As the eldest grandson Xiangyu expected, at this moment, Xie An had already led a large army to Hangu Pass, and at the same time as she was designing to take Yiyang, Xie An also started his plan to attack Hangu Pass.

At this time, it was two o'clock in the morning, but the strength of the Western Expeditionary Army, which was nearly 120,000, had already been completed at Hangu Pass.

To be honest, Xie An can be said to know nothing about arranging troops, but it doesn't matter, some of his generals are generals who are proficient in this way.

Fei Guo, Su Xin, Li Jing, Zhang Dong, and even Tang Hao, who once competed with Lu Fan, in line with the policy of [he will not hand it over to his subordinates], Xie An almost handed over the command of the formation to his trusted generals.

I have to say that including the 5,000 Southern Army, Xie An's army of nearly 120,000, once the formation is set, this number alone is enough to make people's scalps tingle.

At this moment, the formation of the entire Western Expeditionary Army, from a bird's-eye view, is like an upside-down [three] character, the closest row from Hangu Pass, that is a full 70,000 people phalanx, Zhang Dong, Ou Peng, Tang Hao and other generals of the Second Army of the Western Expedition, standing in front of the array.

As for the second column, it was a southern army of more than 5,000 led by Lin Zhen, Le Jun, and Wei Yun, with a phalanx of every 1,000 people, arranged horizontally.

After the Southern Army, that was where Xie An's Central Army was located, and the 40,000 troops under Fei Guo, Li Jing, Su Xin and others marched westward, also with 10,000 people as a phalanx, neatly arranged.

To tell the truth, if it is a normal day, it is very unwise to use troops in this way, not to mention that it will expose all the troops of its own side, once it really starts, it will even make the Zhou army of the western expedition constrained because of the restrictions of the terrain.

Of course, if it is used to deter the rebels on the Hangu Pass, the use of troops in this way is very effective.

After all, at present, there are only more than 60,000 rebels in Hangu Pass, and there are as many as 120,000 Zhou troops in the west, which are a stone's throw away from Hangu Pass. Not to mention anything else, the dense number of people like an ant colony alone was enough to cast a haze over the hearts of the rebels on Hangu Pass.

"Beat the drums!"

Under the main flag of the water ripple in the shape of the [Sichuan], Xie An waved his hand.

Immediately, the gongs and drums in the middle where Xie An was sounded in unison, like rolling muffled thunder. The hearts of the people were so shocked that it was as if even the earth was shaking.

In the face of such a vigorous Western Expeditionary Army, the defenders of the entire Hangu Pass were silent.

"The effect is good......" Li Shou said with a chuckle while enduring the deafening sound of gongs and drums.

It's a pity. In the sound of gongs and drums that resounded all over the world, his voice could not even reach Xie An's ears.

"Huh? What the? Xie An raised his hand to his ear and made a listening motion.

See here. Li Shou took a deep breath and said loudly, "This king said, the effect is good!" ”

"Huh?" Xie An opened his mouth.

Looking at Xie An's puzzled gaze, Li Shou waved his hand.

He gave up, knowing that his heart was a little overwhelmed by the sound of gongs and drums, and the shouting almost didn't make him faint on the spot.

Despite this seemingly bluff-like deterrence. The effect is really good, but for Li Shou and Xie An, who are quite close to the gongs and drums, it is simply a kind of torture.

looked at Xie An riding on the horse with a calm face. Li Shou, who couldn't help but cover his ears and gritted his teeth, really couldn't figure it out, and couldn't figure out how Xie An had such good endurance.

This burst of gongs and drums is enough to maintain the work of two teas. It wasn't until the third drum that it stopped.

At the moment of the first stop, Li Shou vaguely had the illusion of being reincarnated, and he held the horse's neck and gasped deeply for a few breaths, and couldn't help but complain, "The method is good, but if you continue for a while, you won't need the rebels on the other side, and this king must die on the sound of gongs and drums!" ”

But what puzzled him was that Xie An beside him didn't say anything, as if he hadn't heard him.

Could it be that this king is deaf?

