Chapter 67: The Battle of Keiguan (1)
"Woo~"
The whimpering horn was high-pitched and fierce, tearing through the sky at the beginning of the snow in an instant.
"Knock knock~"
The war drums of the cymbals and thunders were surging, making people's hearts beat more and their blood sink.
A group of more than 1,000 horsemen under the banner of "Gan" drove out of the camp in Bingzhou and marched towards the northwest, and after half a pillar of incense, a group of thousands of foot soldiers under the banner of "Lu" also left the camp and followed in the footsteps of the cavalry. I saw that the mountains and fields were full of soldiers with armor, waving flags, people shouting, smoke steaming, and sound shaking for ten miles.
Zhang Liao and the others sighed when they looked at the army that had lost the tail of the rear army.
"Wen Yuan, why did the lord only bring the new generals, not us" Looking at the army that had disappeared, Cheng Lian stepped forward and asked depressedly.
Cheng Lian's words resonated with everyone, although this expedition was not a big battle, but for a man like them with strong folk customs, it was a torment to not be able to go to the battlefield.
Zhang Liao didn't answer immediately, just looked up at the sun in the early snow, then turned around, looked at Cheng Lian and the others and said with a smile: "This time, the veteran lord of Bingzhou didn't bring any of them, only Huang Zhong, Zhang Xiu, Gan Ning, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, and Chen Gong and Cheng Yu. ”
When the generals heard this, they all nodded knowingly.
Zhang Liao looked at the snow that was already beginning to melt, and muttered to himself: "As soon as the winter is over, the Kwantung princes are estimated to be coming." ”
Thousands of miles of ice, vast, and snow-covered in snow spread between heaven and earth, forming a majestic picture.
The hills are gentle, the plains are vast, the woods are sparse, more than 20 miles northwest of Xingyang, an alternating area of hills and plains, two armies of 10,000 people, enter the field one after another.
After passing the hills, the army continued to pull the army north, and after a day's march, they reached the mouth of the Yellow River, at this time, the Yellow River has been unable to see the turbulent water, the surging river has already formed a thick ice, countless cattle and sheep are shuttling in it.
If you want to cross the Yellow River and ice congestion river, you will climb the snow-filled mountains of Taihang.
Looking at a piece of the Yellow River blocked by glaciers, Lu Bu immediately ordered to wade through the ice to cross the river.
The soldiers took out the cloth they had prepared from their bags and wrapped their feet, while the horses wrapped their hooves tightly.
Lu Bu personally wrapped the four hooves of the red rabbit horse in cloth, and looking at the soldiers who were almost ready, Lu Bu waved his big sword and ordered the army to cross the river.
Suddenly, 10,000 troops stepped on the glacier, bustling across the Yellow River, looking from a distance, like a sharp blade cutting the Yellow River in half, looking so spectacular.
Three days later, the Keiguan Fortress
Under the banner of the banner, 60,000 white wave troops swept all over the mountains, and the black pressure was like an ant colony, which was shocking and chilling.
"Pass on a certain general, stubbornly guard the Kei Pass, if a white wave thief is put in, Lao Tzu will kill him alive." Duan Xuan leaned on the buttress with a tired face, his face was covered with blood, his lips were chapped, his face was sallow, and his eyes were bloodshot. The blood stain on his body replaced the original color of the armor, and he looked embarrassed.
Looking at the corpses piled up in ice under the city, Duan Xuan's cheeks twitched, and he secretly complained in his heart: "This dog's white wave thief has been attacking for two days in a row, and nearly 10,000 people have died on both sides of the enemy. ”
Originally, Duan Xuan was ordered by Dong Zhuo's military order to guard Shaanxi and Zhongtiao Mountain, but who knew that Niu Fu was beaten by the Baibo Army in the Linfen Basin and lost his armor and ran for dozens of miles, not even guarding Jiguan, and ran back to Luoyang directly.
If the Keiguan is lost, the enemy goes around to his rear and the Baibo army that broke through Anyi gives himself an urn to catch turtles, then he will not be able to escape by inserting his wings, and he has no choice but to personally lead 30,000 troops to garrison Keiguan. Leaving 20,000 people to guard Shaanxi, he was not worried about the loss of Shaanxi, because Dong Zhuo would definitely send people to defend it, otherwise once Shaanxi was lost, Luoyang City would be in the city.
Duan Xuan looked at the white wave thief who swept over like a poisonous mist, and he was bitter in his heart, but his face showed a ruthless look.
"Wow".
Duan Xuan pulled out the saber at his waist, tore open his hoarse voice and shouted, "Brothers, the white wave thief is here again, and the time has come to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions." ”
The drums rumbled and the horns whimpered.
The 60,000-strong Baibo army blocked the water around Keiguan and began to launch a tentative attack from all directions.
At this moment, an eight-foot man rode out of the army of the white wave thief, and saw that he had big shoulders and a round waist, a burly figure, about forty years old, and a beard growing on the horizontal flesh of his cheeks, which looked even more vicious. Holding a ghost-headed machete in his left hand, he hissed a big horse under his crotch, majestic and majestic, but extraordinary.
He rode his horse to the front of the two armies, and the ghost-headed machete in his hand pointed at Duan Xuan on the battlement and scolded: "The Han army on the city tower listens to me, quickly switch and surrender, otherwise the day of breaking the pass will be the death date of you." ”
The big man's voice was like a bell, like thunder and lightning, which shook the eardrums of the white Boshi soldiers beside him.
Duan Xuan, who was closed, blew his beard and glared, and also opened his mouth to scold back: "Thief, An dares to make a big deal here, come to grandpa, grandpa's big knife has long been hungry (thirsty), and he is thinking about your head, so that you can go to Jiuquan to meet your heavenly generals."
Duan Xuan's abuse made Guo Tai's two angers suddenly burst out, the predecessor of their Bai Bo Army was Ma Yuanyi's Yellow Turban Division, after Ma Yuanyi's death, Guo Tai was in charge of the army, Zhang Jiao should be the ancestor of Guo Tai and others, and he never thought that Duan Xuan would scold them all.
Mrs. Guo was so angry that she was smoking, pointed to Duan Xuan on the battlement, gritted her teeth and said, "Old thing, Lao Tzu is not alive." ”
After Mrs. Guo finished speaking, she immediately rode back to the battle, pointed to Jiguan and drank: "Siege vehicle, drive the ladder." Attack the city with all your might, you must break through the Kei Pass before dark, if anyone kills the old horseman on the city tower, I will let him be the second leader of the Baibo Army, brothers, kill Lao Tzu"
With Guo Tai's order, bursts of deafening drums immediately sounded in the military formation of the White Wave Thieves, and the earth-shattering war drums immediately stimulated the male hormones of the White Wave Thieves.
Guo Tai held a ghost-headed machete in his hand, galloping back and forth in front of the battle, loudly urging Bai Bo's soldiers to carry the ladder to launch the most ferocious attack on the city.
Mrs. Guo is not stupid, he understands the truth that the rafters rot first, so he will not rush to the front, but command the soldiers to attack and fight fiercely, and wait until the strength of the Han army on the city is almost consumed, and wait until the Han army is sluggish and arrows. When the wood, rolling stones, and hot oil were gradually scarce, they were attacking the city in person, calculating the time, and it had been detained for three days today, so it must be that the supplies they guarded the customs were no longer available, and when the time came, hehe...... "Thinking of this, Mrs. Guo showed a sinister smile.