

He didn't expect that such a well-defended military camp would actually allow Wu Jun's people to infiltrate.

This battle can be undefeated!

"Jokes, is there anything above board on the battlefield?" Chen Wu sneered with a little shame: "You occupy the favorable terrain, and we stupidly send it up to kill you, if you want to say fair, that's good, you withdraw from Sidaoling, I will send 5,000 soldiers and horses to fight you fairly!" ”

When Zhang Han heard this, his face turned red.

"There is only success or failure between us, success and defeat, those who surrender today can live, and those who stubbornly resist will die!" Chen Wu shouted loudly and killed directly.

This time the skirmish campaign was successful.

He personally led thirty soldiers with superb martial arts, taking advantage of the cover of night, to climb up from the steepest cliff in Sidaoling, and then began to set fire everywhere, causing chaos in the entire military camp.

"Kill!"

Dozens of black-clothed figures came out brazenly.

"Round them up!" Zhang Han was furious.

"Commander, I'll wait, sons, kill and answer the commander!"

At this time, the Wu army had already been killed, and soon the entire battlefield was in a mess.

Zhang Han himself was entangled by Chen Wu, the main general was not able to sit at the pass, and the mountain was full of fire, the soldiers and horses guarding here had already been in disarray, and in addition to the strength of the Wu army several times above them, they only held out for three hours, all the defense lines were breached, most of them were defeated psychological defense lines, and they laid down their arms and surrendered.

At dawn!

The sound of the battle on the Sidaoling gradually weakened until it disappeared, and finally only a piece of fire was reflected, and under the raging fire, the golden dragon battle flag representing the Great Wu Dynasty flew in the sky. (To be continued.) )