No, this king heard his own voice......

So, Xie An, this kid was deaf in both ears because of the sound of gongs and drums?

Thinking of this, Li Shou was shocked, and hurriedly pushed Xie An beside him.

Xie An turned his head and looked at Li Shou suspiciously.

"Hey, can you still hear the king's voice?" Li Shou hurriedly said.

But to his consternation, Xie An still had a puzzled expression, as if he hadn't heard it at all.

Seeing this, Li Shou's heart sank slightly, and he just opened his mouth, but suddenly saw a sudden expression of realization on his face, and then raised his hand, pounded it in his ear a few times, and took out a small ball of cotton wool.

"What did you just say?" Xie An looked at Li Shou with a puzzled expression.

Looking at the ball of cotton wool, Li Shou was speechless.

I only felt that the blood in my whole body was boiling, and it was even worse than being shaken by the sound of gongs and drums.

With an angry face, he glared at Xie An viciously.

“…… Be all abroad! Xie An glanced at Li Shou, who seemed to be holding back his anger, and took out the cotton wool stuffed in the other ear and stuffed it back into the cotton clothes in the armor.

To be honest, Xie An never understood the fact that he had to wear a silk robe wrapped in cotton wool inside his armor.

Remember, Su Xin and Li Jing once explained that it was to prevent the arrows from penetrating the armor and piercing the body, after all, the arrows of some arrows have barbs, once they pierce the human body, even if they are not dead at that time, it is difficult to live for a long time, the reason is that the arrow that pierced the human body, with barbs and blood grooves, is difficult to take out, and if you wear the silk garment wrapped in cotton wool, in this way, it is almost impossible for the arrow to penetrate the armor and penetrate the problem, even if it is pierced, most of it is also pierced with a part of silk. In this way, as long as you grasp that part of the silk and lift it, you can easily pull the arrow out, preventing the barb on the arrow from harming the human body twice.

As for why cotton wool should be stuffed in the silk clothes, the reason is very simple, that is, in an emergency, let the general cover the injured part, and let the thick layer of cotton wool press the wound, so as not to bleed too much and die, and this is something that hard armor can't do.

But even so, Xie An is still not used to wearing another cotton coat under the armor, not that the armor of Liang Qiu Dance is too small, but the cotton clothes worn under the armor are too hot, if you stand in the scorching sun for a quarter of an hour, the sweat-soaked cotton clothes can even wring out water.

But this time, because it was the front line of the Northwest Battlefield, for the sake of his own life, Xie An obediently put on a cotton coat in his armor, after all. At present, there are two beautiful women waiting for him to go back.

At this time, although the gongs and drums of the Zhou army of the Western Expedition had stopped, the rebels on the Hangu Pass were still silent and silent.

It is not difficult to guess that the rebels on the Hangu Pass. was shocked by the drumbeat of the Zhou army of the Western Expedition.

"It's a good result!" Xie An grinned.

You know, in order to take the lead in this move, he specially doubled the gongs and drums, in order to deter the defenders on the Hangu Pass, and now. The effect is really good.

Merely......

"Ah, it works!" Li Shou glared at Xie An viciously, scolding in his heart.

With an understanding of Xie An. Li Shou dared to bet that he was taking revenge on himself for his fall into the well yesterday, and revenge himself for making fun of his husband and wife relationship with Liang Qiuwu.

But this time, he misunderstood Xie An, and when Xie An was almost bleeding backwards by the sound of gongs and drums, he suddenly thought that he hurriedly pulled out two balls of cotton wool from the close-fitting cotton clothes in the armor and stuffed them in his ears. For a while, I didn't think of Li Shoulai.

Of course, even if Xie An remembers. With Li Shou's [kindness] to him yesterday, he will probably do not know, so he said. Li Shou's guess is quite accurate.

At this time, a herald rode up to Xie An and Li Shou, turned over and dismounted, knocked on the ground and clenched his fists, and said, "General Qiqi, Xie joins the army, all the generals are ready!" ”

"Good!" Li Shou bowed his head and turned his head to look at Xie An.

Seeing this, Xie An glanced at the soldiers of the Eastern Army who were guarding beside him, and shouted, "Raise the flag and beat the drum!" ”

"No!"

Unlike the thunderous drum sound of Fang Cai, this drum is far less sound than the previous one, and it is slow and dull, which makes people feel depressed.

At the same time as the drums sounded, the second army of the Western Expedition, which was in the first ranks, slowly began to march towards Hangu Pass.

At that moment, the atmosphere of the entire battlefield suddenly became tense.

Facing the western expeditionary army slowly approaching the pass under the city, the defenders on the Hangu Pass subconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands and waited solemnly.

However, to the surprise of the rebels on Hangu Pass, the 70,000-strong phalanx of the Zhou army marched west and stopped after only walking a few dozen zhang in the direction of Hangu Pass.

Suddenly, a defender on the Hangu Pass seemed to see something, pointed to the pass and said in shock, "That'...... Isn't that General Tang Hao? ”

The rebel soldiers beside him looked at each other, looked carefully at the pass, and sure enough, he saw that in front of one of the 70,000 people phalanx, Tang Hao was carrying a spear, and his horse was slowly approaching Hangu Pass, and with him, there were a series of former rebel generals such as Ou Peng and Zhang Dong.

Suddenly, the sergeant Hangu Guan seemed to have exploded, and there was a lot of discussion.

"Didn't General Tang Hao lead the army to rescue Gucheng? How did it end up here? Still with the Zhou army of the Western Expedition? ”

"Isn't that General Ou Peng from Valley City? How could it be in the Zhou army? Could it be that General Ou Peng has already surrendered the Zhou army? ”

"I recognize that, that's General Zhang Dong guarding Luoyang, how can I ......?"

"Why did the armies of Zhang Dong, Ou Peng, Tang Hao and others turn around to attack Hangu Pass?"

Just when the defenders of Hangu Pass were talking, Tang Hao came to the pass on horseback, looked up at the towering city wall, and shouted loudly, "Listen to the soldiers on the pass, the Great Zhou Imperial Court appointed His Royal Highness Li Shou, the Nine Emperor Princes, as the general of Anping, and led the army to crusade against Wang Bao, the general has words first, there are only two people to kill this time, one is the thief Wang Bao, the other is the rebel general Chen Bei, and the rest of the people, as long as they surrender sincerely, they will not blame the past...... At present, I, Tang Hao, have abandoned the darkness and defected to the light together with General Zhang Dong, General Ou Peng and others, and defected to General Anping...... We are all Da Zhou Erlang, why do we insist on embarrassing the country, bear the stigma, and leave it for thousands of years? Think about you and other fathers and elders in the township, think about your wives and children, do they want you to do unfaithful, unfilial piety, unkind and unrighteous things? - Quickly discard the weapon in your hand, now is a great opportunity to wash away the stigma! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ou Peng also said, "What General Tang said is extremely true, the soldiers on the pass, don't be obsessed anymore, General Anping personally promised that those who surrender will be exempted from the punishment of Ling Chi, exempt from the punishment of the Nine Clans, and be sentenced to beheading." Woe to relatives and relatives; If our army captures Hangu Pass, then all of you and others will be exempted from the crime of beheading and beheaded, and the sentence will be changed to confiscation ......"

The soldiers of the garrison at Hangu Pass looked at each other when they heard this, and I have to say that some people were only thrilled by what they heard.

After all, according to Ou Peng's words, as long as they have the heart to surrender and do not participate in the battle with the Zhou army in the west. Then, once the Zhou army of the Western Expedition captured Hangu Pass, all the people would be exempted from Ling Chi and beheaded to death, and the sentence would be changed to join the army, and it would be a disaster for their families.

Although they will be sent to a desolate place afterwards. Guarding the borders of the Great Zhou, there is no military salary as a soldier, and there is not even a number, not even a regular establishment. But in any case, they have a chance to survive, and so can their families.

In their lifetimes, as long as they can endure the hardships of the frontier, they will have the opportunity to return to their hometowns and reunite with their loved ones, after all, in addition to treason. The rest of the laws of Da Zhou are still relatively relaxed, if you are lucky. If the Great Zhou Emperor grants amnesty to the world, they can also reduce the criminal law.

This is for the rebel soldiers who committed treason and fought endlessly with the Great Zhou court. It's great news.

And at this moment, I suddenly heard someone shouting on the gate.

"Tang Hao, Zhang Dong, Ou Peng, you are so shameless! -- You are greedy for glory and wealth, greedy for life and afraid of death, even if you surrender to the Zhou army, you will come to harm the soldiers of our army! ――As long as you surrender, you will not die? Joke! Who would believe such a thing? ”

Ou Peng frowned when he heard this, looked back at Tang Hao and Zhang Dong and said, "Is it Qin Wei who spoke?" ”

Zhang Dong smiled slightly and said, "If he doesn't say anything, I'm afraid that if he closes the 60,000 soldiers, he will have to surrender today...... This guy is reluctant to give up his position as the coach of Hanguguan! ――I remember that when I first attacked Luoyang, it was this guy who saw that the situation was not good and opened the southern gate of Luoyang, right? ”

Deng Bin sneered when he heard this, "Who is greedy for life and death, greedy for glory and wealth, I heard that this guy has scavenged a lot of silver over the years......"

Tang Hao was silent, after all, as a former general of Hanguguan, he also knew a little about it, and he knew very well that among the rebels, not everyone was forced to be helpless, and some people simply wanted to take this opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune.

He even heard that after the rebels in Hanguguan defeated Lü Fan, Wang Bao, the leader of the rebels in Chang'an, was clamoring to get some king of Xiliang, and wantonly sealed the generals under his command to fight against the Great Zhou.

I don't want to think about it, how many states and counties does the Great Zhou occupy, and how many states and counties does your Wang Bao occupy, and you still want to be on an equal footing with the Great Zhou Tianzi?

It's self-defeating!

Thinking of this, Tang Hao raised the spear in his hand, pointed at Qin Wei, the commander on Hangu Pass, and shouted loudly, "General Qin, Tang Moujing You were also an officer in Luoyang, I would like to advise you, and surrender quickly...... Tang knew that Wang Bao named General Qin as the governor of Hangu Pass, but how could a person like Wang Bao be blind and arrogant? ”

"This bastard!" When Hangu was closed, the coach Qin Wei was furious when he heard this, and slapped the city wall on Hangu Pass, and scolded angrily, "Tang Hao! How can a villain like you be qualified to comment on others? Ben Shuai can trust you, so he asked you to lead 40,000 soldiers and horses to rescue Gucheng, but as a result, you actually surrendered the Zhou army! ”

Tang Hao frowned when he heard this, and said unswervingly, "Qin Wei, Tang has always been a big Zhou Erlang, and he made a big mistake for a while, so he has no choice but to be a thief, how can he be your subordinate general?" ”

"Well said!" Ou Peng said helpfully.

"Ou Peng, even you ......" Hanguguan coach Qin Wei was furious.

For a time, the guards of Guan Shang and Zhang Dong, Ou Peng, Tang Hao and others started a scolding battle, causing more than 100,000 soldiers to look at each other again.

At the same time, Xie An and Li Shou were also watching from a distance in the Chinese army, and vaguely noticed the scolding battle between the two sides, Li Shou raised his eyebrows, and said with a chuckle, "Hey, Xie An, among the rebels, not everyone is willing to surrender!" ”

Xie An shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said lightly, "The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds, it's not strange!" As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Su Xin and Li Jing, the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army beside him, and asked, "Do you know who is making disrespectful remarks?" ”

Li Jing squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, then said hesitantly, "Lord Qiyu, looking at this person wearing golden armor and a battle robe, he should be a person with status......

Xie An opened his mouth wide and looked at Li Jing blankly, knowing that he originally meant to ask Li Jing and Su Xin to send someone to the front to ask, but he didn't expect Li Jing to come out like this.

"You...... Are you kidding? Actually, you didn't see it, did you? You're just talking nonsense......"

Li Jing was stunned and said puzzled, "At this distance, you can still see ......" As he spoke, he glanced at Su Xin beside him, who nodded and said suspiciously, "Can't you see it?" ”

This distance?

Boy!

Xie An secretly took a breath of cold air. You must know where he is at the moment, it is four or five miles away from Hangu Pass, even if the visibility is high today, he still can't even see the gate tower on Hangu Pass, let alone see what kind of costume the scolding general is wearing as Li Jing said.

Even if those who practice martial arts are deaf and clear-sighted. It doesn't come to this point, does it?

You're a monster!

Looking at Li Jing and Su Xin's surprised expressions, Xie An secretly swore that after he went back, he would definitely swindle a monocular from the woman of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, otherwise. The de facto commander-in-chief of his army is simply blind on a battlefield of this scale.

Thinking of this, Xie An reluctantly summoned a soldier of the Eastern Army. "Go and ask who is causing trouble!" ”

"No!" The Eastern Sergeant grabbed the horse's belly and galloped in the direction of Tang Hao and the others.

Looking at the back of the soldier leaving, Xie An suddenly turned his head to look at Li Shou beside him, and asked, "Hey, do you see the enemy general scolding on the upper floor?" ”

Li Shou shook his head inexplicably. Puzzled, he said, "I can't see, what's wrong?" ”

"Nope. It's nothing...... Well, I'm in a much better mood that way! ”

“……”

In a short time, the soldier rode back to give a message.

"Lord Qiyu. In the pass, insulting General Tang Hao and others, it was Qin Wei, the commander of Hangu Pass, who asked the soldiers under General Tang Hao, and it was said that this person was the confidant of Wang Bao, the leader of the rebel thieves......

"The implication is that this Qin Wei is a diehard?" With a chuckle, Xie An thought for a moment, and said with a smile, "Trouble this brother to go again, convey General Tang Hao and others, and say that Qin Wei will be added to the list of people who the imperial court refuses to pardon!" ”

"No!" The Eastern Sergeant clenched his fists to receive the order, turned the horse's head, and ran in the direction of Tang Hao and the others again.

Glancing at the thoughtful Xie An, Li Shou said with a smile, "Are you killing chickens and monkeys?" ”

"No," Xie An shook his head, and said Zhengse, "It's just to give the rebel soldiers at Hangu Pass an example that can be compared...... It's not enough to have excellent role models like Zhang Dong, Ou Peng, and Tang Hao, you have to get a negative teaching material, otherwise, some people won't be obedient......"

"That makes sense!" Li Shou chuckled.

At the same time, Tang Hao and the others were still scolding the rebel generals on Hangu Pass, and suddenly saw a sergeant from the East rushing over, and they were slightly stunned.

"General Tang, Master Xie has an order,......" As he spoke, the soldier rode close to Tang Hao and said a few words to him, only to hear Tang Hao nodding.

"Okay, what Lord Xie meant, the last general understands!" Nodding at the Eastern Sergeant, Tang Hao took a deep breath and shouted towards the rebels in Hangu Pass, "Listen to the soldiers and brothers in the pass, just now Tang received an order from General Anping, as follows: The rebel general Qin Wei, obsessed, his crimes will not be forgiven, after breaking the pass, he will be punished according to the crime of treason, Ling Chi will be executed, his family members will be punished, and the three clans will be punished!" - Whoever is in the company of this thief shall be punished together, and his sins shall not be forgiven!" ”

When Qin Wei heard this, he was shocked and angry, his anger turned pale, he pointed at Tang Hao under the pass, and roared sharply, "Release the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! Shoot this vile villain! ”

However, what made Qin Wei angry was that after he issued the general order, no one listened to the order, and most of the generals on the upper floor kept a distance from him quietly.

Seeing this, Qin Wei was furious, grabbed the placket of a general's shirt, and scolded angrily, "Ma Dan, didn't you hear Ben Shuai's words?" Do you also want to surrender to the Zhou army like Tang Hao? ”

The rebel general named Ma Dan lowered his head and said in a low voice, "The last general...... Can't! ”

"Since this is the case, you will personally use the bow and shoot Tang Hao for Ben Shuai!"

“……”

"What are you waiting for?"

“……”

Qin Wei shouted a few times, but Ma Dan just lowered his head and said nothing.

Qin Wei was furious, pushed Ma Dan to the ground, pulled out the sword at his waist with a bang, and scolded angrily, "Ma Dan, Ben Shuai will give you one last chance to shoot that Tang Hao, otherwise, Ben Shuai will behead you!" ”

But despite this, Ma Dan still lowered his head and remained silent.

Seeing this, Qin Wei became more and more annoyed in his heart. He raised his sword and was about to slash at Ma Dan's neck, but then several of his henchmen stopped him.

"Qin Shuai thinks twice, General Ma Dan is also a good general in my Hangu Pass, if he is killed for no reason, not only will the soldiers be dissatisfied. It will even make the army uneasy, and even cause a mutiny......"

"Yes, Qin Shuai, the move of the Zhou army to the west is nothing more than to stir up discord among my generals and soldiers. In the interval between mutual births, Qin Shuai should be kind enough to appease, and not impulsive. Otherwise, it will push the hearts of the soldiers in the customs to the side of the Zhou army! ”

Qin Wei is also a general who leads the troops to fight, knowing the strength of the army's heart, after thinking about it for a long time, he finally withdrew the sword in his hand from the scabbard, looked at the location of the Zhou army in the Western Expedition, gritted his teeth and scolded. "I said why the Zhou army didn't attack the city, was it originally the idea of attacking the heart? -- What a desperate plan! ”

As he spoke, he looked slightly stunned. He noticed that the western expeditionary army outside the city had a phalanx of archers. He raised his bow and pointed it in the direction of Hangu Pass.

At the same time, outside the city, Tang Hao was speaking out to command the phalanx of 10,000 archers.

"Shoot at the sky, shoot at the sky...... Try not to hurt the soldiers on Hangu Pass, I am waiting this time to convey the [goodwill] of General Anping and Lord Xie to the brothers on the pass, not to harm their lives, so pay attention! - Put! ”

With Tang Hao's heavy wave of his right hand, the archers of the 10,000-strong phalanx immediately let go of the arrows in their hands, only to hear a swishing sound, and nearly 10,000 arrows quickly rushed towards the sky above Hangu Pass.

At this time, the defenders on Hangu Pass also noticed this rain of arrows and looked for cover to avoid the bows and arrows of the Zhou army.

After all, the Zhou army of the Western Expedition had already conveyed one thing to them, that is, once Hangu Pass fell, as long as there were people who were willing to surrender and had nothing to do with Qin Wei, they would all be pardoned for the crime of treason.

In this case, who else is willing to fight to the death with the Western Expeditionary Zhou army that represents the Great Zhou court? Don't you have to hide one by one and wait for the day when you break through?

I have to say that at this moment, the defenders of Hangu Pass no longer have the intention of fighting to the death, although they dare not express the intention of surrendering to the Zhou army like this, but they also have no idea of wanting to resist to the death, almost most of the rebel soldiers are thinking about how to survive to the day of breaking the pass, not how to defeat the Zhou army.

From this point, it can be proved that the initial results of Xie An's cultural strategy are extraordinary.

The arrows of the Zhou army of the Western Expedition were extremely dense towards Hangu Pass, but to the surprise of the defenders of the pass, those arrows were shot straight towards the sky above Hangu Pass at an angle of right angle.

Ejection?

A rebel general showed a little stunned in his eyes, and said secretly, even if it is a projectile, the arrows shot at this angle are probably no longer lethal, what is Zhou Jun going to do?

With a clanging sound, most of the arrows shot by the Zhou army of the Western Expedition to Hangu Pass had already fallen.

As the rebel general had predicted, although there were nearly 10,000 arrows in this wave of arrows, the defenders on the pass had almost no casualties.

Of course, there were a few unlucky people who were hit in the head by arrows, bleeding profusely.

"This is ......" A rebel soldier who had been hit in the head by an arrow picked up the arrow that had injured him, and he realized that the arrow on the arrow had been deliberately dulled.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was a piece of paper tied to the shaft of the arrow.

Curious, he opened it and found that there was only a very simple sentence written on the paper, which roughly means that with this piece of paper, the rebels who surrendered out of the city could not only be spared death, but also have their families sit together, and their sentences could be reduced:

The first 100 people who surrendered to the Zhou army were exempted from all criminal laws, and the first 5,000 were commuted to the third degree, the first 10,000 were reduced to the second degree, and the first 20,000 were reduced to the first degree.

Looking left and right, the soldier quietly hid the piece of paper close to his body......

At this time, the rest of the rebel soldiers at the gate obviously also noticed the note that the arrows were helping, and after discussing with Tong Ze, who was familiar with him, they all hid the note.

And at this moment, under the city of Hangu Pass, Xie An had already seen the rain of arrows shooting towards Hangu Pass from afar, clapped his hands, and instructed the generals on the left and right, "Okay, the play is over, it's time to end!" -- Pass the order down, and the whole army slowly retreats! ”

"Yes!" Su Xin, Li Jing and others will hold their fists and lead the order, ride their horses back to their own headquarters, and command the soldiers under their command to evacuate slowly.

In fact, they had already known about today's events, otherwise, how would they leave their subordinates behind and come to Xie An's side.

First 40,000 Western Expeditionary Army, followed by thousands of Southern Army, and then 70,000 Western Expeditionary Army, when the soldiers of Hangu Pass picked up the notes on those arrows, the nearly 120,000 army under Xie An slowly withdrew.

It can be said that the soldiers of the 120,000 army just came and went through the motions, stood like a stake for half an hour, and went back without doing anything.

Although they knew from their own generals that there would be basically no fighting today, even so, they didn't expect such a ridiculous thing.

Not to mention that the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army did not understand, even the rebel generals on Hangu Pass were confused.

Obviously it was violent, leading an army of 120,000 to set up a formation outside Hangu Pass, but in addition to beating the drum for a long time, sending Tang Hao and others to start a scolding battle with the generals on the pass, he went back without doing anything, oh, but he shot a wave of arrows, but it was full of calculations, and few rebel soldiers were killed because of this.

"What do you want to do this week?" Looking at the slowly withdrawing army of the Western Expedition, Qin Wei was a little puzzled while feeling at ease.

Suddenly, he noticed that a general was holding a note and frowning, and he was stunned and asked, "What is this?" ”

The general was stunned when he heard this, he didn't dare to hide it, and said truthfully, "Qi Qin Shuai, it is the ...... of the Zhou army who just went west to shoot the arrow to the pass."

Qin Wei frowned, grabbed his hand, glanced at it roughly, and then looked shocked.

"Quick! -- Quickly send someone to confiscate all these notes and burn them on the spot! ”

"No!"

Although Qin Wei immediately sent someone to confiscate this kind of paper after realizing that something was wrong, he was still a step slow.

As of three hours later, the 10,000 commutation documents that were shot with arrows into Hangu Pass were confiscated in front of Qin Wei, the commander of Hangu Pass, but there were only about 1,000 copies, leaving aside the possibility of those notes falling under Hangu Pass, as many as 9,000 copies were hidden by the rebel soldiers in Hangu Pass and not reported.

Even, on the night of the incident, several rebel soldiers sneaked out of Hangu Pass and surrendered to several camps of the Zhou army in the west.

At first it was one or two, then one army, then another, then a battalion of 100 people, then a battalion of 200 people, so that a few days later, it was out of control, and almost every night a large number of rebel soldiers sneaked out of Hangu Pass and surrendered to the Zhou army.

It can be said that all the family members who are not in Hangu Pass have the intention to surrender to the Zhou army, even if their family members are in Hangu Pass, they are also thinking about how to slip out of the pass with their families.

Looking at the 60,000 rebels at Hangu Pass, almost no one was thinking about how to defeat the Zhou army......